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SALT LAKE CITY — The biggest issue in the 2nd District congressional race may be the confusion created among voters by the new boundaries drawn during last year's redistricting process.
Both Republican Chris Stewart and Democrat Jay Seegmiller said they've spent significant time on the campaign trail talking about the decision by state lawmakers to flip much of the district from the east to the west side of the state.
A further complication is the decision by current 2nd District Rep. Jim Matheson, Utah's only Democrat in Congress, to run in the state's new 4th District that encompasses portions of Salt Lake and Utah counties.
"That's been a real challenge for us," Seegmiller said, because voters not only aren't sure anymore which congressional district they're in, some also believe Matheson is seeking reelection in the 2nd District. "It's frustrating."
Stewart said one of the first links he put on his website was to a map of the state's new congressional districts so voters could see if they still lived in the 2nd District, which now sprawls from northern Utah to much of the southern portion of the state.
"That's always been a little bit of a concern for us," Stewart said. "People don't pay that much attention."
Especially with so much focus on Matheson's race against Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love, who would be the first black GOP woman in Congress. That race is dominating the airwaves and attracting national interest.
For Stewart and Seegmiller, running for Congress means traveling throughout the district to some of the farthest reaches of the state to meet with voters and pitch their plans.
Both candidates are emphasizing the economy, as well as their political differences.
Seegmiller, an Amtrak railroad conductor, is using the slogan "Jay for Jobs" on his campaign materials and proposing incentives to companies that bring jobs and investment back to the United States.
Stewart, an author and consultant who served as an Air Force pilot, said he believes the best way to revitalize the economy is to get government out of the way of the private business owners who create jobs.
Seegmiller describes himself as a moderate Democrat who worked across the aisle during his single term as a state representative, won by defeating then-House Speaker Greg Curtis.
"Utah is pretty moderate," he said. "We're trying to get our message out there, which is job creation, job creation, job creation."
Stewart, whose books on American exceptionalism have been promoted by right-wing media personality Glenn Beck, labels himself a traditional conservative rather than someone who wants to "plant a bunch of flags" on behalf of extremist causes.
He said he wouldn't have won the GOP nomination at the party's state convention earlier this year had delegates seen him as too close politically to Beck.
"We're not blood brothers in our political views," Stewart said.
The Republican's convention win was controversial, however, prompting an internal party investigation, as well as a Federal Elections Commission complaint filed by several of his GOP opponents.
Stewart said he's taking nothing for granted.
"This is an open race. We have two candidates who are unknown," he said. "That opens the door to voters."
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
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If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving a trace.
This method applies not only to attachment and anger but also to the experiences of meditation, such as bliss, clarity and the absence of thought.
These experiences result from perseverance in practice and the expression of the inherent creativity of the mind. They are like the appearance of a rainbow as the rays of the sun strike a curtain of rain.
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The quarters of a turpentine farm was an interesting place to be raised. Here one could see every aspect of human nature at one time or another, from great compassion to murderous, senseless rage. The black inhabitants of these quarters were to be respected, feared, and pitied above all because this way of life existed before civil rights had ever been heard of and poverty was a constant bedfellow.
Blacks were offered little assistance by our northern brothers after the Civil War. Once they were told they were free there was jubilation for a while but when the jubilation wore off, hunger pangs took its place. Most newly freed blacks had no choice but to drift into share cropping, which was simply another form of slavery. The turpentine camps fostered this economic captivity up until I was grown. It disappeared almost overnight after the Civil Rights bill of 1964 was made law. Up until then, a man and his family could be practically bought and sold, just like cattle. I have seen it with my own eyes.
We took a truck over to Sylvester in 1957 to a turpentine camp's quarters, sought out the Boss Man and paid the 'run bill' of a man who could work the turpentine faces. The truck was backed up to his shanty, their meager belongings thrown aboard along with the man, his wife and two children, and their debt. I thought nothing of it at the time for I was only 10 years old. It was the way things were; the way things had always been as far as I knew. The family was moved to another shanty in new quarters along with possessions, and of course, the debt. I guess it was better than starving, which was the only other option for poor folk back then no matter what color they happened to be. Of course back then it was better to be a poor white than a poor black because at least the whites, if they worked hard enough, had some opportunities that most blacks did not have.
Thank God this is not true today, hasn't been for nearly 50 years, and this is why it grieves my heart to see so many young blacks (and their white counterparts) reveling in their ignorance and spurning all opportunity to succeed. If they and their parents only knew the way things used to be, the sacrifices their forebears made in obtaining for them their precious civil rights, and understood the challenges now facing everyone in this modern world, parents would be making sure their children valued an education that would enable their young to succeed at any profession they choose.
I believe a major part of this problem is that too many children of all races never know what is to have a father. This is a tragedy that should be avoided if at all possible. This is not to say that a single mother cannot raise her children and do a good job, but without a father the deck is stacked against her and the children. One of my oldest friends had two children out of wedlock but she was fortunate to have an extended family around to help raise and nurture her offspring. Her son, now grown, turned out to be a fine man; gentle, soft spoken, a college graduate and a hard worker. Her daughter, like one of my own children, had to work hard to get over fools hill, but she did.
All parents should be teaching their child or children that, next to loving the Lord, achieving their education is the most important thing if they want to live free of poverty and ultimate despair.
I tell you now, proverbially speaking, no matter who you are, no matter what race, creed or color, unless we mend our ways and get our priorities in order as a nation, a return to the cotton patch and the turpentine quarters is only a heartbeat away for all of us. Matthew 7:24-27
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Perlman: Whenever you have mining, you have miners, but apparently not always.
Creamer: We are looking at manless mining developing in the Northern Cape at a diamond mine called Finsch, which is already quite a hi-tech mine.
Picture this; by mid year 2004, if you went 630 m underground, you would find a concrete road on which normal-looking hauling trucks would be travelling. But, if you looked closely, you may be forced to wipe your eyes as there will be no driver. The operators are moving towards driverless, fully automated, trucks. It is a mixture of Nordic nous and South African savvy being introduced. A very well prepared concrete loop is being laid, which has to be hard wearing, because these trucks will travel inch perfectly. The trucks are currently going through their paces at Tampere in Finland, and have been doing so for the last 12 months. They are being programmed to travel the exact route that they will do at Finsch mine, which is 165 km north west of Kimberley. Eventually load-haul dumping will also be automated.
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Perlman: Now Martin, when we talk about our democracy, we think of institutions and buildings. Parliament in Cape Town and the Union buildings in Pretoria. Joburgs new Constitutional Court is almost complete. I believe it is going to carry for some people that same kind of status.
Creamer: Many observers believe that the new Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, where the Old Fort is located, is going to have great prestige value. They believe it will definitely be equal if not greater to the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town and the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The 11 Constitutional Court judges will move in during January. Then, on Human Rights day next year the Constitutional Court will be officially opened. The court will form the focal point of a much bigger complex called Constitutional Hill, where there will be museums and heritage sites.It is landmark location as it is where some of this country's struggle icons were once imprisoned, including Nelson Mandela and well as Mahatma Ghandi. The old Fort, itself, is expected to be a great draw card for a tourism and, in the next decade, Joburg's City fathers believe that something like 300 000 people will come through the area every year.
Perlman: We are on the eve of the world celebration of 100 years of flight and it is perhaps refreshing to recall that South Africa's firs locally build aircraft was made out of wood. Tell us about that.
Creamer: On Wednesday December 17, 2003, the world will commemorate 100 years of powered flight. It was then that the brothers Wright, Wilbur and Orville made their historic flight in the Wright flyer. I think it remained in the air for 12 seconds and covered a distance of 36,5 m. We have come a long way from then. But it is interesting to note that it was only seven years later that South Africa actually got flight going. It wasn't a South African that flew, it was Albert Kimmerling of France who was invited out here by the East London Council and sponsored by an engineering company to come and do some flights. A year later , John Weston became the first person living in South Africa to gain pilot certificate. He was very keen on building an aircraft, and started building them between 1905 and 1908. He just couldn't get things going until he formed a joint venture with a French company, which resulted in the Weston Farmans. It was only in 1935, however, that Victor Smith and his friends got together and they produced the aircar. The plane was made entirely from wood. Of course they where quickly over taken by innovations in the rest of the world, and South Africa has never been able to catch up. We arrived at the tail end, and now 100 years later all I think we produce globally is a tail plan for the hawk and that is done at Kempton Park and large components for the Gripen series and components for helicopters. So, we are hanging in there as a niche player.
Perlman: Nice trip down memory lane there to wrap-up the last visit to the coal face for the year 2003. Martin, to you and everyone at the Engineering News and Mining Weekly a very blessed and successful Christmas and New Year. Martin will be back with us on January 16, 2004.
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'The Perfect Garden Soil'
(Short excerpt from "Gardener's Guide to Better Soil' by Gene Logsden, Rodale Press, 1975)
"The perfect soil for your garden would be a deep silt loam of good tilth, at least 5% humus, through which water percolates readily. It should contain 45% minerals, 25% water, and should be aerated well enough so that 25% of any given block of soil would be air space. If such a soil had a pH of 6.5, had just been fertilized with 15 tons of rotted manure per acre, and had been dressed with a couple of tons of rock phosphate two years ago, then you would have not just soil, but a priceless inheritance."
What struck me about this passage was the '25% air space.' I think that the new garden spot I tilled last Fall lost its air spaces in places where water collected. Any thoughts on how best to re-aerate puddley spots?
See what happens when you start composting bread, Doris? It makes you daft-acting.
I've never had soil with drainage problems, but if I were worried about a lack of oxygen in my soil, I'd fork in some organic matter.
How long did the water stand?
"How long did the water stand?"
Most of the winter. The whole garden was tilled then hoed into furrows across the slope. Where the ponds form after rains the furrows are collapsed nearly flat. There was 1/4" rain a few days ago- the rest of the garden is dry on top, but these spots still glisten like wet mud.
Are the ponds forming because those areas are low-lying?
Anyone else want to weigh in? Most of my garden problems are resolved by the addition of compost or manures.
It would matter to me if I found out that you were a new gardener, because then I would say to you, "Wait and see what happens." Some plants like a damp spot. If your soil is truly compacted (oxygen deprived), you'll want to aerate it.
Anyone else?
On a large scale (farm) basis, low lying areas where water pools generally aren't worth seeding, as anything planted there invariably performs poorly, even if the field is tiled. Additional organic matter certainly doesn't help matters any, and could arguably make the situation worse by retaining water that might be better off draining away.
Ideally, we want excess water to filter through the soil, and fairly quickly. Barring that, it would be best to try and get it to drain to an unplanted area, however surface erosion is a risk using this method.
In your case, it might be worth trying to raise the low area so that excess water flows to an area that won't be planted. You could also wait for a dry season to plant if you get such a thing in your area.
The classic cure is to install a drainage system that operates below the root level of garden plants -- inexpensively done with a trenching spade and perforated black plastic pipe. But I wouldn't rush into that kind of a modification until you get to know the site a little better. A site that looks soggy through winter may be great at holding moisture through hot summer weather, and it may have a high organic matter content already from rotting stuff left behind by evaporation.
Here is a link that might be useful: my website
First off, these aren't really low places, as the whole garden is uphill from the backyard. They're towards the bottom corner of the new garden (which has a very slight slope).
I am planning to build raised beds over these places, and to try and keep the water from collecting there in the first place. It's interesting to think about other possibilities, say a little "rain garden" or maybe a goldfish pond inside my vegetable garden?
I think that they will dry out before summer, and since the puddled soil in question is silt, it will be easy to till again (once the water drains or evaporates). But that ideal soil structure will likely take awhile to achieve- thanks for all your feedback.
I wasn't recommending forking in organic matter to help with eskota's puddling, but to help aerate her soil---per her concerns. But I know that I've seen recommendations to add organic matter to help with drainage, so...
Here's what Smith and Hawkins says about compost:
"Loosens soil; improves drainage when thoroughly mixed into soil."
Here's what they say about Humus:
"Improves soil aeration; allows better penetration of water.
Manure: Loosens soil; improves drainage when thoroughly mixed into soil.
Why does the water puddle there? Is it because of soil compaction, hardpan, or because you have a high water table? Compacted soil can be cured by adding organic matter. Hardpan takes longer but organic matter will change the soil chemistry so the hardpan is broken up, but a high water table is not something easily fixed without a really good drainage program that includes every one for miles around.
Even with a very good drainage system around here the seasonal high water table makes for squishy soil every spring, although the surface water is moved away.
for me i'd use raised garden beds that gets the growing medium above that water at the very least, other aspects to look at is orientation of the gardens on your site, might be better if they ran along the contours.
installing french/agricultural drain can drain that area so loing as you have somewhere to run it to, but either way if you raised te level of that part of the yard, that could go a long way to resolving at least some of the issue. would help if you knew the source of teh water ie.,. it runs there across the ground or it just appears out of the soil, which may mean there is natural sub soil drainage from other properties to deal with?
if it is sub surface from higer properties then a french drain along the top side of you property will help arrest that issue again you need to feed the water to somewhere.
can only suggest things but you are the one who is there and who needs to make the decisions.
anyhow we have diagram of how we do our french/agricultural drains when we need to, for me i tend to consider the drainage of land among other aspects before i buy it, just a thought for next time around. of course if you have nowhere to drain the water to, then you could create a water sink in that area that is a deep hole app' 1 to 2 meters about 1 meter across and fill it with 40mm cracked rock then cover it with a sany loam soil using some old shade cloth on top of the rock, this sump would take a certain amount of water and then let it seep into the sub soil of course excessive water would ooze out of the top but it can be an effective way of managing a problem?
Here is a link that might be useful: len's garden page
"it would help if you knew the source of the water i.e. does it run there across the ground or does it just appear out of the soil, which may mean there is natural subsoil drainage from other properties to deal with?
If it is sub-surface from higer then a french drain along the top side of your property will help arrest that issue..."
That's certainly another possibility to consider- since it doesn't run there across the surface, I've guessed that it flows at clay level under the loosened soil. But it could be what you suggest- some kind of wet weather spring from further uphill. Digging a trench above the garden might stop it.


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Evangalizing Atheism is stupid and runs counter to the 'shoving religion down my throat' bullshit I always hear my fellow atheists spew.
We're atheists for different reasons apparently. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in god... not because I want to 'belong' to something and hang out exclusively with people who think exactly the same way. There's a word for that: Cult. Which are usually religious in nature. When I see Atheism being pushed in a cult-like manner, I shake my head every time. That commercial sucked.
Your rant about Chiefs fans is just silly and a total chewbacca defense.
There's no reason you can't have a community of like minded individuals that enjoy discussing a topic. I enjoy doing it almost everyday. We discuss different aspects of our interests and take sometimes opposing slants on minutiae of the "faith". I do seem to post almost religiously and am almost addicted to it. Is this a sign of cult like behavior? That fact that I regularly get together with like minded individuals and endlessly discuss our viewpoints. Is this somehow cultish? I don't know but I'd like to think not. Looking from the outside I could see how people might think my behavior is somehow cultish.
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my huband was precribibed Bactrim and it made him have severe side effects,he is no longer taking that horrible med. The ladt does he toke was about 24hours ago.but he still has some of the side effects... will he ever feel normal again?
How long does it take Batrim DS tablet to get out of your system?
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Yes, of course he will feel normal again.
Unfortunately all medicines have side effects but not everyone experiences them. Your husband was unlucky.
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I tell ya, other moms were not lying when they said the last couple of weeks are a drag. While my due date is quickly approaching, everyday seems like such a drag I just want to see Leilah so bad and hold her in my arms....*Sigh* c'mon baby girl, come out!
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I hear you on that one. I have a little over 2 weeks left and it is beyond dragging. Every cramp, every little twinge and I pray that it is it. I've given this little girl her eviction notice several times and she just isn't listening.
Claire 32, DH Jer 37. Mom to the piglet known as Abi 1.
You know what works for me as a distraction...law school exams!
But, I agree, time is crawling.
Our first, Robert Andrew (Drew), arrived December 9...home from the NICU December 28. �
I go back and forth between time crawling... I'm ready to see him and hold him, but I also know it means pain and time away from Cayden. So on one hand I'm like, ugh 2 more weeks (well, less than that now.) but on the other hand I'm like, holy shit, two more weeks!
I do feel like I could sleep through these next 2 weeks though, lol.
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W3 is excited to have a continued partnership with Wisconsin Campus Compact and to bring new AmeriCorps VISTA members to Whitewater! Three individuals will be selected to work with W3 during the 2014-2015 academic year!
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W3 seeks to increase longevity and quality of life utilizing the Blue Zones Principles by facilitating programs and partnerships to affect sustainable improvements for everyone in our community. Feel free to take a look through our site and contact us for more information on ways you can get involved to improve the health of the Whitewater community.
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W3's community WellFest will be held on Sunday, March 15th from noon-4pm at Whitewater High School. Please join us for awesome fitness classes, cooking demos, games, prizes and more! For questions, or to get involved, please call (262) 472-1305. Click on W3 Events at the top of this page for more information and the W3llfest schedule.
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Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads 195
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We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
Latency. The world isn't getting any smaller.
Extension? Chrome and Firefox both have that capability native these days.
Firefox: Go to about:config and search for click_to. Turn it to true. (It's really neat and even tells you what type of content you'll load before you click.)
Chrome: Go to chrome://settings/content and select Click to play for plugins.
Links (elinks I think is the package name) is a console browser with some CSS layout support (unlike lynx when I replaced it).
If you want a Google Chrome like browser I would recommend Chromium, which unlike Google Chrome is open source and doesn't track you as much as their proprietary product. You will miss out on some of the extra features available only in Google Chrome, but most of it should be the same.
The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."


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I know I've posted this before but I wanted to use it to give my friend James a plug. He did this label for me in about an hour. The guy is incredibly talented in every aspect of art. He was one of the lead designers and did most the landscaping in the new game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. He did some of the characters but pretty much all the landscapes. He is setting up a website as we speak and once its up I will post it on here. He really likes doing the labels and I'm sure would love to help you out if you so desire. So that's my plug for my buddy.
I am an a pilot and aviation nut so all of my labels are aviation related. The middle photo is me flying my Dad's airplane. I have a bunch more somewhere on another hard drive. I keg all my beers for the most part so I framed my labels and they are hanging above the bar.
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silent darkness
Kiss's you lightly
Emotionless moment to grieve
trapped in a dream forever i was gone
a mind of deception a love that was strong
my back against the wall with stabs to the heart
my love, my life,,has driffted apart
you say you love me, i can hear the lie
you say, you don't lie, but the angels cry
they cry a sunny day, cause it hurts so bad
in this time in our life we feel so sad
were lost in a maze trying to find eachother
lost like a child with no warmth of a mother
i wanna die cause i hate this life
i close my eyes and fight this life
my world has falling and i lost a friend
please help me god, so i can breath again
u u u u u u u u u u u u u
wild notes slide
pounding the kiss of ice
fingers drape near evening's crepe air…
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FROM: nette onclaud
Life surrounds us with miracles each and every day
Blinded are the people who don't see the wonder display
A child who's born with ten fingers and ten tiny perfect toes
A child who's free from illness and healthy as he continually grows
A single mother struggling to ensure the ability to survive
Facing endless obstacles; her child's health promotes her drive
A troubled lost soul in dire need, of a kind helping loving hand
His suicidal thoughts evaporate; a now vanished forever disband
An atheist whose religion is filled with hatred and disbelief
As he takes his very last breath, the Lord's love fills his voided grief
An elderly couple who's family is misplaced and sadly out of touch
A homeless needy puppy who's love has given them simply so much
An abused neglected child dwelling inside a house of dead
Blessed is the hero who saves this child of dread
A once successful entrepreneur who's lost everything he once had
Homeless in need of shelter, a "nobody" lends him a helping hand
Miracles are all around us, if we only take the time to truly see
That the next one in need of a miracle could surely be you or me
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Many times we virtualization experts push for backups without the agents as these backups tend to be in our opinion, cleaner and faster. But what if you could get the benefits of your existing backup tools (such as Tivoli) but gain the power and advantages of using all the possibilities within the virtual environment. For VMware vSphere this is possible using the Pancetera backup tools.
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As business critical applications move into production virtualized environments, the need arises to ensure their performance from a response time perspective. Legacy Applications Performance Management tools are in many cases not well suited to make the jump from static physical systems, to dynamic virtual and cloud based systems. For these reasons enterprises need to consider new tools from vendors that have virtualization aware and cloud aware features in their APM solutions. Vendors like AppDynamics, BlueStripe, dynatrace, New Relic, OPNET, Optier, Quest, and VMware (AppSpeed) are currently leading this race to redefine the market for APM solutions.
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More evidence of falling life expectancy for women in many rural counties in South, West
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.
The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation's counties — many of them rural and in the South and West. Curiously, for men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties.
The study is the latest to spot this pattern, especially among disadvantaged white women. Some leading theories blame higher smoking rates, obesity and less education, but several experts said they simply don't know why.
Women have long outlived men, and the latest numbers show the average life span for a baby girl born today is 81, and for a baby boy, it's 76. But the gap has been narrowing and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown women's longevity is not growing at the same pace as men's.
The phenomenon of some women losing ground appears to have begun in the late 1980s, though studies have begun to spotlight it only in the last few years.
Trying to figure out why is "the hot topic right now, trying to understand what's going on," said Jennifer Karas Montez, a Harvard School of Public Health sociologist who has been focused on the life expectancy decline but had no role in the new study.
Researchers also don't know exactly how many women are affected. Montez says a good estimate is roughly 12 per cent.
The study, released Monday by the journal Health Affairs, found declining life expectancy for women in about 43 per cent of the nation's counties.
The researchers, David Kindig and Erika Cheng of the University of Wisconsin, looked at federal death data and other information for nearly all 3,141 U.S. counties over 10 years. They calculated mortality rates for women age 75 and younger, sometimes called "premature death rates," because many of those deaths are considered preventable.
Many counties have such small populations that even slight changes in the number of deaths produce dramatic swings in the death rate from year to year. To try to stabilize the numbers, the researchers computed some five-year averages. They also used statistical tricks to account for factors like income and education.
They found that nationwide, the rate of women dying younger than would be expected fell from 324 to 318 per 100,000. But in 1,344 counties, the average premature death rate rose, from 317 to about 333 per 100,000. Deaths rates rose for men in only about 100 counties.
"We were surprised" by how much worse women did in those counties, and by the geographic variations, Kindig said.
The study wasn't the first to reach those conclusions. Two years ago, a study led by the University of Washington's Dr. Christopher Murray also looked at county-level death rates. It too found that women were dying sooner, especially in the South.
Some other studies that focused on national data have highlighted steep declines in life expectancy for white women who never earned a high school diploma. Meanwhile, life expectancy seems to be growing for more educated and affluent women. Some experts also have suggested smokers or obese women are dragging down life expectancy.
The Murray and Kindig studies both spotlight regional differences. Some of the highest smoking rates are in Southern states, and the proportion of women who failed to finish high school is also highest in the South.
"I think the most likely explanation for why mortality is getting worse is those factors are just stronger in those counties," Murray said, adding that abuse of Oxycontin and other drugs also may add to the problem.
Some also think the statistics could reflect a migration of healthier women out of rural areas, leaving behind others who are too poor and unhealthy to relocate. That would change the rate, and make life expectancy in a county look worse, explained Bob Anderson of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics
"We shouldn't jump to the conclusion that more people are getting sicker in these geographic areas than previously," he said.
But that is open to debate. Migration didn't seem to affect male death rates. Murray disagrees with the theory, saying he has tracked a great deal of movement from urban areas to less-populated counties.
University of Wisconsin study, http://content.healthaffairs.org
University of Washington search site for specific county life expectancies, http://bit.ly/13CgCla
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One of 2013's biggest issues and challenges in agriculture will be animal welfare and animal rights.
This is not a bold prediction — it's been a major issue for years. But despite sincere efforts by livestock advocacy groups to offer a balanced view, those who oppose farming on a large scale seem to be having more success lately convincing the public to be suspicious of animals raised on anything other than a small farm.
Examples of abuse such as that which was video-recorded on a hog farm in Manitoba in the fall, and lately viewed widely on TV and the internet, add fuel to the fire.
The truth is that abuse on any farm, big or small, is rare. Abused animals perform poorly, and farmers need their livestock healthy to make money.
As well, if farmers really hated animals, why would they raise them in the first place? It's illogical.
The agriculture sector goes to great lengths to keep animals content and living in an elevated state of welfare. And it's adopting new measures all the time to make sure it's keeping pace with consumer demands. However, most measures, particularly when it comes to animal health, are seldom seen or heard of off the farm. Simply put, healthy animals, like most good news, don't make headlines.
But stories galore exist when you look at the science and research behind animal health. In some cases, it's like a space odyssey — to inner space. This science is about looking at what's happening inside an animal, without actually going there.
One technology along these lines was officially launched in Ontario in 2012. It's called Herd Navigator, from dairy technology giant DeLaval. This technology, which was introduced in Europe in 2008, has been undergoing field tests on four "reference" farms in the province, including one near Waterloo. Herd Navigator provides an internal look at a dairy cow by automatically gathering and analyzing milk samples that signal such vital matters as reproduction timing, nutrition balance and udder health.
Here's why that's important. In dairy cows, conditions and traits such as disease, optimum breeding time and response to feed are not always obvious. But they significantly influence the animal's performance, and farmers need to address them.
But rather than artificially prompting pregnancy, or treating what-if scenarios for disease or nutrition, farmers can figure out what's up by looking at Herd Navigator's milk analyzes. It tells them what's going on inside their animals, in a non-invasive way.
The company believes this approach has appeal off the farm as well.
"Consumers like to see intervention only when necessary," says DeLaval branch manager Jean-Francois Lambert.
The company has six of the $100,000-ish systems now on dairy farms in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba, and Lambert expects another three to be sold shortly.
DeLaval also contributes to dairy education at the University of Guelph, having committed six fully refurbished dairy milking units to the Ridgetown campus, where on-farm training is continuing to grow.
Back at the main campus in Guelph, researchers are also committed to improving dairy animal education and welfare. There, they've come up with another way to look inside a dairy cow, by detecting a common and costly disease called sub-acute ruminal acidosis.
Prof. Brian McBride and post-doctoral fellow Ousama Alzahal in the department of animal and poultry science developed what's called a telemetric bolus — essentially, a thumb-size plastic cylinder with a radio transmitter that is swallowed by the cow, stays in one of its four stomachs, and sends out continuous temperature readings to a personal computer or cellphone.
Such research results make farming more animal-welfare friendly, and acceptable to consumers. As agriculture grows in the public eye, so will the importance of research.
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