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"There have been a number of events that have happened to Sharon and me in the last year that have made us realize how fragile life and health are," Combest said in a prepared statement.
"They certainly caused us to rearrange our priorities, and we want to spend as much time together while we have our life and health. In order for us to be able to spend that time together, I will submit my resignation from Congress effective on May 31, 2003."
Combest said the May resignation will provide ample time for individuals interested in running for the office to prepare for a special election. Combest is expected to relinquish his chairmanship in December, paving the way for a new chairman to be seated at the beginning of the new Congress.
He has served on the Agriculture Committee his entire career and has chaired the committee since 1999.
"Through 10 elections, the people of the 19th Congressional District have been very kind to us and words cannot express our appreciation for the confidence they have shown in us," Combest said. "We have so many wonderful friends and are looking forward to being at home in Lubbock to enjoy their friendship even more."
The agricultural community reacted with a mixture of disappointment and support for the Texas congressman.
"I am sorry to hear of Chairman Combest's plans to leave Congress," said Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman. "He has provided strong, effective leadership on agricultural and trade issues as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. His dedicated service in Congress has benefited the nation's farmers and ranchers.
"I wish Chairman Combest and his wife Sharon all the best as they move back to Texas, and look forward to working with him throughout his remaining time in Congress."
"Larry Combest has been a statesman and a tireless advocate for agriculture during his service in Congress," said Texas Farm Bureau president Donald Patman. "He will be missed by his constituents in the 19th District and by farmers and ranchers all over the state.
"Larry's leadership in agriculture reached far beyond his own district, touching the lives of farm and ranch families everywhere. His leadership during the debate on the 2002 farm bill was indispensable, and he deserves much credit for its passage. This legislation will stand as a large part of his legacy.
"We have been very fortunate to have someone with Larry's talent and abilities to serve agriculture for so long," said Jerry Harris, a Lamesa, Texas ginner and chairman of the Texas FSA committee.
"The state, the nation and the world will miss him," Harris said. "We can't lose someone with the respect that Larry Combest commands without leaving a huge vacuum. It's a big hole and the nation will suffer because of his absence."
Harris said Combest accomplished more than representing his district and state "He spent a lot of his time educating his colleagues, both in the Senate and the House, about agriculture," Harris said. "He articulated the need for a viable agriculture."
Harris said the relationship between Combest and Charlie Stenholm, a fellow Texan who is the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, proved invaluable in pushing the 2002 farm bill through Congress.
"To say Larry Combest will be missed is like saying an atomic bomb makes a little noise," he said.
American Cotton Producers Chairman Mark Williams of Farwell, Texas, who also farms in Combest's district, said, "I believe Rep. Combest has a unique grasp and understanding of the difficulties facing farmers today. He used that knowledge to develop and deliver effective farm policy that addresses the primary needs of agriculture for the short- and long-term.
" While developing national agricultural policy, he never failed to put the highest priority on effectively serving the needs of all of agriculture and especially those of Southern agriculture.
"He also expanded agricultural research programs, played an active role in trade policy development seeking to open markets to U.S. agricultural exports and significantly expanded conservation programs in the 2002 farm bill. He has made an enormous difference in the well-being of rural Americans as well as for farmers, ranchers and consumers."
"Agriculture has benefited greatly from Rep. Combest's dedication, commitment and leadership as chairman of the Agriculture Committee," said National Cotton Council Chairman Kenneth B. Hood of Gunnison, Miss. "His integrity, leadership skills, depth and breadth of knowledge about agricultural policy in general and cotton industry issues specifically will be evident for years to come.
"Rep. Combest has set a lofty standard, particularly in striking a bipartisan balance that serves all interests of the industry."
Hood said that was never more evident than when . Combest, with the cooperation of Stenholm, guided new farm legislation through the House, the conference committee and to the president's desk, capping an effort that began in 2000 with a series of nationwide policy input hearings.


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HTC profit falls 79% in Q3
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC on Friday reported a 79 percent drop in third quarter profit as intensifying competition from Apple and Samsung Electronics hurt sales.
HTC said its profit totaled 3.9 billion New Taiwan dollars ($99 million) on revenue of NT$70 billion in the three months through September. It was HTC's fourth consecutive fall in quarterly profit.
The company predicts revenue to drop to NT$60 billion in the fourth quarter despite traditional pre-Christmas buying and its introduction of two new models running on Microsoft's Windows 8 software.
HTC became the first maker of smartphones based on Google's Android software in 2008 and its sales surged. It entered a sharp decline in the second half of 2011.

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PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Fire crews battling a wildfire should identify escape routes and safe zones. They should pay close attention to the weather forecast. And they should post lookouts.
Those are standards the government follows to protect firefighters, which were toughened after a wildfire tragedy in Colorado nearly two decades ago. On Tuesday, investigators from around the U.S. were arriving in Arizona to examine whether 19 highly trained firefighters who perished over the weekend heeded those rules or ignored them and paid with their lives.
In the nation's biggest loss of firefighters since 9/11, violent wind gusts Sunday turned what was believed to be a relatively manageable lightning-ignited forest fire in the town of Yarnell into a death trap that left no escape for the team of Hotshots willing to go to the hottest part of the blaze.
The tragedy raised questions of whether the crew should have been pulled out much earlier and whether all the usual precautions would have made any difference at all in the face of triple-digit temperatures, erratic winds and tinderbox conditions that caused the fire to explode.
In 1994, 14 firefighters died on Colorado's Storm King Mountain, and investigators afterward found numerous errors in the way the blaze was fought. In the Storm King tragedy, a rapid change in weather sent winds raging, creating 100-foot tongues of flame. Firefighters were unable to escape, as a wall of fire raced up a hillside.
The U.S. Forest Service revised its firefighting policies as a result of the blaze.
"The reforms after Storm King were collectively intended to prevent that from happening again, which was mass entrapment of an entire Hotshot crew," said Lloyd Burton, professor of environmental law and policy at the University of Colorado.
"There are so many striking parallels between this tragedy and what happened on Storm King in 1994, it's almost haunting."
Those changes included policies that say no firefighters should be deployed unless they have a safe place to retreat. They must also be continuously informed of changing weather.
"If you don't have those things in place, it's not advisable to deploy a team in the first place, because you can't guarantee their safety," Burton said.
The Hotshot team from Prescott entered the smoky wilderness over the weekend with backpacks, chain saws and other heavy gear to remove brush and trees and deprive the flames of fuel.
But the blaze grew from 200 acres to about 2,000 in a matter of hours as "the wind kicked up to 40 to 50 mph gusts and it blew east, south, west — every which way," said Prescott City Councilman Len Scamardo.
"What limited information we have was there was a gust of wind from the north that blew the fire back and trapped them," Scamardo said.
The crew's only surviving member, Brendan McDonough, was on a hill top working as the lookout when the winds picked up, said Wade Ward, spokesman for the Prescott Fire Department.
McDonough notified the other Hotshots that the weather was changing rapidly and that the fire had switched direction because of the wind. McDonough also told his fellow crew members that he was leaving the immediate area because he was in danger and asked them if they needed anything.
"He did exactly what he was supposed to," Ward said Tuesday of McDonough, who was in his third season with the unit.
Retired smoke jumper Art Morrison, a spokesman for the Arizona State Forestry Division, said it's essentially a judgment call as to whether a spot can work as a safe haven to escape to if the flames suddenly blow toward crews and they have to flee for their lives.
"Whatever they used as a safety zone just didn't work," he said.
Dick Mangan, a retired U.S. Forest Service safety official and consultant, said it is too early to say if the crew or those managing the fire made mistakes.
"This just might have been a weather anomaly that nobody saw coming that happened too quickly to respond to," Mangan said.
He said the crew members might have taken too many risks because they were on familiar ground and were trying to protect a community they knew well.
"When you've got especially structures and residences involved, and you've got local resources, there's a fair amount of social and political pressure, some of it self-generated by the firefighters, who want to do a good job," Mangan said. "They don't want to see a community burn down. They want to get in there."
A team of fire officials drawn from across the country by Atlanta NIMO, or National Incident Management Organization, arrived in the area Tuesday to find out exactly what went wrong.
They plan to make their way into the charred fire scene and issue a preliminary report in the coming days, said Mary Rasmussen, a spokeswoman for the Southwest Area Incident Management Team.
With the investigation just beginning, it's not clear what help water- or retardant-dropping aircraft could have provided for the doomed crew.
One contractor, Neptune Aviation Services, had three aerial tankers making drops on the fire earlier in the day. But at the time the firefighters died, the planes had been grounded because of treacherous conditions, said chief executive Ronald Hooper.
"It wasn't safe for them to be in the air at that time," Hooper said. There were "severe winds, erratic winds and thunderstorms in the area."
Weather reports from around the time of the firefighter deaths show how volatile the wind became. At 4 p.m., the wind was blowing out of the southwest, but one hour later, it had switched to the exact opposite direction and dramatically increased in speed. It was gusting at 22 mph at 4 p.m. but was at 41 mph by 5 p.m.
However, government dispatch logs show at least two other planes were flying over the fire at the time, one large tanker and one small one. There was also at least one firefighting helicopter in the air early Sunday afternoon.
On Tuesday, about 500 firefighters were battling the mountain blaze, which had burned about 13 square miles. Yavapai County authorities said about 200 homes and other structures burned in Yarnell, a town of about 700 people. Hundreds were evacuated.
Wind even more powerful than the gusts that hit Sunday were forecast for Tuesday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Wallmann.
No part of the fire had been contained.
Fire Cmdr. Clay Templin said the wildfire was "still burning very hot" even though there were not a lot of active flames. Complicating efforts were the "exceptionally" dry conditions from drought.
"Whether it's brown or green, everything burns right now," Templin said of foliage.
He urged residents to heed evacuation orders, saying "in these extraordinary conditions, we don't want to have another tragedy in Arizona."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSs Bob Christie in Phoenix, Brian Skoloff in Yarnell, Felicia Fonseca in Prescott, and Martin Di Caro in Washington contributed to this report.NEVADA FLAGS
Flags at Clark County fire stations have been lowered to half-staff in recognition of the tragedy involving the firefighters in Arizona, according to county spokesman Eric Pappa.
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Chagas Disease: A New Health Disparity
By Gary Bell
June 19, 2012
Ever heard of chagas disease? Well, you're not alone. There may be as many as 10 million people, including an estimated 1 million in the United States, who have it.
Chagas is a disease caused by a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, which lives inside a certain insect native to Central and South America. This insect, the Triatomabug, thrives in tropical areas, especially poor housing conditions where they come out and infect their victims at night.
While it may seem that the impoverished conditions where these insects reside would confine it to certain areas, or even countries, immigration and the lack of familiarity of most physicians with the disease has exacerbated its spread.
Another complicating feature of chagas disease are its two stages: acute and chronic. The early "acute" stage may be asymptomatic and last for a few weeks or months. During the "chronic" stage, most infected people "enter into a prolonged asymptomatic form of disease (called 'chronic indeterminate') during which few or no parasites are found in the blood" (Centers for Disease Control). While most people will remain asymptomatic for life, up to one-third of those infected, 3 million, are at risk of chagas' worst complications, enlarging of the colon, esophagus and heart, cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Chagas disease is treatable, but clearly the longer its goes undetected, the more difficult it is to treat. Which leads me to the public health implications. A recent paper in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases by Sarkar and Strutz entitled "Chagas Disease Risk in Texas" stated that chagas is "endemic in the southern United States, especially in Texas" where, curiously enough, it has not been designated as reportable. Of course the state of Texas has never been a leader in public health, evidenced by its failure to adequately screen its own blood supply.
If we have learned anything from HIV/AIDS, it's that we generally have a short window in which to prevent these types of diseases from becoming epidemic. Well, that window may have closed. However, the authors of the above article note that chagas has so many ways of being transmitted including blood transfusions, organ donations, ingestion of tainted food and a variety of animals, from dogs to raccoons to rodents. It's time for an aggressive campaign to produce a vaccine for humans and animals. Moreover, we need more research so that we have a better idea of how many people are infected, how tainted the blood supply may be and how widespread it has become in various animal species. Finally, we need to disseminate "INFORMATION," e.g., a social awareness campaign to educate the public. The horse may already be "out of the barn," but let's get him back before he runs too far away.
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Jason Co-Sponsored two bills to further protect schoolchildren and our second amendment rights
This week in the Missouri House I signed my name to two pieces of legislation designed to protect the rights given to us by our Constitution to keep and bear arms. The first piece of legislation, HB 70, allows teachers and administrators to carry a firearm in school if they have a concealed carry permit. The second bill, HB 170, protects Missourians from federal laws that ban or restrict gun ownership. Given the tone of the conversation we've seen in Washington, D.C. these days, it's imperative we act on the state level to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens from the destructive efforts of federal bureaucrats.
The White House in particular has made proposals that seek to trample on the Second Amendment rights of all Americans under the guise of protecting citizens from gun violence. It's a topic that provokes a lot of discussion, but also one that is long on fiery political rhetoric and short on actual, substantive solutions that would prevent tragedies like the one we saw at Sandy Hook. As the days have gone by, it has become apparent that the president wants to exploit the tragic events that took place in Connecticut to further an agenda focused on desecrating the Constitution given to us by our founding fathers to protect our freedoms.
It disturbs me to know we have government bureaucrats who view the heartbreaking events that happened in December as nothing more than an opportunity to advance their anti-gun agenda. People in Missouri and across America should have absolute confidence that the federal government will uphold and protect the United States Constitution - unfortunately that's just not the case right now.
We took a solemn oath to protect the constitution, and It's an oath state legislators take very seriously. That's why we are working on these proposals at the state level that would protect our Second Amendment rights from the erosive efforts of out-of-touch government bureaucrats and politicians.
By giving our teachers and school administrators the right to carry a weapon on school property, we empower our educators with the ability to defend their students from would-be disaster. While attempts from Washington, D.C. to diminish gun owners' rights would do nothing to stop gun-related violence, the state-level solution we are proposing would put an effective deterrent in the hands of the law-abiding citizens we trust to educate our young people. It's a proposal I believe can help to prevent tragedies like the shootings at Sandy Hook from happening again.
In order to extend gun rights to teachers, we also have to defend our Second Amendment rights from those who would take them away. It's important we send a clear message to the federal government this year that we will not allow the rights of Missouri gun owners to be diminished. Our plan is to protect our citizens with legislation that will make any intrusive federal laws that restrict gun ownership unenforceable here in Missouri. With this we can send a clear message that our state is ready and willing to protect the rights given to us by our Constitution even if the federal government is derelict in its duties.
I'm proud to be part of a state legislature that has its focus on the issues that really matter to the people. As state representatives we have not lost touch with what is truly important – preserving the freedoms and liberties that have made the United States the greatest nation on Earth. This session we will stand together in the State of Missouri to tell the federal government once and for all that it will not be allowed to run roughshod over the United States Constitution. I hope you will join me in supporting these commonsense reforms that will make Missouri a better, stronger state.
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Brian DeMaris (opera/musical theatre) has accepted a position on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, where he will be a vocal coach. He will also continue with the Opera Theater of St. Louis.
Richard Faria (clarinet) was reviewed in
Fanfare magazine for his performance of Stephen Hartke's
The Horse with the Lavender Eye: "The performance here is
of the very highest standard. The clarinetist, Richard Faria, a
professor at New York's Ithaca College, stands out in his
supreme command of his instrument, his clear identification with
the projection of disjunct lines, and his sheer control." Faria
also participated in Ensemble X performances including the 60th
birthday concert for Steven Stucky at Cornell, gave a solo recital
at the Garth Newel Music Center during their summer festival, and
joined IC faculty colleagues in a summer trio performance at
Cornell's Schwartz Center. He participated in a new
interpretation of music for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film
Festival, and a trio performance in New Bedford (MA). Faria also
recently served as soloist with both the Ithaca College Concert
Band and Chamber Orchestra.
This fall, Janet Galván (women's chorale, chorus, music education) conducted the Alaska all state mixed chorus, the Mad River Festival in Dayton, Ohio, the collegiate/high school festival at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, and the North Carolina Treble Festival. She will take the Ithaca College Women's Chorale to ACDA Eastern Region in February. In the spring she will conduct the Hawaii Choral Festival and the New Hampshire Mixed Chorus All-State Chorus. In the summer of 2010, she will be the guest conductor for the Rhapsody Choral Festival which will be in Prague, Salzburg, and Vienna.
Nathan Hess (piano) judged the New York State Music Teachers National Association competitions for Junior Piano and Senior Piano at the fall state convention, held at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He will present a recital and piano masterclass at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. In February he will play a solo piano recital at Mansfield University in Mansfield, PA, as part of their "Keyed Up" Recital Series.
Dan Isbell (music education) spoke the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. University of Limerick, Ireland. He presented a study of undergraduate music student socialization with Dr. Josh Russell, University of Hartford. His dissertation was picked up by VDM Publishing House, Ltd. and published as a book. He also completed a chapter in the recently published book: Collaborative Action for Change: Selected proceedings from the 2007 symposium on music teacher education.
Emily Mason (music education) presented a research paper at the 2010 Biennial Music Educator National Conference on Research in Music Education and Music Teacher Education in Anaheim, California. She presented a paper titled Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of and Preference for Kodaly or Orff Methodologies Used in Teaching Elementary General Music.
Sally Lamb McCune (composition) was among five local artists receiving $1,000 each as part of the "CAP Stimulus Awards for Individual Artists." These special grants from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County (CAP) were created to encourage local artists to not only advance their own careers, but also take part in re-invigorating the local economy. The creation of these awards came fresh on the heels of news that CAP had received one of the 27 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Grant Awards through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
Jean Radice (organ) coordinated a joint performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations, performing along with Mark A. Radice, Mary Holzhauer, M.M. '08, '09, Josh Oxford, '07, and Elena Nezhdanova M.M.'10
Deborah Rifkin (theory) presented at two conferences this semester: "A New Taxonomy for Learning in the Music Classroom," International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" and "The Post-Tonal Quick Switch in the Aural-Skills Classroom," The Musical Ear, Indiana University. She also joined the editorial board for Music Theory Online, the electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory.
Lee Goodhew Romm (bassoon) attended the Amherst
Early Music Festival in July and will play baroque bassoon in two
performances at Cornell in the spring. On modern bassoon she
recently performed the Strauss Duo Concertino for Clarinet and
Bassoon, Strings and Harp with the Cayuga Chamber
Nicholas Walker (double bass) played a series of jazz festivals across Canada, including Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, and Montreal. He also played in Allentown, Syracuse, and many performances around Ithaca. He was featured in three sessions at the International Society of Bassists conference: Close Encounters with Historical Double Basses; and Nicholas Walker: It's Not About Rules - Playing Baroque transcriptions on the Modern Double Bass, plus a concert Frescobaldi and the music of the viola bastarda. He did early and contemporary music performances at Cornell, as well as a concert with Tango Da Camara at the Guitar Foundation of America conference at Ithaca College.


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As we move into another year of the Apple iPad and tablet phenomenon, health-care-provider CIOs are wondering which apps are really beneficial to their organization on an operational level. BYOD is pushing an increasing need for mobility strategies and network infrastructure security, and the iPad craze really means one thing: more work for the health-care CIO.
Mobile technology has the ability to transform patient care, and while many innovative developers have created free apps that have the ability to drive health care into the future of tech, the iTunes store still remains cluttered with useless duds that simply do not make a clinician's life easier.
Here we present the 15 most sought-after free medical iPad apps (in no particular order), based on a list compiled by iMedicalApps.com, as well as the Apple App Store statistics, that deem these medical apps the highest rated and most downloaded.


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Wisconsin high school graduation rate increases in 2012
Wisconsin high school graduation rate increases in 2012
MADISON, Wis. —
The percentage of high school students in Wisconsin who graduated has increased again, although minorities continue to lag behind.
The state Department of Public Instruction on Tuesday released the latest graduation data for 2012. It showed that 87.5 percent of students graduated in four years. That is up from 87 percent the year before and 85.7 percent in the 2009 school year.
However, minority groups were not performing as well.
The graduation rate for African American students was 62.7 percent last school year, down from 63.8 percent in 2010. It is up from 60.5 percent in 2009.
The rate for Hispanic students is 74.3 percent and 88.4 percent for Asians. The rate for white students is 92.2 percent.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — For security reasons, FBI agents are staying away from the Libyan city where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
The officials say the bureau is not going to put agents in harm's way and that the city of Benghazi must be made secure before the FBI sends investigators there.
The officials demanded anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the record about an ongoing investigation.
FBI agents were sent to Libya last week to look into the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, a State Department computer expert and two former U.S. Navy Seals.
At FBI headquarters Friday, spokesman Paul Bresson said "we are moving forward with our investigation," but Bresson declined to comment on the specific location of the agents.
Separately, the State Department is further reducing the U.S. Embassy staff in Tripoli for security reasons. The embassy warned Americans of possible demonstrations in the capital and Benghazi on Friday.
On Thursday, Libya's leader said his government had disbanded about 10 militia groups and will continue to take action against Muslim extremists.
President Mohammed el-Megarif said the attack on the U.S. Consulate earlier this month that killed the four Americans was a final straw. He did not say when the militias were disbanded, or how many remain.


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Cass County Business Success Story
University of Missouri-Kansas City small business specialists helped researchers based in Drexel commercialize their research and broaden their markets.
The prospect of bioterrorism has been a concern in our nation since the terrorist attacks on New York City nearly eight years ago. Since then civilian and military authorities have sought increasingly sophisticated approaches to biodefense and biohazard detection.
In a small Missouri town about 35 miles south of downtown Kansas City innovators are working on the problem.
A science and engineering team led by entrepreneurs Dave Alburty and Andy Page is developing a contaminant detection technology that uses unique methods to concentrate large initial sample volumes into very small final volumes for analysis. Their InnovaPrep system was originally developed for several U.S. government biodefense detection systems, according to Dave Alburty, founder and president of AlburtyLab Inc. based in Drexel, Mo.
After focusing on the biodefense market — since that's the world they came from and whose clients they knew — Page and Alburty tapped the Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City to help them learn more about commercializing their research and to broaden their markets. Consequently they've branched into veterinary diagnostics and medical point-of-care diagnostics. The advice they received from Denise Fields, SBTDC commercialization specialist, helped them determine what their products should look like.
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Increased corn acreage across the Southeast doesn't necessarily mean increased profits, especially if growers fail to efficiently harvest their crop.
Using available technology and timing harvest properly can reduce losses and increase profitability.
The first step to insuring harvest efficiency is to be sure harvest equipment is in proper working order. For growers who have not grown corn in some years, and in some cases have never grown corn, checking combine belts for dry rot, replacing worn parts on the picking heads, especially parts like snapping rollers that come into direct contact with corn, can pay off once harvest begins, according to University of Georgia Extension Agricultural Engineer Paul Sumner.
"A corn combine is not that complicated a machine. However, if someone has just bought a used combine and is not familiar with combines, they should probably have someone come in and check the machine to be sure it is in good working order," Sumner says.
It is also important to be able to make in-field adjustments on the combine. As moisture content of corn in the field changes, it is critical to be able to make changes in clearance in the rotor and the picking mechanism — primarily the concave elements of the combine.
Making adjustments in air flow and rotor, for example, can decrease the amount of harvest loss.
Newer combines may have instruments to help farmers monitor the amount of harvest loss they are getting. If not, the easiest way to monitor harvest loss, Sumner says, is to measure from center to center of the row 3.4 feet and count the number of kernels in that area. If there are more than 20 kernels per 10 square feet, the grower needs to make adjustments to the combine.
Once the amount of harvest loss is determined, the grower needs to determine from which part of the combine the losses are coming. If kernels are adhering to the corn cob, for example, Sumner says, the threshing mechanism is not tight enough or the moisture content is too high.
Harvesting at 22 to 27 percent moisture, there is the least amount of harvest loss. The downside of saving harvest loss is the cost of drying the corn down to the 12 to 14 percent moisture needed to store corn. If a grower has 300 acres of corn, of the same variety, the grower may start combining at 26 percent, but by the time he finishes combining, corn may be down to 15 to 18 percent.
Sumner stresses that on-farm drying capacity must be matched with combine capacity. If a grower starts combining when the dew dries and harvests until dark — 10 to 12 hours — typically the grower will harvest up to 5,000 bushels of corn per day. If the grower doesn't have that much drying capacity, he will either have to delay harvest or risk damaging the crop by leaving high moisture corn in a truck or temporary facility waiting for the dryer. In reality, in this situation the option is to leave it in the field, Sumner says.
The cost of harvesting an acre of corn, not including purchase and depreciation costs of the combine, is approximately $24 per acre. What happens with the corn after it is combined is sometimes as critical to profit as getting it out of the field.
Sumner says it is critical to keep time on the truck from the field to the elevator or other drying or storage facility to a minimum. If corn yields are average across the Southeast, there is likely to be a major shortage of storage facilities and likely to be long lines waiting to deliver corn.
Keeping corn on a truck for more than six to eight hours in the environmental conditions typical at corn harvest can significantly damage the corn and reduce quality and value, Sumner cautions.
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Within hours of the president's State of the Union address, two Democratic senators announced that they'd introduce a climate-related bill that would include a tax on carbon emissions. The legislation would tax the source of about 85 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and would invest heavily in energy efficiency and renewable-energy research.
They acknowledged that the proposal will be challenging, even among their own colleagues in the Senate. Legislation that capped carbon emissions and set up a market for trading pollution credits failed during Obama's first administration. There's no possibility of even considering such legislation in the Republican-led House of Representatives.
"It is not going to be pretty. It is going to make making sausage look pretty," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Wednesday. She, along with Sen. Bernard Sanders, a Vermont independent, will unveil the legislation Thursday.
It's unlikely to draw Republican support, though Obama hinted Tuesday that Congress should consider the bipartisan work that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and then-Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, did on a previous climate bill.
A far more likely outcome: The president will have to make good on his pledge in Tuesday's speech to take action in the face of congressional inaction. He warned Congress that he'd act if it didn't.
"I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy," he said.
The most likely move will be in the Environmental Protection Agency, which is likely to use the Clean Air Act to establish tougher pollution rules for carbon emissions from older power plants. The administration already has drafted rules for new power plants.
"It's likely to be the biggest point of conflict – or at least one of the biggest points of conflict – in this term," said Michael Levi, the director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations, a research center. "Using existing authority to cut emissions from existing power plants is not an easy thing to do. It's certainly not an easy thing to do if you want to cut deeply."
The president took pains Tuesday night to reinforce the message he'd sent during his inaugural address: that climate change is real, and that the United States must respond regardless of the polarizing politics on the issue.
That was the same message from top U.S. climate scientists Wednesday, who warned a Senate panel led by Boxer that there will be growing consequences associated with climate change.
One of the scientists sounded a dire warning about the potential effects of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which environmental groups oppose because it would tap Canadian oil sands, which are higher in carbon emissions than other sources. Dozens of climate activists and celebrities were arrested Wednesday in front of the White House for a protest of the pipeline, which would run through the nation's belly down to Texas.
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The American Petroleum Institute released a poll Wednesday that found widespread public support for the pipeline.
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This is an excerpt from my new book, Organizational Psychology for Managers
Fans of James Bond movies might recall a scene that goes something like this:
We are looking at an unidentified room. Two people we've never seen before are standing in front of a desk. We might be able to see the back of the head of the man who sits behind that desk. A voice rings out:
"You have failed SPECTRE. Number 3, why did you not kill 007 as ordered?"
Number 3 stammers out some response and the voice turns its attention on the other person.
"Number 5, you have also failed SPECTRE…"
Eventually, Number 3 is told everything is forgiven and he can leave. Of course, this is SPECTRE. As soon as he walks out of the room he's dropped into a tank of piranhas, or the bottom of the elevator turns out to be a trap door and Number 3 learns that Maxwell Elevators really are good to the last drop, or he dies in some other Rube Goldbergesque manner.
SPECTRE, as all Bond fans know, is the villainous organization headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the evil genius who spends most of his time trying unsuccessfully to kill 007. Given his track record, as evil geniuses go, he frequently seems more like Wile E. Coyote.
Blofeld's problem, of course, is that every time one of his agents makes a mistake that agent dies. Those whom James Bond doesn't kill are terminated by Blofeld himself. This makes it extremely difficult to conduct any form of on-the-job learning. When every mistake is fatal, the lessons tend to come a little too late to do much good. As learning organizations go, SPECTRE has issues.
Although the consequences are generally not so flashy, businesses do face some similar problems. Granted, most business mistakes don't make for a good action movie, and dropping people in piranha tanks is generally frowned upon. However, there is still the very real problem of figuring out how to enable people to learn from their mistakes without those mistakes harming the business. James Bond, after all, at least gets a script.
Part of the challenge is that even when leaders are well-trained and highly skilled, there is a big difference between what one learns in most management training classes and the actual experience of leading a team, department, division, or company. That doesn't mean that the training is useless, but it does mean that the training needs to be appropriate.
In sports, for example, athletes drill constantly: they practice the fundamental skills of their sport until they can execute those skills without thought. Doing that, however, is not enough to make an athlete a successful competitor. Such training is necessary, but it's not sufficient.
As a soccer-playing friend once commented to me, there's a big difference between the drill and the game. The drill is controlled and predictable; the game is not. The game is confusing and chaotic, and in the moment of truth all those carefully drilled skills simply vanish away. The problem is that chaos is overwhelming: it takes getting used to in order to navigate it. The Japanese term, "randori," used to describe Judo competition, means "seizing chaos."
Athletes practice getting used to chaos by moving past drills and practicing in various free play scenarios: mock games, spring training, practice randori, etc. These experiences enable the athlete to experience the chaos in small doses and hence become increasingly comfortable with it. They learn which skills to execute when. The day of the actual tournament, they are ready. When they do make mistakes, they have something to fall back on to help them recover quickly, as opposed to something to fall into and get eaten.
Businesses are in a fundamentally similar position: while there are some obvious differences in the details between learning the skills of a sport and learning sales or management or computer programming, the fundamental process is the same. Since organizational performance is ongoing instead of being organized into discrete chunks such as tournaments, organizational learning needs to be ongoing as well. Optimally, organizational learning should also be an enjoyable experience, not just because that makes people happy but because people learn best when they are enjoying themselves. The methods and approaches to organizational learning should also serve to simplify other issues, such as orientation, accreditation, and organizational change. The lessons of sports and games will serve us well in understanding how to make organizational learning effective.
To begin with, though, we need to understand what learning is and how it works.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Distribution of Cullens in Scotland
To investigate this, I searched the 1841 and 1881 Scotland censuses trying to identify established Cullen families. I defined these as households where the male head of the family was born in the same county and parish where he resided at the time of the census. I chose the 1881 census because the Great Britain Family Names website provides a map of the surname for that year, click here
Here are some of my findings:
--because the industrial revolution was strong in Scotland, many people had moved away from their birthplaces even in 1841
--In 1841 there were only a few Irish-origin Cullen families, mainly in the Glasgow area, but by 1881 the number of Irish-background Cullens in Scotland was roughly equal to the number of Scottish-background Cullens
--There is only one name occurring in any quantity that is similar to Cullen and which could possibly be confused with Cullen--Collin and Collins. All other variants and spellings (Collen, Cullin, Cullins, McCullen, Collinge, Cullane and many others) were very rare in Scotland in 1881.
--there are only 3 general areas where I found long established Cullen families:
1. The first area is up the Clyde valley from Glasgow (Lanarkshire). By far the largest number was in the area called the Monklands, including the towns of Airdrie and Coatbridge. Although this area was industrialized, Cullens had a variety of occupations including farming, many trades, merchanting, indicating a long presence.
There also were a small number of farming Cullen families in south Lanarkshire, near the towns of Carstairs and Carluke
Glasgow itself had several established Cullen families, although not as many established families as the Monklands.
2. The second area has just a few Cullen families. This is Aberdeenshire in the northeast. There were a couple Cullen farmers in Strathdon which is is in the highlands west of Aberdeen, and also in Keig about halfway to Strathdon. Then there were 5 Cullen families living in the Buchan region a few miles inland from Peterhead, in the towns/parishes of Longside, New Deer, Old Deer.
3. In 1841 there were a very few established Cullen families in the Central Belt in what was then called Stirlingshire and Perthshire, roughly around Falkirk and Sterling (specifically Falkirk, Deanston, Drip Moss and Doune). By 1881 the native Cullen presence was much reduced and less connected to the land.
That's it! In 1881 in all of Scotland I could only identify 75ish families where the Cullen male head of household was still living in the same civil parish where he was born. For comparison, there were 79 heads of household (male and female) named Cullen who were born in Ireland.
Of course there were many more Scottish origin Cullen families in addition to these 75. You can tell by their birthplace that they were born in Scotland, and they often had Scottish given names (Alexander, Adam, Archibald Gavin etc.) But they were not living in their home parish.
Maybe I have omitted some important families? Please reply with any additions or corrections.
Here's a summary of the 75 families in 1881 and their location:
Aberdeenshire (7)--5 in Buchan (Longside, New Deer, Old Deer), 2 in Strathdon
Dumbartonshire (2)--from Cardross--one physician, one farmer
Lanarkshire (53)--Monklands--Coatbridge and Airdrie(20+), Glasgow(16+), Bothwell(4+), Motherwell(Dalziel) 5+, Carluke (4), Carstairs(2), and possibly some long-term families from Hamilton, Partick, Rutherglen and Stonehouse
Perthshire (3)--Dunblaine, Kilmadock, Kincardine--1 farmer, 1 grocer, 1 laborer
Renfrewshire (4)--Greenock West, Paisley(2), Pollockshows: all tradesmen
Stirlingshire (4)--Labert, Bannockburn(2), Falkirk: 3 laborers or servants, 1 tradesman
18 comments:
After reading this post, I was interested in investigating the Cullen distribution in the US. Using trajectory.com, I found that most of the American Cullens are in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York...strange (almost random?) distribution. Here's what I found:
- July 02, 2008
- Bernie said...
Thanks for the hint about trajectory,com I didn't know about that site and it looks very useful.
About the "random" distribution of Cullens--most Cullens probably came to this country before 1900 so they've had a lot of time to spread out. Many of the Irish immigrants came to cities and so weren't tied to the land as more rural surnames might be.
Still your results were interesting. Here's a couple obervations:
--Cullen is used as a first name, especially in the south
--there were a couple famous Cullen people in Texas: Ezekiel Cullen and his grandson I believe, the oilman Hugh Roy Cullen. There are many streets and schools named after the two of them, especially in Houston, and I think the search is picking up many of these.
I just did a quick search in the 1930 census and heres what I found (only looked at these 5 states):
Cullen US total 12,127
What is your connection to the Cullen family Sandy? You can email me directly if you like.
- July 02, 2008
my name's cullen. i live in glasgow, shawlands to be exact. it seems the name is much more common in america than it is in scotland strangely.
- September 03, 2008
- Bernie said...
Hi Neil,
Just got a email saying you had posted...
Do you know if your Cullens were Scottish or English or Irish?
I think probably more than half of the Cullens in Scotland could trace their Cullen line back to Ireland.
- September 03, 2008
I am searching to see if my grandmother, Annie Cullen, formerly of Motherwell, Scotland, can be traced back to Irish roots.
She came to Canada around 1912(?), married a Robertson and had three children, Jack (John?), Bette and Margaret and lived in Toronto.
Annie came from a big family. Among them, I remember siblings William, Robert, Archibald, Gertrude, Cissie, Margaret and Jennifer.
I am sorry to know so little. The possibility of an Irish connection has implications for me in that I might be eligible to immigrate or at least work in Ireland if I can prove a direct ancestor. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
- August 28, 2010
- Bernie said...
Hello limcintyre,
From what you write I would guess that Annie Cullen had long-term roots in Scotland. She was from Motherwell, which is one of the places I list with established Scottish Cullen families in the 1881 census. Archibald certainly sounds like a Scottish name to me. Do you know the religious affiliation of this family? In Ireland, Protestant Cullens were quite uncommon, and I would expect emigrants from Ireland to Scotland would not change their affiliation quickly.
It's certainly possible that Annie had an Irish father and a Scottish mother or vice versa. You should be able to find this family in the 1901 census, which is available online for a fee at ancestry.com and probably other places.
Do you know how old Annie was in 1912? Do you know where she was born?
- August 28, 2010
Hi Bernie,
So good of you to respond. I have just plugged mother for details (I was wrong about 1912).
Annie was born Mar.15, 1890 (possibly in Motherwell) and died Aug.4, 1978. Her father, we believe, was Archibald Cullen.
I think Annie told me was 12 yrs. old when she came to Canada (1902, it seems). She then married Anthony Latimer Robertson (born Jan. 14, 1889, died Sept.27, 1954), possibly in Halifax, Canada.
Not church-goers, my family, but not Catholic... United Church? I take your point that they were likely Scottish in origin, then, as Catholicism tends to stick.
That's all I've got back from family so far. Anything more you might offer is doubly appreciated. I will do some more searching this evening.
All the best,
SAM (Steve Anthony McIntyre)
- August 28, 2010
- mags said...
Archibald cullen was the son of daniel cullen he was born carshoogle dalziel they then lived in craignook, which is near motherwell.
regards margaret I am decended from them as well.
- April 02, 2014
- James Cullen said...
If anyone is still monitoring this thread...my dad James Kelso Cullen was born in Renton, Scotland in 1923 (?). His mother was Margaret and his father was Martin Newberry Cullen...He was a steamship engineer and moved his family to Brooklyn, NY and then to New Jersey. I am visiting Scotland this week and curious to learn more about my family's history. Any info would be most appreciated. Much thanks, James Cullen email@example.com
- May 12, 2014
- Bernie Cullen said...
Hi James, unfortunately I don't know much about Cullens in Scotland but if you find anything out please let us know, we can post some of your discoveries here if you want. Have you seen this query page: http://members.bex.net/jtcullen515/PostScot.htm
Have a great visit, and if you would consider doing a DNA test for genealogy please let me know, it sounds like your Cullens may have been Scottish originally (instead of 19th century immigrants from Ireland).
And Mags please send me an email if you like, and if in the future people would like to contact you, I will pass their information on to you.
- May 13, 2014
We have family history back to before 1000AD and our family, Cullings, is a derivative of the Cullens of Dunblane, Scotland and earlier, Ireland. There is an old family bible with several children from one family in the 1700's who all had different last names, all derivatives of and also including Cullen from Cullin to Culling, to Cullings. Makes tracking all that much harder.
- December 19, 2014
- Bernie Cullen said...
Hello everybody,
This blog is still active and if anyone has stories or questions to share please post them and/or contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com If there are any Cullen men reading this, I strongly suggest that you take a Y-DNA marker test as a first step--you can order a 12 marker test for $40 approximately which is a good start.
Steve Cullen, please send me an email if you like. And Steve McIntyre, I heard from Margaret a few days ago, she is also descended from Archibald Cullen of Motherwell, please contact me and I will put the two of you in touch.
I realize that many people don't want to create an account or post their email address here, so please contact me and I can keep your email address private and share it according to your wishes--Bernie
- March 17, 2015
I was interested to read that the Monklands held a great concentration of Cullen families. Does anyone know of the Cullen who owned a tailor's business? He lived in the Coatdyke area and was wealthy enough to have his own horse and trap. The horse (I think its name was Dickie) was well known in the area and when it died, one of its hooves was (bizarrely) donated to a local museum.
- April 25, 2015
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Hello my name is Kris cullen of the Pennsylvania cullens my grandfathers name was Milton cullen (great name ain't it) my grandmother all ways told me if you meet cullens if thay are protestant you're likely related although thare are many cullens in the area i have never met any protestants it is rare in the states. Where did the name first appear?
- December 04, 2015
- Bernie Cullen said...
Hello Kris thank you for the note, I think your grandmother was on to something. In general, English and Scotch-Irish families came to America in the 1600s and 1700s, at first there were very few Cullens in America but they quickly had big families and settled the frontier. And these early families were almost all Protestant. So it might be true that any two Protestant Cullens in Pennsylvania or the surrounding areas have a good chance of being related. Lots of unrelated Irish Cullens came to America in the 1820-1920 period, these were almost all Catholic, and even though some of them had big families they haven't had as many generations in this country. There are several of these early American Cullen families in the DNA project and it would be very interesting for a male Cullen from your family to do a 12 marker test (or more markers) and see if you match anyone.
- April 06, 2016
- Bernie Cullen said...
And thanks also anonymous from the great story about the tailor's horse!
- April 06, 2016
- kohukiwi said...
Just found this site, my cullens are from glasgow, can take them back to peter cullen c1816 and wife jane hunter c1816. Their son robert bn 1857 my 2x gt grandfather. However, I can not find out anything about Peter and Jane, any help would be appreciated/
- May 23, 2016
Just trying to find any information on the Cullen's from Glasgow.
My great grandmother was Elizabeth Wylie Cullen and was born in 1893 to Robert Cullen and we believe Jane (jeanie) Woods. She passed early 1900's and my great grandmother moved to Canada and then the US. Any information would be helpful! We believe her siblings to be Robert, Caroline(a) and William.
Thank you.
- January 26, 2017


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The cells removed from the barrel
Note the hole for the missing pivot pin in the end of the middle blade:
The pivot plate is secured by lacquer on its threads; it proved to be something of a challenge to get it out. The denatured alcohol softened the lacquer, then a torch had to be used to heat the ring to get the lacquer to let go.
Once it is all apart the alcohol is used to clean off the old lacquer and lubricant:
The blade with the missing pivot pin, showing distortion. The blades are very soft, and respond well to gentle straightening with fingertips.
The cleaned parts; there are fifteen blades:
Measuring an existing pivot pin for duplication:
Cutting the replacement:
Measuring the major diameter of the replacement pin; the next step cuts a shoulder so the pin will fit the hole in the blade, leaving a tiny head to be peened over:
Cutting off the part:
The replacement pin and the blade that will receive it. Note the shoulder on the right end of the pin; that is the part that fits the hole, and will be peened over.
Checking the fit of the pin in the cam plate:
Preparing to peen the end of the pin; the ruler raises the other end of the blade so it is parallel with the anvil.
The replacement pin, riveted in place:
The pin, darkened with a touch of aluminum blackening solution so it will blend in:
Ready for reassembly. This is the part of repairing diaphragms that I detest. The first nine blades go in easy, the last six have to be slid under the growing stack. Everything wants to come apart at this stage; you can see some tools used to hold down the already installed blades. With most designs this step is done INSIDE the lens; the pivot plate does not come out, and the reassembly is done inside the lens barrel. That is really nasty, with hopeless access problems. This design, with both the pivot plate and the cam plate coming out of the lens, is actually quite easy.
The assembled diaphragm. Nothing is holding it together, and it has to be screwed into the back of the lens without allowing it to come apart.
The assembly held inside by two fingers, being screwed into the lens:
Seated into its channel in the barrel, mated to the aperture ring, and tested for its proper range of motion:
The pivot plate, lacquered in place once the adjustments are complete:
The repaired lens:
Makes you want to try it yourself, huh?
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Now THAT is beautiful work. Congratulations on your skill and more particularly...your incredible patience!
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Brilliant stuff!!! I have a medium format lens that I need to overhaul the diaphragm on it. Plus... I am thinking of making a new diaphragm for the 5" f2 that I just received. With a metal lathe and abit of Yankee ingenuity, most anything can be fix or made.
Well done!
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Thanks for the compliments. Barrel lenses like this are generally easy to work on; I've done identical repairs on old Zeiss Tessars. Note that while the original pins were brass, I chose aluminum. I could have made the replacement pin of either metal, but the aluminum is softer and responded better to the peening process. Wear is really not a factor in this instance.
On more complex lenses (such as that medium format lens Lynn has) getting to the diaphragm to fix it is commonly a significant problem. It all depends on the design of the lens, and some are beyond practical help.
Lynn, what kind of 5" f2 do you have? If you have one blade that can serve as a template, you can fabricate the other blades. Expect THAT to be a tedious process!
Thanks again to Les for posting my photos.
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Good job! I've had to fix quite a few irises. Not quite as fiddly as having to machine a new backside for a Copal 1 shutter, though. I'm glad you were able to save that lens. The Kodak Anastigmat is still a fine lens, in it's own right.
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Liverpool defender Jose Enrique believes manager Brendan Rodgers was wrong to question his performances in the media, but did concede it spurred him on.
Enrique, along with Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing, came in for criticism earlier in the season as the Reds slipped down the Premier League standings. The former Newcastle left-back admitted to being angered by Rodgers' words, insisting he did not express his concerns in "the right way".
"When the manager said what he did, of course I was angry. It had never happened to me before and it was not good that he said his comments in the press," he told the Sunday Mirror.
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If you read my other post you know my 7 month old only had one testicle and was getting neutered soo. He has his surgery today and his other testicle was in his abdomen (sp). and he was doing fine, i can pick him up tomoroow after 10. YAY bad news $277.00 eeeckkkkk
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Just imagine the price was $200.00 higher, get mad about that, then look at your real bill and fell releived...
That's exactly what I did with Levi's surgery. I told myself on the drive to pick him up "It's gonna be $700" that's what I prepared for. Got there, and it was $518. I was so relieved.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, meet somewhere in the middle.
Ok, just went and picked Ace up and he looks butchered. I took some pics and will post them later, I want to see what everyone else thinks about it. I'm probably just being a paranoid and overly protected mother, but hey who isnt right?? And about the price thing, vets are so unpredictable with prices, which I can see why they are. so I always add 100 or so to thier estimated price, just so it's not a total shock to me. quoted me at $277, actually was $307, not to big of a difference.
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Arsene Wenger and his team had come under intense scrutiny following their ignominious Capital One defeat at Bradford last week, but they re-discovered some of their free-flowing spirit in a morale-boosting performance.
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Walcott played through the middle and was rewarded for an enterprising display with a goal, although that was overshadowed by a sublime hat-trick from the peerless Cazorla.
Walcott said: "We don't really take notice of the outside. We're a big family and we know our quality and that we're good enough.
"I enjoyed playing up front and the boss gave me that opportunity. I thought I did very well and the players around me always make my job easier."
As to his protracted contract talks, Walcott added: "Talks are ongoing and it's going to be a slow process. It's taking a long time but hopefully something will happen soon."
Wilshere is especially eager to hasten the process, and joked: "I've been working all year on him.
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