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U.S. soybean futures climbed to a six-week high on Wednesday with prices underpinned by fears of a drought in major exporter Argentina and new sales to top buyer China.
Corn futures also rose on concerns about crop losses in Argentina, while unfavorable dryness in the U.S. Plains boosted wheat futures.
"The biggest thing is the uncertainty of the South American weather," said Dax Wedemeyer, broker for U.S. Commodities. He said that forecasts show "that things might be trending just a slight bit drier in some areas."
Chicago Board of Trade March soybeans rose 1.8 percent to $14.77-3/4 a bushel by 10:00 a.m. CST (1600 GMT). March wheat rose 0.8 percent to $7.83-1/4 a bushel, while March corn jumped 0.9 percent to $7.36 a bushel.
The global soybean market is counting on huge South American soybean crops in early 2013 to relieve tight world supplies after a drought in the United States in 2012.
Argentina, the world's No. 3 exporter of soybeans after the United States and Brazil, is expected to have a record harvest this season. But crop forecasts depend on February being a lot wetter than January.
Crop forecaster Lanworth on Wednesday lowered its forecast for corn and soybean production in Argentina due to dryness.
German analysts Oil World on Tuesday warned that delays or weather damage to harvests in Argentina and Brazil could push soybean futures up sharply in coming weeks.
Victor Thianpiriya, an agricultural strategist at ANZ, said the market "is getting concerned as supplies of grains and oilseeds are pretty tight,"
Persistent dryness across the U.S. Plains helped support wheat. Conditions for the winter wheat crop worsened in January as the drought in that major production region showed no signs of ending, according to reports by the U.S. Agriculture Department's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Strong demand from China is keeping pressure on global soy supplies. Private exporters struck deals to sell 175,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans to China for delivery in the next marketing year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
It was the second sale this week to China that called for delivery during the 2013/14 marketing year, which opens on Sept 1. On Monday, exporters reported the sale of 220,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans to China for 2013/14 delivery.
The Brazil harvest may not be as large as expected due to heavy rainfall during the past two weeks and drought in frontier agriculture areas of the northeast, according to El Tejar Ltd, the world's largest grain producer.
The farm giant's commercial director for Brazil, Ivan Konig, said in an interview that he expects a harvest of 80 million to 81 million tonnes, undercutting the Brazilian government's official view of 82.7 million tonnes.
Soybeans hit 6-week high on possible Argentina drought
U.S. soybean futures climbed to a six-week high on Wednesday with prices underpinned by fears of a drought in major exporter Argentina and new sales to top buyer China.
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Generation (Y) needs some cooking lessons
- ChefBriancooks Aug 30, 2013 12:44 PM
As a Father of four (gen y) kids ranging in age from 18-26, I have noticed the extreme lack of cooking skills. The most embarrassing part is, I'm a chef. I must say, they are better than some of their friends, but it still saddens me that most of this generation could not correctly tell you the difference between a cucumber and a zucchini. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Well, it's kinda the parent's job right there... my 5 year old knows how to make pancakes from scratch, I wouldn't expect school to teach such things beyond the very basic nutrition skills...
Some families go out/get takeout/eat in the car way more often than cook at home, that's example setting as well
I can assure you that my GenY knows how to cook, and does. What other skills can we give our kids that saves them so much money and gives so much pleasure?
But you can't start these lessons at age 18. Instead, the lessons began in the high chair. Even a 3-year old can pluck the grapes off the vine, or hand the next mise en place bowl to the cook.
I think anytime you use a stereotype for an entire generation you run the risk of being wrong as often as you are correct.
re: smtucker
Absolutely you / they can start these lessons at age 18! Never to late to learn, and it's much easier / faster when they can read and are motivated.
re: smtucker
Yes! Thank you. I'm around the age of OP's eldest, and I cook quite well, as do most of my friends. If anything, I think it's the opposite of what you say.
re: chowser
How does that explain the OP?
re: foodieX2
i have some chef friends who never cook at home because they do it 12-16 hours a day all week.
they eat out at restaurants helmed and owned by their friends on days off.
re: hotoynoodle
But are they parents? If they are I question their priorities.
My brother is a chef and he joked that he didn't ask his wife to type when she got home so she shouldn't ask him to cook. That changed when he had kids.
I crunch numbers all day. The last thing i want to do after a 60 hour work week is to do more. But as a parent i would be remiss not to teach my son to balance a checkbook or handle his finances, to budget or even help with homework.
Sometimes being a parent means putting other things first.
re: hotoynoodle
So true, so very true. Until you have lived it, don't judge. Great input!
re: foodieX2
They CAN pass it on but doesn't mean they always do. But, if they can't cook, then they can't pass it on. It's a good question for the OP. We can guess why he never bothered to pass it on instead of guessing. I'm a personal trainer and my daughter flunked jumping rope (not literally but she was written up for not being able to do it). Her lack of interest.
re: chowser
Yes but did you try to teach her and she chose not to learn? i think that is completely different that choosing not to teach at all. To be suddenly surprises that your 18-26 year olds can't cook and/or who don't know the difference between zucchini and cucumber seems as much as fail on the parents as it is on the kids
I have taught my son many things he is not interested in but that I feel are important life skills. Ones that he likes he does well (make milk shakes, flip chocolate chip pancakes, swim, sing badly) and things he doesn't like he doesn't do well-make his bed, sort laundry, folding clothes but the fact is he knows *how* to do them.
And there are certain things I have chosen to pick my battles on too.
re: foodieX2
To be clear, all of my kids do know the difference between the two. However, I bet you would be very surprised if you went into a any high school and put up a chart of vegetables and fruits in one section and their according names in another. Then ask each student to match them. My guess is that most would fail. The bottom line here is, if our kids were such great cooks, why are fast food chains ruling the food world and obesity is running rampant? Furthermore, I am not calling out any child that can cook and was taught by their parents, it was simple an observation. Thanks
re: ChefBriancooks
I was in a grocery store and it was close to Passover. There was a young woman on the phone to her mom. Apparently the mother had told her to get a fresh horseradish root and gave her a description. She picked up a parsnip, I shook my head and told her what it was. She said to her mother, still on the phone "Mom! I nearly bought a parsnip!" I then showed her what she was looking for. Pretty funny at the time.
re: Candy
That's what the produce guys are for, if other kind shoppers aren't nearby. There's a first time for everything and produce is tricky with multiple items in close bins so price-labels may not be aligned. I was nearly 50 before I bought radicchio (for a recipe), and needed to ask for help.
I have to agree with everyone else. Why can't your kids cook? Look in the mirror. As a chef I would have thought you would have relished teaching them, even if it was just the basics.
My son is 12 and has been an active part of the shopping, cooking and cleaning since he started eating solid food. He is currently going thru a picky/limited food choice stage so if he doesn't like dinner he is on his own. If I hadn't taught him to cook he would either be going hungry or living on peanut butter toast.
re: foodieX2
Alternatively, sometimes kids (consciously or not) avoid doing what their parents do.
re: lamb_da_calculus
As a profession sure! And again its one thing to try and teach your child something and them choosing not too. Its another not to try and teach at all.
So much of teaching is simply modeling behavior and getting kids involved. I never gave my son "lessons" on how to use a knife and fork, set a table, put a napkin on his lap or even whisk eggs. It was an ongoing process of hands on activity.
Often times "teaching" is just taking the time to do things together.
re: foodieX2
Hi foodie, the answer to your question is, my kids do and can cook. My point in bringing them into this discussion was simply to point out that its just not the same as I was growing up. I guess there may be too many options out here now. Nothing seems to be done from scratch anymore. I do value your input, great thoughts, thanks.
My 20 year old sister in law wasn't really allowed in the kitchen much growing up- the MIL is pretty controlling so she's the one that makes things how she wants them and doesn't want her kitchen "messed up." I don't think that's too unusual of a situation- none of her friends cook unless they work at fast food joints and when I think about it many people my age that I knew growing up didn't learn to cook until they moved out of their parents houses and needed to learn.
SIL stayed with us a few days a week last year and eariler this year while she attended the school close to us and while she was here she tried many different foods that her meat-and-potatoes Mom and Dad don't eat. That led her to be curious and ask how to make a couple of things.
We had a lot of fun in the kitchen. I insisted she learn some basics as well as teaching her to make creme brulee and bananas foster (her requests so she could impress her boyfriend.)
In the case of the OP, maybe the kids didn't learn because they didn't need to, someone else was always doing the cooking.
We learn many things in life out of necessity.
re: Ruth Lafler
Hi Ruth, I'm not calling out a whole generation. I used the generation to describe the era. Of course there are many Gen Yers out there that can cook. I was just noticing the lack of many that can't. The question was to find out if I was the only one who felt this way. Great input, thanks!
I just about fit into gen y and I can cook pretty damn well. Most of it is self taught, but growing up me and my sister were always encouraged to help out with cooking family meals. My parents supplied us with the basics and as an adult I could build upon those basics. If it is all done for you, then you don't even grasp the basics, like another poster said, gotta start kids young.
I think the bigger problem stems from how easy it is to buy pre-made food you just have to heat up, but a whole whack of age ranges are guilty of taking the easy route.
I do think it is easier these days for non-cooking adults to get by, as long as they have enough money. The prepared meals in supermarkets are as good as those at lower to midprice restaurants for less money, though they are still a lot costlier than cooking from scratch. When I was first on my own, in the 1970's, they did not even exist. If you didn't cook, your options were frozen and canned grocery items, or restaurants.
I do think parents should teach their children basic life skills, like it or not. Growing up in the era I did, I learned to cook, clean, and sew. How I wish my father had shown me how to fix a car, a faucet, and a broken appliance - all things he could do, but none of which a father in those days would have thought to teach his daughter. And if he'd asked me if I would like to learn, I'd have said no.
Today's parents, and grandparents, should require kids to learn what their elders know, like it or not. Chances are they will need these skills and more, eventually, and will be belatedly appreciative.
re: greygarious
Good point on having money. My niece has found that many of the prepared foods she enjoyed when living at home don't make sense now that she is on her own. Its cheaper to make many of those foods at home and she know how to make them.
She also recognizes that many of her less skilled friends find it "cheaper" to eat off the $1 menu than to make comparable food at home. If you can't cook and don't have the skills or the equipment buying a fast food cheese burger, fries and a coke is a lot cheaper than buying what is needed to make it yourself. Needless to say they end up at her apt most weekends!
Lack of basic cooking *skills* at age eighteen, I think, is mainly the parents' issue - either the parents don't cook, or they don't want their kids in the kitchen with them, or they haven't bothered to teach them the basics from a young age. You can get the occasional kid who spontaneously decides to teach themselves to cook, or is forced to learn due to family responsibilities, but usually it's the parents.
Afterwards - it's quite possible to have a young adult who knows the basics of cooking but doesn't use them. A few years of dorm food in university, small and/or shared apartments with poor cooking facilities, a busy or erratic schedule or a job with a lot of travel, access to cheap take out, deli or pre-prepared foods make it easy to get well into your twenties or thirties without ever cooking anything more complicated than pasta with jarred sauce and bagged salad.
Where I live a one bedroom apartment typically doesn't have a kitchen - you might have a single hot-plate, a microwave and a bar fridge, and that's all. Even with a decent kitchen, it can be cheaper to eat out than to cook for yourself. So the incentive to cook is very low, and stays that way basically until you're married and have more than one child.
My son never was particularly interested in cooking until his mom moved out of the house they were sharing - we had divorced about 12 years before - and there he was with a kitchen and not a lot of income. Soup got boring pretty fast. So we got together on stuff, and of course his main problem was confidence, but once he grasped that any compound of edible ingredients would be at least edible if you didn't burn it he was good to go … but he still depended on me or his GF of the moment for anything fancier than spaghetti.
And then he married a woman who's an okay cook, and then eventually they had their first daughter. She just turned five, and I was delighted to hear that for last Mother's Day she prepared scrambled eggs and toast for her mom's breakfast in bed. She's also made some kickass semi-cooked granola for me two Christmases in a row.
I think young people are young, and by definition, inexperienced. As a Gen X-er, I would say that Gen Y is way more into cooking, nutrition, food media, and diverse flavours than we were at their age. I am often amazed at my Gen Y friends' enthusiasm for canning, home brewing, cooking, curing, and palate education. In short, I could not possibly disagree more with the OP. I am encouraged, inspired, and frankly humbled by the next generation. The kids are alright.
re: plasticanimal
This puzzled me as well. Fooding almost seems like this generations clubbing, to me. They seem WAY more interesting in food and its preparation than previous generations.
Gen y-er here, as well. I definitely agree with the point that it is much easier these days for people to get by without cooking. So many things at the grocery store have been geared towards convenience. You have the prepared meals, which has already been mentioned, but even other things. In example, my local Wegmans sells all the ingredients to prepare a pizza all in one little convenient area. The cheese, sauce, meat, veggies all cut, dough, it's all there. It's no longer about preparing and planning a meal from the ground up. I do realize that even buying all this stuff you still have to assemble the pizza, including rolling out the dough and it's not completely the same as throwing a frozen pizza in the oven, but it certainly makes it a lot easier. Also, the onslaught of all the fast casual restaurants gives people a lot of different options, as well.
For me personally, I grew up with a stay at home mom, and she did cook most of our meals, but I can't say my interest in cooking was anything I was taught or learned from her. Like I said, sure, I saw her cooking, but she never sat me down to teach me, nor did I ask. When I wanted to cook something, I just did. I guess I kind of taught myself to cook and its never been something that was difficult for me. On the other side of that, my 23 year old younger brother, who obviously grew up in the same household as me, is fairly clueless when it comes to cooking. He knows some things, but it's just not anything he's taken much of an interest in. My point being is that maybe it has less to do with a particular generation and more to do with one's personal interest.
re: SaraAshley
Thanks SA, great input!
re: ChefBriancooks
Pretty hard to cook, text, play video games and talk on the phone all at the same time, at least one's gotta go, usually it's cooking. Just as long as we maintain enough room in the garbage can for the pizza boxes.
I'm a BOOMER, and got a really good kitchen education from my Grandmother. Totally surprised when I went away to college and found that some people had NO idea what to do with something like chicken pieces??
Have Gen-X niece who wanted to be a SAHM when first (and 2nd) child came along, but didn't think she could AFFORD to stay home?!? She worked as an aide in a day care center... cost of day care for HER kid(s) would be WAY more $$ than she MADE! Told her she needed to TOSS drawer full of take-out menus... or at least use SPARINGLY. Thought I was a "gourmet chef" when I brought over pot-o-chili after 1st baby was born. For a while was sending her recipes... like what to do with a lb of hamburger. She's come a LONG way!
I work as a teacher aide with special needs kids (HS age), and school has an elective called "Food & Nutrition". Worked with 2 girls... on open to try about anything, the other only ate cookies/cakes.
Maybe our expectations have changed as well. In my father's generation, men weren't expected to know how to cook. My father can't cook. At all. He doesn't even grill. He can make a sandwich and heat leftovers and stuff out of a can. But no one says, The Greatest Generation can't cook, just because most of the men can't.
My gen y daughter certainly knows food and makes some very tasty things. Recently she had the epiphany...you mean I can save a ton of money and eat way better food!?!
I agree it may have to do with money. Dining out in the DC area, I notice a lot of 20-somethings and I couldn't afford to eat out hardly ever at that age.
I think as a parent, it's imperative to teach basic cooking skills, laundry, etiquette etc.
I had a lot of catching up to do when I left home. My mom cooked all the time, but I think she saw that as her duty and so she just... did it. I was never expected to cook for the family and my mom feel that I needed to learn her key recipes.
Wish I had now though.
That age group, in particular, has lots of competing priorities too. College, grad school, launching a career. Most are probably not yet parents. It could be that the OP's kids become more interested in cooking as they age a bit. I see lots of late 20s/early 30s folks very interested in food in my area.
Baby boom parent here of a GenY son, now age 25. At 20, our son was probably a more accomplished cook than either of his parents at the same age although all of us were pretty comparable as cooks at that age -- could scramble eggs and other breakfast foods, knew a handful of dinner suitable recipes, but would have been hard-pressed to cook dinner for a whole week, without extensive reference to cook books. Now 25 and been living on his own for 4 years, he is very comfortable in the kitchen.
I have no idea whether he is emblematic of his generation or not. Gross generalizations based on anecdotal evidence is rarely reliable. Had I tried to evaluate the cooking skills of baby boomer men in 1990 solely on the basis of my husband and his brother, I would have concluded that they cook dinner from scratch every night.
KIDS THESE DAYS! *shakes fist*
I'm Gen Y, and I can cook. No thanks to my mom and dad, who are of your generation and barely taught me anything, although my mom can certainly cook well. This year for Christmas I've requested that she, her sister, and my grandmother put together a book of family recipes for me to follow, since I remember things from my childhood that I loved but have no idea how to make.
So it really depends on the parents and what they pass down.
After watching all the Gen Yers carrying sacks of laundry to the dry cleaner to be washed, I'm more concerned about theirs laundry skills.


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Does someone know if these already have CVE-identifiers? Joomla just released this advisory.
This is why I don't like Joomla. They jumped from 1.7 to 2.5.0 and support for 1.7.x is following:
"Please note that version 1.7 will reach end of life on 24 February 2012."
EOL for 1.7.x means also 1.6.x, which both are still heavily uesd.
Joomla is part of oCERT "The oCERT team is a volunteer-based force of well-known security professionals from major Open
Source projects, vendors and the security community."
Basicly the end of support for 1.7.x and 1.6.x means that if you go to support-forum and ask something you will be
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Health trust pushing on with record sharing
@Graham Marsden RE: Opt out?
Precisely. Got it in one. This is already happening in UK hospitals.
"You can opt out. But if you do we won't have access to your medical history so we won't be able to treat you."
Opt in or F-off.
ISS space bio-experiment freezer to return on Discovery
That's Entertainment !
"the big chill-down of the space freezer for loading into Discovery was a major event in its hometown of Birmingham"
Those long Winter evenings must just fly by.
Brits find accommodation a little uncomfortable
I wud doo it betterer
But mi smell chicken is broked !
First case of sleep emailing documented
Potential Spammer's defense ?
I was asleep when I sent those 3 million dodgy viagra emails M'lud.....Honest!
Forget Google rationing: Only lighting farts can save the planet
I for one welcome our....
Wrong thread - sorry.
HP hunts down 'rare' BladeSystem problem
Totally Titsup
Each blade contains several virtual servers and
each server hadles several applications and
one rare error happens to occur and
The whole shebang goes totally titsup.
You gotta love progress.
UFO damages Lincolnshire wind turbine
Oops !
Bloody (alien) women drivers !
I've only shagged two blokes, insists Paris Hilton
I admit it ........ The other one was me !
....... and my doctor says the rash will be gone in a week or two if I keep taking the meds.
Indulge your fecal fantasies with a doll that craps
Dual Usage
Simply add a strategically placed cork and voila! - A doll that explodes! (messily)
Zavvi goes titsup
"Zavvi has continued to experience significant difficulty in obtaining stock on favourable credit terms. This has resulted in considerable working capital difficulties as a result of the failure of EUK, in addition to continuing operating losses."
Which translates in English as "We're feckin' skint !"
Don't delay: Delete your DNA today
I wonder if
I wonder if someone convicted on the strength of DNA Database evidence could argue that
it was inadmissable because it shouldn't have been retained?
Snipers - Cowardly assassins, or surgical soldiers?
Wow - Such passion on this thread.
Can I just say that I have a pet slug named Kevin.
But he's not terribly smart.
Wireless comms and the end of civilisation
Who would they call ?
It doesn't matter really - they'd only end up going through an automated options system before
being redirected to a call centre in India or some foreign parts.
Paris... foreign parts.. Heh heh!
Heidemarie 'Toolbag' Piper set for second spacewalk
Dirk, was without a doubt the world's unluckiest Orb Spider. Not only was he captured and
incarcerated in a perspex prison, but he was subjected to massive G forces and subsequent
weightlessness while being abducted and taken aboard an orbiting space station.
In his desperate attempts to escape, Dirk managed to squeeze out of his cage. Hoping to
find a way to stowaway and get back to Earth, he hid inside a small toolbag.............
Reg Reader 'bitch of a survey' transformed into beautiful webcast
Building Applications ?
What? is that like planning permission or summat?
DARPA: Self-repairing, learning kill-robot tech is go
Self-repairing eh?
But they'll still have to wait 4 - 6 weeks for out of stock parts to be shipped from Taiwan.
Then they'll be the wrong size parts.
Then the supplier will deny all knowledge of the original order.
By which time the warranty will have expired.
So they'll have to engage a lawyer to fight their case.
Which will cost them an arm and a leg.
Which will require them to self-repair again !!
I don't think I'll worry anytime soon.
Batman sues Batman over Batman
Not that I'm cynical or anything, but...
It's obvious that the town is going to lose, unless WB etc. decide to make a gesture.
HOWEVER - I wonder what would happen if someone named a new town after an 'existing'
super-hero? ...... Mega law suit from the IP owners without mercy methinks.
Paris, because I'd like to see her other side too.
Europe takes aim at BBC licence fee
Make the beeb subscription only.
If I don't want Sky I don't buy Sky.
If I don't want to pay-per-view for something I don't.
If I don't want the BBC I am forced to pay and get it anyway.
If as everyone says it is so damned good then it would surely thrive by subscription only.
Sarah Palin's words get data mined
It was bugging me....
But now I know where I've seen Ms. Palin before.
She's the "Universal Optician's Spectacles Model" isn't she?
Look at any specs ad - there she is.
Apple probes poison-pumping Mac claim
Something fishy...
Maybe it should have read "poisson" ?
Tories would decentralise NHS IT
Hokey Cokey
You put your IT Systems in.
You pull your IT Systems out.
In, Out, In, Out,
....until everybody feels sick.
Developers to get Windows 7 pre beta next month
Fantastic !!
Amazing, incredible, wonderful, etc. etc. etc.
In fact I can't wait for it to go on public release so someone can buy it and tell me what it's like.
MI6 agent's moustache falls off during TV interview
Not very good
at slug-balancing then?
Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers
Damp Squib
I expect Mr. E's licence was 'paid' by a BBC exec checking a box. That way the much vaunted protest becomes completely insubstantial.
Paris - Check her box.
Oz pub slammed over 'No Undie Sundie'
I wish......
I could be the dwarf on No Undie Sundie.....
World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros
RE: Computers make you stupid.
I'm no pedant but.....
Solomon Grundy - "make absolutely know sense at all?"
I once saw in a university magazine the editor using "no" instead of "know", but that just about takes the biscuit.
How about all those people who dont know the difference between "lose" and "loose" to.
OK - That last "to" had to be an 'o' short deliberately, right?
Otherwise it's just to funny!!
Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe
Last words..........ever.
"Right - Switch it on!.......
........er.....is it supposed to do that?.......
......Oh Crap!"
Paris has very probably Hadron
eBay sues business partners over alleged cookie stuffing
Hooray for the Colonel !
So KFC do cookies now?
Hi-tech cops lose their website
Follow standard procedure
I thought it was usual in any domain dispute for the big guy with the money to squash the little guy?
Google restores Chrome's shine
Google ate my hamster !
I no longer care who takes over the world; They are all as corrupt and
depraved as each other.
But I do object to the rapidly becoming ubiquitous use of the non-verb
"to google" when referring to conducting a web search.
It really gets my goat, and my goat is not happy.
US says the next war will be all in our minds
I knew that.
........or did I dream it?
Filesharing teen gets damages reduced in ignorance claim
Benefit of the doubt.
I am dubious, but willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
I know loads of non-IT common or garden folk who haven't the first clue
about nettiquette and probably don't know one end of a PC from another.
But they know how to find and download music, films and anything else,
dump it to a stick, ipod or phone, and transmit it around their friends like
an expert.
Paris - Living proof of complete ignorance.
CERN: LHC to fire first proton-smash ray next month
Magnetic Monopoles
Can I be the Racing Car?
Clone dog mistress denies she is 'sex in chains' McKinney
Of course she is, and......
...If I had five identical boogers I'd make a song and dance about it too!
Paris ... 'cos women don't have boogers.
Craigslist supervillain seeks henchmen
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'd need at least 22k p.a.
Paris, *the* Femme FLATale.
IBM solves world's 'paper or plastic' crisis
The REALLY BIG question.
If a grocery store employee says "Paper or Plastic?"
and there's no-one in the store to hear it,
.....Will it adversely affect the price of a tin of baked beans?
...The shopping trolley is out there!
NASA: Mars is good habitat for Terry Pratchett dragons
Jelly & Doughnuts !
New Van Gogh pic discovered using German atom-smasher
Grassist !
I wonder how excited everyone would be if a hitherto unseen painting
of a patch of grass had been found beneath a famous Van Gogh portrait?
.....Paris (beneath the penguin pic)
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Rated 1 out of 5�by Glo The gripping material peeled off ! My son only had this basketball for under a month and the gripping material is peeling off everywhere. October 2, 2014
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We're putting together long-term spending plans for IT support and development, and we got to thinking about our interactive boards. We know the rough lifespan of the projectors, but not the boards themselves - will they last forever or should we factor their replacement into things? If so, how many years of service can we expect from a Smart board?
With that, what sort of lifespan would be reasonable to predict for a Mimio? We're considering getting these since they're roughly half the price of a Smart board, but have a lot more to go wrong in them, so may not actually represent the saving we think they do when you take a long-term view of things.
We have been using the Mimio Capture for the last six months in our lecture halls, its really fast and accurate, the math proffs love it for writing out streams of calculations.
But I don't see the Mimio lasting more than a year only because the electronic pens are flimsy, the actual device is not going to deteriorate too much just sitting on the white board.
I havent done proper cost analysis but the mimio electronic pens/ eraser all need batteries and the e-pens need whiteboard markers inside them to operate so over time not sure the cost is much less than a Smart board which we put on a three year replacement cycle.
Our smartboards are upwards of 8 years old and still working perfectly
Excepting misadventure, we're seeing 7-ish years out of the Promethean boards. The reason we've replaced a couple is due to dead spots appearing.
We've replaced a few power supplies, though that may be down to flaky power here.
Have many promethean boards over 5 years old now. I'd be very unimpressed if a board did not last 5+ years as they have no moving parts.
We have a bunch of Mimios and they seem to last alright, they are not used all day everyday though been a couple of years at least. They do eat batteries though, the old ones at least.
The main problem we have with Promethean boards, is either the Powersuplies burning out or the USB/Serial connectivity leads failing.
My oldest promethean boards are coming up to 6 years old.
I had one fail under warranty (it delaminated) and I've had 1 power supply failure in 6 years with 9 boards.
I have Smartboards which are 6 years old and still going strong, we moved from promethian 6 years ago and not looked back.
I Emailed Steljes for you who are the distributor and everything else for SMARTBoards for an official lifespan. The answer came back that the official expected lifespan is between 5-8 years.
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Our older boards (7+ years) are now showing their age. Accuracy is falling, and in one case one side of the board is an inch off, whereas the other side is spot on.
Not gonna get replaced though! No money!
I cant comment on the smartboards but we have a Promeathean of over 12 years and still working perfectly. It's had new lamps / projectors obviously in this time.
Smartboards have a 5 year warranty if you register for it. We have some that are 8+ years.
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"I just got this sight and havn't used it in a war yet, but i have been shooting it at targets, and it is great. I couldnt ask for anything more.
Fits tight
bright-little reflection
comes with an extra battery
high quality
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all around perfect sight-expetially for the price
The sight is on the gun backwards in the picture.lol
Your eye has to be above the sight, otherwise the red dot will not appear
Even if your gun already comes with a sight, i recomend getting this one. IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY, GET THIS RED DOT"
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"I bought this sight for ten dollars, and I have to say that I believe I got a twenty dollar value. This is a very nice plastic red dot sight, and the laser can easily be seen during day or night. The sight comes with a cleaning cloth, a liquid cleaner, and an extra battery. This is a high riser. The sight is easy to adjust, and is excellent with aiming. The only problem is this is plastic, but you get more than your moneys worth with this sight. This is an excellent sight for your money."
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"Very impressed. Easy to sight in and once you get used to it everyone will want to be on your team! Can identify and mark targets with both eyes open keeping your peripheral vision wide and reaction time quick. Extra battery was nice-great value."
"this is a great sight and is bright enough in the day to use. Pros would be: decent dot, fits well, easy adjustment, and works with the m4 even with the triangle sight on the front! cons: plastic obviously. in the picture, its not backwards. I don't know were people are thinking its backwards? its just a great sight over all. I recommend if you don't have the moneys :D
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"Not bad, but there are better options. The red dot is a little small, but you can deal with it..Constructed with all plastic, so have a sling or something to make sure it doesn't drop, because it might break. However, the red dot is clearly visible day and night which is a plus. It works great on my m4. Pros: cheap, visible day and night, extra battery comes with it Cons: all plastic, and not as high quality as more expensive optics, and a small red dot. Overall, good for the price, you get what you pay for."
"It does its job. easy to put onto your rifle. easy to make adjustments. red dot is clearly visible night and day. hardware is a bit of cheap plastic feel to it. comes with spare battery. my opinion....freaken awesome!"
"It has a red dot, and one can sight with it.
The dot is bright, easy to adjust in alignment. The piece is inexpensive enough that it can break without many tears, and it has a spare battery. "
"Good deal for about 10 dollars! Even comes with a cleaning cloth and extra battery! Seems to work well so far. Construction is a little cheap but the price reflects this."
"got this for my dboys mk16 until i got something better. the only thing good about it is it works and its cheap. good if youre cash strapped or dont want to spend a lot on a red dot.
windage and elevation adjustments move when ever you make even a slight movement"
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Hartranft's translation makes the yoga-sutra accessible without sacrificing depth.
It is useful to read different translations of the Yoga Sutra and none is better than this concise rendering with its illuminating commentary.
I can only recommend this book for anyone seriously interested in studding yoga sutra.
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This book remains one of the best books I have ever read in general. Hartranft really gets into the mind and wisdom of Patanjali that i almost unmatched by any modern scholar. Read morePublished 3 months ago by Jason Gregory (Author, Filmmaker & Public Speaker)
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This was a decent product when I bought it about 2 or 3 years ago. I got it right when the first Ipod touch came out and it was much cheaper. It plays decent quality is easy to use and looks relatively nice. Unfortunately it is pretty outdated at this point and the headphone jack somehow broke. If I move the headphones the sound cuts in and out. The reason I originally bought it was for the gym and this diminishes that use. I would recommend this product to someone who is trying to buy an affordable MP3 player but the next one I buy is either going to be a creative, Ipod, zune or just get one of the new droid phones that has media capability. All and all this is a great product for the price and I would suggest it, but if you want something sturdy I am not sure if this is the product or if that was just a one time thing that happened to me.
So i bought the samsung yp-p2 about 2 months ago. I was searching for a MP3 Player with Touch screen, good audio qualtiy, good graphics and maybe the one or other little game. I must say this Player is truely ausome! It's very easy to use, the graphics are very very good and the audio quality is breathtaking. The games on there are cute but I still don't quite understand the bus station plan part about it... A good friend of mine has the appel ipod touch and i kinda compared them... the only differences i found was that the ipod touch didn't have a radio (and come on it could atleast have that) and the yp p2 doesn't have that tilt function on it. But i wasn't able to use that function without making a fool out of myself...
All in all i think the Samsung YP-P2 is a very nice Mp3-Player with a longlasting batterylife (compared to the ipod touch) which is very much worth looking into!!
as an owner of the samsung yp-p2 i can honestly say it has to be one of the best mp3/mp4 players on the market. what with its modern, blue/black, yet easy to use interface beginners as well as dedicated tech-heads will find it easy to understand. value for money is also a phrase that comes to mind. i doubt anybody would be able to find a similar spec device for the same price. the added bonus of samsung having a dedicated mp3 store online makes the deal all the more sweeter. monthly membership costs around £10 per month for UNLIMITED downloads. the slim design and touch screen make this an all together 'fashion' friendly mp3 player, especially when compared to its nearest rival, the i-pod touch. in no way is this an i-pod beater but a definate contender it can be. it might be the underdog but in my opinion its an all together better product.
The Samsung YP-P2, was originally seen as a rival to the iPod touch; this defiantly isn't the case. Samsung in their YP-P2 have been very original and creative in some aspects but, in others just 'hopped-on' the general modern interface bandwagon.
The main advantages of the YP-P2 are it's large hard disk capacity, ability to play very high quality video's effortlessly with an outstanding frame rate and it's fantastic battery life even after playing movies or listening to the radio or even playing some of the built-in games - which I think is another great feature.
The disadvantages of the YP-P2 are it's lack of file formats supported, the only two music file formats it will support are MP3 and WMA's this means that if you shop on iTunes then even the DRM free music that can be converted into an ACC file format can't be played on the YP-P2. Also any movie that hasn't been specifically been made for the YP-P2 has to be converted into the format .svi which is exactly the same as an .avi file but the .svi has been specifically made for Samsung.
This product may not be the Ipod touch killer as advertised, but the p2 can hold its own as a reliable mp3 player. It is rather small. It actually is in the same size and weight class as the Ipod Nano.
This mp3 player does have a touch screen interface. It is rather simplified vs the ipod touch. It is a bad and a good thing. The bad thing about the interface is that it is not as fun as the ipod touch. The menu screen and the music browser is somewhat fickle. The player recognizes finger strokes that go vertical, horizontal and in a circular motion. It also reconizes on screen button functions. It is not as sensitive as the Ipod touch and at first you would hit the wrong icon or song. It is almost as you have to use the very tip of your finger to select the music. Plus browsing through the music is not as like the cover flow of the ipod touch. You really can't use your fingers to drag through the options or music list. The finger motion acts more like a page up and down key. Plus with the lack of wifi and only 4 gigs of memory, this player may not be the one that brings apple down.
Having both the p2 and the ipod touch (actually my cousin's), there are some advantages of the p2. First off there are actually more hard buttons on the p2. There is a power/pause, lock, and volume button. The volume button is actually the best feature that the touch does not have. It becomes especially important when working out or going for a hike for your not squinting your eyes to look for the volume control on the lcd screen in the sun. The video quaility of the p2 is actually pretty good, though it is a pain converting your files to the svi format that the player usess. There is a bluetooth function as well which is pretty neat. You can connect to bluetooth headphones or speakers, however it does take a major drain on battery life in my experience, and the bluetooth mode is defaulted as on. At first I thought I had a bad battery when I bought the thing before I realized it was on. The battery life is rated as 30 hrs on the box, but I was able to get about 25+ with the lock mode on, bluetooth off, and setting the display off at 15 seconds.
In comparison with this product and the Ipod touch, the touch would win over the people who are more familiar with the pdas and blackberry. The p2 is more of a pure mp3 player, so if you listen to music while jogging or going to the gym, this player might be for you.
The 4GB YP-P2 MP3 is the first Samsung MP3 widescreen (16x9) video player with an optimized, touchscreen user interface. It will also offer Bluetooth capability. The P2 comes ready to pair with stereo Bluetooth 2.0 headphones and speaker systems to provide high quality wireless listening.
The P2 plays MPEG4 and WMV9 video files in 16:9 DVD friendly format. Samsung Multimedia Software included with the P2 transcodes the video on the computer before transferring to the P2, so videos on the P2 play at the optimal frame size/rate with minimal effort from the user. P2 will also playback at up to 30 frames per second, twice the category average!
Bluetooth is a wireless standard which will enable the P2 to pair with other Bluetooth 2.0 devices. The range of the Bluetooth connection is 32.8 feet. P2 comes ready to pair with stereo Bluetooth 2.0 headphones and speaker systems to provide high quality wireless listening.
The touch-screen interface named EmoTrue goes beyond just tapping the screen. Users can swipe a finger across the screen for functions like fast forward or next picture.
MP3 files are the most common music format available today. WMA uses a high quality compression technology so users can have smaller files that sound in near CD quality Works with Rhapsody, Napster, and Yahoo! so users can download up to 4 million songs and take them on the P2 (separate subscription is required).
The built-in FM Tuner will scan the entire FM range in less than 60 seconds and automatically place the available FM stations into presets. To eliminate stations with marginal reception, users can adjust the sensitivity to only preset stations with strong reception.
You can view your photos and text files on the P2. Zoom, rotate, customize text size, color and font makes these great features even more powerful.


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(WCVB/CNN) – A mother gives birth to the biggest baby born at Massachusetts General Hospital in more than a decade.
Baby Carisa has a good set of lungs and everything else is working fine, all 14.5 pounds of her. Just ask mom who delivered 24 hours ago.
"I heard the weight and I was like, 'Oh my God.' It validated me because I was in a lot of pain when I was pregnant, so to hear the size, it made sense."
She's the biggest infant delivered at Mass. General Hospital in 12 years, likely the state's largest this year.
"I took a picture of the scale just to document it because I couldn't believe how big she was."
That's his snap, 6.5 kilograms equals about 14.5 pounds.
"And long too, 22 inches is long. That's what we like, long and big. That's what I am."
"Her first baby was 10 and a half pounds, so we weren't surprised. We were expecting a big baby, but we weren't expecting one quite that big. The baby came out screaming and crying and it was a beautiful delivery."
Diabetes not a problem for mom or baby who is the size of a traditional 6 month old. Mom now recovering from the C-section.
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How To Reach Your Users - Ruxandra Dorobantu
In this talk Ruxandra looks at startup marketing, testing and what actually works to promote your site and brand.
This is our blog where we talk about all the interesting stuff that's going on at HackFwd. Learn more about us on HackFwd.com or watch one of our speakers at PassionMeetsMomentum.com .
How To Reach Your Users - Ruxandra Dorobantu
In this talk Ruxandra looks at startup marketing, testing and what actually works to promote your site and brand.
In January 2013, we launched Dropify with the intention of presenting quality free downloads in beautiful and engaging fashion, while helping our publishers get more fans on Facebook. Social integration has always been a key component since day one. However, despite numerous great success…
Congratulations again to Infogr.am for creating such a fine website that over 1,000,000 infographics have been created!
Sean Seton-Rogers - Rise Of The Micro VC
Filmed at HackFwd Build 0.9 - Berlin March 2012
In this short and punchy talk Sean Seton-Rogers of PROFounders explains how the investment market is responding to today's lean startups.
PROFounders Capital is based in London and currently has made 17 investments throughout Europe, including Tweetdeck and Made.com. PROFounders has an early stage focus tailored to fit closely with the lean startup way of running a business (check Alex Barrera for a summary of lean startups).
Sean explains that the "old school" venture model was a "staircase" – three discontinuous stages of funding from the initial "friends, family and fools" pool, to the Series A/B/C funders, to the late stage private or initial public offering. This model worked fine for companies that needed several stages of investment, and that could demonstrate traction at each stage. But, says Sean, the lean startup has blown that model out of the water.
Products are now built with small, tight teams. Marketing can be achieved through social media platforms and pay per click advertising. Cloud computing, open source software and powerful platforms like Facebook and Twitter now mean that a company can launch with one tenth of the "old school" level of investment.
The arc of a lean startup is very different from the stage-by-stage growth of a traditional startup. It can be relatively cheap to prove initial traction, and revenue starts coming in early, but there is a sudden steep acceleration in the need for investment around the time that the company matures into a large organisation. The old three stage investment model doesn't work anymore.
You can say we love the inspiration and direction of the web!
As the lead user experience researcher at Prezi Laszlo Laufer talks about usability testing by listening and knowing your user.
From this July 2010 talk Anil Hansjee takes a look at Internet Startups And The Ecosystem.
Greg Jakacki - How to hire coders
Greg says you should only hire developers who are smart and get things done. Talent is a lot like real estate – even if you know what you need and what you are willing to give in exchange, the talent may not be available. With the people you may want to hire, the situation is similar, and you just have to keep an eye on them. Startups often start by hiring friends but that is very different from hiring strangers. When hiring friends or people you already have a relation with, you want to make their joining as easy as possible and reduce obstacles.
When hiring strangers, you have to attract people. Figure out your strengths, internal and external. Do you use cool technologies in your startup? Highlight that. Does the job offer perks, even if it's a cool location or flexible schedule? Mention that.
Greg runs Codility, which tests coders, administering short programming tests and checking whether solutions are rock solid. In addition to testing coding, Greg recommends a few other things to test. (Starting at 12:50 Greg goes into detail about testing coders and examining code.)
Ask the candidate to pitch you something difficult. Maybe an idea they have, or maybe their final thesis. If they are able to communicate, they are likelier able to work with others.
Estimation or market sizing questions where the candidate has to think aloud and arrive at a ballpark result, preferable within the right order of magnitude. Examples are questions like "how many international flights depart from Heathrow every day" or "how many liters/gallons of petrol are used in the US daily". In questions like this, hearing the candidates logic is more important than the answer itself.
Greg finishes off with a number of tips for recruiting and hiring that are worth watching.
Paulina Bozek - Building Communities Not Content
Filmed at HackFwd Build 0.8 - Berlin December 2011
Paulina spoke about the virtue of building communities before content in here early (9:05 AM) talk, opening the program for the Saturday of the last Build event.
INENSU are focusing on two platforms that cover two inherently social interests: music and fashion. SuperFan, on the Facebook platform, encourages users to share artist-related activity in their timelines. Closet Swap, with Channel 4, encourages users to share their real clothes via virtual wardrobes as part of a campaign to highlight sustainability issues in fashion.
Paulina says that INENSU wants to break free of the "content schedule" model and demonstrates how this can be done. "It would be amazing if we didn't need a content schedule and we could just think about building the infrastructure to let users entertain each other," she says. She contrasts the "content schedule" model with the "feature schedule" model that is followed by the defining platforms of our time like YouTube and Facebook. These platforms are so successful, she believes, because they put communities rather than content at the heart of the platform.
She stresses that the idea of social networking is not new, and that we have always turned to friends for recommendations and ideas. The online social network has a stubborn ratio of content creators, curators and lurkers, however. She estimates that around 70% of users are still passive consumers of content (lurkers), 20% are active sharers of content, only 10% actually create content and only 1% create content actively.
The challenge, as she sees it, is to build in easy ways for lurkers to become curators, and for curators to share more. She highlights Tumblr's "reblog" facility and Facebook's "like" button as examples of "easy user generated content". She also explains how the Facebook Open Graph API is opening up new possibilities for "share moments" and the possibilities that this opens up for custom interactions.
"It's hard not to go back to Facebook and to think about how to use [its] social plumbing and architecture to maximise our own services," says Paulina. In this talks she identifies what "virality" means on Facebook now, which channels are working for content dissemination, and why fan pages aren't the be all and end all of user engagement.
Watch the video to find out how INENSU designs its platforms to maximise "share moments" in order to engage, not just the minority who create content, but also the vast majority who curate and consume it.
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Las Lloronas, inspired by the Mexican tale "La Llorona" and real events
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September 14, 2014 BRIARTOWN, Okla. — JL Austin "Jim" McGinnis, age 87, was born at home in Briartown, OK, where he spent his early childhood. more »»
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September 12, 2014 LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Bonita A. Bartholow Campbell, age 70, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, formerly of Salem, Ohio, passed away on August 12, 2014. The family will hold a private service at a later date. more »»
Paul Franklin
September 11, 2014 New Waterford — Paul W. Franklin, Jr., passed away at 9:25 p.m. Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at Hospice House, Poland, after an extended illness. Mr. more »»
Shirley Harrison
September 11, 2014 New Waterford — Shirley L. Harrison of New Waterford has left her earthly family to be reunited with her Heavenly family on Tuesday, Sept. 9th. more »»
Donna Mercer
September 11, 2014 SALEM — Donna V. Mercer, 85, of Salem died Tuesday evening at Salem Regional Medical Center. She was born Jan. 30, 1929 in Hepburnia, Pa., the daughter of the late Herbert and Sidonia Zehner Spence. more »»
Anna McKeown
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David Bevan
September 10, 2014 Sebring, OH — David R. Bevan, Jr., 93, formerly of Columbiana died at 9:05 pm Thursday, September 4, 2014 at Crandall Health and Rehabilitation Center, Sebring. Mr. more »»
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