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If this piques your interest, then you'll be excited to hear about Distill 2014: The Internet of Us, to be held on August 7-8 in San Francisco, CA! The Internet of Us is the next development of the Internet of Things, creating the technology to help us to interact with our world in exciting new ways.
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Once I cleared that round, I was invited to a cocktail/dinner party in Toronto where candidates had the chance to network with partners and senior managers within the firm (some of whom would be interviewing us the day after). This wasn't really an interview but more like a getting to know Deloitte sort of thing. The day after was the final round of interviews with the partners. I was interviewed by two partners and the questions were very behavioural and professional. It felt like they were seeing if I was worthy enough to be faced with a client. They also wanted to see if I was intellectual so they asked me a lot of questions on the economy, what type of books I read etc. All in all it was an interesting interview process. A few hours after I finished my interview I received a call from the partner to give me the good news!
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They contacted me again the following Monday about the second round interview and a networking dinner with the senior managers/partners the night before. There was a bunch of candidates that attended the dinner but the opportunity to talk to partners/senior managers over the course of 4 hours (long lunch) was pretty cool. Be sure you know your dining etiquette though. It was practically an interview round since you get to answer and ask many questions that night.
The next morning I had my second round of interview which had actually two separate interviews, one with a senior manager and one with a partner. Tons of behavioural questions again with the manager but the one with the partner is more like a chat. I heard from a BA that during the partner round they usually have an idea whether to hire you or not, so the partner is just looking for anything that'd change his/her mind. The partner I interviewed with called me a few hours after and gave me the good news.
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The actual day of taping the show was most exciting for me. The shuttle came to pick up the contestants at the hotel, and as I spoke with other contestants, it helped to ease my nerves.
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Nurse Leaders: The Next Generation
One of the speakers at last month's Nursing Management Congress in Texas conducted a quick, informal poll among attendees to see which age brackets were represented. Overwhelmingly, one group stood out: those who were less than 15 years from retirement. The speaker's aim was to illustrate the point that our nurse manager workforce is aging and we face a succession planning crisis in the near future.
Despite this, many hospitals place little emphasis on developing formal nurse succession plans or offer leadership development classes to groom the next generation of leaders. I met new nurse managers at the conference who were there on their own dime, eager to develop their skills, learn how to become better managers, and increase their usefulness to their organizations and staff.
Several of these nurse managers credited their desire to progress their career and take management positions to coaches or mentors who provided career advice and development opportunities. Without these coaches, they said, they might never have thought management was an option for them or been interested in pursuing it.
Senior leadership should encourage these mentoring and coaching relationships in their organizations.
"You shouldn't wait until a leader leaves to start thinking 'who are we going to move in there?'" says Patty Kubus, president of Leadership Potential International, and a former nurse manager who now teaches leadership development and consults with hospitals on issues such as succession planning. "You should be constantly looking to identify leadership potential in staff, and focused on building leadership skills, so they are ready and waiting to fill open positions."
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Daria Byrne, MSN, RN (10/26/2010 at 2:29 PM)
Evaluating and educating nursing leaders needs to continue past the bedside and into the academic arena as well. In today's curriculum, specifically ADN programs, there is very little leadership theory taught. Because of this, it needs to be the responsibility of the organization to identify nurses who exemplify the desire and the will to advance their career in a leadership capacity, all the while keeping in mind that those who may desire to be a leader, may not be the best person to drive the organization into the future.
Betty Noyes (10/25/2010 at 1:22 PM)
This is certainly a fact. But the same need for succession planning at the manager levels holds true for EVERY department. Nursing is not unique in this issue of concern!
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Any organization worthy of the name needs to be continually grooming people to move up in the ranks of responsibility. Nursing has long looked at people to see how well they are doing in their current job (bedside nurse for example) and then promote them to a job with the need for a different skill set. Result - a person who struggles with the new position and becomes overwhelmed and request to go back to their previous assignment. Being a nurse for 37 years, I have seen this countless times. We need to start teaching practical leadership to all nurses. They can hone their skills by leading patients and families to better health. It becomes a win-win situation for everyone.
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"It's one thing to see it on the news, but to see it in person is another thing," he said.
Brotsky, a senior airman in the West Virginia National Guard, was sent to New York City last week with seven other National Guard members from West Virginia. Brotsky is from Teays Valley.
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Like millions of other Americans, I was fortunate enough to witness a Louis Armstrong show once, in the winter of 1959. A college freshman too young to have seen much live jazz, I strode home through the snow babbling happily about a concert where the only songs I recall recognizing were "Muskrat Ramble" and "Mack the Knife." Back at the dorm, however, a sophomore called me on my naiveté. Armstrong was corny, I was informed, and it must have sunk in, because the next time I listened seriously to Louis Armstrong was in 1975, when Gary Giddins got evangelical about the Smithsonian's canonizing Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines 1928.
Giddins's work on Armstrong -- particularly his gorgeous 1988 polemic Satchmo -- initiated the phase of Armstrong appreciation that doesn't worry overmuch about corny. Inspired by Terry Teachout's Pops to dare an Armstrong piece of my own, I would ordinarily have peppered Gary with requests for context -- I edited him for decades and we remain good friends. But recognizing that he has a horse in this race, I haven't phoned or emailed him since I got Teachout's book. Giddins can scarcely be ignored in what follows. But this one's on me.
Since Satchmo is biographical criticism rather than a full biography, Pops will remain the definitive Armstrong bio until somebody tops it, which somebody should. Its major competitors, jazz specialist James Lincoln Collier's 1983 Louis Armstrong: An American Genius and popular historian Laurence Bergreen's 1997 Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, have their uses. But Bergreen loves cheap color and doesn't have much to say about music, and while Collier can be good on the recordings he admires, he doesn't admire enough of them, cultivating a supercilious streak that's doubly unbecoming in such a flat-footed stylist. Both Collier and Bergreen devote the great bulk of their books to the pre-World War II period, though Armstrong lived from 1901 to 1971 and toured till the year he died.
Like Gunther Schuller and many older jazz critics, and also like that sophomore, Collier finds so little "genius" in Armstrong's later music that these proportions make a kind of sense. But in Bergreen they're ludicrous unless he believes hanging with prostitutes and gangsters makes a musician more "extravagant" than dinners with royalty and audiences with the pope. Leaving ample room for Armstrong's impoverished New Orleans boyhood, Chicago and its Hot Five and Seven sessions, the thug-ridden compromises of the big-band '30s, and a long postwar career as an American icon leading the pared-down All-Stars, Teachout's 382-page text reaches 1938 with 150 pages to go because he truly respects Armstrong's life and artistic choices. "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way," said Duke Ellington. "I know of no man for whom I had more admiration and respect," said Bing Crosby. No matter how drastically you believe Armstrong's music deteriorated, he deserves to be chronicled in toto.
Beyond his musical brilliance, what Teachout loves most about Armstrong is his positive attitude. "Never wear the trouble in your face," King Oliver had taught him, and without soft-pedaling how hard it was to grow up black and poor in America, Armstrong brought joy wherever he played -- intelligent joy, accomplished joy, freewheeling joy, comic joy, sardonic joy. Where Collier magnifies his supposed personal insecurities into a condescending excuse for his supposed artistic timidity, Teachout assumes the obvious: for anyone to rise from Jane Alley in New Orleans to Fate Marable's riverboat band, never mind worldwide fame, required a courage few humans ever approach and an ambition few can comprehend. Yet, where Giddins risks hagiography for purposes of argument, Teachout doesn't understate this very good man's flaws: his chronic resentments and sporadic rages, his daily gage, his philosophy of philandering, and the terrible credo that united him with the notorious manager Joe Glaser: "always have a White Man (who like you) and can + will put his Hand on your shoulder and say -- 'This is "My" Nigger' and, Can't Nobody Harm Ya."
Clear, balanced, accurate, fast-flowing, and musically informed though it is, Pops is based on secondary sources. Especially since these include previously unmined scholarship and archives, this seems a reasonable biographical method -- the novice can start with Satchmo, which Teachout praises warmly, then move on to Pops for more detail. In a sheaf of raves dismayingly short on new ideas, the only significant objection to Teachout's bookcraft I've found, by David Schiff in The Nation, is there to finesse a bigger and uglier issue: what to do when the definitive biography of an African-American hero is written by a vocal neoconservative whose signature outlets are Commentary and The Wall Street Journal. Post-Satchmo especially, many left-leaning critics are fans of Armstrong's late music -- Gene Santoro and Bob Blumenthal, to name just two, might have written excellent bios. But Teachout got there first with something to prove.
Emphasizing Armstrong's positivity is fine -- "keep ya head up," as Tupac put it. But when Teachout intones that Armstrong "returned love for hatred and sought salvation in work," he sure does sound like a white polemicist with dibs on the black role model of his dreams. So hypersensitive to identity politics that he even spars with sometime conservative Stanley Crouch, Teachout writes sparingly about African-American artists, especially for someone who once supported himself as a jazz bassist. Of the 59 essays in his 2005 A Terry Teachout Reader, 20 concern music, 11 vernacular music, and three African-American music: an essay denying that jazz is fundamentally African-American, an essay denying that Duke Ellington is a great composer, and 2001's "Louis Armstrong, Eminent Victorian," wherein are contained the seeds of Pops.
Teachout has the major critical virtue of liking what he likes palpably and unpretentiously, and -- mindful of the cred factor -- makes an effort to transcend ideology. Sure, he's inordinately fond of Whit Stillman and John P. Marquand. But he also feels such lefties as Aaron Copland, John Sayles, and Jerome Robbins, and his forthright embrace of popular culture plainly proceeds from his Missouri upbringing and his own pleasure. As a left-populist skeptical of academic postmodernism and avant-garde obscurantism who stopped dissing the middlebrow mindset decades ago, I often sympathize. But I doubt that would prevent him from slotting me as one of those "middlebrow-hating radicals of the Sixties" with a "propensity to deny the existence of meaningful distinctions between high and popular culture."
I'm not, but let me go on. Of course there are meaningful distinctions between high culture and popular culture. The important question, which the word "meaningful" skirts, is whether those distinctions are qualitative -- whether what Teachout once terms "indisputable greatness" can accrue to both, and hence whether it can accrue to Armstrong. Teachout skirts this question too. But from his Ellington essay, which dismisses Ellington's suites on structural grounds and assumes that Ives's and Copland's mastery of longer forms guarantees their artistic superiority, I infer that no mere songwriter gets to enter Teachout's greatness derby -- and no mere improviser either. "West End Blues" may be an "immortal" work in which Armstrong can be observed "descending majestically from the firmament." But apparently all that means is that he was a hell of a miniaturist.
To me, this way of seeing things is suspiciously undemocratic. One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture is that there's way more good popular culture -- because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it. Since there's so damn much of it, and a lot of that is terrible, it rewards connoisseurship. But its strengths are quantity and variety -- democracy.
From this perspective, Armstrong is overwhelming. For years my Armstrong listening was confined to three box sets, a best-of, and an Ella Fitzgerald record: the definitive, four-disc, 81-track, disgracefully out-of-print Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I'm still plumbing after 16 years; the four-disc, 89-track Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, including 29 Portrait keepers; the three-disc, 60-track Louis Armstrong: An American Icon, relaxed 1946-68 material; Ella and Louis, which I pull before any Sinatra when I feel like some standards; and the budget 16 Most Requested Songs, which I play more than any of them. But recently I've been listening with pleasure to half a dozen more -- some collectors' items, others a click away: The Great Summit with Duke Ellington, the All-Stars-debuting Complete Town Hall Concert, the remakes-with-narrative Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography, the George Avakian concepts Satch Plays Fats and Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy, and the gloriously redundant four-disc California Concerts. There's more. But these'll probably hold me till I die.
This music is longer on Armstrong's corny/iconic period than on his canonical '20s. Even Teachout, 11 of whose 30 "key recordings" are post-World War II, also lists 11 from 1923-29. They're very inconsistent, but at their best the Hot Fives and Sevens are indisputable, although note what Smithsonian annotator J. R. Taylor concludes regarding three vivid but contradictory musicological analyses of the 11-second cadenza to "West End Blues": "the subtle ambiguity of Armstrong's rhythm has -- significantly -- so far defied descriptive consensus." The only consensus is that rhythm comes first. Armstrong couldn't have invented swing (could he?), but he manifested it so irresistibly that every jazz musician became his imitator, and you'll know it when you hear it. And that's just the beginning. There's almost as much praise for the clarion unflappability of his trumpet sound, compromised though it soon was by the split lip he held off for 40 years; for singing that exhibited, through a rough timbre almost as prophetic as his swing, what Schuller swore were "all the nuances, inflections, and natural ease of his trumpet playing"; and for his devotion to melody, admired no less by Collier the stickler than by Teachout the cheerleader.
Reading description after insightful description, however, I was reminded that jazz critics care more about good solos than good records. Thus they ignore many Hot Fives and Sevens altogether and zone in on the extraordinary elsewhere; thus they neglect Armstrong's raucous shout on the shamelessly simplistic "Georgia Bo Bo" and pretend that Lonnie Johnson's guitar occupies the same universe as the leader's trumpet on "Savoy Blues." My two favorites are well-loved: "Heebie Jeebies" and "West End Blues." But jazzbos, ever appalled by the pop market's thralldom by the demon novelty, attribute "Heebie Jeebies"'s sales breakthrough solely to Armstrong's first scatted vocal. Having just had the theme echo in my head for weeks, I say the tune is the hook, tricked up nicely by the scat and augmented by a shamelessly simplistic lyric. And on "West End Blues," often deemed the greatest record of the 20th century, Fred Robinson's trombone is generally insulted or ignored, meaning the greatest record etc. includes 12 embarrassing bars -- 30 seconds of bad music! Giddins, bless him, believes this "sober trombone solo squired by woodblocks" is integral to a "sensationally varied performance." I myself am certain "West End Blues" wouldn't be nearly as sublime without Robinson's slow walk to the corner store. I'm also partial to the woodblocks.
The canonical Armstrong was a singer as well as a player. His singing spread his fame and enlarged his influence, but the playing is what got him canonized, because jazz improvisation is what the canonizers value. So it's not too much of a stretch to suggest that as much as his comedy, a free-flowing gift that had its uncomfortable moments, it was his singing that made the canonizers decide he'd gone corny on them. Giddins distinguishes between the young artist-as-entertainer and the older entertainer-as-artist, and though I don't think art and entertainment bifurcate so easily, the difference is clear: the entertainer-as-artist was primarily a singer, master of three or four dozen songs and interpreter of many others. As such, he made more good records in his iconic period than with the Hot Fives and Sevens. They just weren't as influential.
Armstrong wasn't blackmailed into this. "Singing was more into my Blood, than the trumpet," Teachout quotes him as saying, and I say his singing was as remarkable as his playing -- only Holiday and Sinatra top him, no rock and rollers at all. "Interpreter" doesn't exactly get it -- most of the time, he didn't examine the meaning of a lyric so much as explore the potential of a melody. His shifting rhythms, assured slurs, and unstable note values don't undermine the material, they play with it -- fondly, kindly, ebulliently, confidently. Nor did this vocal emphasis, which predates the All-Stars, turn his trumpet into a high-profile accessory of the Satchmo image -- as his embouchure slackened, he compensated with a pensive, nuanced economy that Wynton Marsalis reports is harder to replicate than his early virtuosity.
All these factors were well in place as of that concert in 1959. Just a kid, I got the ebullience, missed the subtlety, and did a poor job of arguing my case. Insofar as the show taught me anything about jazz, it was by motivating me to play catch-up with my dormmate. Yet the memory never left me -- a memory not of jazz or pop, art or entertainment, but of Louis Armstrong himself, a great good man we lesser mortals are still getting our minds around.
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As an Armstrong fan, I'm always eager to see Pops embraced by a wider audeince. If someone unfamiliar with Louis reads the first few paragraphs of this article, which are convoluted and hard to follow and untangle even for a fan, I tend to doubt she will continue or become interested in the subject.
The Hot Fives and Sevens are uneven except for one thing: the consistency of Louis's horn. Even in records in which he plays just a few bars, the majecty and swing are breathtaking. It must have been an unbelievable pleasure to hear him live through a whole evening during the 1920s.
Which brings me to my last point: on the qualitative diference between high and popular art. Christgau uses West End Blues as Armstrong's closest putative approach to high art, ignoring Armstrong's live work of the 1920s, where the three-minute limitation of a recording was not a factor. We will unfortunately never hear Louis's live 1920s playing, a large loss to civilization. Yet we know it haoppened. There are published reports of him playing improvisations of 30 choruses in a row during his big-band work in Chicago in the 20s, such as with bandleader Carroll Dickerson. We can never know whether he built his ideas into a long structure with a climax in the classical sense. Probably not, but even as series of variations these solos must have been highly remarkable, when placed in the context of the Hot Fives which were being recorded at the same time. Could anyone confidently say that these extended solos did not have the qualitative distinction of high art? If not, would Bach or Mozart improvising 30 variations in a row on a theme have it?
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Why I love videogame magazines
Jonathan Holmes
on 03.03.2014
As some of you may know, Dtoid Reviews editor Chris Carter, former Dtoid powerhouse Tony Ponce, and myself have been working with a conclave of nerds and videogame experts on making a print magazine called Nintendo Force. We had seven issues go to print last year, which was pretty neat. Year 2 is on Kickstarter now if you want to check it out.
Print is expensive, and the magazine doesn't run any ads, so that means that there isn't much money to go around. By that I mean, there isn't any money, but that hasn't stopped us from working our butts off to make the magazine as great as we can, especially Tony, who's written some amazing features for the thing.
Why have we volunteered to put so much time and energy into creating a videogame magazine, when we could be spending the same time and energy working on "profit deal" website like Destructoid?
Just like my old friend Clarissa, this video explains it all.
New Podtoid animation
Jonathan Holmes
on 12.15.2013
Classic Jim stuff. It's goooood.
New Jim Sterling Podcast, Teenage Pokemon, other stuff
Jonathan Holmes
on 11.09.2013
Hi everybody! I've been working on a lot of stuff. Here is some of it!
Jim Sterling, Conrad Zimmerman and I used to host Podtoid. Now we host a show called The Dismal Jesters. It's almost exactly like how Podtoid used to be, except with some differences. It's funny how just hanging the name and the venue of a podcast can bring a different psychological element to the chemistry. We're having a good time with it so far and I bet we'll keep going for a while.
You can find it on
iTunes here
Twitter here
, and
RSS here
We're also working on a new episode of Teenage Pokemon. I wasn't sure I was going to keep going with the series, as producing Season 2 was really exhausting and anxiety inducing. Then I had an idea I that I couldn't stop thinking about, asked one of the animators if he could put together the visuals relatively quickly, and checked with Machinima to see if they could pay him. It all worked out, and the episode should be coming this month, next month at the latest.
We've also been working on a new cartoon for Machinima and a beautiful man named Tor about drunk Nintendo characters. It's pretty cute. First episode for that should be done this month too.
The big-ish thing in the oven is a new show for Dtoid with Caitlin Cooke. Dtoid has a loooooot of new stuff planned right now, so it's not a sure thing that this show will fit in the overall picture, but I hope it does, because Caitlin is hilarious. We've only show a pilot so far, but is was so much fun to make. Hopefully we'll get to keep making more.
OK. those are the things! I hope you like them!
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Top Ten things I like Pokemon X/Y
Jonathan Holmes
on 10.21.2013
10) New trainer 2D art. It's a little sterile, and doesn't fit with the rest of the game, but as stand alone art its pretty charming.
9) Some of those Mega Evolutions. They look pretty neat.
8) Pokemon Amie. It gets boring fast, but rubbing a Gloom for a second has it's charms.
7) Rollerskates. Especially slow rollerskating. The animation is freaking adorable.
6) Torchic running around in a circle. It's beyond freaking adorable
5) Gulpin's attack animation. It's awesome.
4) That kid wearing the Vanillite t-shirt. It would be awesome if he'd stop talking forever, but he has great taste in shirts.
3) New Experience Share. Now Pokemon is finally like a normal RPG.
2) Online features. I think I'll just stick with these from here on out. Chris Carters' recent tips for trading may help me to catch them all without even playing the rest of the game.
1) The new Pokemon. I love 'em. Hope they get their own game someday.
Pikmin 3 audio review, Teen PKMN merch, essay and free underwear
Jonathan Holmes
on 08.03.2013
First, here is a audio review of Pikmin 3. It was going to be used for a video review of the game, but in the end, it wasn't. Some people like it.
Is this a thing you'd like to hear more of? Also, feel free to make your own video with the track if you want. Some of you seem to like doing that sort of thing.
Work in Progress album by Jonathan Holmes
Second, here is a short reflection on Teenage Pokemon by Jonathan Glover of Sprites and Dice. It's called
"What Teenage Pokemon taught me about my teenage self"
. It's pretty great. The line "
These Pokemon are probably the most realistic teenagers I have ever encountered in fiction, and that's because they're not all written to be likable
" means a lot to me.
Thirdly, Michael "@mukyou" Jordan made
a bunch of Teenage Pokemon merch
, including shirts, phone cases, and underwear. Full disclosure - I'm not getting one red cent from the sales of these items. All the proceeds go to Michael and the artists from the show. I want them to get money for their hard work and I want people to wear Jim Sterling's glasses on their fannys. That's why I'm telling you about this, and that's why I might buy you some underwear.
The first three people who tweet about the store and get 50 retweets will get a free pair of Ditto underwear. I'm not sure if any of you will be able to get that to happen, but if you do, I will be impressed and you will get booty shorts. So that's neat.
Thanks for reading!
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Adorable people is why I keep trying to make things
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on 04.01.2013
A lot of people told me right off the bat that I shouldn't make teenage pokemon, that I was doing it wrong and that i was trying too hard or not trying hard enough or that just watching the show gave them a terminal illness. That made me wonder "Am I making the world a worse place by trying to make my idea?"
This video proved to me that it was good that I tried to make my idea.


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(Reuters) - Global agribusiness company Monsanto Co (MON.N) posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, as the company said early U.S. spring planting and a 15 percent sales jump boosted its full-year outlook.
Shares sagged after an early jump amid a general market slump and as the company said results for the second half of the year would likely be flat.
Still, the company was on pace for a strong year, said Monsanto Chairman Hugh Grant.
"We've seen contributions from growth across crops and geographies, which position us well to deliver high-teens ongoing earnings growth this year," Grant said.
For next year, Grant said even though the company will be looking to leverage strong product performance, Monsanto does not see large price hikes for 2013, a factor that also kept a lid on share gains Wednesday.
Monsanto, which is the world's largest seed company and a leader in development of genetically engineered agricultural corn, soybeans, and other crops, set a record for its seeds and genomics unit, driving net income for the second quarter up 19 percent to $1.2 billion.
Diluted earnings per share came in at $2.24 cents versus $1.88 a year ago. Earnings per share from continuing operations totaled $2.28, up from $1.87 a year ago and above the $2.12 expected by analysts.
Corn sales totaled $2.8 billion, up from $2.4 billion a year earlier, leading all other products as both Latin American and U.S. farmers were eager buyers of Monsanto's genetically modified seed products.
Corn seed sales growth came despite concerns raised last year about the efficacy of a Monsanto corn seed product engineered to resist rootworm.
Soybean seed sales also grew, by 12 percent to $689 million. But cotton sales fell slightly and vegetable seed sales dropped 6 percent due primarily to a decrease in the European market.
As is typical, the second quarter is the critical quarter for Monsanto, and officials said overall earnings for second half of year will be flat compared to last year.
But Grant said the company had regained its "momentum" after a restructuring in 2009 that accompanied market wariness over its products and pricing strategies.
"We believe we have our momentum back. That momentum doesn't stop here," Grant said in a conference call with analysts. "The U.S. continues to be a big opportunity for us."
Latin America offer strong growth potential as well, Grant said. One key new product launch is an insect protection/ herbicide tolerant soybean product with a goal of commercial launch in 2013 in Brazil.
The company raised its full-year ongoing EPS guidance to a range of $3.49 to $3.54 per share. Full-year 2012 EPS guidance on an as-reported basis is expected in the range of $3.45 to $3.50.
The company took a 5 cent per share adjustment in the second quarter for a settlement on litigation involving claims of health and environmental damage tied to former chemical plant operations in West Virginia.
Monsanto also raised full-year free cash flow guidance to a range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. The company expects net cash provided by operating activities to be $2.5 billion to $2.8 billion, and net cash required by investing activities to be $900 million to $1 billion for fiscal year 2012.
Monsanto said though spring planting has yet to get into full swing in the United States, it expects acres of its Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans and Genuity reduced refuge corn family to increase by more than 10 million acres each this year.
That would bring the acreage totals into the range the company was projecting for 2012 of a total of 22 million to 24 million acres for the Genuity reduced refuge corn family, and the 27 million to 30 million acres targeted for the specialty Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans.
Monsanto officials said they were holding with estimates for U.S. corn acreage to total between 92 million and 94 million acres and were surprised by a U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast for 96 million acres, which would be the highest level since 1937.
Shares rose more than 1 percent early but turned lower at midday to post a loss of 1.1 percent at $80.90 a share.
(Reporting By Carey Gillam in Kansas City; Editing by John Picinich)
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Totals - Cost to Install Wall Oven | 1 oven | $1,413.95 | $1,827.49 |
| Average cost per oven | $1,413.95 | $1,827.49 |
The cost to Install a Wall Oven averages $1,413.95 - $1,827.49 per oven in 2014. This Wall Oven Installation cost estimate is calculated from average material costs, unit labor producitivity rates and national average hourly labor wages. To refine the estimate for your Wall Oven Installation project:
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Expect to pay in the high end of the $1,413.95 - $1,827.49 per oven range for a licensed, bonded and insured contractor and for complex or rush projects. Hire carefully, only after verifying prior work quality.
For the best value on Wall Oven Installation: combine related projects; get bids from several pros; and be flexible about project scheduling.
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