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ORGANIC precision farming
For organic growers,
"precision farming" doesn't mean GPS and
on-board computers. It means better observation, longer memory,
and more care and attention to details. Organic farmers can't
patch up their mistakes and carelessness with chemicals.
By Mary-Howell Martens (with Klaas'
June 10, 2003, Penn Yan, NY
Precision drop:
A seed that hits its optimal depth range will
emerge from the soil at the correct time to grow
a strong profitable plant. Too deep and the seed
will emerge slow and vulnerable. Too shallow and
the seed won't have time to form a strong root
What makes for precision farming, organic-style?
To put it another way, what are the key components
of effective, efficient organic farming ... at
any scale? Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens have
gotten us started in this column with six ideas,
from precise operation of equipment, to careful
observation of fields and soil, to precise timing
of planting and cultivation.
We hope you'll help us add to the list
with your own thoughts and observations. Later
this year, Mary-Howell and Klaas will publish
a new list of the practices that are critical
to precision farming, organic-style.
To send us your two cents, click
The Martens' Farm
Location: about 60 miles southeast
of Rochester, NY, on the western shore of Seneca
Important people: Klaas and Mary-Howell
Martens, Peter, Elizabeth, and
Daniel. Plus Robert Hall (employee/asst farm manager)
Years farming: We've farmed this
farm together since 1991. Klaas has farmed all
his life.
Total acreage: 1500
Tillable acres: 1300
Soil type: Honeoye Lima silt
Crops: corn, soybeans, spelt,
wheat, barley, oats, triticale, red kidney beans,
sweet corn, snap beans, cabbage, edamame soybeans
Livestock: sheep, pigs, chickens
for our own use
Regenerative farm practices:
diverse long term crop rotations that incorporate
legumes and small grains, under seeding all small
grains with red clover, actively increasing soil
organic matter
Marketing: corn & small grains
are sold to Lakeview Organic Grain LLC, our organic
feed business. Soybeans, red kidney beans, and
spelt sold to brokers and processors. Some spelt
is sold as kosher organic spelt. Sweet corn, snap
beans and edamame are sold to processors who freeze
them under brand name labels. Cabbage is made
into sauerkraut and packed under the Cascadian
Farms label. Some of the oats, wheat and barley
are being grown from Foundation Seed to produce
Certified Organic Certified Seed.
For the story of the Martens' transition to organic,
check out How
Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens made the transition to
Several years ago, I got into
conversation with a big conventional Midwest corn and soybean
farmer at a meeting. Looking disdainfully at me, he declared
"I am into production agriculture!" I kindly commented
that any farmer not into production agriculture these days
wasn't likely to be a farmer for long. Then, slightly
irritated, he puffed himself up a little larger and stated
decisively "I practice precision farming!", obviously
with a certain image of a 'typical' organic farm
firmly in his mind.
Sorry, Bud, our tractors are probably just as big as yours,
equipped with all the same bells and whistles. But to us,
that is not precision farming, that is simply using electronics
and expensive consultants to make the decisions that farmers,
equipped with observation, intelligence and experience, should
be making. We contend that organic farming in general is actually
far more precise than most conventional precision farming.
But precision organic farming, as we will describe it in a
moment, is something that organic farmers should
adopt, regardless of the size of their farms or the sophistication
of their equipment. Electronics can be very useful, but they
can not take the place of the farmer's brain.
A consultant friend tells us that increasingly, many of the
farmers he works with only get out of the tractor cab when
something breaks or they get stuck. They have lost intimate
contact with the soil, the plants, the weeds, the myriad of
organisms who live in the soil. Machines and electronics simplify
their ability to control but not to necessarily to work with
nature. This must not be where organic farming is
going. Organic farming requires the farmer to be a better
farmer, a more observant farmer, a farmer who practices
careful agronomy and conscientious animal husbandry. That's
the way the organic system works, and we don't have
chemicals to patch up the mistakes.
So, what is precision organic farming? We will list a few
ideas we are thinking about right now, as we are in the thick
of the planting and weeding season. No doubt you will be able
to think of more as the season goes along. Our email address
is at the end of this article - maybe you can help us compile
a working list of other things that precision organic farming
must encompass for reliable success.
Precision equipment operation
We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments
for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines.
European farmers are getting double the small grain yields
thatwe in the United States generally get, mainly because
of their attention to every minute detail that goes into producing
the crop. For the sake of space, we will use adjustment of
the corn planter as one example of the importance of precise
equipment operation.
At our April New York Certified Organic meeting, we were
treated to a valuable presentation by Andy Zalar of the Precision
Planting Co. in Tremont, IL on adjusting and maintaining corn
planters for maximum performance, accuracy and uniformity.
The corn planter is a complex machine with many moving parts
that must work together precisely for optimal seed placement
and coverage. Andy demonstrated techniques to check whether
the corn planter is level and whether all parts are properly
aligned, not worn and in correct adjustment. Worn chains and
sprockets may be working improperly long before they actually
Retrofitting with shoes, firming points, specially designed
seed tubes or 'ecentrically' (on an angle) bored
gauge wheel bushings will often result in more uniform seed
placement than what the planter had when it was new. Trash
wheels in front of the gauge wheels will sweep away clods
and stones, making for a level surface and therefore uniform
Why is this so critical? Our good friend and long-time seedsman
Art Scheele says that you can make more money at planting
than at any other time of the year. Of all the money spent
producing a crop, quality planting is THE best investment
to give a good return. Differences in planting corn can result
in a 3-8 bushel/acre spread in yield, and in a poor year,
the difference can be even greater. Art says that too often,
planting is one of the last things farmers think about. Frequently,
planters are not maintained, worn parts are not checked and
replaced, farmers try to run their planters too fast, they
don't calibrate them under real field conditions, and
rarely do they get off the tractor, dig in the soil, and see
whether the seeds are actually going where they want them
Depth control is probably the most critical factor in planting,
whether you are using a fancy state-of-the art John Deere
planter or planting by hand in the garden. Seeds of all species
have an optimal depth at which they germinate best, depending
on soil conditions. Differences in depth can result in a 20%
difference in yield and have a profound effect on time of
emergence and seedling vigor and health.
A seed planted too deep will emerge slowly, vulnerable to
attack by fungi and insects for a longer time. A seed planted
too shallow will not form an adequate root system. A half-inch
difference in depth can result in seedlings emerging one day
later, while a difference of 2 inches can make a 2 day difference
in emergence, more if conditions are poor. A corn plant emerging
significantly later than its neighbors will never grow as
well, its growth suppressed by larger plants, and it will
essentially become a weed in the field.
We organic farmers must achieve uniformity in emergence as
much as possible for effective weed control. Since timing
is everything when it comes to effective mechanical weed control,
we must have crops that emerge vigorously and uniformly to
get our timing of all subsequent field operations right.
Precision observation
There is an old saying, perhaps largely forgotten in this
modern era of GPS, on-board computers and climate-controlled
tractor cabs, that the best fertilizer for a field is the
farmer's footprints. Regardless of the electronic gadgets
your tractor is equipped with, nothing quite equals your own
observations and experience. There is no electronic replacement
for really looking at the fields as you work them, making
notes of where there are particular weed problems, crop growth
differences, fertility imbalances, drainage problems, or big
rocks. The real heart of precision farming is observation
- YOUR observation - and your ability to figure out what those
observations mean.
Precision timing
Sometimes you can learn more from a bad situation than from
when things go well. The year 2000 was like that for us. As
the spring moved into summer, the rain just wouldn't
quit, days and days on end. In a frenzy to get the corn planted
and weeded in the few clear days between showers, Klaas worked
later and later at night, sometimes to 3 AM or more, planting
into soil he knew was not fit. But what choice did we have?
The weather wasn't letting us do things right.
This siege pressure did result in most of the acres getting
planted as planned, but the stress on everyone was enormous,
and harvest time showed us something even more discouraging.
Sheer determination to get the seeds in the ground had not
been good enough, yields were low, and longterm damage to
our carefully tended soils was painfully evident.
All crops have an optimal time when they should be planted.
Once you get out of this optimal planting window, plant vigor
and yields will suffer. In New York, barley needs to get in
by the first week of May, oats should be planted by May 15,
corn should be all in the ground by June 7. If the ground
isn't fit or if the particular crop is outside its optimal
window of when it should be planted, sometimes we simply are
better off not planting it.
We now know that when we reach the end of the optimal planting
window for a particular crop, we should move on to the next
one, even if all the acres we had planned are not planted
yet. If the spring planting season ends and still not all
the acres are planted, it will soon be August and time to
start planting the winter small grains. We found that when
we focused exclusively on getting corn planted, regardless
of how late it got, we didn't manage to get the soybeans
planted during their optimal planting window, which in turn
prevented us from planting sweet corn at its optimal time,
etc. We would have been far better off calling it quits on
corn when it got too late, keeping all the other crops on
schedule. Also, when the frenzy to plant as many acres as
possible means that weed control operations are not done on
time, maybe we need to re-prioritize our labor and maintain
a smaller acreage in better condition.
Crop insurance is now available for organic farmers for many
crops. If you carry crop insurance and you get out of the
optimal planting window for a particular crop, perhaps it
is better to collect a 'prevented planting' payment
rather than to plant the crop when it shouldn't be.
You certainly won't get rich on crop insurance payments,
they generally pay at conventional commodity prices, but they
should cover your out-of-pocket expenses.
The core of making precision timing work is the idea that
diversity spreads out risk and labor. If you are only growing
corn and soybeans, like many conventional farmers, then corn
and soybeans must go in, regardless of the weather. Organic
farmers must have more crop diversity than that, and there
are good markets for a wider range of organic crops. The more
crops you have on your farm, the more likely you are to hit
the proper planting window correctly for each crop and spread
the work out to avoid stressful labor crunches.
Diversity also gives some protection against adverse weather
extremes. We're seeing that this spring—which
is cold and wet. To be sure, we would like to have more corn
planted by now, but we are watching with pleasure the small
grains burgeoning. This may not be corn weather, but it certainly
is barley weather! Klaas remembers some old peasant wisdom
from his father's part of Germany, Friesland, which
essentially says "when hay spoils, cabbage grows".
A diversity of crops spreads risk - the more you have, the
more likely it is that at least one of the crops will thrive,
regardless of what the weather brings.
Unexpected windfalls
So, what if the weather is uncooperative and all the cover
crops don't get plowed like you had planned? What then?
Sometimes there are unexpected opportunities that you may
find remarkably profitable. Unplowed cover crops, especially
clover, rye and hairy vetch, can actually be saved for a seed
crop. With the new NOP requirement that organic farmers must
use organic seed, there is a strong market for organic cover
crop seed. Clover will generally make a better stand of seed
off the second cutting, so if you are leaving clover in the
field, mow it in June and then be prepared to harvest clover
seed in late July. At about $1.25 per pound, a good yield
of clover seed can sometimes actually be more profitable than
a crop of corn!
Choosing corn
The new NOP organic seed requirement is causing some major
upheavals among organic corn farmers. Suddenly the familiar
terrain is changing and the choice of varieties for which
there is certified organic seed seems exotic and rather scary.
What are our choices in 2003 and beyond?
Rainy days
OK, sometimes it rains. Rainy days can be just as necessary
in the precision organic farming process as the warm sunny
ones. This is the time to catch up on necessary record keeping,
rethink planting plans, repair and maintain machinery, talk
to your banker and keep her up-to-date about what is happening
on the farm, talk to your seed supplier and crop insurance
agent, get re-organized and re-prioritized.
Rainy days are also a good time to relax, spend time with
family and friends, and to recognize that stress management
is absolutely necessary, but it is all too often neglected
on a farm. Several of the high profile farm sales in this
area during the winter were not because the farms failed,
they were because the owners were divorcing. Regardless of
your religious persuasion, taking one day off a week, even
if there is work to be done and the sun is shining, makes
very good sense.
Farming is a great way of life . . . but only if it truly
is a great way of life for everyone involved. For precision
organic farming to be successful, all members of the farm
must be working together, appreciating what everyone else
is doing to contribute to the success of the farm and wanting
to be there. When this isn't the case, all the GPS and
computer monitors in the world won't help.
And finally...
About a month ago, Klaas called me on the cell phone, his
voice slightly shaking, and asked if I could maybe come out
and drive him over to the hospital emergency room, that his
hand was 'a bit messed up'. While hooking a drag
to the tractor, the drag hitch over-centered and came down
unexpectedly fast, slicing deep into his finger and cutting
a tendon. The doctor fortunately was able to make the necessary
repairs, and with time and exercise, it will be fine. But
since then we have heard a remarkable number of stories from
friends about lost fingers, arms, legs and lives, of paper-towel-and-duct-tape
'first aid' jobs that resulted in serious infections,
and of many many close calls. Farmers are notoriusly hard
on their appendages! For precision organic farming to work,
we need to keep our farmers productive and unharmed. So folks,
as spring turns to summer and things get really busy, be careful
out there, we need all of you - intact!


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NEW YORK -- Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor according to the Associated Press.
Weiner was in tears as he apologized to girl he sent nude photos to when she was 15 years old. He agreed not to appeal any prison sentence between 21 and 27 months.
"I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse," Weiner said.
The FBI began investigating Weiner last September after the girl told an online news blog about their alleged exchanges.
Weiner was already in FBI custody before Friday's hearing. As part of his plea, Weiner will also have to register as a sex offender.
He represented New York from 1999-2011 before stepping down following allegations he sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women. He also ran for mayor of New York City in 2013 before more allegations were brought forward.

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I spend about nine hours a day listening to other folks. It's what I do. I listen for their requests, I listen for their needs, I listen for a way I can help them. I listen to their stories, their complaints, their jokes, their pain, their joys, their anecdotes, and their frustrations. It's my job.
Listening takes practice, sensitivity to other people's needs, and some skill. It also takes a willingness to just shut up and let the other person talk. Sometimes all folks need is someone who will listen.
They don't need me to solve any problem, they don't need me to interject myself into their lives, but they do need me to keep their confidences. They need to trust me not to put their business out on the street, around the office, or to drop hints about "how much they've grown" at some Missions dinner or small group. It's part of the unspoken contract between us.
Listening also gives me an opportunity to pray for folks. Sometimes I tell them, sometimes I don't. But their concerns make it to my prayer list. Even my enemies make it to my prayer list. It's one way I get past my own nastiness.
You know what I mean->those hateful little judgements that run through your head when you see someone who irritates or offends you<–>those things. We all do it, consciously or unconsciously. Praying for folks, where the only person listening is the Lord, heals those nasty attitudes we carry around about folks.
When I put folks on my prayer list that I have some issue with, the first few times I pray aloud for them, I kind of choke over their names. It's hard to pray for folks when all you feel is the shame or pain leftover from an interaction. But eventually, my heart softens and I find myself praying for them with compassion–real compassion–not the self-righteous patronization that comes with unforgiveness and sin.
One day recently, the Lord spoke to me, as I passed a woman I've judged harshly. He said to me, "you hypocrite–why aren't you praying for her instead of judging her?" That night I added her to my prayer list.
Listening heals us all. The Father listens to us as we listen to each other.


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MASSP Podcast - Ted Gardella Talks Khan Challenge, New Teacher Tools and Importance of SAT Practice
Wendy recently sat down with Ted Gardella, Executive Director of the College Board's Midwest Regional Office as part of MASSP's podcast series. In the 15-minute recording, Wendy and Ted discuss the launch of the Khan Challenge to get more schools and students using free practice on Khan Academy. They also discuss the importance of linking student's College Board and Khan Academy accounts, the additional reporting that administrators will receive for signing onto the Challenge and some of the new features rolled out this summer - including the heavily anticipated teacher tools.
In addition to the Podcast (link below) here are a few other helpful resources:
- Directions to Create Student Accounts
- Missing Student Test Scores - Step-by-Step
- Parent Letter - Importance of Linking Accounts/Practice
This is the first in a series of podcasts and webinars with MASSP and the College Board. Take a listen to this edition and be on the lookout for more coming down the pike. And don't forget to sign onto the Khan Academy Challenge Pledge.
The interview with Ted is posted on the MASSP podcasts page (mymassp.com/podcasts). You can also access it by clicking here.
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Do you ever have left over veggies in the bottom of the fridge? Yeah, me too. Supermarkets sell family packs of vegetables, but as a couple we just don't need 500g of baby spinach in a salad for two. This is where pasta primavera comes in very handy. It's one of those throw together dishes which is different every time depending on what vegetables you have to hand. I'm pretty sure it's not a traditional pasta primavera and purists would probably turn their noses up at it, but we love it. It uses up all the veggies that would otherwise go to waste and tastes great.
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, crushed, or 1 teaspoon garlic paste
- 1-2 tablespoons butter
- 150ml single cream
- 2 heaped teaspoons dijon mustard
- 250g pasta
- Around 300-400g of whatever veggies you have to hand, chopped if needed. The pictured version used broccoli, beans and baby spinach, but we've also had it with asparagus, capsicum, carrot, bok choi, snow peas and mange tout.
- Heat butter in frying pan and fry onion and garlic until translucent.
- Cook pasta according to packet directions adding any vegetables that need to be boiled (eg broccoli or beans) for the last few minutes of cooking time.
- Add other veggies to the frying pan and cook until wilted or al dente. Then add cream and mustard, stirring to combine.
- Add the pasta and boiled vegetables to the pan, stir to combine and heat through gently.
It reheats OKish, but is not suitable to freeze.


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Sachin Tendulkar: Why This Man Should Not Retire…Call it a Michael Schumacher Factor
Sachin Tendulkar might be branch in to an aged male by numbers, positively aged by sportsman's standards during thirty-eight years of age. But he is maybe a many inspired cricketer which a universe is absolved to witness, which is because maybe cricket cannot means a opening of his absence.
What order book in a universe says which a sportsperson should not lift upon if he is means to surpass group in his league, who is means to shift a game's story as well as go upon to plea his own record?
If a single needs to suppose what Sachin Tendulkar is to cricket, maybe a Formula One can describe to a Michael Schumacher cause in a sport. The early early retirement of a 7 time hold up left a margin far-reaching open for latest leaders to spring, as well as whilst a likes of Sebastien Vettel have been means to some-more than upstage a likes of Lewis Hamilton, a strenuous prime to take over a sport, it has unsuccessful to emanate utterly a same aura, aggressiveness as well as passion for a sport.
Perhaps tennis fans would assimilate which a deficiency of Sachin Tendulkar as a deficiency of grace, finesse, refinement as well as normal adversary usually to be transposed by energy hitters given a likes of Steffi Graf have changed upon as well as a diversion was deprived of normal offer as well as bombardment players such as Stefan Edberg, Patrick Rafter, Michael Stich or Goran Ivanisevic. Only Roger Federer can still explain a little citadel over a art.
Sachin Tendulkar is a singular entity in a competition with a capability to mix energy as well as aggressiveness with high execution. And to do it over a unchanging duration of twenty-two years of general cricket, is not for a gloomy hearted. Yet Tendulkar is a a world's heading run scorer in both Tests (14,692 runs) as well as one-day internationals (18,111 runs).
Having not long ago been a partial of a Indian cricket group to win a ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 as well as scoring heavily with a bat with 582 runs, it is tough to suppose which Tendulkar continues to be meddlesome about a game, sufficient to not anticipate retirement. With an increasingly brazen arrangement with a bat, birthdays for Sachin Tendulkar have been about a numbers, though usually about a runs.
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Debris from sunken barge foundNovember 23, 2006
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Three plastic bags containing oil-absorbent booms were found in Oroquieta City, some 30 kilometers from Plaridel, Misamis Occidental where a barge carrying debris from the Guimaras oil spill sank on Monday evening, officials said.
The booms, measuring three meters long and six inches wide, were made up of materials similar to baby diapers.
Authorities on Thursday said the discovery of the floating booms could indicate that the ropes used in tying the plastic bags have come loose causing them to drift to the surface.
The barge, Ras, was being towed to the Holcim cement plant in Lugait, Misamis Oriental to deliver 56,649 sacks of sludge and debris when it sank off Polo Point in Plaridel town. The two sailors manning the barge were safely rescued by their companions, who were manning the tugboat towing it.
The tugboat's captain had told authorities that huge waves breached the barge's hatches, causing it to sink.
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Immediately after every Republican gay sex scandal, we have an opportunity to inventory the irony, which usually involves an excited tromp through Lexis. Most Republicans vote against gay marriage bills, so that's often the first thing uncovered. Some publicly rail against the evils of gay marriage. Some were apoplectic over Clinton's indiscretions in the mid-90s. But Republican Senator Larry Craig hits the hypocrisy trifecta:
Voted against gay marriage bills:
Craig voted for the failed measure [a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage] July 14, 2004. He also has opposed allowing gays or lesbians in the military and voted against extending civil rights protections to homosexuals in the workplace.
Railed against gay marriage:
"You can have a civil union, but you can't commandeer the institution of marriage. That's very special, religious, culturally, and you can't go there."
On Clinton:
MR. RUSSERT: Larry Craig, would you want the last word from the Senate be an acquittal of the president and no censure?
SEN. CRAIG: Well, I don't know where the Senate's going to be on that issue of an up or down vote on impeachment, but I will tell you that the Senate certainly can bring about a censure reslution and it's a slap on the wrist. It's a, "Bad boy, Bill Clinton. You're a naughty boy." The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy.
Craig manages to top all this though. In a May interview with the Idaho Statesman (one month before the arrest), Craig was asked to respond to rumors that he was gay (an allegation echoed by a number of accusers, but not enough, apparently for the Idaho Statesman to go on the record). Here's how he responded:
"I've been in this business 27 years in the public eye here. I don't go around anywhere hitting on men, and by God, if I did, I wouldn't do it in Boise, Idaho! Jiminy!"
He would do it in Minnesota. Sometimes the specificity of a denial is a clue in itself.
Besides the hypocrisy, two other things interest me here.
I'm a bit creeped out that Minnesota so concerned with the problem of gay public bathroom sex as to organize sting operations to combat it, but even more creeped out that an arrest (and guilty plea) was made from these facts. By 'these facts', I mean:
- Craig placed his bag on the floor of the stall.
- Craig tapped his foot.
- Craig reached toward the floor where his hand became visible to the person (the undercover officer) in the next stall.
Does that sound like a crime has been committed? Not unless you rely on a host of inferences, which a good lawyer would have stomped all over. While I assume the undercover probably had it right and is sharply attuned to the secret code of gay public bathroom sex, it seems open to interpretation as a misunderstanding, as Craig now alleges. The prosecution would have its work cut out for it in a courtroom, anyway. It's not as if Craig admitted to offering the undercover $20 to give him a blowjob.
Of course, Craig mooted any possible ambiguity by pleading guilty. He now hilariously alleges that he made his plea without the advice of counsel. I don't doubt that that's true, actually. Any lawyer who advised Craig to plead guilty on those facts should be disbarred. But Craig had two months between the arrest and the plea, which is more than enough time for anyone to get counsel, much less a United States Senator.


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Early this year, I was praying to God for a laptop or a kindle or a netbook. I was persistently praying for it. Then, the day of my birthday came, and woohlah, there was the birthday gift… a tablet. It was not exactly what I prayed for but what the heck, it was given by God. And the fact that it has the function same as the laptop/netbook/kindle I was praying for, BOOM, happiness attacks.
Special thanks to my two sisters who gave it to me.
But I am more thankful to God for making my sisters as instruments of His amazing blessing.
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." -Matthew 21:22


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I have been using this since RC and couple of weeks ago Microsoft has come up with the BETA.
Tested in the following specification
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Laptop IBM R52(2GB +M(1.73 GHz)+40GB)
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Its seems to be like working on a windows xp machine with a Vista look and feel.
Comes with dozens of drivers and you don't have to manually install anything.
Rich UI
Cool features of Docking around the screen as you drag.
File transfer and installing software's are much faster.
Boots up faster and wakes in a second from sleep(not as I do snooze several times).
Minimum 1GB RAM is a good start.
Choosing different network on the fly to protect your PC with firewall.
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Depends a Good Graphics card and doesn't go well with the normal ones.(My PC Sub score 1.0)
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Painting issues in the desktop rarely.
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What a whirlwind weekend! We had organized a girl/women trip to a conference called "You and Your Girl" in Syracuse New York. We left early Friday afternoon and got home very late Saturday night. I coordinated all the details around the adventure. I thought it would be a wonderful way to provide an opportunity for the interested girls of our church (young and old) to bond and learn some new spiritual truth together.
The details were in marketing, selling, registering, organizing, coordinating, and tour guiding. The process started in May and we finally enjoyed the experience. There was much anticipation for the event and we were not disappointed. Two vehicles made their way from Oakville to Syracuse and 1 vehicle made its way from Pennsylvania (they are and forevermore will be an extension of our church family). The mid point. We had a smooth trip of casual conversation and coffee.
Upon arrival at Holiday Inn Express, we were eager to meet up with our PA contingent and make tracks for dinner. We surveyed the audience and decided upon Appleby's. Everyone seemed good with the decision and we headed out for the evening with hopes to hit Target and swim.
Yummy food, beyond what we could finish and some time left over for Target even! I was able to do some very creative things with 30 minutes. It was a good break to stretch and have some retail therapy. We went back to the hotel to our respective rooms and activities (my activity was go to bed).
The next morning was bright and clear and we divided into a couple of vehicles to score our caffeine of choice – Dunkin or Tim's…pick your poison. Completely ready we proceeded to North Syracuse Baptist Church for a day with Vicki Courtney, a teen culture commentator (www.vickicourtney.com). Lots to learn and share – it was a great day with 500 of our sisterhood. Vicki is a terrific speaker. She has Virtuous Reality alerts for moms and teens. Relevant and challenging. Tons of info for us to digest.
It brought us together as a group. I was so tired. Why do I do these things I ask myself? I am long past my time as a teen or a mom of teens. Some days I feel old. However, I am able to coodinate these events, still. They bring about camaradie between the attendees and tie them to our church as a place that strives to be relevant and connected. I've had a lot of 'road trips' recently and I am ready to be done. However – it is very satisfying to have gone along for the ride on this one – and I did coordinate it as a service to my sisters and my God, and I managed to do it all with a smile. It was a another noteworthy experience.


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World-class athletes spend countless hours perfecting their breaststrokes and double backflips, fine-tuning their forms to save that extra second or deliver that wow-inducing element.
Mental athletes may not draw the same-sized crowd as, say, your LeBron James or Serena Williams. But, the elite eggheads train with comparable fervor and focus to set records for memorizing heaps of information — decks of cards, lists of numbers and words, chunks of prose — at a breakneck pace.
Memory champions' arduous schedules have received attention, most notably in the 2011 book Moonwalking with Einstein, in which journalist Joshua Foer chronicled his year training for the U.S. Memory Olympics. (Spoiler alert: The training paid off — Foer came in first place.)
But their sleeping schedules haven't gotten the same treatment. Given the critical role that sleep plays in memory, the world's best recollectors' resting routines must certainly play a role in their ability to memorize at levels unimaginable by the average brain.
Two decorated memory champs with divergent sleep habits, Nelson Dellis and Lance Tschirhart, explained how they rest for the win.
A Model of Sleep Health
UK-born Nelson Dellis has won the U.S. Memory Championship the past two years, taken seventh place in the world competition and broken several records.
Dellis trains three to five hours a day for most of the year. During that time, he tries to sleep seven or eight hours a night. Any less, and he feels the cognitive strain. Memory training, Dellis says, requires applying immense focus for hours on end, a feat he finds easier when he gets consistent sleep and exercise.
During the month leading up to a competition, Dellis forces himself to go to bed by 10 and rise between six and seven, so that his body clock syncs up with the competition schedule.
The most mentally draining event to train for, Dellis feels, is speed numbers. Competitors are given five minutes to memorize pages of computer-generated numbers in consecutive order. Then, they have 10 minutes to recall the numbers without making any errors.
To commit pages of random digits to memory, competitors use encoding systems. Put simply, they convert numbers into images, which then stand out more in the mind's eye.
Like other top-ranking champions, Dellis uses a three-digit system, associating every three-digit number — from 000 to 999 — with a distinct image. The more absurd the image, the better. Dellis says that memorizing the encoding system, so that the number-to-image conversion becomes automatic, consumes the most most brainpower.
How does sleep strengthen encoding? As Dellis pointed out, research shows that sleep contributes to memory consolidation, the process of converting newly learned information into long-term memory. If Dellis converts 100 three-digit numbers into distinct images, but quickly forgets his number-image pairs, the encoding system is useless. He also believes that sleeping lets his brain recharge between periods of intense cognitive exertion, similarly to sprinters taking breathers between 100-yard dashes.
The Memory Rebel
Lance Tschirhart, a 26-year-old competitor from Texas, holds U.S. records in speed cards and speed numbers. By memory champ measures, he uses a fairly standard encoding system. From a profile published in Los Angeles Times in 2014:
Lance Tschirhart, 25, a competitor from Texas, explained how the number 141251213 is embedded in his memory: 141 brings to mind a dart; 251 is an electrical outlet; 213 is a nutmeg. "So I can imagine throwing a dart into an outlet and sparks shooting out around a nutmeg," Tschirhart said during a break between drills in the competition.
Far less standard, however, is Tschirhart's sleeping schedule: He has been known to stay up for two days before competitions.
This happened by accident. About two years ago, for a one-year period, Tschirhart fell into a cycle of staying up two days for every night he slept. The schedule, he says, freed up hours for memory-related activities, from practicing speed trials to thinking about memory strategies. Both structured training and free-form navel gazing, Tschirhart believes, are critical to his succes. While Tschirhart is confident that his sleeping habits are unique in the mental athlete community (as is Dellis), he's not concerned about being an outlier.
"I function well, which should be a barometer of whether or not it's an issue," he told Van Winkle's. "As far as I understand, there's no scientific consensus as to why there are people who only sleep three hours a night or so and still seem to have at least normal memory and cognitive speed capabilities… I've never had a decent night's sleep leading up to day of championship, and usually I get no sleep at all the night before."
When Tschirhart does get a full night's sleep, he tends to crash for 12 or 14 hours. While his sleep schedule has always been odd, he says he naturally does his best work between midnight and 5 am. He suspects that he'd keep more consistent hours if he could only switch to a nocturnal schedule.


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Tech-Savvy, with chocolate
Hey, guess what?
Our mission has a website now! I haven't seen it, but the url is: www.misionretalhuleu.org. (Probably better off copying and pasting that link...)
Supposedly, there is a picture of me on there because I was one of the winners in a Preach My Gospel quiz we did. Woo hoo! They gave me chocolate but I ended up giving it to a less active woman we visited because it had almonds in it. And her husband is a bum who never visits her, nor brings her any money with which to purchase food and school supplies for her six kids. I figured they could use some holiday cheer.
But the excitement of the little gift was diminished because we arrived right in the middle of them trying to figure out if the oldest daughter, who's 12, should go to live in a town an hour for a month to do housecleaning for a family. We told them to pray about it.
My heart literally wrenches for this family. And the unbelievable economic crises they go through. But they don't come to church. They don't do what it takes to invite the help of God in their life. I don't know how many times I'll have to testify with my entire heart before it gets through to them. But I will keep testifying, because I love them so much. You can pray for them, if you want. The mom's name is Susannah.
Buses, buses, and more buses
Yesterday I had to go to Guatemala City again to get everything figured out for my visa. The good news is that everything did get figured out and, a year later, I'm legal here in Guatemala!
This process of going and returning to the capital was a big one. We had to leave here at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, with a sister who got off her mission 2 months ago, so that when my companion left me in the mission office she'd have someone to return with before continuing normal life in a trio with the other sister who lives in our house.
We took a small bus 50 minutes from our town to the nearest city, then on big tour bus turned public for an hour and a half to get from the city, Coatepeque, to where the mission office is in Retalhuleu. That bus was so packed that we stood in the aisle the whole time. A guy contacted us; he turned out to be a member from another stake, and I'm pretty sure he will end up being the eternal companion of the sister who was accompanying us.
After that adventure, where my nametag fell off and then one of the nice guys we had to literally force our way past to get out the door, found it and through it out the window to me as the bus pulled away, we waited in the office for a while, my companion left, I helped the office assistants clean up the chapel, they gave us dinner and took us to a hotel, where I stayed with the other girl who had to go to Guate, a sister who's only been here for a month but has graduated from BYU and had a full ride to long and triple jump there. (What a run-on sentence, right?!)
At 3 in the morning the bus came to take us to Guate, which is like a whole other world compared to regular Guatemala. We got to the Area Offices at like 8 am because there was a ton of traffic entering the city, and then we waited while missionaries from other cities arrived. They took us in a different bus, a recycled yellow school bus, to the country's immigration offices. We waited in line, smiled for a photo, and signed on the dotted line.
Then we repeated the process going home. All in all, I think it was like 13 hours on 6 different buses in less than two days. BUT it was good because I only missed P-day at the beach, and I got to meditate a lot in gospel topics. Yay, road trips!
The Family With Hope in Their Eyes
I have sent my mom pictures to put up of the baptism we had this weekend, a family of 5 (four who got baptized) who also got married on Valentine's Day. It was an absolutely beautiful service, and I am not done cherishing it in my heart yet.
But I think my favorite part of the whole process was on Sunday, when the dad went up in front to give the closing prayer in Sunday School class. He did it so naturally, and in that moment I could just see him doing it for years and years to come.
When they received the gift of the Holy Ghost on Sunday, the 11 year-old daughter was blessed to be able to serve a mission if she has the desire when she's older. I didn't see that coming, but it made so much sense in the moment. What grand joy!
I am so grateful for God for letting me be a part of this miracle process, and will be doing everything I can to make sure this family stays strong in the church.
It's the true church. God lives and loves us. Take care, and have a very happy week!
Victoria Ison


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Gavin Burke and Sarah Griffin review "The Girl On The Train", "War On Everyone" and "Blood Father"
"If the Ground Should Open" by Jaki Irvine is a video and sound installation currently on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. The starting point for the art work was Irvine's own novel Days of Surrender about women like Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell and their role in the 1916 Rising
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Sophie Gorman reviews "The Circus Animals' Desertion" by Brokentalkers Theatre, who use the work of WB Yeats to look at the state of the world in 2016 through music, dance and theatre
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I take my meds like I'm supposed to...I take them on time....the same time everyday!! So why do I feel like this now? Most days I'm low but level somedays I'm smiling but right now I'm lower than pond scum. Aren't my meds supposed to stabilize this shit?? I see my doc every 2 weeks and my meds are adjusted as needed. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Gonzo Meds are good and they do help but we have low days even with the meds ... the trick is to love the good days and try and get thru the low days .... I hope that tommorow is a better day
But I feel below low...its like I was before I started meds can my body get used to something that fast??
I dunno, Gonzo, it could be that the meds you're on aren't the right ones for you. Or that you may have been misdiagnosed? You should talk to your doctor. But meds can take quite a number of weeks before they kick in properly. I was told Prozac would take about 3 weeks but in reality it took way longer than that before I started to feel anything resembling normal.
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Hispanic Immigrant Workers in Paradise: Malibu Day Laborers in a Time of InsecuritySchool of Public Policy Working Papers
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Publication Date8-31-2015
AbstractTaking a multidisciplinary approach, we conducted a study consisting of written surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews with men and women who were seeking employment through the MCLE at the time of the study and who were predominantly Hispanic immigrants. The results of this study offer insight into the ways in which this population benefits from the services of the MCLE, their labor conditions, financial and saving behavior, and overall wellbeing. Our findings clarify how this population in Malibu negotiates short-term labor relationships in the context of continuing economic instability, where we provide a better understanding of the intersecting inequalities that face this population, their financial behaviors under insecure circumstances, and the function of the MCLE in the informal labor market.
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Here's a look at the scores, because of some family issues I have been going through, I won't do the Game Boxscores excpt for the last 2 Texas Stars Games that have been played Tuesday & Wednesday night as the Chicago Wolves won Game 3 while the Texas Stars won Game 4. With the Allen Americans losing the CHL Presidents Cup Championship, the Texas Stars are the only Southwest Based Team left playing this season.
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Boston Bruins 4 Philadelphia Flyers 1 (2-1, 0-0, 2-0)
Boston VS. Philadelphia Game Story: www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2009030223
Boston Leads Series 2-1, Game 4 will be on Thrusday Night in Montreal.
Chicago Blackhawks 5 Vancouver Canucks 2 (2-0, 1-2, 2-0)
Chicago VS. Vancouver Game Story: www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2009030243
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Manchester Monarchs 1 Worcester Sharks 0 (1-0, 0-0, 0-0)
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Rose Madder is a traditional watercolor that is fugitive. That is it is not permanent but fades with time especially when exposed to sunlight. You can google what it's made of and why it fades.
I'm new to watercolors and have read how many watercolorists are loathe to give it up even though it is so unstable.
So I looked into mixing the color just like I've mixed Undersea Green or Cascade Green. (I work with Daniel Smith watercolors just so you know.)
I bought a sample of Madder Lake Dark and Rose Madder from Schminke to see exactly what the color looked like.
While it is close to many of the replacement colors offered such as Quinacridone Rose, many of them lack some of the properties that artists love about the madder colors, I.E. transparent and easy to lift.
So I looked into mixing it myself keeping these properties in mind.
One formula I found was Pyrrol Orange and Quinacridone Rose. Totally unacceptable.
Daniel Smith has a new line of mineral pigments called Primatek. There are two that looked like they would mix into a madder substitute: Rhodonite Genuine and Monte Amiata Natural Sienna. They are both transparent and low staining. While Rhodonite doesn't granulate Monte Amiata does just enough to simulate the Rose Madder sample I made. The Monte Amiata tones down the Rhodonite just enough to simulate the Rose Madder.
I'm pleased with the result.
If you'd like to give it a try it is one part Monte Amiata Natural Sienna to 5-6 parts Rhodonite Genuine. Be sure to mix well.
Add enough water and it's nicely transparent. All of the Primateks lift pretty well but there is some minor staining. I'll know in a few days how well the color rewets as I have mixed it in a half pan. If it rewets well and the color behaves as I think it will, I think I will add "Mary's Rose Madder" to my palette.


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Departmental Papers (MEAM)
Oscillatory enhancement of the squeezing flow of yield stress fluids: A novel experimental result
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Zwick, K.J., Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, Ira M. Cohen. (1997). Oscillatory enhancement of the squeezing flow of yield stress fluids: A novel experimental result. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 339, pp. 77-87.
Copyright 1997 Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S0022112097004977
The extrusion of a yield stress fluid from the space between two parallel plates is investigated experimentally. Oscillating the magnitude of the squeezing force about a mean value (F = f[1+αcos(ωt)]) was observed to significantly enhance the flow rate of yield stress fluids, while having no effect on the flow rate of Newtonian fluids. This is a novel result. The enhancement depends on the magnitude of the force, the oscillatory frequency and amplitude, the fluid being squeezed, and the thickness of the fluid layer. Non-dimensional results for the various flow quantities have been presented by using the flow predicted for the constant-force squeezing of a Herschel-Bulkley yield stress fluid as the reference. In the limit of constant-force squeezing, the present experimental results compare very well with those of our earlier theoretical model for this situation (Zwick, Ayyaswamy & Cohen 1996). The results presented in this paper have significance, among many applications, for injection moulding, in the adhesive bonding of microelectronic chips, and in surgical procedures employed in health care.
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Zwick, K. J.; Ayyaswamy, Portonovo S.; and Cohen, Ira M., "Oscillatory enhancement of the squeezing flow of yield stress fluids: A novel experimental result" (1997). Departmental Papers (MEAM). 176.
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This was a fun photo to take… we had some excavation done at our house and I went out to try to take some photos of the equipment. I took an HDR image of this backhoe and really enjoyed processing it to make the hard work it does stand out- scratches and such. I also used Nik Silver Efex Pro to get the black and white look I wanted, and some Topaz DeNoise (another program I'm testing) to remove noise from the sky. Noiseware Professional wouldn't quite do it, I'm afraid. The crew tolerated me good-naturedly. Maybe they will understand it better after seeing this photo!
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