Extract: A survey of feedlot farms in Egypt shows important variations in operational characteristics, costs, and returns among regions, different sizes of operation, and management systems. Overall, the degree of feedlot utilization was low, less than 70 percent of capacity. Weight gain per day for local breed was lower than for foreign and crossbreeds (1 to 15 percent). Budget analysis showed that the return to average producers covers variable costs and leaves a margin to fixed factors and management, especially for private feedlots. Differences in farm management decisions, on types and weights of animals entering and leaving feedlots, and types of feed ration had a significant effect on costs and returns to farmers.

In this remarkable collection, Kelley White sends us poems from /No. Hope Street, an address where "even the postman wears ashes." Homeless families, abandoned infants, a place where kids' "dreams of flying" get shot down every day. Dr. White's poems jolt, and yet compel, the reader to witness the culture of hopelessness that exists beneath the American Dream. "There is no little story about suffering," she writes. "It is all a big story." And yet "No" may not be the final address on Hope Street. Embedded in these poems are glimmers of strength, endurance, care, and even hope, as "over the boarded-up world / a little bird / harries a hawk." In No. Hope Street, Kelley White, speaks to us as a healer, a witness, and a staggeringly powerful poet. -Jack Coulehan, M.D., author of The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems "There is no little story about suffering," Kelley Jean White says in this book enriched by life experience earned over decades as a physician, a keen sense of irony, and a sensitivity to innocence and humanity peeking out amid images of bleak brutality, cruelty, and chaos. The speaker of these poems is garrulous, breathless to share everything as it happened, to make our consciences flinch, and her words enact empathy and community with the downtrodden. "Truth is, they've / come for me also," she owns. These poems will come for your heart. -Jenna Lê, M.D., author of poetry collections Six Rivers, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, and Manatee Lagoon

The 6" x 9" perfect bound ISBN# book "Moving the Earth" was originally released as the 5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound August 2011 issue (v223) of cc&d magazine (http://scars.tv/ccd, byline: The UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine, founded 1993), published by Scars Publications The cover is by John Yotko, and writers and artists included in this book are Janet Kuypers, Fritz Hamilton, I.B. Rad, Rose E. Grier (with art), Andy Roberts, Nick Brazinsky (with art), Lawrence Gladeview, Roger Cowin, Stephanie Kaylor, Kelley Jean White MD, Nathan Riggs, Christopher Barnes, Peter LaBerge (with art), Michael Ceraolo, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (with art), Kenneth DiMaggio, Chris Butler, the HA!man of South Africa (with art), Matthew Roberts, Anne Turner Taub, Aaron Wilder (with art), Mel Waldman, David Thompson (with art), Stephanie Fleming, Bing Liu, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with art), John Duncklee, Billie Louise Jones, Alicia Parks, Roy Haymond, Cheryl Townsend (with art), S. Paul Bowen, Brian Forrest (with a painting), Don Stockard, and Seger Lansdale.