Saturday, June 30, 2012

Sports of all sorts and special events planned during this year's ...

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In addition to the numerous sporting and special events planned for this year?s RIMPAC 2012 exercise, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) will be sponsoring the RIMPAC Cup.

The cup is a perpetual trophy presented to the ship or command which earns the most total points during RIMPAC 2012. The first in-port sporting events scheduled June 30 through July 9 will count toward the RIMPAC cup.

During the second in-port period scheduled Aug. 2 to 6, points will not count toward the cup, but awards will be given. Competition points are awarded for teams or individuals winning selected tournaments or competitions.

The sports competition program allows maximum participation by all RIMPAC 2012 participants and accounts for the dates that forces arrive in Hawaii.

Visit RIMPAC Central located across from Bravo Piers 23 and 24 and at Hotel Pier for MWR RIMPAC information including trans portation for scheduled off-base excursions, food and beverage vendors, tickets and more.

RIMPAC Central (Bravo Piers and Hotel Piers) will be open 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. June 27 to July 9 and Aug. 1 to 6.

JBPHH MWR will host a variety of athletic and special events during RIMPAC, including tournaments in basketball, soccer, indoor and sand volleyball, softball, singles and doubles tennis and bowling. A RIMPAC 5K run will take place July 5 at 9 a.m. A second 5K run will be held at 9 a.m. Aug. 3. Deadline for entry for the second run is July 11.

The race course will start and finish at RIMPAC Central on Bravo Piers. Water and beverages will be provided and trophies will be awarded.

Other scheduled RIMPAC events include a bench press contest, indoor triathlon, versa climb challenge, swim meet, international military boogie board and surf meet, belly flop contest, kayak race competition, RIMPAC king and queen of the beach and golf tournament.

During RIMPAC there are special rates for bowling. Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., open bowling will be $2 per game. Cosmic bowling on Friday nights from 5 to 11 p.m. will be $2 per game.

A RIMPAC strong-arm contest is scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 4 at the JBPHH Fitness Center. The deadline for entry is July 11. The contest will consist of the most pull-ups contest and longest chin-up hang.

The RIMPAC sailing regatta is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 3 at Rainbow Bay marina. Deadline for entry is July 11.

A RIMPAC golf tournament will be held at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at Navy and Marine Golf Course. Deadline for entry is July 11.

Subject to availability, RIMPAC T-shirts will be provided to tournament participants.

For entry fees and up-to-date information on how to sign up, visit the website www.greatlifehawaii.com. Complete RIMPAC schedules, standing, events and activities are available on the website.

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Stratford University's nursing program awarded CCNE accreditation

FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA ? (June 19, 2012)?? Stratford University is pleased to announce that the Baccalaureate program in Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530,Washington DC 20036, (202) 887-6791.

The accreditation action is effective as of the official site visit date on November 16, 2011. This means that all nursing students, including the first cohort admitted in October 2009, are able to state they graduated from a CCNE accredited program. The nursing program admits?qualified students interested in pursuing a?career in nursing?every 10 weeks, and has graduated 26 students to date.

According to Dr. Sharron Guillett, Dean of the Nursing program at the Falls Church and Woodbridge campuses, ?CCNE accreditation is the hallmark of excellence. It indicates that the program is not only of the highest quality but that it is also committed to maintaining the highest standards in nursing education.?It will create opportunities for the program and the students it serves.?

Stratford is also currently enjoying a 100 percent pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), another indicator of program effectiveness. Dr. Guillett credits the program?s success to the dedicated faculty and the ?student centric? philosophy they embrace.

Learn to be a nurse?by contacting Stratford University?s Falls Church campus admissions office at 703-821-8570, the Woodbridge campus admissions office at 703-897-1982, or visit our website at?http://www.stratford.edu.

About Stratford University:Stratford University operates campuses in Falls Church, Woodbridge, Richmond, and Newport News, Va.; and Baltimore, Md. The university offers 31 undergraduate and graduate degrees in the areas of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management, Health Sciences, Nursing, Business Administration, and Information Technology.?Many of the degree programs are offered?both on?campus, as well as online. For more information on Stratford University, please visithttp://www.stratford.edu?.

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Friday, June 29, 2012

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Delta expanding Gogo in-flight WiFi to select international flights beginning in 2013

Delta Airlines isn't a stranger to offering WiFi on many of its domestic US flights, but using Gogo's air-to-ground connection setup has essentially kept it from taking off over the seas. That's all set to change come 2013, however, as 150 of Delta's long-haul aircraft will make use of all those high-bandwidth Ku-band capacity satellites that Gogo has been acquiring over the past few months. The updated setup will ensure that you can update your Facebook status over the likes of the Atlantic, but it won't be fully rolled out until about 2015. By that time, the airline estimates it'll be operating around 1,000 Gogo-equipped aircraft worldwide -- not too shabby. If anything, the wait to hit 10,000 feet is surely going be more interesting for all the international work-a-holics out there. Hit up the press release after the break for more details in the meantime.

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Prison Planet.com ? Big Banks Craft 'Living Wills' In Case They Fail

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June 27, 2012

Five of the biggest banks in the United States are putting finishing touches on plans for going out of business as part of government-mandated contingency planning that could push them to untangle their complex operations.

Since the law allows regulators to go so far as to order a bank to divest subsidiaries if it cannot plan an orderly resolution in bankruptcy, the deadline is pushing even healthy institutions to start a multi-year process to untangle their complex global operations, according to industry consultants.

The plans, known as living wills, are due to regulators no later than July 1 under provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law designed to end too-big-to-fail bailouts by the government. The living wills could be as long as 4,000 pages.

?The resolution process is now going to be part of the cost-benefit analysis on where banks will do business,? said Dan Ryan, leader of the financial services regulatory practice at?PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. ?The complexity of the organizations will shrink.?

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

21 EBay Inventory Management and Online Selling Tools ? SMB ...

In the fourth quarter of 2011, eBay Marketplaces reported 100 million active users worldwide. According to eBay on its marketplace a woman?s dress sells every 8 seconds and someone buys a cell phone every 5 seconds. ?

EBay is still a very popular buying and selling platform and used by many different types of sellers ? SOHO ecommerce owners, part-time eBay enthusiasts and large businesses. Different sellers need different eBay tools.? While eBay offers its own listing tools, you may find ? like many other people do ? that eBay?s tools don?t provide the listing features you need; for example, listing your inventory across multiple auctions sites in addition to your own Web store.

Many of the inventory management and multiple-channel selling tools for eBay sellers we list below offer a free trial, so you can try different eBay tools to see which ones best suit your business needs before you make a cash investment.

Even if you sell on eBay and make a profit, many sellers prefer to manage their own off-eBay Web store and list the same products on other sites such as Amazon or eBay alternative sites.? The problem is that manually tracking sales across multiple channels and removing products from one online listing when it sells elsewhere is not a good business strategy.

Inventory management and multi-channel ecommerce software can help you to create your own online store if you don?t have one and synchronize your inventory and stock levels across all the places you do business. Here are 13 options to help you better manage a multiple channel selling strategy for eBay.

1.? AuctionBlox eMarketConnect provides access to eBay and Amazon.com from your existing online store. By connecting your store with eBay, AuctionBlox allows you to list your products on eBay and to process checkout in your own store. CRE Loaded, oscommerce, Zen Cart and Magento art software is supported. ?AuctionBlox Storefront pricing starts at $99/month.

2.? AuctionSound is eBay auction-management software that helps sellers manage eBay consignment and online inventory. AuctionSound provides image hosting, eBay templates and consignor-management and reporting tools. Pricing starts at a $24.99/month; free 30-day trial.

3. BigCommerce lets you create your own Web shop, plus you can sell on Facebook and eBay.? Extra features include multi-channel retailing, mobile commerce, SEO, and easy upselling. Pricing starts at a $24.95/month.

4.? ChannelMAX is an inventory-management service that lets you create a Web store plus list your inventory to multiple online marketplaces including eBay, Overstock and uBid. You can schedule listings, create listing templates and more.? Pricing starts at $24.99/month.

5.? DesignCart is an online, hosted shopping cart designed for a small to mid-size business that wants to sell products on the Web. It works on any hosting platform and is eBay compatible. DesignCart provides capability to list and complete payment for your eBay auctions. Winning bidders will be presented with an add-button via email, and upon successful payment, the cart will update the eBay auction status automatically. Pricing starts at $18/month; free 14-day trial.

6.? Infopia offers SaaS (Software as a Service) ecommerce solutions including a Marketplaces product to build a multi-channel business by optimizing product sales across your own website and online marketplaces like eBay and Amazon. Sellers can manage all online inventory, marketplace listings, and orders from one place.? Contact Infopia for pricing details.

7.? Kosmos Central eBay ecommerce integration software lets you upload items from your online store to your eBay account, and download orders from eBay to your ecommerce website ? integrating all purchases into one system to keep your eBay and online storefronts in sync. You?ll find pricing for different Kosmos services on its website.

8.? Mercantec E-Commerce Express offers an entry-level storefront and cart service so you can sell in a number of places including your own site and eBay. You can use E-Commerce Express for auction (and other types of online checkouts including eBay fixed price listings. Mercantec lets you create an Instant Storefront or generate Snippets that are embedded into existing content. E-Commerce Express is a free service.

9.? ProStores offers sellers a complete ecommerce platform, including Web store, shopping cart, built-in templates and more. EBay sellers can sync eBay and ProStores inventory and also list on eBay from the ProStores interface. Pricing starts at $20.95/month in addition to per transaction fees; free 30-day trial.

10.? Solid Commerce is a multi-channel ecommerce platform that allows you to sell and list items across a number of sites including eBay and Amazon. Inventory management features lets you synchronize your inventory stock levels in real-time across your various sale channels and manage your business from a central interface.? Pricing is based on monthly sales revenue.

11.? Techwave Free Shopping Cart software provides everything you need to build, update and maintain an online store. Techwave is fully integrated with Microsoft CRM, Sugar CRM for organized business and sharing procedure, and also offers an EBay Integration Module for Techwave Ecommerce that will fully integrate your ecommerce website with an eBay store.? Contact Techwave for pricing details.

12.? T-HUB for QuickBooks is an order-management solution designed to integrate your ecommerce stores with QuickBooks and Shipping services (UPS/FedEx/USPS).? T-HUB works with several leading ecommerce platforms and shopping carts such as Amazon, eBay, Yahoo stores, Magento, Volusion, GoDaddy, X-Cart, BigCommerce, AmeriCommerce, osCommerce, AspDotNetStorefront and others. Pricing starts at $550 for standard software purchase, with Pro and Advanced versions available.

13.? Vendio eBay Listing Software is part of the Vendio Platform and is an eBay listing tool that you can use to create and manage your online auction pages. It?s a multi-channel solution that can manage sales across eBay, Amazon, a Vendio Store and more.? Pricing for Vendio Marketplace starts at $19.95/month (a basic plan is free).

If you?re not ready to list across multiple selling channels, and you?re happy to stick with just eBay right now, the following eBay auction-management tools will help you create eBay auction pages, manage images and give you options for professional eBay templates to make your pages more appealing to potential buyers.

14.? AuctionSplash is a desktop tool that gives eBay sellers access to listing templates, picture hosting (up to eight photos) and scheduling. It works with eBay U.S., eBay UK, eBay CA, eBay AU and others. The service offers a no-hassle single page listing screen.? AuctionSplash is free to use.

15.? Auctiva auction management provides eBay sellers with a number of tools including professional eBay templates, marketing tools, image hosting, listing software, and inventory management.? The unlimited plan is $9.99/month; a free basic plan for image hosting is available.

16.? Blackthorne Basic is a software application that lets you create professional listings in bulk, track the status of sales, and manage buyer communication and feedback. And it integrates in your eBay selling manager. Pricing starts at $9.99/month; free 30-day trial.

17.? Blackthorne Pro includes all the features of Blackthorne Basic, plus additional options for inventory management, reporting, multiple user profiles, and is available in a desktop version. Pricing is $24.99/month; free 30-day trial.

18.? eBay Selling Manager is free for all eBay sellers and can be accessed from within your ?My eBay? tab. The tool is designed to help medium-volume sellers manage their eBay listings. Features include the option to track active listings, generate bulk feedback, and print invoices and labels in bulk.? The eBay Selling Manager is free via an eBay account.

19.? eBay Turbo Lister is a free tool that lets sellers list multiple items and upload in bulk to eBay. Turbo Lister offers bulk editing capability, search tools, and a toolbar for better control of your listings. The eBay Turbo Lister is free via an eBay account.

20.? EZLister.Net is a Web-based auction business management solution. Sellers can use EZLister.Net to automate routine tasks associated with listing and managing eBay auctions and item listings. Pricing is based on a per-listing fee, and it starts at $56 for 250 listings.

21.? Supreme Auction is an eBay Compatible application that lets you create multiple listings and submit them to eBay. The application offers free template designs, widgets, images and more. With this tool you can list on eBay U.S., eBay UK, eBay Germany. Supreme Auction is free, and there are optional paid upgrades available.? A basic version with all features is free, and sellers can upgrade to a paid Premium account.

EcommerceGuide.com wants to know: What is your favorite eBay selling tool? Tell us about it in the comments section below.

From beginner guides to expert tips, our selection of eBay and Web shop articles can help you to better manage your ecommerce business.

Based in Nova Scotia, Canada, Vangie Beal has spent the last decade contributing featured articles and reviews to more than 20 technology-focused publications, including Webopedia and Ecommerce-Guide. You can tweet with her online @AuroraGG.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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The number one way for someone to discover a website in Kingsbury, NY is by going through a search engine.?Google is the most popular, so it?s important to target their results far more than other search engines. Businesses that use internet marketing and SEO have a clear advantage over those that don?t. Right here are some incredible stats about search engines that you may not know:

  • 75% of Americans use search engines on a regular basis.
  • 56% of all Americans are using one every single day.
  • 40% of all search engine searches are for the nearest businesses and services.
  • 54% of Americans?regularly make an online search instead of the phone book to find the nearest services.
  • 92% of all nearby Kingsbury, NY searches will eventually convert into a sale.

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The whole internet search engine industry used to be about very short ?keywords? that would lead people to finding the website they were looking for. Everyone used to merely type things like ?Kingsbury Real Estate? into a search engine, check out the first number of results and then make a decision.

Businesses who fail to use internet marketing and SEO will have a difficult time getting new customers.

Anyhow,?these times many people are getting to be much better at searching with Google, so keywords have progressively become longer in order to return far more relevant results. For example, instead of just ?Kingsbury Real Estate? which may give us some good websites for that keyword, we might be looking for something a little more specific.

Therefore, we might type ?Kingsbury Low Price Apartments?. The reason we would do that is because we?re fed up searching through websites that don?t offer us the possibility to see any low price housing, so we?re searching using Google instead of simply clicking on various websites.

This sort of mentality has revitalized the world of small businesses online. Instead of just searching for a product or service,people today search for a niche product or service in a particular area. It means that, instead of huge chains dominating the search results, small business websites that use internet marketing and SEO?(even in Kingsbury) are flourishing.

Without it, you simply aren?t going to understand how to get your website found on the front page of Google when local buyers search for your product or service. The competition won?be that fierce considering you will be competing for more targeted keywords, but you?ll still need to be able to be found by those Kingsbury consumers in order to succeed.

With more people moving towards local searches, you?re going to need to target your internet marketing?to certain keywords and areas. If you fail to do it, you?ll be competing with the main players within your industry nationally, and it?s a battle you almost certainly won?t win.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Total of 79 Potentially New Shark Species Found

News | Evolution

A genetic analysis suggests more overlooked species than scientists anticipated, raising concerns that populations of new species are quite small and endangered


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A genetic study of thousands of specimens of sharks and rays has uncovered scores of potential new species and is fuelling biologists? debates over the organisation of the family tree of these animals. The work also raises the possibility that some species are even more endangered than previously thought.

Sharks and rays are key predators in marine ecosystems, but the life cycles and population numbers of many species remain poorly understood. The family tree of these animals ? which are part of the elasmobranch subclass ? has proved similarly opaque, with little agreement among researchers over their evolutionary relationships.

Gavin Naylor, a biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and his colleagues sequenced samples from 4,283 specimens of sharks and rays as part of a major effort to fill the gaps. The team found 574 species, of which 79 are potentially new, they report in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

Naylor says that he was ?flabbergasted? by the result, especially because the sequencing covered only around half of the roughly 1,200 species thought to exist worldwide.

The huge number of new species found raises immediate conservation concerns ? the reason that some of these purported new species have gone undetected is probably their close resemblance to already-identified species. The populations of such species may, therefore, be even smaller than estimated, as what was thought to be one population may instead be several smaller populations of separate species.

For example, Naylor?s work suggests that the endangered scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is actually two separate species. ?Scalloped hammerheads in general have taken a huge hit, so it may be even worse than has been documented if there?s more than one species out there,? he says.

Naylor is now working on a project with the US National Science Foundation to catalogue the diversity of sharks and rays and is working to assist the International Union for Conservation of Nature to map which species are where in the world.

?This will have an impact on what is considered endangered and the fragility of different organisms,? he says. ?These are sentinel species of all sorts of other organisms in the sea which are probably undergoing similar or worse kinds of impacts.?

Circling the answer
One of Naylor?s collaborators, William White, an ichthyologist at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Hobart, says that their work also highlights some of the problems with the use of genetic information in zoology.

The increasing use of molecular techniques provides a new means to scrutinize the relationship between sharks and rays, he says. But it also shows that some of the existing ideas about their relationships are problematic. ?Part of the problem is some researchers mining data blindly without a good understanding of where that data has come from in the first place and presuming the names are correct which in many cases they are not.?

White and Naylor stress that molecular techniques are only of one many available tools and should be combined with conventional taxonomic work.

Ximena V?lez-Zuazo is a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan and the lead author of a 2011 paper2 that Naylor says suffers from some of the flaws that stem from relying solely on molecular information. Though she strongly defends her group's work, she agrees that shark phylogeny is still a work in progress.

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SongFic[June] "What is real - just a dream"

I can't be
Losing sleep over this
No I can't
And now I cannot stop pacing

Her feet were begging her to sit down, but the anxiety that fueled her would not relent. Jaqlyn was crashing again, and this time no comfort would come from the voices in her head.

Give me a few hours
I'll have this all sorted out
If my mind would just stop racing

There was so much momentum to her thoughts, one turned to the next which turned to the next. It was endless and cycling, she slid down against the wall in her ship. There was silence all around her and the echoes of her former selves faded into the pausing of her heartbeats. Now her hands were trembling, denying her the ability to simply slip into rest.

Cause I cannot stand still
I can't be this unsturdy
This cannot be happening

How many times had she flirted with the edge of sanity? How close had she come to the verge of what she now let herself fall into?

This is over my head
But underneath my feet

Breathe, Jaq. In an out. It was simple yet oh so challenging...For with each breath out she felt how empty her body was, and with each breath in, she re-committed herself to living.

Cause by tomorrow morning I'll have this thing beat
And everything will be back to the way that it was
I wish that it was just that easy

One does not simply sub come to their subconscious' desires, they are undermined by them. Every day that she had lied to herself and said that she was fine, that everything would be okay, was just one more reason for her psyche to collapse. In a city with so many people, it was a marvel that she managed to feel so alone. The pit she was clawing at the sides of was one she had dug herself. Living under the crippling fear of rejection, she drew herself away from instances in which she might be rejected. One by one her friends turned away from her, not because they wanted to, but because Jaq gave them no reason to stay.

Cause I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real
Just a dream

Jaqlyn lifted her trembling hands to clutch at her temples, fingers going back into the onyx strands that capped her head. She was so frightened by her current state and yet she couldn't flee from it. Staying here, wallowing in this misery, that is what she assigned herself to endure. She wasn't worth rescuing, after all.
Would you catch me if I fall out of what I fell in

Don't be surprised if I collapse down at your feet again
I don't want to run away from this
I know that I just don't need this

Would no one come for her? Who was left? Acquaintances? Could she not be her own champion? Surely not. Not when she couldn't string two logical statements together.

Cause I cannot stand still
I can't be this unsturdy
This cannot be happening

A swallow was pushed hard down her throat as she took in a pill. Like candy, she took in another tablet and another, crowding her tight throat with the drugs. This would help, yes...Numb it all away.

Cause I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real
Just a dream

There would be no end to it. Tomorrow wouldn't come until she could exist in today. The trembling took over her whole form as she slowly curled on the metal floor of her empty ship. No one would find her here and the fallacies of her mental state would play out as a dream for her.

What is real
Just a dream

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

RIM considers splitting business in two: paper

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Sizzling Heat crack Thunder to claim NBA title

James enjoyed a brilliant all-round game, grabbing a triple-double with 26 points, 11 rebounds and a game-high 13 assists and was named most valuable player (MVP) of the series as he finally won a Finals series at the third time of asking.

As the clock ran down, James joined in with the deafening celebrations in the AmericanAirlines Arena from the sidelines, jumping and waving as he roared along with the fans with a beaming smile as the seconds ticked away.

"This means everything," he said after handing off the golden NBA Championship trophy to accept the MVP award from Boston Celtics great Bill Russell as confetti rained down from the rafters.

"This is the happiest day of my life."

The 27-year-old James was dominant throughout the series but in the Game Five clincher, he had help from all his cohorts.

Six Heat players scored in double figures, including Chris Bosh with 24 and reserve Mike Miller with 23, who went 7-of-8 from beyond the three-point arc in a spectacular display of shooting for the Heat.

Miami pulled away in the third quarter when they ran off 16 points in a row to build a 25-point lead and send the rowdy, standing-room only crowd into early delirium.

SECOND TITLE

Three-times NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant led the young Thunder team with 32 points with Russell Westbrook and James Harden adding 19 points apiece for the losers.

James, three-times league MVP, gave Durant a long embrace as the buzzer sounded to end the game and the series.

"I'd like to congratulate the Miami Heat," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "They did a fantastic job. We ran into a team that was tough to beat tonight."

It was Miami's second NBA title following a 2006 triumph and erased the bitter taste of a six-game defeat by the Dallas Mavericks in last year's Finals.

James, who averaged 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 7.4 assists in the series, won his first NBA ring in his third trip to the finals.

His Cleveland Cavaliers were swept in four games in 2007 by the San Antonio Spurs, and the Heat lost to the Dallas Mavericks in six games last season.

"Losing the finals last year put me back in place, it humbled me a lot," said James, who gave in to his elation. "It's about damn time!"

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said coming back to win the title this year was gratifying.

"We remember last year, we wanted to make up for last year," the coach said. "We had confidence in what we could do."

Dwyane Wade, who was MVP of the championship series in 2006 when the Heat won their first NBA title, said: "We had so much pain, so much pain, so much embarrassment from last season.

"Nothing had to be said. We were on a mission and that mission was not completed until tonight."

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Insight: Farmers hit paydirt with irrigation in arid spring

MILL CREEK, Indiana (Reuters) - Bouncing down a county back road, squinting as a blazing sun intensifies one of the hottest, driest Midwest springs ever, farmer Dale Tuholski steers his pick-up truck between fortune and failure.

To his left, new irrigation machinery sprays a fine mist across his corn field in northern Indiana, where emerald green plants sway in the breeze. To his right is a neighbor's land: the soil dry and dusty, the corn leaves curled.

Amid the warmest first five months of the year since 1894 in the U.S. heartland, a rapidly expanding minority of farmers like the Tuholskis and Kyle Clute - who manages 25,000 acres 100 miles southwest of Tuholski's farm - are taking out an expensive hedge against increasingly volatile weather: buying new irrigation equipment for their corn or soybean fields.

"We don't want Mother Nature to control our destiny anymore," said Clute, who farms corn and soybean fields in Warren County, Indiana.

The potent mix of ever-warmer weather and expectations of near-record farm income of $92 billion for 2012 is fueling all-time-high sales of such equipment, with revenues up a third or more at leading firms. Center-pivot irrigators are particularly popular with farmers in water-strapped areas because the machinery can extend the reach of limited natural resources.

While many farmers are merely upgrading aging equipment, manufacturers say that a sizeable share is now being sold to growers who have never before irrigated. In Indiana, the number of registered new wells is growing at the fastest rate in two decades; drilling firms are struggling to keep up with demand.

As the trend grows, the implications will spread.

In a year like this one, for instance, even small shifts in the amount of acreage that is mechanically irrigated could help mitigate yield losses. For analysts and grain traders, such shifts could complicate efforts to forecast production outcomes based on weather conditions.

It may also intensify the growing friction over water use as expanding populations, bumper crop harvests, ethanol production and even the boom in hydraulic fracturing consume ever-larger volumes of the country's finite water supply.

While the amount of water needed for traditional dryland crop fields is likely to remain small, environmentalists caution that a new, and potentially large, consumer group tapping into the nation's groundwater supply could have untold consequences.

CORN BELT EYES WATER

About 94 percent of the nation's four major commodity crops - corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton - is grown on farmland that relies on rain for moisture, according to the most recent federal data from 2008. About 61 percent of that land is in the western half of the country, in states including Nebraska, California, Idaho and Kansas.

To the east, the land's fertility and natural weather patterns have typically been enough to produce a crop using only rain. In other cases, running a mechanized irrigation system simply didn't make economic sense.

For many farmers like Clute, increasingly efficient technology not only helps their operations, it also offers a tax deduction on farm income after several years of near-record grain prices and healthy profits.

The boom in agricultural land values and rents also has them looking to such machinery as a way to boost revenues - through bigger yields - from the soil they already own.

Farmers in the wheat-growing Plains states understand this dynamic well: The value of irrigated land has surged far faster than non-irrigated land since last summer, when a drought gripped much of the region.

In the first quarter of this year, the value of irrigated Plains farmland jumped 31.8 percent, outpacing rain-dependent farms, which rose by 24.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. It was by far the widest disparity in growth rates since at least 1980.

NEW CUSTOMERS FUEL BOOMING BUSINESS

The mounting global anxiety over strained water resources is well known, as is the impact of increasingly erratic and extreme weather conditions.

Earlier this month, Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel - who pioneered a new way to apply water in small, steady amounts directly to plant roots in arid regions - was named the winner of the 2012 World Food Prize and honored at the U.S. State Department.

But the response to these trends by U.S. commodity farmers - responsible for producing about a third of the world's corn and soybeans - is only now becoming apparent. While biotechnology companies race to develop more drought-resistant strains, farmers are investing capital.

Valmont Industries Inc, a leading U.S. manufacturer of center-pivot and linear irrigation equipment, reported a 30 percent jump in global sales of irrigation equipment and parts to $196.3 million in the first quarter. Rival Lindsay Corp said U.S. irrigation revenues surged 39 percent in the six months to February 29.

At T-L Irrigation Co in Hastings, Nebraska, a privately held farm irrigation equipment maker, sales last year were the highest in its 57-year history.

The company is recruiting new dealers to meet rising demand in the central and eastern portions of the Corn Belt, a region that made up only about 5 percent of its sales a decade ago, said David Thom, T-L Irrigation's vice president of sales. Now, dryland farms in the area are about 15 percent.

"They're family farmers who might have 1,000 acres," Thom said. "They'll start with one or two and that's good, because they like to walk before they run. Then, they'll buy more."

The Tuholskis fit this mold. The family bought their first irrigation equipment in 1980, during the last agricultural boom. Slowly, the family expanded: The seven center-pivot irrigation machines they bought this past year bring their total to 40.

"We can farm less acreage and have more income potential," said Tuholski, whose family farms corn, soybeans, seed corn and other specialty crops. "And we don't have to worry quite so much about the weather."

WISHING MORE WELLS

As farmer demand grows, so does the waiting list for well-drillers in drought-prone areas.

In Indiana, the fifth-largest corn-producing state, the number of new irrigation wells was up 6.2 percent from the end of 2009 through May 2012, according to data compiled by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' water division. That increase, the sharpest jump since the early 1990s, was driven in part by farmers rushing to plant more corn acres as U.S. prices hit record highs, state agency officials say.

In Taylor, Missouri, the staff of Landmark Irrigation Corp has been booked solid since last fall with orders for new irrigation wells to be dug on farms in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Many of Landmark's clients are buying equipment for farms that have never been irrigated, co-owner Deb Sutter said.

Most of the calls have been from producers who farm at least 1,000 acres, she said. But as the rains have waned, smaller operators have started to call too. For most of Illinois, much of Missouri and large stretches of central and east-central Iowa, the rainfall of the past three months is 25 to 50 percent below normal.

"We're the busiest we've been in three years," Sutter said.

FARMERS PIVOT

The promise of such economic payoffs convinced Bob Wade to take the leap last fall.

The farmer in central Kentucky cringed as cropland prices and rents on even marginal ground doubled near where he dryland farms 3,500 acres of corn and soybeans.

Looking to increase his farm production, Wade bought four center-pivot irrigation systems. It's a big investment - on average, it costs a farmer between $1,200 and $2,500 or more per acre to install and run a new pivot system, due to energy costs, labor, machinery, fertilizer use and other factors, say farmers and agricultural economists. It can take a decade to pay off.

Modern seed technology allowed Wade to grow more corn on his land now than he could five years ago, he said. But the machines would let him expand his plantings by another 29 percent.

The roots of center-pivot irrigation technology date back decades, as an alternative to flood irrigation that more efficiently distributed water over fields. Today, some modern systems can be controlled with a smart-phone in the field or on a computer back in an office.

It works by spraying water on crops from an overhead pipe rotating around a centrally located well. Typically, the water rumbles down the pipe, misting and spitting out of sprinkle heads along the way, while a sensor at the end of the pipe guides the equipment forward.

The technology allowed Wade to seed 36,000 corn plants per acre in fields he's irrigating - versus 28,000 plants per acre in fields relying on rain.

He turned the pivots on for the first time early this month. Within days, he said, the roads alongside his fields became jammed with traffic, as curious neighbors slowed down to look at the unusual sight.

HARD TO TRACK

The scope and magnitude of greater irrigation is not known, and therefore its impact on resources and the environment is difficult to gauge.

There is no current federal data that shows how many new dryland acres - the industry term for land that is not mechanically irrigated - are being moved over to irrigation. The federal government's surveys are conducted only once every five years in some states, and many states rely on that data to help paint a picture of what's happening in their rural communities.

As of 2008, U.S. farmers and ranchers were irrigating 54.9 million acres of farmland - a nearly 5 percent jump from five years earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2008 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey. Yet that represents a tiny slice of the more than 920 million acres of total farmland.

While still limited, environmentalist groups are growing concerned.

"It comes down to scope. This year, you're seeing record plantings of corn and soybeans in the U.S.," said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"So even a relatively small increase in irrigation use overall could have potential impacts on hydrology, from lowering water tables to impacting stream flows to drinking water," he said.

POLITICIANS WARY

Water rights and regulations, long a hot-button political issue in the United States and worldwide, have emerged as a particularly sore point in recent years amid drying temperatures and booming demand. The world's population is forecast to swell by another 2 billion people by 2050.

But with agriculture still one of the few bright spots in the U.S. economy, lawmakers are wrestling with how to convince farmers to use less water - without quashing their operations.

The issue is particularly key for the nation's western states, where "between 80 and 90 percent of the water rights are owned by agriculture", said Larry Morandi, director of state policy research for the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"The strategy has been to incentivize farmers, so they can save some water without drying up the rural economy," Morandi said. "They're telling farmers, ?If you use less, we'll grant you the right to lease that conserved water to a city that needs it or an energy company that needs it.'"

In Oklahoma, Gov. Mary Fallin recently signed a new water conservation law that sets a statewide goal of consuming no more water in 2060 than is used now. This past spring, in an effort to extend the life of the Ogallala Aquifer, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill that allows groundwater management districts to create conservation areas within their borders.

In some states, including Kansas, water conservation efforts have essentially closed off any new irrigation developments.

WHITHER THE WEATHER

This year has been a particularly good one for the business of irrigation, with farmers sprinting to sow a near-record number of fertile acres with corn - and then watching the growing dismay as hot, dry weather curtails growth.

Though the USDA is forecasting record-high corn yields, traders have become increasingly skeptical of such bounty amid dry weather and the agency's crop progress report on Monday showing lower conditions in certain regions.

"The big question is going to be what will happen to sales if the weather changes," said Brent Thielman, a research analyst with D.A. Davidson & Co, who tracks the sector.

At the Crossroad Farms in Indiana, Clute has a convert's passion for the pipes that loom over the fields like slender guard towers. The farm bought eight new pivot systems this past year, and now has 40 running.

"I wish we had more," he said.

(Editing by Dale Hudson)

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