1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Ok, the nearest bookish thing to me is a scientific journal that happens to start at page 612, so..hmm..it doesn't have a page 23. I guess I'll go to page 635 since it's 23 pages in. Anyway, the "book" is the May 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS for short).
"Laws are written without a good understanding of forecasting products and their reliability. For example, if manure may not be applied when there is a 40% chance of rain in the next 2-3 days, who provides the official prediction -- the National Weather Service, a private forecasting company, etc.? Not only are accurate forecasts needed, but forecasts that are downscaled to specific sites or areas are also needed."
Of all the things in the universe that depend on weather, why are they using manure as the example? I guess livestock is big business in Wisconsin.
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