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Saturday, June 30, 2012
1-Minute Strategies: June '12 ? Business Management Daily: Free ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Start each day with a prioritized to-do list, dividing it into A-B-C tasks and ranking by number, with ?A-1? as most important. Then, as distractions or interruptions pop up during the day, ask if they are more important, not simply.
Apple gets Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned in US
An American judge has ordered Samsung to halt US sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone while the court considers Apple's claim the South Korean company infringed iPhone patents.
It was Apple's second victory in a week in a Californian court against Android devices.
In a ruling Friday available online, Judge Lucy Koh says that the Galaxy Nexus won't be sold in the U.S. during the trial.
The same judge ordered Samsung to halt sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer earlier this week.
The latest ruling is a blow to Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc., which jointly announced the smartphone in October 2011.
Apple Inc. and Samsung have been embroiled in multiple lawsuits in Asia, North America and Europe accusing each other of patent infringement.
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Sony: New racing wheel peripheral has "double the accuracy of a DualShock."
The PlayStation Move Racing Wheel peripheral for PS3 will have "basically double the accuracy of a DualShock," Sony has announced.
This information comes from the US PlayStation Blog, where SCEA research and development engineer Anton Mikhailov detailed the bizarre spaceship-shaped controller in the video below.
Each handle has a "DualShock-style motor" for directional rumble. The Move itself can also vibrate for various degrees of sensory feedback. Since the device is powered entirely by the Move, it won't require any additional batteries.
For motorcycle-based games, the grips expand until the whole thing resembles motorcycle handlebars. The right grip has a twist throttle in it working in tandem with the rumble.
In addition to racing games, Sony explains the contraption's added precision would make a nice fit for flying games too.
Titles that support the peripheral include: the upcoming LittleBigPlanet Karting, Gran Turismo 5, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Burnout Paradise, MotorStorm Apocalypse, and more.
The PlayStation Move Racing Wheel is coming this Autumn to North America where it will retail for $39.99 . No European release has been announced.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Drew Brees talks about the NFL's bounty investigation on 'Late Show'
Drew Brees will appear on today's episode of "Late Show with David Letterman," which was taped on Tuesday and will air at 10:35 p.m. During his interview with Letterman, Brees again responded to questions about the NFL's pay-for-performance bounty investigation.
"It's certainly not a positive thing," Brees said. "I mean, just the whole process itself and the investigation I feel like has been extremely unfair. Unfortunately, it seems like it's been more of a media campaign then it is actually finding the truth to the matter."?
Brees said, as he has in the past, that he was not aware that a "pay-to-injure" program existed during former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams' time with the New Orleans Saints from 2009-11."... That's not something that I believe our team would be engaged in, and I think for all of us, it was a shock when we were accused of that because that's a pretty heinous accusation," Brees said. "So the entire time for a lot of us, it's been, 'Show us the proof, put forth the facts and, if indeed it is proved that there was a pay-to-injure program in place, then, yes, there should be punishment enforced.' Unfortunately, to this pointthere's been no hard evidence to show that that was indeed taking place."?
Brees again drew a distinction between the terms "pay-for-performance" and "pay-to-injure" when asked about the legality of the program.
"There's two things here: There's a pay-for-performance and then there's pay-to-injure," Brees said. "The NFL, through their media campaign, has combined the two and said that these were going on, but combined them as if they were the same thing. They're not the same thing.
"Pay-for-performance would be if I was a kick returner and I said to all the guys blocking for me, 'Hey, if I score a touchdown, if you get me in the end zone, I'll give you all $100' or 'I'll take you all out to eat.'? It's just a benefit, a reward.? That's a pay-for-performance, and that's just players taking care of players.? It has nothing to do with the front office management, owner, anyone.? Pay-to-injure is the same thing except it's, 'Hey, I'll give you money if you go and intentionally hurt somebody."?
Source: http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2012/06/drew_brees_talks_about_the_nfl.html
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Stocks pull back as banks, Europe weigh
Brendan Mcdermid / REUTERS
Traders on the floor of the NYSE react to the Supreme Court's decision on healthcare.
By msnbc.com news services
Stocks closed Thursday?s seesaw session lower on concerns about global banks, a surprise Supreme Court ruling upholding a landmark healthcare law, and pessimism about the ability of a European summit to ease the region's debt crisis.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed the day down 25 points, having tumbled 177 points earlier in the session.
As EU leaders began the two-day summit, finance officials were working on urgent measures to diminish financial market pressure on Spain and Italy, which may be more difficult to bail out than smaller nations in the euro zone.
Recent statements from German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been at odds those of other European leaders on how to deal with the crisis.
"Angela Merkel was very adamant about the fact she isn't going to give an inch or two - the markets at this point may be looking at the statement (at the conclusion of the summit) to see if the actions match her rhetoric," said Fred Dickson, chief market strategist, D.A. Davidson & Co. Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Wall Street losses accelerated after a divided U.S. Supreme Court backed the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul law that requires that most Americans to get insurance by 2014 or face a penalty. The decision surprised many investors who see the law as a hallmark of a business unfriendly administration.
Related: Hospital shares rise on health ruling, insurers fall
"The proof in the pudding will come out over the next three or four days because the Supreme Court ruling, being ninety pages long, probably will require some in depth interpretation," said Dickson.
Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co dropped after a New York Times report projected that losses from a recent botched trade could reach $9 billion, more than four times the original estimate.
U.S.-traded shares of Barclays slumped after Britain said it had brought in the fraud squad to investigate possible crimes over attempts to manipulate lending rates, a scandal that is expected to spread to other banks.
Further weighing on the financial sector, Citi Investment Research posted a bearish note on several U.S. banks including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs as the slow economic recovery hurts trading.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Source: http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/28/12463315-stocks-pull-back-as-banks-europe-weigh?lite
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HTC EVO V 4G (Virgin Mobile)
Virgin Mobile's first phone to run on Sprint's 4G WiMAX network, the HTC EVO V 4G is an excellent deal for Virgin Mobile customers. Though a bit expensive, at $299.99 up front, it gets you fast 4G WiMAX speeds, powerful dual-core performance, and glasses-free 3D, all for as little as $35 a month. Sure, the phone?is on the bulky side, and narrow viewing angles mean that only one person can view 3D content at a time, but it's the fastest, most powerful phone available on Virgin Mobile, which earns it our Editors' Choice award.
Physical Design and Call Quality
The HTC EVO V 4G is basically the same phone as the HTC EVO 3D?(3 stars)?we reviewed on Sprint last year. At 5.0 by 2.5 by .45 inches (HWD) and 5.9 ounces, this phone is pretty huge.?The back panel is made of rubberized, textured black plastic that feels comfortable to hold. Dual 5-megapixel cameras are in place on the back of the phone for recording 3D content, and camera and volume controls are located on the right side of the phone. It feels a little crowded, and the camera buttons are easy to press accidentally, but you get used to it.
The EVO V has a 4.3-inch 960-by-540 qHD LCD display, which looks sharp, bright, and clear. It's by far the nicest screen you can get on a phone from Virgin right now, and typing feels fine on the phone's onscreen keyboard. Below the display are four capacitive touch buttons.
While we had some trouble with call quality and internet with the EVO 3D, that seems to have been remedied here, as the EVO V turned in much better call quality, reception, and Internet connectivity. The EVO V is a quad-band (800/850/1900/2600) CDMA/WiMAX phone that runs on Sprint's 3G and 4G networks.
Reception and calls are about average. Voices sounds loud and clear in the phone's earpiece, if somewhat thin and digitized. Calls made with the phone sound a bit muffled, and noise cancellation is mediocre. Voices sound fine over a Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars) and voice dialing worked over Bluetooth without issue. The speakerphone sounds fine but is far too low to use outside. Battery life over 3G is average, at 5 hours and 41 minutes of talk time. But turn on 4G, and that number drops considerably, even when you aren't using the phone. You'll probably only want to connect to 4G when you know you're going to use it. 3D recording eats into that battery number significantly as well, so you may want to carry a spare.
Data Speeds and Data Plans
As we discovered in our testing for the Fastest Mobile Networks, Sprint has the slowest 3G speeds of all the carriers we tested. That means that all 3G-only Sprint, Virgin, and Boost phones are running at some pretty challenged data speeds. Thankfully, 4G WiMAX support offers the EVO V a major boost. Running Ookla's Speedtest.net app, I saw average 4G download speeds of 4Mbps in Manhattan. Uploads were a lot slower, at an average of 0.6Mbps. But speeds in Queens were great, at an average of 8Mbps down and 1.3Mbps up.
Sprint's 3G network, on the other hand, is significantly slower. I saw an average of 1.1Mbps down and .8Mbps up in Queens, but not even half that in Manhattan. Additionally, while I didn't have trouble connecting to Sprint's 4G network, there was one instance in Manhattan in which it was crawling along. This issue didn't repeat itself, though.
The best reason to get a phone on Virgin is to tap into the carrier's inexpensive pricing plans. You can get "unlimited" texts and data for just $35 per month with 300 voice minutes. The 1,200 minute plan costs $45, and unlimited voice calling brings the price to $55 per month. If you don't do much talking, that $35 plan is hard to beat?especially considering that a data plan alone will cost you $30 on a carrier like Verizon Wireless, and for that price you're limited to 2GB of data per month. There is a downside for heavy data users: After 2.5GB of full-speed data usage per month, your speeds will be throttled significantly until the end of your billing cycle.
For an additional $15 per month, you can use the EVO V as a mobile hotspot to share your connection with up to eight devices. This also gets an additional 1GB of full-speed data added to your plan.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Zumba for Parkinson's Disease patients | Diet-Fitness-Health ...
In the spring and fall of 2011, BIDMC brought a modified form of the fitness craze ZUMBA to Parkinson?s patients and their family members. Co-developer of the Zumba Gold Program, Josie Gardiner, inspired participants to step and sway to a driving Latin beat. The results were, well, moving! The Parkinson?s Disease and Movement Disorders Center will be running a winter Zumba Gold class beginning in January 2012. Visit bidmc.org/pdcenter to learn more.
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A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural ...
My book A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature has just been released by Fordham University Press. Extracts from the book can be read on Google Books here. The book is available for purchase here. For further details, see my blog:
http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com.
"A Common Strangeness is unique among studies of contemporary poetics in being genuinely global in its perspective and its reach. At home in Russian and Chinese as well as American poetry and that of his native New Zealand, Jacob Edmond pinpoints the crucial relationships that exist between what are seemingly disparate poetic cultures. The Chinese poet Yang Lian, who lived in exile in Auckland, is read under the sign of Benjamin and Baudelaire. The American Language poet Lyn Hejinian's important dialogue with the Russian avant-gardist Arkadii Dragomoshchenko is studied carefully, and Bei Dao, Dmitri Prigov, and Charles Bernstein are treated as representative figures of cross-cultural thinking in the age of globalism. Edmond's is a provocative, exciting, and genuinely original study of the new poetics; we will all be learning from it!"??Marjorie Perloff
"This bold triangulation of six Chinese, Russian, and American poets advances lively current debates about global literature by exploring encounters that challenge the old binarisms and chart possibilities of literary singularities for a future poetics. Edmond's shrewd account of literary crossings in post-Cold War history helps us imagine how we can experience the challenge of new literary configurations."??Jonathan Culler
"Jacob Edmond addresses what he calls 'forms of textual strangeness' across contemporary poems of beautiful complexity and staying power. This theoretically astute book challenges us to read with a keener eye and to recognize how much poetry can tell us about political catastrophes, national dislocations, and promises of cultural renewal."?Stephanie Sandler
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Discovery may lead to new tomato varieties with vintage flavor and quality
ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) ? A new discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms, reports an international research team headed by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist.
The finding, which will be reported in the June 29 issue of the journal Science, has significant implications for the U.S. tomato industry, which annually harvests more than 15 million tons of the fruit for processing and fresh-market sales.
"This information about the gene responsible for the trait in wild and traditional varieties provides a strategy to recapture quality characteristics that had been unknowingly bred out of modern cultivated tomatoes," said Ann Powell, a biochemist in UC Davis' Department of Plant Sciences and one of the lead authors of the study.
"Now that we know that some of the qualities that people value in heirloom tomatoes can be made available in other types of tomatoes, farmers can have access to more varieties of tomatoes that produce well and also have desirable color and flavor traits," she said.
For decades, plant breeders in the tomato industry have selected varieties that are uniformly light green before they ripen, in order to produce tomatoes that can be harvested at the same time.
However, this characteristic is accompanied by an unintended reduction in sugars that compromises the flavor of the fresh fruit and its desirability for processing.
Powell's UC Davis research team began studying the genes influencing tomato fruit development and ripening after spending two summers screening tomato plants for transcription factors that might play a role in both fruit color and quality. Transcription factors are proteins that regulate genes, or turn them on and off. These factors themselves are manufactured or expressed by genes.
The UC Davis researchers were particularly interested in tomatoes they observed in the field that were unusually dark green before they ripened.
Partnering with researchers at Cornell University and in Spain, who were mapping regions of the tomato genome, the scientists discovered two transcription factors, called GLK1 and GLK2, that control the development of chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are the structures in the plant cells that enable plants to photosynthesize, converting the energy of sunlight into sugars and other compounds that influence flavor and color.
The researchers scoured a collection of mutant and wild species of tomatoes at UC Davis established at UC Davis by the late Professor Charles Rick beginning in the 1950s. They discovered that dark green tomatoes that naturally express GLK2 produced ripe fruit with increased levels of sugars or soluble solids, important for processing tomatoes, as well as higher levels of the health-promoting compound lycopene.
"Nature presents numerous important genes and their variants, like uniform ripening, that breeders employ to facilitate the needs of growers, processors and consumers," said Jim Giovannoni, a USDA plant molecular biologist with the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University. "Understanding the genes responsible for these characteristics facilitates the challenging process of breeding crops that meet the needs of all components of the food-supply chain."
Cuong Nguyen, a Cornell graduate student in Giovannoni's laboratory co-authored the paper with Powell. Other members of the research team included: Theresa Hill, KaLai Lam Cheng, Rosa Figueroa-Balderas, Hakan Aktas, Hamid Ashrafi, Ariel Vicente, Javier Lopez-Baltazar, Roger Chetelat, Allen Van Deynze and Alan Bennett, all of UC Davis; Yongsheng Liu and Cornelius Barry of Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institute of the USDA; Clara Pons and Antonio Granell, of the Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain; Rafael Fern?ndez-Mu?oz of the Universidad de M?laga, Spain.
Funding for the study was provided by The University of California Discovery program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, the National Science Foundation, the Viet Nam Education Foundation, the Fundaci?n Genoma Espa?a, and the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnolog?a and the Instituto Tecn?logico de Costa Rica.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Towork.se - Office Coordinator Intern at Fantasy Interactive ...
| Arbetsgivare: | FANTASY INTERACTIVE AB |
|---|---|
| L?n?/?Kommun: | Stockholms l?n (Stockholm) |
| Varaktighet: | Visstidsanst?llning |
| Arbetstid: | Deltid |
| Antal platser: | 1 st |
Sista ans?kningsdatum: 2012-07-15
OFFICE COORDINATOR INTERN
Fantasy Interactive in Stockholm is looking for an energetic, professional and meticulous Office Coordinator intern. Even if the position is an internship the expectations are high and we only want those who are hungry to learn, grow and develop their skills in the areas of HR, recruitment and general office management.
In short, your focus will be assisting management and being the right hand of our Talent Manager by taking responsibility of various Human Resource matters, recruitment, events and most importantly help create and maintain an exceptional office environment by handling a wide-range of administrative tasks assigned to you.
Overview of responsibilities:
-HR / Recruitment
-HR file management
-Data entry
Office Management
-Keeping the entire office well-organized and well-equipped
-Maintaining inventory of all office supplies and equipment
-Postal mail management
-Receiving and directing incoming calls
-Receiving guests and making meeting preparations
-Managing office atmosphere
Administration/Assistance
-Bookings/reservations
-Managing vendors/suppliers, contracts
-Assisting managers and producers with wide-ranging tasks
Additional Considerations:
The position requires a high level of individual responsibility, professionalism and proactive drive. You must be able to anticipate and solve problems, see where improvements can be made, and be very service-minded. Your time-management skills are flawless; communication is clear and professional. Your friendly manner is key, as well as impeccable command of the English language, both in writing and speaking, as we do speak more English than Swedish in the office due to our clients and international staff.
Experience Required:
-Excellent English skills are required, Swedish knowledge preferred
-Interest of HR Management, Recruitment and Office Management required
-Previous intern or work experience merited
The position is part-time and is a 6-month internship to start immediately. It offers a fantastic opportunity for a proactive and service minded person who is eager to develop their skills within HR, recruitment and general office management. Be ready to learn and also remember to have fun.
If you would like to apply, please email Ecaterina Smirnov at Ecaterina@f-i.com with your CV in English, in the subject line please include ?Office Coordinator Intern? and remember to impress us with your cover letter by including a short summary about your career goals and why you think you would be perfect for the job.
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Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys
A closer, deeper look at one of America's greatest pop bands of all time.
Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys: The Songs That Tell Their Story By Mark Dillon ECW Press 289 pp.
EnlargeCanadian journalist Mark Dillon?s book about one of the most important American pop groups is fan-based journalism at its best ? and much more. It?s an entertaining, even-handed examination of the great southern California band through commentary on 50 of its tunes by members, collaborators, and musicians the Boys influenced. Timed to coincide with the reconciled group?s 50th-anniversary tour and a new album, Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys it?s far more keeper than souvenir.
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Over their often-conflicted career, the Beach Boys have been inspiring, experimental, courageous, innocent, wounded ? and creative. Brian Wilson, their troubled yet persistent leader, is a musical genius. The other Boys were lesser lights, but Brian couldn?t have wrought what he did without them.
Journalism about Brian, his entrepreneurial and aggressive cousin Mike Love, and Brian?s brothers Carl and Dennis ? the first dead of cancer, the second drowned ? is usually framed as a story of heroes and villains, and the Beach Boys were indeed dysfunctional. Wilson p?re Murry, a failed musician, was a tyrant, which Dillon doesn?t soft pedal. At the same time, Dillon gives Murry his due as a goad to the group?s creativity. He even tempers a commonly held negative view of Eugene Landy, the discredited Hollywood psychoanalyst Brian?s wife, Marilyn, hired in 1975, suggesting in an interview with ?15 Big Ones? engineer Earle Mankey that though Landy was a control freak who charged outrageous prices for his counsel, he did help the errant and troubled Brian return to the studio.
In 1967, when the Beach Boys foundered over ?Smile? (original title: ?Dumb Angel?), a storied album that went officially unreleased until last year, I bought Van Dyke Parks? brilliantly opaque ?Song Cycle,? one of the earliest free-form rock recordings. In Dillon?s interview with ?Smile?-obsessed Apples in Stereo leader Robert Schneider, Dillon says Parks abandoned his collaboration with Brian Wilson on ?Smile? because of resistance from other group members, instead settling into work on ?Song Cycle.? Such back stories give ?50 Sides? factual muscle. (Too bad Parks wouldn?t make himself available for an interview.)?
When I interviewed Mike Love in 1970 in Burlington, Vt., during Love?s visit to a Transcendental Meditation center to push Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?s methodology, I found him smug and guarded. The headline on my? Burlington Free Press story: ?Lie Around Your Lear Jet and Be a Star.?
In 1982, as a reporter for the Schenectady, N.Y. Gazette, I reviewed the Beach Boys at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and found myself backstage standing next to Brian Wilson. He was bearded and heavy and seemed in a kind of trance. At the end of 1986, after I moved to Cleveland, my first freelance article for the Cleveland Plain Dealer packaged an interview with Stephen Gaines, a Beach Boys biographer, with commentary on ?Smile,? the aborted and at that time heavily bootlegged album many consider the group?s crowning achievement.
The Beach Boys matter to me.
After reading this book, which features interviews with everyone from group stalwart David Marks (on this summer?s reunion tour) to Dennis? good friend and touring band associate Billy Hintsche to ?Sail on Sailor? lead vocalist Blondie Chaplin, they might well matter to you, too. In effect, Dillon joins the reader to the Beach Boys? family, extended over 50 years and as many tunes, many of them unexpected choices that will send you back to your iDevice. They might even persuade you to fire up your turntable.
Turns out, despite Brian?s assertion that he wasn?t made for these times, the Beach Boys were made for all times.
The author of ?Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories,? Carlo Wolff is developing ?Invisible Soul,? a book about underground Cleveland soul music from doo-wop to disco.
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A film added is an actor who appears inside the background within a film. This background actor appears on a non-significant capacity in scenes like an individual inside a crowd, a busy street, and so on. This role demands extremely tiny acting experience if any. Other abilities like reliability, punctuality and capability to comply with directions take precedence to talent. Extras are needed in both motion pictures and television series.
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New tools for evaluating quality of life for cats, dogs with heart disease
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'CATCH' and 'FETCH' scores help veterinarians and pet owners make critical decisions
Quality of life has become accepted as an important predictor of survival among human patients with heart failure. Now veterinarians at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have developed two surveys that may prove to be similarly useful in evaluating the quality of life for dogs and cats with heart disease.
Known as "FETCH" (Functional Evaluation of Cardiac Health) and "CATCH" (Cats' Assessment Tool for Cardiac Health), the surveys ask owners to rank aspects of their dog's or cat's health on a scale of 0 to 5. Veterinarians are then able to assess the animal's perceived quality of life, which may inform decisions about treatment, nutrition or even euthanasia.
Researchers found that the FETCH and CATCH scores correlated well to the International Small Animal Cardiac Health Council (ISACHC) classification for disease severity.
Results of the CATCH evaluation were published in the May 15 edition of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, building on the earlier publication of the FETCH study.
"Studies have indicated that pet owners value quality of life much more than longevity in their animals," said Professor of Clinical Sciences Lisa M. Freeman, board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Nutrition . "We want our dogs and cats to have happy lives, and we believe this tool is a helpful in evaluating whether our pets still do."
The survey tools were developed by Freeman and Professor of Clinical Sciences John E. Rush, board-certified cardiologist and criticalist at the veterinary school's Foster Hospital for Small Animals. Freeman and Rush set out to create and evaluate a tool for pets similar to the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire, one of the most widely used evaluation tools in human cardiology.
The CATCH tool was validated using studies in 75 cats at Tufts' Foster Hospital for Small Animals, the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School and the VCA Animal Care Center of Sonoma County (Rohert Park, Calif.), then tested in 200 cats at the three previous sites, as well as Oregon State University, Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital (Woburn, Mass.) and Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.
The work on the tools will continue to measure their responsiveness to medical treatment and create a clinical and research tool for clinicians, Freeman said.
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Freeman LM, Rush JE, Oyama MA, Macdonald KA, Cunningham SM, Bulmer B, Macgregor JM, Laste NJ, Malakoff RL, Hall DJ, Trafny DJ. "Development and evaluation of a questionnaire for assessment of health-related quality of life in cats with cardiac disease." J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2012 May 15;240(10):1188-93.
About the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
Founded in 1978 in North Grafton, Mass., Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University is internationally esteemed for academic programs that impact society and the practice of veterinary medicine; three hospitals and two clinics that combined log more than 80,000 animal cases each year; and groundbreaking research that benefits animal, public, and environmental health.
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Public release date: 25-Jun-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Thomas Keppeler
tom.keppeler@tufts.edu
508-839-7910
Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus
'CATCH' and 'FETCH' scores help veterinarians and pet owners make critical decisions
Quality of life has become accepted as an important predictor of survival among human patients with heart failure. Now veterinarians at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have developed two surveys that may prove to be similarly useful in evaluating the quality of life for dogs and cats with heart disease.
Known as "FETCH" (Functional Evaluation of Cardiac Health) and "CATCH" (Cats' Assessment Tool for Cardiac Health), the surveys ask owners to rank aspects of their dog's or cat's health on a scale of 0 to 5. Veterinarians are then able to assess the animal's perceived quality of life, which may inform decisions about treatment, nutrition or even euthanasia.
Researchers found that the FETCH and CATCH scores correlated well to the International Small Animal Cardiac Health Council (ISACHC) classification for disease severity.
Results of the CATCH evaluation were published in the May 15 edition of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, building on the earlier publication of the FETCH study.
"Studies have indicated that pet owners value quality of life much more than longevity in their animals," said Professor of Clinical Sciences Lisa M. Freeman, board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Nutrition . "We want our dogs and cats to have happy lives, and we believe this tool is a helpful in evaluating whether our pets still do."
The survey tools were developed by Freeman and Professor of Clinical Sciences John E. Rush, board-certified cardiologist and criticalist at the veterinary school's Foster Hospital for Small Animals. Freeman and Rush set out to create and evaluate a tool for pets similar to the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire, one of the most widely used evaluation tools in human cardiology.
The CATCH tool was validated using studies in 75 cats at Tufts' Foster Hospital for Small Animals, the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School and the VCA Animal Care Center of Sonoma County (Rohert Park, Calif.), then tested in 200 cats at the three previous sites, as well as Oregon State University, Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital (Woburn, Mass.) and Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.
The work on the tools will continue to measure their responsiveness to medical treatment and create a clinical and research tool for clinicians, Freeman said.
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Freeman LM, Rush JE, Oyama MA, Macdonald KA, Cunningham SM, Bulmer B, Macgregor JM, Laste NJ, Malakoff RL, Hall DJ, Trafny DJ. "Development and evaluation of a questionnaire for assessment of health-related quality of life in cats with cardiac disease." J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2012 May 15;240(10):1188-93.
About the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
Founded in 1978 in North Grafton, Mass., Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University is internationally esteemed for academic programs that impact society and the practice of veterinary medicine; three hospitals and two clinics that combined log more than 80,000 animal cases each year; and groundbreaking research that benefits animal, public, and environmental health.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Successful Tips For Commercial Real Estate | Real Estater Blog
Commercial real estate is a complicated business that can overwhelm even the most seasoned professional, let alone the new guy. In the following paragraphs are facts and insights designed to lessen the burden of stress you will endure from dealing with commercial property matters.
Find out how any firm you have under consideration defines success. How do they determine the space requirements? What is their property selection criteria? How do they negotiate? This and many other little details will all affect your dealings. It will help you to know these details before you sign anything.
|Be sure to consider any kinds of environmental problems. For example, the previous property owners might not have disposed of hazardous waste appropriately. As a property owner, it is your responsibility to handle these issues, regardless of their origin.
|If you are looking to get financing for your real estate goals be sure to have your business and personal financial statements on hand for review. These documents give the banks the information they need in regards to your financial responsibility and how secure their investment would be if they were to give you a loan to meet your goals.
|Address any environmental issues or hazards before you sign the final purchase paperwork. You don?t want to start off with any problems that could?ve been prevented. As owner of the property, you must be willing and able to address these concerns, regardless of whether you were directly responsible for them.
Find a good attorney who will help you through every step of your commercial transaction. If something goes south in your property adventures, then you want the best backing you up to keep your reputation sound and protect you from threats.
|Don?t ignore the environment that a property you?re considering is in. Environmental waste, from a previous owner, could become your responsibility to clean up. For example, do you want to buy a property that lies in a flood zone? Take the time go think things over before taking action. You should get in touch with environmental assessment agencies in order to get information on the area you are thinking about purchasing an item.
|When you want to invest in apartment complexes, remember that small properties sometimes come with more problems than larger properties; because of this, some seasoned professionals in this industry suggest not investing in properties with less than 10 units. Every situation is different, and researching your property can help with your decision.
|If you are considering purchasing a property with multiple units, check for the chance to go a little larger than you would first think. Managing a slightly larger unit does really take that much more work, and doing so actually increases your profit on a per unit basis.
When looking to invest in a piece of real estate, you should always be aware that prices may inflate dramatically in the years to come. Just a few years ago, most contracts protected you from inflation by locking you in at a certain interest rate. If you do not plan for inflation or cover it in your contract, then you are at significant risk.
|Get your commercial property inspected before you try to sell it. If they find anything wrong with the property, you should have it fixed immediately.
|Before placing your commercial property on the market, you should take the time to have it inspected by a professional inspector. If the inspector finds any problems, you should attend to them promptly.
|People who invest in commercial real estate know the threat associated with fluctuating interest rates. As interest rates move up and down unpredictably, investors leave themselves open to the chance that the rates may suddenly rise dramatically. Interest rate fluctuations should be taken into account when evaluating your long-term goals and profits.
When you are first starting out in real estate investing, the best thing is to keep it simple and start with one investment strategy at a time. Select a type of property that you think would make a good place to begin, and focus on it. It is preferred to excel in one type instead of being mediocre in many types.
|Find out how to spot and jump on good deals. Experienced real estate professionals can spot a good deal from a mile away. The secret to a good deal for experienced investors is to have a way out, meaning if they do not like the deal, they will walk away. This secret helps them recognize damage that needs repair, they understand how risks are calculated and they are able to use a calculator in order to ensure that their needs are financially met with a particular property.
|Another factor to be aware of when shopping for property to rent or lease is who pays for pest control. It is even more important to look into the building?s pest control policies if you are looking to rent or lease in a region where building pests are common.
|Borrowers have to order appraisals with commercial loans. If you don?t follow the rules, the bank will refuse to let you rely on it. Spare yourself further hassle by initiating the request yourself.
Commercial real estate agents come in different types. So-called ?full service? brokers represent both tenants and landlords, while there are other brokers that work exclusively with tenants. If you are a tenant, you may be much better off by using a broker who only works with tenants as they have a lot more experience with successful tenant representation.
|Prior to making any purchase, be certain that you?re dealing with a corporation or firm that truly takes care of their clients. If you work with a company that only cares about its own profits, you might lose money on preventable mistakes.
|Know what to expect from your realtor by asking them questions about successes and failures. Ask them how their results are measured. It is important to understand their strategies and philosophies behind real estate. You and your broker need to agree on these ideas and how to make them work.
|Take digital photographs of the unit. Be sure that the pictures show any current problems with or damage to the home.
Take digital photographs of the unit. Make sure your pictures clearly show any damage or defects, including carpet stains, holes in the walls or discoloration of plumbing and counter tops.
|Advertising your property to parties locally and abroad is important to ensure you get the best price possible. Do not assume that only local investors will be interested. Some private investors will be interested in properties outside of their areas if the price is low.
|Location is key in commercial real estate. Think about the neighborhood your property is located in. Compare the growth of the property?s neighborhood to similar neighborhoods around the country. You?ll want to choose an area that is on the upswing and will continue growing for at least a decade into the future.
|Try sending a newsletter about your commercial property, or post fresh content on a networking site. Once you have locked up a deal, make sure to keep your online presence.
The location of your commercial property is key to its value and its potential suitability for what you have in mind. Neighborhood is important, even when you are looking at commercial property. Also review the expected growth of other similar communities. By calculating growth in similar areas, you will be able to ascertain whether the piece of property you are looking at is going to continue growing.
|If you are in a situation where you have to choose between two attractive commercial properties, remember that size matters. If you will be financing the purchase, you should take into account that doing so will require just as much time and effort for a small lot as it will for a larger lot. Generally, it?s like buying in bulk; the more you buy, the less each unit is.
|Emergency maintenance should always be on your need to know list. Talk to the landlord about who does emergency repairs for your building or office. Have the phone numbers on speed dial, and know how long it generally takes stuff to get fixed. Create an emergency plan using your landlord?s information so that you can protect customer service and your reputation in case of a disruption to your usual business.
|You need to make sure that the price you are asking for your real estate is a realistic price. The value of your property is determined by an entire series of different factors.
When purchasing commercial real estate, you need to have a tight relationship with private lenders and investors. Make sure you have a big network because there?s a lot of property that goes unnoticed and is sold, you want to increase your chances of making deals by always being informed.
|Try feng shui in your home office as well as commercial real estate buildings. Two of the most basic principles of feng shui- open spaces and clutter-free lifestyles -are also very appealing to buyers.
|Real estate brokers for commercial properties have different areas of expertise. There are agents who only represent tenants and there are full-service brokers who work with both tenants and landlords. Brokers who work only with tenants have more experience with representing them well.
|Inspections are necessary before buying any piece of real estate. When arranging an inspection, be sure to check both credentials and reputation before hiring an inspector. You should particularly watch for people involved in insect or pest control. There are a large number of individuals who work in these areas that do not hold the proper credentials. Doing so, will help you avoid much larger problems after actually making the purchase.
As mentioned in this article, investing in commercial real estate takes work and should not be considered free money. Not only do you need to put forth a sizable initial investment, you also need to spend additional time and effort making the venture work. Even doing that, you may still lose money.
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Calif. mayor, 2 others accused of pot shop bribes
LOS ANGELES (AP) - If someone wanted to do business in the small Southern California city of Cudahy, federal prosecutors say one-time city manager Angel Perales had some advice.
"Money makes the monkey dance," Perales told an FBI informant, according to court documents.
Perales, Mayor David Silva and Councilman Osvaldo Conde were arrested Friday and charged with soliciting and accepting cash bribes totaling $17,000 to support the opening of a medical marijuana dispensary. If convicted of a bribery charge, they each face up to 10 years in prison.
The three officials were in court Friday afternoon for bail hearings. Silva and Perales were released on $50,000 appearance bonds. Conde was released on $100,000 bond.
It wasn't immediately known if they had retained attorneys.
Court documents laid out the scheme to approve a pot shop in exchange for cash and also portrayed the suburb of 25,000 as a virtual den of iniquities where drug use, voter fraud and illicit sex permeated City Hall.
The arrests are the latest in a series of corruption scandals plaguing small cities south of Los Angeles. Most notable were the 2010 arrests of the former city manager and several other officials from neighboring Bell, who are accused of misappropriating funds to overpay themselves.
Federal prosecutors said in an affidavit that after weeks of soliciting bribes, Conde, Perales and Silva accepted $15,000 in February from an FBI informant who formerly owned a medical marijuana shop in a nearby city.
Conde later met with the informant and received $2,000, court documents show. The informant estimated the dispensary could generate up to $2.5 million within a year.
"The allegations in this case describe a corrosive and freewheeling attitude among certain officials in the city of Cudahy," said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. "The stain left by public corruption is indelible, extending beyond any individual case because of the general erosion of public confidence in government."
Recorded conversations show that Perales, who ran the city's code enforcement division, helped arrange the deal and knew plenty of the city's dirty secrets.
Among them was the firing of former City Manager George Perez in March 2011. The council said Perez was let go "for cause," but Perales, 43, told the informant the ex-official was doing drugs on the job.
Perez could not immediately be located for comment.
Perales also said Conde, 50, was the most powerful man in Cudahy. Conde seemed to confirm that to the informant as well.
"In other words, I'm leading and bring all these ideas," said Conde, according to the affidavit.
One of the ideas was to be a business partner with Perales to build a massage parlor where sex would be provided to patrons, the affidavit said. Perales tells the informant the new venture could generate $10,000 to $15,000 every month.
In two meetings with the informant, Conde showed up with a pair of armed bodyguards, who turned out to be employees of the 1.2-square-mile city. Conde also had a revolver with him at one of the meetings, according to court documents.
Perales also suggested he helped get Conde elected five years ago. He tells the informant during a recorded conversation he persuaded 60 to 70 people to vote for Conde.
Conde finished with 472 votes and won by a margin of 33 votes, court documents show.
Thom Mrozek, a U.S attorney's spokesman, said the investigation is ongoing and he couldn't say whether additional charges would be filed.
Perales suggested the shakedown of the prospective pot clinic owner wasn't the first time Conde and Silva looked to receive bribes.
"These guys are not your typical, uh, council people," Perales tells the informant, according to the affidavit. "They've dealt with, uh, you know, people that throw money down."
All three men are scheduled to return to court July 19 for arraignment.
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Insight: Farmers hit paydirt with irrigation in arid spring
MILL CREEK, Indiana (Reuters) - Bouncing down a county back road, squinting as a blazing sun intensifies one of the hottest, driest Midwest springs ever, farmer Dale Tuholski steers his pick-up truck between fortune and failure.
To his left, new irrigation machinery sprays a fine mist across his corn field in northern Indiana, where emerald green plants sway in the breeze. To his right is a neighbor's land: the soil dry and dusty, the corn leaves curled.
Amid the warmest first five months of the year since 1894 in the U.S. heartland, a rapidly expanding minority of farmers like the Tuholskis and Kyle Clute - who manages 25,000 acres 100 miles southwest of Tuholski's farm - are taking out an expensive hedge against increasingly volatile weather: buying new irrigation equipment for their corn or soybean fields.
"We don't want Mother Nature to control our destiny anymore," said Clute, who farms corn and soybean fields in Warren County, Indiana.
The potent mix of ever-warmer weather and expectations of near-record farm income of $92 billion for 2012 is fueling all-time-high sales of such equipment, with revenues up a third or more at leading firms. Center-pivot irrigators are particularly popular with farmers in water-strapped areas because the machinery can extend the reach of limited natural resources.
While many farmers are merely upgrading aging equipment, manufacturers say that a sizeable share is now being sold to growers who have never before irrigated. In Indiana, the number of registered new wells is growing at the fastest rate in two decades; drilling firms are struggling to keep up with demand.
As the trend grows, the implications will spread.
In a year like this one, for instance, even small shifts in the amount of acreage that is mechanically irrigated could help mitigate yield losses. For analysts and grain traders, such shifts could complicate efforts to forecast production outcomes based on weather conditions.
It may also intensify the growing friction over water use as expanding populations, bumper crop harvests, ethanol production and even the boom in hydraulic fracturing consume ever-larger volumes of the country's finite water supply.
While the amount of water needed for traditional dryland crop fields is likely to remain small, environmentalists caution that a new, and potentially large, consumer group tapping into the nation's groundwater supply could have untold consequences.
CORN BELT EYES WATER
About 94 percent of the nation's four major commodity crops - corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton - is grown on farmland that relies on rain for moisture, according to the most recent federal data from 2008. About 61 percent of that land is in the western half of the country, in states including Nebraska, California, Idaho and Kansas.
To the east, the land's fertility and natural weather patterns have typically been enough to produce a crop using only rain. In other cases, running a mechanized irrigation system simply didn't make economic sense.
For many farmers like Clute, increasingly efficient technology not only helps their operations, it also offers a tax deduction on farm income after several years of near-record grain prices and healthy profits.
The boom in agricultural land values and rents also has them looking to such machinery as a way to boost revenues - through bigger yields - from the soil they already own.
Farmers in the wheat-growing Plains states understand this dynamic well: The value of irrigated land has surged far faster than non-irrigated land since last summer, when a drought gripped much of the region.
In the first quarter of this year, the value of irrigated Plains farmland jumped 31.8 percent, outpacing rain-dependent farms, which rose by 24.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. It was by far the widest disparity in growth rates since at least 1980.
NEW CUSTOMERS FUEL BOOMING BUSINESS
The mounting global anxiety over strained water resources is well known, as is the impact of increasingly erratic and extreme weather conditions.
Earlier this month, Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel - who pioneered a new way to apply water in small, steady amounts directly to plant roots in arid regions - was named the winner of the 2012 World Food Prize and honored at the U.S. State Department.
But the response to these trends by U.S. commodity farmers - responsible for producing about a third of the world's corn and soybeans - is only now becoming apparent. While biotechnology companies race to develop more drought-resistant strains, farmers are investing capital.
Valmont Industries Inc, a leading U.S. manufacturer of center-pivot and linear irrigation equipment, reported a 30 percent jump in global sales of irrigation equipment and parts to $196.3 million in the first quarter. Rival Lindsay Corp said U.S. irrigation revenues surged 39 percent in the six months to February 29.
At T-L Irrigation Co in Hastings, Nebraska, a privately held farm irrigation equipment maker, sales last year were the highest in its 57-year history.
The company is recruiting new dealers to meet rising demand in the central and eastern portions of the Corn Belt, a region that made up only about 5 percent of its sales a decade ago, said David Thom, T-L Irrigation's vice president of sales. Now, dryland farms in the area are about 15 percent.
"They're family farmers who might have 1,000 acres," Thom said. "They'll start with one or two and that's good, because they like to walk before they run. Then, they'll buy more."
The Tuholskis fit this mold. The family bought their first irrigation equipment in 1980, during the last agricultural boom. Slowly, the family expanded: The seven center-pivot irrigation machines they bought this past year bring their total to 40.
"We can farm less acreage and have more income potential," said Tuholski, whose family farms corn, soybeans, seed corn and other specialty crops. "And we don't have to worry quite so much about the weather."
WISHING MORE WELLS
As farmer demand grows, so does the waiting list for well-drillers in drought-prone areas.
In Indiana, the fifth-largest corn-producing state, the number of new irrigation wells was up 6.2 percent from the end of 2009 through May 2012, according to data compiled by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' water division. That increase, the sharpest jump since the early 1990s, was driven in part by farmers rushing to plant more corn acres as U.S. prices hit record highs, state agency officials say.
In Taylor, Missouri, the staff of Landmark Irrigation Corp has been booked solid since last fall with orders for new irrigation wells to be dug on farms in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Many of Landmark's clients are buying equipment for farms that have never been irrigated, co-owner Deb Sutter said.
Most of the calls have been from producers who farm at least 1,000 acres, she said. But as the rains have waned, smaller operators have started to call too. For most of Illinois, much of Missouri and large stretches of central and east-central Iowa, the rainfall of the past three months is 25 to 50 percent below normal.
"We're the busiest we've been in three years," Sutter said.
FARMERS PIVOT
The promise of such economic payoffs convinced Bob Wade to take the leap last fall.
The farmer in central Kentucky cringed as cropland prices and rents on even marginal ground doubled near where he dryland farms 3,500 acres of corn and soybeans.
Looking to increase his farm production, Wade bought four center-pivot irrigation systems. It's a big investment - on average, it costs a farmer between $1,200 and $2,500 or more per acre to install and run a new pivot system, due to energy costs, labor, machinery, fertilizer use and other factors, say farmers and agricultural economists. It can take a decade to pay off.
Modern seed technology allowed Wade to grow more corn on his land now than he could five years ago, he said. But the machines would let him expand his plantings by another 29 percent.
The roots of center-pivot irrigation technology date back decades, as an alternative to flood irrigation that more efficiently distributed water over fields. Today, some modern systems can be controlled with a smart-phone in the field or on a computer back in an office.
It works by spraying water on crops from an overhead pipe rotating around a centrally located well. Typically, the water rumbles down the pipe, misting and spitting out of sprinkle heads along the way, while a sensor at the end of the pipe guides the equipment forward.
The technology allowed Wade to seed 36,000 corn plants per acre in fields he's irrigating - versus 28,000 plants per acre in fields relying on rain.
He turned the pivots on for the first time early this month. Within days, he said, the roads alongside his fields became jammed with traffic, as curious neighbors slowed down to look at the unusual sight.
HARD TO TRACK
The scope and magnitude of greater irrigation is not known, and therefore its impact on resources and the environment is difficult to gauge.
There is no current federal data that shows how many new dryland acres - the industry term for land that is not mechanically irrigated - are being moved over to irrigation. The federal government's surveys are conducted only once every five years in some states, and many states rely on that data to help paint a picture of what's happening in their rural communities.
As of 2008, U.S. farmers and ranchers were irrigating 54.9 million acres of farmland - a nearly 5 percent jump from five years earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2008 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey. Yet that represents a tiny slice of the more than 920 million acres of total farmland.
While still limited, environmentalist groups are growing concerned.
"It comes down to scope. This year, you're seeing record plantings of corn and soybeans in the U.S.," said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
"So even a relatively small increase in irrigation use overall could have potential impacts on hydrology, from lowering water tables to impacting stream flows to drinking water," he said.
POLITICIANS WARY
Water rights and regulations, long a hot-button political issue in the United States and worldwide, have emerged as a particularly sore point in recent years amid drying temperatures and booming demand. The world's population is forecast to swell by another 2 billion people by 2050.
But with agriculture still one of the few bright spots in the U.S. economy, lawmakers are wrestling with how to convince farmers to use less water - without quashing their operations.
The issue is particularly key for the nation's western states, where "between 80 and 90 percent of the water rights are owned by agriculture", said Larry Morandi, director of state policy research for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
"The strategy has been to incentivize farmers, so they can save some water without drying up the rural economy," Morandi said. "They're telling farmers, ?If you use less, we'll grant you the right to lease that conserved water to a city that needs it or an energy company that needs it.'"
In Oklahoma, Gov. Mary Fallin recently signed a new water conservation law that sets a statewide goal of consuming no more water in 2060 than is used now. This past spring, in an effort to extend the life of the Ogallala Aquifer, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill that allows groundwater management districts to create conservation areas within their borders.
In some states, including Kansas, water conservation efforts have essentially closed off any new irrigation developments.
WHITHER THE WEATHER
This year has been a particularly good one for the business of irrigation, with farmers sprinting to sow a near-record number of fertile acres with corn - and then watching the growing dismay as hot, dry weather curtails growth.
Though the USDA is forecasting record-high corn yields, traders have become increasingly skeptical of such bounty amid dry weather and the agency's crop progress report on Monday showing lower conditions in certain regions.
"The big question is going to be what will happen to sales if the weather changes," said Brent Thielman, a research analyst with D.A. Davidson & Co, who tracks the sector.
At the Crossroad Farms in Indiana, Clute has a convert's passion for the pipes that loom over the fields like slender guard towers. The farm bought eight new pivot systems this past year, and now has 40 running.
"I wish we had more," he said.
(Editing by Dale Hudson)
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