2 iconic agriculture businesses announce deal sending Fisher Farm ...

Fisher Farm & Lawn, the Tangent-based John Deere retailer and seller of commercial and residential agriculture equipment, is no more.?Pap? Machinery purchased the company and its assets last week. Fisher's seven stores across the state reopened Tuesday branded with the Pap? name.?

Patrick Richards, former Fisher president and general manager, said the negotiations started about six months ago. He described the sale as a "mutual coming together."?

"Pap? is a great company, a growing company," Richards, 43, said. "We felt like it would be a great thing for our employees."?

Fisher and Pap? are two iconic names in Oregon's agriculture community. Collectively, they share more than 160 years of history as family-run businesses.?

Pap? Machinery, part of Pap? Group Inc., has 30 retail locations in Idaho, Washington, California, Nevada and Oregon. The Eugene-based company will "more than double" its John Deere sales territory with the purchase, according to a company statement.?

Founded in 1938, the Pap? Group has 1,700 employees specializing in selling, renting and servicing heavy-duty equipment for construction, agricultural, trucking and other industries.?

Pape Machinery

Who: Part of the Pape Group of companies, based in Eugene.

Founded: 1938

What: The company sells, rents and services equipment for the construction, agrioculture, trucking and other industries at its 30 retail locations in Idaho, Washington, California, Nevada and Oregon.

Employees: There are 1,700 employees in the Pape Group.

Pap? officials declined to comment on the financial particulars of the deal.?

Spokesman Pat Walsh responded to questions via email, and said the purchase broadens and diversifies Pap?'s services. He describes the deal as "an exciting opportunity to expand Pap?'s footprint to provide quality John Deere equipment and outstanding service to customers in the Willamette Valley's agricultural and turf industry."?

In a release, Ryan Pap?, director of agriculture and turf, indicated the purchase harkens to the company's roots in agriculture equipment sales throughout the Willamette Valley.?

The company did retain most of Fisher's 160 employees, according to Richards.?

The Pap? offer came at a perfect time -- a recent economic uptick helped position the company for sale, Richards said. "You don't know how long these economic opportunities are going to last."?

Harold and Floyd Fisher founded the company, known for much of its existence as Fisher Implement Company, in 1925. Floyd returned to the farming life, but Harold continued the business. Everett Richards, Patrick's grandfather, started working for the company in the mid-1930s.?

Everett and Jim Richards, Patrick's father, purchased the company from Harold's widow in 1964. The headquarters moved to Tangent from Albany in 1999. With more than 80 years of family tradition, Richards, said the sale is bittersweet. "That was a big part of not just my life but a lot of people's lives," he said.?

Fisher Farm & Lawn

Founded: 1925

What: The company specialized in John Deere sales and services for both commercial and residential uses.

Employees: 160 employees at 7 Oregon stores. The majority of those employees now work for Pape.

Geoff Horning, executive director of the Agri-Business Council of Oregon, said the deal was no surprise to industry leaders. "Word started rumbling early in the summer," he said.?

Pap? is a respected business and has strong name recognition, Horning said, but Fisher's name also carried weight. "Losing those family establishments always has its ramifications."?

Pap?'s familiarity with the Northwest and its Oregon roots was crucial to the deal, Richards said. "Certainly it's change and like most people, our customers don't like to see changes," Richards said. He expected both employees and customers will see the benefits of Pap?'s added size and scope.?

Richards said he was not retained as part of the agreement. He's still tying up some loose ends with shutting down the business operation.?

Richards donated some of the company's historic John Deere equipment and memorabilia to the Oregon Two-Cylinder Club, a John Deere museum, for posterity.?

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/09/two_iconic_agriculture_busines.html

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NTSB: Large planes should have camera systems to prevent ground ...

The National ?Transportation Safety Board recommended today that large jets should be equipped with cameras or other anti-collision aids to avoid ground accidents.

The NTSB, an independent federal agency, made the recommendation to the FAA and the European Aviation Safety Agency, which regulates airplane manufacturers in Europe.

The NTSB?s letter cites three recent ground collisions in Boston, Chicago and New York. In the most recent accident, at Chicago O?Hare, a Boeing 737 operated by EVA Air clipped the rudder and vertical stabilizer of a regional jet operated by American Eagle. The NTSB?s preliminary report says the American Eagle?s tail section was protruding into a taxiway being used by the EVA Air jet.

In its letter to the FAA, the NTSB says it is difficult for pilots of large airplanes to judge wingtip clearance and path from the cockpit window:

On large airplanes (such as the Boeing 747, 757, 767, and 777; the Airbus A380; and the McDonnell Douglas MD-10 and MD-11), the pilot cannot see the airplane?s wingtips from the cockpit unless the pilot opens the cockpit window and extends his or her head out of the window, which is often impractical. Thus, determining the wingtip clearance and path on large airplanes is difficult and reliant mainly on the pilot?s judgment.

The NTSB recommends that new, large airplanes equipped with anti-collision aids, such as camera systems. Airlines should add systems to their existing fleets of Boeing 747, 757, 767, and 777; Airbus A380s; and McDonnell Douglas MD-10s and MD-11s.

Source: http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/ntsb-large-planes-should-have-camera-systems-to-prevent-ground-collisions.html/

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Showboating amateur fighter gets knocked out (VIDEO)

Showboating can give a fight a little bit of personality, but there are times it goes wrong. At the Tuff 'n' Uff amateur MMA card on Sunday, Shai Lindsey raised his arms at Carlo Juinio in the Nick Diaz-ian, "Come at me, bro," gesture. Unfortunately for Lindsey, Juinio did as he requested.

By the end of the video, Lindsey is sitting up and on a stool. The only lasting wound is on his pride.

A note to all fighters and future fighters out there: Only showboat if you're ready to accept the kick to the face it may inspire.

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If You Are Not Using Direct Mail In Your Marketing Plan You May Be

September 5th, 2012 by admin under Direct Mail. No Comments.

Direct Mail, one of the media used by direct response marketers, has been around for a long time. Even with the internet and email marketing, Direct Mail is still the Number 1 choice for direct response marketers.

Think about it. How many days have you gone to the mail box and not found it full of ?junk mail? as we typically call it? You?re almost immune to seeing all of it, and simply sort the mail over the trash can, without even giving it a thought.

Avoid The Spam Filter With Ink & Paper

The beauty of direct mail is it gets delivered ? right to the front door or mailbox of your prospect. You write a good sales letter, have it printed, send it to a qualified list, and the message gets delivered to your client or prospect. There are no spam filters, no emails getting kicked back, no worries about your email being blacklisted.

The next challenge is getting the mail opened. Your best chance of getting your message and offer read is by putting compelling copy on the outside of your envelope and/or by using a very unique envelope or some other type of packaging.

Not everyone knows the secrets that can boost your mail response. You want your mail to be read by the recipient and not end up in the trash can or recycle bin. That?s exactly what you want if you?re going to have successful direct mail campaigns.

Direct mail is still the most effective way to market, and it produces the best response rates available. You send mail, and within a few short days, you know it worked and what your results are.

Even Internet Marketers Are Doing It!

Successful entrepreneurs and business owners have built huge, profitable businesses using direct mail as their primary marketing tool, and they did it long before the internet was popular, and they?re still using it today. The best internet marketers are now using direct mail in addition to online marketing. Integrated marketing strategies are how you maximize your results.

Put The ?ChaChing? In Your Direct Mail Campaign

There are many elements that go into developing a profitable direct mail campaign that will boost your business. Here are just a few tips: ? Develop a budget and stick to it. ? Establish a multi-step, sequential, integrated marketing plan. ? The more touches the better ? Target and segment your mailing lists. ? Profile your list and maintain it well. ? Measure and track your results. ? Implement your direct mail program ? Be flexible enough to make changes quickly if you need to.

List Maintenance Is Key Volumes can be written regarding lists. Your list is the most important element in any marketing campaign. Direct mail is no exception. The list is also, many times, the most neglected part of your business and your marketing campaigns. You cannot mail if you have not captured and maintained the necessary client information. One of the most important components to any Direct Mail campaign is that the addresses are correct and up-to-date. You want your mail to be delivered, not returned.

The postal service can help you with address verification. But as a tip, it starts in your office with you and your administrative list manager.

Your list will be tip top if it?s updated constantly, especially when nixies are returned. (Nixies are mail pieces returned for no forwarding address or that have expired address changes.) You can use services provided by the postal service, or list brokers and mailing houses to verify addresses and update your list based upon the Nation Change of Address Service. (This is a huge tip by the way!)

Don?t Shy Away ? Direct Mail Is Gold

If you?re like some marketers and business owners, you may shy away from direct mail because you think it?s too expensive, or it?s too time consuming, or you just don?t want the hassle of setting up a sequential mailing campaign and then have to worry about getting it executed.

If you aren?t currently using direct mail as part of your marketing strategy, you?re missing out on the best marketing system you could possibly be using. That means you?re losing out on potential clients, and a boatload of money too.

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Source: http://www.completemarketingsystems.com/cms/if-you-are-not-using-direct-mail-in-your-marketing-plan-you-may-be-missing-the-boat-2

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Gaddafi's ex-spy chief handed back to Libya

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief was taken into Libyan government custody on Wednesday after being extradited by Mauritania to face charges of crimes against humanity, officials said.

Abdullah al-Senussi, one of the most feared members of Gaddafi's regime before rebels toppled it last year, was captured in the West African state in March, triggering a tug of war between Libya, France and the International Criminal Court for his extradition.

"The Libyan government has received Gaddafi's right hand man," Prime Minister Abderrahim al-Keib said.

"I want to take the opportunity to say that Libya will guarantee a fair trial for Senussi that will respect international legal standards," he said, urging other countries to follow suit and hand over Gaddafi's associates.

A heavily bearded Senussi, recognizable from his characteristic tightly curled hair, was shown in a press photograph getting out of a helicopter in Libya. Smiling slightly, a soldier stood behind him, steadying him on the steps.

Chief of Army staff Yusuf al-Mangoush told reporters that he travelled on Tuesday night to Mauritania to escort Senussi back on Wednesday.

"Abdullah Senussi is in good health and comfortable when we brought him to Libya, " he said.

His extradition came after a high-level Libyan delegation, including the chief of staff and the justice minister, visited Mauritania on Tuesday and, a Mauritanian government source told Reuters, gave guarantees concerning Senussi.

It was not clear if there was a court decision sanctioning the extradition and the source declined to specify the nature of the guarantees.

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Senussi was arrested six months ago after arriving with a falsified Malian passport on a flight to the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, from Morocco. Mauritania initially planned to put him on trial for illegal entry - a move that threatened to delay efforts to have him face international justice.

A spokesman for the ICC, which wants to try Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity, including murder, said it had received no information about the handover.

In its warrant for Senussi's arrest, the Hague-based ICC said he had used his position of command to have attacks carried out against opponents of Gaddafi, who was hunted down and killed by rebels after his ouster in August last year.

France wants to try Senussi in connection with a 1989 airliner bombing over Niger in which 54 of its nationals died.

Senussi has also been linked to the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland of U.S. passenger plane that killed 270 people. Diplomatic sources have said the United States was keen to question him about that.

Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, is to go on trial in Libya this month, a government source said in August, in what would be the most high-profile prosecution of a figure from the late dictator's 42 years in power.

Libya's new rulers, who aim to draw up a democratic constitution, are keen to try Gaddafi's family members and loyalists at home. But human rights activists worry that a weak central government and a relative lack of rule of law mean legal proceedings will not meet international standards.

Saif al-Islam is also wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity during the uprising that brought down his father.

(Additional reporting by Kissima Diagana in; Nouakchott, Bate Felix in Dakar and Thomas Escritt in Amsterdam; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Jon Hemming and Robin Pomeroy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mauritania-sends-ex-gaddafi-spy-chief-libya-102100940.html

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Alan Tennant from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been awarded with Europhysics Prize 2012

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He is honored with Europe's foremost prize for condensed matter physics for the first time observation of magnetic monopoles- He shares the prize with 5 other scientists

This press release is available in German.

Alan Tennant, physicist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin was honored for the experimental observation of magnetic monopoles using neutron scattering at the Berlin research reactor BER II. He shares the 2012 Europhysics prize with 5 other scientists "for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice." The prize is endowed with 12.000 Euro and will be presented at the EPS CMD General Conference in Edinburgh on 5th September. It is awarded once every two years for a recent work in the area of physics of condensed matter which, in the opinion of the Society's selection committee, represents scientific excellence.

On HZB-Website you can find a Video-Interview with Alan Tennant. He explains, what magnetic monopoles are, the most challenging aspects of experimental set up, the significance of their discovery for future applications and the international collaboration with research groups shared the prize.

Background:

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles proposed by physicists that carry a single magnetic pole, either a magnetic North pole or South pole. In the material world this is quite exceptional because magnetic particles are usually observed as dipoles, north and south combined. However there are several theories that predict the existence of monopoles. Among others, in 1931 the physicist Paul Dirac was led by his calculations to the conclusion that magnetic monopoles can exist at the end of tubes called Dirac strings that carry magnetic field. Until the scientific papers published by Alan Tennant and his colleagues they have remained undetected.

Science Express (DOI:10.1126/science.1178868): Dirac Strings and Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice Dy2Ti2O7

The material under investigation at the Berlin research reactor was a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. This material crystallises in a quite remarkable geometry, the so called pyrochlore-lattice. With the help of neutron scattering Jonathan Morris and Alan Tennant show that the magnetic moments inside the material had reorganised into so called Spin-Spaghetti". This name comes from the ordering of the dipoles themselves, such that a network of contorted tubes (Strings) develops, through which magnetic flux is transported. These can be made visible by their interaction with the neutrons which themselves carry a magnetic moment. Thus the neutrons scatter as a reciprocal representation of the Strings.

During the neutron scattering measurements a magnetic field was applied to the crystal by the researchers. With this field they could influence the symmetry and orientation of the strings. Thereby it was possible to reduce the density of the string networks and promote the monopole dissociation. As a result, at temperatures from 0.6 to 2 Kelvin, the strings are visible and have magnetic monopoles at their ends.

The signature of a gas made up by these monopoles has also been observed in heat capacity measured by Bastian Klemke (HZB). Providing further confirmation of the existence of monopoles and showing that they interact in the same way as electric charges.

In this work the researchers, for the first time, attest that monopoles exist as emergent states of matter, i.e. they emerge from special arrangements of dipoles and are completely different from the constituents of the material. However, alongside this fundamental knowledge, Alan Tennant explains the further meaning of the results: We are writing about new, fundamental properties of matter. These properties are generally valid for materials with the same topology, that is for magnetic moments on the pyrochlore lattice. For the development of new technologies this can have big implications. Above all it signifies the first time fractionalisation in three dimensions is observed."

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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 5-Sep-2012
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Contact: Dr. Ina Helms
ina.helms@helmholtz-berlin.de
49-308-062-42034
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

He is honored with Europe's foremost prize for condensed matter physics for the first time observation of magnetic monopoles- He shares the prize with 5 other scientists

This press release is available in German.

Alan Tennant, physicist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin was honored for the experimental observation of magnetic monopoles using neutron scattering at the Berlin research reactor BER II. He shares the 2012 Europhysics prize with 5 other scientists "for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice." The prize is endowed with 12.000 Euro and will be presented at the EPS CMD General Conference in Edinburgh on 5th September. It is awarded once every two years for a recent work in the area of physics of condensed matter which, in the opinion of the Society's selection committee, represents scientific excellence.

On HZB-Website you can find a Video-Interview with Alan Tennant. He explains, what magnetic monopoles are, the most challenging aspects of experimental set up, the significance of their discovery for future applications and the international collaboration with research groups shared the prize.

Background:

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles proposed by physicists that carry a single magnetic pole, either a magnetic North pole or South pole. In the material world this is quite exceptional because magnetic particles are usually observed as dipoles, north and south combined. However there are several theories that predict the existence of monopoles. Among others, in 1931 the physicist Paul Dirac was led by his calculations to the conclusion that magnetic monopoles can exist at the end of tubes called Dirac strings that carry magnetic field. Until the scientific papers published by Alan Tennant and his colleagues they have remained undetected.

Science Express (DOI:10.1126/science.1178868): Dirac Strings and Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice Dy2Ti2O7

The material under investigation at the Berlin research reactor was a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. This material crystallises in a quite remarkable geometry, the so called pyrochlore-lattice. With the help of neutron scattering Jonathan Morris and Alan Tennant show that the magnetic moments inside the material had reorganised into so called Spin-Spaghetti". This name comes from the ordering of the dipoles themselves, such that a network of contorted tubes (Strings) develops, through which magnetic flux is transported. These can be made visible by their interaction with the neutrons which themselves carry a magnetic moment. Thus the neutrons scatter as a reciprocal representation of the Strings.

During the neutron scattering measurements a magnetic field was applied to the crystal by the researchers. With this field they could influence the symmetry and orientation of the strings. Thereby it was possible to reduce the density of the string networks and promote the monopole dissociation. As a result, at temperatures from 0.6 to 2 Kelvin, the strings are visible and have magnetic monopoles at their ends.

The signature of a gas made up by these monopoles has also been observed in heat capacity measured by Bastian Klemke (HZB). Providing further confirmation of the existence of monopoles and showing that they interact in the same way as electric charges.

In this work the researchers, for the first time, attest that monopoles exist as emergent states of matter, i.e. they emerge from special arrangements of dipoles and are completely different from the constituents of the material. However, alongside this fundamental knowledge, Alan Tennant explains the further meaning of the results: We are writing about new, fundamental properties of matter. These properties are generally valid for materials with the same topology, that is for magnetic moments on the pyrochlore lattice. For the development of new technologies this can have big implications. Above all it signifies the first time fractionalisation in three dimensions is observed."

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/haog-atf090512.php

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Novartis to file Lucentis for new use in Japan, EU

Novartis is seeking to expand the list of uses for Lucentis in Europe and Japan on the back of strong clinical data demonstrating its potential to improve vision in patients with a certain eye condition.?

The Swiss drug giant announced yesterday that data from the REPAIR study showed that an average of three Lucentis (ranibizumab) injections improved visual acuity in patients with myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV).

Findings of the one-year study, which assessed the efficacy and safety profile of 0.5mg Lucentis given on an individualised basis in 65 patients with myopic CNV, showed that after six months of treatment and an average three injections mean visual acuity improved by twelve letters.?

In addition, 29% of patients required no further treatment beyond the first injection, the firm noted.

Consequently, Novartis said it will seek permission from regulators in Europe and Japan by the end of the year to market Lucentis for this condition, expanding on its already approved uses for wet age-related macular degeneration, visual impairment due to diabetic macular oedema, and visual impairment due to macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion.

Sales of Lucentis booked by Novartis leapt 20% to $604 million for the second quarter of 2012.?

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Source: http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/12-09-06/Novartis_to_file_Lucentis_for_new_use_in_Japan_EU.aspx

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