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The Cash Money label cashes in
By Kelefa Sanneh
SEPTEMBER 27, 1999: In 1996, the East-Coast-versus-West-Coast war was the biggest story in hip-hop. It was entertaining, in a tabloid sort of way, until it wasn't: within a year, the decade's best-loved rappers, LA's Tupac Shakur and NYC's Notorious B.I.G., lay dead. The moral of the story seemed obvious: an obsession with geography was tearing hip-hop apart. Home-town pride was killing rap music.
So it's something of a surprise that, as the decade ends, geographic diversity has helped save hip-hop. As New York's moribund beats lost their sheen, and LA's gangstas lost focus, a new generation of innovators sprang up in the South. Timbaland and Missy Elliott made Virginia proud. Goodie Mob and OutKast showed off Atlanta. Most surprising of all was Master P's sudden rise: in a few years, he rocketed out of New Orleans and into the public eye, from Billboard to Forbes. But lately Master P has been facing stiff competition from another upstart hip-hop brigade, one with backing from Universal Records, and two CDs that have established themselves on the pop charts over the past few months. The label is Cash Money, its sonic mastermind is Mannie Fresh, its biggest star is Juvenile, and its elder statesman is a rapper by the name of B.G.
B.G. (born Christopher Dorsey) is a hip-hop veteran. He is the bread and butter of Cash Money, having released seven albums -- most recently Guerrilla Warfare, the August blockbuster from his group the Hot Boy$. He appears on every Cash Money CD currently in the catalogue. But B.G. also has his share of demons: he has talked openly about his battle with heroin addiction, and the release of his last solo album was delayed half a year while he served time on a weapons charge. In other words, B.G.'s credentials speak for themselves. So when I get him on the phone, I simply ask him to introduce himself. Through the static-filled line, I hear the slow, precise, mid-pitched drawl that B.G. has perfected on hedonistic b-boy freakouts like "Fuck These Hoes" and "Dog Ass." "Whuz happening," he says. "This is little B.G., ya heard me? One of the original Hot Boy$, you know what I'm saying? I'm 19 years old."
The Cash Money story began in 1991, when Ronald Sugar Slim Williams and his brother Bryan Baby Williams founded the label to promote New Orleans artists. B.G. was one of the early signings, alongside such regional success stories as UNLV and Kilo G. The label proceeded to make a name for itself in a burgeoning New Orleans rap scene fueled by "bounce," a peculiarly Southern brand of hip-hop that combines 2-Live-Crew-meets-Afrika-Bambaataa beats with monotonous party chants. But by 1994, in the absence of any national breakthroughs, the Williams brothers found themselves at odds with their artists. In the end, everybody on the Cash Money roster was sacked -- everybody except B.G.
B.G. had gotten his start in a pre-teen duo called the B.G.s, or the Baby Gangstas. His partner Lil Wayne's parents objected to the B.G.s (Lil Wayne is now the youngest member of the Hot Boy$ -- he's 15), so B.G. went solo at the age of 14. When his debut, True Story, came out in 1995, it made him one of the South's most bankable rappers. He sold hundreds of thousands of records, mostly in cities like Houston, Atlanta, and New Orleans.
The results of this quick and dirty approach have been both strange and accessible -- a quirky, thugged-out fusion of skewed beats and nearly incomprehensible Southern slang. B.G.'s Chopper City in the Ghetto debuted at #9 in April of this year, thanks in large part to Fresh's avant-garde production. "Thug'n," for example, boasts bracing, double-speed synthesizers and drums that cut in and out of the mix seemingly at random. "Dog Ass" splices together squeaks, squiggles, simple melodies, and snare blasts, only to rip it all to pieces with a massive, drum 'n' bass-style break. "Bling Bling" lays on a bright, trebly foundation of high-pitched chimes.
Yet for all Fresh's hard work, and B.G.'s, Cash Money owes its national profile to the rapper Juvenile. The label signed the up-and-coming MC in 1997, a few years after his appearance on DJ Jimi's bounce breakthrough single, "Bounce for the Juvenile." Juvenile's chewy, melodic flow meshed perfectly with Fresh's beats, and Juvenile's Cash Money debut, Solja Rags, sold more than 150,000 copies in the South alone.
As they watched their protégés climb the charts, Baby and Slim decided to cash in by bringing their young rap stars together as the Hot Boy$, the world's grimiest boy band. The group's debut, Guerrilla Warfare, entered the Billboard charts at #5 when it was released in August. To hear Mannie Fresh tell it, the Hot Boy$ -- Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne, and Young Turk -- are like 'N Sync with street cred: "I mean, they're just four young dudes that's raw, that's bringing it to you, see what I'm saying? No gimmicks, no funny hooks -- none of that!"
Like No Limit, Cash Money functions as a highly efficient hit factory -- the label already has new albums by Lil Wayne and Juvenile in the can. "Right now, we hongry," says Juvenile, who brags that the Hot Boy$ can bang out a hit single in under an hour. "We got a producer who don't play no games, nam saying? He drops tracks in like five or 10 minutes. And then when we come down to the studio, we're dogs, you know, we get in there and handle our business. We don't be bullshitting. We be doing the albums in, like, a week or two -- our work ethic is real strong."
Hip-hop is a cutthroat business in New Orleans. There have been reports of bitter feuds among the city's reigning rap dynasties -- Master P's well-established No Limit oligarchy, the up-and-coming Big Dog Records, and Cash Money, who fit somewhere in between. But the Hot Boy$ are quick to claim it's not personal, just business. As Lil Wayne puts it, "We'll cover every aspect of the game, because we want to master this. We want to be professionals at this."
It's strange to hear such sober, business-minded talk from a 15-year-old. But Lil Wayne shrugs off any suggestion that success will take the ghetto out of the Hot Boy$. "We gonna stick to our jeans, T-shirts, and Reeboks. All that gangsta shit, you know?"
When I ask Lil Wayne to name his major musical influences, he thinks for a while, then singles out Juvenile's early-'90s bounce tracks. It's evidence of Wayne's youth, but it's also a reflection of the regional loyalty that has played a big role in the rise of Cash Money. Mannie Fresh shares Wayne's enthusiasm for contemporary sounds, but his early-'80s music roots are what make Cash Money albums sound so oddly familiar: the echoey drums and paper-thin production values recapture the feeling of casual innovation that drove old-school hip-hop.
"Think about the first time you heard a really tight rap song," Fresh reasons. "Like, way back in the day, the first time you heard Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and it was just some MCs that was all about rocking the party, you know. And it wasn't really about no hurting nobody, see what I'm saying? Well, just think about that feeling right now . . . that's what we're doing."
A beginners' guide* B.G.: True Stories (1995) is the oldest Cash Money album in print, and it sounds downright primitive next to the slicker, more experimental It's All on U Volume 1 (1997). B.G. takes his formula -- slow rhymes, fast beats -- to ridiculous extremes on the 1999 release Chopper City in the Ghetto. The title is a reference to the 1996 B.G.s album Chopper City, which has just been reissued.
* Juvenile: Cash Money's most profitable release -- Juvenile's hugely popular 400 Degreez (1998) -- is also its best. The hit single "HA" is here, and the Universal reissue (look for 18 tracks instead of 16) tacks on an excellent techno-inspired remix of the song featuring the Hot Boy$. But the real gem is another last-minute addition: "Follow Me Now" applies breakbeat science to Santana's version of "Oye Como Va" while Juvenile growls his way through a melodic (and mystifying) four minutes of Louisiana slang. G Code, Juvenile's third CD, is scheduled to be released this fall.
* Hot Boy$. Cash Money's resident supergroup are as uneven as they are energetic. Get It How U Live!! (1997) shines the spotlight on Lil Wayne: "Block Burner" combines his pre-adolescent vocals with a brilliantly sparse, skittish beat (his solo debut is scheduled for October 19). Guerrilla Warfare, which appeared last month, travels from beat street ("Boys at War") to the jungle ("Help") and back again.
* Big Tymers. After years of recording flossed-out skits for other people's albums, Cash Money CEO Bryan Baby Williams and house producer Mannie Fresh decided to record their own full-length as Big Tymers. The result, How U Luv That? Volume 1, originally came out in March of '98 and was then reissued (with additional tracks) by Universal in September of the same year as How U Luv That? Volume 2. Baby and Fresh are the first to admit that what they do is more like talking shit than rapping, and it gets old quick, despite Fresh's relatively lush production.
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Paul Binder, partner of Target Group: Outsourcing can be done at any stage of development. We see different ways how companies do it. Companies can ask themselves the following questions: Do I have the right expertise in-house? If yes, do I fully use the capacities of the persons dealing with a certain topic? If not, what is cheaper: creating the function in-house or buying the services on the market?
It is always advisable for companies to check from time to time how the cost of services provided in-house compare to an outsourced solution. When an existing in-house expertise has to be maintained, that is also a cost factor. Or think of opportunity costs. Do the employees have enough time for their core activities? Pros and cons for outsourcing might change over time. Take the following example: an international company starts its business in Slovakia first with a small office and later establishes a big factory. At the beginning, they use an external accountant. When the business grows, they hire a chief accountant and later some additional accountants. Thereafter they decide to transfer the accounting services to a shared services unit, which provides all the accounting services for several subsidiaries.
Opportunity costs are quite often neglected. HR managers are a good example. Management thinks that HR managers have enough time to spend on recruitment. At the same time, other important HR systems are not working properly (e.g. motivation systems, career and succession planning), and they wonder about the high employee turnover rate.
Miroslav Poliak, partner of Amrop Jenewein Group: Employees were traditionally understood as a burden not as a basic asset. Today, successful managers know that human capital has a direct impact on the overall performance of the company. Making the right decisions in terms of HR can potentially increase productivity and profitability.
HR management can develop into an overwhelming task that requires considerable financial and knowledge investments as well as time and personnel resources. This may divert a company from its core businesses. In such an environment, outsourcing HR activities can become a way to effectively carry them out while freeing up capacities to concentrate on strategic tasks.
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A leaked document shows Redbridge Council plans to introduce pay & display machines along Wanstead High Street from February next year.
The plans could be trialled for up to 18 months under an "experimental traffic regulation order", and paid permits may also be introduced for residents who live in roads just off High Street.
The proposal to introduce permits caused a storm of protest – including a public petition against it – when it was first proposed in 2011.
The plans show that if approved, shoppers will have 30 minutes of free parking before having to pay a charge. They will then be charged £1.20 for up to one hour and £2.90 for two hours.
Cllr John Howard, cabinet member for environment and sustainability told the Recorder: "If you've been down Wanstead High Street, you will know it's impossible to park. People park there for the whole day.
"We are hoping these changes will allow you to meet your friends for a coffee and stop by and do some shopping once the spaces are freed up."
Cllr Howard said he was confident businesses would back these plans, and that they were designed to support the High Street's shops.
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Cllr Sue Nolan (Con, Snaresbrook) said that she hoped residents would be consulted before the plans were introduced.
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Cllr Howard confirmed there would be a consultation: "We are holding two drop in sessions in Wanstead Library, and I'm looking forward to hearing residents' views."
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Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
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A November walk in a New Jersey forest by an artist and his wife leads to a memory of their earlier trip to Capri. Two places, two people, a story suspended between two recollections. In psychology, memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored and retrieved. As a painter how do you depict a memory, how do you share it, how do you construct it visually? Not simply illustrate it, but capture the fractured, transient, subjective moment shared with another person who may remember it differently.
Best known for his monumental wall installations, here, in The Fall, the artist Adam Cvijanovic has started with an 80-foot gallery wrapping wall piece, but then he has added dozens of smaller paintings ranging in size from a few inches to several inchesacross. In The Fall these images flow with an erratic rhythm from the empty walls to cover parts of the larger mural, weaving in and out of the same recollection, constantly re-depicting the same moment, like the light held by the shards of a broken mirror, each image describing in paint a slightly different perspective of the remembered moment.
A short story of that day, that walk, that time, written and narrated by Cvijanovic is available via audio guide or downloadable sound file. It provides a matrix to decode the images in the paintings, put the puzzle together, trace the macro and micro elements to re-present and re-invigorate a moment gone forever, yet captured through paint and voice.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Dodgeball Team Building in Burnley
Have an unforgettable corporate away day with the dodgeball team building in Burnley. This old-school activity is the perfect way to break out of the office environment and encourages healthy competition and team spirit.
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On the day your team will be greeted to your events co-ordinator who will also double as your referee for the day. You will be given a quick briefing and all of the rules will be explained for you and then you will be split up into your teams. Throughout this activity you will play a variety of mini dodgeball games and of course the main object of dodgeball is to eliminate all of the opposing players. This can be done by hitting an opposing player with a ball that hasn't been deflected off another person or surface or catching a live ball that has been thrown by your opponent before it touches the ground.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Pemstar Inc. said Monday after the bell that its 2004 loss will increase by $5.5 million to $25.3 million because of accounting irregularities at its Guadalajara, Mexico plant.
The irregularities were discovered during an internal investigation that cost Pemstar PMTRE $6 million.
Pemstar also said Monday that its first-quarter 2005 income will be reduced by $700,000 to $500,000 from $1.2 million.
Pemstar also said its second-quarter 2005 loss was $6 million or 13 cents a share, compared with a loss of $7.5 million, or 19 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. The 2005 second-quarter loss widened by $900,000 from the company's earlier forecast. Sales for the period were $166.4 million vs. $150.5 million.
The provider of electronics manufacturing service had reported second-quarter results from operations in November, but held off full-results because of the accounting investigation.
For its third quarter, the Rochester, Minn.-based company reported a loss of $15.9 million or 35 cents a share, vs. a loss of $2.1 million, or 5 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
Results were impacted by $4.8 million, or 11 cents per share, in restructuring charges and $3.9 million, or 9 cents per share, from losses at the Mexico plant, along with certain other sites scheduled to be closed, the company said.
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New Photosynth based on Morgan Cox and a Visit to Neyland Stadium
This past weekend, my wife and I took our son Taylor on a visit to the University of Tennessee and Mississippi State University. On Saturday, we were blessed to attend a UT game with some friends of ours, whose son is the long snapper in Knoxville. Morgan Cox is the kind of college story that you love to hear about (classy young man, a product of a quality family), but that's another post. Nevertheless, my family was given the opportunity to see parts of the UT game day that the college fan would drool over thanks to Morgan and his parents, as UT defeated Georgia. My friends on Facebook can get a better glimpse of the day. Now, to the purpose of this blog post.
The visit to UT and their football mega-facility (Neyland Stadium) gave me plenty of photographic opportunities. Once we got to our seats and I started looking around at a place that seats 100K+ folks, I thought it would be good to upload to the Photosynth site and see how synthy that my pictures would be. Turns out that my 65 photo's got a 97% synthy rating.
Since I last created a photosynth, several features have been added: an overhead view, geotagging, an improved viewer, and search enhancements. Let's use the picture below for visual assistance.
- The site search function has been improved. I would have thought that I was the only guy to do this with Neyland Stadium; however, there are 4 synth's of Neyland Stadium.
- The new improved viewer is based on Silverlight 3, as well as some coding enhancements for smarter interaction and smoother viewing. (Yes, Wright, this will run on your Mac.)
- In the bottom right of the picture, you'll see where the photosynth is integrated with Bing Maps. This also includes the ability to overlay some of the highlight pictures – called "geoalignment".
- The overhead view is COOL. You not only can quickly get a idea of how the various pictures are connected together, this viewing style also serves as a navigational aid. (see picture below). Press the T to toggle between overhead view and normal view.
- More details about these and other enhancements are here on the Photosynth blog.
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It's week five of Dancing on Ice 2012 and this week the 11 remaining celebrities will perform to songs from the world of pop..
One Direction opened tonight's show with a performance of their hit single "What Makes You Beautiful".
The boys – Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson – will be back later in the show to perform their new single..
Images of One Direction's first performance..
First up, dancing to Madonna's classic hit single, Vogue, are Jennifer Ellison and Dan Whiston.
Louie = 6.0
Robin = 5.5
Katarina = 5.5
Total = 17.0
Second on the ice, performing to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham, are Sam Nixon and Alexandra Schauman.
Louie = 5.0
Robin = 5.5
Katarina = 6.0
Total 16.5
Third up, skating to Lady Gaga's Poker face, are Charlene Tilton and Matt Gonzalez.
Louie = 5.0
Robin = 4.0
Katarina = 4.5
Total = 13.5
Fourth on the ice, dancing to Fire with Fire by the Scissor Sisters, are Sebastien Fouca and Brianne Delcourt.
Louie = 7.5
Robin = 7.0
Katarina = 7.0
Total = 21.5
Fifth up, skating to Price Tag by Jessie J, are Heidi Range and Andrei Lipanov.
Louie = 6.0
Robin = 5.0
Katarina = 5.5
Total = 16.5
The sixth couple on the ice, performing to (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles by The Proclaimers, are Andy Whyment and Vicky Ogden.
Louie = 5.0
Robin = 6.0
Katarina = 6.5
Total = 17.5
The leaderboard so far:
Seventh on the ice, skating to Kylie Minogue's Locomotion, are Chemmy Alcott and Sean Rice.
Louie = 5.5
Robin = 7.5
Katarina = 7.0
Total = 20.0
Total = 20.0
The Eighth couple on the ice, dancing to The Look of Love by ABC, are Matthew Wolfenden and Nina Ulanova.
Louie = 8.5
Robin = 8.0
Katarina = 6.5
Total = 23.0
It's Time… Ninth on the ice, skating to Don't Stop Moving by S Club 7, are Chico and Jodeyne Higgins.
Louie = 7.5
Robin = 7.0
Katarina = 7.0
Total = 21.5
The penultimate couple on the ice, performing to Perfect by Fairground Attraction, are Rosemary Conley and Mark Hanratty.
Louie = 4.5
Robin = 5.5
Katarina = 7.0
Total = 17.0
And the last couple to perform tonight, skating to Britney Spears' Hit Me Baby One More Time, are Jorgie Porter and Matt Evers.
Louie = 8.5
Robin = 8.0
Katarina = 7.5
Total = 24.0
The final leaderboard..
Phillip and Christine will return in a hour's time (9:30pm) with tonight's results, where the two celebrities with the least number of public votes will skate again in the skate-off and One Direction will perform their new single…
— Welcome back for the results —
Pictures of One Direction's second performance on Dancing on Ice.
Phillip will now name the nine couples going through to next week and the two couples who will have to skate again for their survival..
The couples safe and skating next week are: Heidi and Andri, Jorgie and Matt, Andy and Vicky, Sebastien and Brianne, Matthew and Nina, Jennifer and Daniel, Chico and Jodeyne, Chemmy and Sean and Rosemary and Mark.
So, Sam & Alexandra and Charlene & Matt are in the bottom two and will have to skate again..
It's now time for the judges to pick who they would like to save and see perform next week.. Louie saves Sam, Robin saves Sam and Katarina saves Sam..
Speaking to host Phillip Schofield after the vote, Charlene said: "You know I feel alright and I'll tell you why.. I've had the most amazing experience, I have worked with the best wardrobe, hair and makeup department.. I have got to met these amazing pro-skaters, god love you, you take great care of us, I love all of you, you're amazing!"
Dancing on Ice continues next Sunday at 6:30pm on ITV1 and ITV1 HD.


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Sector-specific antibiotics targets and what they mean
Sector-specific targets surrounding antibiotics use have been developed by a "targets taskforce" made up of farmers and vets and facilitated by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance.
Targets vary for each sector, depending on the state of play and data available, but all focus on improving health, reducing disease and reducing antibiotics use.
Hayley Parrott looks at what they mean for beef, sheep, dairy and pig farmers and re-caps on:
- What the new targets are
- How they will be achieved
- Areas where farmers can reduce use
The targets followed news that sales of active antibiotic ingredients had fallen to their lowest level since records began in the 1990s.
- HP CIA highest priority critically important antibiotic (for human medicine).
- PCU population correction unit, which is used to help measure antibiotics use. PCU takes into account. the animal population as well as the estimated weight of each particular animal at the time of treatment with antibiotics.
- DDDVet defined daily doses for animals, the assumed average dose per kg animal per species per day.
- DCDVet defined course dose for animals, the assumed average dose per kg animal per species per treatment.
The beef sector
What are the targets?
- Work with the beef industry to monitor national sector antibiotics usage levels annually, aiming for a 10% reduction between 2016 and 2020 or reach a usage level of 10mg/population correction unit (PCU) by 2020, whichever is the lower level on a mg/PCU basis.
- Monitor use of highest-priority critically important antibiotics (HP CIA) (for human medicine) in the beef sector, aiming for 50% reduction between 2016 and 2020.
- Work with industry stakeholders (such as pharmaceutical companies) to monitor use of vaccinations targeting respiratory disease in cattle, aiming for an increase year-on-year between 2017 and 2020.
- The group will monitor available metrics of national cattle health and welfare alongside antibiotics use data to ensure reductions use do not negatively affect health and welfare.
- Determine a standard methodology for calculating on-farm antibiotics use in beef cattle for benchmarking within and between farms, taking account of different production systems.
- Promotion of training at farm and vet level.
- Dissemination of responsible use of medicines messages.
Next steps?
The beef antimicrobial use working group has been established as a sub-group of The Cattle Health and Welfare Group to help drive these targets.
Due to the lack of data and the fact sales data will not give a complete picture of use especially as many beef producers will also have other livestock for which antibiotics are purchased, the group is looking into options for collecting antibiotics use data from the farm directly.
Hotspot areas
- Respiratory disease
- Calf scour
- Calf navel ill
- Mycoplasma
- Lameness
- Calving problems and caesareans
The dairy sector
What are the targets?
- To reduce the use of HP CIA injectables by 50%, from the baseline of 1.075 mg/PCU to 0.538.
- To reduce intra-mammary use of HP CIA by 50%, from the baseline of 0.332 defined course dose for animals (DCDVet) to 0.166. DCDVet represents the average number of courses per dairy cow using a standard course dose of four tubes per dry cow treatment and three tubes per lactating cow treatment.
- To reduce the usage of intra-mammary tubes on dry cows by 20%, from 0.842 DCDVet to 0.674.
- To reduce the usage of intra-mammary tubes on lactating cows by 10%, from the baseline of 0.808 DCDVet to 0.727.
- To increase sealant tube usage by 40%, from the baseline of 0.5 average number of courses per dairy cow to 0.7.
- To reduce total usage by 20%, from the baseline of 26.2 mg/PCU to 21.0
Next steps
The Dairy Antimicrobial Stewardship Group (DASG) was established by the NFU and Dairy UK in April 2017, to deliver the targets.
The group brings together stakeholders from throughout the UK dairy industry – farming, processing, veterinary and support functions, as well as farming unions.
The first step for the DASG is encouraging farmers to record electronically and deliver their data to a co-ordinating hub, while still pushing forward with other measures which will help achieve the targets.
See also: How Dutch farmers reduced antibiotics use by 60%
Hotspot areas
- Selective dry cow management
- Pneumonia/respiratory issues in youngstock
- Digital dermatitis and foot-baths
- Avoiding prophylactic use
- Eliminating bovine viral diarrhoea and persistently infected animals
The pig sector
What are the targets?
- Reduce usage in mg/PCU. Starting with the 2015 baseline level of 263.5mg/PCU, the annual targets are:
- Year one reduction of 35%: 2016 target 171mg/PCU
- Year two reduction of 25%: 2017 target 128mg/PCU
- Year three reduction of 10%: 2018 target 115.5mg/PCU
- Year four reduction of 10%: 2019 target 104mg/PCU
- Year five reduction of 5%: 2020 target 99mg/PCU
This represents a five-year reduction target up to 31 December 2020 of 62.4% across the industry. The report states such a reduction can be used as a guide for individual farms irrespective of their starting levels and acknowledges the highest users, especially those who have yet to embrace the concept of reducing usage, may have to bear a disproportionate share of the total planned reduction.
2. Reductions in use of HP CIA. No numerical targets have been set because the use of HP CIAs is already low and it is anticipated it will remain that way unless any anomalies occur, such as novel or re-emerging diseases and a change in the availability of therapeutic zinc oxide in the EU.
Next steps?
Antibiotics use will be monitored via the electronic medicine book for pigs (eMB Pigs) for whole industry usage, but the report stated it is yet to be decided how and who will carry out individual farm monitoring.
Hotspot areas
- Move away from in-feed medication to more strategic water or systemic treatments
- Biosecurity
The sheep sector
What are the targets?
- Monitor national sector antibiotics usage levels aiming for a 10% reduction. Based on the data available, the target represents a mean usage figure below 10mg/PCU by 2020.
- Monitor and reduce use of HP-CIAs, aiming for a 50% reduction. the target represents a mean HP CIA usage figure below 0.03mg/PCU by 2020.
- Co-ordinate collation of antibiotics usage data in the sheep sector. Vets and the industry to be given access to an antimicrobials-use calculator to encourage common calculation techniques and drive a co-ordinated approach to the central collation of usage data by the sheep sector.
- Increase uptake of the five-point plan to control lameness within the sheep sector, measured by an increase in foot-rot vaccine sales of 5% a year over the next five years.
- Encourage the use of vaccination to control enzootic abortion in ewes, with clear guidance that routine antibiotics use is inappropriate for abortion control and an aim to increase vaccine sales by 5% per year over the next five years.
- Reduce antibiotics use in neonatal lambs by avoiding using routine prophylactic antibiotics in neonatal lambs except in high-risk situations, as assessed in the veterinary flock health plan. Aim to decrease sales by 10% per year over the next five years.
- Deliver a knowledge exchange plan to tackle vet and farmer behaviour, particularly with respect to the "hotspot" issues, such as lameness, abortion and neonatal disease.
Next steps
To monitor usage, data will be collected from a range of source, including levy boards, processors and vets, and this will be compared with animal performance and health records where possible.
A survey will be completed by 2020 to see how usage has changed.
The sheep task force has already enabled the development of a tool at the University of Nottingham that calculates antibiotics usage at farm-level in mg/PCU as well as defined daily dose (DDDVet) and DCDVet.
The tool is being tested on farm and allows antibiotics used to be entered by quantity of product.
The Sheep Health and Welfare Group will be involved in driving the targets, particularly with respect to the knowledge exchange activity.
Hotspot areas
- Control of lameness
- Routing whole-flock treatment of ewes in later pregnancy to control abortion
- Routing whole-flock treatment of newborn lambs to guard against neonatal disease
- The targets task force has highlighted that sheep-specific vaccines are available against foot-rot and enzootic abortion.
Who is on the targets taskforce?
Alongside organisers from Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance, the targets taskforce was made up of a farmer and specialist vet for each sector.
- Hugh Broom, Surrey beef farmer and NFU Livestock Board member
- Elizabeth Berry, specialist cattle vet and British Cattle Veterinary Association council member
- Di Wastenage, Devon dairy farmer and Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers council member
- Dr Berry, specialist cattle vet and British Cattle Veterinary Association Council member
- Richard Lister, Yorkshire pig farmer and chairman of the National Pig Association
- Mark White, president of the pig veterinary society (PVS) and chairman of PVS medicines sub-committee
- Charles Sercombe, Leicestershire sheep farmer and chairman of the NFU Livestock Board
- Fiona Lovatt, specialist sheep vet representing the Sheep Veterinary Society
- Fraser Broadfoot, veterinary research officer, Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Javier Dominguez, veterinary director and head of science, evidence and research, Food Standards Agency
- John Fishwick, president, British Veterinary Association
- Donal Murphy, head of technical and regulatory affairs, National Office of Animal Health
- Jess Sloss, technical manager, Red Tractor Assurance


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Original article | International Journal of Innovative Approaches in Agricultural Research 2019, Vol. 3(3) 392-401
Danica Andreevska, Dobre Andov, Trajche Dimitrovski, Emilija Simeonovska, Halil Sürek, Necmi Beşer & Jashka Ibraimi
pp. 392 - 401 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/ijiaar.2019.206.5 | Manu. Number: MANU-1903-17-0003
Published online: September 30, 2019 | Number of Views: 43 | Number of Download: 252
The number of days to flowering and growth stages, plant and stem height, panicle length, number of panicles/ m2 , 1000 grains weight of paddy and biomass yield at harvest (straw + paddy rice) were examined in the newly introduced Turkish rice varieties Efe, Hamzadere, Çakmak and Tunca. The new varieties were grown under typical rice producing conditions in the Kocani rice producing region of North Macedonia during 2013 and 2014, in field trials set up in randomized complete block design, compared to standard variety San Andrea. The results were analyzed by ANOVA and LSD test. The studied varieties in both seasons showed shorter average period from seeding to flowering (89 to 93 days across varieties) compared to San Andrea (99.5 days), as well as faster development thru the rice growth phases. The Turkish varieties had a significantly shorter plant (90.75 cm to 94.54 cm) and stem (77.00 cm to 86.53 cm) compared to San Andrea (114.50 cm and 99.63 cm). The number of panicles per m2 varied between the two years, with average values from 526.17 in Efe to 647.17 in Tunca. The 1000 grains weight of paddy ranged from 29.03 g in Çakmak to 33.47 in Hamzadere. San Andrea had significantly higher 1000 grains weight, with average value of 37.88 g. The biomass (straw+ paddy) in all varieties was higher in the first year compared to the second. The average values ranged from 28608.34 kg/ha in Efe to 33850.00 kg/ha in Çakmak. The studied Turkish rice cultivars generally showed better results for the examined characteristics than the standard San Andrea (shorter vegetative stage, faster development and maturation, lower plant height, more stable biological yield) and as such are potentially suitable for cultivation in the rice producing conditions of North Macedonia.
Keywords: Rice, Plant height, Panicle length, Number of panicles, 1000 grains weight, Biomass.
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We are back with our prestigious Guide to the Best Companies for Internationals to Work For in Israel! All these companies are growing fast and looking for employees! Carry on reading to see if your company made the list.
Payoneer – Best FinTech Company
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Walter Moses 1, Tel Aviv | B2B Hi-Tech
WalkMe pioneered the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) to empower business leaders to realize the promise of their technology investment by transforming the user experience in today's overwhelming digital world. Founded in 2011, WalkMe is a proud Israeli unicorn with over 2,000 customers, including 30% of the Fortune 500 and 58% of the Fortune 100. WalkMe has over $307 Million in funding, with a $2 Billion valuation.
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AllCloud is a global professional services company providing organizations with the tools for cloud enablement and transformation. Through a unique combination of expertise and agility, AllCloud accelerates cloud innovation and helps organizations fully unlock the value received from cloud technology. With over 11 years of experience and a portfolio with thousands of successful cloud deployments, AllCloud serves clients across the globe. AllCloud has offices in Israel, Europe and North America.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hundreds gathered at Temple Israel synagogue Saturday night to mark the second night of Passover with an interfaith "freedom seder."
Many don't realize Dr. Martin Luther King was set to attend a Passover seder in Memphis after he was killed.
The hundreds of people who came together Saturday talked about the struggle for freedom and civil rights by incorporating lessons from history.
Members of local churches including Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, Freedom's Chapel Christian Church and New Direction Christian Church joined the Temple Israel Jewish community for a commemoration of the struggle for freedom.
"The message of Passover is the message of [Dr. Martin Luther] King: that no one is free until everyone is free," Rabbi Micah Greenstein said.
Greenstein helped plan the freedom seder for 500 attendees on the second night of Passover, which recalls the story of the Jewish people leaving Egypt to escape slavery.
"What many people aren't aware of is that King's dream lives through communities like Temple Israel and the other church partners committed not only to equality and justice but to the message of Passover: freedom for all," Greenstein said.
"We can talk about our exodus from Egypt in the way we talk about slavery, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and how connected we all are," said Mary Kanowitz, who attended the event.
"The one thing certain about bitterness is its blindness," said Dr. Roz Nichols, organizing pastor of Freedom's Chapel Christian Church. "Tearing down systems of injustice and inequity will be uncomfortable."
Speakers like Nichols and NAACP President Cornell Brooks knew there's still a lot of work to do; it took an interfaith coalition in the 1960s and it still does today.
"While the world is coming to Memphis on April 4, those of us who've made Memphis our home are committed to the struggle for justice every day of the year, especially on April 5 when everyone leaves," Greenstein said.
He knew he'd have at least 500 people who understand what unites them is stronger than what divides.


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Back on the road after a week of contemplation and sadness.
Day two of my big sketching project meant I was up early and arrived in Kingsand at 10am, having driven through low grey clouds and mizzle I nearly turned around twice but was determined to get some more work done so I carried on driving hoping the light would improve and the clouds would be blown away. I was so early even The Salty Dog cafe was still shut so couldn't even stop for a coffee.
On arrival at Kingsand the road to Cawsand was closed, slight apprehension as I wanted to do both towns at the same time…… I drove down into Kingsand and into the car park, unfortunately I'd given Dave all my change this morning so I decided to see if there was anywhere I could park… I turned and continued down on to the narrow one way Garrett Street, which at some points it's only 7 feet wide and even my little yellow car felt large driving down the road. I wondered whether I would find anywhere to park which was a NO, and emerged in the square at Cawsand. Every where was closed and quiet except a group of Gig rowers, getting all the oars out of the rowing shed. They were a welcome sign of life in what was a closed town. Cawsand is much smaller than Kingsand and because of it's road closure was excessively quiet. But I parked up in the square and sketched one of my planned buildings – the low old single storey building that backs onto the beach… called, appropriately, The Bungalow. I will be doing some research in to the origins of this building later.
I walked to the beach to see the Gig racers but they were nowhere to be seen, just one person walking their dog on the sands, I took photos and looked more closely at the lovely ceramic tiles in the Cawsand Ferry shelter… beautiful. Attached to the high wall protecting the town from the worst of the winter storms stood a little brick and wooden building probably dating back to the mid 20thC called the Fisherman's Rest. It nestled in the protection of the wall with a wooden bench facing the sea.
It was starting to rain so I got in the car and I chanced the normal but 'closed' road just in case it was still passable which led me up along the edge of Cawsand Fort overlooking the bay, but the road was REALLY closed so I pulled in by the cenotaph to look over the buildings below me. There was a shell of a building with just the front elevation still standing which must have been on Garratt Street, well worth more investigation. Back in the car I looked at the map as I really wanted to get back to Kingsand and not have to drive to Crafthole to get back on the main road. There was a tiny lane that ran behind the town and Cawsand Fort back towards Kingsand. I took it and it climbed high up and over the hill that separates the two bays, I drove back down the road into Kingsand and stopped outside the Spar for some change – which they didn't have, oh well I have a magazine to enjoy later!
Still without the change for the car park I drove up another slender lane towards the Rising Sun pub and there was my next sketch – Penlee Narrows – I'd seen it on Google Street view and was so pleased to be able to park the car and sketch it. The owner drove past me and thought I was interested in buying it as it was for sale, when I said I was sketching it he told me how it came to be so narrow. The Canon family ran out of space in their existing home and decided to building in the alleyway which is how the house came to be. I had a sneaky look on the internet at the interior and it is very cleverly done inside. The owner said that at the other end of the alleyway was another building squeezed into the space!
I drove back down into the town and back into the car park just as the Car park attendant drove off. Safe in the knowledge I had time to get some change I trapsed off to the Post Office gift shop and got what I needed. I am glad I parked there as walking back to the main road there is this amazing cottage that is called Dovecote – I wonder why!?
I walked back past the Post Office and towards the Clock Tower that sits on the edge of the sea, the houses all around seemed to be holiday lets as the shutters were locked and the floor defence boards were in place. I was now desperate for a coffee so I walked along The Cleave, the cafe was closed (possibly for good from the looks of it!) and so I went into the pub The Devonport Inn. Locals were gathered round the roaring open fire and it was a lovely welcoming pub. I sat and had a coffee and stared out of the window looking out to sea… it was so calming. Once warmed by the coffee I walked further on and round to a little separate part of The Cleave and the houses were huddled for the winter, the shutters closed tight on some and open with renters enjoying the serenity of a winter week in Cornwall. Loads of photos were taken and sketches will be done of some of these as well as the ones I've already done 'live'.
Retracing my steps I diverted up a narrow lane to find a beauty of an old cottage and just a little further up I recognised the row of cottages where Penlee Narrows sat. Back down the hill on the sea front and along to near where the car park was located, I kept walking along the road I had driven down to Cawsand and found a lovely cafe that will be open in February… no good for me now! I kept walking and climbed up the incline past holiday let after holiday let, then came to the building I had spotted from above, it was an old pub that had burned down in 2013, just the front was intact. I peered through the wire mesh across the windows to see the side walls still had evidence of wallpaper and where fire places were. This was The Old Ship and on the shuttered door was the hand written inscription 'Dreams are Written', such an inspiring phrase. A community trust owns the site and they are hoping to recreate the pub, adding a cafe, a heritage centre and 4 flats. I wish them well.
By now I'd nearly walked to Cawsand and could see the Cross Keys Inn which sits on the square I had been to earlier, so I turned tail and walked back. I stopped off at the Halfway House pub for an overpriced sandwich and then got back into the car, by now my feet were aching, but I felt chuffed for walking so much.
I drove out of Kingsand back along Garratt Street into Cawsand then out on the road that takes you along the coast towards Freethy which is where I wanted to stop next. Or rather just before Freethy, the Cliff Top Cafe to be precise. There are dozens of wooden chalets painted black and brown that cling to the steep cliffside of Widesand Bay, I thought with it being January and my experience just down the road that the cafe would be closed so just took my phone with me to take photos… it was open and really busy. How I wished I'd waited and come here for some lunch! I walked gingerly down the uneven steps made out of naturally placed stone boulders interspersed with some manmade concrete ones then edged down the steep slope to get some lovely shots of the chalets… another sketch to be done later. The clouds were dark to my left looking West and out to sea they hung heavy but just where I stood the sun was pushing it's way through the greyness and the sea was sparkling, the misty horizon meant the sea and sky merged, I sat on the look out benches and just took in the view. It was fabulous.
By the time I climbed back up to the road I was getting tired… those steps were really steep for my little legs! I drove into Crafthole and decided to add this to my list. I parked up and hobbled (feet were really aching now!) around the single street that makes up the place with the great name. I took loads of photos and met a lovely lady who lives in the old Forge, and opposite was Wren Cottage. Definitely sketching material in Crafthole.
I drove then down to Downderry which was also on my list, however it's really devoid of any really interesting buildings (if anyone knows any different please share!) I went to look at the Inn on the Beach but it looked as if it was closed down and was not the building I thought it would be, very 1980s. Disappointed I drove on to Seatton which has the most beautiful beach and a selection of new holiday builds, but as I drove out of the village I spotted a 1930s bungalow with a veranda which made up for the lack of suitable buildings to sketch.
From here I followed the road towards Looe then turned off towards Liskeard… away from the coastal road and back inland. Back onto the A38 and on towards the Tanhouses and back to Lostwithiel. Totally knackered – sorry shattered!
Today I woke up and was aching everywhere…. so have lazed about whilst Dave went out on his scooter to Mevagissey. A treat was coffee and scone at Q Street when Dave came home, where I started the blog.