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Blindsided by divorce
Barbara Risman, sociologyVice-Presidential Debate in Cleveland
Andy Taylor, political scienceRaleigh helps commuters
EPA-certified Best Workplaces for Commuters
Changing
preserve's landscape
forestry students
Caribbean
medical school ships out students to N.C. after hurricane
College of Veterinary Medicine
Johnsons
face robbery trial first
tailgate shootings
NCSU
parade
Homecoming
Carving
pumpkins, a colorful symbol of Halloween
Cooperative Extension
Breast
Cancer Foundation Targets College Students
Women's Center
North
Carolina State University Gathers Equipment for Pilot Feed Mill
North Carolina State University has gathered equipment
for the pilot feed mill it is developing for educational and research
purposes.
Oct. 5, 2004
News & Observer
By BRUCE SICELOFF
© Copyright 2004
The rest of you Wake County employers can relax a bit. No need to be anxious about taking the plunge.
The city of Raleigh has joined the Environmental Protection Agency roster of "Best Workplaces for Commuters" -- only the second employer east of Durham County and Research Triangle Park ever to do so.
Don't be shy. Who'll be next?
Persuading employers to help curb traffic congestion and air pollution by making it easier for employees to catch a bus, telecommute, bike or carpool to work -- the idea seems so West Coast, doesn't it?
And so Western Triangle.
RTP is in the midst of its autumn SmartCommute push, a big-spirited campaign that each year helps more RTP workers leave their cars at home more often. Read about it online at www.smartcommute.org.
A Durham County ordinance requires employers to keep track of how many employees drive alone, how many ride the bus and how many use other means to get to work. This is simple information that non-Durham bosses generally don't know or care to know. Durham employers have to show how they help workers find alternate modes of commuting.
So it's not surprising that when the Triangle's first 11 commuter-friendly employers were identified a year ago, eight were in Durham County; a ninth (Cisco Systems) happened to be on the Wake side of RTP. The other two EPA-certified Best Workplaces for Commuters were N.C. State University in Raleigh and UNC-Chapel Hill.
The city of Raleigh has about 3,240 full-time and 2,470 part-time and temporary employees. To join Best Workplaces for Commuters, the city promised that:
* Within 18 months, at least 14 percent of employees will use means other than the solo auto to get to work on any given day. City officials will survey workers to find out where they stand on that statistic now.
* The city will offer new services including at least one substantial commuter benefit -- such as a vanpool or bus subsidy worth at least $30 a month, or a telework program that eliminates at least 6 percent of commuting trips. City workers now qualify for free passage on Capital Area Transit buses.
* Any employee who does not drive alone to work is guaranteed an emergency ride home, if the need arises.
There are other requirements, and the EPA actually enforces them (details at www.bwc.gov). Raleigh officials say they'll work out the details of their commuter benefits in the coming months.
"Best Workplaces" boosters plan to announce Nov. 16 that more Triangle employers -- including some in Wake -- are joining the club. Stay tuned.
Rough riding
A few commuters report that the new lanes of westbound Interstate 40 in Durham County, opened to traffic last month, do not feel smooth or sound sweet beneath their tires.
"I was really quite shocked at how rough it was, being brand- new," said Tonu Kalam, a music professor at UNC-CH. "It took them so long, so you really want it to come out right when they're finished."
Mitch D. Conner, a Department of Transportation engineer overseeing the project to widen 10.6 miles of I-40, says some of that noise will go away soon. Tiny grooves etched in the concrete lanes have rough edges that will be worn down by traffic.
DOT officials are evaluating the new lanes to determine whether they're as smooth as they should be. If not, they'll ask the contractor to take remedial action.
Meanwhile, eastbound I-40 traffic will shift this week from the outer shoulder and outside lane to the inside two lanes, from N.C. 54 to about a mile east of Fayetteville Road. The on-ramp from Fayetteville Road will stay closed, and the off-ramp to Fayetteville from I-40 East will close, probably on Thursday, for up to a month.
Oct. 5, 2004
Durham Herald-Sun
By ROB SHAPARD
© Copyright 2004
PITTSBORO -- The Triangle Land Conservancy hopes to do more than just preserve the landscape that currently exists on a 275-acre tract it owns in southern Chatham County.
In a first for the conservancy, its leaders plan to have some of the loblolly pine trees cut on portions of the tract, to make way for an ambitious planting of the pine species that gives the tract its name.
The White Pines Preserve is off Rocky River Road, about eight miles south of Pittsboro. The land is partly riverbound, tucked in a corner made by the confluence of the Rocky and Deep rivers. Just across the Deep to the southeast is Lee County.
For nearly 20 years, the conservancy has worked to add acreage to the preserve in part because of the unique presence of white pines. The shade-tolerant pines are rare in the Piedmont and much more likely to be found in the cooler mountains of western North Carolina.
In fact, descending into the thick woods on parts of the Chatham tract feels a bit like walking on to a mountain trail, thanks to the towering white pines that fight for sunlight with the loblolly and shortleaf pines, poplars, sweet gums, oaks and other softwoods and hardwoods. The change in elevation provided by the two rivers also lends to the mountainous feel.
The Piedmont often is more hot and dry than white pines prefer, but they've kept a presence in this part of Chatham partly because of the rivers, which can keep the temperature a few degrees cooler than in surrounding areas, said Tom Craven, stewardship director for the conservancy.
The preserve also has a number of north-facing slopes that are good locations for white pines.
The Raleigh-based conservancy started creating its White Pines Preserve in 1986, with the purchase of about 41 acres. It added another 200 acres or so in that decade, then 15 acres in 1995 and another parcel of 17 acres this year, said communications director Doug Nicholas.
In that total was a chunk of about 106 acres purchased from International Paper. The paper company had clear-cut the land in 1968 and replanted it in loblolly pines.
The conservancy's plan is to thin out the loblollies on about half of that land bought from the paper company. Leaders are talking to a logger based in Moore County who has worked with other land trusts and is well known for environmentally sensitive, pinpoint logging, Nicholas and Craven said.
The nonprofit group hopes to have the logging work done by next summer.
The next step, however, will take a little more patience -- along with quite a bit of physical dexterity on Craven's part.
The conservancy wants the young white pines it plants in the thinned areas to be the offspring of the white pines there now. So, using a harness and ropes, Craven will start collecting cones from the white pines next year, which he will send to the main N.C. Forest Service nursery in Goldsboro.
The Forest Service will get seeds from the cones, then nurse along the seedlings for a couple of years before they're ready to be planted at the preserve.
Craven's not just an eager staff member who likes the view from the tops of trees. He has master's degrees in forestry and environmental management from Duke University, and has been stewardship coordinator for the conservancy for a couple of years.
The goal is to get at least 50,000 white pine seedlings in the ground, probably over the winter of 2007.
"Even if we only increase the [health] of the white pines in this area and don't expand their range, I would consider that a success, because right now they're on the decline," Craven said Monday, walking the tract with Nicholas.
The conservancy learned that the thriving deer population in the area had a role in the decline he described. A group of North Carolina State University forestry students studied the preserve, and reported last year that deer often were eating the tops of the white pine seedlings and rubbing their antlers on the young trunks.
Craven said it wasn't clear yet how much money the tree-cutting might yield over the next several months. But he said the conservancy's goal was just to cover the costs of the operation, and it also plans to donate some money from the timber sale to Chatham County.
"[The conservancy] performing a timber harvest may raise some eyebrows in the community, but we're confident this is being done for a greater good -- the long-term health of the white pine forest -- and in an environmentally sensitive way," executive director Kevin Brice said in a statement.
"We have a responsibility to steward the land in our care as best we can for the benefit of future generations. If that means taking an active management role, as in this case, we're going to do that."
Johnsons face robbery trial first
Oct. 5, 2004
News & Observer
By ANDREA WEIGL
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH -- The first time Timothy and Tony Johnson will be brought before a Wake jury will not be on their first-degree murder charges in the fatal shootings last month at an N.C. State University tailgating party.
Instead, Wake prosecutors will first try the Johnson brothers on armed robbery charges in an August home invasion. That means that if the brothers are convicted, prosecutors will have more ammunition to seek the death penalty.
Under North Carolina law, a person is eligible for a death sentence if he has a prior violent felony conviction.
"Obviously, the home invasions took place before the murders," Assistant Wake District Attorney Susan Spurlin said Monday. "We think it's important that a jury [that] is trying to make a decision about the appropriate punishment on the murder charge know about the criminality of their conduct prior to the homicides."
Timothy Wayne Johnson, 22, and Tony Harrell Johnson, 20, are both charged with murder for the killings of Kevin M. McMann of Chicago and 2nd Lt. Brett Johnson Harman, a Camp Lejeune Marine from Park Ridge, Ill., on Sept. 4. The men, both 23, were shot to death in a tailgate area outside an NCSU football game.
McMann and Harman were childhood friends who met in Raleigh along with several other friends for a weekend of fun before Harman was to be sent to the Middle East, relatives said.
Harman's brother, Rob Harman of Chicago, said Monday that he was pleased to see more information coming out about the Johnson brothers, who were described by family and friends earlier as good students without much of a criminal history. A far different picture of the Tarboro siblings is emerging, and prosecutors now say the pair was heavily involved in drug activity.
"It just shows there is a history of violence," Harman said. "These kids are drug dealers. I'm very happy that they are going to prove this was not an isolated incident."
Last week, police charged the Johnson brothers and three other young men in a home invasion Aug. 23 at 2100 Mariner Circle in Raleigh. Police said the robbery was revenge for the theft of $1,000 and cocaine from Timothy Johnson's apartment. On that night, police say, armed robbers stole drugs, $600, seven guns, car keys and cell phones.
One stolen gun was used in the double homicide two weeks later, prosecutors have said.
Oct. 5, 2004
News & Observer
By KAREN GUZMAN
© Copyright 2004
A steely sky, heavy with ominous clouds, threatens to drench this North Raleigh neighborhood.
Mike Jannicelli isn't fazed. He parks outside a roadside coffee shop and strides for the door.
When you're 52, raising a blended family of teenagers and regretting the errors of your past, rain is nothing to fuss about.
"I wanted to make this one work definitely," Jannicelli says of his defunct previous marriage. "There were things that I was accepting that no guy in his right mind would."
A soft-spoken Air Force veteran, Jannicelli is remarried now, but he has walked a long road back to stability. And he has his hands full these days helping raise his new wife's 16-year-old twin sons and a 12-year-old son.
He's satisfied. "But another side of me is saying I'm too old for this mess, trying to keep a marriage relationship together and a family together," he says.
Four years ago Jannicelli, like scores of middle-age men, found himself suddenly divorced.
Many of these men didn't, to hear them tell it, want to divorce. Their wives did. Some say they never saw it coming. Others struggled too long to hold a bad thing together. Either way, at a time in their lives when they'd hoped to be kicking back in an empty nest, these guys were nestless.
And middle-age men, jilted and confused, have trouble picking up the pieces, even though more are doing so these days.
A recent study by AARP suggests men suffer most in divorce, and it's often their wives who want out. The advocacy organization for the over-50 crowd surveyed 1,147 divorced men and women between the ages of 40 and 79. Some findings: 66 percent of women asked for a divorce, while only 41 percent of men did.
More women reported embracing their new single status. Older men, the study indicates, don't do "alone" well.
This comes as no surprise to Barbara Risman, chairwoman of the Council on Contemporary Families and professor of sociology at N.C. State University.
"Men depend on their wives as their primary social support network," Risman says. "They are much less connected emotionally to other people. They find themselves very lonely and often marry again very quickly."
A particular type of man is hardest hit, and he's often the one who says he was blindsided by his wife's desire to leave.
"Most of these men are not tuned into the emotional content of their relationships," Risman says. "They are often totally flabbergasted that their wives are unhappy."
They are also men who rely on their wives for a social network. "This does not happen to men who are tuned into the state of their relationships and who have invested themselves in relationships other than their wives," Risman says.
Painful lessons
Greg Sweet, 45, admittedly fits some of these criteria. A self-described Type-A careerist, he says he often worked 18- to 20-hour days as vice president of a communications firm.
"I came out to find a moving van in front of my house. That's how I found out," he says.
Sweet, of Raleigh, realizes now that his marriage was beset with problems, some of which he exacerbated. "All the signs were there that she was unhappy," he says. "I'm sure had I not had my head buried in my business, I could have seen that and dealt with it."
The marriage lasted only one year, but Sweet took valuable lessons away from it and says he and his ex are good friends today. Sweet's ex-wife could not be reached for comment.
"I'm much more aware," he says. "I look at what it is I've done to create a situation if there's a problem."
Financially self-sufficient women, without children at home, are more likely to opt out of an unsatisfying relationship, Risman says. "She's probably stayed in a marriage that wasn't satisfying for a long time for reasons that have to do with family," she explains.
Women aren't rejecting the institution of marriage, Risman says. They just want good ones. So do men, even after a divorce, when climbing back into the dating ring is a daunting prospect.
Trying again
Jannicelli met his current, and third, wife online. His first marriage also ended in divorce. He has two adult children and visitation rights with an adopted daughter.
After his last split, he considered staying solo. He toyed with the idea of returning to an old job -- driving tractor-trailers.
"I thought maybe that's what I was destined for, get back in a cab of a truck and skirt across the country," he says. In the end, he stayed put. "I decided I was gonna stay local and stay in touch with my daughter and try to get on with things."
Like many jilted men, according to the AARP study, he wanted to remarry. And now bad memories and raucous teenagers aside, Jannicelli is grateful for another chance.
Sitting in the coffee shop, he counts himself lucky. He stands, preparing to leave. The sky has made good on its promise. Teeming rain pelts the parking lot.
"I was blessed this time," Jannicelli says, buttoning his jacket. "After all I've gone through, I'm glad at where I'm at now. It's a constant learning experience."
Vice-Presidential Debate in Cleveland
Oct. 5, 2004
News 14 Carolina
By Tracey Early
© Copyright 2004
The two presidential understudies meet Tuesday night for their only debate of the campaign.
Senator John Edwards and Vice President Dick Cheney will debate at case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Traditionally, the vice presidential debate doesn't weigh heavy on the election but both campaigns said they expect high interest because of the tightness of the presidential race.
Political analysts said the contrast between the two men will play a big part in the match up Tuesday night as well.
Senator John Edwards is known as the nice guy in the race and is relying on is skills as a former trial lawyer to win the contest.
However, Vice President Dick Cheney is a seasoned veteran and has worked on several administrations in Washington.
Cheney will most likely focus on the continuing danger from terrorist attacks as the reason to keep president bush in office.
Edwards challenge is to rattle Cheney while emphasizing his working-class roots in offering a can-do vision of a John Kerry presidency.
"If the debate is about foreign policy, that's going to help Cheney, because he's got the experience, he's a seasoned veteran, he's got the steady hand,” Dr. Andy Taylor, a professor at NCSU, said, “If it's more about domestic policy, and about feeling sort of people's pain, feeling the squeeze of the middle class, feeling that the two Americas that Edwards talks about, than it's going to favor Edwards."
For Tuesday night's format, the candidates will be sitting at a table rather than standing.
The debate is scheduled for 9 p.m.
Oct. 1, 2004
News 14 Carolina
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
For the first time in 21 years, NC State will host a parade on Hillsborough Street on Friday.
Banners, floats and the marching band will cover the street for the homecoming parade.
The school hasn't held the parade since 1983.
You can expect some delays if you travel in the area Friday night.
• Sullivan and Dan Allen drives will close at 5:30 p.m.
• Hillsborough will close between Dan Allen and Oberlin Road from 6 p.m. to
7 p.m.
• Pullen Road will close from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Caribbean medical school ships out students to N.C. after hurricane
Oct. 1, 2004
News 14 Carolina; Associated Press
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
(MIAMI SHORES) - About 320 second-year students from a medical school paralyzed by Hurricane Ivan's strike on Grenada have moved to a suburban Miami campus, with some heading to North Carolina.
St. George's University also sent first-year medical students to classrooms on Long Island. Veterinary students went to North Carolina State, Purdue and Kansas State universities. Nearly 20 students seeking a master's degrees in public health are due at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, next week.
The low-lying Grenada campus was largely spared from Ivan's 130 mile-per-hour winds, but off-campus housing was demolished along with much of the island's dwellings.
The campus closed and classes were moved once before for about three months following a bloody 1983 coup and US invasion.
North Carolina research targets field drainage systems
Oct. 4, 2004
Southeast Farm Press
By Cecil H. Yancy Jr.
© Copyright 2004
The problem may be yield, topography, soil types or soil fertility. The solution, in many cases, is not as easy as recommending a specific practice to correct the problem.
A study by Carl Crozier, a North Carolina State University soil scientist, aims to give growers the information they need to decide how to use precision agriculture to fit the problem. The ultimate goal is correcting the problem in a site-specific way.
This fall and winter Crozier will be adding the yield map layer to information gathered from an aerial survey to upgrade flood maps following the hurricanes that hit North Carolina in 1999.
“We have been basically surveying fields to identify the pattern of land shaping,” says Crozier, a North Carolina State University soil scientist. “We have in our mind an ideal, the one that was formed when the wetland forest in this area was drained and ditches were dug.”
Often in the northeastern part of North Carolina the problems are the result of drainage systems that have received minimal attention since the initial land clearing.
Working from a database that shows the elevation of every field in northeastern North Carolina, Crozier identifies the crowns and ditches in the Tidewater region. “What we generally see when we look at fields are depressions and a crown of 2 feet.”
He believes the ideal 300-foot-wide field will have a 9-inch crown in the middle and a one half percent slope.
The second phase of the study is to look at grain and cotton yield maps for these same fields and see if yield reductions can be associated with too high of a crown or too low of crown in the field.
Crozier will be looking at both the highest and lowest yielding fields and searching for a correlation between yield variability and topography as well as yield variability and soil fertility. “There are different layers of information, which might explain yield variability. A certain amount of the time yield is associated with fertility; a certain amount of time, topography; and at other times, soil type.
“If we can come up with generalizations about how often this information is useful, it might help farmers target different problems in the field,” Crozier says.
“The goal is to help farmers decide if improving the drainage network is worth the expense,” Crozier says. “This type of information could help them decide if re-leveling or putting in drainage structures will be the most cost-effective practice.”
Crozier has been working with representatives of the Spectra I.S. company, using precision land-leveling devices.
In collecting large sampling sizes of farm fields, Crozier has found isolated spots where drainage problems have meant a 50-percent yield reduction. Crozier is attempting to characterize the percentage of land area that might be affected negatively by over- or under-drainage.
“If only 5 percent of the land is severely impacted, the producer might choose to leave it as it is or do some spot corrections, rather than trying to level whole fields,” Crozier says.
The aim is to give the farmer the tools to make the decision about improvements.
“We’re trying to come up with some guidelines when different type of information might be useful,” Crozier says.
He points out that getting the information is only the first step for farmers. “Even with this topographic information, a farmer would have to invest in software or expertise to create maps,” Crozier says. “There’s a cost to learning to use or manage the data.”
“By establishing guidelines for when and how to use the information, we might end up with regional recommendations on how to best use precision agriculture,” Crozier says.
For example, if the variability is due to soil type and topography, grid sampling might not correct the problem because yields may be more limited by soil physical properties than by chemical aspects of fertility. This information could be used to modify soil-sampling strategies to coincide with landscape features such as soil types or topography.
Conventional grid sampling should be useful where the physical landscape is more uniform.
The North Carolina Corn Growers Association and the Potash and Phosphorous Institute are funding the study.
Carving pumpkins, a colorful symbol of Halloween
Oct. 4, 2004
Hampton Roads Daily Press, VA; Omaha World-Herald, NE
By DEAN FOSDICK
© Copyright 2004
NEW MARKET, Va. -- Credit the Irish with putting a colorful face on Halloween.
Carving jack-o'-lanterns is a Halloween custom brought to this country by Irish immigrants arriving to escape "the Hunger," or the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s.
"A legend grew up about a man named Jack, who was so stingy he was not allowed into heaven when he died," a U.S. State Department publication says. "He couldn't enter hell, either, because he had played jokes on the devil. As a result, Jack had to walk the Earth with his lantern until Judgment Day."
The Irish began the "Jack of the Lanterns" or jack-o' lantern tradition by slicing frightening facial features into turnips, beets or potatoes.
"But when the Irish brought their customs to the United States, they carved faces on pumpkins because in the autumn they were more plentiful than turnips," the State Department says.
The practice eventually spread worldwide, becoming in the process an enduring symbol of Halloween and the autumn harvest. Pumpkins are native to the Americas. Historians believe they were featured on the first Thanksgiving Day menu--probably cut into strips and roasted by the Indians.
Increasingly, a strong back can be more important than a green thumb for growing pumpkins. It isn't uncommon for some of the larger hybrids to produce fruit weighing more than 1,200 pounds, says Everett Davis, who directs the North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Center at Lumberton.
"Certain varieties grow much larger than the typical, but they're not all that edible," Davis says. "Folks that grow the giant pumpkins take things very seriously. They give their plants meticulous care. They treasure their seeds, making them family heirlooms."
The world's record runs well over 1,300 pounds. Fanciers predict that with the right seeds and the proper nurturing, it won't be long before pumpkins are produced that top a ton in size.
Pumpkins are grown most often for their ornamental value although they're also a popular ingredient--often used interchangeably with squash or sweet potatoes--in pies, soups, stews and breads, among other things.
"Most people don't take the time to cook like that anymore," Davis says. "The Connecticut field variety (with pumpkins maturing at 10 to 20 pounds apiece) is usually grown for jack-o'-lanterns. Miniatures the size of softballs are used for displays on tables."
Pumpkins favored for cooking--the sweet or small sugar varieties--usually are planted in spring and mature by mid-summer, Davis says. Ornamentals can be planted as late as July, making them ripe for harvest by Halloween. Figure 110 to 120 days to maturity.
Most pumpkin cultivars are fragile. They're especially susceptible to frosts at planting and when nearing harvest. If you live in an area with a short growing season, you would be wise to start the plants indoors and then transplant the seedlings after the average date of the last killing frost.
Pumpkins need plenty of elbowroom, with a single vine growing to more than 30 feet in length. But the vines are pliant. Their tendrils can be draped around companion plants like field corn or attached to fences to guide them along. Growers have been known to ripen pumpkins on their decks or from apartment balconies after training segments of the clingy vines, which have been freed of their fruit, to climb trellises.
Since the average pumpkin is about 80 percent water, it figures they need a steady supply of moisture to make it to maturity. "Pumpkins crave a lot of direct sun; anywhere from six to 10 hours a day," Davis says. "And watering is important. Most of the people striving for record sized pumpkins use trickle down systems that provide constant water to the plants. You can provide fertilizer through the water to enrich."
Pruning also is important--pruning both the vine and the fruit, Davis says. "You want as much leaf surface as you can get to catch the sunlight and the rain," he says. "But remove all the fruit developing on the plant save one. All the (plant's) energy then goes to that single pumpkin."
Pick your pumpkins after the shells harden and they turn from green to a rich orange, but leave six inches of stem or more on each. That helps them remain fresh.
Let the pumpkins sit in the garden for another week to 10 days to mature, then store (be careful if stacking) them in a cool, dry shed. Given the proper conditions, pumpkins will last through the heart of winter.
If you have found a variety you like, then you're in luck. Simply gather a few seeds from your prize pumpkins, dry and store them. They will be ready to produce a new crop for you with the next growing season.
On the Net:
For more about Halloween, see the U.S. Department of State:
http://www.usconsulate.gr/Halloween.html.
For more about growing pumpkins, consult North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/robeson/edcolumn/2002/082202.html.
You can contact Dean Fosdick at deanfosdick(at)netscape.net.
Breast Cancer Foundation Targets College Students
Oct. 4, 2004
WSBTV News 2 (Atlanta)
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Young women might think health warnings for diseases like breast cancer are for older women, but that's not necessarily the case. The disease is more common in women over 40, but younger women should not ignore it.
On a typical college campus, female students usually have exams on their mind, but not breast exams.
"Young women 19, 20, 21, college-age women are getting breast cancer," said Laci Leggitt, assistant director of the North Carolina Women's Center.
Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation sent an educational trailer on a 10-campus tour. It has grabbed the interest of a steady line of students at North Carolina State University.
"It gives me hope that they will not become what I am, which is a survivor," said Ellen Szinege.
A year and a half ago, a routine mammogram showed Szinege had a small cancerous lump.
"Every year, I had a mammogram. Thank goodness because nobody felt it," she said.
Doctors recommend annual mammograms for women 40 and older but not for younger women. Officials suggest that starting at age 20, women should get a clinical exam every three years.
Most women who get breast cancer have no family history of the disease. You can do things to reduce your risk such as exercise and eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
North Carolina State University Gathers Equipment for Pilot Feed Mill
Oct. 4, 2004
Grainnet.com
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
Raleigh, NC--North Carolina State University has gathered equipment for the pilot feed mill it is developing for educational and research purposes at the Raleigh, NC campus.
The equipment has been purchased or donated.
Many of the following suppliers gave the university very good pricing, said John Brake, director of graduate programs, poultry science.
RMS donated the roller mill.
The suppliers include:
Kely Duplex Mill & Mfg. Co., weigh buggies; Sweet Manufacturing, bucket elevators; Scott Equipment Company, 500-pound mixer; Hayes and Stolz Industrial Mfg. Co., Inc., two-ton mixer; Sidney Manufacturing Company, drag conveyors and gates and diverters; Screw Conveyor Corporation, screw conveyors; Process Solutions, Inc., level indicators; Geelen Counterflow, one-ton pellet cooler and ten-ton pellet cooler; RMS Roller Grinder, roller mill; Roskamp Champion, hammermill; CPM, one-ton pellet mill and steam harness; Bliss Industries, ten-ton pellet mill and steam harness; Engineering Sales Associates, air compressor; Brady Services, boiler; A.R. McKay Processing Machinery, Inc., bagging system.