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LOS ANGELES – Dark skies in the year ahead fill the crystal ball that Nissan North America Inc. uses to foretell its future, so the company is focusing intensively on the same strategy that rescued the Japanese auto maker several years ago in tough times: new product.
Specifically, Nissan pins its hopes on two new models, the fuel-efficient Cube B-car and, for enthusiasts, the next generation of its Z sports car, the 370Z.
Nissan already has a B-car, the Versa, but the Cube will be taller and boxier and will offer additional functionality and interior space.
"This is in many respects an experiment," Brian Carolin, senior vice president-sales and marketing for NNA tells Ward's. "This is the third-generation Cube. It's been hugely successful in Japan. It's such a fun car."
When reminded such an "experiment" already exists, in the form of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Scion xB, he laughingly says, "This is much better."
Carolin plays up Cube's "surprisingly good fuel economy," estimated to be 30 mpg (7.8 L/100 km) on the highway.
He isn't saying much about pricing of the car, which arrives in U.S. showrooms in the spring and includes "fun" interior features such as multi-colored rubber bands and shag-carpet options.
Carolin says Nissan has "no idea" about anticipated sales volumes for the Cube. "We may get a surprise with this car," he says. "I think it can appeal across a very wide age range."
In April, Carolin replaced Mark McNabb, now a sales vice president for General Motors Corp.'s Cadillac, Hummer and Saab brands, as NNA's third highest-ranking salesman in three years.
"I think the October (seasonally adjusted annual sales rate) at 10.6 million was a big shock," he says of the current dismal state of the U.S. new-vehicle market. "That's a 32%, almost 33% drop in the industry. So it's an extremely challenging environment for all the car makers."
Nissan, which calculates data on a fiscal-year basis, calls for a SAAR of 12.4 million units for its fiscal 2008, ending March 31.
"At the moment, I would see the industry at around 11 (million units) through (our fiscal) 2009, so about 11.5 (million)," Carolin says.
He describes as "perilous" any efforts to forecast sales for the month of November, given the market volatility.
Carolin led European sales and marketing when Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. CEO Carlos Ghosn summoned him to the U.S. He says 80% of the job requirements are "common, irrespective of which region you work in," but concedes, "I am definitely familiar with an environment where fuel prices are high and customers are searching for vehicles with high fuel efficiency.
"That's been very much a sea shift in the consumers' thinking here in the U.S., and I don't see that disappearing, incidentally."
Next year will be a quiet one for Nissan in the U.S., although the new Z car is bound to generate some buzz.
The car Carolin says exemplifies Nissan's revival gets a higher displacement 3.7L V-6 vs. the outgoing model's 3.5L V-6, resulting in 26 more ponies for a total of 332 hp. The 370Z will be priced below $30,000 to start.
"You cannot in this market get that level of performance for that price," he says, admitting the low sales volume for the Z might do little to boost the auto maker's bottom line.
And while not new – with the exception of a sub-$10,000 base model for '09 – the subcompact Versa is expected to be a strong performer in 2009.
"We're selling more Versas than we did last year," Carolin says of 2008 sales, which through October stood at 75,509 units, up 11.6% from like-2007, Ward's data shows. "And our segment share in the month of October was 22%, so we're very pleased with (the) Versa."
Carolin declines to predict Versa sales for 2009 because of the uncertain market, but he anticipates Nissan's share of the subcompact segment to climb.
Although Nissan was caught off-guard by the demand for small vehicles when fuel prices spiked in the spring, Carolin is certain the auto maker has the capacity at its Aguascalientes, Mexico, plant to get as many Versas as it needs.
"We see Versa as one of our core models, a model where we're going to put a bigger investment in terms of marketing," he says.
Nissan U.S. sales in 2008 yo-yoed: down 7.5% in June when gas hit $4 a gallon; up 13.6% in July when other auto makers' sales slumped; and down a steep 35.5% in October, Ward's data shows.
Through October, Nissan's U.S. sales were down 6.2% to 842,724 units.
Never happy to see sales dip, Carolin takes solace in Nissan's ability to increase its share this year, to a record 7.3% in the U.S. through October.
"I feel pretty good about that," he says. Adding market share for Nissan is "not a driving objective – profitability remains the No.1 objective – but market share is a pretty good indicator of you doing things right."
To cope with the market downturn, Nissan is cutting production to control inventory, Carolin says.
The auto maker this year saw days' supply of several models balloon wildly, including the Titan fullsize pickup and Quest minivan. The latter had a 445 days' supply at the end of October, Ward's data shows.
However, Carolin says the inventory of the Quest actually is quite small. In the case of the Titan, he admits Nissan was surprised by the generous incentives competitors had placed on their fullsize trucks.
"One of the reasons why our sales have fallen so much is that incentives in that segment (skyrocketed)," he says. "There's been so much grounded inventory; there's a limit to how much you can play in (the incentive wars)."
Titan sales through October were down 44.8% to 30,907 units, a far cry from the 100,000-unit annual volume Nissan hoped to achieve when the truck launched in 2003.
Conceding defeat, Nissan in the spring announced Chrysler LLC would build the next-generation Titan on the new '09 Dodge Ram platform.
The truck, which Nissan executives say will look different from the Dodge Ram, is expected in 2011.
Even with plunging sales of the current Titan, Carolin says Nissan wants "to keep our place" in the fullsize-pickup segment and won't pull the vehicle before the next generation arrives in 2011.
With the 35 mpg (6.7 L/100 km) fuel-efficiency requirement looming over the industry, Nissan will rationalize its light-truck lineup in coming years.
"In our 5-year cycle plan, there will definitely be some ins and some outs," he says, without getting specific.
Nissan has said it will shift production of the Quest and Infiniti QX56 SUV from Canton, MS, to Japan for their next generations but has not discussed the future of its Armada large SUV, also built in Canton.
Expectations are it will not see another generation, but Carolin is tight-lipped. "No comment," he says of Armada's future.
Sales at Nissan's Infiniti brand slowed in 2008, down 6.5% to 97,085 units, Ward's data shows.
Carolin blames the dip partly on the cave-in of the near-luxury segment. Sales of Infiniti's best-selling G sedan and coupe fell 7.2% this year.
Infiniti will launch a convertible-version of the rear-wheel-drive G coupe in 2009.
"Luxury has taken a real battering this year," Carolin says. He insists Infiniti "held our own" in the G's segment but admits the growth of competitive brands, such as Audi, has been an eye-opener.
Infiniti for some time has been considering a smaller-displacement engine for the G series. With the growth of models such as Audi's A4, which offers a turbocharged 4-cyl. gasoline engine, Carolin says Infiniti now doesn't have to fear diluting its brand image with a smaller-displacement V-6 or even a 4-cyl.
"We definitely have got (smaller engines) as a study item, but we've not made any decisions," he says. "But it's pretty clear the powertrain offerings in that part of the market are beginning to fragment, or diversify."
Meanwhile, Carolin says next year Nissan will keep updating the media and public on progress regarding its coming electric vehicle, which is set to debut in fleets in the U.S. in 2010 and be mass-marketed in 2012.
If the clouds should part in Nissan's crystal ball, Carolin would love to see those EVs go on sale sooner.


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Vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) often necessitates revisional surgery for weight regain or symptoms related to gastric outlet obstruction. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is considered as the revisional procedure of choice. However, revisional bariatric surgery is associated with relatively higher rates of complications. The aim of the current study is to analyse our single-centre experience with patients requiring revisional RYGB following primary VBG.
Retrospective review of the prospectively collected database identified 153 patients who underwent RYGB as a revisional procedure after VBG from Feb 2004–Feb 2011. Early and late complications, weight data and resolution of symptoms related to gastric outlet obstruction were analysed.
One hundred twenty-three females and 30 males underwent revisional RYGB post VBG. Mean age was 44.4 (15–74) years with a mean pre-operative body mass index (BMI) of 34.2 (23.5–65.5) kg/m2. Mean hospital stay was 4.3 days. Early complication rate was 3.9 % with a 30-day re-operation rate of 1.3 %. Mortality and leak rate were zero. After a mean follow-up of 48 months, the mean BMI decreased significantly to 28.8 kg/m2 and a complete resolution of the obstructive symptoms was achieved in nearly all patients. Late complications developed in 11 (7.7 %) of the patients of which seven (4.9 %) required surgery.
Revisional RYGB following VBG is technically challenging but safe with low rates of morbidity and mortality, comparable to primary RYGB. It produces a significant reduction in body weight and in symptoms resolution. We recommend RYGB as the procedure of choice in patients requiring revisional surgery following VBG.
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I first called Directv and they offered to raise the price of my service. (I currently pay $77. They would discount it to $63 for the next 12 months. After the 12 months, I would pay $93. I have no premium channels. They wanted me to change to a HD satellite and HD dvr for this "promotion". Absolutely no discounts for staying with what I currently have, member since 1999 and never received a previous discount.)
I called Time Warner (bad deal) and Dish. Dish offered the following for signing up:
- free installation
- free Hopper dvr
- free HD for life
- free Showtime for 3 months
- free HBO for 3 months
- free Cinemax for 3 months
- free Straz for 3 months
- free Epix for 6 months
- free Blockbuster @ home for 1 month
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This is America's top 200. $44.99 for the first 12 months, $69.99 after the 12 months. $7.00 a month for the protection plan (after the free months have expired.) I have Choice Xtra with Directv, which is about the same amount of channels.
I've never had service with DIsh, but I am seriously considering switching, Can anyone comment on the quality of service with Dish in comparion to Directv?
I had DISH a few years ago and did not experience any problems. Their menu system is different than DIRECTV. Some prefer one vs the other. Of course DISH does not offer NFL Sunday ticket, which was the reason I switched. DISH now has the "hopper" DVR to skip commercials, although they are being sued by the networks so I am not sure how long it will be available. Did you speak with the DIRECTV cancellation/ retention staff? Usually the first customer service rep you speak with will not offer the best deals. Its only after you are transfered to the cancelation department that you get the great offers as their last line of defense against losing a customer.
Hi drshrinker,
I called twice. The first call to see if I was out of contract because we had to set up a new dish on the roof in 2009-2010ish, which extended our contract. I told them I was unhappy with the loss of some of the channels and wanted to know if I would be charged for changing providers. He offered nothing, but asked me to call back after shopping other providers.
The second call was after calling Time Warner and Dish. I told the second gentleman, that the first time I called he asked me to call back after I had shopped other providers. The second gentleman asked what was offered. I told him I wasn't happy with the Time Warner offer, but the Dish offer seemed too hard to pass up. I told him about the Dish offer. He said we can't come anywhere close to that. How about if we upgrade you to HD (which I am not interested in and I told him that) and that he could discount that price for a year, but after that I had to pay for the "improved" service, which would raise my bill by about $20 a month.
I told him he lost me as a customer. I asked about the cancellation procedure. I told him I would be signing up with Dish Monday morning. I was not interested in paying more a month than I currently pay, for even fewer channels.
I was more interested in the Hopper's ability to record more than 2 shows at once. We frequently wish we could record 3 shows at once off ABC, CBS, NBC, and/or FOX, which we were told the Hopper could do.
We're not sport's viewers, so the Sunday ticket isn't a loss for us. Thank you for posting. If Dish has decent service, that's great. We'll change providers tomorrow.
I'm also looking at Dish to save some money. One thing to remember is that it is NOT possible to record six shows from the cable channels. You can only record two channels plus the four networks during peak hours. May not make a big difference to most people, but I found the advertising to be a little misleading. Also, the Hopper comes with $17 in fees ($10 for the whole home plan and $7 for the Joey) per month.
I still think it may be a better deal than DirecTV, but I need to go in with my eyes open. There is no grace period if you are not happy - you're stuck for two years!
Most of our dvr recording is on the networks (cbs, nbc, abc, and fox), so the Hopper is perfect for us.
We signed up with Dish and they installed it yesterday. They waived all activation and installation fees. Our Hopper fees were waived. We received the unit for free and the monthly fees appear as a credit. It would have been $10. I was told by the customer service rep that by him entering "HD free for life", we would never be charged for the Hopper. Under our account, next to HD free for life is a $10 credit.
If you sign up and have anything you would hire Geek Squad to do, ask them about special pricing. I didn't know about that service and asked how much it would cost to buy a large tv mount and have my 42" tv mounted on the wall. In the end, another crew showed up 30 minutes later with a mount, hung my tv on the wall, concealed the wires, cleaned the tv screen, left a bottle of cleaner with a cleaning towel, installed an HDMI cable for my dvd player and an optimal cable for my sound bar. Those additional expenditures cost me $150.
personally, i've done my fair share of research and i've always come back to dtv.
i have the choice xtra and my price in the 2nd year of my contract is $67 a month + taxes. I have the whole home dvr with extra receiver.
after 12 months i called up and got most of the fees waived since i threatened cancelling my account as a result of my 1 year rebates expiring.
Also, i took advantage of the dtv-viacom blackout and got 6 months of free showtime.
Plus, if you're a new customer you can get sunday ticket for 1 year free which is a big deal if you're a sports buff.
Lastly, AMC is not included with DISH currently, you can get an itunes season pass for breaking bad for $22 a season and i assume they will follow that path with their other hit shows like mad men, hell on wheels, and other shows.
oh and dont forget to do your due dilligence as far as channel packages go if you do get DISH because they have several tiered packages that you may ASSUME include basic channels but do not.
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WASHINGTON (ICIS)--Industry and environmental leaders on Wednesday urged quick congressional action on a bipartisan bill to modernise US chemicals regulations, noting that all sides agree that existing rules are inadequate.
In a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, American Chemistry Council (ACC) president Cal Dooley said that the bipartisan reform bill introduced in the US Senate "has kick-started a sincere and serious effort to reform chemical regulation".
Dooley was referring to S-1009, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA), co-authored by Senator David Vitter (Republican-Louisiana) and the late Senator Frank Lautenberg (Democrat-New Jersey), a long-time advocate of chemicals management reform.
The Vitter-Lautenberg bill would replace the existing Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the 37-year-old statute that all stakeholders agree needs modernisation and improvements.
Dooley, a former congressman, told the House panel that CSIA is a "delicately crafted compromise [that] will enhance public safety while preserving the ability of American manufacturers to develop new, life-changing innovations".
He said that if passed, S-1009 also would enable US chemical manufactures to "compete in the global marketplace and create new opportunities in communities across the country".
"This much-needed balance has eluded us in past reform proposals," Dooley said.
Over the last several years multiple legislative efforts - many led by Lautenberg - to reform TSCA have died in Congress because most were seen as too extreme to garner broad bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.
Dooley said that CSIA still contains elements that environmentalists and other stakeholders find lacking, but he said that "We believe these concerns are manageable".
However, he added, "it's important to realise that the CSIA is already the product of extensive negotiation and compromise", warning that excessive changes to the bill could kill its chance of full congressional approval.
"We support efforts to find common ground" in making changes to S-1009, Dooley said, "but any effort to continually move the goal posts will undermine the trust that has been established thus far and could prevent progress for years to come."
Richard Denison, senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), also had praise for the Vitter-Lautenberg bill, saying it constitutes "the first viable path toward actually passing TSCA reform legislation".
He said that S-1009 "contains many elements of effective reform". However, he added, the bill "needs significant changes if it is actually to deliver the promised reforms".
Among other issues, Denison said, CSIA must provide better safeguards for vulnerable populations exposed to multiple chemical sources. He also said that CSIA's "sweeping pre-emption of state authority needs to be significantly narrowed".
In addition, Denison argued that the bill's "undue limits" on government challenges to producer claims of confidential business information (CBI) "must be remedied". Strong protection of CBI is a critical issue for chemicals manufacturers.
But Denison shared Dooley's view that "these problems, while serious, are fixable" and can be effected without undermining "bipartisan support critical to passage of the legislation".
"Congress must seize this opportunity to … overhaul an ineffective and obsolete law that everyone agrees needs reform," Denison said.
The bill is likely to face multiple amendments in the House as it goes forward.
The Vitter-Lautenberg bill has 25 Republican and Democrat cosponsors and is still pending before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, but no hearings on the measure have been scheduled there.
Committee chairwoman Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-California) is said to want to scrap S-1009 and start over.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Smiling mother Tasha Henderson and her baby gently touch foreheads, a tender moment that almost didn't have a chance to happen. Six-month-old Trenton is a symbol of Memphis' success in fighting infant mortality.
A decade ago, babies born in the city and surrounding Shelby County were statistically more likely to die in the first year of their lives than any other populous county in the U.S. Nearly 15 of every 1,000 infants were dying before the age of 1 -- a worse rate than some developing countries.
The Shelby County health department made saving babies its goal, enlisting help from national and community organizations, social workers, faith-based groups, businesses and hospitals. They sought to improve what experts call the "social determinants" of health, including education, income and living conditions. Other keys were good nutrition and stress management for expecting mothers.
With the efforts in place, Shelby County's infant mortality rate dropped by nearly a third en route to its lowest recorded level in 2011. The improvement equates to 74 more babies surviving to their first birthday. While the national infant mortality rate also fell over that period, it was a much more gradual drop.
One key to the Memphis-area efforts has been pinpointing at-risk mothers such as Henderson and giving them intense attention, education and counseling during and after pregnancy.
Henderson, a smoker with three older daughters, faced significant obstacles. She had lost her job and was evicted from her apartment. The baby's father was gone.
High blood pressure, breathing trouble and other issues led her to a high-risk pregnancy clinic. She was suicidal and considering an abortion.
Enter the Shelby County Health Department, which assigned a counselor to guide Henderson through a stressful pregnancy. The counselor visited Henderson's apartment each month and urged her to eat healthy foods, attend her doctors' appointments and take her medications. She gave Henderson her cell phone number and urged her to call any time.
"I was very, very stressed out and going through depression," said the 39-year-old Henderson, who quit smoking during her pregnancy.
Her counselor zeroed in on that. "That was her main focus, that I wasn't trying to commit suicide or trying to harm anybody else ... I could talk to her about any issues that I was having and she tried to calm me down and help me be happy with my pregnancy."
Henderson's mental state improved, and Trenton was born with club feet but otherwise healthy.
The counselor visits were provided by the county and partly funded by grants from the federal Healthy Start initiative, which also helps cover prenatal care costs.
It's one of several home visitation programs available in the county. Le Bonheur Children's Hospital has three home visitation programs, including one that meets with low-income teenage mothers. Another of the hospital's programs is targeting families in low-income apartment complexes with high dropout, crime and pregnancy rates.
The increase in such outreach efforts in Shelby County was aimed at paring an infant mortality rate that stood at 14.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2003. That rate was higher than French Guiana, Kuwait, Lithuania and other developing nations.
Shelby County, which includes Memphis, ranked worst in infant mortality in 2003, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for large U.S. counties with more than 12,000 births that year. Ranking just below were the counties that include Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, along with Prince George's County, Md., in suburban Washington.
Now, Shelby County health department figures show that the 2011 infant mortality rate had dropped to 9.6 per 1,000 births -- the lowest on record. The other communities have taken similar approaches to Shelby County, and their infant mortality rates have also improved. Statistics for 2011 weren't available for all counties.
"To see it finally move consistently in the right direction and hit a low that this community has never before seen, is really a testament of what can happen when a community really develops public will to make something happen," said Yvonne Madlock, director of the Shelby County Health Department.
Work remains, though. Memphis still is above the national infant mortality rate, which was 6.05 for every 1,000 live births in 2011, according to the CDC. The national rate was 6.84 in 2003.
In Shelby County, the death rate among black babies in their first year was 13 per 1,000 births in 2011. That is down from 21 per 1,000 births eight years earlier, but there still is room for improvement, Madlock says.


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1. Usually when a <g> is followed by the letters <e>, , or <y>, it is pronounced _________ and is called ____________.
2. Sometimes when a [g] sound has an <e>, , or <y> right after it, the [g] sound will be spelled <g> with an insulating standing between the <g> and the <e>, , or <y> to keep the <g> from looking as if it should be pronounced [j]. In a very few words the sound [g] is spelled <gh>, as in ghost. Underline the letters that spell [g] in the following words:
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Words that end <logue> can usually also be spelled <log>. Dialog, monolog, prolog, travelog, catalog, epilog are all correct spellings, too.
5. You've seen that an insulating is sometimes used after <g> to spell [g] before <e>, , or <y>. There are a few words where [g] is actually spelled <gu> in front of :
Originally these words were spelled with no in English. The was added in the century, probably to reflect an older French spelling with <gu>, pronounced [gw].
Word Histories. Oddly, the Greek prefix epi- meant both "before" and "after." So an epilogue is writing that comes at the end of a book (just the opposite of a prologue), but an epigraph is writing that comes at the beginning of a book.


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You're up and running with the new software deployment features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – deploying applications, software updates, package and programs, configuration baselines. But there will inevitably be a few deployments that have problems. You can see these from the Monitoring workspace, when you click the Deployments node and then click the Error tab. See the screenshot below for an example.
The assets (devices or users) that are associated with the selected error appear in the Asset Details pane, and for each asset, you can select More details. But what if you want a list of these assets so that you can then take further action? For example:
What you need to do is double-click the category entry – in our example, the Conflicts with another application deployment. This action creates a temporary node in the Assets and Compliance workspace, under the Devices or Users node. The temporary node contains the assets that reported the Category item that you selected from the Monitoring workspace and that appeared in the Asset Details pane.
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I had create 1 application and added 15 deployment types .But only 1st priority deployment types is getting install on client.If i change the priority of other deployment(4 to1) type and update client policy,it is getting install in client.
How to deploy these all deployment types in client by single application.
Jassy i use dependency to solve that problem you have to put all the deployment type in dependency of the 1st deploiement type so the client will install deployement type 2 to 15 and than install the 1st (maybe not the best way to do it but it work for me
I currently have to research logs and find out why certain WU are failing to installing (installation is stalling)
I do not have access to this console, does anyone have a clue which logs I should be paying attention to, they are just way too many, any sort of guidance will be greatly appreciated.
I agree, this is neat but i need to know which log files contain the detailed failure info. I receive little info on what the error is from the monitoring deployment tabs, it just says Failed(run time exceeded)
Answered my own question from a social blog on technet...Execmgr.log in C:\CCM\logs
Hi, have you found anyway to do this if it is a task sequence? The Catagory does not show up in the deployment status of a Task Sequence.


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Geographic Range
Microtus pennsylvanicus is the most widespread vole in North America. Its east to west range is continuous from central Alaska to the Atlantic coast. South of the Canadian border, its western limit is the Rocky mountains. The meadow vole is found as far south as New Mexico and Georgia (Maser and Storm 1970).
Microtus pennsylvanicus can be found in mainly in meadows, lowland fields, grassy marshes, and along rivers and lakes. They are also occasionally found in flooded marshes, high grasslands near water, and orchards or open woodland if grassy (Jackson 1961).
- Habitat Regions
- temperate
Physical Description
The total length of M. pennsylvanicus ranges from 128 to 195 mm with a tail about 40% of the body length. The dorsal surface is dark blackish brown to dark reddish brown with coarse black hairs. The ventral surface is grey or white and may be tinged with light brown. The winter pelage is duller and more grey. There is no sexual variation in size or color. The skull is moderately heavy, rather long, and slightly angular. The upper cheek tooth row is relatively long, about 7.2 mm, and the third premolar, usually a distinguishing characteristic among the voles, has an anterior complex, a posterior loop, and seven triangles in between, four lingual and three labial (Maser and Storm 1970, Jackson 1961).
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- sexes alike
- Range mass
- 33.0 to 65.0 g
- 1.16 to 2.29 oz
- Average mass
- 43.67 g
- 1.54 oz
- Range length
- 128.0 to 195.0 mm
- 5.04 to 7.68 in
- Average basal metabolic rate
- AnAge
Meadow voles are short-lived, rarely living for longer than one year in the wild.
The meadow vole is active at all times of the day, but tends to be more nocturnal during the summer and diurnal during the winter. Females are territorial, and males have overlapping home ranges about three times larger than those of females. Female territories are actively defended. When more than one female occurs within a territory, one is significantly larger than the others, and it is probably a mother-daughter relationship. The mother seems to prevent these offspring from breeding although the mechanism for this is unknown. During cold winter months M. pennsylvanicus, communal nesting can occur among non-overlapping maternal families consisting of non-reproducing individuals of mixed sex and age groups. The meadow vole makes extensive runways through vegetation where they deposit feces and food refuse. They are proficient diggers and swimmers. Vocalizations are primarily used in defensive situations rather than offensive (Maser and Storm 1970, Wolf 1985).
Communication and Perception
Meadow voles have keen hearing and a good sense of smell. Vocalizations are primarily used in defensive situations.
Food Habits
Meadow voles feed mainly on the fresh grass, sedges, and herbs that are found locally within their range. They will also eat a variety of seeds and grains. From May until August they subsists on green and succulent vegetation. During the fall they switch to grains and seeds, and during the winter they have been known to feed on the bark and roots of shrubs and small trees. These voles will also eat tubers and bulbs when available. When this species overlaps the range of cranberries, meadow voles feed extensively on these fruits. They also eat other types of fruit. Meadow voles will eat flesh and are cannibalistic, especially on new born young. They do not show much storage behavior, but occasionally make small caches of tubers during the fall. Meadow voles are voracious eaters, consuming close to 60% of the body weight. When eating, these animals sit up and will stand to gnaw bark or a grain stalk (Jackson 1961).
- Animal Foods
- mammals
- insects
- Plant Foods
- leaves
- roots and tubers
- wood, bark, or stems
- seeds, grains, and nuts
- fruit
- Foraging Behavior
- stores or caches food
Meadow voles are aggressive and will attack when cornered or captured. They take refuge from predators in their system of burrows and grass tunnels. Below is a list of some predators.
- Known Predators
- owls (Strigiformes)
- birds of prey (Falconiformes)
- snakes (Serpentes)
- red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
- weasels (Mustela)
Ecosystem Roles
Especially because they are so abundant in the habitats where they are found, meadow voles have crucial ecosystem roles. Many predator species rely on voles to make up a significant portion of their diet, especially owls, small hawks and falcons. In addition, meadow voles consume large quantities of grass and recycle the nutrients held in the grass through their droppings. They also help to aerate and turn the soil through their digging activities.
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Microtus pennsylvanicus destroys many weeds especially weed grasses, and serves as food for some fur animals and other predators (Jackson 1961).
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
When abundant, the meadow can be a pest. It can do considerable damage to growing grain and is also a problem in orchards and forestry plantings (Jackson 1961).
- Negative Impacts
- crop pest
Conservation Status
The meadow vole is very abundant and has no special status.
- IUCN Red List
Least Concern
More information
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
- State of Michigan List
- No special status
Other Comments
Microtus pennsylvanicus first appeared in the Late Pleistocene and is very abundant in the fossil record.
Tim Neuburger (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- Nearctic
living in the Nearctic biogeographic province, the northern part of the New World. This includes Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and all of the North American as far south as the highlands of central Mexico.
- altricial
young are born in a relatively underdeveloped state; they are unable to feed or care for themselves or locomote independently for a period of time after birth/hatching. In birds, naked and helpless after hatching.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- diurnal
- active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- female parental care
parental care is carried out by females
- fertilization
union of egg and spermatozoan
- folivore
an animal that mainly eats leaves.
- frugivore
an animal that mainly eats fruit
- granivore
an animal that mainly eats seeds
- herbivore
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
- internal fertilization
fertilization takes place within the female's body
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- nocturnal
active during the night
- sedentary
remains in the same area
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- solitary
lives alone
- stores or caches food
places a food item in a special place to be eaten later. Also called "hoarding"
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- temperate
that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).
- territorial
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
- viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
- year-round breeding
breeding takes place throughout the year
Jackson, H. H. T. 1961. Mammals of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison.
Maser, C. and R. M. Storm. 1970. A Key to Microtinae of the Pacific Northwest. O.S.U. Bookstores Inc.: Corvallis, Oregon.
Wolf, J. O. 1985. Behavior. In Biology of New World Microtus. R. H. Tamerin ed. The American Society of Mammalogists. Special Publication 8.
"Animal Life Histories Database" (On-line).


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EM.TV & Merchandising AG ("EM.TV"), one of the world's leading media, animated cartoon and retail companies, and Sesame Workshop, a non-profit educational organization best known as the creators of "Sesame Street," today announced an important set of agreements that modify their long-standing and continuing strategic and economic relationship. The agreements, financial terms of which were not disclosed, are expected to significantly enhance the ability of the two enterprises to achieve their respective organizational missions.
Since 1969, The Jim Henson Company ("Henson"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of EM.TV, has provided puppeteer and puppet-building services for Sesame Street worldwide. Henson has held the underlying rights to these characters, which are developed in cooperation with Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop), the producer of Sesame Street.
Under the terms of the agreements announced today, Sesame Workshop will acquire, in perpetuity, complete control over the rights of all Sesame Street characters and Henson's interest in the Noggin cable channel. Previously, those rights were jointly controlled by Henson and Sesame Workshop, and many operational matters required the approval of both companies.
In addition, EM.TV and Sesame Workshop, for the first time, have entered into a long-term television development agreement under which they will work to co-produce two new series per year for each of the next five years, on terms designed to maximize each company's geographic and organizational strengths. Under another of the new long-term agreements being entered into, EM.TV will expand its role in Europe as the exclusive merchandising representative for Sesame Street.
Thomas Haffa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EM.TV & Merchandising AG, said: "This win-win agreement builds upon the very successful partnership established and nurtured over many years by The Jim Henson Company and Sesame Workshop. For EM.TV, it represents an attractive opportunity to forge a long-term strategic relationship of our own with Sesame Workshop. EM.TV will also benefit from the new co-production arrangement and the planned expansion of Sesame Street's merchandising representation in Europe, both of which could represent, for us, significant long-term revenue and earnings opportunities."
Gary Knell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop, said: "This agreement will strengthen our relationship with EM.TV and, most importantly, will establish Sesame Workshop, for the first time, as the sole master of our organizational destiny, by solidifying our control over our most treasured asset, the Sesame Street characters. Under this deal, we will reduce the need to pay licensing fees and eliminate the inherent risk of an eventual transfer of the rights to those characters to a third party. We thus regard this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that makes compelling long-term strategic and economic sense; that will enable us to actively pursue new opportunities to achieve economic self-sufficiency in ways consistent with the long-term educational equity Sesame Street represents; and, most important, that will enhance our ability to continue our mission of helping to educate pre-school children around the world."
Charles H. Rivkin, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Jim Henson Company, said: "We at Henson welcome this agreement as the beginning of an important new phase in our long and mutually beneficial relationship with our friends at Sesame Workshop. The agreement simplifies what has always been a successful but rather complicated business relationship, in which we and Sesame Workshop jointly owned and managed the Sesame Street characters and brand. Going forward, we will not only expand our production relationship, but we will also be able to remain involved in the wonderful Sesame Street series by continuing to provide our unique brand of puppets and puppeteer services to the show."
Established in 1989 by Thomas Haffa, Chairman and CEO, EM.TV & Merchandising AG has developed into a leading international media company. The company is active in the production of children's and family programs, worldwide distribution of TV rights, and marketing of merchandising rights and major international events. EM.TV is the world market leader in family and children's programming and the European market leader in merchandising. The portfolio of EM.TV comprises approximately 28,500 half-hour episodes, which are marketed nationally and internationally under the brand Junior.
Sesame Workshop is a non-profit educational organization committed to maximizing the power of media as an educational force in the lives of all children. Its products include television, online, CD-ROMS, magazines, books, film, community outreach, and licensing. Best known as the creators of Sesame Street -- now in its 31st season on PBS -- the Workshop produces programming that has been enjoyed in 148 countries, including 20 co-productions reflecting local languages, customs, and educational needs. With Sony Pictures Family Entertainment, the Workshop recently launched Dragon Tales on PBS. Several of the Workshop's earlier award-winning programs, including The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and Square One TV, can now be found on Noggin, the new 24-hour-per-day kids' thinking channel, a joint venture between the Workshop and Nickelodeon. Find the Workshop online at http://www.sesameworkshop.org, http://www.sesamestreet.com and http://www.stickerworld.org.
Established in 1958 and headquartered in Los Angeles (Hollywood), with offices and production facilities in New York and London, The Jim Henson Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EM.TV & Merchandising AG, is one of the world's best known producers of family entertainment, and effectively owns the rights to many of the world's premier family entertainment brands. The company's library comprises more than 450 hours of programming and includes famous series, TV movies and specials such as The Muppet Show, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, numerous Muppet movies and the recent international successes Bear in the Big Blue House and Farscape.
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Sky's absolutely correct.. the leverage exerted by the mast will be huge, but it's sneaky.. straight up it may be/seem manageable, but if the stick gets out of plumb in either direction you'll have a hell of a time keeping it from going on its own.. esp if it gets out of line with your tackle.. I reckon out of control it may well do your tabernacle in on the way down.
There are systems and methods.. I think they all provide some means of limiting lateral wander as the mast is lowered.. Lowering forward leaves you the minimum advantage and working area.. lowering aft would seem a better idea.. wider platform and longer distance for reduced leverage of the overhang.
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The LSU SVM is dedicated to improving the lives of both people and animals. Our dedicated faculty, staff and students work every day to save lives, find cures and change lives by providing outstanding medical care, groundbreaking research and educational opportunities. With state support dwindling, we rely more and more on generous people like yourself to help provide the resources for our programs.
For information on ways to give or how to give, please select a link on the left or contact one of our advancement team members.
For information about our programs, such as admissions, our hospital, our services or research, please click on the following links or go to the above navigation bar:
Wildlife Hospital of Louisiana