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STATworkUP is a medical differential diagnosis expert system. It contains a large multi-specialty relational database packed full of great content to help quickly correlate thousands of symptoms & signs. Pertinent manifestations that are appropriate for further assessment are rapidly grouped together for evaluation. The app quickly presents information for each topic in drill-down detail views and displays subject matter web page links.
It assists with history-taking and physical examination, suggesting appropriate lab tests and includes practice guidelines too. The program rapidly calculates relevant sets of conditions to consider for weighted finding selections. This helps healthcare providers to diagnose and prognose associated issues. It also instantly lists their various causes, complications and remedies. Possible diagnoses are sorted and presented in prioritized or alphabetized lists on differential tables according to how well they fit with findings . And you can adjust a probability meter to vary the likelihood of each condition for the constellation of checked observations.
Additionally, STATworkUP points-out acceptable treatments to help clinicians make good management decisions for many diseases and disorders. This is an excellent utilization review tool for quality assurance and reference with good peer-review ratings, although it is not intended to supplant sound medical judgment. The knowledgebase is frequently updated and distributed for free to keep it current with best practices.
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Fast and mobile reference for medical practice review and learning. Designed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to bring an exceptional user experience to health care providers and students. STATworkUP shows findings, tests, disorders and remedies, to help evaluate, diagnose and manage many medical conditions. It allows you to quickly correlate symptoms and signs for a large number of associated problems and indicates appropriate studies and therapy for each. This app contains a rich collection of evidence-based facts, associations and recommendations for quick review to improve Diagnosis and Treatment processes. The user interface features typical approaches to investigation so its operation will be fairly intuitive to well trained medical practitioners. Its functions, and multi-specialty knowledgebase, rapidly deliver information to facilitate the right workup of many presentations: You can rapidly access valuable information for thousands of names in STATworkUP's completely relational structure. Locate any Symptom, Study, Diagnosis or Treatment on full lists in a flash, using tools that let you search by synonyms or categories, and even by voice activation.
Quickly get facts for over 10,000 cross-related and organized terms.
Get, read and share concise, yet detailed, information that instantly appears in detailed drill-down views for each tabled entity. STATworkUP can help you to shift focus from the chief complaint to facilitate discovery of less obvious but significant manifestations and their plausible causes as workup proceeds. Its features assist exploration and evaluation of many other concerns for in-depth problem assessment in a hurry. It groups potentially relevant Findings together to help guide further examination.
And it immediately calculates more or less likely possibilities to consider for the items you select as present or not.
Weights of corroborative findings are added up in real-time to rapidly create lists of possible differential diagnoses for consideration. The program quickly calculates and shows the diagnoses that fit with the selected findings for all of the conditions in the database. STATworkUP rapidly builds prioritized or alphabetized lists of potential diagnoses, based upon findings you designate or signify by adding checkmarks to listed items. You can even adjust differential output by setting the probability meter to expand or constrain the resulting profile of diagnoses based on the amount of likelihood you desire. Subject matter expert web pages are also readily available for each entry in the database, and you can link to them from within the application at the touch of a button. The app can use standard accessibility features like speak text selection or play web video content too. So you can instantly see, and AirPrint, additional information on the internet for any item as well. Navigate through all views with the flick of a finger. The content, user interface and structure of this application have been carefully crafted during 30 years by practicing physicians, computer engineers, mathematicians and medical informaticists. However, the great amount of good information that it does contain should not be substituted for the expert advice of licensed physicians or other credentialed healthcare providers. Appropriate practices require years of training plus ample experience and insight. STATworkUP is NOT intended to supplant sound medical judgment! The database is constantly maintained to keep it current and you will be notified when frequent updates are available for download. The app includes help files about how to use it and plenty of online support as well. We sincerely hope you will enjoy it!
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Ya know, I've often been told that I don't draw like a girl. My first encounter with this is when I was fourteen when a woman, a friend's mother, picked up a drawing of a drooling, disgusting monster (I drew a lot of monsters back then, still do I guess), not knowing who had done it, upon finding out that I had drawn it she exclaimed, "A girl drew this? A GIRL drew this?!"
I wasn't offended by this at all, just a bit confused. How was art by a girl supposed to look? Or on the flip side what makes art "masculine"? Should art have a gender? I've had my art judged differently once the viewer found out it was created by a female, work they deemed sexist suddenly became ironic. Is it possible to separate the artist from their work? Bah, these are question I've been asking my whole life and I'm still no closer to an answer.
Has anybody else out there had a similar experience? Have any ladies out there surprised people with their artistic prowess? Any guys out there suffer from mistaken art-gender identity? I know my husband, Robin, has disappointed a few people when they discovered he wasn't a girl drawing extreme porn.

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Onderon Rebels
During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic had little recourse with worlds that willingly sided with the Separatist Alliance -- the rules of engagement enforced by the Senate and the Jedi Order contained the battlefield to contested worlds. But what of planets where the Separatist banner did not garner unanimous support among its populace? When an insurgency on Onderon refused to recognize the legitimacy of its monarch and began a rebellion to oust both the king and the Separatist influence on the planet, Anakin Skywalker saw an opportunity: If the Jedi could train and equip the rebels on Onderon, these freedom-fighters would keep the Separatists occupied during the Clone Wars.
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In its earliest ages of civilization, Onderon was a world marked with savage jungles that were filled with dangerous creatures. To survive, the primitive human inhabitants of the planet protected themselves behind the walls of fortified settlements. Over time, these grew to become enormous walled cities, like the planet's capital, Iziz. In the modern era, during the time of the Clone Wars, the planet's monarch King Sanjay Rash allied Onderon to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Many Onderonians, however, refused to recognize the legitimacy of Sanjay's rule -- they preferred the neutral stance championed by former monarch Ramsis Dendup, whom Rash ousted.
Steela Gerrera
A young native of Onderon, Steela and her brother Saw were members of the insurgency that opposed the rise of King Sanjay Rush, and Rush's alignment of the planet to the cause of the Separatists during the Clone Wars. Not as boisterous or as outspoken as her brother, Steela was nonetheless firmly dedicated to the cause of Onderonian independence. She was not one for impassioned speeches or political rhetoric. These were not her areas of expertise, and she felt far more comfortable peering through the macroscope of her blaster rifle. A crack shot, Steela racked up an impressive number of droid kills with precise headshots fired from the cover of canopy jungle.
Saw Gerrera
A battered veteran of the Clone Wars as well as the ongoing rebellion against the Empire, Saw Gerrera leads a band of Rebel extremists. Saw has lost much in his decades of combat, but occasional flashes of the charismatic and caring man he once was shine through his calloused exterior. Gerrera is bunkered on the ancient world of Jedha, coordinating a prolonged insurgency against the Imperial occupation. Saw's ailing health has not withered his resolve to fight.
Lux Bonteri
The son of Separatist Senator Mina Bonteri, Lux was young, idealistic, and skeptical of the aims of the Republic and the Jedi Knights. His father was a fervent supporter of the Separatists, and was killed by clone troopers on Aargonar. Lux did not know what to make of Ahsoka Tano and her visit to Separatist space. After a failed peace overture begun by Mina extended to the Republic, Lux's mother died, assassinated on Count Dooku's orders. After making an ill-fated effort to avenge her by killing Dooku, Lux joined the anti-Separatist resistance on his homeworld of Onderon. After the rebels defeated the Separatists, Lux became Onderon's Republic Senator.
King Ramsis Dendup
As the galaxy began to split with the Separatist crisis that escalated into the Clone Wars, King Ramsis Dendup of Onderon looked on with disapproval and dread. The conflict would spill onto the borders of his home, and he would have to make a choice. But he saw no virtue in either the Republic or the Confederacy, recognizing the corruption that rotted within both governments. Dendup decided that the best course of action for his people would be to remain neutral in the conflict. For this, he was branded an indecisive coward and ousted from the throne by those who saw opportunity for change in power.
King Sanjay Rash
King Ramsis Dendup refused to commit Onderon to the Clone Wars, thinking that neutrality would spare the planet from the violent conflict. Sanjay Rash knew better. To ensure Onderon's prosperity and strength in the shifting galaxy would require a strong alliance -- and that meant striking an accord with the Separatists. Through methods cloaked in intrigue, Rash assumed the crown of Onderon, deposing Dendup and branding him a powerless old crone. Rash then allowed the Separatists to establish a firm foothold, cementing his rule of the planet.


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Aaron Horne Jr.; Elizabeth A. Reineck; Rani K. Hasan; Jon R. Resar; Matthews Chacko. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Historical perspectives, current evidence, and future directions. American Heart Journal. 2014.
Aaron Horne; Matthews Chacko. Thrombectomy Devices in Coronary Intervention. Interventional Cardiology Clinics. 2013;2(2):347-359.
Michael J. Blaha; Gurusher Panjrath; Matthews Chacko; Steven P. Schulman. Localized calcific constrictive pericarditis masquerading as a basal aneurysm. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2011;57(18):e65.
Catherine Y. Campbell; Ashish S. Shah; Matthews Chacko. Inducible left ventricular obstruction after apical-conduit aortic valve bypass surgery. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2010;140(3):e62-e63.
Ming Zhang; Niladri Mal; Matthew Kiedrowski; Matthews Chacko; Arman T. Askari; Zoran B. Popovic; Omer N. Koc; Marc S. Penn. SDF-1 expression by mesenchymal stem cells results in trophic support of cardiac myocytes after myocardial infarction. FASEB Journal. 2007;21(12):3197-3207.
Stephen G. Ellis; Marc S. Penn; Brian Bolwell; Mario Garcia; Matthews Chacko; Thomas Wang; Kelly J. Brezina; Gerry McConnell; Eric J. Topol. Granulocyte colony stimulating factor in patients with large acute myocardial infarction: Results of a pilot dose-escalation randomized trial. American Heart Journal. 2006;152(6):1051.e9-1051.e14.
Matthews Chacko; A. Michael Lincoff; Katherine E. Wolski; David J. Cohen; John A. Bittl; Alexandra J. Lansky; Yoshihiro Tsuchiya; Amadeo Betriu; Michael H. Yen; Derek P. Chew; et al. Ischemic and bleeding outcomes in women treated with bivalirudin during percutaneous coronary intervention: A subgroup analysis of the Randomized Evaluation in PCI Linking Angiomax to Reduced Clinical Events (REPLACE)-2 trial. American Heart Journal. 2006;151(5):1039.e1-1039.e7.
Matthews Chacko; Bruce W Lytle; Richard D White; Robert E Hobbs. Images in cardiovascular medicine. A "mickey mouse" coronary anomaly: aorto-left atrial fistula with aneurysm. Circulation. 2005;111(12):e162-163.
Matthews Chacko; Nassir F. Marrouche; Deepak L. Bhatt. Asymptomatic acute inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction from thermal injury complicating radiofrequency ablation for atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia. Journal of Invasive Cardiology. 2004;16(9):504-505.
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Trouble Will Find Me, The National's sixth album, has been nominated for the GRAMMY for 'Best Alternative Music Album'. The winner will be announced at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards on 26th January 2014.
The band will also perform on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central next Monday (16th December). More details here.
The National have announced a show as part of the British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park, London. The performance will take place on the 12th July 2014, and sees the group share a bill with Neil Young and Crazy Horse. The announcement comes on the back of new dates set to take place in February, with the full list below.
2nd - Belly Up, Aspen, USA
3rd - Belly Up, Aspen, USA
31st - The Republik, Honolulu, Hawaii
4th - Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand
6th - Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Australia
7th - Opera House Forecourt, Sydney, Australia
8th - Opera House Forecourt, Sydney, Australia
9th - Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia
11th - Riverstage, Brisbane, Australia
14th - Perth Festival, Perth, Australia
16th - Hostess Club Weekender, Tokyo, Japan
18th - Hostess Club Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
20th - Hostess Club Manila, Manila, Philippines
22nd - Hostess Club Weekender, Singapore, Singapore
13th - Northside Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
12th - British Summer Time Hyde Park, London, UK


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I had never pictured myself working at a global professional services company like Accenture and working for my own non-profit organization at the same time. Would I even dare to ask if I could work four days per week? No problem, sure I could, as it turned out.
Even though I'm only 31, change has been a recurring theme in my rather tumultuous life.
I grew up in the rural eastern part of the Netherlands, in a small town called Lichtenvoorde. My childhood was fantastic, but I always knew I wanted to leave and live in a big city. When I was 18, I left to study in Groningen. I kissed my mom, dad, and my two sisters goodbye and set off into the great wide world. It was a fantastic adventure and great chance to make new friends, discover myself, and to become an adult. And there was the occasional party here and there, of course.
The day that forever changed my life
Fast forward to October 27, 2008, the day that changed my life forever. I was 24, lived in Amsterdam and had just started my first real job at the marketing and communication department of DFDS Seaways, a ferry operator offering routes from Europe to the UK. I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Just 10 months before, I had lost my mom to the same disease. I was in shock and disbelief, yet I also experienced some sort of mental sky-high phase: I was absolutely determined to win this battle.
I worked until the day I was admitted to the hospital for my operation—December 5, 2008. A year later, after 18 chemotherapy sessions and 35 radiation sessions, I was "clean." Although I had to undergo immunity therapy for another year and hormone treatments for another five. My contract had kindly been extended for a further year, so it was then I started the reintegration process at work.
A turning point
The mental high I went through when I heard I had cancer faded when treatments were over, and I was able to take control of my life again. Friends, family, colleagues, myself—everybody was over the moon that I was "clean" again. Yet I didn't know that one of the hardest parts was about to begin.
Picking up my life turned out to be far more difficult than I had anticipated. While still celebrating the good news, a mental breakdown waited for me around the corner. I knew then that my life would never be like it was before.
How did other women deal with this? Were they able to regain their energy and find their balance in life back? Did they manage to get back to their "old selves" at work? How did they feel about having kids? I had all these questions—yet I couldn't find answers anywhere.
Starting our own foundation
Soon, I realized that I needed to start over again. That's what cancer did to me: I felt the strong urge to redefine what I wanted in life and act upon that need.
Since an after-care program for young women recovering from cancer did not exist yet, together with Sharon de Beer, who is a life coach and my neighbor, we decided to start our own foundation. Early in 2010, we started Belle & Balance.


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Deloitte Ride Across Britain – Creating a Human Network to Help our GB Paralympics Team Get to the 2012 Games
Last month, 60 Cisco employees from across the UK & Ireland took part in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain, an epic and challenging 9 day cycle ride starting at the most northerly point in the UK (John O'Groats in Scotland) and finishing at the most southerly point in the UK (Lands End in England). The aim of the event was to raise money to help our Great Britain's Paralympics team get to the Games in 2012.
For me, this event has a great "Inclusion and Diversity" story threaded through it. With 60 Cisco employees taking their bikes out on the road there was a wide cross section of people involved – men and women of different ages, with a range of cycling experience between them from beginner to expert, from different Cisco offices across the UK.
And one of the great aspects of the event was that participants were able to choose how far they wanted to cycle. We had three cyclists who were able to complete the full 9 days covering a total distance of 974 miles, a relay team of 3 completed each day with 2 out of the 3 of them being on the road at all times, 3 riders cycled for 5 days and several riders who conquered Scotland. But the event was also opened up to a wider group of participants who weren't open to take on such distances and just wanted to cycle 1 leg of 1 day, about 35 miles.
There were also 3 disabled riders who participated in the cycling challenge, including acclaimed Paralympian Danny Crates. One gentleman became the first hand-cyclist to take part in Ride Across Britain and his determination to complete the full 9 days was a real inspiration to the other riders.
In addition to our 60 road cyclists, there were also 10 virtual teams competing against each other for the most miles cycled, the most money raised and the best team name. As you can see from the photo, a TechnoGym exercise bike was set up in every Cisco UK&I office and together the teams rode 2216 miles, raised £2230 which is equivalent to over £1 per mile!
The 60 riders created a true "Human Network". There was no hierarchy; everyone was on a level playing field and like a flock of geese, the riders at the front created an "uplift" for the other riders to cycle quicker and easier because they were travelling on the thrust of another. Those "geese" that fell back through tiredness or injury were supported by other "geese" who stayed with them until help came. Using Mapmytracks we were able to connect our road riders with our virtual riders and the various social networking feed, which further connected and enhanced our Human Network.
Feedback from the event was extremely positive. Our riders really enjoyed the employee engagement the event created and felt truly part of the Cisco family. They enjoyed connecting with people they had never met or worked with before and sharing a life-changing experience. Once riders completed their ride they would hug each other and celebrate their amazing achievement.
For me, Inclusion and Diversity is about opening up opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and belief or sexual orientation; it's about creating a non-hierarchal, diverse, open culture to foster growth and innovation and creating a Human Network. I think the Ride Across is a great best practice of how we can encourage Inclusion and Diversity in our own workforces.
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Marc Musgrove
I'm based in the US now so didn't do that one, but a team of us from Cisco did just participate in the Livestrong challenge in Davis a month back. We have more team members from our Cisco Austin office participating in the next challenge as well.
Did you join the ride Laura? I saw that Tim Stone and other folks for Cisco in Europe joined that ride… Great achievement from the team!


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As of June 20th, 2017, you may find your Photobucket account suspended for overuse. It seems they now want you to cough up $399.99 USD per year for the privilege of unlimited off-site inlining of images.
So, find alternative hosting. Just don't use Photobucket, there are plenty of alternatives. We even have our own file hosting. Of course, I could increase the limit, since certain people have been finding the 40MB per file, and per account, rather cramping.
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Channing, 29, and Jenna, 28, married in Malibu in July. He said his new wife inspired his work in the film.
"I think that should just be a given," Channing told OK!. "I think that having somebody that you want to grow with and makes you want to be better is a huge key other than enjoying them and laughing. How you make it work is to pay attention and to make sure that they're okay. I know when Jenna has had a bad dream and I know when she is going to wake up in a good mood. And, maybe that's because I spend a lot of time with her, but just pay attention guys! Write a little note. Put it under the toilet seat! Just do something!"
Despite the romantic nature of the film, Channing said it was easier having his wife on set.
"It was a big thing, and during the audition I had said to Amanda that you have a boyfriend and I have girlfriend and we're totally in love so this is safe," he said. "We just have to be these characters. It was a safe place and that's what I love so much about acting is that you can play loving characters because it is safe. There is no blurring of the lines."
As far as Channing's onscreen chemistry with Amanda, he says it came naturally.
"She is really easy to get along with. As soon as she walked in the door, you could just tell. She is oddly quirky and weird and you just kind of love her for it," Channing said. "She is so talented and makes really interesting choices. She kind of goes away from the emotion and in a movie like this it could be a pitfall to be too melodramatic so you need someone with her lightness."
Amanda shared a similar response to having her loved one on set. When asked if she felt awkward, Amanda responded with an emphatic, "Hell no!"
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Since the Renaissance, artists have used the principle of the vanishing point to add depth and perspective to their work. Faculty in Pittsburg State University's Department of Art have entitled their new exhibit "Vanishing Point" in honor of that perspective and as a way to connect their work to both history and the uncharted future of art.
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I imagined the story to go more like this.I was sitting a traffic light blaring Space Dye Vest and next to me in another car was Kevin Moore. And I'll never be open again.
Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on October 18, 2009, 01:05:13 PMIt has been stated before and I will state it now. Awake is a concept album about Spider Man.Indeed it is, allow me to explain to you the story Awake is trying to tell:6:00 - Through the metaphor of a blue collar worker, the song tells the story of Peter Parker, having been bit by the spider, trying to decide whether to embrace his power to be a superhero, or go back to his normal life as a college student. Peter's aunt lecturing Mary Jane symbolizes the turmoil in the world Peter is potentially facing himself against.Caught in a Web - Should be obviousInnocence Faded - Having fully embraced his role as Spiderman, Peter's relationships with his friends degenerate. However, hope lays around the corner.Erotomania - An instrumental about Mary JaneVoices - This song takes Peter Parker to a level rarely explored in the comics and movies. Having taken to bed with MJ, Voices explores Peter's mind as it works through the inner conflict of love vs. being a superhero. Is MJ a devil in disguise, trying to distract him from his duties? Is the world necessarily worth saving?The Silent Man - Peter has trouble dealing with his personal conflicts, so he becomes more emotionally withdrawn from Mary Jane. The Mirror - And throws himself completely into his role as Spiderman. The Mirror details how he uses his persona as Spiderman to emotionally abuse Mary Jane. Instead of intimacy, he leaves to fight crime. When he gets perhaps too intimate with a woman he saves, he talks about how it's necessary to make him liked by the public. Peter knows he can never do this to Mary Jane again. Lie - Unfortunately, rather than subject Mary Jane to his personal deficiencies, he decides to break up with her and date Gwen Stacy. The relationship did not end well, as the lyrics make plainly clear.Lifting Shadows Off a Dream - Peter and Mary Jane reconcile their relationship. Mary Jane is able to truly accept Peter for who he is, and Peter is finally able to realize that.Scarred - Using the metaphor of one's relationship with a parent or sibling, in fact this is a song about Peter's relationship to New York City itself. Set years after Lifting Shadows, the song reflects the anger Peter has developed toward his beloved city, which shows him love with cheering crowds, but then has newspapers and cops that want to defame Spiderman. Space Dye Vest - A complex piece of lyricism. While Parker and MJ love each other, they have lived lives separate from each other. Peter is more likely to see one of her pictures as a clothing model than he is to see her in real life. Many of his nights are spent sitting at home, by himself, watching movies and TV. Because he's barely able to display emotion toward the true love of his life, he's found himself unable to even display emotion to the grateful people he saves. "I will never be open again," closes out a story of a man granted profound power, who was unable to emotionally bear the great responsibilities that came with it.
It has been stated before and I will state it now. Awake is a concept album about Spider Man.
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Zook is right.
Can we talk about the concept behind Octavarium now?
Doesn't it synchronize to the first Spider-man movie with Tobey Maguire?
Just amazing. DT should count their lucky stars that some of their fans are at this level of unconditional cult worship.
Dr. Octopus? Octavarium? The root of all evil? Think about it and tell me there's no connection.
Awake has 5 lettersOctavarium has 8 letters
Spiderman?? Awake is obviously about Harry Potter:Caught In A Web (about Hagrid's mega spiders)Innocence Faded (about Voldemort's youth and rise to power)Voices (about when Harry starts hearing voices in the Chamber of Secrets)The Silent Man (about professor Snape who can perform spells without talking)The Mirror (two way mirror in order of the phoenix)Lie (about Harry's parents)Lifting Shadows Off A Dream (referring to Harry's frequently recurring dream in which his parents are killed and his quest to find out what really happened)Scarred (referring to his forehead, ofcourse)Space Dye Vest (invisibility cloak)Also, Harry and Awake are both 5-letter words.


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Watching Jedi on Spike for the 20th time or so. Why didn't Jabba's goon droids figure out that R2 had a lightsabre hid in his head? Me thinks the movie would have ended at the Sarlacc if Luke didn't have it readily available. I don't post in this thread so move or delete me as needed.
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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual, generally grayish, cobwebby to tomentose
Stems 1several from base, ± spreading to ascending, ± forked, generally ± evenly leafy below, ± leafless between upper forks
Leaves simple, alternate, ± sessile, generally elliptic to oblanceolate, entire
Inflorescence: heads disciform, ± sessile in groups of 210; bracts like leaves; phyllaries 0 or vestigial (or 14 reduced, unequal scales); receptacle (2.8)48 X > wide, ± cylindric to club-shaped; chaff scales subtending pistillate flowers phyllary-like, each generally enclosing a flower (or outermost open), falling with a fruit, generally woolly, ± scarious-winged, wing generally elliptic to obovate, base generally acute; chaff scales subtending disk flowers reduced, open or folded, glabrous to cobwebby, scarious
Pistillate flowers in 3several series; corollas tubular
Disk flowers 26, staminate; ovary vestigial
Fruit obovoid, smooth, shiny; style ± at tip; pappus 0; disk pappus generally of 112 bristles
Species in genus: 7 species: sw North America
Etymology: (Greek: column bed, from long receptacle)
Reference: [Morefield 1992 Madroño 39:114130]
Close to Filago subg. Oglifa, especially F. depressa. See also Ancistrocarphus, Micropus.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stems < 15 cm
Leaves < 13 mm, generally obtuse; uppermost < 10 mm, elliptic to ± lanceolate, acute
Inflorescence: heads 3.54.5 mm, 34 mm wide, ± spheric; phyllaries 0 or vestigial; receptacle club-shaped, length 2.83.5 X width; longest chaff scale 1.93.1 mm, winged toward tip, body (except midvein) generally membranous; outermost chaff scales ± closed, woolly
Disk flowers 1.21.9 mm
Fruit 0.60.8 mm, ± compressed side-to-side; disk ovary 0.30.6 mm, pappus bristles 38, 0.91.3 mm
Ecology: Open sandy drainages
Elevation: ± 400 m.
Bioregional distribution: Sonoran Desert (Hayfields, Riverside Co., Apr 1930, perhaps extirpated)
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Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro: What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.
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Report: Apple doubling iPhone production ahead of launch: A new research report from Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes says that iPhone manufacturing volume has doubled compared to last quarter. Reitzes attributes the jump to Apple's projections of iPhone sales this summer, and also suggests that a second, higher-end iPhone model could be driving part of the production increase.
Demo your iPhone without cables: Ars looks at a new demo utility that displays your iPhone screen live in a Mac-based window.
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Skype for iPhone "blocked" in Germany, but not really: German iPhone carrier T-Mobile has vowed to block Skype for iPhone from being downloaded, lest it overload the company's cell or WiFi networks. In the meantime, Skype is the most downloaded app in Germany.
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- Tulsa, Oklahoma has a law that prohibits people from sleeping while wearing boots. However, wearing shoes to bed is perfectly acceptable.
- In Minneapolis, Minnesota it is illegal to sleep naked, even in your own bed, in a home that you own.
- In different parts of Maryland, a woman may not go through her husband's pockets while he is sleeping.
- In Clawson, Michigan they have a law that makes it legal for a farmer to sleep with his pigs, cows, horses, goats, or chickens.
- In the state of Washington it is illegal to sleep in another person's outhouse without having their permission first.
- In Logan County, Colorado it is illegal to kiss a sleeping woman.
- Although it is thought to be common knowledge that sleeping while driving is highly dangerous, Tennessee ensures that there is no confusion by having a law that makes driving a car while sleeping illegal.
- Pilots in Tulsa, Oklahoma must sleep 10 hours before flying two planes in one day.
- Pennsylvania law prohibits people from sleeping on top of a refrigerator outdoors.
- In Delaware it is not only illegal to sleep on a public bench it is also illegal to pretend to be sleeping.
- Sleep laws do not apply to just humans but to animals, too. In Santa Ana, California it is illegal to let a horse sleep in a bakery.
So when you go to sleep tonight, make sure you are not wearing your boots while sleeping on top of your outdoor refrigerator (but only if you are in Tulsa or Pennsylvania).


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NIH says it will curtail use of chimpanzees in medical research
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that it would curtail its use of chimpanzees in medical research, suspending new chimp research grants and agreeing to accept the recommendations of an outside panel that found the apes are "not necessary for most biomedical research."
NIH Director Francis Collins said he'd decided to accept the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine, which had weighed in earlier Thursday on the contentious issue of whether chimps — one of man's closest genetic cousins — should be used to help medical researchers understand and combat human disease.
The panel decided that most of the time, the answer was no. The NIH's Collins said he'd follow their guidance.
"I think it was a very thoughtful set of recommendations from a distinguished group of experts who spent many months taking in input from lots of different perspectives," said Collins, who oversees the nation's premier biomedical research facility, based in Bethesda, Md. "I found their recommendations very compelling and scientifically rigorous."
Animal rights activists generally cheered the institute's report and the NIH's reaction to it. While neither institution went as far as the outright ban on chimp research that activists desired, they did acknowledged that science was moving away from chimps as a necessary research model.
"The NIH has funded a lot of research that's just been deemed unnecessary," said Jarrod Bailey, the science director for the chimp-release campaign of the anti-animal testing New England Anti-Vivisection Society. "Even though they have stopped short of the ban, it's a welcome first step."
After reviewing the current state of science and the demand for chimps in research, the institute concluded that changes in science "have rendered chimpanzees largely nonessential as research subjects."
The 190-page report didn't rule out chimps for research, saying there are some situations in which they still could prove useful. Beyond that, chimp experimentation could be indicated in later years if new diseases emerge.
For the most part, however, the panel determined that chimps as research subjects weren't as valuable as they once were.
"Science is evolving. We have alternative ways of testing drugs," said committee member Warner Greene, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. He noted that the last two blockbuster hepatitis drugs were produced without using chimpanzees, and said that under the committee's new guidelines "many existing studies that use chimps would not clear the bar."
The NIH, which funds much of the nation's chimp research, had said previously that using the animals was crucial to understanding and combating diseases, particularly hepatitis C. There are more than 900 chimps at the main research labs in the U.S. While the number of chimpanzee experiments at any time is small, the chimps have lived a lifetime of research that involves dart-gun knock-downs, biopsies and repeated infections.
On Thursday, the NIH said it would appoint a committee to implement the institute's recommendations. The NIH won't issue any new awards for research that involves chimpanzees until that review is complete.
The Institute of Medicine's report said committee members split on whether chimpanzees were necessary to develop a preventive hepatitis C vaccine. The committee concluded that research to develop a therapeutic vaccine for people who already had been infected with hepatitis C can be performed without using chimps.
It also established guidelines for any use of chimps, saying they should be used in biomedical research only if there's "no other suitable model available," if the research "cannot be performed ethically on human subjects" and if forgoing chimps would "significantly slow or prevent" important advances.
The institute's findings largely echoed a McClatchy series in April that examined the ethics and science of chimpanzee research.
While controversies over chimpanzee research have simmered for years, the issue boiled over last year when the NIH said it planned to move about 180 chimps from a facility in New Mexico _ where they'd been withheld from experimentation _ to one in Texas, where they'd be thrown into the testing mix. Animal rights groups protested, saying the chimps should be retired to a grassy sanctuary.
Under pressure from activists and some members of Congress, the NIH asked for the Institute of Medicine study that was released Thursday. The institute held public meetings, and took in more than 5,700 comments.
In its April special report, McClatchy found that science had moved beyond chimps. Relying on tens of thousands of pages of never-before-published medical records on the New Mexico chimps, McClatchy found that the medical and psychological impact on the chimps was great, and that scientists were increasingly wary of using chimps in research.
The reaction to the McClatchy report, "Life in the Lab," was swift, with hundreds of readers from around the world emailing McClatchy and many citing the stories in their comments to the Institute of Medicine panel.
At the same time, a bill that would phase out the use of chimpanzees for invasive biomedical research has gained steam in Congress, and one of the key animal-rights groups involved in the chimpanzee debate urged its followers to write Congress, citing McClatchy's "groundbreaking" report and noting that the "McClatchy series constitutes the most compelling evidence yet why chimpanzee experimentation should end now."
In September, Scientific American — one of the nation's premier scientific publications — cited McClatchy's findings in an editorial headlined "Ban Chimp Testing: Why it is time to end invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees." The magazine's editorial highlighted Bobby, one of the chimps McClatchy had singled out when detailing the psychological impact of medical experimentation.
Scientific American: Ban Chimp Testing
National Institutes of Health Chimpanzee Management Program
MORE FROM MCCLATCHY As science turns from chimp research, U.S. wants to restart
Check out McClatchy's politics blog: Planet Washington


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I've saved my favorite part of the Sunday Times:
The puzzle is too easy. With a predictable holiday theme, the trick glyph is detected right away, and the long down entry in the center is guessed without a glance at the clue. I scribble away. The puzzle's done and the cappuccino's not. I flip through the rest of the magazine and become mesmerized by Deborah Solomon's interview with Peter Handke.
What are we to think of this man -- this brilliant writer -- who spoke at the funeral for Slobodan Milosevic? Handke was loved, and now must he be shunned? What does he have to say?
I think [Milosevic] was a rather tragic man. Not a hero, but a tragic human being. But I am a writer and not a judge. I'm a lover of Yugoslavia — not so much Serbia, but Yugoslavia — and I wanted to accompany the fall of my favorite country in Europe, and this is one of the reasons to be at the funeral.Handke too seems tragic. Look at that picture of him. And read on. Handke takes Solomon's interview format -- always short and trenchant -- and makes it sublime.
[Handke, noting his objection to novels as social criticism] Language is language, and language is not for opinions.I fall into a reverie. Partly, I'm thinking is the most real dialogue for me when I am alone, blogging? Partly, I'm wondering if Handke's enigmatic sayings show he's a true artist or if this is exactly the way evil men speak. ["What is truth?"] That sets me thinking about the documentary series "The Staircase," which I've been watching over the past week. There, we see what a man chooses to reveal and accidentally reveals about himself: can we tell if he is a murderer?
[Solomon] What is language for?
This is the question! This is a big question, and there is no answer. Language exists to become language in the great books.
Aren't we using language now in this conversation?
The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.
I pack up and walk back to my car. I'm thinking of driving over to Borders and reading some Peter Handke. I've got the windows rolled down and the radio set to the 70s decade. At the light, some guys are trying to get my attention. They're smiling. Is it me or is it the quite strange song on the radio, "The Americans"?
I can name you five thousand timesThe song's a guy -- Byron MacGregor -- talking, with "America the Beautiful" playing in the background. The next song is disco, so I pop back to the 60s channel. It's the Monkees. Davy's singing "I Wanna Be Free." The gas tank icon buzzes on, and I change goals from Borders to the BP station. Filling the tank, I remember how thrilled I felt the first time I gassed up the car. I find I'm humming "I Wanna Be Free" to myself.
When the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time
When some one else raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help
Even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone.
And I'm one Canadian who's damned tired
Of hearing them kicked around.
They will come out of this thing with their flag high,
And when they do they are entitled to thumb their nose
At the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these,
But there are many smug self-righteous Canadians.
I wanna be free,Somehow the road out of the gas station leads me not to the bookstore, but over to the lake, and I park the car and walk all the way to the end of Picnic Point. Why has it been so long since I've done that?
Don't say you love me, say you like me
But when I need you beside me,
Stay close enough to guide me,
Confide in me, whoa-oh-oh
Looking east, toward downtown. (See the Capitol?)
Looking west:
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Pink Therapy offers an accreditation scheme for qualified therapists working with gender & sexual diversity clients (GSD). There are two categories of accreditation: Accredited Sexual Diversity Therapist (ASDT) and Advanced Accredited Sexual Diversity Therapist (AASDT). Initial accreditation for both categories runs for three years, following which there is a reaccreditation procedure. Practitioners with ASDT accreditation may apply at any time to upgrade to AASDT status. Application forms for accreditation may be downloaded here
Please see explanatory notes below
30 hours training during the past 5 years
Reading and other media
150 practice hours with a minimum of 5 therapy clients or groups during the past 5 years
Personal statement of 500-1500 words
Supervisor's endorsement
120 hours CPD during the past 5 years consisting of: training, conferences, constructive participation or having made a significant contribution to the field [see below]
Reading and other media
300 practice hours with a minimum of 5 clients, groups or supervisees during the past 5 years, or a 3000 word case study
Personal statement of 500-1500 words
Supervisor's endorsement
30 hours CPD during the past 3 years consisting of: training, conferences, constructive participation or other activities
Reading and other media
25 practice hours with a minimum of 5 clients, groups or supervisees during the past 3 years
Personal statement of 500-1500 words
Supervisor's endorsement
If you are transitioning from Standard Accreditation to Advanced Accreditation, then you need to meet the advanced criteria over the previous 5 years for training and client hours. Your personal statement can be briefer, and should focus on how you have developed or extended your knowledge in working with a broader range of gender and sexual diversities since your previous accreditation. There is no need to redo your Philosophy etc unless that has changed significantly.
Explanatory Notes
The following definitions are a guide:
Gender and Sexual Diversities (GSD) We take a wide view of these categories, extending the traditional lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Gender diversities are anyone on the gender spectrum however they identify e.g. and not limited to people who have intersex conditions now known by some as Disorders (Differences) of Sex Development (DSD), androgynes, gender queer, cross dressers and under sexual diversities we would also include people who are asexual or celibate, members of the BDSM/Kink Communities, people in non-traditional, non-monogamous relationships (swingers, polyamorous etc).
Gender & Sexual Diversity Therapist
A qualified counsellor, psychotherapist or clinical or counselling psychologist who works with clients who identify as GSD as a significant proportion of their client load, and a member of a recognised professional therapy organisation with a code of ethics and complaints procedure. The therapy qualification should be a minimum of two years diploma level (around 450 hours taught component)
Attendance on courses, workshops and seminars of specific relevance to GSD work. Where possible attendance certificates or letters from course providers should be attached.
Constructive participation
Organisational or committee work or active research or training provision which contributes to the development of therapy or training services for GSD clients.
Other activities
Activities not specified elsewhere which the practitioner believes are relevant to the field.
Significant contribution to the field
Some examples might be contributed to the literature for this emerging field through writing and/or research at an advanced level i.e. Masters' level dissertation or a chapter in an edited volume or a book. Presented at conferences or developed training courses in GSD issues. Set up or run a therapy organisation with a specific focus on working with GSDs. You will need to specify your achievements in this area but they should be substantive and demonstrate an advanced understanding of the field.
Reading and other media
Books, journals, articles or visual material which have informed practice in GSD areas or contributed to an understanding of social context.
Client therapy hours
Face to face, telephone or internet-based counselling, psychotherapy or therapeutic group work, ideally with a range of GSD clients with diverse identities. For the advanced level we will be looking for a breadth of diversity and depth of thinking in your GSD clients.
Supervision hours
Supervision of other GSD therapeutic work, practitioners and students.
Case study
Written or mixed-media account of an area of practice or research of specific relevance to GSD therapy work.
Personal Statement
If accrediting for the first time this should describe the development and philosophy of your practice with GSD clients and discuss ethical issues and dilemmas and approaches to diversity. It should also indicate how you envisage your practice developing in the future. If reaccrediting this should include how you have developed and extended your knowledge or experience of different GSDs.
This can be the supervisor of your generic practice if they are familiar with the range and standard of your work. We ask for their signature to support your application.


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COLLEGE STATION – With very dry conditions setting in, most winter wheat stands are already severely stressed.
"We had one of the driest Octobers on record in Texas, and essentially no rain at all in November," said Dr. Travis Miller, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program leader and Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences associate department head. "Most stands are still hanging on, but they can only do that for a little while with the amount of rainfall we got."
Over the last week of September, much of the state was fortunate to get enough rain to plant winter wheat and get it emerged, but with the exceptionally dry October and November, growth has been limited and stands are at risk.
Most Texas wheat was planted late-September through mid-November, with about 6 million acres planted, according to Miller. Typically, 55 to 60 percent of the crop is grazed, and the remainder is just planted for grain. But a lot of the wheat was planted on about 1 inch of rain in the topsoil, with no deep soil moisture because of the 2011 and 2012 drought.
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For a number of reasons, the loss of wheat stands would create substantial hardships for producers, he said. One, hay barns were emptied during the 2011 drought, and many cow/calf and stocker producers need winter wheat for grazing to carry livestock through the winter.
Another frustration is that 2011 was economically devastating for many producers, and historically high wheat grain prices promised some great returns on investment. And wheat futures are likely to get even higher, as Oklahoma and western Kansas wheat growing conditions are not good.
As for grazing, if producers haven't already gotten good growth for early grazing, they're not likely to, Miller said.
"The reason we get good growth on fall-planted small grains is warmer temperatures and longer days, and as we get into cooler temperatures and shorter days, growth drops off," he said. "October is usually a great month for small grain growth."
But the story of wheat grown for grain is far from over, according to Miller.
"We can still make a decent wheat crop—don't be mistaken about that," he said. "If we can just keep the stands alive through the winter, and if we get some snowfall or rainfall in the spring, then it can come around."
More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website at http://agrilife.tamu.edu/drought/ .
AgriLife Extension district reporters compiled the following summaries for the week of Nov. 12–19:
Central: Overall, conditions remained very dry. Pastures and small grains were beginning to show stress from lack of moisture. Winter wheat was really starting to suffer. Light frosts in the bottoms slowed summer pasture growth. Winter pastures were slow to respond to earlier rains. Stocker producers will have to delay turning out cattle to graze on wheat and oats. The pecan harvest continued, with many pecans germinating while still on the tree.
Coastal Bend: Most areas reported below-normal temperatures with very little rain. Soils remained extremely dry, which discouraged farmers from applying fertilizer. The pecan harvest was ongoing, with good quality reported. Some areas reported ryegrass, wheat, oats and clover for grazing looked very good, and that hay supplies were sufficient. The ratoon rice harvest was winding down. Field preparations for next season's crops continued under favorable weather, but rain will be needed before planting in early 2013. In Wharton County, only 0.34 inch of rain was recorded so far for November, with only 0.43 inch in October.
East: There was little to no rainfall across most of the region, with cooler temperatures and morning frost. Hay harvesting ended, with fair to good supplies going into winter. Livestock producers continued weaning and selling market-ready calves and cull cows. Higher-than-normal winds dried soils. In some areas, winter pastures were slow to emerge and grow because of lack of moisture.
Far West: Without rain, the area was becoming droughty again. Temperatures were cooler, with lows in the lower 20s, the upper teens in the mountains, and highs in the lower 60s to 70s. There was a killing freeze. Winds picked up with the passage of cold fronts, increasing wildfire danger. A lack of rain and cooler temperatures continued to push grasses into dormancy. Without moisture, rangeland and pastures were rapidly yellowing and browning. Fall-planted onions were at the three-leaf stage. The last alfalfa cutting was taken, and the cotton harvest was going well. Pumpkins were harvested, pecans were rapidly maturing, and the hay and sorghum harvests were winding down. Wheat planting was about finished, with more than 90 percent of the already-planted crop emerged, but all needed rain for growth to begin. Cattle were on supplemental feed and consuming large amounts of mineral, and livestock producers were looking for alternatives . Most cattle remained in good shape. Calves weaned much heavier than last year, and the percentage of successfully bred cows was also much improved.
North: Soils still remained very dry. Small grains and winter annual pastures needed rain. Most already-planted wheat had emerged and was looking good, but needed more rain to promote growth. The soybean and sorghum harvests were ongoing. In most counties, winter pasture was looking good. Some livestock producers began to turn weaned calves in to graze winter pastures. With no measurable runoff in the last 60 days in many places, livestock ponds were at critically low levels. Feral hogs were active, with damage reported in southern Kaufman County. Titus County had its first freeze.
Panhandle: Temperatures were above average most of the week, with no moisture reported. Soil-moisture levels mostly were very short to short. The corn, cotton and grain sorghum harvests continued. Planting of winter wheat continued. Rangeland and pastures mostly were in very poor to poor condition. Cattle were in good condition with continued supplemental feeding.
Rolling Plains: While the region got scattered showers, most everyone still needed more rain. The cotton harvest was in full swing. Some irrigated fields were producing good yields, but others were seeing below-average yields. Wheat and oats needed rain; fields looked stressed with some areas having died out. Cattle were in fair condition. Livestock producers were working remaining cattle. Pastures looked better going into winter this year than last.
South: Dry and windy conditions were the rule for the entire region during most of the week, with 40 to 100 percent short to very short soil-moisture levels in all counties. A cool front moved across the northern counties early in the week, bringing light rains, but not enough to improve soil-moisture levels. In Atascosa and Frio counties, wheat and oats were in good to fair condition. All crops were planted, and nearly all emerged. In Maverick County, forage sorghum and coastal Bermuda grass hay harvesting continued. Also in that area, nearly all grain sorghum was harvested. Zavala County cool-season vegetable growers were busy irrigating cabbage, carrots, spinach and onions. Harvesting of spinach—both for processing and the fresh market—and cabbage continued. In Cameron County, producers were harvesting sugarcane and irrigating onions. In Hidalgo County, the vegetable, citrus and sugarcane harvests were ongoing. In Starr County, growers were harvesting late cantaloupes. Rangeland and pasture conditions continued to decline there because of cooler temperatures and low soil moisture. Summer perennial grasses were going into dormancy. The northern half of McMullen County had good pasture conditions, but forage supplies were expected to be short for the winter months in the southern half of the county as severe drought conditions continued there. Most Webb County stock tanks remained dry. Cattle body condition scores were fair.
South Plains: The region had much cooler temperatures, with the early morning lows in the 20s in many counties. With freezing temperatures in the southern counties, cotton not previously defoliated was expected to soon be ready for harvest. Only Lubbock County reported receiving any precipitation, with light rains on Nov. 18. The cotton harvest was winding down in most counties, giving time for producers who haven't yet planted winter wheat to do so. Wheat already planted and emerged needed rain. In Lubbock County, ginning was about 50 percent completed. Garza County yields ranged from a half bale to more than three bales per acre, depending on rain received during the growing season. Rangeland and pastures were mostly in fair condition. Cattle were mostly in good condition, with supplemental feeding already beginning in some areas. While conditions were improved over 2011, the region remained gripped by drought. It was unlikely much winter wheat will have enough growth to be grazed without significant rainfall soon.
Southeast: Scattered showers benefited cool-season pastures, but many areas needed more moisture to sustain winter-annual growth. Cooler temperatures halted Bermuda grass growth. San Jacinto and Burleson counties had their first frost Nov. 15, which completely shut down warm-season perennial grass production. Armyworm infestations decreased with the cooler weather. Orange County received limited precipitation.
Southwest: Dry, windy and cooler conditions continued. Without rain, soils were drying up considerably. Rangeland and pastures continued to decline, with dormancy coming on. However, livestock remained in good condition as available grazing was still plentiful. The pecan harvest continued. Winter wheat planting was ongoing, and a good amount of hay was still being cut.
West Central: Mild daytime temperatures continued with cold nights. Very dry, windy conditions further dried soils. All areas needed rain. The cotton harvest was winding down. Fair to poor yields were reported on dryland cotton. Wheat planting neared completion, and though off to a good start, the crop was showing signs of moisture stress. Rangeland and pastures were in fair to good condition but needed moisture soon. Winter grasses were emerging. Recent freezes sent warm-season grasses into dormancy. Livestock remained in fair to good condition, with supplemental feeding increasing. The pecan harvest was in full swing.


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