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Understand Genetics to Manage Your Livestock
Published on Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:14am
To manage the genetics of beef cow herds, producers should consider several factors in a logical sequence. These factors are production conditions and markets, types of cattle, breeding systems, breeds, and selection of individual breeding animals.
Production Conditions and Marketing
The first factors to consider in a genetic strategy may not be all genetic and should include production conditions and marketing. Genetic strategies for beef cattle should be based primarily on production conditions including the following:
Climate. Climatic conditions range from hot to cold and humid to arid. Cattle types vary in their ability to adapt to different climates. Also, climate affects forage types and, therefore, appropriate levels of cattle production.
Forage conditions. Most beef cattle are maintained on forage, which can vary from abundant to sparse and nourishing to deficient. Cattle also differ in applicability to diverse forage conditions.
Available labor and management skill. Labor will usually range from limited to plentiful and uninformed to knowledgeable. You will also discover that some genetic strategies require more time and expertise than others.
In marketing we need to consider market timing, methods and specifications. If calves are sold at weaning, the producer is paid for weight and in price per pound. The price is most often based on the buyer's estimate of value beyond weaning. On the other end of the production chain, returns of those retaining ownership to the rail are directly influenced by post-weaning performance and carcass merit.
Fed beef is used primarily for three purposes: "white table cloth" restaurant; "lean" beef; and the commodity or retail market. The first requires high carcass marbling; the second emphasizes leanness; and the last balances marbling and leanness. Different markets call for different genetic strategies.
Unlike most other livestock enterprises, production conditions in beef cattle herds usually cannot be controlled easily or economically. In cow/calf operations, it is more efficient and economical to adapt the operation to the production conditions.
Types of Cattle
The next step is to determine what types of cattle best fit the production conditions and markets. When cattle are not matched to production conditions and markets, performance is reduced, and income drops.
For hot, humid climates, cattle types that originated in such conditions are best adapted. Cattle native to more temperate regions fit better in cooler climates.
The choice of compatible types also depends on forage characteristics:
Sparse: Cattle of small to moderate body size fit best.
Abundant: Larger cows can be maintained, or smaller cows can be maintained at higher stocking rates.
Low quality: Lower milking cattle are best suited. Cows of high milking ability can lose body condition, and reproduction rates can drop.
High quality: Cows can be of higher milking ability; otherwise, forage potential may not be fully realized.
Inconsistent: Easy fleshing types with low to moderate milk are best adapted. Although forage deficiencies can be offset with supplemental feed, cost must be weighed against return.
When selling at weaning, the paramount factors in choice of types are production efficiency and calf value at that point. For retained ownership, efficiency and returns are directly influenced by post-weaning performance and carcass merit.
Breeding Systems
The next step is to plan a breeding system before considering breeds and selecting breeding stock. The two basic breeding systems are called continuous and terminal. The difference in these systems is their source of replacement females.
In continuous systems, heifers are retained to return to the breeding herd. So, in addition to traits important in market progeny, you should also consider the potential replacement heifers' environmental adaptability and maternal qualities.
Because no replacement heifers are retained in a terminal system, terminal sires can be selected regardless of how their heifer progeny would perform as brood cows. Replacement females in terminal systems must be either purchased or produced in another herd. When produced in another herd environmental adaptability and maternal characteristics should be considered in designing genetic programs to produce these replacements.
While straight breeding can be done for commercial production, it lacks the advantages of well-planned crossbreeding in heterosis (hybrid vigor), production, efficiency, and, in some cases, marketability. There are practical crossbreeding plans for herds maintained in one or several breeding groups and for one bull herds or thousand cow operations.
Breeds of Cattle
The fourth step is to choose breeds. There are about 75 breeds of cattle in the United States. Some (originally from Europe) perform best in temperate locales. Others (such as the American Brahman, which was created from humped Bos Indicus cattle native to India) are better adapted to tropical environments; and still others are intermediate in adaptability.
Breeds can be logically grouped according to their adaptability and key physical characteristics. These groups include British Beef, Continental Beef, Continental Dual Purpose, Dairy, Bos Indicus and American. Specialty breeds cannot be placed logically in one of these groups because of their unusual genetic features.
Breeds in the American group were formed from a crossbred base of established breeds of two types: tropical adapted (usually Brahman, at levels of 3/8 to 1/2) and temperate adapted (mostly British Beef). In addition to the American group, other combination breeds and composites are being formed. The applicability of combination breeds and composites rests largely on the characteristics of the constituent breeds.
Although breeds should be chosen primarily on the basis of their adaptability to climatic and other production conditions, producers should also consider performance and marketability. For example, in many southern states, calves can be produced most efficiently and without significant price discounts if they are at least 1/4 British, no more than 1/2 Continental, no more than 1/4 Bos Indicus (which could come from sources such as a half-Brahman parent or an American parent), or possibly no more than 1/4 Dairy. For the high quality market, higher percentages of British are applicable. For the lean beef market, less British is more appropriate.
In some situations, producers may deviate from these guidelines. Depending on production conditions and markets, a variety of useful blends can be created within these approximate ranges.
Individual Selection
The final step in a sound genetic strategy is to select individual breeding stock. Selection of females certainly affects the genetics of a herd. However, even in a terminal cross, a sire has much more genetic influence than any female. This is because a sire usually is the parent of at least 20 to 25 calves a year, or possibly of many more calves due to artificial insemination. Also, in a continuous system, the genetic composition of a cow herd is determined largely by the sires used over the last three generations. Regardless of the breeding system, sires are the most crucial element in genetic selection.
Sires must be structurally sound, fertile, and active and capable breeders. Ease of calving also is important, especially to breed heifers for their first calves. For sires and dams, limit selection to traits that are economically important and reasonably heritable. Depending on breeding system and market, these traits may include environmental adaptability, soundness, temperament, reproduction, livability, longevity, maternal qualities, body size, rate and efficiency of gain, and carcass merit.
Several methods can be used to select individuals. Some characteristics must be evaluated visually, such as anatomical soundness and visible physical traits affecting market price. However, many traits can be measured objectively, including reproductive features, weight, and body composition or carcass characteristics. Objective methods include performance tests, breeding soundness evaluation, actual carcass measurement or ultrasound estimate, and breed association performance programs.
Genomic techniques – particularly, marker assisted selection and DNA analysis – are being developed. For most production traits, this technology is just now coming into its own and may not be used extensively for genetic selection of beef cattle until further research and development are conducted.
Genetics and Economics
Net income from a beef cattle herd is calculated using this formula:
Net income = (Number of head sold x Sale weight per head x Sale price per pound) – Total cost
Number of head is affected by reproductive efficiency and death loss. However, numbers also vary depending on body size and management system. On fixed resources, producers can maintain more cows of smaller size, resulting in more calves to sell; but average sale weight is likely to be reduced. If weaned calves are retained for grazing, then fewer brood cows must be maintained; sale numbers and price per pound will be lower; and average sale weights will be higher.
Weight per head is influenced by available nutrition (including what comes from milk); environmental effects (such as climate, disease, and sickness); and genetics for growth, environmental adaptability, and resistance to disease and sickness.
Price per pound is determined by the real or perceived value to a buyer at whatever stage of production the herd owner decides to market. Cost of production should include every relevant item, not just outofpocket cash expenses.
The highest net income often does not come from the greatest numbers, the heaviest weights, the highest price, or the lowest cost. The most successful producers develop adapted genetic strategies that optimize and balance these four elements to maximize returns.


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The usual caveat applies: It's only the offseason. But the reviews in Minnesota so far have been pretty uniform: The quarterback play has been "spotty" in practice for the Minnesota Vikings.
"Watching Christian Ponder out there, the footwork didn't look great," Judd Zulgad, of 1500ESPN.com, said Wednesday. "The passes didn't look all that sharp.
It's only June, and Ponder is playing with a new set of receivers. Things aren't going to be perfect. But the Vikings are counting on Ponder's stability in Bill Musgrave's offensive system to lead to major growth. They need major growth. That reportedly hasn't shown up yet in the offseason.
"You know what's not there? Crispness," Zulgad said. "There's not a sharpness. At times you would expect things to look second nature to Ponder. ... That's not what we're seeing so far, but like I said, it's minicamp."
Zulgad's comments caught my eye because they came on the same day ESPN's Adam Schefter wrote that "some believe" Matt Cassel is good enough to challenge for the Vikings' starting job this year. It's Ponder's job, but Cassel probably is a better NFL player at this point. This is not a surprise. (Or a good thing for the Vikings' playoff chances.)
Ponder's second season provided no indication that he's ready to be a quality starting quarterback. Maybe he makes that jump this year, but that's based more on hope than anything tangible he's shown at Florida State or in the Vikings.
Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.

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Railroad advocates have filed a federal lawsuit and Kirkland has abruptly stopped plans to rip out train tracks, delaying construction of an almost six-mile recreational trail.
The rail segment that runs north-south through Kirkland is part of the largely abandoned 42-mile Renton-to-Snohomish line once used by the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train. While other cities and regional leaders are still talking about what to do with the old rail line, City Manager Kurt Triplett said Kirkland is ready to build its trail.
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Triplett said Kirkland has budgeted $3.6 million and had a contractor ready to remove the tracks this month, until the legal challenge was filed. Ballard Terminal Railroad Company seeks a restraining order to stop removal of the tracks. A representative tells me that railroad use should take priority and that the federal government has jurisdiction over such decisions.
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The Avengers will assemble soon. Disney considers converting John Carter of Mars to 3-D, while the ruling King of 3-D, James Cameron, continues to mull the Avatar sequels. Awesome comic actors are headed to Syfy's biggest shows. To the spoilers!
The Avengers:
Joss Whedon and company will reportedly start shooting in February. [Superhero Hype]
Avatar 2 and 3:
James Cameron says he'll most likely be shooting both sequels back-to-back, although they haven't made a decision yet. I think this may have been mentioned before (or maybe just because it's become standard operating procedure for sequels), but at least this time Cameron gives a clear reason for it:
"That is something that makes a lot of sense, given the nature of these productions, because we can bank all the [motion] capture and then go back and do cameras over a period of time."
Transformers 3:
You all know the drill by now. New set photos, new set videos, here they are, see you again on the other side: [Pixel Rally via Transformers Live]
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Riley Keough, who's probably best known for being Elvis Presley's granddaughter, is reportedly in talks to play one of "The Five Wives", a group of women Max has to protect from the usual assortment of leather-loving, post-apocalyptic creeps. Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens have already signed on to play three of the other wives.[Heat Vision]
Here's a cool new poster for the latest movie about humans and aliens trying (and mostly failing) to coexist on Earth: [ShockTillYouDrop]
The show is currently casting two guest stars for episode 4:
[PATRICIA VAN HORN] Caucasian. 55-65. Patricia is a senator's wife. She grieves over the horrible and peculiar death of her husband. Guest Star.
[RAY] 35-45. Ray is a NYPD family man with a secret. Open to all races and ethnicities. Guest Star.
There are a ton of new set photos: [Skot Nelson's Flickr & The Vancouver Sun]
General Beckman, played by Bonita Friedericy, has reportedly been promoted to a regular cast member, meaning she'll appear more often on the show and have more to do. As the executive producers note, we'll even see her actually walk around in the season premiere. [The Ausiello Files]
Vik Sahay explains what'll be up with Jeff and Lester as the new season begins. "They're on the lam, getting a taste of freedom… and fear... Who knows what that kind of new feral quality that will bring if and when we reunite with the gang?" Asked whether Jeffster is on some sort of "excellent adventure," Sahay responds, "I don't know about excellent... More like torturous, weird, awkward and off-putting." [Fancast]
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Dr. Spaceman himself, Chris Parnell, will reported appear in Eureka's holiday episode. After last week's Warehouse 13 antics, is it too much to hope for an actual 30 Rock crossover? He will be playing the latest bumbling scientist whose experiment gets out of control, so... maybe. [The Ausiello Files]
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The thirteenth episode of season two is titled "Alliances." [SpoilerTV]
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The fifth, sixth, and seventh episodes of the season will be called "Isis", "Harvest", and "Ambush", respectively. [SpoilerTV]
The 200th episode won't just feature the return of James Marsters as Brainiac. It will also explore Clark's past, present, and future, and it all leads up to a big event in the final few minutes. Also, yes, Brainiac will be back, but according to executive producer Kelly Souders, he's back "with a twist." [Fancast]
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I see it's a common struggle for people to understand how to manage size and positions of the widgets in kivy.
There is not much to it, really, just a few principles to understand, but they are better explained by example, i believe.
dumb positionning
Let's create a root widget, and put two buttons in it.
root = Widget()
b1 = Button()
b2 = Button()
What will happen when i return root to be used as my root widget? As a root widget, it will have all the space for itself, the two buttons, however, will only use their default size, which is (100, 100), and will use their default position, which is (0, 0), the bottom-left corner of the screen.
We can change b1 and b2 positions to absolute values, let's change line 2 and 3 to:
b1 = Button(pos=(100, 100))
b2 = Button(pos=(200, 200))
something a little smarter
Now, that doesn't make for a very flexible UI, if you ask me, it would be better to use the parent size to decide where to place the buttons, no?
b1 = Button(pos=(root.x, root.height / 2))
b2 = Button(pos=(root.width - 100, root.height / 2))
No, that's not much smarter, it's still quite dumb actually, it doesn't even work, why? because we just instanciated root, it's not even the root widget yet, it doesn't have its final size, so our widgets will use the default value of (100, 100), for their calculations, no - no.
Let's fix this with bindings.
b1 = Button()
root.bind(size=reposition_b1, pos=reposition_b1)
b2 = Button()
root.bind(size=reposition_b2, pos=reposition_b2)
Where these two functions will be along the lines of:
def reposition_b1(root, *args):
b1.pos = root.x, root.height / 2 - b1.height / 2
Also, widget have nice alias properties for things like
height / 2,
x +
x + width / 2, here is a quick table:
right = x + width
top = y + height
center_x = x + width / 2
center_y = y + height / 2
center = (center_x, center_y)
and actually,
pos is just an alias property for
(x, y).
Alias Properties works both ways, so we can use them to set our positions in a
simpler way.
def reposition_b1(root, *args):
b1.x = root.x
b1.center_y = root.center_y
A lot of work for not so much, right? That's because we are not using the right tools!
Let's jump on a layout, specifically FloatLayout.
FloatLayout to the rescue
Layouts are here to make our life easier when constructing an UI.
FloatLayout is very flexible, it lets you set rules for positions, or do things in the absolute way.
root = FloatLayout()
b1 = Button(pos_hint={'x': 0, 'center_y': .5})
b2 = Button(pos_hint={'right': 1, 'center_y': .5})
pos_hint will make the values relative to the size/position of the parent. So
here, for b1
x will be the x of the parent, and
center_y will be at the
middle between
y and
Now, if you run this, you may get a surprise, because FloatLayout also made b1
and b2 sizes relative to root.size, and the default value being (1, 1), they
both have the same size as the root widget, sometime you want to keep that
relative, maybe with a different value, sometime you want to have them keep the
value passed in
size (or default
size value), if so, you can pass
None) to size_hint.
b1 = Button(pos_hint={'x': 0, 'center_y': .5}, size_hint=(None, None))
I'll probably do other posts on the subject, because there is much more to it, but the basic principles are here. I anyway really encourage you to look at this section of the documentation, which go further with the various kind of layouts you have access to.


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see Australian bat lyssavirus disease.
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are designed to fit Australian grain farming conditions in which grain is available for cattle fattening in only a limited number of years. This restricts expenditure on capital improvements to post and wire fences of limited restraining power. Called also backup feedlots.
Australian fireweed
Australian heeler
see Australian cattle dog (above).
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see illawarra cattle.
Australian indigo
Australian itch
see psorergatesovis.
Australian kelpie
a medium-sized, moderately short-coated, active dog used for working sheep. It is very alert, active and intelligent. Comes in black (sometimes called a barb), blue or red.
Australian Merino sheep
finewool, horned or polled, originated from Spanish merino; comes in superfine, finewool, medium and strongwool strains. See also booroola merino.
Australian milking shorthorn
see illawarra cattle.
Australian Milking Zebu
a zeboid breed of dairy cattle produced in Australia by crossbreeding Jersey, Red Sindhi and Sahiwal cattle with later infusions of Guernsey, AIS and Holstein-Friesian breeding. Resembles a Jersey, with drooped ears and dewlap of zebu. Called also AMZ.
Australian native dog
see dingo.
Australian phalaris
Australian Pony
bred in Australia by crossing Arab with ponies of various breeds, usually Welsh. Used as riding ponies for children. Known to carry the inherited cerebellar defect of the Arab. Assorted colors, mostly grays, no broken colors; 12 to 14 hands high.
Australian shepherd dog
a working sheep dog developed in the United States; it is little known in Australia. A medium-sized, tailless, medium-haired, black, red, red merle, blue merle and white dog, It suffers from an inherited retinal dysplasia, ocular colobomas.
Australian Shorthorn
a horned red or red roan with white patches breed of dairy cattle, bred in Australia from Shorthorn and other dairy breeds. Called also AIS, Australian Illawarra Shorthorn.
Australian silky terrier
see silky terrier.
Australian Stock horse
a class of horses rather than a breed. See cutting horse, polo pony.
Australian terrier
Australian umbrella tree
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a voluntary professional organization with the objective of maintaining the highest possible status of the Australian veterinary profession.
Australian Waler
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Key: KA = Kianna Alarid, NJ = Neely Jenkins, DP = Derek Pressnall, JP = Jamie Pressnall, NW = Nick White.
Of Montreal 'Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse' (Acoustic)
They're one of my favourite bands of all time. One main reason being the honest, sometimes painful lyrics coupled with perfect, innovative melodies and insanely catchy pop sensibility. But in this video the pop and all the grandiose layers are stripped away and what is left are the haunting words and sparse acoustic guitar which hits you with some serious force. I cried for a while after I watched it. There are a few videos in this series which are all completely beautiful. It just puts a whole new spin on the genius of Kevin Barnes and Of Montreal. KA (AOL video)
Black Lips 'Veni Vidi Vici'
This song is, like, ridiculously good to me for some reason... It's so simplistic and so effective. The video is creepy and just has really rad imagery. I love the part with the boys dancing in the mirror. They're such good dudes too, we are huge fans! KA (YouTube)
CSS 'Rat Is Dead (Rage)'
This reminds me of one of my all time favourite videos from The Cure ('In Between Days'). They use the same camera techniques and it's so effective. We love these girls/boy! NJ
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Elton John 'This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore'
It has such a sweet sentiment and this video is pretty mind blowing! NW (YouTube)
The Knife 'Pass This On'
This video is just fucking insane. It's basically the best video of all time. And by best we mean sexiest. Check out Olof's dance near the end. So hot! KA & NW (YouTube)
The Faint 'The Geeks Were Right'
Amazing video! Amazing song! Amazing band! These are our friends from Omaha and they always make such visually lovely videos. JP (YouTube)
Cyndi Lauper 'Good Enough'
This video is amazing because they filmed it on the Goonies set and you can really see how effective and fun lights and sets can be. Goonies is just so amazing, so this video/song is great because you always picture that movie! JP
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SSION 'Wolves Eye'
This video was made in Kansas City by Cody from the band. My boyfriend makes a sweet appearance as one of the cave boys so I guess my opinion may be biased! I love the white dog running in split screen, that's our friend Ari's pup Atlas. He's enormous... KA (YouTube)
Sinead O'Connor 'Emperor's New Clothes'
I just love Sinead's dance moves in this video. Plus, this song is totally ground breaking. DP (YouTube)
Bad Brains 'Big Takeover'
I like how there's a sense of community between the artist and the audience in this video. It looks like fun! DP (YouTube)
X-Ray Spex 'Identity'
I love this song, and this video is cool because you can just watch them play and live vicariously since I never got to see them play. DP
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What language does the brain use for its internal communication? That is a question posed in a New York Times article detailing the work of Clay Reid at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. In an attempt to answer that question, let me give you an example from my own family. My oldest son, now in his 50's, has always had a remarkable ability to recognize colors, remember them, and to reproduce them. Even when he was a small child, if we walked by a store's window display and I asked him what he saw, his answer would not involve the objects in the display but the colors. When we got home, he could reproduce those colors (and still could weeks later). He still possesses this ability, which surely helps in his career as an artist. How does his brain do it?
We know the outline of how color is perceived in the brain. Presumably there are networks of color-responsive nerve cells that involve the retina, way stations in the midbrain, and primary receptive cells in the visual areas of the cortex. From there the information is passed forward in the brain where it is integrated with information related to the colors such as source (a person, an animal, a tree-the list is almost endless). The color is then reproduced, requiring a motor act, but also requiring feedback to the memory or storage of the color.
If we could isolate the function of individual nerve cells in the networks for color in my son's brain, what would we find? How do they differ from mine, which have less "sense of color?" Are there more of them? Do they store color in a different way? How do they pass this information along? What is the language they use?
It is a little like the situation in genetics 50 years ago. Researchers wanted to know about the language used to store genetic information and how it was passed on to make a protein. Prior to the emphasis on DNA, the answer was considered to be in the proteins themselves. The recognition of the importance and structure of DNA changed everything. However, scientists were still left with a problem: If DNA was the genetic memory, how did it dictate the structure of a protein? The answer-the "genetic code"-turned out to be quite simple. DNA contains four nucleotide bases: cytosine (C), guanine (G), alanine (A), and thymine (T). How could four bases code for the 20 amino acids used in most proteins? The code works in combinations of three-three bases code for a specific amino acid. That is true for all cells in the body, and almost all species.
What does all of that have to do with how the brain processes information?
Currently scientists are studying small bits of the brain, looking at them with greater and greater discrimination. They are looking at the part of a nerve cell that passes on information, the synapse, and how this structure changes: What chemicals are involved? How do these chemicals change with nerve cell activity? Simultaneously, they are recording the electrical activity of these cells, trying to make some structural-functional correlations. We are getting a finer and finer idea of the wiring involved. But what is the message coming over these wires? That is the challenge!
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While issues abound in the industry, the corn market continues to be the biggest story. With USDA's latest crop estimate being lowered to just above 10.5 billion bu., and with carryover stocks falling to 752 million bu., the corn market rallied to historical highs this week. Not surprisingly, feeder cattle and calves moved lower as a result.
The industry is trying to sort out both the short- and long-term ramifications. One can usually learn a lot by looking at history but history doesn't provide much insight into this issue. The last time corn price levels were this high was 1996, but it was a supply-driven market caused by the disappointing 1995 harvest.
That's not the case this time, as we've had three of the largest crops in history -- consecutively, no less. It's a demand-driven market and corn demand is expected to exceed production this year by a significant amount.
Fact is, the overall market structure has changed. With subsidized ethanol, it's difficult to create a scenario where corn will fall much below $3/bu. for quite some time, and the upside risk from that level is much greater than the downside risk.
Today's corn prices unquestionably are sending the signal to increase corn plantings. With corn growers looking conservatively at profits of $200/acre or more for corn, we can expect more acreage in corn than at any time in the last 60 years. What's more, the weather conditions look positive and oil prices are falling. That combination of factors will curtail demand, and feed demand will drop significantly as well, giving the industry an opportunity to rebuild carryover levels.
From a cow-calf perspective, not only does $4 corn devalue the entire inventory significantly, it also creates other problems. Hay stocks are at their lowest levels since 1988, and hay prices are expected to increase as hay ground and water are diverted to grain crops.
In addition, stocker and grazing pressure are expected to increase grass costs, as feeders look to maximize gains outside of the feedyard. The result is a terrible and simultaneous mix of exploding input costs and decreasing revenues.
The bottom line is if corn stays at today's historically high levels for an extended period of time, the industry's short-lived expansion will move into full-blown liquidation. It also poses some interesting dynamics about how the industry might change, from a management, marketing, and even genetic standpoint.
The industry has to form a plan of action and move to address the ethanol issue. Otherwise, a market-distorting government subsidy stands to take away our number-one competitive advantage.
The odds politically look extremely tough to get the ethanol issue based on true economic realities, however. The new Congress is just underway and already there's a plethora of new bills on renewable energy. Many of them attempt to lock in the artificial subsidies permanently and expand the use of ethanol.
Needless to say, these initiatives have the overwhelming support of grain-producing states. And the general public, very receptive to reducing U.S. reliance on Mideast oil, seems willing to pay the price for it. But it's a potentially devastating price the beef industry will have to pay, and we must aggressively take action.
That leaves us in the unenviable position of trying to hammer out a solution -- one where corn prices for the cattle industry are adjusted back to the real-world economic levels that would have occurred had government not intervened in the marketplace. That gets extremely messy and politically challenging.
While there's no simple answer, if we continue to do nothing, our industry will lose a good deal of its competitive advantage and constrict significantly. The effects of this subsidy, and the attempts to escalate it and make it permanent, now have supplanted the restoration of our export markets as the industry's greatest challenge.
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What's Your Favorite Restaurant in the West Loop?
"Where should I eat in the West Loop?" We get asked this all the time, and while it's never been an especially easy question to answer, it's only gotten harder over the past year. Whenever we think the West Loop has reached its restaurant saturation point, all we have to do is take a drive down Randolph St. to marvel at the insane number of new projects. And the restaurant row on Randolph is just the beginning. Two blocks north to Fulton Street is an equally impressive collection of options, including a handful of the most acclaimed restaurants in the city. So how do you decide with so many options?
This is obviously a loaded question, because there are so many great kinds of restaurants in the neighborhood. How is it even possible to choose between the four incredible Paul Kahan restaurants (Blackbird, Avec, Publican, and Publican Quality Meats)? What about Next and The Aviary? Girl & The Goat and Little Goat? Maude's Liquor Bar and Au Cheval? Nellcôte? Belly Q? And while the new greatly outnumbers the old, J.P. Graziano's is still a fixture in the neighborhood.
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Victorian authorities locate missing fishermen
Police have located two men who failed to return from a fishing trip in Victoria's south-east.
Investigators have been told that a 33-year-old Yarram man and a 17-year-old Carrajung boy left Port Albert Saturday morning but failed to return home.
They were located at the Port Albert boat ramp at about 8:30pm (AEDT).
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NCAA Women's Basketball Regional
at Hope College - March 4-5, 2011
The Hope College Flying Dutch (26-2) are playing in the NCAA Division III tournament for the sixth consecutive year and for the 13th time in school history. The Flying Dutch were national champions in 1990 and 2006 and a year ago (2010) finished second in the nation. The team has advanced to the Elite Eight each of the past three seasons (2008, 2009 and 2010). Hope has an all-time record of 25-10 (.714) in NCAA games.
Hope has the distinction of having both its men's and women's teams in the NCAA tournament for a sixth consecutive year. No other Division III program can match that accomplishment. The Flying Dutchmen are playing in a Regional tournament at Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. this weekend.
The two losses suffered by the Flying Dutch this season have been to rival Calvin on the road, 46-45 during the regular season and 67-65 in the conference tournament championship game this past weekend. Hope and Calvin were co-champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Calvin, which is also hosting a Regional this weekend, received the MIAA's automatic berth in the tournament while Hope received an at-large spot.
Three of the teams in this Regional have been national champions in the past five years - Hope 2006, DePauw 2007 and Washington-St. Louis 2010. Washington has a total of five national championships (1998-1999-2000-2001-2010).
The Quality of this Regional is unlike any other in the country with all four teams ranked among the nation's top 15 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll - #6 Hope (26-2), #8 Denison (28-0), #9 DePauw (25-3) and #15 Washington-St. Louis (20-5).
This is the third straight year that Hope is hosting the Regional tournament. Two teams in this year's Regional, DePauw and Denison, played in last year's Regional at Hope, both losing to the Flying Dutch. Later in the tournament Washington-St. Louis defeated Hope in the national championship game, 65-59. Earlier this season Hope edged Washington 49-47 on a neutral court at Ohio Wesleyan.
The Flying Dutch bring a 76-game home floor winning streak into the Regional. Since moving to DeVos in 2005, the Flying Dutch have a 95-1 home floor record.
Hope versus Regional Field: The Flying Dutch have a long history with the other teams in the Regional. The series with both Denison and DePauw started in 1983 and play against Washington-St. Louis began in 1991. Hope leads the DePauw series 6-1 and the Denison series 3-1. Hope and Washington-St. Louis are tied at two victories apiece.
Brian Morehouse is in his 15th season as Hope's coach. He entered the 2010-11 season ranked second among NCAA Division III coaches by winning percentage. His career record is 374-62 (.858). The Flying Dutch have won 20-or-more games for 13 straight years. Eentering 2010-11 Washington-St. Louis coach Nancy Fahey ranked #3 among the winningest coaches in Division III (now 591-105, .849) and DePauw's Kris Huffman ranked #9 (405-99, .804).
Flying Dutch Seniors Carrie Snikkers (Jenison, Mich./Unity Christian HS) and Erika Bruinsma (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian HS) have been named to the all-conference first team of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Sophomore Liz Ellis of Grand Rapids, Mich. (East Grand Rapids HS) has been named the MIAA's Defensive Player of the Year and to the all-conference second team.
Hope's five seniors have all appeared in NCAA tournament games four straight years - Erika Bruinsma (Grand Rapids, Mich./GR Christian HS), Miranda DeKuiper (Ludington, Mich./Ludington HS), Lauren Geers (Scottville/Mason County Central HS), Rachael Kutney (St. Clair Shores, Mich./Lake Shore HS), and Carrie Snikkers (Jenison/Unity Christian HS).
Team Approach: Ten Hope players have averaged 13-or-more minutes of playing time per game this season and no player has averaged more than 21 minutes.
National Stat Rankings: Hope has a top-ten ranking in several NCAA Division III statistical categories -- #3 in margin of victory (26.6 points per game), #4 in scoring defense (47.6 ppg), #5 in field percentage defense (.309 by opponents), and #9 in field goal percentage (.452 by Hope). Among the Regional teams, DePauw leads Division III in rebounding margin (13.7 per game) and Denison is the leader in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.32).
Stat Watch: Carrie Snikkers (Jenison, Mich./Unity Christian HS) ranks second all-time at Hope in scoring with 1,386 points. The career leader is Amanda Kerkstra with 1,568 from 1999-2003...Snikkers is Hope's all-time leader in blocked shots with 210 (73 more than #2 Lisa Timmer, 1993-97). She also ranks in the top ten career-wise in several other categories - #3 in field goals (540), #8 in three-pointers (91), #9 in free throws (215), #5 in rebounds (770), and #10 in steals (168).
Looking Ahead: The Division III Women's Basketball Final Four will be coming to Hope's DeVos Fieldhouse in 2012 and 2013.


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The Firecrackers are a team of elementary and junior high school girls from Ohio. This demonstration was at halftime of an Army/ Navy basketball game. Both sides gave the girls a standing ovation, and then some.
The girls practice for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, and they have to keep their grades up too. And each girl must pass an etiquette class before joining the team. Enjoy.
(h/t: Kim Komando)
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Whoa! What a refreshing distraction from the world of politics. Thanks for posting the video.
Does anyone know how to find out where we can see them perform?
OMG!!!!! These FIRECRACKERS r like the ROCKETTS of jump rope!
WOW! This was truly amazing. I too would like to know where to find a schedule of upcoming performances. I am also wondering why this has not spread to other states. It seems like a wonderful program from which other young girls could benefit. Best of luck to all who are involved, the girls, their coaches, and their parent.
WOW…..Girls rule!
How wonderful to see young women do a show in such a wholesome fashion. They simply jumped rope! Great talent!
Don't anyone try to tell me these girls are 'normal'! Such rhythm and timing is very abnormal, especially for 4th to 8th graders. Their instructor(s) must be Genius level, with an added measure of Mystical Powers….Do the girls continue with their sport through high school??
Wow, truely amazing. The girls are fantastic. I wish I had their stamina.


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David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dr Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 20-year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy, and Applied Health Economics. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science.
Dr Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development, and quality-of-care improvement. In 1995, he received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. He received the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award in October 1997, and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006, he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from the National Association of Health Data Organizations. In 2009, Dr Nash received the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award. In 2012, he received both the Joseph Wharton Award in recognition of his "social impact" and the Philadelphia Business Journal Innovation Award.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare's list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, Dr Nash's national activities cover a wide scope. He is on the VHA Center for Applied Healthcare Studies Advisory Board, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Population Health Alliance (formerly DMAA). Dr Nash is a principal faculty member for quality-of-care programming for the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, FL, and he leads the academic joint venture between the ACPE and the JSPH.
Dr Nash has chaired the Technical Advisory Group of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council for more than a decade, and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in public reporting of outcomes. He is on the Board of Main Line Health, a 4-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, PA. From 1998 to 2008, Dr Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati, OH, where he chaired the Board Committee on Quality and Safety.
He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals and has edited 22 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Governance for Healthcare Providers Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness, and most recent, Demand Better. From 1984 to 1989, Dr Nash was Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of 4 major national journals, including American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, and American Health & Drug Benefits.
Dr Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College, his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a 9-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
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Pinion Gears (For Radio Controlled Models)
For those new to Radio Controlled Model Racing, choosing the right Gear Ratio can be confusing and frustrating to say the least.
To help you get it right, check out my article page "Gearing to Win" and see how easy it really can be to get you up onto that winning rostrum.
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Look after your Gears
In RC there are a number of different gear teeth sizes we tend to use, based on two systems. Imperial and metric. The imperial system has sizes 24dp, 32dp, 48dp and 64dp. DP stands for Diametral Pitch and the number refers to the number of teeth per inch. The metric system has sizes 0.4m, 0.5m, 0.6m, 0.7m, 0.8m and 1m. M stands for Module and is the ratio of the reference diameter of the gear divided by the number of teeth.
The different sizes are used basically for strength. 32dp gear teeth are larger than 64dp gear teeth, therefore the 32dp gears are by design stronger and for this reason are more commonly used on a number of entry level buggys, to help them withstand the knocks and crashes by drivers new to RC, and nitro models because of the higher torque levels involved. Also, the bigger the scale of the model, the stronger the teeth need to be.
64dp and its metric equivalents are generally the choice of 1:10 electric on-road racers, because of its higher range of ratio options and smoother action in comparison to other sizes. On-road models are not as hard on the gears as off-road, so the weaker, small tooth size is not a problem.
48dp and its metric equivalents tend to be preferred by 1:10 off-road racers, mainly because of their strength in comparison to the 64dp and smoother operation than 32dp. Off-road models need gears that can handle all the knocks and bangs, as well as heavy landings off high jumps.
How to set Backlash between Gear Teeth
Setting your gears is the most important part of looking after your gears.
Backlash is basically the gap between the teeth in mesh. The perfect gear setting must have a small amount of backlash. To achieve the best setting use a very thin sheet of plastic between the pinion and spur gear teeth as you press them into mesh. After tightening the motor mount screws, use your fingers to spin the spur gear and roll out the plastic sheet.
If the setting is correct, there will be a small amount of movement (backlash) between the gear teeth before they catch. If the mesh is too deep, there will be no movement between the teeth, this will create friction and if you run them like this, they will grind together, wear and break. If the mesh is not deep enough and only the tips of the teeth are touching, the excessive backlash will soon damage and strip the tops off the teeth rendering the gears useless.


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Caps Alumni Biographies: Dino Ciccarelli
In March of 1989, Ciccarelli was traded to the Washington Capitals with defenceman Bob Rouse for sniper Mike Gartner and offensive defenceman Larry Murphy.by Washington Capitals @Capitals / WashingtonCaps.com
Dino Ciccarelli was born February 8, 1960 in Sarnia, Ontario. A junior phenom with the London Knights, Ciccarelli spent four seasons in London, scoring 39 goals and 82 points as a 16-year-old rookie, earning a berth on the league's Second All-Star Team with a staggering 72 goals and 142 points in his second season and in his fourth and final year with the Knights, he scored 50 goals and 103 points. Dino's sweater number 8 was retired by the London Knights to commemorate his extraordinary contributions to the franchise between 1976 and 1980.
Having suffered a broken leg that hampered his burgeoning career at the age of 16 and considered too small to play in the NHL (5'10" and 185 pounds), Ciccarelli was signed as a free agent by the Minnesota North Stars in September 1979 and joined the NHL club during the 1980-81 season. While he played 32 games with the North Stars that season, Dino took the NHL by storm that spring with a dominating performance in the 1981 Stanley Cup playoffs. His 14 goals and 21 points in 19 games was a major contributor to Minnesota's march to the Stanley Cup final.
Ciccarelli built on his rookie success, scoring a career-high 106 points on the strength of 55 goals in his first full season. As a North Star, Dino not only developed into a consistent goal-scoring force, but he quickly established a reputation as a gritty, in-your-face forward, scoring the majority of his goals from the lip of the crease, and usually after absorbing considerable punishment from opposing defencemen and netminders.
In March of 1989, his ninth season with the North Stars, Ciccarelli was traded to the Washington Capitals with defenceman Bob Rouse for sniper Mike Gartner and offensive defenceman Larry Murphy. When he left Minnesota, Dino's 651 points were the fourth-most in club history.
Ciccarelli played his gritty style with Washington, and continued to score consistently. However, the team's repeated playoff failures caused Capitals' management to make changes and Ciccarelli was traded to the Detroit Red Wings for Kevin Miller during the summer of 1992.
The Red Wings were a club with plentiful scoring, but they lacked a forward with Ciccarelli's grit and tenacity. Dino was an immediate hit in Motown, scoring 41 goals and 97 points in 1992-93. In the spring of 1995, Ciccarelli made his second trip to the Stanley Cup final, but Detroit fell to the New Jersey Devils, in spite of Dino's 9-goal output. In both 1995 and 1996, the Red Wings finished first overall, winning the Presidents' Trophy.
Dino was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fourth round draft pick in August 1996. His veteran presence inspired the Lightning and invigorated Dino, who rebounded from a couple of less-productive seasons with a 35-goal and 60-point campaign. Yet, despite his personal success, the team continued to flounder in the standings and in January 1998, Dino was traded to the cross-state Florida Panthers along with Jeff Norton for Mark Fitzpatrick and Jody Hull. In his eighteenth NHL season, Ciccarelli reached a personal milestone, scoring his 600th career goal.
The 1998-99 season was the last for Ciccarelli, who was limited to just 14 games after suffering a back injury against the Chicago Blackhawks on November 4, 1998. At season's end, the Panthers released Ciccarelli. Dino subsequently retired on August 31, 1999, ranked ninth in NHL history in goals scored. Through his NHL career, Dino played 1,232 regular season games, finishing with 608 goals and 592 assists for 1,200 points. In 141 playoff games, he scored 73 goals and added 45 assists for 118 points.
Dino Ciccarelli silenced critics who cited his size as a detriment to playing in the NHL, and in spite of having never been drafted by an NHL squad, he enjoyed a spectacular career, filled with fire, brimstone and points that earned him selection to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Student kills teacher, policeman in Moscow school
MOSCOW -- A 10th-grade student with two rifles burst into his Moscow school on Monday, killing his geography teacher and a policeman in front of about 20 students, investigators said. His father played a key role in freeing those students before police stormed the classroom and took his son into custody, the city police chief said.
The student gunman also seriously wounded a second police officer who had responded to an alarm from the school, investigators said.
None of the approximately 400 children in School No. 263 at the time were hurt, said Karina Sabitova, a police spokeswoman. But students were so fearful that some ran from the building with their teachers without stopping to put on coats in below-freezing temperatures. The school in northeast Moscow is for children in grades one through 11.
Such shootings in Russian schools are extremely rare. Any attack on a school, however, unavoidably brings back memories of the Beslan school siege in 2004, when Islamic militants from Russia's North Caucasus took about 1,000 people hostage, most of them children. More than 300 hostages were killed when Russian security forces stormed that school.
Russia is also now on alert for terrorist attacks, especially after Islamic militants asserted responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the city of Volgograd in December and threatened to strike during the Sochi Winter Olympics, which begin Friday in the Black Sea resort.
Monday's attack, however, raised no suspicions of any link to terrorism.
The ethnic Russian teenager entered the school after threatening its security guard, who managed to hit an alarm before following the student to his classroom, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, its main investigative agency.
"Without saying a word, he fired several shots at the geography teacher," Markin said.
Markin identified the teenager as Sergei Gordeyev and said he was an excellent student who apparently had an emotional breakdown. Gordeyev fired at least 11 times from a small-caliber rifle, also killing one police officer and wounding a second, Markin said.
The youth's father was immediately called to the school. He spoke to his son on the phone for 15 minutes to try to persuade him to let the 20 or so students in the classroom leave, but the boy refused, Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin said in televised remarks.
The father, wearing a bullet-proof vest provided by police, then went into the classroom. About 30 minutes later, the trapped students walked out, leaving the father and son alone in the classroom, and police special forces stormed in, Yakunin said.
Investigators were questioning Gordeyev, his classmates, school staff and the security guard to try to determine why he shot the teacher, Markin said.
He identified the teacher as Andrei Kirillov, aged 29 or 30, correcting an earlier statement that a 76-year-old teacher with the same last name had been killed. Kirillov's wife is a teacher at the same school and they have a young son.
In addition to the small-caliber rifle, Gordeyev was also carrying a carbine, a short-barreled rifle, the police chief said, adding that both rifles belonged to his father and were legally registered. Ownership of hunting rifles is permitted in Russia if they are properly registered.
President Vladimir Putin responded to the shooting by saying that Russia should do a better job at providing a cultural education for its children.
"We have to raise a new generation of theatergoers with good artistic taste who can understand and value theatrical, dramatic and musical art," he said at a televised gathering of cultural figures. "If we had done this in a proper way, then perhaps there would not have been a tragedy like today's in Moscow."
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Tom Fletcher, Patrick Caccia and Mico Olmos Collaborate as The ATOMIX at Infusion Lounge at Universal City Walk, Where They Previewed Their Debut Album "In A Perfect World" on Tuesday, January 22; Rising Country Artist John Spicer Opened Show With Acoustic Performance, Followed by MAL and Emceed by Kerri Kasem
SANTA MONICA, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 23, 2013) - Legend Group Records www.LegendGroupRecords.com, has signed an overall recording contract and multi-media merchandising deal with The ATOMIX, www.TheAtomix.com a new collaboration between multi-platinum award winning engineer Tom Fletcher, along with studio and touring sensations, Mico Olmos and Patrick Caccia.
"We are very excited to introduce The ATOMIX to the public and are confident they will quickly garner fans and praise as their members are very schooled in the interworkings of creating a successful artist," said Legend Group Records label President Houston Curtis. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with some of the biggest names behind some of the biggest superstars in music and are confident they will surge into the mainstream."
"I believe that teaming up The ATOMIX with Legend Group Records is recipe for platinum level success. Not only is the debut album, A Perfect World both a sonic and musical masterpiece, but the group's ability to work as a production team for the Legend Group's amazing roster of new artists like John Spicer will result in rock, pop and country music's version of what producers like Dr. Dre or Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have brought to hip hop and R&B," said Dave Weiderman, Head of A&R for Guitar Center and Executive producer of "In A Perfect World."
Described as a mix between "Genesis meets Tom Petty," The ATOMIX previewed several tracks from their debut album "In A Perfect World," tonight at Infusion Lounge at Universal City Walk. Special guest John Spicer, a fast-rising country artist opened with an acoustic performance.
Twenty-one year-old Spicer has been playing the guitar since age 4 and also plays banjo, dobro, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, lap steel, bass guitar and piano. John has played sessions with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, George Clinton, National Recording artists Elvis Monroe and has also performed at LA's famous Jazz club The Baked Potato. John endorses Evertune bridges and has been invited to play at NAAM on Fender's official artist roster. Additionally, he was recently invited by Guitar Center's Dave Weiderman and famed rock photographer, Robert Knight to join Knight's illustrious new endeavor, The Brotherhood of Guitarists. John will head to the studio in March 2013, to begin recording his debut album as a new Legend Group Records recording artist.
"John is that once in a lifetime kind of artist that you always hope to discover," said Curtis. "His songs about life speak way beyond his years and are only rivaled by his incredible voice and unprecedented musical ability. In other words, The boy can play!"
"When Houston introduced me to John Spicer I instantly became one of his biggest fans. Not only will music fans everywhere fall in love with his singing and songwriting, but I believe John to be one of the hottest upcoming country guitar players in the world today," added Guitar Center's Dave Weiderman, who introduced Spicer and Legend Group Record's President, Houston Curtis to The ATOMIX. An intorduction that culminated in Legend Group Records releasing The Atomix new masterpiece and signing production deals its stable of new artist releases including John Spicer.
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|2007-05-05, 23:08
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|2007-05-06, 10:36
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I'm just wondering where all the new image posts are in 2chan. I know that it's in 2chan (and not 2ch, since I don't think they support images), but the "anime" section they have only has text, and from little Japanese I know, only says stuff like animals, plants, news, etc.
|2007-05-06, 10:51
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I haven't seen the ep, but people have posted screencaps of the beginning and end credits on 2channel. The beginning credits have Yamamoto as "super director" or "over-director" and the new director in smaller characters as "new director." In the end credits it says this episode was directed, written and storyboarded by Yamamoto. This pleases me, since he is clearly the creative force behind this show.
This makes it seem that kj1980 was probably close to the truth. I think the move was more removing organizational responsibilities from him that criticizing the product. I predict further controversy to come, over whether this was all a publicity stunt.
2channel does allow links to images, and a few of them get posted, such as the ones of the credits (with posts 525 and 774). The current LS thread (#61) is here. Hurry, it will fill soon. Then there will be a link near the end to the new one. Or go to the top and click the left-hand end of the third line to go back to the main list of boards to find #62.
EDIT: But this page shows that the new director will direct and storyboard ep6, so we'll see what difference that makes. Early consensus on 2channel seems to be that ep5 was hilarious and similar to previous eps. The broadcast just ended 40 minutes ago.
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|2007-05-06, 10:58
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What gives?
|2007-05-06, 11:15
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Wannabe Konata Izumi
Kaoru Chujo: Thanks for the tip! Gotta love the people at 2ch, I didn't know that you could post images there.
Not a plot spoiler per se, but episode 5's ending is the 1st opening to Dragon Ball Z. Assuming that Kagami still is singing, that is an odd choice for her to sing. It wouldn't be so surprising if Konata sang it, but then again Dragon Ball Z was (and still is) a very popular anime, so I wouldn't be surprised if Kagami showed interest in it.
|2007-05-06, 11:15
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But note also my EDIT in the previous post, saying that the new director (who did FMP:TSR and :Fumoffu) will storyboard and direct ep6. This might have been planned from the start, however, since he did the same for a couple of eps of SHnY, I believe. EDIT: I checked, and he did direction/storyboard for one episode, ep11, the space battle against the computer society.
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|2007-05-06, 12:26
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Stop the presses! I've just seen part of the ep in a very bad quality video, and it looks to me as if the previous end credits from 2channel were for the ED, and the episode itself was storyboarded and directed by someone else (not quite clear enough for me to read, but probably Ishihara Tatsuya, the director of SHnY, etc.). The opening credits stand, though.
|2007-05-06, 13:08
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Hmm, this episode seemed extremely dialog heavy to me. Those who are watching the raws without knowing any Japanese would probably have a hard time trying to find anything funny, as lots of jokes rely on the dialog. This one will again definitely be one I'll have to rewatch as fansub to catch everything.
Now for the spoiler-ish comments (with screenshots):
Forgot about this one... anyone knows which anime the the poses Yui did with the rifle and snack (I think they're called American Dogs in Japan, not sure):
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|2007-05-06, 13:14
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Got the answer, I think. Aya Hirano idolizes Kageyama Hironobu from what I can tell (She asked him to join her for a duet of Bouken Desho Desho, and he accepted. You can see a video online of her shooting him sultry looks and him smiling back. She also mentioned his Jam Project on her blog several times.) and he's the one that sings Chala Head Chala. I think she may have requested the chance to cover his song. Good song to cover, very pleased with this choice. I had this bizarre feeling that at some point she was going to sing Heats from Shin Getter Robo Armageddon, but its Chala Head Chala. For the first time I'm really looking forward to the ending.
|2007-05-06, 13:32
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Italy
I only watched (for now) the ending song (It's my ritual, every time I finish download the raw, and yes, it's "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" the op of dragonball Z ) and the preview...
this pic...
Spoiler for preview ep 6:
Ok now let's see the rest...
|2007-05-06, 13:46
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Yuuki Aoi
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Even not understanding parts of the dialogue, I found this ep pretty funny. They were great in their yukata at the festival, and the way Konata's obi was tied (by her father) was a scream. I thought Tsukasa's seiyuu (Fukuhara Kaori) did a particularly good job with the phone call. She really makes Tsukasa an individual. I loved Hirano Aya's gobbling sound in the wind from the fan, and her singing of the ED was a great combination of karaoke-amateurish and strong.
Once again, I liked how the hands were animated, even though sometimes they seemed a bit blockier than before. Maybe it was my imagination or the particular raw I saw, but the colors seemed a little bit more saturated, and the timing a little more ordinary (or smooth, take your pick).
|2007-05-06, 13:55
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Here's the best version of Chala Head Chala I could find (It's the one that has Vegeta and Nappa walking in a wall of fire):
In case there are those that have never seen or heard the original before and are curious, its in the spoiler tag.
|2007-05-06, 14:22
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Location: Canada
I watched dragon ball before, but I never heard Cha-la Head Cha-la.
Indeed, only konata did pick this one...I couldnt imagine kagami sang this opening, but I still expected she could try.
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|2007-05-06, 14:31
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
I've updated my page with pics of the seiyuus to include Konata's cousin the policewoman Yui's seiyuu.
And I liked the episode, but as I said, I thought the timing might have been a little too smoothed out for my taste -- that is it may have seemed weird because it was less weird. Or perhaps it's my imagination.
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It was Williamsburg resident Matt Boothe's first marathon. He never got to finish.
Boothe and running companion Lynn Howard of York County were participating in Monday's Boston Marathon when the explosions that killed two and injured more than 100 stopped the race.
"We were 0.2 miles from the finish line," Booth said, when the marathon runners were stopped by Boston police. Boothe and Howard ran back to the hotel to get to their cell phones and contact family members and friends who were at the finish line, near where the explosions occurred.
"I ran a little faster," Boothe said, despite having finished nearly 26 miles.
Boothe's father, Brian Christiansen, was at the finish line about 20 feet away from one of the devices when it exploded.
"It's not good," Christiansen said briefly. "I still can't hear very well."
Howard, pastor of Wave Church in Williamsburg, said he would have been closer, but had doubled back to finish with Boothe.
"We heard one or two explosions, then two others," Howard said. "We got to (about) the 25-mile point and they stopped us. The race was over right there."
Boothe said he was still shaken from the event, glued to the television in the hotel for news. He said he heard the explosions, but it was hard to tell what it was because there was so much noise on the course.
"It's a pretty ominous feeling," he said.
At least 16 Peninsula-area runners were slated to participate in the Boston Marathon. Two runners from Quinton in New Kent County also were among those registered.
Tom Keefe, 63, of York County, finished the marathon a minute before the blast occurred. He was getting a bottle of water when he heard the first explosion. "At first I thought a transformer blew," Keefe said. This is the fourth time he's completed the Boston Marathon. He turned around to see the smoke rising in the air.
Then seconds later he heard another blast. "Obviously then I thought that this could be a terrorist event," Keefe said. He said people within his vicinity remained calm as did the police officers near him.
"There wasn't any panic," he said. Keefe tried to call his wife, Dawn, who decided before the race instead of meeting him at the finish line that she'd tour Harvard. But his cell phone wouldn't work.
His wife was on her way back to the hotel on the subway, which was stopped shortly after the blast. The conductor announced they were stopped for a "medical emergency." It wasn't until nearly three hours later when she unlocked the door of her hotel room that he knew she was okay.
George Neil, a Williamsburg runner and member of the Colonial Road Runners Association, said he is OK.
"I finished 13 minutes before the explosion. It must have been terrible, because when I was there, it was packed with people to the point you couldn't walk," Neil said.
University of Virginia men's cross country coach Pete Watson said he, his brother, Rob — who finished 11th Monday — and other early world-class runners were at an organized lunch about 200 meters from the finish line when they heard the explosions.
"We're OK, and obviously we're thinking about all those people who are not. ... I can't imagine those who have been traumatized by this," Watson said.
Around 7 p.m., Watson and his party were in the restaurant at their hotel, where no one was being allowed to leave the building.
"We can see and hear the ambulances and police outside doing their jobs," Watson said.
"We were quickly asked to leave the Boston downtown area, said Dawn Wilson Lobosco, a teacher from Providence Forge who finished the marathon. As we walked approximately 2-3 miles towards MIT, we saw and heard the cries and encounters of those who were front row to the bombings."
Virginia reaction and security
Gov. Bob McDonnell, who is in China on a trade mission, released a statement from his office after he was briefed on the situation.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston, and with marathon participants and attendees from around the country and the world, including many from here in Virginia, following the tragic events of this afternoon," McDonnell said.
"There are no words that can properly express our grief and our concern. I have asked members of our Administration to immediately offer any and all assistance that Virginia can provide to Massachusetts in the days ahead."
On Monday, agencies around Hampton Roads said they were being vigilant in the wake of the attacks.
"Operators have been asked to look a little more carefully through the trains as they move through them on their return trips. The system is operating normally," said Hampton Roads Transit spokesman Tom Holden.
Jessica Wharton, a spokeswoman for Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport, said she didn't know if travelers from Boston Logan International Airport would be affected by the attacks. NNWI does not have any direct flights to or from the airport.
"Our police are on 24 hours a day ... they're just being extra viligant and keeping their eyes open like they always do," Wharton said.
"While we do not discuss specific force protection levels, be assured that security measures in place at Navy installation in the Mid-Atlantic region are appropriate," said Beth Baker, a spokeswoman for the Navy Mid-Atlantic regional command.
"Access to installations is limited to those with proper identification cards and credentials. Our security personnel are highly trained and extremely competent. We consistently monitor the intelligence reports and potential threats, and are prepared to increase the security condition in the region if and when necessary."
Daily Press staff writers Austin Bogues, Andi Petrini and David Teel, and The Virginia Gazette and Tidewater Review, contributed to this story.


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NEW YORK — Five years after its introduction revolutionized the face of the league, the Designated Player rule just got a whole lot younger.
On Tuesday, MLS unveiled a new type of DP mechanism that is projected to bring in a new crop of young international stars to the league.
Beginning in 2012, teams can acquire Designated Players based overseas who are 20 years of age or younger for a budget charge of only $150,000, while Designated Players between the ages of 21 and 23 will count just $200,000 against a team's salary budget. Current DPs represent a $335,000 hit to a club's player budget of $2,675,000, regardless of their age.
"If you look at it, our Designated Players are anywhere from mid to late 20s to early 30s," said MLS executive vice president of competition and player relations, Todd Durbin, on a media teleconference call. "We're getting good players, veteran players and players with experience but we've been out of the market for young, promising players in this area.
"We're hoping with this rule change we'll tear down this last barrier of entry and bring in quality players at every place in their career and truly have the ability to get into the market of young players to be able to bring in and grow stars of the future for Major League Soccer."
The age classifications are designed to catch young players cycling out of their respective Under-20 and Under-23 national teams. And it's a rule change for which MLS clubs had been clamoring.
It's not that MLS teams haven't wanted to sign promising young players based overseas. FC Dallas took the plunge earlier this year with Colombian Under-20 star Fabián Castillo (above) and the New England Revolution signed Argentine Milton Caraglio, both as a Designated Players.
However, there was always an inherent risk of saddling a club's salary budget with a $335,000 budget hit for a young player who needed time to develop. The latest amendment to the Designated Player rule will encourage teams to make these speculative moves and with a longer term outlook.
Another incentivize for clubs to seek out this young talent is the fact that they will avoid the one-time $250,000 fee required for a third DP slot when the signing involves a DP who is 23 years of age or younger.
Although Durbin indicated that "South America, Central America and Mexico are going to be fertile grounds" for these younger DPs, he made it clear that teams can also acquire Americans or Canadians based outside the USA and Canada under this category. In fact, the league is currently working with the Philadelphia Union to determine how Freddy Adu's acquisition will be accounted for under the club's 2012 budget.
Another expected byproduct of the implementation of the new rule is that it will encourage loans of reserve team and academy products by European clubs to their MLS counterparts.
"It's going to open up not only markets of unknown players but also players who aren't currently playing with their first team," Durbin said. "It will give us the ability to bring those players over for a year or two, develop them, evaluate them and potentially – if they're playing well – allow us to acquire them long term."
The teams will soon be able to rely on an expanded scouting resources set up by the league to supplement club scouting networks in 2012. MLS also plans to invest in technology in 2012 which is used to monitor and identify players in leagues around the world.
"The same way you saw the last change we made to the designated player rule [expanding the DP slots from one to three per team] open the door and allow us to effectively double our rate of signing designated players [from 12 to 24], our hope is that this change is going to have the same signifnciant long term effect of bringing in a whole crop of players who traditionally have been beyond our reach given our rules," Durbin said. "What you'll see over the next two to three years is a substantial increase in the Fabián Castillos of the world."


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NEW BERN � A boat manufacturer in New Bern says it will lay about 80 workers.
Hatteras-CABO Yachts said Thursday it was eliminating the jobs of 25 percent of its hourly workers.
The company is owned by Brunswick Corp. and is up for sale.
President and CEO John Ward said the layoffs are needed to adjust the workforce to production demands.
Ward said the latest cut was necessary "if we're going to continue to run and make decisions supportive of demand and our needs."
This is the third layoff at the plant this year. Two reductions in January eliminated first 105 workers' jobs, then 40 more positions.
Ward says some of those laid off Thursday have been laid off and re-hired previously.
"I am very optimistic we will be able to call these people back to work after the sale and as business starts to come back," he said.
At one time, the company employed 1,200 people and operated a second plant in Swansboro.
There is reason for optimism, Ward said, given that half the boats the company now sells go to overseas markets.
"We're getting ready to make our second delivery to China and we are in several Latin markets where we continue to do very well," he said. "I'm excited about our future even though these are trying, challenging times."


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Most of you are too young to be familiar with the malady called the Walton Syndrome. While it is not a mental or physical problem, the syndrome is a state of mind that periodically afflicts those of us who followed the television series, The Waltons, back in the 1970's. The show centered on the lives of a large extended family who lived in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. The series focused on love of family and how family needs, as well as those of the larger community, were met in difficult times. The show, whose message focused on endurance and the common good, struck a chord with viewers who yearned for a simpler time and, for years, they faithfully followed the family as they overcame the obstacles placed in their way. That yearning was called the Walton Syndrome and those aspects of their lifestyle that emphasized harmonious communal living were considered to be a prescription for surviving difficult times. Now, I haven't thought about the Waltons in years, and it is a bit embarrassing to admit that a can of tuna fish is what seemed to spark my reverie. Tuna cakes disappeared from my table years ago, but I thought they'd make a wonderful feature for Frugal Foodie Friday. Canned tuna is still cheap and the cakes are simple to make. I stopped making them because I, quite simply, tired of them. They were a weekly feature in my mother's kitchen and the Silver Fox and I had then often in the early years of our marriage. Canned tuna is one of the items found in supplemental food boxes, so I thought these tuna cakes would make a great frugal Friday feature. The recipe is put together from taste memory and it is really easy to follow. The only point at which you might encounter trouble comes while the cakes are frying. If you attempt to turn the cakes before the bottom has crusted, they will fall apart on you. While that will not affect their flavor, it may affect your appetite. I like to serve these with Brazilian Tomato Rice which you can find, here. I do think the cakes need a sauce of some type. While tartar sauce is a nice accompaniment I prefer to serve the cakes with salsa, which I think is a better match for the cilantro in the recipe. If you are looking for something that is fast, easy and inexpensive to make I hope you'll give these tuna cakes a try. They are really nice. Here is the recipe.
2 cans (6-oz. each) tuna packed in water, drained
1/4 cup plain dried bread crumbs
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
2 tablespoon chopped chives or green onion tops
Juice and zest of one small lemon
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste
1 large egg, beaten
2 squirts of hot sauce (i.e. Texas Pete)
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup prepared salsa
1) Combine tuna, bread crumbs, cilantro, chives, lemon juice and zest, mayonnaise in a medium bowl Season to taste with salt and pepper (I used 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper). Combine egg with hot sauce and add to tuna mixture, mixing gently until ingredients come together.
2) Form into six (1/3 cup each ) tuna cakes.
3) Heat oil and butter in a large non-stick skillet set over medium heat. When hot, add tuna cakes and cook until golden brown and crisp, about 2 minutes per side. Serve hot with salsa. Yield: 6 cakes to feed 3 people.
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