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Dealing With the Human Side of PEDV

2014-03-13 14:24:00| National Hog Farmer

By Bill Gnatzig Work routines provide the foundation for successful sow operations. Daily and weekly activities are predictable. Schedules, while tight, provide enough flexibility to deal with minor challenges. The approach allows employees to function efficiently and, in general, contentedly. Then porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) hits and work routines and predictability fly out the window. Worse yet, some of your best employees may start edging toward the door. Any disease break is demotivating to employees, says Neil DeBuse, a Northfield, MN-based consulting veterinarian. But a PEDV break goes beyond that, to the point of being demoralizing. read more

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Facebook walks on optical networking's wild side

2014-03-11 12:48:51| InfoWorld: Top News

As a company that draws more than 2 billion eyeballs per month, Facebook was a fitting harbinger of trends to come at an optical networking conference. The social networking goliath is lighting up its own optical fiber, deploying 100Gbps links in its data centers and looking towards emerging silicon photonics technology, Facebook Director of Technical Operations Najam Ahmad said on Monday at an Optical Society of America meeting held alongside the annual OFC (Optical Fiber Communications) Conference in San Francisco.

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03.12.14 -- Climate Engineering: Minor Potential, Major Side Effects

2014-03-11 10:22:49| pollutiononline News Articles

03/12/14 Pollution Online Newsletter

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Climate Engineering: Minor Potential, Major Side Effects

2014-03-10 07:01:40| pollutiononline News Articles

With global greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase, proposals to limit the effects of climate change through the large-scale manipulation of theEarth systemare increasingly being discussed

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