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from the so-you-get-GTA42-instead,-jerks deptI'll admit that video game producer Electronic Arts confuses me quite often. Any company their size is going to suffer from some internal conflicting opinions, but as an organization EA sometimes comes off as suffering from multiple personality disorder. One personality says that sales pricing on games is horrific, while the other embraces free games. They've shown that they can use trademark law well, but then manage to swallow a crazy pill when it comes to recognizing how an endless stream of sequels hurts their business. That last link is from 2007, when the boss of EA at the time admitted that pumping out sequels instead of original titles was having a negative effect on the bottom line. It seems that in five short years, the new brass at EA forgot that admission.
Speaking with Games Industry, current President of EA's labels, Frank Gibeau, discusses the chaos of the marketplace and the golden era of gaming he believes is going to come out of it. I'll admit, there's some very encouraging stuff in the piece, between once again acknowledging the emerging success of new business models, free to play games, and the power of the internet to massively expand the marketplace for gaming as a whole. That's all good thinking. But then we get to where he discusses EA's intellectual property strategy.
"The time to launch an IP is at the front-end of the hardware cycle, and if you look historically the majority of new IPS are introduced within the first 24 months of each cycle of hardware platforms," Gibeau says. "Right now, we're working on 3 to 5 new IPs for the next gen, and in this cycle we've been directing our innovation into existing franchises.In case you don't want to parse through the exec speak, let me break this down for you. EA is actively working on new, original franchises, but they won't release them until the next generation of consoles comes out. This is under the notion that new franchises released in the middle or late stages of a console's life are doomed to failure or mediocrity. There are examples of why that outlook shouldn't be taken as gospel: Pokemon (released 7 years into the original Game Boy's life), Grand Theft Auto (released roughly 4 years into the original Playstation's life cycle), Gran Turismo (released roughly 3 years into the original Plastation's life cycle), or Guitar Hero (released roughly 5 years into the PS2's life cycle). All of those titles, by the way, are among the best selling franchises of all time. The point is that if you match the desire for new titles that Gibeau acknowledges with great game franchises, you build huge sales.
"As much as there's a desire for new IP, the market doesn't reward new IP this late in the cycle; they end up doing okay, but not really breaking through."
But even if Gibeau's supposition was true, there is a problem: the console life cycle this go around is longer than previous generations. While rumors about the next generation of gaming consoles surfaced way back in 2010, everyone's best guess for the soonest release is sometime in 2013 (and by "sometime", they mean Christmas at best). The XBOX 360 and PS3 came out in 2005 and 2006 respectively, which puts us somewhere in the neighborhood of a seven or eight year gap between console releases, depending on who gets to market first. Wii consoles are in roughly the same boat.
For the sake of comparison, here are some other timelines for console generations:
- Console generartion jump between the NES to Sega Genesis: 4 years
- Console generation jump between the Genesis/SNES to Playstation/N64: 5 years
- Console generation jump between the Playstation to PS2/Xbox: 5 years
- Console generation jump between the PS2/XBOX to PS3/XBox 360: 4 years for Xbox, 5 years for Playstation
The point is that the strategy is going to have to change with what is looking like something between 1.5 and 2 times the life cycle of the console. Customers simply aren't going to buy sequels for longer periods of time and if EA doesn't want to fill their need for new titles, someone else will. And, despite his earlier words, even Gibeau hints that he recognizes this.
"This is the longest cycle that any of us have ever seen, and we're at the point where a little bit of fatigue has set in, and people are wondering what they can possibly do next. I've seen the machines that we're building games for, and they're spectacular."But then he goes right back to discussing how balls-droppingly great the next generation of hardware is going to be and how that's where they'll focus.
"Gen 4 hardware is a huge opportunity, and it's going to lead to a huge growth spurt for the industry."Once again, it seems like they have multiple personality disorder. In the meantime, perhaps actually developing new material for the consoles your fans will have to deal with for the next couple of years yet might do wonders to turn around that sliding stock price.
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The plot resolving around "the fox lady" ? Wtf ? Have you seen the 12 episode before ?
Bakemonogatari is about Araragi and the poeple he meets and how he helps them. For each of these people you have a story. That's all.
You can say that you don't like it but don't say thing which are not true.
And Araragi a loser ? He saves everyone, he's kind and you're saying that he's a loser ?
Anyway, it'soff topic so I think we should go back to MedakaBox
Ah ah ah, I got a bad rep because I said that's off topic looooooool. Some people are really stupid
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Good sales for Vol 7.
*9, *,*85,200 *,*85,200 Beelzebub vol.8
10, *,*82,789 *,*82,789 Medaka Box vol.7
dtshyk the news reporter on MAL posted this after someone said they preferred the start of MB, lol.
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vol.01 15,421 *49,965 *61,178 *78,715 *98,639
vol.02 54,194 *82,141
vol.03 72,101 *96,725 106,938 112,704
vol.04 63,570 105,855 117,238
vol.05 59,279 101,697
vol.06 65,220 107,095 126,545
vol.07 82,789
Will be interesting to see if it still has that arounnd 40k second week kick that vols 4-6 had. If second week is 25k than it's still doing the same as vols 4-6 really, just more frontloaded. If it's 40k than popularity has gone up for sure..
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Medaka was is the top ten again this week. It's been going pretty well ever since the Zen x Shiranui confession. I guess people were looking forward to the StuCo battle.
On another note, I've been highly impressed with enigma. I thought the series was interesting and unique when it first came out and it's nice to see it doing so well. It's been ranked for 3 weeks now, once with colors and twice in the top 5. Nice to see that all WSJ readers aren't mindless drones. :P
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Ranked #6 this issue and getting extra pages next issue.
2nd week for vol 7
20, *31,814 *,117,014 Beelzebub vol.8
21, *30,562 *,113,351 Medaka Box vol.7
Not really far off Beelzebub which has been pushed massively by Jump and has received an anime so quickly.. the anime should make this gap much larger though..
Last 3 issues it has ranked 6th, 7th and 5th...
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Martin Scorsese; John Logan; Michael Mann; Leonardo DiCaprio; Cate Blanchett; Kate Beckinsale; John C Reilly; Alec Baldwin; Alan Alda; Ian Holm; Danny Huston; Gwen Stefani; Jude Law; Adam Scott; Matt Ross; Kelli Garner; Frances Conroy; Brent Spiner; Stanley DeSantis; Edward Herrmann; Willem Dafoe; Robert Richardson; Thelma Schoonmaker; Howard Shore; Robert Legato; Dante Ferretti; Sandy Powell; Morag Ross; Kathryn Blondell; Forward Pass Productions.; Appian Way (Firm); IMF Productions (Firm); Initial Entertainment Group.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Miramax Films.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
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|Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2004.
|Director of photography, Robert Richardson ; edited by Thelma Schoonmaker ; music by Howard Shore ; production designed by Dante Ferretti.
|Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Matt Ross, Kelli Garner, Frances Conroy, Brent Spiner, Stanley DeSantis, Edward Herrmann.
|Winner, 2005 Academy Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett); Best Achievement in Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker); Best Achievement in Cinematography (Robert Richardson); Best Achievement in Art Direction (Dante Ferretti (art director), Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decorator)); Best Achievement in Costume Design (Sandy Powell).
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|MPAA rating: Rated PG-13; for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence; Canadian rating: PG.
|1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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|Disc 1 Young Howard --
"Welcome to Hollywood," 'Hell's Angels' Year one --
'Hell's Angels' Year two --
'Hell's Angels' Year three --
"Howard Hughes' $4 million epic" --
"Follow-through is everything in golf, just like life" --
TWA "Tiger by the tail" --
"I'm sure you know Errol" --
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Around the world in four days --
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MPAA outlaws mammaries --
Selling the Hercules --
"There's too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes" --
Constellation --
"We're too alike, you and I" --
Faith Domergue --
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Ava Gardner --
"Show me all the blueprints, show me all the blueprints" --
XF-11, inaugural flight and crash --
Flowers from Juan Trippe --
Government investigation --
Germ-free zone --
Brewster Senate hearings --
Flying boat --
"The way of the future, the way of the future" --
End credits (170 min.) --
Feature commentary by director Martin Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and producer Michael Mann [optional audio feature].
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|Aviator (Motion picture : 2004)
|Miramax Films ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; written by John Logan ; a Forward Pass/Appian Way/IMF production ; produced by Michael Mann [and others] ; a Martin Scorsese picture ; in association with Initial Entertainment Group ; a Warner Bros. Pictures and Miramax Films presentation.
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he never left, the victim of compulsions that drove him to greatness, while containing the seeds of his undoing.
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This doesn't take into account the fact that the Cubs won though the Giants loss is reflected. Currently the Rockies are up on the Mets 8-3 in the 7th inning with the bases loaded. Not good. Atlanta and Florida have an NL East rivalry showdown series going so that will be convenient watching them beat each other up as long as the Cubs continue to win. Four teams to catch. We're in this position due to inconsistency throughout the year along with a number of other reasons. It is what it is. September is the season for W's and scoreboard watching. Let the season begin! Way to go today boys. Great game Wells and Marmol. And was it me, or did Lee and Ramirez actually look like they were having a good time? Love having Baker out there. Feel like when he plays we win. Same kind of feeling I get when Wells pitches. Also enjoyed the late Fuld for Soriano defensive replacement. This is all part of what I mentioned earlier today regarding what the Cubs need to do in my opinion to claim the wild card…a position that has repeatedly resulted in teams making appearances in, and at times even winning, the World Series.


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"It is unlikely that the Federal Reserve can push real growth rates materially higher than they otherwise would be, on a sustained basis," he told a meeting of the Maryland Bankers Association.
"I see an increased risk, given the course the committee has set, that inflation pressures emerge and are not thwarted in a timely way."
Lacker's comments come just a day after the release of minutes from the Fed's December meeting caught investors by surprise because of widening concern about the potential negative side effects of unconventional monetary policy.
The report showed several members of the Federal Open Market Committee foresaw a chance that asset purchases would need to be slowed or halted altogether before the end of 2013.
That appeared to conflict with hints that the open-ended program might remain in place even if output growth picks up steam in coming years. But it was certainly in line with Lacker's message.
"I intend to remain alert for signs that our monetary policy needs adjustment," said Lacker.
U.S. employment data on Friday showed the economy added 155,000 jobs last month, in line with forecasts but still too modest to bring down the jobless rate, which stands at 7.8 percent.
The Fed said in December it would keep interest rates near zero until unemployment gets down to 6.5 percent, as long as inflation projections remain shy of 2.5 percent. The central bank's official inflation target, adopted last year, is 2 percent. (Reporting By Pedro da Costa; Editing by Neil Stempleman)


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The Pentagon said on Friday it has finalized a contract worth $4 billion with Lockheed Martin Corp to supply equipment for a missile defense system to the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
The deal involves Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system that is designed to intercept ballistic missiles in midair.
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The contract reflects growing confidence and demand for the missile defense system, said Riki Ellison, founder of the non-profit Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.
The deal, which has been in negotiation for several years, will combine orders for the United States and UAE, generating savings for the United States of about 10 percent, said Mat Joyce, Lockheed program manager for THAAD.
The United States is in talks with Qatar on a similar sale.
Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea have also expressed interest, Joyce said.
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text: For troops, both deploying and returning, the greatest gift of all wasn't wrapped and tied with a bow under the Christmas tree in 2008. The greatest gift of all was presented in a celebratory steak feed, sponsored by the All American Beef Battalion (AABB). The AABB was the vision of Vietnam veteran and cattle rancher, Bill Broadie, in his mission to send steak suppers for the troops overseas. With a passion for the Service and for the cattle industry, Broadie soon realized he could combine his two loves into a plan of action to make a huge impact in the world. Since the its inception in August of 2007, the AABB has worked hard in their mission to support the troops and promote the beef industry, hosting several steak feeds across the country with more planned in the future. For the group of veterans and cattlemen of the All-American Beef Battalion, hosting a steak feed to honor the troops was a way to show their gratitude for the troops' service overseas. Looking back on 2008, the AABB kept busy giving steak feeds to honor the troops that have fought the global war on terror. The AABB is non-profit organization that works to raise money to host steak feeds for the troops while promoting American beef. The first honorary Steaks For Troops event held by AABB was for the 731st Transportation Company on April 26, 2008 in Olathe, Kans. In that first steak feed, 220 ribeyes were served to over 200 guests. Since that first event, donations have poured in from supporters wanting the steak feeds to continue. In May, AABB hosted another event in Montana. From July to October, the pace intensified, and AABB hosted four more events for troops. Another four were held in December, keeping the AABB committee busy during the holiday season. The Dec. 13th steak feed in Copperas Cove, Tex. was extra special as Veteran Bud 'Doc' Willis was introduced to the troops for his combat service in 1969 in the First Calvary Division. Willis came home from the war with multiple wounds, and this old warrior was strongly applauded by the soldiers at the steak feed. Without a doubt, troops, young and old, deserve the recognition for their years of service to protect our nation's freedom. 2009 will bring another year of giving the generous gift of steak feeds to the troops. The first were scheduled for Jan. 11 and 17, 2009, both in Hutchinson, Kans. Another will be held on Feb. 28 in Denver, Col. The individuals that tirelessly work with the AABB to give appreciation to the troops are in agreement that serving a meal of American beef is the truly best way to celebrate their gift of service. The All American Beef Battalion is a group of individuals within the United States beef cattle industry dedicated to support the troops fighting the global war on terror. They work to organize and sponsor steak feeds, entertainment, and programs with Service Members and their families.


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Private equity saves SeeSaw
Michael Jackson put in charge. Woooo.
The upending of SeeSaw has been cancelled. Owner Arqiva today announced it had flogged off 75 per cent of the online video-on-demand service.
Arqiva will retain 25 per cent of the company, the rest going to a group of venture capitalists, private equity punters and merchant bankers.
SeeSaw will be overseen by Michael Jackson, not the late popular musician, not the gruff-voiced military commander, nor even the real ale champion, but the former head of BBC Two and of Channel 4. Jackson joins SeeSaw as company Chairman.
SeeSaw launched in February 2010, formed after Arqiva, the company that maintains the UK's terrestrial broadcasting infrastructre, acquired the technical assets of 'Project Kangaroo' the previous year.
Kangaroo was a joint BBC, ITV and C4 endeavour to create a standard catch-up TV platform, but was killed by the competition watchdog. While Arqiva was using Kangaroo tech top build SeeSaw, the broadcasters created 'Project Canvas', later renamed YouView, to create a standard catch-up TV platform.
Arqiva also joined YouView. Come January 2011, it was seeking a buyer for SeeSaw. A credible offer failed to materialise, and Arqiva announced SeeSaw's closure in May.
The service was to have shut at the end of June, but has tenaciously hung on. Just as well, as with a new owner comes a new lease of life. Maybe. In all their words of praise for SeeSaw's technology, none of its new owners said how they plan to grow its customer base and content portfolio. ®
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text: A couple of questions. 1. Is it possible to use the HD in the nodes on the cluster as one HD(kind of like an extended RAID array)? 2. Does anybody know of a program that will calculate pi, one digit at a time, infinitely that will run in parallel? 3. What is the difference between Mosix(www.mosix.org) and openMosix(www.openmosix.org)? I'm in the process of reading "Engineering a Beowulf Style Computer Cluster" by Robert Brown. I like it a lot and it contains lots of information. Thanks Mr. Brown! ;-) -- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. --Stephen Hawking Jake Thebault-Spieker


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I recently attended the SCGS Jamboree and had a blast. One of the highlights was the blogger summit where I got to meet a bunch of great bloggers. I had met none of them in person before but I had read and enjoyed all their blogs. The summit made me nostalgic for my own blog and got me thinking I might see if I could revive it.
So why did I stop? One was technical. Some kind of confusion about my account and identity that I just got tired of trying to figure out. I'm still not sure it's cleared up but I seem to be able to post this. Another reason was that I got busy. One of the motives for this blog's existence was to give me an outlet for my genealogy addiction. Some time before my last post on this blog, I found another way to channel my obsession. No predictions on how I'll deal with this in the future, but I'm here for now.
Back at the SCGS conference, I had a brief encounter that made me smile. While waiting for the start of the blogger summit, I went over to Randy Seaver's wife (easily identified in her "Geneaholic's Widow" T-shirt) to introduce myself and make small-talk. Randy is, of course, the geneaholic behind Genea-Musings and he was one of the panelists we were there to hear. Linda and I chatted a bit about our families and then she asked me, "So how do you know Randy?" Made me think she might not fully appreciate the impact of blogging and why all those people were in the room.
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I am so glad you are back. I enjoyed (will enjoy?) your blog.
- July 07, 2008
Hi Sharon, I wish we had met at the Bloggers' Summit. . . sounds like we have a sub-group (sub-culture??) of gen-bloggers within SCGS. Keep blogging!
- July 09, 2008
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April 24, 2008
Courtesy Wheaton Sports Information
NORTON, Mass. - The Wheaton College baseball team is one win away from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament championship round, as the second-seeded Lyons scored Thursday's final 12 runs en route to a 13-2 second-round triumph over third seed MIT in the double-elimination tourney at Sidell Stadium.
Wheaton, which is ranked 12th nationally by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), advances to Saturday's semifinal round to face the winner of a game between MIT and sixth-seeded Clark University at host Babson College at 4:00 p.m. With today's victory, the Lyons won their fifth straight to improve to 29-7. The Engineers, now 16-14, play Clark in Saturday's first elimination game at 9:30 a.m.
After falling behind by a 2-1 score in the top of the third, the Wheaton bats came alive in the home half, collecting five runs on the strength of a pair of two-RBI singles from juniors Robert Foote and Nick Pecora. The Lyons added a run in the fourth to balloon their lead to 7-2 before tacking on three-run frames in the sixth and eighth.
Wheaton's offense exploded for 16 hits after yesterday's 22-hit onslaught against WPI. Junior righthander Adam Gingras improved to 6-0 on the hill after scattering six hits over eight innings with six strikeouts and one walk. Freshman southpaw Chad Kasik fired a scoreless ninth while fanning a pair of MIT batters.
Junior Chris D'Annunzio was saddled with the loss, surrendering six earned runs on three hits with one strikeout and three walks in 2.1 innings for the Engineers.
The hosts picked up the game's first run with a two-out rally in the opening frame, as senior Scott Guillerault drew a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on freshman Sean Munley's flair to center.
MIT strung together four hits and plated two runs in the third, as senior Kevin Wheeler and freshman Brian Doyle poked run-scoring singles.
The Lyons only needed three hits to conjure up five runs in the bottom of the third, as a walk, single and hit batter jammed the bags with one out. Munley brought home a run with a walk, Foote's single up the middle scored two more, and Pecora's shot to center two batters later made it 6-2. Gingras settled in from there, going 1-2-3 in the fourth and limiting the visitors to one hit over his final five innings. Gingras retired 15 of 18 batters from the third through eighth frames.
Eight of Wheaton's nine starters recorded at least one hit, with Guillerault leading the charge at a 2-for-3 clip with three RBI, a trio of runs, a double, a walk and a hit by pitch. Foote, Pecora and sophomore Jeff Lieneck each smacked two hits and drove in two runs, Munley plated two runs, senior Ken Depasse went 2-for-3 with two runs, and sophomore Paul Malaguti scored twice. Lieneck notched a pair of doubles, and Pecora had a triple.
Wheeler finished 2-for-3 with the RBI and a walk for MIT, while junior Thomas Phillips was 2-for-4. The Engineers spread out four relievers over the final 5.2 innings.


text: Sir, I am new in using Beowulf machine. Actually, I am studying to make a parallel program in Beowulf cluster machine.But, I want to know hardware configuration and software of the machine(I mean the harware configuration and software of the machine that I am using). What command must I type when I use the machine ? I want to know configuration of the processors, RAM, its Bus etc.Whereas for software,I want to know about description of its parallel libraries, software and programming language.Please help me... Thank's a lot for your kind. Best regards susila Mathematics student in Malaysia ===== SAMPAI JUMPA LAGI __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/


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Sclerotherapy is one of the leading treatments for the removal of spider veins, reticular veins, and small varicose veins because it is minimally invasive, safe, and relatively pain-free.
Doctors administer sclerotherapy by injecting a sclerant (a chemical which irritates the vein wall) into your vein causing it to close and eventually be reabsorbed into the body. Your body naturally reroutes blood flow to the surrounding healthy veins.
How is sclerotherapy performed?
Sclerotherapy is a simple procedure which can be done in your doctor's office without anesthesia. It can take as little as 15 minutes, or up to one hour depending on how many veins are being treated in a session. During sclerotherapy treatment:
- Your doctor will sterilize the injection site with alcohol before starting the procedure.
- While you lie comfortably on your back with your legs slightly elevated, your doctor will inject the chemical directly into your vein using a small needle.
- These chemicals will close the vein by irritating the cell lining and causing inflammation and scarring of the vein wall.
If several veins are to be treated, larger veins are injected before smaller veins, from the thigh to the calves and ankles. Veins that are most uncomfortable to you are generally injected first before veins which are not painful or uncomfortable. During the injection, you may feel minor pain or burning. Tell your doctor if the sensation feels acute or unbearable. Although it is rare, acute burning may mean the sclera solution has leaked from the vein into the surrounding tissue.
What to expect after treatment
Your veins may look swollen or red after injection, which indicates that the sclerant solution is working. Your doctor will press down on the injection sites and apply gauze or other compression wrappings. After the procedure is complete, you will be expected to wear compression garments or stockings to help collapse the treated veins and help you heal.
Compression helps prevent blood from being trapped in the problem vein, and keeps the vein walls intact so that scarring can take place. You can expect to wear compression garments for about a week after treatment. Some doctors recommend wearing compression garments for up to 3 weeks for best results.
Walking and mild exercise are often recommended to keep your blood circulating after treatment. You can generally expect to return to work and normal activity the same day as the procedure. Expect a follow-up visit with your doctor 1-2 weeks following the procedure.
Sclerotherapy results
It may take several sclerotherapy sessions to make problem veins disappear completely. If several sessions are indicated, your veins are given a minimum of 3-4 weeks to completely heal before another sclerotherapy session.
Although treated veins fade permanently after sclerotherapy treatment, many patients will continue to develop vein problems, and new varicose veins and spider veins may develop which require additional treatment.
Sclerotherapy side effects
You can expect that bruising (ecchymosis) and redness at the injection site. This is the normal result of the sclerant irritating the vein walls. Bruising should fade within 2-3 weeks of treatment.
You may also develop small sores on the skin or darker coloring around the injection site. Good skin care and wearing compression garments should resolve these issues quickly in most patients.
Up to 20% of patients undergoing sclerotherapy experience blood being trapped in the treated vein. Remaining blood will turn brownish and should be absorbed into the body with time, sometimes over the course of several years. Your doctor can manually remove trapped blood with a needle if it's a significant problem.
Matting, which are fine, red colored blood vessels, may appear near the injection site. Hormone therapy and obesity make a person more prone to matting, which usually fades within a year.
Less commonly, some people experience serious side effects such as severe inflammation, blood clots, air bubbles, or an allergic reaction to the injected sclerant chemical. Although these reactions are rare, contact your doctor immediately if you experience difficulty breathing, dizziness, or chest pain.
How your doctor determines if you need sclerotherapy
Many patients are bothered by the look of three types of enlarged vein: varicose veins, reticular veins, and spider veins. Sclerotherapy remains one of the most successful and oft chosen treatment for small to medium varicose veins and spider veins.
To determine if sclerotherapy is right for you, your doctor will first take a complete medical history, making special note of venous injury, clotting issues or previous venous disease.
After examining your legs in a standing position, your doctor will identify visible varicose veins, reticular veins, or spider veins. Your doctor will also note changes in color or skin texture which are associated with vein disease and/or blood clots. After a thorough examination, your doctor can determine whether sclerotherapy is right for you.
When should sclerotherapy be avoided?
If you are pregnant, over 75 years old or extremely sedentary, sclerotherapy is not for you. Sclerotherapy is also contraindicated if:
- Your venous circulation is compromised, such as in the case of peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
- You have clotting problems or are at risk for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or superficial vein thrombosis
- You have recently experienced vein infection (such as acute phlebitis), or have a fever or acute illness
Sclerotherapy is only performed on small to medium sized veins, and not on veins connected to major veins, or veins in which reflux is likely to occur.
Doctors often recommend that their patients stop taking anti-inflammatory drugs (i.e. aspirin or Motrin) one week before treatment. Doctors often wait until patients are off blood thinning medications (anti-coagulants such as warfarin) before performing sclerotherapy. Talk to your doctor about any drugs you are taking prior to treatment.
What is foam sclerotherapy?
Foam sclerotherapy is a type of sclerotherapy which uses a foaming agent mixed with the sclerant. Foam moves the blood out of the vein to allow better contact between the sclerant and the vein wall. Ultrasound is often used to guide the injection of foam during foam sclerotherapy. Foam sclerotherapy is particularly effective for treating larger and deeper veins compared to traditional sclerotherapy.
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This Youtube video is titled "Kendrick Perkins YOLO follow through," and I honestly can't think of a better description. Perk doesn't take a lot of jumpers (he made two in last night's win over San Antonio, fulfilling Mayan prophecy), so when he found himself in space for his second, he wasn't about to discard fundamentals: Always hold your follow-through.
Oklahoma City has won 11 in a row, and 18 of 20 since beginning the season 2-2. Perkins has started every game for the NBA-best Thunder, but more importantly filled the good-natured lunatic role vacated by James Harden. I don't know that he's about to add the midrange J to his arsenal, but he's got it down to a science—nay, an artform.
The gif is pretty good too.


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Special Guest Performers Include Actor/Comedians
Nick Offerman and Patton Oswalt
Friday, March 9, 2012
LOS ANGELES, January 31, 2011 Late-night comedy superstar Conan O'Brien is joining forces with the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates for a special evening presented by J.P. Morgan that benefits the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates Play/Write program. Story Pirates and Friends, a star-studded version of the Pirates trademark show traditionally performed Saturdays in the Geffen Playhouse Kinross Annex, will feature family-friendly musical comedy sketches based on stories written by elementary school kids.
O'Brien, the Emmy Award winning comedian and current host of Conan on TBS, will headline this family event. Special guests include actor/comedians Nick Offerman (Sin City, The Men Who Stare at Goats), best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC's critically acclaimed Parks & Recreation, and Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Big Fan) who provided the voice of Remy, the rat, in Pixar's Oscar-winning Ratatouille. Story Pirates and Friends runs in the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse on Friday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. The evening will include a pre-show reception (complete with a kid-friendly dinner) at 5:00 p.m., and post-show take home desserts will cap the evening off.
While many children's theater troupes tell stories to kids, the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates believe that every child has a story to tell. The process begins by collecting stories from local kids and whether it's a world where cats can fly or a rock opera about fuzzy alien tickle monsters, the Pirates will turn any short story into a hilarious musical event! Described as "Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock, and pitched perfectly to grownups and kids alike, Story Pirates shows set sail with your whole family on board.
The Geffen Playhouse began its Story Pirates partnership in 2009 as a way to expand the resources of the theater's current in-school initiatives. Story Pirates, originally founded in New York in 2003, works to engage students in under-resourced public schools by showing them that their ideas, their words and their stories are important. As such, the cornerstone of the company is the in-school Play/Write Program, a series of creative writing and drama workshops that lead to a musical sketch comedy show acted by professional actors and comedians and comprised entirely of stories written by kids. As a partner of the Geffen Playhouse, Story Pirates recently opened a West Coast branch and now visits over 20 Title I Los Angeles public schools each year in addition to performing for the general public as part of the Geffen Playhouse's Saturday Scene program.
story pirates and friends
Presented by the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates
Featuring Conan O'Brien with Nick Offerman and Patton Oswalt
Friday, March 9, 2012
5:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Curtain
Ticket Info
Ticket prices range from $25 - $50. Contact the Geffen Playhouse box office in-person, via phone at 310-208 5454 or online at www.geffenplayhouse.org for updated pricing and seating availability.
Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90024
Box office: 310-208-5454
The Geffen Playhouse has been a hub of the Los Angeles theater scene since opening its doors in 1995. Noted for its intimacy and celebrated for its world-renowned mix of classic and contemporary plays, provocative new works and second productions, the Geffen Playhouse continues to present a body of work that has garnered national recognition. Named in honor of entertainment mogul and philanthropist David Geffen, who made the initial donation to the theater, the company was founded by Gilbert Cates, and is currently helmed by Artistic Director Randall Arney, Managing Director Ken Novice and Chairman of the Board Frank Mancuso. Proudly associated with UCLA, the Geffen Playhouse welcomes an audience of more than 130,000 each year, and maintains an extensive education and outreach program, designed to engage young people and the community at large in the arts. For more information, please visit geffenplayhouse.org.
The Geffen Playhouse's education and outreach programs seek to make the cultural resources of the theater available to all of Los Angeles diverse communities. The wide range of programs focuses on serving populations in need from ages 3 to 100 through programs such as Saturday Scene, School Tours, Student Matinees, Golden Ticket and the theater's award-winning CREATE program. For more information, please visit geffenplayhouse.org/education.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Kenya's Olympic silver medalist Priscah Jeptoo won the women's London Marathon title in an unofficial time of two hours 20 minutes 15 seconds on Sunday.
World champion Edna Kiplagat was runner up for the second successive year and Japan's Yukiko Akaba took third.
Jeptoo had been leading with Kiplagat at 30 km but began to increase her pace to leave her rival trailing and eventually won by over a minute.
Ethiopia's Olympic champion and pre-race favorite Tiki Gelana dropped off the pace after colliding with a wheelchair athlete at a drinks station at 15 km.
(Reporting by Alison Wildey, editing by Pritha Sarkar)


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Jolicloud Wants to be your Other Linux OS
Versatile Installer
Operating System choices for the Netbook market continue to grow, at least from the Linux perspective. Current alternatives include Ubuntu's Netbook Remix, Moblin, and now Jolicloud. Add to that mix Google's Chromium OS, and you have four very viable options to pick from. Each OS has its own set of distinctive features while providing the common applications we all need to get things done.
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With plenty of Netbook models and Christmas sales, it's a good bet that a lot of folks may soon have a new toy to play with. If you happen to get one of these with Windows installed and you'd like another option, you're in luck. Jolicloud works on a large number of Netbook models. There's a list of supported models on the Jolicloud website.
One of the biggest things that impressed us about Jolicloud is that it just works. We tested the latest Pre-Beta release on a Lenovo S10e, and everything worked including Bluetooth, wireless and video. It even gave us a useful mapping of the Windows key on the keyboard. Other little things like Adobe Flash work right out of the box so you won't have to go looking for plugins.
Jolicloud offers several options for installing the OS. If you happen to have a Netbook with Windows preinstalled, you might want to choose the Jolicloud Express installer. There's also an ISO file and Jolicloud USB Creator utility if you want to go the USB disk route. The USB utility is pretty handy for use with any "hybrid" ISO image (meaning it's bootable), and there's a version for Apple OS X, 32-bit Linux and Windows.
Installation from a USB disk is pretty painless. We were able to install over a previous distro (Moblin) in less than 20 minutes. The only hitch was taking the custom partition route to delete and overwrite the previous Linux partitions. You must select the EXT3 partition and assign the root directory as a mount point to install Jolicloud.
The Jolicloud folks have done the community a great favor when it comes to the Intel GMA 500 graphics driver. This chipset is used by a multitude of netbooks (such as the Asus EeePC 1101, Acer Aspire One 751, Dell Mini 10 and Mini 12) and to date has been a thorn in the side for many users wishing to try out distros like Moblin. You can read about the adventure on the Jolicloud developer blog.
In the Cloud
It's pretty obvious that Jolicloud has a strong tie to "the cloud" since it's a part of the name. Software updates and installation of additional applications all happen through the "My Jolicloud Dashboard." Jolicloud uses Mozilla Prism to make Web-based apps like Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs, and Zoho efficiently use the smaller Netbook screen. Installing one of these applications from the app directory creates a quick access button in the launcher menu.
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There's a version of Adobe AIR in the application directory that makes it possible to run any AIR-based application on your Jolicloud Netbook. This opens up a whole new category of applications including things like Klok, Ora Time and Expense or Tweetdeck. The AIR installer places a desktop configuration file in the Desktop folder along with icons in the Accessories folder. For online storage Jolicloud provides options like Box.net, Dropbox, Drop.io and more.
You'll see a notification icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen whenever system updates are available. You can choose to proceed with the install or ignore the message till later. The "My Jolicloud Dashboard" screen provides another way to update your system on demand. Clicking on the Updates tab of the Dashboard screen will show you if any updates are ready to be installed. You can also check out a list of transactions completed with the Jolicloud service using the History tab.
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Flash Wars: The Many Enemies and Obstacles of Flash [Part 2 of 3]While widely deployed as a web plugin and among the few web technologies that have become a household word, Adobe's Flash has more than a few substantial enemies that would like to see it replaced, cloned, or erased.
Additionally, Flash faces a number of significant obstacles that are its own fault. These also erode Adobe's position and have helped force its hand in opening the Flash specification. Here's a look at the external competitors of Flash, and how Flash has hurt its own chances to establish itself as a web platform in the future.
The Many Enemies of Flash
Microsoft now sees Flash as a competitor to Windows, as it performs the same cross platform, application deployment role Java attempted to deliver a decade ago. If critical web content is all done in Flash, there's increasingly less need to use Windows anymore, as most platforms can run at least some version of Flash. Microsoft is hoping to sideline Flash the same way it crippled Java on the desktop: by building its own proprietary version, Silverlight, and using its monopoly power to rapidly deploy it and simply choke off Adobe's air supply.
While Microsoft seemed rather invincible in the 90s as it more or less terminated Netscape, client side Java, OpenGL graphics, Office alternatives, and other competition, its more recent efforts to crush rivals haven't been as successful. Plans to destroy and replace iTunes and the iPod, Google in search or advertising, smartphones, and video game consoles have all been expensive campaigns that haven't resulted in monopoly expansion. That certainly makes the struggle between Silverlight and Flash more interesting and harder to call.
Sun may be an enemy of Microsoft, but that doesn't make it a friend of Flash. The company has watched Flash take over the role intended for client Java, and is now competing against Flash in rich Internet applications. Sun is fighting back with JavaFX, a new family of Java tools to push back into that market on both the desktop and in mobile devices.
The open source community has little love for Flash because it is a proprietary standard. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is pushing Gnash as a free alternative player to Adobe's Flash Player (FSF lists it third among its High Priority Free Software Projects), while OpenLaszlo competes against Flash development tools for creating rich Internet applications; it can produce either Java serverlets or binary Flash content that can be played back using the standard Flash Player. Other groups are working to extend SVG and other software in place of Flash entirely.
Apple added support for Flash 4 to QuickTime 5 in 2001, which enabled developers to use Flash for interactivity within QuickTime movies. However, Apple had trouble keeping its support for Flash up to date with the latest release from Macromedia. Additionally, while Flash releases for the Mac were delivered at the same time as Windows, the quality of Macromedia's Mac releases was always a bit behind and problematic.
With Flash 8, released in 2005 just before the Adobe purchase, Macromedia decided to only build support for Flash content playback on the Mac within the web plugin or in the standalone player, and delegate Flash playback from within a PDF to QuickTime. By that time, Apple had given up trying to keep pace with the latest version of Flash, so users trying to view Flash inside a PDF could only play Flash 5 content.
In 2006, Apple turned off Flash support in QuickTime 7.1.3 by default, explaining that "The version of Flash that ships in QuickTime is older than the version available from Adobe and used in Safari, therefore, while we still ship Flash with QuickTime, it is turned off by default." Since then, Apple has removed the option to even turn Flash support back on in QuickTime.
Apple's complete lack of interest in promoting Flash grew even more obvious in 2007 with the release of the iPhone, which not only shipped without Flash support in its web browser, but also introduced an alternative H.264 player for YouTube videos that worked around what has become the most valuable use of Flash on the web: serving as a player applet and container format for web videos.
Throughout 2007, Apple stripped nearly every vestige of Flash from its corporate site and other products, and began recommending that developers use open standards instead. As noted in Gone in a Flash: More on Apples iPhone Web Plans, last summer Apple published a document titled "Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone," which not only listed Flash as the single bullet point item under a listing of "unsupported technologies," but went on to explicitly encourage developers to "stick with standards," and use CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax instead.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place and Some Other Obstacle
While Adobe has continued Macromedia's marketing strategy of finding various new uses for Flash and advertising the wide penetration of the Flash Player runtime, it is now up against the three strongest forces shaping the future of computing. Microsoft has already begun leveraging its Windows and Office monopolies to distribute Silverlight as a Flash-killer on both the Windows PC desktop and on the Mac. When Microsoft releases a Mac product, it can only mean one thing: it's working hard to kill a cross platform threat to Windows.
If battling Microsoft on the desktop isn't tough enough, Adobe now has Apple pushing its prominent WiFi mobile platform in the iPhone and iPod Touch as completely Flash Player free. Further, the new Cocoa iPhone/iPod Touch SDK not only offers Adobe insufficient means to develop a Flash plugin, but also clearly forbids the development of runtimes designed to advance competing platforms on top of the native Cocoa environment, whether Flash, Silverlight, or Java.
Apple strategy to leverage the success of its iTunes, iPod, and iPhone to disrupt proprietary control of the web is in full swing. The company is also aligned with Mozilla's FireFox and the Opera browser to advance support for today's SVG and develop the future HTML 5 specification for standards-based rich Internet applications, both of which are direct threats to Flash on the desktop.
On page 2 of 2: A Shot in the Dark with Flash Lite; Weak Cross Platform Flash Software; and Strong Patent Threats.


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Sunday, 14 January 2007
I've heard quite a few writers recommend this tactic. I've tried it myself and – living as I do amongst several kilos of thwarted drafts – I can see how attractive it is. You can get ridiculously emotionally attached to a metaphor/word picture, considering it won't cuddle up to you in the morning.
And it's hard for folk to clip something so dear to them, that perhaps is dragging the rhythm down, or is just too brand-spanking clever to slip into the tone of this/that poem. So it's nice to think your brilliant image might have its fifteen minutes' fame in the future.
The other extreme is the scorched earth policy where folk rigorously chop out particular types of word – all the adjectives have to go, any phrase or image that seems "lazy"... Often folk give the haiku as an example of the ideal – a couple molecules of distilled image and meaning.
But not all poems are haiku. Nor are images and phrases bits of Lego to click into any poem.
So this leaves the poet in an uncomfortable place where a poem "working" is a rare event to which thought and experience and rhythm and personal idiom and image are bespoke.
And in this arid place, sometimes a line starts in your head and your experience crowds up to meet it. At which times a line you saved specially from a previous poem is usually far inferior to the wealth of perfect accidents you are about to be able to select among.
12 comments:
- apprentice said...
What is it they say "murder your darlings"?
The way you put it it sounds good advice.
- 27 March 2007 at 16:19
- Billicatons said...
I agree with what you say. It seems to me that the remorseless chopping is potentially defeatist ... It's easy enough to say, 'That line doesn't work: cut it'; far harder to *fix* it.
I'd say cutting should be left until one is happy that one has written everything one sought to write -- and has done so to one's satisfaction.
Sure, it makes the cutting harder: but it *should* be hard, I reckon.
You're right, too, about the illusory appeal of 'saving' one's offcuts. Amazing how quickly their bloom fades ...
- 12 January 2009 at 13:44
- Paul Squires said...
Hello, Jen. Congratulations on the big prize, most deserved you will receive about one year after you posted this, almost to the day.
- 12 January 2009 at 21:53
- Paul Squires said...
Actually two years fater you posted this, time flies.
- 12 January 2009 at 21:54
- webaddict said...
hey congrts for the TS Eliot award :)
- 13 January 2009 at 02:51
- magi gibson said...
Just heard you read your lovely poem on radio 4. Congratulations on the TS Eliot Prize. I look forward to hearing/reading more from you.
- 13 January 2009 at 09:27
- ANNIE said...
Dear Jen
Absolutely topmost of top congrats on winning the TS Eliot. We read together a few years ago at the Poetry Cafe. Remember? I thought you were fantastic.
warmest wishes from
Annie Freud (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- 14 January 2009 at 04:07
- David Eugene Webb said...
Just read about you in the Independent during lunch at work...looked you up on line...and think I need to get down to Foyles to buy your book...marvellous stuff!!
- 14 January 2009 at 05:30
- Alan Summers said...
Congratulations on winning the T.S. Eliot Prize!
Glad you like haiku too. ;-)
all my best,
With Words
- 14 January 2009 at 05:38
- Diogo Vaz Pinto said...
Dear Jen Hadfield,
I would to contact you and I'm wondering if there's an e-mail I could use.
It's about a proposal for translation of a group of your poems for a literary magazine.
Thank you for your attention and congratulations for the recent T. S. Eliot prize.
- 14 January 2009 at 09:33
- Tad Richards said...
I call them "parts poems." They're best left alone for a while, so when you come to use the line, you've forgotten the initial impetus for it and have to create a new one.
- 14 January 2009 at 16:39
- Tuebrook Tart said...
I want to get in touch about you doing a reading in Liverpool. Do you have an agent? I'm with North End Writers. Sorry about doing it this way....
- 17 February 2009 at 06:00


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The good news for U.S. peanut producers is that the demand for their crop is likely to remain relatively strong, and the market will need more peanuts next year than it does this year.
The bad news is that we have a relatively weak commodity futures market, and this may affect what shellers are willing to pay for peanuts next spring.
That's the assessment of George Lovatt of the peanut brokerage firm Lovatt & Rushing. Lovatt spoke at this year's Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla.
Commodity markets have made a drastic swing in a little more than a year, he says, with corn trading at more than $6 per bushel last summer, soybeans at more than $13, and cotton at 82 cents.
"And peanuts were not immune to this rise in commodity prices — we thought the great bull market in commodity prices was finally here, and we thought it would last forever," says Lovatt.
The strength in the peanut market, he adds, was due to two things: A belief that strong commodity prices would continue forever, and a supply/demand balance that was "adequate to tight" coming off the 2007 crop.
Coming out of 2006, he says, the U.S. market was carrying out about 783,000 tons of farmer stock peanuts. In 2007, the crop was about 1.870 million tons. The United States imported about 40,000 tons and exported 407,000 tons, an increase of about 25 percent from the year before. Approximately 529,000 tons were carried out from that crop, 32 percent fewer than the year before, with the stocks-to-use ratio coming out of 2007 at 24.6 percent.
"Runners are the engine that drives the peanut market," says Lovatt. "Virginia, Spanish and Valencia are all a sideshow compared to runners."
Last year, he said, shellers responded to a tight carry-out with contracts of $500 per ton, and growers responded by planting more peanuts.
"After a couple of years — in 2006 and 2007 — when we planted 1.24 million and 1.23 million acres of peanuts, respectively, we saw a big increase last year. As the prices got strong last summer and prices rose, the rain fell. The increased acres and extremely favorable growing season last year gave us a crop of 2.574 million tons," says Lovatt.
From a supply and demand standpoint, the U.S. crop started with 529,000 tons in the 2007 crop, he says. "We reduced our imports because we obviously don't need them with a crop of this size."
"Domestic demand is up slightly and there's a substantial drop in seed sales, all resulting in a carry-out of 986,000 tons, representing a stocks-to-use ratio of 46 percent or about 170 days. We went from about a 90-day carryout to about 170 days. This is why we see a weakness in the peanut market."
Historically, from 2000 to 2008, U.S. peanut supply and demand has varied, going "up and down like a yo-yo," says Lovatt. "A year ago, we knew we had an adequate supply, and there was quite a bit of concern about what we would have to pay to contract the 2009 crop. Commodity prices were strong and there was some fear that the price of oil would go to $200 per barrel. But the great commodity boon ended. Oil went from $140 per barrel to $40 per barrel, corn went to $3.28 per bushel, beans down to $9.17, and cotton down to 62 cents. Runner peanuts went from about 80 cents last August down to about 40 cents this past March."
In a reversal of what happened with the 2008 crop, falling commodity prices caused shellers and growers to react, says Lovatt, this time by reducing peanut acres. According to USDA, growers have reduced acres by 438,000 this year. This is fewer acres than was planted before World War I — almost 100 years ago. Southeast acreage is down 27 percent.
Under the old peanut program, says Lovatt, whenever you received the USDA numbers in June on planted acreage, you could be fairly certain that the actual acres were about 2 to 4 percent more. "With the new program, we're about 8 percent over the estimate. Last year, we were 5 percent more. Acreage estimates are made on the basis of farmer surveys that are taken between June 1 and June 15. But we planted a lot of peanuts this year between June 15 and July 10."
Under the new program, yields have been as low as 2,571 pounds in 2002, but have been strong in the past three years, he says. For his forecast, Lovatt used the three-year average, the two-year average, and last year's average.
"It's unlikely we'll see last year's average again. But under this new program, peanuts are being grown on better land, using better varieties and chemicals, and they're being grown by better farmers. I believe the recent success we've had growing peanuts is probably going to continue."
Using the three-year average, Lovatt forecasts a crop of 3,148 pounds per acre, adding 1,681,000 tons to the supply and demand balance. Approximately 986,000 tons are carried in, and he doesn't change the imports or the domestic demand numbers.
"I do show a 30-percent increase in seed usage, because the carry-out number will demand more acres are planted in the 2010 crop. If I keep the export numbers and the crushed numbers unchanged, I have a crop carry-out of 534,000 tons, or a stocks-to-use ratio of 25 percent or about 91 days. This is about where we were coming out of the 2007 crop, but instead of rising commodity prices, we have falling prices, and I suspect that will have a dramatic impact on the price we can expect from peanuts going forward."
Lovatt says the U.S. could see a 30 percent increase in peanut acreage next year. "To keep products on the shelf, we'd need a crop in the neighborhood of 2.1 million tons. In general, I think we're going to have to see an increase in acres from 1.1 million this year to 1.4 million, give or take, next year. Couple that with the fact we're using these larger-seeded varieties. We're putting in more pounds per acre when we plant these."
The new peanut program, he says, changed the way in which farmers have to think about themselves. "You're no longer a peanut farmer — you're just a farmer. As farmers, it's your job to manage your farm in such a way as to make the highest returns available to yourselves and your families over time. Nothing in this program requires you to grow peanuts. Farmers also choose to grow peanuts when the market tells them peanuts are the best crop available to them as opposed to the alternatives."
The willingness to reduce acres this year has not been lost on shellers and manufacturers, says Lovatt.
Looking forward, the carryout from June 2009 is sufficient to cover manufacturers well into calendar year 2010, he says.
"Theoretically, manufacturers do not need this 2009 crop until the middle of January next year. Obviously, shellers will deliver before then. In theory, there's no pressure to buy the 2009 crop until well into the fall of this year. Given normal weather conditions, I don't see prices skyrocketing. There's always a possibility, but I don't see that in the future. I think prices will stabilize about where they are now, but next spring manufacturers and shellers will recognize the need to increase supply and I expect contracts next spring will be offered at levels that will encourage additional acres."
If corn is $2.50 per bushel, soybeans at $6 or $7, the price of oil is $30 per barrel, and cotton is 50 cents, Lovatt says growers shouldn't expect shellers to offer them $500 for peanuts. "They will offer whatever is necessary to get the acres planted. On the other hand, if commodity prices rally, peanut prices will rally as well."
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Summit County: Dancing with the Mountain Stars
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"Dancing with the Mountain Stars," the annual hospital gala fundraiser styled after the popular television program, 'Dancing with the Stars,' returns to the Keystone Conference Center on Saturday.
In Summit County's version of the show, local celebrities practice for two months in advance so they can perform their routines – which range from a slow rumba to a super fast Lindy Hop – with professional dancers at the black tie event, which this year raises funds for a new Flight For Life helicopter.
Now in its fifth year, the event is sold out, though fundraising for the helicopter continues. Last year, Olympian Jake Fiala took the Judge's Choice award and Keystone Science School executive director Ellen Reid won for People's Choice. Both return to reprise their performances.
This year's "mountain stars" include Keystone vice president and manager John Buhler, community volunteer Cathy Carleton, CMC Summit director of continuing education Rolando Cuadrado, High Country Health Care physician Dr. Erin Hay, Arapahoe Basin vice president and chief executive officer Alan Henceroth, Summit anethesiologist Dr. Kathleen Jenkins, Flight For Life nurse Maureen Maledon, Creative Cabinetry co-owner and Silverthorne councilmember David Preaus and Breckenridge preservationist Patty Theobald.
"I was nervous at first," said Cuadrado, who recently accepted the position at the helm of the Colorado Mountain College noncredit course program. "It seemed really hard at first; now I've got the steps down so I'm just trying to make it more lively and more fun."
Instrumental to the event's success is Summit High School graduate Mandy Moore, whose accolades include two Emmy nominations. She is currently on tour as choreographer for "So You Think You Can Dance," and was recently tapped to choreograph Shania Twain's upcoming Las Vegas show. As she has for the last five years, Moore did the dances for Saturday's event, but this year she brought in her former dance teacher, Kim Delgrosso, to finish the project.
"I am basically directing the show in Mandy's absence," said Delgrosso, who owns a production company that puts on shows throughout the world.
Delgrosso founded Summit School of Dance in Frisco, where Moore not only took her first dance lessons as a child but also taught dance as she got older. More than two decades ago, Delgrosso sold the studio to current owner Melanie Frey and moved to Orem, Utah where she is now co-owner of Center Stage Performing Arts Studio.
Center Stage is a huge success, having grown to nine studios with a 600-dancer capacity. "We have produced many of today's best-loved dancers including Julianne Hough, Derek Hough, Chelsie Hightower, Hefa Tuita, Jaymz Tuaileva and many more," said Delgrosso, whose six daughters also dance professionally. In July, Center Stage bested 170 other entrants to win Studio of the Year and a $25,000 purse at the 2012 Dance Awards in New York City, an event Delgrosso likened to the Academy Awards of dance.
She counts working on Dancing with the Mountain Stars among her blessings. "My dearest friends come from here and I find myself humbled by the fact that I am allowed to come back under these circumstances," Delgrosso said.
She will bring six professional dancers to partner with the nine local celebrities for Saturday's event, including Italo Elgueta, Haylee Roderick, Averie Delgrosso, Abrea' Delgrosso, Chris Castillo and Ruger Memmott. The dancers will also perform a floorshow demonstration.
World-class choreography is part of the equation, but someone has to teach the local stars their routines, and in many cases, how to dance in the first place. Enter the five local dance coaches – all of whom are volunteers – led by Debbie Swartz. The coaches dedicate a great deal of time and effort to rehearse the routines with the local celebrities.
"I've had lots of practice time with them," Dr. Hay said. "Time and patience have been key, I think, for all of us."
"It's pretty exciting to see the joy of dancing develop among the contestants," said Swartz, who teaches classes at Summit School of Dance and the Silverthorne Recreation Center. At the rec center, adults interested in ballroom dance can learn the waltz, foxtrot, tango, cha-cha and Lindy Hop – pretty much any of the dances featured in Dancing with the Mountain Stars.
"When everybody starts out they're pretty apprehensive about it – when they first see what they have to do and say, 'What did I get myself into?' But by the end everybody's really enjoying dancing," Swartz said. "That's the fun part for us as coaches – to witness people really enjoying their dance."
"I'm very excited for this year's show; they're a great group," she said. "All of them are working so hard. Each of their dances has really come together."
Proceeds from this year's event support the lease of a new Eurocopter AS 350B3E helicopter for the St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, the Summit County base of Flight For Life Colorado, which celebrates its 20th anniversary of service in the High Country this year. The critical care transport service, the first of its kind in the United States, was established 40 years ago in Denver.
Delgrosso's son Forest was a recipient of Flight For Life service when he was flown to St. Anthony Hospital after being hit by a drunk driver when he was 9, Delgrosso said.
In the last two decades, Flight For Life's Life Guard 2 helicopter has transported 5,410 patients and flown more than 750 search and rescue missions in the mountain region. Virtually all of the pilots have military experience and all and have undergone extensive training to be able to fly in the unique environment of the Rocky Mountains.
The new helicopter will enhance the speed of Flight For Life Colorado's rescues by providing more horsepower at high altitudes, the foundation said. To make a donation toward the new helicopter, visit http://www.summitmedicalcenter.org or call Deb Edwards at (970) 668-6906.
"It is the greatest time in history to be a dancer," Delgrosso said, speaking of Moore, her own daughters and her students, so many of whom have realized their dreams on the dance floor. On Saturday, that talent will translate to a revelatory show for a handful of local celebrities too, all of whom dedicate their time to bettering emergency services in Summit County.
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