It is now Wednesday April 25th, 2007and the rivers have just started to come over the banks in the city of Red Oak, Iowa. Highway 34 could become a messy situation this evening into tonight because the Nishnabotna River could cover the road. I went out to take a look at the river as it […]
Midwest Weather in Unrest
Iowa along with the entire midwest region was hammered, and is still being hammered, by a massive low pressure system that has so far on April 24th had 20 confirmed tornadoes and massive flooding in many regions. Here in Iowa most places have gotten between 1.5 to 3.5 inches of rain as of late this […]
Nebraska Cornhuskers Lookin’ Good
Stats from NU Media Relations www.huskers.com On Saturday April 14, 2007 I was in attendance, along with 54,000 others, at the Nebraska Cornhusker’s annual Red-White game. I have to say the Husker’s new quarterback Sam Keller looked fantastic throwing 9 of 11 and 185 yards just in the first half and finishing the day […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]
TB wake-up call for Africa
The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
Can the Leaping Cat Defy Extinction?
Jaguar Sale Inevitable Unless Corporate Change Means Profitability Conversing with Jaguar representatives or motor industry analysts and ‘change’ is the recurring word that crosses their lips. One of Britain’s most historic car companies is facing up to the reality of a far from certain future. An internal analysis of Jaguar prepared for Ford executives […]