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Can someone recommend a good bivy? Looking to use it in combination with my tarp? I looked into MLD but a 8 week wait is not for me..
So I'm looking for recommendationd
I'm currently using a TI Goat ptarmigan an it's a tad on the small side for winter trips an I don't know that I would get another ti bivy cause I know that lighter ones exist..
Thanks in advance
@allenbfarrisLocale: Texas
While I don't own one I am thinking about getting the wasatch bivy from Ruta Locura.
@mike_hefetzLocale: Israel
FWIW I know Arno Minner (arno5) was looking to sell his (I think MLD superlite size R all net hood option
@mikefaedundeeLocale: Under a bush in Scotland
Katabatic Bristlecone. Fits my thick winter quilt and Exped Downmat.
@hamericaLocale: Northern Virginia
Joe at Zpacks will make you anything you want. He does not have any on his site but just send him a message. Prices are reasonable and he does a great job.
@dustintsnyderLocale: Southeast
+1 on the bristlecone bivy.
@randalmartinLocale: Colorado
+1 on Bristlecone. Katabatic Gear just makes great stuff
I have an MLD Alpine bivy I'm looking to sell. Would help you avoid the 8 week wait from MLD directly but probably more bivy than you're looking for if you're trying to go as light as possible.
It does make for a great winter bivy though and allows the flexibility to use it without a tarp on occasion.
If you're interested, just PM me
Does Katabatic have an actual shop? Or is it all online?
I think I'm going to go with zpack to see joe will build me a custom bivy like mentioned above.. This way I it will be built to my specs.. Has anyone had zpacks build a bivy?
@hamericaLocale: Northern Virginia
Doug, check out this thread
That is almost exactly what I was thinking! That it's a solid setup! how is the construction? think it will last a few years ?
@randalmartinLocale: Colorado
Katabatic Gear is a cottage manufacturer north of Denver. They don't have a shop that you could visit that I am aware of.
@traletraschLocale: PNW
DANG that Wasatch bivy got me hyped up!! its so light!
Ruta Locura just got a new customer.
ruta locura is having a sale on most items, fyi
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by Greg Klein
Thirty-six years in key positions give Mark Lackey a well-rounded perspective on the uranium sector. Added to that is an investor's outlook gained by experience in the brokerage industry. A prolific media commentator—with over 300 TV appearances—he's frequently asked to discuss commodities, often focusing on uranium trends and uranium companies. Lackey spoke with ResourceClips.com on October 26, the day he joined ALX Uranium TSXV:AL as president/CEO/director.
Lackey has served as Bank of Canada economist responsible for U.S. economic forecasting and senior commodities manager at the Bank of Montreal. Stints with Gulf Canada, a uranium producer like many other oil companies of the time, and Ontario Hydro, a major uranium consumer, enhanced his supply/demand insight.
That uranium career includes his 16 years in the brokerage industry, serving with Brawley Cathers, Blackmont Capital, Hampton Securities and Pope & Company. More recently he's been executive VP at CHF Investor Relations and technical adviser at Presmont Group.
To those who watch uranium, its underachieving price hasn't just been an ongoing disappointment. It's a source of frustration to those who've made bullish forecasts. Lackey has been less surprised than others, however.
"I spoke at a conference last year and might have been the only one who thought uranium was actually going to go down this year," he recalls. "It did go down, but way more than I thought, which was about $29 or $28. I thought everybody else was too optimistic about Japan restarting all the units and we've seen excess supply coming out of places like Kazakhstan. So the weakness this year didn't surprise me."
History gives him a sense of perspective, not to mention optimism. "I've seen this from $8 in the late '90s to $136 in 2007. It fell during the 2008 recession, then came back nicely to $72 in 2011, the day Fukushima was hit. So we've had some big moves both ways over the years but now we're down to a price that's not sustainable. How many new mines would you get at these prices? I can't think of too many unless you find something huge in the Basin, because high-volume, low-grade projects in many other places have people looking for $50 to $60—not $21."
He sees a number of price catalysts over the next few years: increased buying from utilities, a possible reduction in Kazakhstan supply, Japanese restarts and nuclear expansion elsewhere.
Kazakhstan provided 39% of world supply last year (compared with Canada's 22%). But Lackey wonders whether low prices will force the global leader to cut output. Kazakhstan has been disregarding a 2011 self-imposed production cap of 20,000 tonnes per year, the World Nuclear Association states. WNA data attributes last year's output to 23,800 tonnes.
As for Japan, it "will have to do something ultimately," Lackey maintains. "There are 51 of the 54 reactors idled, that's six or seven billion dollars a plant, roughly three or four hundred billion dollars of infrastructure. Thirty of the units have been tested positively. There are political concerns and the closer you are to Fukushima the more difficult it would be to restart them, but southern Japan doesn't seem to have the same anti-nuclear view. Japan's burning a lot of coal, they're burning LNG and I hear from my sources that there are brownouts and blackouts. You can't have that in an industrial country."
Japan's restarts would have a symbolic effect. But it is, after all, just one country. "There are about 60 plants under construction around the world right now, and more and more of them are coming into play," Lackey points out.
"It's cleaner than most baseload sources and relatively cheap. The planet has 1.2 billion people with no power and another two billion with just intermittent power."
As someone who's been watching uranium companies for 36 years, I've seen it's the team you have, the projects you have and the jurisdiction you're in.—Mark Lackey,
president/CEO of ALX Uranium
Although near-term price scenarios can certainly influence investors, there are other priorities in assessing junior explorers. "As someone who's been watching uranium companies for 36 years, I've seen it's the team you have, the projects you have and the jurisdiction you're in. My favourite jurisdiction's been the Athabasca Basin. It's got the highest grades and Saskatchewan's a great province to work in.
"I follow the companies in this space and I can see that ALX has a very strong board, management and technical staff," he adds. "I'm extremely bullish about uranium and extremely excited about working with such an impressive team. It's a great opportunity and I'm glad to be part of it."
Lackey replaces Jon Armes, who steps down to pursue other opportunities but stays on as a consultant. During his six years of leadership at ALX and its predecessor Lakeland Resources, Armes helped build one of the Athabasca Basin's largest and most prospective uranium exploration portfolios. Most recently he negotiated the Hook-Carter transaction that benefits ALX with the budget and experience of Denison Mines TSX:DML.
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by Greg Klein | October 13, 2016
ALX Uranium TSXV:AL gets 7.5 million shares of Denison Mines TSX:DML, retains a 20% stake in the Hook-Carter project and has its portion of $12 million in spending covered as Denison moves into the southwestern Athabasca Basin. Under a deal announced October 13, Denison becomes project operator, bringing its expertise to the 16,805-hectare property in the Patterson Lake South region.
"This is elephant country—a large property that has seen very little drilling on a geological trend with a precedent for large and high-grade uranium deposits," commented Denison VP of exploration Dale Verran.
"The Hook-Carter property is uniquely situated on the Patterson Lake corridor, offering potential for both basement-hosted deposits, similar to Triple R and Arrow, and unconformity-hosted deposits which remain the largest and highest grade in the Athabasca Basin, namely McArthur River and Cigar Lake which are both operating mines. With Athabasca sandstone thicknesses similar to the Wheeler River project, the property plays to our team's strengths and we are very excited to get started with exploration in 2017."
So far Hook-Carter has undergone just eight historic holes, five of them on the property's 15 kilometres of the Patterson Lake conductive corridor, which hosts Fission Uranium's (TSX:FCU) Patterson Lake South, NexGen Energy's (TSX:NXE) Rook 1 and Hook Lake, a joint venture of Purepoint Uranium TSXV:PTU, Cameco Corp TSX:CCO and AREVA Resources Canada. Hook-Carter also features additional potential along significant sections of the Derkson and Carter corridors.
Subject to approvals, Denison's work requirement calls for $3 million over the first three years. Should the company fail to meet the commitment, ALX's stake in the property increases from 20% to 25%. Additionally, Denison funds ALX's portion of the first $12 million in spending. The companies plan a JV three years after closing the agreement.
"Denison has made a number of world class uranium discoveries within the Athabasca Basin and, given their experience, we believe that they will advance the project diligently and methodically," said ALX president/CEO Jon Armes. "Knowing that Hook-Carter will see considerable exploration efforts over the next 36 months, the company will focus on exploration at its other high-quality exploration projects in and around the shallow margins of the Athabasca Basin, which include Gorilla Lake, Newnham Lake, Gibbon's Creek and Lazy Edward Bay."
by Greg Klein | August 9, 2016
This month has ALX Uranium TSXV:AL returning to two projects at opposite ends of Saskatchewan's prolific Athabasca Basin. On the Basin's northern margin, the Perch property undergoes ground gravity while the Hook-Carter project in the Patterson Lake South camp gets both gravity and drilling, the company announced August 9.
The 1,682-hectare Perch offers shallow targets along a four-kilometre-long conductor and coincident magnetic low running through the central area of the property. The 470-station gravity survey will consist of 24 900-metre lines at 100-metre spacing perpendicular to the conductor. Work begins in about a week with the crew heli-commuting from the community of Stony Rapids, 65 kilometres west.
At 16,458 hectares, Hook-Carter features northeastern extensions of three known conductive corridors, Carter, Derkson and Patterson Lake. The latter hosts at least seven discoveries on three properties, Fission Uranium's (TSX:FCU) Patterson Lake South, NexGen Energy's (TSX:NXE) Rook 1 and the Hook Lake JV of Purepoint Uranium TSXV:PTU, Cameco Corp TSX:CCO and AREVA Resources Canada. Cameco recently enlarged another property it holds bordering Hook-Carter to the northeast.
ALX now plans gravity on two areas over the Patterson corridor and one over Derkson. Weather permitting, up to two holes will follow on each of the corridors.
Previous geophysics show the Patterson corridor extending at least 12.7 kilometres along Hook-Carter, with depth to the sub-Athabasca unconformity estimated between 320 and 500 metres.
Derkson runs about 5.8 kilometres on the property, with the unconformity estimated to be 350 to 470 metres below surface. An historic hole on the corridor about 4.5 kilometres south of Hook-Carter found 0.24% uranium and 1.35% nickel over 2.5 metres in basement rocks about five metres below the unconformity.
The Carter corridor has undergone historic geophysics but remains relatively unexplored. Two separate portions of the corridor run through the property, each for about two kilometres of strike.
Plans for the Patterson and Derkson corridors follow a recent audio-magnetic transient EM survey as well as a study of the distribution of geochemical and radiochemical signatures against interpreted litho-structural features. As a result, the three priority targets were chosen.
ALX also announced an LOI to vend its Mikwam gold property to Galena International Resources NEX:GTO.H. The price tag comes to $20,000, two million shares and a 0.5% NSR, half of which Galena may buy for $1 million.
Last month ALX announced Lon Shaver's appointment to its advisory board. His nearly 20 years of mining sector experience includes investment banking roles with Raymond James, Merrill Lynch Canada and Midland Walwyn Capital. Shaver has also held CFO positions with a publicly listed mining company and a private technology company.
In June ALX closed the second tranche of a private placement totalling $750,000, part of a strategic partnership with Holystone Energy. That month ALX also closed the final tranche of a separate private placement totalling $348,750.
With a number of active projects in its large, highly prospective portfolio, ALX reported highly anomalous radon values at its Lazy Edward Bay project on the Basin's southeastern margin in April. The previous month preliminary geophysical results showed gravity lows on the company's 80%-held Gorilla Lake project on the Basin's west side.
by Greg Klein
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"There's excitement in the air," said Cambridge House International founder Joe Martin. That's the mood he senses as junior explorers emerge from the downturn. And certainly optimism was evident on June 14 as more than 450 people converged on the Vancouver Commodity Forum for an afternoon of expert talks amid a showcase of two dozen companies. Keynote speakers included Martin, Chris Berry of the Disruptive Discoveries Journal, Jon Hykawy of Stormcrow Capital, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online and Stephan Bogner of Rockstone Research.
Lithium, not surprisingly, stood out as a commodity of interest. While cautioning against over-enthusiasm for the exploration rush, Berry and Hykawy each affirmed the need for juniors to find new sources of the metal. Cobalt and scandium featured prominently too, as did other commodities including what Kaiser called "the weird metals"—lesser known stuff that's vital to our lives but threatened with security of supply.
Kaiser also noted he was addressing a crowd larger than his last PDAC audience, another indication that "we've turned the corner."
Attendees also met and mingled with company reps. Potential investors learned about a wide gamut of projects aspiring to meet a growing demand for necessities, conveniences and luxuries.
Presented by Zimtu Capital TSXV:ZC, the forum's success will make it an annual event, said company president Dave Hodge. Berry emceed the conference, holding the unenviable task of "making sure Dave stays well-behaved."
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Meet the companies
Most companies were core holdings of Zimtu, a prospect generator that connects explorers with properties and also shares management, technical and financing expertise. Zimtu offers investors participation in a range of commodities and companies, including some at the pre-IPO stage.
After sampling high-grade lithium on its Hidden Lake project in the Northwest Territories earlier this month, 92 Resources TSXV:NTY plans to return in mid-July for a program of mapping, exposing spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes, and channel sampling. The company closed the final tranche of a private placement totalling $318,836 in April. Hidden Lake's located near Highway 4, about 40 kilometres from Yellowknife and within the Yellowknife Pegmatite Belt.
With one of the Athabasca Basin's largest and most prospective exploration portfolios, ALX Uranium TSXV:AL has a number of projects competing for flagship status. Among them is Hook-Carter, which covers extensions of three known conductive trends, one of them hosting the sensational discoveries of Fission Uranium TSX:FCU and NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE. ALX's strategic partnership with Holystone Energy allows that company to invest up to $750,000 in ALX and retain the right to maintain its ownership level for three years. ALX closed a private placement first tranche of $255,000 last month, amid this year's busy news flow from a number of the company's active projects.
Arctic Star Exploration TSXV:ADD boasts one of northern Canada's largest 100%-held diamond exploration portfolios. Among the properties are the drill-ready Stein project in Nunavut and others in the Lac de Gras region that's the world's third-largest diamond producer by value. North Arrow Minerals TSXV:NAR holds an option to earn up to 55% of Arctic Star's Redemption property.
Aurvista Gold TSXV:AVA considers its Douay property one of Quebec's largest and last undeveloped gold projects. The Abitibi property has resources totalling 238,400 ounces of gold indicated and 2.75 million ounces inferred. Now, with $1.1 million raised last month, the company hopes to increase those numbers through a summer program including 4,000 metres of drilling. Douay's 2014 PEA used a 5% discount rate to forecast a post-tax NPV of $16.6 million and a post-tax IRR of 40%.
Looking for lithium in Nevada, Belmont Resources TSXV:BEA now has a geophysics crew en route to its Kibby Basin property, which the company believes could potentially host lithium-bearing brines in a similar geological setting to the Clayton Valley, about 65 kilometres south. Results from the gravity survey will help identify targets for direct push drilling and sampling.
A mineral perhaps overlooked in the effort to supply green technologies, zeolite has several environmental applications. Canadian Zeolite TSXV:CNZ holds two projects in southern British Columbia, Sun Group and Bromley Creek, the latter an active quarrying operation.
With a high-grade, near-surface rare earths deposit hosted in minerals that have proven processing, Commerce Resources TSXV:CCE takes its Ashram project in Quebec towards pre-feasibility. The relatively straightforward mineralogy contributes to steady progress in metallurgical studies. Commerce also holds southeastern B.C.'s Blue River tantalum-niobium deposit, which reached PEA in 2011 and a resource update in 2013.
Permitted for construction following a 2014 PEA, Copper North Mining's (TSXV:COL) Carmacks copper-gold-silver project now undergoes revised PEA studies. The agenda calls for improved economics by creating a new leach and development plan for the south-central Yukon property. In central B.C. the company holds the Thor exploration property, 20 kilometres south of the historic Kemess mine.
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by Greg Klein | April 22, 2016
ALX Uranium TSXV:AL has signed agreements to pick up extra turf proximal to the Hook-Carter project in Saskatchewan's Patterson Lake South camp, the company announced April 22.
Subject to approvals, ALX gets the new land for 250,000 shares at a deemed value of $0.115 each on the closing date. A 2.5% NSR applies.
Geophysical results released last month verified multiple basement conductors at Hook-Carter, which covers extensions of three known conductive trends, the Carter, Derkson and Patterson corridors. Drill targets have already been established on the latter two.
The Patterson corridor hosts Fission Uranium's (TSX:FCU) Triple R deposit and three additional zones on the company's Patterson Lake South project. NexGen Energy's (TSXV:NXE) adjacent Rook 1 project includes the Arrow deposit, the Athabasca Basin's largest undeveloped resource, as well as the Bow zone. Neighbouring NexGen is the Hook Lake JV of Purepoint Uranium TSXV:PTU, Cameco Corp TSX:CCO and AREVA Resources Canada, which hosts the Spitfire discovery. ALX's Hook-Carter borders Hook Lake to the south and a Cameco property to the north.
In February Cameco signed an agreement to buy ALX claims peripheral to Hook-Carter.
Earlier this month the company reported highly anomalous radon values at its Lazy Edward Bay project on the Basin's southeastern rim. A week earlier preliminary geophysical results showing gravity lows brought encouraging news for ALX's 80%-held Gorilla Lake property in the western Basin. The ALX portfolio includes five active projects in the Basin region.
ALX closed a private placement first tranche of $318,000 from Holystone Energy last month, part of a strategic partnership in which Holystone would invest up to $750,000, retain the right to maintain its ownership level for three years and nominate a director.
by Greg Klein | April 13, 2016
How does one explain such a compelling story coinciding with such delinquent price performance? Chris Berry examines this peculiar yellow metal from a number of perspectives in his latest Zimtu Research report. Along the way readers gain a clear overview of nuclear energy, near- and long-term supply and demand, mining methods and jurisdictional risk, among other topics.
His SWOT analysis notes recent Asian investments in Fission Uranium TSX:FCU and ALX Uranium TSXV:AL that "demonstrate significant interest in developing future supply in Canada."
Once again Berry applies his clarity and insight to a highly informative, readable report.
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The ak-47 of "just kidding" used to express the ultimate form of non-seriousness. A variant on jk, used in roughly the same manner, however with more emphasis on the joking aspects.
Nick: Dustyn, I totally banged your mom last night, and it was super stinky.
Dustyn: Dude, not cool.
Nick: jk-47! It wasn't stinky!
Dustyn: Dude, not cool.
Nick: jk-47! It wasn't stinky!
by SomethingVagueNM January 02, 2008
In context, JK 47 means the same thing as jk, or, "Just kidding". Although, it is more of an intense jk as it bears a wordy resemblance to the gun, AK 47.
by Wilheim April 23, 2008
Automatic lyricist. Spits like an automatic from the grill to the mic. Also means one bad muthafucka. More deadly then an AK cuz its a JK. Defines life and fashion. Ultimate supreme being.
by JK December 17, 2004
When you intend to do harm with a statement or phrase, but play it off like you were kidding. Is not used when talking to the person emotional harm was done too.
(To the slut Martha) Hey martha. I hear you blow EVERYONE. Ahah JK.
(To Friend steve) Bro i just shot up martha with a JK-47.
Damn i bet that bitch feels like shit!
(To Friend steve) Bro i just shot up martha with a JK-47.
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text: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Poetry and Drama: Dr. Natália Pikli Prose: Dr. Zsolt Czigányik and Dr. Ákos Farkas 1, September 9 2, September 16 3, September 23 4, September 30 5, October 7 6, October 14 7, October 21 8, November 4 9, November 11 10, November 18 11, November 25 12, December 2 13, December 9 Orientation Ted Hughes Tony Harrison Seamus Heaney Anthony Burgess (lecturer: Ákos Farkas) Carol Ann Duffy John Fowles (October 23-30 autumn break – no lectures) Tom Stoppard Caryl Churchill & in-yer-face theatre Salman Rushdie Julian Barnes Angela Carter and Amy Sackville Tibor Fischer COMPULSORY READINGS AT SEAS3.ELTE.HU Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction (1925) In making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of modern fiction, it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old. […]And yet the analogy between literature and the process, to choose an example, of making motor cars scarcely holds good beyond the first glance. It is doubtful whether in the course of the centuries, though we have learnt much about making machines, we have learnt anything about making literature. We do not come to write better; all that we can be said to do is to keep moving, now a little in this direction, now in that, but with a circular tendency should the whole course of the track be viewed from a sufficiently lofty pinnacle. It need scarcely be said that we make no claim to stand, even momentarily, upon that vantage ground. On the flat, in the crowd, half blind with dust, we look back with envy to those happier warriors, whose battle is won and whose achievements wear so serene an air of accomplishment that we can scarcely refrain from whispering that the fight was not so fierce for them as for us. It is for the historian of literature to decide; for him to say if we are now beginning or ending or standing in the middle of a great period of prose fiction, for down in the plain little is visible. We only know that certain gratitudes and hostilities inspire us; that certain paths seem to lead to fertile land, others to the dust and the desert; and of this perhaps it may be worth while to attempt some account. Contemporary literature • What is contemporary? • strict sense of the word: author is alive (changes day by day) • in university education: 1960s-present (?) + (personal) preference and choice of lecturers • acquiring literature in chronological order: practical benefits • museums vs. parents • Contemporary: close(r) to the reader no (little) time gap contemporary problems, settings, situations, language, technical devices • 'Contemporary classics' What to include in a course? 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This is quite an effective evocation of some eerie moments in the relation between motherhood and childhood, but much of the detail is predictable, and the language is not very interesting, so that the poem doesn't improve with repeated readings." (Review, 1983) • vs 2009: Poet Laureate, "the most studied poet in schools after Shakespeare" the canon - in change: gender issues • Carol Ann Duffy, ed.: Answering Back, 2008 • 46 poets – 23 men/23 women • Caryl Churchill, playwright – 1960s: "women can't do structure [in drama]" vs the most celebrated/intricately structured plays prizes, awards, venues & canon formation Nobel Prize in Literature (author) 2013: Alice Munro 2007: Doris Lessing 2005: Harold Pinter 1995: Seamus Heaney – fiction: (Man) Booker Prize (since 1969): 'the best novel in the opinion of the judges' (common man) to increase the reading of quality fiction and to attract 'the intelligent general audience'. 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Poetry and Drama: 'the old/young' • Ted Hughes † (1998), Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney † (2013), Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard in their 70s • Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy (2009): Poets Laureate, Heaney: Nobel Prize, Sir Tom Stoppard – 'established' and huge influence on younger generations • BUT: necessary cuts (eg. not Andrew Motion – Poet Laurate 1999-2009) + sorry state of availability of texts in Hungary… http://literature.britishcouncil.org/writers http://www.inyerface-theatre.com Poetry Society, etc. 'canonised contemporaries' (contradiction; doubts regarding future evaluation) poetry today: English authorsHungarian relevance • festivals (Hay Festival, Budapest, spring 2012 – Tibor Fischer, Ben Okri, Dragomán György) – contemporary writers in interaction across borders • translations-interaction (S. Heaney – Győző Ferencz, Ted Hughes-Pilinszky, etc.) • Why poetry? Facebook challenge - "Poets don't have solutions, poets are recording human experience" (Carol Ann Duffy) Poetry classes • Ted Hughes: from the celebrated 'arrogant' young poet of the 60s to the dying confessional author of Birthday Letters (1989) – masculinity, myth, animals and the human • Tony Harrison: v the emblematic long poem of the 80s – issues relevant even today Poetry classes • Seamus Heaney: Irish and/or British? postcolonialism, national and individual identity ("be advised / my passport is green" vs Beowulf) • Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955): a woman poet, Scottish, Lesbian love, dramatic monologues, philosophy/clichés, rewriting famous narratives, social concerns Drama • London theatrical scene / Fringe theatres – eager to receive a great number of new plays every year • Focal points: – Tom Stoppard – first great success 1960s (RosGuil), international fame, Hollywood/Oscar-winning film: 'the curious fate and fortunes of the successful contemporary playwright' - a popular classic – Caryl Churchill – social ills, current themes – stockbrokers/male-female social roles/cloning and identity, etc. – 1990s, in-yer-face theatre (Sarah Kane, Jezz Butterworth, Martin MacDonagh, etc., influence of Hollywood/Tarantino) Contemporary English plays on present-day Hungarian stages: Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (Az iglic), Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West (Vaknyugat) Martin McDonagh Radnóti Színház 2001-2011: A kripli (The Cripple of Innishman, 1996, transl. 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Flaubert's Parrot (1984) A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989) Tibor Fischer (1959-) humour and tragedy Under the Frog (1992) Amy Sackville (1981-) Postvictorian post-postmodern Individualism and community The Still Point (2010) Postmodernism • Modernism (early 20th c.): breaks with artistic traditions and conventions, experimentation • with time the experiment becomes conventional • No clear barrier between modernism and post-modernism (cultural history: palimpsest) Ihab Hassan, The Postmodern Turn. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. • Modernism Form (closed) Purpose Design Hierarchy Finished Art Object Distance Totalization Depth Determinacy Postmodernism Anti-form (open) Play Chance Anarchy Process/Performance Participation Deconstruction Surface Indeterminacy Postmodernism • vague and fashionable term • meaning and value: disputed no (little) perspective (How to define our own age?) • poststructuralism and deconstruction "meaning is neither inherent in language, nor in the world of things but is 'constructed' by conventional frameworks of thought and language" (Gray, 1992) • individuality, human character, freedom: constructs of a particular culture and time (vs. universal truths, absolute authenticity relativised) What small potatoes we are… Postmodern • Man no longer the centre of the universe – no centre • Threats of extinction of humanity (nuclear holocaust, despoiling the environment/planet, overpopulation) breaking up of traditional communities => sense of despair and disillusionment (vs. 60s) • result of meaninglessness: play with styles and values • a sense of disjunction or deliberate confusion, irony, playfulness, reflexivity • A postmodern insistence on process rather than product: a "postmodern" cultural artifact is one that consistently questions itself and the context that it seems to fit within. • Nealon, Jeffrey, and Susan Searls Giroux. The Theory Toolbox. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. • postmodern texts look at themselves as texts (Ø illusion, isolated from author and extratextual reality) often reveal the instability of language meanings are constructions freedom of interpretation (limitless?) • Postmodernism, celebrates the freedom of possibility, but it also seems to make agency or concrete decision impossible. Return of the grand narrative • PM: rhetoric of disruption (everything has to be new, break in human experience) heroic age of theory • Incredulity toward metanarratives (Lyotard) progress, enlightenment, Christianity • 2000: West forced to reflect on the foundations of its own civilization "seek to make sense of the grand narratives" • How far is it relevant in the 21st century? post-postmodernism? re-evaluation of traditional values and communities (religion, nation) • Alan Kirby: Digimodernism 1990s: decomposing postmodernism (hybrid) 21st c. new cultural paradigm PoMo obsolete (once fresh), creative period over • Computerization of text _> new form of textuality social and multiple authorship triggered by the redefinition of textuality and culture by the spread of digitalization • reality TV, Web2.0, videogames, radio shows: reader/viewer intervenes • PM: objectivity does not exist, truth is social construct Facebook e-friendship between accounts (well designed, so the e-textualization often invisible) for many: indistinguishable from actual friendship


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. When the text message arrived to his phone last December, Cardinals second base prospect Kolten Wong wasnt sure what to think. When I first got the text message, I kind of thought it was a prank, Wong said. The message said it was Matt Holliday and he wanted to invite him to St. Louis for a few days to work out, hit and get a chance to see the city. You dont ever hear something like that, Wong said. I showed my dad and he was drawn back also because we hadnt heard of anybody doing that. I texted Matt back right away and said absolutely, Id love to come there and work out. So Wong, the Cardinals first round draft pick out of the University of Hawaii barely five months earlier, took the three-flight, day-long journey across the ocean to St. Louis for an experience hell never forget. And one that helped jumpstart his prominence in the Cardinals organization. He basically took us around and showed us St. Louis and how he works out, Wong said. He took me to my first hockey game, which was awesome. Ive become a big fan of hockey now. We did a lot of really cool things. Holliday also invited slugger Matt Adams and Memphis shortstop Ryan Jackson to St. Louis for the impromptu prospect mini-camp. In addition to working with Holliday, the trio hung out and became close with third baseman David Freese. The camp paid huge dividends for Wong when he arrived for his first big league spring training in February and already was friends with two of the most prominent players on the team. Learning from infield coach Jose Oquendo and watching the likes of Rafael Furcal, Tyler Greene and Dan Descalso up close, Wong soaked up as much information as possible. He even contributed, knocking home the game-winning hit against the Atlanta Braves in the bottom of the ninth inning in a spring game at Roger Dean Stadium. It really just kind of showed me what I needed to do to be there some day, Wong said. I saw a lot of guys like Holliday and Freese and how they carry themselves and its made me want to be that much more of a player and that much more of a professional. When you have coaches like we have, thats all you want to do, just learn everything you can. I was fortunate enough to work with all of them and just soak it all in. It was great. The way Wong is playing, hes well on his way to soon joining Holliday and Freese in St. Louis. He was so impressive during the spring that the Cardinals elected to have him skip High-A Palm Beach and start the year with Double-A Springfield. Barely a year since the Cardinals drafted him, Wong appears on the fast track to St. Louis. Hes hitting .307 in 53 games with Springfield with five home runs, six doubles, four triples, 36 runs scored and 23 RBI. The left-handed hitting Wong has nine stolen bases and a .370 on-base percentage while batting in the leadoff spot. Ive really been pleased with Kolten, said Springfield manager Mike Shildt. This time last year he was in college baseball playing at Hawaii, so in his first full season to be at the Double-A level, hes more than held his own. Hes in the top ten in hitting at the moment. Hes got ability and it always helps to have that obviously. He has a good swing. Hes got a good idea what hes doing. Hes got a low maintenance swing, he has a feel for it which is important. If he gets a little out of whack which is not very often, he can get it back. He also has a good approach and knows what hes doing with the bat. Wong has once again teamed with former Hawaii double-play partner Greg Garcia up the middle for Springfield, helping ease his transition from Low-A Quad Cities last year to Springfield. Garcia, drafted a year earlier by the Cardinals, played shortstop for Hawaii while Wong played second base and is now again playing across from him at shortstop for Springfield. The two are roommates both in Springfield and on the road. While Wongs fast arrival at Double-A may have surprised some, count Garcia among those who expected it to happen. From the moment he got to UH, he hit, Garcia said. He was just born to hit. His defense, hes been playing an exceptional second base this year and he continues to grow as a baseball player. Its fun to watch. He squares up so many balls and I think what separates him is hes so competitive. He doesnt want any pitcher to beat him, no matter the situation. He goes up there trying to hit the ball as hard as he can. Wong appears to be the Cardinals second baseman of the future, which could be as early as next year. The Cardinals have used three different second basemen Tyler Greene, Dan Descalso and Skip Schumaker but none have taken a stranglehold of the position. Some say the current trio is just keeping the spot warm until Wong arrives at some point in the near future. And with those expectations already being thrown his way, Wong is trying to take it all in stride. Theres going to be pressure because they didnt draft me with their first pick for no reason, Wong said. They had that idea, but thats the one thing I told myself, just go out there and play. We have guys like Tyler Greene and Daniel Descalso who are up there and who are doing a really good job. They are playing the position well right now and Im going to keep playing as hard as I can here and whatever happens, happens. Wong knows his chance will soon come. He could go to Triple-A at some point later this summer, putting him on track to potentially make the Cardinals roster out spring next season. Or his path could be a little bit slower. Regardless, Wong is expected to be a contributing player for the Cardinals in the near future. And hes doing everything he can to be ready when the time comes. I know Im going to get a shot and thats the reason Im so relaxed right now, Wong said. Because I know the Cardinals are confident with me and they know I can play there someday. 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I think Travolta is a great actor.
I watched " A Love Song For Bobby Long". I thought that it really should have won some awards. It made me tear up a little at the end. The movie is a few years old, but I'd never heard of it until I ran across it. Lovey Dovey, check it out when you have the time.
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And let me just say that John Travolta is a flippin' national treasure. He makes you entirely forget about John Travolta and see Edna Turnblad, which is remarkable in itself. And he's not only a fabulous dancer (in a fat suit yet...) he's an utterly endearing dancer, and I rarely think of those two words together. Academy Awards are very much a product of prevailing industry winds (as my bro the sound engineer who's won four of them says himself), but if he does not get nominated for this role there is even less justice in the world than I thought.
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Mine too! Such a classic.
Shawshank Redemption is my favorite of all time!!
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Into the Wild tells the adventures of Christopher McCandless, a top student at Emory University and an athlete. After graduating, McCandless decides to give his entire $24,000 savings account to OXFAM and burn all the money in his wallet. As he hitchhikes all the way to Alaska to live in the wild, bringing only a .22 caliber rifle, a camera, several boxes of rifle rounds, some camping gear, and a small selection of literature—including a field guide to the region's edible plants, Tana'ina Plantlore. During his adventure, he encounters several unique people that change his life before he faces the dangers of wilderness.
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You are right, that is the one I'm writing about. I very rarely go to movies, but this one is very good. The risks we take when young and how we think we are invincible, especially this young man.
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is that the about the dude that went out on his journey and was found in the old bus??
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From the book by the same name. Go see it on the big screen, so you can get the feel of Alaska. The story of a searcher who paid the ultimate price for his search. Good soundtrack too.
He goes solo on a kayak down the Colorado River, I found myself yelling "helmet" in the theater when he didn't have one and entered the rapids and then two people in the film yelled " helmet". Ha!
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A decision by the Israeli supreme court to uphold a travel ban on Vanunu, 28 years after he first revealed Israel's nuclear secrets, was sharply criticised on Tuesday by Amnesty International. He had been asked to address a meeting on whistleblowers on Tuesday sponsored by Amnesty and was invited by more than 50 senior peers and MPs to a meeting in Westminster on Wednesday.
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In Asia, it takes a lot of faith for businesses to have their data hosted out side of their own property. Common questions business owner will ask when it comes to cloud hosting are things like how their data is secured and who can see their data.
Vendors like Microsoft and Amazon can make all kinds of claims, but in the end, assurance comes in the form of a third party certification.
Microsoft Office 365 cloud, which host my company's email (Exchange), instant messaging (Lync) and documents (SharePoint), has a few certifications under it's belt.
This blog post from the product team talks about how our compliance concern are handled professionally by Microsoft.
And if you care enough to find out more in details, there is a landing page for this here
But for layman like me, what does terms like ISO 27001 and HIPAA mean for me? So I found that this page explains the meaning of the certificates that Office 365 has
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Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16)
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on Jun 25, 2009 @ 04:51 pm
I was sighing over this book again, and I got to thinking; would I want the love between Claire and Henry?
I personally would not. I don't want to give that much of myself to someone, that when they leave, as everyone inevitably does, I'll be left behind completely adrift.
"love" as i know it is bad enough, I don't think I could deal with with the pains of love when love is felt to that magnitude.
What do you guys think?
|time traveler's wife on Jun 27, 2009 @ 02:13 am
I have not read the book yet,I just joined the book club.After reading what you wrote though,it looks like I'm going to have to buy it :)
|probably not on Jun 27, 2009 @ 07:54 am
I finally found a guy who loves me back with the same intensity, and I went through a few frogs...but I wouldn't give that up for what they have. Who has that kind of patience? Perhaps to Clair, growing up isolated, it was exciting to have a secret. Once I hit university though...I would have been out of there. But it says something interesting about fate, that it was their fate to be together.
Look what his gift did to all the other women he was with...it takes a special kind of person to be able to handle it all. Although does Clair handle it, in the end? I think that kind of love, although sweet to think about, is too much, too consuming. I would pass.


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Hypoxemic respiratory failure is a common reason for admission to the intensive care unit. The etiology has an extensive differential diagnosis.
18-year old female smoker with history of asthma presented to the emergency department with progressive dyspnea and chest pain for one week. Past medical history included polycythemia treated with serial phlebotomies. Also, episodic cyanosis often accompanied previous asthma exacerbations and physical exertion. Initial improvement of dyspnea and cyanosis were noted with an albuterol inhaler. Systems review included progressive wheezing, productive cough and three syncopal episodes in the past year. Neither edema, calf pain, nor hemoptysis were noted. Admission vital signs were: blood pressure,122/80 mmHg, heart rate,120 beats per minute, respiratory rate, 24 respirations per minute, temperature, 38.0C. Oxygen saturation of 74% on room air. The patient was placed on a non-rebreather mask with FIO2=1.0, which improved oxygenation to 92%. Physical exam revealed a petite female in minimal distress. Jugular venous pressure was 12cm H20. Cardiac exam disclosed an increased pulmonic component of the second heart sound, but no murmur. Bilateral expiratory wheezes were noted over the lungs, and digital clubbing was present. Desaturation to as low as 60% with minimal exertion occurred. Arterial blood gases showed a pH of 7.42, pCO2, 31 mmHg, PO2, 65 mmHg, with sPO2 of 90% on FIO2 of 1.0. Enlarged pulmonary arteries with no infiltrates were noted on chest radiography and electrocardiographic right ventricular strain was evident. Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) study indicated an estimated right ventricular systolic pressure=120 mmHg with no evidence of an intracardiac shunt. Computed tomography of the chest and extremeties to evaluate for pulmonary thromboembolism excluded vascular occlusion, but deep vein thrombosis was diagnosed. Upon further review, a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) was found (image 1). On sagittal cuts, contrast was noted flowing from the pulmonary artery directly into the aorta with retrograde flow into the ascending aorta (image 2). The patient's condition deteriorated rapidly despite aggressive treatment with bronchodilators, antibiotics, glucocorticoids and anticoagulation. A cardiac arrest occurred following intubation from which the patient could not be resuscitated.
The patient had severe pulmonary hypertension with Eisenmenger syndrome secondary to a large PDA. Increased pulmonary arterial pressure from progressive increases in pulmonary vascular resistance due to hypoxia most likely led to further reversal of blood flow across the PDA. PDA comprises 10% of congenital heart disease cases. Individuals with a small PDA may be asymptomatic; exercise intolerance may develop in older children. Notably, subjects with large undiagnoses PDAs such as in our patient seldom reach adulthood because of supervening endarteritis and sudden death from cardiac failure. Considering that a cardiac murmur may not be audible with a PDA once pulmonary vascular resistance is abnormally elevated, echocardiography plays a key diagnostic role in establishing the diagnosis. Transesophageal echocardiography has a higher sensitivity and a greater negative predictive value than TTE. Poor functional class, syncope, pulmonary hypertension, and lack of pulmonary vasodilatory response during right heart catheterization are associated with a poor outcomes.
Clinically occult congenital heart disease with Eisenmenger syndrome is an infrequent cause of hypoxemic respiratory failure. Of particular concern is when the cause is a large, previously undiagnosed PDA without an accompanying cardiac murmur. Our case demonstrates the need to consider this possibility, and confirms the high mortality observed when pulmonary hypertension supervenes in this condition.
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Monstaliner done!
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I had it stripped and had to wait 6 days with my Jeep in stripped down in my garage for 5 days. Took a while to get here in CA from NY. Free shipping though so no worries.
As far as the kit goes everything is very good, wasn't a hard job at all. I would recommend getting a few extra paint brushes. After the first coat I the brush was hammered so I had to get some more. Between coats I brewed a batch of beer and it was ready for the second coat. This morning i had some spots that I missed and it was still good in the can you can see in some of these pics a few I missed it was much easier to see in the sun where I had.
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Looks great!! I'm in the process of stripping everything out of me jeep... Found a big rust hole to the left of the e-beake bracket so I have to have that fixed before I go any further... Damn rust...
Man that looks good! I cannot wait to get mine done!
Looks really good. The red/black combination is one of my favorites (after green and black of course! ;) ).
Looks great. Did you use chassis saver before you applied? It looks like you did but I couldn't tell. How many extra rollers do you think you need?
that looks nice.
Thanks everyone.
I did not use chassis saver. I didnt have any rust. I got a little over zealous with my sanding prep work and brought it down to bare metal in some spots so I primered those spots before lining it. The kit comes with two rollers and I used one for the first coat and the fresh one for the second coat. I had enough left over where I could have done maybe another coat or my fender flares or bumpers etc. There is a lot of brush work. I picked up a three pack consisting of a 1", 2", and 3" brushes. The 1" brush was really handy in the tighter spots.
My kit arrived yesterday I have to wait until next weekend to do it though
Looks really good. Nice texture to it. Will have to think about doing this soon after submerging my carpet this last weekend :P
Yeah...I am looking foward to getting wet with this in there clean up will be a breeze
What was the price on this? Ive been looking to do this?
I just ordered a tintable kit with color and paid $155.25 all told. I didn't get free shipping though.
Does this cut down on heat you'd be getting from under the floorboards?
Looks Great!
Mine was lined by the previous owner and his liner job leaves alot to be desired. I think while I have the seats out I might as well re-do the liner the right way.
whats the consensus on the best one. herculiner monstaliner other ???
I prefer Monstaliner's texture to that of Herculiner. I've also heard that herc can fade in the sun, but Monstaliner's got UV protection and after nearly 2 years, mine has yet to fade.
Monstaliner's texture, to me, is more like Line-x. Textured, but not rough. And it is easy to clean.
Regardless of which you choose, the quality of the job and the durability depends 100% on the prep work. Doing the prep work SUCKS no matter HOW you look at it. But WELL worth it when it is done. :)
Man that looks great! I did the floors in my old jeep but the jeep was black, but i do have to say that red and black look does look nice. i just had to take my carpet out of my current jeep after having water up to my shins a few weekends ago so thats my next project on this one!
Lining the tub has been on my list for a looooooong time. Just when I get ready to do a spray in job, I find Monstaliner and in a perfect color. Like it was meant to be. The problem is now I'm doing way more than I had oringinally planned. Starts like this: Ok, so I gotta strip the interior out. What else should I do while the interior's out?.... *Credit card comes out*
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Shelters for dairy cattle on farms where rainfall is high could become more common in Taranaki because they reduce nitrogen leaching and feed wastage.
Stratford Demonstration Farm supervisor and PGG Wrightson agricultural consultant Graeme Pitman says farms where wet soil causes pugging and substantial nutrient leaching would benefit from covered feed pads and stand-off areas.
Dairy farmers considering shelters for their cattle will benefit from research being conducted at the Stratford Demonstration Farm.
Nearly $200,000 has been spent at the farm on a shelter for feed pads and stand-off pads. The cost - at about $1200 per cow - includes site works, feed bins, drainage, peelings and bark, fencing and an effluent storage.
"But whether the benefits will balance the costs, you probably could argue forever," says Pitman.
"The more we use it the better the return will be as the high capital cost will be spread over more feed used. Using it to obtain high per-cow production levels is also important."
About half the cost was for the 60m long building which features two bays 9.5m wide divided by a central accessway containing the feed bins.
The structure has room for 150 friesian cows or 170 jersey cows, who stand on 400mm-deep wood on a 600mm base of bark peelings.
The wood chip will be raked and turned over regularly and will be used on the farm as fertiliser at the end of the season when new wood chip will be laid.
Even though the structure occupies 0.3ha of prime land on the 51ha farm, it's handy to its two main races and is readily accessible for trucks bringing in woodchips and feed.
Pitman said the project would generate information for farmers about the costs of building and operating covered feed pads and stand-off pads and of developing suitable feed systems. It would also determine whether nutrient management improved.
The farm, east of Stratford, is mostly flat and has free-draining volcanic ash soil. At an altitude of 300m, it has average annual rainfall of 2050mm.
Managed for the last six years by Lyndon Muggeridge, it has 172 cows which produced 62,000kg milksolids (MS) last season. Calving for the new season has begun.
Finishing touches are still being made to the shelter, which has been in use since early June. An April start to the project - later than planned - has limited its use so far.
Pitman said the farm committee decided to establish the shelter to better manage the high-input herd in a feed trial started last season.
The trial on equal size farmlets is comparing the efficiencies, economics and environmental impact of high- input and low-input feed systems. The high-input trial has 100 cows at a stocking rate of 3.9 cows/ha and there are 72 cows in the low-input trial for a stocking rate of 2.8 cows/ha.
In past trials on the farm, high- stocked herds were dried off early or wintered elsewhere, but the current trial had a long lactation with the aim of achieving higher production. Milking continued until late in May, requiring the high-stocked herd to be wintered off the farm or the cheaper option of buying more feed.
"Wintering off is expensive and hard to find in Taranaki," said Pitman. "There is high demand for it and low supply. The quality is dubious at times and it's not a practical option if large numbers of farmers were to do it.
"Covered feed pads have been discussed for years, especially after wet winters, and a number have been built in Taranaki in recent years."
Pitman said justifying the shelter economically was a struggle, but there were still enough potential positives to proceed. "So we decided to build it in the name of science."
Using the composted woodchip as fertiliser would help offset the cost and the farm would also have to use cheaper feeds and achieve better feed utilisation and pasture growth. Pasture damage also had to be reduced.
Pitman said the cows could be housed in the shelter 24 hours a day in wet weather, if necessary. So far it had been used only overnight, with the herd grazing in the paddocks during the day.
"At the moment its use is variable - we're still working our way into it."
The structure is fairly weatherproof, although heavy rain can penetrate the windproof screens that create the walls. The clear plastic roof lets sunlight dry the effluent and the wood chip base also absorbs moisture from the effluent.
Any remaining effluent drains to a storage tank and can be sprayed on the paddocks. "But if the system works well, I'm not expecting much effluent in the tank."
Pitman expects the feed pad to be used extensively at the start and end of each season.
Last season the two herds in the trial produced 363kg MS, a little below the target of 375kg - partly because they dried off earlier than planned.
The high-input herd produced 1425kg MS/ha, 39 per cent more than the low- input herd's figure of 1025kg MS/ha.
Little supplement was harvested on the high-input farmlet and 4880kg dm/ ha, or 150kg supplement per cow, was brought in. The supplement was mainly palm kernel expeller, although hay and silage were fed last winter. Maize silage is being fed this winter.
The herd consumed 33 per cent more feed, making it 6 per cent more efficient than the low-input herd. Its labour costs were higher.
A high level of supplement - 410kg dry matter/ha - harvested on the low- stocked farmlet was fed to the low-input herd during the season.
Standard fertiliser dressings were applied to both farms, but less could be applied on the high-input farmlet because the feed brought in had a better fertiliser value.
The low-input herd had a lower environmental impact per hectare than the other herd, which had less effect per kg/MS because of the effect of brought- in feed.
Based on a $6 payout, Pitman's interim calculations show the high-input herd performed slightly better, with a $60/ha advantage over the other herd. "A higher payout would favour the high-input herd and vice-versa, depending on feed cost."
The stand-off pad would reduce nitrogen leaching in winter so its effects could be similar to the low-input system. Its use meant less waste and the cows would probably eat less because they were warmer and drier. It would also reduce pasture damage so more grass would grow.
"Once the system is up and running, it should make winter management easier and less stressful.
"The farmer can lie in bed on a wet day and know his cows are comfy and happy and not making a big mess. It's also great for calving because the cows are sheltered. Wind chill is a big issue when cows are wet." The Stratford Demonstration Farm, operated by an incorporated society and governed by a committee of farmers, veterinarians and agricultural consultants, was established in 1917 to develop and promote improved methods.
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The BBC's most senior black executive has said he would have had a better and more lucrative career in the US because its television industry is more favourable to ethnic minorities.
Pat Younge, who will leave his post as chief creative officer of BBC Productions at the end of this year, said there was still a lack of big, meaningful roles for black actors in UK drama, despite recent high-profile hits such as Line of Duty and Luther.
Younge said it was "inconceivable" that a US drama would not have a black person in a prominent role because of the proportion of black viewers among its audience.
But he said there were no roles for Chinese or Asian actors in the US, who he said were "frankly knackered".
The outgoing BBC executive, who has previously said British TV is run by a "pretty white commissioning and channel elite", said it is a pattern that is reflected behind the scenes in the UK.
"I have lived in both [the US and the UK]. I would rather personally live in Britain as a culture, as a society, in terms of how different races live together and rub along side by side," Younge told Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 Live breakfast on Friday.
"In terms of the economics of being a black TV executive, I would have a much better career and a much more lucrative career in the States because the economics of the industry drive it that way," he said.
"First of all, the US has a bigger drama industry than we do here and secondly, African Americans make up one in eight of the population, there is an economic driver for the production companies and networks to include black actors.
"It's inconceivable in the States that you would have a significant drama that does not have a black person in a lead or second lead role."
Younge said there was anger among black actors about the "paucity of parts" for them in homegrown TV drama.
"What they mean by parts isn't work – there is probably work out there – what they mean are meaningful roles which are fully rounded and have a decent back story.
Younge said: "If you look at the last couple of years, Dancing on the Edge, Small Island, Luther, The Shadow Line, Line of Duty, Top Boy, it's not that there aren't parts, the challenge is in the writing.
"The challenge we face in UK TV is can we get more black writers through the system who can create these rounded parts, that will give these actors the work they are looking for.
"One of the things black people will say is, 'my colour is a big part of some of the stories I want to tell.' You need writers who understand these stories who can bring them to screen."
He said it was even harder for Chinese and Asian actors in the US. "If you are a Chinese actor or an Asian actor there is no American industry. You are frankly knackered at the moment, there isn't much going on for Chinese or Asian actors."
Younge was talking after the BBC's director general, Tony Hall, told MPs last month that the BBC did not do enough to cater for black audiences.
"I am not satisfied with our delivery of programmes that black audiences will find useful to them and they will want to watch," Hall told the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee.
"It's an area, as it is with some younger audiences, that I want to see plans for and how we reach these audiences."
Younge said the BBC had put "more black and brown people" on television, but added: "One of the challenges you have at the BBC and at Channel 4 and maybe at ITV, is you are trying to juggle race, class, geography, social economic background, disability and sexuality … and gender."
Younge told Radio 4's Media Show last month that while there were more ethnic minorities on screen, the situation had not changed behind the scenes.
"There are very few black and brown people in positions of reality authority … in control of what gets made," he said;. "With the exception of Angela Jain, at ITV2, 3 and 4, and a handful of middle-level commissioning executives at the BBC and [drama chief] Anne Mensah at Sky, it's a pretty white commissioning and channel elite."
Younge said there was a "genuine risk" that without more diversity at the top of British television, ethnic minority audiences could be lost forever.
"It's not that they are racist – far from it, they are some of the most liberal people I know – but you can't expect them always to understand stories and where they come from, why a particular story will have resonance," he added.
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Tiny flames flicked up and down Isaac's back and arms, his anger at a dangerous level. It felt like the heat was baking him from the inside out, and he knew all too well if he didn't get a handle on it soon, it would... It would... What?
He raised a hand to the side of his head. He didn't feel too good. Calm. Calm. It took him a moment to realize that it wasn't his voice speaking inside his head. Though, after what he'd been through lately, this hardly frightened him at all.
You can't let him get the best of you, Isaac. the voice spoke. It was definitely a familiar voice, but where he'd heard it he couldn't remember. His vision was going red. Remember what you're fighting for.
His vision slipped into blackness, and his thoughts returned to normal. For a brief moment, he thought he had slipped into the Realm of Minds yet again. However, it didn't stay black for long.
Suddenly, he was in the middle of a lush, green park. Children laughed, they're father still in his work suit chasing after them just as gleefully. A single, though unusually large oak stood in the middle of the jungle of swings and slides. It's leaves flapped about in the gently summer wind.
That too faded to blackness, before being replaced by something else. It was a black world, much of it on fire. Nothing moved except for the occasional collapsing structure in the background. A single bare, lifeless tree was the only thing that made him realize he was looking at the same place.
Earth has been destroyed, Isaac. the voice spoke. And you can bring it back. You can put a stop to it. Isaac's breath caught in his throat. "How?" he asked.
Kaos somehow used you as a gateway. It's how he was able to channel enough of his energy into the world to generate a body and create his shadow demons. It came through strongest when you let the fire out. But a gateway has to work both ways. And if you can become a gateway again, I can finish what we started so many years ago.
"What do you mean?" he asked. But before he could finish, the images shown to him were gone, and he was back outside the cave. It seemed no time at all had passed, as everyone was still walking into the cave.
Silver turned to look at him. "I didn't say anything."
Paying no attention to him, Isaac looked at his hands. He was certainly calmer, and the fire had stopped. His mind was far clearer than it had been, and he could remember vividly the last place he had heard that voice.
It was the disembodied voice that had not only waken up Anna and Zanaria, but himself multiple times. It had brought forward fire, and .... it had done something to him. Isaac scrunched up his forehead, trying to remember. Bugs... it had taken bugs out of him and burned them. Then, memories...
Memories of what? He could feel it, just like when a word or name is right on the tip of your tongue. It was as if some rubber band had been holding his mind into a tiny space, and after so long he could finally feel it. Feel it give when he pushed against it.
He clenched his eyes shut and a layer of sweat formed on his brow. His arms shook, and yet the only thought in his mind was Break it. Remember.
And just as a rubber band does when pushed, whatever was holding back his memories snapped and released them. A torrent of sights, sounds and smells assaulted him.
He was on the burning desert plain, dead bugs the size of horses and rhinos strewn about. Shadow copies of himself and hundreds of others burned, shining white gashes flashing on their sides, their chests, anywhere.
The air stank of rotting eggs and death, the scent of formaldehyde smacking him in the face every time one of the beasts caught on fire. And... for some reason, he felt heavier.
It's not real! Isaac was screaming inside his head. Ok, it was real. At some point. But it's not happening now. It's just a memory, just... Just... But through all his protest, the memory continued to play like some sort of movie playing in his mind.
He raised his left hand to block out the sun, only to find it clasping a white shield with an intricate wolf carved on the front. His arm was clad in a stunning white armor, and that's when he associated the sudden weight he was feeling with the armor covering his entire body. Examining the sword in his right hand, symbols seemed to glow along the blade.
A massive bird flew over head, but he didn't flinch. It was at least as large as a flying bus, and it was on fire. But the cry escaping the birds lips was not pain, but a battle cry.
It tackled the black demon behind the insect army, a column of flame rocketing into the sky. "Now Daniel!" the bird yelled.
Isaac raised the hand with the sword in it, and killed himself.
The images stopped, and Isaac threw-up. The rest of the group had long ago disappeared into the cave, only the silence remained to accompany him. He looked at the blackening clouds of the sky, their rotation ever quickening. This place doesn't have much time left. Isaac knew. A flash of red lighting struck somewhere far away, but he could still feel the ground tremble under its might. When he tried to stand, he noticed his entire body was trembling. And I don't think getting underground is going to help.


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