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Fla. Supreme Court: Protect Merit Retention
Politics in Florida are becoming ever more divided. Partisan Republicans and Democrats don't have much to say to one another, unless it is in the form of an attack ad. The trend is national, with Republican conservatives moving steadfastly further to the right under tea party pressure, but it is more extreme in Florida. Read more here: http://www.theledger.com/article/20120527/EDIT01/205275013?tc=ar.
Silencing Maneuvers: When the Florida Legislature Resembles the Politbureau
Republicans on the House Education Committee voted out a pair of education bills as Democrats bristled at a process that one compared to the Politburo. The votes on the two measures — one overhauling standards and finances for charter schools (HB 903) and another limiting the power of the Florida High School Athletics Association (HB 1403) in some transfer cases — came as the committee neared the end of its meeting time. Read more here: … Continue reading
Florida redistricting plans get final passage
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Democrats filed a lawsuit against a congressional redistricting map immediately after that plan and a second one redrawing Florida House and Senate districts received final approval Thursday from the Republican-controlled Legislature. The Senate sent the congressional map (HB 1174) to Gov. Rick Scott and the legislative plan (SJR 1176) to the Florida Supreme Court. Both passed in the House last week. The Democrats contend the maps violate anti-gerrymandering standards in the two … Continue reading
Judge gone, damage remains
By The Palm Beach Post Paul Hawkes is gone, but Florida taxpayers and the state court system will feel the damage he caused for years. In August 2010, Lucy Morgan of the St. Petersburg Times reported that Mr. Hawkes, a judge on the 1st District Court of Appeal, had conspired with legislators in 2007 to secure a $35 million bond issue for a 1st DCA courthouse in Tallahassee that is much more lavish than the … Continue reading
GOP won't let courts derail its agenda
Gov. Rick Scott and Republicans plan a conservative push in 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott and top Republican lawmakers say a series of unfavorable court rulings on legislation they pushed last spring will not deter them from again pursuing a strong conservative agenda in 2012. With contentious issues such as state employee health insurance changes, prayer in schools, higher education reform and the drawing of new political districts on tap for the legislative session … Continue reading
Our Opinion: Senate must act on pending judicial nominations
The other federal crisis By the Miami Herald Editorial http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/02/2433205/the-other-federal-crisis.html In the month since Congress returned from the summer recess, the crisis over the deficit and federal spending has been the focus of attention, with ideological gridlock obstructing progress. But partisan politics has also produced a separate crisis in the nation's federal courts. During September, the Senate confirmed a grand total of three federal judges — leaving 95 vacancies in courthouses around the country. This … Continue reading


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The recent studies on men and women talking (22/29 December 2007, p 60) reminded me of a study I conducted at Hewlett-Packard labs some years ago. The perception in the IT industry at the time was that men were much more interested in digital technology than women were, and therefore would have much more to say on the topic.
We happened (for some other purpose) to be running eight discussion groups, four male and four female, talking about the digital devices people owned or had in their homes. We analysed the discussions from all eight groups (90 participants) and categorised every comment.
We found that, contrary to expectation, the men and women talked about the technology in pretty much equal measure. But there was one big gender difference. The men talked almost exclusively about the technical devices themselves - the model numbers, capabilities, functions and features - but we ...
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The Berklee College of Music in Boston gets about 7,200 applications a year. To figure out which prospects are most qualified, a team of recruiters travels around the globe to some 120 sites to interview them and evaluate their talents and promise.
Starting late last year, those recruiters ditched the laptops they previously lugged around in favor of iPads. The switch has streamlined and modernized their recruiting tasks, said Damien Bracken, the dean of admissions for the school. But it didn't happen until a key database app already being used by the school -- FileMaker -- became available for the iPad.
The story is a good reminder of the importance of a solid app ecosystem, not only for consumers, but for business uses as well. This is one of the iPad's biggest advantages, and one place where Microsoft's Windows 8 has a lot of catching up to do.
The college, which was founded in 1945, has produced a long string of talented musicians among its graduates, including pianist and singer Diana Krall, jazz star Branford Marsalis, and Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen. Perhaps its most famous attendee, however, was Korean pop star PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" music video recently became the most popular video of all time on YouTube, with more than 800 million views.
The iPads became the go-to devices for the school's recruiters when FileMaker became available with a mobile cloud-based version, Bracken said. FileMaker Go meant that Berklee's recruiting team of about 30 staff members could go out on the road, do their recruiting, and then return to the office and download their files back into the main database effortlessly, according to Bracken.
"Prior to FileMaker Go, which was designed for the iPad, we used some other products but they weren't up to par," he said. "We needed something at a very professional level. As soon as this application came out it was like the sea parting for me, seriously. Having that available on a mobile device is huge for us."
Berklee has been using Filemaker products for some 20 years, making the new mobile application a drop-in fix that helped transform its operations, said Bracken.
"It just gives the students the feeling that we have our act together in terms of the data," he said. "They are checked in using the iPads when they arrive and the whole process is conducted using them."
The school has as many as eight two-person recruiting teams on the road at any one time, with one team member handling applicant interviews and the other focused on the musical auditions that are part of the process. Both team members use iPads with local versions of the database application files for their evaluations. The completed records of the interviews and auditions are uploaded to the main database when they return to the Berklee campus.
"Every month of the year I have one or more teams out on the road recruiting" and interviewing as many as 300 applicants a day, said Bracken. The staff shares 20 iPads which are also used for email, Internet browsing and other essential tasks.
Overall, the iPad deployment has been a boon for the recruiting process, said Bracken. "From a management point of view, as the dean of admissions, I can be sitting anywhere and review applications," he said. "We continue to see increases in the volume of the applications we get so anything that lets my staff get to the data faster and get to the decision making faster is better. The majority of them are using them because they love the advantages of the technology."
He continues, "When you are someone who travels constantly, which most of my staff does, anything you can do to reduce the weight factor is huge," said Bracken. "Another primary factor is the kind of image that we show to our applicants when they see that we are using cutting edge technologies. That is impressive."
The only complaint Bracken said he occasionally hears is that they don't like the virtual keyboard, and would prefer a traditional laptop or desktop keyboard. "It's a question of personal taste," he said.
The school's IT team has been supportive of the iPad deployment since the school uses Apple hardware across its campus. Berklee has about 4,300 students and about 1,000 staff and faculty members.


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Wording the War
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This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic...
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The first edition of "Textbook of Men's Health" did much to establish and define the scope of the emerging subspecialty of aging men's health. This revised and updated edition, with new sections on basic sciences and sexual dysfunction, has a small but significant change of approach – reflected in...
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Environmentalists support House energy bill
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The House of Representatives will vote Friday on H.R. 3221, an energy bill that addresses global warming and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This morning, energy experts from scientific and environmental advocacy groups held a telephone media briefing on the bill. Karen Wayland, the legislative director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, outlined the positive aspects of the bill and the negative things were left out of it.
âEnergy efficiency standards for appliances, incentives to help deploy biofuels, to restoring balance on how we manage public lands, to make sure that oil and gas development is done in appropriate places with proper safeguards. Also, whatâs not in the bill are things like subsidies and mandates for liquid coal.
"There are no environmental exemptions for oil and gas industry, in fact the bill rolls back some of those. Thereâs no drilling. So thereâs a lot to like in the bill. In contrast to the energy bills of the last few years, weâve identified only a handful of problematic provisions most notably some of the loan guarantee language for nuclear industry,â Wayland said.
Two possible amendments to the House energy bill could strengthen it even more. One would create a national renewable electricity standard. The other is the Markey-Platts bill, H.R. 1506, which would add strong vehicle fuel efficiency standards.
Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming program, had this to say:
âThe House has an historic opportunity to save oil, cut our addiction, cut global warming pollution, and save consumers money at the gas pump. Thatâs because the Markey-Platts bill is the biggest single step to curbing global warming and doing those other wonderful things.â
Becker said Congress should support the Markey bill because it has stronger corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards than another possibility, the Hill-Terry Bill.
âWe know that the auto companies won't act without strong CAFE bill. The current fuel economy stands at the lowest level it has been since 1980s because the auto companies have failed to make progress and the Congress and the administrations have failed to require them to do so. So the challenge for the House is to decide to act on the issue and to choose between strong and weak bill.â
According to Becker, the Markey-Platts bill is closer to the Senateâs version than is the Hill-Terry bill and is more beneficial.
âThe Markey-Platts bill would save 1.3 million barrels a day of oil in 2020. It would save over 200,000 jobs. The Hill-Terry bill would do less than half of that. And itâs time for the auto industry to get off its tailpipes, and get into gear, cutting oil addiction, cutting global warming pollution, and saving consumers money at the pump.â
The other amendment the environmental groups hope will be included in the House energy bill is the Udall-Platts bill, H.R. 969, which would set a national renewable electricity standard.
Marchant Wentworth is the Washington representative for the Union of Concerned Scientistsâ Clean Energy campaign. He said it would reduce natural gas prices and is a win-win for both the economy and the environment.
âThis National Renewable Electricity Standard will actually create over 185,000 new high paying jobs," Wentworth said. "It will save consumers over $10- billion on their energy bills. And it will generate huge new income for farmers, ranchers and rural landowners. And for global warming ⦠it is the equivalent of taking 36.4 million cars off the road in terms of its carbon emissions.â
A similar bill has passed the Senate three times only to be stopped in the House. But since then politics have changed and 23 states have their own renewable electricity standard.
Wentworth said there is more support now and he is optimistic that the Udall-Platts National Renewable Energy Standard will pass as an amendment to energy bill.
Angela Anderson, vice president of Climate Programs at the National Environmental Trust, called the House energy bill âinnovative.â She said it sets the stage for reductions in global warming emissions when Congress takes up climate legislation in the fall.
âIt says that the federal government will take, in fact, the first step and will freeze its emissions by 2010, and then cut its emissions after that. This is going to be just a great opportunity for the private sector to learn from and see how the federal government goes about this and really sets the stage for an economy-wide carbon cap bill.â
Athan Manuel is the Director of Lands Protection for the Sierra Club also weighed in.
âWe feel that the energy bill as itâs written now, currently contains important and necessary reforms to the Department of Interiorâs onshore oil and gas drilling program ⦠And the bill also ensures responsible domestic energy development and helps Americaâs fish and wildlife, public lands, coasts and oceans adapt to global warming.
"The bill that will be voted on will help ensure that oil and gas development takes place in a more responsible manner in more appropriate places with improved environmental safeguards and increased pubic involvement. Itâs time for the oil and gas companies to finally act like responsible corporate citizens and stop opposing this effort.â
The House will vote on the energy bill on Friday.
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Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Energy campaign
Sierra Clubâs action alert for Markey-Platts fuel economy bill
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - -Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. has known New York Yankees All-Star Alex Rodriguez for 16 years, but the two have not spoken since Rodriguez admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers.
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A new report from the Marriage Foundation (UK) utilizing the latest data from the (UK) Office for National Statistics reveals a generational shift away from the institution of marriage.
The report projects that half of today's 20-year-olds will never marry (47 percent of women and 48 percent of men). Couples will increasingly choose to cohabit.
This represents a striking difference from the UK baby boomer generation (born between the end of WWII and the early 1960s) where 87 percent of men and 92 percent of women married.
In 1970, the peak year for marriages among 25-year-olds in the UK, 564,818 men and women got married. In 2010, only 56,598 married, a decline of 90 percent. Today, only 5 percent of men and 10 percent of women are married at age 25.
When current trends are applied to today's 20-year-olds, figures show that only 52 percent of men and 53 percent of women are expected ever to marry.
Researchers blamed a number of factors, including early cohabitation, which makes people less likely ever to tie the knot, celebrity divorces, and decades of undermining of the institution of marriage by the state.
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There are several identical posts from different senders to their own websites selling the same junk.
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Would it be just me? Or would the majority of members and readers of these forum object to the threads being littered with this sort of SPAM?
Can the webmaster simply delete these things?
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THE STORY OF THE BIRTH of New Community Jewish High School is not unlike the founding of other Jewish institutions. It began as a dream in the mid-late 1990's; a vision of people committed to Jewish education as well as a simple study of the demographics of Jewish Los Angeles. By 2000, two groups of community leaders joined forces to create one community high school in the West San Fernando Valley. The ground-swell quickly grew as the community backed the idea. A core group was formed to lead the movement. A name was chosen, the mission created and the first Head of School, Dr. Bruce Powell, was hired. Founding board members and donors set the school's foundation. A five-year business plan was developed. A scholarship fund was created by dedicated board members and other donors. Let no qualified student be turned away for lack of funds! Word spread rapidly. The San Fernando Valley would soon have its own Jewish community high school!
Under the leadership of Dr. Powell, the doors of the new school opened on September 3, 2002 in rented space at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills. Forty ninth-grade students from Jewish day schools, public schools, home schools, private schools and schools in other countries applied and were accepted to the pioneering class–the largest first class of any Jewish community high school in the history of the United States. Within weeks, the school that promotes a culture of kindness became known as "New Jew," a term affectionately coined by pioneering students.
NCJHS began its rapid growth from the day its doors first opened. After two years at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus, also the home of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation, NCJHS moved to its current campus on the grounds of Shomrei Torah Synagogue. Two modular buildings were installed and fully equipped with science labs, computer lab, art room, music room, library, classrooms, faculty and administrative offices. In 2006, NCJHS was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) for six years, and the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater L.A.
NCJHS quickly became the third largest Jewish community high school in the nation, expanding its range of academic, extracurricular, and co-curricular offerings. In 2006, the 47 students in the pioneering class of 2006 graduated. Since then, more than 680 alumni from the first 8 classes have assumed leadership positions on college campuses and professional positions at prestigious companies across the country while others are pursuing advanced degrees in medicine, law, design, film, international relations, business, education, Jewish communal work, entertainment, marketing, and more. Still others are or have served in the US and Israeli militaries, and/or participated in post-high school programs in Israel. Annually, more than 200 outstanding colleges and universities accept our graduates. Our highly personalized college guidance program successfully matches students with colleges, universities, and post high-school programs.
In early 2010, NCJHS received provisional membership in the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS). In the fall of 2010, NCJHS purchased the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills from the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. In June 2012, NCJHS became accredited by CAIS, and re-accredited by WASC and BJE. In July 2012, NCJHS closed escrow on its permanent home began a phased multi-year renovation process. On August 29, 2013, NCJHS opened the doors of its new campus to the classes of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.


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224,000 - number of active UH alumni who hold successful and diverse positions as U.S. Secretary of Education, congressmen, legislators, CEOs, astronauts, judges, educators, actors, artists, and much more.
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Slim in the summerFor Robin McKay, this summer is a time of anticipation and excitement instead of dread.
By: Rebecca Osterlund, Living North
For Robin McKay, this summer is a time of anticipation and excitement instead of dread. Before the 43-year-old South Range native lost an astonishing 80 pounds, she didn't like pulling out the summer
clothes needed to keep her cool.
But with the confidence she's gained by shedding the weight, McKay now
looks forward to trying on beach clothes. "Just, you know, being comfortable in shorts is a huge thing for me," says McKay. "I'm getting ready for my sister's 4th of July party… and this year I can't wait to get in that pool. It probably sounds like a little thing, but for me it's huge."
McKay, who lost the weight with the assistance of the Jenny Craig program,
has accomplished her weight loss goal and is now focusing on maintaining her healthy eating habits and ramping up her exercise routines. "I do cardio six times a week. I try to run at least three times a week," says McKay, who plans on running her first 5k this summer. In addition to her cardio, McKay also adds in resistance training three days a week.
Summertime means more than just wearing shorts for McKay, she also looks
forward to the fresh food the season provides. "It's definitely easier during the summer," remarks McKay, who loves eating fresh fruit. She is also looking forward to the bounty her garden will provide this fall.
According to licensed dietician, Tammy Fadum-Saksa, eating fresh foods
instead of highly-processed foods found in the grocery store is a very healthy idea. "Try to eat whole, plant based foods in their unprocessed form most often," advises Fadum-Saksa. "For example, an apple or an orange will give you more fiber and nutrients for the least amount of calories as compared to apple juice, apple pie or orange juice."
Healthy eating habits learned from her program have stayed with McKay. She follows the rule of breaking her plate up by food group. "I fill half my plate with vegetables, a quarter with protein and the other quarter with starch," intones McKay. "I don't necessarily count calories, I just know what my portions are supposed to look like and I stay within that."
And the exuberance exuded from the petite hairstylist has bubbled over into people around her – even some of her clients. "I've had three or four actually sign up for Jenny Craig and they're doing really well; and I have others who are doing other things or trying other programs and it's been really cool to see," remarks McKay. She also says her family members
have all gotten into the healthy eating mode.
For now, McKay is simply focusing on maintaining her healthy weight and she's happy with what she's achieved thus far. "My body is not perfect by any means," says McKay, "but I'm comfortable in it now because I know I've done what I need to do to be the best me."
Stay tuned for more on Robin McKay's weight loss story
in the September-October issue.
This breakfast contains 270 calories.
Information courtesy of The Volumetrics Cookbook for Jenny Craig.
Jennifer's Fruit-Smothered Whole-Wheat Buttermilk Pancakes
1¼ C whole-wheat flour
1½ C low-fat buttermilk
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David graduated from NUI Galway with an honours degree in Geography and Psychological Studies in 2005. He is a native of County Sligo and spent much of his childhood in close proximity to the countryside. From this, David has developed a strong interest in rural studies, the environment and its associated natural systems. It was through completing his undergraduate dissertation in geography however, that he developed his devoted appreciation for geographical research. His dissertation, which focused on the feeding, ecology and economic status of the ring-necked pheasant, opened many doors for postgraduate research within the discipline of geography.
David has a wide range of interests that lie principally within the discipline of rural geography at the intersection between rural development policy and the politics of rurality. His main research interests are concerned with rural restructuring, rural development policy and the management of habitats and wildlife. He is particularly interested in alternative land-use activities, such as hunting, and their associated impacts on the economy, society and landscape in rural Ireland.
Ph.D. title: The Place of Hunting in Rural Ireland?
Recreational hunting activities occupy an uneasy position in contemporary rural space. Framed by global developments and changes in the sociocultural, political and economic fabric of rural societies, we are also witnessing, however, a growth and interest in non-agricultural activities in the countryside, particularly those associated with recreation and leisure, including that of hunting. Contextualised within this broader discourse, this research seeks to explore how hunting is positioned by those within and outside by drawing on critiques of how nature is socially constructed; work in animal geography, which highlights the changing character of human-animal relationships, and rural studies which illustrate not only how representations of rurality are seen as socio-cultural constructions, but can also be specific to particular social groups and individuals.
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Red Grouse Habitat Management Plan for Cregg Hill, Connemara, Co. Galway. Galway: Clifden Gun Club and Galway Game Hunting Association.
Scallan, D. (2010) Gun Clubs and Pine Martens (Martes Martes) in County Roscommon: Perceptions, Effects and Ideas about Management. Roscommon: Roscommon Regional Game Council.
Scallan, D., Canning, B. and Ligang, D. (2010) Habitat Mapping for Red Grouse on Ballydangan Bog, County Roscommon. Kilkenny: Heritage Council.
Scallan, D. (2010) Survey of Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) in Lealetter, County Galway. Galway: Cruachan Wind Energy Ltd.
Scallan, D. (2009) Red Grouse Conservation Plan for Ballydangan Bog, County Roscommon for 2010-2015. Roscommon: Roscommon Regional Game Council.
Scallan, D. (2009) An Economic Assessment of Stag Hunting in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin: Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Scallan, D. (2009) An Examination into Heather (Calluna Vulgaris) Regeneration on Carrownagappul Bog, County Galway. Kilkenny: Heritage Council.
Scallan, D. and Ligang, D. (2009) An Assessment of Heather Quality for Red Grouse on Boleybrack Mountain, County Leitrim. Kilkenny: Heritage Council.
Scallan, D. (2009) A Socioeconomic Assessment of Hunting in the Republic of Ireland: Interim Report. European Commission.
Scallan, D. (2008) Economic Impact of Game Shooting in the Republic of Ireland. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Firearms licensing: the wider dimensions. Mullingar, 8-9 May 2008, pp. 59-70. Dublin: Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
Scallan, D. (2008) The Economic and Habitat Conservation Impacts of Game Shooting in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin: National Association of Regional Game Councils.
Scallan, D. (2008) Red Grouse Management Plan for Carrownagappul Bog, Mountbellew, County Galway. Kilkenny: Heritage Council.
Scallan, D. (2008)
Hunting and Habitat Conservation in the Republic of Ireland. Submission to Ireland's 2nd National Biodiversity Plan, Dublin: Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Book Contributions
Scallan, D. (Forthcoming) Ireland - Daily Life: Religion, Family & Society, In
World and Its People, Marshall Cavendish, New York.
Scallan, D. (Forthcoming) Ireland - Daily Life: Health, Welfare & Education, In World and Its People, Marshall Cavendish, New York.
Scallan, D. (2013) 'Conservation and Recreational Hunting' Guest Lecture to
MSc in Wildlife Management and Conservation, UCD School of Agriculture and Food, Dublin (16th April 2013).
Scallan, D. (2011) 'The Sustainability of Hunting in Ireland: A Rural Development Case Study', International Conference on Hunting (HUNT Project). Ciudad Real, Spain (27th-29th March, 2012).
Scallan, D. (2010) 'Gun Clubs and Red Grouse Management: Insights from the Boleybrack Mountain Restoration Project', Ireland's Red Grouse – Time for Action, Irish Grey Partridge Conservation Trust Conference, Tullamore. (16th October, 2010).
Scallan, D. (2010) 'Developing a Strategy for Red Grouse ( Lagopus lagopus scoticus) Management in Ireland' Mayo Regional Game Council, Castlebar (11th February, 2010).
Scallan, D. (2009) 'Hunting: A Socioeconomic Tool for Revitalising Rural Ireland?' XXIII European Society for Rural Sociology congress, Vaasa, Finland (17th-21st August 2009).
Scallan, D. and Maher, G. (2009) 'Governing European Ruralities: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Policy' International History Students Association (ISHA) Annual Conference, Zagreb, Croatia, (13th-19th April, 2009).
Scallan, D. (2009) 'Conceptualising the role of Nature-Based Recreation in a Post-productivist Ireland' Department of Geography and Tourism, Departmental Seminar Series, University of Iceland (7th April, 2009).
Scallan, D. (2009) 'Des Opportunités Économiques Négligées: Quel rôle la Chasse peut-elle jouer en Irlande?' Chasse, Territoires et Développement Durable: Outils D'analyse Enjeux Perspectives, Clermont-Ferrand, France (March 25th, 26th and 27th 2009).
Scallan, D. (2009) 'La Chasse et la Conservation de l'habitat en Irlande?' Chasse, Territoires et Développement Durable: Outils D'analyse Enjeux Perspectives, Clermont-Ferrand, France (March 25th, 26th and 27th 2009).
Scallan, D. and Laingen, C. (2008) 'Consequences of Land Use Change on Pheasant Hunting: Experiences form the Republic of Ireland and South Dakota, USA' Department of Geography, Departmental Seminar Series, NUI, Galway (11th December, 2008).
Scallan, D. (2008) 'Neglected Rural Opportunity: What Place for Hunting in Rural Ireland?' European Society for Rural Sociology, Urban-Rural Cooperation for the Future, Nagykaniza, Hungary (27th August, 2008).
Scallan, D. (2008) 'The Economic and Habitat Conservation Impacts of Game Shooting in the Republic of Ireland' Firearms licensing - the wider dimensions', Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dublin (8th May, 2008).
Scallan, D. (2008) 'Sustainable Hunting and Rural Development in Ireland' Association of American Geographers, Boston, USA (19th April, 2008).
Scallan, D. (2008) 'The Biology of Irish Game Birds' Galway Regional Game Council, Athenry (23rd March 2008).
Scallan, D. (2007) 'Countryside Sports in the Republic of Ireland: Implications for Habitat Conservation and the Rural Economy' Department of Geography, Departmental Seminar Series, NUI, Galway (25th October, 2007).
Scallan, D. (2006) 'The Economic, Social and Conservation Significance of Hunting in the Republic of Ireland', (poster presentation) Conference of Irish Geographers, University College Dublin.
David has given lectures in undergraduate courses TI312 - The Geographies of Rural Development, TI219 - Environment and Landforms and TI 106 Foundations in Physical Geography. He has also led laboratories for the TI 235 Biogeography course and practical classes for TI 103 Foundations in Human Geography and TI 106 Foundations in Physical Geography.
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Country Coordinator for Ireland (2010) for the Transactional Environmental Support System (TESS) Project (EU FP7)
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Broke a Gear Tooth on my LX80 - SOLVED by MEADE
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Edit: Carlos at Meade sent me a PM here on the Forum and took care of me. New gears are being shipped out tomorrow.
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Posted 15 April 2013 - 03:50 PM
Nice. Have they changed their policy re. Sending parts to the customer? If that's the case its awesome. Kudos to Meade, they may be listening to the customer's concerns.
Yes, but they designed the LX80 mount that comes nowhere near it's advertised specs. Meade conveniently ignores us early LX80 adopters/testers. If I just wanted an alt/az mount with goto that can handle under a 20 lb. load I'd have chosen a different mount.
Still listening Meade?
Posted 16 April 2013 - 12:16 AM
But what I do expect from all companies no matter how large or small, is excellent customer service, timely repair of defective products, and a sense of doing what's right by the customer. Sometimes that means saving the customer from down time by supplying them with replacement parts here and there. I can understand the insistence of sending your product to them for service if it's under warranty as long as they cover shipping both ways. But when a product is out of warranty, then the responsibility should fall on us, the customer, if we should make a problem worse by trying to fix it ourselves. There's only been two times in 19 years, including this instance, which I had to contact Meade about a problem. Both times, the issue had been resolved to my satisfaction with a part being shipped out. The first time was a burned out DEC board on my LX200 Classic.
So, my question is what does anyone really expect from a $800 mount, no matter what the specs look like on paper? It performs as I expected for a portable visual mount that I can use for solar and lunar imaging with a video camera. For serious night time astrophotography, I am totally satisfied with my LX200GPS and Atlas EQ-G.
Posted 16 April 2013 - 12:41 AM
Though I will say back in the day the Classic LX200 was built like a tank, and mine is going strong after 21+ years.
The ETX-125, I knew what I was getting into - a poor man's Questar. Yes, I paid over $1000 for the entire kit, but I wasn't expecting the performance of my LX200 or a Questar. Just a low cost mak as a grab and go. Lots of vibration with this puppy. Sloppy plastic gears. Whatever. I was cool with it.
LX-80 I agree is low end. Still, Meade should have been careful what was promised. Can it handle the advertised loads? Yes. Can it do it at the level of high end mounts (i.e. low vibration, motion, etc)? No way.
BTW - I hear of issues with all mounts in the league/price range of the LX-80. Still, it would be nice if defects and problems with mounts were minimal.
Also, I am curious as to the failure/problem rate of the LX-80. How many were sold? How many actually had issues? I don't think CN is a good place to measure this, since I am very convinced this forum is a collection of VERY OPINIONATED, VOCAL folks!
Posted 16 April 2013 - 02:37 AM
You're right, the LX200 Classics were tanks. The blown DEC motor was totally my fault. I had just bought some tube weights for balancing without full understanding how to do it. I loaded the scope with all of the weights and began slewing up and down using the balancing feature of the hand box. I remember hearing the straining of the motor as it tried to lift the weighted, out of balance, tube. And straining again to keep the front end of the tube from speeding downwards. Then nothing. That's when I realized I must have done it wrong. After muy goof-up, I did some research and discovered that the top must be balanced with the bottom and the front with the back.
As for the rate of failures, I don't think there are as many as some would believe. As humans, we tend to complain WAAAAAY more often than we give praise. Sure I have a lot to complain about, but when I look at the great photos I turn out with my O.K. equipment, there's a lot reason to be smiling as well. Think about it, I spent 1/3 the amount of money and my quality of work is ALMOST up there with the best of them. What's important is that I'm happy even when a few issues arise.
I'm sure the expensive mount have issues once in a while, but you would never hear of it. 1-Because the company takes care of the problem quickly so there's no reason to complain on a forum. 2-No one ever talks about a problem, so you think you're the first and no one here can help you. 3-You're embarrass that you spent so much on your mount and you broke it the first time out.
In fact, there was a time that someone did report a problem they were having with an AP mount here on the forum. Most of the HELPFUL responses sounded much like this:
1. Gee, I don't know, mine works fine.
2. Gee, I don't know, maybe you should give Roland and call.
There's just not much that goes wrong with some mount for anyone here to be of any help.
Posted 16 April 2013 - 06:22 AM
You're right, the LX200 Classics were tanks.
I had one for many years and based on that great experience I bought the LX80. I didn't tell Meade to lie about the specs of the mount. It will not hold 20 lbs. in polar without the RA axis bouncing with it's spring loaded gears. If they had said the polar mode was only for show and not to expect it to work correctly that would have been the truth, but I wouldn't have bought one. I don't buy or deal with anyone or any company who has blatantly lied to me.
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Now if you want to see some really hot action, go look at the SCT/Refractor Wars.
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Thank you Carlos for getting that to me so quickly.


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Born June 2,1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts, and raised in Maine, Firth is the son of Everett E. and Rosemary Firth. His father was a successful trumpet and cornet player who started young Vic on the instrument when he was only four. Fortunately for the world of percussion, Firth was not destined for a career as a cornetist. He soon began to study arranging, with additional lessons on trombone, clarinet, piano and percussion. By the time he was in high school, he had gravitated full-time to percussion, studying first with Robert Ramsdell and later with George Lawrence Stone, Salvy Cavicchio and Larry White. By the age of sixteen he was actively pursuing a career as the leader of his own 18-piece big band, playing vibes and drumset throughout the New England area. continued below >
Upon graduating from high school, Firth attended the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Roman Szulc, then the timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his studies in Boston, Firth made biweekly trips to Juilliard in order to study with Saul Goodman. When Szulc retired from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and auditions were held for the position, Firth was selected for the job. At age twenty-one, Firth was the youngest member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra, the average age in 1952 being about fifty-five. Not yet finished with his bachelor's Degree from the Conservatory, he had to make special arrangements in order to complete his course work and degree.
Firth's teaching career at the New England Conservatory also began before he had graduated, first in the preparatory department, then as head of the percussion department, a position he has held since 1950. He has guided numerous gifted students through their education, not only at the conservatory, but also at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, summer home of the BSO. Percussion students who have studied with Firth hold key positions throughout the world. He is hesitant to mention outstanding pupils, but he fondly recalls a class on percussion techniques for a Copland seminar that included three young conductors - Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta and Seiji Ozawa.
When asked about Firth's teaching style, Late Show with David Letterman drummer Anton Fig, who studied with Firth at the New England Conservatory, stated that "Vic is a very dynamic and forceful individual. He draws you into his highly productive work ethic. His lessons give you clear direction, not only with music but with life. He provides a balanced role model for the importance of work, family and compassion for other human beings."
This work ethic, along with the support from his wife, Olga, and two daughters, Kelly and Tracy, provided the drive to succeed in the business world in addition to performing music. Unsatisfied with the sticks available during his early years, Firth, like many percussionists, began making his own. Realizing that a concert violinist might spend $2,000 to $10,000 on a bow, he thought it strange that a superior quality stick was not widely available for symphonic percussionists. He began with timpani mallets, making round heads with no seams. As his students began using his sticks and dealers began asking for them, he made the decision to expand the manufacturing process.
Unlike his other successful business ventures - an investment partnership and an art gallery - Firth had no clear plan for developing his stick business. The driving principle was quality, with a guarantee that each pair would be straight and matched in pitch. What began in 1960 as a basement operation out of his home has now expanded into a corporation with two plants, a main office and 150 employees to handle the manufacture and worldwide sales of over 12 million sticks a year.
Never one to rest on his success, Vic also began another flourishing venture that most percussionists may not know about; a line of professional gourmet products. For Vic it was a natural evolution from crafting wood sticks and mallets to designing professional salt mills, peppermills and rolling pins. Bringing some of the same business practices from the music industry, Firth works closely with many of the most successful chefs in the business to craft the highest quality wood products available to the home baker and professional chef.
Although most young percussionists are familiar with the name Firth because of his sticks and mallets, many promising students first encounter Firth's musical substance through his numerous compositions and etudes. The Solo Timpanist and The Solo Snare Drummer etude books have set the standard for audition material at the all-state or college entry level.
As a performer, Firth recalls memorable performances with such legendary conductors and musicians as Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitsky, Leopold Stokowski, Jascha Heifitz and Vladimir Horowitz. "Vic is quite simply the consummate artist," says Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa. "I believe he is the single greatest percussionist anywhere in the world. Every performance that Vic gives is informed with incredible musicianship, elegance and impeccable timing. I also feel very lucky to count him as a dear and cherished friend, and it has been one of the great joys of my life to get to know him and his dear wife Olga."
Asked what his key to success has been, Firth responds, "I still enjoy the music as much now as I did when I started!" Other keys to succeeding include a highly competitive nature and enthusiasm for life. "Mostly, though," says Firth "I've just been in the right place at the right time."
Perhaps no one summarizes Firth's esteem in the percussion community better than jazz drummer Peter Erskine. "I have had the great pleasure of knowing Vic personally for twenty-five years," Erskine says, "and thanks to television and recordings, I have known his great music-making as timpanist for the Boston Symphony for even longer. And I have used his sticks since high school. Vic is the consummate musician, teacher and business person. No matter whose drumstick you use, we must all be grateful to Vic Firth for raising the level of stick and mallet design and production. Simply put, I wouldn't want to make any of my music without his sticks, and I cherish the friendship of the man and his family."
Vic retired from the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2001 after a 50 year tenure as timpanist. In 1995, he was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society's Hall of Fame.
by Rick Mattingly, Reprinted with permission, Modern
Drummer Magazine
When Vic Firth joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1951, the average age of a BSO member was fifty-five. Firth was twenty-one -- the youngest person to ever land a position with that orchestra. Now, as Firth begins his fiftieth season with the BSO, he holds the distinction of having been in the orchestra longer than anyone else.
He's not the oldest member, though. And Firth has no plans to shoot for that particular goal. "Fifty is a nice, round number," he says. "So I think I might just throw it in after this season. They want me to stay, but there's a saying that it's better to leave a year too soon than a week too late. Although my wits and responses, as far as I can tell, are as sharp as ever, I think there is an obligation to never be less than your very best. So I'd rather leave on that note than to wait a year or two too long, as I've seen some of my colleagues do. You tend to remember that more than all the years of good playing.
"Within the Boston Symphony, the timpanist is a real time bearer," Firth says. "I control the tempo; I can make it, break it, shape it, or destroy it. I learned about time when I was in high school, playing from 9:00 pm to 3:00 am in a jazz group with older men. Boy, did I learn to maintain time, because everybody around me was drunk! I don't think I took even a sip of a beer until I was in my twenties because I saw these guys making such fools of themselves.
"I don't pretend to be a moralist, but I've seen a lot of people come and go, and the ones who stay are the ones who eat right, sleep right, and don't do abusive things to themselves. To really be a creative, professional musician, you have to be honest with yourself and the music." After graduating from high school, Firth attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Roman Szulc, who was then timpanist with the Boston Symphony. In addition, Firth traveled to New York City twice a month to study with New York Philharmonic timpanist Saul Goodman."Saul had a natural feel for the instrument and understood the difference between Brahms and Stravinsky and Bach and Bartok," Firth says. "He knew how to color the sound to fit the music, because you don't use the same stick, the same stroke and the same sound for everything."
When Firth won the Boston Symphony audition upon Szulc's retirement, he became fascinated with sound and phrasing. "At the time I joined the orchestra, we had a principal viola player who looked like a plumber's helper in terms of his hands," Firth remembers. "Each of his fingers was the size of my big toe, but when he picked up that viola, the sound he made was from heaven. So I would listen to him, and then I started listening to the cellos, and I decided that's what the timpani should sound like. Most timpani players try to phrase with the brass section, because all of us drummers started out in marching band. But when you learn how to phrase with the string section, you get a whole different concept of what kind of sonority you're creating that contributes to the sound of the orchestra."I used to do whatever I could to bring the sound of my instruments into a richer category," he explains. "Some of the composers were not that knowledgeable about timpani, and so I took it upon myself to alter the parts. Sometimes I'd go too far and it didn't sound like that composer's music any more, so I'd back off."
"I told students the first day that if they didn't put in a minimum of five hours of practice a day, they shouldn't dare show their face in the room. I had a few dropouts and a few who broke down and cried after a while -- and a couple who tried to take a swing at me," Firth says, laughing. "But those who survived could play with superb touch and control. When you have that kind of control and somebody tells you to make it louder or softer, or faster or slower, you can smile instead of starting to shake.
"I thought there was a need for a higher-quality stick than was being manufactured at the time," Firth recalls. "Also, I was asked to do certain things that were perhaps more sophisticated than a lot of timpanists were doing, so I started designing sticks to accommodate what I had to do."
At that time, timpani sticks were typically of the "cartwheel" design, in which a rectangular piece of felt was wrapped around a core and stitched. Players had to avoid hitting the drum with the seam, as that could produce a "clicky" sound. Firth came up with a seamless head for his timpani mallets, and the heads were also round so that the same amount of felt struck the drumhead no matter at what angle the stick was held. Soon, Firth was designing drumsticks as well as timpani sticks.
"I started out just making a few pairs of sticks for my own use," Firth says. "Then my students started asking if they could buy some. I had a wood turner who was making them by hand with a wheel and a chisel, so I went from ordering ten pair for myself to ordering two dozen pair. Then those students started graduating and going different places in the country, and one day I got a call from Maurie Lishon at Frank's Drum Shop in Chicago. He had seen my sticks and wanted to sell them, so all of a sudden I was ordering fifty pairs at a time. And it just grew from there."
His guiding principle was quality, guaranteeing that every pair of sticks would be straight and matched in pitch. From the very beginning, Vic's wife, Olga, and daughters, Kelly and Tracy, helped out with the family business. Tracy remains a valuable executive at the company to this day.
"I still have as much fun with this business now as when we made twelve pairs a month," Firth says. "One of the biggest kicks for me has been getting to know all the drummers who use the sticks, listening to their needs and gripes, and trying to produce things that satisfy their musical needs. I have a very profound respect for people who have an artistic ability and understand what's involved in making music. As a result of that respect, I think I've got a lot of friends out there who appreciate what I do and who know that I have great appreciation for what they do."
One of the first drumset artists to have a Vic Firth signature drumstick was Steve Gadd. Firth recalls the first time he and Gadd performed together.
"There was a DCI convention in Florida, and they asked me to play something with a drumset player," Firth recalls. "I said I'd like to play with Steve Gadd, who I had met but never played with. So I brought some pieces I'd written for timpani and RotoToms with drumset. Steve and I had a rehearsal that began about 10:00 at night, and I was amazed at how little Steve contributed. I had heard so much about his musical greatness, but he was hardly doing anything. One piece was a jazz waltz, and he just played 'boom, chick, chick' through the whole thing. I was playing all these melodic runs, but timpani is not that adaptable to that kind of playing, and the piece really needs a good drumset player to work. In other words, I can only be a beautiful painting if I'm well framed. But Steve wasn't doing very much and I was thinking, 'I'm going to die with this, and all those kids who are coming to see Steve Gadd are going to be disappointed.'
"The next morning we had a quick run-through, and Steve seemed to come alive a little bit, but he still was playing simple time. Then, when we did the performance, he as astronomical. Everything he did was so tasty and delivered with such eloquence. I was absolutely bowled over by his musical intuition, taste, and style. I realized that at the rehearsal he was listening to what I was doing, so he would know how to integrate his part into mine when it came time to play. And when that time came, he played so beautifully I started smiling."
That says a lot, considering Firth's typical look when he performs. Although he insists that performing great music fills him with joy, you'd never know it from his stern expression. "I have to tell you about a conversation that I had with Claudio Abbado," Firth says, laughing. "He had come to Boston to conduct a Mahler symphony. After the concert, we went out to get a bite to eat. The orchestra was looking for a conductor at that point, and he was interested in the job. So he asked me what the orchestra members thought about him. I said, 'They're scared to death of you. You've got a face like an irate beaver; you look mad and mean all the time.' And he said, 'Have you ever seen yourself when you play? That's the same effect you produce!' So I figured if I looked that mean, maybe conductors wouldn't dare say anything about my playing!"
When Firth was elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1995, Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa had plenty to say about Firth's playing. "Vic is quite simply the consummate artist," Ozawa told Percussive Notes magazine. "I believe he is the single greatest percussionist anywhere in the world. Every performance that Vic gives is informed with incredible musicianship, elegance, and impeccable timing."
Although Firth has retired from teaching, students continue to benefit from the elementary and intermediate snare drum method books he wrote for the Carl Fischer company, as well as his books of advanced etudes, The Solo Timpanist and The Solo Snare Drummer. He has also written several percussion ensemble works, including "Encore In Jazz," that have become staples of the literature.
Asked if he considers himself a workaholic, Firth says yes, but then reconsiders the term. "A workaholic, to me, is somebody who's driven to work. But I enjoy it. And when I'm not working, I enjoy that with the same intensity. I'm about to go to Maine for a couple of days. I've got a rose garden that I monkey with, and I've got a boat that I go fishing in. I can't sit still for more than two minutes at a time, so I'm always doing something. But I don't carry my work with me. I think that's part of the secret of success in terms of accomplishment. I'll spend a couple of days in Maine, and it's like a tonic for me. Then I'm ready to go back to playing or merchandising or designing drumsticks with full enthusiasm."
Although Firth takes his work very seriously, he also has a robust sense of humor. He especially likes poking fun at himself. "I used to go jogging in Maine," he says. "There are some rocks next to our summer house where garden snakes liked to sun themselves. They wouldn't hurt anybody, but the kids didn't like them. So when I'd go jogging, I'd scoop up a couple of snakes in each hand and go jogging down the road swinging them around. Then I'd toss them in a swamp a half-mile down the road. You should have seen the expressions on the faces of people who drove past and saw this lunatic running down the road swinging those snakes!
"When I was young," Firth says, "I had some friends I ran around with, and one day my mother said, 'There's something wrong with you guys. All you do is laugh.' Well, we always had a good time, and I'm still laughing and having a good time. It's been a fun trip, and if I could do it all over again, the only thing I would change is that I would start all the adventures earlier so I could have even more time to enjoy them."


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The last time a restaurant and chef got the kind of buzz Andrés is getting for the Bazaar was when Wolfgang Puck opened Spago on Sunset, and people were eating duck pizza in droves. Times—and palates—may have become more sophisticated, but a culinary star of Andrés' wattage still draws a lot of attention.
The Bazaar is pure theater, unlike anything Los Angeles has ever seen. A student of famed chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli, Andrés has not just brought the experience of eating tapas to a new level—he has distilled all his experiences of traditional and modern Spanish food into an unexpected juxtaposition of tastes. You can order a plate of thinly sliced jamón ibérico de bellota, the prized cured ham of Spain, alongside a contemporary dish like a foie gras lollipop—a piece of foie gras wrapped in delicate cotton candy on a stick, which you eat in one bite. And there is a choice of rooms designed by Philippe Starck in which to dine—you can even move from room to room between courses—successfully turning Bazaar into an aesthetic adventure as well as a culinary one.


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Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- The Priests' Group for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Church of south Korea and two other religious organizations issued a joint statement, according to the south Korean Internet paper Jaju Minbo on August 23.
The statement laid bare the injustice of the construction of the Jeju naval base, noting it is aimed at depriving inhabitants there of their cradle, destroying ecological environment and threatening peace.
The "government" and the military authorities are pushing forward the construction of the base despite the opposition of different circles to meet their interests, the statement noted, adding that they seek to help the U.S. government achieve its purpose of escalating the military tension on the Korean Peninsula and the U.S. munitions monopolies such as the Lockheed Martin Company realize their desire to sell interceptor missiles, radar system, etc. to be loaded on warships to anchor at the Jeju naval base.
It is as clear as noonday that if the naval base is built on Jeju Island, it will turn into a U.S. military base, the statement said, stressing: The plan for building the base should be nullified.
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Corn comes out, finally: ND growers have been able to get to fields this weekRick McDonald, Larimore, N.D., was custom combining corn Thursday out of season for grower Mark Ovind in a field along U.S. Highway 2 west of Emerado, N.D., across the road from the Air Force Base.
By: Stephen J. Lee, Forum Communications Co.
Rick McDonald, Larimore, N.D., was custom combining corn Thursday out of season for grower Mark Ovind in a field along U.S. Highway 2 west of Emerado, N.D., across the road from the Air Force Base.
It's part of a pretty good chunk of the state's large corn crop still standing in snowy fields after a late and slow growing and curing season last year ended before it all got harvested.
"It went pretty good," McDonald said of the late combining. "We got stuck a couple more times when the frost started coming out of the ground again today."
He kept a tractor in the field to pull out the combine when it got stuck in the mud and water. He avoided the high drifts on the northern end of the field.
The cool weather, especially Thursday's drop into the teens, was just the ticket, said McDonald, who took off about 200 acres of corn the past week or so.
"I'm glad we started when we did, because it would have been a really bad deal if we had waited any longer. We would be sitting on a lot of corn."
Corn takes longer to grow and mature than other crops grown in the region, but has become much more popular in recent years as seed varieties and farming practices have improved to allow better performance in northerly regions. North Dakota farmers now grow about as much corn as the state's signature crop, spring wheat.
McDonald hauled the corn directly from the field into nearby grain elevators in Arvilla and Larimore for drying down to 13 percent to 14 percent moisture.
The corn was coming off with moisture of 18 percent to 21 percent — probably 6 to 10 points lower than it started the winter at — and the yield was 100 to 120 bushels an acre, he said.
"My corn averaged about 120 bushels this year," he said.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's crop statistics survey, only 3 percent of the total corn crop was harvested in February, leaving 24 percent in the field by March 1. No official numbers on March harvesting will be known until next week.
But relatively good harvest progress has been made this month, according to reports from farmers, said Tom Lilja, executive director of the North Dakota Corn Growers.
A grower near Arthur, N.D., told Lilja Thursday that in the past 10 days, a third to half of the remaining corn acres in that region had been harvested. The grower's corn came off in good condition, much improved, in fact, from the start of winter: it went from 31 percent moisture and 47 lb test weight on Dec. 7 to 18 percent moisture and 50 lb test weight when he combined it Wednesday, Lilja said. "It gained 3 lbs in test weight," he said, which adds value to the crop.
Plus, the grower saved lots of money by having to dry the corn less to get to the 13 percent to 14 percent moisture level that is safe for storage.
A grower near Wimbledon, N.D., told Lilja on Thursday that nearly all the remaining corn acres there have been harvested the past 10 days or so. Any remaining corn in the Wimbledon area not combined by this weekend probably will have to wait until nearly summer because the ground will be too soft next week, Lilja said the farmer reported.
Meanwhile, in the biggest corn growing area of the state in Richland and Sargent counties, little corn harvest has been possible the past month because of high water and high snow.
The grower near Arthur figured that in that area, harvest of the 2009 corn crop could be complete by the end of April.
Which looks to be about planting time for the 2010 crop, Lilja said.
Different from a year ago, farm fields appear to be relatively dry with nearly all the snow gone, except in tree rows and corn fields, Lilja said.
"If the weather stays good, I think we could be seeing some field work in three weeks."
Stephen J. Lee is a reporter at the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald, which is owned by Forum Communications Co.
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| Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- The Kunja Revolutionary Site is visited by an endless stream of service personnel, people from all walks of life and school youth and children on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War.
More than 100 000 people visited the site this year with its number increasing in July.
The revolutionary site in Songchon County, South Phyongan Province is associated with the exploits President Kim Il Sung performed by visiting it several times in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War in order to arouse the working people to the drive for producing munitions in the wartime.
In the revolutionary site, there are historic relics showing the efforts and feats of the President who instilled the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance into the working people and showed warm loving care for them.
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