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|2012-04-22, 08:47
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I have to agree, I read the games after all arcs were out, but it just made solving the mystery more fun as I had less time to wait to see if I was correct. For me someof the best moments were seeing the confirmation of Shkannon theory (since at least game five I am pretty sure I'd been thinking they were the same person, and certainly before game six was through) and having Will confirm support my solution of the linked closed murders (or even better my confession). I do not think reading it later ruined it, maybe I didn't wrack my brains as long as others, but as long as you didn't cheat the answers or read all the mysteries straight and gave it some thought in your downtime it was still good. I would say the only aspect us latecomers miss is the fun of arguing over ways to solve the closed room mysteries before the answers were known, which would definitely have been great. Maybe in his next work if he throws in a mystery or two.
|2012-04-22, 10:32
|Link #28542
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It seems pretty obvious that some people learned to think from the author's pov, and ends up having no problems with Shkanontrice theory.
Nothing really to say about it, but I'm glad to see it exists.
And I'm also glad to see that people who thinks the narrative is better then the logic puzzle exists.
If "not a fiction" then "not solvable". You end up as a crazy conspiracy theorist for playing around with the idea of the hidden truth of Rokkenjima.
If "solvable" then "fiction" and thus certainly not prime.
|2012-04-22, 12:37
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I would like to chime in again on this one.
Aside from the motive, the only other problem I have with the Shkanontrice theory is that while it works taking a multitude of reds that were shot out and is beautifully foreshadowed in normal text, it also trips itself up in semantics and subjectivity.
Here are some things that hint at "Something's odd!":
Okay, let's say at the moment that Beatrice killed him. Beatrice is a witch, not a human, and she resides in his body...
However, if there is no one hiding in the six rooms, and these six are dead... then who is in Kanon's body? Does this mean that Beatrice can 'hide' in Kanon's body and avoid getting called out? Or is she Hiding in Plain Sight (with a +20 modifier at that)?
Really, what is she? Should she be treated as a human? If so, then the other reds are erroneus. Is she a witch? In that case, this red doesn't work.
To sum up my viewpoint, Shkanontrice would work perfectly as a who- and howdunnit, were there no or less red text.
|2012-04-22, 13:18
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That means it is a THING, a WEAPON, just like the Winchesters. But since no human besides Battler was alive, and he very likely did not accidently trigger any strange things that may lead to an accident, it must be an indirect weapon, like a trap.
But since in every game it is triggered at 24:00 and it kills Battler every time, regardless of what his location is, we can conclude: IT'S A DELAYED-ACTION BOMB!
|2012-04-22, 14:10
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|2012-04-22, 14:28
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Although the 5th debunked that and 7th confirmed that it was a bomb.
However one thing I am not sure about. Is why Beatrice seemed so torn up at the question of "who aaaam I". Will's answer was that she is the promised death god that pulls down the curtain on witch's games. The explosives have connection to Beatrice as it creates the cat box which could allow Beatrice to exist. However I am not really sure if that is it.
|2012-04-22, 14:58
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Of course, it's always the literary worth of an author's work that determines its value, but when labeling their work as mystery and go to all the trouble of making the detective point out many trivial-seeming details and explain a series of clues that led him to whichever conclusion, they ought to have presented those for the reader in advance so as to make the novel anything more than a pretentious pile of baloney.
|2012-04-22, 15:35
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Indeed that Umineko was solvable so you should put effort into thinking although Battler/Will does a bulk of the work for the reader. Although it rubs me the wrong me the wrong way about how Will said it.
That it refers to explosives having a connection with Beatrice while making sense for Will's explanation but it does not feel right for that scene.
|2012-04-22, 16:07
|Link #28549
The True Culprit
Either way, your statement is offensive and insulting.
UsagiTenpura hates Eddie Murphy, therefore they hate black people. See the problem with those sorts of sweeping generalizations?
However, if there is no one hiding in the six rooms, and these six are dead... then who is in Kanon's body? Does this mean that Beatrice can 'hide' in Kanon's body and avoid getting called out? Or is she Hiding in Plain Sight (with a +20 modifier at that)?
See that Magenta text, Xenon? That's Meta-World for "Objectively Awesome."
|2012-04-22, 16:07
|Link #28550
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|2012-04-22, 16:36
|Link #28551
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LOL, problem solved! And we had it next to us all the time!
"The Heart of Beatrice" is the Bomb!
I mean Beatrice said "I will expose my heart now", then the "ghost Beatrice" otherwise known as Bomb!Beatrice appeared... and that ghost, or at least what it represents, IS "The Heart".
It was so obivious that i never considered it... so maybe to "understand everything", we must research more about the bomb...
|2012-04-22, 16:41
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Dea ex Kakera
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sea of Fragments
It might be fun to do a forgery where Sakutarou possesses Maria's corpse to avenge her death in the fantasy plot.
|2012-04-22, 17:38
|Link #28553
The True Culprit
|2012-04-23, 02:03
|Link #28554
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
|2012-04-23, 03:22
|Link #28555
The True Culprit
|2012-04-23, 06:49
|Link #28556
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|2012-04-23, 07:10
|Link #28557
Detective, Witch, Pirate.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ruins of the Golden Land
Yeah, Beatrice's heart isn't the bomb itself, but it's one of the core elements of her motive. I mean, her crazy suicidal bet wouldn't be possible without the existence of the bomb, it's not like the bomb is yet another personality or anything. That ghost Beatrice is just the illusion that the witch side is allowed to display as an explanation of the presented result.
|2012-04-23, 07:55
|Link #28558
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Also an off-topic. You know how some people state the crazy stuff at the end of Game 2 is all because Battler is drunk? I always had another theory.
As we know there are two types of magic, that which is observed (a trick) and that which is not (flat out lie). I am pretty sure most of that magic stuff happened after midnight, so maybe, there just weren't any observers by then?
|2012-04-23, 08:33
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|2012-04-23, 08:51
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Join Date: May 2009
You're trying to cast my examples as absurd - which of course they were intended to be - to make it look like the dialed-back example that actually happened is reasonable. That isn't how it works. The examples illustrate the semantic absurdity of defining something that doesn't follow normal rules. The problem is not merely in this definitional trickery, but also in equivocating them with the standard definition without trying to distinguish the two in any way.
You understand that personality death is itself the hint that permits everyone to not be dead, right? I don't actually need any evidence that Hideyoshi has a magic form or an alternate personality (although, it's worth noting, there are multiple characters who could be spun to have one); that death != death is the "hint."
To suggest that "the entire rest of my story [explains] the philosophy behind it" is overly generous at best. If the "philosophy" is "by living in denial and refusing to be clear about things, I can make anything true," I guess you're right. But that's just my very point.
Nevermind that, and this is kind of an important thing, many of these so-called rule revelations do not come up in a format that - as far as we know - Battler was able to observe. I mean, a hell of a lot of information comes from places like the ep2 prologue flashback and Ange's review of Maria's diary in Alliance. Are we to just assume Battler saw these things (and he has to see all of them)? I have absolutely no way of knowing, as far as my recollection goes, whether he did or not. If he didn't, he doesn't have that information. So what if we did? Because it helps us figure out Shkanon? People had figured that shit out by ep2. It was a theory everyone was aware of, and was only doubted because he cheated to intentionally stir up the issue.
Like others have said, without the red it's actually easier for us and particularly for Battler. Who is the one who was meant to solve things. That proves the red was intentionally and maliciously deceptive on an authorial level.
"Oh, people have problems with the author cheating? They just don't get it."
I understand what Ryukishi wanted to do. It was a stupid, amateurish move by an amateurish writer who thought he could pull it off, then panicked and disguised it when his big trick was immediately spotted by seasoned readers. The fact that he's claimed that he is an amateur doesn't excuse him.
I don't like it, but that may have been Ryukishi's intention with that one. Of course, one can apply the very same rule to the others, since they're not provably dead. Only "victims" are in the rooms. Nevermind that Shannon and Kanon are "victims," so the red should apply to them and force them to be in the rooms. I'm pretty sure Ryukishi will with a straight face tell you that Shannon/Kanon were murdered but weren't victims... or that "not existing" supersedes "existing as a victim." Or that Beatrice pretending to be Kanon's corpse is somehow different from hiding, because words mean whatever Ryukishi wants them to mean as long as they're convenient for him.
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Paul Finkelman on the Sage of Monticello:
Contrary to Mr. Wiencek's depiction, Jefferson was always deeply committed to slavery, and even more deeply hostile to the welfare of blacks, slave or free. His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience.
There is, it is true, a compelling paradox about Jefferson: when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, announcing the "self-evident" truth that all men are "created equal," he owned some 175 slaves. Too often, scholars and readers use those facts as a crutch, to write off Jefferson's inconvenient views as products of the time and the complexities of the human condition.
But while many of his contemporaries, including George Washington, freed their slaves during and after the revolution — inspired, perhaps, by the words of the Declaration — Jefferson did not. Over the subsequent 50 years, a period of extraordinary public service, Jefferson remained the master of Monticello, and a buyer and seller of human beings.
Nor was Jefferson a particularly kind master. He sometimes punished slaves by selling them away from their families and friends, a retaliation that was incomprehensibly cruel even at the time. A proponent of humane criminal codes for whites, he advocated harsh, almost barbaric, punishments for slaves and free blacks. Known for expansive views of citizenship, he proposed legislation to make emancipated blacks "outlaws" in America, the land of their birth. Opposed to the idea of royal or noble blood, he proposed expelling from Virginia the children of white women and black men.
Jefferson also dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial equality. As a state legislator he blocked consideration of a law that might have eventually ended slavery in the state.
As president he acquired the Louisiana Territory but did nothing to stop the spread of slavery into that vast "empire of liberty." Jefferson told his neighbor Edward Coles not to emancipate his own slaves, because free blacks were "pests in society" who were "as incapable as children of taking care of themselves." And while he wrote a friend that he sold slaves only as punishment or to unite families, he sold at least 85 humans in a 10-year period to raise cash to buy wine, art and other luxury goods.


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School workshop
An African story for young writers
Friday 17 January 2014,
Claus Moser Room
Tickets £30
Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Ticket Desk in Great Court
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For Reception and KS1 students
This session uses storytelling and object handling to explore how stories are written and received.
It includes time in the African galleries where students will look for objects to help them compose their own ending to the story.
Includes a gallery visit and lunch break.
All work generated by the students will be available to go back to school at the end of the session.
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Maximum group size: 30.
Age: Reception & Key Stage 1
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Dell News, Earnings Captivate Traders
Host Michael Casey and Alexandra Scaggs report on today's market action including updates on the Dell vote. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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In cooperation with the UConn Department of Public Policy, the School of Law offers students the JD/MPA dual degree program. Students obtaining a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) is committed to educating students to serve the public interest in the governmental, nonprofit, and private sector arenas. The JD/MPA program provides education and training in the concepts, skills, and techniques of public policy analysis, intergovernmental relations, statistical decision making, public management, financial administration, and human resource management. The program prepares students for careers as executives, policy officials and administrators in federal, state or local government and in nonprofit organizations. It is also extremely beneficial for students who plan to specialize in areas in which a legal background is especially helpful, e.g., labor relations, health administration, environmental protection, intergovernmental relations and city and town government. Those wishing a broad education in law and government as well as those who want a public affairs and law perspective in a specific area will find the dual degree program equally appropriate. The program is flexible and individualized to provide each student with the best possible combination of these two disciplines.
All students who wish to pursue a dual degree program must first be granted separate admission into both programs. A dual degree enrollment form, approved by each school, will also be required. Students in the dual degree program may obtain both degrees in four years, compared with five years, if both degrees were pursued separately. Candidates admitted to both schools in the same year will ordinarily take their first year at the School of Law. However, students in their first year of the MPA program may reverse this procedure if they are admitted to the School of Law for the following year. After the first year of law school, students ordinarily spend one year fulltime in the graduate school. During the third and fourth years, students will divide their time between the School of Law and the Graduate School depending on the students' choices and availability of desired courses. Additionally, all students must comply with the rules regarding credit load limitations. When credits from both programs are combined, without prior approval from the associate dean, full time students may not exceed (16) credits and part time students may not exceed (12) credits per semester. Students seeking to exceed these limits must obtain permission from the associate dean for academic affairs at the Law School. In no case will permission to exceed these limits be granted if course work at the law school would account for more than (17) of the total combined credits in one semester, due to ABA Standards.
The JD degree program requires completion of (86) credits (including all required first-year courses, a course in Legal Ethics and Responsibility, and an intensive, analytical paper which satisfies a writing requirement). The MPA degree program requires completion of (48) credits (including (26) credits of core courses, (12) credits of concentration courses, a six-credit internship as determined by the Graduate School and successful completion of the capstone preparatory and capstone course). Each school will accept (12) credits from the other as applicable for transfer.
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Hello friends.. today I have a card to share I have made for a very special day that's coming up for me tomorrow. I am going to be able to be in a blog hop with some ladies I admire since the time I had my first stamp in my hands. It is still for me unbelievable that my name is in the same list as "THE" Debbie Olson (sleigh), Colleen Schaan and Marianne Walker and many more ladies how's work I admire.
It is truly for me a dream come true.. almost more than the reason we celebrate tomorrow.
I can not tell you too much giggle .. but please make sure to swing by tomorrow and enter your name into the drawing. There will 3 prizes… 2 of them I can share with you. Krista Smith kindly donated 3 digi stamps of your choice from her shop over on Etsy and Mary from the Ribbon Girls offered a Fuschia Ribbon kit.
I used for the card "Copica" – it fts tomorrows theme she is drawn by Krista
Papers are by Minds Eye Lime Twist – Happy go Lucky – kindly given to me by Angie – you got to look at Angies store.. all pads are on sale for only $3.00
crochet lace and hemp is from the ribbon girls
Sentiment: Inkidoo
Well.. I have one more shot.. sorry for the different colours on my pictures… I don't know what is going on today… the weather outside is actually not that bad today. This one looks so green oh well…
See you hopefully tomorrow.. good bye my lovelies


text: Market Strategy: Should You Buy Land? November 2, 2011 08:21 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jerry Gulke Top Producer Market Strategy Columnist Email To buy or not to buy? That's the question farmers most frequently ask at my seminars. Is the land boom over? Should I sell now or buy more to average my costs? The answer depends on the inquirer's perspective and age. Almost five years ago, I wrote a column ("Too Late for Land," January 2007) where I justified the value of $3,000 per acre farmland in Illinois. I argued that you could justify $6,000 per acre given the paradigm shift of corn becoming energy-related, economic globalization and the rise of the middle classes in India and Asia. I got a number of negative comments, primarily from accountants, suggesting it was a poor analogy. Since then, investing in farmland has made a mockery out of any other investment choice. Timing Is Important. In my early years of farming, a senior farmer offered advice that has stood the test of time. "Over the years," he said, "you will find that the best time to buy land was yesterday." While times have changed, my experience in seeing a long-term plan work for two generations might shed some light. I recall my father telling me in the 1950s that he paid for a quarter-section in North Dakota with one year's production of flaxseed. Land I purchased in the mid-1970s netted more in pre-tax income this year than I paid. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that would happen twice in my generation. For cash buyers, rental income on any land rivals bank interest rates by a wide margin. It is hard to have a negative cash flow on debt-free land, but being born at the right time is a huge advantage. Cash Flow and Debt Reduction. The coffee shop talk a decade or two ago was that a 500-acre farmer couldn't make it in the world of "big" producers. A part-time farmer who worked in a factory and bought land 20 years ago is likely netting more pre-tax than the CEO of the company he worked for. So size doesn't matter if you are in it for the long haul! The Rule of Sevens states that money doubles every 7.2 years at 10% interest or return on investment. Using my experience as an example, $650 land in 1974 should have doubled to $1,300 by 1984, $2,600 by 1994 and so on. 1974 1984 1994 2004 2014 2024 2034 Value per acre $650 $1,300 $2,600 $5,200 $10,400 $20,800 $41,600 Land in Illinois hit $3,000 per acre in 1982, ahead of projections thanks to near hyperinflation. The ag crisis and 14% cost of money broke the back of inflation and took land to $1,200 by 1985. By 2005, that same land was $3,000 per acre. Now, there's rumor of small tracts selling for $$16,000 in Illinois and Iowa, once again ahead of projections. Land likely won't double again, but history suggests equities and housing might. If you're young and a land purchase cash-flows at $4.50 corn, the Rule of Sevens says you'll be fine in the next 20 years. If you're 55, it might be time to rebalance your assets and convert a high-priced item (land) into a low-priced retirement home. Jerry Gulke farms in Illinois and North Dakota and is president of Gulke Group Inc., a market advisory firm with offices at the Chicago Board of Trade. Gulke Group recently published "Technical Analysis: Fundamentally Easy." For information, send an e-mail to email@example.com or call (815) 520-4227. Back to news


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Matthew Henry comments on the laying of palm branches and clothing upon Jesus' path, saying, "Those who take Christ for their King must lay their all under his feet." This crowd, in the end, did not want Jesus to rule over them in the way He designed, hence their praises were hollow. Sometimes we act the same way, holding onto sin or not sacrificing for the kingdom even while praising Jesus with our mouths. What must you lay at our Lord's feet this day?
For further study:
The Bible in a year:
Coram Deo from TableTalk Magazine, Matthew Studies. Copyright © 2008 by Ligonier Ministries.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT women's volleyball team extended its winning streak to five after defeating NEWMAC foe Clark University, 25-23, 25-17, 25-19, and Rivier College, 25-18, 25-19, 25-15, on Saturday. The Engineers' ledger improved to 7-4 on the year and 2-0 conference play.
Cecily Joujon-Roche paced MIT's front row with 10 kills on 17-error free attempts for a .588 hitting percentage to go along with three blocks, and three aces versus Clark. Trinity Leonard tallied 10 kills, six digs, and two blocks while Jenny Li posted nine kills and .333 hitting percentage. Kelly Schulte chipped in seven kills, a .429 hitting performance, and one block as Katie Spielbauer amassed 16 digs. Natasha Jensen notched seven digs and three aces while Anna Dikina finished with six digs. Sharon Hao totaled 27 assists and four digs.
Against Rivier, Li led the way with eight kills while Emma Gargus recorded seven kills, a .636 hitting percentage, and three blocks. Joujon-Roche tacked on six kills, two aces, and two blocks as Tatiana Berger added six kills of her own. Spielbauer collected 10 digs while Jensen racked up seven digs and four aces. Dikina bolstered the back row with seven digs as Leonard posted five digs. Hao and Schulte both registered a pair of blocks while Hao dished out 29 assists.


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Amid the maelstrom of stories about Democrats getting crushed by independents, deep blue citadels on the verge of turning red, and the likelihood of Harry Reid being unseated climbing above 75 percent, thank goodness there's one news agency with the clear-eyed vision to report on important phenomena like "Republicans for Cuomo."
Hang in there, Reuters. It'll all be over soon.
Republican candidate Carl Paladino — backed by the conservative Tea Party movement — raised such political hackles he spawned a "Republicans for Cuomo" movement supporting Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
Similar groups can be found in heated races elsewhere nationwide, often those featuring Tea Party-endorsed candidates, attacked by Democrats and some moderate Republicans as extreme…
In Nevada, incumbent Democrat Sen. Harry Reid, who faces Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle, counts among his Republican supporters an array of influential gaming and casino executives.
"Mainstream Republicans are refusing to support the latest crop of insurgent candidates in the Republican Party because of their extremist beliefs," said Deirdre Murphy, spokeswoman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington.
Somewhere Charlie Crist is reading that sentence, wistfully wishing it were true. But give Reuters credit for recognizing that voters switching parties in revulsion at the leadership is a significant and newsworthy trend. I wonder if we can find a more salient example, though, than "Casinos Against Angle" or whatever. How about … this?
In the case of women — a traditionally Democratic-leaning group that the White House has been courting actively in recent weeks — the shift toward the Republicans was marked in the latest poll, especially when compared with their stated preferences in the last Times/CBS poll, in mid-September.
In the earlier poll, women favored Democrats over Republicans by seven percentage points. In the latest poll, women said they were likely to support a Republican over a Democrat by four percentage points, suggesting Republican gains among women who were undecided as of last month.
Eleven points. In a month. Among one of the left's core constituencies. No wonder Democrats are starting to mumble about abortion and other social issues that are a cynical deplorable wedge whenever Republicans mention them during a campaign but have now magically transformed into responsible politicking ahead of a very important election. I'm half surprised that The One hasn't suddenly "seen the light" and come out in favor of gay marriage. But then, he is, after all, still "evolving."


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mgm needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Green recruiting firm, brightgreentalent.com, is looking for a new, cleaner design for their website following a very specific example.
BRlGHT GREEN TALENT
They want to keep most of their current content, but they are in love with the look-and-feel of this page:
We can build them the flash element, but we want to see what your concept is for what it could look like and ways we can creatively display the information. Obviously they have a very clean, but colorful design preference.
- 960 - 1,000 pixels in width
- You must use their current logo
- Jagged, aliased text is a DEFINITE NO.


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Rains that dashed many producers' hopes of a decent crop are still causing heartache as Mississippi growers try to complete the harvest and repair fields damaged in the process.
Rains began in late September and stopped harvest statewide for most of the row crops. The delay caused many crop losses in the fields and reduced the quality of what remained. In between showers, growers did their best to harvest from the soaked fields.
The result was thousands of acres of severely rutted fields, and some of the state's crops were still in the field at the end of November.
What should have been record yields in many places turned into average yields with reduced quality. Adding further insult to injury is the increased cost of producing next year's crops caused by the repairs that must be done to the fields this winter.
"In parts of the state, this is probably the wettest harvest season anyone can remember, and certainly the worst harvest conditions I've ever seen," said Will McCarty, cotton specialist with Mississippi State University's Extension Service.
McCarty estimated 75 percent of the state's cotton fields have some rutting, and about 30 to 40 percent of it is serious. Fields will have to be repaired before spring planting, and McCarty said it costs $10 to $12 an acre per trip across the field with equipment to smooth the land.
"We have obviously lost yield and lost price due to low quality, but things you don't think about are the expense of repairing the damage to fields and the expense of repairing the damage to the harvest equipment," he said. "Working these machines out in the mud and wet conditions adds tremendously to their maintenance costs."
McCarty said many of the state's reduced-till and no-till growers have gotten rid of the equipment they would normally use to repair the fields and will have to hire someone to get the work done.
Others are still trying to get crops harvested and will later worry about reforming the land for spring planting. McCarty estimated the cotton crop was 90 percent harvested by late November. Typically, 99 percent of the crop is out of the fields by that time.
Soybeans, too, suffered from being left in the fields as the rains kept harvesters away. Alan Blaine, Mississippi Extension soybean specialist, estimated at least one-third of the crop saw some degree of damage from weather and deterioration.
"By Sept. 10, soybean growers were approximately 50 percent harvested, but they were able to harvest only about 20 percent more in the next 45 days," Blaine said. "A lot of the crop stayed out in the fields for a very long time."
When farmers were finally able to harvest some beans, the harvest equipment left serious ruts in the fields. He estimates more land preparation will need to be done this year than has been done in the last 15 years.
"I wish it wouldn't rain a drop until the first of February," Blaine said. "We need an opportunity to get in the field and work some of these ruts out."
Blaine said the next few years' crops could be impacted by this year's harvest woes.
"March and April are some of our wettest months of the year. If we do not get a window to repair rutted fields between now and planting, that will delay planting, making the crop later, and we could be in this same situation next year," Blaine said.
Joe Street, Extension rice specialist at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., said rice was about 80 percent harvested before the rains came, but the last 20 percent of the fields were rutted pretty badly in harvest.
"Growers will have to do heavy disking to fill in the ruts," Street said. "Most of the rice is rotated with soybeans, and most of the damaged fields will go into soybeans."
Erick Larson, Extension corn specialist, said corn was spared because it was nearly all harvested by the time Tropical Storm Isidore came through Mississippi in September.
"The short-term implications are that growers will look at corn more favorably next year since they were able to get it out of the field before bad weather came this year and last year," Larson said. "Corn has retained quality and tolerated abnormally wet conditions much better than the other row crops in the state."
Larson said the 2000 corn crop set a new record yield of 130 bushels an acre, and this year's yields were just three bushels below that record. He expects corn acreage to increase in 2003.
Bonnie Coblentz writes for Mississippi State University Ag Communications.


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IUOE stationary engineers acquire their skills through a formal apprenticeship program and through on-the-job training, which is supplemented by courses offered by IUOE and its local unions, or at trade or technical schools. Due to the increasing complexity of the equipment with which they work, many stationary engineers take related college courses. Still, it takes many years of formal training and work experience to become a skilled stationary engineer.
"As CEO of the Chicago Public Schools I appreciate having employee groups that provide their services with little intervention from my administrative team. This allows us to keep our main focus on Education in our system of over 400,000 students and 40,000 staff. IUOE Local 143-143B is one such group. I am proud to have the officers and members of this Local as part of my team in leading the third largest school system in the nation." Arne Duncan, Former Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Schools
Apprenticeship is an excellent way to learn the craft and to earn income while learning. The system is designed to give someone who knows little or nothing about the trade the knowledge to become a journey-level stationary engineer. The average length of a stationary engineer apprenticeship is four years. During this period, apprentices learn their craft by working with skilled stationary engineers at an actual job site, and attending related classroom instruction in such technical subjects as boiler operation and maintenance, air conditioning and refrigeration, HVAC instrumentation and controls, HVAC advanced testing and balancing, safety, electricity, energy conservation, and indoor air quality. This training is critical to preparing apprentices to qualify for stationary engineer licenses, which are required by most states.
Starting pay for an apprentice is about 40% to 60% of the journey-level stationary engineer rate. Pay increases are scheduled at designated times during the progression from apprentice to journey level.
Journey-level stationary engineers are encouraged to continue their education in order to broaden their skills, keep abreast of changes in the industry and increase their employability.
Many IUOE stationary local unions have apprentice and journey-level training available through IUOE local union/employer training trust funds, commonly referred to as Joint Apprenticeship Committee (JAC) training funds.
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The technology revolution has forced a change in USPTO identification standards
As technology advances, it is not unusual for products to change their form or the manner of their delivery but still be seen as the same, or at least analogous, products in the eyes of the consumer. For instance, computer programs started out as being delivered on punch cards, and transitioned to magnetic tape, then to floppy disks, hard disks, CDs and DVDs. Now, computer software is downloaded wirelessly or hosted in the cloud.
Section 7(e) of the Trademark Act, allows a registration based on an application under §1 or §44 of the Trademark Act to be amended, provided the amendment does not materially alter the character of the mark. With respect to the identification of goods/services, pursuant to 37 CFR § 2.173(e), no amendment to the identification of goods in a registration will be accepted if the amendment would "change it in ways that would require republication of the mark."
Unfortunately, the analysis or test for whether an amendment to the identification would require republication is not a clear standard. Further complicating this issue is USPTO guidance that "computer programs…" in Class 9 can be amended to "providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer programs…" in Class 42.
In other words, adding a method of delivery of such "programs" narrows the identification such that republication would not be required.
As a result, the USPTO in its request for comments indicated that it is seeing an increase in the "number of requests for amendment under §7, as well as inquiries from registration owners, seeking to amend identifications of goods/services due to changes in the manner or medium by which products and services are offered for sale and provided to consumers, particularly because of evolving technology."
Examples of such requests include:
- Class 9 computer software programs to providing software as a service in Class 42
- Class 9 items featuring music (e.g., audio cassettes, audio tapes, disks, diskettes, vinyl records, etc.) to musical sound recordings in Class 9
- Class 16 printed magazines to providing on-line magazines in Class 41
- Class 41 entertainment services such as providing cable television entertainment programs to providing television entertainment via the Internet in Class 41
The USPTO summarized the typical argument in such cases, as follows: "[T]rademark owners typically assert that the amendment should be accepted because the content or subject matter of the respective product or service is unchanged. For example, in the case of amendments involving musical sound recordings, trademark owners explain that the music is the same, but it is simply no longer provided on audio cassettes, and now instead is provided on CDs or via downloadable audio files. They assert that merely changing the medium in which the identical music is being provided is not an expansion of the scope of the registration."
As stated by the USPTO, "under current [Office] practice, changed circumstances, such as new technology, will not render acceptable an amendment that is not otherwise permissible."
The example provided in the TMEP is that "if the goods in the registration are identified as 'phonograph records', the identification of goods cannot be amended to 'compact discs.'" However, registration owners have argued in response that, particularly in cases where only the manner of distribution has changed, republication and additional notice to the public is unnecessary because the underlying products have not changed.
To assist the USPTO in developing policy on this issue, the USPTO has requested responses to the following ten questions be sent to email@example.com, with the subject line "Technology Evolution" no later than Nov. 1, 2013:
- Please identify your relevant background on this issue, including whether you are a trademark owner or practitioner, and the general size and nature of your business or trademark practice, including the number of trademark applications and registrations your business has, or your practice handles.
- Do you think the USPTO should allow amendments to identifications of goods/services in registrations based on changes in the manner or medium by which products and services are offered for sale and provided to consumers?
- If such amendments are permitted, should they only be allowed post registration to account for changes in technology following registration, or should similar amendments be permitted in applications prior to registration (see 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a), stating that prior to registration, an applicant may clarify or limit, but not broaden, the identification)?
- What type of showing should be required for such amendments? Should a special process be required to file such amendments, apart from a request for amendment under §7?
- Should such amendments be limited to certain goods, services or fields (such as computer software, music, etc.), and if so, how should the determination be made as to which goods, services or fields?
- Should a distinction be made between products that have been phased out (such as eight-track tapes), as opposed to products for which the technology is evolving (such as on-line magazines), or should amendments be permitted for both categories of products?
- Do you believe the scope of protection in an identification of goods/services is expanded if an amendment is allowed to alter the medium of the goods/services?
- Would the original dates of use remain accurate if such amendments are permitted?
- What would the impact of such amendments be on the public policy objective of ensuring notice of the coverage afforded under a registration?
- Please provide any additional comments you may have.


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Patriotism is a strange beast, agreed.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
Incidentally, there are nine on CW who have tipped England to win it in our poll - more than any other nation. You could argue that they are nearly as daft as the three astute individuals who picked Australia to win it.
Now let's see: who did FaaipDeOiad pick?


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infoniche needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
LIPO Fast
A medical clinic with a new procedure that allows patients to sculpt their bodies and remove fat without surgery, making patients slimmer, vibrant, and more attractive.
Women ages 25-55
We need a home page design, with a clean feel. We will also need one internal page design (but please wait until we have a shortlist of 2-3 home page designs before working on this.)
The home page headline should be:
Lose Up to 6 Inches Of Fat With:
- No dieting or exercise
- No pills or drugs
- No surgery or pain
The clinic's phone number should be prominently displayed on the right-side of the page. For now, use "Call (800) 123-4567".
Also, a street address should appear somewhere. Use "123 Main St. Suite 100, Orlando FL 12345" for now.
The navigation menu should have:
- Home
- How It Works
- How It Feels
- Before & After Photos
- Weight Loss
- About Us/Contact
Graphics are available at http://www.infoniche.net/lipo/. Logo.jpg should be used, the rest are up to you. Comps for stock photos are OK too.
There is also a video that will be on the site. Use video-preview.jpg as a placeholder in the design.
The main elements of the design (headline, navigation, prominent phone number, and video) should all be visible without scrolling either horizontally or vertically at 1024x768 resolution.
We look forward to seeing your wonderful designs!


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The E74 error is a hard one man, I've only been able to fix one out of the three I'm come across. It's all about putting pressure on the ana/hana chip, I believe:RobDIKUM wrote:JREED23 wrote:plus free PSN, bluetooth, etc... Bad thing is, you can't mod/hack PS3 - like the ridiculously exploitable 360, lol - I just JTAG'd an old XBOX 360 I had laying around (I repair them as a side job) that wasn't working (didn't have a valid DVD rom) now I have every live arcade game ever made, and 50 of the latest games all running off of a 1.5 TB external drive! lol, F*ck you M$!RobDIKUM wrote:Thanks man! Got the ps3 today and got mw2 all over again. Had to start over, I had prestiged once on xbox. Oh well, I have a more reliable system with a blu ray player and 120 GB hard drive. I like xbox but I couldn't deal with it anymore. Feel free to add me guys, though my games will be most likely mw2, socom, nhl 10 in the future and possibly MAG.
haha thats crazy, u helped me with a bunch of stuff on my old xbox's. Now i have two that have E74 that i'm tired of ****ing with. Hey if you wanna buy some broken 360's, i got two!
The only thing that sucks on PS3 is i play NHL 10 and the voice chat is terrible on the PS3 version. It's very frustrating. The menu's are better in 360 too, but i'm liking the PS3 a lot, i just wish they had the party chat feature like Xbox added.
here is one guide:
I remember one guide I used that used pennies to apply pressure to the ana/hana chip, that one seemed pretty good.


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Library to host Veterans Forum
The Edneyville Library will host a Veterans Forum at 11 a.m. Nov. 9 in honor of Veterans Day. The library will host three local veteran heroes as they take a look back at their time in the military.
From World War II to Vietnam and beyond, they will give attendees a glimpse of history and answer questions from the audience.
The forum includes Capt. George Oldham, a World War II veteran who served as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps and was also stationed in India; Master Chief Dave Hubert, who served in the Navy during Vietnam; and William Hickman, who served most of his time training troops stationed in California and Hawaii.
The event is free and open to all. Call 828-685-0110 for more information.
Homeless and Hunger Awareness Week
Brevard College's BC Serves Club will host activities in observation of Homeless and Hunger Awareness Week Nov. 10-16. On Nov. 11, the student-led service initiatives club will gather local homeless and hunger experts to discuss issues facing the surrounding area.
The 7 p.m. panel discussion held in McLarty-Goodson Building, Room 125, will feature Michael Collins from the Bread of Life and Jennifer Flood from the Haven Homeless Shelter.
A Hunger Banquet designed to raise awareness of the world's hunger issues will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Institute Room of the college's Myers Dining Hall. Participants will be placed in one of three economic classes and given the meal in which that class represents.
Both the panel discussion and the Hunger Banquet are free and open to the public.
The week's observation will also include Brevard College students creating a temporary homeless camp and spending a night sleeping outside as part of a "homeless simulation." Opportunities to serve meals at the Brevard's Bread of Life Food Bank and volunteer at Asheville's Manna Food Bank are planned during the week. Visit www.brevard.edu for more information.
A Flat Rock Village Council agenda workshop will be held at 9:30 a.m. today
The Henderson County Early College High School Improvement Team meets at 3 p.m. today in the Industrial Skills Building, room 121, 120 Alumni Way, Flat Rock.
The Atkinson Elementary School Improvement Team meets at 3:30 p.m. today in the media center of the school, 2510 Old Kanuga Road.
A Brevard City Council workshop scheduled for today has been canceled. The council's next meeting will be held Monday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.
The Flat Rock Planning Board meets at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday in Flat Rock Village Hall.
The Etowah Elementary School Improvement Team meets at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday at the school, 320 Etowah School Road, Etowah.
The Flat Rock Park Development Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday in Flat Rock Village Hall has been canceled.
The Polk County Board of Education meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Stearns Education Center board room.
The Mills River Planning Board meeting has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at Mills River Town Hall.
Hendersonville City Council will meet at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in council chambers at City Hall, 145 Fifth Ave. E., Hendersonville.
The WNC Nature Center presents "Fur, feather and scales" at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fletcher Branch Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher. Info: 828-687-1218.
A seminar on "The art of mixing business with pleasure" will be held from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday at the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, 204 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville. Cost is $20 for chamber members and $35 for non-members. Registration required. Info: 828-692-1413.
Elder Care attorney Caroline Knox will present a program at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mills River United Methodist Church, 131 Old Turnpike Road, Mills River. Lunch reservations required. Info: 828-891-7788.
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Decorating a room doesn't have to be intimidating if you break it up into stages.
Good design consists of layers; the first of which begins at the walls, windows, ceilings and floors of a room. Why settle for builders grade selections when you can add the touches that create interest, beauty and character in a room? Why have boring walls and uninteresting windows and extremely ordinary ceilings and floors, when with a little imagination, you can have something LESS ORDINARY?
Must haves are improvements in the base moldings, door and window casings. Adding crown molding finishes a room, draws your eye up and raises your ceilings - not literally, but it makes it feel that way.
Higher ceilings can handle fatter moldings - but never less than 4" for a custom look
Because of the angle involved, crown moldings are more complicated than base and casings. But most handymen, and handy husbands are equal to the task.
Contemporary as well as traditional design aesthetic has more character with added crown and base moldings, window and door casings.
Builders standard door casings are 3". Pump them up a bit with wider casings and chunkier baseboards along with your crown moldings for a room with some charm and character. You can make a door or opening into another room look very special with the use of a little more in the way of trim and moldings, but at the very least, frame those bare windows, add sills if they are absent, and widen the door casings.
mitred casing
combined with custom sill
non mitred casing with corner medalions
fluted casings make a
big statement in a contemporary room
This narrow room's focal point is its beautifully finished windows
An opening into another room allows you to add a little millwork to that otherwise boring hole in the wall. You are only limited by your imagination. A good designer or woodworker can help you put something beautiful together, but here are some examples.
Covering up a boring, pebble textured, painted wall with some wonderful woodwork is one of my favorite things to do. I love the application of a high wainscote done in beadboard or board and batten - not just for that beachy cottage or a kids room anymore.
Here are some examples of traditional wainscoting. Faux panels are created with narrow picture frame molding for a more formal look.
I love the way it wraps around this window. Looks nice up a staircase, too.
The board and batten treatment works well in a variety of applications and has recently grown up, as well.
A little closer look at the treatment
I love how this board and batten treatment looks elegant in this room and keeps the deep chocolate from overpowering the design.
Board and batten adds great interest to this stair wall in 'squares'
Yellows and golds make me happy. But that isn't why I chose this photo. These traditional panels are perfect for framing art, and are especially effective with the color treatment inside the panel.
I love the height of these panels and the textural interest it adds to this wall
These panels are painted out in one color, but you still see the dimension of the panels and it still adds subtle visua linterest.
Here's another treatment with reverse painted effect - the molding darker than the wall.
Love love love this wall. It looks amazing. The whole wall becomes a piece of art.
Here is another subtle painted version, with a detailed dentil molding at crown of the room.
Panels topped with a ledge form a substantial headboard.
I love the wide plank panelling in this very traditional room
Keeps it from taking itself too seriously!
Or, Turned sideways ..
As you can see, it lends itself to a variety of decorating styles.
If your room is a little lacking in architectural interest and you could use more storage - and who can't - consider a beautiful built-in cabinet, bookshelf or cupboard on that blank wall - tailor made to your needs.
In this child's room, much needed storage is created by building out around a window, and then placing the bed in the alcove created by the build-out of the two closets. It looks charming and cozy and no kid could resist sleeping in that alcove!
Built in bookcases are a natural choice to flank a fireplace and creates a great focal wall.
Bookshelves - an upcoming project for my house - can really be added to any room.
Adding cabinets or bookshelves around a window is a great excuse for a window seat
If you are filling a wall with bookshelves, think about leaving a space for your desk, flat screen tv, or seating area.
These shelves were specifically made to showcase a collection
Keep in mind the style and character of your home and decor and make sure your shelves add to and enhance your decor.
Built-ins add character and value to your home, no matter the size
But I do envy this storage area - and anyone who has room for it!
Don't be afraid to go bold if your room can handle it. Not a built-in, but large enough to be, I chose this photo to show the contrast of color and the weight it adds to that side of the room.
Just imagine it in your own color - (so glad they told me this was 'red')
The built-in china cabinet
below is a nice touch for this large kitchen
I have actually always dreamed of having a stone wall - maybe in my master bedroom, behind the headboard. It works well in this kitchen - adds a rustic old-world feel. Definitely no 'tract home' feel here.
The curved brick/stone veneer on this fireplace is a yummy combination with the bookcases in high contrast on either side.
I liked this contemporary treatment as well, boxes on the wall in place of shelves, but with the same effect and appeal.
I'm a fan of the 'square' openings in this unit - great for books as well as spotlighting an object or collection.
I have to give you a heads up here - white washed wood surfaces are back and are the next big trend. For a current look, think 'weathered' and 'driftwood' - I love the color of this gray cabinet above...
I'm going to need one of these ladders for the bookcases I have planned for my vaulted ceilings...
The soft blue background of this bookcase makes everything in it look beautiful
I have always loved bookcases that surround a window or doorway
and who doesn't love a place for shoes and backpacks???
Floors are probably the area you need the least help in customizing. But there are a few unique treatments worth looking at, besides carpeting, traditional wood and tile.
Remember the trend I told you about, here are floors with a weathered white wash done in stripes...
another white washed floor... a great way to avoid the cost of a new floor if your hardwood is looking a little tired.
from Cote de Texas blogsite
Another trend is sustainable flooring - like bamboo flooring or a fibre rug (jute, sisal, seagrass).
Note the whitewashed weathered ceiling beams - what do you think about this look?
Eco friendly seagrass floor coverings are also relatively inexpensive and stain resistant.
For floors and furniture - expect to see lighter washed or reclaimed woods - (for example: Restoration Hardware's new line).
This beautiful room has coffered ceilings - a beautiful treatment for high ceilings.
I could go on and on - from ceilings and floors to windows, like the one above that just makes this little window seat the most charming seat in the house - but....
another day... another blog
we'll talk about them later
I hope you are inspired to create some wonderful custom elements in your home. Make it a beautiful place to be!
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What is the Ecological Footprint?
The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool calculated by Global Footprint Network that measures how much biologically productive land and sea is used by a given population or activity, and compares this to how much land and sea is available. Productive land and sea areas support human demands for food, fiber, timber, energy, and space for infrastructure. These areas also absorb the waste products from the human economy. The Ecological Footprint measures the sum of these areas, wherever they physically occur on the planet. The Ecological Footprint is used widely as a management and communication tool by governments, businesses, educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations.
What does the Ecological Footprint measure?
Ecological Footprint accounts answer a specific research question: how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population? To answer this question, the Ecological Footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and water area an individual, a city, a country, a region, or all of humanity uses to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates with today's technology and resource management practices. This demand on the biosphere can be compared to biocapacity, a measure of the amount of biologically productive land and water available for human use. Biologically productive land includes areas such as cropland, forest, and fishing grounds, and excludes deserts, glaciers, and the open ocean.
Global hectares are hectares with world-average productivity for all productive land and water areas in a given year. Studies that are compliant with current Ecological Footprint Standards use global hectares as a measurement unit. This makes Ecological Footprint results globally comparable, just as financial assessments use one currency, such as dollars or Euros, to compare transactions and financial flows throughout the world.
How accurate are Ecological Footprint measurements?
Current Ecological Footprint accounts provide a robust, aggregate estimate of human demand on the biosphere as compared to the biosphere's productive capacity. As with any calculation system, Footprint accounts are subject to uncertainty in source data, calculation parameters, and methodological decisions. Several organizations are seeking to allocate resources towards obtaining more accurate estimates of this nature.
What can Ecological Footprint Analysis tell us about the future of the planet? Are we all doomed?
The Ecological Footprint highlights the reality of ecological scarcity, which can be disconcerting and frightening information. The existence of global overshoot suggests that human society will need to make significant changes to 'business as usual' if it wants to create a sustainable future. Robust and accurate Ecological Footprint accounts can help us make decisions towards sustainability, and can quantitatively show the positive impacts of groups, businesses, and people making decisions that are helping to bring human demand within the means of the planet.
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The term Ecological Footprint, capitalized, is a proper name referring to a specific research question: how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population? Often, the word 'footprint' is used generically to refer to human impact on the planet, or to a different research question. As commonly used today, for example, the term 'carbon footprint' often refers to the number of tons of carbon emitted by a given person or business during a year, or to the tons of carbon emitted in the manufacture and transport of a product. In Ecological Footprint accounts, the 'carbon Footprint' measures the amount of biological capacity, in global hectares, demanded by human emissions of fossil carbon dioxide. The term Ecological Footprint has been deliberately excluded from trademark to encourage its widespread use.
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First, biological wastes such as residues of crop products, trimmings from harvested trees, and carbon dioxide emitted from fuel wood or fossil fuel combustion are all included within Ecological Footprint accounts. A cow grazing on one hectare of pasture has a Footprint of one hectare for both creating its biological food products and absorbing its biological waste products. This single hectare provides both services, thus counting the Footprint of the cow twice (once for material production and once for waste absorption) results in double counting the actual area necessary to support the cow. The Footprint associated with the absorption of all biological materials that are harvested is thus already counted in the Footprint of those materials.
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text: Nicole Stefanowicz '09, leader in volunteer service, named Assistant Director for Annual Giving News Home 10.09.13 By: Buff Lindau "It's great to be able to work somewhere that you're passionate about, and to give back to Saint Michael's that gave so much to me," said Nicole M. Stefanowicz '09, who was named Assistant Director for Annual Giving at Saint Michael's. Stefanowicz, formerly Community Outreach Specialist for the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) in Burlington, started work at Saint Michael's September 23rd. She is a 2009 cum laude graduate of Saint Michael's, with a major in sociology/anthropology, and minor in Spanish. As manager of the college's fund-raising phonations, Stefanowicz will work with student callers to connect with current parents and alumni to bring them news of the college, and of the student experience. She will also visit parents of current students in Southeastern Massachusetts and around Vermont to tell them about the college today. "The great thing about students on the phone," she said, "is that they share their personal experiences." She and her callers will be fund-raising for scholarship, technology, and student life needs. Stefanowicz worked at COTS in various capacities of increasing responsibility from 2009 to the present, starting as AmericCorps Community Support Staff, and moving to Shelter Staff, Development Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator, and Community Outreach Specialist. She brings her particularly apt COTS experience where she helped manage their six-night phonathons, with 350 volunteers at once. A habit of community service Stefanowicz was very involved with community service as a student, serving on the MOVE Core (leadership) Team from 2006-2009, during which time she created an award-winning collaboration between Saint Michael's and the COTS Family Shelters. She also went on four extended service trips in the U.S. and abroad, and was selected to present a workshop on "Creating a Successful College Volunteer Program" at the national IMPACT conference in College Park, Md., in 2009. Stefanowicz won the top service award in her 2009 graduating class - the Frank G. Mahady Service Award. Nicole and her husband Michael reside in Winooski.


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Cost: Free
For: Toddlers and parents who want to communicate better
If you've spent any prolonged amount of time with a toddler, there's a good chance she has expressed frustration because you do not understand what she is saying. She knows what she wants, she's trying to verbalize, but you're just not getting it. Cue: temper tantrum.
In that period of time when lanugage is developing and you're not quite sure what "bbbbaaaaaabb" is, check out an app called Kidglyphs. Created by Dr. Alan Greene, MD, a renowned pediatrician and contributor to Parenting Magazine, Kidglyphs provides language-building kids (and parents) with the visual cues to help identify what it is that they want. He says that at an early age, kids can understand more than 100 words than they can say. That's pretty amazing - and understandable that they would tantrum.
The free app comes with 34 "glyphs" or illustrations of basic everyday needs and actions like "bath," "mommy," "daddy," "eat," "drink," "book," "banana" and more. When the image is pushed, the word is narrated, further helping solidify its pronunciation for the child. Kids who are a little older can even start putting words together to form short sentences like – mommy, milk, all done. There is even a built-in game that kids can play to help them identify which pictures go with which words.
Parents can customize the app to add photos of themselves (and grandparents) to make it even more personalized for each child. Kidglyphs is a great way for kids to help boost their language learning – and in the process, may make communication a bit easier. Anything that helps make those terrible twos a little less terrible is worth checking out.
Kidglyphs is available for free from iTunes. Additional packs of 30 Glyphs can be purchased within the app for $0.99.
If you have an app that you'd like considered for Screen Play, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Giving Birth to the Horton movie09 Mar 2008
By TNPihl (JCO Editor-In-Chief)
Horton began his new journey to the big screen in 2003, when executive producer Christopher Meledandri, then president of Twentieth Century Fox Animation, which supervises the East Coast-based Blue Sky Studios, approached Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the author's wife Audrey Geisel, about creating a 3-D animated movie based on "Horton Hears a Who!" Meledandri's proposal to Audrey went far beyond simple business interests. "Ted Geisel had one of the greatest imaginations of the twentieth century," he says. "His books were a seminal part of my childhood and I have always wanted to find a way to make a digitally animated Dr. Seuss movie."
The book's narrative structure was of particular interest to Meledandri and Fox Animation. "It's one of the few Dr. Seuss books with three acts – a great beginning, middle and end. And of course, 'a person's a person no matter how small' is a wonderful theme."
Audrey Geisel wanted to make sure that the film adaptation be respectful of her late husband's book. Meledandri assuaged her concerns, pointing out to her the considerable merits of CG animation and the proven successes of Blue Sky Studios, whose "Ice Age" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown" created fantastical characters; and whose "Robots" depicted a fantastical world. The films' artistry enveloped audiences in their environments and characters, suspending disbelief that they weren't "real." That same magic, Meledandri told Audrey, would do the same for DR. SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO!
To help close the deal, Meledandri asked Mike De Feo, head of Blue Sky's sculpting department, to sculpt a pivotal scene from the book, in which the Mayor holds his son Jo-Jo above his head. As it turned out, the scene was one of Audrey's favorites, and she loved the sculpture. Some time later, development commenced on the first CG animated feature film based on a work by Dr. Seuss. Horton, the Mayor, Jo-Jo, the Kangaroo – and all the beloved characters in the jungle of Nool and in the city of Whoville – were on their way to movie stardom.
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To guide their journey, the studio tapped Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino to direct. They were a perfectly matched duo to bring Horton to digital life. Hayward was an animator on the groundbreaking Pixar films "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2," "A Bug's Life," "Monsters Inc." and "Finding Nemo"; and a story consultant and director of additional scenes on "Robots." Martino, as art director on "Robots," helped create the first animated feature that presented a totally imagined world – a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings.
Hayward and Martino's mandate was to stay true to Seuss' themes, characters and visuals. They based much of the look on Seuss art taken directly from the book, while other designs in the film are extrapolated from the author's drawings or notes. Additionally, the filmmakers strove to push the medium of CG animation as far as possible, mixing old and new techniques to provide a look never before experienced in a motion picture, yet reminiscent of the era – the 1950s – the book was published. "We pushed everything, creating weird, fun Seussian colors and shapes, but with real textures," says Hayward.
In previous live action movies based on Seuss' works, the filmmakers had to try and get around real-world constraints in design, movement and anatomy. "We didn't have that problem," says Hayward, "because this is a CG movie. For the first time in my career, we could push the animation to all kinds of crazy places just as Seuss pushed his work into some wildly imaginative areas."
-- Source: Twentieth Century Fox Animation.
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