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It's just something I could never wrap my mind around.
realpitbull wrote:I guess the "extreme aggression" thing threw me.
That's like asking BC people, "Why rescue the prey-driven dogs that like to herd people if there are atypical, non-drivey dogs available??"
satanscheerleader wrote:Although shyness is not the preferable temperment, I wouldn't relate it to aggression. There are alot of shy dogs that have never shown aggression over being shy, my Venus being one of them. In fact, most dogs I know that have become aggressive and/or bitten weren't shy at all. It was usually cases or redirection, dominance issues, just plain bad wiring and/or extreme mishandling. A seemingly confident outgoing dog can be aggressive just as much as a fearfull one but for different reasons. That being said, I definitely understand why a shy dog wouldn't be used in a breeding program and even understand why one might be passed up in a full rescue program. If you had a slew of dogs to choose from of course you are going to choose the best of the best since there is only so much space. I even understand why some rescues will pass up placing a dog that is over the top animal aggressive. They are often just to much for the average pet home to handle responsibley which is exactly where these rescue dogs end up. Most of them don't go into homes of working dog people who could handle such a dog.
She is a very sweet girl ,loves to be with people but is just not an attention lady of the night
Personally I think people are NUTS who even approach a strange dog in their crate. It is a disaster waiting to happen.
Red wrote:Life is simply not fair for this breed, nor for those of us who are involved with them.
Perhaps with any other breeds Michelle but not with bulldogs.I watch closely what a dog does in a crate when I take a first look at it (speaking of bulldogs only here).Fish eyes, tail tucked, rear down, ears back, lunging and growling are a first indicator of problems.
With the exception of me and Demo, Connor will injure anyone who sticks their fingers in his crate. He's been like that since day one. Crate aggression is not unheard of in any breed. The dog knows there is no way out if you try to hurt it. The best defense is a good offense, so they figure if they keep you away they are safe.
In rescues simply there aren't enough resources to work for months and months on a problem dog.It is not fair to dogs that can do fine after a year of work and who lived a hell of a life before we meet them but what to do?
My comments were not in relation to dogs being crate aggressive due to fear.
I recently had a discussion about this on another forum. It makes me crazy when I hear about the 'hard luck' cases in rescue where they are spending hundreds and hundreds on one sick, hurt, or problematic dog while 100 other dogs get put to sleep that didn't need 1/4 of that care
Red wrote:But where do you think the aggression come from? In my opinion the dog might perceive a certain situation as a threat.Dogs that are comfortable with people around them, especially pit bulls, don't show aggression when crated.
Personally I don't think Connor would bite if you stuck your fingers in the crate, not that I would let anyone test that. Demo however is of the opinion that he would, so I try to defer tot hat since he is Demo's dog.)
I don't know if Connor was thought to do this, for some odd reasons, but it is certainly a "uh-oh" to see a crated pit bull to react that way.
That trick would cost a pit bull its life if it was in a shelter or rescue.
Emi wrote:Yes, and oops forgot to say that Carlos said that he's a great dog , great temperment, just he didn't do well in crates, i have to much on my mind .. forgot to add that ...my mind is just all over the place today ...
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Hello again. Melissa the intern here! One of the things I love about working in the Artifact Lab is that every day is like a new Sherlock Holmes novel! For my latest project I have been investigating and treating a 4 x 4 ½ inch piece of paper associated with PUM I's remains. This paper was believed to be a train ticket – according to museum documents the research group who autopsied PUM I in 1972 found "a 100 year old railway ticket stuffed into a hole in the chest (someone must have felt that the mummy needed a ticket for its trip to the United States in the 19th century)."
When we brought PUM I and his remains up to the Artifact Lab for conservation treatment, this piece of paper was found in a plastic bag along with some of his ribs.
By the time I got to examine the paper, it was extremely folded and bent, which made reading the text very difficult.
It was clear, however, that half the text was written in French and the other half was written in Arabic. In order to make the smaller print more legible, I relaxed and reduced the creases in the paper by humidifying it, using Mylar polyester film, damp blotter paper, and Gortex, a material made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) that allows water to pass through as a vapor. By humidifying the paper, the creases and folds began to relax, and with the help of gravity and some weights I was able to flatten the paper into its original shape.
After completing the humidification treatment, it became much easier to read the smaller print. Unfortunately I have very limited experience with reading French and even less with Arabic. But thanks to Google translate I was able to not only translate the text, but determine that both the French and Arabic portions of the paper say the same thing. The text reads something like this:
April 15 Wednesday
Sunrise in 5 h. 29 m. Time
Sunset Cairo 6 h. 21 m. Average
Add 5 h. 39 m. hours the average time for the Arab hours
17 Moharrem 1321 7 Barmouda 1619
Everything seemed to make sense, but the words Moharrem and Barmouda did not have English translations. Since these proper nouns were associated with numbers, such as 1321 and 1619, I assumed they had something to do with dates. As it turns out Moharrem refers to the first month of the Muslim calendar and Barmouda, otherwise known as Parmouti, refers to the 8th month of the Coptic calendar, which lies between April 9th and May 8th. The first question that popped into my head was "why would both these dates be on the same paper?" Upon converting the Muslim date into a Coptic date, I realized that they were actually the same day! Knowing this, it seemed reasonable to assume that 17 Moharrem and 7 Barmouda is also the same as April 15th in the Gregorian calendar. The question now was what year these dates converted to in the Gregorian calendar, since this isn't written on the paper. According to funaba.org, a calendar conversion site, 1321 in the Muslim Calendar and 1619 on the Coptic calendar equals to 1903 on the Gregorian calendar-so the date on this page is April 15, 1903. Fittingly, this is the year before PUM I was displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904!
Ultimately, this translation does not seem like something you would find on a train ticket. In fact, all the evidence seems to imply that this paper was more like a page in a calendar. So either PUM I was shipped from Cairo with both a calendar page and a train ticket, which we have not yet located, or the 1972 autopsy group misidentified the paper. Either way it has been a very exciting project!

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On Wednesday, the MIT men's tennis team opened its 2010 spring season with a home match against the Lions of Emerson College. The Engineers made quick work of the visiting Lions, winning 7-2 and sending them back into the evening's rain.
In doubles, all three Tech teams had no trouble with their opponents from across the Charles. The No. 2 team of Ken Van Tilburg and Matthew Skalak easily beat out Emerson's Dan Lapidus and Garret Mercer, taking the match, 8-1.
In the first set of singles, the Cardinal and Gray clinched the win with a quartet of straight-set wins. Larry Pang downed Allesandro Bellino [6-0, 6-2] in the No. 1 spot to score the clinching point.
The Lions' Lapidus avenged his doubles loss in the second set of singles, when in the No. 5 spot, he forced a tie at 8-8 in the pro-set match. MIT's Manuel Rivera held strong in the tie-break, but Lapidus came out on top [9-8 (10-8)]. Freshman Mitch Lance picked up Emerson's other win at No. 6 with his victory over fellow-freshman Michael Walsh of MIT.
The Engineers (3-0) hit the courts again on Thursday, February 25, when they host the Chargers of Colby-Sawyer College at 4:30 p.m. Emerson (0-1) has some time off before its next match against the Fighting Scots of Gordon College on Thursday, March 18.
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Twitter is once again upping its game for ecommerce brands.
Earlier this year they announced analytics for Twitter Cards which allow you to add images, videos and product descriptions to your tweets. This can significantly increase the amount of people who retweet your content, click your links and check out products on your website.
In fact, HubSpot A/B testing found that tweets with images received a 36% increase in clicks, a 41% increase in retweets and a 55% increase in leads.
Let's take a look at how to use Twitter Cards to get more retweets, clicks and sales for your online store.
What Are Twitter Cards?
Twitter Cards allow you to add rich media to your tweets making them much more appealing and engaging. Here's an example of what you're probably used to seeing on Twitter:
And here is what the same tweet looks like when it's enhanced with a Twitter Product Card:
In addition to the regular tweet, you can now see an image of the T-shirt and a short description. Twitter allows up to 200 characters for product descriptions, which is a 43% increase in the amount of characters you can use in a regular tweet.
Twitter also lets you include up to two other pieces of information about your product – such as its price, availability or size. In this case, ModCloth has added the T-shirt's customer star rating.
Ecommerce brands can get big benefits from Twitter Product Cards, as they give your followers an easy way to share your products with their followers, and allow them to view and share your latest deals and promotions without visiting your website.
5 Creative Ways Ecommerce Brands Can Use Twitter Cards
In addition to product cards, Twitter has a variety of other cards that can help you increase follower engagement. In addition to showcasing products, you can also use Twitter Cards to:
Promote Contests
Take a cue from Urban Outfitters and feature your next contest on a Twitter Card. Adding images to your tweets can help you stand out from the crowd and attract more entrants.
Introduce New Products
Next time you have a new product to announce, spend a little extra time coming up with an attractive image to accompany your tweet. Not only will it make your tweet more noticeable in timelines but it will also make it more enticing by offering your followers a sneak peek at your new stuff.
Share Resources
Lowes used a Twitter Card to direct its followers to a guide on how to design a home gym. You can also use images to encourage followers to visit your website, read one of your blog posts or check out your latest resource.
Piggyback on Current Events
This tweet got "Orange is the New Black" over 12,000 retweets. It's timely, funny and relates perfectly to the show. Although this example is from a TV show, retailers can also use this technique to drive follower engagement.
Share Videos
Player Cards allow you to embed video and audio files in your tweets. This means your followers can view your educational videos, product demos or customer videos without leaving Twitter.
Generate Leads
Twitter now offers Lead Generation Cards, so you can collect email addresses directly from your tweets. According to Twitter, "When someone expands your Tweet, they see a description of the offer and a call to action. Their name, @username, and email address are already pre-filled within the Card. The user simply clicks a button to send this information directly (and securely) to you."
Here's an example of how Dropwines is using a Lead Generation Card to get its Twitter followers to opt-in for its content. When a follower clicks the "Find out more" button, they will be added to Dropwine's list.
Discover How Well Your Content Is Performing With the New Twitter Card Analytics
Twitter recently announced analytics for Twitter Cards, so you can see how your Cards and multimedia content are performing. You can track things such as clicks and retweets. You can also see how your different card types are performing and find out which influencers are sharing your content.
For more information about the new marketing analytics for Twitter Cards, check out this video from Twitter:
To learn more about Twitter Cards analytics, visit analytics.twitter.com.
How Much Do Twitter Cards Cost?
Most Twitter Cards – including Product Cards – are free. However, Lead Generation Cards are part of Twitter's advertising program and can only be used within Promoted Tweets. The cost depends on your advertising budget and how much you want to bid for each engagement. An "engagement" is an action someone takes after they view your Lead Generation Card, such as clicking a link, retweeting it or following you.
How to Get Started with Twitter Cards
To start reaping the benefits of Product Cards, you need a product web page with an image that is at least 160 x 160 pixels and preferably square (odd-sized images can be cropped). Once you have an image, visit Twitter's Developer site and check out the Product Card documentation. The documentation page contains the meta tags that you must include on your website.
After you place the meta tags on your product page, check them against Twitter's Card Validator tool and submit them for approval. According to Sylvain Carle, Developer Advocate at Twitter, it can take 5-10 days for Twitter to review and approve a Card if you implement it correctly. Plus, it could take another 5-10 days to get approval on a Product Card.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's volleyball team dropped its first NECVA New England Division contest of the year to nationally-ranked No. 8 Rivier College on Wednesday. The Raiders posted a 30-24, 30-17, 28-30, 30-28 decision over the No. 15 Engineers (11-4, 5-1 NECVA New England).
Praveen Pamidimukkala recorded his fourth double-double of the season with a team-high 22 kills and 16 digs. Scott Pollom notched 10 kills and paced Tech with five assisted blocks. Ryan Dean totaled seven kills and seven digs as Jordan Wan distributed 41 assists to go along with five total blocks.


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By chance, Ronald "Popeye" Jones bumped into Joe Sakic in the weight room of the arena in Denver way back when.
It shouldn't have been a big deal. After all, Jones' Denver Nuggets and Sakic's Colorado Avalanche shared the Pepsi Center.
Jones, a 6-8 power forward, had more than casual conversation in mind for their first meeting almost 13 years ago, though. He told Sakic, a two-time Stanley Cup winner, that he had two young boys who wanted to play hockey and no clue how to help them.
"He looked at me all the way up and into my eyes," Jones said. "He saw how big I was. He said, 'He's going to be huge. Make sure he knows how to skate."'
So Jones signed up his boys, including youngest, Seth, for skating lessons. Sakic's small piece of advice turned around one boy's direction.
Now, it's Seth's turn to return the favor for an organization.
The 18-year-old Jones has grown into one of the top prospects in hockey and is the consensus No. 1 pick in the NHL draft later this month.
That pick belongs to the Avalanche – now led by Sakic, the team's former captain who recently was promoted to executive vice president of hockey operations.
"All the goals he's set as a hockey player, he's been able to accomplish," "Popeye" said
How's that for a proud pop?
"Popeye", Seth Jones' mother and other friends and relatives will attend the June 30 draft at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Popeye worked last season as an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets and lives about 20 minutes from the draft site.
Dad was a second-round pick, 41st overall. Seth Jones could be the first black player ever taken No. 1 in the NHL draft.
"I'm trying to embrace it," Seth said. "It's going to be fun in New Jersey, for sure. I can't wait to share those experiences with my family."
It may be a pretty big family reunion in Denver. Jones' older brother, Justin, also played hockey, and they all got along with Patrick Roy's family as they grew up. The Roys and Joneses were close and spent time at each other's houses, in fact. And it just so happens that Roy – a former goaltender who also won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche – was just hired to coach Colorado after the rebuilding franchise missed the playoffs.
"Jones is a heck of a player," Roy said. "No matter what the decision for our organization – are we going to keep first overall, are we going to move first overall, whatever we're going to do, we know that the team that picks first, second or third are going to get three outstanding players."
Jones, Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin are expected to go 1-2-3 in the draft. The Florida Panthers hold the second draft pick and the Tampa Bay Lightning are No. 3.
Based on talent and need, Jones shouldn't drop past the Avalanche. The 6-4, 206-pound defenseman met with members of the Avalanche scouting team last month before moving on to the NHL draft combine in Toronto.
He would become the first American picked No. 1 since Chicago's Patrick Kane in 2007 and seventh overall. In a sport where the majority percentage of players are white, it's that slice of history he would make as the first black selected No. 1 – topping Evander Kane, picked fourth 2009 – that means so much to both of them.
"I don't think about it too much," Jones said. "Hopefully, I can encourage young African-Americans to play hockey and try it when they're at a young age. It's definitely a white-dominated sport. But there are a lot more that are starting to play."
Kane, Pittsburgh's Jarome Iginla, Philadelphia's Wayne Simmonds and Washington's Joel Ward are among the more prominent black players in the NHL. Ward was the victim of a series of racist tweets during last year's playoffs after scoring the winning goal in Game 7 against Boston. During a preseason game last year, a fan threw a banana on the ice at Simmonds. Those are gloomy signs that, unlike the other big three sports, tolerance still is a problem.
"There's never been one racial thing that happened to him," "Popeye" said. "I think his teammates always accepted him for Seth Jones the hockey player, the great teammate, the great team player. He never put himself above anybody. They've always accepted him for who he was and never looked at race."
They've been awed looking at his career arc, though.
He blossomed when he still was in elementary school and played in Pee Wee tournaments in Quebec City at 10 years old. The tournaments, however, were meant for kids 11 and 12. And he has won three gold medals in international play, including this year at the World Junior Ice Hockey championship. So, he's already seasoned, globally, as a competitor.
"Popeye" played two seasons in Toronto and was stopped in arenas each time he watched Jones play.
"They'd say, 'What are you doing in the hockey rink? What's your kid doing out here playing hockey,'" Popeye said. "'Why aren't you at the gym playing basketball?'"
Ronald Jones, who averaged a modest 7.0 points over an 11-year career, realized early on that getting Seth Jones to follow in his sneakers was a lost cause. Sure, little Seth tagged along with dad to the gym and they'd bond watching the NBA finals together. But those 1-on-1 father-son games in the driveway never caught steam, and Seth Jones did not play organized basketball growing up. He simply had no desire, because hockey was his passion.
"That was all the motivation that I had," Seth said.
With "Popeye" on the road, Seth Jones' mother, Amy, steered her son down the right path from home.
"Mom taught me everything from how to be a young man, to a handshake, eye contact, all sorts of things," Seth Jones said. "She just wanted me to be respectful."
Jones spent more time with his dad when the latter was an assistant coach for a few seasons in Dallas. He broadened his worth ethic by watching how players like Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd and Jason Terry tirelessly prepared for every practice and game all season.
"You can tell anyone how to be a pro," "Popeye" said. "But until they see it with their own eyes, it's put a whole new light about what it really takes."
Lesson learned. Now it's Jones' turn to take all he's learned and show a team like Colorado he's ready to make an impact next season.
"It's a special category to be put in. Colorado would be special," Seth Jones said. "But at the end of the day, my goal is play in the NHL."
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The normal diameter of the aorta, the largest artery in the body, is about 2.5 centimeters, or about the same as a quarter. If the aorta becomes enlarged, however, the cost can be much higher: a rupture resulting in a hemorrhage or even death.
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More couples get divorced in the first year of marriage than any other. Dr. Phil talks with newlyweds in crisis about having realistic expectancies and re-negotiating within the relationship.
The Deal Breaker
Brooke says her husband's drinking is ruining their relationship. Dave cleaned up his act before they got married, but now he's drinking again and Brooke is fed up.
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Washington, DC, January 25, 2011—Bedrooms are important to getting a good night's sleep, according to the first ever Bedroom Poll from the National Sleep Foundation.
The poll found that Americans love their bedrooms and believe that comfort and cleanliness are fundamental to good sleep.
Almost Half of Americans Are "Great Sleepers" While most Americans believe their bedrooms are important to good sleep, only about four in ten Americans (42%) are "great sleepers" who say they get a good night's sleep every night or almost every night.
A major difference between a "great sleeper" and someone who only gets a good night's sleep a few nights a week or less is how much time they report sleeping. "Great sleepers" say they sleep on average about an hour longer than other groups.
On weekdays, "great sleepers" say they sleep an average of seven hours and nine minutes compared to an average sleep time of six hours and two minutes for those who report getting good sleep less often. Even on weekends, "great sleepers" say they get more sleep, sleeping for an average of seven hours and 41 minutes versus the other group's six hours and 52 minutes average.
"Love your bedroom and make it the best place you can," says David Cloud, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation, "but at the end of the day, it's crucial to give yourself enough time to wind down and get the seven to nine hours of sleep that most people need to feel their healthiest and best."
Americans Love Their Bedrooms The vast majority of Americans, more than nine out of ten, say that mattresses and pillows are important to getting a good night's sleep, and more than three-quarters of Americans also believe that the comfortable feel of sheets and bedding are important.
Also high on the list were cool temperature, clean air free of allergens, and a dark, quiet and clean bedroom. At least two-thirds of Americans believe these also play an important role in getting good sleep.
"We spend a third of lives in our bedrooms, so make it a sanctuary for your sleep," says Cloud. "Comfort, fresh air, quietness and cool temperature are the basic building blocks for creating the best sleep environment."
Simple Indulgences Make a Difference Simple indulgences can also make a difference in how you feel about sleep. The poll showed that simple things like a fresh scent to your sheets or making your bed each day can impact how you feel about going to bed or even how you sleep.
According to the National Sleep Foundation Bedroom Poll, more than three-fourths of Americans (78%) say that they are more excited to go to bed on sheets with a fresh scent. About seven in ten Americans (71%) say they get a more comfortable night's sleep on sheets with a fresh scent.
Our parents were right when they told us to make our beds. Poll respondents who say they make their bed every day are 19% more likely to say they get a good night's sleep every night than those who don't.
"The good news is taking special care to make your bedroom pleasing to you, like fresh smelling bedding, can make a difference," says Cloud.
National Sleep Foundation Advice for Good Sleep
The National Sleep Foundation is dedicated to improving sleep health and safety through education, public awareness, and advocacy. It is well-known for its annual Sleep in America poll. The Foundation is a charitable, educational and scientific not-for-profit organization located in Washington, DC. Its membership includes researchers and clinicians focused on sleep medicine, professionals in the health, medical and science fields, individuals, patients, families affected by drowsy driving and more than 900 healthcare facilities throughout North America.
The Bedroom Poll was developed independently by the National Sleep Foundation. NSF received financial support from Downy to conduct the poll. Information about the National Sleep Foundation, the current and other polls and a database of sleep professionals and sleep centers who can be contacted to comment on this story or refer patients to be interviewed can be found online at www.sleepfoundation.org
The National Sleep Foundation commissioned WB&A Market Research to conduct this public opinion poll exploring characteristics of American bedrooms and the perceived effect of the bedroom environment on sleep. A total of 1,500 telephone interviews were conducted. In order to qualify for this study, respondents had to be between the ages of 25-55. The survey averaged 13.1 minutes in length.
Within the listed sample, the following four ethnic groups were targeted to provide equal representation across each: White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic. Specifically, the Black population was targeted by the African-American Census Tract, the Asian population was targeted by Asian surnames, and the Hispanic population was targeted by Hispanic surnames.
In survey research, the entire population is typically not interviewed, but rather a sample of that population is polled. Therefore, the data are subject to sampling error. The maximum sampling error of the data for the total sample of 1,500 interviews is ±2.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The sampling error will vary depending on the sample size and the percentages being examined in the sample.


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The Systems Approach to corn production adds yield in 5 bu. to 10 bu. per acre increments Though it's a reach, the Launsteins believe the goal is within their grasp. "We've already hit 300 bu. an acre in various fields; we just need to do it on more acres more consistently," Dale explains. Headed higher. This year, the Launsteins averaged 199 bu. of dryland corn in a continuous corn rotation. That was a measurable notch above 2011, despite the drought and high temperatures this year's crop endured. "It was about 8 bu. or so better than we saw across the farm in 2011," Dale reports. He attributes the family's high corn yields to micromanaging the crop during the growing season, particularly its nitrogen availability. Management zones set up in 2½-acre increments help the Launsteins analyze and refine their fertility program. "We keep the plant's lunchbox full at all times so it never goes hungry," adds Nick Griffieon, the Launsteins' agronomist. "That helps us push those yields." High yields don't just happen, according to Fred Below, a University of Illinois professor of crop physiology. "You must plan for them," he says. Below crisscrosses the country each year, talking with farmers about how to manage corn for high yields. There is a sense of urgency in Below's presentations, and for good reason. In the next 37 years, by 2050, the world will increase from its current population of 7 billion to 9 billion. That's nearly four times the 2.6 billion people who lived on the planet in 1950. To meet the increased demand for food, Below says, farmers will need to produce 70% more than they do now. That means, on average, that each U.S. corn grower will need to grow 300 bu. of corn per acre, double the current national yield average. A number of agribusiness firms are committing resources to help farmers achieve that objective. One, the Mosaic Company, launched an endeavor this year called Pursuit of 300: The Road to Higher Yields. 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"That's like getting a 50 out of 100 on a test in school, which would be an F," Dowdy says with a laugh. "I feel like I've left 300 bu. of corn on the table, and I want all 600." Even so, Dowdy's consistent high yields have made him a repeat state and national winner in the National Corn Growers Association's annual yield contest. Randy Dowdy says timely management practices provide a vital, and often underestimated, contribution to high corn yields. "I'm not just trying to win yield contests but to be as efficient as possible and get the best return on investment I can," says Dowdy, who farms in southern Georgia near Valdosta. An interesting point about Dowdy's bin-busting yields is that he is a farming newcomer. He started growing corn, all irrigated, only six years ago after buying some land no one else wanted to farm and that he describes as "so eroded you could hide a truck in the washes." Faced with that handicap, Dowdy decided early on to focus his attention on two things: corn plant physiology (how corn grows and develops) and best management practices that would support corn development at each growth stage. Dowdy believes those two factors, along with his faith, formed a solid foundation for his success. "That and the fact that I'm real competitive with myself," he says with a chuckle. The plucky Southerner adds: "It's not the land, it's the system of growing corn you use that helps you obtain high yields." Echoing Dowdy's tactic, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie regularly encourages his farmer-clients to adopt the Systems Approach to corn production. "You'll see higher yields—in 5 bu. to 10 bu. incremental steps—using this approach," Ferrie says. Yield Factors Weather 70+ bu. Nitrogen 70 bu. Hybrid 50 bu. Previous crop 25 bu. Plant population 20 bu. Tillage 15 bu. Growth regulators 10 bu. These seven factors (each assigned a rank and value) are the essentials for outstanding corn yields, says Fred Below, University of Illinois professor of crop physiology. Management matters. During the growing season, Dowdy says, he walks his corn fields three or four times a week to evaluate the crop and its progress. He also takes tissue samples every week to 10 days to determine whether the plants will benefit from additional nutrients. He has determined that his crop requires spoonfeeding of nitrogen and sulfur every seven to 10 days to fuel its growth. He accomplishes this via fertigation, using irrigation to apply fertilizer. "If I find a nutrient deficiency, I address it," he reports. Launstein does likewise and, as a result, anticipates making some changes to his fertility program next spring. "This past year, we put down anhydrous first, then weed and feed, and we still saw uneven emergence in the crop. We weren't getting a healthy start in a uniform manner, and that's how we knew we had a problem," he recalls. For 2013, Launstein plans to put28% nitrogen on at planting and, like Dowdy, spoon-feed the crop additional nutrients during the growing season, particularly between the V6 and V10 growth stages. "The key to maximizing corn production is to be a step ahead of anything that contributes to plant stress," Dowdy contends. He notes that plant stress can occur in various forms: plant population and spacing, compaction, lack of weed control, chemical stress, disease pressure, temperature, moisture stress and nutrient deficiencies. "Any one of these stressors can and will reduce kernel and ear count, which is where yield is ultimately determined," Dowdy explains. A bag of premium quality seed corn today has the potential to yield up to 600 bu. per acre Below from Illinois provides overarching advice for farmers looking to boost their yields next season and minimize stress: "Plant more of the best biotech insect-protected hybrids or genetics, feed those plants with the proper balance of nutrients right from the beginning, and protect the crop throughout its life cycle from weeds, insects and disease." One practice that Below says will both stress corn and help add yield is boosting plant populations. He believes farmers need to shoot for higher final plant stands than they probably are accustomed to—in the 40,000-plus range—if they want to reach consistently higher yield averages. "This higher plant density will require additional fertility, likely both application technology and fertilizer technology, to supply the plants with the proper nutrition that they need when they need it," Below says. Some of the ways Below says farmers can address this need is by using banded fertility and precision planting over the band, which is Launstein's strategy. Below also encourages farmers to use what he describes as the advanced fertilizer sources of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and zinc. Launstein uses micronutrients and plants seed corn coated with zinc. He says zinc gives the crop a boost under stressful weather conditions, particularly corn grown for seed and corn grown in a corn–soybean rotation. "On heavily manured fields, it doesn't give as positive a result," he cautions. Along with micronutrient use, Below is a proponent of foliar fungicide applications to prevent corn leaf diseases and help improve crop performance. No cash required. Some investments that contribute to high corn yields cost only time. One of those investments for Launstein is planting corn at a slow speed, no more than 4.5 mph. "If I see that planter box start hopping, we slow down," he says. A slower planting process improves corn emergence and contributes to uniform stands. Launstein says tillage practices can also play a factor in corn yields. "If you have a tendency to work in wet conditions extremely early, you can cause yourself a lot of compaction issues," he notes. Dowdy has seen similar issues in his twin-row system. "The limiting factor in a twin-row system is proper subsoil fracture," he contends. "I feel you need to have the ability to subsoil under each row." By improving subsoil fracture, both Dowdy and Launstein hope to reduce compaction, or horizontal layers, which impede corn root growth. Timely management practices also contribute to yield gains. "Every time you're late, you pay a penalty; you cost yourself yield," Dowdy stresses. "Know what the crop is doing or going to do next, and stay a step ahead of it." Dowdy plants starting the first week of March and begins harvest about the third week of July, once corn reaches a moisture level of 25%. His goal is to complete harvest by the time the crop reaches 21% moisture. "One reason for that is that I always attempt to double-crop; this year, I grew soybeans behind my corn," he explains. The second reason he harvests with high moisture is that he doesn't want to take the chance that the mature crop will fall victim to strong winds or a harsh thunderstorm. Dowdy explains his rationale as follows: "I try to mitigate my risks by spending a little money on propane and paying the penalty to dry it." You can e-mail Rhonda Brooks at email@example.com. Back to news


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An IDEA to save HMV and increase interest in the singles chart
I have an idea to save HMV which is almost impossible but worth a discussion with interested parties.
Recently, I read in the news that supermarket to the stars, Morrisons, has bought out six branches of HMV, in order to turn them into mini high street supermarkets, which will then sit alongside the Tesco Metro, Sainsbury's Local, and the five Co-ops already on the road, giving more choice when getting a pint of milk on the way home. But this gave me an idea and it is an idea that I believe will rejuvenate everyone's favourite (only?) high street music store, and potentially even stop it from being completely wiped out in the next year.
In my student days, I used to do my weekly shop in Morrisons, since it was within walking distance and you could often get 10 bakery items for under a pound at closing time, so I thought to myself, what are the best features of Morrisons, and one of the answers is, of course, the fresh pizza counter, where the huge pizzas are prepared in store. I then wondered how this feature could be applied for the high street music store, and this is my answer.
1) Instead of a pizza base you have a blank CD.
2) Instead of picking a variety of toppings to go on it, you pick a selection of SONGS.
3) The good people at HMV make up your mix CD for a fair price, while you wait.
They've already looked at doing this
years ago... think they ran a pilot - didn't work.
- GayGuevara, EndlessWindow, CrispinAlexander, OvertakenByTractors, georgiabeth, CillaCrack, chickenbones, furio, andyvine, Royter-Hatfood, spiritofjazz, jontosh2001, WhiteLightWhiteCity, didyousayhand, kowalski__, joeymahone, chris_81, Oh_Shangri-La, MurkyB, outspaced, mug_mug_mug, and Cementimental this'd this
- oojimaflop this'd this
you've completely missed the point of why people don't go out and buy CD singles anymore
also literally who cares about the singles chartWhiteLightWhiteCity this'd this
fair play
this board a constant stream of how-to-save-the-music-industry bullshit and indeed nonsense and i have never once heard someone suggest what you are. points for originality.
And I will choose to do this rather than making my own mix CD at home for little to no money because...?justanothersheeldz this'd this
- chickenbones, johnwiddop, ithica, and Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
The reason this works for Pizzas is because I don't have the money and storage to have all the reasorces at home at all times
If I could download my peperoni, cheese and base when needed then I'd never use the Pizza counter.urbanfox, oojimaflop, and WhiteLightWhiteCity this'd this
- StormsOnTheMoon this'd this
Seems like a thinly disguised attempt to suggest food puns in song titles
Like that hasn't been done before.
blue hawaiian pizza
You mean, like Tesco trialled last year and pulled due to lack of interest?
^ this is actually a better idea
because it allows you to access albums that are no longer sold and give you full artwork. What the OP is suggesting is just simply a mix cd that anyone can make on any pc in the world ever but it's completely irrelevant because people don't really do that anymore anyways.
Just read the the link
Gave up after 'Increased traffic in HMV stores thanks to free pens'
But worse than that
You've let yourself down.
- calumlynn, vivmichiesrightfoot, and lobotomypop this'd this
disappear in shame I, Wiggy.
What did the drum & bass fan ask for on his?
Peppe-Roni Size
I'll get me coat.
- stalecloud this'd this
- chickenbones this'd this
waiting at the cd deli counter waiting for your mix cd to be burned. It would be in a transparent burner like how they have transparent ovens for when they cook chickens. Then when you get to the checkouts you'd realise you didn't want it after all and dump it on the shelf next to the baked beans
Why would you want to save HMV anyway?
It's shit.
can't tell what is worse
the idea or that this is just blog bait
OR that as I was reading I was going to assume it would be for a mixed pizza/record shop, which I would TOTALLY get behind
SPOTIFY! NOW ON CD!robluvsnic this'd this
I rang Dominos last night
& ordered a thin & crusty supreme. 20 minutes later, a bloke showed up on a motorbike with Diana Ross on the back.
I thang yew.


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Solid foods are a big step for a baby. Find out when and how to make the transition from breast milk or formula to solid foods.
Giving your baby his or her first taste of solid food is a major milestone. Here's what you need to know before your baby takes that first bite.
Breast milk or formula is the only food your newborn needs, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months after birth.
But by ages 4 months to 6 months, most babies are ready to begin eating solid foods as a complement to breast-feeding or formula-feeding. It's during this time that babies typically stop using their tongues to push food out of their mouths and begin to develop the coordination to move solid food from the front of the mouth to the back for swallowing.
In addition to age, look for other signs that your baby is ready for solid foods. For example:
If you answer yes to these questions and your baby's doctor agrees, you can begin supplementing your baby's liquid diet.
Continue feeding your baby breast milk or formula — up to 32 ounces a day. Then:
This is not unusual. Babies often reject their first servings of pureed foods because the taste and texture is new. If your baby refuses the feeding, don't force it. Try again in a week. If the problem continues, talk to your baby's doctor to make sure the resistance isn't a sign of a problem.
To help prevent food allergies, parents were once told to avoid feeding young children highly allergenic foods such as eggs, fish, peanuts and tree nuts. Today, however, there's no convincing evidence that avoiding these foods during early childhood will help prevent food allergies. New research also suggests that desensitizing at-risk children to peanuts between ages 4 and 11 months may be effective at preventing peanut allergies.
In a recent study, high-risk children — such as those with atopic dermatitis or egg allergy or both — were selected to either eat or avoid peanut products from 4 to 11 months of age until 5 years of age. Researchers found that high-risk children who regularly consumed peanut protein, such as peanut butter or peanut-flavored snacks, were 70 to 86 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy. These findings might impact food allergy guidelines in the future.
Still, especially if any close relatives have a food allergy, give your child his or her first taste of a highly allergenic food at home — rather than at a restaurant — with an oral antihistamine available.
Juice isn't a necessary part of a baby's diet, and it's not as valuable as whole fruit. Too much juice might contribute to weight problems and diarrhea, as well as thwart your baby's appetite for more-nutritious solid foods. Sipping juice throughout the day or while falling asleep can lead to tooth decay.
If you offer juice, wait until your baby is at least 6 months or older. Make sure the juice is 100 percent fruit juice. Limit the amount your baby drinks to 4 to 6 ounces (118 to 177 milliliters) a day — about one food serving of fruit — and serve it in a cup. Juices containing vitamin C might improve your baby's absorption of iron.
Certain foods are not appropriate for babies. Consider these guidelines:
Another reason to avoid giving your baby solid food before age 4 months is the risk associated with certain home-prepared foods. A baby younger than age 4 months should not be given home-prepared spinach, beets, carrots, green beans or squash. These foods might contain enough nitrates to cause the blood disorder methemoglobinemia.
When feeding your baby, give him or her your full attention. Talk to your baby and help him or her through the process. In addition, to make mealtime enjoyable:
Enjoy your baby's sloppy tray, gooey hands and sticky face. You're building the foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating.
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It seems to me that when social scientists/academics talk about public engagement, there's an underlying anxiety that revolves around the roles public engagement activities and the academics who deliver those activities play. I attended a couple of public engagement presentations that were academic analyses at the 2012 S.NET (Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technology) conference. The first (Towards responsible innovation: Stakeholder engagement and public dialogues on nanotechnologies) was given by Antje Grobe who focussed mostly on her experience with German public engagement (there was also some mention of a Swiss initiative although my memory fails as to the details).
Grobe mentioned the context: aging society, faltering economies, etc., as well as, the difficulties of defining nanotechnology, uncertain knowledge of the risks associated with emerging technologies, competing agendas, both within one's country and internationally, and more. It was probably the most complexly situated public engagement analysis I have come across.
Franz Seifert's presentation 'Diffusion and Policy Learning in the Nanotech-Field. Movement actors and public dialogues in Great Britain, Germany and France' offered more specific information about the events and outcomes. (Note: He mentioned the situations in Germany and France only.) I was particularly interested in the French experience as the organizers were unable to complete a series of public debates due to disruptions by an activist group (Pièces et Main d'Oeuvre). Seifert didn't offer much more detail to the information I'd already gathered (see my March 10, 2010 posting and scroll down approximately 1/4 of the way) but he always able to contrast it with the German experience.
After listening to Seifert's presentation, the questions that arose were these: What constitutes 'successful' public engagement and what role should public engagement 'experts' play? (These are thorny questions and I have no answers.) Arguably, the French participated vigorously in the debates that were held. Some serious concerns were raised and some public ire expressed. Meanwhile the Germans participated in public engagement exercises in just the fashion experts had planned and hoped for. In my opinion, they were successful in completely different ways and both are important.
I have one final public engagement presentation to mention and that was given by Dr. Donald M. Bruce, 'What are publics thinking about human enhancement? Playing Democs card games in the WP7 ETHENTECH Project'. In fact, the Democs card game has been adapted for a number of public engagement exercises (including nanotechnology) for policy discussions to take place in pubs, community centres, people's homes, and elsewhere.
Here's more about Democs from its dedicated webpage on the neweconomics.org website,
Democs was created so that policy discussion can be open to anyone. While traditional deliberative methods, like citizens juries, are limited to a few people, who take part by invitation, Democs can be used by anyone, in their own home, their local pub or a community centre.
Our Democs kits provide:
- information about a topic on a set of card
- an interactive and engaging process to support deliberation in small groups, usually over an hour and a half.
Democs helps people understand the issues before giving their opinion, and ensure that they can make offer policy-makers reasoned, informed and valuable contributions.
We have developed kits on topics ranging from affordable housing and climate change to rubbish disposal and nanotechnology.
Democs has been used in many different contexts:
- Large-scale public engagement programmes: in 2004/05, the Herefordshire Partnership used Democs to consult over 300 people in over 50 games on developing the county's climate change strategy.
- Schools: in 2007 we developed a kit on sustainable transport for Transport for London (TfL), widely distributed to London schools
- Conferences: Democs was used by Norfolk Ambition, the Local Strategic Partnership for Norfolk, to explore the question, 'What will success look like?'at their 2007 annual conference
- Public meetings: a 2003 Malvern Hills District Council meeting, on GM food.
Democs has been adapted into PlayDecide – a web-based project to make discussion kits on science topics available for download across Europe.
I checked out PlayDecide which is here and found that it's part of a larger project,
PlayDecide by FUND
FUND is a two year project supported by the European Commission to stimulate the use of discussion games and other debate formats in European cities for the development of a scientific culture at the local level.
Bruce discussed some of the issues associated with using Democs. It can be a challenge getting the results back from people who've requested copies of the game so they can play in the pub or at home. I can certainly understand why people might not manage to track the conversations in the first place, let alone, mail in the results afterwards. As well, people don't necessarily discuss every single question.
Kudos to the organizers for including alternative presentations such as the Democs game and Koert Van Mensvoort's NANO Supermarket (mentioned in my Nov. 6, 2012 posting). The contrast worked to advantage for both the 'heavy' political/policy discussions/traditional public engagement exercises and the alternative approaches. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to engage a wide range of people, you should use a wide range of approaches. On a related note, I also believe that audiences/publics are getting more jaded and need to be challenged.
You can find out more about more about Bruce and his projects here.
The China presentation I'm about to mention doesn't fit the public engagement theme but I've decided to include it here since it won't fit any more easily into the next and final part of this series on the 2012 S.NET conference.
I was most struck by Denis Simon's presentation, 'China's Evolving Role in International S&T Affairs', and, more specifically, his insistence that China was 'breaking the rules' with regard to intellectual property (patents). US government and US business have long complained about China's approach to intellectual property. (My June 6, 2012 posting mentions a recent incident concerning a researcher at Sandia Labs who was charged with stealing research to share with China.)
What I found most interesting about Simon's repeated protestations about China 'breaking the rules' is that he didn't seem to realize the US has had a major role in developing these rules. The rules (both national and international) about intellectual property were not handed down to us by some deity; they were developed by human beings who were likely serving some specific interests of their own.
Simon did point out that China has signed international agreements and while I agree that if they didn't like the content and had no intention of following the agreements, they probably shouldn't have signed, China wouldn't be the first country to pursue that particular strategy. In any event, I'm not a fan of the current patent regimes as I noted in my Nov. 8, 2012 posting about a patent being awarded to Simon Fraser University (Canada) and where I listed these rather critical postings from my archives,
UN's International Telecommunications Union holds patent summit in Geneva on Oct. 10, 2012
Billions lost to patent trolls; US White House asks for comments on intellectual property (IP) enforcement; and more on IP
For the fifth and final part of this series: informal science education and transhuman narratives.


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MAM: Drew Girouard 19 yd pass from Mike Stanton (Brandon Rodrigues kick) 12:16 2nd
WOR: A.J. Scerra 80 yd pass from Cory Spencer (Derek Muccini kick) 7:27 2nd
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MAM: Girouard 4 yd pass from Stanton (kick blocked) 5:33 4th
MAM: Barry Reopell 3 yd run (Rodrigues kick) 1:58 4th
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WORCESTER, Mass. -- Senior quarterback Corey Spencer (Malden, Mass.) threw for 414 yards and four touchdowns, including three scoring hook-ups with junior A.J. Scerra (Marlboro, Mass.), as Worcester State held off a furious rally in the closing minutes to notch a 28-20 New England Football Conference Bogan Division victory over Massachusetts Maritime Saturday afternoon at Coughlin Field.
The host Lancers (5-1, 3-0 NEFC Bogan) overcame an early 7-0 deficit thanks to the tandem of Spencer and Scerra, as the two first connected on an 80-yard strike midway through the second stanza to even matters before hooking up again on an 11-yard touchdown pass with 1:36 remaining in the half to give Worcester State a 14-7 advantage at the break. Spencer's third TD toss of the afternoon, a 37-yard connection to sophomore Casey Hippert (Douglas, Mass.) on the opening drive after intermission, extended the hosts' lead to 21-7, and Scerra hauled in his third scoring strike of the day, a 51-yard toss from Spencer with 8:24 remaining, to give the Lancers a 28-7 advantage.
The visiting Buccaneers (2-3, 1-2 NEFC Bogan), who had posted fourth quarter comeback wins over Worcester State in the previous two match-ups between the schools, nearly engineered a third, as junior quarterback Mike Stanton (Quincy, Mass.) drove his squad 71 yards on nine plays and hooked up with freshman Drew Girouard (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) for their second score of the day, a four-yard pass with 5:33 remaining, and after Massachusetts Maritime forced a Lancer punt on the ensuing possession, the visitors marched 75 yards in just 2:33 of clock time to make it a one-score game on senior Barry Reopell's (South Dennis, Mass.) three-yard scamper with 1:58 remaining. The Buccaneers then recovered an on-side kick, but even after an interception gave Worcester State the ball back with 1:47 to play, the hosts were unable to run out the clock and punted again, giving the visitors one last shot from their own 24-yard line with 31 seconds remaining. Stanton drove Massachusetts Maritime into the red zone for a ninth time on the day, but his final pass of 57 attempts was intercepted on the Lancer 14 yard line as time expired.
Spencer completed 29-of-39 attempts in the victory for Worcester State, as Scerra hauled in 12 of those receptions for 199 yards to go with his three scores. Hippert added eight catches for 118 yards to go with his touchdown for the Lancers, who amassed 503 yards of total offense on the day. Stanton broke his own school record with 33 completions of 57 attempts for 381 yards and two scores, including a 19-yard hookup with Girouard in the opening minutes of the second quarter, in the setback for Massachusetts Maritime, which received a career-high 166 rushing yards on 29 carries from Reopell. Junior Keith Caruso (Hingham, Mass.) and sophomore Bobby Rosano (North Reading, Mass.) each had eight catches for a combined 171 yards for the Buccaneers, who broke the 600-yard mark in total offense for the second time in three weeks with 615 yards on a school-record 110 offensive plays in the contest.
Junior Matt Begley (East Bridgewater, Mass.) led the way defensively for Worcester State with 18 total tackles, including 16 solo stops, while fellow junior Nick Doria (Watertown, Mass.) added 11 tackles for the Lancers. Junior Adam Straughn (Rockland, Mass.) recorded two of the hosts' four interceptions on the day, as Worcester State forced five turnovers to thwart Massachusetts Maritime's nine trips inside its red zone. Sophomore Kevin Stanton (Abington, Mass.) paced the Buccaneers defensively with nine total tackles, while sophomore Reynard Ortiz (Lowell, Mass.) had a career-best seven tackles to go with a pass break-up and a forced fumble for the visitors.
Massachusetts Maritime hosts Fitchburg State in a New England Football Conference Bogan Division match-up next Saturday afternoon at Clean Harbors Stadium beginning at Noon, while Worcester State heads to Bridgewater, Mass. next Saturday afternoon to take on Bridgewater State in an NEFC Bogan Division contest that kicks off at 1:00 p.m.
BUC BLOG: Worcester State's victory snapped a three-game Massachusetts Maritime win streak in the series the dated back to 2009...The Buccaneers broke the previous school record of 94 offensive plays set on October 1, 2005 against Framingham State...Mike Stanton is averaging 301.2 yards passing per game through five contests this season and has already tied Jim O'Neill's school record for passing yards in a season (1,506) that was set in 1982...Today's game marked the fourth road contests in the opening five weeks of the season for Massachusetts Maritime, which will play three of its final four regular season games at Clean Harbors Stadium.


text: Feedlot Purchases Fall, Surprising Some Analysts January 26, 2013 11:00 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Copyright 2013 Bloomberg. By Elizabeth Campbell U.S. feedlots bought 0.5 percent fewer cattle in December compared with a year earlier, the government said, surprising analysts who were expecting an increase. Feedlots bought 1.664 million head of cattle last month, down from 1.673 million in December 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a report. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News was a 2.9 percent increase. The feedlot herd totaled 11.193 million as of Jan. 1, 5.6 percent less from a year earlier. Analysts expected the inventory to be down 4.6 percent. Most analysts predicted a rise in feedlot purchases, as the country's worst drought since the 1930s dried out pastures in the Great Plains. About 27 percent of the High Plains region was in "exceptional" drought as of Jan. 22, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows, up from 0.1 percent a year earlier. The price of corn, the main ingredient in feed, is up 14 percent in the past year. "There's just a struggle for the supply, so you're seeing less numbers" of animals, Chad Henderson, the president of Prime Agriculture Consulting Inc. in Brookfield, Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview. "In order to make money having cattle on feed, you need to have supplies of onsite cheap feed. That's a limiting factor. That's going to lead to lower placements figures." Feedlot operators buy year-old animals that weigh 500 pounds (227 kilograms) to 800 pounds, called feeders. The cattle are fattened on corn for about four to five months until they weigh about 1,200 pounds, when they are sold to meatpackers. Feedlots sold about 1.745 million animals to meatpackers last month, down 1.7 percent from a year earlier, the USDA said. Analysts expected 6.6 percent drop, on average. Fattened-cattle futures for April delivery climbed 0.3 percent to settle at $1.3075 a pound at 1 p.m. on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The price has fallen 1.2 percent in January. Feeder-cattle futures for March settlement closed unchanged at $1.4795 a pound, and the commodity has lost 4.1 percent this month. Back to news


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LDS President Thomas S. Monson led the Mormon Church during the time of controversy
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV)- President Thomas S. Monson, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who passed away on Tuesday night, defended the Mormon Church's views during a time when the world around the church was quickly changing.
"His Presidency has been a contentious ten years. There's been a lot of turbulence in the church," said Dr. Matthew Bowman, associate professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkansas. Bowman also wrote a book on the history of the Mormon Church, "The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith."
Monson was very committed to protecting gender roles – as viewed by the church, he added.
He was very good at cultivating a sense of nostalgia and the idea that Mormonism should be about small-scale communities where people help each other and interact on a personal level.
"That allowed him to personally float above a lot of these issues that rocked the church while he was president," Bowman said.
While Monson was President:
- The Mormon Church backed Proposition 8 in 2008. The measure aimed to ban same-sex marriage in California – a decision that drew widespread protests and criticism.
- In 2015, the church made a change in policy that said Mormon children living with gay parents should not be blessed or baptized.
- Kate Kelly, a Mormon woman who led cries from women who said women should be allowed into the church's all-male priesthood, was excommunicated.
- The LDS church severed some ties with the Boy Scouts of America after the national organization allowed gay scouts and leaders.
Those were some of the controversies. At the same time, under Monson's leadership, the church made other moves that seemed in stark contrast to the above:
- The church launched a website to tell the stories of people who are Mormon and gay.
- Women were allowed, for the first time, to say prayers and have more prominent roles during general conference.
- The age for church missionaries was lowered to 18 for men, 19 for women.
Dr. Paul Reeve, Simmons Mormon History Professor at the University of Utah, said while the world and the U.S. were changing, accepting new roles for women and legalizing gay marriage, Monson stayed firm defending the church's traditional views on gender roles and marriage and family.
"He wanted to make it clear the LDS Church would not follow those national and world trends," he said.
Reeve said Monson had a very reserved leadership style.
Unlike his predecessor, Gordon B. Hinckley, he did not do media interviews.
"More often than not, people would find out about policy changes through a leak that became public or simply through a public affairs memo," Reeve said.


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Software, unless they are altering the hardware of a pda to add better wifi or something... that stuff is mostly seen in the movies and is very advanced in real life.I hear people who take already made devices, PDA, Ipod and mess around with it to make it better or to "customize it." Or like one of the articles on HTS that talks about "hacking" a psp to get emulators running on it, software or hardware based? I don't understand that either. It's mostly a personal thing for fun.
Yeah, most of the time these so called "hacks" are just that they install a custom firmware. WRITING a custom firmware from scratch, however, is a different matter.


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When Apple Computer Inc. introduced its iPod with video in October 2005, users started looking at the popular portable music player in a new light. Its first purpose — playing music — still took precedence, but its larger screen and video-playback capabilities suddenly made it visually entertaining, as well.
Last September, Apple upped the ante by adding downloadable movies to its iTunes Store and releasing a new iPod with a brighter screen and longer video battery life. But the fact remains: watching movies or videos is most naturally done while looking up and out, as with a television set or in a movie theater, not by looking down at a little screen in your hand.
The $300 Myvu by MicroOptical Corp. looks geeky but offers a comfortable way to watch video on an iPod, www.myvu.com.
This week, we tested one of the geekiest gadgets we've seen in a long time: the $300 Myvu by MicroOptical Corp., www.myvu.com, which looks like a pair of futuristic sunglasses with built-in earbuds. Myvu attaches to your iPod, and when you look through its lenses, it displays your iPod's videos on a built-in screen with optics that create the illusion of watching a television set from across the room; the earbuds provide accompanying audio. It also comes in a universal version that works with other gadgets, rather than just with the iPod.
We tested the iPod-specific version and wore the Myvu to watch various types of videos, including music videos, television shows and movies. Overall, it's a pretty cool device, with a good-looking visual illusion that MicroOptical says is comparable to watching a 27-inch screen from six feet away. It would certainly come in handy on a long flight. But you'll scare yourself if you look in the mirror. We can't imagine wearing one while walking down the street, even though it's designed to enable seeing above and below the bar of space where its screen appears.
MicroOptical isn't the only maker of a new video-viewing device, and competitors have proposed products that juice up the dork factor tenfold. One company proposed a device designed to strap around your head and hover over one eye. Another company, which introduced its Myvu-like technology at a recent conference, used a hefty interface box, partly because this unit is aimed at PCs and game consoles as well as portable players.
A lot of this technology was developed for the military. Tank drivers, for example, used MicroOptical's technology so as to view information on a projection monitor while driving and remaining aware of their surroundings.
Myvu comes with accessories to ensure that you're comfortable while using it, which makes sense, as a three-hour movie could really take its toll under the wrong conditions.
These accoutrements include two additional nose pads and three pairs of earbud pads, for different shapes and sizes. A hard-shell carrying case, car charger and wall charger are also included.
For people who wear glasses, MicroOptical makes available a $99 adapter, the Myvu Rx Clip, with lenses made to your prescription. You print out a form available on the Web, then take it to your eye doctor, who fills it out with the prescription info. Then, you fax the form to a processing center to order the clip.
The Web site is myvurx.com. However, you may not need this adapter. Walt, who wears glasses, was simply able to remove his specs and he could see the Myvu's screen just fine.
One key component of Myvu is its special "backpack," a thin lithium battery designed to power the Myvu and hold the iPod while simultaneously juicing it up with an additional five hours of battery life. MicroOptical claims that this gives the 30-gigabyte iPod a total of eight or 8½ hours of video playing time, instead of its usual 3½ hours. This special backpack battery slips in behind the iPod, enclosing it in a case so that only its screen and wheel are visible from the front.
After first dropping our iPod into the backpack battery, our sleek digital player suddenly looked bulky and brick-like. But we think people who travel often will agree that it's worth compromising the iPod's slender look for the extra battery life.
With our iPod lodged in its backpack cage, we plugged in a built-in connector and attached the Myvu glasses cord to the top of the case. We changed our iPod's video settings to turn the "TV Out" option on and were ready to begin.
With the Myvu glasses on and earbuds in, we glanced down at our iPod screen and scrolled through videos. We pressed play after finding a clip of a favorite "Saturday Night Live" skit, which mocks Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his affinity for often introducing new iPods.
Video footage appeared instantly at our eye level, in the glasses rather than on the iPod screen, and the image was bright and crisp.
While watching, the Myvu's design never made us feel completely removed from our environment; we could still see when people walked by and were aware that lights were on. Myvu worked just as well, if not better, in the dark — a plus for use on planes.
A pendant-like controller on the cord connecting our iPod and Myvu glasses offered playback features: play/pause, fast-forward and rewind — though these weren't as sensitive as the scroll wheel — and volume.
The viewing screen's brightness and contrast can also be adjusted with this controller, but only slightly. We found ourselves using the volume controls most often.
After wearing Myvu to watch an episode of "The Office," which ran about 22 minutes without commercials, the glasses started to feel a little heavy on our nose, but this might be different for each user.
We used Myvu while simultaneously charging it by plugging its AC adapter into a small port on the top of its case. The car charger fits into the same spot.
If you get distracted while watching a video, you can quickly remove the glasses — the earbuds also pop right out. The Myvu screen will automatically turn off a few seconds after you press pause, so as to conserve battery power. After pressing pause, the Myvu screen shows a small icon to indicate remaining battery life.
Though it looks likes a prop from "Star Trek," Myvu is actually a smart and fun-to-use product that requires just a few simple setup steps.
Anyone who travels often or likes watching a lot of videos on an iPod would find Myvu useful and more comfortable than the alternative — that is, watching movies on an iPod in your hand. Just be sure to get the right nose pad.
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A Gold Coast man has been charged with the attempted murder of a cyclist who was knocked off his bike and assaulted.
Police allege the 26-year-old man struck the cyclist twice with his car, breaking the 24-year-old rider's leg and elbow, on Saturday morning in the Brisbane suburb of Hemmant.
The accused then allegedly got out of his vehicle and further assaulted the injured cyclist.
The 26-year-old Nerang man was charged with one count each of attempted murder, assault, acts intended to maim, deprivation of liberty, dangerous operation of a vehicle.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Saga of Two Sagas
Taken at 5100 meters (that over 15,000 ft) above sea level
What are the chances of two Soma Saga owners meeting each other on their own solo tours on a remote road on the Sichuan(China)-Tibet border??? The world is a huge place. We've made less than 999 Sagas in total I believe. I'd say it's pretty darn impossible.
Our favorite American expat in China, Eleanor Moseman is in the middle of a 10,000k trek though Mongolia, Russia and China. While in Litang in Southern China, she heard someone behind her speaking good English "You have my bike!" She reported on her Facebook page she ran into someone riding another Soma Saga bicycle. We didn't know who the gentleman was until a few weeks later. While they were riding in Sichuan many homes were still running on generators after the devastating earthquake a few years back. So instead of imposing on folks to juice up her laptop and phone, she opted to lose contact her friends for about 10 days. This concerned her boyfriend so much that he contacted us to see if we knew who she might have ran into. Of course we had no idea. We find out later that the guy on the other Saga was Brandon, who is from SF and had purchased from Pedal Revolution the original Saga prototype . OMG, right? The last (and first) time we had heard from him was in October when he sent us a photo from Guatemala.
The two are both making their way to Kashgar in the Xinjiang province way out in the western-most part of China. For you movie buffs, Kashgar was where the Kite Runner was filmed.
Eleanor is doing this ride for fun but also for charity. Learn more about what she is riding for here.
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This summer marks the centennial of the beginning of World War I. While many factors led to the war, the spark that ignited the conflict was the assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie.
The archduke's wife was not a princess. Under Austrian and Hungarian law at the time, their children were regarded as legitimate, but were excluded from succession to the throne. This meant that after Franz Ferdinand, the heir was his young nephew, Karl von Habsburg. In 1916, Karl succeeded to the thrones. In 1918, he was forced to renounce both titles.
Even today, Karl as a political leader has not that many admirers. Probably, by the time he attained the crown, nobody anywhere could do anything to reverse all the bad things that the war, and the system itself, had brought to bear. Certainly, however, Karl is credited by many scholars for doing his best. He is admired for his Catholic holiness, and his goodness was highly regarded even in his lifetime. Indeed, Pope St. John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, was named for him. Eventually, in 2004, this pontiff beatified Karl, the unlucky emperor-king.
As a young man, Karl met Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Italian by birth, the princess came from a dynasty that long before had lost its power, but her blood was as blue as the Danube. She was the granddaughter of a Portuguese king, and she descended from the kings of France.
What partially attracted Karl and Zita to each other was their strong religious faith. In time, they decided to be married, with the full blessing of their families and of the Austrian and Hungarian governments. At this point, they made a decision that prospective spouses today should well consider imitating. The young royal couple made formal spiritual retreats a critical part of their plans. Karl went to a monastery, Zita to a cloistered convent, simply to put God, and their Catholic beliefs, in the very center of their marriage.
It is said that both believed that, for a Catholic, the most important part of marriage is to draw more closely to God in and through the relationship and to assist the spouse also to come more closely to God. Their marriage was not easy. As already noted, their plight was to preside over a collapsing empire. When Karl abdicated, they were thrown out of the country. Their assets were confiscated, or least denied to them. They wandered across Europe, all the more difficult because they had eight small children.
Finally, they settled on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Karl died there of pneumonia in 1922. Zita survived until 1989, but she was never permitted to return to Austria or Hungary. At last, she made a home in a small Swiss town, in a house next to a church, selecting the site because it enabled easy access to daily Mass.
When she died, the Austrian government allowed for her remains to be buried in Vienna and all the old pomp and circumstance were brought back. After the funeral Mass, the body was taken to the crypt of Vienna's Capuchin church for entombment, but the doors were closed. An official demanded entry for the "most exalted empress of Austria and queen of Hungary." The pastor refused. Another demand followed, to admit "the empress and queen!" The pastor refused. Finally, the official pounded on the door pleading entry simply for "Zita, a humble sinner." The pastor threw open the doors. "Come forth in the peace of the Lord!"
This brief ceremonial exchange perfectly describes Zita's priorities. First, last and always, she was a Catholic, humble before God, trusting in God. She is a candidate for beatification.
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