As a Chicago area kid from a Catholic family, I remember visiting ND when I was in high school. It’s a beautiful campus. And “Touchdown Jesus” is just something you actually have to see to appreciate. But I’m afraid ND’s football program today is a place where great coaches go to die. ND should wake-up and join the Big Ten. Afterall, they regularly play at least three teams from the Big Ten every year (Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue).
How does rising night time temperatures (about 1 degree) in major rice growing regions impact billions, and how does one cope with the the resulting changes?
From the NYT. ‘New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows. ‘ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?th&emc=th
The situation is complex, and yearly production volatile. But to maintain production growers are following the path of genetically modified rice (to handle temp increases and produce more per plant) and of course fertilizers.
Vietnam is exporting a lot more, but the Phillipines are importing a lot more currently. My kind of wonk…people are involved.
Good call. Bi-polar diagnosis is now popular, but for those kids and adolescents who respond the research of off label use is a godsend.
Non-experts but medical doctors prescribe all the time, and this practice is decades old with other meds. Part of it is school based, as reporters in the inventories passed around have to inolve school (which while important is an odd place to be in) for anyone who is mildly twitchy.
Side effects can be major, and there is not enough research on how these meds affect growth and maturation patterns.
Of course, unless you have been part of such chaos generated by such a child as the focus, it is hard to appreciate the overwhelm of maintaining a reasonable life for the rest of the family.
Drugs are cheaper than educational programs or therapies.
The economist Prasada Rao at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA) has done a lot of work for the IIRI using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) based production functions. A few years ago I relied a lot on his research for a project I was involved in. I was really interested in some of the CEPA’s theoretical writings on SFA and learning about rice production and how night time temperatures affect it was just an interesting byproduct.
Note that the recipients are primarily boys as boys act out more. (It is just their nature) It used to be that there was always some wood that needed chopping, or other hard work to work of the excess energy, but we have taken that away from boys. Boys are not into sedentary life in general, so school is not good fit for them. To keep them behaving you medicate them. Perhaps we need to bring in wood and axes to parks and set the boys a chopping. (Of course now days they might hurt themseleves and someone would sue). 🙂
My nephew told my sister that one reason he liked football is that in football it is ok to hit people.
When I read the various quotes pre crisis that housing prices have never gone down more than 5% a year nationwide, what about the 1930s (likley the digital data set did not extend that far back), but of course the investment banks could bring in some interns and send them to the library to reseach the trend back at least 100 and where possible 150 years. It was known that different areas move in cycles, and these cycles have different periods, but it was thought that construtive interference (in the physics sense, i.e. prices plunging in many markets at the same time would not happen). And this with quants who should have known basic wave superposition. If you have a set of waves every so often there is a big one as they all add up (go to the beach and watch and you see this). I have to say that the crisis was brought on by a failure to percieve the obvious.
Isn’t it wonderful that these young men are so happy? I mean just think what a marvelous thing they have done. They have helped save us from the Taliban taking over the world; destroying Western civilization; and a lot of other things too numerous to mention. Of course their lives have been ruined, but, as Rumsfeld put it, “things happen” and they realize that. So good of them to be so happy about it. The warmongers must appreciate them immensely.
I’m listening to President Obama make his Nobel Peace Prize speech. To me the image he conveys is that of moth fluttering around the light.
Congratulations to Brian Kelly. And Notre Dame.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20091211/SPORTS13/912119933/1137
Without global warming to wrangle over there just isn’t anything to talk about, is there?
MG,
As a Chicago area kid from a Catholic family, I remember visiting ND when I was in high school. It’s a beautiful campus. And “Touchdown Jesus” is just something you actually have to see to appreciate. But I’m afraid ND’s football program today is a place where great coaches go to die. ND should wake-up and join the Big Ten. Afterall, they regularly play at least three teams from the Big Ten every year (Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue).
Cantab,
Funny, people who are used to drinking MD 20/20 say something similar after tasting a fine cabernet.
How does rising night time temperatures (about 1 degree) in major rice growing regions impact billions, and how does one cope with the the resulting changes?
My uncle thought MD 20/20 WAS a fine cabernet…
Night Train was for drunks.
LOL
From the NYT. ‘New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows. ‘ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?th&emc=th
It appears to be enhancing production. Except for those areas/times when there is drought, rice production is steadily going up.
http://beta.irri.org/news/index.php/Search/newest-first.html?enddate=2009-12-12&search_section=2&searchphrase=any&searchword=rice+production&startdate=2008-08-01&submit=Go
The situation is complex, and yearly production volatile. But to maintain production growers are following the path of genetically modified rice (to handle temp increases and produce more per plant) and of course fertilizers.
Vietnam is exporting a lot more, but the Phillipines are importing a lot more currently. My kind of wonk…people are involved.
Jeffrey,
Good call. Bi-polar diagnosis is now popular, but for those kids and adolescents who respond the research of off label use is a godsend.
Non-experts but medical doctors prescribe all the time, and this practice is decades old with other meds. Part of it is school based, as reporters in the inventories passed around have to inolve school (which while important is an odd place to be in) for anyone who is mildly twitchy.
Side effects can be major, and there is not enough research on how these meds affect growth and maturation patterns.
Of course, unless you have been part of such chaos generated by such a child as the focus, it is hard to appreciate the overwhelm of maintaining a reasonable life for the rest of the family.
Drugs are cheaper than educational programs or therapies.
The economist Prasada Rao at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA) has done a lot of work for the IIRI using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) based production functions. A few years ago I relied a lot on his research for a project I was involved in. I was really interested in some of the CEPA’s theoretical writings on SFA and learning about rice production and how night time temperatures affect it was just an interesting byproduct.
Note that the recipients are primarily boys as boys act out more. (It is just their nature) It used to be that there was always some wood that needed chopping, or other hard work to work of the excess energy, but we have taken that away from boys. Boys are not into sedentary life in general, so school is not good fit for them. To keep them behaving you medicate them. Perhaps we need to bring in wood and axes to parks and set the boys a chopping. (Of course now days they might hurt themseleves and someone would sue). 🙂
My nephew told my sister that one reason he liked football is that in football it is ok to hit people.
When I read the various quotes pre crisis that housing prices have never gone down more than 5% a year nationwide, what about the 1930s (likley the digital data set did not extend that far back), but of course the investment banks could bring in some interns and send them to the library to reseach the trend back at least 100 and where possible 150 years. It was known that different areas move in cycles, and these cycles have different periods, but it was thought that construtive interference (in the physics sense, i.e. prices plunging in many markets at the same time would not happen). And this with quants who should have known basic wave superposition. If you have a set of waves every so often there is a big one as they all add up (go to the beach and watch and you see this). I have to say that the crisis was brought on by a failure to percieve the obvious.
Well Marx knew you had to opiate the masses to keep them in line.
Maybe Obama should replace hail to the chief with the flight of the bumble bee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zs4PPk5kg&feature=related
Mark Ingram. Heisman Trophy. Roll Tide.
Isn’t it wonderful that these young men are so happy? I mean just think what a marvelous thing they have done. They have helped save us from the Taliban taking over the world; destroying Western civilization; and a lot of other things too numerous to mention. Of course their lives have been ruined, but, as Rumsfeld put it, “things happen” and they realize that. So good of them to be so happy about it. The warmongers must appreciate them immensely.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6954027.ece