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Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court should consider overturning a 55-year-old landmark ruling that makes it hard for public figures to win libel suits, writing in a case involving a woman who says Bill Cosby raped her.
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Faculty Handbook
The Faculty Handbook is issued to all full-time faculty in fulfillment of contractual requirements of the collective bargaining agreements between the Connecticut State University and the American Association of University Professors and SUOAF/AFSCME. In the event of discrepancies between provisions contained in the Faculty Handbook and the collective bargaining agreements, the collective bargaining agreements govern.
The Faculty Handbook also contains all Bylaws of the University Senate and its standing committees, plus policy documents adopted by the Senate.
The Purpose of the Faculty Handbook, in addition to meeting contractual obligations, is to provide faculty with an overview of the organization, policies, procedures, and services of Western Connecticut State University. It does not attempt to be definitive, nor does it duplicate material that is readily available in other documents. These documents are available in the Ruth A. Haas Library and other locations, as indicated.
Except for the section on University Governance, the Faculty Handbook is also a reference work for part-time teaching faculty and all other University employees. Full time and part-time AAUP faculty should refer to the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Connecticut State University American Association of University Professors and the Board of Trustees for Connecticut State University, August 25, 2007-August 25, 2011, and to successor Agreements. Part-time faculty should refer particularly to Articles 2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 4.6, 4.7.a, 4.13, 4.14, 9.1 – 9.1.3, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.5, 9.4.6, 9.7-9.9, 10.4-10.4.2, 10.7.1, 12.8-12.8.2, 13.9-13.10, 13.13, 14.2.1, 15, 16, and 18.6.
Administrative faculty should refer to the Collective Bargaining Agreement between State University Organization of Administrative Faculty AFSCME-Council 4-Local 2836 and the Board of Trustees for Connecticut State University System, July 1, 2007-June 30, 2011, and to successor Agreements.


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Which Professions Are Prospering?
A look at 2012's unemployment data shows it was a good year to be a metal worker or a credit analyst. Which jobs had record employment growth? Lauren Weber joins Markets Hub to discuss. Photo: Bloomberg.
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It didn't take long to bridge the gap between "very close" and done.
According to Jay Glazer of FOX Sports, the new contract extension agreed to by Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz is worth $43 million for the five new years of the deal, on top of the $2.987 million he was scheduled to make this year as a restricted free agent.
The deal also reportedly includes $15.6 million in guarantees, according to Glazer.
While a strong showing for Cruz, six years at roughly $46 million falls well short of what Cruz was hoping for early in the process.


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As the loggers moved deeper into the White Mountains, tourists continued to arrive. Some tourists stayed in the increasingly grand hotels, such as the Mountain View House, but many stayed in farm houses that were turned into small boarding houses such as the Mountain Park House or the Philbrook Farm Inn. After being "whirled along in the smoky rattle and roar of the railway journey," as AMC member and Framingham, Massachusetts resident Isabella Stone wrote to a friend in 1882, some tourists stayed near their hotels, venturing out only to take part in nearby hotel activities, but the more intrepid hikers went much farther afield. They took part in hikes to find grand views and in trail-building activities associated with the AMC.
Not all welcomed the new type of tourist: a reader in the Boston Traveller wrote:
"We are disgusted with the arrogant claims of educated tramps and 'culchowed' [cultured] pedestrians who have set up a sole-leather aristocracy, insisting that nobody can 'do' the mountains except under the aegis of the Appalachian Club, or on foot, alone with scribe and staff, wallet, hammer, and impaling needles."
There was tension even among tourists. Surprisingly, even as tourists complained about fires, they also hoped to keep the mountain tops clear so that they could enjoy the views, even if that meant cutting or burning trees. Isabella Stone wrote to a friend from New York who was traveling to the mountains: "the view from the summit is indeed beautiful and one must regret its already evident obstruction from the rising tops of a forest of young growth." In 1881, AMC member Marian Pychowska wrote to a friend that the top of Mount Kineo "has not been done as thoroughly as I hope it will be one day (not [yet] by fire)."


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It's been so long I had to look up what SARS stood for (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
That was part of the underlying score as I spent five weeks in two hospitals starting nine years ago early this morning.
Why was I laid up?
Well an item from Montréal in this morning's news brought it all back, except that I wasn't in an argument when I was hit.
Some of the details I remember quite clearly, as I recalled in my story, but the twenty-four-to-forty-eight hours following my mishap have been wiped from my memory – calling my friend Karen, Karen calling my Mom, Mom calling me. I had perked up a little by the time my sisters and Craig called. My down-and-out time was spent in surgery and recovering from it – repairing my right femur and radius by "internal fixation" one at a time, mind you, but under the same anesthetic (these x-rays are roughly what mine looked like when all was done.)
From the moment the first fire-truck arrived until my last day at the rehab hospital on June 6 SARS, and the necessary but de-humanizing preventive measures against it, was a constant fact of life in Toronto. The TV movie made about it wasn't far off the mark at all.
So nine years later, there's been a lot of water under the bridge, but I still see the places on my leg and arm where the incisions were made and on days when my body aches those two spots tend to lead off.
Once upon a time living to see 2003 seemed an unrealistic dream, and that spring was quite a nightmare, but I remember lying on my hospital bed "bargaining" to hopefully walk again, use a cane for the rest of my life even, and, while I thought I had to do so for some time, that is no longer the case.
This mishap was the catalyst for a lot of therapy – and not just of the physical variety. I became familiar with the idea that significant trauma can re-awaken (or rouse for the first time) past trauma. I've done a lot of work in nine years, if I do say so myself.
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Clark Vandeventer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for an established, corporate feel. But also want a cutting edge, different approach. Love the concept of acorns and oaks and the symbolism there. Have used in marketing materials in past.
The logo should have the words "Major Gifts Fundraising" I like the idea of having an acorn/oak and perhaps a dollar sign in the logo. Major Gifts Fundraising is a subsidiary of World Changers Inc. You can view what we have up now at http://www.worldchangers.us.com. You'll see we have a long way to go to get where we want to be.
I'm also working on a website. I'll share with you exactly what I shared with the person helping me with my website:
I like this site you previously sent me: http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/ but I want a more corporate feel.
Defenitely want people to be able to sign up for our blog and newsletter....this would be two separate things. We could have multiple blog entries over the course of a month. Newsletter may be a quarterly thing.
I plan to do a podcast and am recording now me doing several two minute vignettes.
I defenitely want an events section and want to utilize eventbrite.com or some other mechanism as an on-line RSVP tool and as a means of capturing information.
Obviously, capturing information, via events, podcasts, newsletter, blog subscriptions is all important.
Stephen Clouse & Associates -- http://www.stephenclouse.com/ -- is largely in the same market as me. I like his website, particuarly the quotes and endorsements that go across the home screen. You'll see something similar at http://www.fundraisingstrategies.com which is also in the same market as me (although both provide a different service than me).
I really like the whole look and feel of the Koch Foundation website at http://www.cgkfoundation.org/
A few general thoughts.
First is that I want a corporate or "established" feel to the site.
Second, I've previously used a lot of acorns and oaks in my materials. I like the concept and would like to continue this theme in some way.
Third, I'm building a business system. Or at least that's the goal. But in the end, clients really buy me. Therefore, the site should have pictures of me.
The site needs to explain what I now explain what I currently explain to each client individually. I know this is a content thing, but just saying it.
Have used shades of green in the past, but am open to something different.
Tag line: Audacious gifts, and the audacious vision that inspires them
I'm open.
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Jose Bautista hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning, and Rajai Davis scored on a wild pitch in the 10th to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-5 win over the Chicago White Sox at a dimmed U.S. Cellular Field on Tuesday night.
Chien-Ming Wang made his first start of the season after signing with the injury-riddled Blue Jays, lasting 7 1/3 innings while giving up five runs and 10 hits.
During the 10th, there was a brief delay after a handful of bulbs in the light standards above the infield at U.S. Cellular Field went out as Ramon Troncoso (0-1) prepared to throw his 2-1 pitch to Adam Lind. Following the delay, Davis scored on Troncoso's wild pitch.
Brett Cecil (2-0) went 1 2/3 innings for the win, and Casey Janssen pitched a scoreless 10th for his 13th save in 14 tries.
Alex Rios had three hits for the White Sox, and Conor Gillaspie ripped a three-run home run.
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Paul hit a three-run home run, Joey Votto added a two-run shot, and the Reds roughed up Matt Garza and the Cubs.
Tony Cingrani (3-0), filling in for the injured Johnny Cueto, pitched seven strong innings as Cincinnati extended its franchise-best winning streak at Wrigley Field to 11 games. Cingrani, from Chicago's south suburbs, allowed two runs and four hits, while striking out five and allowing one walk.
Zack Cozart added a three-run shot in the eighth, and Todd Frazier hit a solo homer in the second for the Reds.
Garza (1-1) was tagged for a career-high nine runs and nine hits in five-plus innings. He was lifted in the sixth after allowing six runs without retiring a batter.
Cardinals 9, Mets 2: Michael Wacha recovered
from a wild start to earn his first major league win, and Allen Craig hit a three-run homer for the Cardinals in a road victory over the staggering Mets.
Matt Holliday had three hits, and the NL Central leaders took advantage of a crucial error by new Mets first baseman Daniel Murphy, who shifted over from second after slumping Ike Davis got demoted to the minors.
David Freese extended his career-high hitting streak to 20 games, longest in the National League this season.
Wacha even knocked in a run with a groundout for his first RBI.
Omar Quintanilla homered for the Mets, who gave up seven unearned runs and lost for the seventh time in eight games.


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Walking with Dad at dusk through a cow field to get to an abandoned ruin in the Irish countryside;
Driving with Dad through the Twelve Bens, while he shared stories with us of cycling through the mountains;
Dad catching, as my brother Mike hit the hurly ball to him, one beautiful and bright afternoon on the shores of Dingle bay.
Sometimes I get lost in little glimpses:
Dad's hands, smoothing his hair, or moving through the air as he spoke.
Dad standing in the kitchen on a Sunday morning with bacon, eggs and black pudding on the cooker.
Resonances of the deep sigh Dad used to make when he was very frustrated, and the sound of the quiet way in which he laughed, have visited me of late.
The passage of time makes these small recollections ever more precious.


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At Valley Forge Casino Resort's onsite saloon, you'll find a bucking mechanical bull and bar-goers in cowboy boots strutting their way through line dances beneath colored lights. But this isn't the Wild West. Instead, the resort sits about 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia and just a short drive from Valley Forge National Historical Park. The hotel's complimentary shuttle will take you to the King of Prussia Mall, one of the country's largest shopping centers.
Inside the hotel, a casino brims with 600 slot machines and 50 tables for blackjack, craps, and roulette. Seven onsite restaurants cater to different cravings: there's casual sushi at Asianoodle, and Pacific Prime's upscale atmosphere complements dishes such as maine lobster and loch duart scottish salmon.
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania: Revolutionary History at Every Turn
Colonial and revolutionary history surround King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. George Washington led troops to battle in nearby Germantown, and Valley Forge National Historical Park houses the general's original headquarters and several soldier monuments. Take a Magical History Tour to follow the Continental Army's path to its 1777–1778 winter camp, or drive 30 minutes east to Chestnut Hill to stroll cobblestone streets dotted with shops and restaurants.


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Benilde-St. Margaret's head coach Ken Pauly celebrated after his team scored a goal in a 6-0 victory over Totino-Grace last month. The Red Knights had to learn to move on from Jack Jablonski's injury while not dismissing their friend and teammate.
Coach Ken Pauly couldn't help but get choked up.
His Benilde-St. Margaret's High School boys' hockey team had just won its section championship, deftly upsetting higher-ranked Minnetonka under the bright lights in front of big crowds at Mariucci Arena. And they had done it after getting smacked midseason with a life-altering tragedy: Jack Jablonski, their teammate and friend, had suffered a paralyzing injury playing the sport they all loved. In some ways, it had debilitated the whole team.
"I can't tell you how incredibly proud I am of you," Pauly's voice cracked in the silent locker room, where Jablonski sat in a wheelchair among a jumble of sticks, helmets and joyful, sweaty teammates last week. "Holding this ... together has not been easy."
As Benilde-St. Margaret's heads to the Class 2A state hockey tournament for the first time in four years on Thursday night, Pauly has traveled a course that few coaches have had to forge; remaining a coach to the rest of the team, bringing them through emotional depths and somehow keeping them focused on a sport for a few hours each day when a life drama is playing out in front of them.
"What do you do?" said Pauly, 47 years old and a coach for 22 years. "There's nothing in a manual."
Staring down the what-ifs
After a hit at a Dec. 30 tournament sent Jablonski to the hospital, most of the players assumed it couldn't possibly be that serious -- that he would get through it with a tough mind and modern medicine, Pauly said. But when doctors pronounced days later that Jack would likely never walk again, Pauly and the other coaches had to deliver the blow to the team.
"To give them that reality ... that flew in the face of the hope that they had," Pauly said, shaking his head. "It was shock."
Despair hung over them all for a while. Pauly and other coaches kept beating themselves up over "what-ifs." At the first few practices and games, players were tentative, distracted. The Red Knights aren't a physical team -- their strength and focus have been moving fast and passing the puck -- but right after Jablonski's injury, the players almost stopped checking entirely, Pauly said. He's seen glimpses of it all season.
"I probably can count on one hand ... the big hits that we have delivered in the offensive zone," he said.
His players were on the ice but their hearts, their emotions and their heads were someplace else.
The low point came in late January, when, as part of a fundraiser, each member of the team wore a jersey emblazoned with their teammate's number 13 and "Jablonski" stitched on the back.
"It was the worst thing we possibly could have done," Pauly said. It was a constant reminder for each player during the game.
It was then, he realized, it was time to call in a professional. In a group session with Hans Skulstad, a sports therapist, the boys played a numbers game, competing with one another to find and circle numbers on a matrix. It taught them something else.
Was that fun? Skulstad asked them when it was over, Pauly said. Did you like competing? Did you like winning?
Yes, the players said. Yes. Yes.
Did you feel that you were dishonoring Jack by doing that? Is it dishonoring him if you don't go out and do your best now?
It sent a message: The teammates could, in good conscience, play hard and love the game, all while still being concerned for their friend.
"How do we move on but how do we take Jack with us?" Pauly said. "And do it in a respectful way, in a way that's not schmaltzy or just cliché."
Winning streak
Players continued to visit Jablonski in the hospital often. Pauly and his staff ushered him into a new role by giving him game videotapes to watch and analyze, then seeking his advice.
Their play began to rebound, and the team has lost only one game since.
At their first sectional playoff game Feb. 23, Jablonski left the hospital to support the team in person, carefully maneuvering his electric wheelchair into the narrow locker room and surprising them with a wide grin as they came out of a pregame meeting. The players stood speechless at first. Then, one shouted excitedly, "What up, Jabs!" One by one, they gave Jabs fist bumps or hugs before taking to the ice, winning the game 7-0.
"It was almost a sigh of relief," captain Christian Horn said this week. Seeing Jablonski back in the locker room, knowing he was doing well in rehab and knowing he was still part of the team and sharing in the experience means a lot to him and his teammates, Horn said.
Captain Jake Horton credits his coaches for "bringing the whole team back in, not forgetting about Jack but making sure that once we step on the ice, we are playing our game."
Pauly has been careful not to dedicate the team's season to Jablonski. Hockey seasons end, he said, and Jack will need support longer than that.
"Dealing with an adult situation like this ... it's centered them a little bit more, I think," Pauly said. It has helped give the team a sense of purpose, he said, and talented teams with a sense of purpose can be dangerous on the ice.
Horn and Horton say the team is ready to face Edina on Thursday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Coming off the section championship with everything clicking, the players know their potential, Horn said. "I feel like we're onto something special here."
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Designed to be ultra-compact, this charger is convenient to carry with you while traveling. Included with the wall charger adapter is the Micro-USB data cable that measures 3 feet in length, enough to reach around common obstacles.


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Miio needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We are tech geeks. Not designers. (Obviously) But we know good design when we see it. We have been banging away on the back end. Now its time to focus on the front end. That's where you come in. We are launching our new microblogging site in the coming months and we need your help . We need designs for our Group profile page and our Member profile page. (see attached) We don't need code. We have plenty. We need you!
Our audience are microblggers and or social networkers. You know. People that use Twitter, Facebook, Posterous and Tumblr. When we think about our audience. We think hip. Urban. Clean. Apple. You get the picture.
You will be creating 2 pages. One for the Member profile page and the other for a Group profile page.
Look at our mockups :(
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• Although the Member page and the Group pages are similar there should be distinct visual elements-so that a visitor can tell one from another.
• The top navigation is non scrollable and always in view. If you want to use up a little more vertical space go ahead, but not too much more (We don't want the top navigation taking up too much of the screen)
• Don't lose any of the other links on the page. Put them where they make sense. Designwise.
• Place the message creation box in the center of the page. Go ahead and redo the icons if you want (One for -message, poll, review, question, link, photo, video, document, and location)
• Please place the message stream in the center of the page. And go ahead and redesign the look of the messages too. Please notice that many of the messages will need to accommodate a thumbnail.
• Create the page(s) in a way that our members can upload a background image and or select a background color.
• The "follower" collage allows for 36 member thumbnails
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More than 150 people gathered Monday morning at the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
More than 150 people gathered Monday morning at the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Members from the Lexington City Council, the justice system, Lexington City Schools, the faith community and others attended the breakfast at the J. Smith Young YMCA in Lexington. The event, held on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, was sponsored by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Lexington Alumnae Chapter.
"I'm so happy to be with you on this King holiday, on this Inauguration Day (for President Barack Obama), on this day of community service, on this day on and not a day off," said the Rev. Dr. George B. Jackson, pastor of Citadel of Faith Christian Fellowship in Thomasville and founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Action Committee Inc. "I'm so grateful to our host this morning as they observe their 100th anniversary. We want to congratulate Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. for their 100 years of community service. I'm sure your founders would be proud for all you do to make our nation a great place to live."
In his remarks, Jackson called King his "hero" and "America's greatest orator."
He told of the pain and agony Africans went through as they endured slavery. He reminded those in attendance of how far things have come for equality to be established in the United States.
"Our ancestors were victims of human bondage," Jackson said. "… God emancipated our people. … The Europeans kidnapped us from our homelands. Our ancestors arrived on the shores of America at times wearing only shackles and chains."
Jackson made reference of laws in the United States that banned instruction of reading and writing for African-Americans.
"God brought us from Howard University to Hampton Institute, from Delaware State to N.C. A&T," Jackson said, as he listed a number of historically black colleges and universities.
He told of the strides made of people in the public eye concerning their race.
"From Jack Dempsey to Muhammad Ali, look at where (God) brought us from," Jackson said. "From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, from Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, from George Washington to the 44th president of the United States of America."
Jackson's audience cheered and clapped.
"How grateful we shall be on this day," Patricia Ijames, president of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Lexington Alumnae Chapter, said during the breakfast.
Lexington Mayor Newell Clark, Lexington City Schools Superintendent Rick Kriesky and Davidson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Fred Mock provided greetings at the breakfast.
Clark stated that 52 percent of the people in the City of Lexington are of the female gender, and 52 percent are of color. Race doesn't matter as Lexington residents need to come together as a community, the mayor said.
Clark made mention of what he calls a historic vote at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 in which the Lexington City Council will hold a public hearing and decide on renaming Raleigh Road and Sixth Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
"There are folks who are against it," the mayor said. "There are folks in the community who don't believe in it."
Clark urged those at the breakfast to attend the meeting.
"I need to see you there," he said. "I want to have to fight my way through the crowd to get to my seat."
Kriesky said part of King's message is that education is the "great equalizer for all citizens."
"Dr. King fought for equality for all regardless of race and cultural diversity," he said. "I think it's very significant in Lexington City Schools we represent that diversity, the diversity that is in our nation, in our state and in our cities."
Kriesky said it's the Lexington Board of Education's opinion that the renaming of Raleigh Road would help emphasize to students the importance of King's life and accomplishments. He said he will present a resolution on behalf of the school board regarding the renaming of the road to the Lexington City Council on Jan. 28.
Mock said he thinks he's been to each of the breakfasts over the past 24 years. He recalled how in the 1960s in Davidson County there were two buses, which each carried children of different races.
"One, some of my neighbors got on and went to a different school, and one, some of my neighbors got on and went to the school I went to," Mock said. "I come here every year to give thanks for Dr. King."
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Dance. In Workshop 2010 the dancers of the Göteborg Ballet let their creativity flow when creating short pieces for the other dancers of the company. Performed at Pustervik.
The Göteborg Ballet dances ground-breaking new works that will both surprise and challenge you. The goal is to be at the forefront of European contemporary dance. Tours and guest performances locally, nationally and internationally form an important part of the work to reach this goal. The Göteborg Ballet should be the first thing that comes to anybody's mind when curious about what direction European contemporary dance is taking.
In a season already full of world premières, the dancers of the Göteborg Ballet will now unleash their creativity. For Workshop 2010, a number of the dancers will each take on the role of choreographer and create a short piece for the other dancers of the company. The Göteborg Ballet has a tradition of encouraging members of the company to try their hand at choreography - a tradition that now has taken an exciting new turn. Workshop 2010 has been created in co-operation with Pustervik. Music, theatre, film, photography and performance - this performance has no barriers. Performed on 6 and 7 November at Pustervik.
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Hokuto Kodama,
Satoko Takahashi
Danielle de Vries
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Jérôme Delbey
Erik Johansson
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Toby Kassel
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Revs and Earthquakes trade chances from start to finish, but defense wins out in an entertaining scoreless draw
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Saturday night's meeting between the New England Revolution and San Jose Earthquakes wasn't short on action, but it was short on goals. Although both teams were dangerous in the attacking third, neither club found a way to make the decisive breakthrough and the result was a 0-0 draw in front of 13,611 fans at Gillette Stadium.
Senegalese midfielder Joseph Niouky came closest for the Revs when he struck the post with an optimistic 35-yard blast in the 62nd minute. Six minutes later, Revolution goalkeeper Preston Burpo – who made six saves to preserve his second shutout of the season – stoned Earthquakes defender Bobby Burling's breakaway attempt with a brave body block.
The shutout was a positive result for the Revolution (2-5-2, 8 pts.) – which has been prone to defensive lapses in recent weeks – but the draw did extend the club's winless streak to six games (0-4-2) in the league and seven games (0-5-2) in all competitions. It was the first draw of the season for the Earthquakes (4-2-1, 13 pts.), who have now held their opponents scoreless for three consecutive games.
For the third straight league match, injuries left the Revs unable to fill out a full game-day roster and they dressed just 16 players. That group included defenders Kevin Alston (R hamstring strain) and Cory Gibbs (R quad strain) – both of whom started on the backline after recovering from their respective injuries – and midfielder Marko Perovic, who returned to the lineup after serving a one-game suspension last weekend against the Crew. With just three healthy defenders, midfielder Pat Phelan filled in as a central defender.
Phelan and the rest of the backline were under pressure on a few occasions in the opening 10 minutes as the Earthquakes settled into their typical attacking style. Burpo came up big in the eighth minute to deny Ryan Johnson's first-time shot after he was set up by Chris Wondolowski, who had a four-game goal-scoring streak snapped on Saturday night.
After absorbing the early pressure, the Revs slowly began to work themselves into the game and were firmly in control for the remainder of the first half. A pair of long-distance free kicks from Perovic and a tight-angle drive from Chris Tierney represented the best chances in the middle portion of the stanza, but despite their offensive thrust, the Revs didn't force Earthquakes goalkeeper Joe Cannon into a save.
Cannon was called into action in the 43rd minute, however, when his fantastic diving stop kept the game scoreless going into the halftime break. A half-clearance from the San Jose defense fell to Sainey Nyassi 20 yards from goal, and the Gambian let fly on a full volley. The shot was pegged for the upper left corner, but Cannon stretched to parry the ball over the end line.
New England continued to push forward early in the second half and Kheli Dube forced another diving save out of Cannon with a long-range shot in the 48th minute. Five minutes later, Perovic's low corner kick to the near post was cleverly flicked on by Seth Sinovic, but the effort looped just over the crossbar.
Niouky came inches from finally breaking the deadlock – and scoring his first goal for the Revs – in the 62nd minute, but his 35-yard drive struck the left post and kicked back into the middle of the box. Perovic was first to the rebound and directed a shot on target, but it was weakly hit and didn't trouble Cannon.
Two minutes later, the Earthquakes built a response through Johnson. Burpo came well off his line to deal with a long ball, but Johnson reached it first and attempted to round the Revs keeper. Johnson got a shot off from a tight angle, but Burpo recovered to paw the shot away.
Burpo denied Johnson again in the 67th minute, diving to his left to parry a close-range header from Wondolowski's bouncing service. Just one minute later, Burpo came up with the save of the game, making himself big and using his body to save Burling's blast after the defender was put clean through on goal.
The Earthquakes continued to look the more likely side to score in the late stages, and Wondolowski blasted just high from the right side of the box in the 78th minute, but it proved to be the last quality chance of the match.
Next up for the Revs is a midweek friendly against Portuguese club SL Benfica on Wednesday, May 19. Kickoff from Gillette Stadium is set for 8 p.m. The Revolution will then return to league action on Saturday, May 22, when the club travels north of the border to visit Toronto FC at BMO Field at 1 p.m.
New England Revolution (2-5-2, 8 pts.) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (4-2-1, 13 pts.)
May 22, 2010 – Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
Scoring Summary:
New England Revolution: Preston Burpo (GK), Kevin Alston, Cory Gibbs ©, Pat Phelan, Seth Sinovic, Chris Tierney, Marko Perovi?, Joseph Niouky, Zak Boggs( Khano Smith 70), Kheli Dube (Zack Schilawski 70), Sainey Nyassi
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Kenny Mansally, Nico Colaluca
STATS: Shots: 11;Shots on Goal: 4; Saves: 6; Corner Kicks: 8; Offside: 3; Fouls Committed: 13
San Jose Earthquakes: Joe Cannon (GK), Chris Leitch, Bobby Burling, Jason Hernandez, Ramiro Charles, Joey Gjersten, Andre Luiz, Brandon McDonald, Bobby Convey, Ryan Johnson, Chris Wondolowski (Cornell Glen 83)
Substitutes Not Used: Jon Busch, Brad Ring, Ramon Sanchez, Scott Sealy, Justin Morrow, Omar Jasseh
STATS: Shots: 13; Shots on Goal: 6; Saves: 4; Corner Kicks: 7; Offside: 3; Fouls Committed: 12
Misconduct Summary:
SJ – Ramiro Carrales (caution) 20
NE – Joseph Niouky (caution) 39
Referee: Terry Vaughn
Referee's Assistants: Sean Hurd, Greg Barkey
Fourth Official: Niko Bratsis
Weather: Sunny and 69 degrees
Attendance: 13,611


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The governor appoints, with Senate confirmation, five commissioners to staggered five-year terms. The commissioners must come from and represent specific areas of expertise: law, environment, economics, science/engineering, and the public at large.
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The Warren-Alquist Act became effective January 7, 1975, and Governor Jerry Brown appointed the first commissioners. Thus, each Commissioner's five-year-term expires on January 6th of the year in which that particular office needs to be appointed or re-appointed. Section 25206 of the Act gives the Governor 30 days to appoint a new commissioner or re-appoint the incumbent, and if the Governor fails to do so within that period, the Senate Rules Committee may appoint someone to that office. Governors have often made informal arrangements with the Chair of the Senate Rules Committee to give themselves more time.
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One Million Moms says Geico car insurance ad promotes bestiality
The last time the group One Million Moms got upset about a commercial promoting bestiality was seven months ago. The offensive ad that time was a Skittles commercial that began and ended with a girl making out with a CGI walrus. Just in case you didn't get that, a real live human girl was making out with a real live computer-generated walrus, and One Million Moms (an organization which is, by their own admission, only thousands of moms) publicly wailed and gnashed their teeth over the promotion of bestiality.
Now new charges of unsavory love of animals have been leveled at a Geico commercial featuring repeat character Maxwell the Pig. Maxwell's a CGI swine who's been placed in various situations for more than a year, promoting car insurance giant Geico and its app that allows Maxwell to get speedy service 24 hours a day. In the latest spot, he's on a date and when his car breaks down in a secluded area, and his date isn't in such a hurry for the tow truck to arrive. From where we sit, the way it plays out, though, is totally harmless; most kids wouldn't even get the suggestion, and any kid ought to know that girls just don't get down like that with digital pigs.
One Million Moms has its eye on Geico, though, saying, "A bridesmaid was flirting with the gecko in a different commercial, so this is just becoming a norm for GEICO it seems." If you think you can stand the filth, the commercial at issue is below.
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Hypersecretion is when too many hormones are secreted from a gland. Hyposecretion is when too few hormones are released.
There are many types of disorders that can result when too much or too little of a hormone is released.
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Kronenberg HM, Melmed S, Larsen PR, Polonsky KS. Principles of endocrinology. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, eds. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 1.
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Herbicide-resistant waterhemp will challenge Midwestern soybean growers this year. The challenge will be compounded by the weed's increased resistance to herbicides with multiple modes of action, according to University of Illinois weed scientist Aaron Hager. This will limit the efficacy of herbicides on waterhemp and greatly complicate weed management programs, especially if the resistance is at a plant level and not just a field level.
"Field-level multiple resistance is when resistance to herbicides from more than one site of action is present within the population growing in any particular field," Hager says. "When multiple-herbicide resistance occurs at the plant level, individual plants demonstrate resistance to herbicides encompassing more than one site of action."
When three types of resistance are present at the field level and individual plants are resistant to only one herbicide, a grower can use a three-way tank mixture of herbicides A, B, and C to control all the plants in the field.
But this strategy will not work when individual plants possess resistance to the three herbicides. Tank mixtures of herbicides A, B, and C will not control the individual plants.
Hager says multiple resistance often occurs at both field and plant levels in one field. Plants resistant to just one herbicide (or herbicide family) populate the field with others plants that are resistant to multiple herbicide families. Tankmixing two or more postemergence herbicides may not effectively control herbicide-resistant waterhemp under these conditions.
University of Illinois weed science specialists have screened waterhemp for resistance to glyphosate, PPO inhibitors and ALS inhibitors. Last year, they screened 408 plants from 97 different fields suspected of having glyphosate-resistant waterhemp. Of the 408 plants submitted, 13% were sensitive to all three herbicides. The rest of the plants were resistant to at least one herbicide (28% to glyphosate, 19% to ALS inhibitors, and 3% PPO inhibitors).
On a field basis, the percentages were different. Only 4% of the 97 fields sampled had no herbicide-resistant waterhemp. About 25% of the fields contained waterhemp that was resistant to PPO inhibitors, 84% contained waterhemp resistant to ALS inhibitors, and 66% contained glyphosate-resistant waterhemp.
"Keep in mind that these fields — and plants within fields — were not randomly selected but were sampled based on suspected resistance to glyphosate," Hager says. He also notes that the field-level results are based on small samples (five or fewer plants per field). "It is likely that, had a larger number of samples been taken, we would have found more fields with resistance to ALS and PPO inhibitors," he says.
Even with the small sample size, over 10% of the fields contained three different types of herbicide resistance. This greatly increases the difficulty of managing weed populations using only postemergent herbicides labeled for use in conventional or glyphosate-resistant soybean varieties. Results from this and previous surveys suggest that glyphosate-resistant waterhemp occurs in many fields across the southern two-thirds of Illinois.
This survey was only one project in the ongoing research portfolio on herbicide-resistant weeds in Illinois. Weed scientists at several Illinois universities are studying this phenomenon and working to develop viable solutions for Illinois farmers. Much of this research is made possible by multiple public and private funding sources, including the Illinois Soybean Association.


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Can you believe how beautiful Jay-Z and Beyonce's baby is? Look at these first pics! Forget magazine covers, Beyonce and Jay-Z chose to share their first-born baby with the world via Tumblr. The couple posted photos of their month-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, Feb. 10 and the family of three couldn't look happier. "We welcome you to share in our joy," they wrote. "Thank you for respecting our privacy during this beautiful time in our lives." Do you think Blue Ivy resembles her mom or dad more?
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China has made a momentous decision to liberalize internet access within the planned Shanghai free-trade zone to websites seen as politically sensitive including Facebook, Twitter and the New York Times, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
"In order to welcome foreign companies to invest and to let foreigners live and work happily in the free-trade zone, we must think about how we can make them feel at home," said one of the government sources who declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of the topic.
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I am trying to understand python hash function under the hood. I created a custom class where all instances return the same hash value.
class C(object):
def __hash__(self):
return 42
I just assumed that only one instance of the above class can be in a set at any time, but in fact a set can have multiple elements with same hash.
c, d = C(), C()
x = {c: 'c', d: 'd'}
print x
# {<__main__.C object at 0x83e98cc>:'c', <__main__.C object at 0x83e98ec>:'d'}
# note that the dict has 2 elements
I experimented a little more and found that if I override the
__eq__ method such that all the instances of the class compare equal, then the set only allows one instance.
class D(C):
def __eq__(self, other):
return hash(self) == hash(other)
p, q = D(), D()
y = {p:'p', q:'q'}
print y
# {<__main__.D object at 0x8817acc>]: 'q'}
# note that the dict has only 1 element
So I am curious to know how can a dict have multiple elements with same hash. Thanks!
Note: Edited the question to give example of dict (instead of set) because all the discussion in the answers is about dicts. But the same applies to sets; sets can also have multiple elements with same hash value.


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Mayor Thomas M. Menino spent Thanksgiving in Brigham and Women's Hospital, visited by friends and family, a spokeswoman said.
The mayor shared the holiday with his wife Angela Menino, daughter Susan Menino Fenton, son Thomas Menino Jr., his six grandchildren, and two close personal friends, according to Dot Joyce, the mayor's spokeswoman.
Friday marks the start of Menino's fifth week in the hospital.
Menino has been in the hospital since Oct. 26, after returning early from a vacation in Italy. While initially hospitalized for an upper respiratory infection and a blood clot that traveled from his leg to his lungs, Menino was forced to extend his stay because of a compression fracture in his back.
Joyce said the mayor missed his usual Thanksgiving visits to organizations feeding those in need.
"He's disappointed that he's missing the holiday," Joyce said. "He does enjoy this day, going to all the stops he usually does and bringing attention to the issues of homelessness and hunger."
A traditional turkey dinner was on the menu, to be shared with hospital staff.
Joyce said Menino continues to improve and is now "much stronger than he was last week," but back pain continues to be an issue.
"It's certainly something they're trying to manage," Joyce said of the pain, "while he also does some rehab."
Health issues have dogged the 69-year-old mayor, and over the past two years he has been seen wearing a walking boot and using crutches.
Menino's representatives say that the mayor has continued his work from the hospital, making policy decisions and receiving updates on city issues through top aides, including Joyce, who visits him at the hospital regularly.
Other city officials, including Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis and Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, told the Globe this week they had visited Menino to discuss city business in recent days.
While the mayor may carry on many tasks of governing during his convalescence, his absence is felt at public events.
Known for meeting constituents face to face at events around the city, Menino is especially active during the holiday season, attending more than a dozen annual tree lightings and other celebrations.
Menino's daughter has filled in for him at some recent events, including the distribution of coats to children at the Tobin Community Center in Roxbury on Nov. 10, and the kickoff for the city's annual Holidays on Main Streets campaign in the South End on Wednesday.
The mayor also missed events during the 2010 holiday season. That year, he was hospitalized after he contracted a skin infection during another trip to Italy. He later underwent surgery for a partially torn tendon in his right knee.
Spending more than a month out of the public eye — the mayor has not been in City Hall since departing for Italy — could have political consequences. Already Boston's longest-serving mayor, with more than 19 years in office, Menino is considering running next year for a sixth term. His hospitalization forced him to cancel a breakfast fund-raiser scheduled for Nov. 20.Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeremycfox.


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A few weeks ago we talked about how to make your website appear more trustworthy to prospective customers. One of the other ways you can give your site an air of trustworthiness, is to place credit card icons on your ecommerce store.
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19 comments
July 30 2012, 11:13AM
Thanks for the great resources guys!
August 05 2012, 01:35AM
Thanks for this!
December 15 2012, 01:03AM
Thanks for this.
Has any one been able to install any of these?
If you could please be so kind to email me on 'email@example.com' and email me some instructions on how you did it, I would really appreciate that.
I am totally new to Shopify so I am going through a steep learning curve.
Thanks for your help.
December 16 2012, 03:10AM
Thank you! Really appreciated!
April 22 2013, 11:21AM
Any chance for the 2x version or svg? Thanks!
April 25 2013, 06:33PM
Visa Debit icon needs to be added to this collection. Nice work
April 30 2013, 11:04AM
Great job on these. Going to put them to good use. Thanks!
June 13 2013, 05:55PM
Thank You, this really help me out. i was looking for credit card icons to put on my site ( www.bulkofficesupply.com ) because the ones that are there are a little out dated. These icons should help with the overall visual appeal of my site. Thanks again.
November 27 2013, 05:02PM
Any chance you will add a Bitcoin icon in the same style too? :-)
August 23 2014, 03:18PM
Thank you for this.
I adopted these icons to my iOS library BKMoneyKit. ( https://github.com/bkook/BKMoneyKit )
If there is any problem about using images for my library, please let me know.
October 27 2015, 08:42PM
I need the icon in black and white or gray scale. Has anyone converted them?
September 11 2016, 08:02PM
Isn't the Amex logo breaking their logo usage guidelines? Their logo is a square and the guidelines say you are not allowed to crop it.
December 29 2016, 12:49PM
Thank you
December 30 2016, 07:02PM
Hi Folks, has anyone been able to install these icons on their site? Please can such a person help me out for my shopify store. You can please send the instruction to my email
email@example.com or email@example.com
February 01 2017, 01:14PM
Thanks for the icons, I installed them and looks perfect.
Hi Michael, let me know if you still need help, I am glad to help you out.
February 07 2017, 10:53AM
Thanks for the very nice icons!
February 07 2017, 03:40PM
Hi I am new to shopify, I have set up the payments, however, I have no visa icon. Any help on how I can install the above visa image?
October 18 2017, 03:34AM
Thank you!
October 18 2017, 03:34AM
Thank you!


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Rhinelander's hanging floral baskets blooming in greenhouse, nearly ready to go up
Submitted: 05/09/2013
- We all could use a little taste of summer, especially on a cool, rainy day like Thursday was. In just a few weeks, summer should be on full display in downtown Rhinelander.Hanging floral baskets will go up on Brown, Davenport and Stevens Streets early next month. The Rhinelander Women's Club paid $1,000 for them. All 112 planters are just starting to bloom in Forth Floral's greenhouse. Teams planted the petunias back in April. The Forth Floral crew has been providing the flowers for the last eight years. Greenhouse Manager Henning Hempel knows the hard work is worth it in the end."It adds a lot to downtown Rhinelander and that's what we are aiming for," Hempel said. "That was the whole program from the DRI that we improve the downtown looks and I think it's a good part of it."Each basket has 25 plants in it. Once they're up, the flowers need watering every day. If you're interested in helping, you can contact Downtown Rhinelander Inc at 715-362-7374.
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Ray Lewis's retirement party countdown on a billboard near you
Posted by Steve Silva, Boston.com Staff January 16, 2013 02:03 PM
FOXBOROUGH -- There's bulletin board material. Then there's billboard material.
Clear Channel Outdoor has put up a billboard on Rte. 93 north on the Medford/Stoneham line, and on Rte. 495 in Lawrence, that's surely going to get some attention in Baltimore and beyond.
The billboard promotes Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis's retirement party that may take place at Gillette Stadium Sunday night if the Patriots are victorious.
Clear Channel has been tweeting about the billboard today:
Here's the countdown to Ray Lewis' retirement party at Gillette Stadium on Sunday. No more games after loss to Pats. twitter.com/MassBillboards— CCO_Boston (@MassBillboards) January 16, 2013
Hopefully, the Patriots come through on their end of the deal, otherwise this billboard will come down in a hurry.
We've expanded The Buzz from a page of Red Sox trade talk and reports to a full-blown blog filled with news from around the web, viral videos, and commentary from the Boston.com sports producers.
The main contributors to The Buzz are:
- Steve Silva, Boston.com senior sports producer
- Gary Dzen, Boston.com senior sports producer
- Zuri Berry, Boston.com sports producer
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text: Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new MacArthur-supported study, Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program: Final Evaluation. The study was the first to employ a randomized experimental design — akin to a randomized clinical trial used to test the efficacy of new drugs — to learn about the connections between neighborhood poverty and health. It was published Oct. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine in a special article, "Neighborhoods, Obesity and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment."


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The new Shot! Lady-S range of darts is designed especially for the fashion conscience lady dart player who wants stylish modern darts but lets her optimise her darting performance. They are specially designed to complement the playing style of ladies with a gentler grip and also offer different balance points. We felt there was a real gap in the market for elegant feminine darts for the serious women dart player
Shot Flights
Shot Shafts
Barrel Length - 1 13/16"
Barrel Diameter - 17/64" thickest
All Darts Sold in a Set of 3
- Specifications
Brand: Shot
Dart Weight: 24gm
Barrel Length: 45.00mm - 49.99mm
Barrel Diameter: 6.50mm - 6.99mm
Color: Pink
Length: 46.04mm
Category: Darts
Type: Steel Tip Darts
Model: Lady-S
Material: 80% Tungsten
Width: 6.75mm
Quantity: 3
Full Weight: 26gm
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The dart you order should match with the Barrel pictured. All other components of the dart (flights, shafts and tips) may vary in color and length upon receipt.
Please call with any questions if you are concerned about the components of your dart.
The diameter measurement is the fattest part of the barrel.
This is the barrel length only and is rounded to the nearest 10th of an inch.
The barrel length and diameter are subject to change by the manufacturer without notice.
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In an expected move the Mercedes GP team announced the signing of young Briton Lewis Hamilton ending speculation about Michael Schumacher renewing with the Mercedes GP unit. Lewis Hamilton ofcourse didn't show any loyalty to the team that trained him as a kid (McLaren Mercedes) and pretty much gifted him a formula one seat. But that's a story for another day.
So why did Mercedes not sign Michael Schumacher on for another season and what does the future hold for him ?
Mercedes decision to go ahead with Lewis Hamilton is linked to Michael's indecisiveness on renewing his Mercedes contract. No doubt Mercedes wanted to renew his contract, just that Michael and his camp were showing disinterest. And in a sport that moves as fast as formula one, that can be a crime. So Mercedes covered their butts by signing a good driver in Lewis Hamilton and now potentially leaving Michael with an embarrassing end to his comeback.
At the start of the season, many of F1 who's who, including Bernie Ecclestone and Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn had predicted Michael Schumacher to win not only races in the 2012 season but the formula one driver's championship. Sadly 14 races into the season, the F1 veteran has failed to finish 50% of the time. To his credit around 5 times it has been something which was not his fault. But still the statistics on paper look pretty bad.
But does that mean Michael Schumacher should quit formula one and not risk another season ? Hell No ! , Michael is driving pretty well, many a times you can see its the car which is the limiting factor and not the driver. The person who put his legacy on the time by coming back from retirement needs a better ending to formula one.
Ofcourse it would be hard to match his previous career stint , but it doesn't mean he shouldn't try. Sauber has expressed interest in signing on the ace German and as his fans we can only hope that he accepts the offer. Whatever the future holds, here is one Schumacher fan who would love him forever 🙂


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Finding the solution to some crop diseases is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. The solution has many pieces, and fitting them together can be a challenge. Citrus greening, also known as "Huanglongbing" (HLB), is just such a disease. HLB is costing Florida citrus growers millions of dollars each year in lost revenue from unproductive trees. It continues to spread and is the most serious threat to the U.S. citrus industry in history. The disease was recently confirmed in commercial groves in Texas and in a homeowner's yard in California. Both states are important citrus producers, and if HLB spreads in these states the way it has throughout Florida, the economic consequences will be devastating.
The Agricultural Research Service is working aggressively with university and private-industry partners to help mitigate the threat posed by HLB. The goal is to keep the U.S. citrus industry sustainable and profitable and to preserve the nutritious and delicious array of fruits and juices that people have come to treasure.
Solving the HLB puzzle depends on developing a deeper understanding of its complicated nature. HLB is presumed to be caused by nonculturable, Gram-negative bacteria belonging to the genus Candidatus Liberibacter. So far, the species of bacteria associated with HLB in the United States is Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, which is transmitted by the Asian citrus psyllid, an insect.
The puzzle pieces are questions that constitute gaps in our knowledge: Do some types of citrus have a natural resistance that can be bred into commercial varieties? How can psyllid populations be effectively suppressed? Are there molecular tools for tapping into the genomes of the psyllid or bacterium in ways that would "disarm" them? How do we replant young, healthy trees and keep them free of HLB? Is there a cure for infected trees?
In this issue, you can read about some of ARS's efforts, including research in Fort Pierce, Florida, to exploit a fungal pathogen that keeps the psyllid in check and to help juice processors maintain their high standards (see "Helping Citrus Growers Deal With a Nasty Invader" article in this issue). We also explore investigations in Albany and Davis, California, to determine whether citrus amino acids hold clues to attack strategies used by the Liberibacter bacterium (see "Orange Juice Amino Acids May Reveal Secrets to Quelling Citrus Greening Disease" article in this issue).
Other ARS research includes disease modeling and tracking in Fort Pierce, which provides valuable guidance to state and federal regulatory agencies that use the research to make decisions designed to curb the spread of HLB and the psyllid.
The ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus and Dates in Riverside, California, maintains a diverse collection of citrus and its relatives in a disease-free environment. The repository is instrumental in ensuring that citrus trees provided to commercial operations are free of known pathogens. A team of ARS and university scientists there is screening citrus relatives for sources of natural resistance to the disease, the psyllid, or both.
In Fort Collins, Colorado, scientists are working on cryopreservation techniques that show promise for long-term storage of genetic materials and that also have potential for eliminating pathogens from propagative materials.
The psyllid genome has been sequenced and made publicly available by an ARS scientist in Fort Pierce, and researchers there are exploring ways to use RNA interference technology to silence genes critical to the psyllid's survival.
In Albany, scientists completed the genome sequence of Carrizo citrange, an important citrus rootstock, which will help in the search for genes that may be used to genetically improve citrus for HLB resistance.
In Parlier, California, a researcher is using genomic sequences of a wide range of Liberibacter isolates to develop diagnostics based on specific "DNA signatures," so that when HLB is detected in a citrus tree, it can be traced to its source. Such forensic abilities are in demand among scientists trying to track down sources of new infections in California and Texas, where the incidence of HLB is still low.
ARS scientists working in quarantine facilities in Beltsville and Fort Detrick, Maryland, maintain a collection of HLB isolates from around the world for comparative genetic analyses. Those at Fort Detrick have made progress in diagnosing and differentiating world isolates, andin Beltsville, they are using comparative genomics to identify genes and proteins that may provide an understanding of the role of Liberibacter in HLB disease development.
Currently, the only way to control HLB is to remove infected trees and suppress the psyllid vector. This approach presents difficult choices to growers because many are reluctant to destroy infected trees. A wide range of possible treatments and solutions is being explored for successful management in the future. Together, these efforts are moving us toward the ultimate goal of maintaining a profitable and competitive U.S. citrus industry and eliminating this global threat altogether.
Gail Wisler
ARS National Program Leader
Horticulture and Sugar
Beltsville, Maryland
"Forum" was published in the January 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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Trapper Joe LaFont and Trigger Tommy Chauvin of the television show "Swamp People" are appearing Friday and Saturday at the Feb. 22-24 Central Carolina Boat & Fishing Expo at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.
Trapper Joe LaFont and Trigger Tommy Chauvin of the television show "Swamp People" are appearing Friday and Saturday at the Feb. 22-24 Central Carolina Boat & Fishing Expo at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.
"Swamp People," which takes place within the Atchafalaya Swamp, La., airs Thursdays on the History channel at 9 p.m. The inhabitants battle the effects of Hurricane Isaac, fish kills, Texas poachers, and other perils as they hunt gators and struggle to survive in this untamed land of marshes and bayous.
LaFont and Chauvin are available for photos and autographs 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Chase Devereaux is scheduled to speak at the Oklahoma Bass Tub while the Catfish and Trout Pond gives fishermen of all ages a chance to catch a big one.
Special attractions include the Scuba Diving Simulation Pool where visitors can borrow scuba gear to take lessons with a certified instructor while the N.C. Bass Federation "Kids Corner" has activities for the younger set.
An admission ticket entitles guests to attend free saltwater and freshwater seminars throughout the weekend. Freshwater anglers presenting seminars include touring pro Bryan Thrift of Shelby, the 2010 FLW Tour Angler of the Year; Chris Hammill, expert angler for giant blue and flathead catfish; Tate "Skeet" Bennett, custom rod builder and FLW Everstart pro; Mike Jones, finesse fishing expert; and Lexington's Maynard Edwards of Yadkin Lakes Guide Service, specialist in catfish and striper fishing.
Saltwater seminars will be given by Capt. Jimmy Price, flounder expert; Capt. Rick Bennett, inshore light tackle specialist; Capt. Jerry Dilsaver, former saltwater tournament angler, kayak fisherman, and king mackerel stalker; and Capt. Rod "Ponytail" Thomas, guide and sports cameraman.
Wilson Frazier of Lowrance Electronics is available to explain the operation of the latest electronic devices.
Show hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and military members, $4 for junior anglers, and no charge for children under 6 years of age accompanied by an adult.
The same weekend as the Greensboro show, the International Custom Rod Building Exposition takes place in Winston-Salem, Yadkin Team Tournaments has its season opener at High Rock Lake Saturday, and Anglers Choice Carolina will hold an Open House Saturday with fishing pros, Guido Hibdon and Scott Martin.
The Jan. 26 Carolina Anglers Tournament Trail Yadkin Division tournament at Badin Lake that was cancelled has been rescheduled for June 2 at Badin Lake out of Circle Drive.
The March 10 CATT Yadkin Division tournament at High Rock Lake has been switched to March 9.
Ashton Woods and Dean Jacobs won Saturday's CATT Yadkin Division tournament at Lake Tillery in bone-chilling weather with a five-fish haul totaling 23.21 pounds. They received $834.
Their catch was anchored with a 7.03-pound bass, the second-biggest fish of the day.
Tod Haynes of Concord and Jeremy Talbert of Albemarle placed second with five-fish weighing 22.45 pounds and received $225. Their biggest fish weighed 6.21 pounds.
Rusty Bowers of Albemarle and Roscoe Bowers ranked third with 17.91 pounds and collected $100.
Mike Cribb of Trinity and John Rosenbaum claimed the big-fish award of $126 with a 7.35-pound bass.
The 18-team field weighed in seven bass weighing more than 5 pounds each, and thirteen teams had more than 10 pounds of fish.
Carolina Coach & Marine held its Saturday and Sunday Trail Fish-offs last weekend at Lake Norman.
Hank Cherry of Maiden and Craig Chambers won the Saturday Trail Fish-off with 18.15 pounds and shared $2,500. Pete Betje of Charlotte and Doug Easton of Mooresville placed second with 17.30 pounds and banked $1,000 plus $250 for the big fish of the day, a 6.40-pound bass.
Mike Stephens and Hunter Hicks won the Sunday Trail Fish-off with 15.75 pounds and collected $2,600. Alan Whitaker of Troutman and John Miller were the runner-ups with 13.95 pounds and earned $1,200. Tyler Beam and Eric Self took the big-fish prize of $240 with a 5.70-pound bass.
Tony Garitta is a fishing columnist for The Dispatch.