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The drought in the US has already made soy and corn prices skyrocket, and is having a ripple effect. This article is about poultry raisers in Brazil asking for gov't help...
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"The increases in grain costs have already reached 70% this year.
related article: US crop conditions will affect poultry outlook
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apparently there is an EPA (US gov't mandate) to use corn for fuel...the poutry and meat raising organizations in the US are asking this rule to be waived so more corn can go to animal feed etc.
The RFS requires 13.2 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol to be produced in 2012 and 13.8 billion gallons in 2013, amounts that will use about 4.7 billion and 4.9 billion bushels, respectively, of the nation’s corn. Some agricultural forecasters now are estimating that 11.8 billion bushels of corn will be harvested this year – about 13 billion were harvested in 2011 – meaning corn-ethanol production will use about four of every 10 bushels.
The RFS has “directly affected the supply and cost of feed in major agricultural sectors of this country, causing the type of economic harm that justifies issuance of an RFS waiver,” said the coalition in its petition.------------------------------------
If you have money you don't know what to do with, send a donation to Hesperian books to send one of their books to village health workers and teachers.
their most widely read one is "Where there is no Doctor", and if you are a survivalist, you might want to download it for free.
So why not just send these folks a 30 dollar tablet computer and read the free ebook? Brownouts...you can read a paper book even when the battery is dead. During the prolonged brownout during our typhoon last year, the local grocery store had outlets for folks to recharge their cellphones (we have a generator).
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Wild Computing: Devices from the early 1900's
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Glowing wallpaper? Scientists invent glowing LED's.on paper..I suspect the first use will be for greeting cards, but when was the last time you used snailmail?....
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why most of those Nigerian scammers aren't Nigerian at all...
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If they make guns illegal, only the felons will have guns.
Change that saying to "only the geeks will have guns that they print out on their 3D printer".
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Why does a meeting of Orthodox Jews in a New Jersey stadium require as much security as the Super Bowl?
Because He Who Must Not Be Named might attack them?
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Why new technology might not be pushing health care costs up:
partly because docs are using the "conservative" approach (treat the patient, not the scan).
but also because:
But the main reason growth slowed is because of new insurance arrangements. These include larger deductibles: the percentage of employees with a deductible of at least $1,000 grew from 10 percent in 2006 to 27 percent in 2010.
- Also, there’s an increased use of ‘prior authorization’ in insurance, which requires doctors to conform to guidelines about the appropriateness of medical treatments
On the other hand, I was once sued because supposedly I didn't order an experimental test which could only be done 600 miles away from my small town at one University hospital in California, and missed a cancer that was so rare that there were only six cases in the medical literature.
No liability reform for docs yet, though: The lawyers give lots of money to politicians to prevent that from happening, even though the AMA says it is a priority.
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I normally get Fundraising letters from Obama via Democrats abroad, of which I am a member, in a private email account.
But now I'm getting similar emails in another account that I only use for "on line" stuff (for posting comments on line, but mainly for newsletters: I try to keep these things out of my private email account).
Are they spamming? It's also the email I use for Facebook, so I wonder if they stole it from there....
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Maeve Binchy, the novelist, has passed away.
A lady who gave hours of pleasure to ordinary folks.
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