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In mid-March, members of the California Roundtable on Agriculture and the Environment — pointing at a budget proposal from President Obama — began complaining that funding for popular federal conservation programs is being shifted. Days later, the environmental members of the ecumenical group said Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's proposed increase in nutrition programs would also harm conservation funds.
Is such concern warranted? After speaking with those on both sides, it turns out that how one sees the issue largely depends on what one considers a "cut" in today's political budgeting and accounting processes.
In a letter sent to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Sam Farr (California Democrats and members of the Senate and House agricultural appropriations subcommittees) the Roundtable claims the Obama administration's budget proposal would cut $500 million from conservation programs ($30 million from California alone) approved in the 2008 farm bill.
"The proposed cutbacks will result in increased financial burdens, hitting rural communities hardest," said the March 12 letter. "Already hundreds of eligible farmers and ranchers are being turned away in California due to lack of funds. Unless we secure full funding for farm bill conservation programs, even fewer growers will be able to access these important program and many of California's biggest environmental challenges will not be met."
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For a list of roundtable members, see http://foodsystemalliance.org/crae/category/members/.
Of special concern is the extremely popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) which U.S. producers can access for assistance in upgrading protections for soil and water resources while also benefiting wildlife.
"Because EQIP requires a dollar-for-dollar match by the farmer, every dollar cut means a loss of $2 in projects to enhance California's natural resources," said Paul Wenger, California Farm Bureau president. "The EQIP program has been an important tool in helping farmers and ranchers enhance the stewardship work they already do."
Even more recently, Sen. Lincoln, Senate Agriculture Committee chairman, has come in for criticism from environmental groups after introducing the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010" that would massively increase funding for child nutrition programs. To increase nutrition funding, the groups claim EQIP funds would be raided and depleted by more than $2 billion.
The nutrition program bill "is a monumental step forward as we work to end childhood hunger and address the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States," said a statement from the Senate Agriculture Committee. "It invests roughly $4.5 billion in new funding in child nutrition programs over the next ten years — more new money than we have provided for child nutrition programs since their inception."
Among programs that would benefit: the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Supplemental Program for Women Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
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Basically, "the proposal on the table is to cap the EQIP program at $1.4 billion beginning in 2011," says Kari Hamerschlag, senior agriculture analyst for Environmental Working Group. "It was supposed to be at $1.55 billion in 2011 and $1.75 billion by 2012.
"These were agreements made in the 2008 farm bill, which had very hard-fought battles for increases in conservation funding. (Proponents) achieved about a $4 billion increase over 2002. What we're seeing now is an erosion of the agreement that was reached in 2008."
Sen. Lincoln "is proposing to cut EQIP by $141 million in 2011 and $303 million in each of the following years. That adds up to a cut, over 10 years, of $2.8 billion in budget authority and $2.2 billion in outlays."
Combining the Obama and Lincoln proposals means a $380 million "cut" that would "cap EQIP at $1.2 billion. What it says is 'basically, we don't want to invest in these programs that are so critical in protecting our water, our soil and air.' These programs have been very effective. Particularly in California, we see a lot of EQIP funding going to support practices like Integrated Pest Management, nutrient management, cover crops and conservation crop rotation.
"Those four practices represent about 40 percent of EQIP funding in California and help farmers reduce their energy inputs, help reduce pesticide and chemical fertilizer use and help to conserve soil and organic matter. EQIP is helping to build healthy soils that sequester carbon and reduce nitrous oxide emissions."
More 6,000 California farmers are applying for EQIP funds, says Hamerschlag, with only 1,700 receiving support.
"That's a huge loss in opportunities to improve soil, water and air quality. We shouldn't be pitting conservation against nutrition. Kids need healthy soil, healthy water and healthy food."
When a "wide array of environmental groups join together with a wide array of mainstream farm groups to stand up together for conservation, politicians should pay attention. We hope they are. And I think they will because (such a coalition) is unusual — we certainly don't agree on everything but we agree on this subject."
True cuts?
Those concerns are overstated and/or disingenuous, according to several Mid-South political staffers and agriculture advocacy group leaders,. Not only are the EQIP "cuts" not going to happen, they say, but producers will actually get more money.
Both the 2002 and 2008 farm bills contained "authorized" levels of funding for the EQIP program. In the arcane language of Capitol Hill, those are essentially dollar figures that could be spent. For example, the 2008 farm bill authorized roughly $1.2 billion to be spent on EQIP initially. That went up in 2009 to about $1.4 billion and progressed to $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion in following years.
However, since 2002, the "authorized level" was never reached and what's been provided to producers has been less.
What happens to those unused EQIP funds? They're often "chimped" and allocated elsewhere — sometimes on political pork projects. For example, while $1.2 billion is authorized for EQIP this year, what's actually being spent is $1.05 billion.
"In relation to the authorization level, it looks like a cut," says one Arkansas official. "But there's a difference between the authorization level and what's actually appropriated and reaches producers' pockets."
Sen. Lincoln is not only capturing the unused authorized funds and sending them to nutrition programs instead of pork projects, but is also "forcing more money to be appropriated" to the EQIP program itself, insists another staffer.
"In 'crazy D.C. budget world' it may look like the program is being cut. But in actuality you've already been getting cut for years under that scenario. We're insuring you'll get more money next year."
The staffer often talks to farmers and asks "'would you rather be provided a really high, but fictitious, mandatory authorization level? Or would you rather have a check cut for a larger sum?'" Every time the farmers say, "'Cut the larger check!'"
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To work around this issue, upgrade to Shield for Windows v220.127.116.1122, v220.127.116.1143 or later which resolves the issue.
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Since 1901 the Nobel Foundation has annually published Les Prix Nobel, containing reports from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo, as well as the biographies and Nobel Lectures of the Nobel Laureates. Up to 1988, the texts were published in the language in which they were presented. Since then the material in Les Prix Nobel has been mostly in English.
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The Dartmouth Dualist
Special note: This blog post was written by Edward Reges, M.A. '16, East Carolina University Department of English, as part of a special series highlighting the Stuart Wright Collection.
Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer Prize recipient and Poet Laureate of the United States from 1959 – 1961, is recognized as a dualistic poet; his poetry often featured two extremes in harmony, be they life and death or will and psyche. It is quite possible that the early days of his college career at Dartmouth College offered Eberhart a foundation for his understanding of the world and his creative identity. The Stuart Wright collection at Joyner Library has thirty eight boxes of Eberhart material, from poems and proofs to naval papers, calendars, photographs, and audio recordings.
Eberhart described philosophy as the "sum total of human knowledge as an outcome of the interpretation of the universe in one's mind" in a paper written for his introduction to philosophy course in the spring semester of 1924. Stuart Wright obtained this paper and several others a young Eberhart wrote for this course. These papers depict a young man coming to terms with how he interprets the universe, and coincidentally, how he expresses himself. I have pulled from three of these papers, one on each of the prominent philosophical theories of mind, to demonstrate Eberhart's reasoning.
The popular philosophy of mind in the 1920s, when Eberhart was a student at Dartmouth, was likely idealism. Put bluntly, idealism is the philosophy that everything we are and experience is an idea. Idealism is often seen as a dreamy outlook, and Eberhart seems to agree: "Intuition is a dream; thought must be the dream of that dream" (5).
Materialism, however, is the polar opposite of idealism. Backed by the consistency of science and observation, this theory claims that not only are the objects located in the external world that cause our experiences physical, but also our thought processes, experiences, and awareness are physical byproducts of a functioning nervous system. Eberhart refutes this theory by identifying ethically questionable motives for materialism: to break tradition and to control the external world. In his words, materialism focuses on "mental emancipation from the super-situation and false credulity of unproven gods and practice because it arises out of a desire to control the external world" (1). Eberhart dismissed materialism in part because he disliked its determinism, and believed instead that free will was the underlying principle of the physical form (Karthikeyan & Dwivedi, 226).
Eberhart combines his understanding of idealism and materialism to come to a conclusion in a third paper on substance dualism: the idea that reality consists of both physical and mental substances. The following excerpt from page 3 of his paper on dualism explains his position:
This dedication to a dualistic philosophy shows through in Eberhart's works. As Karthikeyan and Dwivedi point out in their article "Richard Eberhart's Poetic Theory: Art and Craft," the poet believed that poetry is divided into an art and a craft, and used his craft to contribute to the art under the pretense that minds were divided into the physical will and the mental psyche. Karthikeyan and Dwivedi, on page 226, assert that Eberhart's "psyche poetry pertains to the soul, to peace, quiet tranquility, serenity, harmony, stillness and silence. It provides psychic states of passive pleasure," while "will poetry exists because of the power in the cell beyond its energy to maintain itself, 'will' results in action through zeal, volition, passion, determination, choice and command."
It is a rare opportunity to see the reasoning behind a poet's style and works. The Stuart Wright Collection in the Joyner Library offers explanations and personal correspondence that cannot be obtained with a Google search. For those interested, more items in the Eberhart papers, including a hand-inked autobiography of his early life and his philosophical analyses of Shakespearean literature, can be found in the Stuart Wright Collection Finding Aids, along with a short biography of his very interesting life.


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We woke up this morning to white light streaming in through the windows, which can only mean one thing: Fresh snow! A whole foot of fresh snow–to be exact–stealthily fell during the night. And the forecast calls for more to fall over the weekend, so I guess it's time to break out the ice skates and skis and snow-pants! My friends Sarah and Ashley had the right idea this morning, and ended up appearing on the local news when they were spotted out on a trail with their skis by a reporter (at 1:03 in the video below–which probably won't work if you're viewing this on a mobile device, sorry!)
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We're planning a weekend of slow mornings spent with delicious books and multiple cups of coffee, skiing, sauna, and belly-warming soup made from the contents of the root cellar. And I'm buckling down and working on a few handmade Christmas gifts as well.
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***Update: Unspeakable evil happened yesterday. While I was peacefully sipping coffee and writing this post, 20 children and 6 adults lost their lives in Newtown, CT. This news is absolutely crushing. I am brought to tears every time I think about it. We are shutting off the electricity in our house tonight and lighting candles in our windows as a vigil to the innocent lives that were lost. I hope you'll join me in praying hard for the families that are suffering.


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My husband's youngest sister is starting 1st grade next Wednesday. We just met her new teacher and classmates during a lovely potluck picnic this week. Our first "homework" is to prepare a menu for her lunch box. She's very excited about what we will pack for her.
Our family friend Chú Quân had kindly just brought us humongous fist-sized figs from his garden. I immediately thought of a snack my little sis-in-law wouldn't be able to resist. This fig and cheese sandwich recipe is ultra simple. I pack separate containers of the ingredients (fresh figs, fig jam, camembert and pizelle anise cookies) and let her assemble the snack!
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When it came time to pick a college, I applied to Michigan and MIT; MIT said no. Six years later, I had two computer engineering degrees from Michigan, one a masters. In between, I played Rumble Racing, lived in a filthy house with six other dudes, and did all the other things that make everyone think their particular college is the best college ever. I also helped found the Every Three Weekly, a Michigan analogue to (read: ripoff of) the Onion, with a few friends, editing the paper my final four years at Michigan.
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The CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) enjoyed the white wine with a chicken lunch that I made, and has taken home the nut assortment, mince pies and chocolate orange nibbles to enjoy through the coming week.
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The Beeb's a paragon of good taste and proper culture, which rather makes you wonder how the Six Nations rugby competition ends up on its esteemed airways. (Or this.) Yet there it is, and in today's match featuring France against Scotland in Edinburgh the BBC found itself face-to-face with a naked France supporter.
Of course, streakers are as much a British tradition as Auntie's propriety, as we saw last week at Anfield. BBC did its best to avoid exposing (heh, heh) viewers to French manhood, even using a live delay of some sort; we didn't know anybody but puritanical FCC-fearing American networks used those. And yet still, on multiple angles, there's our streaker nearly in his altogether. You'll note the commentator mention the BBC watershed, as if they would be happy to show you the streaker if it was after 9 p.m. It's horrifying how close the words "we have a streaker" and "scrum" came in the commentary, though. [BBC]


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Department of Computer Science
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I have worked in the area of parallel simulation since its inception and have developed synchronization and load balancing algorithms belonging to both of the major churches of parallel simulation-conservative and optimistic. The use of learning techniques for load balancing has characterized our recent work.
Two areas for which we developed appropriate synchronization and load balancing algorithms were verilog simulation and gravitational n-body simulations.
Gate level parallel simulation
contains a summary of the work we did on parallel Verilog simulation. We developed a parallel environment for gate level simulation which incorporated the algorithms which we developed. Gravitational N-Body simulation is used to study a wide reange of astrophysical models ranging from the dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters containing 10**6 stars to planetary systems with dozens of bodies. We introduced a discrete event approach to solve the equations of motions for the bodies as a replacement for the more expensive (and traditional) time stepping approach for their solution.
At present I am interested in the use of parallel simulation in computational neuroscience. We are collaborating with the NEURON (www.neuron.yale.edu) group at Yale in order to add parallel stochastic simulations to their reaction-diffusion simulations. Stochastic simulations provide a finer grain view of the chemical reactions at the basis of the functioning of a neuron.
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A bugbear is a legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the bogeyman, bogeyman Budy, bugaboo, and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically used in some cultures to frighten disobedient children.[1] Its name is derived from a Middle English word "bugge" (a frightening thing), or perhaps the old Welsh word bwg (evil spirit or goblin), [2] or old Scots "bogill" (goblin), and has cognates in German "bögge" or "böggel-mann" (goblin), and most probably also English "bugaboo" and "bogey-man". In medieval England, the Bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the woods to scare children; it was described in this manner in an English translation of a 1565 Italian play The Buggbear.
I think it matters who is naming them. Is it the race themselves? Humans? Their main enemy?
Well, see. The thing is that English isn't my native tongue, so what may sound allright to you, could sound downright ridiculous in my language.Of course there's nothing to do about that, except come up with more suggestions... Oooh, now I need a better name for Bugbears! I mean come on, bugbears? They're not related to Owlbears as far as I know and where does the bug part come in? I seriously doubt they would refer to themselves as Bugbears.
Does the irony of this comment strike you, perhaps what the foe-net-ick word 'bugbear' sounds totally baddass in their goblinish language, but to us sounds like micro organisms that live in moss or something resembling ladybugs?
Bugbears would likely refer to themselves as People in their language, and everyone else as some variant of Food
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Here is a practical Buddhist guidebook that offers techniques for developing a truly compassionate heart in the midst of everyday life. For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine pithy slogans—such as "A joyous state of mind is a constant support" and "Don't talk about others' shortcomings"—as a means to awaken kindness, gentleness, and compassion. While Tibetan Buddhists have long valued these slogans, recently they have become popular in the West due to such books as Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön and Training the Mind by Chögyam Trungpa.
This edition of The Great Path of Awakening contains an accessible, newly revised translation of the slogans from the famous text The Seven Points of Mind Training. It also includes illuminating commentary from Jamgon Kongtrul that provides further instruction on how to meet every situation with intelligence and an open heart.
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SAN JOSE — The mysterious monthlong disappearance of a senior whom neighbors referred to as "The Magician" ended tragically on Thursday, when family members found Stanley Jacobson stabbed to death in his modest apartment.
Jacobson, 69, was found in his home at the Hilltop Manor Senior Apartments on Ironwood Drive about 11:30 a.m., and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the city's eighth homicide of 2013, and the second stabbing death reported in two days.
San Jose police spokesman Sgt. Jason Dwyer said they made an arrest in the case but did not release the suspect's identity.
"We are confident that this suspect is responsible for the crime," Dwyer said. "We are not looking for other suspects, and it's not something that the public has to worry about."
After Jacobson was reported missing on Feb. 18, police put out an appeal to the public in an effort to help find him as he was considered at-risk with the onset of dementia, and had last been seen on Feb. 5. They were also looking for a woman named Regina Butler who detectives believed might be with him.
"The original fear was that somehow Mr. Jacobson would be exploited financially or otherwise," Dwyer said.
While Dwyer would not say whether Butler was the suspect they had in custody, he confirmed they located her and a neighbor said he saw her outside Jacobson's apartment earlier Thursday, not long before his body was found.
"I asked her, 'What are you doing here?'" said Benjamin Ramos, 85. "I wanted to see if she knew anything about Stanley. I said, 'You were the last one to see him, you were the only one with an extra key for his car.'"
As he spoke to her, Ramos said, Butler acted erratically and began to cry.
Another neighbor, Michael Christian, said Jacobson was very friendly but began keeping to himself when he started dating Butler, who was frequently at his apartment.
"He would bring her in late at night and became very unsocial," he said. "He never introduced her to us."
Jacobson left behind his wallet and identification when he disappeared, but Christian — who checked on his apartment frequently in the past month — said he did take his deck of cards.
Cards, coins, handkerchiefs and handcuffs — they were the tools employed by Jacobson to entertain his friends in a variety of stage and escape acts.
"He was a great, friendly guy," said Christian. "He would do his little magician tricks and everybody would just laugh. This is just a shock."
What remains unknown is where Jacobson was for the past month. Police said he could have been killed days ago, but neighbors said people have been checking on his apartment and believed it was unlikely that a body could have gone undetected for long.
His neighbors said that while he may have had the onset of dementia, Jacobson's mind remained sharp.
"He had a good memory, would talk about movies and songs," Ramos said. "Very friendly, and very conservative. Everybody liked him; he didn't take drugs or drink, only smoked."
But it was clear, Ramos said, that Jacobson had strong feelings for Butler.
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World oil prices rose Tuesday on expectations of fresh stimulus measures from the Federal Reserve to perk up the struggling US economy, and on the eve of a key OPEC output meeting, analysts said.
Brent North Sea crude for January added 37 cents to $107.70 per barrel in late afternoon deals in London.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, or West Texas Intermediate (WTI), won 11 cents to $85.66 a barrel.
The US central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to announce new measures to stimulate the economy at the end of a two-day meeting that starts late Tuesday.
"Tonight the Fed begins a two-day love-in, which could see the announcement of more bond-buying ... which could give markets another leg up this month," said a report from trading firm IG Markets.
Stubborn high unemployment in the world's largest economy and oil consumer, as well as the looming fiscal cliff, give the FOMC every reason to expand its stimulus efforts, analysts said.
Traders are keeping an eye on what the Fed will do as the end approaches of its "Operation Twist" programme, under which it has sold short-term debt to buy longer-term debt.
There are signs that bank policymakers will replace it with more outright bond purchases, or "quantitative easing", aimed at lowering interest rates to encourage businesses to invest and hire.
Meanwhile, traders digested the latest demand forecasts from OPEC on the eve of the cartel's latest production meeting.
OPEC kept its forecast for growth in world oil demand unchanged for 2012 and 2013 as ministers gathered in Vienna.
World oil demand this year was expected to reach 88.80 million barrels per day (mbpd), up from 88.04 mbpd in 2011, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said in its monthly report, repeating the same figures given in November.
Next year, global demand is set to grow to 89.57 mbpd, OPEC forecast.
The report comes a day before ministers of the 12-nation cartel meet in Vienna to decide on its oil production ceiling.
OPEC, which pumps 35 percent of the world's oil, said much of its demand growth this year came from Japan, which has turned to oil after shutting down nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
For 2013, OPEC was more optimistic, citing an improving economy in the United States and a potential return to growth in the eurozone, though it cautioned that "this might prove challenging."
At its last meeting in June, OPEC opted to keep its oil output ceiling at 30 million barrels per day -- after first agreeing on the level a year ago -- and vowed to eliminate over-production.


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Visitors will be provided with a good standard of accommodation and are able to choose what type of holiday cottage that they want to stay in on the internet.The main aim of holiday rentals is to provide good food and accommodation for the visitors and gaining their satisfaction. A holiday will be a good time for a person to relax and unwind and get rid of all of the stresses associated with modern day living.The holiday rentals should be located in an attractive landscape and this will help to get more customers for the holiday home. Usually holiday homes are built on the shore of lakes, by the sea or in the county side. The holiday accommodation should be attractive buildings and well decorated and furnished inside. Many are full of interesting works of art and ornaments.One of the fun things about staying in a holiday rental is that you can have it as modern or as sparse as you want. If you want a relaxing holiday you can stay in a country cottage full of all sorts of modern appliances. Many have flat screen televisions, superb kitchens and amazing power showers. If however, you want a more basic type of holiday and want to get away from televisions and phones you can stay in a more sparsely furnished cottage in the middle of no where.Some holiday homes have central heating and others come with log fires. During the winter months it can be quite romantic staying in a holiday rental with a roaring log fire. Then in the morning you can go for a romantic walk in the country side before breakfast and then return to your country accommodation with log fire and warm up again.Many people on fishing holidays stay in cottages as they find them an ideal way of being able to have their independence. They can store all of their fishing gear in the rental home and use it as a base to fish many different lakes and rivers in its vicinity. An added bonus is the fact that they are able to take the fish that they have caught back to their holiday cottage at night and cook them and eat it for their evening meal.Lovers of the great outdoors also like to stay in holiday homes. There are many cottages around the world that are in the country side or on or near mountains. They then use the rentals as a base to explore the surrounding area.Some holiday makers will take their bikes with them to their holiday cottages and go on bike rides during their vacations. Others will walk around the surrounding area and others may go climbing. The handy thing about staying in a holiday rental is the fact that they then have the freedom to return to the cottage at any time they like.Holiday cottages in the country are also loved by families on their vacations. They are an idea base for families to use during their stay in the cottage. Families staying in a holiday home may go shopping in local towns on some days and other days go on a trip to the sea or explore the local area.It can now be seen that there are holiday cottages available in most countries in the world. These holiday rentals can suite all budgets enabling holiday makers to have a cheap holiday cottage vacation.For those holiday makers with deeper pockets, they can stay in an expensive holiday cottage full of all mod cons. No matter what your tastes or budgets you can find a holiday cottage to suite your requirements.
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Selecting Your Foundation Stock | Livestock
Three factors need consideration when selecting your foundation breeding stock for your bucking bull program. The first two aspects to base selections on are common to all livestock breeding programs. The number one consideration is does the animal have the conformation you want to see in your herd? Second, does the animal have a genetic pedigree of quality that will enhance your bloodlines? Third, unique to breeding animals that will perform as athletes is does this animal demonstrate the athletic ability that you want to see in it's offspring?These are the considerations I was taught when I got started five years ago by my mentors and I hold to the same criteria today when looking at adding an animal to our herd. When people just getting started ask me about picking their first herd cows or selecting the bull each season to breed to, these are the points I suggest they look to in making a decision.There are all kinds of bucking bred cattle so when talking conformation, there is not a set breed standard but both a "look" and a type of animal athletically, that most breeders are shooting for. Some like big boned, hard bucking monsters. Some breeders like large "handlebars" as we call horns. Others like compact, wiry little spinners. Then there are the shaggy, dog faced muleys from up north. The classic look is the big, high horned Brahma humped bull big in the chest and smaller in the back end. Study the competition and decide what you like.When buying foundation stock, only consider an animal that is registered and has a pedigree with bloodlines that prove out the transmission of the bucking tendency and temperament through multiple generations. This is different than picking an animal just for competitive purposes. In that case, it is enough that that individual animal can buck. Here though, you want to see that the trait passes through calf crop, after calf crop.The athletic ability of an animal is certainly linked to it's conformation but just as in humans there is an additional something special that makes a competitor. You can have a bull with a fantastic pedigree that looks great but will hippity hop across the arena or just doesn't have the spirit to fight when a cowboy doesn't come off in the first few seconds. I look for intelligence, speed, and the ability to follow my direction. My animals like to run, play, and are not timid or too skittish.If you follow these guidelines you will end up with a breeding herd that will produce generation after generation of champion competitors whether your herd is in the hundreds or you just have a handful. Again, I don't claim to have invented this approach, it is what has been shared with me by the old time rough stock men but it is a recipe for success.
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The term Web Design refers to a whole range of capabilities, disciplines and skills in designing, producing and maintaining websites. As the term indicates, it includes many areas of web design – authoring, graphics, user experience and user interfaces, search engine optimization, standardization of codes, proprietary software and many more aspects. Web design primarily relates to the design process concerning the front-end design that involves web layout and content rollout (referred to as client side). In that sense, some areas of web design have an overlap with web engineering when you broadly refer to web design or development because professional web designers are required to possess great degree of knowledge regarding web accessibility guidelines.The History of the Web and its Evolution spanning two decades
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Football player-turned-reality TV regular Terrell Owens' marriage is in trouble after just two weeks – his wife has moved out of their shared home.
Editors at TMZ.com report Rachel Snider is demanding a divorce, telling the website she's convinced Owens only married her for her money.
The couple wed at a courthouse in Newhall, Calif., on January 21.
Snider tells the website, "I felt in love… and now I feel betrayed and heartbroken."
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Is Qwest a takeover target?
Denver-based Qwest could "become a target of rural wireline
consolidation," according to UBS telecom analyst John Hodulik (pictured above).
"Despite its much larger size, we believe Qwest could become a takeover candidate for one of the RLECs (CenturyLink or Windstream) looking to gain scale," Hodulik wrote in a research note released today titled "A Strong Contender for 2010."
Hodulik upgraded Qwest stock from "neutral" to "buy," raising his target price from $3.80 a share to $5.50. He cites "expectations for improving revenue trends." Specifically, Hodulik believes Qwest's business and wholesale markets divisions, which account for 64 percent of the company's revenue, will improve in 2010.
Qwest stock rose 4 percent to close at $4.26 today.
Earlier this month, Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen also noted that Qwest could be an acquisition target for CenturyLink.
Hodulik said any deal probably wouldn't happen until the middle of 2010 because CenturyLink (formerly CenturyTel) is still integrating its acquisition of Embarq and Windstream is still integrating a slew of transactions. He wrote:
At this point CenturyLink is integrating the Embarq properties, with the largest state to be integrated, North Carolina, just getting underway.
At the recent UBS Global Media and Communications conference, CenturyLink management indicated that it would begin to consider M&A once it gets close to completing the North Carolina integration (mid-to-late 2010). Windstream management, which announced four transactions this year alone (Lexcom, D&E, Nuvox, and
Iowa Telecom), has stated that it would be interested in FCF accretive
transactions. The company plans to hold off on M&A, however, until the middle of 2010 as it continues to integrate its new properties.
Qwest declined comment about Hodulik's research note.
Qwest tried to sell its nationwide, fiber-optic network – "classic Qwest" – earlier this year for a reported $2 billion. The highest bids reportedly came in at no more than $1 billion. I'm told companies that may have had discussions about the network at the lower price point include Level 3 and Time Warner Telecom. In June, Qwest pulled the network off the table, stating it holds more value as part of the company.
Hodulik's note doesn't address what CenturyLink and Windstream would do with the asset if either were to acquire Qwest.
As I noted in a previous blog post, discussions about Qwest either acquiring another company or getting acquired have been around for years. But the chatter is heating up, and with seemingly everyone expecting more telecom consolidation, a Qwest deal may actually happen in 2010.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- West Virginia has the highest obesity rate in the United States at 34.3 percent, while Colorado has the lowest at 20 percent, the Gallup poll indicates.
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on 177,237 interviews conducted daily from January through June, uses self-reported height and weight to calculate body mass index scores. A number of 30 or higher is considered obese, Gallup officials say.
The overall national obesity rate of 26.3 percent this year is essentially unchanged from 26.6 percent in 2010, but higher than the 25.5 percent rate in 2008.
This year, states already high for obesity tended to get higher, and states lower in obesity are getting lower, the survey indicates.
The states with the highest rates of obesity continue to be clustered in the South and the Midwest, as in past years, while western and northeastern states continue to have the lowest levels of obesity.
The telephone survey has a margin of error of 0.2 percentage points, but the margin of error of most states is 1 percentage points to 2 percentage points, but can be as high as 4 percentage points for smaller states such as Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Hawaii.


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clintt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We're a 100 year old church in need of a brand. We have a traditional name (St. Paul Lutheran Church), and we have a uniqueness in the community (a red roof). We are trying to respect the tradition while creating a modern look with our red roof.
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We're looking for someone to build on an existing logo. We attempted to build a brand around a logo about a year ago, but we never blended the past with the current brand. Since the current logo is familiar, we'd like to build on the design. Although we are a 100 year old church, we are located in an area with a younger demographic. It is our hope to create a brand that will appeal to a 30-50 year old crowd, while maintaining the conservative nature of our traditions. My inital thought was creating a seal with the current logo in the middle, but I don't want to limit the creativity to just that idea. In fact, while having the current logo incorporated in the design is preferred, if someone blows us away with a new design, we would consider something different. To get the current logo, go to http://www.verbalocity.com/RRClogo.
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- It must include "Established 1901"
- It must build on the red roof
- I don't want something that looks like every other church
- I don't want it to be so traditional that the unchurched person is scared away
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Why You're Not Getting Pregnant
From irregular ovulation to poor diet and nutrition—and the leading cause: male factor—we caught up with three top fertility doctors and a holistic fertility specialist to get the lowdown on the most common causes (and best treatments) of infertility.
What came first, the stress over your infertility diagnosis, or infertility because of your stress? Although we know much more about the leading causes of infertility today than we did 10 years ago, it's still a very complicated disease. But thanks to advancements in assisted reproductive technology (ART)—and more folks being proactive about it—couples are seeking, and often receiving, the help they need. According to the CDC, over one percent of infants born in the U.S. every year are conceived using ART.
Though it seems to be more prevalent in pop culture now because of celebs who've gone public like Nicole Kidman, Giuliana Rancic and Rosie Pope, "infertility is not a novel discipline," Dr. Brian Kaplan, a founder of the Fertility Centers of Illinois, points out. "Infertility dates back to the beginning of time," he says. "If you read the bible, the Book of Genesis, Sarah had infertility issues with Abraham—she needed a surrogate."
Today nearly seven million American women suffer from infertility; that's one in eight in the U.S. alone. Infertility is no longer a taboo topic: we're on information overload about the leading causes—and most effective treatments—of this disease of the reproductive system that affects both women and men equally, but especially those of advanced maternal age. But there are no absolutes here. "Infertility is a multi-factorial problem—it's a combination of things," Dr. Kaplan explains. "It's important for people to understand that."
It's advised that couples under age 35 trying to conceive for a 12-month period seek the help of a fertility specialist as soon as they detect a problem. "Push your ob/gyn to have a plan—be proactive," cautions Kaplan, "particularly older patients." When the woman is over 35, Kaplan encourages her to seek help after about six months of trying to conceive naturally, but the sooner you get to a diagnosis, the better the outcome will be.
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Male Factor
According to renowned fertility specialist Dr. William Schoolcraft, founder of the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, the "leading cause of infertility is male factor," which is defined as anything from low sperm count and poor motility (i.e. slow swimmers) to structural abnormalities that can block the flow of sperm. How common is male factor? It accounts for a whopping 30-40 percent of infertility problems in couples.
The good news is there are things you can do to treat most male factor infertility issues. The bad news: men suffer from the emotional repercussions as much as women. "The first step is to see a doctor or urologist to diagnose the problem," Dr. Schoolcraft says, "which can be treated with medication and surgery, depending on what it is." A common work-around to low sperm count or motility is using in vitro fertilization (IVF), or a procedure called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), in which a single sperm is injected into an egg. "With intercourse, only one out of four sperm make it up into the uterus," explains Schoolcraft. Injecting a single sperm, using ICSI, may be all you need.
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RESOLVE, the National Infertility Association, estimates that three to five million American women of reproductive age suffer from endometriosis, defined as a chronic disease of the reproductive system in which cells from the endometrium (lining of the uterus) grow where they're not supposed to—outside the uterine cavity, causing blocked tubes that could prevent the egg and sperm from meeting, or the fertilized egg from traveling down the fallopian tubes normally (causing an ectopic pregnancy). Common symptoms of endometriosis are heavy and painful periods, pain during intercourse, and mild to severe cramping during menstruation.
The only way to really know if you're suffering from endometriosis is through laparoscopy, a surgical procedure using a lighted tube to check for cysts in the abdomen. You can have these cysts removed during a laparoscopic procedure. "Some patients get pregnant 6 to 8 months after surgery," Dr. Schoolcraft says. If pregnancy doesn't occur, he recommends Clomid, insemination or—in more severe cases—IVF.
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Ovulatory Disorders
This is an all-encompassing term, and probably the single most common cause of infertility in women: it's when ovulation fails to occur, or occurs on an inconsistent basis. Roughly 20 to 40 percent of female infertility stems from irregular ovulation—some women of reproductive age may never ovulate (which could be an indication of early menopause), while others may ovulate every three months. Hormonal imbalances, excessive exercise, excessive weight loss or gain, and excessive stress are all among the key causes that could throw a woman's ovulation cycle off. Basically, anything in excess = bad for your reproductive system.
"Ovulatory disorders can be corrected by oral drugs such as Clomid, often with insemination," says Dr. Schoolcraft. "I would only recommend 3-4 Clomid attempts before moving onto IUI with injectable drugs—but that carries a bigger risk of multiples." Success rates increase with IVF; Dr. Schoolcraft suggests older patients go straight to in vitro fertilization once they have a diagnosis.
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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
"This is a very complex condition—an ovulation dysfunction that originates in the ovary… It's an enigma," says Dr. Kaplan. "It's not a disease that anybody presents the same way." Many patients who have PCOS don't even know it (less than 25 percent are diagnosed) since there's such a wide spectrum of symptoms seemingly unrelated to each other, such as lack of ovulation, abnormal menstrual cycle, excessive weight gain, acne, unusual facial hair, and infertility. "PCOS drives our patients a little crazy, because they read textbooks and they say, 'I don't fit this criteria or that characteristic.'"
"The no. 1 way to treat PCOS is through diet and exercise," says Tami Quinn, co-founder of Pulling Down the Moon, a leading holistic clinic of integrative care for infertility, with locations in Chicago, D.C. and Oklahoma. Metformin, a drug used to help normalize the body's use of insulin and return hormones back to a balanced state, is not tolerated by a lot of women, Quinn cautions.
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Being Over- or Underweight
"Being too thin or too heavy can disrupt the hormonal function," says Quinn. Research also proves that exercising too much can negatively impact your fertility outcome. Quinn believes that nutrition and supplementation is the future of treating infertility.
Women should be counseled on their nutrition; supplements like fish oils, Vitamin D, probiotics, high-quality prenatal vitamins (Quinn recommends Pulling Down the Moon's own brand which is triple certified), and CoQ10 can help egg quality, and are beneficial for male factor too. "The sooner women get in to see us the better," Quinn says. "Ideally we'd like women implementing changes three months prior to IVF."
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"Generations before us didn't understand that infertility is complex, and it's not just a matter of stress. There's more to it than that," says Dr. Kaplan. Stress plays a roll in all disease, including infertility, "but if stress would be the only factor causing infertility, it would have to be extreme…something that is really catastrophic." If a woman is indeed dealing with such an extreme level of stress, it can play a roll in suppressing the function of the hypothalamus, which controls the pituitary gland, which in turn controls the thyroid and adrenal glands and the ovaries—ultimately leading to irregular periods. Bottom line: You'd have a telltale sign if stress and stress alone were interfering with your reproductive system.
"Once you are stressed you can go down a very dark rabbit hole very quickly," counsels Quinn. She suggests looking for ways to manage your stress levels at the very outset of treatment—find a support group, see the staff psychologist at the fertility clinic, do yoga for fertility, meditate, or do something special with your partner—acupuncture can also be a great stress reducer. "As soon as you know you're going to a fertility doctor, go to a holistic center," she says.
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Tubal Disease
Part of determining the cause of a woman's infertility is examining whether she has a mechanical issue, like blocked tubes, from infection. Dr. Kaplan says: "Let's say she has beautiful eggs, and he has great sperm…but they have to have a milieu—a place where they can get together and fertilize." Part of the workup is always some form of radiological assessment to make sure the tubes are open and/or the uterus is okay.
Tubal disease has been less of a factor over the last decade or two. "If you look at the '60s and '70s, tubal disease was when a woman had blocked tubes, or scarred tubes from infection or chlamydia, or from endometriosis, causing structural problems," explains Kaplan. Now, doctors go straight to IVF to treat tubal disease.
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Age (or Egg Factor)
"Age in a woman is still the most critical variable [in her fertility]," says Dr. Kaplan. Women are born with all their eggs—approximately one to two million at birth—and we lose them every month, in both quantity and quality. By puberty we only have 300,000 left, and only about 300 will eventually mature and be released through ovulation. "That gradual loss of eggs is called atresia—so by the time you reach menopause, at 51, you don't have eggs left."
That continual loss of eggs—like the aging process itself—is irreversible. "You can't treat that; you can't make more eggs," Dr. Kaplan says. But if you look at why the incidence of infertility is so common, it's the average age of a woman seeking fertility: around 35 or 36. "We call that an egg factor." The egg is not what it used to be; it's deteriorated. "Our job as infertility physicians is to make sure we manage all the things we can to make sure those eggs are as good as they can be." Examples include: quitting smoking, losing weight if you're obese, managing thyroid problems, and taking supplements like the aforementioned fish oils, Vitamin D, probiotics, high-quality prenatal vitamins, and CoQ10, which all help egg quality.
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"Smoking has a negative impact on fertility, primarily by extending the time to conception," says Dr. John Jain, Medical Director of Santa Monica Fertility, who makes regular appearances on The Dr. Oz Show and is featured in the Brigitte Mueller documentary My Future Baby. Smoking tobacco and marijuana can lower male sperm count and motility but it should be noted, says Dr. Jain, that smoking is a modifiable risk factor. "It may worsen other forms of infertility such as male factor, but in and of itself is not usually viewed as a primary cause of infertility." Long-time female nicotine users can experience infertility problems, too, causing irregular ovulation, among other things.
Plain and simple: quit. The one piece of good news here is that the effects of smoking (both legal and illegal substances) are, in some cases, reversible. A few months before trying to conceive you should kick the habit and get both your bodies ready for what's ahead. The healthier you are, the better equipped you'll be to conceive and maintain a healthy pregnancy.
Low Progesterone
"Low progesterone and its role in fertility has been a controversial topic for over 30 years," says Dr. Jain. "After ovulation, the egg follicle—now called a corpus luteum—takes on a new role of producing progesterone in order to support embryo implantation and early pregnancy," he explains. Lack of sufficient progesterone during this phase of the menstrual cycle is called Luteal Phase Defect (or LPD), and can lead to disordered development of the uterine lining and/or inadequate maintenance of the lining to support a growing pregnancy. "Although LPD as an independent cause of infertility has yet to be proven, it is possible that women with other medical problems (such as thyroid or prolactin abnormalities) may have abnormal luteal function."
Many reproductive endocrinologists will prescribe progesterone supplements in the form of pills, vaginal suppositories and/or injections, which can help thicken the uterine lining to allow the embryos to attach.


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