Here's how it would work: You have the mesh fog harvester.
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An International Harvester aircraft tug still resting upright on the ship.
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But Universal Harvester also captures unease in its lack of security.
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But Ed Kean, Canada's only commercial iceberg harvester, knows what he's doing.
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The solution depends on never having a harvester waiting on a tractor.
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The International Harvester Scout was infused with the seventies of Andrew's youth.
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No. To be honest, not even at a Harvester when I'm hungover.
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Universal Harvester is his second novel, set in the late 1990s in Iowa.
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He also spent around $22017,218 to purchase a used John Deere cotton harvester.
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He also spent around $2690,000 to purchase a used John Deere cotton harvester.
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A combine harvester could have done the job in a minute or two.
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READ UNIVERSAL HARVESTER Laura Jane Grace is the lead singer of Against Me!
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"Teens, Wall Street guys, guys camped out with a shopping cart, a pizza place is the most diverse space in the city," said Colin Atrophy Hagendorf, author of "Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza" and host of the Radio Harvester podcast.
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Through the winding, quickly paced tale, unease is a pivotal part of Universal Harvester.
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This issue features an excerpt of his new novel, Universal Harvester, forthcoming in 2017.
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When we get there, just like the combine harvester, we will not look back.
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Campaign group Wild Poland Foundation said activists blocked a working harvester in the Bialowieza area.
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Driscoll's, the largest berry distributor in the world, is testing out an automatic strawberry harvester.
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I might throw all of these items into a bowl at a Harvester salad bar.
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" An earlier version of this column misstated the setting of John Darnielle's novel "Universal Harvester.
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To be a harvester, you sell an investment to generate a loss to offset capital gains.
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Eventually, the entire built environment of human civilization will become one giant energy harvester and manager.
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Universal Harvester by John Darnielle is available in bookstores and online from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Like his father and most of the people in his nearby village, he's a clam harvester.
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But their prevalence can turn almost any application, no matter how mundane, into a data harvester.
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" Maybe three years in as a harvester, Hozoji said, she "started to develop a conscience about it.
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Nothing against the Speedwagon, but it doesn't quite mesh with Kristoff's 19th-century Norwegian ice-harvester aesthetic.
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There are also magical ice powers, trolls, a snowman, a crotchety ice harvester, and an evil prince.
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" He added that "indicates that the outbreak cannot be explained by a single farm, grower, harvester, or distributor.
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The deluge of berries take a conveyor belt up to barrels carted alongside the harvester by a tractor.
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Artist's concept of a harvester spacecraft, which will tug a promising asteroid to a space-based processing facility.
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At least one farmer was killed during when his harvester became engulfed in one inferno, local media reported.
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Campaign group Wild Poland Foundation said activists blocked a working harvester in the Bialowieza area earlier on Thursday.
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And, in the year of our lord 240, people are still streaming "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" online.
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Similarly, Spain-based Agrobot has been testing a strawberry harvester machine in Driscoll's berry field in Oxnard, California.
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THE buddy seat on Rick Kimberley's combine-harvester is a fine vantage point from which to observe precision farming.
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However, the moment one of your units attacked their harvester, the AI would attack relentlessly with everything it had.
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In the Netherlands, researchers at Wageningen University are working on a robot harvester for larger produce such as peppers.
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Bruder took to the road, working undercover at one such facility in Texas and as a sugar beet harvester.
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Marap was created by the same group responsible for the widespread banking credential harvester Dridex and the ransomware Locky.
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However, the illnesses caused by this outbreak have not yet been traced to a single grower, harvester, processor, or distributor.
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Packed with unsettling twists and turns, Universal Harvester explores we all leave, intentional or not, ghosts once we are gone.
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This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss John Darnielle's new novel Universal Harvester with John Darnielle himself!
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A new paper out in Applied Physics Letters today details a method for transforming fish scales into an energy harvester.
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Her preternatural diving skills have made her a skilled harvester of geoducks, a massive clam that looks oddly like genitalia.
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But unless you're, say, a cranberry-bog harvester or a deep-sea fisherman, chances are you're going to need one.
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Excerpted from UNIVERSAL HARVESTER: A Novel by John Darnielle, to be published February 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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The council member and Memphis native recalled Firestone and International Harvester employed many Frayser residents in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Previously, even those who weren't a grower or raspachín (harvester) in their own right made a living off people who were.
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During the investigation, the FDA discovered that the outbreak couldn't be traced back to a single grower, harvester, processor or distributor.
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In 23, when Harvest Croo was founded, there was no machine remotely like a selective harvester for any fruit or vegetable.
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Earlier iterations of the harvester used batteries, but Berry 5.1 runs on a diesel motor, because it's cheaper and more reliable.
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Indeed, a mechanical lettuce harvester with a water jet cutter is made by California-based Ramsay Highlander and costs around $750,000.
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"If you're a beginner, it kills you because your back really hurts," says Isabel Garcia, a harvester who works atop the robot.
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Another harvester, Janet Riley, said this was the kind of engagement where she could use her "nerd powers" to actually accomplish something.
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In John Deere's debut at CES, the company showcased its connected combine harvester that it describes as an "intelligent factory on wheels."
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One year, the team ran a lottery for a new combine harvester, a piece of farm equipment worth several hundred thousand dollars.
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The main attraction was the movie's statuesque, sultry star Silvana Mangano as a teenage rice harvester introduced executing a solo boogie-woogie.
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We use three varieties of grapefruits to make our Harvester Imperial Grapefruit IPA, all chosen for their individual contribution and flavor profile.
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MIT engineer Maher Damak discovered that manipulating the electrical forces around the fog could solve this problem, making the harvester much more efficient.
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" Maricopa harvester ant, Level 3, "After eight unrelenting hours of drilling into that ingrown toenail, you find the drill wedged into the toe.
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Within a few years, the Paridier women upgrade from a horse-drawn plow to a McCormick combine harvester to a gas-powered tractor.
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Harvest Croo's robotic harvester is being tested now in Florida and uses vision sensors and software to scan plants and locate ripe berries.
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Meticulously driving a combine harvester over a wheat field is a nice change of pace over shooting a carbine rifle in Battlefield 1.
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Deere is the only supplier of the type of cotton harvester Brazilian farmers use in the vast areas in Mato Grosso or Bahia states.
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You see a combine harvester — one of the primary advances in farming technology that led the agricultural industry to the place it is today.
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"But if we can make a robotic harvester work with iceberg lettuce, we could also make it work with many other crops," Birrell added.
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"The most frequently used labor-saving technology was some sort of mechanical harvester," said Dave Kranz, a spokesman for the farm bureau in Sacramento.
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The property owner said the 1964 International Harvester Metro van was there when he bought the land from someone with a connection to Aerosmith.
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If a dark mystery that explores how our losses affect our attempts at recovery interests you, then Universal Harvester is the book for you.
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His mother, Eunice (Thornton) Jenkins, was a homemaker, and his father, Herbert, sold tractors for International Harvester while also farming cotton, corn and tobacco.
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Pitzer likes to tell people that his harvester takes more pictures of strawberries in an afternoon than have ever existed before in the world.
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I had imagined that a smart harvester wouldn't need bulk: this was a twenty-five-thousand-pound, thirty-foot-long robotic berry-picking behemoth.
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There remained the problem of getting the berries into clamshells—a future iteration of the harvester will include that still-secret system, Pitzer promised.
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The glories of great French and Italian gardens have been recreated at Miami's Vizcaya, once the home of the International Harvester executive James Deering.
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Mr. Zheng invested in planters, pesticide sprayers and other equipment, including a new, shiny red harvester, parked in a lot behind his modest home.
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Her father was a pipe fitter at International Harvester, the agricultural manufacturer; her mother stayed home to look after Brenda and her six sisters.
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The Dudesons, Finland's version of Jackass, took to the controls of a Ponsse Scorpion harvester, a giant machine that can fell a tree in seconds.
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"You should sign up for the training," the tribal harvester told Hozoji, after they had gotten to talking about the job and what it entailed.
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"For any given point of time, a harvester was constrained to the given work states: harvest, travel, delay, idle, and downtime," Harmon explained via email.
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Swedish designer Fredrik Ausinsch's Algae Harvester is a self-sustaining, algae-eating remote control drone that filters water and refuels itself using the consumed algae.
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But she predicts a future where robots will revolutionize work in the 21st century the way the combine harvester revolutionized farming in the 19th century.
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"You have to give them a lot of respect; they can sink you, they can kill you," commercial iceberg harvester Ed Kean told MUNCHIES in 2016.
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The fog harp is a low-tech improvement on the traditional fog harvester, which only collects about 1 to 3 percent of the fog passing by.
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The group, whose pubs include Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One, said food sales grew by 1.5 percent in the eight weeks through Sept. 16.
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No single grower, harvester, processor, or distributor has been blamed, and investigators are still unsure whether contamination happened during the growing, washing, chopping, or bagging process.
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By contrast, the state-run Gomselmash, employing 14,000, sold just one combine-harvester in the month of December, contributing to 2015 exports of just $203 million.
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We certainly didn't start off meaning, er, 'that thing' when we first started singing 'Combine Harvester'—it was in the other version of the song first.
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Taylor Farms has invested in a harvester, called the "water knife," that uses water jets to lop off romaine heads as it moves through the field.
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All of which might make "Universal Harvester" sound like the stuff sweet nightmares are made of — but ultimately the novel doesn't belong in the horror aisle.
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In a paper published recently in the journal Joule, scientists created a two-part device that's a solar harvester on top and radiative cooler on the bottom.
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This automatic harvester is one of several innovations that have cut Rinco's production costs to a level that few who use traditional, labor-intensive methods can match.
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This automatic harvester is one of several innovations that have cut Rinco's production costs to a level that few who use traditional, labour-intensive methods can match.
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His debut novel Wolf in White Van was longlisted for a 2014 National Book Award, and Universal Harvester has already received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
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From the plow, to the tractor, to the combine harvester, to biotech and now digital and precision farming – technology has always transformed the way farmers do business.
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"The ongoing traceback investigation indicates that the illnesses associated with this outbreak cannot be explained by a single grower, harvester, processor, or distributor," the FDA said Wednesday.
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Benham was built a century ago as a coal mining camp by a subsidiary of International Harvester, which mined the nearby hillsides, extracting coal to make steel.
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The malware -- which works as a credential harvester -- was supposed to worm its way through network shares, according to Rod Blunt, chief information security officer for Kansas.
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Initially, I was disappointed that he couldn't make the trip — I'd been curious to see him prowling the Chihuahua pines with his net, excavating harvester-ant colonies.
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Mix the two together, and you've got the prime conditions for something like "Combine Harvester"—both knowing in its dumb humour and weirdly loving—to take off.
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General Motors first rolled out the pickup-based Chevrolet Blazer in 1969 to compete with other big, boxy SUVs like the International Harvester Scout and Ford Bronco.
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In an emailed response, Deere said 50 production employees at Harvester Works, which makes large agriculture equipment, in East Moline, Illinois, would be put on indefinite layoff.
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Universal Harvester: A Novel by John Darnielle Music fans know of John Darnielle as the vocalist and songwriter for The Mountain Goats, but he's become an accomplished novelist.
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Hozoji, the eighth harvester to join a crew that ballooned to 605 divers, said she wasn't seeing much basic environmental sensitivity from this diving community at the time.
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Mr. Bashford was born on May 17, 1933, to Byaly Bashford, a draughtsman for General Electric and later an International Harvester farm machinery dealer, and the former Dorothy Wilkes.
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Universal Harvester follows Jeremy, a video store clerk in Nevada, Iowa, who notices that curious, shocking and sometimes violent scenes are being recorded on top of the store's tapes.
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The tech that will feed the world Twenty years from now, the most important tool for putting food on your table won't be a harvester, combine or a plow.
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He was abandoned as a youth in rural Pennsylvania and has for decades made ends meet as an apple picker, pumpkin harvester, and construction worker in the Gettysburg area.
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Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle's new novel, Universal Harvester, just hit the New York Times Bestseller List, but that doesn't mean that he's putting his songs on the backburner.
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Australia was one of the first countries to institute a living minimum wage, in a famous court case back in 1907 regarding the employees of the Sunshine Harvester Works.
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We lead the world because American farmers have always been the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of technology, from the cotton gin to the combine harvester to recombinant DNA.
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From there, it becomes a word problem: If I have a forage harvester with "X" harvesting capacity and my field is "X" distance away from the storage site, and I know all of the routes I have to take to get to the field, what is the optimal number of trucks that I need to maintain harvest efficiency and never have that forage harvester stop and wait on a truck to get back?
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Farmers begin saving money as they grow their own feed, and can then start to afford key tools, from an electric cactus harvester to a mechanical milking machine, he said.
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At Hurst Farm Supply in Lorenzo, Texas, there are roughly five farmers interested in each Deere & Co CS690 cotton harvester they have to sell, said Randy Sparks, a sales manager.
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Ballot harvester admission One of the ways we know if ballot harvesting is taking place is that absentee ballots have two signed witnesses to ensure the integrity of the process.
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I marvel that until the very moment that the harvester turns the corner, the corn plants still strive to survive as they ever had, indifferent to the machinations of men.
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Now, a giant green harvester clears an entire half-acre field within minutes, allowing farmers to save money and quickly sell the wheat, typically used to make Indian flat breads.
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"The pattern on it is the one you see on Kristoff's sash," Sastrawinata-Lemay said, referring to the likable ice harvester who shares a kiss with Anna in the first film.
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"After the election I was feeling like I was somewhat powerless and didn't have an outlet for my desire to make some change," said George Gaudette, a harvester at the event.
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During a recent visit by the candidate to Expointer, a major agricultural fair, Bolsonaro addressed a gathering of wealthy landowners, jumped on a combine harvester and gladhanded with selfie-snapping fans.
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After "Combine Harvester" came out in 1976, Britain went head over heels for novelty songs; combining the joint British obsessions of terrible things and not-quite-ironically loving those terrible things.
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Still here: Olaf, the lovable snowman who naïvely fantasizes about sunbathing; Hans, a handsome prince; Kristoff, a rugged ice harvester; and Sven, the reindeer, played by the ballet-trained Andrew Pirozzi.
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The owner of All Bar One, Toby Carvery, Harvester and Browns chain of pubs, bars and restaurants said like-for-like sales rose 2.6% in the 14 weeks to Jan. 4.
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Unfortunately, Baltimore mayor Bernard "Jack" Young was not skeptical enough when he warned citizens about a potential organ harvester on the loose in his city—based on "reports" circulating on Facebook.
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The store collected names from farmers interested in the equipment and pulls a name out of a hat when a harvester becomes available, to ensure they are fair to their local customers.
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John Darnielle, known for over two decades of leading the alt-folk music group The Mountain Goats, has returned to the literary scene with his second novel Universal Harvester, released Feb. 7.
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Precious time is gained when drivers know exactly which field entrance to use, where in the field the harvester is, and most importantly, when it needs the next empty truck to fill.
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Eventually, the harvester will know the identity of all the strawberry plants in Wishnatzki's fields and associate the data it collects about a particular plant with its virtual counterpart in the cloud.
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He grew up outside Chicago in a Catholic family with six kids, and his father was a lawyer at International Harvester, so the idea of service was part of his family's ethos.
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The series, which followed the success of the "Francis The Talking Mule" movies, involved a horse named Mister Ed, played by equine thespian Bamboo Harvester, that talked, but only to one person, Wilbur.
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And currants—those tasty little berries that usually get made into jam—well, they get this wonky thingThe Samson SFM Technology Blackcurrant harvester is built slightly wider and taller than the plants themselves.
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The owner of All Bar One, Toby Carvery, Harvester and Browns chain of pubs, bars and restaurants said adjusted operating profit rose to 317 million pounds ($409.37 million) for the year ended Sept.
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Wild runsInsects Unlocked,, a program that allows anyone to visit the university's bug collection, pick out an iridescent green jewel beetle or a translucent orange Maricopa Harvester ant, and learn how to photograph it.
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The project, a work in progress titled "Harvester," captures the faces of a group that operates at the margins of Northern California society while playing an essential role in its multibillion dollar wine industry.
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Later, in grad school at the University of Georgia, he and Debbie were each stung while collecting specimens of Pogonomyrmex, a genus of harvester ants, in order to determine the chemistry of their venom.
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The pizza he fell for at 13 was made from the same recipe as the only slice to receive a perfect 8 out of 8 rating in his Slice Harvester zine ten years later.
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The process starts in the grocery stores themselves, where WISErg's Harvester machine turns food scraps—everything from potato peels to bruised bananas to steaks past their sell-by dates—into a nutrient-rich liquid.
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He worked five summers helping his father operate a combine harvester, earning the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, signed by Stalin himself, and wore it proudly throughout his first year at college.
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During a recent episode of History Channel's American Pickers, hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz visited Chesterfield, Massachusetts, on the hunt for the band's 1964 International Harvester Metro van that was abandoned in the 1970s.
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The company, which operates over 1,800 pubs, bars and restaurants and owns brands such as All Bar One, Harvester and Toby Carvery, said higher overall costs would likely dent margins more than the previous year.
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But his pride and joy is the Ludekrusher, a street-legal monster truck with harvester combine wheels, a modified suspension, and a stock engine, which lets him drive it around town and in local parades.
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The company has also teamed with an equipment maker to build a mechanized romaine harvester that is currently in use, and it is exploring automation for iceberg lettuce, broccoli and other field crops, Taylor said.
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It will embrace your desire to go out and tame this world, to find danger and then eliminate it in your quest for upgrades, and to do so it like jumping into a combine harvester.
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The company, which operates brands such as Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One, said like-for-like sales for the 28 weeks ended April 14 climbed 1.6 percent but were flat year on year.
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The footballer said the early stages of their relationship were conducted in his new BMW in the far-from-posh setting of a car park at a Harvester, a popular chain of pubs in Britain.
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The owner of All Bar One, Toby Carvery, Harvester, and Browns brands relied on beer for the bulk of its sales in the 1980s, but now around half of its total sales come from food.
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Members include state-owned tractor maker YTO Group, navigation systems producer Hwa Create and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co Ltd, which helped develop the combine harvester used in the Xinghua trial along with Jiangsu University.
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Check out the gallery ... the special cannabis room inside each home comes with its own dedicated harvester, who will work magic for 2 years cultivating, watering, fertilizing and harvesting crops and/or vegetables using organic hydroponics.
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RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil, May 3 (Reuters) - It is only May, but if a Brazilian cotton grower orders a new harvester now to cope with an expected larger crop this year, he will not get it in 923.
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Called the Nano Icy Moons Propellant Harvester (NIMPH), the lander concept is the brainchild of Colorado-based company ExoTerra Resource, LLC, and was selected for development by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in April 2016.
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In search of more data on the nature of stings, he packed his 1969 VW van and set out across America on a quest to collect specimens of the 20 or so native species of harvester ants.
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His second novel, "Universal Harvester," on the other hand, comes across less like "Moonrise Kingdom" and more like a gentle, Midwestern riff on David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" (maybe with a pinch of "Fargo" thrown in for good measure).
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At the edge of a woodland, they chained themselves to a red forest harvester that can cut up to 22 trees a day, making a statement against large-scale logging in the last primeval forest in Europe.
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They found them in Batavia, a small city about 35 miles west of Rochester, where a former hardware store manager named Joe Mancuso was leasing a variety of irregular spaces carved out of a vast, decommissioned harvester factory.
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Then, inspired by The Haunting of Hill House, we chat about our favorite horror novels including House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, The Shining by Stephen King, and Universal Harvester by John Darnielle.
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That decision crystallized, rather, through a chain of events whereby Hozoji became acutely aware of the difference—the "fine line," as Dillon called it—between exercising treaty rights as a commercial harvester, and the science she's doing now.
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The group, whose pubs include Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One, said total sales rose by 2.3 percent during the period with a like-for-like sales growth of 4.7 percent for the four weeks to Jan.
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Characters like the scythe-wielding organ harvester Nyssiana (Eiza González) are barely human: when cornered, Nyssiana leaps upward, flips the angle of her limbs, and pins herself to the side of an alley, hissing at Alita like a cat.
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He refers to himself as a traditional food harvester, and his life centers on ocean resources, whether he's making valuable grease from a fish called eulachon, catching salmon and halibut from his gillnetter the Pacific Endeavor or clam digging.
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Jump ahead to that first proper Puget Sound dive, a critical phase of training before becoming a certified tribal shellfish harvester, and it was only natural that Hozoji agonized over the thought of buckling once in actual open water.
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In the 1960s, though, scientists and engineers at the University of California, Davis, developed an oblong tomato that lent itself to being machine-picked and an efficient mechanical harvester to do the job in one pass through a field.
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After kicking off with medley of "Breadfan,""Holier Than Thou," and an on-fire "Battery," they stuck mostly to their first five albums, rolling out the dread stomp of "Harvester of Sorrows" and "Fade to Black" in quick succession.
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The group, whose pubs include Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One, said comparable drink sales in the most recent weeks 8 weeks contracted 1.2 percent, an outcome it blamed on poor weather versus a sunny period a year earlier.
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This Is Your Digital Life, the app created by researcher Aleksandr Kogan, which served as the harvester for all this data, requested "read_mailbox" privileges for some period and, as Facebook tells Wired, a total of 1,500 people granted that permission.
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JMCC Wing: This Hawaiian team's leader has been working on solar and wind power for many years, so it's no surprise their solution involves the "marriage" of a super-high-efficiency, scalable wind energy harvester with a commercial water condenser.
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Erik Paulsen, is showing up to farmers' markets and community events on a 1960 International Harvester milk truck to harken back to a more collegial time and push the theme that he's showing up and talking to voters while Paulsen isn't.
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And while, at harvest time, the finest wine producers still hire squads of workers to pick the grapes by hand, bigger operations and volume producers may entrust their grapes to the gaping maw of a Braud vine-straddling mechanical harvester.
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The tariff dispute has also delivered some supply-chain surprises, with increasing Canadian demand for lobster from the state of Maine, the biggest U.S. harvester of the crustaceans, according to industry groups, wholesalers and exporters on both sides of the border.
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In the eyes of many, Facebook (yes, I know Facebook owns Instagram but let's set that aside for a second) has morphed into an evil data harvester platform that isn't fun anyway because none of your friends under age 50 actually post there.
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A sweeping nozzle mounted on its front (which gives it the look of a combine harvester) will suck up tonnes of nodules every minute; the power it needs to do so will flow down a thick umbilical from a mother ship above.
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"Developing an automated apple harvester requires solving a number of complex technical problems in parallel, from visually identifying harvestable fruit and physically manipulating it to pick without bruising, to safely navigating the orchard itself," Dan Steere, the CEO of Abundant Robotics, said.
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After talking about the early, secretive days of their relationship — "we used to sit in a Harvester carpark and we used to just kind of, you know, kiss, of course, and spend time together" — Beckham was asked why his marriage has been so successful.
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Xinghua, China (Reuters) - A brand new combine harvester buzzes up and down a field in eastern China without a driver on board, chopping golden rice stalks and offering a glimpse of what authorities say is the automated future of the nation's mammoth agricultural sector.
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"Developing an automated apple harvester requires solving a number of complex technical problems in parallel, from visually identifying harvestable fruit and physically manipulating it to pick without bruising, to safely navigating the orchard itself," Dan Steere, the CEO of Abundant Robotics, said at the time.
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Only more recently has Hozoji begun gaining renown as an emerging scientist with a similarly preternatural gift for spotting marine life in the murkiest, most silted-up waters, a skill she honed over a six-year stint as a commercial shellfish harvester for the Puyallup.
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While we visited after the mayhem of harvesting season, TechCrunch also took a spin around a farm lot at Treasury Wine Estates where heavy agricultural equipment was parked, including a special harvester made by Pellenc, a French company whose name would mean "lever" in English.
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To match the pace of a crew of thirty workers, who can pick about eight acres in a day, Berry 33 has a swarm of sixteen robots on the harvester; twenty-five such Berry 5.1s would be required to pick Wish Farm's entire strawberry patch.
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"Developing an automated apple harvester requires solving a number of complex technical problems in parallel, from visually identifying harvestable fruit and physically manipulating it to pick without bruising, to safely navigating the orchard itself," Abundant CEO Dan Steere said in a press release tied to the announcement.
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It's worth mentioning at this point that the Brendan Grace version of "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" was itself a take-off of "Brand New Key," a 21976 hit for folk-pop singer Melanie Safka, about a girl with roller skates trying to attract a boy.
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Universal Harvester has its roots in Darnielle's attempts to write dialogue mirroring the conversations he heard during the eight or so years he spent living in Iowa, first in the small town of Grinnell, then the even smaller town of Colo, and finally in the city of Ames.
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He's performed in two juggernauts — the animated film "Frozen" (he voiced Kristoff, the rugged ice harvester, and will do so again in "Frozen 2" next month) and the stage musical "Hamilton" (he played King George, scoring his second Tony Award nomination with just nine minutes of stage time).
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The group, whose brands include All Bar One, Harvester, Toby Carvery and All Bar One, Nicholson's and O'Neill's, said it was operating in a "challenging and uncertain environment" with regard to the economy as a whole and in its markets and added that there was therfore some caution over future demand.
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The Argentines presented a threat not simply to several ant species, but other types of flora and fauna as well — the flowers that needed their seeds moved by the harvester ants; the bees that were harassed off of flowers run over by Argentines; or the health of the soil, even.
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Now the fisheries commission is considering a proposal to expand the allowable catch by another 20 percent when it meets Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Me. The largest industrial menhaden harvester on the East Coast, Omega Protein, has suggested that the quota could easily be raised by up to 30 percent.
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Universal Harvester, meanwhile, takes a more conventional narrative tack—that is, until a quarter of the way through, when a bold metafictional move suddenly implicates one of the characters in the unsettling shit that's gone down, and will continue to go down, sullying the unspoken contract of trust between narrator and reader.
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And while the artist's recent show at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgewood, Connecticut, saw him strip a combine harvester down to the nuts and bolts, his new project on New York Harbor's Governors Island uses heavy machinery for its intended purpose: boring holes to reveal the former US army post's sedimentary history.
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If you include remixes, people have listened to "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by The Wurzels—a song that clambered to number 1 in the UK charts and hung on there for two whole weeks and has been played on radio shows and at weddings for the last 40 years—more than a million times on Spotify.
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If you've ever tried this or watched it, there's something of a visual metaphor there for a ship's wake, or a harvester cutting through a field of wheat, in that this smooth path forms and the shears work in quick strokes that are sort of akin to quick changes of course elsewhere, such as at sea.
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But looking further back on episodes such as the one where the trio tried to destroy a Toyota Hilux, or they tried to resurface a road in a day, or they built a snow plough out of an old combine harvester, those episodes were undeniably great TV. It was no fluke that Top Gear became the BBC's most successful show ever.
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Start snapping and the app stitches your photo into a 360-shot you can save and share (and it works with Facebook, which now supports panoramic photos.) $1.99: iOS This new game features a character named "Slimie," a creature you must help swing through the forest to circumvent the "evil" harvester machine so that you can save and protect the homeland.
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H from Steps had just been born, the country was going through one of the most intense heatwaves in its history and The Wurzels released "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)"—a 'Scrumpy & Western' song that opens with definitely-probably the most rural sex metaphor in recorded history ("I drove a tractor through your haystack last night") and goes downhill fast from there.
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Una, a 12-person group purchasing organization in Kansas City, Missouri, was able to donate $5,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Kansas City, which is serving meals for pickup and delivery, and $5,000 to Harvester, which runs a regional food bank, when managing partner Anthony Clervi donated $5,000 of his own money and had the company match it.
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It's hard to overstate what a cultural phenomenon "Combine Harvester" still is to this day—it's more unusual, even 40 years on, to find somebody over the age of 20 who grew up in the UK who's never heard of it than it is to find a person who'll groan and hold their head in their hands after hearing a few bars of the chorus.
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" (Listen to the full MashReads Podcast discussion here.) Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Peter says: "It's not a perfect book, and I do think it fails in some ways but I found it to be gripping and affecting, and I've thought about that book a lot this year, because honestly I do think there are some haunting, haunting things in that book that I don't think will leave me anytime soon.
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