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Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
New Camera Support
- Canon EOS 600D (Rebel T3i / Kiss X5 Digital)
- Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50 Digital)
- Fuji FinePix S200 EXR
- Fuji FinePix F550 EXR
- Fuji FinePix HS20 EXR
- Fuji FinePix X100
- Hasselblad H4D-40
- Kodak EasyShare Z990
- Nikon D5100
- Olympus E-PL1s
- Olympus E-PL2
- Olympus XZ-1
- Samsung NX11
New Lens Profile Support
|Lens Mount
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|Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
|Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-NIKKOR 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED
|Nikon AF-S Micro NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED
|SIGMA 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
|SIGMA 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
|Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
|Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM
|Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8 L USM
|Leica APO-MACRO-SUMMARIT-S 1:2.5/120mm
|Leica SUMMARIT-S 1:2.5/35mm ASPH.
|Leica SUMMARIT-S 1:2.5/70 mm ASPH.
|smc PENTAX-DA L 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED
|smc PENTAX-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED
|smc PENTAX-DA L 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL
|smc PENTAX-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED
|smc PENTAX-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED
|smc PENTAX-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR
|smc PENTAX-DA 35mm F2.4 AL
|smc PENTAX-DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 ED AL [IF]
|smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL
|smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR
|smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL II
|smc PENTAX-DA 17-70mm F4 AL [IF] SDM
|smc PENTAX-DA 16-45mm F4 ED AL
|smc PENTAX-DA 14mm F2.8 ED[IF]
|smc PENTAX-DA 12-24mm F4 ED AL [IF]
|smc PENTAX-D FA 100mm F2.8 MACRO
|smc PENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2.8 WR
|smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 MACRO
|TAMRON 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3DiII VC PZD B008E
New Tethered Camera Support
- Canon EOS 60D
- Canon EOS 550D (Digital Rebel T2i/EOS Kiss X4 Digital)
- Nikon D7000
Lightroom 3.4 Bugs – Fixed
- Lightroom encountered issues presenting double-byte character metadata after the image was edited on Photoshop.com
- Video files were allowed to be added to a SmugMug publish collection not capable of supporting video uploads
- The up and down arrow keys did not work properly when trying to adjust a point tone curve with the Targeted Adjustment Tool
- In a Flickr publish collection an error would occur when attempting to republish an image marked as "Hide from Public areas"
- Images rotated once in a publish collection could have displayed inconsistent rotations between the grid view and the filmstrip (Windows only)
- Mouse movements when a secondary window had been enabled would cause unnecessary processor activity
- The SmugMug Smart Publish Collection dialog on a 1024×768 display could have closed without warning and prevented access to the main Lightroom window
- Keyword completion was broken when spaces were included
- Multiple Facebook publishing errors have been corrected in Lightroom 3.4
- Publish collections did not work properly if the sort order is set to descending. ("Z to A")
- Cropped images could have momentarily appeared without a crop while moving from image to image in the Develop module
- Image counts were not updating properly when nested collection sets were separated
- If image files were located on an unavailable network volume, it might have taken several minutes for Lightroom to properly display the thumbnails in the grid view (Windows only)
- Using the up/down arrow keys or the mouse wheel to adjust a parameter while the graduated filter is activated caused increments of plus or minus 100 instead of 1
- Interlacing artifacts, and a slight magenta cast in the deepest shadows could have appeared on some high-contrast edges of Canon mRaw files.
- Video files captured by an Apple iPhone and imported into Lightroom showed the incorrect capture date of December 31, 1903
- In some instances, photos labeled as "Modified Photos to Re-Publish" in a Publish Collection would fail to be re-categorized as "Published" after a succesfull publish operation
- A magenta color cast could have appeared on Nikon D7000 or Pentax K-5 images if the multi-exposure feature was used with raw capture
- Updates have been made to Lightroom 3.4 to comply with Metadata Working Group standards
- An image at zoom level "1:2" may have momentarily blurred when the mouse is released from a slider (Windows only)
- Folder creation caused an expanded folder hierarchy to close unexpectedly in the Library Module
- Virtual Copies added to a Publish to Hard Drive collection could fail to export properly if the original image had already been published
- Updating the metadata of a file by selecting the update button in the Metadata panel would fail to update the metadata
- A Japanese language file name is not properly preserved when uploading images to SmugMug
- Color Noise reduction values were not properly saved in presets
- Not all appropriate metadata fields were excluded when choosing the Minimize Embedded Metadata export option
- The Lightroom Plug-in Manager may not have displayed correctly when operating Lightroom with the French language selected
Camera Raw 6.4 Release Notes
These items have been FIXED in Camera Raw 6.3:
- Camera Raw did not allow write-back capability for the EXIF GPS properties.
- The DNG File format did not support XMP Media Management.
- A JPEG file with a specific characteristic was found to have a pink cast.
- The undo command (Command+z) was failing to undo crop adjustments.
- Single images marked for deletion were not moved to the trash.
- A magenta color cast could have appeared on Nikon D7000 or Pentax K-5 images if the multi-exposure feature was used with raw capture.
- Applying Sigma 10-20mm Lens Profile to Nikon D7000 raw files could have produced dark or black corners
- Some EXIF fields of Panasonic raw files appeared to be blank in Bridge Metadata panel
- Applying the exposure adjustment brush to a high ISO image could have caused excessive noise reduction correction to the entire image


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Ron White has been one of the most famous comedians of the past decade or two, as he has made waves with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour as well as his own solo work, as he has sold over 10 million CD and DVDs. Known as Tater Salad, he's also known for drinking from a cup of whiskey on stage, and for his most famous joke or punchline, "You can't fix stupid".His latest comedy album was 2009's Behavioral Problems, and that peaked at number 1 on the US Comedy charts, as did his previous album from 2006, the aforementioned You Can't Fix Stupid. That did so well it actually got as high as number 14 on the main US Billboard charts as well.The thing that makes any great comedian great is staying busy and continually hitting the road. That's part of the reason why Ron White is able to stay so popular and connect with his fans so much as well. He's busy throughout the fall and winter of 2011, putting on dozens of shows as he zig-zags the country.Don't worry if the Ron White tickets for the show in your town are sold out either, because in many of these stops he's putting on back to back shows on separate nights to accommodate his many fans. So check out the dates, and prepare to see his distinctive humor in person for a laughing good time.
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Pak SC refers to Indian SC verdicts to disqualify Gilani
Islamabad: Pakistan`s Supreme Court referred to two judicial verdicts by Indian apex court in its ruling disqualifying Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction of contempt. The four-page short order issued yesterday by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry referred to a total of eight judicial verdicts, including six by Pakistani courts and two by the Indian judiciary.
The references, included in the second paragraph of the order, mentioned the cases of "Jagjit Singh vs State of Haryana (AIR 2007 SC 590)" and "Rajendra Singh Rana vs Swami Prasad Maurya (AIR 2007 SC 1305)" without giving details. The order said these eight judicial verdicts showed that the Supreme Court, while exercising the power of judicial review, could examine rulings given by the Speaker of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament.
The apex court yesterday disqualified Gilani in response to several petitions that had challenged National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza`s decision not to disqualify the premier following his conviction of contempt. The court ruled that the post of premier had been vacant since April 26, when another seven-judge bench had convicted Gilani of contempt for refusing to reopen graft cases in Switzerland against President Asif Ali Zardari.


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Silvio Dalla Torre, Double Bass
Silvio Dalla Torre comes from a German-Italian family and was born in southern German Kempten in the Allgäu. After studying music in Augsburg, Munich and Vienna, he worked for 20 years as a principal bassist for opera and symphony orchestras in Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. He taught as a visiting instructor at the Musikhochschule in Detmold, and has founded and performed with several chamber music ensembles.
In 2002 Dalla Torre ended his orchestra career in favor of a professorship in double bass and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock. Since then he has been carrying out research on historical and modern double bass performance techniques, and worked out a methodbased on cello techniquewhich has since been the subject of much discussion, that opens up previously unattainable possibilities for playing the double bass.
Dalla Torre has given master classes in Germany and other European countries, in the US, Canada, and China. He works internationally as a chamber musician and soloist both with the double bass and the bassettoa historical bass violin in fifth tuning. Dalla Torre played a major role in researching and reconstructing it and in 2005 premiered the worlds first CD featuring the instrument.
In 2007 Silvio Dalla Torre became musical director of the International Double Bass Week at Kloster Michaelstein. At the beginning of 2008 the event was held under its new name Double Bass Kaleidoscope Michaelstein, with more than 50 double bassists on hand from all over the world.
The Artist's Homepage: http://www.silviodallatorre.de
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Works for Double Bass and Piano by Robert Fuchs, Karel Reiner, Frank Proto and Adolf Misek
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Ackley adapting to center field
SEATTLE -- Dustin Ackley figured it was inevitable that the first ball hit to him in center field wouldn't be a lazy fly ball, but a screaming line drive directly over his head.
Ackley, who played second base in his first two-and-a-half seasons in the Majors, took a step forward on the second-inning shot by Anthony Rizzo on Friday night, before quickly retreating and making a stretching catch of the ball before it could zoom past him.
"That was a tough one," said a relieved Ackley, who had only one other routine catch the rest of the night in Seattle's 5-4 win in 10 innings. "I don't think I'd even got a ball like that when I was down in Triple-A, and right out of the gate, you get the tough ball, line drive.
"Those are hard ones to judge where they're going to end up. If he barrels that, it's a lot farther. Fortunately for me, I was able to correct myself in time to catch it, so it worked out.
"My heart jumped, for sure. It calmed down after I realized I caught it. It was good though. It's one of those where you realize, if I can catch that one, I can catch about any of them. So I got it out of the way early."
One of the tough things about converting to the outfield is that a player can go several games barely being tested, then get several critical plays at once with a game on the line. Ackley has played outfield enough in his past to understand the position, but is soaking up as much action as he can to get comfortable now.
"It's just the more reps you can get," he said. "Batting practice helps a lot, taking balls out there. You can't really simulate the balls like last night, the line drives, but you've just got to keep taking balls in BP and get the best reads you can and learn how the ball carries here.
"Compared to second base, the ball looks so small out there. It looks like a golf ball. It's definitely different, but it's going alright. Nothing crazy."


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There's no beating around the bush on this one. It's a slick Porsche race car, surrounded by gritty containers. It's a perfect combination, and it's awesome.
While we usually feature photos from individual photographers here on the Weekend Wallpaper, this shot for Falken Tire just can't be passed up. Taken at the Mainz container yard in Germany where the tires arrive fresh from Japan, it provides that exact balance between straight lines and ridiculous curvature. Photographer Frederic Schlosser spent eight hours photographing the car until two in the morning, just for some perfect shots.
I'm usually nonplussed by 911 GT3Rs at this point, but a race through a container yard in one looks like it would be the greatest thing in the world.
Photo credit Falken Tire. Used with permission. For another shot of the car from behind go to their website. For a big desktop version, click here.
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|Was it the Rainmaker?
|Written by Samar Fay
The Glasgow Courier
Matt Ryan, the rainmaker from Mt. Shasta , California , has come to Montana again. Since May 17 he has been working in Ryegate, Winnett, Lewistown, Brady, places he has never been before, and Fort Peck . And it has rained in all of them.
The Fuhrmans have been working with Ryan since 1992. The record extends to 1993, 1998, 2000, and now 2001. In all those years he has never failed to bring on rain.
He came to this area on May 31, set up down on Duck Creek and now the Fuhrmans have had 2" of moisture.
He was in the Great Falls area in February and March, using a gas auger to drill holes in the thick river ice for his pipes. He said they got above average precipitation until April, but the drought came back.
The means are unorthodox. Ryan places metal pipes into large bodies of water, but lots of people do that. Every irrigator does it every spring.
But Ryan does his dunking with intent. He claims to use science and art to redirect energies with these pipes. Removing stagnation in the weather systems and helping nature get back into balance. He uses the pipes like antenna, as water dowsers use their instruments.
It's all a matter of timing, a big thing with Ryan. People have forgotten nature and gotten out of touch, he says. They have changed the weather with massive forest cutting, more cars, and chemicals in the air. When they are made desperate by drought, and are ready to listen, they call him. The timing is right.
"I don't solicit work," Ryan says. "I only go where people call me."
About 30 people in the northeast area ponied up $15,000 for this visit, more people than ever before. They are from Lustre and Glasgow and Brockton and even Canada.
There aren't enough of them, though. Phyllis Fuhrman is quite annoyed with people who don't support his efforts with a contribution. She got nothing from the Glasgow business community, she said, unlike in Ryegate, where the people got together and there were 75 contributors, including businesses and banks.
"It's been a struggle," Fuhrman said. "It's a community project and I would like to have a little more community help. $500 is not a lot of money. It's one calf."
Ryan says traditional scientists don't believe in what he does, and he says flatly that the Glasgow National Weather Service bureau lied last year, claiming they had predicted the drought breaking rains he produced.
Ryan doesn't have a traditional background. He left college, worked at odd jobs for several years, and at age 30 left New York and went west looking for an Indian medicine man he had heard about. He found Sun Bear, and sometime after, he also met a man named Jerome Eden, who was a student of the scientist Wilhelm Reich. Both of these men were rainmakers, in their way, and Ryan was so new to it he thought everyone out west was a rainmaker.
He started rainmaking in 1984 and says he had bout a 70 percent success rate. In 1992 he says he made a deal with the Universe, which he also calls the Wholeness, or God. He says he's partners with the Universe.
Since then he has batted .1000 in the rain department. He said if ever fails to make rain, he will quit.
Then he and his wife, Gigi, headed off for Havre, where it has been might dry.
It was sprinkling again as they left.
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"Inevitably, one woman jumped into the world capital modeling is physical beauty. These potentials are owned by Bella. Uniquely, Bella explained that in fact he is a person who lacks confidence. "
There was an odd morning when suddenly turns cloudy and sunny. He hung in the sky Hot Rod Café. But soon, everything becomes even when Bella Na Veisha stepped inside the café. Mengedar eyes, sweeping the automotive ornaments on display in some corner of the café.
Everything was complete, when he charmed her smile spread. He scatter his views in every room bar, a hangout typical automotive kids who like clubbing.
For a moment, there is a sensual fragrance attached at each corner of the bar when the view is selected as the first location shoot. For the moment, the cavity throat felt choked when Bella says Vee ordinary in this action. It was air-conditioning should be more active again breathe the air, so hot magma manhood men who were there can be balanced.
There are two options for you, man". Bella Na Veisha, hot and busty Indonesian model, said. "Contemplating my hot and sexy eyes, or enjoying my hot and busty breast picture?"
Difficult to determine your options? If so, just enjoy both of them.
roma section was increased strongly when Bella started to open the story about him. Girl born in Jakarta on March 5, 1984, admits that he was indeed spelled 'green' in the world model. He admitted, all he lakoni without planned and started from just a mere fad.
"If I were a model, hell, I just have fun. But if a DJ, because I love music and are interested to try it. And after dilakoni, was exciting. Yes, because I'm ... I terusin ... So, hobby, yes. Making money as well, yes ", she said.
Outside the career that is being made at this time, Bella was ciamik pumping party atmosphere. In front of DJ sets and clubbers she confidently shows his actions.
But taken of the first time on camera as he claimed no confident when playing in the corner area of the plate party, "I feel tough. Nervous, hard. But also enjoy the long run, "I am virgin who likes to watch the streets and busy life outside of this.
Inevitably, one woman's plunge into the world capital modeling is physical beauty. These potentials are owned by Bella. Uniquely, Bella explained that in fact he is a person who lacks confidence.
"Actually, I was less confident types who really. But because of support from friends would make me feel confident, " she said.
Dara who consider this sexy eyes climbed the career in the entertainment world requires a lot of preparation. Not just a matter of mere physical beauty. Time must be many ready to be seized for a career. But he was ready to confess if his personal life became public consumption. "That is a challenge that must be faced," he said.
But he feels lucky to have a girlfriend who supports the current activities. "A relationship, it should not hinder each other. Recently, I had a boyfriend. Incidentally he was a profession with me, DJ. So, help each other, "he explained.
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Berlin: Standing Room Only at Burgermeister
Editor's note: Welcome Conor O'Rourke to A Hamburger Today! After mentioning Burgermeister in his recent guide to Berlin Cheap Eats on Serious Eats, he's bringing his full review to AHT.
Oberbaumstraße 8, Kreuzberg, Berlin (map); +49 030-23883840, burger-meister.de
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: Classic, traditional cheeseburgers in a city where that can be hard to find
Want Fries with That? Yes, and get cheese on them!
Price: Cheeseburger, €3.90; Meisterburger, €4.30; cheese fries, €2.20
Notes: Open until 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays
A few Fridays ago, I crashed a friend's party with a bunch of people I didn't know that well. Or at all, really. It's a long story involving various forms of real and perceived social pressure as well as some language-based communication problems, but still in principle not a nice thing to do, and I felt bad about it. I arrived late with about seven or eight people, and after a few minutes, my friend asked us to go somewhere else, because his house was too small. Did I mention it was his birthday party? Yeah, it was rude. We left and I ended up on a weird, not entirely unpleasant adventure involving German freestyle rappers and night buses to strange, unfamiliar places far from the city center, but that has even less to do with burgers.
I ended the weekend feeling a little bad about the whole thing, but what better way to make it up to my friend than by taking him out for some hamburgers? Specifically, my favorite fast-food hamburger in Berlin, at Burgermeister.
Burgermeister occupies a building under the train tracks near U-Bahnhof Schlesisches Tor formerly used as a public restroom. Yeah, don't ask. The point is, now it's a damn fine hamburger restaurant. Nineties hiphop, the only kind most Germans can abide, plays as burger flippers rush around the crowded interior of the former bathroom, shuttling burgers and fries from one corner to the other. The dining area, such as it is, is standing-only and outdoor, though in the winters they set up a glass enclosure to keep your fries toasty. A DMV-style number screen displays the current order to be picked up, but be warned: This place is popular, and if you come here in the peak midnight-to-around-three-AM-on-a-drunken-Saturday hours, waits can stretch upwards of a half hour.
Burgermeister hand-forms their 180-gram (about six ounces) patties, but unfortunately the meat isn't ground in-house, though it's from sources with "only the highest ecological standards." They are juicy, sharply peppery, and loosely packed, cooked medium, with a tendency to crumble. On the cheeseburger (€3.90), this tendency was managed quite effectively by the thick, sticky layer of American cheese. Crisp lettuce, juicy tomatoes, and pungent red onions all play their traditional roles perfectly. The thickly sliced, tart, and satisfyingly crunchy pickles are a highlight, and offset with a small amount of slightly sweet house sauce, it all adds up to a classic-tasting, extremely well-balanced cheeseburger.
The Meisterburger (€4.30) on the other hand, proved too ambitious for its own good. It started off well: The bacon was crispy and thickly sliced, and the lettuce, pickles, tomatoes were fresh and flavorful. But somewhere along the line, a cloyingly sweet and artificial-tasting barbecue sauce had been added to the mix, and when combined with the already-sweet grilled onions, the burger was overwhelmed. Without the gooey cheese to mellow the flavor and hold the patty together, the burger disintegrated into a sweet, sticky, salty mess. Unless you like your burgers to taste like candy, the Meisterburger in its present form is not worth ordering.
A word about cheese fries (€2.20): I love them! These are straightforward, crispy fries with some melty, con queso-style cheese product poured all over them, they can also be had with such bonuses as bacon, jalapeños, and grilled onions. Though not fresh-cut, they're golden-brown and perfectly crisp. Even without the jalapeños, the nacho cheese is spiced, and the fries have a bit of a kick to them. One can easily see why they're so popular with the late-night crowd: Everyone loves that last minute shot of grease and carbs to soak up the extra beer before you go to bed.
Though my apologetic expedition to Burgermeister was sightly marred by the disappointing Meista Burger, I can happily report that my friend and I both departed from Burgermeister sporting not only full bellies, but a reinvigorated friendship and perhaps a little more mutual understanding than before. I learned that sometimes it's better to just not show up, and also to just go ahead and skip the barbecue sauce. Sometimes uninvited guests can be a bigger burden than you think.
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Here is a yummy recipe for 21 Day Fix approved stuffed peppers. A little family friendly tip: My three year old isn't a big fan of green peppers so I put his stuffed pepper filling in a whole wheat wrap. The measurements I gave are for 1 stuffed pepper so just multiply the measurements based on how many servings you are making. I was so hungry that I ate them before taking a picture so I'll post a pic next time I make them 🙂 On the bottom of this post I've included the conversions of what the containers measure out to be for the non-fixers out there!
21 Day Fix Stuffed Peppers
2 Greens, 1 yellow, 1 red, 1 blue and 1 purple
1 Green Pepper
¾ yellow container of brown rice
¼ yellow container of black beans
1 red container of lean ground beef
1 blue container of Monterey jack cheese
¼ purple container pico de gallo
¾ purple container plain crushed tomatoes (Recommend Pastene brand)
1 green container romaine lettuce
Garlic powder
Black pepper
Cayenne Pepper
Preheat oven to 350°. Spray sauté pan with a spritz of cooking spray and cook the ground beef. While that is cooking cut the top off of the green pepper and remove the seeds. Season to taste with garlic powder, black pepper and red pepper. In a bowl mix together cooked brown rice, black beans, cheese, ground beef and a spoonful of the tomatoes. Put the rest of the tomatoes in a small glass baking pan and add ¼ cup of water. Place the pepper into the baking pan and fill it with the mixture in the bowl. Place into oven and let bake uncovered for an hour, basting the pepper with the tomatoes every 10 minutes. Serve over a bed of romaine lettuce, top with pico de gallo and enjoy! Note: The peppers will still be a bit crispy (I like them with some crunch). If you'd like softer peppers you can boil or steam them before stuffing. You lose nutrients when you boil veggies so steaming would be better way to go!


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Lionel Messi became the first four-time winner of the FIFA Player of the Year award after shattering the world record with 91 goals last year for Barcelona and Argentina.
The 25-year-old won for the fourth straight time, beating Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona teammate Andres Iniesta in voting announced Monday. His 91 goals topped Gerd Mueller's mark of 85 for Bayern Munich and Germany in 1972.
Lionel Messi became the first four-time winner of the FIFA Player of the Year award after shattering the world record with 91 goals last year for Barcelona and Argentina.
The 25-year-old won for the fourth straight time, beating Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona teammate Andres Iniesta in voting announced Monday. His 91 goals topped Gerd Mueller's mark of 85 for Bayern Munich and Germany in 1972.
Abby Wambach became the first American to win FIFA Women's Player of the Year since Mia Hamm in 2001 and 2002. Pia Sundhage was voted top women's coach after leading Wambach and the U.S. team to the gold medal at last summer's London Olympics.
Messi received 41.60 percent of the points in votes by national team coaches and captains plus selected media.
Ronaldo got 23.68 percent and Iniesta 10.91 percent.
"To tell the truth, this is really unbelievable to get the fourth award. I am so nervous," Messi said in Spanish, wearing a black tuxedo jacket and bow tie, both with a white polka-dot pattern in an unexpectedly flamboyant touch.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann and captain Carlos Bocanegra both voted Messi first, as did Soccer America's Paul Kennedy.
Zinedine Zidane of France and Ronaldo of Brazil were voted FIFA Player of the Year three times before the award merged in 2010 with France Football's Golden Ball, given to the European player of the year. The Golden Ball, or Ballon d'Or, was won three times by Michel Platini of France and Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten of the Netherlands.
The 32-year-old Wambach received 20.67 percent to edge teammate Alex Morgan (13.5) and five-time winner Marta of Brazil (10.87). Jill Ellis, who was interim U.S. coach last fall, voted Wambach first, as did Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl, while American captain Christie Rampone voted Morgan first.
"I'm very, very surprised," Wambach said. "Not only do I think Marta and Alex could have won, but many other players could have been here as well."
Wambach, who received the award from American goalkeeper Hope Solo, scored five goals in London as the U.S. won its third straight Olympic title. She has 152 international goals, six shy of Hamm's record.
"She's so completely deserving of this award," Morgan said. "She's made such a huge mark on women's soccer over the past decade. She's an inspiration to not only the thousands of young girls around the country and world, but also to me."
The U.S. players were serenaded from the stage by Sundhage, who sang a verse of the Bob Dylan song "If Not For You" when she received her award.
Sundhage, who left the U.S. job after the Olympics to coach her native Sweden, got 28.59 percent of the vote to defeat Nono Sasaki of Japan (23.83) and Bruno Bini of France (9.02).
Vicente del Bosque was voted top men's coach after leading Spain to its third straight title in a major tournament, the 2012 European Championship. Del Bosque got 34.51 percent to win over Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho (20.49), who won last year, and Pep Guardiola (12.91) who won in 2011 and retired from Barcelona last spring.
The three men's Player of the Year were on the World XI All-Star team chosen by the FIFPro group of players' unions, comprising 50,000 members worldwide.
They selected a team composed entirely of players from Spanish clubs, with nine repeating their selection from one year ago.
Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas was selected as goalkeeper, joined on defense by teammates Sergio Ramos and Marcelo and by Barcelona's Dani Alves and Gerard Pique. Iniesta was joined in midfield by Barcelona teammate Xavi Hernandez and Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso. Messi led the attack with Ronaldo and Atletico Madrid's Radamel Falcao. Marcelo and Falcao replaced Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney from the 2011 team.
The Puskas Award for the best goal in 2012, voted on by fans, was won by Miroslav Stoch of Fenerbahce, who had a long-range volley last March in a Turkish league game against Genclerbirligi.
Uzbekistan won the fair play award for its good disciplinary record. Sepp Blatter made the FIFA presidential award to Franz Beckenbauer, who captained and coached West Germany to World Cup victories, and then led the local organizing committee of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.


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Soon, you may not necessarily need to be fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) in order to interpret it. Scientists have hacked Microsoft's Xbox Kinect motion control sensor to read ASL.
The real-world feat is reminiscent of Google's April Fools' Day prank this year, in which the company falsely debuted a featured called Gmail Motion that allowed users to translate bodily gestures into words and email commands.
The Kinect, which debuted in November, offered a revolutionary way to interact with computers without pushing any buttons or holding any device whatsoever, using only body motions to control Microsoft's Xbox game console. The add-on, which is essentially a motion-sensing webcam, uses an infrared scanner to create 3-D models of people as they move, allowing users to play games by swimming their arms, shimmying their bodies or performing other so-called natural interactions. The Kinect has proven very popular, with 8 million sensors sold worldwide within 60 days of its launch.
The Kinect drew the attention not just of gamers but of programmers as well, with a thriving community of hackers now testing the limits of what the sensor can be used for, such as helping mobile robots respond to gestural commands.
Now researchers at Georgia Tech are pairing up the Kinect device with custom software that can interpret a very limited American Sign Language vocabulary with greater than 98 percent accuracy.
The scientists initially only used a limited vocabulary of six signs — those for "alligator," "spider," "box," "wall," "behind" and "in" — all signs that involve broad gestures with the arms and body.
"What we're doing now is working on computer vision algorithms to get more information on hand shapes from the Kinect," said researcher Helene Brashear, a computer scientist and president of Georgia Tech spinoff company Tin Min Labs in Austin, Texas. In the future, the scientists also hope that an improved Kinect sensor with even higher-resolution imaging comes out.
The scientists are working on a game called Copycat aimed at helping deaf children practice sign language. "Ninety-five percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, very few of whom are fluent in sign, so we want to support these children as much as possible," Brashear explained.
In the long run, sensors like the Kinect could lead to ways for computers to understand sign language and translate it to English or other languages. "That's far off, but it could happen," Brashear told TechNewsDaily. "Right now, advances in technology have really helped the deaf community — video chat is huge there, for instance.


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4-5 parathas
Preparation Time:
20-30 mins
What you need:
For the cover:
2 cup Wheat flour (Atta)
1-2 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Oil
For the filling:
1.5-2 cups cooked Rice (Leftover stale rice is perfect)
4-5 Green Chillies
1 inch Ginger
3-4 cloves of Garlic
1 tsp Corriander Powder
1 tsp Cumin Powder
2-3 strands of Corriander, finely chopped
Juice of 1/2 lemon(optional)
How to proceed:
For the cover:
1) Mix all ingredients and knead into soft dough
2) Keep aside for 15-20 mins
For the filling:
1) Mash the rice properly to small pieces
2) Put chillies, ginger in blender and blend to a paste, add this to mashed rice
3) Add the remaining ingredients and mix well
4) Divide the filling into 4-5 balls of equal size
Putting it all together:
1)Divide the dough into 4-5 parts. [the size of each part should be nearly same to size of part of each filling]
2) Roll the dough to diameter of approx 4 inches
3) Put the stuffing/filling in the middle and get the ends of dough together and close so that the filling does not come out
4) Roll the parathas using wheat/rice flour
5) Roast on hot girdle on both sides till brown spots appear using oil/ghee/butter
6) Serve hot wit raitas, curd or pickles!
* The sticky rice works perfect for this! Btw, did I say that this is my first post from college PC drafted during lunch break! :D


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July is International Pest Month!
Just kidding! But it is the month so many of the little buggers come out in force! Taking good care of your plants during pest cycles goes with the territory!
Aphids & Whiteflies = Ants Both ants and aphids exude a sugary 'nectar,' honeydew, that ants harvest from them.
Jet spray off the whiteflies! That's those little clouds of tiny white insects that fly away when you bump your plant. Some of them transmit diseases to some veggies. Spray off dust that interferes with natural predators. Whiteflies like the heads of your broccoli side shoots, so keep those picked pronto! Smudge off any eggs you see on the undersides of leaves. Use a finer spray for bean leaves and be gentle, beans stems can break easily. White flies like humidity, so plant less densely, and keep check on the inner and lower leaves. Add a 1″ layer of worm castings out to the dripline of your plant. Water it in well. Insecticidal soaps or Neem oil can reduce populations. You really don't want those tiny white flies, cute and adorable as they look, because they encourage black sooty mold and aphids that inject toxins and also carry diseases. Not good.
Some aphids are still lollying from April and June. Some are pretty little green tykes, others are dull gray, or black, usually numerous where they have decided to camp. Same principles. Keep vigilant watch so things don't get out of hand, keep your veggies picked, and jet spray. Look inside curled leaves, under the leaves, and in newly leafing tops. See more about Aphids at UC IPM!
Ants tend aphids. Some say sprinkle cinnamon around your plant to keep the ants off it. Otherwise, use safe ant bait stakes. Be sure the stakes are the right kind for the ants you have and the time of year. ARGENTINE ants prefer sweet baits year-round. Protein baits are attractive to Argentine ants primarily in the spring. Chemical baits are not ok in our organic veggie community gardens. Instead, a simple remedy can be putting a few drops of dish soap around and filling the nest entrance. Pull mulch back from the stem of your plant and let that immediate soil dry a bit. Ants nest near water. See more about Ants at UC IPM! See a lot more details about aphids and ants!
No mercy to those little green and black striped cucumber beetle cuties down in the cuke and squash flowers or simply strolling about! Squish. Or should we let a few pollinate our cucumbers and squashes even though they eat the flowers away? NO! Because they carry seriously nasty plant diseases.
Pick your outer lettuces leaves, cut & come again style. This guarantees you will find those morning slugs and snails. Poke around your beans gently and peek under squash and chard leaves for ambitious high altitude snail hikers. Scan your tomatoes for the varmints! Toss them someplace, the same place each time, so your local birds can gourmet on them. When the birds see you they will come for snacks! Use Sluggo, or the like, a few times to stop the generations, or hand pick if you can stand it.
Leafminers. Yuk. They chew on your chard and other veggies, get right between the layers of the leaf, making that section brown. External applications obviously can't touch them. Pull away the infected sections of the leaf, remove badly infected leaves. There are several different kinds of leafminer insects that operate all at once. It's their hatching season. Later summer there will be less. Keep harvesting to keep ahead of the miners.
Flea beetles in July? Yup. Those trillions of holes in the leaves? That's who we're talkin' about. There are 3 to 4 generations per year, depending on weather, and the generation time is roughly 30 days. They look just like fleas, and are about impossible to catch. No mercy. Disturb their cycle by putting compost, manures, worm castings, under susceptible plants – eggplant, arugula, radish. They like radish the most, so plant it as a trap plant near other susceptible plants and let it grow out. Radish grows quickly, so plant it anytime! Turning the soil exposes the eggs and pupae to dry and die.
Keep the water coming so not only do cukes and lettuces stay sweet, the cukes and beans grow straight, but they grow fast and outgrow pests.
Unlike with insects, you don't get a second chance with gophers.
Gophers are simply an ongoing pest for most gardeners. You mention them and gardeners groan. Now they are getting summer shiny and well fed on what you grow for them. It's never too late to put in gopher barriers in any planting area. You can sink in an 18" to 2′ deep barrier, 6" above ground, perimeter, but better is to scoop out the area and lay the wire around and across the entire area, securing the wire edge to edge by weaving it with wire! Be sure neighboring edges are secure one way or another so there is no sneaking through. Hardware cloth will do the best job, lasts about 10 years, naturally is the most expensive. Chicken wire has too big an opening, and is easily gnawable. Aviary wire (1/2" opening), is the better choice, and disintegrates in about 3 years, but is tons better than nothing at all!
If installing a barrier isn't an option, then trapping is the most effective. It's not hard to do, but I admit, it's not entirely pleasant or even safe. Please do be careful setting traps, especially if you are gardening alone. I push the dead creature down the tunnel and close up the tunnel. Hopefully any newcomers to that tunnel system will plug that section off. Wire traps, like Macabees, are cheap and effective, need only a small hole dug to install, less digging, saves nearby plants. Box traps are perhaps more humane, and probably catch the fast small babies better, but do install two, one each direction, that's what's effective, you need a hole at least a foot in diameter. That usually requires a plant or more loss. The easy way to find tunnels, if you can't find it at the fresh mound, is to push a small diameter ¼" to ½" stick into the surrounding ground at intervals until it gives when you push it in. That's your tunnel location. The bigger the tunnel, the better your chances, especially if it goes off in two directions. Install your traps, one each direction. More on gophers! UC Davis Integrated Pest Management Good hunting.
Last option, but overall expensive per cost per an area, time and repeated installations, is wire baskets. You can buy them or make them. First check out how deep your plant's roots are likely to grow and shop or make accordingly. If the roots grow through the basket they are likely to be nibbled.
We have talked about small nuisances and gophers. We haven't talked about bunnies, mice, deer, grasshoppers, skunks or others. But we can if you need to. Let me know.
Good gardening. Vigilance, giving immediate care, are two good traits to have. Keep it organic. Remove pest habitat, keep working your soil, keeping your plants healthy and resistant. Floating row covers can be a good early season choice. But they have to be opened daily when it gets too hot, and opened daily or removed to allow pollination when your plants start flowering. At that point, they become more work than they are worth for pest prevention. Avoid overplanting that leads to neglect by not harvesting. If you've done it, remove plants you don't use, give away if possible. Replace with something new, vigorous and inspiring! Sometimes a plant you love will simply successfully grow through the season of the pest, outgrow the part of the pest's cycle that would bother your plant. Plant year round habitat for natural predators, beneficial insects. They are hungry hard workers! Don't kill the spiders, welcome the lizards, put a safe bowl of water for the birds – safe means away from kitties and with a little ramp so lizards and mice, the tinies can get out.
Prevention is best! Select pest and disease resistant varieties. Use companion planting wisely!
- Basil is great with tomatoes, and a pack of culinary dandelions! It is thought to repel white flies, mosquitoes, tomato hornworms, aphids, houseflies, and asparagus beetles. Smells great and tastes great!
- Beans, Cukes, Dill, Radish Combo! Cukes and Beans are great on the trellis, one high, one low. Dill goes with your pickling cukes. Radishes to deter Cucumber beetles.
- WHITE Potatoes with Zucchini to repel squash bugs.
- Radish with eggplant, cukes & zukes act as trap plants for flea beetles and to repel cucumber beetles.
- Carrots love being with cilantro and chamomile, and chamomile improves the flavor of any neighboring herb!
- Herbs are fabulous! Calendula, aka Pot Marigold, traps aphids, whiteflies, and thrips!
- Marigolds are brilliant and called the workhorse of pest deterrents!
No denial allowed! Be observant and take immediate action. Carry on, good garden soldiers!
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara's community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are often in a fog belt/marine layer most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is. Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!
Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic!


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Tyler Beskorowany
Hanmer Ontario
Eligible for draft:
2nd round (59th overall), 2008
196 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
2007-08: Beskorowany had a rough year on the stat sheet, but he did the best he could on a rather lackluster Owen Sound (OHL) team. In addition to being Dallas' first selection (59th overall) in 2008, he also took home his team's MVP, Top Prospect and Rookie of the Year awards — awards that were well deserved, as Owen Sound surrendered more than 36 shots per game when Beskorowany was between the pipes.
2008-09: It was a rough year for Beskorowany and the Attack once again. This time though, Beskorowany ended up splitting time with Scott Stajcer (NYR) who played well for Owen Sound this season. The split was virtually right down the middle (37 to 35 games played in favor of Beskorowany). However, the better numbers went to Stajcer by just a bit. Down the stretch, Stajcer took more time from Beskorowany. And after a dreadful performance in Game 1 of their opening-round series against Windsor, Beskorowany was yanked for the final time this year (surrendering five goals on 23 shots in 27 minutes). Stajcer took over for the remainder of the playoffs and oversaw the Attack going down in straight sets to the Spitfires. Once again this season, Beskorowany was under constant siege. He faced an average of 37 shots a night in addition to having to fight through his inconsistent play and issues with confidence. There seems to be a fair amount of frustration from Beskorowany and for good reason. Some nights saw him standing on his head and stealing wins for the Attack with one excellent glove save after another. While other nights saw a somewhat timid Beskorowany dropping down too early and surrendering some soft goals that led to him getting yanked and a loss.
Traded to Kingston in the summer of 2009.
2009-10: Beskorowany handled a very heavy workload with the Kingston Frontenacs(OHL), appearing in 62 games, and going 29-25-4. He finished with a GAA of 3.52 and a .903 save percentage. He also appeared in 7 playoff games, stepping up a bit with a 3.26 GAA and a .912 save percentage.
2010-11: After an up-and-down junior career, Beskorowany joined the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL and performed very well. Due to injuries at the AHL level, Beskorowany was sped through the Stars goaltender development "course" and saw more AHL time than initially planned. In 20 ECHL games, he posted a 10-5-4 record with a 2.35 GAA and .928 save pct. – he didn't meet the minimum games cut-off for stat purposes but had a legitimate shot at leading the league in save percentage at the rate he was going. He was also named to the league's all-star game. He also saw 18 AHL contests, going 7-8-1 with a 2.58 GAA and .921 save pct.
2011-12: Beskorowany saw the bulk of the action for Dallas AHL affiliate Texas in his second pro season with veterans Andrew Raycroft and Richard Bachman each seeing time in the NHL as the Dallas Stars' backup. He was 10-19 with 1 shutout in 22 games for Texas and had a 3.39 goals against average and .886 save percentage. The Texas Stars missed the AHL playoffs; finishing last in the West Division.
Talent Analysis
Beskorowany's best asset is his size. At 6'4 and north of 200 pounds, he moves soundly. There isn't a lot of wasted movement but he does show signs of good athleticism when he needs to. He plays the puck very well and has an excellent glove. But he still has a long way to go. Needs to work on his angles because his rebound control is lacking and if he sets himself up to deflect rebounds to corners and other safety areas he'll be in better shape. Still something of a raw prospect. But he has a very good attitude and a desire to improve.
Will fight for starts in the AHL, but with the Stars continuing adding goaltenders to the organization and Beskorowany's lack of notable progression, it might be an uphill battle. He needs to hold his head above water this season.


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Have you ever wondered what Darth Vader would look like if he hailed from Candyland? After building a 300-pound, Imperial-stormtrooper-shaped pastry earlier this year, the bakers at Amanda Oakleaf Cakes upped the ante and recreated Anakin Skywalker out of gâteau. This Sith dessert was served last weekend at the 501st Legion Banquet for Star Wars Celebration VI. Here are his stats:
In total he weighed just over 500 lbs, stood 6 feet 7 inches tall, and fed 600 hungry Legion members. The most interesting and challenging part of this cake was actually the cape, which by itself was over 100 lbs of our marshmallow fondant, which freely hung from his shoulders five and a half feet above the ground. Also of note is Vader's light saber, which was a single, solid piece of watermelon flavored poured sugar.
You can see the full building process here. 100-pound marshmallow capes are the new hot intergalactic despot accessory. Hat tip to Frogurt.


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Department of Surgery faculty members, both physicians and scientists, are world-renown in their subspecialties. Faculty members are passionate in their clinical care and research practices, as well as being mentors for medical students and trainees. The department also invests significant funds to provide protected time and lab space for junior faculty to perform research.
Sukgu Han
Multilayered Parallel Endografting for Urgent Endovascular Repair of a Severely Angulated Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Ann Vasc Surg. 2017 Jul; 42:56-61. . View in PubMed
Comparison of intravascular ultrasound- and centerline computed tomography-determined aortic diameters during thoracic endovascular aortic repair J Vasc Surg. 2017 10; 66(4):1184-1191. . View in PubMed
Endovascular rescue after inadvertent false lumen stent graft implantation J Vasc Surg. 2016 Feb; 63(2):518-22. . View in PubMed
Remodeling of abdominal aortic branch perfusion after thoracic endovascular aortic repair for aortic dissections J Vasc Surg. 2016 10; 64(4):902-11. . View in PubMed
Dr. Han completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, Irvine, where he graduated with magna cum laude honors in 2000. He obtained his M.D. from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, where he was awarded a membership of Alpha Omega Alpha honors society as a third-year medical student. He completed general surgery training at our own University of Southern California, where he was voted the most outstanding chief resident by the faculty in 2012. During residency, he also obtained a master's degree in biomedical engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC. Dr. Han went on to complete vascular surgery fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Han obtained additional dedicated training in complex aortic repairs at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
Since joining USC as faculty in 2014, Dr. Han has been instrumental in advancing the Aortic Center at Keck Medical Center of USC as one of the most robust programs in the country for care of patients with aortic emergencies and complex aortic pathologies. Dr. Han also serves as a principal investigator on numerous clinical trials on cutting-edge branched, fenestrated endovascular aortic stent grafts. Dr. Han is a frequent invited lecturer on complex aortic repairs at both national and international meetings. He maintains one of the busiest clinical practices at USC.
Dr. Han is board certified in Vascular Surgery and General Surgery.


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On the JSLabs blog today, there's a (short) new tutorial showing an alternate method to creating a Zip archive in PHP (rather than with the zip extension).
He illustrates the creation of simple archive that pulls in a test file from a given path. This is then pushed into the zip archive and packed down and exported. He also notes the different compression levels that it can be created with - no compression, bzipped and gzipped.
You can download the library here.


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The Bear Identification Program is intended to prevent the killing of grizzly bears as a result of mistaken identity. Black bear hunters in Montana are required to pass the Bear Identification test to obtain a black bear license.
Hunters must complete the program and have a validated certificate to purchase a black bear license. If purchasing your black bear license after the (April 15) spring or (August 31) fall deadline, there will be a 24–hour wait before you can use the license.


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When farmers tell Mike Janssen they're frustrated about bean yields, his answer makes them smile. He tells them they're insane. "That's when you keep doing the same thing over and over but expect different results," says Janssen, from Hooper, NE.
And he's a little frustrated himself. He believes farmers leave a lot of yield in the field because of old habits that ignore new technology. To prove the point, he made a few cultural changes in the 2007 variety test plots he grows for Golden Harvest. The result was 90+ bu. soybeans on six of 12 NK Brand varieties on non-irrigated ground.
The same field averaged 58 bu. and 60 bu. in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The highest yield in this year's 650-ft. test plot was 94.4 bu. The lowest was 74.5 bu.
There's nothing exotic about Janssen's high-yield ideas. No snake oil or foo-foo products, as he likes to call them. "Most of the yield increase is simply cultural practices that protect the yield potential," he says. "The genetic improvement or big yields is there; farmers just aren't realizing the potential."
Yields are improving, however. "When I first came to Iowa State University (ISU) in 2003, farmers complained about 40-bu. soybean yields," says Palle Pedersen, ISU Extension soybean specialist. "Now they complain about 50-bu. yields.
"We're starting to prove we can produce high-yielding soybeans across a large number of acres. Iowa should average 52 bu./acre in 2007, and we can increase it even more if we get more people on board. Iowa has not averaged above 50 bu./acre the last three years. Everyone should be able to raise soybeans that yield in the high 50s-60s," says Pedersen.
Since 2003 Pedersen has focused his research on high-yield soybeans with checkoff funds from the Iowa Soybean Association. Janssen studied under Pedersen as a graduate student.
Growing high-yield soybeans is a nurturing process, different than the pedal-to-the-metal mentality used for pushing corn yields, according to Kevin Coey, president of AgSCI and owner of F.I.R.S.T.,an independent farmer organization that plants test plots annually to check yield potential for corn and soybeans.
"Soybeans are less dependent on environmental conditions than corn. In our tests we see soybean yields move up and down in a pack," Coey says. "Hybrids, on the other hand, tend to have an individual niche that they thrive in. And there's more genetic diversity in corn," he says.
The soybean nurturing process eliminates yield-reducing stresses such as weed pressure, insect infestations and diseases, such as white mold, SCN, sudden death syndrome or pod and stem blight, according to Coey. "It's important to have a field history of diseases that will reduce yields and then manage the crop to minimize the effects," he says.
That's a season-long process, adds Pedersen. "It doesn't take a lot of mistakes to lose yield," he says. "Soybeans are very sensitive to stress from weeds, insects or diseases. Any treatment decisions you make should be based on crop scouting and integrated pest management recommendations. It's critical that you keep the plant running at high capacity through July, and then it's up to Mother Nature to provide some August rains to fill out the seeds."
Not surprisingly, Janssen will tell you that high yields start with seed. "Variety selection accounted for 21% of the yield increase we saw in our test plots," he says. It's easy for farmers to figure out what varieties are best suited for their area. Seed dealers have that information and, of course, are more than willing to share. It's cutting the check that slows farmers down.
"Farmers tend to select soybeans based on seeds/lb. and cost/bag," Janssen says. "Variety selection is third. They want the high seed count because it lets them plant more acres. But when you select a variety with tiny seeds, it yields tiny seeds.
"You need to look for a variety that will produce lots of large seeds to get top yields. The highest yielding variety in our plots had seeds the size of marbles," he says.
Step two in Janssen's plan for high-yield soybeans is the tough one for most farmers. He planted his beans April 18 and figures that adds anywhere from 5 to 10 bu. an acre. "We had beans breaking the ground before some farmers started planting corn," he says. "The weather was beautiful. In fact, we were wearing T-shirts. Then it turned cold and wet."
Early planted beans certainly aren't a new idea. Farmers across the Midwest have tested the theory and, for the most part, decided it's better to wait until May. But, Janssen contests that newer crop protection chemicals can offset the risk of damping off and other early season plant diseases and insect infestations, specifically early bean leaf beetle populations.
"You have to manage the risk. We used seed treated with Cruiser-Maxx Pak, an insecticide/fungicide combination," says Janssen, who works as a technical service agronomist for Golden Harvest, which is owned by Syngenta, manufacturer of Cruiser-Maxx. "Seventy percent of the seed we sell is treated."
Why early planting? "Soybeans are a source-limited crop. Yield is strongly correlated to the total amount of solar radiation the plant receives," Janssen says. "Once you understand the physiology of the plant, it becomes black and white what we need to do for higher yields."
Janssen's early planted soybeans began to bloom by June 1. "That's key," he says. "As the season progresses, the day length shortens and the light spectrum changes. Yield potential goes down as the quality of the light changes.
"With early planted beans,you're putting together a bigger factory. It allows you to maximize plant growth before soybeans reach the reproductive stage," he says. "The early planted, high-yield beans had 8-9 nodes before they flowered. I picked up 4-5 nodes that late-planted beans would never get."
Janssen used a 30-in. planter to seed his plots, but split the rows to end up with plants on 15-in. centers. "Narrow rows are critical for high yields," he says. "Narrow rows add an estimated 5 bu./acre to the yield." His planting rate was 170,000 seeds/acre.
A hidden advantage to planting soybeans early, according to Janssen, is you're likely to do a better job. "By the middle of May, when most farmers plant soybeans, they're worn out from corn planting. They drive 8 mph to get the beans in as fast as they can and just want to get done," he says. "There's a mentality that soybeans are just a rotation crop and not worth the effort to do the best job possible."
The rest of Janssen's production practices are pretty ordinary, albeit steps many farmers don't use. Fall-applied dry fertilizer assures nutrient levels don't impede yields. Weed control includes a pre-plant herbicide and two applications of Roundup. One aerial application of Lorsban and one of Quilt tank-mixed with Warrior provides in-season protection against disease and insects.
"We had a total of $213/acre in production costs," says Janssen. "That includes a fee for combining and the premium for crop and hail insurance, but no land charge."
The math makes you think twice about corn. With 90-bu. yields and $9 beans, you're going to gross more than $800/acre. That still might not justify some of today's ballooning land prices, but it's certainly on par with corn.
"We have to find a way to make soybeans compete with corn or the crop is going to disappear," Janssen says. "So many farmers want to go to corn-on-corn because of the economics. That's true if you have 50-bu. beans. It's not as lucrative at 75-80 bu./acre.
"Soybeans are a crop that nobody is focused on. Corn is king," he says. "But there are gobs of opportunity. And in the long term, it's better for both crops to be grown in rotation."
Adds Coey, "People get excited about corn, but they're starting to understand that a 10-bu. increase in soybean yield is just as valuable as a 30-bu. increase in corn yields. However, they're going to have to adapt new cultural practices and nurture those higher yields."
So, the biggest impediment to growing high-yield soybeans may be under your baseball cap. "It's hard to think to change," Janssen says. "We've adapted a different thought process and the result is 90-bu. beans."
If Corn Is Biofuels King, Tropical Maize May Be Emperor
In terms of biofuel production, tropical maize could be the sugarcane of the Midwest. Its tall stalks are so full of sugar that it is at least one step closer to being turned into fuel than are ears of corn, according to University of Illinois research.
Maize may prove to be the ultimate U.S. biofuels crop. It produces 25% or more sugar as sucrose, fructose and glucose. This sugar is one step closer to becoming ethanol than the starch in corn, miscanthus, stover and switchgrass. These conventional feedstocks must be treated with enzymes to convert them into sugars that can be then fermented into ethanol.
Storing simple sugars also is more cost-effective for the plant, because it takes a lot of energy to make the complex starches, proteins and oils in corn grain. This energy savings per plant could result in more total energy per acre with topical maize, since it produces no grain.
When University of Illinois crop scientist Fred Below began growing tropical maize, the form of corn grown in the tropics, he was looking for novel genes for nitrogen utilization. Early research results show that tropical maize, when grown in the Midwest, requires few crop inputs, such as nitrogen fertilizer, chiefly because it does not produce any ears. It can be easily integrated into farmers' current operations than some other dedicated energy crops because it can be easily rotated with corn or soybeans, and can be planted, cultivated and harvested with existing equipment.
"Corn is a short-day plant, so when we grow tropical maize in the Midwest, the long summer days delay flowering, which causes the plant to grow very tall and produce few or no ears," says Below. Without ears, these plants concentrate sugars in their stalks. According to Below, Midwestern-grown tropical maize easily grows 14-15 ft. tall building up to a level of at least 25% sugar in its stalks.
The tropical maize at the University of Illinois requires much less nitrogen fertilizer than conventional corn, and the stalks actually accumulate more sugar when less nitrogen is available.
Below explained that sugarcane used in Brazil to make ethanol is desirable for the same reason: It produces lots of sugar without a high requirement for nitrogen fertilizer, and this sugar can be fermented to alcohol without the middle steps required by high-starch and cellulosic crops. But sugarcane can't be grown in the Midwest.
The tall stalks of tropical maize are so full of sugar that producers growing it for biofuel production will be able to supply a raw material at least one step closer to being turned into fuel than are ears of corn. "And growing tropical maize doesn't break farmers' rotation,"Below says.


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NAPL to Unveil Landmark Capital Investment Report
PARAMUS, N.J—Sept. 2, 2010—The "NAPL Capital Investment Study," a new landmark report on the capital investment process in the graphic communications industry, will be unveiled at the NAPL Critical Trends Summit during GRAPH EXPO 2010 on Monday, Oct. 4, at McCormick Place (S106) in Chicago.
The study, sponsored by Canon, is based, in part, on responses from more than 350 industry companies in every market segment and with sales ranging from less than $1 million to more than $300 million. "Comprising far more than survey results, however, it also explores the entire capital investment process," says NAPL Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Andrew Paparozzi, who will reveal key report results at the Oct. 4 Summit.
"Our aim was to help graphic arts companies improve their investment process and avoid common capital investment mistakes that companies in our industry simply can't afford to make any more because our margin for error has become so thin," he explains.
"The result is a report that will define the essential steps in the process, as well as the 'dos and don'ts,' offer reliable information sources, explain how to build flexibility into the process, and show printers how to navigate the capital investment journey successfully—and leverage the assistance of manufacturers and technology suppliers in doing so."
The "NAPL Capital Investment Study" also details what graphic arts companies would most like to improve about the process and addresses process challenges such as developing unbiased, agenda-free input to help evaluate investment options and strengthen post-investment evaluation. In addition, it provides statistical data and insight on how much graphic arts companies have invested in capital equipment over the last three years and what their investment priorities are for the next three years.
"This study will be important reading for executives of all graphic arts companies—including in-plants and franchisees—who want to make capital investment decisions," says Paparozzi. "And all providers of graphic arts technology—whether equipment, hardware, or software—will find it useful in understanding where their clients plan to invest over the next 36 months, how they make those choices, and how suppliers can help them make better investment decisions."