Thursday, October 17, 2013

New soil testing kit for third world countries

New soil testing kit for third world countries


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Oct. 16, 2013Researchers at the University of Maryland and Columbia University have developed a new soil testing kit designed to help farmers in third world countries. On-the-spot soil testing could have major impact in improving crop yields due to poor soils. The kit contains battery-operated instruments and safe materials for agricultural extension agents to handle in the field. They can test for the availability of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and potassium, as well as active organic matter, and certain soil physical limitations. The raw results of the tests are sent by cell phone to a central website. Then, calculations are made and recommendations are delivered back to the extension agent.


The kit, called SoilDoc, is the culmination of several years of work in Africa by Ray Weil, PhD. Weil, a soil scientist, spent his 2009 sabbatical working with the Millennium Villages Project in the some of the poorest areas of Africa. He started carrying common soil testing items in his backpack, but found he needed more. Back in the US, he discovered items used for testing home aquariums that would also work for soil tests. Upon returning to Africa, he adapted them with good results, carrying a larger toolkit. A colleague, Pedro Sanchez, a well-known scientist fighting world hunger, suggested that Weil create a product around his homemade kit. Sanchez brought the resources of Columbia University's Ag and Food Security Center to bear on the project


A post-doctoral researcher at Sanchez's Center, Lydiah Gatere, recently rolled out the SoilDoc product. She trained 16 Tanzanian and Nigerian extension personnel. The group plans to conduct more training workshops in 2014 for Tanzania, Nigeria and possibly additional countries. Their vision is to train the trainers: thousands of extension agents, many with little more than a high school education, will then be consultants. They will be ready to diagnose soil fertility problems and offer recommendations to many thousands of "smallholder farmers." These farmers work on less than 5 acres. The ultimate goal is to significantly increase crop production and food security in Africa.


Gatere will present "Field Kit Soil Tests to Assess Acidity, N, P, S and K Fertility in Kenyan Soils" on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM. The presentation is part of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings, Nov. 3-6 in Tampa, Florida. The theme of this year's conference is "Water, Food, Energy, & Innovation for a Sustainable World".


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New soil testing kit for third world countries


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Oct. 16, 2013Researchers at the University of Maryland and Columbia University have developed a new soil testing kit designed to help farmers in third world countries. On-the-spot soil testing could have major impact in improving crop yields due to poor soils. The kit contains battery-operated instruments and safe materials for agricultural extension agents to handle in the field. They can test for the availability of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and potassium, as well as active organic matter, and certain soil physical limitations. The raw results of the tests are sent by cell phone to a central website. Then, calculations are made and recommendations are delivered back to the extension agent.


The kit, called SoilDoc, is the culmination of several years of work in Africa by Ray Weil, PhD. Weil, a soil scientist, spent his 2009 sabbatical working with the Millennium Villages Project in the some of the poorest areas of Africa. He started carrying common soil testing items in his backpack, but found he needed more. Back in the US, he discovered items used for testing home aquariums that would also work for soil tests. Upon returning to Africa, he adapted them with good results, carrying a larger toolkit. A colleague, Pedro Sanchez, a well-known scientist fighting world hunger, suggested that Weil create a product around his homemade kit. Sanchez brought the resources of Columbia University's Ag and Food Security Center to bear on the project


A post-doctoral researcher at Sanchez's Center, Lydiah Gatere, recently rolled out the SoilDoc product. She trained 16 Tanzanian and Nigerian extension personnel. The group plans to conduct more training workshops in 2014 for Tanzania, Nigeria and possibly additional countries. Their vision is to train the trainers: thousands of extension agents, many with little more than a high school education, will then be consultants. They will be ready to diagnose soil fertility problems and offer recommendations to many thousands of "smallholder farmers." These farmers work on less than 5 acres. The ultimate goal is to significantly increase crop production and food security in Africa.


Gatere will present "Field Kit Soil Tests to Assess Acidity, N, P, S and K Fertility in Kenyan Soils" on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM. The presentation is part of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings, Nov. 3-6 in Tampa, Florida. The theme of this year's conference is "Water, Food, Energy, & Innovation for a Sustainable World".


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Contact: Susan V. Fisk, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org. Please RSVP by October 25, 2013 Members of the media receive complimentary registration to the joint meetings. If you would like a 1-on-1 interview with Drs. Weil or Gatere, contact Susan Fisk at the above email.




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Timbaland's Wife Files For Divorce -- What's Yours Is Mine!


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1016-timbaland-monique-gettyTimbaland's wife has filed for divorce ... TMZ has learned ... and she's not only demanding that he foot the bill for their kid, she wants him to pay for a kid he didn't even father.

Monique Mosley says in her divorce docs -- obtained by TMZ -- that although she and Timbaland have been married for 5 years, they've been a couple for twice that time.  In addition to their 5-year-old daughter, Monique has a 10-year-old from another relationship.

So why, you ask, is she asking for child support for both kids?  Monique says Timbaland is the daddy by default, since he's "publicly and privately proclaimed this child as his own."

But that's not all.  Monique wants alimony, life insurance, private school, vacations, summer camp and other expenses.  She says she's so strapped for cash, she had to borrow money from a friend to pay her lawyer.  She wants Timbaland -- who's worth around $80 mil -- to foot the lawyer's bill.

One more thing.  She wants to get Timbaland coming and going.  In the alimony department, she says she wants money while divorce proceedings are pending, she wants a lump sum, she wants "rehabilitative alimony," and permanent alimony.

It's like she's trying to cut him down like a mighty tree in the forest -- TIMBA!

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

U.K. TV Indie Giants Merge to Create Regional Powerhouse



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"Splash" is a Twofour Broadcast production.



LONDON – Plymouth-based indie production giant TwoFour is merging with former BBC One controller Lorraine Heggessey and Huw Eurig Davies' year-old production venture Boom Pictures in Cardiff.



The merger will create what the duo claim will be a "major new nations and regions player" in indie media production.


The deal sees Twofour Group’s global business -- comprising Twofour Broadcast, Twofour Rights and Twofour Digital -- joining Boom Pictures, with its senior executives taking key roles in the enlarged Boom Pictures group.


This merger fuels the growth of Boom Pictures in line with plans set out by co-founders Heggessey and Davies when they launched the group in July 2012.


Twofour greatly expands Boom's network programming, moving the company into key genres such as entertainment and features.


The deal also brings in international distribution for output with Twofour Rights, and a growing production presence in the U.S.


In addition, Twofour’s thriving digital arm serves blue chip brand clients and a growing hub in Abu Dhabi.


The merger has been supported by U.K. private equity firm LDC, that invested in the creation and development of Boom Pictures in 2012.


The merging of the two businesses puts Boom Pictures group firmly among the top 10 UK indie production outfits.


The freshly-merged entity will operate from Boom’s Cardiff headquarters and Twofour’s headquarters in Plymouth.


Heggessey, executive chair and co-founder of Boom Pictures, said: "We’re on an exciting journey and it’s the right time for us to join up with such an excellent creative and executive team who have already built a hugely successful company. Boom and Twofour fit together perfectly and have a similar positive culture, firmly rooted in the nations and regions."


Twofour Group founder and CEO Charles Wace said: "In looking at the future of Twofour’s business, the attraction was the backing of LDC, one of the U.K.’s leading and most experienced private equity firms, combined with Lorraine’s leadership and vision. This ambitious partnership is the ideal platform to help take Twofour to the next stage in its life."


Davies, deputy chair and co-founder of Boom Pictures added: "The strategic value of this deal, at this stage in our development, is that it fulfils several key business growth ambitions. It gives us real scale, a base from which to grow in the U.S. and brings distribution in-house so we can benefit from the rights that come from our creativity."


Twofour Broadcast has produced over 200 hours of original broadcast programming across all major U.K. broadcasters with shows such as ITV’s hit Splash! and the forthcoming The Alpine Games (w/t) for Channel 4.


It also brings successful factual entertainment titles including Alex Polizzi’s The Hotel Inspector and The Fixer as well as fixed-rig factual hit Educating Yorkshire.


The inclusion of Twofour Digital with its blue chip clients including DuPont / Ogilvy Entertainment, and the award winning Horizons series on BBC Global News will build on Boom Pictures’ digital and branded content expertise.


Boom group currently boasts award-winning work with major brands through the Boomerang label, which produces GT Academy for Nissan and Playstation and The Clare Balding Show for U.K. telecom giant TV venture BT Sport.


Twofour’s post-production banners in Plymouth will compliment Boom Pictures’ own offering through Cardiff-based Gorilla and The Joint in Soho, London expanding the group’s ability to keep its post-production in-house.


The deal also gives Boom Pictures a greater international footprint and global reach.


Twofour Rights, which launched in 2012, becomes the group’s in-house distribution arm, Twofour Broadcast’s Los Angeles office gives Boom Pictures a base in the U.S. from which to build on its relationships with American networks and cable channels.


Twofour Digital’s Abu Dhabi office adds a presence in the growing Middle East market.


The Twofour labels will retain their names and branding, with the senior management continuing in their current roles or taking on Boom Pictures Group roles.


The management changes will include Wace stepping back from his role as CEO of Twofour Group "to pursue other interests."


But he will remain involved through his new roles on the Boom Pictures board as non-executive chairman of Twofour and a non-executive director of Boom Pictures.


Melanie Leach will continue in her role as managing director of Twofour Broadcast, and will become an exec director of Boom Pictures with a seat on the board.


Leach said: "Twofour’s slate has continued to strengthen under the current management team and we’re excited to work alongside Lorraine and Huw as we build what we hope will become one of the UK’s most admired media groups."


Boom Pictures launched with a strategy "to support the organic growth of the companies within the group, to attract leading creative talent, to back start-ups, and to acquire companies that extend the group’s portfolio and capabilities."


The first Boom deal was with Graham Linehan and producer Richard Boden for comedy label Delightful Industries, and this was followed in January 2013 by the backing of former ITV drama heads Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes’ new company Mainstreet Pictures.


Boom Pictures companies also include Boom Pictures Cymru, which produces over 400 hours of Welsh language programming for S4C, Boomerang, Oxford Scientific Films and Indus Films. 


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Kangaroo's visit gets people hopping at Melbourne Airport

A kangaroo shut down part of Melbourne Airport on Wednesday when it hopped through a terminal and into a pharmacy, airport officials said.

Customers inside the drug store alerted Australian police, who were forced to lock down part of the Qantas terminal so wildlife workers could tranquilize the wayward kangaroo.

"After a lot of careful coaxing and corralling," Melbourne's 3AW radio reported, "the 'roo was cornered and wrangled into a bag by rescuers."

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, it was injured on a road near the airport.

It is unclear how the animal got into the terminal, but according to Masson, it's not unusual to see kangaroos in the airport's parking lot.

Karen Masson, the chief executive of Wildlife Victoria, told Reuters that the male eastern gray kangaroo — named Cyrus after one of his rescuers — was taken to a veterinary for treatment.

"He has done some damage to his teeth and is severely stressed," Wildlife Victoria said in a Facebook post. "He is resting now and volunteers are monitoring him closely."

"We get calls," Masson said. "There are a lot of 'roos out there."


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kangaroo-wanders-into-airport-pharmacy-135620952.html
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New iPads likely at Apple event next week

(AP) — Apple is holding an event in San Francisco next week to announce new products — likely updated iPads.

The company announced its most recent iPads around this time last year. The announcement included a smaller version, called the Mini, for the first time.

New iPads would get Apple's latest operating system for mobile devices, iOS 7. The invitation sent Tuesday includes a graphic that mimics the color scheme in iOS 7.

Next Tuesday's event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, a venue Apple has often used in the past.

It follows last month's release of new iPhones with iOS 7 — the 5S model with a fingerprint sensor and a cheaper, 5C model with a variety of color options.

It's also possible Apple will use the event to release its new Mac operating system, Mavericks. Apple unveiled the system in June. The system will support tagging to help you find files more easily. It also promises better battery life and a way to keep track of passwords across multiple devices more easily. Apple may also announce new Mac computers at the event.

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Will Apple's new retail chief think different?

Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts has already made a name for herself elevating customer experience at Burberry. Can she do the same for Apple?


Apple's newest retail chief, current Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, in 2010


(Credit: Samir Hussein/Getty)

Amid the throngs of tourists, Apple's store in London on Regents Street is housed in a richly textured edifice, with the storefront ornately separated into four glass sections, each with its own Apple logo. Without those logos, you might simply walk by, ignoring the busy inside.

It's a stark contrast to the minimalist glass cube of Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York City, and a good example of how Apple's built its 400-plus store empire. You can walk into any of the company's stores and walk out with the same gadget, but each store is unique.


Just down the street from that London Apple store is Burberry, which itself is fitted with luxurious finishings. But instead of polished, aluminum gadgets on wooden tablets there are handbags and clothes, wrapped in an air of elegance and warmth.


Those London stores could give us some insight into the mind of Angela Ahrendts, Burberry's chief executive who was just named by Apple to run its retail empire. Ahrendts, who's been Burberry's CEO since 2006, brings the understanding of an emotive shopping experience -- something that Burberry exudes, and Apple is hell bent on preserving.


London Regent Street Burberry and Apple stores


(Credit: Apple/Burberry)

"Clearly, Apple stores are phenomenally successful. But in the past four or five years, I don't think they've been contributing to the actual building of the brand," said Neil Stern, senior partner at McMillan Doolittle, a retail consultancy. "I think she can make that connection much more direct."

Apple had been looking for a new executive to head its retail efforts since ousting its former chief, John Browett, about a year ago. He was on the job just nine months. The position was left vacant after Ron Johnson, who conceived of the original Apple Stores with Steve Jobs, bolted to take the top job at JCPenney's, only to be ousted himself after he failed to revitalize the department store. Ahrendts will run both Apple's online and offline stores, reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook as a senior vice president. She is said to be starting in the spring.


Apple declined to make her available for an interview.


Angela Ahrendts

Angela Ahrendts


(Credit: Burberry)

Ahrendts, who was the highest paid CEO in the UK last year according to CNNMoney, grew up (PDF) in the small Midwestern town of New Palestine, Ind. -- which, as of the 2010 census, had a population of just over 2,000 people. She was brought up by a "spiritual mother and philosopher father," as she puts it, so it's perhaps not surprising that she places such a premium on intuition. At a TEDx talk in Hollywood in March, Ahrendts riffed on the power of "human energy": "Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things," she said.

It appears that energy is one of the things that attracted Cook to the Burberry CEO. In a memo sent out to the company introducing Ahrendts, Cook noted that she "led Burberry through a period of phenomenal growth with a focus on brand, culture, core values and the power of positive energy."


In Apple's case, the company's products already hit that growth spurt, which has slowed down some in recent months as the tablet and smartphone markets mature. What hasn't slowed are Apple's efforts to expand its retail empire. Last year the company opened up 33 new retail stores. That's down from 40 the year before, though many more of those stores are being built outside of the US, where Apple hopes to expand and diversify its sales.


And speaking of diversity, it might not be long before Ahrendts makes her mark on the physical stores themselves. "One of the challenges for the Apple Store is, the products really speak for themselves, so the retail experience gets kind of lost. For example, the iPhone itself is the main focus," said Stern. Coming from a luxury retailer, one of the changes Stern thinks we can expect to see with Ahrendts at the helm is more displays and focus on luring people in.



Apple, for its part, has experimented with this concept in recent years, tapping its own iPad tablets as tools to replacing static signage next to its products. The company's also pushed people to use its mobile phone application to let customers research and buy products as well as page employees to come to their help.

More recently, Apple's brought that same ethos to its products. The company's new flagship iPhone 5S, for instance, comes with a gold option, and the cheaper 5C comes in a rainbow of colors. That's in contrast to the black, white, and gray that have made up the look and feel of most Apple products for the past decade.


Of course, just because Ahrendts understands the power of intuition, doesn't mean she's not fluent in data and technology. After she arrived at Burberry in 2006 from Liz Claiborne, she ushered in a new digital regime at the at the over 150-year-old brand. She brought the company into the social era, offering Facebook fans exclusive goodies, and live-tweeting about Burberry models right before they hit the runway. She also incorporated enterprise software like Salesforce and SAP into the company's operations, according to a June 2012 story in Fortune.


She even cultivated a chummy relationship with Salesforce's gregarious CEO Mark Benioff. He declined to be interviewed for this story, instead pointing to a tweet he blasted out with a glowing endorsement:



At Burberry, Ahrendts also helped to marry the online and offline world. Burberry's artofthetrench.com is a site that lets people send in pictures of themselves wearing the company's trench coats. Some items in London stores have RFID tags that let customers watch videos on their phones about how that item was made. And under her watch, the company also held a holographic in-store runway show in 2011 to celebrate the opening of its flagship store in Beijing.


With that said, Apple's already got much of that marketing figured out from a buyer's perspective. It runs only occasional sales at its stores, and has turned even temporary online store downtime into news stories. People spend days, and even take time off work to be the first to buy its products when they go on sale, a process that itself has nearly reached logistical perfection. In that sense, Ahrendts' biggest mark -- changing what happens in the stock rooms and with employees -- might not even be seen in that window display.


Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57607670-37/will-apples-new-retail-chief-think-different/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple
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As Gitmo plods, Obama's winning the case for court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years after his failed effort to bring the 9/11 mastermind to New York for trial, President Barack Obama has reinstated the federal courthouse as America's preferred venue for prosecuting suspected terrorists.


His administration has done so by quietly securing conviction after conviction in the civilian judicial system. Meanwhile at Guantanamo Bay, admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's case moves at a snail's pace.


Tuesday's expected arraignment of suspected al-Qaida member Abu Anas al-Libi is the latest example of Obama's de facto policy. Al-Libi was captured in a military raid in Libya earlier this month and had been under interrogation aboard a U.S. warship.


The Obama administration says it considers all options for prosecuting terrorists, weighing military and civilian trials on a case-by-case basis.


But Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military base that embodied America's post-9/11 methods of interrogating and prosecuting suspected terrorists, has turned into a legal morass. The military commission's poor case record has become less about winning and more about completion.


While the Justice Department says more than 125 people have been convicted of terrorism charges in federal courts since 2009, not a single military commission has come to a close during that period.


Of the few military commissions completed under President George W. Bush, most resulted in short sentences or have been overturned.


"There's really no comparison in terms of the success rate," said David Raskin, the former top national security prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan. "Not really between wins or losses, just finishing the cases. There's no comparison at this point."


The politics are breaking Obama's way too.


When Attorney General Eric Holder announced in 2009 that Mohammed would be tried in New York City, the outcry from both political parties was great.


Some feared a high-profile terrorism trial would put the city at risk. Others said a civilian courthouse, with all the rights afforded defendants there, was no place for a terrorist.


Obama, who came into office promising to close Guantanamo Bay and prosecute terrorists in federal courts, buckled under the pressure and pulled the case back to Guantanamo.


Since then, not much has changed at the naval base in Cuba. Mohammed is one of 164 men held there and one of six facing trial. Those trials have stalled largely because of legal challenges to the commission system itself.


In federal courts, however, the Obama administration is quietly churning through terror cases and putting many terrorists away for life.


One of the first key cases was against Ahmed Ghailani, a former Guantanamo detainee who was transferred to New York early in Obama's administration. He was convicted in 2010 and is serving a life sentence in prison.


Last year, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, an Iraqi man, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in Kentucky and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Hammadi's co-defendant got a 40-year sentence for his role in a plot to ship weapons and cash to insurgents in Iraq.


Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali citizen accused of helping support and train al-Qaida-linked militants, pleaded guilty earlier this year. Like al-Libi, he was questioned aboard a U.S. warship before being turned over to the civilian justice system.


Each new trial brought fresh criticism from Republicans, but that criticism diminished each time.


Some Republican lawmakers criticized Monday's announcement that al-Libi would face trial in court. They questioned whether interrogators questioned him long enough.


"It certainly begs the question whether rushing foreign terrorists into U.S. courts is a strategy that is in the best interests of the United States," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.


But in the midst of a major budget debate in Washington, the matter got little attention.


The White House, which once fought back against such criticism, now shows little interest in renewing a debate that proved to be a political distraction.


So the administration said nothing when al-Libi arrived in the United States on Saturday. Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, issued a two-sentence statement Monday, saying only that al-Libi was due in court to answer charges dating back more than a decade.


Al-Libi, whose full name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, is accused of helping plan and conduct surveillance for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.


"A federal civilian criminal trial is by far the safest and the one that would raise the least complex set of legal problems for the administration," said Steve Vladick, a professor at American University law school.


That's because al-Libi was indicted more than a decade ago, which meant the government did not need any evidence it gathered against him during his interrogation.


Intelligence officials questioned him for a week aboard the USS San Antonio. Interrogations at sea have replaced CIA "black sites" as the U.S. government's preferred method for holding suspected terrorists and questioning them without access to lawyers.


Al-Libi's al-Qaida ties date back to the terrorist group's early years, according to court documents. That would make him a valuable source of information about the group's history.


In an interview last week on the PBS program "NewsHour," Lisa Monaco, the president's homeland security adviser, said the first priority in capturing al-Libi was to get intelligence.


"I think what it shows is a very clear strategy by the U.S. government to use all the tools, frankly, in our toolbox to disrupt threats, to go after — consistent with the rule of law — individuals who pose a threat, to get intelligence and then ultimately to make a decision about what the best disposition is," Monaco said.


So far, in every instance that the Obama administration has had a terrorist suspect in custody, it has found the best disposition was the federal court system.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gitmo-plods-obamas-winning-case-court-132150071--politics.html
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