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Driving Change
How the Best Companies Are Preparing for the 21st CenturyJerry Wind, Jeremy Main
10 Smart Money Moves for Women How to Conquer your Financial Fears | Judith Briles|1999
10 Steps to Financial Success A Beginner's Guide to Saving and Investing | Patrick Naylor|1997
101 Trends Every Investor Should Know About the Global Economy | Joseph Quinlan, Kathryn Stevens|1998
25 Myths You've Got to Avoid if You Want to Manage Your Money Right The New Rules For Financial Success | Jonathan Clements|1998
5 Magic Paths to Making a Fortune in Real Estate Learn How to Buy, Renovate, and Sell | James Lumley|2000
Accounting and Financial Fundamentals for NonFinancial Executives Robert Rachlin, Allen Sweeny|1996
Activity Accounting An Activity-Based Costing Approach | James Brimson|1991
The All-Season Investor Successful Strategies for Every Stage in the Business Cycle | Martin Pring|1992
Alliance Competence Maximizing the Value of Your Partnerships | Robert Spekman, Lynn Isabella|2000
Angel Financing How to Find and Invest in Private Equity | Gerald Benjamin, Joel Margulis|2000
The Art of Astute Investing Building Wealth With No-Load Mutual Funds | C Todd Conover|1998
The Art of M&A Financing and Refinancing Sources and Instruments for Growth | Alexandra Reed Lajoux, Fred Weston|1999
The Art of Short Selling | Kathryn Staley|1997
The Art of the Trade Mastering the Analytic and Intuitive Elements of Successful Trading | McMaster|1999
Asia Falling Making Sense of the Asian Crisis and Its Aftermath | Callum Henderson|1998
Asia's New Wealth Club Who's Really Who in Twenty-first Century Business: The Top 100 Billionaires in Asia | Geoff Hiscock|2000
Asian Advantage Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region | George Yip|2000
Asian Eclipse Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia | Michael Backman|1999
The Average Family's Guide to Financial Freedom How You Can Save A Small Fortune On A Modest Income | Bill Toohey, Mary Toohey|2000
Banking and Finance on the Internet Mary Cronin|1997
The Banking Revolution Positioning Your Bank in the New Financial Services Workplace | Tom Harvey|1996
A Basic Guide for Buying and Selling a Company Choosing the Right Payment Method; How to Effectively Use a Business Broker; How to Price a Business | Wilbur Yegge|1996
The Bear Book Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets | John Rothchild|1998
Becoming a Better Value Creator How to Improve the Company's Bottom Line?and Your Own | Anjan Thakor|2000
Benchmarking for Best Practice Continuous Learning Through Sustainable Innovation | Mohamed Zairi|1996
Best Practices for Financial Advisors | Mary Rowland|1997
Beyond the Bottom Line How to Do More with Less in Nonprofit and Public Organizations | Martin Sandler, Deborah Hudson|1998
Big Deal 2000 and Beyond | Bruce Wasserstein|2000
The Borderless World Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy | Kenichi Ohmae|1999
The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards | Murray Dropkin, Bill La Touche|1998
Budgeting a la Carte Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers | John Tracy|1996
Building Strategic Relationships How to Extend Your Organization's Reach Through Partnerships, Alliances, and Joint Ventures | William Bergquist, Juli Betwee, David Meuel|1995
Bullseye! Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement | Willliam Schiemann, John Lingle|1999
The Business of Economics John Kay|1996
The Business of Investment Banking | Thomas Liaw|1999
Business Portfolio Management Valuation, Risk Assessment, and Eva™ Strategies | Michael Allen|1999
Capital Market Revolution The Future of Markets in an Online World | Patrick Young, Thomas Theys|1999
Cashflow Reengineering How to Optimize the Cashflow Timeline and Improve Financial Efficiency | James Sagner|1997
CFO Architect of the Corporation's Future | Price Waterhouse|1997
CFROI Valuation A Total System Approach to Valuing the Firm | Bartley Madden|2000
CNBC 24/7 Trading Around the Clock, Around the World | Barbara Rockefeller|2000
Collaborative Advantage Winning Through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks | Jeffrey Dyer|2000
The Common Sense of Money and Investments | Merryle Stanley Rukeyser|1924
Common Sense on Mutual Funds New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor | John Bogle|1999
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings | Philip Fisher|1996
A Commonsense Guide to Your 401(k) | Mary Rowland|1998
Competing in the Third Wave The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age | Jeremy Hope, Tony Hope|1997
The Complete Guide to Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds | Ronald Rutherford|1998
The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level | Timothy Galpin, Mark Herndon|2000
Conscious Capitalism Principles for Prosperity | David Schwerin|1998
Contrary Opinion Using Sentiment to Profit in the Futures Markets | Eart Hadady|2000
Cost & Effect Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance | Robert Kaplan, Robin Cooper|1998
The Cost Management Toolbox A Manager's Guide to Controlling Costs and Boosting Profits | Lianabel Oliver|2000
Creating Shareholder Value A Guide for Managers and Investors | Alfred Rappaport|1998
Credit Derivatives A Guide to Instruments and Applications | Janet Tavakoli|1998
Customers As Partners Building Relationships That Last | Chip Bell|1994
Damodaran on Valuation Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance | Aswath Damodaran|1994
The Dark Side of Valuation Valuing Old Tech, New Tech, and New Economy Companies | Aswath Damodaran|2001
Deena Katz on Practice Management for Financial Advisers, Planners, and Wealth Managers | Deena Katz|1999
Deflation How to Survive and Thrive in the Coming Wave of Deflation | Gary Shilling|1999
Don't Die Broke How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income | Margaret Malaspina|1999
Dow 40,000 Strategies for Profiting from the Greatest Bull Market in History | David Elias|1999
Driving Change How the Best Companies Are Preparing for the 21st Century | Jerry Wind, Jeremy Main|1998
Driving Value Using Activity-Based Budgeting James Brimson, James Antos|1999
E-Commerce Strategies Mapping your Organization's Success in Today's Competitive Marketplace | Charles Trepper|2000
E-Profit High Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge | Peter Cohan|2000
The Ecology of Commerce A Declaration of Sustainability | Paul Hawken|1994
The Electronic Day Trader | Marc Friedfertig, George West, George Pieczenik|2001
Electronic Day Trading to Win | Bob Baird, Craig McBurney|1999
EMU in Perspective Understanding Monetary Union | Deborah Owen, Peter Cole|1999
The End of Shareholder Value Corporations at the Crossroads | Allan Kennedy|2000
Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business How Firms Can Be Profitable and Leave Our Children a Living Planet | Edward Freeman, Jessica Pierce, Richard Dodd|2000
The Equity Risk Premium The Long-Run Future of the Stock Market | Bradford Cornell|1999
Ernst and Young's Financial Planning for Women A Woman's Guide to Money for All of Life's Major Events | Elda Di Re, Andrea Markezin, Sylvia Pozarnsky, Barbara Raasch, Freida Kavouras, Paula Boyer Kennedy, Jacqueline Hornstein|1999
Ethical Decision Making in Fund Raising | Marilyn Fischer|2000
Euro: Impact and Reality Business risks and practical responses to the challenge of the euro | Chris Charlton|1999
EVA: Economic Value Added The Real Key to Creating Wealth | Al Ehrbar|1998
Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds Proven Strategies for Picking High-Growth Winners | Michael Murphy|2000
Executive's Guide to E-Business From Tactics to Strategy | Martin Deise, Conrad Nowikow, Patrick King, Amy Wright|2000
The Executive's Guide to Supply Management Strategies Building Supply Chain Thinking into All Business Processes | David Riggs, Sharon Robbins|1997
The Fast Forward MBA in Business Quick Tips, Speedy Solutions, Cutting-Edge Ideas | Virginia O'Brien|1996
Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers All the Basics You Need to Know | William Droms|1997
Financial Empowerment More Money for More Mission | Peter Brinckerhoff|1996
Financial First Aid Smart Remedies for Hundreds of Curable Money Ailments from Dealing with Debt to Protecting Your Assets | Mary Sprouse|1998
The Financial Services Revolution Understanding the Changing Role of Banks, Mutual Funds, and Insurance Companies | Clifford Kirsch|1997
Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide | Martin Fridson|1995
Financial Warnings Detecting Earnings Surprises, Avoiding Business Troubles, Implementing Corrective Strategies | Charles Mulford, Eugene Comiskey|1996
Finding Your Wings How to Locate Private Investors to Fund Your Venture | Gerald Benjamin, Joel Margulis|1996
Five Frogs on a Log A CEO's Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Gut Wrenching Change | Mark Feldman, Michael Spratt|1999
Franchising and Licensing Two Ways to Build Your Business | Andrew Sherman|1999
From .Com to .Profit Inventing Business Models that Deliver Value and Profit | Nick Earle, Peter Keen|2000
From Alchemy to IPO The Business of Biotechnology | Cynthia Robbins-Roth|2000
From Third World to World Class The Future of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy | Peter Marber|1998
The Frontiers of Fortune Predicting Capital Prospects and Casualties in the Markets of the Future | Jonathan Story|1999
Future Firms How America's High Technology Companies Work | Eric Bolland, Charles Hofer|1998
Future Wealth | Stan Davis, Christopher Meyer|2000
Getting Started in Annuities | Gordon Williamson|1999
Getting Started in Bonds | Sharon Wright|1999
Getting Started in Futures | Todd Lofton|1997
Getting Started in Options | Michael Thomsett|1997
Getting Started in Stocks | Alvin Hall|1997
Getting Started in Technical Analysis | Jack Schwager|1998
Global Gold Panning for Profits in Foreign Markets | Ruth Stanat|1998
Global Smarts The Art of Communicating and Deal Making Anywhere in the World | Sheida Hodge|2000
Got Money? Enjoy It! Manage It! Even Save Some of It! | Jeff Wuorio|1999
Great Companies, Great Returns The Breakthrough Investing Strategy That Produces Great Returns over the Long-Term Cycle of Bull and Bear Markets Based on the Twelve Traits of All Great Companies | Jim Huguet|1999
The Greenspan Effect Words That Move the World's Markets | David Sicilia, Jeffrey Cruikshank|2000
The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations & Integrated Communications Clarke Caywood|1997
High Impact Philanthropy How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities | Kay Sprinkel Grace, Alan Wendroff|2001
High Performance Benchmarking 20 Steps to Success | James Harrington, James Harrington|1996
How to Become a Successful Financial Consultant Making a Living Investing Other People's Money | Jim Ainsworth|1997
How to Make Money in Stocks A Winning System in Good Times or Bad | William O'Neil|1995
Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations John Miller|1996
Implementing Global Performance Measurement Systems A Cookbook Approach | Ferdinand Tesoro, Jack Tootson|2000
In Praise of Good Business How Optimizing Risk Rewards Both Your Bottom Line and Your People | Judith Bardwick|1998
Independently Wealthy How to Build Financial Security in the New Economic Era | Robert Goodman|1996
The Index Fund Solution A Step-by-Step Investor's Guide | Richard Evans, Burton Malkiel|1999
The Inheritor's Handbook A Definitive Guide for Beneficiaries | Dan Rottenberg|1999
The Inner Game of Trading Creating the Winner's State of Mind | Robert Koppel, Howard Abell|1994
Intellectual Capital The New Wealth of Organizations | Thomas Stewart|1997
Intellectual Capital Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower | Leif Edvinsson, Michael Malone|1997
International M&A, Joint Ventures & Beyond Doing the Deal | Arthur Rosenbloom, David BenDaniel|1998
Internet World: Using the Web to Compete in a Global Marketplace | Browning Rockwell|1998
Investing in Hedge Funds Strategies for the New Marketplace | Joseph Nicholas|1999
Investing in IPOs New Paths to Profit with Initial Public Offerings | Tom Taulli|1999
Investing in REITs Real Estate Investment Trusts | Ralph Block|1998
Investing in Small-Cap Stocks | Christopher Graja, Elizabeth Ungar|1999
Investing with Your Conscience How to Achieve High Returns Using Socially Responsible Investing | John Harrington|1992
Investing with Your Values Making Money and Making a Difference | Hal Brill, Jack Brill, Cliff Feigenbaum|1999
Investment Psychology Explained Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets | Martin Pring|1993
Investment Timing and the Business Cycle | Jon Gregory Taylor|1998
The Investor's Anthology Original Ideas from the Industry's Greatest Minds | Charles Ellis|1997
The Investor's Guide to Economic Indicators | Charles Nelson|1987
The Investor's Quotient The Psychology of Successful Investing in Commodities & Stocks | Jake Bernstein|1993
The Invisible Continent Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy | Kenichi Ohmae|2000
John Neff on Investing John Neff|1999
Joining Forces Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances | Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis|1998
Just-In-Time Accounting How to Decrease Costs and Increase Efficiency | Steven Bragg|1996
Keeping Score Using the Right Metrics to Drive World-Class Performance | Mark Graham Brown|1996
Kids and Money Giving Them the Savvy to Succeed Financially | Jayne Pearl|1999
Levers of Control How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal | Robert Simons|1995
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing Understanding Our Global Knowledge Economy | Dale Neef|1999
Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading | Larry Williams|1999
M & A A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal | Jeffrey Hooke|1997
The Manager's Guide to Benchmarking Essential Skills for the New Competitive-Cooperative Economy | Jerome Finnigan|1996
Managing Across Borders The Transnational Solution | Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal|1998
Managing Business Risk An Organization-Wide Approach to Risk Management | Peter Young, Steven Tippins|2001
Managing by the Numbers A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Using Your Company's Financials: An Essential Source for Growing Businesses | Chuck Kremer, Ron Rizzuto, John Case|2000
Managing With A Global Mindset | Jean-Pierre Jeannet|2000
A Manufacturing CEO's Secret Tips for Improving Profit Richard Ludwig|1996
Mastering Microcaps Strategies, Trends, and Stock Selection | Daniel Coker|1999
Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z Strategic and Practical Guidance for Small-and Middle-Market Buyers and Sellers | Andrew Sherman|1998
Merton Miller on Derivatives Merton Miller|1997
Million Dollar Prospecting Techniques | MDRT|1999
The Millionaires' Club How To Start & Run Your Own Investment Club?and Make Your Money Grow! | Carolyn Brown|2000
The Money Flood How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing | Michael Clowes|2000
Multiple Streams of Income How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth | Robert Allen|2000
Net Profit How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Internet Business | Peter Cohan|1999
The New Commonsense Guide to Mutual Funds | Mary Rowland|1998
New Dimensions in Investor Relations Competing for Capital in the 21st Century | Bruce Marcus, Sherwood Lee Wallace|1997
The New Era of Wealth How Investors Can Profit from the 5 Economic Trends Shaping the Future | Brian Wesbury|2000
The New Online Investor Revolution Continues | Peter Temple|2000
The New Organizational Wealth Managing & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets | Karl Erick Sveiby|1997
On Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir | Henry Kaufman|2000
Open-Book Management The Coming Business Revolution | John Case|1995
The Open-Book Management Field Book | John Schuster, Jill Carpenter, Patricia Kane|1997
Partnering for Performance Unleashing the Power of Finance in the 21st-Century Organization | Martin Mand, William Whipple|2000
Partnering Intelligence Creating Value for Your Business by Building Strong Alliances | Stephen Dent|1999
Pension Fund Excellence Creating Value for Stakeholders | Keith Ambachtsheer, Don Ezra|1998
Pioneering Portfolio Management An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment | David Swensen|2000
The Portable MBA Robert Bruner, Mark Eaker, Edward Freeman, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Robert Spekman|1998
The Post-Corporate World Life After Capitalism | David Korten|1999
The Power of Open-Book Management Releasing the True Potential of People's Minds, Hearts, and Hands | John Schuster, Jill Carpenter|1996
The Power of Two How Companies of All Sizes Can Build Alliance Networks That Generate Business Opportunities | John Conlon, Melissa Giovagnoli|1998
Power Pricing How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line | Robert Dolan, Hermann Simon|1996
Powered by Honda Developing Excellence in the Global Enterprise | Dave Nelson, Rick Mayo, Patricia Moody|1998
Profiting From Intellectual Capital Extracting Value from Innovation | Patrick Sullivan|1998
Profits without Panic Investment Psychology for Personal Wealth | Jonathan Myers|1999
The Psychology of Investing The Link Between Psychology and the Art of Investing | Lawrence Lifson, Richard Geist|1999
The Psychology of Smart Investing Meeting the 6 Mental Challenges | Ira Epstein, David Garfield|1992
Public Relations on the Net Winning Strategies to Inform and Influence the Media, the Investment Community, the Government, the Public, and More! | Shel Holtz|1998
Purchasing in the 21st Century A Guide to State-of-the-Art Techniques and Strategies | John Schorr|1998
Race for the World Strategies to Build a Great Global Firm | Lowell Bryan, Jane Fraser, Jeremy Oppenheim, Wilhelm Rall|1999
Real Options Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World | Martha Amram, Nalin Kulatilaka|1999
The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend | Janet Lowe|1999
Relative Dividend Yield Common Stock Investing for Income and Appreciation | Anthony Spare|1999
Relevance Lost The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting | Thomas Johnson, Robert Kaplan|1991
Rembrandts in the Attic Unlocking the Hidden Value of Patents | Kevin Rivette, David Kline|2000
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator | Edwin Lefevre|1993
Retire Rich The Baby Boomer's Guide to a Secure Future | Bambi Holzer, Elaine Floyd|1998
Revenue Management Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination | Robert Cross|1997
The Rich Die Richer and You Can Too | William Zabel|1995
Risk The New Management Imperative in Finance | James Gleason|2000
The Savage Truth on Money | Terry Savage|1999
Seasonality Systems, Strategies, and Signals | Jake Bernstein|1998
Security Analysis on Wall Street A Comprehensive Guide to Today's Valuation Methods | Jeffrey Hooke|1998
Set For Life Financial Peace for People Over 50 | Bambi Holzer|2000
The Six Sigma Way How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing their Performance | Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, Roland Cavanagh|2000
Smart Alliances A Practical Guide to Repeatable Success | John Harbison, Peter Pekar|1998
Smart Guide to Estate Planning | Laura Spinale|1999
The Smart Organization Creating Value through Strategic R&D | Jim Matheson, David Matheson|1998
Staying Wealthy Strategies for Protecting Your Assets | Brian Breuel|1998
Stock Investing for Everyone Tools for Investing Like the Pros | Arshad Khan, Vaqar Zuberi|1999
The Stock Market Seventh Edition | Richard Teweles, Edward Bradley|1998
The Strategic Electronic Day Trader Master Momentum Training and Profit From the Trend | Robert Deel|2000
The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital | David Klein|1998
Strategic Planning Guide for Community Banks and Thrifts | Douglas Austin, Craig Bernard|1998
Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock The Savvy Investor's Key to Beating the Market | Gary Gray, Patrick Cusatis, Randall Woolridge|1999
Target Costing The Next Frontier in Strategic Cost Management | Shahid Ansari, Jan Bell, CAM-I Target Cost Core Group|1997
Thunderbird on Global Business Strategy The Faculty of Thunderbird,The American Graduate School of International Management | Robert Grosse|2000
Trade Options Online | George Fontanills|2000
Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom | Van Tharp|1999
Trademark Valuation | Gordon Smith|1997
Trading for a Living Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management | Alexander Elder|1993
Trading the Plan Build Wealth, Manage Money, Control Risk | Robert Deel|1997
Trading to Win The Psychology of Mastering the Markets | Ari Kiev|1998
The Ultimate Investor The People and Ideas that Make Modern Investment | Dean LeBaron, Romesh Vaitilingam|1999
Understanding the Euro The Clear and Concise Guide to the New Trans-European Currency | Christian Chabot|1999
Using Economic Indicators to Improve Investment Analysis | Evelina Tainer|1998
The Valuation of Information Technology A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning | Christopher Gardner|2000
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Value Based Management Developing a Systematic Approach to Creating Shareholder Value | James Knight|1998
Value Drivers The Manager's Framework for Identifying the Drivers of Corporate Value Creation | Mark Scott|1998
The Value Growers Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Long-Term Growth and Profits | James McGrath, Fritz Kroeger, Michael Traem, Joerg Rockenhaeuser|2001
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Value Migration How To Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition | Adrian Slywotsky|1996
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Value Stream Management Strategy and Excellence in the Supply Chain | Peter Hines, Daniel Jones, Richard Lamming, Paul Cousins, Nick Rich|2000
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Wahl earned the honor by posting an overall fifth-place individual finish, the highest of any Buccaneer, at the Jim West Challenge at the Vaaler Creek Golf Club in Blanco, Texas. The sophomore's strong performance propelled ETSU to a second-place overall finish at the event, the second straight runner-up finish this spring.
The Heidenheim, Germany native finished just five strokes back of the tournament medalist and posted rounds of 78-76-78=232 to finish at 16-over-par for the event. Wahl continues to lead the Bucs in stroke average this season at 75.2 and this award marks her fifth career A-Sun Women's Golfer of the Week honor after being honored earlier this season on Oct. 3. when she posted another top-five finish at the UNCG Starmount Fall Classic at the Starmount Country Club.
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Two and a half months ago we started the endurance test of two Samsung 840 SSDs to find out whether an SSD with TLC memory chips has a shorter lifespan, and after that period of time did one of them fail. The second one still works, but it's running on fumes. The is no doubt about it, there is nothing wrong with SSDs with TLC memory chips.
Our previous calculations of the lifespan of TLC-based SSDs were clearly off the mark. We made the erroneous assumption that static data remains in the same location on an SSD. We had put 160 GB of static data on the SSDs. Considering how much data was written to the SSDs in two and a half months, the static data was moved by the controller to other memory cells at regular intervals in order to keep an even load on all cells within the SSDs. That means that a nearly full SSD performs more operations in the background in order to move that static data around. However, that does not have a negative impact on the lifespan of the SSD. There's no difference between an almost full SSD and an almost empty SSD in that regard.
The first SSD, the one you could follow live on the stream, had its first re-allocated sector on May 22, after 2,945 program/erase cycles and 707 TiB of written data according to the S.M.A.R.T. data. That's quite remarkable, as Samsung guarantees a lifespan of 1,000 cycles, while in reality their SSD last three times longer.
A re-allocated sector means a sector that no longer works as it should, and that the SSD avoids it and instead uses reserve memory. As long as no uncorrectable errors have occurred no data has been lost, but it should serve as a wake-up call to make sure that you are making enough back-ups. The first uncorrectable error came four days later on May 26, after 3,187 cycles and 764 TiB of written data. This is the first time data was irretrievably lost, and we consider it to be the end of the line for that SSD, even if it was just 512 kB. It wasn't until June 7, after 3,706 cycles and 888 TiB of written data, that the first SSD died completely.
During the test we received many requests from readers to also test the data retention. It's a valid point, as it could very well be the case that after many write cycles, the memory cells could lose their data when they don't receive power. To find out, we took a second system and turned it off half a day each week after about 3,000 cycles. We even turned it off an entire weekend. It didn't run into any problems, so the retention part seems to be in order.
The second SSD had its first re-allocated sector on May 28 after 3,152 cycles and 745 TiB of written data. The first uncorrectable error occurred on May 30 after 3,247 cycles and 768 TiB of written data. It has completely died yet, and it's passed 4,000 cycles now, but it's also accumulated more than 58,000 uncorrectable errors. We'd call it clinically dead.
So let's calculate the lifespan. We consider the first uncorrectable error to be the end of the SSD. For the first one that was after 764 TiB of written data, and for the second one that was after 768 TiB of written data. That the two failed so close together could indicate that the lifespan of the Samsung 840 SSDs is fairly constant. However, two SSDs aren't representative of the thousands that are out there.
If we take the 764 TiB and an average of 10 GiB of writes per day, we arrive at a lifespan of 214 years. Keep in mind that we sequentially write and fill the SSD which gives us write amplification factor of only 1.04 or 1.05. That's the difference between the write commands sent to the SSD and the writes executed by the SSD internally. The general assumption is a WAF of around 3.0 for normal consumer use with SSDs that don't employ compression tricks. That translates to a lifespan of 75 years. Even when you push an SSD to the max by downloading lots of movies everyday up to an average of 30 GiB per day, the SSD will still last you 24 years. Nomatter how you use it, it will last longer than the period you plan on using it (most people like to add more capacity after a certain time). A functional lifespan of 10 years is already unusually high for a storage medium.
With an average lifespan of 75 years for the TLC memory chips, consumers have absolutely nothing to worry about. It doesn't mean the SSD will actually last 75 years, but the number of available write cycles will not be the bottleneck. That means we will amend our conclusion from a couple months ago. A Samsung 840 SSD with TLC memory is just as reliable as SSDs with MLC memory, and the type of memory should not be a reason to choose one SSD over another.
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After a slew of Halloween parties and a night of trick-or-treating, your kids probably came home loaded down with a pillowcase full of candy. Now what? According to dentists, you should probably just let the kiddies have at it. Large quantities of candy consumed at once is likely better than eating a little bit over time.
Plus: Study: Eating Candy May Prevent Childhood Obesity
No parent wants to hear anything that sounds like license for a candy corn binge. Still, dentists say that a big one-shot candy fix means plenty of sugar and other carbohydrates to feed oral bacteria, which then produce damaging acid that can cause cavities. Give it some time, though, and saliva will neutralize the acid. Besides, people are more likely to brush after eating lots of candy at once. But, pack a few pieces of Halloween candy in your kid's lunchbox every day, or dole it out piece by piece over the course of an afternoon, and you could have a nasty situation on your hands; your kid's teeth will be exposed repeatedly to that same harmful acid, making it harder for saliva to fight.
Plus: What to Do With Leftover Halloween Candy
Be warned: candy's not the worst thing that can happen to kids' teeth. Dentists warn that the chips and fruit snacks parents like to swap for the sweet stuff can lead to cavities, too. These munchies stick to teeth, giving bacteria plenty of time to feast and acid plenty of time to sit.
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While the demand and price for local grains continues to soar in the Upper Southeast, for the most part long-term average yields of corn and other grain crops remain steady at best and in the case of corn, in some states, actually have declined over the past 10 years.
The biggest cause for the lack of growth in grain yields is clearly highly fluctuating weather patterns over the past decade or so.
Despite a lack of control of the weather, some contend the answer to improved and sustainable yields is providing water to the crop when it needs it the most.
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There are a number of reasons why growers don't irrigate crops in the Southeast, but irrigation specialists contend modern technology and financial flexibility have for the most part overcome these long-standing taboos.
The onset of transgenic crops and other production variables have pushed the average size of farming operations across the region up over the past decade.
What used to be an average size grain operation at the turn of the century is now small by comparison.
Despite so many growers increasing the total acreage they farm, the region is still predominantly made up of small fields, many of them with varying topography, shape and soil types.
Mike Mills, Southeast territory manager for Reinke Irrigation says GPS technology, optional equipment on existing irrigation systems and new technology on new equipment all play a part of solving the problem of small and irregular shaped fields.
For a grower with a couple thousand acres of grain cropland, made up of a hundred or so small, irregular shaped fields, there are several options for putting these areas under irrigation. However, Mills says, the first question to ask is, do I have water available? The second question is how affordable is this water?
"We have design technology available now that doesn't require that a center pivot system, for example, use the full circle. These systems can be designed to use a part of the circle and adapt to different shapes of fields to fit into the design," Mills says.
Mills adds that having fields scattered out over a large geographic area is no longer a problem. Reinke for example, can place one telemetry system and work off it for up to 15 miles.
Typically, a dealer will do a path study and determine what type equipment is needed based on the terrain. In some parts of the country, it may be possible to extend that distance to 150 miles.
Systems can fit Southeast conditions
"Too many growers seem to think they have to have a Midwest-like topography to make irrigation work. We have systems that handle up an 18 percent slope — which is a significant slope.
"The bottom line is with today's technology small, irregular shaped fields, with up and down slopes are not a reason to not use irrigation," Mills says.
How small is too small for irrigation? Scotty Dunaway co-owner of Georgia-based Wescott Irrigation, says small fields are a reality of farming in the Southeast.
Dryland production is another reality, and along with dryland production comes a high risk of weather-related yield losses.
"If a grower, for example, has a 60 acre field, and wants to grow double-crop soybeans and wheat in rotation with corn, over a period of years his yield potential is going to be limited.
"He may make good yields one year and average or less the next year, but overall, his yield potential is limited," Dunaway says.
"Year in and year out, we see 100 bushel per acre increase in corn yield — some years less and in some drought years considerably more.
"In soybeans, 50-60 bushel per acre crops are common and higher yields not uncommon in irrigated fields.
"Wheat yields are typically less influenced by lack of moisture, but in some years having water to plant is critical," Dunaway adds.
"Unless there are some really unusual circumstances, the cost of putting irrigation in that 60 acre field will be around $60,000. "Conservatively, on decent land, a grower should see at least an 80 bushel per acre increase in corn production and 20 bushels per acre in soybeans.
"At today's prices, or even close to today's prices, and using only additional yield, the grower could easily pay off the price of an irrigation system in 3-4 years," he says.
Cost is most common drawback
The most common reason for not adding irrigation to a farming operation is cost.
Though the standard cost for irrigation equipment is generally around $1,000 per acre, these costs can go up significantly if a grower adds non-standard equipment to match the system up to various topographic demands.
There is no doubt irrigation can increase and sustain higher crop production, whether this increase is adequate to cover the cost of irrigation is a farm to farm question.
In addition to the increased yield, growers also get the added benefit of reduced crop insurance costs.
They also get the assurance that fertilizer and water-activated herbicides will work more efficiently. Dunaway says that in some areas of the Southeast, resistance to glyphosate and other popular herbicides have forced growers to use herbicides that are moisture activated, giving even more importance to the use of irrigation to insure these materials work.
Crop insurance is becoming a significant factor in whether to irrigate or not irrigate.
Roughly 67 percent of crop insurance claims are water related, about evenly divided between too much and too little water. Removing more than 30 percent of the liability for crop insurance is a significant savings to growers, Mills says.
In peanut producing areas of the Southeast, growers are finding contracts are often tied to performance and performance is often tied to availability of irrigation water.
"As peanut growers head into an unprecedented year of contract uncertainty, having irrigation may be the difference between getting a contract not getting one," Dunaway adds.
Even some buyers are requiring irrigation to insure growers can provide the crops they contract to provide in the futures market. Being able to sell a crop at a premium price can add significantly and quickly to value of an irrigation system.
Cost is often tied to availability of water. How deep will I have to go to find water? How much surface water do I need to supply an irrigation system?
These are frequently asked questions, and the answers vary from farm to farm.
The cost of the irrigation system is fairly constant from one equipment manufacturer to another, but the cost of getting water to the system can vary dramatically from location to location, and growers need to be aware of both the installation and use costs of irrigation.
Current costs $100-$150 per acre
"The current cost of irrigating a grain, cotton or peanut crop in the Southeast ranges from $100-$150 per acre. When costs climb much higher than that, the economics of whether to irrigate or not irrigate comes into question," Dunaway says.
In some parts of the U.S. the availability of water, regardless of its cost, is a determining factor in which crops a farmer can economically grow.
In the Southeast, water rights and riparian laws have not been a significant issue, but they are likely to be in the future.
As urban areas grow, the need to protect their water supplies will continue to grow and will continue to encroach on the availability for water for irrigation of farm land.
In the Upper Southeast, North Carolina leads the nation in farmland lost to urban and industrial encroachment and Virginia is in the top five.
Mills says parts of the Southeast are already seeing restrictions in new well permits and use of water from public waterways. These restrictions are almost certain to grow, he adds.
"While irrigation is the primary use of rural water, more efficient use of this water is an ongoing challenge for irrigation equipment dealers.
"Computer-based irrigation systems equipped with GPS technology allow modern systems to be incredibly efficient, Mills says.
"We are now getting into the new area of variable rate irrigation. Modern systems can not only monitor the efficient use of water, but they can provide water only where it is needed by plants, making more precise use of what is becoming a scarce and valuable natural resource," he adds.
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A drink-driver was caught after police spotted his vehicle and discovered it was not insured.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Friday, May 23, how Mark Else, of Talbot Crescent, Hasland, Chesterfield, had been followed by police who discovered his vehicle was not insured as they carried out checks.
The vehicle was stopped, according to prosecuting solicitor Sarah Haslam, on Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, and Else provided a breath specimen at the police station which confirmed he had exceeded the alcohol drink-drive limit.
Else pleaded guilty to exceeding the alcohol drink-drive limit and having no insurance after the incident on April 23. Denny Lau, defending, said Else's father had died recently and Else drinks when he is depressed. Magistrates fined Else £110 and ordered him to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs. He was also disqualified from driving for 40 months.


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Press group slams killing of Guatemala journalist
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on the government of Guatemala to investigate and punish those responsible for the killing of a local TV anchor, Carlos Alberto Orellana Chavez.
The committee said Tuesday that Orellana Chavez worked for a local cable TV channel and had denounced local corruption.
The National Police say Orellana Chavez's body was found Monday on a dirt road near San Bernardino in southern Guatemala. He was 62.
Orellana Chavez had served as a mayor of another township from 2000 to 2004 and he was the fourth journalist killed in Guatemala this year.
The discovery of Orellana Chavez's body comes one week after gunmen wounded print and radio journalist Freddy Rodas. Rodas works for the newspaper Al Dia and for Radio Sonora.


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The Ridgecrest Police Department is investigating two bizarre deaths, including one suicide and an elderly woman stored in a freezer.
The Ridgecrest Police Department is investigating two bizarre deaths, including one suicide and an elderly woman stored in a freezer.
RPD Chief Ron Strand said it took a few days for the department to even begin to comprehend the strange series of events that resulted in two dead people.
"We didn't release anything at first, because we didn't know what we had," he said. "It's still pretty sensitive."
Strand was reluctant to even call the woman's death a homicide because the coroner's report hasn't conclusively deturmined the cause of death.
Asked how the woman ended up in a freezer, Strand said the woman may have passed away six or seven years ago and was placed in it.
"We're not sure," he said. "It's still under investigation."
What started out with just checking on the well-being of an elderly woman ended with her being found in a freezer after the man who was reportedly her care giver shot himself while officers waited at the door.
He said officers were sent to do a welfare check Nov. 8 on a 94-year-old woman in the 900 of East California Avenue.
"We went out there in the evening but didn't make any contact," he said.
Strand said officers returned at approximately 2 a.m. and contacted 53-year-old James Burke, who was reportedly the woman's caretaker.
"While they were there, they engaged in a conversation. The guy said the woman was at the house, and he needed to put on his pants to let the officers in," he said. "A short time later, the officers heard a gunshot. They entered the residence and found that the 53-year-old man committed suicide."
He said the officers searched the residence and found the woman in the freezer.
"The crime lab came out. We obviously investigated it as suspicious," said Strand. "An autopsy was performed, and the cause of death is still pending. We're not thinking, offhand, that she was the victim of a homicide. There was nothing apparent at the autopsy. The Coroner's office has to complete its full investigation to determine the cause of death. The motive is unclear, but she was still receiving her Social Security benefits."


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Inspiration for Dan's Kitchen
Type of Project: Kitchen remodel
Location: East Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Type of building: 2nd Floor Condo in a Greek-Revival Row House
The Renovation Diaries are a collaboration with our community in which we feature your step by step renovation progress and provide monetary support towards getting it done in style. See all of our Reno Diaries here.
Last week we introduced you to Dan's kitchen renovation. His condo, located in a beautiful Boston building that's more than 150 years old, has lots of character, but the kitchen leaves a little something to be desired. His plan is to transform his old, icky, smelly kitchen into something that's both beautiful and useful. Here, Dan shares some of his inspiration for the project.
From Dan:
My building is old. Really old. When it was completed, James K. Polk was President of the United States – all 29 of them. As I begin renovating the kitchen, I want to respect this history, so one of my main sources of inspiration will be the architecture of the building itself. It was built in the Greek-Revival style and features simple, linear and angular design motifs. I'd like a kitchen that reflects this style, and luckily, it's a style that fits in well with my personal preference for practical, no-frills design.
To be honest, I never paid much attention to kitchen design up until a few months ago when I began thinking about renovating my own kitchen. At first I was overwhelmed as I began researching kitchen options and styles, but I eventually found that I was drawn to streamlined kitchens that blend in well with the rest of the home. I don't like overbearing cabinetry and appliances, or kitchens that look like they belong in a restaurant.
A chemistry lab might seem like an odd source of kitchen inspiration, but most labs, like this one, are very efficient spaces, and many aspects of laboratory design can be adapted to kitchens.
As I've thought about how best to create an efficient, functional kitchen, I keep coming back to the idea of a laboratory. I work as a chemist at my day job, so I spend a lot of time in an organic chemistry lab. It might be an unconventional source of inspiration for a kitchen, but chemistry and cooking actually have a lot in common. Both involve measuring ingredients, mixing, stirring, heating, cooling, and tinkering with recipes. Chemistry labs are almost purely utilitarian spaces, but I think they can also be beautiful in a form-follows-function kind of way. Lab design has been perfected over the past 100 years, and most chemistry labs now look more or less the same. I've found that there are a number of tenets of good lab design that can also be applied to kitchens: countertops should be durable and easy to clean; lower cabinets should always have drawers where possible; open shelving or glass-front cabinets make it easy to quickly find what you're looking for, and to put it away when you're done with it; tools and implements should be stored near where they're used; and good ventilation is extremely important. I'll be keeping these ideas in mind as I begin my renovation.
I'm designing the kitchen myself. I'd love to have a designer look at the space, but it just isn't in the budget. I have almost a year's worth of experience cooking in this kitchen, so I have a pretty good idea of what needs to change. Even so, since this is the first renovation project I've undertaken, I'll also be getting design input from my contractor. He'll be a great source of practical advice, and will hopefully stop me from making stupid mistakes with the layout.
As I've begun to plan the renovation, I've looked for ways to incorporate design elements that appear elsewhere in the apartment. The fireplace in the adjacent dining room has an original soapstone hearth, and I'm planning to use soapstone countertops in the kitchen to tie the two rooms together. There's something about soapstone that speaks to the 19th-century, New England character of the building. There's also a lot of stately, recessed wood panelling scattered throughout the apartment. It's one of my favorite details, and I'm hoping to complement it with shaker-style cabinets in the kitchen.
Benjamin Moore kendall charcoal, moonshine, and dove white recall the color scheme of the original, hand-painted wallpaper found in the dining room.
As for color, I really like neutral, black-gray-white-wood tone kitchens. So imagine my excitement when I uncovered a scrap of original, hand-painted wallpaper in the dining room with a geometric, floral pattern painted in charcoal gray and white against a pale gray background. I'm planning to revive this color scheme (minus the floral pattern) by painting the dining room walls (currently a rich tobacco-stain brown) pale gray, the lower kitchen cabinets charcoal gray, and the kitchen walls white.
Check out the full series (so far) and be sure to join us next week as Dan discusses the budget for his renovation.
(Images: 1. House and Home, 2. Plain English, 3. Old House Online, 4. De Stamkamer, 5. Kitchen designer Jeanne Rapone and photographer James R. Salomon, via DecorPad, 6. Lab Architect Group, 7. Dan Bailey, BenjaminMoore.com)


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Debbie Truesdale 4/30/2005 5:47:54 PMvery beautiful!!! Debbie #243246
robert burks 4/30/2005 6:32:21 PM...well done Ed...like the colors and the misty ridges.... #1307476
Jack Nevitt 5/22/2005 4:04:30 PMNice one Ed congrats on being a finalist, I did not even know you were a BP member. #1382105
Cora Miller 5/22/2005 8:53:05 PMCongratulations, Ed, this is a beauty!!! #1383268
Kerby Pfrangle 5/23/2005 2:45:13 PMEd
Congraduations on your finalist.
GOod luck in the next round.
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Lori Carlson 5/24/2005 7:26:27 AMThis is very beautiful Ed and I loved all that you shared too. This is just gorgeous....congratulations! :0) #1389736
f/16, 1/80, -1.67EV, 135mm, tripod, remote release, Wintergreen Overlook, Wintergreen, Virginia 6:30 AM, freezing cold. Notice how, if nearest silhouetted ridge were cropped out, the remaining blue ridge mountain ridges look very much like ocean waves. A beautiful way to start a day (except for standing in the cold for an hour).
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The teams entered in the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship arrived at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit in the south of France for a 2-day official test session (29-30 March) in view of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship.
OAK Racing brought along three Morgan-Nissan LM P2s (#24, #35 and #45), all of which are entered for the first three rounds of the World Endurance Championship. Overall, the damp weather provided difficult conditions for the twenty or so cars that turned up, and they did not manage to run through as many options as they would have wished. On the other hand, the weather gave the drivers the opportunity to race in fluctuating conditions before the start of the season with rain, a drying track and finally a dry layout. The sun put in an appearance on the final afternoon and this helped the French team to progress and prepare for the first race of the season. OAK Racing had a trouble-free test with no technical problems which, allied to the Morgan-Nissans' pace, means that the team is tackling the first round of the championship, the 6 Hours of Silverstone, on April 14 in the best possible conditions.
During the first day Olivier Pla and Alex Brundle in #24 set the second-quickest time in the LM P2 category with a lap of 1m48.828s, only 0.3sec off the #25 Delta-ADR Oreca-Nissan. During the nighttime practice Pla topped the timesheets, although many teams including OAK Racing decided to cut short the session because of fog.
On Saturday morning Brundle set the quickest lap in LM P2 with a 1m48.070s to finish just in front of the #49 Pecom Racing Oreca-Nissan. In the afternoon #35 in the hands of Bertrand Baguette, Martin Plowman and Ricardo Gonzalez went even quicker to clinch the fastest time of the test thanks to a lap of 1m47.398s. That was followed by #24 in second with a 1m47.589s.
Sébastien Philippe, OAK Racing Team Principal: "We've had a very productive two days, maybe more so for the drivers than for the team as we were unable to validate as many technical options as we would have liked due to the weather conditions. In #24 Alex and Olivier tested various technical set-ups and they had a good run. In #35 the driver line-up's learning the ropes and getting to know one another: there's a good ambience between them and they exchanged a lot of information. I'm pleasantly surprised by #45: Jean-Marc Merlin doesn't have much experience, but he adapted to the circuit very quickly like Philippe Mondolot who comes from VdeV, and who got to grips with the car in almost no time even if it was his first real outing in the Morgan. The times were pretty good and very consistent so we can look forward to Silverstone in a confident frame of mind."
Alex Brundle, #24 Morgan-Nissan LM P2: "This test has been a positive one for us. Obviously every time we have been on tyres with representative mileage we have been very close to the pace or the pace, which is fantastic. I feel very at home in the car now thanks to the testing we have done. The sister car appears to be very competitive which is good for our own data and the analysis of the balance and the driving for the two cars. It is nice to get up and running, the car's livery looks great this year and there is a happy team around us!"
Martin Plowman, #35 Morgan-Nissan LM P2: "It was a good two days' testing. The conditions were not perfect with the weather changing so much but it is good experience for Silverstone because more than likely it will be bad there too. I do not think we were too focused on the performance of the lap times here. Everybody is doing something different so it is not a true test of speed. I think overall we ended the second day quite happy with the feeling of the car, which is the most important thing and gelling as a team. I am sure Silverstone will be exciting to see where we truly are."
Jacques Nicolet, #45 Morgan-Nissan LM P2: "We've had two very encouraging days' testing. Our driver line-up gelled very quickly and everybody immediately hit it off! Jean-Marc Merlin and Philippe Mondolot both know how to combine speed, safety and consistency and were on the pace despite the tricky track conditions – rain, cold, fog and sun! Overall, it was a faultless performance and that bodes well for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Personally speaking I got back in the groove and was able to maintain a good rhythm. I felt good in the car and very much at home with the new driver line-up."
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The Office of the State Treasurer is a highly sophisticated organization with a wide range of financial responsibilities, including managing the investment of state funds, issuing all state bonds, serving as the central bank for state agencies, and administering the Oregon 529 College Savings Network. The Treasury is managed like a business, striving to save taxpayers money and earn the highest possible return on investments.
About Treasurer Read
The Finance Division works closely with a number of financial institutions in carrying out the Treasurer's responsibilities as banking and cash management officer for the state. As the bank for state agencies, Treasury partners with financial institutions to provide a variety of services to state agencies and local governments. In addition, Treasury is also responsible for operation of the Public Funds Collateralization Programs outlined under Oregon Revised Statute Chapter 295.


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Find me a Supplier for some kimono-making tools
I am looking for a product to purchase from Japan. It's a set of small tools for kimono making, shinshi sticks and harite (sample pics attached). Can be new or used.
I need someone to find a contact / shop / supplier in Japan that sells this, and can ship it to me in Dubai.
This is one of many products Id be looking to buy in the future.
Let me know if you're interested.
Hi Nina, I am an experienced supplier sourcing professional, so I will definitely find a contact / shop / supplier in Japan that sells kimono-making tools, and can ship it to you in Dubai. Thanks SM
I have experience searching suppliers in China, I may help you out for your required item too, after getting its details.
I know where to buy those locally here. I can buy and packed it and send to you there in Dubai. These comes in many variations, large and small and some even comes in automated system. Let me know.
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Mike Larocque Named as Parts Buyer for Danzy
July 31, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on Mike Larocque Named as Parts Buyer for Danzy
Robert Thibert Inc. has appointed Michel (Mike) Larocque as the new buyer for RV parts and accessories in its Danzy Distribution division.
According to a press release, Larocque has more than 20 years experience in the RV business and in the distribution sector.
His background includes serving as a buyer, inventory manager, parts department manager at a dealership and a distribution center director.
"Knowing the RV industry inside and out, we're confident that Michel Larocque will be an important asset for the Danzy Distributors division of the company," said Marc Yvan Loiselle, sales director, RV division for Robert Thibert.


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Agenda Setting in Health and Risk Messaging
Karyn Ogata Jones
Since McCombs and Shaw first introduced the theory in 1972, agenda setting has emerged as one of the most influential perspectives in the study of the effects of mass media. Broadly defined, "agenda setting" refers to the ability of mass media sources to identify the most salient topics, thereby "setting the agendas" for audiences. In telling us what to think about, then, mass media sources are perceived to play an influential role in determining priorities related to policies, values, and knowledge on a given topic or issue.
Scholars have studied this phenomenon according to both object (issue) salience and attribute salience and along aggregate and individual audience responses. The audience characteristics of need for orientation, uncertainty, relevance, and involvement are advanced as moderating and predicting agenda-setting effects. When agenda-setting theory is applied to the study of messaging related to health and risk communication, scholars have reviewed and identified common themes and topics that generally include media's role in educating and informing the public about specific health conditions as well as public health priorities and administrative policies.
Agenda setting is often examined in terms of measuring mass media effects on audiences. Looking at interpersonal communication, such as that coming from medical providers, opinion leaders, or peer networks, in studies will allow research to examine the combined effects of interpersonal and mass communication. Testing possible interactions among differing sources of information along with assessment of issue and attribute salience among audiences according to an agenda-setting framework serves to document audience trends and lived experiences with regard to mass media, health, and risk communication.
Anger in Health and Risk Messaging
Claude H. Miller and Reinaldo Cortes Quantip
Within a range of health communication contexts, anger can be either a detriment to the receptivity of health promotion messages when poorly controlled, or a benefit to information processing when appropriately directed. In the former case, anger can disrupt cognitive processing, leading to a range of negative outcomes, including emotional turbulence and a preoccupation with anger-eliciting events that can severely limit the receptivity of health promotion and risk prevention messages. However, when properly directed and elicited in moderation, anger can motivate greater purpose and resolve in response to health threats, stimulate more active processing of health warnings, sharpen focus on argument quality, and direct greater attention to coping-relevant information concerning harmful health risks.
Audience Segmentation Techniques
Rachel A. Smith
A premise in health promotion and disease prevention is that exposure to and consequences of illness and injury can be minimized through people's actions. Health campaigns, broadly defined as communication strategies intentionally designed to encourage people to engage in the actions that prevent illness and injury and promote wellbeing, typically try to inspire more than one person to change. No two people are exactly alike with respect to their risk for illness and injury or their reactions to a campaign attempting to lower their risk. These variations between people are important for health messaging. Effective campaigns provide a target audience with the right persuasive strategy to inspire change based on their initial state and psychosocial predictors for change. It is often financially and logistically unreasonable to create campaigns for each individual within a population; it is even unnecessary to the extent to which people exist in similar states and share psychosocial predictors for change. A challenging problem for health campaigns is to define those who need to be reached, and then intelligently group people based on a complex set of variables in order to identify groups with similar needs who will respond similarly to a particular persuasive strategy. The premise of this chapter is that segmentation at its best is a systematic and explicit process of research to make informed decisions about how many audiences to consider, why the audience is doing what they are doing, and how to reach that audience effectively.
Big Data's Role in Health and Risk Messaging
Bradford William Hesse
The presence of large-scale data systems can be felt, consciously or not, in almost every facet of modern life, whether through the simple act of selecting travel options online, purchasing products from online retailers, or navigating through the streets of an unfamiliar neighborhood using global positioning system (GPS) mapping. These systems operate through the momentum of big data, a term introduced by data scientists to describe a data-rich environment enabled by a superconvergence of advanced computer-processing speeds and storage capacities; advanced connectivity between people and devices through the Internet; the ubiquity of smart, mobile devices and wireless sensors; and the creation of accelerated data flows among systems in the global economy. Some researchers have suggested that big data represents the so-called fourth paradigm in science, wherein the first paradigm was marked by the evolution of the experimental method, the second was brought about by the maturation of theory, the third was marked by an evolution of statistical methodology as enabled by computational technology, while the fourth extended the benefits of the first three, but also enabled the application of novel machine-learning approaches to an evidence stream that exists in high volume, high velocity, high variety, and differing levels of veracity.
In public health and medicine, the emergence of big data capabilities has followed naturally from the expansion of data streams from genome sequencing, protein identification, environmental surveillance, and passive patient sensing. In 2001, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics published a road map for connecting these evidence streams to each other through a national health information infrastructure. Since then, the road map has spurred national investments in electronic health records (EHRs) and motivated the integration of public surveillance data into analytic platforms for health situational awareness. More recently, the boom in consumer-oriented mobile applications and wireless medical sensing devices has opened up the possibility for mining new data flows directly from altruistic patients. In the broader public communication sphere, the ability to mine the digital traces of conversation on social media presents an opportunity to apply advanced machine learning algorithms as a way of tracking the diffusion of risk communication messages. In addition to utilizing big data for improving the scientific knowledge base in risk communication, there will be a need for health communication scientists and practitioners to work as part of interdisciplinary teams to improve the interfaces to these data for professionals and the public. Too much data, presented in disorganized ways, can lead to what some have referred to as "data smog." Much work will be needed for understanding how to turn big data into knowledge, and just as important, how to turn data-informed knowledge into action.
The Biology Of Affection
Kory Floyd and Colter D. Ray
Affectionate communication comprises the verbal and nonverbal behaviors people use to express messages of love, appreciation, fondness, and commitment to others in close relationships. Like all interpersonal behaviors, affectionate communication has biological and physiological antecedents, consequences, and correlates, many of which have implications for physical health and wellness. Investigating these factors within a biological framework allows for the adjudication of influences beyond those attributable to the environment. In particular, there are observable genetic and neurological differences between individuals with a highly affectionate disposition and those less prone to communicating affection, suggesting that variance in the tendency to engage in affectionate behavior is not entirely the result of environmental influences such as enculturation, parenting, and media exposure. In addition, the expression of affection is associated with markers of immune system competence and appears to help the body to relax and remain calm. The biological effects of affectionate communication are perhaps most pronounced in situations involving either acute or chronic stress. Specifically, highly affectionate individuals are less likely than others to overreact physiologically to stress-inducing events. Whatever stress reaction they do mount is better regulated than among their less affectionate counterparts. Moreover, highly affectionate individuals—or simply those who receive expressions of affection prior to or immediately following a stressful situation—exhibit faster physiological recovery from their elevated stress. Perhaps unsurprisingly, therefore, being deprived of adequate affectionate communication is predictive of multiple physical and psychological detriments, including elevated stress and exacerbated depression, social and relational problems, insecure attachment, susceptibility to diagnosed anxiety and mood disorders, susceptibility to diagnosed secondary immune disorders, chronic pain, and sleep disturbances.
Communication and Recruitment to Clinical Research Studies
Janice L. Krieger and Jordan M. Neil
Strategic communication is an essential component in the science and practice of recruiting participants to clinical research studies. Unfortunately, many clinical research studies do not consider the role of communication in the recruitment process until efforts to enroll patients in a timely manner have failed. The field of communication is rich with theory and research that can inform the development of an effective recruitment plan from the inception of a clinical research study through informed consent. The recruitment context is distinct from many other health contexts in that there is often not a behavioral response that can be universally promoted to patients. The appropriateness of a clinical research study for an individual is based on a number of medical, psychological, and contextual factors, making it impossible to recommend that everyone who is eligible for a clinical research study enroll. Instead, clinical research study recruitment efforts must utilize strategic communication principles to ensure that messages promote awareness of clinical research, maximize personal relevance, minimize information overload, and facilitate informed choice. This can be accomplished through careful consideration of various aspects of the communication context described in this chapter, including audience segmentation, message content, message channels, and formative, process, and outcome evaluation, as well as the enrollment encounter.
Communication Privacy Management Theory and Health and Risk Messaging
Sandra Petronio and Maria K. Venetis
Communication privacy management theory (CPM) argues that disclosure is the process by which we give or receive private information. Private information is what people reveal. Generally, CPM theory argues that individuals believe they own their private information and have the right to control said information. Management of private information is not necessary until others are involved. CPM does not limit an understanding of disclosure by framing it as only about the self. Instead, CPM theory points out that when management is needed, others are given co-ownership status, thereby expanding the notion of disclosing information; the theory uses the metaphor of privacy boundary to illustrate where private information is located and how the boundary expands to accommodate multiple owners of private information. Thus, individuals can disclose not only their own information but also information that belongs to others or is owned by collectives such as families.
Making decisions to disclose or protect private information often creates a tension in which individuals vacillate between sharing and concealing their private information. Within the purview of health issues, these decisions have a potential to increase or decrease risk. The choice of disclosing health matters to a friend, for example, can garner social support to cope with health problems. At the same time, the individual may have concerns that his or her friend might tell someone else about the health problem, thus causing more difficulties.
Understanding the tension between disclosing and protecting private health information by the owner is only one side of the coin. Because disclosure creates authorized co-owners, these co-owners (e.g., families, friends, and partners) often feel they have right to know about the owner's health conditions. The privacy boundaries are used metaphorically to indicate where private information is located. Individuals have both personal privacy boundaries around health information that expands to include others referred to as "authorized co-owners." Once given this status, withholding to protect some part of the private information can risk relationships and interfere with health needs. Within the scheme of health, disclosure risks and privacy predicaments are not experienced exclusively by the individual with an illness. Rather, these risks prevail for a number of individuals connected to a patient such as providers, the patient's family, and supportive friends. Everyone involved has a dual role. For example, the clinician is both the co-owner of a patient's private health information and holds information within his or her own privacy boundary, such as worrying whether he or she diagnosed the symptoms correctly. Thus, there are a number of circumstances that can lead to health risks where privacy management and decisions to reveal or conceal health information are concerned.
CPM theory has been applied in eleven countries and in numerous contexts where privacy management occurs, such as health, families, organizations, interpersonal relationships, and social media. This theory is unique in offering a comprehensive way to understand the relationship between the notion of disclosure and that of privacy. The landscape of health-related risks where privacy management plays a significant role is both large and complex. The situations of HIV/AIDS, cancer care, and managing patient and provider disclosure of private information help to elucidate the ways decisions of privacy potentially lead to health risks.
Communities of Practice in Health and Risk Messaging
Nicola Andrew
A community of practice (CoP) situated in a health and risk context is an approach to collaboration among members that promotes learning and development. In a CoP, individuals come together virtually or physically and coalesce around a common purpose. CoPs are defined by knowledge, rather than task, and encourage novices and experienced practitioners to work together to co-create and embed sustainable outputs that impact on theory and practice development. As a result, CoPs provide an innovative approach to incorporating evidence-based research associated with health and risk into systems and organizations aligned with public well-being.
CoPs provide a framework for constructing authentic and collaborative learning. Jeanne Lave and Etienne Wenger are credited with the original description of a CoP as an approach to learning that encompasses elements of identity, situation, and active participation. CoPs blend a constructivist view of learning, where meaningful experience is set in the context of "self" and the relationship of "self" with the wider professional community. The result is an integrated approach to learning and development achieved through a combination of social engagement and collaborative working in an authentic practice environment. CoPs therefore provide a strategic approach to acknowledging cultural differences related to translating health and risk theory into practice.
In health and risk settings, CoPs situate and blend theory and practice to create a portal for practitioners to generate, shape, test, and evaluate new ideas and innovations. Membership of a CoP supports the development of professional identity within a wider professional sphere and may support community members to attain long range goals.
Creating Authentic and Lasting Community Relationships to Enhance Awareness and Understanding of Cancer Research
Linda Fleisher, Evelyn González, and Armenta Washington
Building and sustaining relationships fundamentally requires mutual trust based on authentic and reciprocal communication. Successful academic and community partnerships require a deep understanding of the needs of all stakeholders facilitated through dialogue and ongoing communication strategies. This dialogue is especially crucial to address health disparities and bridge the divide between academics and other professionals and the communities they serve. Innovative and sound health communications and community engagement approaches can help to address this divide. For those working with communities to improve health, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles can serve as a compass to guide those efforts of building on the strengths and resources within the community and ensuring co-learning to address social inequities. Moreover, using innovative and interactive health communication strategies, such as community forums, photovoice projects, and the development of culturally sensitive and relevant messaging, can empower and engage the community, facilitating long-lasting relationships between the academic institutions and communities that ultimately address the unique concerns and values of those most in need.
Embarrassment and Health & Risk Messaging
Spring Chenoa Cooper and P. Christopher Palmedo
Embarrassment, according to Fischer and Tangney, is an "aversive state of mortification, abashment, and chagrin that follows public social predicaments." It is usually related to our perceptions of how others perceive us as well as their judgments of us, and it is associated with a loss of self-esteem when we perceive that others have judged us as inadequate or incompetent. However, even mere exposure or attention publicly placed on someone can elicit embarrassment (think of someone pointing at you and laughing).
Embarrassment is considered a self-conscious emotion. Self-conscious emotions include those that are evoked by self-reflection and self-evaluation: embarrassment, shame, guilt, and pride. Shame, an intense form of embarrassment, also has structural and larger social contexts, while embarrassment is more individually experienced. Self-conscious emotions play an important role in regulating behavior; they assist us in behaving according to social standards and guide us in responding when those rules are broken. While these emotions provide feedback in social situations, they also provide feedback for anticipated outcomes.
Embarrassment can play an important role in health, both in communication and behavior, and occurs through different forms. Primary embarrassment is the first rush of blood to the face and increased heart rate that usually lasts a few moments. Secondary embarrassment is the after-effect that shapes future behavior. Anticipatory embarrassment is the emotion surrounding the potential for embarrassment in an upcoming situation. Solitary embarrassment is the one that no one actually observes.
Three stigmatized areas of health—mental health, healthcare, and sexual health—may be assessed as case studies through which to understand the literature around embarrassment, as both an affect and an emotion.
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Communication With and Delegation of Authority to CSU Campuses
Formal communications between the system office and all institutions are achieved through regular system meetings, Executive Orders, and coded and other memoranda. In addition, correspondence and telephone communication on matters particular to individual campuses are routine. In general, attempts are made to keep senior administrative officers at the campuses aware of communications occurring between Chancellor's Office and campus personnel.
System meetings are scheduled regularly with the Presidents (Executive Council), the chief academic officers, the chief business officers, and such other groups as the deans of education and deans of graduate study.
Special meetings and conferences are scheduled as needed. These may involve a targeted group of administrators, or they may involve a topic (such as conferences sponsored by the Institute for Teaching and Learning).
Executive orders are issued to campus presidents when authority is being delegated to them from the Chancellor. Coded memoranda are issued, to presidents or other senior administrators (with copies to presidents) by divisions of the Chancellor's Office. They transmit general information; promulgate Trustee policies; or request information needed for budget development, record keeping and reporting, or policy implementation.


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Enterprise Collaboration
This course focuses on enterprise social media and global information technology. Topics include social media software applications such as communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment software, globalization, global information technology issues, cultural differences, understanding the role of culture and communicating across cultures. An emphasis will be placed on how companies are integrating enterprise social media applications and the impact of these technologies on the globalization of information technology.
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BEIRUT — The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs.
Russia, a close ally of Syria, and the West are pushing down starkly different paths in trying to deal with Syria's nearly 11 months of bloodshed. After blocking a Western and Arab attempt to bring U.N. pressure on President Bashar Assad to step down, Russia has launched a bid to show it can resolve the turmoil.
Moscow is calling for a combination of reforms by the regime and negotiations, without calling for Assad to go. Its provisions are so far finding no traction with the opposition, which dismisses promises of reform as empty gestures, refuses any negotiations while violence continues and says Assad's removal is the only option in the crisis.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said outside forces should let Syrians settle their conflict "independently."
"We should not act like a bull in a china shop," Putin said, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency. "We have to give people a chance to make decisions about their destiny independently, to help, to give advice, to put limits somewhere so that the opposing sides would not have a chance to use arms, but not to interfere."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with Assad Tuesday in Damascus, told reporters in Moscow that the Syrian president delegated to his vice president, Farouk al-Sharaa, responsibility for holding a dialogue with the opposition.
Lavrov blamed both Assad's regime and opposition forces for instigating the violence, which the U.N. says has killed well over 5,400 people.
"On both sides, there are people that aim at an armed confrontation, not a dialogue," Lavrov said.
Rebel soldiers are playing a bigger role in Syria's Arab-Spring inspired uprising, turning it into a more militarized conflict and hurtling the country ever more quickly toward a civil war.
In their meeting Tuesday, Assad said the government was ready to talk to the opposition and would cooperate with "any effort that boosts stability in Syria."
The regime's crackdown on dissent has left it almost completely isolated internationally and facing growing sanctions. The U.S. closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday and five European countries and six Arab Gulf nations have pulled their ambassadors out of Damascus over the past two days. Germany, whose envoy left Syria this month, said he would not be replaced.
In Brussels, a senior EU official said the 27-nation bloc will soon impose harsher sanctions against Syria as it seeks to weaken Assad's regime.
The official said the new measures may include bans on the import of Syrian phosphates, on commercial flights between Syria and Europe, and on financial transactions with the country's central bank. The European Union imports 40 percent of Syria's phosphate exports.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with EU rules, said some measures would be adopted at the EU foreign ministers meeting on Feb. 27. But he stressed the nature of the measures to be adopted remained unclear since the ministers are concerned over the impact on the Syrian public.
The U.N.'s top human rights official Navi Pillay called on nations to immediately act to stop the bloodshed, saying she was "appalled" by the Syrian regime's offensive against the central city of Homs, where activists say hundreds have been killed since Saturday.
She said the killings show an "extreme urgency for the international community to cut through the politics and take effective action to protect the Syrian population."
In New York, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters that the Arab League planned to send observers back to Syria and had asked the U.N. to consider a joint mission.
The U.N. chief provided no specifics, but the idea appears aimed at giving the regional group a boost after the league's earlier mission was pulled out of the country because of security concerns.
Ban called the continuing violence "unacceptable" and added: "I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighborhoods, is a grim harbinger of worse to come."
On the ground, Syrian forces persisted with their assault on Homs, the country's third largest city, trying to put down what has been an epicenter of the uprising.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 53 people were killed in Wednesday's shelling of the Homs neighborhoods of Bayadah, Baba Amr, Khaldiyeh and Karm el-Zeytoun. The group also said that 23 homes were heavily damaged in Baba Amr alone.
Omar Shaker, an activist in Baba Amr, said his neighborhood was under "very intense shelling" by tanks, mortars, artillery and heavy machine guns. Shaker added that he counted five bodies Wednesday in his district. The death tolls, which the groups say they gather from activists on the ground, could not be independently confirmed. Syrian authorities keep tight control on the media.
"The situation is dire. We are short of food, water and medical aid. Doctors have collapsed after treating the wounded without rest for five days," Shaker said. "We want Lavrov to come and spend a night in Homs to see what we have been passing through."
The activist urged the international community to set up a safe passage so that women and children can leave volatile areas of Homs.
The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said the regime was trying "exhaust rebels in preparation for storming neighborhoods."
The Observatory reported at least another eight civilians killed around the country.
The Assad regime says terrorists acting out a foreign conspiracy to destabilize the country are behind the uprising, not people seeking to transform the authoritarian regime.
Syria's state-run TV said gunmen fired mortar rounds at the oil refinery in Homs, one of two in Syria, setting two fuel tankers on fire. It also said attackers denoted a car bomb in the Homs neighborhood of Bayadah, killing and wounding a number of civilians and troops.
Regime forces launched assaults on the village of Tseel in southern Daraa province on the Jordanian border, and the rebel-controlled mountain resort town of Zabadani, north of Damascus, the Observatory and another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, reported.
Troops loyal to Assad also clashed with army defectors in the northwestern province of Idlib, bordering Turkey, the two groups said.
Associated Press writer Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels and Anita Snow at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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Power over Nature
The Lord of
the Elements
Sathya called out and the wind and
the clouds obeyed!
This incident happened when Baba was still
a young lad, affectionately called as 'Sathya'
by everyone. Baba's mother, Easwaramma, recounts this
episode for Prof. Kasturi, which he has recorded in "Easwaramma
– The Chosen Mother":
"Puttaparthi was Gokulam, for Sathya
was there. The old name of the village had been Gollapalli,
the Cowherd Hamlet. It is this name that must have drawn Krishna
to be born again on earth. How else can I explain the strange
things the boy did?" Easwaramma asked me and related
a story of His early years.
"It was one evening during the North-East
monsoon. The sky grew dark and menacing. Venkamma (Baba's
sister) was building a house then and there was a large kiln
of wet bricks waiting to be baked. The logs of wood were readied
but the fire could be lit only the next morning for the day
was inauspicious. Now, there would be a downpour and all those
bricks reduced to a huge misshapen mound of clay.
Something had to be done and quickly. Luckily
there was a helpful neighbour. Cover the bricks with bundles
of dry sugar cane leaves, he told Venkamma. Where were we
to get that?
He suggested a friend of his living on the
eastern bank of the Chitravathi who could be persuaded to
give these leaves. A long line of men, women and children
ran over the sands in desperate hurry. Swami too joined, the
last in the line of volunteers.
But when He got to the middle of the riverbed
He suddenly called out for everyone to stop.
'Venkamma!' He said. 'Vaana
raadu!' (The rains will not come).
And - the clouds scattered, the day brightened,
the threat was over! A few quiet words, a small palm silhouetted
against the dark sky for a moment and up above in far space,
the wind; the clouds and the rain obeyed! Everyone turned
back home with no bundle of leaves, for they had the young
Lord of the Elements in their midst."
Easwaramma concluded her story triumphantly
and turned to watch my face with eager expectancy. I did not
disappoint her. "This Krishna has saved this Gokula by
lifting a single finger!" I said.
Reference: "Easwaramma
– The Chosen Mother" by Prof.
N Kasturi. Page: 33-34. Published by Sri Sathya Sai
Books and Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam, 1984.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Corn production is forecast to drop 13 percent for 2012, the lowest production since 2006, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Friday.
Corn production is forecast at 10.8 billion bushels, down 13 percent from 2011, the department said in in a release.
Based on conditions as of Aug. 1, yields are expected to average 123.4 bushels per acre, down 23.8 bushels from 2011.
If the forecast holds true, this would be the lowest average yield since 1995, the department said.
Last week, federal officials said nearly 64 percent of the contiguous United States was in a drought, the highest since the U.S. Drought Monitor's inception in 2000.
The drought and heat came at a critical time for Midwestern agriculture, especially corn. The combination of heat and arid conditions severely reduced the quality and quantity of corn and soybean crops, with 48 percent of the corn and 37 percent of the soybeans rated as poor or very poor as of July 29 by the U.S. Agriculture Department's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Soybean production is forecast at 2.69 billion bushels, down 12 percent from last year.
Cotton production is forecast at 17.7 million, 480-pound bales, up 13 percent from last year.
Wheat production, at 2.27 billion bushels, is up 2 percent from the July forecast, the department said.
A top U.N. official and others said the United States should shelve a mandate siphoning 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop for ethanol and use the corn for food and feed.
Suspending the mandate could help fend off a world food crisis, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said in a Financial Times opinion piece published Friday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Administration mandate requires 13.2 billion gallons of biofuel to be blended into gasoline by 2012 to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and U.S. foreign-oil dependence.
But to meet this requirement, 40 percent of the nation's corn crop winds up as ethanol, while 36 percent is used for livestock feed.
Giving such a high portion to ethanol is irresponsible, given weather conditions have produced the worst drought in more than 50 years, Graziano da Silva said.
His call followed a similar appeal 181 members of Congress urging EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to loosen ethanol targets and adjust the mandate.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the Financial Times he doubted waiving the ethanol mandate would lower corn prices.
The Renewable Fuels Association ethanol trade group said Thursday ethanol production had fallen 15 percent since the beginning of the year.
Some analysts argue that because ethanol is a huge component of global energy supplies, suspending the mandate could push up fuel prices.