It's taken our midst growth to teach his English at Madison High School quite a few years to learn how to get along with their principal, our good conchlin. But lately, even in his more difficult mood, he's found ways of getting around it. Yes, and one of the best ways is up the fire escape on the other side of the building. This is the route I took to class most of last week, when our beloved principal was on one of his infamous economy drives. This newest campaign was particularly ill-timed, since Mr. Boyden badly needed new equipment for his laboratory, and since I badly needed a new desk in my classroom, I was pretty depressed. For three days, my landlady saw the bloom gathering, and Thursday morning at breakfast, he tried to dispel it. Colonel, don't you want to let me hear about your problem? I'd love to, Mrs. Davis, but it's really nothing you can help me with. Well, all right, dear, if you don't choose to discuss it, I certainly won't surprise. Thanks, Mrs. Davis. I think I'd better keep this to myself, let's just say. But I know that, to me, I'd want to tell someone about Mr. Conchlin's economy drive, and how it's going to affect Mr. Boyden's getting a new laboratory equipment, and you're getting a new desk in your classroom. As I say, I think I'd better keep this to yourself. Mrs. Davis, how did you find out about it? Well, dear, when I went into a wake in me this morning, you were talking about it in your sleep. How did I sound? The ear is a bell. Good, I'm glad I didn't confuse you by mumbling. Mr. Conchlin's newest economy drive is designed to convince the state examiner that he can flash our school budget when he visits Madison today. Well, there's no point in worrying about it this minute, is there? Dear, dear, why not read the comics? It'll take your mind off things for a while. No, thanks, Mrs. Davis. I have enough pride to be in my own life.  No, indeed. That'll give me a perfect chance to look at the lawn pads on the back page. Well, all in all, fame, war, crime, and crime is between. But this picture right here on the front page... Conchlin, he's out. He's out. We ain't ducks and he's out. I had no idea he was in. Who's William Conchlin? Oh, that's right. You wouldn't know. It happened before you came here. Well, William Conchlin was a crook, a housebreaker, and Mr. Conchlin was involved in the case. Mr. Conchlin? Yes. You see, Mr. Conchlin was convicted of armed robbery and be sentenced to prison for 10 years. I see. And they made Mr. Conchlin principal of Madison High. Mr. Conchlin was foreman of the jury that convicted Donaldson. The jury was split 11-to-1 for releasing him. But gradually, Mr. Conchlin convinced them all of this point of view. It sounds like the jury was made up of his faculty. But why get so excited, Mrs. Davis? There are bad people in these innocent. And when we heard what had happened, he said, Well, as soon as he got out, he'd find Mr. Conchlin in prison. And he got out yesterday. Yes. This jury says he was thrown yesterday. Well, he'll have to hurry if he wants to do us any good. Mr. Conchlin, this is no laughing matter. Look at this picture of Mr. Dodson.  That menacing scowl.  Does this look like the face of a man who wouldn't use a gun? This looks like the face of a man who wouldn't have to use a gun. There is victim to this. Mrs. Davis, all this happened many years ago. Dodson's certainly forgotten about his threat by now, anyway. Well, that probably wasn't a drug to school. Come on in, Walter.  Do you think this book turned out to be one of the blackest days in Madison's annals? What's the matter, Walter? Our football team has had to suspend practice. Why, Walter? No coast? No football. I couldn't think of a better reason if I tried all winter. Certainly, Mr. Conchlin's autonomy drive hasn't been carried that far. Oh, Father, period tells me the only reason Mr. Conchlin's doing it is for the state examiner to see that Madison can operate on a reduced budget while he's here today. What would happen if the budget if Mr. Conchlin never saw the examiner? I suppose it would remain the same. Oh, something's got to be done. But I think it's gotten so bad even the school cut 40 in quick yesterday. The school cut 30? Yeah, Mr. Conchlin cut his salary from $50 a week to $35 across all the coal he could carry home. Now, Walter, are you going to get any man to work for $35 unless the fellow's desperate? Or did not it work for years? Or just out of prison? I think I've got a little idea that will enter our purpose just as well as an accident. It merely involves frightening our principal a bit. You mean he'll carry a lot of his wits at first? No, Walter, just out of school for a day or two. Daddy, how far can you carry your time? I can't carry my time. I can't carry my time. I can't carry my time. Daddy, how far can you carry your timey program? Watch me. I can still live for the benefit of my school. But this year's budget provides... Harriet, this year's budget is subject to revision as soon as Mr. Monaghan arrives this afternoon. All right, right now I have the more pressing problem of replacing our school custodian. Is that part of what I'm saying, Daddy? Or the idea of offering a man $35 and all the coal he can carry home? Where are you going to get a man for that? You may have a point there, Darrell, but my offer is a bit low. Well, of course it is. Well, if I get a really good man, I'll make it all the coal both he and his wife can carry on. But, Daddy, I'm not through yet. Oh, if I were a betting man... Harriet, just leave us. Come in. Good morning, Mr. Johnson. Morning, Harriet. Oh, hi, Miss Brooke.  Oh, but, Daddy, I... Miss Brooke, would you kindly say Harriet's just left? Harriet's just left? Thank you.  Oh, all right. Bye, Miss Brooke. Bye, Harriet. I don't know. I can't remember anything like that. I just thought that I didn't have anything to do with you. I don't know.   They're asking me not to hire you. I hope I haven't lost you. I don't know. Are you Mr. Johnson? Yes, I do. Oh, that's splendid. Splendid. At least you're worth $35. And you said you were in the coal. And you're free to carry on. Yes, he said that he'd be around when he left his life, and I'd say before yesterday. Yeah, okay. You live here. You live in the last living room. Oh, that's all. He's been living in the same place I've ever once lived. That's fine, huh? That's a great name, Miss Brooke. William Dodson. William Dodson. That's a good name, Miss Armingone. That has a real connection to the world. What does that mean? William! Miss Brooke! We were talking! He is in Dan Hara, or is an Ottoman being Devil's Island. Oh, Mr. Johnson. No, Mr. Armingone. I was told that the jury would send him to jail for years, seven years ago. Wait a minute. He can't be out of jail. He can't. He can't. William Dodson, the ex-convict, he was released, would be in the box. Probably right on the front page. Listen, now you can see it. I haven't read this morning's OBS, but I have it right here on my desk. Oh, that's too nice. I don't know if it would be useful for all of us. Miss Brooke is him! Miss Brooke is him! I recognize that place anywhere. It's right here. Where is he? Maybe it's John L. Lewis. William Dodson is out. He's been for long. I have to kill him. Please help me. Think of something. There's one thing you can do, Miss Dodson. Get out of town. Or better still, get out of the room. Good idea, Miss Brooke. I'll get out of the station.  It would be a violation of this law. I'll grab the first train. Where there's no time to lose. I'll leave it to you. Miss Brooke, I'll see you when it's blowed over. Well, that worked even better than I thought it would. Mr. Conklin, how is your trip? What was I thinking of? I can't believe it. Now what about my new budget? I'll take it with you by all means. There's something to read on the train. No, no, no. You don't understand. Mr. Lonegan will be here at three o'clock. It's his only day in town. I can't just find him. You can't just find me either. What about Dodson? I'll keep putting most of today, Miss Brooke. When you see Dodson, tell him the job is filled. Tell him one horse moves and he'll be back up the river. Yes, sir, but I hope he gets here before three. Why? Because after that I'll be up to three. Well, Mr. Conklin decided he would remain in school but in hiding until the state examiner arrived that afternoon. He kept himself so well hidden in fact that none of us had the slightest idea where he was. That is, until I had occasion to go into the female faculty room to relax for a few moments. I think that the softest, most comfortable armchair I could find and flopped into it. You must get off me, Vison. Well, by noon when I went down to pick up Mr. Boynton for lunch, I was a bit more wary. When I entered his laboratory, however, I was due for one more shock. Mr. Boynton's face looked as if he was made up for N-Man on the minstrel show. Of course, he had a ready explanation. I ran into Mr. Conklin, Mr. Where? Inside the furnace? He gave me the task of turning the furnace when I ran into him in the infirmary. The infirmary? Yes, these signals will leave him under the bed. When are you enjoying under there? All those trains would need accounting for weeks. It's just another hiding place, at his, Mr. Inverlockeber. Oh, Mr. Boynton. Really? I thought Walter was exaggerating when he told me how you frightened him this morning. Imagine, Mr. Conklin, worrying about one insignificant for old prisoner. Particularly when he's got so many un-for-old ones on his own property. But I'm fortunate that he wasn't frightened enough to leave school. Well, it seemed almost worth it, Mr. But I can't understand when a man seems so frightened of anyone else. I can frankly say I fear no man. I know. You concentrate on women.  Oh, yes. Thanks, Mr. Conklin. Hey, will you look at me? I really do look like an in-man in a minstrel show.  It's as an offer, I accept. It would, wouldn't it?  Well, if you don't mind this, Mr. I'd like to clean out my rabbit cage before I go. Better look inside first. Mr. Conklin may be hiding in there. Guys, in his frame of mind, there must be some way of frightening him out of school before three. I don't see how, Mr. Mr. Boynton actually did appear, and that sort of thing simply doesn't happen. Except for Gary Cooper. Forget about the rabbit cage and let's go to London. All right. After you, Mr. Hey, hey, excuse me. Yes? I'm looking for a guy named Oscar Conklin. I tried in his office, but they didn't know where he was. Would either of you know him? Well, yes. If you take a right at the first ash can, then a left at the next infirmary bed, then go straight ahead. You may find him in one of the drain pipes. We don't know where he is either. No, we haven't decided that. I said, pardon me, but you look awfully familiar. Haven't I seen your face somewhere before? It's possible. If you looked over this morning's paper. Oh, I looked over it, but you're definitely not Mrs. Davis. However, I'm sure I... The morning paper. Of course. You're William Dodson. That's right. William Dodson. Oh, don't shoot. Please don't shoot. Or do anything you say, only please don't shoot. Read your publicity. Shoot Mr. Conklin. Conklin? Oh, no. You got me all wrong. Why, I haven't even got a gun. No gun? What are you going to do? Pardon them? Sadden with an eye? Don't make it anything too messy. He cut the cleaning woman's salary, too. What method do you intend to use? Strangling? Poisoning? What method? Ladies, the only reason I'm here is to thank Mr. Conklin. Now that's the method I would never have thought of. Thank him. You're here to thank him. But he's the man who convinced the whole jury that you were guilty. I know. And I'll be grateful too as long as I live. It wasn't so fascinating, I think. How would you possibly be grateful to him for sending you to jail? A lady, you don't know what's life. For the first time I was living a good, clean life. Good food, plenty of exercise. I had absolutely no worries. My hours were regular, my time my own. I got loads of rest. Mr. Boyden, you know any good banks we could stick up? But in spite of all that, you were in prison. Yes, and it was Mr. Conklin who put you there. And you did threaten to shoot him when you got out. Lady, that was when I was still a crook with no education. Well, you know, I went to a high school while I was in prison. I knew it, that ruined most people. You certainly got a lot more out of it than most people. Well, if you're so determined to thank him, Mr. Dodson, could you please put it off until tomorrow? That's it, threaten him today and thank him tomorrow. I don't even know what you two are talking about, but I've been waiting seven long years to thank Mr. Conklin, and today's the day I'm going to do it. Just as soon as I can find him. Then find him your will, Mr. Dodson, and I know Mr. Boyden will be delighted to help you. Yes, I just recalled Mr. Conklin going down to the boiler room to see the new school custodian.  Oh, yes, the boiler room. Come on, Mr. Dodson, I'll take you down there. Thanks, but I won't be putting you out while I... Oh, I don't mind putting myself out a little. No, indeed. Particularly when it's more important to put someone else in. With the state examiner do any minute and Dodson locks in the locker room, it's the only chance we've got, Walter. Yeah, but if this doesn't get Mr. Conklin out of school, what are we going to do, Mr. Brook? I may consider blasting. No, but we've got to do the trick. Particularly if Mrs. Davis and Mr. Boyden come through as hoped for. Oh, I'm sure they will. Well, here we are.  Well, I can't be positive, Mr. Brook, but five minutes ago, I did see someone sneak in in Miss M. Wright's coat in hand. That's Mr. Conklin. Oh, that's funny. But I put a warning with him there. Oh, he's in there. It's just difficult to hear anything from under the desk. Oh, OK. Good luck, Mr. Mr. Conklin. Mr. Conklin.  The moment I thought it was you know who. Well, that's what I came in to see you about, sir. You know who Godson is coming. I'm going. When did you speak to him, Mr. I finally spoke to him on the phone two minutes ago. I told him he was fired, but he didn't take it at all well. What do you mean?  You don't need it once, sir. He'll be here in a minute. He breaks the ceiling. Mr. Conklin. Forgive me for breaking in like this, sir, but get out as quick as you can. Please, for your life, he's in the building. He's in the building? Who's in the building? Me, that's who. It's Godson, Mr. Conklin. Yes, sir.  It was all I could do to get him ahead of him to warn you. But Mr. Conklin spoke to him on the phone two minutes ago, boy. Yes, yes, yes, one. You didn't tell him the truth about where I was, did you, boy? No, I had to, sir. He forced me to. The point of a gun, Mr. Conklin. The point of a gun. Send it through. He's got a gun. If he said it this way, I can't get out in time. Quick, lock the door. Never mind him. I'll do it, I'll do it. Yes. That ought to hold him from the door. All right, Conklin, you rascal. I waited seven long years for this. And they've all got joined, old mollum. We've got to go. Don't worry, sir. We three are bound to miss. It's the law of every day. Please, Mr. Donklin, please, I dispute you. You still are principal. There's only one life to use. What hundreds of us kids depend on him? The law is begging for your life, sir. What do you expect?  Hey, hey, hey, hey! This is where Conklin gets it. Where's Conklin? If you won't open up, I'll get a fire-ass and break the door down. And you, you're going to get an accident. Break the door down. This I got to see. Now it's your turn, sir. My turn. Why leave the way? You can escape through your inner office. Oh, yes, yes, I never thought of that. You are in the office. I'll leave it one minute. Yes. Hello, Mr. Conklin. Remember me, William Dotson? Oh, no. I'm sorry, I haven't time now to renew old acquaintances. Oh, no! There's a maniac on the loose outside and he's a... Wait a minute! Don't shoot! Please, don't shoot! I beg of you, please, don't shoot, please!   You're threatening me a minute ago outside the door? I don't understand. Oh, I do, sir. This man is obviously an imposter. You can still escape if you go. Mr. Conklin, hiding you is the hardest thing for my mind. Wait, while I was in jail, I became a completely honest man. But seven years ago, you swore you'd kill me when you got out. Yes, and if you're so honest, the only thing you can do is to keep your word. Sir, the reason I came by today was to thank you. You came by to thank me? Sir, you're not going to believe that after what you just heard outside the door? Mr. Conklin, I'll always be grateful to you for giving me the seven best years of my life. But when I told these people I wanted to thank you, they locked me in the boiler room. What? Oh, we had to. How did we know what to do after he thanked you?  How do you know what he'll do next? Look, there's still time to escape, sir. All right, Conklin. I'll give you three to open up, and then I'll break the nerd out of you. There's still time for Mr. Boynton and me to escape. Come on, Mr. Boynton. Yes, sir. Come on, Mr. Boynton. Yes, sir. Now, who would that be? Maybe Dodson has a twin brother, sir. I suppose we open the door and find out who it is, shall we? I just assume we remain in the dark if it's all the same to you. Well, hello, Margaret.  It's no use, Mrs. Davis. I'm sure you recognize it yourself. I have a feeling this hand that people by my face wouldn't do much good.  He thought he'd frighten me off the premises before Mr. Lomigun arrived, didn't he, Mr. Oste? My wife will remember that my fasciners think I'll be met. This is your son. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is your faculty? Boy, am I glad I took my high school courses by correspondence. You haven't a thing on me. I wish I'd talked that way. Mr. Compton, I know all this looks bad, but we had to do something. What did we have done after you presented your revised budget to Mr. Lomigun? You would have done extremely well, Gordon, since I had revised it approximately upward. Upward? Upward? Upward. So you can close your collective mouse now. My emergency program was designed to convince Mr. Lomigun that no school could exist on our current expenditures. The revised budget is right over here on the chair. Anybody who's here to see it before I make one more revision? One more revision? Yes, Mr. Compton. Now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I too have one revision to make around here. Well, why did you take that windowpane? Since the window was locked, it was the only way I could jump out. I'm sorry, Mr. Compton. I'm sorry, the division was interrupted by Larry Bane. Mr. Compton was played by Gear Gordon. Others in tonight's class were Jane Morgan, Rick Senna, Bob Rockwell, Gloria McMillan, and Mary Jane Cross. This is Wendell Niles inviting you to be with us again next Sunday at the same time for another comedy episode of Our Miss Brooks. This is the CBS Radio National.


the link where we're recording now we're recording i i'm the same if we're recording or not recording i was told by your producer alex who tells me he's only 28 mm-hmm that by the way with the age i was elected mayor but it was plugging that anyway the he tells me that you won an award a writer's award for something to do with that dog triumph and that triumphant dog whom i happen to like partly because i like dogs and partly because i like cigars so when you combine a cigar smoking dog you're there and he told me he promised me your producer the the the condition of my appearing on this show was that he would send me the link and i have not received it the link to what to that show that you for for which you want an award well we don't need to talk about me right when we're done we'll talk about my am i going to get a link you'll get a link you'll get a link then we can proceed and talk go ahead thank you how are you david it's great to hear your voice sir it really is it can't be that great or you could have called me a year ago you have a telephone it's like an old girlfriend oh i was long need to hear from you pick up a phone it's true here's what i'm gonna do to my listeners because i have a lot of that's what you're gonna do to your listeners i'm gonna talk to you for a little while and then i'm gonna tell them who you are we're just gonna talk and then we're gonna peel it back a little and when they find out who you are and what your story is their their jaws are gonna drop this has been happening lately they're they're drawers or they're drawers this is an important distinction because i'm i'm out of here i'm hanging up in a minute if they're drawers i i don't think was that kind of a cover of a show really all right i'm not very i'm not going to give you the usual introduction because you haven't done the show in a while that by the way that's i wonder why that is the producer was looking down they had a spare half hour we're under the eyes jeffrey ross wasn't available but was very raw i i know how this works by the way the fact that somebody cannot be defined by a story or by what somebody did that's that's not who i am i know that i'm not the essence of the person i know now you would know that you're back in new york i you don't know that i i know that you're you've become a malibu you know you're well we'll talk about you but you're now this i am a malibu the word we have a word for it malibu i you're i call you malibu joise that's who you are we have no idea what's happening outside our borders nor do we want to i'm i'm no interest to me i always am jealous of people who've never seen the godfather because it's going to be brand new and they're fresh it's a tabla rasa as pretentious people say and i am jealous of my listeners we have new listeners and i'm jealous of the new listeners who don't know who you are and we're going to talk for a little while and then they know who you are and i don't even know who i am we're going to talk for a little while and then they're going to go oh my god then they're going to drop their drawers and i'm out of here tell me about avocado season i i have the most i have the most beautiful avocado it's maybe i've been told i what do i know i'm a jew from jersey just like you 17 18 years old and uh it takes a pause it sleeps for about a year and then for about a year and a half it produces hundreds there's a guy named steven goldstein who was the who was uh the head of the i forget gay alliance in new jersey a few years ago now he heads the am frank institute in new york foundation and steven was here and he picked a couple of avocados hang on hang on there's gotta be a hang on hang on for one second so he went from the closet to the attic well you're talking about climbing the ladder to pick avocados of the attic no i'm saying oh and frank and frank attic ah he was a very good gay alliance then he started working you know look you're you're you're doing exactly what i have to do with most of my jokes you don't have to you can't have to explain the joke oh let me let me get by the way this whole show is about me explaining a joke because nobody gets my jokes so this whole show i can relate to that David yeah he he's up there and he picks an avocado and he says he turns around and says that this is the most rural thing i have ever done steven was played by steven correll in a movie the name of which escapes me the big short about no different different movie he bruce oh my career is he god i see wait a minute you have to stop this now okay sorry the there was a movie with julianne more she played a dying lesbian police officer in new jersey and they she was denied her partner was denied all the rights uh to inherit their uh or to visit and steven correll played steven goldstein who was head of the gay alliance and who went wild and and protested and the new york times apparently i didn't read it but i was told reviewed that steven steven correll's uh portrayal of steven goldstein was too over the top and when you meet steven goldstein you'll realize he underplayed it steven goldstein is out there anyway how did you meet steven goldstein which bar will might through my no don't know uh not that there's anything wrong with it right my dear friend loretta weinberg who is either president or majority leader of the new jersey senate who's an absolutely fabulous human being uh and has been the biggest thorn in the governor christy's ample side rear end um i have a question about that didn't she remove a thorn from bill christie's foot and they became friends because he's an elephant i never i never met bill chris christ chris christy chris christy chris christy never met him i'm doing a joke about a mouse removing the thorn from the elephant's foot it was a bad joke i apologize i'm gonna show up you know there was a night live thing where i got where i forget his name but he for the hearing impaired gareth news would be yes the perfect the news would be broadcast and then he would shout it louder and that's like what you have to do with your jokes they have to tell the joke then you say then you do an interpretive period okay i apologize i'm just so excited to hear your voice i'm so excited too much coffee go ahead i'm so excited to hear your voice and it's been too long so goldstein and he was portrayed by steve correll in a movie and how did you meet mr goldstein as i just said through the red wineberg my dear friend who is the majority leader of the new jersey senate who is a a fabulous liberal who really was responsible for the uncovering of bridge gate uh and it's been she's been on 60 minutes of face the nation uh she's been for gay rights and for some some reasonable kind of of going control something where you might at least have the opportunity to buy a gun with your where you have your fingerprints uh analyzed so that only you can operate the gun might be a good idea you know if you have children in the house yeah us plus she's just been fabulous but she's also a wonderful person with a great sense of humor would she come on this show would she come on the show i i can't imagine she wouldn't and um you'll have your producer your people will talk to my people we're the same people i know and uh and and um steven goldstein uh was head of the gay alliance so she and and loretta became very close because loretta very much believes in marriage equality which he fought for her and so she had a mouth to malibu she's she's actually originally from beveley hills too much about loretta loretta can talk about herself sweet loretta sweet loretta moved from beveley hills to new jersey you moved from new jersey to malibu they were about 50 years in between yeah but loretta's daughter and grandchildren live in uh culver city which your new york listeners have no idea what that means it's where sonia's headquarter i have no idea you know so much more about california now pay attention new listeners 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over the neck now you're living in malibu used to live in new jersey let's brag about your daughter don't give her name don't do it but you have a a magnificent daughter don't you i shouldn't mention her name because i'm if you're ashamed of somebody if my daughter had been in prison i wouldn't use her name okay but she's a pediatrician saving children's lives again what do you want anyone i thought it's amazing okay yo did you say something did you say something about your daughter i'm sorry what does she do what does she do i'm sorry i moved i moved to california both of my children lived in l.a and now one of my son has moved back several years ago my daughter's moving back to new york i i don't know whether that says anything about their feelings towards their parents i don't know i have to go to an hour an analysis look up in the sky do you see a ton of bricks about to fall on you no i see actually was very rare in here in town is a very light rain one day i said to a woman boy that was some rain she said it didn't rain i said what do you mean it didn't rain she said that was ocean mist so how can you tell the difference between rain and ocean mist and she said when your intermittent wipers aren't enough that's rain so that's that's what happens in malibu i'm sure everybody took notes on that yes ocean mist that's a great name sounds like a doesn't that sound like a cranberry juice or something yeah or it sounds like something a female product doesn't so tell your daughter is a pediatrician yes that's exactly she actually has been working in the hospital with ucla so when a pediatrician works in a hospital why are you asking the questions i i'm gonna give you from here on in buster you did hey you got the shovel and you're digging the grave from here on in i'm going to give you one word answers see how you like that big fella we'll see you all right so your daughter's a pediatrician yes big whoop tony soprano's eyes are welling up that's what he wanted for meadow for her to that's what every father wants for his daughter that's for her pediatrician right right you are a perfect human being you you really are and and my listeners who are going way back know that but you're you really are a perfect human being and what people who are just joining this nonsense need to know is that growing up you and ralph nader were my heroes oh god and by the way i just got off i'm i i swear to god i just got off the phone with ralph nader by the way i just got off the phone with ralph nader growing up my father who said to me by the way you then if you're a correct member of the tribe after you say your father you say may he rest in peace right but he's still alive so he's taking a nap he's still alive well we haven't well he's dead but i haven't gotten around to burying burying him yet no he actually dead alive no no he passed away actually he passed away uh two decades ago this time of year yeah that's that's what you would told me i didn't yeah but so growing alive though so growing other is alive my mother's very much alive and how is how old is she well i'm not allowed to talk about her age but she looks great she really i've told i've told that when you want a vacation you go you go and be with her i spend a lot of time with my mother yes i do and i would and and you call that vacation uh let's move on you know yes i do i it's uh if you're going to you on if you're going to you on when you ask me about my daughter and i answer you're gonna you get the gloves on buddy i can handle it you go ahead you have a daughter who's a pediatrician yes i mean that that's that's you're done you're you're done just you know that's let's you go to a party there you go i got a daughter she's a pediatrician game set match what else is there to discuss apparently not much i bet that you don't get blowback from ralph like this i would never talk to ralph the way i talk to you but let me let me just introduce him with more respect if it makes you feel uncomfortable yes i do because growing up by the way it's only that you answer that yes because it makes me uncomfortable if it made me comfortable you would probably come up with a different answer i would never talk to ralph nader and show him the disrespect that i go out of my way to show burt ross because ralph nader doesn't have a sense of humor he's humorless it's it's the closest thing to eating wonder bread like he would ever eat wonder bread are you kidding no probably not growing up there were two moments that i remember vividly and this is the god's honest truth and i'm gonna say one nice thing about burt ross and i'm gonna get back to disrespecting him because by the way it drives my mother crazy that i don't show you respect and your mother is a great woman and she probably doesn't listen to your podcast no she does if she well then the mrs feldman i love you you are you are so perceptive and and you should be absolutely tell david to show some more to show not more respect but a modicum look i'm still doing things i i don't rest on the laurels i'm coming up with seek belts the fact that he says 30 million lives that that's all blues what does he come for us lately uh oh you know occupational safety and hazard administration the clean water act the epa burt ross the epa it it's pretty water clean water clean water is overrated you know when i go to a restaurant they say would you like followed what i said i'd like some dirty water fresh from the wherever okay growing up two vivid memories one is i'm eating ice cream in my parents bedroom we're watching channel five news ralph nader excuse me they allowed you to eat ice cream in the bedroom yeah mrs feldman ashanda so i'm sorry at least i hope it wasn't with me let's go on let's go on shellfish flavored ice cream from ben and jerry's so i'm watching the news and ralph nader is testifying and i go who's this guy and my father greatest generation loses it who's this guy and he stands in front of the television because that's your hero and i said what are you talking about i don't know who this guy he says if you call ralph nader this guy i'm going to take that ice cream away from you that is your hero find out who he is and he bought me unsafe at any speed i was like nine years old and i had to read unsafe at any speed and my father commanded that ralph nader be my hero at the same time like a couple years later i'm not going to tell the audience why but the bergen record used to come the newspaper every morning and burt ross burt ross and my father would say now that's a jew burt this is a jew this is if you if you had half the integrity of burt ross wait a minute one guy's a hero and one guy's a jew that's it the whole god from a killer he could go to shul and say here's a bunch of jews what kind of what is this this is very upsetting go ahead and not only that but sexy the women in my house okay the women don't tell can i say the name of your lovely wife joan joan my sister my sister sister and your mother and their friends and there were pictures of burt ross and the newspaper on the cover of new york magazine david i have one question yes did any did these women when they saw ralph nader when you were reading ice cream did your mother or your sister or their friends say what what a sexy guy answer the question please you were the the eddie fisher of my generation every jewish girl wanted burt ross i'm telling you that and no gentiles wanted me i'm telling you burt ross that just in my house but you were treated when your name was mentioned the angel sang i could hear the harps so we'll get to you in a little i have to i have to interrupt because of the short story which really i love when i was in college i looked a lot like oh marcia reef except for the space missing between the two teeth and this was after dr javago came out and so i wore the russian hat and the russian coat and women would come up to me and i was having a very nice time now we move forward 40 something years i go to a yankee game in camden yards i decided yankee stadium was too much tumult and i thought i was very creative and unique and as i'm going down to new jersey turnpike the balkamore and i stopped at a gas station everybody there is wearing the yankee hat anyway i go to camden yards and i'm with my wife and behind me is a woman probably in her late 40s and she gets all excited i figure you know on marcia reef and she said oh my god you look like you look like and she thinks and this is abe vagoda now i my mind my computer is going full speed because i know it can't be who she said it is i said you don't mean the guy who played fish she fish yeah so my mind stole the guy in the godfather yeah i don't get it and i don't see abe vagoda don't see it didn't eat in deference to abe who who departed in his mid 90s of a year ago even his mother didn't like the way he looked he wouldn't even look in the mirror i couldn't believe it i said to the woman you're very lucky they have gun control and all the more i would have just shot you sat down and it was like so you realize what happens in 40 years from all marcia reef to abe vagoda does not get worse no it doesn't shut up no that's a great story i love that so i love women are apparently no longer other than my wife and god coming on go ahead tell me about your humor column you write a weekly humor column for the malibu times it's a strange thing i write um when i first came to malibu i went to the there are a couple papers here and i and i said i would like to write a um kind of a a humor column pretty much based on uh an easterner's view of of the new country and i felt a fish out of water exactly and one of the publishers said wait a minute you've been here eight days and you want to do this i said no no you don't understand it's not a historical perspective like a lexus the toko coming to america from from france this is you know more a comedy you know a humor column so finally after two years i wrote for what's called the malibu patch and then i i started to write for the malibu times which is the major newspaper here and i was supposed to write every other every other week and i've now submitted eight or nine columns in a row and i don't think they figured out as they do it every week that it is switched to a weekly column um but they've allowed me to write almost anything i want to there's been almost no censorship it's been it's been a wonderful experience because like you it's almost like we have uh glasses that we wear and we see things through this humor filter so all day long i'm writing things down because they're i just see the humor in things which i guess helps me get through life but i really enjoy it it's um now is it is it online yes if you were to go to on it starts as a blog on monday afternoons they post the new ones and then thursday the paper comes out and then it's in in in the paper so it's a blog and online and then it's a column in the paper it's the same thing if you go online to the malibu times and you search for rush you'll see all the columns or you'll go to when you go to the malibu times online under opinion you click opinion and then below it is blogs and then you'll see all my blogs and um so the first time you and i ever talked you don't remember this yes i do i very much do you're wrong but go ahead the first time we talked was at white moral high school uh it's 10 years where but you're wrong 10 years ago and you were you're wrong but go ahead you're saying we talked before that yeah but go ahead tell tell what happened and uh you performed there were a bunch of people performed and you i thought you were terrific and i had no idea i mean here are here are guys from the class performing and you did i would say something like 10 minutes of of original you know material and it seemed to me to be a very professional level i had no idea you know who you were what your background was and i like to hang on for one second hang on for one second uh one of the isley brothers this was a benefit for joit mara high school he was very good too one of the isley brothers was there and played right the star spangled banner in a way you could only play if you're on drugs it was terrific because jimmy hendrix used to play with the isley brothers and i didn't know that yeah so in honor of jimmy hendrix one of the i can't remember the name of i don't want to do a disservice to him but he played and then he did very well but it was also a comic there was also a guy who rick overton i don't know there was a guy who started off for one of the first performers who did some comedy and it was it was horrific it was beyond i'm a amateurish uh but then we had but then we had richard louis and rick over no no no richard louis wasn't there richard louis said hello uh from that on a tape from a remote location probably here in LA okay as you recall richard louis's father bill louis may he rest in peace uh owned ambassador caterers and you could not be jewish and get by mitzvah if bill didn't do your by mitzvah then you were a christ then you were a christian and jeff ross's parents owned the number one catering house in newark new jersey i did not know that they catered the riots in 16 jeff has been doing very well yes he has i wish i was i wish i was talking to him right now instead of you i said hello i don't play as a matter of fact i i would rather be talking to jeff now it's in you jeff did something i think it was jeff so correct me if i'm wrong he did some some material where he went into it into a penitentiary yes unfortunately died out they let him out unfortunately well i taught uh when i was at college uh in in in a couple of different prisons and all i can tell you is is that his guts ball that is something you know you're a comedian and you know a tough audience and what he did was not only go in there and do his regular shtick he did he did like a dawn rickles kind of material with that audience yeah and that is um and and he pulled it off yeah i helped him i helped him with it well i'll tell you whatever you whatever was done that is uh that's courageous there's a your comedian i have to ask you a question but hey let me talk about prisons for a second hold that put a pin in that there's a great comedian named rick reynolds who tells a legendary story about me and him and a guy named jose simone playing santa rita prison i think it's called a level five i mean just like the maximum security prison for christmas i can't do it justice but if you google it just google rick reynolds prison story to me a favor there when this show is over have alex sent me alex is your 28 year old producer the link for that and the link for the dog with the cigar this is what i remember i saw i performed i had a had an anxiety attack and did you take them on like like jeff did no rick reynolds did but i'll tell you what happened to me yeah i went up and i start i go good evening ladies and oh i do that first i go oh god oh god oh and i did it by accident i just went good evening ladies and so i think there are i think that other than the correspondence dinner we're practically every single comic is bombed uh i think going into a prison and doing don rickles kind of material has got to be one of the most challenging jobs for a comedian yeah well hopefully the next one i read steve martin's autobiography and these are in the early days and he's up in san francisco and he they give him a monday night which is absolutely you know the worst night and he comes out and they're uh they tell him it's big night that we have the place is full standing room only he doesn't understand that he comes out and they're all japanese tourists and they don't speak english and i would have if i had been a comedian i would have passed out they would have had to eat and beat people doing you know helping me breathe and he starts juggling and doing all the other things he he can do and pulled it off and that to me is uh whenever i aspire to being a comedian and i look at some somebody who who can do that i realized i could i i should stay home well the advantage that i have over steve martin is my act is received exactly the same way between japanese businessmen and people who speak english i get the same reaction it's universal i can go anywhere and get the same response i remember speaking to you one time from renault i get the audience that you just had but boy you were uh you were breathing heavily did you come see me in renault no i would i wish you had once in your life told me where you're performing i you know remotely near where i live because i'd love to come in here you know i mean it's an invasion of my privacy so people who are listening people who are listening to this show if there's still any left he really is a good comedian and if you can get a chance to uh to watch him do stand up it's worth it by the way that's a plug i'm plugging that in oval thing thanks like i like you but i oval penis and milk you gotta be to drink milk without oval penis do they even make oval teen anymore i thought it was your sponsor i don't have sponsors did alec lie to me wait a second i think we may we're debating whether we've been asked to have a sponsor but we're debating uh it alienates my listeners somebody wants to run a commercial and every time i run a commercial my listeners get pissed off so i can't why am i promoting oval opinion did he lie to you and say we have a we're sponsored by oval thing i asked him are you making money with this podcast he said yes i said how do you do that he says we have sponsors okay what we don't have sponsors so how do you make money we very interesting that you would bring that up burt ross yes i mean we are in a capitalistic society we ask people to become monthly subscribers ah and for five dollars a month or more if they want to give more they can gain access to our premium content and then they can do all their amazon shopping by going to david feldman show website the david feldman show website there's an amazon banner and you click on that and you go to amazon and then if you shop and buy something i get a small percentage of everything you purchase hmm so if i don't promote amazon the stock went to a thousand it's a great company good and jeff owns not jeff ross owns the washington post jeff bezos hmm strange name what kind of name is that cuban no yeah get out of here he's a cuban yeah the one there no no but his father stepfather was cuban he could buy cuban he could buy no they don't forget the embargo you could just buy cuban there would be a part of amazon the washington post is since he took it over he has turned it into a premier newspaper one of the all-time great new right yes absolutely the other great thing is because of amazon because of jeff bezos remember what it was like to walk around small town america he'd be why oh there's a bookstore ah there's a there's a used record store because of jeff there is no retail stores anymore brick and mortar out malls will be all movies and restaurants that the garden state plaza in new jersey will end up with 340 restaurants who needs bookstores thank you for getting who needs who needs kitchens do you realize that my kids haven't cooked a meal in three years i don't even know why i they have a root they need a refrigerator in order to keep things fresh because they may not eat the entire meal but everything is either they go out to eat where they order in now the first time i spoke to you was not at dwight morrow high school when you were terrific and i went up to you okay who cares when was the first time okay so you walked up to me and i said i really this was at the dwight morrow reunion i said you were fabulous and you saw my name tag which had my name on it and you got all excited and called over your sister and went into my history when was the first time we talked i was a cub reporter for the hudson dispatch while i was going to college i spent two summers working as a police reporter at the hudson dispatch in new jersey jersey city i remember hudson dispatch they covered me yes and you were the energies are of new jersey governor bern of new jersey a democrat appointed burt ross to be the energies are of new jersey and i you remember okay yes and i called to interview you to talk about new jersey's energy policy and i think we have one well i think because of you new jersey is the only state in the union where they don't have self-service gasoline state no that is nothing nothing to do with me really uh when i when i was appointed by the governor to be the energies are of new jersey the record wrote a kind of an interesting editorial which it said that i was very uh charismatic and would probably would probably be a very good leader of uh but i i didn't know anything about energy i probably didn't even know what an ome was so i wrote a letter to the editor i said dear editor i'd thank you so much for your supportive editorial as far as my not knowing what an ome is your you are 100 correct and so i looked it up in webster's dictionary it defines an ome as a measure of electrical resistance i must confess i still don't have a clue what an ome is having graduated college in the 1960s i always thought an ome was something you hummed while meditating i got a call from the governor laughing uh my major accomplishment in that uh two-year stint was a right turn on red light and uh well that actually was a fairly significant accomplishment and but a second seriously seriously yeah is that true yes and why is that good why is that good for for our energy policy well first of all you're not stopping unnecessarily while you burn up gas and it's also environmentally positive because for the same reason and from a from the other standpoint of course is every why why would you wait it when you can make a right turn you can save a time on your trip so it's good on every level so every time people make a right yes they should think of me correct they should think of burt ross every time you make a right turn at a at a red light if if you make a left turn i don't give a right there whether you think of me or not and now as i make a right turn yeah and do you get a cut do you get a royalty every time yes i get a royalty yes so but what's funny is i go to the governor with the idea really isn't that yes and he says he well there were there were other states that were doing it and so i said governor this is this is really terrific idea and he said you know i don't think the attorney general bill highland likes it well i go to bill highland i said uh general highland uh what you're feeling says it's fine by me i go back to the governor the governor says i don't think bill highland likes i said wait a minute i spoke to him he likes it he says okay i had a push for something which is the dream of everybody in politics it is almost impossible to pass legislation or to propose legislation that 99.9 percent of the population wants it is just absolutely a gift to a politician and almost nobody opposes so finally it passed i think unanimously but it was it was a bit of a fight to get him to realize that this is a win win win nobody for the the idle lobby isn't there a lobby for people who like to idle who apparently not that was exactly it well we should call it a burt we're in new jersey you can you can pull a burt if you want to it's legal you know i'm from now on because actually my mother lives in new jersey i live in new york when i'm still living teaneck she doesn't live in teaneck but i i don't want to tell what city but um you are so famous no that people will start to paparazzi will be appearing at mrs fulburn's door it would be the mamarazzi the mamarazzi protecting you hang on i just made a joke you i made a joke mrs fulburn i made a joke i made a joke and you missed it i made a great joke it would be the mama's lobby the mamarazzi it wouldn't be the paparazzi it would be the mamarazzi i didn't hear it well i heard lobby mama you unbelieve that is funny i feel i feel embarrassed you have a good one to walk over it this is i shan'ta run me the mamarazzi wait a minute i don't know about you but i have other you know there's a busy life here in malibu haven't we talked for three hours yet it just feels like that before we tell before i don't your listeners have to do something else you know what i'm not going to tell your story but i know but hang on for one second hang on for one second before you go i talked to you about the energy crisis back then i talked to you i interviewed you about the pailey report and everybody was saying what a genius bill pailey was because he issued a report about oil reserves in the fifties and warned us that we were going to run out of oil in the seventies do you remember this no everybody celebrated bill pailey who was the founder not really but he owned cbs he didn't really found cbs that wasn't bill that that was another name no it was bill pailey bill pailey bill pailey william wait a minute wait a minute you i interviewed you about this burt i wait a minute i i don't bill pailey it just sounds do you remember the do you remember the pain le y do you remember the paleo paleo you are right you are right of course son of a of course i'm right and i talked to the energy czar of new jersey a guy named burt ross who spoke to me about the pailey report and he said that bill pailey the chairman of the board of cbs was asked by eisenhower to do a study of our oil reserves you know at times like this i'm not happy i made it to 74 it's you're the same age as the energy crisis it was 1974 and bill pailey issued this report that the world's oil reserves will be barren by 1974 and everybody said this this this program is getting barren i mean what are you are you serious and talking about the bill pailey report about oil going to be barred in 1970 who are you what is the age of your listeners so so even your mother's hanging up at this point she's saying oh my god i can't i can't believe that my son does this for a living so you were you were raving about the pailey report and how we have you're back to that yes because you were the energy czar of new jersey and i want you i have had i have had an amazing life and you are picking a part of it that i don't even remember or care to remember well i think you need to issue a retraction because the pailey report was wrong would you please do it in my name there is plenty of oil i have there are avocados to pick what's wrong with you what but you you owe me an apology because it turns out i apologize bill pailey i don't even know what you're talking about i apologize if it if it can move this interview forward bill pailey hey let me let's just then we'll move on i'll say goodbye but bill pailey was wrong he canceled the smothers brothers and put on the beaverly hill billies which wasn't so bad and he's tonight this interview is now turning on to a rant to bill pailey we're back in the 1960s the smothers but can you explain to your audience all 90 i have been i think do you realize that people 45 years old have no idea of anything we're talking about no they don't know bill pailey they don't know they don't know dr king for christ you met dr king right i have a picture of me and him where we're i'm a little taller than he is i would say better looking but he looks better than a bogota you know that you know that i have a theory about people who call martin luther king dr king that they're secretly racist they go it's it's it's they're supposed to call a martin marty i've had people who go oh dr king then it's dr cosby dr mandela dr jackie robinson dr harry it's up no no no i by the way met jackie twice kennedy jackie robinson jackie robinson was married to jfk no no no your headcruiser's father assassinated jfk no what a god jeff bassos we have things to talk about the next time jeff bassos i've had enough of this interview i think the next time we need to talk about um our president and his most recent um tweet of this morning which is the state of our union was dot dot dot kafate c o v f e f e i couldn't have said it better the state of our union was kafate this is our president can't can't beat that i hope your listeners think about that and we can all come up with a i think you should have a little like segment where people email you or tweet you or whatever to help people do today and they they come up with the definition of what they think he meant what could kafate mean wait no this morning it's in the papers he wrote at 3 30 in the morning or something i don't know some it doesn't sleep the state of our union was dot dot dot c o v f e f e kafate i'm not making this up my wife told it to me this morning i see this now yeah wow yeah so ask your readers it's a great it's a great opportunity to participate mm-hmm and have them email or tweet or whatever what they think that could possibly mean before you go i want to go but yes i know you want to go but we're not done yet things to do miles to go before i sleep robert frost thank you port did he did you know robert frost too i cannot believe i'm a freshman at harvard and there's an english basic english class i'm taking and the only time i cut class i think in four years was the english class big lecture hall i come the next day rock they said how did you like robert frost i thought he was talking about he was a special guest a surprise guest really yeah that's my story of my life mm-hmm david it's been nice talking to you nice talking to you come back and then we'll tell you're boring story of why you're my hero or we can talk about what the president meant by the state of the union was keffy because i agree third ross exactly we'll we'll talk to you soon be well david thank you stand the line for one second


I've been asked to talk a little bit on replacement heifers and we'll see if we can get this on everybody's monitor so we got some slides to go with this. Is it on everybody's monitor right now? I can't tell for some reason. Al, is it on? Yeah, we can see it. So you're viewing the slides that says replacement heifers I assume. Yeah, just up or down. What's going on here? Go ahead. I came over to Carington today to avoid any technical difficulties and it looks like I stepped into some. There we go. There it is. Yeah, it's full speed. Okay, I guess we got her now. Got her at this end so I know what I'm looking at. Typically our heifer is a discounted feeder calf. We know that in the fall to sale barn or for selling some calves off the cow they generally bid us eight to ten bucks back on our heifers. We know our heifers typically have gained a little less on the cow. They'll probably wean off about 50 pounds lighter on average. There's some reasons for that and because when we put them in the finishing feedlot they gain a little less in steers. Their conversion isn't quite as good and they usually have a little lighter finish weight which means they have a higher cost to gain or break even. Today we want to talk about the other alternative with these heifers is to add value with them by developing as replacements to go into the cow herd. Typically we need about 25% of our heifers just to replace cows that have been called out. Right now we got to start questioning if there's room or demand or interest to retain and develop additional heifers to expand numbers. The North Dakota cow herd as of yesterday I heard were down to about 860,000 cows in the state which is fairly low considering we peaked in North Dakota in 1974 at 1.4 million been slowly knocking 10,000 to 15,000 cows off our roster for the last couple years. The high cattle prices we have now and these lower inventories would suggest that maybe people want to rebuild some numbers especially since we got some grass and moisture anticipate some forage for next year. Funny thing is there's some uncertainty whether these prices will will stick around. There's also probably been some loss of some pasture acres and CRP and forage acres in the state and I think for a lot of people who have some mineral income or grain income that's doing quite well their interest in expansion really isn't that high right now. This here was a headline clipping recently taken out of one of our beef magazines. It's suggested nationally prices are not stimulating a lot of retention. We're still selling a lot of cold cows. We're not keeping a lot of heifers. I think maybe in North Dakota, Tim Petrie our livestock economists would suggest that maybe we've started the rebuilding in this state. If we think back to last fall we had five weight six weight heifers that were selling for about a buck twenty to buck twenty-five a pound that were worth six hundred seventy dollars or roughly that right off the cow. At the time it was a decision to we you know put some cash into our operation sell them to somebody who wants to finish them out or do retain them and breed them and try to expand or sell replacement heifers. Since then these prices are about the same except now the weights are two hundred pounds heavier and these six hundred seventy dollar heifers are eight hundred seventy or or plus. Just as Dr. Buchanan said before you go to the bull sale you make the description of what you want the bull to do. I think as we think about what we're going to have a heifer develop to do let's think about what our ultimate job is going to be. I keep it pretty simple. Cow's job is she's got to get bread, she's got to have a calf raise the calf to the fall the calf has to be have some market value. After the calf comes off she needs to go out and get fat and sassy so that she'll come into a calving in the right shape four or five months later and she needs to do that for a lot of years. So in heifer development we want to find the kinds of heifers we want to develop those heifers that can do that. And I would certainly think that sometimes our ideal feeder steer and his sister is not quite the ideal herd replacement for many operations. First step in selection is probably to create a pool of the right kind of heifers. By the right kind I mean the bulls that sire those heifers are strong in maternal traits and they will produce heifers that will mature at a right size for your operation and produce milk in the right quantities that your feed resources will support so they'll continue to get bread and stay in the herd. In this here slide I've just indicated I think cow size is a consideration because as we get bigger and bigger cows what we're really doing is changing how many animal units or cow units we're able to stock on our resources and I think there's some efficiencies in keeping that cow size down maybe in that 1300 pound range and as we get larger our opportunities to do terminal crossing and breeding up for heavier calves diminishes not that we can't make a choice of what size cattle we want to run but that should be a decision as we're breeding cows to make heifers what size we do want. Likewise milk is a trait that there's optimums for in an environment where feed is plentiful and cheap and high quality we know a lot of milk and a cow will make a lot of weaning weight but if that feed is not there what suffers is reproduction so we try to match the amount of milk our cows give with the kinds of feed that we have available at a reasonable cost so we select bulls to sire daughters which will have that optimum or right amount of milk and that's a difficult thing to do we have in the Angus breed on their website a module that you can plug in your cow weight, your feed costs and it will come back and project to you what they think are maybe an optimum or target milk EPD that you should be selecting for in your situation. I ran this little example indicating some feed costs and our feed is kind of variable and suggesting the Angus breed you go buy bulls to save daughters you should try to find bulls from that 16 to 20 pound milk EPD if you similarly have got cows that have been sticking around your herd doing a good job do you know their sires milk EPD that would be another good target for kind of honing in on what's maybe optimal for your situation Doctor McCann just covered a whole lot on selection on bulls we can probably go through this pretty easily we have a number of great tools to identify those bulls that will leave good daughters in a herd EPDs are one of those great tools and I particularly like that dollar wean number that he talked about and that it simultaneously put selection pressure for calving ease weaning weight and also moderation of cow costs through the weight and mature size. That particular EPD or index is only available in the Angus Association we have other good EPDs or traits that we can select for some of the other breeds such as Red Angus and Sematol, Herford such as Heifer Pregnancy maternal calving ease the stability talked about and also those energy values if perchance your cows have gotten a little large and now we're trying to put some downward pressure on mature size and feed inputs. The other tool that's just coming on the scene is now taking a sample and doing a DNA analysis there are some DNA markers for a number of traits that have maternal basis to them. Igenity one of the companies is actually marketing what they call their Heifer profile or your DNA test for markers in your replacement Heifers and included in that are pregnancy rate weaning weight, maternal calving ease and marbling and tenderness. From the genetic side I think we want to keep in mind that there are some advantages in creating Heifers that are mixed breeds or crossbreds the hybrid bigger heterosis that we see for many traits are kind of small when we look on a trait by trait such as calving rate or calf survival or weaning weight but when we sum up a bunch of these small little incremental advantages we end up with cows that stick around the herd considerably longer and produce probably an extra calf or a calf and a half equivalent in their lifetime so particularly in large herds we run on a little bit harsher management run the feed a little tighter to the requirements I think you'll start picking up some significant advantages from focusing on F1 and crossbred Heifers from a managed standpoint I've broken this down into a couple different time periods one is from the breeding of the cows when we wean them we're getting some indication now that we can actually influence the outcome of these heifers or these heifer calves even in utero by insults to the cow during gestation some work in Nebraska said when they didn't properly supplement these cows during winter they actually had some heifers that had delayed puberty had heifers that didn't breed with quite the percentages that heifers that were raised out of cows that were supplemented and take better care of in gestation so this starts way back back in the fall before the heifer or the calves even on the ground once they're on the ground try to avoid implanting heifer calves that are going to be kept for replacement there's a lot of data there's a lot of summary data and shows that if you do one low potency implant you know at two to three months typically a branding vaccinating time the amount of heifers that are damaged so to speak or won't breed is quite small but if we do other interventions like one implant right of birth or a double implant another one at weaning we can start to reduce our conception rates by 10 15 20 percent by that aggressive implanting of these heifer calves similarly typically if we know which pasture's got the heifers that are going to be kept for replacements we probably would find a little economic value to creep feeding them if there is moderate frame or smaller cattle on good grass and we creep feed them and and actually have them deposit fat in their udder and we probably ruin or ruin but diminish some of their future productivity and at added cost so big growth in cattle poor pasture conditions it might not be a big deal but it really doesn't have a lot of economic value to do so then once we get to weaning time i guess it's time to do your first sort on cattle get them vaccinated get their health status right get the extremes and the off types out of there and then we got the pool to work from and further development from weaning up until going to grass and breeding is kind of a not a difficult time to develop heifers but that's when most of the attention's been of what we do we know if we don't put enough input in them we might not get them bred and if we put too much in we might further diminish their breeding results and add costs so we've kind of come up with over time some recommendations for producers of what is just the right amount of growth and some of that's being a guess right now questioned a little bit but we do know that if we have a way to the heifer at weaning or the time she's going into a lot for development and we know we want her to breed by 14 uh get bred by 14 15 months she has to be pure rural by about a year uh and then if we target her gain so she reaches 65 percent of her estimated mature weight at breeding we're going to achieve a fairly high successful uh high success rate in getting heifers bred probably in that 95 percent range and it will be fairly economical and this is the kind of been the target weight concept that's been followed for a number of years in illustrating that uh if we have heifers on November 1 that weigh from 470 to 620 pounds averaging 530 out of a cow herd that averaged 1,300 pounds we can now estimate how much gain they have to make from now till breeding and we have a target heifer weight of 65 percent of the 1,300 pounds is 840 pounds overall the herd would heifers would have to gain about a pound and a half realizing there's both light heifers in that pen and heavy heifers it's probably more economical to sort them probably feed one group a little heavier one group a little lighter uh got a little example of a ration here the light sort heifers that need to gain 1.7 pounds to reach their target weight of 840 we might have to feed about six pounds of grain plus hay the heavy sort probably we could only need to gain 1.4 pounds just a little supplemental concentrate with hay would probably get them there as far as nutritional requirements those uh heifers that do need to gain pound and a half cannot do it on our typical forages alone uh typical tdn requirement for those kind of heifers is probably in the mid upper 60s most of our forages harvest as a state are probably in the upper 50s to around 60 percent so it does take several pounds of grain with forage to get that done if they're particular lightweights small heifers we need to get into the 70 tdn range in our total ration it's more likely that we're going to have to feed six seven pounds of grain to do that protein levels tend to be quite low and these low rates of gain on these heifers we have rations that are 10 to 11 percent usually that's adequate and most of our typical haze and with a little grain we'll do that without a lot of additional supplement the alternative strategy i kind of alluded to earlier is uh maybe we don't need to grow them to 65 percent of their body weight and maybe we can save a little money and do a little more selection on our heifers if we would actually grow them slightly slower to 55 to 60 percent of their estimated mature weight in doing so we know that not all the heifers will probably breed or be puberable at the time of breeding season but what we're going to accomplish in doing this is that we're going to identify the heifers that on lower inputs will breed and will flash and will be reproductive and will save about 25 to 30 dollars a heifern feed cost and this has been documented in both nebraska mile city with some research projects that they've had at those centers and of course we don't quite get the same results we probably back off our pregnancy rates five to ten percent but the open heifers that come out of these programs we're limiting the breeding season and just getting the best doing ones bred early have been a pretty profitable grass open yearling to sell in the fall the other thing it does is by not growing these heifers quite as fast putting quite as much feed input we tend to reduce the mature cow size 70 to 100 pounds versus some of these heifers that are fed a little heavy in the development stage once those lighter heifers go out to grass in the spring they do partially compensate over summer with a little higher gains on pasture but we also have to be aware that they're coming in just a little lighter in the fall and we have to get them maybe separated from the cow herd and at that time might be a good time to make sure that we put a little additional feed into them pre-breeding typically we would give these heifers another vaccination particularly for our reproductive diseases such as the pre-guard series of shots a standard practice has been to breed the heifers a little ahead of the cows doing so we give the heifers a little more time post calving to come back into heat it also means that our calves out of our heifers are a little older at shipping time and so they probably fit in better for marketing as herds have gotten bigger across the state people have gone to later calving seasons i think we see less of that than historically when people were yard and lot calving smaller herds and earlier in the year we do have the opportunity with extra synchronization the tools that Dr. Dolan talked about that we can actually get you know three breeding opportunities for heifers in 45 days by starting them all on a synchronized heat and giving them two subsequent heats which makes a pretty tight grouping on our heifers but we're finding with some of this lower input winter development keeping some additional heifers back that we've got guys down to probably 30 days of breeding on their heifers and just getting an adequate number for their replacement by doing that with a limited breeding season as far as what to breed these heifers to certainly the calving ease EPD and the birth weight EPD are probably our best tools to make sure that we made heifers to bulls that have a high likelihood of not causing calving difficulty for easy calving progeny we did have a trial done at the central grasslands research extension center at Streeter in which they compared calving assistance and performance of calves out of first calf heifers that were made either to low birth weight Angus bulls and they had a minus 3.5 to bound zero birth weight EPD to some real extreme calving ease bulls low line or miniature type Angus cattle and of course either way calving difficulties were quite low heifer calves and either of the mating groups had zero assistance steer calves out of the low birth weight Angus bulls had a couple calves in either assistance but we've got the tools to select bulls to minimize calving problems and high accuracy bulls with calving ease traits make AI one of those things that attractive for particularly mating heifers for the synchronization protocols recovered earlier we'll skip right over them once the heifer comes back in the fall and we pgm and we identify the the keepers and sell off the opens we need to continue develop those heifers typically a heifer needs to gain around a pound a day through the winter so she'll have at the appropriate shape typically that shape would have her weighing somewhere around 80 percent of her expected mature weight and she'd be in a body condition score then of about five and a half to six if we fail to get her there we can expect more calving problems we'll probably can expect more calf sickness and calf death loss and we certainly would expect slower rebreathing so it's pretty critical in that first winter that we gear the heifer in her feed and her ration so she calves that are appropriate condition a lot of times the heifers can be running with the cow for a while if the cow herd is on you know a decent kind of feed supply and there's adequate feeds are not competing with the cows for their fair share and then as we get into the latter 50 60 days of gestation it's probably time to give them a little sort them off and at least give them a little extra at that time a couple of things as far as nutritionally on these bread heifers feeding a ration that has a couple percent added fat prior to calving that last 30 40 days and then up through breeding has shown to increase rebreathing particularly if they're going to be interred out and the breeding season is going to be on marginal spring pasture the other thing is some work showed that sometimes little bypass protein in these young continually growing heifers may increase their rebreathing rate so there's a couple things we can do at heifers a little different the mature cows will probably give us the benefit feeding some sunflowers some flax some soybeans or something like that can add a little fat in the ration or using some distillers or a protein source with a little more bypass nature give us a little advantage far as what it takes for these heifers in the in the wintering with their first gestation probably takes about late gestation close to nine to ten protein if we're going to continue to put weight gain on them it takes about at a pound a day gain it would take about a 58 percent TDN ration to 60 percent and that's pretty high quality forage as they get into the latter months of their gestation not to forget with high quality forages and feeds maybe our calcium and phosphorus and vitamin levels aren't too bad but it's certainly good to give them a little insurance level by feeding them some supplemental probably even free choice trace mineral mix and concluding i'm going to just show a little budget here of some costs that go into heifer development you start with the initial value of the heifer and back in about the first of december and in november i said they were probably worth about 670 bucks a piece certainly if we're doing a budget today i'm going to buy them people are telling me they're going to cost you close to nine hundred dollars to buy the heifer today so that's a you know quite a bit substantial higher cost than i have here but the winter feeding at 225 would probably halfway through that so maybe you could take half of that off of there the other pasture vet breeding interest death loss and overhead costs are costs i obtained from the adult farm management summary from a year ago and when we totaled them up last fall if we made the decision on these heifers it would have been over 1100 dollars now if we put another couple hundred dollars on these heifers that we might have you can see that we're going to need a pretty good heifer market to be trying to add value by doing a breeding program certainly where we're at the cattle cycle with the high fed cattle markets with the high feeder cattle steer markets we would anticipate that the breeding cattle market is coming along maybe been lagging to this point but it's got some potential to be pretty good next fall if we look at where it's been this winter uh this is out of date report certainly they've gotten better than that uh but some of these uh young stock cows you know considering that we were having people sell uh background feeder cattle in january for 900 to a thousand dollars i think they've been lagging people haven't been quite as confident that this market is going to last uh fundamentally we would say that it probably should numbers and i think eventually it will start to strengthen which it seems to have done now is getting later into the wintering period for those guys who uh typically keep their own heifers to replace cows there's lots of good reasons to do that gives you a lot more opportunity to select and make develop the kind you want a lot of years that's a cheaper option than going to buy them but in small herds i think there's particularly reasons maybe think about buying all your heifers rather than making them so you don't have to have a heifer bull you don't have to another special pen just easier to make a nice uh terminal crossing program and bring it in replacement heifers and with that i guess that concludes what i've prepared on heifers if there are any comments or questions let me try to answer them


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Images of Chechen volunteers entering the Belgorod region of Russia together with the Free Russian Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps, and the Siberian Battalion have been released from the Gorkovsky Settlement of the region. Chechen fighters ironically say that they came to participate in the presidential elections held in Russia, but they could not find a polling station for it. The fighters said that the settlement was completely deserted, abandoned by residents and Russian soldiers, and that the traitorous Chechens fighting in the Russian army did not resist them either. It should be noted that the Legion of Free Russia announced that on March 17, together with Chechen volunteers, they had taken full control of the residential area and released footage from the area. Chechen volunteers entered the Belgorod region of the Gorkovsky Settlement. On March 17, they came to vote for Putin. We could not find a polling station. All of them hurriedly left the Belgorod region. There was only one cow and a few dogs. In particular, we want to thank our national traitor Rustam Aguil for not giving us any resistance, no difficulties he gave us. Russian Volunteer Corps warns we will do everything to prevent any Putin elections in border areas. Fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps will make efforts to ensure that no sham elections of Russian President Vladimir Putin take place on the territory's bordering Ukraine. Russian Volunteer Corps commander Denis Nikitin said this in an interview with UP. Pidsumkii media outlet. I believe that the fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps will do everything to ensure that there are no elections in the areas bordering Ukraine. Perhaps this can be considered one of the goals of our current operation, he said. Nikitin said that Russian Volunteer Corps fighters can influence and show people that what is planned in Russia is not an election but a farce, and this is one of the political tasks of Russian volunteers. Nikitin also mentioned that after each similar operation, more and more Russians expressed the desire to join the ranks of the Russian Volunteer Corps. Every such operation proves that it is possible and necessary to fight against the Putin regime exclusively with weapons. Not toothless actions like lanterns in the night sky or whatever the Russian opposition has been doing for the last 20 years. None of that works. The death of Alexei Navalny only convinced everyone of our righteousness, only armed resistance. And the Russian Volunteer Corps shows what this armed resistance looks like, what a real struggle for the future of Russia looks like. A large number of people are watching us, seeing our successes and finding the courage to join our fight. He added. Another group called the Sibir Battalion said on social media that as promised we are bringing freedom and justice to our Russian land. They called on the population in the areas where the battles were going on to leave those places. They also said that this is for security purposes. Recently, soldiers of the freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion have reported that they have crossed the Russian border. The military volunteer groups have posted an address online and a video has appeared on telegram channels purporting to show military personnel firing their weapons on Russian territory.


I think you should now see the slides that I continue to confirm. Okay, I am Tomás Vajngel and I'm about to talk about the improvements that I did for PDF support in LibreOffice and Collabor Online, actually. So PDF support is very important because it's used a lot for sharing of written documents and forms and whatever on the internet and there's a big demand to have good support of course in LibreOffice and Collabor Online. So first I want to talk about a little bit what PDF support is currently in LibreOffice and we have this PDF import that is based on this popular library and what it does is that it converts these PDF elements into LibreOffice shapes and objects. The problem with this is that it's not exact as all PDF positioning we do, we try to do good job we did but it's not always possible so it's not always presented exact as it is in the PDF document. It's not possible because we don't support all the primitives that PDF supports and there is also font issues and there is PDF that has font subsets and these are not supported so well when importing it like in draw into the LibreOffice. So fidelity is compromised it's not the same as it would be rendered like in Adobe PDF reader or any more and better PDF reader like the ones that are usually in operating systems. So but what you get is we can edit it, we can edit the PDF, we can edit all the text and a lot of this is good and later we can export it and we have a new PDF document edited but it doesn't look the same so this is our problem. So we have another alternative inside LibreOffice and this is to import the PDF with PDFium which we then import as a graphic object and because we are using PDFium to render this as a graphic object the fidelity is better almost like we expect from a PDF viewer and we can import this like in graphic normally in LibreOffice but what we also can do is we can import the whole PDF document into the draw where each PDF page will be then inserted into draw as page and each draw page will have this PDF page graphic inserted for the whole draw page so it will look like draw is actually like a PDF reader. The problem with this is that of course because there are inserted as graphic we cannot edit them and this is let's say not ideal but it's a compromise and another thing is like this how we import is only this importer with PDFium is only available if you are unable to the environment variable so now so we go to collaborate online we had like some request from the customers they want to use instead of another PDF viewer they wanted to use collaborate online as the PDF viewer and of course we implemented this just for viewing of PDFs and use PDFium import as described before to do this in collaborate online we get this by default so if you open the PDF document it will be opened in draw like each page will go have a PDF page as a graphic but there are some missing features here which PDF viewers have for mostly the search is missing because we have this like PDF graphics we cannot search inside the graphics so and another I saw this was requested by OWN cloud they wanted to search another thing was that they are also in PDF like PDF viewers usually support annotations and these are comments and this was requested by Micro Focus so we first try to then create PDF search so how to do this the PDF pages are graphics so how can we search this is a problem but each graphic is still kept in SAP PDF in memory so it can be re-rendered so the idea is just that we can implement like we can use the existing search in draw what we do in this case is then that when we search draw we go through all objects and see okay this object is text and then we search inside text to find a match but when we have like this PDF graphics then we also go with search we go to PDF graphics but normally we just ignore it because we cannot do anything with it but we can extend now the search and say okay if we discover a PDF graphics then we can just search inside it we can use PDF and we can ask PDF to perform the search of the graphics to perform the search of the PDF inside the graphic and return result does there exist a string that we are searching or not inside PDF page so another issue here is also we want to show where in the graphics is the string that we are searching but we cannot select just some graphics so we have to extend like this to add new way how to select rectangles or to draw rectangles inside a graphic object and again we can ask PDF just can you give us whatever you found the text can you give us where this rectangle relative to the pages and then we can just draw the graphic like this graphic selection subselection how to say it okay and after some time we managed to do it so we so I have some examples some movies some videos how this search is working so now this is in like on our own cloud instance with collaboration line and here first this is open ODP documents so presentation as it's like draw or presentation or impress it's the same thing but the what is important for search PDF search is that we are searching for if there is a PDF graphic inside so it doesn't matter if it's a draw or impress so I first made this example for searching inside impress and I'm searching like this ABC now in this case you see like this title ABC this is like normal title page title object just text object but this ABC 123 this other this big ABC and other are actually PDFs and maybe this is not too clear from from this example so this is now we are searching ABC and also automatically goes to the next page and it also finds search results there maybe a little bit more clearly will be this example when we are like we load open cloud user manual and search inside this one so on cloud user on cloud manually is a PDF so now this is all these pages are actually are actually loaded inside draw as graphical pages and now we will try to search inside the search for the string on cloud and just go through now this is the result is our search inside PDF file actually and we can also go back one big problem here is that or like not say problem missing feature actually that we can search but we cannot copy this to clipboard if you find it find the text but we cannot do anything like copy to clipboard and paste it somewhere else for now this is something it's not yet been implemented so the next thing I want to talk about is the PDF annotation so so normally we have PDF can have many kind of annotations but inside draw we we have only okay I may be sure explain a little bit you have you can have inside PDF annotations like text or not annotation you have you can have like free text is just text like this in line node on the picture on the right side if you see this is free text it's more like a node but it's not pop especially in a pop up but in line inside of the document and then you have all like this graphical you cannot have line and polygon and like ink square and circles and polylines and then you have you can also also highlighted the text with highlight or you can underline it or with squiggly line or strike out and a lot of different you can also add a graphical stamp and and there are many many types of annotation we we we don't even support so many so and this is a problem and because we have PDF annotations are many varieties and we want to allow a lot of them so but in draw we have only comments and comments are just like note annotations texts where we go and we have a pop up window where the annotation is annotation text is presented so first idea is just to implement this text note annotation this is most common one and most easy to implement and how to do this is on import we can just read the PDF annotations that are again we just use PDF and see what annotations we have and then and and we read the annotations and forward it to the import where we create all this PDF graphics and at that time we we can say okay this PDF annotation we can support and add PDF of the annotation as a pro comment okay so here here is for example on the left side there is like this note or pop up annotation how it's presented inside PDF viewer and this is how we managed to do it as a comment in LibreOffice in this case so of course when we import the PDF annotations we have like these draw comments and we want to change them and but what to do next we also want to preserve and want to export them again so we can just use the existing PDF exports that this already supports that already supports the comments and comments writes like PDF annotations again and what I had to do for to get these is that most of these was already quite a good implemented and but there were some properties missing like pop-up has like modification date we just not exported and to make sure that this is working in the future I implemented a test that imports exports and imports so that this will keep working in the future there is one like discrepancy here is that in comments that we don't support colors but cores are supported by PDF notes and we didn't I didn't implement this yet in draw the comments are always hard coded whatever the I think it depends on the user username so that each user has always the same color but if there is another user it gets another color that is then I don't know in a list so so this is not ideal we cannot choose our own colors so another problem then when we get this implemented in LibreOffice and it works like so we can work with them maybe I need to implement also this in collaborate online and we had to extend LibreOffice kit another problem is that like drawing collaborate online is quite basic it's not it currently doesn't have any support you cannot use it except for PDF showing the PDF documents so because but we import we support impress and we need to show impress documents impress comments so we had some support for for that so what I needed to add is to show the comments on a draw page and the problem is like when you have like these comments you have to send okay I have on this page I have this and that comments and this needs to be then transported via adjacent to to the collaborate online instance and this I had to implement and of course when you are changing on call online you are changing or adding or removing comments you have to report this to the core then then there was no icons yet because when you had like this comments was only present on the right side but not no icon was shown inside the documents where the comment was added or you can you could not move it around this was to edit later on so what about other notations yes this is now work in progress I want later I'll show you what's the current state but what is the idea here is that we can support a lot of these graphic are like vector graphic annotation pdf annotations just by changing the default default marker to to draw a vector graphic instead depend on which type of pdf annotation is like we get polygon ink lines square or circle we can just draw this and get this graphic like graphic information from the pdf annotation and convert this to our own another type is then the text highlight annotations this is a little bit different because we are annotating the text itself and so this is a little bit bound to the text ideally like if we annotate text it would be highlight would be behind the text but we have a graphic the pdf as a graphic is not possible here so we have to compromise this and just have a like transparent rectangle over it but underlying a strike I should meet problem steering there is a problem later on when we try to annotate it ourselves when we try to add new annotations so this is now the current state I have already shown the left side which is a pf you are on the right side on the right side you can see then in the imported pdf inside LibreOffice maybe I can show what is the latest state of this so this is current state we already import also the lines but I have also other examples here okay here this is has more types of annotations like you can have field polygon like field elites rectangle okay this is freehand and this is the highlight sign so they are also working okay thanks for listening any questions so if there's no no questions we could probably move on to the next talk which is going to be from Angkor I have a question already asked in the chat is it I don't know how it works but when you scan the pdf and you have images and then with OCR you have the text behind this image so the quality of the pdf is always the same because you see the image but you can search because the text is somewhere in the background I don't know how it works but because it's the same issue you had you can't search in the pdf and yes would it be useful to use something like that for the searching or is already you fix the issue well we searched I like that we have a pdf graphic and then we asked the pdfium library to search it but I think that how OCR this is then a feature of a feature of pdf that you can have graphic and then like text added to the graphic so that you can search inside so this is a feature of the pdf itself I think but I'm not really familiar with this but I think this is something different what the problem here is because sometimes when I want to for example edit and pdf with draw it's very cool because everything was imported as text but in the end sometimes I only want to have the 100% same pdf and for example remove some text and add some new text so sometimes it's frustrated because the quality of the edited document is not the same gentlemen could you could you maybe take this this conversation off to the one of the other rooms that we have like the chat room that would be very helpful for us to keep everything going thank you thank you