PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - SUGARCANE, LOUISIANA, 2001.

This report presents estimates of costs and returns associated with sugarcane production practices in Louisiana for 2001. It is part of a continuing effort to provide farmers, researchers, extension personnel, lending agencies and others working in agriculture and/or agribusiness timely planning information. Sugarcane production is unique in that it is a perennial crop grown in a rotation; processing, storage and marketing services are provided by a single entity and payments for said services are "in kind." Further, the large majority of growers are tenants, paying approximately 20 percent of the "after milling crop proceeds" (12.2% of gross production) for land. Returns shown in Table 1A-3C and in the whole farm analysis in Appendix A reflect returns to management and risk. No charges for family living expenses or management are included as a cost in this analysis.Farm Management,

Rising From The Ashes: An Analysis of How One Infamous Promotional Event Caused a Company\u27s Ruin and a Concept on the Future of Influencer Experiences

This thesis and its research focuses on the topic of modern influencer marketing through digital media. Throughout the thesis, traditional marketing tactics and the power of influence is discussed, and then it moves into the topic of modern advertising and the role that modern social media influencers play in reaching the consumer. The methodology behind influencer marketing is explained and consumer behavior is analyzed. The 2017 Fyre Festival promotional event is then used as an example to dissect this marketing tactic and how the event impacted the future of influencer marketing. Finally, a modern-day, hypothetical campaign based on the concept of the Fyre Festival is presented and shows how the idea could be executed in a successful way

Praperadilan Dalam Praktek Pradilan Pidana (Studi Tentang Putusan Praperadilan No. 02/pid.pra/2016/pn.thn)

Tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana pertanggung jawaban pidana anak pelaku perkosaan berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 Tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak jo. Undang-Undang Nomor 3 Tahun 1997 Tentang Pengadilan Anak dan bagaimana mengadili anak pelaku tindak pidana perkosaan berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 jo. Undang-Undang Nomor 3 Tahun 1997 Tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif, disimpulkan: 1. Kategori usia anak yang dapat dijatuhi pidana adalah di atas 12 tahun, anak yang belum berusia 14 (empat belas) tahun hanya dapat dikenai tindakan. Pidana penjara yang dapat dijatuhkan kepada anak paling lama 1/2 (satu perdua) dari maksimum ancaman pidana penjara bagi orang dewasa, sedangkan pidana yang dilakukan anak merupakan tindak pidana yang diancam dengan pidana mati atau pidana penjara seumur hidup, pidana yang dijatuhkan adalah pidana penjara paling lama 10 (sepuluh) tahun, dan penahanan terhadap anak hanya dapat dilakukan dengan syarat, anak telah berumur 14 (empat belas) tahun atau lebih dan diduga melakukan tindak pidana dengan ancaman pidana penjara 7 (tujuh) tahun atau lebih. 2. Mengenai mengadili anak yang berhadapan dengan hukum, sejak tahap penyidikan, penuntutan, dan pemeriksaan di persidangan diatur di dalam Undang-Undang No. 11 Tahun 2012 tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak. Pada intinya sistem peradilan pidana anak wajib mengutamakan pendekatan keadilan restoratif, sistem peradilan pidana anak sebagaimana yang diatur dalam Undang-Undang No. 11 Tahun 2012, penyidikan dan penuntutan pidana Anak yang dilaksanakan sesuai dengan ketentuan Peraturan Perundang-Undangan, kecuali ditentukan lain dalam Undang-Undang ini, dan persidangan Anak yang dilakukan oleh pengadilan di lingkungan peradilan umum

Participative enterprise modelling for balanced scorecard implementation

Balanced Scorecards (BSC) have been established as a valuable and practicable instrument addressing major management problems in organisations. BSC are commonly IT-supported and found a conceptual basis for management information systems. They are often applied to IT-Controlling, and they are also repeatedly applied to specify requirements towards the corporate IT architecture. However, BSC implementation often struggles when it comes to discovering and documenting organisational knowledge that is not easily accessible or not of sufficient quality. On the other hand, Enterprise modelling (EM) seeks to solve organisational design problems in, for instance, business process reengineering, strategy planning, enterprise integration, and information systems development. Here, participative EM methods lead to improved quality as well as to consensus and to increased acceptance of the business decisions. At this juncture, participative EM can support BSC implementation projects that comprise activities requiring the discovery and documentation of organisational knowledge that is not easily accessible or not of sufficient quality. For that reason, the aim of this paper is to integrate participative EM approaches, taking Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD) as an example, and BSC implementation. In order to operationalise this conceptual improvement, we will perform a stepwise analysis of BSC implementation processes and identify shortcomings that are able to be addressed with the help of participative enterprise modelling

Impact of Sugarcane Delivery Schedule on Product Value at Raw Sugar Factories

Conversion to combine harvesters has resulted in Louisiana sugarcane growers delivering a more perishable product to raw sugar factories. Dextran formation increases as the time between harvest and milling is extended. Milling of freshly cut sugarcane reduces the formation of dextran and associated economic losses. One approach available to factories to reduce dextran formation is to extend the harvested sugarcane delivery schedule to the mill. A simulation model was developed to evaluate alternative delivery schedules at raw sugar factories. Economic losses in product value associated with dextran formation were estimated and compared for various extended delivery schedules.dextran, milling, product value, raw sugar factories, scheduling, sugarcane industry, Crop Production/Industries, Marketing, Production Economics,

Epic Human Failure on June 30, 2013

Nineteen Prescott Fire Department, Granite Mountain Hot Shot (GMHS) wildland firefighters and supervisors (WFF), perished on the June 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire (YHF) in Arizona. The firefighters left their Safety Zone during forecast, outflow winds, triggering explosive fire behavior in drought-stressed chaparral. Why would an experienced WFF Crew, leave ‘good black’ and travel downslope through a brush-filled chimney, contrary to their training and experience? An organized Serious Accident Investigation Team (SAIT) found, “… no indication of negligence, reckless actions, or violations of policy or protocol.” Despite this, many WFF professionals deemed the catastrophe, “… the final, fatal link, in a long chain of bad decisions with good outcomes.” This paper is a theoretical and realistic examination of plausible, faulty, human decisions with prior good outcomes; internal and external impacts, influencing the GMHS; and two explanations for this catastrophe: Individual Blame Logic and Organizational Function Logic, and proposed preventive mitigations

Dilution\u27s (Still) Uncertain Future

Dilution looked to be a potent weapon when Congress introduced it as § 43(c) of the Lanham Act in 1995. Indeed, some observers feared that it would be too potent (and in some contexts, such as cybersquatting, it successfully augmented traditional causes of action). But a series of court decisions, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2003 Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue opinion, weakened dilution protection so profoundly that what remained wasn’t of much consequence. Congress has recently sought to breathe new life into dilution law, enacting the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (“TDRA”). Some might see this as a legislative resuscitation of § 43(c), but it’s not quite accurate to characterize the TDRA in such categorical terms. On the one hand, the TDRA adopts a likelihood of dilution standard, abrogating the holding of V Secret. In addition, the TDRA expressly endorses tarnishment and blurring as forms of dilution, clarifies that dilution protection is available for marks that have acquired distinctiveness, eliminates “commercial” use as an element of the prima facie claim, and acknowledges, albeit in a back-handed manner, that dilution protection is available for trade dress. On the other hand, the TDRA also tightens the fame prerequisite, shuts the door to new forms of dilution, and arguably makes the use requirement stricter in other respects, all moves that may make dilution actions harder to sustain

Who Could it be Now? Challenging the Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson

Despite the recent advances in assessing the reliability of eyewitness identifications, the focus to date has largely been identifications made pretrial. Little has been written about identifications made for the first time in the courtroom. While in-court identifications have an extraordinarily powerful effect on juries, all such identifications are potentially vulnerable to post-event memory distortion and decay. Absent an identification procedure that effectively tests the witness’s memory, it is impossible to know if the witness’s identification of the defendant is a product of his or her original memory or a product of the extraordinarily suggestive circumstances created by the in-court identification procedure. In this article, the authors discuss the science related to memory and perception and how the courts have historically addressed claims of suggestiveness in the context of eyewitness identifications and, specifically, how they have handled first time in-court identifications. They analyze the issue of first time, in-court identifications under the new legal frameworks established by the Oregon Supreme Court in State v. Lawson (2012) and the New Jersey Supreme Court in State v. Henderson (2011), which both recognize 30 years of science proving that memories are malleable and easily influenced by outside forces. They argue that, in all states, first time, in-court identifications should be inadmissible, forcing the state to conduct a reliable out-of-court identification, whether pretrial or with leave during trial