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Boalt Hall's Centenary (First Person)
On Friday, November 9th at 7 p.m., Boalt Hall will be celebrating its 100th Anniversary Gala, an auspicious occasion if ever there was one!
Located at the top of Bancroft, across from International House, this prominent U.C. Law School ranks high among other American law schools.
I had the extremely good fortune to work at Boalt for more than twenty years.
I should point out that it wasn't always peace and tranquility. During the anti-war demonstrations, there were noisy protests by students. This resulted in Gov. Reagan sending in the National Guard, who sprayed rebellious students with tear gas. They were therefore unable to take their final exams.
As Faculty Appointments Secretary, it was my job to set up interviews of prospective newcomers with faculty members (nothing short of the Spanish Inquisition). It was sad to see young faculty members denied tenure, having struggled so hard to keep up with legal issues. Women faculty in particular met with opposition by their male peers.
One of my professors worked endlessly on the famous Bakke case. Archibald Cox, the famous Harvard professor came to Berkeley to analyze this controversial brief, which was settled to no one's satisfaction. Another case was Brown v. Bd. of Education. The young professor who worked tirelessly on this case was ultimately denied tenure and left California a bitter man.
All in all, it was a great pleasure to work with scholars such as Willy Fletcher, now a judge in an appellate court in San Francisco. Mention should also be made of Herma Hill Kay and Jesse Choper, the latter often seen on TV news broadcasts when asked for his opinion of timely legal matters.
The Law School has recently undergone several renovations; I hardly recognize the place.
Learning that Boalt Hall is considered to be the finest and largest law school in the U.S., I must confess I'm honored to have have played a part, however minor in this great institution!


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Applying the Concepts and Methods of Organisational Psychology to Society
This website was set up to disseminate and discuss research on psychological aspects of society.
More specifically, the aim was, and is, to publish and discuss studies which throw light on the operation of society as a whole and the steps that need to be taken to improve its functioning.
The domain lies at the interface between sociology, psychology, politics, and economics.
Full List of Published & Unpublished
click to view online, download as PDFs, or order from publishers.
with links to relevant publications and articles.
The concerns of the studies we wish to promote are perhaps best illustrated in the author's New Wealth of Nations: A New Enquiry into the Nature and Origins of the Wealth of Nations and the Societal Learning Arrangements Required for a Sustainable Society, the work of the American Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (and its journal The Good Society), and the writings of Robert E. Lane, Stafford Beer, Meadows et al, and Murray Bookchin.[1].
As things have developed, it has emerged that the research we wish to promote needs to be organised around three main focii
For reasons discussed in endnote [1], it has, in the past, proved extremely difficult to get appropriate research conducted in the first place and even more difficult to get the results of such research as it has been possible to conduct published. Accordingly, we plan to publish contributions with minimal prior review.
At this point in the course of developing this website a more specific, more urgent, but yet wider, objective emerged. Many of the previous papers in the area had been published in obscure journals. The author had therefore adopted the practice of taking photocopies of a limited number of these papers to conferences and distributing them to participants. How much better it would be if these papers could be available on the Web so that seminar participants and others could download those they wanted. Plus it should surely be feasible to make it possible for readers to comment on those papers and post their own.
At this point, a further "distraction" intruded. The author had been in the habit of offering seminars dealing with other aspects of his work and supporting those seminars with hard copies of previous publications and lists of references. How much easier it would be if these, too, could be included in this Website.
The result is that this website, as it stands, outlines, and gives links to the research cited in, a four part seminar, only the fourth of which relates directly to the objectives this website was originally set up to pursue [2].
In the end, we seem almost to have two sites: A, rather comprehensive, "static", non-interactive, site (in which the materials are, on the whole arranged according to the order of presentation in the Standard Four Part Seminar), and an "interactive" site - or Forum - in which the order in which the first materials presented are, by and large, those that are most problematic and important.
It is greatly hoped that readers will use the Forum to raise topics for discussion within these articles and post related articles of their own.
The structure of the static site is as follows. It opens with a list of relevant forthcoming Events. This is followed by an outline of the Standard Four Part Seminar and the Resources (including downloadable handouts and publications) available to support it. The site concludes with an extremely valuable table which lists all publications mentioned on the site but in which published and unpublished articles relating to our original objectives are given special attention. In each case the table shows where each article can be found and, in most cases, includes a clickable link taking the reader to a PDF of the article or book in question. Should you, as we hope, wish to comment on these articles, please go to the "interactive" component of the site by clicking on the "Forum" button, registering as a participant, and inserting comments following the procedures with which so many people have become familiar as a result of the development of the "Wikipedia".
Please note that that this site does not set out to provide a narrative account of my areas of work and the conclusions which emerge from it. Such an account, together with a list of most of my publications, will be found at our sister site www.johnraven.co.uk
Although the previous paragraph seems relatively bland, there are many reasons why publications of the kind we wish to promote are unlikely to be accepted by mainstream journals. These include the fact that the conclusions to be drawn often involve going beyond the data collected to infer their wider implications, and setting out to discuss all the short and long term, personal and social, desired and desirable outcomes of a course of action instead of, as in reductionist science, focussing on the accuracy of a single measurement. Interestingly, Rothschild had underlined many of the problems we face when working in this area in the course of reviewing the arguments for and against maintaining the Social Science Research Council in Great Britain and the way in which projects should be funded. While underlining the great need for studies which would engage with the wider problems of society, he noted that most of the research that got done was too small scale, too literature-driven instead of problem driven, too narrow in its conceptualisation, and much more concerned to be accurate about trivia than to engage with important, multiply determined, issues. This process was aided and abetted by journal editors and reviewers who could always find reasons for not publishing research which was adventurous, engaged with new issues, and came to conclusions which emerged from the data rather than being strictly proved within it.
Our experience has been that it is very difficult to generate interest in the scientific study of the societal issues we are concerned with here if one seeks to dive into them directly. Instead it has proved more productive to work up to them by beginning by reviewing recent work in a well established area and then working out from that to wider aspects of competence and then the reasons why well intentioned public policy generally fails to pursue its goals.


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Take a look at ebay lately?Looks like a lot of people leaving MF... never seen so many for sale.
It took Hasselblad about 4 years to sell this "Ferrari" quantity (499 ex.)
Also, I assume Hassy makes there own lenses, right?
BullCrap.I know for a fact what some of the numbers were for various manufacturers in given years. I expect 6,000 units today to be a reasonable estimate, it wouldn't surprise me if it was even higher. It is probably less than the peak years of MFD sales, which to my estimation likely parked in the 8,000 - 9,000 range. If today is only down 15% - 20% I consider that quite a compelling argument in favor of the staying power of MFD, considering the advances 35mm has made in that same timespan.Steve HendrixCapture Integration
Hasselblad lenses are designed and manufactured by Fuji.
That's sad. German camera company outsources its lenses to a Japan company when the best lenses in the world come from Germany.
German camera company?Hasselblad is from Sweden. Hasselblad lenses used to be made by Carl Zeiss.When it comes to the Hasselblad H more than just the lens is made in Japan.Phase One Schneider lenses are made in Japan. The very exact lenses come in two labels... Schneider or Mamiya.Zeiss 35mm DSLR lenses are manufactured by Cosina fir Zeiss. Cosina also manufactures for some other brands.
I would not take Leica's promo piece in Forbes too seriously. The numbers are probably wrong.
Hi,As far as I know the Hasselblad lenses are designed by a Swedish engineer in Gothenburg, but lens group assembly is made in Japan, final assembly with Hasselblad designed shutter used to be at Hasselblad, but times are changing...Best regardsErik
"We think the core medium format market is roughly 6000 units per year worldwide, for all brands"according to Stephan Schulz, Head of Professional Photo at Leica Camera AG, in this interesting Forbes magazine article.Maybe enough to fill a container?
This is an article from Hasselblad about their lens design:http://www.hasselbladusa.com/media/1663143/the_evolution_of_lenses.pdfQuote:With the current arrangement between Hasselblad and Fujinon, Hasselblad is much more in charge of lens design and manufacturing than they have ever been. The V System lenses were designed and manufacured to Hasselblads specifications, but their engineers played no part in the actual lens development. While previously Carl Zeiss engineered everything including the shutter, lens design today is a collaborative effort between Hasselblad and Fujinon, with Hasselblad gradually assuming a larger role. For example, work on the latest addition to the HC lens portfolio, the HCD 4/28, started out in Gothenburg, Sweden. Using powerful software for optical design, the characteristics of the new lens could be explored in great detail well before any glass was ground. Fujinon in Saitama City, Japan, then took up the task of refining the lens design and building a prototype series that was put through its paces at Fujinons and Hasselblads lab.This division of labor also extends to the manufacturing stage. The central shutter and the iris diaphragm are built and assembled in Gothenburg, then sent to Fujinon where the lenses are ground and the final assembly of the optical, mechanical, and electronic parts takes place.


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Underneath her scrub cap, Hope Thornburg hid a secret: she had lost her hair. What her colleagues at CaroMont Regional Medical Center didn�t know was that Thornburg didn�t just work at the hospital � she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
For a while, no one figured it out. Hope would go to work, punch out for a break to go have her chemotherapy and then when the cancer fighting drugs had flowed into her system, she�d head back to work the same afternoon. One day while she was eating lunch, Hope�s friend Amy Whisnant figured it out.
�She always wears her cap,� said Whisnant, �but when I looked at her she looked tired, and that�s when it dawned on me.�
Like Whisnant, the news also dumbfounded other co-workers.
�Hope has the most positive attitude,� said Laura Williams. �We had no idea.�
Thornburg says at first she chose to keep her battle a secret.
�I didn�t want it to define who I was because there�s so much more to a person than a body part or a disease,� she said.
�IT WAS REALLY FAST�: She can tell you the exact day her breast cancer journey started.
Lying in bed on July 4, 2012, she felt a lump in her breast. She knew immediately something was wrong, and all but paced the floor waiting for her doctor�s office to open the next morning.
That�s when her life seemed to get switched into fast forward.
On July 5, she saw her doctor, who didn�t feel the lump but Hope wasn�t about to take any chances. She insisted on a mammogram, which came four days later. That same day, July 9 � after looking at the mammogram � she was sent for a biopsy. The fact the doctors wanted to do the biopsy so quickly told her just how serious things might be.
The next day, she sat in her doctor�s office and heard the six-letter word everyone dreads � cancer.
The freight train that hit her kept rolling and bringing with it bad news: Doctors did a biopsy on her enlarged lymph nodes and the cancer cells were there. When cancer gets to the lymph nodes that means it can be on the move from the breast to other parts of the body.
There was no time to waste. On July 18, just eight days after she learned she had cancer, she had her first round of chemotheraphy. On Nov. 26, she had a bilateral mastectomy.
What followed was a year filled with treatments and more surgery � tough stuff considering she kept getting up and going to work every day.
THE CAROMONT FAMILY: Clued in to what she was going through, co-workers rallied around Thornburg.
�They�ve seen me through the good and the bad,� she said, wiping tears that flow easily as she describes the bond she shares with them.
When she got back from vacation a few months ago, Whisnant, Williams and Pam Jackson had a surprise for her.
The three registered nurses who work in CaroMont�s Perioperative Surgery department asked her to star in a video they were making for the Pink Glove Dance Competition video contest. Their goal is to win the top prize and $25,000 for Cancer Services of Gaston County.
�I was excited,� said Thornburg.
The 90-second video � filmed to the song �Rise Up� by Green River Ordinance � follows Hope through her treatment, surrounded by the nurses, doctors and co-workers who helped her through her journey.
The video shoot became a hospital-wide project with people from all areas stepping forward to help.
�It was loads of fun,� said Thornburg, who got to ride up to the final shoot in front of CaroMont on a Harley.
Anyone who has been through treatment will relate to many of the scenes, from being rolled into the operating room on a gurney to getting to ring the bell at the end of treatment at CaroMont�s Cancer Center.
During the video project, Thornburg learned just how many of her co-workers� lives have been touched by cancer.
�More and more people kept coming forward,� she said.
Looking back, she says she couldn�t have done it without their support.�
�They are my family,� she said.
�GOING TO ENJOY LIFE�: Soon, she will have her final chemo treatment. After that? �I�m going to enjoy life and not worry about so many doctor�s appointments,� said Thornburg, who recently turned 39.
Going through what she did gave the radiology X-ray technician a new perspective on what patients experience. When they need a sympathetic ear, she�s there for them because she can relate.
�Some times you do have a bad day,� she�ll tell them, �but some are better. It�s all about attitude.�
Thornburg, who has three children � Hunter, 14; Harlee, 11; and Haven, 9 � has plans to get back to running. Before her treatments, she had completed a couple of 5Ks and she�s taking part in the hospital�s �Couch to 5K� program. Staying in shape made the treatments easier, she said.
Looking back, she said some of the lessons she�s learned is to stick up for yourself. If you feel something funny during your twice-monthly breast exams, take action. �If your doctor doesn�t recommend a mammogram, insist on one,� she said.
And there�s nothing wrong with pampering yourself every now and then. �It�s your time to act like a princess,� she said.
When she�s done with her treatment, she knows that her life will never been the same, and she�s fine with that.
�It will be a new normal,� she said. �And that�s OK.�
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Starting Oct. 25, Gaston County residents and others can go to www.pinkglovedance.com and register to vote. You can vote once a day for CaroMont�s video. The team at CaroMont is trying to win $25,000 for Cancer Services of Gaston County. The winner will be announced in early November.
ABOUT THE COMPETITION: The Pink Glove Dance Competition is sponsored by Medline, which sells medical supplies and hospital products. Each year, the company donates a portion of the proceeds from each sale of the Generation Pink latex gloves and other Medline pink branded products to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.


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Dead Space Comes to iPhone, iPad
The game features its own original plot, which leads into the story of Dead Space 2. It requires iOS 3.0 or later, and is rated 12+ for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has played a game in the series. As added incentive, registering the game with EA unlocks content in Dead Space 2. It comes in at a fairly hefty 291 MB, so while waiting for the install you can check out a video of the game in action after the break.
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This item by the authors of Practical Physics experiments gives guidance on the use of ray boxes and/or lamps to conduct labs on geometric optics. The advantages of both are discussed in terms of their use in different types of experiments.
This item is part of a much larger collection of physics/astronomy experiments, sponsored by the UK's Institute of Physics and funded by the Nuffield Curriculum Centre.
This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.
Topic: Nature and Behavior of Light
Unit Title: Ray Optics -- Reflection and Refraction of Light
Not sure whether to use a ray box or another light source for your geometric optics experiments? This web page, by the authors of Practical Physics, gives advantages of both for varying lab situations.Link to Unit:
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This is a set of more than 50 classroom experiments for high school and middle school on the topic of geometric optics, developed by the same authors. Many of them require the use of a ray box or other light source.relation by Caroline Hall
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When it comes to the design and construction of unmanned submersibles, places like Newport or Woods Hole may first come to mind, but a small company in Fall River is forging ahead with contracts from the Navy and a number of foreign countries, positioning their technology across the globe.
When it comes to the design and construction of unmanned submersibles, places like Newport or Woods Hole may first come to mind, but a small company in Fall River is forging ahead with contracts from the Navy and a number of foreign countries, positioning their technology across the globe.
Dubbed the Iver2, or Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, these 4-foot-long, 45-pound cylinders, which resemble torpedoes, are used for a variety of tasks: water quality monitoring; obstacle and mine detection; vessel, pier and bulkhead inspection; support sensor development.
"We have government contracts with the U.S. Navy, which is about half our business, as well as programs running in Turkey, France, Singapore, Italy and Spain. We have two vehicles in Iraq right now that are working with the Navy SEALs," said Ocean Server President Bob Anderson, who shows off his latest technology each year at classified Special Operations Conferences held by the Navy each year at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
"The AUV has a lot of different applications using different sensors, like side-to-side sonar and other technology the Navy uses, and is something that can do different things depending on who programs it," Anderson said. "It can run for between 10 and 12 hours and cover about 40 miles to a depth of about 100 meters."
Anderson said the Navy is reducing its reliance on large naval vessels for research and warfare activities, allowing smaller devices like the AUV to gain in popularity. They can be launched from small rubber boats or from shore, they require little maintenance, and each device is equipped with a GPS system and Ethernet connection to transfer files that can be updated while in operation, he added.
"The computer allows the AUV to collect and analyze data in a usable fashion," said Anderson.
In June 2006, when Fall River was negotiating to sell water from the North Watuppa Pond to the proposed Sam Adams Beer facility in Freetown, city officials — uncertain of how much water there was available in the Watuppa — hired Ocean Server to use its AUVs to gauge the depth of the pond and provide exact data.
"In about four hours, we were able to provide the city with the information they needed, and in the end, showed them that they had a lot more water than they thought they did," said Anderson.
Ocean Server also is investigating the work of the new New Bedford sewage treatment plant and what is still being flushed into the nearby harbor, and is conducting several environmental studies for the U.S. Geological Service. Anderson said talks continue on potential projects on aquaculture and the progress of fish and shellfishing stocks with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Massachusetts Bureau of Land Management.
"The New Bedford harbor project should be of some interest to Fall River officials, who have also spent millions of dollars on their own CSO project," said Anderson.
Using a variety of parts originating from local companies like the Brooke Ocean Technology at the Quest Center in New Bedford and YSI in Marion, the AUV was designed and constructed by a 10-man engineering crew, Anderson said. Costs run from $54,000 to $175,000, reasonable considering the technology Anderson said.
"There are at least 70 of these around the globe right now," Anderson said.
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The following question arose in my research. I'd be interested in an answer to it, but I'd also be interested in general techniques for solving this kind of problem (or, even better, pointers to computer programs that can solve it automatically).
Consider the group $G = \text{Aut}(F_2)$. Of course, $G$ acts on $F_2$. Let $x$ and $y$ be the generators for $F_2$, and let $K \subset F_2$ be the normal closure of the set $\{x^4, x^2 y^{-2}, y^{-1} x y x\}$. It is standard that $F_2/K$ is the $8$-element group of quaternions.
Question : What are generators for the subgroup $\{\text{$g \in G$ $|$ $g(K) = K$}\}$ of $G$?


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Rafael Nadal, playing on a hard court for the first time in almost a year, defeated Ryan Harrison 7-6 (3), 6-2 in a second-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday.
Nadal, a two-time champion at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, had missed seven months because of a left knee injury and hadn't played on a hard court since March 29, 2012.
The Spanish star returned to the ATP Tour a month ago and played three tournaments on clay, winning two of those and saying his knee felt better each week.
But he said in a pre-match news conference that he had no idea how the knee would hold up under the stress of a harder surface and he had no expectations in terms of results.
Nadal took a 4-1 lead in the opening set with a performance that he rated as "nothing special but OK," then lost three games in a row as Harrison pulled even. Nadal reasserted himself in the tiebreaker, racing out to a 5-1 lead, and he took control of the second set by winning five games in a row after Harrison had held serve to open the set.
"He started passing a lot better," Harrison said. "I was just kind of throwing him off rhythm a little bit with mixing the serve and volley. I think once I let that tiebreaker slip away a little bit and he got ahead he started loosening up and swinging out a little more."
Nadal was pleased to be moving on.
"I am satisfied to be in the next round. That's the most important thing," said Nadal, seeded fifth. "Two weeks ago I didn't really know if I would be here playing. I am happy to be here. I am happy to be in the third round. Good victory for me today against a good opponent.
"I am fine. My physical performance needs to improve. My movements need to improve. Matches like this help me, for sure, no? Today, any victory is important for me. If you win, you have more chances. If you have more chances, you will compete more and you will practice more and you will be ready to put yourself in 100 percent condition in a short period of time. If you are losing very early it's tough because you can practice a lot, but at the end it's not enough, the practice. The important thing is to compete."
The day's last match concluded as Nadal was talking to the media, with Urszula Radwanska upsetting No. 15 seed Sloane Stephens of the U.S., 6-3, 6-4.
Earlier, Roger Federer beat Denis Istomin of Russia 6-2, 6-3 in their second-round match.
Federer, who won his fourth title here last year, lost just four points on serve, all in the first set.
Two of those were by double faults, and he never faced a break point and won 96 percent of his first serves.
"It felt good from the start and I was able to maintain that level of play," Federer said. "I never thought he got into the match at all. That gives you obviously even more confidence."
Federer was done in 58 minutes, a contrast to the 2 hours and 23 minutes it took Lleyton Hewitt to upset No. 15 seed John Isner 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4.
Also, the women's top seed and reigning champion Victoria Azarenka overcame a 4-1 deficit in the first set to beat two-time champion Daniela Hantuchova 6-4, 6-1.
"I did what I could," Hewitt said. "I think I handled his serve pretty well and I made him hit a lot of balls.
"I felt like I had more chances throughout the match. The first set could have gone either way and then I dug deep early in the second set to get up a break. That was a big momentum change."
The second of the two service breaks by Hewitt, in game seven of the third set, gave the 2002-2003 champion a 4-3 lead. He added to it by holding serve for 5-3. Then, after Isner held for 5-4, Hewitt served out the match.
It didn't come easily, however. He got to 40-15 with a forehand pass, then lost three match points and fought off a break point before securing the win with a forehand down the line.
Kevin Anderson of South Africa ousted No. 4 seed David Ferrer of Spain 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
In other matches, Benoit Paire of France beat No. 20 Philipp Kohlschreiber, Jarkko Nieminen of Finland topped No. 28 Fernando Verdasco and Leonardo Mayer of Argentina eliminated No. 30 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.
In other women's matches, No. 7 seed Samantha Stosur earned a 6-3, 6-4 win over American wild card Madison Keys. Jamie Hampton of Auburn, Ala., upset 20th-seeded Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan 6-3, 6-3.
Fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber defeated Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania 6-3, 6-2, and No. 10 seed Nadia Petrova of Russia beat Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland 6-2, 6-3.


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The team at Allergic Living were honoured to be awarded the Susan Dagleish Award for Corporate Community Service at Anaphylaxis Canada's spring conference on May 7, 2011. The award was presented to Gwen Smith by Susan Dagleish, the woman who began the first food allergy awareness and education group in Canada in 1964.
Smith said the magazine's staff are extremely grateful for the award, which was given in part to recognize Allergic Living's advocacy efforts, such as Canada's food allergy and gluten labeling regulations, which recently passed following years of delay.
That was a team effort, with Anaphylaxis Canada, the Canadian Celiac Association and the CSACI all playing pivotal roles in lobbying Ottawa. Allergic Living's contribution was a two-round write-in campaign – which resulted in over 8,000 letters from individuals to the Prime Minister. The letters stressed the importance of clear allergen and gluten labels for those with life-threatening allergies or celiac disease.
Smith said she was particularly appreciative of receiving the award on Anaphylaxis Canada's 10th Anniversary and to receive it from Dagleish, a trailblazing advocate. Smith reminded the audience of how far food allergy advocacy has come. "Imagine," she noted, "when Susan Dagleish was advocating for her allergic daughter, there were no auto-injectors; no school plans and no food allergen labeling at all."
Dr. Susan Waserman was honoured with the Individual Award for Community Service, in recognition of her many efforts on behalf of the allergy community. This is includes being a contributor to Allergic Living magazine and serving as medical adviser to Anaphylaxis Canada.


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Agricultural Retailers Association and The Fertilizer Institute Join Forces to Promote a Culture of Safety and Security at the Nation's Retail Fertilizer Outlets
ResponsibleAg Established; Ammonium Nitrate Safety and Security Guidelines are Issued
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) and The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) are announcing plans to create ResponsibleAg, an independent, not-for-profit organization designed to support fertilizer retailers' compliance with federal safety and security regulations. During the announcement, made at a March 6 Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing, Crop Production Services' Senior Director of Environment, Health and Safety Billy Pirkle also announced publication of "Safety and Security Guidelines for the Storage and Transportation of Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate at Fertilizer Retail Facilities," a new publication developed by TFI and ARA for use by the industry and first responders. During the EPW hearing, Committee Chairman, Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) voiced strong support for ResponsibleAg and praised the industry for taking voluntary action.
Under ResponsibleAg, retail fertilizer dealerships will have access to comprehensive inspections based on federal regulatory requirements. The inspections will be carried out by trained auditors who will have successfully completed an intensive training course based on the objectives of ResponsibleAg.
"While the vast majority of fertilizer retail businesses operate safely, securely and in compliance with federal regulations, we are acting out of an abundance of caution and concern for the wellbeing of workers and communities," said TFI President Chris Jahn. "ResponsibleAg will verify compliance at more facilities and with greater speed than is currently being done by the multitude of federal agencies that regulate the nation's fertilizer retailers, so we are choosing to act now rather than waiting for the next government inspection."
"ResponsibleAg will help ensure existing regulations are conveyed and easily understood by fertilizer retailers," said ARA President & CEO Daren Coppock. "Retailers want to do the right thing, but overlapping, duplicative or potentially conflicting requirements make compliance a challenge. This program will help retailers by collecting the regulatory requirements into one checklist, and offering them tools and information to ensure their facilities conform to all current federal regulations."
ResponsibleAg will credential auditors who will inspect and verify individual facilities' level of compliance with applicable federal regulations. Facilities that successfully complete assessments will be recognized for having done so. Any site that does not successfully complete an assessment will be provided a list of recommended corrective actions. Additionally, random quality assurance reviews to verify the assessments will be conducted by third party auditors.
TFI and ARA are each contributing $100,000 in startup capital for the organization, and the Asmark Institute is providing an ongoing contribution that provides for training programs, training facilities and administration of the ResponsibleAg website and database. Once established, ResponsibleAg will be funded by registration fees paid by participating fertilizer storage and handling inventory points and their suppliers. Auditor training costs will be funded by tuition paid by those seeking the ResponsibleAg auditor credential. Membership in TFI, ARA or any other organization is not a requirement for participation.
ARA and TFI will nominate a nine person Board of Directors which will be filled from a cross section representing the entire fertilizer distribution network. Once the Board of Directors has been seated, it will adopt ResponsibleAg bylaws, create an annual operating budget and appoint a business manager to oversee day-to-day operations. When the initial Board of Directors' term has expired, subsequent Directors will be nominated from ResponsibleAg participating organizations.
TFI and ARA today also announced publication of "Safety and Security Guidelines for the Storage and Transportation of Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate at Fertilizer Retail Facilities." The guidance which was developed by a panel of technical experts from the associations fills an existing void in emergency response guidance by providing recommendations that are specific to ammonium nitrate when it is stored and transported by a retail fertilizer facility.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - For most companies, trebling quarterly profit to almost $3 billion and outselling all global rivals would be welcome news. But for Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), Japan's biggest car maker, it's still too early to say it has emerged from years of crisis.
Toyota is likely to say later on Monday that it earned a net profit of 228.8 billion yen ($2.9 billion) in July-September, close to three times its year-ago profit when it was still reeling from the Japan earthquake and tsunami and Thai floods that ruptured its supply chain.
This year has seen improved sales in the United States, Toyota's biggest market, and in Southeast Asia. Over the first nine months of the year, Toyota and its group companies sold 7.4 million vehicles, more than any other car maker.
Toyota is less likely to cut its full-year forecasts than Nissan Motor Co (7201.T), which reports quarterly results on Tuesday, or Honda Motor Co (7267.T), which slashed its forecasts last week- even though sales in China virtually halved in September and October amid often violent protests against Japanese goods in a row over islets in the East China Sea.
Due to accounting methods, the full impact of that may not be felt until the current and fourth quarters of Toyota's business year. Toyota has around a 7 percent market share in China, the world's biggest autos market, but is less exposed than rivals to that market. China accounted for about 12 percent of its global sales last year, some way below Nissan's 27 percent and Honda's 20 percent.
Some experts expect Toyota, which provides more conservative forecasts than others, to offset much of the China hit through solid performances elsewhere - in the United States, Asia and in the Middle East.
After a series of crises - from the global financial meltdown and damaging recalls to natural disasters and the China row - Toyota is again making money, but profitability in its core car business is much lower than its financial services unit, which brings in just 5 percent of revenue, but a quarter of operating profit.
Investors and executives want to see real signs that Toyota is fixing its core problem. As the company's president Akio Toyoda puts it: having to make "ever-better cars".
Toyota, which blazed a trail for mass producing quality cars, but then tripped up by expanding too fast into the U.S. muscular SUV and truck market at a time when the yen, too, was rising, has been on a relentless cost-paring binge.
"From the Lehman shock to U.S. congressional hearings (over major 2009 recalls) and the earthquake and Thai floods, we faced many challenges and that has made us stronger," Vice President Mitsuhisa Kato said in August. "We are changing a lot from what we were. We want to prove how we have changed through our products, and we want to ask everyone to wait a little bit more."
One sign of change is Toyota's more controversial designs tested on recent models. For example: the "spindle grille" on some luxury Lexus models - a prominent grille pinched in the middle - gives the car a bolder, more aggressive look.
"We are starting to think about how we can produce cars that stand out, rather than cars that are accepted by everyone but have no unique identity," said Toyota designer Ryo Ikeda.
Another is the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), a new framework to build better cars and cut costs by developing multiple models simultaneously to use more common parts. Shared parts mean suppliers can produce a larger number of fewer parts, cutting the unit price. The framework focuses on three platforms, each carrying 8-10 models, Toyota employees said.
The first car to be fully developed by the TNGA will be the revamped Prius for late-2014 release, followed by the subcompact Vitz and the next generation Camry - the perennial U.S. best-seller - around 2016, analysts said.
As the global market evolves, Toyota is looking to strengthen its foothold in emerging markets, and plans to double its China sales to 1.8 million cars by 2015. It has positioned Southeast Asia as a "second mother-base" after Japan.
Shares in Toyota - worth almost as much as Honda, Nissan and Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) combined - are up by a fifth this year, easily outpacing Honda's 2 percent gain and Nissan's near 3 percent fall.
But the U.S. market remains key to Toyota's recovery.
Toyota and Lexus' U.S. market share jumped to 13.9 percent through October from 12.3 percent a year ago, and the brand is able to sell its mid-sized sedans with relatively low discounting. But experts question whether it can ever regain its 2009 peak share of 16.4 percent, given the increased competition.
"It's tough for Toyota to dominate the market again with its current product line-up. It needs to improve overall product attractiveness, including design and ride quality," said Masatoshi Nishimoto, autos analyst at IHS Automotive in Tokyo.
In the past five years, South Korea's Hyundai and affiliate Kia Motors (000270.KS) have almost doubled their U.S. market share to 8.9 percent, and the Detroit Three - General Motors (GM.N), Ford (F.N) and Chrysler - have increased their combined share to 47 percent from just above 44 percent after the global financial crisis.
"All around the world, automakers were affected by multiple factors in the last four years. They are now all finally standing at the starting line ... The next few years are crucial to see if Toyota can bring its growth back on track again," said Nishimoto. ($1 = 80.1400 Japanese yen)
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Do you know that the OGS has a blog www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog, and that it is open to the public?
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December 8th, 2010
It's Membership Month here at the Ontario Genealogical Society. If you're a current member, you have received, or will soon receive, your OGS membership renewal form with your November issue of Families. If you're not a current member, now is the best time to join us to ensure you get a full year's worth of OGS membership benefits.
So, why join OGS?
OGS Members receive our journal, Families, and our print newsletter, NewsLeaf, and the electronic version sent by email, e-NewsLeaf.
Families is a quarterly publication that includes researched, referenced, and illustrated articles; the Game, a queries column that members may contribute to; and a book review section on books of interest to genealogists.
NewsLeaf is our newsletter which is published quarterly, as well. It includes OGS news and happenings; a section announcing forthcoming gatherings and special events; and current news from the 30 OGS Branches and SIGs.
The e-NewsLeaf has links to other websites of interest to members, as well as timely news items and announcements.
Join us to receive these publications.
To become a member, click on to the Membership page.
Since I am the editor of both publications, I can say—modestly—that they are top-notch in passing along the latest news to, and about, the OGS and its members.
In the February issue of both NewsLeaf and Families will be articles on how to discover Jamaican and Trinidadian roots from Canada, an article on the Library and Archives Canada, and one on an Irish family from the Ottawa Valley in Ontario.
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Readers of this Blog will know that when I'm not shooting with a Phase One, my camera of choice is the Canon 5D MkII, a camera which sees such use that I have all but worn the shutter out according to an advisory note from the Canon service centre.
In many ways I regard the 5D MkII as contender for the title of 'Greatest Camera of all time' due to its size, weight, form factor, resolution and ground breaking video capability, all at an accesable price point.
But it did have its downsides, sleepy autofocus(compared to other offerings) a relatively slow stills frame rate and a rather less than ideal video codec, as good as the video is.
I have been keenly awaiting the new 5D in its third ittineration, which made an unshecduled and notable appearance in Kenya some weeks before we were meant to see it.
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A new 22.3MP sensor - with Nikon going to 31mp with the D800 some may have expected more megapixels from Canon but interestingly Canon refer to it being the 'ideal resolution for shooting stills and HD Movies' I feel that they could well have called this right.
61 Point Autofocus from the Canon 1D-X - Now to be honest this one surprised me, Canon have traditionally retained the best AF systems for the flagship 1 series Camera's but I'm pleased that Canon have listened to feedback from users, in this highly competitive market sector improvement in this area was sorely needed on the AF system which the MkII had inherited from the MkI.
6FPs stills frame rate - I'm not a big fan of fast stills frame rates, but I welcome this, the outgoing frame rate of just under 4 frames a second was never really enough for this fine 'multi role' camera.
Digic 5+ processor - with greater performance demands, the heart of any new camera is the processor, and though I am no expert I expect this to be class leading processing power, which will mean a responsive camera.
8.11 cm high resoloution LCD screen - once again a pleasant surprise in that it again comes from the 1D-X.
Dual card slots - Canon have added an SD card slot, with which you can back the CF card up, or use it as an 'overflow' when the CF card is full.
Improved weather sealing - once again something I never really struggled with, but when you make such a small and versatile package it is sure to end up in some extreme situations.
Shutter life extended to 150,000 cycles - nice one. Would have meant my shutter did not replacing....
Built in HDR - if HDR floats your boat you might well like this, I tend to think that overdone HDR has the look of the Sci-fi end of the world and a bit of a pollutant on Flickr, if this feature can be harnessed subtly it could be very useful.
Locking Function dial - unforgivable that Canon did not include this on the MkII, though it can be retrofitted at a Canon service centre. No longer will you raise your camera to your eye and find it on 'B'....Once again they listened to the feedback.
A new Wireless flash system - excellent! I'm not sure quite how they have managed to navigate all the international frequencies
Headphone socket - this small but significant feature means you can at last monitor your audio if you are a video shooter.
24-60 fps video frame rate - 60p is most welcome, though I have not yet seen if it is 720 or 1080. no mention of the codec either.
Silent shooting mode - lets see just how quiet this is, but any noise reduction will be a boon to wedding and wildlife shooters alike.
You can read the full release here
As my headline said 'Evolution not revolution' and that is no bad thing.
Canon have headed away from ring fencing the best features for the 1 series, and this can only be welcomed, and by not being so afraid of stealing 1 series sales, will give competitors a hard time.
A confident approach.
But I don't think Canon really had much choice.
Have Canon done enough to carry the MkIII through its in all likelyhood long product cycle? (Remember the Canon 5DMkII would have been 4 years old this Autumn...)
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Sesame Street's famous cohabitants grace next week's cover of the New Yorker in homage to the Supreme Court's votes in support of marriage equality.
On the TV is a grainy picture of the Supreme Court justices. Innocently canoodling on the couch watching are Bert and Ernie, a pair widely assumed to be gay despite Sesame Street's statement to the contrary.
The image is not new. It was pulled from a slightly different Tumblr version posted a year ago.
It has sparked some heated reaction from those for and against the Supreme Court's strike-down of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Same-sex marriage opponents at the conservative National Review decried the cover as hearkening lost innocence in a picture post titled, melodramatically, "Innocence. Lost."
You have to read a lot into the image to construe it as perverted. But maybe the National Review folks have their minds in the gutter.
Then we have Slate columnist June Thomas, who calls out the New Yorker for not taking the marriage rulings seriously enough.
"As prejudice against gays and lesbians fades, more of these ambiguously gay couples will declare themselves," Thomas writes. "But that doesn't mean that every pair of cohabiting friends is madly making out on a nightly basis."
OK, so maybe they're just two dudes hugging. Fair enough.
Tweeps took to blasting the magazine, calling the cover design "conveniently cheap and cloying," accusing it of "pandering to memes" and reminding everyone that the publication's "primary goal is to sell copies of a magazine" (well, yeah).
The artist says his intention was to capture a calm kind of happiness.
Jack Hunter, who designed the cover titled "Moment of Joy" originally submitted the piece unsolicited to a Tumblr called "Blown Cover."
"It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime," Hunter tells the New Yorker. "This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate."
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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The Rosewood Showgrounds Camping Facility is the perfect place to set up camp while you explore South East Queensland.
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New Zealand's 'Scoop Independent News' has published an article on the subject of the Global March to Jerusalem by Julie Webb-Pullman – a self-described freelance writer who has been working for Scoop since 2003.
The article includes a video interview – made by Webb-Pullman and uploaded by Scoop to YouTube – with Abdul Aziz Umar, whom she describes as follows:
"After the meeting, I spoke with Dr Abdul Aziz Umar, one of the prisoners released in last year's exchange. Dr Aziz Umar holds a PhD in English Literature, and was a Professor at An-Najah University in the West Bank. On his release from prison, he was exiled to Gaza."
Webb-Pullman's video opens with the title:
The claim by Webb-Pullman that Umar's blindness is a result of Israeli inaction – and implied cruelty – is a lie.
In a 2008 appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court, Umar himself stated that he was blinded in both eyes as a result of an illness when he was about 20 years old – i.e. around 1980.
Webb-Pullman makes no attempt whatsoever during the interview to challenge Umar's own lies regarding the "division" of Jerusalem, the "racist separation wall", "attacks on holy places" or "damaging archaeology".
Neither does Webb-Pullman apparently see fit to inform her readers that the reason for Umar's detention by Israel was his involvement with a Hamas terror cell which carried out a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem café in 2003 in which seven people were murdered. She is equally silent on the fact that Umar recently toured South Africa in order to promote the Global March to Jerusalem among Muslim Brotherhood supporters there.
The disgracefully low standards of journalism displayed by Webb-Pullman and Scoop Independent News can, however, be better understood when one appreciates the fact that Julie Webb-Pullman is in fact not a journalist at all, but a seasoned political activist.
Webb-Pullman is a member of 'Kia Ora' – an activist group described by GMJ endorser and International Advisory Committee member George Galloway in an e-mail to the Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad's media advisor as a "the Viva Palestina sister organization in New Zealand".
Webb-Pullman was a member of the Kia Ora delegation to a 'Viva Palestina' convoy to Gaza in October 2010. Her fellow travelers included Global March to Jerusalem spokesman Zaher Birawi (whom she also recently interviewed for Scoop) and GMJ organizer Kevin Ovenden of 'Viva Palestina', as well as Welsh activist Pippa Bartolotti.
In fact, Webb-Pullman wrote an article for Scoop at the time, enthusiastically describing her meeting with Hamas leaders in Gaza and offering her autographed scarf for auction. Scoop therefore cannot claim not to be aware of Webb-Pullman's political bias – which is made all the more ironic by the fact that in 2005 she filed a complaint with the New Zealand Press Council regarding alleged problems of "accuracy, fairness and balance and confusion of facts and opinion" by a journalist.
Obviously, the general public in New Zealand cannot rely on the reports put out by Hamas sympathiser Julie Webb-Pullman and her enablers at Scoop Independent News for information regarding the Global March to Jerusalem or indeed any other event in the Middle East.
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- Turkish delights for the Global March to Jerusalem in Istanbul. (gm2j.co)
- Global March to Jerusalem journalist/activist Kunal Majumder's selective reporting (gm2j.co)
- Global March to Jerusalem: denying Jewish rights and history (gm2j.co)
- Regional organisation ahead of the Global March to Jerusalem. (gm2j.co)
- Leading Global March to Jerusalem organizers embrace Gilad Atzmon (gm2j.co)
- Global March to Jerusalem's official website backs terrorists in latest violence from Gaza (gm2j.co)


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When Seth Greenleaf directed the premiere of "Menopause the Musical" 12 years ago, he found it a very funny show with some clever songs about a subject he knew very little about.
Since then, the show has exploded like a sustained hot flash. More than 11 million (mostly) women in 15 countries have seen the show, and at any one time Greenleaf said there are 10 sit-down productions or tours under way around the world (including a tour stopping next week in Escondido and San Diego).
"It continues to amaze me on a daily basis," said Greenleaf, artistic director for the show's producer, GFour Productions. "It's a phenomenon that does two things. It talks about a subject that hadn't been talked about in a human, funny way before. And when a woman is able to laugh at their symptoms in a giant roomful of other laughing women who are going through the same thing, it creates a sisterhood." The 90-minute comedy by Jeanie Linders features four female archetypes — a Midwestern housewife, a professional woman, an Earth Mother and a soap opera star — who meet and bond in the bra department of a mall department store when they discover that they're all going through "the change."
The musical features more than a dozen parodies of songs from the 1960s-1980s, with lyrics rewritten to chronicle the characters' experiences with night sweats (set to the Bee Gees' "Night Fever"), weight gain ("It's in His Kiss" becomes "It's On My Hips"), sleeping issues ("Staying Alive" is rewritten as "Staying Awake") as well as hot flashes, food cravings, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles and chocolate binges. David Bowie's 1971 song "Changes" ("Ch-ch-ch-changes") is the anthem for the women going through the once "silent passage."
The typical showgoers, Greenleaf said, are women ages 40 to 65, but on weekend date nights, as many as 10 percent of ticketholders are husbands, who have been dragged along.
"They come out saying, 'Wow, I learned a lot. I had no idea my wife wasn't crazy,'" he said.
Greenleaf said the show's audience has only grown over the past eight years since it hit the road. It's now the longest-running scripted theater show in Las Vegas, and next fall, a Spanish-language production will open in L.A.
A big reason for the show's success, Greenleaf said, is the high percentage of repeat ticket-buyers who come back with friends.
"They come to have fun," he said. "If they've seen the show before, they go out drinking with their girlfriends before the show and they can get really wild. If they're first-timers, they start out quiet but they end, they're wild, too."
"Menopause the Musical"
When: 7 p.m. March 19 and 20
Where: California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido
Phone: (800) 988-4253
When: 8 p.m. March 22; 2 and 8 p.m. March 23
Where: Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., San Diego
Tickets: $45-$65
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DR. HOOK- Blowing smoke? Trying anything to lose weight
Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America! C'mon, Donald! You're a rich successful man and, yes, your last name is "Trump, but you're acting more like Donald Duck.
Lionel Ritchie needs to hash it out with his daughter, Nicole. Personally, I wouldn't give her an allowance until she cleaned up her act with drugs and alcohol. She was just arrested again for a DUI and admitted to smoking marijuana. Hmm, maybe he doesn't need to hash it out but make some tough decisions with her instead. What she really needs is some corned beef hash because girlfriend isn't eating.
On the flip side of anorexic Hollywood celebrities, two-thirds of Americans are eating too much and not exercising, and therefore are overweight or obese. And to my surprise, a lot of people are using cannabinoid products, including hash brownies. Why would people eat a hash brownie when it makes them fat?
Cheech and Chong brought marijuana into my vocabulary as I was growing up in small-town Ohio. I had never smelled marijuana until my freshman year in college. When I asked my friend Andy, "Why does your hallway smell funny?" he shook his head in disbelief at my naivete.
Cannabinoids are chemicals in marijuana that bind to CB receptors of the brain. One side effect is hunger. When the CB receptor is activated by cannabinoids, the brain tells the person, "Ready, set, eat! You aren't filled up yet, so gobble that twelfth donut, finish up the rack of lamb, and there's still room for jello! Yes, of course you can eat that wafer-thin mint."
Well, as always, experts are trying a new angle to help people lose weight that doesn't involve exercise. And as we all know (I sound like an LP stuck in the same groove), exercise is the only effective way to lose weight and to keep it off. Almost all people (97 percent) who lose weight with pills, diet fads, or weight loss programs will regain all the weight within three years. Ba da ba booooom: and half of those people will weigh more than they did when they started. Don't kill the messenger— i.e. me. I'm just reporting the facts.
Endocannabinoids (EC) are being studied right now. They are cannabinoid-like chemicals that the central nervous system makes on its own. (See, you don't have to inhale after all!) Studies are going on, including here in Charlottesville, to see if anti-cannabinoid receptor drugs will combat EC. The end result–- will people feel less hungry and know when to stop eating?
One drug in Europe is rimonabant, a CB1 specialized antagonist. I don't have the study to critically appraise, but the review articles have shown in animals, rimonabant decreases eating as well as the preference for sweets, narcotics, and nicotine. Talking about three blind mice!
In humans, though, the weight loss is not really all that much: maybe ten pounds. And, as mentioned above, probably in three years they will have regained it all and will likely weigh more. However, when it comes to obesity, the majority of people will tackle anything that "promises" that they will lose weight. That's dangerous, because what are the long term side-effects? We know some weight loss drugs have caused major harm.
Exercise is hard, but playing a sport is fun. I recommend to my patients to join some fun activity to get cardiovascular exercise. There is some physical activity out there for almost everyone– after all, every pot has its lid.


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As more consumers seek meats produced in what they believe to be more humane and environmentally sustainable systems, more producers are entering the natural and organic markets to meet the rising demand. Pasture-finished beef is one of the fastest growing demand sectors in the entire food economy but, if you're interested in entering this market, here are a few things you need to know about pasture-finishing.
First, says Jim Gerrish, a grazing management consultant based in May, ID, there's a big difference between "grass-fed" and "pasture-finished." A lot of producers are growing and selling grass-fed beef. This product frequently leaves consumers disappointed in their steak and producers disappointed in their profit, he says, because many grass-fed cattle are Standard grade.
"These cattle are typically grazed until pasture runs out in late summer. The cattle have usually already stalled out in their growth and have little marbling or fat cover. The product is an overly lean piece of meat with all the eating pleasure of shoe leather," he says.
Pasture-finishing, on the other hand, says the former lead pasture researcher at the University of Missouri's Forage Systems Research Center in Linneus, takes the cattle to a target endpoint just as in the feedlot. The typical harvest target for pasture-finished beef is high Select to low Choice. Numerous taste-preference surveys show consumers can't differentiate between these two grades.
"Pasture-finishing requires a well thought out forage-production plan that ensures an adequate supply of appropriate quality forage throughout the finishing phase. To get a quality finish on pasture, cattle need to gain at least 2 lbs./day for the final 60-90 days before harvest. Longer periods at higher gain will produce an even better finish on the cattle," he says.
While some readers might be skeptical of achieving Choice-grade cattle strictly on pasture, Gerrish says it can be done but it requires the right genetics, quality pasture and excellent grazing management.
"One ranch I worked with in 2005 finished more than 200 head of heifers entirely on pasture with 87% grading high Select or better by 19 months of age with roughly half of those animals in the Choice grade," he says.
For successful pasture-finishing at an early age, cattle should be small to moderate framed with good marbling ability. Easy keeping cows usually produce the right type of progeny. If your cows require a lot of hay and feed to keep them in good flesh through the winter or summer drought, their progeny won't do well in a pasture-finishing program, Gerrish says.
"I prefer at least 50% British genetics in the cattle, with any Continental influence being very moderate in size and frame," he adds.
A season-long supply of adequate quality forage is essential for finishing. The cattle need to maintain steady gain throughout the finishing phase, just as in the feedlot.
"I emphasize 'adequate' forage supply rather than 'high quality' as very high-quality pastures frequently don't carry enough volume to provide a large bite for the cattle," Gerrish says. "For finishing, I'd rather let the cattle do some selective grazing and take large bites than shortchange them on total nutrient intake with low-volume, but high-quality pasture."
What's more, no area of the country has a clear-cut advantage for pasture finishing over others, Gerrish says. Seasonality of peak pasture production dictates when the optimum finishing period will be for different areas.
For instance, the South can best finish cattle in the winter using annual forages. Hot summer temperatures that depress animal performance limit the opportunities for summer finishing.
Meanwhile, in the Intermountain West, the finishing season is kept short due to climate, but a high rate of gain due to mild summer temps allow cattle to be finished in a relatively short timeframe. Wherever your operation is located, look for the appropriate finishing window based on forage supply.
"Marketing your product is a critical part of the pasture-finishing process. Don't start trying to finish a large number of animals in hopes someone will buy them when they're ready. Have a marketing plan in place before you even start the finishing process," he says.
Producers who just do grass-fed are frequently left hanging when they have a 1000-lb. Standard-grade animal at the end of their grass season and nowhere to go with it. Too big for the feedlot, that animal has low value in the conventional market. Meanwhile, pasture-finished cattle can be sold on the rail if you don't get them all marketed as finished meat.
"Getting into pasture-finished beef production can increase the bottom line profitability of your operation, but it needs to be well-planned and well-executed to be successful," Gerrish concludes.
-- Jim Gerrish, 208/876-4067, firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit americangrazinglands.com.


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Consider $x$ an n-dimensional vector with $x_i$ is integer in the range $[0 \dots k], k\in N$.
Given $A_{n\times n}$ is the covariance matrix of $x$.
$u$ is a given n-dimensional vector of real values with $0.0 \leq u_i \leq k.0$
Given a set of $x$, I need to find the minimum value of $f(x)$ defined as follow:
$f(x) = \sum_{i=1}^n\sum_{j\neq i}(x_i-u_i)(x_j-u_j)A_{ij}$
I've tried to simply calculate all the values of $f(x)$ and find the minimum of them. In matlab, it could take me more than 30 minutes if $n=1000$ and $k \leq 5$.
Does any one here know of any efficient algorithm for this problem? If possible, could you give me some suggestion or direct me to the literature where I can search for the solution?


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Could Facebook be ready to buy up Zynga? At least one report is suggesting that the social network has quit featuring Zynga's games to get its stock price to drop and make it easier to take over.
Facebook recently changed the way it's featuring games, showing the newer ones first and the older ones down the list, and that's been the death knell for Zynga, according to Seeking Alpha. So far this year the company had a 70 percent drop in share price, down to $3.09 a share, according to Reuters.
Seeking Alpha also suggested that perhaps Facebook changed its policy of highlighting games to "torpedo" its partner to get the price to drop and make it easier for a takeover. About $1 billion would cover it, and Facebook would get controlling interest -- and possibly its hands on the $1.6 billion in cash Zynga reportedly has.
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We don't think this was done deliberately by Facebook. If anything it was because Zynga and Facebook no longer have its initial special relationship anymore. Zynga decided to expand and Facebook began to look elsewhere for social games -- even appearing on Google+ -- which did not endear itself to Facebook execs.
If anything, Zynga had much more to lose than Facebook in their partnership and Zynga decided to venture out to other social networks to boost its initial public offering last December. There's nothing wrong with that, but you generally don't get most-favored status from a social network when you aren't exclusive.
That said, Facebook buying Zynga could be interesting, but we have a feeling the social network should wait for the price to come down just a little more.


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Ciao means both goodbye and hello in Italian. This is goodbye for Blue Pencil as a standalone blog, but it is hello to Blue Pencil as part of my new website. Click here http://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/ The website [nicknamed Shaw*] gathers together all of my myriad activities under a single umbrella in a manner that makes clear how they all stem from my deep and abiding love of letters in all of their variegated forms and uses. It is about making letters, designing with them, studying their history, investigating their habitats, and writing about their multitudinous manifestations.
I want to thank Greg D'Onofrio and Patricia Belen of Kind Company for their hard work and patience in designing the site and getting it up and running. There is still much more to do. In the coming year the site will deepen in material and broaden in content.
Thanks for supporting Blue Pencil in its original incarnation. And I hope to see all of you at Blue Pencil on Shaw*.


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