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G2072, Reviewed October 1993
Feeding grain to cattle on pasture can be a profitable way to grow and finish cattle on many Missouri farms. Some purposes for supplementing pasture with energy and protein are:
Cool-season grasses mature in summer and become too low in energy and protein to meet the requirements of stocker cattle. Unless these pastures contain a considerable quantity of legume, cattle don't make acceptable rates of gain in late summer.
Drought also reduces the quantity of forage available in summer pastures. The primary goal of feeding protein and energy supplements to cattle on pasture is to supplement but not replace pasture as a feed.
Feeding supplements to cattle on pasture is likely to be more profitable in July and August when grasses are lower in nutrient value and cattle respond more to supplemental feeding. A Missouri study showed no response from feeding 3 pounds of corn or 3 pounds of a mixture of corn and a high-protein feed for steers grazing a fescue-ladino pasture that furnished excess forage in May and June.
However, some 800-pound cattle fed 4 pounds of corn or 3 pounds of corn and 1 pound of soybean meal per head daily on these same pastures from mid-June to early September gained 0.54 pounds more per head daily than those without supplements. An extra pound of gain took 7.4 pounds of supplement. No response was noted from adding soybean meal to the corn for these heavyweight cattle.
Kansas studies showed an increase in average daily gain per steer of 0.35 pounds from late summer supplements of 1 to 2 pounds of feed per animal for steer grazing range grasses. They noted that when the forage remains green all summer, there may be little response from late summer supplements.
Feeding 0.8 to 1.0 pounds daily per head of soybean meal, cottonseed meal or a similar 40 percent protein supplement has been more profitable for cattle on range grasses in late summer than higher levels of a grain supplement in Oklahoma comparisons. These western range grasses decline greatly in protein in late summer. Feeding protein increases the digestibility of these mature grasses and increases their consumption when protein is deficient; feeding 3 pounds or more of an energy supplement usually decreases consumption of the forage. High protein supplements give the best response when the forage is low in protein but abundant in quantity.
Energy may be deficient on Missouri pastures in late summer since fescue, orchard and brome grass pastures don't drop as low in protein as is characteristic of the range grasses. Thus, energy may be a greater need than protein to supplement these types of Missouri pastures in summer.
Grazing trials at the University of Nebraska showed steers with initial weights of 550 to 600 pounds benefitted from supplemental escape protein when grazing brome grass pastures from late April to early July. Adding 0.5 pounds of escape protein per head daily increased average daily gain above a corn starch energy supplement by 0.36 pounds per head daily; adding 0.25 pounds of escape protein increased average daily gain by 0.25 pounds per head daily. The forage had 20 percent protein on a dry matter basis in early spring, but analyses indicated 95 percent of the protein was rumen degradable.
A two-year study at MU showed no response from adding escape protein (blood meal-corn gluten meal) vs. soybean meal to 3 pounds corn fed per head daily to 650- to 700-pound steers grazing fescue pastures during May and June.
Limiting grain supplements to 0.5 to 1.0 percent of body weight usually requires less grain for an extra unit of gain than full-feeding grain to cattle on pasture. Feeding large amounts of energy with forage reduces the fiber digestibility of the forage. Also, cattle will substitute grain for grass when large amounts of grain are fed with good quality forage. This results in little increase in daily gain and large amounts of grain needed for additional gain.
In Kansas trials, feeding 4 pounds of rolled milo per head daily to steers grazing bermuda grass pastures for 112 days gave higher subsequent feedlot gains, fewer days in the feedlot and higher overall performance than feeding 0 or 2 pounds milo.
For the most efficient use of grain supplements with pasture, the stocking rate of the cattle must be balanced with the pasture. The stocking rate should be increased when grain supplements are fed, since the cattle will eat less pasture. In University of Oklahoma studies, it took 15 to 30 pounds of grain for each pound of gain increase if grass was surplus, but only 8 to 10 pounds if grass and cattle were balanced. The carrying capacity of the pasture increased by 25 to 30 percent when grain was fed at 1 percent of body weight (5 to 7 pounds per head per day).
Raun, A.P. (1979) of Elanco Products Company reported a summary of eight trials that showed stockers fed forage averaged 0.61 less forage dry matter intake for each pound of grain consumed daily. The stocking rate to fully use the pasture increased 4.2 percent for each pound of grain fed per head daily. Thus, if 4 pounds of corn is fed per head daily, the stocking rate would need to be increased by 1/6 or 16.8 percent to fully use the forage.
In a four-year trial with grasses and grass-legume pastures in Wisconsin, feeding corn at 1 percent of body weight to steers increased the carrying capacity of pastures by 15 percent from May to September and 17 percent from October to November.
Feeding corn at the rate of 1 percent of body weight in the Wisconsin trials increased average daily gain by 0.42 pounds per head from May to September, but gave no increase in daily gain from October to November. Supplemented steers grazing grass-birdsfoot trefoil pastures had 23 percent faster average daily gains in spring and summer. Corn feeding increased daily gain on bluegrass pastures by 30 percent and increased average daily gain on brome grass by 28 percent. The lesser increase from corn feeding on the birdsfoot trefoil-grass pasture indicates these cattle were better able to meet their energy intake requirements than those grazing the grass pastures.
Feeds such as soybean hulls and corn gluten feed have low starch but a large component of highly digestible fiber. These high-fiber feeds reduce the fiber digestibility and feed intake of roughages less when they are used as energy supplements to roughage rations than do high-starch grains such as corn, milo or wheat. Studies at MU and other stations show that feeding 3 to 6 pounds of soybean hulls or corn gluten feed per head daily to cattle on forage gives equal or greater performance than using a similar amount of corn grain.
Supplements can be hand-fed daily. If fed at 0.5 percent of body weight or less, every other day is satisfactory. Salt mixes work well. Adding 10 percent salt to a grain supplement will hold consumption to about 1 percent of body weight. About 15 percent salt is needed to limit grain to 0.5 percent of body weight on most pastures. If Rumensin is included, less salt is needed. It will take 30 percent or more salt to limit a protein supplement to 1 pound daily consumption. Use plain salt instead of trace mineralized salt to prevent overfeeding of some minerals. Tallow or other fat can be substituted for salt to control intake.
If cattle are hand-fed supplements, the time of day that the supplement is fed appears to affect the amount of forage that the cattle will consume. Cattle have intensive grazing peaks at dawn and dusk, with most grazing occurring in daylight hours. Feeding supplements in the middle of the day will be less disruptive on normal grazing activity and will cause cattle to eat more forage than if supplements are fed early in the morning.
Growth implants will increase the daily gain of steers fed supplements on pasture by 12 to 15 percent and increase total gain by 20 to 30 pounds in a 130-day pasture period. A second implant of Ralgro at mid season increased the total pasture gain of steers by 9.5 pounds in a summary of 11 Missouri farm trials.
Rumensin or Bovatec fed at 150 to 200 milligrams per head daily in grain or protein supplements has increased the gain of steers and heifers on pasture by approximately 0.15 to 0.20 pounds per head daily. In a summary of nine trials, Rumensin or Bovatec increased the average daily gain of stockers on pasture by 0.12 pounds when the ionophores were fed in free-choice mineral mixes or molasses blocks. Rumensin was consumed at an average level of 103 milligrams and Bovatec at 123 milligrams per head daily.
An increase in daily gain has been shown in some trials where steers and heifers on summer pasture have consumed around 350 milligrams of Aureomycin per head daily in salt-mineral mixtures. Cattle fed this level of antibiotics in their mineral mixture averaged 0.1 pounds higher average daily gain in a summary of five trials. The response appeared to be greater where eye infections were a problem.
Feeding 0.8 pounds to 1 pound of grain per 100 pounds of body weight gave the greatest profit in finishing cattle on grass in a 7-year study at North Carolina. A mixture of 10 percent animal fat and 90 percent ground shelled corn or milo produced this level of grain intake on fescue-ladino, orchard grass-ladino and other pasture combinations.
Ten percent salt in the concentrate provided similar results to that obtained with fat. However, the fat addition proved more profitable than salt in their trials. Adding 15 percent salt to the mixture reduced consumption to 0.5 pounds of grain per 100 pounds body weight of the steers. A limited feed of grain with pasture saved about 50 percent of the grain plus the protein supplement and roughage needed for cattle finished in dry lot.
Work at MU and elsewhere does not show that protein supplementation is profitable for grain rations fed at 10 percent or more of body weight to cattle on grass-legume pastures, grasses fertilized with nitrogen or grasses in an early stage of growth.
The grain ration will not need to supplement the forage for protein except when pasture growth is of poor quality because of advanced maturity or drought. A level of 10 to 12 percent crude protein in mixed feed should be adequate under most conditions. A mixture of 14 parts of corn or milo and one part of 40 percent protein supplement has approximately 11 percent crude protein (as fed).
Five years of data at Purdue University showed cattle full-fed grain on brome-alfalfa pasture needed 100 pounds less grain for each 100 pounds gain than cattle fed in dry lot. This is a reduction of 1.8 bushels of corn for each 100 pounds of gain.
An acre of pasture carried four to five steers and saved approximately one ton of grain. Stock pastures heavier when grain is fed to make full use of pasture forage. Pastures often are not as productive as those in this study, so lower stocking rates and feed savings would result.
When the pasture was green and growing, no supplemental protein was needed for cattle full-fed grain. Whole corn was slightly superior to rolled corn for cattle fed grain on pasture in the Purdue studies. Less trouble with founder and other rumen disorders was experienced with whole corn.
Another method of full-feeding grain on pasture is to stock a pasture at its full carrying capacity in the spring and delay grain feeding for 50 to 60 days. Then start a full feed of grain no later than the first of July, when grass pastures usually are declining in quality and quantity of forage.
The carrying capacity of the pasture can be maintained by supplementing the pasture with grain through the summer months. Whole shelled corn can be used. Milo can be used instead of corn. Wheat can constitute up to 50 percent of the grain. But the milo and wheat must always be rolled or ground for cattle.
Some trials have shown that delaying a full feed of grain until 50 to 60 days after the cattle are put on pasture will decrease the amount of corn needed to finish cattle to low choice grade by 10 to 12 bushels per head compared to full feeding grain from the time cattle start on pasture.
Cattle full-fed on pasture may be started on a self-feeder at once if a mixture of 50 percent roughage and 50 percent ground grain is provided at first. The roughage can be cut to 30 percent and then to 20 percent at 5- to 7-day intervals.
Offer straight ground grain or shelled corn by the end of the third week. Cottonseed hulls, ground corn cobs, ground hay or other roughages can be used. Provide one foot of trough space for every three animals.
Foundering is more likely to occur if cattle graze a long distance from the self-feeder or if the water supply is not close to the feeder. Also, foundering can occur in heifers that over-eat after having reduced their feed intake during a long heat period. A ration lower in energy than shelled corn is better suited for feeding heifers on grass.
Cattle may founder if pastures become lush from fall rains and cattle prefer the pasture to the grain and lose their adaptation to grain. To avoid foundering:
Good quality pasture should be high in carotene and provide an abundance of pro-vitamin A for beef cattle. However, high-nitrate feeds and unidentified factors can interfere with the use of carotene by beef cattle. Vitamin A supplementation has increased performance in a few trials where cattle were full-fed grain on pasture.
Provide 20,000 IU of vitamin A per head daily to maintain body stores of vitamin A when pastures are mature, especially if cattle are to be fed corn silage or full-fed grain for an extended period after the grazing season.
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A few weeks ago, we did an in-depth review of Ubuntu 11.04 when compared with Fedora 15. One of the interesting little features we missed was Quicklists in Unity. Quicklists allow users to access common menus, or perform common tasks within a program by right-clicking the launcher icon. The feature is very much similar to Jump Lists in Windows 7, which could be accessed by right-clicking the Windows task bar. Applications, like Browsers and Media Players use these Jump Lists to let the user access documents and tasks associated with the current application. Unity on the other hand being freshly baked from the oven, there aren't many applications that take advantage of the Quicklist features. Here's a quick tip that will let you enable Quicklists for both Google Chrome and Firefox.
Using Google Chrome and/or Chromium:
Google Chrome and Chromium don't support Quicklists by default; however, with a little tweaking the feature can be enabled to support incognito mode. Here's the whole process in 2 easy steps.
Step 1: Backup - Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type in the following code:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop.backup
Step 2: Then, type the following line in the terminal:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
Step 3: Now that the file is opened, paste the following code at the end of the file. When done, press Ctrl+S and close the window.
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
[Incognito Shortcut Group]
Name=New Incognito Tab
Exec=google-chrome --incognito
Using Firefox:
Firefox 4 can also be tweaked to show various options in the Quicklists. These options allow users to open a new window, toggle the Private browsing mode, start the Profile Manager, and use the safe mode. The safe mode starts Firefox without any extensions or plugins. The profile manager can be used to access different profiles before starting the actual session.
Right-clicking on the Firefox launcher icon and selecting 'Profile Manager' will open a window like this:
Anyways, enough talk, here's how to get it in 4 easy steps:
Step 1: Backup the file..
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop.backup
Step 2: Open the terminal and type in..
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
Step 3: Apparently, Firefox already supports the New Window quick list item. So, find the code that begins with a line that looks like this:
This line will be followed by some code. Now, delete the line and the lines below it.
Step 4: Add following code to the file, press Ctrl+S and exit.
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=Open a New Window
Name[ast]=Abrir una ventana nueva
Name[bn]=Abrir una ventana nueva
Name[ca]=Obre una finestra nova
Name[da]=Åbn et nyt vindue
Name[de]=Ein neues Fenster öffnen
Name[es]=Abrir una ventana nueva
Name[fi]=Avaa uusi ikkuna
Name[fr]=Ouvrir une nouvelle fenêtre
Name[gl]=Abrir unha nova xanela
Name[he]=פתיחת חלון חדש
Name[hr]=Otvori novi prozor
Name[hu]=Új ablak nyitása
Name[it]=Apri una nuova finestra
Name[ku]=Paceyeke nû veke
Name[lt]=Atverti naują langą
Name[nl]=Nieuw venster openen
Name[ro]=Deschide o fereastră nouă
Name[ru]=Открыть новое окно
Name[sv]=Öppna ett nytt fönster
Name[ug]=يېڭى كۆزنەك ئېچىش
Name[uk]=Відкрити нове вікно
Exec=firefox -new-window about:blank
[Safe-Mode Shortcut Group]
Exec=firefox -safe-mode
[PrivateToggle Shortcut Group]
Name=Enable/Disabe Private Mode
Exec=firefox -private-toggle
[ProfileMgr Shortcut Group]
Name=Start Profile Manager
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager
Menu doesn't show up:
If the menu doesn't show up, remove the launcher from the Unity bar by right-clicking and unchecking the option titled "Keep in Launcher". Then search for the program and drag it to the Unity bar again. The Quicklist should be visible by now.
If something goes wrong, type the following commands. These commands will restore the original '.desktop' files and delete the modified ones, taking things back to normal.
If something goes wrong, type the following commands. These commands will restore the original '.desktop' files and delete the modified ones, taking things back to normal.
For Google Chrome:
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
sudo mv /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop.backup /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
For Firefox:
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
sudo mv /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop.backup /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

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There's a pig. And it's wearing a
It's a hectic Wednesday afternoon at the Hollywood offices of the
website-turned-digital entertainment studio Funny or Die. The company just celebrated its fourth birthday, and there's a national board meeting underway in lawn chairs on the roof, for which slick-suited executives have flown in from all over the country. Downstairs, the aforementioned live pig — here to make a video — wanders the hallway in a jacket and striped tie.
Amid the pre-shoot chaos, comedian
shuffles by, unfazed by the pig. It's all very Monty Python-esque — one half expects the voice of Moses to suddenly bellow from an overhead speaker.
Funny or Die: In the May 8 Calendar section, an article about digital entertainment studio Funny or Die misidentifies the company's president and chief executive, Dick Glover, as Donald Glover.
And yet the organized lunacy seems perfectly fitting. Funny or Die, founded by
, is a whirling dervish of Web video production. It's also become a veritable pop cultural institution. Its mix of user-submitted videos and "exclusive" star-packed sketch comedy bits draws about 17 million visitors a month to what's now a "comedy community," with a tangle of social media offshoots. Videos often go viral, with the potential to bring upward of 50 million hits each.
It's no wonder that an appearance on Funny or Die has become something of a status symbol for celebrities, who offer their star power for free to "leak" edgy, fun comedy shorts into the zeitgeist, strategically timed to promote their projects. Or, as Rebecca Mader of
explains, to tweak their image. "This feels sort of naughty and rebellious — especially if you're on network television."
The site's a mash-up of famous faces, boasting videos starring
, among many others.
all have projects in development there.
Now Funny or Die is using the site — on which it can create short videos quickly and cheaply — as an incubation lab for pitching and marketing new material to TV networks and movie studios. The company is also stepping into feature films, merchandising (interactive T-shirts, anyone?), iPhone/
apps and book publishing.
"I go out and people say, 'I love Funny or Die,' and I don't know what Funny or Die they're talking about," says creative director Andrew Steele, formerly a head writer on
"Is it stuff we did on the Internet? Soon they're gonna mean the film world and the television world."
just green-lighted a third season of the TV series
and FOD's new half-hour show, "Jon Benjamin Has a Van," is set to premiere on
this summer. There are three other FOD TV pilots "in various stages" in the works, Steele says.
The company also just wrapped its first feature film, "Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie." It's a low-budget movie with big cameos, and the cast includes many FOD regulars such as Ferrell,
. Financed by 2929 Productions, which has a distribution deal with Magnolia, the picture is in the editing stage. Steele says they're considering a handful of other film projects, but he's wary of growing too quickly.
"There's definitely a danger of overdoing it," he admits. "We pick and choose quite a bit actually. We have to manage it."
Overextending the brand is a legitimate concern. By late 2007 the company had begun expanding into a network of user-curated websites, including Eat Drink or Die. But in late 2008, "when the world collapsed," says President and CEO
, they scaled back. "We directed our focus at where we thought we were really good: Funny or Die," Glover says. The company is now "definitely profitable," he says.
This article about digital entertainment studio Funny or Die misidentifies the company's president and chief executive, Dick Glover, as Donald Glover.
Having last week won nine Webby Awards for 2010, Funny or Die has seemingly mastered the art — and commerce — of interactive, multimedia comedy, something myriad sites like the now-defunct Super Deluxe (
), ThisJustIn (HBO/AOL) and Dot Comedy (
) weren't able to do. User content is free, and stars draw traffic to the homepage, which helps sell banner ads and branded content, among other revenue streams.
But will going broad endanger the hipness quotient and business model? And will Funny or Die's Web-first, short-form entertainment translate to other media?
"I think the model will probably adapt," says Will Richmond, an analyst at VideoNuze, which specializes in online video. "But I think [content crossover] is more complicated, and these are the bridges that they still have to cross."
CEO Glover says branching into other formats won't be a problem since it's the ideas that come first. "Whether it's a 11/2 -minute video or 28-minute television show or 111-minute feature length film [doesn't matter] — the key is, is it a terrific piece of content?" he says.
As Glover talks, he fidgets with a talking bottle opener. When pressed, it snaps "You're an alcoholic!" in Ferrell's voice. Which fits: The offices are awash in an almost manic goofiness.
The physical layout hints at an organizational structure that has something of a split personality. Upstairs is the Ferrell-McKay-Henchy company, Gary Sanchez Productions. It's predictably slick, flooded with sunlight and boasting lots of glass, steel and stained concrete.
Downstairs, where Funny or Die resides, it's decidedly more DIY and new media — lots of body piercings, Converse high tops and the occasional flash of pink hair. An abandoned, half-eaten sandwich sits by the bathroom sink, which is broken.
"It's pretty crazy, but it's great," says Ferrell, who thinks of the site as "modern-day vaudeville." He stresses how little time and resources go into each video. "It's very low impact in terms of the writing and the acting, and yet it can have a huge impact in terms of how many people can see it."
President of Production Mike Farah's lean staff of producers and writers-directors-editors puts out 40 to 45 short videos a month. And all on a compressed timeline by Hollywood standards. Concepts are nailed on the fly and Web videos are set up via quick phone calls to friends, often bypassing agents and managers entirely. At the height of the
media frenzy, they pitched him a cooking video. Three days later they shot it, and it was live on the site the next day.
"It was a 24-hour turnaround. By Hollywood terms, that's lightning speed," Farah says.
The insular, almost frat-like network of A-list friends itching to work with Funny or Die further accelerates an already quick Web production cycle. The idea for the video "When Harry Met Sally 2," starring
, was sparked at Crystal's grandson's birthday party and came together within days. His daughter directed it, another daughter appeared in it and his sons-in-law wrote it.
Speed and access to talent are key to Funny or Die's success and gives it an edge when pitching projects to networks. It's able to quickly and cheaply make pilot samples and sizzle reels to show executives what they're going for as well as test-drive material on the site to get user feedback.
The latest brainchild — and a hint of FOD's broad ambitions — is a book publishing arm, still in the exploratory stages. Though that might seem counterintuitive to FOD's digital roots, Farah envisions it being an innovative hybrid of paper and e-books. He sees old-fashioned, classic humor books on the one hand and a Mad Magazine/McSweeney's-type e-magazine for iPads on the other.
Just as two- to three-minute videos work online, so too would short stories, blogs-turned-books and novellas work for its book brand. They've just begun to meet with authors and publishers, and Farah thinks the idea of marketing books for free on their site will be "very compelling to traditional publishers." The goal is to have a book out "in some form" by year's end.
Mark Groubert, an editor for five years at the humor magazine
, urges caution about Funny or Die's expansion. "This is a very small, dark, sarcastic comedic little world that they're in," he says. "Culturally, for them to go that wide out, they'd have to broaden the comedy, thereby dispersing or diminishing the brand."
And if the launch of "Funny or Die Presents" on HBO is any indicator, there's much to be learned about crossover. The show proved challenging to adapt from Web to TV at first. According to co-creator McKay, they initially envisioned a show comprising user videos from the site but quickly realized that wouldn't work legally. "We went from 'There's no rules, we can take stuff from the Internet' to 'Oh, wait, there are rules,'" McKay says. They ended up hiring users whose content they liked on the site and had them create original material for the show, supplemented by the "exclusive" in-house produced videos they're known for.
McKay says the site hasn't been as timely as he'd like it to be. He's pushed the writers to create more sketches in sync with the news cycle. Like a pig in a Donald Trump wig, for example, or a Kate and William reality show spoof. Unlike "Saturday Night Live," which is tied to a weekly production schedule, McKay says the FOD site can respond to current events practically while they're happening.
Where could the seemingly elastic Funny or Die possibly stretch from here? Steele says he'd like to do a Sunday morning "week in review" sports podcast with Ferrell, who envisions one day premiering feature films on the site via download. "That's something we're striving for," Ferrell says.
And then there are … concert tours? Which is why
is hanging upside down from the ceiling of an elevator today — or at least that's what this trick shot will have the viewer believe. The
star will soon embark on a 22-city concert tour, during which he'll show clips of the spoof biopic he's filming with Funny or Die. It's the first time the company has inserted videos into a performer's live show.
"I'm just hoping this will be one of the Funny or Die classics," Morrison says.
His costar today, "Lost's" Mader, is just happy to be here. "I just shot [an
] sitcom and my friends were, like, 'Funny or Die? Shut up!'" Mader says. "They care way more about this."


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Rumors that billionaire investor Carl Icahn was interested in Hewlett-Packard sent the company's shares soaring, but does that mean there's a basis to jump into the name?
"This seems to be right up his alley," Drakon Capital's Guy Adami said on "Fast Money."
While acknowledging that he had no knowledge whether the rumor was true, Adami added that the rumor could have set up a bottom for the shares.
Hewlett-Packard's shares traded down after accounting irregularities connected to its acquisition of Automomy were publicized.
"The stock has traded pretty well on what has been a flat tape," he added.
Pete Najarian of OptionMonster said it was an "interesting" proposition.
"At this level, your downside is very, very limited," he added.
Trader disclosure: On Dec. 10, 2012, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Guy Adami is long C; Guy Adami is long GS; Guy Adami is long INTC; Guy Adami is long AGU; Guy Adami is long MSFT; Guy Adami is long NUE; Guy Adami is long BTU; Anthony Scaramucci is long AAPL; Anthony Scaramucci is long BAC; Anthony Scaramucci is long C; Anthony Scaramucci is long GD; Scott Nations is long SPY; Scott Nations is long C; Scott Nations is long BAC; Scott Nations is long BAC CALLS; Brian Kelly is long XLB; Brian Kelly is long GLD; Brian Kelly is long SLV; Brian Kelly is long PPLT; Brian Kelly is short XLF; Brian Kelly is short XHB; Pete Najarian is long AAPL; Pete Najarian is long BAC; Pete Najarian is long JPM; Pete Najarian is long INTC; Pete Najarian is long SBUX; Pete Najarian is long FB; Pete Najarian is long MSFT.


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Penguins' success begins in Wilkes-Barre/Scrantonby Alyssa Dombrowski
Between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League and their NHL affiliate in Pittsburgh, much more is shared than simply a synonymous mascot. The success of the Pittsburgh Penguins and their partners in Northeastern Pennsylvania has been actively intertwined since their affiliation began in 1999.
"The way we view it, it's really one team," said John Hynes, the AHL's 2011 Coach of the Year who is in his fourth season at the helm for Wilkes-Barre. "Between the management and coaches, we're on the same page as far as how we like to run the two teams and the values we want to have within our locker room."
It's a sense of unity that resonates across the board. Through the years, Pittsburgh has looked to Wilkes-Barre for the development of players such as goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, defensemen Kris Letang, Alex Goligoski, Ben Lovejoy, Rob Scuderi, Michal Rozsival and Brooks Orpik and forwards Mark Letestu and Maxime Talbot.
The latest crop to graduate from Wilkes-Barre -- players like defenseman Olli Maatta and forwards Beau Bennett, Joe Vitale and 2014 AHL All-Star Brian Gibbons -- have reinforced Pittsburgh's injury-riddled lineup this season.
"Systematically, it's give-and-take," said Hynes, whose predecessors behind the Wilkes-Barre bench include current Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma, Columbus Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards and Montreal Canadiens coach Michel Therrien. "We like to be on the same page so that it's an easy transition for players to go up and down, so that on a moment's notice, they can go from lineup to lineup and still be able to perform well for themselves and for the team."
Second-year defenseman Brian Dumoulin was recalled by the Penguins in December, becoming one of eight Wilkes-Barre players to make his NHL debut with Pittsburgh this season. He recalls the ease in being among a handful of former teammates within Pittsburgh's locker room.
"When I was called up, a lot of the Wilkes-Barre guys were playing for Pittsburgh," Dumoulin said. "It was nice to have familiar faces in the locker room, to already have a level of comfort there. For a lot of us, having that experience playing in the NHL this year has definitely helped us come back and play really well here in the AHL."
Hynes, whose 186 wins with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton are the most in team history, recognizes the value of Pittsburgh's propensity to reward hard work at the developmental level.
"In the AHL, it's important for your players to have that drive to be able to get opportunities to play up in the NHL," Hynes said. "Pittsburgh provides that quite a bit throughout the year.
"It really catches fire when guys see their teammates go from Wilkes-Barre to Pittsburgh and not only play, but get put in good situations to help the team win. It really just verifies [the process] and gets them excited about the work they're putting in down here -- they realize that it's helping them not only win and do well in the AHL, but it's preparing them for success at the NHL level."
Those are, essentially, the primary ideals for anyone in the American Hockey League, and Hynes seems to have established a model formula for balancing the two.
"Winning and development go hand in hand," he said. "The development process comes down to the individual training of each player and what they need in particular to get to the NHL. Then on the winning side of it, you want to be able to play a structured system and have everybody work together, and that usually helps create winning."
A winning tradition is deep-rooted for Wilkes-Barre. Currently in the midst of their 12th consecutive Calder Cup Playoff appearance, the AHL Penguins were conference finalists last year and have played in three Calder Cup Finals in their 15-year history.
"Even though we do have a young group here, we have a lot of strong veterans that have played in the playoffs," Dumoulin said. "We have really good leadership right now, and the young guys are learning from them."
Pittsburgh, which enters the weekend one win away from the NHL's Eastern Conference Final, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, which opens its second-round series against Providence on Friday, are looking to duplicate a feat they achieved in 2008, when both clubs reached their respective Cup finals.
"It's exciting, especially with some of my really good friends and everyone from here playing for Pittsburgh," Dumoulin said of the teams' simultaneous playoff runs.
It's the high-pressure, high-intensity atmosphere of the postseason that Hynes believes to be crucial to his players' careers, both presently in Wilkes-Barre and in the future with Pittsburgh.
"Obviously with an organization like Pittsburgh, the Stanley Cup is the ultimate goal every year," Hynes said. "For us to be able to provide players that can assist in those runs, the AHL playoffs are really important. [They're] a big part of the development of your players -- understanding how to prepare for a series, how to win a game in closeout, how to play with their backs against the wall.
"When the players end up going to the NHL, they're been in those situations and they're coming from an environment where the commitment to and details of winning are ingrained in them."
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Superfund Job Training Program Provides Opportunities for Syracuse Residents at Hazardous Waste Cleanups; Many Graduates to Work on Cleanup of Onondaga Lake
Release Date: 09/12/2012
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(Syracuse, N.Y.) Tonight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck will recognize the newest graduates of an EPA job training program designed to prepare students to fill jobs related to the cleanup of the Onondaga Lake Superfund site. EPA's Superfund Job Training Initiative provides free job training to people living in communities affected by toxic waste sites. After completing the program, participants earn certifications that prepare them for careers in environmental cleanup work. The graduation ceremony will be held at the South Side Innovation Center on Salina Street in Syracuse. Most of the 14 graduates will be hired to work on the cleanup of Onondaga Lake. All of the graduates will be qualified to fill positions at other hazardous waste cleanup sites.
"Environmental cleanups create new jobs," said Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "EPA promotes local job training in communities that have been hard hit by toxic pollution and we are happy to launch this program in Syracuse."
Dredging began in Onondaga Lake earlier this summer to remove lake bottom sediment contaminated with mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and other dangerous chemicals. The dredging project is being performed by Honeywell International with oversight by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the EPA, and the New York State Department of Health and is expected to continue to 2016. Dredged lake sediment is transported four miles by a double-walled pipeline to a lined consolidation area located on the former Allied Chemical waste bed located off Airport Road in the town of Camillus. Once there, the sediment is dried and permanently stored in heavy-duty plastic tubes. The water that drains from the tubes is treated onsite at the Camillus facility and pumped to Onondaga County's Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Facility for further treatment before being pumped back to the lake. Once the dredging has been completed, the tubes will be capped in a manner that protects human health and the environment.
In cooperation with EPA's SuperJTI program, Honeywell International and its contractors, Parsons Corporation and O'Brien & Gere, reserved a number of jobs, most of them at the Camillus facility, for the local graduates of the SuperJTI program.
The EPA worked with the Center for Community Alternatives to serve as the local liaison. Fourteen people were selected for the training spots. Today's graduates completed their two-week training program on August 31 and are now certified in life skills, 40-hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, Occupational Safety and Health (General Industry), CPR and First Aid.
Honeywell estimates that 500 Central New York scientists, engineers and skilled craft laborers are working on the project, and Honeywell plans to hire more local workers as the project continues.
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Battles' first full-length album, Mirrored, is a good ride. Dozens of tiny moving parts engage as a motor that runs a little too hot but always manages to glide. "It sounds really chaotic and intense," says guitarist, singer and keyboardist Tyondai Braxton. "But really it's way simpler than that."
Loops link to loops, sound effects coat and disguise surprisingly usual rock-band instruments. The New York City-based machine boasts a fine collection of cogs. Braxton is the son of jazz musician Anthony Braxton. Drummer John Stanier hails from Helmet, known in the early '90s for producing thinking-man's metal. Ian Williams played guitar for Don Caballero, an acclaimed instrumental math-rock group from Pittsburgh. Dave Konopka manned the guitar for prog-metal Lynx.
Battles members have been known to reject their superband origins in interviews. Nonetheless, they've managed to birth what's being heralded as the "new prog." Still, Braxton says, things haven't always been so well-tuned.
Did you guys click as musicians right away?
Absolutely not. Not at all. It took a long time to find common ground. Right off the bat, we noticed that, musically speaking, we had something interesting there for sure. But as far as everyone's direction and where everyone wanted to go, it really took some compromise and some restraint on everybody's part to find what the origin of the sound was. It absolutely did not jell at first.
How were you able to stick out that tough period?
It's a miraculous thing, especially for people who have been in the game for awhile. This isn't a hobby for anyone. How do you keep your ego in check—and submit to the grander scheme of how great this music could be—while having your integrity remain intact, while being personally fulfilled by what you're doing musically? How do you find that balance? It's hard. It was not an easy path. It was not just some, "Oh, let me call my buddies and we'll jam on some stuff." It took a long time for us to find our way.
Tell me about that crazy mirror room that you're in for all your press photos, in the video and that's on the cover of your album.
The band built it, actually. Dave, the bass-
Musically, did you set out to make something really different or did you just arrive there?
All of us are fearless in trying to find new things that are interesting. We were consciously trying to push ourselves to get to a place where we haven't been. We don't know a record is finished until it's mastered, and then we get to listen back and be like, "Oh, wow. So that's what we're doing now." It makes it more fun.
Is it risky to be more instrumental or experimental?
Not at all. I wouldn't want to do something I don't like. In a way, it's a weird question to answer. This is the thing that I like to do. Would I do something I wouldn't like with the hope that someone will like it more? But why would I do that if I don't like it?


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Kebab Carnival
Here at Saffron Valley, we reinvent the kebab by slow-roasting them in our very own clay-oven. Traditionally, Kebabs are a meat dish marinated and seasoned in an assortment of spices. What a match! As I experimented infusing lamb, chicken, seafood, and veggies with our unique blend of East India Pantry spices, I quickly found a secret that had to be shared.
Saffron Valley's menu already features some of my favorite kebabs, but after stumbling upon these new concoctions, I'm creating what will now be the Saffron Valley Kebab Carnival. Like it? Using only the finest ingredients, the Kebab Carnival will feature over 20 kebabs (yes, I got a little carried away). Swing on by during May 9-14 to explore another one of India's secrets.
Some of the exotic kebabs to explore this week include Kali Mirch Ke Tikkey, Tandoori Tikka, Lamb Seekh Kebab, Saffron Machali, Dasstaan E Kumbh, or for the adventurous ones, I'd recommend the Chef's Kebab Sampler.
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Williams unlikely to leave UNC for Lakers. But if he did, who would replace him?
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Tattoo Ink
Posted 10 April 2006 - 04:41 PM
For those who don't know, MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is basically an x ray where they can see through your body layer by layer, but instead of flooding you with X-rays, they use a very powerful magnet.
So, is it true about the metal in your ink being dangerous? It depends on who you believe. However, the ink in question is the ink that they used over 20 years ago, which did, at the time, have a high metal content. Most modern day inks do not contain the levels of metal that they used to.
What does common sense tell you?
An MRI is a very sophistocated test, and something that doctors rely heavily on for certain conditions. Could you imagine how useless they would be, if every person who had a Tattoo could not have an MRI? Especially with the increase in the number of pers who get tattoos, and if you think about it, a lot of the Extreme Sports enthusiasts have them, and they are more likely to need an MRI than most other people due to their sports injuries.
Myth Busters did an episode on this, where they used standard tattoo ink on a pig skin, and ran it through the MRI. Nothing happened. So they made their own concoction of ink with a high metal content, and repeated the test. Again, nothing happened.
However, some people who have tattoos and have gone in for an MRI, esp with the older ink, have complained of a burning sensation where their tattoos are. What do you think? Is the pain real, or is the pain something that they believe to be real because of the Urban Legend?
So what will a tattoo do to your MRI? Well, it's safe to say that your skin won't be torn asunder by the metal fragments rapidly exploding forth from your flesh. However, the tattoo may prevent the MRI from actually being able to penetrate the area under the tattoo, thust preventing the doctor from seeing what's going on.
Posted 10 April 2006 - 05:07 PM
Since I haven't any tattoos, I cannot say for sure. Frankly, common-sense tells me that tattoos and MRI's must go together in some workable form or else MRI's, like you mentioned, would become a thing of the past with so many people now sporting tattoos.
I can believe people who have tattoos might experience some mild discomfort in the area of the tattoo after an MRI. But, nothing life-threatening and nothing that will tear one's skin off. Perhaps, tattoos could cause some sort of mis-reading for the MRI in the area of the tattoo, as well, because of the nature of tattoo ink and the nature of an MRI.
I just don't know what to think. But, it certainly can't be as gruesome as some people say.
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10 Hot & Boozy Drinks to Get Cozy With This Winter
When it's cold out and you're bundled up in three kinds of sweaters in your home trying to adjust the heat, the best remedy is always something hot, and preferably with booze. Let these cozy drinks help you through the cold months.
Hot and boozy drinks seem to fall into three different camps: drinks that resemble tea or a hot toddy, drinks that are sweet and creamy, and drinks that are mulled or spiced. If you're fighting off a cold of some kind, the tea variety is obviously the best route to go. I especially love the Rye and Ginger Hot Toddy and Bon Appétit's Bran's Dram which uses berry herbal tea.
1. Pumpkin Buttered Rum - The Kitchn: When pumpkin butter and rum come together only good things can happen.
2. Irish Coffee - The Kitchn: This drink alone makes winter bearable.
3. Pink Peppermint Russian - Kleinworth & Co.: Lots of candy canes lost their lives in the making of this drink. Definitely worth it. It's technically a cold drink in the recipe, but would be nice warm too.
4. The Rye and Ginger Hot Toddy - The Kitchn: Very simple drink, made with stuff you probably already have in your home.
5. Hot Cranberry Punch with Sage & Peppercorns - The Kitchn: Faith made this drink for guests after Thanksgiving dinner. It's perfect for cold winter gatherings.
6. Bran's Dram - Bon Appétit: This easy drink combines berry herbal tea and white rum in order to get rid of all your winter blues.
7. Hot Apple-Ginger Toddy - The Kitchn: This drink combines two of my favorite things! Apple cider and hot toddys. Can't go wrong with that.
8. Honey-Pomegranate Mulled Wine - Food52: Love the addition of honey and pomegranate in mulled wine.
9. Coconut Rum Spiked S'more Hot Chocolate - Margaritas in the Rain: The secret ingredient for this recipe is coconut rum. I'm in.
10. Boozy Pumpkin White Hot Chocolate - Minimalist Baker: Pumpkin, white chocolate, and bourbon – oh my!


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I am at a loss ladies and I could use some help -
Claire is 8 months old and takes 12 oz a day (some days 9 but almost always 12) at daycare. She is there 7:35-5:15 m-f. Here is our usual weekday routine -
up for the day at 6am
breakfast at 6:30 (oatmeal mixed with fruit)
nurse 7am
once she is at daycare she usually takes 4 3oz bottles, someetimes 3 4oz, she has a solid meal and a solid afternoon snack and usually takes a morning and afternoon nap of at least an hour usually 2.
home at 5:30
nurse at 6:15
solid dinner at 6:30
betime routine starts at 7 (bath, jammies, book, snuggles)
nurse to sleep by 8.
She usually sleeps 4-5 hours the first stretch and then is up every 2 until 6:00am.
While I am at work I pump at 10, 1, 4 (give or taken half an hour). In the beginning I was getting 18 oz and then each month when my period arrives I get less and less and it doesnt seem to return. I am down to getting 6oz a day in my three pumps. If I am lucky and have time I can get another 1-3 if I pump after she has gone to sleep.
I am using a PISA which i bought new in october before she was born. I have tried everything and cant seem to get my daily output to where it needs to be. I have tried oatmeal for breafast, life cereal for a snack, lots of water, hand expressions durring and after pumping, and I have been taking 12 fennugreek capsuls a day (sunday - thursday breaking on Friday & Saturday) for 3 weeks.
My freezer stash may get me another week to a week and a half and then I will have no option but to supplement if I cant figure out something. Any suggestions?


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Newmar Names Terveer Director of Luxury Sales
January 20, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Newmar Names Terveer Director of Luxury Sales
Newmar Corp. today (Jan. 20) announced the promotion of Pat Terveer to director of luxury sales, product planning and design.
According to a news release, Terveer joined Nappanee, Ind.-based Newmar in February of 2007 as its director of sales. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing all of Newmar's luxury sales, as well as directing the product planning and design for all Newmar products. He will continue to report to John Sammut, vice president of sales and marketing.
"Pat has been in the RV industry for over 30 years," said Sammut. "During his career, Pat was instrumental in the creation of the American Coach brand in 1991. Pat's wealth of experience, fine eye for luxury motorhomes as well as his strong relationships with luxury motorhome owners makes him the ideal candidate for this position."
Terveer noted, "This expansion of my product planning responsibilities to include the Mountain Aire, Essex and King Aire brands is something of a homecoming for me. I am very excited about this opportunity."


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How Open mHealth Designed a Popular Standard (Part 3 of 3)
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source, software engineering, and health IT, but his editorial output has ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. His articles have appeared often on EMR & EHR and other blogs in the health IT space. Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site (http://oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, and DebConf.
The first section of this article introduced the common schemas for mobile health designed by Open mHealth, and the second section covered the first two design principles driving their schemas. We'll finish off the design principles in this section.
Balancing permissiveness and constraints
Here, the ideal is to get accurate measurements to the precision needed by users and researchers. But many devices are known to give fuzzy results, or results that are internally consistent but out of line with absolute measurements.
The goal adopted by Open mHealth is to firm up the things that are simple to get right and also critical to accuracy, such as units of measurement discussed earlier. They also require care in reporting the time interval that a measurement covers: day, week, month. There's no excuse if you add up the walks recorded for the day and the sum doesn't match the total steps that the device reports for that day.
Some participants suggested putting in checks, such as whether the BMI is wildly out of range. The problem (in terms of public health as well as technology) is that there are often outlier cases in health care, and the range of what's a "normal" BMI can change. The concept of a maximum BMI is therefore too strict and ultimately unhelpful.
Designing for data liquidity
Provenance is the big challenge here: where does data come from, how was it collected, and what algorithm was used to manipulate it? Open mHealth expects data to go far and wide among researchers and solution providers, so the schema must keep a trail of all the things done to it from its origin.
Dr. Sim said the ecosystem is not yet ready to ensure quality. For instance, a small error introduced at each step of data collection and processing can add up to a yawning gap between the reported measure and the truth. This can make a difference not only to researchers, but to the device's consumers. Think, for instance, of a payer basing the consumer's insurance premium on analytics performed on data from the device over time.
Alignment with clinical data standards
Electronic health records are starting to accept medical device data. Eventually, all EHRs will need to do this so that monitoring and connected health can become mainstream. Open mHealth adopted widespread medical ontologies such as SNOMED, which may seem like an obvious choice but is not at all what the devices do. Luckily, Open mHealth's schemas come pre-labelled with appropriate terminology codes, so device developers don't need to get into the painful weeds of medical coding.
Modeling of Time
A seemingly simple matter, time is quite challenging. The Open mHealth schema can represent both points in time and time intervals. There are still subtleties that must be handled properly, as when a measurement for one day is reported on the next day because the device was offline. These concerns feed into provenance, discussed under "Designing for data liquidity."
Preliminary adoption is looking good. The schema will certainly evolve, hopefully allowing for diversity while not splintering into incompatible standards. This is the same balance that FHIR must strike under much more difficult circumstances. From a distance, it appears like Open mHealth, by keeping a clear eye on the goal and a firm hand on the development process, have avoided some of the pitfalls that the FHIR team has encountered.


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Lady Bisons ninth in WBCA academic rankings
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons are ranked ninth in NCAA Division I on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association 2009-2010 Top 25 Team Honor Roll.
Teams are honored for maintaining the highest grade point averages for the entire season based on the nomination submitted by WBCA-member head coaches.
Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett's Lady Bisons compiled a 3.452 average. They were close behind DePaul in eighth place with a 3.455 average.
Bennett said this was the first time the Lady Bisons have been honored by the WBCA in the top 25.
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Retailers to feel the pinch in 2013
Consumers will be counting their coins closely this year as high food inflation, spiralling electricity costs and fuel price hikes bite hard. Yet despite the pressure on wallets, retailers are not likely to change their game plans.
Food outlets that target middle-income segments will be hardest hit, whereas high-end retailers will carry on as usual and low-end stores can bank on the government's social security net, which allows the poor to put some food into empty stomachs.
In the fourth quarter of last year, consumer confidence – for the second time in 2012 – slipped back to levels last seen at the start of the global financial crisis in the second half of 2008, according to the First National Bank/Bureau for Economic Research consumer confidence index.
Rising inflation, a deteriorating outlook for income growth and low consumer confidence levels point to subdued growth in household expenditure in 2013, the index stated.
Consumers are more cautious about buying durable items, which correlates with the slowdown reported by furniture and household appliance retailers since the end of 2011, said Cees Bruggemans, FNB's consulting economist.
The rand, which lost 15% against the dollar between March and December 2012, is affecting durable goods sales volumes, according to the index. Economists cited by Moneyweb expect weaker rand levels to persist for quite some time.
Whereas consumers may put off buying new appliances, choosing to rather replace when necessary, they still have to eat.
However, habits will change as people choose cheaper cuts of meat and trade down, said Absa Investments analyst Chris Gilmour.
The National Agricultural Marketing Council said the weaker rand has influenced commodities and food items that are imported or exported. Wheat and chicken meat prices are increasing on the back of higher import parity prices, and fruit prices are going up due to higher export realisations, the council said.
Slight improvement
Gilmour said retailers will carry on as usual and decent results are expected unless interest rates are hiked, which he does not anticipate until at least 2014. Stores are doing what they can to keep prices down, with scope to trim costs from the rest of the value chain. Investors need to pick their shares carefully, he said.
The 2013 economic outlook is similar to that for 2012, although a slight improvement is expected, added Gilmour. Factors weighing on the outlook include the weak rand, which affects fuel and food.
However, he warned that South Africa risks entering a period of "stagflation" unless growth moves to 4% or 5% – a huge ask as the country ended 2012 at about 2.5% growth. Stagflation – when economic growth is low and unemployment is high, accompanied by rising prices – feeds on itself and is hard to get out of, he explained.
Food inflation is high, rising and approaching double digits, said Gilmour. Although the Reserve Bank is doing a good job of trying to keep a lid on overall inflation, he pointed out that many factors such as oil, the rand and unemployment are beyond the bank's control.
According to the agricultural marketing council, in its latest monitor, published in November, inflation on food and non-alcoholic beverages moved to 6.3% in October. Year on year, brown bread became 8.91% more expensive and the price of white bread increased by 9.41%.
The council said food inflation is expected to continue to rise until February. "It is likely that the year-on-year food inflation rate will increase as agricultural commodity prices remain high, and the recent meaningful weakening of the exchange rate will drive other costs in the value chain, for instance transportation."
Rising inflation
Although motorists benefited from a welcome decrease in the fuel price to kick off the new year, the cost has risen steeply in recent years. In Gauteng, 95-octane petrol has gone from R7.86 per litre in January 2010 to R11.86 in January 2013 and at the coast, the price has risen from R7.63 to R11.51, according to the energy department. And electricity prices will climb again in midyear.
Gilmour said the low end of the market, which is served by stores such as Shoprite, will do well despite rising inflation and a curb on spending. He noted that the small individual amounts spent by social grant recipients add up collectively.
Between April 2012, when Shoprite started paying out social grants, and June 2012, the chain made more than three million payments to recipients who, as a group, form an integral part of its target market.
Last February, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said spending on social grants will grow from R105-billion in 2012-2013 to R122-billion in 2014-2015. At present, about 16-million South Africans receive social grants.
Yet it is the poor who are hardest hit: inflation is at 12.5% for the five most widely consumed food items, the council said. Most of the price push is due to maize, although bread and milk have also contributed.
Retailers say they constantly seek to keep a lid on costs. Pick n Pay spokesperson Tamra Veley said the retailer uses several strategies to keep prices down, including negotiating with suppliers, employing specialist buyers and centralised buying. "Our central distribution system, when at full capacity, will allow us to effect quite a number of savings," she said.
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Veley said the group uses its buying power to "deep discount" during special promotions, passing savings on to consumers.
Gilmour said he expected the middle-income consumer segment, served by outlets such as Pick n Pay, to be hardest hit this year, whereas high-end stores will be stable.
Woolworths does not expect any negative changes in spending, despite consumers becoming more discerning and careful about where they spend their money. Its strategy is not set to change, the retailer said, although it will continue to simplify how it does business and emphasise tighter cost controls.
Writing in the Woolworths annual report, chief executive Ian Moir predicted that the economic environment in the coming year will remain similar to that characterised by the year to June 2012. The company does not expect any upward pressure on interest rates in the short to medium term and upper-end consumers will be in a similar spending position to the last two years, he said.
Moir said Woolworths will continue to pursue its current strategies in food and clothing as well as general merchandise. It wants shoppers to spend more in its shops and it will be expanding its footprint and keeping prices competitive.
Although the Shoprite Group will not speculate on consumer trends for 2013, it believes it can follow the market and adapt within short time frames. In August, chief executive Whitey Basson, commenting on the group's annual results, said its ability to keep inflation in its supermarkets below official food inflation was thanks to strict cost controls and an efficient supply chain infrastructure.
Basson does not see the future trading environment changing in any material way. "Nothing on the horizon suggests that the pressure on consumers' disposable income will ease. Shoprite will, however, do everything in its power to mitigate the impact on its customers of the severe drought in large parts of the American bread basket on local food prices. "
Consumers face high levels of unemployment, rising electricity, schooling and transport costs and the impact of a weaker rand, Basson noted, adding that inflation had increased across the spectrum but food had been hit particularly hard.
"However, the government played its part in assisting consumers and the economy by keeping interest levels at their lowest in 30 years while continuing the payment of social grants, from child maintenance to old-age pensions, to an increasing number of low-income recipients."


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Create A RAID-5 Container Using CLI.
1. Start the CLI utility. From the Windows NT desktop, open a Command Prompt window and enter the command afacli; from Netware, type the command load fastcli at the console prompt.
2. At the CLI prompt (">"), enter the following to establish the logical connection between CLI and the controller:
open afa0
3. Use the following command to show the free space available on all disks:
disk show space
This will display a table showing the SCSI bus number, ID, and LUN for every drive connected to the controller. For each drive, all of the partitions and freespace on the drive will be shown. The column marked "Usage" indicates what the partition is used for (freespace is indicated by the word "Free"). The column marked "Size" displays two numbers, separated by a colon, for each partition. The first number is the offset of the partition from the beginning of the disk, and the second is the size of the partition.
4. Based on the information in this table, choose the disks to be used for the RAID-5 set. The amount of space needed on each disk can be determined by the formula:
Size of RAID-5 set / (Number of drives - 1)
In this case: 2GB / (5-1) = 0.5GB, or 512 MB per disk.
The only requirement is that each disk has a partition marked "Free" that is larger than the required partition size. However, for best performance and redundancy, Adaptec recommends that the partitions have the same offset value and that the disks be located on different SCSI channels.
Write down the bus, ID and LUN values of the disks you have selected.(For purposes of this example, the five disks will be 1:0:0, 1:1:0, 2:0:0, 2:1:0, and 3:0:0).
5. Use the following command to create the RAID-5 set:
container create raid5 /wait ((1,0,0), 512M) (1,1,0) (2,0,0) (2,1,0) (3,0,0)
The numbers in parentheses indicate which disk to use for the RAID-5 set (bus,ID,LUN), and the partition size required on each disk. The size is only specified for the first drive in the list. When specifying the size, use "G" for GB and "M" for MB. Use only whole numbers, not decimals; for example, to create a 1.5 GB partition, use "1536M".
Once the RAID-5 set is created, you will get a message like:
Container 2 created
Once the command prompt returns, the RAID-5 has been created and is fully redundant.
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Interview with Alumnus Charlie Alves '08
Charlie Alves '08 reminisces about his experiences with the Lake Forest College Theater Department.
What kind of work are you doing now?
Currently I'm a Production Stage Manager/Tour Manager. I travel around the world with Swedish DJ/Producer AVICII. I maintain the quality of production in every country and city we play from Las Vegas to Tel Aviv, Israel. That includes lighting, video, sound, stage design, and pyrotechnics. When I'm not with AVICII I work for a company called PRG-Nocturne productions, which sends me out on tours as a Video Engineer where I oversee with scenic video and Media servers that control video surfaces on various rock and roll tours around the world.
How did your Lake Forest College experience help prepare you for your career?
The Lake Forest College Theater program taught me how to improvise—not in the terms of performance, but in terms of how to accomplish tasks. Anybody can go into a state-of-the-art facility and make a beautifully designed show, but can you go into Hixon Hall's Allen Carr Theatre with a limited budget and a limited amount of resources and make a great looking production? That's a skill that not every school can teach. And what makes me more valuable to big productions is that when there is a problem, instead of just throwing money at a situation to correct it, I can come up with a solution that can save productions lots of money.
What's your favorite Lake Forest College theatre memory?
It's opening night of Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was my first college show as a Video Designer. It was first time I had spent months planning, designing and teching a show. It opened up to a sold out house. Professor Dennis Mae, Professor Eli Robb and I had all worked together and really push some boundaries in live video for performance. I still use techniques I learned on that show. All of my friends worked on different parts of the show, it was completely student produced, and the people that worked on that show are still some of my closest advisors to this day.


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Currently Rock Island Clean Line (affiliate of Clean Line Energy Partners, based in Houston, Texas) has submitted a request to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) concerning a proposed transmission line which would proceed from wind farms from South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, through Iowa and through Bureau and Grundy counties in Illinois, to carry electricity eastward to the Chicago area and to states further east extending to Boston. Overhead high voltage current transmission lines proposed for Illinois have been met with opposition in Bureau County.
The reader may know Bureau County brought in the first wind farm in Illinois, and therefore, is no stranger to rural opposition as it relates to the possible interruption or destruction of agricultural practices in these areas considered the breadbasket of America ... and the world. The Bureau County Board, of which I am a member, is currently considering the application of what could be our fifth wind farm. We support conservation and clean, green energy. We have learned along the way that jobs are created.
Currently, our unemployment rate in Bureau County has exceeded 10 percent — higher than our neighbors and most of the state of Illinois. We have learned the permanent jobs which are associated with wind energy are in manufacturing the wind turbine components. This letter addresses the issues of: Manufacturing jobs, promotion, commerce on the Illinois River and Great Lakes areas, as well as the transmission of great plains energy and possible generation of wind energy via off-shore wind energy in the Great Lakes areas to supply the continuing need for energy in the northern Illinois and Eastern states.
In Putnam County, an eviscerated former steel manufacturing plant at Hennepin lies vacant. It once employed workers from Marshall, LaSalle, Bureau counties. (Towns in these counties suffer from unemployment, resulting foreclosures and abandonment of homes.) The plant has excellent import/export facilities, highways, railroad sidings and is on the Illinois River. Were it to manufacture turbine blades, which usually are 400 feet, they could easily be transported by barge along the Illinois river and beyond.
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Name meaning: "Descendant of Dubhghaill (dark stranger)."
Counties associated with the name: Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow,Carlow, Kerry, and Cork.
Coat of arms motto: "He conquers by strength."
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- Francis Hastings Doyle (1810-1888, British poet)
- Geraldine Doyle (1924-2010, was an American model)
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The highest award in Cub Scouting is the Arrow of Light award, which you will begin working on as a Webelos Scout. It is the only Cub Scout badge that you can wear on the Boy Scout uniform. As you work on the Arrow of Light Award, you practice outdoor skills, get physically fit, and learn more about citizenship and working with others. All of these things prepare you for the next stage of Scouting.
It is worn on the left pocket flap of the blue Cub Scout Uniform, or below the left pocket of the tan Boy Scout Uniform.
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John Sculley is not an entirely uncontroversial figure in Apple's history. The former and very successful PepsiCo president joined Apple as CEO in 1983. While he nearly ran the company into the ground, he also increased sales from 800 million per year to 8 billion per year. However, Apple had become an organisational mess, with boatloads of projects that would never yield any marketable results, but would still get funding. In the meantime, real issues like MacOS being an unstable mess were never addressed.
More importantly, Sculley's management style clashed with that of Steve Jobs, causing Jobs to eventually be cast out of the company. We know what happened then - Jobs founded NEXT, which made awesome innovative products but eventually failed in the marketplace due to curious design decisions, such as the prohibitively expensive and unreliable magneto-optical drive it used for storage. Only 50000 NeXT computers were sold, but who cares - it's the company's software that mattered, software containing innovations we still rely on every single day.
In an interview with Cult of Mac, John Sculley details his time at Apple in quite some detail and dripping with honesty - admitting his mistakes along the way. His description of Steve Jobs is pretty much what you'd expect. "He was a person of huge vision," Sculley notes, "But he was also a person that believed in the precise detail of every step. He was methodical and careful about everything - a perfectionist to the end."
Such a perfectionist, in fact, that Apple HQ is sitting on a pile of white iPhone 4s, without actually shipping them out to customers. The reason? The company that manufactures the white faceplate and the company that produces the home button can't get their colours properly aligned. The whites aren't exactly the same. That's it. Boom, multi-million dollar profit machine won't ship because the whites aren't exactly the same. What do you mean, Steve's a perfectionist?
The Sculley interview contains - among other things - another gem: Steve Jobs was in love with Sony. Sony's products, Sony's factories, the clothes the workers wore, everything - Jobs loved it. Sony's CEO gave Sculley and Jobs the first Walkman and tours of the factories that made them, and all this impressed Jobs a great deal.
"We used to go visit Akio Morita and he had really the same kind of high-end standards that Steve did and respect for beautiful products," Sculley recalls, "I remember Akio Morita gave Steve and me each one of the first Sony Walkmans. None of us had ever seen anything like that before because there had never been a product like that. This is 25 years ago and Steve was fascinated by it. The first thing he did with his was take it apart and he looked at every single part. How the fit and finish was done, how it was built."
The Macintosh factories were modelled after Sony's factories. "Steve's point of reference was Sony at the time. He really wanted to be Sony. He didn't want to be IBM. He didn't want to be Microsoft. He wanted to be Sony," Sculley adds.
You can say what you want about Apple, but at this point, Jobs' perfectionism is paying off. The company is doing better than ever, selling insane amounts of products at even crazier profit margins. Even if it means you're not getting your white iPhone 4.


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They pay him to talk on television, so what was Brent Musburger supposed to do when they turned the camera on Miss Alabama, just stare? And what's a man supposed to say when he sees Miss Alabama, nothing?
Maybe if you're 73 years old, as Musburger is, and Miss Alabama is 23, as Katherine Webb is, maybe you don't go all Hugh Hefner on her. But they pay you to talk and they pay you to entertain. So you identify her as Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron's girlfriend and you say to your sidekick, Kirk Herbstreit, once an Ohio State quarterback, "You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman."
Herbstreit said, "Wow."
Musburger said, "Whoa."
Only instead of Whoa being a quick one-syllable word, it became an Andrew Lloyd Weber aria.
Like, Whooaaaooooooh.
I imagined Musburger with a hand over his heart, hoping it stayed in there.
After that, ESPN cut away to Miss Alabama on a happily regular basis. I don't know what the score was when we first saw Katherine Webb. I know the game reminded me of that crisp fall day in 1916 when John Heisman threw a hissy fit and had Georgia Tech roll it up on Cumberland College, 222-0. So I'm thinking somebody in the ESPN home office made a good call: America should see less of Manti Te'o missing tackles and more of Miss Alabama being beautiful.
We need to cut Musburger some slack. It's true that a guy who has renewed his AARP discount card this many times should know what's creepy and what's not and what's the time and place and what's not. Still, he has this affliction. He is one of hundreds of millions of human beings who carry the Y chromosome. It causes them to shout out the occasional geriatric-perv-whoop.
The difference is, most do it in privacy. Musburger did it on national television. Viewers were shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- to hear a grown man go slightly off his rocker in the presence of a beautiful woman. But it has happened before. The first time it happened to me, I asked the girl to marry me. She said yes. Mumblety-mumble years later, we're still married and she sat alongside me when Musburger sang his aria to Miss Alabama.
"Oh, sweet," she said to the TV, meaning, "Oh, shut up."
By now Musburger likely has apologized to everyone offended by his remarks, and I suppose we all should apologize to Katherine Webb for whatever the Y chromosome caused us to think. At the same time, it's worth noting that in one phase of the Miss Alabama competition Katherine Webb chose to wear a bikini only a little larger than two of AJ McCarron's chin straps. She might have been going for a whoop or two.
Odd, the way life happens. It was halftime of Miss Alabama's football game when I checked email. There was a note from a friend. He had seen a story I did 30 years ago about a Duke basketball player. Dick DeVenzio was a good little point guard and, more important, the first big-time athlete to challenge the NCAA on athletes' rights. Only minutes after Musburger spotted Katherine Webb, then, my friend's email told a DeVenzio story that my wife thought was truly sweet.
"DeVenzio was a distant friend of mine," the email began. "He was two years ahead of me. He was one of a kind. His games that stood out were the ones against South Carolina coached by Frank McGuire -- it was almost vicious inside Cameron when they came. There were some great Carolina games, some he just took over. All fire, spunk. Taking on the big guys. What a guy.
"I used to be a gym rat, nowhere near DeVenzio's talent, and back then, if it wasn't a game day and it wasn't time for the varsity to practice, anyone could walk into Cameron and get a pickup game. So I was there almost every day, and used to see him in there. He was a superb passer, a joy to play with. Completely down to earth. Fairly serious and intense; didn't have a ready sense of humor. I can't say we were good friends; he wasn't aloof or pretentious, but had a little of the bubble of protection because everyone knew him on campus.
"We had one thing in common: we both dated Emily Madison (not her real name) -- an extraordinary girl who resembled Judy Jones in Fitzgerald's 'Winter Dreams' with her drop-dead beauty and extraordinary, sometimes whimsical ability to seize any room she entered -- and superior to Judy Jones because of her acting ability and beautiful singing voice -- played the guitar, sang like Joan Baez. When I read Nancy Mitford's biography, 'Zelda,' I was blown away by how much Emily resembled Zelda.
"Needless to say, DeVenzio won that heart. It wasn't close -- I had dated her twice my freshman year. Then every senior glommed all over her. I left Duke after my sophomore year, the year DeVenzio graduated, and as far as I knew, they were still dating. I never saw either DeVenzio or Emily again.
"Then in the late '90s, when I got onto this issue of the employee status of college athletes (he's a lawyer), I came across something about his work, and we talked on the phone. He was discouraged by all the work he'd put in on the issue by then, having it not come to much.
"Finally, I said, 'Around the time you graduated, weren't you dating Emily Madison?' His voice really brightened up. You could tell I'd struck something. 'Ohh, Emily, Emily. Most amazing woman I ever knew.' Then a long pause. 'Emily, I couldn't hold her. Nobody could.' Then another pause. 'She was the best woman I ever knew. But she wouldn't marry me. Damn....' and his voice tailed off. 'Whatever happened to her, do you know?' I told him I didn't."
DeVenzio died in 2001. My friend learned that Emily is married and living in Maryland.
Here I should confess my own Y chromosome failings, or, in the interest of time, one of them. This was a night on a moonlit beach on the South Carolina coast. I was there to interview Charlize Theron. She's the goddess who has come to Earth in the guise of a movie star. She walked down steps from her costume trailer. She wore a red, fringed flapper's dress. As she descended, she did a shimmy and said, in a purr, "Scandalous, aren't I?"
After that, I don't remember much.