• WARREN BUFFETT ANNUAL LETTER

    Updated: 2011-03-01 14:53:00
    Here is Warren Buffett's annual letter. Even if you are not an investor it is interesting to learn how he thinks about business and and business climate.http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf

  • Development blog: One Step Closer to Extractive Industry Transparency

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:46:02
    By Kaci Farrell - I was encouraged by a recent email exchange with CGD visiting fellow Ted Moran, who is off this week to participate in the 5th Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference in Paris. Ted has been working with Isabel Munilla, Director of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) United States, to increase revenue transparency in extractive [...]

  • National Beginning Farmer Survey, Have You Participated?

    Updated: 2011-02-28 14:58:40
    Data on the challenges faced by today’s young and beginning farmers is hard to come by.  That’s why the National Young Farmers’ Coalition, in partnership with the Greenhorns and Beginningfarmers.org, is conducting a national survey to understand what’s working for beginning farmers, what’s not, and what policies they’d like to see in the next FarmRead the Rest...

  • Musicological Explorations

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:44:26
    Musicological Explorations is a publication of the musicology graduate students at the University of Victoria. It aims to encourage a broad spectrum of musicological research, as well as interdisciplinary work relating to the field of musicology. It is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Please click here to access. addthis_url [...]

  • Diagonal: Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:43:47
    Diagonal is the online journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. Its purpose is to highlight the latest research into the vast heritage of Iberia and Latin America, as well as other regions once under Iberian colonial rule whose cultural traditions bear some imprint of Spanish [...]

  • Edward MacDowell Piano Music Online

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:42:25
    As perhaps the best-known American composer of the late nineteenth century, Edward MacDowell wrote a wide range of descriptive short pieces for solo piano. His work was inspired by the New England countryside, and he also drew on a love for fairy tales and poems. This digital collection from the Wellesley College Library presents digitized versions [...]

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:40:42
    James McNeill Whistler was one of the 19th century’s most distinguished painters, and he was a lover of correspondence. In 2003, a number of projects were held to mark the centenary of his death, and this website represents one facet of those works. The online database of Whistler’s correspondence was made possible by the British [...]

  • Journal of Fine and Studio Art (JFSA)

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:32:29
    Journal of Fine and Studio Art (JFSA) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance. All articles published in JFSA will [...]

  • Picasso: Peace and Freedom

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:31:57
    John Lennon said he’d prefer to be remembered as a peacenik than a Beatle. If you feel the same way, a visit to this exhibition from the Tate Liverpool, showcasing Picasso’s pacifist side, will be inspirational. Picasso’s “Dove of Peace” is featured throughout the website, and several versions of the bird are on display in [...]

  • Brooklyn Museum: Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:28:23
    Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, and is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition features several large pieces that Warhol created in collaboration with other artists, especially Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente. One of these works, the Origin of Cotton, 1984, can be viewed in the [...]

  • Community Arts Perspectives

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:27:22
    Community Arts Perspectives is a periodic online publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. Its mission is to advance the field of community arts by providing a platform for inclusive dialogue and documentation linking academia and community. The Project is coordinated by Maryland Institute College of Art. The Community Arts Convening and Research Project [...]

  • The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:26:00
    The MoMA exhibit “The Original Copy” presents a “critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has been implicated in the analysis and creative redefinition of the other.” The exhibition posits the theory that photography grew up documenting sculpture. Tracing themes such as “the marvelous in the everyday” and [...]

  • Continuing Resolution; Agricultural Economy; Farm Bill; and Biotech

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:21:06
    Continuing Resolution: Political Background David Rogers reported on Friday at Politico that, “Threats of a government shutdown next week had all but disappeared by late Friday as Democrats reacted favorably to a Republican plan [related bill] that would keep agencies operating past Mar. 4 while making a first down payment toward a larger budget deal. “The [...]

  • What Recession? It's Boom Time For Nebraska Farms

    Updated: 2011-02-26 17:14:00
    Check out this article and the sound bite from NPR's All Things Considered on the status of farming in the Midwest. They even quote York's own Kelly Holthus.http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134054231/what-recession-its-boom-time-for-nebraska-farms

  • Global Health blog: Hard choices on health care at home and away

    Updated: 2011-02-25 23:06:37
    By Amanda Glassman - As spending cuts hit federal and state health programs, policy-makers are obliged to make harder choices about who will receive what health care. This week brought news of an attempt to set priorities using cost-effectiveness analysis to determine which recipients will gain most years of healthy life via a transplant. Using these criteria, the nation’s [...]

  • USDA Organic Farming Systems Research Conference Coming March 16-18

    Updated: 2011-02-25 19:26:54
    USDA will sponsor a free conference March 16-18, 2011  in Washington, DC, to examine findings from research on organic farming systems.  Attendees include researchers, policymakers, farmers, ranchers, and others interested in learning more about the implications of organic farming research. Major objectives for the conference are: To investigate findings on U.S. research on organic systems,Read the Rest...

  • Development blog: What Is Rigorous Impact Evaluation?

    Updated: 2011-02-25 19:08:25
    By Michael Clemens - I’m often asked by people running development projects what makes an impact evaluation “rigorous”, and how the benefits of rigor compare to the costs. I talk over these questions in this five-minute video, produced by the Financial Access Initiative at New York University:

  • New Movement on Government Funding Negotiations

    Updated: 2011-02-25 17:02:07
    There were several important new developments on Thursday in the continuing saga of arriving at a government funding bill for the rest of fiscal year 2011. House Republican leaders are getting ready to file a short-term extension of the existing short-term “continuing resolution” (CR) that is keeping the government running at fiscal year 2010 levels. Read the Rest...

  • APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR NEBRASKA AG GRANT PROGRAMS

    Updated: 2011-02-25 14:03:00
    (RuralNebraska.Info) -- The 2011 applications for the Nebraska Agriculture Innovation and Value-Added Agriculture grant programs are now available on the Nebraska Rural Development Commission website at www.ruralnebraska.info. The pre-application deadline is March 18 and the final application is due by noon, April 7, 2011.

  • Continuing Resolution; Farm Bill; and the Agricultural Economy

    Updated: 2011-02-25 10:43:47
    Continuing Resolution Manu Raju reported yesterday at Politico that, “Top Senate Democrats have informed the White House that they are putting together a seven-month continuing resolution that will include some spending cuts outlined in President Barack Obama’s proposed 2012 budget, according to a Democratic aide with knowledge of the negotiations. “Democrats have yet to reveal how [...]

  • Hawaii Ranked Third in On-Farm Renewable Energy Production

    Updated: 2011-02-25 02:58:39
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Summary of MAUI LAND PINEAPPLE CO INC Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement Hawaii Ranked Third in On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Published on February 24, 2011 in Alternative Energy Biofuels and wind farm According to the U.S . Department of Agriculture’s USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaii Field Office NASS Hawaii ranked third highest in the nation in terms of the number of farms and ranches producing on-farm renewable energy . With a total of 8,569 farms nationally reporting solar panels , wind turbines , and or methane digesters , Hawaii’s 522 reporting farms came in third behind Texas and California . Hawaii farms producing renewable energy saved an

  • 2009 On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Survey

    Updated: 2011-02-25 01:06:34
    On Wednesday, February 23, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the results of the 2009 survey on the contribution of America’s farms and ranches in the production of renewable energy. Conducted as a follow-on to the most recent Census of Agriculture, the survey focused on three principal renewable energy systems: solar panels, wind turbines,Read the Rest...

  • ERS Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America

    Updated: 2011-02-24 20:54:17
    USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) recently released the Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America data set.  The tool, an interactive mapping application, provides spatial information (national to county-level) of socioeconomic factors  on four broad categories of : People— county demographic profiles including age, race/ethnicity, education, migration and immigration, household size and family composition (from the fromRead the Rest...

  • CONSERVATION EASEMENTS – AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN HAWAII’S SUSTAINABILITY TOOLBOX

    Updated: 2011-02-24 20:33:58
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Seeds Straight From Your Fridge Summary of MAUI LAND PINEAPPLE CO INC Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN HAWAII’S SUSTAINABILITY TOOLBOX Published on February 24, 2011 in General Ag News and Notes and Sustainability Maui Land Preservation Workshop Wednesday March 16, 2011. A workshop highlighting land preservation tools that communities and landowners can utilize to achieve their sustainability . goals Held at Maui Economic , Opportunity 99 Mahalani , Street Wailuku , HI 96793. Wednesday March 16, 2011 8:30am-12:00pm Draft Agenda Welcome , Housekeeping , Etc Jean Brokish , Oahu RC D Meet your Local Land Trust Dale Bonar , Hawaiian

  • Development blog: Answering Korea’s Call for a Climate Vulnerability Index

    Updated: 2011-02-24 17:39:58
    By David Wheeler - As the April climate talks in Bangkok approach, the Republic of Korea has taken a timely and courageous stance on allocating funds for adaptation assistance. On Wednesday, the Korean government urged the donor community to use scarce funds wisely by creating a climate vulnerability index to guide allocation. Kudos to our Korean colleagues – and [...]

  • Continuing Resolution; Farm Bill; Ag Economy; Biofuels; and Regulations

    Updated: 2011-02-24 10:45:42
    Budget Issues: Continuing Resolution Jonathan Allen reported yesterday at Politico that, “House Republicans plan to pass a two-week stopgap spending bill next week that would keep the government running past March 4 at reduced levels, GOP aides told POLITICO Wednesday. “The measure comes on the heels of last week’s seven-month appropriation bill that would have slashed [...]

  • Comments and Video from Merrigan on VAPG Interim Rule

    Updated: 2011-02-24 00:44:17
    On Wednesday, February 23,  Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan held a press conference call regarding today’s release of the interim final rule for the Value-Added Producer Grant program.  Calling VAPG “one of my all time favorite programs,” Merrigan spoke about how the grants fund innovation and entrepreneurship among American farmers and ranchers and provideRead the Rest...

  • Organic Seed Alliance Releases “State of Organic Seed” Report

    Updated: 2011-02-23 23:35:57
    On February 16, 2011, the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) released a survey-based report entitled State of Organic Seed: Advancing the Viability and Integrity of Organic Seed Systems.  The report serves as the first comprehensive analysis of the organic seed sector. Although the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) requires the use of organic seed when commerciallyRead the Rest...

  • Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) hears farming concerns, other issues on rural tour

    Updated: 2011-02-23 22:08:03

  • No change in Nebraska farm numbers in 2010

    Updated: 2011-02-23 21:52:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , February 23, 2011 No change in Nebraska farm numbers in 2010 LINCOLN , Neb . AP There was no change in the number of farms and ranches in Nebraska during 2010. The Nebraska Field Office of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service says there were 47,200 farms and ranches at the end of the year , the same as in 2009. But those figures are down 200 from 2008's . count Operations with more than 100,000 in agricultural sales grew by 700, while the number with sales

  • AFRI Awards to Study Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural and Forest Production

    Updated: 2011-02-23 17:18:09
    On Friday February 18, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding opportunity, awarded three $20 million grants (over 5 years) to Coordinated Agriculture Projects (CAP) to study the effects of climate change on agriculture and forest production. Dr. Tim Martin, of the University of FloridaRead the Rest...

  • Development blog: Who’s Next? Who’s Still Standing? Africa’s 20-Year+ Club

    Updated: 2011-02-23 16:18:42
    By Todd Moss - Lots of speculation about which long-time autocrat might be toppled next and why [Zimbabwe, Cameroon, etc.] is not like [Egypt, Tunisia, etc.]. Our colleague Nic van de Walle has a terrific suggestion that 12 years is a sensible term limit for any leader. In Africa, even with Ben Ali and Mubarak gone, there are still [...]

  • USDA Publishes Interim Rule for Value-Added Producer Grants

    Updated: 2011-02-23 13:06:46
    In June 2010, the USDA solicited public comments on the proposed rule  for implementation of the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.  This morning, after months of anticipation, the agency released the interim final rule.  Later this morning USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will hold a press call regarding the interim rule for VAPG. With theRead the Rest...

  • Take Action: Oppose Reckless Spending Cuts

    Updated: 2011-02-22 20:25:07
     Call Your Senators       In the early hours of Saturday, February 19, the House of Representatives approved a government funding bill that would slash more than $60 billion from the federal budget for the last half of fiscal year 2011.  The bill (H.R. 1) unfairly targets programs that serve sustainable and organic farmers.  It makes steepRead the Rest...

  • Bob Dinneen – Renewable Fuels Association on- Yesterday’s AgriTalk with Mike Adams

    Updated: 2011-02-22 19:07:42

  • Development blog: David Wheeler’s Paper on Country Stakes in Climate Change Wins a Prize

    Updated: 2011-02-22 16:50:33
    By Nancy Birdsall - Our motto at CGD is “Independent research & practical ideas for global prosperity.” Translating ideas to action requires world-class policy research, effective outreach, and teamwork with colleagues in many global institutions, When everything goes right, my colleagues at CGD produce some real gems that command global recognition. This just happened to CGD senior fellow David [...]

  • Development blog: Development Policy of the Future… And Why We Aren’t Ready

    Updated: 2011-02-22 16:46:21
    By Todd Moss - This post originally appeared on devpolicy.org and devex and is based loosely on a February 10th talk at the Development Policy Center at Australian National University’s Crawford School. The maxim that armies are always fighting the last war might just as aptly apply to development agencies: they are too often tackling yesterday’s problems with an outdated [...]

  • Regulations (EPA); Farm Bill; Ag Economy; and Biofuels

    Updated: 2011-02-22 09:56:46
    Regulations- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Todd Neeley reported on Friday at DTN (link requires subscription) that, “State officials, agriculture groups and pesticide retailers say more time is needed to implement new pesticide permitting rules coming down from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in separate letters sent to EPA and Congress in recent weeks. “Groups and individuals are [...]

  • Naomi Klein: Our societies are addicted to risk

    Updated: 2011-02-20 16:45:32
    Naomi Klein, the well-known Canadian journalist and social activist who is the author of books such as the highly acclaimed “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism“, recently held a TED Talk about our addiction to risks (see video … Continue reading →

  • Cocoa farmers stockpile beans as export ban threatens mid-year crop | South Africa News | IOL.co.za

    Updated: 2011-02-19 04:06:19
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Study Links Rise in Rain and Snow to Human Actions Imperiled species thrive at Pearl Harbor Cocoa farmers stockpile beans as export ban threatens mid-year crop South Africa News IOL.co.za Published on February 18, 2011 in Cacao and General Ag News and Notes Cocoa prices at the farm gate in Ivory Coast are falling sharply and farmers are fast running out of money , with potentially damaging consequences for the cocoa mid-crop , according to . farmers Farmers said yesterday that they were stocking their cocoa beans in the hope they could preserve them long enough to sell when the political crisis was over , but that there was little enthusiasm for tending to the April to September .

  • Multiple approaches necessary to tackle world's food problems

    Updated: 2011-02-18 18:30:44
    Researchers need to use all available resources in an integrated approach to put agriculture on a path to solve the world's food problems while reducing pollution, according to a Penn State biologist. Changes in national and international regulations will be necessary to achieve this goal. "Using resources more efficiently is what it will take to ...

  • Global Health blog: Will the U.S. Lead on Global Health? Start with Vaccination

    Updated: 2011-02-17 15:10:53
    By Amanda Glassman - USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah gave a speech yesterday at the National Institutes of Health, highlighting his aspirations for U.S. leadership on global health. By 2015, among other goals, he hopes that “the majority of all children have access to pentavalent, rota, pneumo and meningitis vaccines and that we have eradicated polio.” Unlike some aspirational goals, [...]

  • Study Links Rise in Rain and Snow to Human Actions

    Updated: 2011-02-17 07:01:48
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Providing Relief for Molokai Homestead Farmers Cocoa farmers stockpile beans as export ban threatens mid-year crop South Africa News IOL.co.za Study Links Rise in Rain and Snow to Human Actions Published on February 16, 2011 in General Ag News and Notes and Globel Warming An increase in heavy precipitation that has afflicted many countries is at least partly a consequence of human influence on the atmosphere , climate scientists reported in a new . study In the first major paper of its kind , the researchers used elaborate computer programs that simulate the climate to analyze whether the rise in severe rainstorms , heavy snowfalls and similar events could be explained by natural

  • Global Health blog: The Ethics of Material Incentives for HIV Prevention

    Updated: 2011-02-11 17:58:03
    By Mead Over - I am one of four panelists who will debate on Monday morning whether it is ethical for a government to offer material incentives in order to prevent HIV infections. UPDATE 2/17/2011: The videocast has now been posted. To view it, click here, scroll to “DEBATE 5” and click on the phrase “Click here for videocast“. [...]

  • 2010 ended as the warmest year on record

    Updated: 2011-02-11 06:24:18
    According to climate scientists from NASA and the National Climatic Data Center last year’s temperatures ended in a tie with 2005 as the warmest on record. NASA writes that: “Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on … Continue reading →

  • Global Health blog: Food Prices, Health, and Nutrition: Focus on the Poor Now!

    Updated: 2011-02-10 08:25:31
    By Amanda Glassman - I follow Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, on Twitter (@richardhorton1). I was concerned to see his post yesterday: “China faces a food crisis that threatens child survival. A UN FAO special alert reports wheat/water shortages. The worst in 60 years.” I navigated to the FAO alert. Winter wheat crop yields may be affected [...]

  • The Road to Rio™ Preparing for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Earth D

    Updated: 2011-02-08 02:11:09
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  • Global Prosperity Wonkcast: Confronting the Global Tobacco Epidemic: Thomas Bollyky

    Updated: 2011-02-07 22:12:45
    By Lawrence MacDonald - Ten years after President Clinton’s initiative to avert a global epidemic of tobacco-related disease, smoking is down in the United States but rising fast in poor countries, where Washington turns a blind eye to aggressive cigarette marketing banned at home. My guest on this show is Thomas Bollyky, a visiting fellow here at CGD. Tom [...]

  • Global Health blog: Haitian Death Toll Reveals Vulnerability of Poor Countries to Natural Disasters

    Updated: 2011-02-04 22:47:59
    By Mead Over - This is a joint post with Owen McCarthy. In February 2010, we wrote about how the relative magnitude of the death toll from the Haiti earthquake, then reckoned at approximately 230,000, compared to other recent natural disasters. On the one year anniversary of the earthquake, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive announced that a year’s worth [...]

  • INCOME TAX - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

    Updated: 2011-02-04 15:26:00
    Below is a link to a summary of how income taxes serves to redistribute wealth and the common misconception that lower tax rates help the wealthy. I thought that you might find interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLSqsjuAhmQ&feature=player_embedded

  • Global Health blog: Weak States, Wealthier States, and Incentives for Polio Eradication

    Updated: 2011-02-02 17:30:14
    By Amanda Glassman - Bill Gates’ effort to close the $2.6 billion funding gap for polio eradication has been accompanied by high-profile coverage at Davos, in The New York Times and even The Daily Show. New grants from the UK have been announced and USAID is partnering with Russia to move the agenda forward. In the big scheme of [...]

  • Global Health blog: AIDS “Truths” Can Also Wear Off

    Updated: 2011-02-02 08:53:01
    By Mead Over - In his December article in the New Yorker (tweeted here by Nancy Birdsall), Jonah Lehrer contends that some so-called “truths” in the scientific literature are transient; they “wear off” over time. At first his analysis seems to apply most directly to psychology, where the possibility that the researcher can inadvertently influence the subjects to change [...]

  • AG TAX RESCHEDULED

    Updated: 2011-01-31 19:10:00
    We are canceling the Ag Tax Update tomorrow (Tuesday Feb. 1st) due to the weather BUT please join us on Monday Feb. 7th @ 9:00am at the Southside Grill.If you have any questions please let me know!

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