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Breaking Down the Preseason Mags… pt. 3Posted by rtmsf on October 21st, 2007
A month ago we gave you our reviews of the Athlon and Lindy's preseason mags.
We've been busy plugging away at the conference previews, but in the interim, a few more mags have hit the shelves. So here's the third installment of our continuing series of reviews of the preseason magazines.
Next Up: Sporting News/Street & Smith's.
Note: Yes, TSN and S&S, two of the oldest and most respected preview issues, have joined forces this year on their college basketball preview. It remains to be seen whether this is a good idea.
I. Covers (5 pts) – are they cool? inclusive?
- 12 regional covers hitting only the BCS conferences. Definitely a major conference bias here.
- Coolest Cover – see above – one thing we really like is that most of the covers are full-color action shots. The Roy Hibbert (getting serviced by Vandy's Ross Neltner?) and Mario Chalmers shots are our favs after Richard Hendrix above. Great cover.
- Oops. The Athlon, Lindy's and TSN issues all use the exact same action shot for Brook Lopez of Stanford on their Pac-10 cover. Unfortunately for Cardinal fans, Lopez is not reaching for a textbook.
- Total Points = 4
II. Ease of Use (5 pts) – how hard is it to find confs/teams?
- Not a fan of their setup here. They divide the conferences into high, mid, and low-major categories, then list them alphabetically within each section. Quick – is the Big West a mid-major or low-major league? The MAC? How about the Southern Conference? TSN considers the MAC a high major (???) and the others as mid-majors, which means we were flipping all over the place to find these leagues. Difficult navigation.
- Within the league, they then list each team by predicted order of finish. Typical fare here.
- Standard format otherwise – roundup, features, analysis of teams, recruiting, stats and schedules in that order.
- Total Points = 2.5
III. Roundup (10 pts) – every mag has one – tell us something new!
- The Late, Late Show is a short article explaining the basis behind TSN's pick of UCLA as the #1 team in America.
- Decourcy's Directives are short narratives on the following topics: Coach Calipari's calculations; Don't Cry for Duke; One-and-Outs to Watch; and, Recipe for a Championship. The only interesting information here is in the Recipe section, which explains that most national champions for the last 20 yrs have had at least one NBA-caliber big man and guard on their roster (exceptions: MSU-2000; Arkansas-1994; Syracuse-2003).
- TSN also provides three teams of All-Americans, led by seven sophomores and two freshmen among the fifteen. We like that they took some chances, going with Eric Gordon (Indiana) and Chase Budinger (Arizona) on the first team over some of the better-known names.
- There is also a Top 25 with a couple of sentences describing each team's strengths, but it is notable that TSN doesn't bother with predicting the NCAA field anywhere within the magazine.
- There is one page devoted to listing the Top 100 freshmen, but rather than listing them #1-#100, they made a confounding decision to order them geographically (all-east, all-south, etc.) and then alphabetically. There's no way to intelligently distinguish OJ Mayo (all-east) from Edwin Rios (all-south).
- Another page lists transfers eligible this season and next, but again they're not ranked in any discernible manner. This page also lists all the coaching changes from the offseason.
- Overall, this section is incredibly weak compared to the other previewed magazines, and especially considering that TSN and S&S were once considered the bibles of this genre. We literally learned nothing new in this section.
- Total Points = 3
IV. Features (15 pts) – give us some insightful and unique storylines.
- Features – what features? There is only one feature article, which if we said was shocking would be severely understating our sentiment. So surely that one article has something to do with this season, right? Nah. Try Whatever Happened To… Teddy Dupay, JR Van Hoose and Dane Fife, three (white) players who were HS stars ten years ago but didn't ultimately make it to the League. Don't get us wrong, we actually appreciate the concept of an article like this. The problem is that it's the only feature article TSN felt necessary to give us in the entire magazine. That's beyond unacceptable, especially when you consider the cache of writers that TSN has at its disposal.
- Cheerleaders. Ok, we enjoy a photo collage of college cheerleaders as much as the next guy, but the only other "feature" that TSN
insults us withoffers us is a five-page spread of various gals in tricky positions. Again, this just seem so beneath TSN and S&S to pull out the cheerleader photo section to try to increase sales. But it's becoming increasingly apparent that they just don't care anymore. Good grief – they even put the Duke cheerleaders in the spread (Doherty was right)!!
- FWIW, the Texas gal on p. 21 is absolutely scorching hot, with nods to Miss UCLA and Miss Florida on p.19. Surprisingly, we found Miss Kentucky (p.20) to be one of the fugliest of the group, along with Miss Hawaii (p.19). And Miss Wichita St. (p.18) can bend in ways that aren't quite believable.
- Total Points = 3
V. Predictions (20 pts) – how safe are their picks? do they take any chances? are they biased toward the big boys?
- TSN's Top 25 is pretty standard issue big conference fodder. They do put Memphis at #2, Gonzaga at #12 and Xavier at #25, but every other team is a BCS school. Since there are no NCAA predictions, we can only assume their top 4 is their predicted F4, which would mean UCLA, Memphis, UNC and Kansas are their choices.
- Big Conference Bias. Assuming top 16 = Sweet 16, then Gonzaga and Memphis are the only exceptions. As for the Top 25, here's the conference breakdown – Pac-10 (5), Big 12 (4), Big East (4), ACC (3), SEC (3), Big 10 (3), CUSA (1), WCC (1), A10 (1).
- Surprises. Some teams that are getting some preseason pub that TSN doesn't think much of include: Syracuse (10th in the Big East, which presumably would mean not an NCAA team); UConn (7th); USC (7th in Pac-10) & Vanderbilt (5th in SEC East). On the flip side, teams that TSN values more than others include: Georgia (3d in SEC East); Penn St. (4th in Big 10) & NC State (3d in ACC).
- Boldest Prediction. Not much in the way of excessively bold predictions, but we believe that a lot of these prognosticators are going to regret giving a 5-11 ACC team (NC State) so much preseason hype this year.
- We're really annoyed that TSN doesn't give us a field of 65, at minimum.
- Total Points = 12
VI. Conference Pages (5 pts) – as a primer for the conference, how much can we learn here?
- High Majors. The twelve conferences TSN designates as high majors each gets a full page primer, and there's a lot to like here. The predicted order of finish uses a cool feature with arrows that shows how the team is trending this year – up, down, or steady. There's a five man all-conference team, a short narrative breakdown of the league, and the most inclusive list of superlatives we've yet seen (15-20 different superlatives). There is also a third of the page devoted to ranking the recruiting classes within the conference and short analyses of each incoming player.
- Mid Majors. TSN anoints only six leagues as mid-major leagues, and each of these leagues gets a half-page of analysis, including the predicted order of finish, a short narrative, an all-conference team, recruiting rankings and three superlatives.
- Low Majors. The remaining conferences receive one page each, nearly the same as the mid-majors with the exception that the narrative is really just a paragraph wrapup.
- Total Points = 5
VII. Team Pages (20 pts) – how in-depth is the analysis? where does it come from? is it timely and insightful given this year's squad or is it just a rundown of last year's achievements?
- Roughly the top 2/3 of the high major teams get a full page of analysis from TSN; the remainder get a half page. Again, there's a lot to like here – the writing is solid, giving decent insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each team without merely another rundown of each player and his stats. There is also a section on power ratings by five categories, a five-year wins trend, an impact rookie blurb and a brief but useful team statistics table.
- The mid-major conference projected champions get the same treatment as the lower third teams of the high majors – a half-page with much of the same information above. The remainder of mid-major teams simply get the one-paragraph rundown treatment.
- The low-majors all get a single paragraph, whether they're the projected champion or not.
- For the top twelve conferences, the analysis is the best we've seen this year thus far. The writers clearly know these teams and do a good job at breaking down what to watch for this season. The remaining leagues get short shrift, but those fans are not the target audience.
- Total Points = 16
VIII. Recruiting (5 pts) – we want to know who the top players are coming into college bball, where they're going and who to watch for next year.
- As mentioned above, each major conference page has a substantial section on recruits for each school and rankings within each league.
- See above for our issue with their list of the top 100 incoming players.
- There is no listing of the best incoming recruiting classes nationally anywhere in the magazine, which is incomprehensible to us.
- Once upon a time, S&S was the best place to get recruiting information, but that time again seems to have passed. They have four pages of names of players without ranking any of them outside of their Boys All-America Team (top 20). It's nice they give a paragraph describing the skill set of each of those twenty players, but there's just no way to compare players outside of that grouping.
- With that said, we continue to enjoy the All-Metro Teams of twenty or so HS basketball hotbeds around the country. It gives us something to look for in our local area.
- We also enjoy that TSN lists the top 25 HS teams for 2007-08.
- This magazine has more information on high school prospects than any other we've seen, and yet they muff it by not presenting the information in a way most people would want to see it. Lists are fine, but they have to be useful for comparison.
- Total Points = 4
IX. Title IX Guilt (aka Chick Ball) (5 pts) – the less the better…
- The women's preview is a Top 25 with four pages of analysis, but thankfully they stuck it in the back of the magazine.
- Where they really go wrong is by wasting five more pages in the back on girls' HS All-Americans and a HS top 20. We cannot believe that anyone would buy this magazine to get this information.
- Total Points = 2
X. Intangibles (15 pts) – what's good and bad about the magazine as a whole?
- This magazine is trying to be everything to everyone. You can easily tell which parts were the expertise of TSN and which were the responsibility of S&S, and as such, the magazine seems random and incomplete in parts. For example, in addition to the prep information in the back, the magazine also gives us a full page on D2, D3 and NAIA basketball (with top 10s and All-Americans). And if that's not enough, it also has a juco section, complete with a Top 10 and an article explaining why juco talent is getting deeper.
- There is also a full page of individual and team stats for D1, D2, D3 and NAIA, plus two pages of women's stats. Wouldn't it have made a lot more sense to give us six pages of D1 stats instead? Are a substantial number of NAIA fans really buying this magazine?
- Schedules. By virtue of its release date, TSN has most every team's schedules in complete form at the very back of the magazine. The back page also has a nice roundup of all the in-season tourneys and conference tournament information.
- The writing of this magazine is better than Lindy's and Athlon, but the only writing actually performed is in the conference and team previews. It was very disappointing there weren't more features at the front.
- Total Points = 10
RTC Grade for Sporting News/Street & Smith's = 61.5 pts
Basis: We have to say that we were really disappointed with this magazine, largely because when we were growing up, the TSN and S&S previews were must-reads in our house. Wow, how the mighty have fallen. How can you not have feature articles or build an NCAA field? How can you not rank-order recruits? How can you add a cheerleader section and spend page after page giving us NAIA stats? At this point, and we never thought we'd say this, the TSN magazine is definitely worse than Lindy's and no better than Athlon. This would have been unheard of a few short years ago. The only value of this magazine is in the quality of the writing of the analyses for the high major conferences and teams – that is the one (and only) area where TSN trumps the other two. What a disappointment.
Grading Scale:
- 90-100 pts – exceptional quality in all areas – must buy and keep on-hand all season!
- 80-89 pts – very good quality mag – worthy of purchasing and reading cover-to-cover
- 70-79 pts – average, run of the mill magazine – some value in certain areas but weak in others – tough call as to whether to purchase it
- 60-69 pts – magazine on the weaker side, but may still have some positive attributes – probably not worth the money, though
- 0-59 pts – such a low quality magazine that it's not worth any more than the five minutes you thumbed through it at the store


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IRVING, Texas (AP) – Angela Stanford gets to experience a first in her 13 seasons on the LPGA Tour. She gets to stay at home and sleep in her own bed during a tournament.
"It's great to be home. I'm glad the LPGA is here. You know, I spend most of my time all year telling people how great it is here, so it's nice to have the whole gang here,'' said Stanford, who lives in nearby Fort Worth and went to school at TCU. "It was a little odd getting off the airplane from Hawaii … like the whole tour was following me.''
The inaugural North Texas LPGA Shootout starts Thursday at Las Colinas Country Club. It is North Texas' first-full field event in the area since the 1991 U.S. Women's Open . The area hasn't been an annual tour stop since 1982.
Las Colinas isn't far from the TPC Four Seasons course where the PGA Tour will be next month. Part of the PGA Tour's two-step through Texas includes a trip to Colonial, the site of that U.S. Women's Open and where Annika Sorenstam teed off with the men 10 years ago.
"I know they see the best men players in the world twice a year here in the Metroplex, and now you're going to get to see the best female players in the world,'' Stanford said. "I've always said this area was missing the boat not having an LPGA Tour here, so it's about time.''
There is a full field of 144 players, 140 pros along with four amateurs – two college players and two high school players who earned spots in qualifying rounds. The top nine players in the world are in Texas, along with the top 14 on the LPGA Tour money list.
Top-ranked Inbee Park, the 24-year-old South Korean, has won twice on the LPGA Tour this year, including a major at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. She tied for fourth in Hawaii last week.
"I'm still not used to it,'' Park said of being No. 1. "I'm very happy with the way I played last week with the pressure. … I try not to think about it too much, but it's in my mind for sure.''
Stacy Lewis has a chance to regain the No. 1 spot again with top-five finish in her home state. The 28-year-old Lewis, who went to school in Arkansas but is from The Woodlands, Texas, was the 2012 LPGA Player of the Year and was on top of the rankings for four weeks this season before Park went to the top. Lewis has won twice and has five top-10 finishes this year.
"It's something that it's cool to be No. 1 and nice to get to that point, but it's not something I think about all the time,'' Lewis said. "It's a result of good play, of winning tournaments. Rankings do matter, but it's not something you think about every hole or shot.''
Suzann Pettersen beat Lizette Salas with a par on the first hole of a playoff last weekend in Hawaii. Salas closed with a tournament-record 62, two weeks after a finishing 79 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
That was Pettersen's 11th LPGA Tour victory, which included winning consecutive LPGA Tour tournaments last October in Asia. She also won at Ladies European Tour event in China this year, and tied for third at the Kraft Nabisco.
"I feel like I've played fairly good since the Asia last year. I teed it up in 10 events and won four, so pretty happy with that stat,'' Pettersen said. "I feel like I have a game to win on pretty much every course that we have. If I just can manage to stay on top of my game and prepare the way I feel like I should prepare and get enough rest, I feel like I should be in contention pretty much every time I tee it up.''
Stanford isn't the only LPGA player getting to stay at home this week. Brittany Lang is from McKinney, and Gerina Piller has a place in Plano with her husband, Martin, a player on the Web.com Tour who is in Georgia this week while she is at home.
Lang talked about some of the simple tasks made easier just being at home.
"Just getting to do my laundry at my house. Normally you're doing it somewhere or getting it done. It's just something as simple as that,'' Lang said. "It's going to great to have family and friends here. They don't have to travel to see the LPGA play, and I think they're going to have a really, really fun week.''


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India is likely to see less than 500 tonnes of gold import in the ongoing financial year (FY14) if the government does not relax the import restrictions, according to an industry body.
"The domestic jewellery sector is bleeding, with lack of stocks. If the government does not relax the import norms, including the 80:20 rule, the sector is going to witness a major setback," All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) chairman Haresh Soni told PTI here.
With the current situation, jewellery manufacturing is expected to see a decline of about 40 per cent this financial year, compared to last year, rendering many artisans jobless, he said.
Total sales are likely to decline by 25-30 per cent this fiscal year compared to last year as the market did not have enough variety to woo the customers, he said.
The Centre tightened norms to curb gold imports which had contributed hugely to the bloating of the current account deficit, which is the difference between outgo and inflow of the forex.
Mr Soni said that without policy relaxation the gold import this year may be even less than 500 tonnes. In 2012-13, gold imports stood at 845 tonnes.
The jewellers, he said, are ready to help the government in keeping the gold import at $30 billion in value terms.
"However, this $30 billion worth gold imported into the country should be done smoothly, which will help the sector," he said, adding that the restrictions are not only giving rise to smuggling but also to monopoly.
The 80:20 rule mandates importers to channel at least 20 per cent of the imported gold to jewellery exports. Jewellers are also asked to give proof of the export realisation of the first consignment before seeking delivery of the third tranche from importers.
Besides, the government also increased import duty on gold to 10 per cent and banned inward shipments of gold coins and medallions.
Mr Soni said these restrictions are also leading to soaring premiums, as high as $120-130 per 10 grams from the earlier $1.5-2.
"The gold price gap between the international and domestic market resulted in diverting the NRI business flow to the Middle East countries," Mr Soni said.
In FY13, about 15-20 per cent of business flow was from non-resident Indians (NRIs), he said.
He also said the GJF is trying to talk to the government to for immediate measures in order to save the sector, and if it doesn't do anything the industry will resort to a nation-wide agitation.


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New London - A New London man who was selling cocaine from his auto shop on Westwood Avenue was sentenced today to three years in federal prison.
Frankie Rivera, 32, was identified as a street-level distributor of powder cocaine during an investigation that led to last year's major investigation into cocaine and heroin trafficking in the New London area.
Authorities said Rivera, and occasionally some of his employees, sold quantities of cocaine out of the "PR Speedshop," an auto-repair shop that Rivera owned.
Rivera, who has been detained since he was arrested in April 2013, had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. He will be on probation for five years following his release from prison.
Rivera was distributing cocaine he obtained from Pedro Rivera, also known as "Cheito," of Groton, according to the government. "Cheito" allegedly obtained kilograms of cocaine regularly from sources in Puerto Rico.
This matter is being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations; U.S. Secret Service; U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Air and Marine; Connecticut State Police; New London Police Department, Norwich Police Department, Waterford Police Department, Groton Town Police Department, East Lyme Police Department and Putnam Police Department. The United States Marshals Service; ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations; Drug Enforcement Administration; HSI Assistant Attaché, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; HSI Arecibo, Puerto Rico Resident Office; Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation; Connecticut Department of Correction, Parole and Community Services; and the Groton City, Willimantic, New Haven and Bristol police departments have provided assistance to the investigation.
The federal case is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys Alina P. Reynolds, Sarah P. Karwan and Henry K. Kopel. The state cases are being prosecuted by the state's attorney for the New London Judicial District and senior assistant state's attorneys Paul Narducci and Stephen Carney.
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Following our recent interview with the iPhone collage artist _meta_, a few readers asked for more such articles. So here's one on how to create your own such digital collages! Technically-speaking, digital collage, illustrations, and photo-montage are the same thing. It's just pictures or drawings put together in a single image, made look like a seamless, coherent piece. However, there are distinct differences in the way these are perceived and enjoyed, they essentially are different sub-genres.


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WILLIAMSBURG — William and Mary fans, stop us if you've heard this before — the Tribe executes brilliantly and builds a big lead, only to see it disintegrate amid a flurry of turnovers and missed defensive assignments on the way to a frustrating loss.
Well, it happened again Saturday night at Kaplan Arena, as James Madison overcame a 19-point first-half deficit and snuck past the Tribe 69-67 in the teams' regular-season finale.
"This has been the case on a number of occasions this year," Tribe coach Tony Shaver said. "We just couldn't find a way to finish."
With a victory, the Tribe, which was locked in as the sixth seed in next week's CAA tournament, would have opened against George Mason in the quarterfinals. Instead, W&M's first tournament game — Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the Richmond Coliseum — will be a rematch with the Dukes, something Shaver would have preferred to avoid.
"I'd much rather have played somebody different," Shaver said. "Not because of matchups or anything like that, just a personal preference. But we didn't do our part."
The Tribe certainly did in the first half, when it shot a ridiculous 76 percent from the field and used a 20-2 run to surge ahead 47-31 at the break. Marcus Thornton led the way with 19 first-half points, including a couple of heat-check 3-pointers.
Thornton managed just four shots and one point in the final 20 minutes, though, as the Dukes went to a smaller lineup and began locking down defensively. The Tribe coughed up 13 second-half turnovers.
"We took it personally," JMU's Andre Nation said of the challenge of slowing down Thornton. "He had 20 in the first half. So yeah, it was personal."
Meanwhile, senior A.J. Davis, who scored 17 straight JMU points in the first half, continued torching the Tribe inside and out en route to a career-high 36 points.
The Dukes finally pulled even at 65 when Nation went down the baseline and flushed down a dunk with 1:30 remaining. Tim Rusthoven got the Tribe even again with a putback, but Devon Moore nailed two free throws with 19 seconds left for the winning margin after enduring knee pain as he fell while drawing a foul.
Thornton tried to win it with a 3-pointer in the final seconds, but it clanged off the rim.
The Tribe scored just 20 second-half points. Yet Shaver said it was the inability to make plays defensively — along with the turnovers — that continue to hamstring his team as winnable games get away.
Rusthoven agreed.
"That's the most disappointing part," Rusthoven said. "I really thought this would be the night we would step up and make those stops."
At least W&M will get another crack at the Dukes. And Shaver expressed confidence that in this year's seemingly wide-open CAA tournament, anything is possible.
"A lot of exciting things can still happen for us," he said.
JAMES MADISON (17-14, 11-7): Cr.Cooke 0-7 0-0 0, De.Moore 2-7 4-4 8, Diouf 1-2 1-1 3, R.Curry 4-8 0-0 10, R.Goins 0-4 2-2 2, AJ.Davis 15-23 1-2 36, Bessick 1-2 0-0 2, E.Hood 0-0 0-0 0, Nation 2-5 3-4 8. Totals 25-58 11-13 69.
WILLIAM AND MARY (13-16, 7-11): Goodloe 0-1 0-0 0, Howard II 1-1 0-0 2, M.Thornton 7-12 1-2 20, Pavloff 0-0 0-0 0, Rum 4-6 0-0 9, Boatner 0-1 0-0 0, Britt 3-6 2-2 9, Gaillard 1-4 0-0 2, Heldring 1-1 0-0 2, Rusthoven 10-13 0-4 20, Schalk 0-0 0-0 0, Tarpey 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 28-47 4-10 67.
Half—William and Mary 47-31. 3-point goals—James Madison 8-24 (AJ.Davis 5-10, R.Curry 2-4, Nation 1-3, De.Moore 0-1, Diouf 0-1, R.Goins 0-2, Cr.Cooke 0-3), William and Mary 7-16 (M.Thornton 5-9, Britt 1-1, Rum 1-2, Boatner 0-1, Gaillard 0-1, Goodloe 0-1, Tarpey 0-1). Rebounds—James Madison 23 (AJ.Davis 5), William and Mary 35 (Rusthoven, Rum 8). Assists—James Madison 11 (De.Moore 6), William and Mary 15 (Gaillard 7). Fouls—James Madison 13, William and Mary 12. A—3,276.


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FEW TOPICS in the past have dominated the winter farm shows like Asian soybean rust. I'll bet there's not a single farmer in the Midwest who hasn't heard of the disease by now. What's remarkable is how rust has monopolized magazine coverage and dominated ag conferences and coffee shop sessions. We all know more about this fungal plant disease, which has barely entered the Midwest, than we know about soybean cyst nematode and other common pests that have hindered soybean yields for years.
Based on what I've privately heard from farmers, many of you already have stocked up on fungicides. A few chemical company reps unofficially confirmed this trend and say they expect to start selling fungicides on an allocation basis only — only to their best customers. Sprayer and nozzle companies also report brisk business.
Helping feed the rust shopping fever is the great year most growers experienced in 2004. If it had been a lousy year, wallets would have been buttoned up tight.
So with all the worrisome publicity, will rust live up to its billing? Maybe, maybe not. Soybean expert Palle Pedersen, Iowa State University Extension agronomist, says he is more concerned about soybean cyst nematode, white mold and aphids this year than rust. And this comes from someone who just traveled to Brazil to help train Iowa agronomists for rust identification.
Pedersen says rust is very dependent on rain. It rains every day in some parts of Brazil's soybean region. Brazil also provides a continuous growing season without a killing frost, which confounds rust control programs.
Other off-the-record conversations tend to support the idea that rust may not make as big an impact this year as some of the hype leads us to believe. Winter frosts in the South killed most of the kudzu where rust overwinters. It may take a timely hurricane to send the spores back into the South and up into the Midwest.
However, everyone should understand that rust is aggressive and know what the treatment options are for an infestation, should it occur (see "Be prepared," page 72). If it doesn't, growers scouting for rust may find other yield-robbing problems like aphids and white mold.
On the positive side, soybean growers will now spend more time scouting their fields. This should help them spot other problems like aphids and white mold. It could make 2005 a banner soybean year.


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A functor is simply a container. Given a container, and a function which works on the elements, we can apply that function to eachelement. For lists, the familiar "
Note that the function can produce elements of a different type, so we may have a different type at the end.
Prelude Data.Sequence> map (\n -> replicate n 'a') [1,3,5] ["a","aaa","aaaaa"] Prelude Data.Sequence> fmap (\n -> replicate n 'a') (1 <| 3 <| 5 <| empty) fromList ["a","aaa","aaaaa"]
1.2 FoldableA
can be 'folded' to a summary value. In other words, it is a type whichsupports "
representation as a list; however the order of the items may or maynot have any particular significance. In particular if a
also a <hask>Functor
there is a well defined order and it is preserved as expected by
A particular kind of fold well-used by Haskell programmers is
1.3 TraversableA
gives you the ability to go through the structure processing theelements (
to do that whilst preserving the shape and, e.g., putting new values in.
"_" versions are in a different typeclass.
2 Some trickier functions: concatMap and filterNeither
cut them out.You can write
concatMap :: (a -> Seq b) -> Seq a -> Seq b concatMap = foldMap
definition works for lists, and we can write it more generally as:
concatMap :: (Foldable f, Monoid (f b)) => (a -> f b) -> f a -> f b concatMap = foldMap
And that works with lists and sequences both. Does it work with any Monoid which is Foldable? Only if the Monoid 'means the rightthing'. If you have
condition is stronger than needed; it would be good enough if they were permutations of each other.
filter :: (Applicative f, Foldable f, Monoid (f a)) => (a -> Bool) -> f a -> f a filter p = foldMap (\a -> if p a then pure a else mempty)
It's interesting to note that, under these conditions, we have a candidateto help us turn the
3 Generalising zipWith
Another really useful list combinator that doesn't appear in theinterfaces for
values through:
import Prelude hiding (sequence) import Data.Sequence import Data.Foldable import Data.Traversable import Control.Applicative data Supply s v = Supply { unSupply :: [s] -> ([s],v) } instance Functor (Supply s) where fmap f av = Supply (\l -> let (l',v) = unSupply av l in (l',f v)) instance Applicative (Supply s) where pure v = Supply (\l -> (l,v)) af <*> av = Supply (\l -> let (l',f) = unSupply af l (l'',v) = unSupply av l' in (l'',f v)) runSupply :: (Supply s v) -> [s] -> v runSupply av l = snd $ unSupply av l supply :: Supply s s supply = Supply (\(x:xs) -> (xs,x)) zipTF :: (Traversable t, Foldable f) => t a -> f b -> t (a,b) zipTF t f = runSupply (traverse (\a -> (,) a <$> supply) t) (toList f) zipWithTF :: (Traversable t,Foldable f) => (a -> b -> c) -> t a -> f b -> t c zipWithTF g t f = runSupply (traverse (\a -> g a <$> supply) t) (toList f) zipWithTFM :: (Traversable t,Foldable f,Monad m) => (a -> b -> m c) -> t a -> f b -> m (t c) zipWithTFM g t f = sequence (zipWithTF g t f) zipWithTFA :: (Traversable t,Foldable f,Applicative m) => (a -> b -> m c) -> t a -> f b -> m (t c) zipWithTFA g t f = sequenceA (zipWithTF g t f)
module GenericZip (zipWithTF, zipTF, zipWithTFA, zipWithTFM) where import Data.Foldable import Data.Traversable import qualified Data.Traversable as T import Control.Applicative import Control.Monad.State -- | The state contains the list of values obtained form the foldable container -- and a String indicating the name of the function currectly being executed data ZipState a = ZipState {fName :: String, list :: [a]} -- | State monad containing ZipState type ZipM l a = State (ZipState l) a -- | pops the first element of the list inside the state pop :: ZipM l l pop = do st <- get let xs = list st n = fName st case xs of (a:as) -> do put st{list=as} return a [] -> error $ n ++ ": insufficient input" -- | pop a value form the state and supply it to the second -- argument of a binary function supplySecond :: (a -> b -> c) -> a -> ZipM b c supplySecond f a = do b <- pop return $ f a b zipWithTFError :: (Traversable t,Foldable f) => String -> (a -> b -> c) -> t a -> f b -> t c zipWithTFError str g t f = evalState (T.mapM (supplySecond g) t) (ZipState str (toList f)) zipWithTF :: (Traversable t,Foldable f) => (a -> b -> c) -> t a -> f b -> t c zipWithTF = zipWithTFError "GenericZip.zipWithTF" zipTF :: (Traversable t, Foldable f) => t a -> f b -> t (a,b) zipTF = zipWithTFError "GenericZip.zipTF" (,) zipWithTFM :: (Traversable t,Foldable f,Monad m) => (a -> b -> m c) -> t a -> f b -> m (t c) zipWithTFM g t f = T.sequence (zipWithTFError "GenericZip.zipWithTFM" g t f) zipWithTFA :: (Traversable t,Foldable f,Applicative m) => (a -> b -> m c) -> t a -> f b -> m (t c) zipWithTFA g t f = sequenceA (zipWithTFError "GenericZip.zipWithTFA" g t f)


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— A Maryland man accused of bilking more than $150,000 in bogus Medicaid payments has been convicted of theft by deception.
Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced Monday that Robert Seung-Bok Lee of Baltimore was convicted and sentenced to 2-to-4 years in prison or home confinement.
Foster said Lee submitted time cards to Granite State Independent Living over eight years, claiming that he was receiving personal care from a GSIL employee. GSIL paid over $150,000 in wages into a bank account opened in the worker's name but controlled by Lee.
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One theater deserving of recognition post the season of giving is High Point Theatre, which raised more than $2,000 for the Salvation Army with its performances of A Christmas Carol, which ended last week.
And now that the holidays have come and gone and a new year is upon us, delve into those New Year's resolutions, like "learn to dance" or "try new things." For example, why not check out free swing dance lessons? The International Civil Rights Museum in downtown Greensboro will give free swing lessons Friday, from 6-8 p.m.
Monday, War Memorial Auditorium introduces the next show in its Triad Best of Broadway series, Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks' hysterical musical about an esteemed New York brain surgeon who inherits a castle in Transylvania and, with the help of his hot assistant Inga, continues his grandfather's crazy experiments.
Next Friday, Jan. 13, Theatre Alliance presents The Little Dog Laughed, an intricate, satiric play that follows the interplay between a movie star with an inability to stay "in the closet" and his fame-chasing agent. When a cute rent boy and his girlfriend enter the picture, the story gets a little more complicated… and hilarious. The play, by Douglas Carter Beane, has a modern and clever plot.
Also beginning next Friday are auditions for the musical Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Greensboro Children's Theatre. Auditions are for boys and girls in 4th-9 th grade, and will be held Friday, from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday, from 1-4 p.m., on the first floor of the Greensboro Cultural Center. Children should bring a prepared song with sheet music or instrumental CD. Performances are in March.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – The officials now heading up the Tennessee Department of Children's Services say they're seeking swift, but deliberate solutions to problems that have plagued the agency.
Interim Commissioner Jim Henry told The Tennessean he still can't give a definitive answer about how many children who have come into contact with DCS have died.
Henry and Larry Martin, a longtime aide to Gov. Bill Haslam, met with the newspaper's reporters to talk about the agency. Henry said a $27 million computer system used by DCS to track children appears to be improving as glitches are found and fixed.
More than 200 Tennessee children lost their lives or nearly died since 2009 after having some contact with the agency. The exact number isn't clear.
"I know that I know how many have died since I've been here, since I've put my attention to it," Henry said. "One."
The death was that of an infant, who died at a hospital shortly after DCS intervened, Henry said.
Haslam sent Martin to help sort out problems at the agency on Jan. 24, but said then-Commissioner Kate O'Day would remain in charge. On Feb. 5, O'Day resigned.
The department had previously been faulted by child advocacy groups for being too insular.
"We're going to shine a light," Martin said. "We're going to deal with whatever those problems are. That will go a long way to improving the credibility of the department and our relationship with providers, our relationship with juvenile justice, our relationship with child advocacy groups out there."
Henry and Martin said getting a grip on the department has included what they called a "steep learning curve," but said they had spent recent days speaking to as many experts as possible, including juvenile court judges, nonprofit groups, DCS staff and others.
A mission statement on the department's website said DCS has about 8,000 children under its custody and its job is to find the permanency children need to become happy and productive adults.
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Re-elected presidents know all too well that second terms can be treacherous. Returning Republican congressional leaders may find the next few years won't be a picnic for them, either.
As the 113th Congress convened Thursday, both House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky were drawing heat from conservatives for supporting the "fiscal-cliff" deal.
Still, Boehner was easily given another two-year term as speaker in the still GOP dominated chamber — despite a few really bad days.
The Ohio Republican had been forced to the sidelines as McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden negotiated the compromise Congress sent President Barack Obama on New Year's Day to avoid a cliff of sudden tax increases and spending cuts.
Then, his postponement of a $60 billion aid package for states pummeled by Superstorm Sandy angered both sides. Boehner now has scheduled an initial vote for Friday.
"We're sent here not to be something, but to do something," Boehner said in his acceptance speech. "Or as I like to call it, doing the right thing."
McConnell, who stays Senate minority leader, has drawn praise for his negotiating skills on the "fiscal-cliff" agreement. But his role was denounced by Kentucky tea-party factions and other conservatives — and could prompt a re-election challenge from the right in 2014.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are also keeping their jobs.
The "fiscal-cliff" deal is something of a hot potato for both parties. Both found parts to criticize.
While Boehner voted for it, he didn't speak on its behalf during House debate.
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Teens who've been in cars with impaired drivers may be more likely themselves to get behind the wheel drunk or drugged, a recent study suggests. And the more times they're driven around by an impaired driver, the more risky their own driving habits become.
While other studies have found ties between riding with impaired drivers and teen impaired driving risk, the new study surveyed about 2,500 U.S. students each year between 10th and 12th grades to examine rates over time - not at just one point.
"We were interested in both driving while intoxicated and riding with an intoxicated driver, because it's the combined of the two behaviors that reflects the true risk," Bruce Simons-Morton, one of the researchers, told Reuters Health.
"When you do that, you see a relatively high proportion - about 30 percent in our study - reported either driving while intoxicated or riding with an intoxicated driver within the last three years," he said.
Overall, between 12 percent and 14 percent of students each year reported impaired driving in the past month and 23 percent to 38 percent reported riding in cars with drunk or drugged drivers within the past year, the researchers wrote in Pediatrics.
Students were more likely to drive impaired if they had been in cars with impaired drivers after adjusting the numbers for the students' genders and drinking and drug habits, family income, and parental education and supervision.
Specifically, kids who reported riding with drunk or drugged drivers during one of the surveys were 10 times more likely to drive drunk or drugged than a kid who never reported riding in cars with impaired drivers.
That risk grew to 34 times greater when they reported riding in cars with impaired drivers on two surveys and 127 times greater if they reported riding in cars with drunk or drugged drivers on all three surveys.
"The magnitude of the association kind of gets one's attention," said Simons-Morton.
Simons-Morton is from the Health Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland.
He and his colleagues note that they can't distinguish exposure to only drunk or drugged driving in their results, however. They also can't say whether the impaired drivers the students reported riding with were other young people or adults.
But they say that early exposure to impaired driving may come across as "normal" behavior to teens, who may be particularly impressionable.
"When you ride with an intoxicated driver, it sort of normalizes the idea of drinking and driving," Simons-Morton said. "Also, you're around peopling who drink and drive."
He added that current policies to discourage drunk and drugged driving among teens are acceptable, but parents and peers need to be persistent.
"The primary issue is not driving or riding with an intoxicated driver," Simons-Morton said. "You want to plant the important message in your teens' heads."


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3 weeks before vote for School Board, blocs assert power
Buffalo voters on May 7 will elect two-thirds of the Board of Education members who will largely determine the future of the city's schools – serving more than 30,000 students – and the $900 million budget that funds them.
But before voters get to decide, several interest groups have already sent money and foot soldiers to ensure that the candidates they support will fill the seats around the board table in City Hall.
And in the next three weeks, those forces – from here to Albany and New York City – will continue to devote even more resources to an election that many say is likely to break the ho-hum mold of school elections in Buffalo.
Although candidates for the School Board do not run on party lines, and the elections are held in May to separate them from the political contests in November, the local political parties are nevertheless significant forces – along with several other power blocs in the region.
That raises questions among some education advocates.
People who run for School Board seats should be "pure of heart," said Vincent J. Coppola, a consultant with the Western New York Educational Service Council, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University at Buffalo.
"They should be people who do not have any other agenda other than seeing that the children in this city are going to get a good education," he said. "They should be people who will hold other people accountable.
"When you've got these power blocs pushing for this person or that person, where are they coming from?"
This year's School Board elections in Buffalo will in some ways be much like those of years past.
The local teachers union will supply money and volunteers to support a slate composed primarily of incumbents. Business leaders will donate hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars to candidates they see as like-minded. A number of individual City Hall staff members will support one person or another. And key players in the city's dominant Democratic Party will back certain candidates.
But in other ways, this year will be markedly unlike any other.
Members of the City of Buffalo Republican Committee have circulated petitions for some candidates.
The statewide teachers union and its affiliated groups have ramped up their efforts and brought in people from Rochester and New York City to collect signatures for several candidates – and plan to send hundreds of volunteers door to door over the next few weeks to get out the vote.
And several leaders of the district's officially sanctioned parents group have mobilized behind at least one candidate.
In an ideal world, candidates would be able to separate the support they receive during a campaign from the decisions they make once they're elected, Coppola said.
"The more independent you are, the better it is for you to be objective and not be beholden to any group," he said.
But that can run counter to the realities of the campaign process.
"I understand that," said Coppola, a former suburban school superintendent. "All I'm saying is that there's something wrong with the system."
BTF has considerable clout
Historically, the group most consistently active in Buffalo's School Board elections has been the Buffalo Teachers Federation, which spends thousands of dollars and devotes countless volunteer hours to support candidates in each contest.
BTF President Philip Rumore said in an interview last week that his union has not yet interviewed or endorsed any School Board candidates. The union has not provided any direct help to anyone, he said.
Campaign financial disclosure reports filed in City Hall, though, show that the BTF's political action committee on March 12 gave $1,000 to incumbent Ralph R. Hernandez in the West District.
The union's PAC also gave $500 to incumbent Mary Ruth Kapsiak in the Central District on March 25.
New York State United Teachers, the BTF's parent group in Albany, has sent letters to its 10,000 members in Buffalo, urging them to vote for two newcomers: Adrian F. Harris, who is running against Carl P. Paladino in South Buffalo's Park District, and Susan L. Gillick, a retired school administrator and psychologist who is running in the North District.
The union's letter also urges support for four incumbents: Hernandez, Kapsiak, Rosalyn Taylor in the East District and Sharon Belton-Cottman in the Ferry District.
"There has never been a better time to be a student in the Buffalo Public Schools," the letter begins. "The 59 schools we have left have all been reconstructed into state of the art centers for education. Great learning and teaching is happening in all of these schools."
Paladino is self-financing
NYSUT and groups it is closely affiliated with – Citizen Action, the Alliance for Quality Education and the Working Families Party – have provided people from Buffalo, Rochester and New York City to collect signatures to get its six favored candidates on the ballot. NYSUT plans to send 300 volunteers door to door every weekend until the May 7 elections to drum up support for those six people, according to Michael K. Deely, NYSUT's regional director in Western New York.
While the union is active in every School Board election in Buffalo, this year merits particular attention, he said.
"Obviously, when Carl Paladino says he wants to be on the School Board, it gets us very, very interested. We'll give him the credit for raising the stakes in this race," Deely said. "He's literally a landlord for charter schools. He's part of a millionaire class that wants to beat up on teachers and close public schools."
Paladino is a candidate unlike any other. With real estate holdings in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the chairman of Ellicott Development does not need the support of outside groups. In fact, a flier for a campaign rally he's holding later this week declares: "No donations will be accepted."
Under state law, there's no limit to how much an individual can contribute to a School Board campaign. Paladino has already spent $10,000 of his own money, and there's no telling how much more he will spend. In response to a question from The Buffalo News regarding how much he plans to spend on his race, he responded in writing, "NOYB" – none of your business.
Paladino also has what no amount of money can buy: the name recognition that comes with being the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2010 and for many years one of the region's most prominent developers.
He did get some help from some members of the city's Republican Party to collect signatures, though, according to the names on his nominating petitions filed with the Erie County Board of Elections.
William E. Nowakowski, chairman of the city's GOP, said that some of his committee members have assisted in School Board campaigns this year, not as part of any official work by the party, but as citizens concerned about education in the city. Nowakowski said the Republicans have gotten involved in previous School Board races in Buffalo, but several people familiar with the city's school elections disputed that contention.
Nowakowski declined to say which candidates received help.
"It's a volunteer thing," he said. "We're doing it because we think these are people who can make a difference. We're not doing it as a party thing."
He added that he didn't want Republican assistance to candidates to be overstated or to "tar" any campaign.
"These are some people who came to us and asked for some help," Nowakowski said. "We didn't pick or run these people. We have nothing to do with who decided to run or when."
At least one candidate, however – incumbent Jason M. McCarthy in the North District – said the Republicans approached him, offering to gather signatures. He said he declined their offer because he wants to be an independent voice on the board.
GOP assisting Sampson
The candidate who has most benefited from Republican help is James M. Sampson, president and CEO of Gateway-Longview, a child services agency. Several members of the party's committee in Buffalo gathered signatures for him, according to the petitions he filed with the Board of Elections.
Sampson is also receiving significant support from the local business community. As of early April, he had raised only $2,600 – most of it from local businesspeople – but that seems likely to be just the beginning.
The Buffalo Niagara Partnership has not yet made its endorsements, but its president, Andrew J. Rudnick, called Sampson "the poster child" of what the organization is looking for in a candidate. Sampson, president of the board at Buffalo ReformED, is also a former member of the Partnership board and chairman of the state-appointed financial control board for the county.
Four years ago, the Partnership spent $26,000 on behalf of three candidates.
Rudnick said his business-member organization this year is prepared to invest money to support candidates who are not only interested in education reform, but have viable campaign support.
"We are looking to see if there are other Jim Sampsons out there," he said.
McCarthy, the only incumbent whom Paladino says he supports, has already raised more than $16,000, much of it from local businesspeople, according to the financial disclosure statement he filed.
Among McCarthy's top contributors, each of whom gave him $1,000, are: Howard A. Zemsky, managing partner of Larkin Development; Brett J. Fitzpatrick, owner of Somerset Development; and Gary M. Godshaw, an adviser at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City.
Parents from group active
Several weeks ago, leaders of the District Parent Coordinating Council interviewed candidates to see which of them had a platform in line with the parent group's agenda, which includes a return to neighborhood schools and reinstatement of the teacher residency requirement.
As a result, the parent leaders determined they would likely support Sampson; Theresa Harris-Tigg, a SUNY Buffalo State assistant professor running in the East District; Bryon J. McIntyre, vice president of the parent group, who is running in the Central District; and Wendy S. Mistretta, parliamentarian of the parent group, who is running in the North District.
Exactly what form their support will take remains to be seen. The School Board – outraged that the parent group the board officially recognizes was backing candidates to unseat several members – sought legal counsel, which said the parent group could not endorse candidates.
Since then, leaders of the parent group have been careful to say that the group itself is not endorsing any candidates.
So far, Mistretta seems to have benefited the most from help from members of the District Parent Coordinating Council, according to nominating petitions on file with the county. Several group members, including Secretary Kim Walek and Vice President Jessica Bauer Walker, pounded the pavement to collect signatures for Mistretta, who has been a vocal advocate for immigrant and refugee students.
"For me, it's just personal civil engagement," Walek said of her support for Mistretta. "I think it's always important to have a wide variety of people presenting their concerns."
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Pedestrian killed in Peterborough identified as local manBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
March 01. 2014 2:53PM
PETERBOROUGH - Police have identified the pedestrian struck and kill by a vehicle on Route 202/Hancock Road Friday night.
Michael J. Dugrenier, 51, of Peterborough, was pronounced dead at the scene, Police Chief Scott Guinard said in press release Saturday afternoon.
The driver of the vehicle Peter P. Blais, 34, of Concord, was driving northbound along Hancock Road in the area of Pheasant Road when his vehicle struck Dugrenier, Guinard said.
The exact cause of the accident is not known at this time and remains under investigation by the Peterborough Police Department and the New Hampshire State Police Technical Accident Reconstruction Team.
Route 202 in front of South Meadow South was closed for about four hours Friday night as investigators reconstructed the scene. The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — It's not just ordinary people whose ancestors fought in World War I.
It's a shared chapter in the genealogies of President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. For British Prime Minister David Cameron, it evokes proud family memories of valor tempered by sorrow. For German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it involves a grandparent whose actions are tinged with mystery.
On Thursday, in the Belgian city of Ypres near the once-blood drenched battlefields of Flanders, the leaders of the European Union's 28 nations will mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict that wreaked death and destruction across their continent.
For some of the men and women who will be present, the Great War is not the stuff of distant history. It is the story of their own families, often just two generations removed., often just two generations removed.
More than 65 million men were mobilized to fight in World War I, including the grandfathers and relatives of many of today's heads of state and government.
Three members of Cameron's extended family were killed in action, one near the spot of Thursday's ceremonies.
In March, the British prime minister spoke with pride about his great-great uncle, Capt. John Geddes, who served in the Canadian army and was killed at the Battle of Kitcheners' Wood, part of the 2nd Battle of Ypres — the first time during the war that the Germans used poison gas.
"On the 22 April 1915, the Germans launched their first poison gas attack on the Western Front, leaving a gap in the line four miles wide," Cameron said.
Two Canadian battalions were ordered to fill the gap, Cameron said, "which they did, without prior reconnaissance, breaking through any obstacles with rifle butts, into a wall of German machine gun fire."
"My relative was the one who helped lead the way," he said. "I am proud to be linked, in some small way, to this extraordinary heroism."
Eighty percent of the Canadian troops were killed or wounded in the assault.
According to a death notice in the Toronto Star, Geddes was born in Chicago — the son of a Scottish grain merchant — and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for 12 years. He was 37 when he died. His name is on the Menin Gate memorial in Ypres, where Cameron and the other EU leaders will hear the "Last Post" performed and dedicate a commemorative peace bench.
Geddes was not the only member of Cameron's extended family to die in action. John Geddes' brother, Lt. Alastair Geddes of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed two months later at the age of 23.
Another of Cameron's great-great uncles, Capt. Francis Mount of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, died in October 1915 at the Battle of Loos — the first battle in which the British used poison gas.
A photograph that recently surfaced of one of Merkel's grandfathers has ignited speculation he might have fought against Germany, alongside fellow Poles and Polish emigres to America serving on the Western Front. But there's been no hard proof.
Merkel was born Angela Kasner, the Germanized name that her paternal grandfather, Ludwig Kazmierczak, is said by one of her biographers to have adopted in 1930. Reporters from a German all-news TV station found documents in Poznan, western Poland, saying that Kazmierczak was drafted in 1915 at age 19 into the Prussian army. Poznan belonged to Prussia then.
The photo, from after the war in around 1919 or 1920, pictured Merkel's grandfather in the uniform of the so-called Haller Army, a Polish force used by the French army against Germany.
The photo has led the Polish press to speculate that Kazmierczak might have ended up in French hands as a prisoner or after deserting from the Prussian army, then joined the Haller Army and fought against Germany. But there is no conclusive evidence.
World War I was not only fought in the trenches of France and Belgium; battles raged in Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and Africa as well.
In East Africa, Obama's paternal grandfather was apparently one of those whose lives were transformed as a result. In his autobiography "Dreams of My Father," Obama includes a lengthy description, attributed to his grandmother, of his grandfather's life.
The only reference to World War I in the book is that Obama's grandfather "made himself useful to the white man and during the war he was put in charge of road crews."
However, another written history of the American president's family says Hussein Onyango Obama enlisted in the King's African Rifles Carrier Corps, which fought against the Germans in East Africa. Casualties were "astonishingly high," Pete Firstbrook notes in "The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family."
The experience seems to have marked Onyango for life.
"Of 165,000 African porters, more than 50,000 died, a death rate higher than the average on Europe's bloody Western Front," Firstbrook wrote. "When he (Onyango) returned, he declined to reside in his father's compound, but settled instead into an army-issue tent."
"People thought he was crazy," Firstbrook wrote.
Onyango's personal style, too, was different from the rest of the family. Unlike them, he ate at a wooden table with a knife and fork, wore European clothes and was obsessive about cleanliness. He admired the British, Firstbrook says, "especially their discipline and organization," and by the mid-1920s, was making a good living as a cook for British families around Nairobi.
Before the war, Putin's paternal grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was already working as a chef. The online National Encyclopedia Service of Russia says he was "called to the front," though it is not clear in what capacity. As a professional cook, he may have been put in charge of a mess hall rather than being a fighting man in the czarist army.
The Russian leader's maternal grandfather, Ivan Shelomov, born in 1904, was too young to fight in the war.
Both grandfathers of French President Francois Hollande were mobilized. Gustave Hollande, on his father's side, became an officer. Maternal grandfather Robert Tribert, a tailor by trade, became a corporal, assigned to the Army Theater.
"Practically all our politicians have ancestors who fought in the war because three-quarters of the Frenchmen of that generation took part," Jean-Louis Beaucarnot, author of the book "Our Families in the Great War," told The Associated Press.
In a war that claimed more than 1 million French soldiers and left another 4 million injured, both of Hollande's grandfathers made it through alive and unharmed, Beaucarnot said.
For Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, 41, World War I was his great-grandfather's war.
Gheorghe Ponta was born in 1892 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Romanian parents. He studied in the city of Lugoj and became an officer in the German-allied Austro-Hungarian army and was taken prisoner by the Russians. He escaped and asked for Romanian citizenship which he received in 1917, a year after Romania entered the war on the side of the Allies.
Entering the Romanian Army as a sub-lieutenant, he fought in the mountain division and was sent to Hungary where he stayed until 1919, a year after hostilities ended.
World War I's memory feels especially close to Italy's 88-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano. His father Giovanni was a reserve officer who fought at the front lines during the Battle of Asiago in the foothills of the Alps in 1916, a surprise counteroffensive launched by the Austrians. He later wrote a book about his experiences, writing that the horrors of warfare led to a vital unifying moment for the country.
"One suffers immensely, but returns bettered," Napolitano's father wrote. "Everyone suffers who makes war, everyone sacrifices, but the survivors have inherited a new sense of life."
AP correspondents Jill Lawless in London, David Rising in Berlin, Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington, Jim Heintz in Moscow, Alison Mutler in Bucharest, Greg Keller in Paris and Kavitha Surana in Rome contributed to this story.


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Wait, I just remembered a study (yes, a scientific one). It was a study, if I remember correctly, that says when electrons are observed, they act differently then when they are not observed. So if that's true, how do we know the same can't happen with anything else?
If you are talking about what Thomas Campbell implied, let me tell you he is not a reliable source. Mr. Campbell and many alike (popularisers of the double-slit experiment laced with mysticism) are deliberately giving the laymen the wrong impression. Meanwhile, real physicists can see right through him and stay well away.
Let me explain something to you about the word "observation" that they use. When physicists say "observation", they really mean making a measurement. Campbell, on the other hand, gets his lemmings to believe that the word should be taken literally. All this malarkey is done in the name of keeping Monroe's legacy and unfounded belief system alive. He claims to present a refined model including a theory of everything and, oh my lord he is so clever in his words that he even claims to hold the "big picture" while mainstream science has the "little picture" view.
Consciousness has nothing to do with what happens in the behaviour of photons. Photons and electrons leave an interference pattern on the wall very much like that of waves after having gone through the slits. The measuring device consists of bulbs that will interfere with the photons' trajectory and thus changing the outcome.
Make no mistake about it. There is nothing magical when it comes to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. What is uncertain about it is the fact that we can never know what route the quantum particles took because, whenever you measure (better to use this word to avoid confusion) something, you will inadvertently change its state.
Think about this analogy (which reflects what lies at the heart of the uncertainty principle of quantum physics): it is a dark night and you are trying to see what a tennis ball looks like in a vast field. You can't see where it is and have no idea what it looks like so you use a torchlight (to make a measurement). You shine a light on the ball and see that it looks bright green and it is very well lit. But this is not what the ball looked like prior to the measurement. You have changed its appearance. It probably looked dark and shaded before but what you see now is a different picture as photons bounce off its surface and your eyes pick up on this.
Consciousness did not play a role in changing the ball's appearance any more than it did in changing the trajectory of electrons/photons. The only part it played was being aware of the experiment and the individual deciding to shine a light on it (and it was this measurement that changed its state). In a similar manner, the measuring device changes the state of electrons or photons - not conscious observation (guarantee you this 100%!).
Furthermore, these people who claim that in their experiments the pattern changes by simply looking or not looking at the data that was recorded are either fantasising or being deceitful. Campbell's version of the experiment, where he claims that the measuring device can be turned off but the interference pattern remains if we never look at the recordings simply does not happen and it is false.
There was another study that I found quite interesting. My brother told me of this one and I thought he was kidding, but here it is. They had a guy on his death bed, about to die. This bed was also a weight scale. So it could measure the weight of the man about to die. They found that upon dying, the man weighed a very small amount less. This study was trying to find if the soul had a weight to it, or if there was a soul at all. Very intriguing to me, especially since this was a scientific study. I'm sure opposing scientists could come up with a million and one reasons for this, but it's interesting, none the less. Science is evolving at a rapid pace. You never know, before long, ghosts could be proven to exist
I'm sorry! I'm not laughing at you - just your naivete which is common amongst many young people. You are talking about Duncan MacLeod. Oh no, not that one! I meant Duncan MacDougall but he might as well have been the first one if he believes in immortality. To say that the human soul weighs 21 grams is ridiculous and I am not surprised that his test has never been repeated with the same results! He was known to be very imprecise in his measurements and very biased. Some said he was suspect from the get-go. Anyway, we can now ascertain that the 21-gram soul notion is all hooey.
One can see him mistaking the loss of weight due to evaporation of moisture in respiration, evaporation of sweat, the evacuation of some urine etc. for that of the departure of the soul. Very unscientific and not deserving of merit.
It is not surprising then that no loss was reported for dogs as this corroborated his religious belief that animals don't have souls! Further down the trough, it was found that this doctor had failed to take into account the sudden rise in temperature at death when the blood stops being air-cooled through the lungs. It is also a known fact that in humans, the sudden rise will cause sweat and moisture evaporation (hence weight loss) and why this did not register in dogs (dogs cool themselves by panting, not sweating!).
This guy demonstrated nothing but natural port-mortem weight loss - nothing to so with souls!
The only credit I would give him was that he admitted that his experiments would have to be repeated many times with similar results before any conclusions were made. They weren't. There was weight loss but he had even got the amounts wrong. For starters, even the scales were found to be erroneous.
Until they had an experience for themselves. I think I have a very rational mind. If anything strange happens in my life, something I can't explain, I'll try, subconsciously most likely, to put a label on it. To define what happened, to tell myself it couldn't possibly be anything out of the ordinary. But when I can't, and I see no explanation for it, slowly but surely, I'm open to more and more possibilities.
As a child, I did experience what seemed to be poltergeist activity and I even remember blacking out. My mother, who has spiritualist beliefs thought that I had been possessed. But looking back, I have become aware of other mundane elements which can't be ignored and just show that sometimes things are not as they seem. For starters, there was a lot of tension in the house and members of the family that were not trustworthy. The psychological impact it had on me as a child prompted an unexpected response on my part - and possibly a protective one from my unconscious mind. See, I experienced it and I still don't believe in the paranormal.
I don't want to come across as a grandiloquent so-and-so but I will tell you with utmost confidence that scientists have more chances of finding the Higgs boson at CERN than the essence of ghosts. I'm telling you: they don't exist. Evidence supports that consciousness is inherent in the complexity of matter (especially when there is nothing in the known universe as complex as the human brain) just like gravitation creates heavier elements in space. From a cloud of dust, to rocks, to planets, to stars... the heavier and more complex they get, the warmer they tend to get and beyond this they get so hot that light is produced. The excitation of atoms and how they interact causes the release of photons. Amazing! I believe something similar happens to organisms as they evolve. The bright light of a star is analogous to the thinking brain. Rocks in space would be akin to inanimate objects.
You may be open but not so much that your brain falls out. Beware of tripe out there.
If the thought of not existing is more comforting to you, than by all means. But I think my living self will be happier believing there is more to life than death. Why would these thoughts be inside so many people? If they were planted by others, who put the thought in their head? And so forth. Are humans really so?
It's not that the thought of not existing is more comforting to me. I just don't mind it. Although, I've got to say that, the more I got rid of thoughts in meditation, the happier I felt. And now, in my normal looking state, I seem to compensate and end up writing essays! LOL!
I don't know why these thoughts would be inside people's heads. A recent study on psychology has suggested that we are prone to believing in invisible agents from an early age. When a child doesn't understand the natural behaviour of certain objects, they tend to assume that someone must be interacting with them and that they are not only invisible but also more powerful. It is also more interesting to believe in that. Apart from lack of comprehension, fear and fascination play their role.
If you ask me, it was an idea that was born, developed and scattered. If it wasn't that, it might have been something else. It was most likely random at the beginning and not something that someone concocted for nefarious reasons. I think that religious belief has helped to form civilisation... it really did bring people together. Maybe it was necessary at the primal stages when we weren't so evolved and less intellectual. I guess we needed to believe in something greater and be afraid. This idea began to be used to control people. Today, it has certainly evolved into something more corrupt and hard to let go.
Perhaps it still has a purpose today but I think that we have outgrown it. It is time we grew up and recognised that we can be good and kind to each other without having to believe or wholeheartedly accept something that hasn't been proved and which I honestly believe never will because for me it is simply not there.
Isn't it funny that people used to think the eclipse was a sign from the Gods and that thunder meant that they were angry? And then we have to take into account the fact that they also experienced hallucinations, false awakenings and our beloved visions of the night. A lot of the mythical beings in folklore come from these states of mind. If its not angel visitations, it is alien abductions (in this day and age). Very often they come at night when people are half asleep, feel paralysed and vibrations are experienced.
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I was even "abducted by aliens" when I was trying to induce a WILD. Funnily enough it happened around the time when I was watching Stephen Spielberg's Taken series. My experience felt so real and terrifying that I was even inspired to create this depiction of it:
But considering the nature of lucid dreams and how real they can get, it doesn't surprise me. Our minds have have enough waking state experience to learn from it and to be quite capable of emulating realistic scenarios coupled with grand illusions of sentience in simulated characters. We deal with people and different kinds of behaviour everyday. Our active imagination is fertile ground for creativity and our beloved lucid state makes it seem actual in every way and more...
It's inspiring! Here's another lucid-dream inspired drawing in my journal. It's like I have gone to another world! We have everything we need in our minds:


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Zac Efron Completed Rehab Stint for Cocaine Addiction?
Zac Efron recently completed a stint in rehab, sources confirm to People.
Five months ago, the 25-year-old actor quietly spent time in a rehab program to help treat his addiction to alcohol.
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UPDATE: Zac reportedly went to rehab for a cocaine addiction, not for alcohol, according to TMZ.
"He's healthy, happy and not drinking. He's taking time to focus on working," a source shared to E! News about Zac.
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