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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Weather affects crop yield, especially hot days
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A study has determined the relationship between long-term weather and yield of 11 horticultural crops and one field crop in Wisconsin. The number of hot days during the growing season was determined to be the most important factor among the weather conditions examined. Results revealed the importance of the amount and frequency of seasonal precipitation, showed the negative effects of extreme temperatures on vegetable crop yields, and emphasized the importance of breeding vegetables for heat tolerance.
Furniture China 2013 (September 11 - 15, 2013 - Shanghai New International Expo Center)
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Oklahoma St Hires Former NCAA Official To Investigate Program
The school announced on Monday that Charles Smrt will lead the effort. Smrt is an 18-year veteran of the NCAA?s enforcement staff and currently runs a consulting firm specializing in compliance audits.
OSU president Burns Hargis made it clear he is taking the charges very seriously:
For more on this story visit: NBC Sports
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Twitter tweets it'll go public
NEW YORK (AP) ? Twitter finally has decided to go public, but it's taking a route that will keep most of the details about its business private for a while longer.
The company aptly used its own news-making short messaging service Thursday afternoon to announce that it has filed documents for an initial public offering of stock.
But the information filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is sealed because Twitter is taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.
The secrecy will likely help Twitter minimize the public hoopla and intense scrutiny that surrounded the initial public offerings of other high-profile social networking companies, including Facebook Inc., which went public in May 2012.
The 7-year-old company posted on its official Twitter account that it has "confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO." A subsequent tweet said simply: "Now, back to work." It's accompanied by a blurry photo of people working in the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Under the law, Twitter's financial statements and other sensitive information contained in the IPO filing must become publicly available at least 21 days before company's executives begin traveling around the country to meet with potential investors ? a process known as a "road show."
Those presentations will be orchestrated by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a former stand-up comedian who will now get an opportunity to take his act to Wall Street.
Twitter's IPO has been long expected. The company has been ramping up its advertising products and working to boost ad revenue in preparation. But it is still tiny compared with Facebook, which saw its hotly anticipated IPO implode last year amid worries about its ability to grow mobile ad revenue.
Since it was founded within another startup and named after the sound of chirping birds in 2006, Twitter has established itself as a cultural touchstone while growing from a few thousand geeky users to more than 200 million today. Its users include heads of state, celebrities, revolutionaries and journalists. Unlike Facebook, which insists that its users go by their real names, Twitter leaves room for parody and anonymity. As such, there are accounts for Jesus Christ and Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter's mortal enemy.
Twitter's main appeal is in its simplicity and its ability to distribute information quickly. Users can send short messages ? either public or private ? that consist of up to 140 characters. Anyone can "follow" anyone else, but the relationship doesn't have to be reciprocal. This has made the service especially appealing for celebrities and companies that use it to communicate directly with customers.
Most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising. Research firm eMarketer estimates that Twitter will generate $582.8 million in worldwide ad revenue this year, up from $288.3 million in 2012. By comparison, Facebook had ad revenue of $1.6 billion in the April-June quarter of this year. By 2015, Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected to hit $1.33 billion.
Twitter's moneymaking potential has minted the company with an estimated market value of $10 billion, based on the appraisals of venture capitalists and other early investors who have been helping to fund the business so far. PrivCo analyst Sam Hamadeh said he expects Twitter to aim for a market value of about $15 billion when it prices its IPO.
The public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market. There have been 131 IPOs that have priced so far this year, according to IPO tracking firm Renaissance Capital. That's a 44 percent increase from the same period the year before. If the momentum continues, 2013 will have the most IPO pricings since 2007 ? a year before the financial crisis.
The law that allowed Twitter to file its initial IPO documents confidentially is called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS. President Barack Obama signed the law in 2012. It is designed to make it easier for small businesses and startups to grow and create jobs.
The law includes a provision that allows a company with revenue below $1 billion to file its registration statement for an initial public offering of stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission confidentially. This allows the paperwork to remain private until 21 days before the company starts marketing the deal to investors.
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes Twitter's decision to tweet about the confidential filing signals the company's intention to complete the IPO fairly quickly. "The market is hot and the end of the year is usually is a good time to go public," Pachter said. "I think we will get to see the documents by Halloween and the IPO will be done by Thanksgiving."
SEC regulators ultimately dictate the timing of IPOs because they must sign off on all the documents before the stock can be sold.
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams while they were working at a podcasting service called Odeo that never gained traction. Dorsey went on to found Square, a mobile payments company, and serves as Twitter's chairman. Williams, who previously sold a blogging service to Google, stepped down as Twitter's CEO in 2010 and is now working on a publishing platform called Medium. Stone left Twitter in 2011. His latest startup, announced in May, is called Jelly Industries.
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Associated Press Writer Ken Sweet contributed to this story. Liedtke reported from San Francisco.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-tweets-itll-public-215502277--finance.html
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Tornado warning issued in southern Ontario
Tornado warnings for parts of southern Ontario have been lifted as a storm system tracks across the province.
Just before 6:30 p.m. ET, Environment Canada lifted the warnings that had been in place for Woodstock and Tillsonburg in Oxford County, along with Brantford, Simcoe, Delhi and Norfolk.
Meteorologists had been tracking a dangerous thunderstorm that they said was likely to produce a tornado. Large hail and torrential downpours were also associated with the storm that moved eastward at 60 km/h.
Environment Canada called it a "a dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation."
Many watches and warnings for severe thunderstorms were issued Wednesday across southern and eastern parts of the province, which has seen two days of hot, humid conditions.
Forecasters said thunderstorms could bring up to 50 millimetres of rain in a hour, and produce winds of 90 km/h.
People are advised take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches, Emergency Management Ontario recommends.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/09/11/ontario-storm-tornado.html
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Teen Exorcists Say Harry Potter's Magic Comes From Satan as They Take on London's Hotbed of Evil in New BBC Documentary
September 9, 2013|2:10 pm
Three demon chasing teenage girls, who say London's reputation as a hotbed of witchcraft peaked with the rage over Harry Potter, and their reverend mentor, who claims to have cast out 15,000 demons over his career, will be the stars of a new BBC documentary this week.
In a promotional clip?from the documentary, which will debut on BBC on September 12, Brynne Larson, 18, and sisters Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, aged 18 and 21, respectively, who have vowed never to read the Harry Potter novels according to an Express report, dismissed the notion that the magic highlighted in the books could be anything but pure evil.
"I think it's been centuries in the making. But I believe it all kind of came to a pinnacle, a peak with, well Harry Potter books that have come out and the Harry Potter rage that swept across England," said Savannah in the clip discussing the popular books in the back of a London taxi.
"The spells and things that you are reading in Harry Potter books, those aren't just some things that are made up. Those are actual spells, those are things that came from witchcraft books," added Tess.
A list of the dangerous spells, charms, curses and jinxes culled from the Harry Potter books are posted on the website pojo.com.
They include, Conjunctivitis, a curse that damages your opponent's eyesight; Riddikulus, when combined with a laugh it can defeat a boggart; Avada Kedavra, an unforgivable curse which murders opponents and Engorgio, a charm that enlarges items.
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The girls, who came to London armed with crucifixes and Bibles after casting out evil spirits in the Ukraine, told the Express that they want to stop British teenagers from inviting the devil in through the spells and satanic Harry Potter magic.
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Eighteen-year-old Brynne explained why the popular J.K. Rowling fantasy books should never be embraced as something good in the BBC clip.
"Harry is using this magic for good. So here we have this dangerous idea that you can use this magic for good or bad when in reality all magic is bad because they are getting their power from satan," she said.
After years of training with Brynne's father, the Reverend Bob Larson, the teenage exorcists, who all have black belts in karate, say they wage a physical as well as a spiritual battle every day.
According to Brynne, promiscuity is also causing demonic possessions in people who are catching "sexually transmitted demons" according to the Express.
With the teenagers' made-for-tv looks and management, however, the exorcists' trainer, Rev. Larson, has been accused of manipulating his meetings to make money. He told the Express, however, that it was a ridiculous accusation.
"I'm not 'curing' anyone, it's God's power that is delivering them from the demon. I am just an instrument to help make that happen," he said. "Money and motives. Every time someone is in God's work it always comes up.
"People pay thousands to go to drug rehab or for a psychiatrist but there is this idea that spirituality should be free. It is not uncommon for a pastor in America to make up to a million dollars a year. I can assure you that we are nowhere near that," noted Reverend Larson.
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