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Silvio Berlusconi, the former premier, said yesterday that he may not stand in elections next spring, and suggested that Mario Monti, the technocrat Prime Minister, could stay on as head of a centre-right government.
Mr Berlusconi's comments, which revealed his fears that the centre-left will win the vote, indicated he had abandoned hope of winning enough support to mount a credible campaign as leader of the centre-right, which is trailing heavily in opinion polls.
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Mr Monti himself has repeatedly said he will not stand for election but would be willing to stay on for the sake of the country if there was political deadlock.
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YouTube - Informal Learning in 10 minutes
Buzz Marketing for Technology
Sign in to YouTube now! Sign in to YouTube now! Sign in to YouTube now! I think the biggest barrier to informal learning is a company not wanting to really go into "Why we do it this way." Im trying to post this video on my blog, but it looks like YouTube doesnt support TypePad yet, so Im just going to have to link to it. Ive been following your work for a year, and this summary of your theses generated numerous quotables. Join YouTube for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member. Sign in to YouTube now! YouTube.
Dancing Dogs and Foiled Burglars – The Secret to Nest Cam's YouTube Channel
I stumbled upon Nest's YouTube channel by chance when a friend shared this video of a bulldog being a bulldog: And discovered that, in addition to making an award-winning thermostat, Nest also creates cameras for home surveillance, and has one of the best user-generated content channels I've ever seen. And the results are hilarious. Say hello to the Nest Cam – Greatest Hits.
Can traditional TV succeed as mainstream video?
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All that buzz about IPTV, DVRs and this new kid in town, Youtube, got to me. I'm now working with a TV production company to launch digital channels and video-based websites for OTT platforms. Working on this project brings up some interesting insights about how things panned out for TV production companies in the last decade. It felt like TV's days were numbered. Yes and No.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is the perfect meme
It harnesses the gravity of quite a few mortal sins to propel the ALS Association into deep interstellar space: Lust — I get to see all sorts of people I know, from friends and people I work with to cheerleaders, celebrities, starlets, and even Lindsay Lohan get doused with cold water. Never have more people been all-consumed with working out. The tertiary effect was the money.
Happy 5th Aniversary To YouTube's First Viral Video
While YouTube launched in May of 2005, many argue that today marks the day when YouTube became part of popular culture and a fixture of online video sharing. Following its appearance on SNL, the video appeared on YouTube and was viewed more than 5 million times until February 2006 when NBC Universal asked the site to remove it, along with several other copyrighted NBC video clips.
B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?
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The rise of cameras and video recording on smartphones has lowered the barrier to entry, too. And it worked.". It's ungated and published on YouTube and Twitter. When I used to work at MarketingSherpa, I had thousands of conversations with marketers like Linda working for various marketing SaaS platforms, like Act-On. We're ending our dependency on eBooks."
Going Global? A Video Marketing Strategy Is Your Key to Success
Content Standard
So, consider this: as VP of marketing for a company working primarily in domestic, English-speaking markets, you've recently been asked to develop a video marketing strategy for international audiences. This is a big task: every international audience will present a different set of cultural and language barriers. Video's Global Growth. Tracking Your Success.
17 Reasons Why Small Business Need (More) Video
If you didn't know, YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. While YouTube is the second largest search engine, Google is the first. Capitalize on the low barrier to entry. You probably thought that the barriers were high, not low for video marketing. Remember when you were in school and you took every opportunity to get free food? Rank higher in search.
All your best content may now be considered fake news
As lines are being drawn, it's time to make sure all your hard-wrought creative work lives on your own blog or website instead of on someone else's. I, myself, have been working very hard to make sure that I have published and copied as much content as I can find — and still consider relevant circa 2016 — to my corporate and personal platforms, Gerr.is
Why Startups Trump Large Enterprises in Content Marketing Every Time
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One main platform (a blog, YouTube, iTunes, etc.). Today: Matthew Patrick's Game Theory YouTube network boasts millions of subscribers and billions of views. He's turned a simple YouTube channel into a million-dollar enterprise, and even consults directly for YouTube. It may surprise you: Matthew started Game Theory (a YouTube show about video games) as a resume builder.
Librarian Tip for Nonprofits: 90-Second YouTube " Doing Good Things Well
Buzz Marketing for Technology
Docuticker - I'm A Little Obsessed → Librarian Tip for Nonprofits: 90-Second YouTube. I was reading the May 2008 issue of American Libraries and the Internet Librarian column by Joseph Janes jumped out at me with the potential to be immediately useful to me at work (which is not in a library). This article, "Spring Awakening, describes how the Cornell University Library ended up making 90-second YouTube clips for their incoming first-years about basic research concepts. Librarian Tip for Nonprofits: 90-Second YouTube. Working Smart. About.
Why You Shouldn't Fear Producing Your Videos In-House
This is the secondary footage you capture of people working at their desks, entering the office, talking over some stuff with coworkers, and so forth. Your client testimonial or client case study video can be used on your website, could go in your monthly email newsletter, could be included on a playlist on YouTube, and can be used directly in the sales process. More interesting?
Snapchat engagement and other myths
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To earn my sustained attention, you are going to have to provide content that is through the roof entertaining, every day … Just like Facebook, YouTube and every other saturated channel. Click here if you can't see this video to view on YouTube: Snapchat engagement. If you really want to tell a story, why not do a live stream or make a YouTube video? No it's not.
When, Why and How to Gate Content Along the Customer Journey
Twenty years later, and after the explosion of content megacarriers such as BuzzFeed, Facebook, YouTube, and many of our own company websites, his prediction is eerily prescient. To continue this bar metaphor, David Meerman Scott, a marketing strategist and best-selling author has been a long-time advocate for removing barriers to access for your customers and prospective customers.
Twitter success demands both top influencers and everyone else
Previously, the digital divide was a barrier to not just many Americans but quite a few developing nations becoming part of the global conversation. It works, it really does. Internet Marketing Public Relations Social Media Marketing Abraham Harrison Cluetrain cluetrain manifesto Foursquare Klout linkedin social media Social network twitter YouTubeImage via CrunchBase. Happens in DC all the time. I'm rocking the latest dinner party, parlaying attendees with my wit and banter, when someone snazzier and trendier enters. The idea easily transfers to Twitter.
Highlights from my #SMMW keynote speech
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My point was, the entry barrier for great content today is near zero, or can be. We have more opportunities to create great work — with less money and effort — than even a few years ago. In fact over the last three years , 98 percent of all marketing dollars have gone to just seven platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
The level playing field has turned into a content arms race
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All of the tools are free so it's a really low barrier to entry. And it works. It was pretty cheap and the entry barriers were indeed low. Today YouTube is mainstream entertainment fueled by slick corporate video content. Have I ever told you how much I love Gini Dietrich ? For me, she is such an amazing role model for dong it right on the social web. No longer. Agree?
8 Practical applications for influence marketing
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Obviously brands want to get to know these YouTube stars and Snapchat gods and find clever ways to infiltrate their audiences. When I work with start-ups, I almost always consider some influencer component. Working with influencers can create a powerful feedback loop as you develop new products and features. But my prediction did come true. It's in a café in Berlin. Research.
The Psychology of Viral Content
Check out the map below to see how the viral momentum built up over time: There's no denying the project was successful from an engagement perspective, but what's interesting is that the visual emphasizes how viral content transcends cultural barriers and industries. As for story , the post works on two different levels. The result? " can't hurt.
15 ways to use Twitter to toast your competition
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3) Offer helpful links and headlines that can drive traffic to your website, blog, landing pages, YouTube channels. 5) Break through communication barriers with tweets. You will not believe how well this works. I only know it works! There are lots of success stories and case studies documenting business success through Twitter. Facebook, etc. for 2 for-1 coffee cakes."
Marketing Challenges in Regulated Industries, Part 2: Finance and Public Companies
While time-consuming, it's also worthwhile – it gives you the edge to work within FINRA's parameters to create ideal marketing content. Communicate: BP's PR people worked to ameliorate the damage by communicating with the public everything they could about the oil spill. If your product lends itself to a video, think about having a contest for user-generated YouTube and Vimeo content.
Content Shock: Why content marketing is not a sustainable strategy
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There are only so many hours in a day and even if we consume content while we eat, work and drive, there is a theoretical and inviolable limit to consumption, which we are now approaching. If you examined a list of the most popular YouTube videos five years ago, they were "locally-produced" home movies. 2) The entry barriers become impossibly high. Let me explain.
Content Doesn't Have to be One-and-Done – 6 Benefits of Re-Skinning Existing Assets
You already have the messaging in place, and that significantly lowers the barrier to creating new content based on that initial white paper. If you know the message works well for your target audience and you've already done all the legwork to research that message, why not showcase it in multiple formats? So what happens once you create that amazing piece of content? Why stop there?
Innovation in higher education marketing
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And with widespread access to superfast broadband, e-Learning is fast becoming an expected alternative to in person teaching amongst students, removing both the geographical and economical barriers for international learners. While there is still work to be done across the board, here are four lovely things some of them have already employed: Virtual Reality Tours. Which is a problem.
7 Google for Nonprofits Tools That Will Change Your Cause Marketing Forever
Each of these groups has used Google''s tools to heighten their awareness, particularly through Google Ads, YouTube, and Google+, among other features. 3) YouTube for Nonprofits. Not only can your nonprofit use YouTube channels to share videos about your organization, its events, its achievements, and even to say thank you, you are also able to collect donations through it.
ReadyPulse Named Winner of Red Herring's Top 100 North America Award
It's exciting to be recognized by an organization like Red Herring for all of our passion and hard work.". Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, Palo Alto Networks and eBay would change the way we live and work. "In The North America winners are representative of the amazing ecosystem that never ceases to astound, with new and experienced entrepreneurs continuing to push the barriers of innovation. SAN CARLOS, Calif.–ReadyPulse, –ReadyPulse, Inc.,
5 Healthcare Brands That Breathe New Life into Social Media Marketing Strategy
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" With a gamut of presences that spans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Youtube—proving it knows exactly where its readers are, and wants to meet them on their level. The brand's language and written content also go a long way in creating the friendly environment that the Cleveland Clinic has worked so hard to create. The truth? Social media matters.
Is Video An Opportunity For Marketers?
B2B Marketing Insider
People are consuming web-video on their commute, at work and at home via their tablets and TVs – if you take a moment to think about it, you've probably interacted with a handful of videos today. There are many consumer, prosumer and B2B brands that have succeeded on YouTube alone. Both, Instagram and Vine remove many barriers around creating quick and incredibly engaging content.
Why Silent Facebook Video Is So Popular
Content Standard
Publishers like Tasty have broken through the sound barrier with ridiculously popular video demonstrations of recipes. Click here to view the video on YouTube. " As always, content has to work for the platform. And on Snapchat, vertical video works best—meaning that even if brands get to play with sound, they still have to change their way of envisioning video.
7 Quick Ways to Free Up More Time in Your Day
Often times, it's this "so much to do, so little time" mentality that places a barrier between what you're capable of achieving and what you're actually getting done. It's like your brain is ready to do work, but then your hand hits the mouse and before you know it you're five scrolls down your Facebook News Feed. 2) Work Within a Defined Timeframe. Don't have a tomato timer?
B2B Marketing Trends I'm Thankful for
B2B Marketing Traction
Social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus have indeed grown and allowed the average citizen platforms from which to voice their preferences. The cost of marketing has come down, providing more of an opportunity for small businesses to prevail over larger ones and reducing barriers for start-ups. Citizen Marketing and Social Media. Agree, disagree?
Navigating the Digital Marketing Landscape in China
Modern B2B Marketing
What is commonly referred to as the "Great Firewall of China" specifically blocks foreign digital platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Youtube. Covert marketing tactics often prove effective, such as starting discussions that feature your brand, encouraging happy customers to leave reviews, and working with influencers to help you build brand awareness.
The Marketing Power of Pokemon Go and Other New, Unsaturated Marketing Channels
It wasn't a marketing guru who thought, "this Pokemon thing might work for this pizza place?" Everyone is a videographer - Thank you YouTube. Because, let's be honest, if there were no barriers to entry and it didn't take something special, everyone would do it! While YouTube rolls out their mobile app update with LiveStream through the second half of 2016. So what?
4 Excellent Examples of Creative Google+ Business Pages
What you can learn from Special Report : Google+ Hangouts present a lower barrier to entry than something like a webinar, so regardless of your business, they could help you open up and feed the top of your sales funnel. YouTube. What you can learn from YouTube: Take your new and popular content and find a new audience for it over at your Google+ business pages. Time Magazine.
Storytelling > History: Museum Hack's Interactive Approach to Tours & Team-Building
The girl shared about works she was passionate about—the ones she had lingered on, dug into, fallen in love with. Gray began obsessively visiting the museum, uncovering his own stories with the help of Wikipedia and YouTube. Certain artifacts may speak to visitors through the barrier of time. Happy reading! It all started in 2011 with a girl. A girl who enjoyed museums.
5 Content Marketing Trends to Plan Your 2017 Budget
Content Standard
As a content marketer who frequently hangs out with non-content marketers (most people outside my work life), I'm often asked, "What is content marketing?" YouTube Live , Facebook Live , Tumblr , and of course, Snapchat, are all making live video part of their core offerings. " It's a good question, and one that's simply explained without jargon.
11 Tips to Help Improve Your Brand's Communication Strategy
The company works to provide meaning rather than superficial promises. If you come across a funny YouTube video that would speak to your buyer personas, share it! Brands should work to improve their products and messaging as consumers continue to influence and take co-ownership of their favorite brands. In fact, marketing is becoming increasingly consumer-driven. Mothers!

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Monday Night Trivia will have a special category this week: Name The Author. I am going to give you either a classic or contemporary book title, and you have to name the author. The usual four categories will be part of Trivia Night as well.
The Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from St. Petersburg at 7 PM, and our friends The BLOHARDS will be taking part this week. (They cancelled at the last minute last week, but I've been assured they will be in Professor Thom's tonight. So it should be a great round of trivia tonight. We should get going after 9:30, whenever the Red Sox game concludes.
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Mr. Greenwich and his wife were shopping when they decided to go their separate ways to speed things up. They agreed to meet at the bank at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Greenwich realized several minutes later that he had forgotten his watch. He asked a lady walking by for the correct time. Her watch was five minutes fast, but she thought it was ten minutes slow. Mrs. Greenwich had also forgotten her watch so she asked a gentleman passing by for the correct time. The man's watch was ten minutes slow, but he thought it was 15 fast. Taking into account the errors in the watches, who was at the bank first and at what time did they arrive?
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Missing Since: May 29, 2006 from Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania Classification: Endangered Missing Date of Birth: May 24, 1962 Age: 44 years old Height and Weight: 5'1 - 5'3, 110 - 115 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, brown or green eyes. Rafte has an appendectomy scar on her abdomen. Her maiden name is Conrad. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A powder-blue shirt, denim capri pants with rhinestones on the back pockets, and sandals. Medical Conditions: Rafte was taking prescription medication at the time of her disappearance for unspecified reasons. She does not have her medicine with her.
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Rafte attended her daughter's graduation party in Nicholson Borough, Pennsylania on May 28, 2006. She was accompanied by her boyfriend. They left together at 10:30 p.m. Rafte's boyfriend stated that after the party, he and Rafte went to his residence on Market Street in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. They had argument there and she left to walk home during the early morning hours of May 29, sometime after 1:00 a.m. Rafte was last seen in the area of Market and River Streets in Jenkins Township. She has never been heard from again. She was carrying a pink purse at the time of her disappearance.Rafte resided alone on Cleveland Street in Pittston, Pennsylvania in 2006. Her home is about a mile from her boyfriend's residence. When authorities checked her residence, nothing appeared to be amiss. The television was on, the doors were locked, Rafte's car was parked in the driveway, and her tax refund check was in the mailbox. She frequented the areas of Jenkins Township in Luzerne County, Nicholson Borough in Wyoming County, and the city of Harrisburg in Dauphin County; she has relatives living in all of those places.
Rafte's loved ones stated she was under stress at the time of her disappearance due to her life circumstances. Prior to her disappearance, Rafte worked as a waitress at the Scott 60 truck stop on Interstate 81 in Scott, Pennsylvania. She knew many truck drivers as a result of her job. Rafte's daughter believes her mother may have gotten a ride with a truck driver on the night of her disappearance and possibly traveled out of state.
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Forget rummage boxes and sticky carpets – Britain's charity shops are being given a design makeover to "contemporise" them for modern shoppers who no longer like picking over old shoes, bric-a-brac and incomplete jigsaws in fusty surroundings.
One of the country's biggest charities, Age UK, is turning all its 500 shops into bright outlets with white walls, smooth lines, wooden flooring and trendy furniture. Shoppers will be able to receive information on the charity's work and advice from a series of "interactive touch-screen kiosks".
Age UK, formed from the merger of Age Concern and Help the Aged, opened its first version of the "innovative new concept" in Ashstead, Surrey, this week and will convert shops in Colne, Chesterfield, and Kentish Town, north London, by June. Over the next four years it will refit all its 500 outlets – almost as common a sight on the high street as W H Smith.
The overtly-styled shops are part of the modernisation of the country's 8,000 charity stores, which sell donations of clothes, furniture, books, crockery and other miscellaneous gifts. Nationally, the fundraising shops make £120m a year from a turnover of £600m.
Save the Children is slowly switching its 123 shops to a funkier "Living and Giving" format following a televised experiment overseen by the retail expert Mary Portas last year. At its Orpington branch in Kent last year, "Mary Queen of Shops" cleared out the clutter – and some octogenarian staff – and replaced them with clothes made by local fashion students and brought in a professional manager. Since then the shop's takings have soared from £900 to £3,000-£4,000 a week; BBC2 will screen an update to the series on Monday.
According to David Moir, head of public affairs for the Association of Charity Shops, leading charities are seeking to adapt the "pile-it-high" multi-purpose format. "Many more charities are looking at diversifying and specialising, into boutiques, bookshops, furniture and electricals," he said. "We are moving away from the model we all know and love and towards what consumers are demanding."
The biggest player, Oxfam, which has 750 shops, has been experimenting with online fashion sales and opening specialist bookshops. The British Heart Foundation, which has 600 shops, has been creating furniture and electrical "superstores".
Age UK's 500 shops will be fitted out in its colours and "incorporate contemporary shop fittings and signage". To reinforce the recycling element of buying from charity shops, goods will feature the slogan "I've been loved before, so love me again". The charity, which supports a global network and funds research into ageing, said: "The concept stores have been launched with an ambition to become a community hub.
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Muslimness is an elusive state of being. There are watertight strictures of the theological identity defined by men, interpreted as the Sharia, on the one hand; and the broad political and cultural sense of the self, on the other. Identity, in any case, is a messy affair: shifty, shifting and eventually, imagined. While 9/11 placed Muslims at the centre stage of global politics, the broth had already been simmering in the cauldrons of biased academe and pop reality mirrored through the blood-thirsty lens of corporate media.
So what is it to be a Muslim? An inflexible bag of rituals? Or a cultural sense of belonging or a deeper dogma ingrained in young minds? I have never considered myself anything but a believer, a 'practicing Muslim'. This has never been at variance with my secular and inclusive pretensions, despite the fact that the clergy in my country considers secularism akin to atheism, a sort of mirror image of the Pakistani political foundation. The clerics translate secular as la-deen , at best irreligious, and at worst, godless.
Ironical that this business of religious identity is articulated in a land that was the crucible of the secular Indus Valley civilization, non-militant Buddhism and a peculiar version of South Asian Islam that spread via the Sufi khanqahs and was a sort of amalgam of the Central Asian with the ancient South Asian. Even more ironical is the reality, neglected and veiled, that lived Islam is located around dargahs , tribal codes and customs which are irreligious in their own way. But who cares? Referred to as the world's most dangerous country, Pakistan, according to the pundits of global opinion, is a haven for Islamic terrorists. Collateral damage, therefore, is kosher and a necessity to undo the unstated part of the 'axis of evil'.
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It wasn't the slugfest the first fight produced, but Chan Sung Jung more than made up for the lack of big strikes by beating Leonard Garcia with a unique submission. "The Korean Zombie" showed he can fight smart as well by landing a twister to finish Garcia with just one second left in the second round in the first televised bout at Ultimate Fight Night 24 on Spike.
"I've been watching Eddie Bravo videos on YouTube for a long time," Jung said through a translator. "I kept saying during practice at Korean Top Team that I'm going to do the twister in the UFC some day. Hopefully, I'll get the Submission of the Night."
Jung (11-3, 1-0 UFC) had Garcia's back late in the second when he decided to focus on one leg. He also got a hold of Garcia's head and cranked it back. The twister puts tremendous pressure on the spine. Garcia couldn't hold out, tapped and the fight was stopped by referee Dan Miragliotta at 4:59 of the second.
Garcia (15-7, 2-3 UFC) was headed down the wrong path from the opening seconds. He's built his reputation in the UFC and WEC by going for the broke. His striking is often reckless, but he does damage and scores with judges. He won the first throwdown with the Zombie at WEC 48, in a fight many thought Jung took by decision. Garcia repeated the feat his last time out against Nam Phan.
Garcia chose to go with a more controlled style and looked to counterstrike. He never got Jung's timing down. Garcia was the victim of a takedown in the first and ate some big shots on the ground.
In the second, he landed virtually nothing and went down again when the fighters connected on kicks at the same time. Jung jumped into top control with 1:11 left in the round. Jung softened him up with some big elbows. He threw Garcia's legs to the side and took his back with 33 seconds left.
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Brought to You by the Letter A is a 2000 Sesame Street storybook featuring Grover and his frequent customer at Charlie's Restaurant, Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson wants to go to Akron to visit his Aunt Agnes. Conductor Grover tells him to take the A train.
Mr. Johnson sits between an astronaut and a knight in armor, as Grover plays "The Alphabet Song" on the accordion. The train is overrun with alligators and anteaters, and Grover sells apple turnovers.
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I went out fishing today at the "same old" locations for the "same old" resident coho. I used the "same old" clouser minnow pattern. I kept two fish but didn't take any pictures of a "same old" resident coho liimit. What can I say ? P.S. Wadin' boot inspired me to use a new style of titles and content for posts . It will now be easier to post fishing reports since fewer words will be needed. Roger
NO! It's like the magic is gone....Did Old Man Jim hijack your computer...Bring back the tips and techniques....mea culpa, mea MAXIMA culpa
What have you done!! This will never last... I bet Roger has a separate report typed up and saved on his computer. He's losing sleep right now, tossing and turning because he didn't explain the "killer" side to side action a sequin at a "45 degree angle" gives his tube clouser!
AARRGGHH! I was thinking the same too! Roger you can't do that to us! It's like a pusher holding back on his junkies!
No a virus got into my computer/brain! It is all cleaned up now. The magic will be back with a good post after the Holidays to make up for the "same old" post. Roger
Roger, I went out today during the early afternoon to one of those spots. Thought I might see you, but you were else where. It was calm, calm before the storm calm. Hooked up a few fish and then the wind came up. It was blowing about 10 to 15, just what NOAA had predicted. Then the storm after the calm slammed me. I've never had my fly line pulled out of the water by the wind before. The gust must have been 30 to 35 mph. Yikes. Glad that you were in another spot. Three footers going home. Short and steep. I don't recall NOAA missing a call that badly for a long time. Really hated to leave all of those fish, but nice to see and catch them. I don't remember catching as many fish for at least four years, and I don't think I've seen fish this big in December, ever. Hope it keeps up.
Hey Robbi, nice to see you posting a report here. It means a lot for you and Roger to say the rezzie fishing hasn't been this good for at least 4 years! I remember how red hot it was in MA-13 in 2007 and early 2008 (fishing from the beach or a boat) Have you been picking up any decent sized black mouth along with the silvers down there? Be safe on the water, Tim
Robbi: I was going to fish the ebb tide yesterday afternoon at the "spot" where you probably were but the wind scared me off. The resident coho sure are nice sized there and make up for the poor fishing for the last 4 years like you said. Hope that your Duroboat gave you a relatively safe ride home. However, I'll bet that you might have wished that you still had your C Dory boat. I know that I would have been in deep trouble in my 15 ft. smokercraft with that kind of wind and waves. Always look forward to see you on the water. Plus, you saved me some grief when I got a nasty cut on a finger while bleeding a pink salmon in 2011. This Aug. it will be nice to get after pink salmon near where you keep your boat. Probably will see you at the "spot" over the next couple of months if the resident coho stay there. Roger
Roger, I sold the Duroboat, and bought a 16 foot C-dory , so I was safe, just uncomfortable. Tomorrow the weather report looks good. Maybe I will be out. I have only caught a few small blackmouth, but haven't really gone out early to target larger fish. I have set up a type 7 sinking line on a mono running line to get some depth. I think I like the resident silver fishing better, but would rather catch blackmouth. I'm thinking New Year's Eve night fishing from the beach would be fun, weather permitting. Had a blast doing that a few years ago. Robbi
Robbi, I remember that New Years Eve. Epic fishing with the fireworks and bagpipes. I will be in the Bay Area celebrating the New Year or I would be psyched to do that again. Looking forward to getting after it in January. Hope to see you on the water. Happy New Year, Steve
Roger - Do you have a recommendation on the clouser size? I recall from your searun cutthroat presentation that you varied the length of your candlefish pattern with the season so I assume you're going the same for coho? Thanks
Most of the clouser minnows which I tie are about 3 to 3 1/2 inches long since I use artic fox tail for the body. The maximum length with that material is about 3 1/2 inches. In late summer I use extra select craft fur for the body so that I can tie the pattern 4 to 4 1/2 inches long. In spring I will tie clouser minnows 1 1/2 to 2 inches using artic fox tail when the chum fry are available to sea-run cutthroat. Hope that helps you. PM me if you have any questions. Roger


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Government Graft, Corruption, and Retaliation in Democrat-Run Virginia
Big wasteful government isn't only a federal phenomenon. And if you're an honest government employee in the city of Alexandria in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., you better watch out. Because if you "blow the whistle" on inappropriate, unethical, or improper government spending, your bosses will retaliate and fire you for speaking up on behalf of the tax-payers.
All across America, billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted or mismanaged by local governments because of little to no government transparency or accountability. Alexandria, Virginia, provides an example of why.
Ironically, local government, which is arguably the "closest to the people," is in many ways shielded and protected from public scrutiny and questioning. Only a select few who either work in local government or watch the actions of their local representatives closely catch these cases of waste, fraud, and abuse. Their stories are often ignored because the media is more drawn to high-profile cases at the state and federal levels.
Take the case of former Alexandria city architect Henry Lewis.
As the project manager on one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken by the city of Alexandria, Lewis was responsible for "watching the dollars." Building a high-tech police headquarters, estimated to cost roughly $80 million plus another $20 million for furnishings, required the oversight of a skilled and experienced project manager, and Lewis was handpicked by top city officials to lead the project.
The Howard University-educated architect was a diligent project manager who worked to ensure that this massive project came in on time and on budget and he excelled at this role, receiving several sterling performance reviews and even a pay raise.
However, things began to change after "Director of General Services" Jeremy McPike got involved.
Jeremy McPike, as a top government bureaucrat in Alexandria's "Department of General Services," was ultimately responsible for oversight of the project. As McPike took the reins, Lewis started to notice that Whiting-Turner, the contractor, began submitting suspect invoices for materials stored off-site which hadn't been verified to actually exist. They started to bill extra for work that should have been covered by the original contract.
McPike became actively involved in approving these invoices for phantom materials—totaling over $2 million.
One of the invoices that Lewis questioned was for a substantial sum of money and had been post-dated by McPike a week in the future. But time and again, Lewis' concerns were silenced and McPike approved invoices and change orders over his project manager's professional objections.
Refusing to sign his name to fraudulent activity, Lewis made his suspicions known to his superiors.
That's when things got really bad for Henry Lewis.
McPike was enraged that Lewis had gone "above his head" to report this suspicious activity. He became personally abusive and began to maneuver to get Lewis to resign his position with the city.
Because Lewis continued to push back against these improper invoices, McPike ultimately took action to have Lewis fired by the city. Henry Lewis has since sued Jeremy McPike and the city of Alexandria, citing Virginia's whistle-blower statute, which was passed to protect genuine watchdogs of public tax dollars
But whistleblowers shouldn't have to go to court to protect the taxpayer.
During the recent Circuit Court proceedings, evidence was introduced that clearly showed that, on numerous occasions, McPike attempted to intimidate and force Lewis to sign off on improper invoices from a contractor the government employee McPike favored. The trial detailed how McPike verbally abused and threatened Lewis with termination.
In collaboration with Whiting-Turner, who was tired of dealing with Lewis' unwillingness to simply "rubber stamp" all invoices, Henry Lewis was fired and thrown to the curb. In a parting and spiteful insult to Lewis, McPike and Alexandria refused to place Lewis' name on a plaque, an honor always extended to the project manager and architect.
To Henry Lewis' credit, a jury found that Lewis had been wrongfully terminated under anti-retaliation provisions of the Virginia Fraud against Taxpayers Act, a law passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2011, and was awarded back pay, benefits, and legal fees. And it should be no surprise that city of Alexandria officials have announced their intention to appeal the Circuit Court's decision to the Virginia Court of Appeals and continue their harassment of the whistleblower Henry Lewis.
But has there been any outrage about McPike by elected officials in Alexandria? Has the dishonest government official been fired? Do the citizens of Alexandria even know or care?
No, no, and no.
Has the paper of record for Alexandria, the Washington Post, covered the story of millions of dollars in waste? No, again.
The Washington Post was too busy covering the tight space for animals at a local shelter and seeking public input on "building the most insane cheeseburger."
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QUINCY — The Port of Quincy should soon no longer be the object of a federal lawsuit filed by a collection of leaseholders in their ongoing effort to avoid eviction from Crescent Bar Island.
The port has agreed to:
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution has signed two Colombian players to its roster: central defender John Lozano and midfielder/forward Fernando Cárdenas. Per league and club policies, further contract details will not be released.
Both players will count as international players on the Revolution's roster and will formally be added to the team's roster upon the receipt of their U.S. P-1 Visas, and their International Transfer Certificates, which cannot be processed until the international transfer window opens on Jan. 24.
"Both John and Fernando have experience playing in Colombia's top division, both with and against some of CONCACAF's top club teams," Revolution General Manager Michael Burns said. "Lozano is a strong central defender who reads the game well, and Cárdenas is a creative player who we believe has the tools to help us in the attacking half of the field. We expect that both players will have significant roles on our team this season."
Both Lozano and Cárdenas come to the Revolution from Colombia's América de Cali, which despite finishing 12th of 18 teams in the Apertura and eighth of 18 teams in the Finalización, was just relegated to Colombia's second division in December following a playoff loss to second-division Patriotas in penalty kicks.
Lozano, 27, began his professional career in 2003 with Colombia's Deportivo Pereira where he played parts of seven years – playing both with the first team and reserves early on before settling with the first team in 2009 - scoring three goals with one assist in 68 appearances. In the summer of 2010, he transferred to América de Cali, where he has played since, making 37 appearances with two goals.
In January 2011, Argentine power Boca Juniors brought Lozano in on trial, but Lozano requested a return to América upon his arrival in Buenos Aires.
Cárdenas, 23, played the 2011 Finalización with América after beginning his career with Deportivo Pereira in 2008. The left-footed attacker played two seasons with Deportivo Pereira before going on loan to Once Caldas for the 2010 Apertura during the team's run in Copa Libertadores. Cárdenas made six appearances in the tournament before the club fell in the round of 16 to Paraguay's Club Libertad.
He was then loaned to Deportes Tolima for the 2010 Finalización, where he made 16 appearances for the league's runner up. At the conclusion of the tournament, Cárdenas retuned to Deportivo Pereira for the 2011 Apertura, making 11 appearances while scoring one goal and adding one assist. In the summer of 2011, Cárdenas landed at América, where he made eight appearances, including five starts.
Cárdenas has made 82 appearances across all competitions, scoring six goals and adding five assists. One of his goals came with América at Patriotas in the away leg of the teams' relegation series.
Transaction: New England Revolution (MLS) - Signed D John Lozano and M/F Fernando Cárdenas
Pronunciation: low-ZAHN-no
Position: Defender
Date of Birth: July 31, 1984 (Guacari, Colombia)}
Hometown: Guacari, Colombia
Height: 6-0
Weight: 180 lbs.
Previous Club: América de Cali (COL)
Nationality: Colombia
Status: International
Jersey Number: TBA
Pronunciation: fer-NAHN-doe CAR-day-nahs
Position: Midfielder/Forward
Date of Birth: April 30, 1988 (Cartago, Colombia)
Hometown: Cartago, Colombia
Height: 5-6
Weight: 150 lbs.
Previous Club: América de Cali (COL)
Nationality: Colombia
Status: International


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The first time John Grant made a solo album, it helped save his life. Though he had dragged himself free of alcohol and drug addiction after his cult band The Czars' collapse, abandonment by the male love of his life made suicidal thoughts crowd in.
Texan band Midlake intervened then, encouraging him to resume making music by producing Mojo's 2010 album of the year, Queen of Denmark. Songs such as "JC Hates Faggots" revealed a religiously conservative Midwest upbringing which made being gay so catastrophic to self-worth, even the record's career-transforming reception couldn't raise it. "If I base my opinion of myself on the fact that right now, things are great," Grant, 44, explains as he sits wrapped against the winter chill in an east London bar, "people could suddenly turn around and say, 'Well, you're just a diseased whore'."
Sinéad O'Connor covers Queen of Denmark's title track on her new album and guests on Grant's follow-up, Pale Green Ghosts, produced by another of his heroes, Icelandic band Gus Gus's Biggi Veira. The pair worked so well together that Grant impulsively ripped up plans to work with Midlake again, and moved to Reykjavik. "Biggi would be sitting there in his stiletto heels and tights, and some sort of blouse," he fondly recalls of their work's more fraught moments, "wearing his lipstick and make-up and fingernail polish, and treating me as a father would, saying, 'Look, it's going to be alright. Let's deconstruct this.'"
Grant's diagnosis as HIV-positive, announced on-stage in London in June 2012, added to the disruption and determination behind a record that partly retains Denmark's soft rock and acid wit. New orchestral and electronic textures refine his music's bleak beauty. "At the beginning, I always made Biggi go in the house," Grant says of daring to sing its confessions for the first time, after moving into Veira's home/studio.
"The pain of what I'm singing about was raw then. Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there, it's about show, and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that. With this addictive personality I have, which permeates my entire being – it's not just drugs and alcohol, I can abuse the salt shaker, the sofa cushions – I am so prone to wanting to disappear and flee that I'll use anything to do that. I really want to avoid being another one of these people who gets found in a bath-tub, having not quite made it away from the drug addiction, and who did in the end succumb, unfortunately. And in order for me to avoid that I have to, even if it's not pretty, talk about the way things actually are."
"Pale Green Ghosts" is a dark driving song, describing highway rides from Grant's teenage home town of Parker, Colorado to Denver – and he has kept moving, living in New York, London and Berlin before his current Reykjavik residence. "I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down," he considers of his restlessness. A 10-hour journey from Reykjavik to Iceland's east side inspired Pale Green Ghosts' epic conclusion, "Glacier". "I saw a lot of glaciers on the way," he says. "And I thought about them as a metaphor for how pain carves a path in you, but can also result in a new landscape."
A continued obsession with the adored, lost love called "T.C." in his lyrics, though, shows the old landscape which triggered an almost killing depression. "Vietnam" compares this toxically cold lover to Agent Orange. "Maybe it's just something that's important anthropologically speaking," Grant ponders, "maybe it's just a portrait of dysfunctional human love." This torturing muse has Queen of Denmark hanging on his wall. "Or he did. Maybe he was told to take that down! The anger's what's helping me move on. How do you force love to die?" Grant's songs hammer nails in the corpse.
There's more pain deeper in his past. The father castigated on Queen of Denmark for his right-wing bigotry has also heard some of his son's music. Visiting him in Missouri, Grant's sexuality stays unspoken. "I think when he listens to the music, it hurts him to see what I've gone through," Grant says. "Because even if he doesn't agree with the homosexual lifestyle, he still loves me, I'm still his son. I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him. It's probably just as important for me to accept him."
Has his dad ever spoken about the music? "Well actually, he heard 'I Wanna Go to Marz'. Thought it was beautiful. I just disqualified it, like I do everything. I thought, 'Yeah, if he heard 'Jesus Hates Faggots', it'd be a different story'."
Pale Green Ghosts' sound captures Grant's emotions as much as his acerbically witty lyrics. The electronic and orchestral arrangements are oppressive and disruptive, ending in a sort of liberation. "Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?', that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through?" Grant asks. "That is what I can't do with my voice. That's when you hear how painful this has been to me."
Grant mentions his love of John Carpenter's electronic horror soundtracks. Is it too glib to say that his albums have a similar purpose?
"It might be a little bit glib to people who have been through genocides in countries where people have actual problems. But yes, there has been a horror movie going on in my head for a long time, that has to do with anxiety and severe depression, and feeling trapped inside this horrible labyrinth of over-thinking and fear. And I am trying to write the soundtrack to that."
'Pale Green Ghosts' is out now on Bella Union


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The first casualty of Zynga's disastrous second-quarter earnings report has been identified, and it's chief operating officer John Schappert. Was it the plummeting stock price, or a recent lawsuit filed against the company that did him in?
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News broke this evening that Schappert was stepping down as COO and as a member of Zynga's board of directors, effective immediately. Schappert took a beating after the second-quarter report was a huge disappointment, and drove the company's stock down. In the aftermath, Bloomberg reported Schappert was stripped of his role overseeing game development in an effort "aimed at reviving growth and making more money from mobile services." David Ko, head of Zynga's mobile operations, and Steve Chiang, executive vice president of games, were ordered to report directly to CEO Mark Pincus. Where did that leave room for Schappert? Well...
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AllthingsD's Tricia Duryee says the move may be Zynga trying "to shore up investor confidence in the company as it scrambles to recover from a disastrous second quarter and 2012 outlook." But, she also notes, it's surprising because Schappert was one of the company's biggest poaches from Electronic Arts. They paid out the nose for him, to the tune of a $10 million dollar signing bonus and a $42.8 million compensation package.
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It's worth noting that Zynga and Electronic Arts are fighting, and Schappert's name is in the middle of the conflict. EA filed a lawsuit last week alleging their Sims Social game, a Facebook version of the popular Sims franchise, was ripped off by Zynga's The Ville. As Business Insider's Matt Lynley noted, the lawsuit directly mentions Schappert. EA's mobile games division reported directly to him while he was the COO of EA. He "had detailed, internal strategic plans and development information related to EA's efforts The Sims franchise to Facebook," the lawsuit alleges.
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All in all, it hasn't been a good two weeks for Schappert. Internally he lost a huge chuck of his responsibility, and immediately after that he was named in a lawsuit from his former employer. It seems as if he had no where to go but out.
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Zynga is still suffering, though. Their stock price went all the way down to $2.95 at close today, and Schappert's departure hasn't done it any favors in after hours trading. It's down another $0.05 right now. Here's Zynga's six month stock chart, just for kicks:


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The fate of some very old bones may not sound like compelling cinema, but when they compose the 65-million-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was 41 feet long and 18 feet high back in the day, all bets are off.
"Dinosaur 13," the story of a controversial T. rex named Sue and the havoc her ancient bones wreaked on numerous lives, turns out to be an altogether splendid documentary. It's not only a rich, poignant human story of intense joy followed by unending heartache but also has more complex ramifications dealing with issues such as governmental overreach and the long-standing, often bitter rift between academic and commercial fossil collectors.
Director Todd Douglas Miller, who also edited, had access to hundreds of hours of previously unseen video footage and interviewed people on all sides of the issues involved. For many of these individuals, their connection to Sue led to both the best and worst moments of their lives. "It's a brilliant story," says "The Cove" director Louie Psihoyos, who covered it as a National Geographic photographer, "if you didn't have to live it like the Larsons did."
Paleontologist Peter Larson and his brother Neal were part of a group that was scouting for possible fossils on Maurice Williams' ranch in the Black Hills of South Dakota when car trouble mandated they head to town for repairs. A colleague, Susan Hendrickson, decided to stay, and what she came across while they were gone made scientific history.
It was the 13th Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever collected (hence the film's title). It proved to be the largest and most complete T. rex ever, with 80% of the skeleton recovered, including the rarely seen skull. The excavation took 17 days in 115-degree heat, the painstaking preservation and restoration process took almost two years, and then all hell broke loose.
Museum geeks since they were kids, the Larsons had planned to use Sue (named after discoverer Hendrickson) as the centerpiece of a planned Black Hills Museum in their tiny town of Hill City, population 535. They had told rancher Williams of their plan and paid him $5,000 for use of the skeleton.
Those plans were dashed on May 14, 1992, when a small army of law enforcement operatives (35 FBI agents, 20 National Guardsmen) descended on Hill City and took possession of Sue and all supporting evidence about the find, some 10 tons of material in all, leaving Peter Larson and his team devastated, frustrated and confused. And no wonder.
As what ABC anchor Sam Donaldson called "the custody battle of the century" unfolded, it developed that all kinds of people had their own axes to grind about Sue, starting with acting U.S. Atty. Kevin Schieffer, who seemed to have pursued the case in part to get publicity for himself.
Also, the question of exactly who owned the land Sue was found on could not have been more problematic. Williams had a claim to it, but so did his tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux, and since his ranch turned out to be held in trust by the federal government, they got into the act as well.
It took years for all these issues to be resolved, but "Dinosaur 13" explains it all. It also explores a further case the government brought against the Larsons for what authorities claimed was a huge international fossil-selling conspiracy.
In a situation that echoes the governmental overreach that was at the heart of "The Internet's Own Boy," if Larson had been convicted of all charges he would have had to pay a $13-million fine and serve a sentence of 353 years, more time behind bars, he notes, than multiple murderer Jeffrey Dahmer.
One dynamic behind all these charges was the ever-widening divide between academic paleontologists and private commercial collectors like the Larsons, who get no respect from the establishment even though their field technique and willingness to share were often exemplary.
While the issues and stories involved in "Dinosaur 13" have so many ramifications that Miller has said he could have done a miniseries on the story, he's given this documentary treatment the drive of a thriller.
His focus, finally, is squarely on Larson, who fell in love with both paleontology and Sue. Though the director makes sure that all sides have their say, it's hard not to agree with the film's conclusion that the consequences of that passion turned out to be considerably more severe than they had any right to be.
'Dinosaur 13'
MPAA rating: Unrated
Running time: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Playing at: Sundance Cinemas, West Hollywood
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You need separate Windows accounts to login to from the Welcome screen. Then you have your own everything (except the iTunes program itself, there's only one of that). Libraries and everything else is private, however, limited to each Windows account.
Go to Control Panel>User accounts and make a new account for her.
Our home PC has my iphone account already set up on it. My daughter has now purchased an iphone and wants to be able to buy apps, music etc and sync from the same computer but we want entirely separate accounts as our contacts, apps, music, photos etc will be different.
I thought I had carefully set up her account separately with a new name and a new password, different email and contact details etc but when we plug in her phone the system still automatically take us to my account and asks for my password and won't allow us to click on anything to swap to her account or give us any similar 'either/or' option.
What have I done wrong and how can I fix this so our phones are treated entirely separately on the same computer.


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Malcolm T. Sanford and Jamie Ellis2
Watermelons are big a business in Florida. Keys to producing a profitable watermelon crop are numerous, but it is generally recognized that growers who harvest early, quality melons have the most chance of being successful. Several things must happen in order to produce a good crop. The grower needs to ensure optimum growing conditions and the weather must cooperate, although there is little a producer can do about the weather. Consequently, the watermelon grower is also at the mercies of climatic vagaries.
Many conditions in the field besides the weather; are under the control of the watermelon producer. Such things as pH and fertility of the soil, as well as control of insect pests and other pathogens often can be regulated by the grower (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_watermelon). Within this decision-making mix, one of the most critical is whether or not to employ honey bees in pollinating the crop.
The best review on the subject of watermelon pollination by honey bees is found in: Crop Pollination by Bees - Keith S. Delaplane and Daniel F. Mayer. Of primary importance to the watermelon grower are pages 275–277 which present an overview of the watermelon pollination requirements and practices. In addition, the introductory material on honey bee management and particularly the section on pollination agreements and services should be of interest to all persons in many realms of agriculture. In this document, we present an overview of the sections mentioned above in an effort to more widely disseminate information on optimizing watermelon pollination.
It has been universally recognized that watermelons are insect pollinated, even as far back as the turn of the 20th century. Of utmost importance in watermelon pollination is the fact that at least 1000 grains of pollen must be evenly deposited on the tree lobes of the stigma if a uniform melon is to result. Because the pollen grains produce pollen tubes directly downward with very little lateral movement, an insufficient amount of pollen on one stigma lobe will result in an asymmetrical melon. Thus, saturation pollination is an important consideration if uniform melons are to be produced.
Other considerations also influence fruit set, according to S. E. McGregor in his Agricultural Handbook "Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants". "It...appears that number of bee visitors (eight or more), time of bee visits (6 to 10 a.m.), length of ovary at time of pollination (28mm or longer), plant vigor, and number of melons already set on the vine, all contribute to the greatest percentage of fruit set." Most honey bees visit melon fields in the morning when the highest percentage of fruit set is expected. Given that mornings are also the times of greatest variability in weather conditions; can a producer ignore the possibility that natural pollinators will not be available during this critical period? As such, honey bees are a necessary component of any watermelon production endeavor and pollination must be left solely to managed pollinator populations (honey bees)?
Although it is recognized that honey bees are important for watermelon pollination, there is a great variance in recommendations concerning bringing bees in to pollinate crop. Estimates vary from one to five colonies of bees per acre as being necessary for adequate melon pollination (the literature average is 1.8 hives per acre or 4.5 hives per ha). Other conditions like placement of colonies in discrete groups within the field versus on the perimeter will also affect resulting pollination.
Recommendations for numbers of colonies are not precise because conditions can vary within a colony which can have as little as 10,000 and more than 60,000 individuals at any particular time. Some recommend a bee population that will provide one bee for each 100 flowers in the field.
Unfortunately, watermelon flowers are not always attractive to honey bees. If certain types of other plants are blooming in the area, honey bees will shift from visiting watermelons to visiting the other plants. Consequently, watermelon growers may need to resort to other methods of increasing honey bee visits to target flowers. The best way to accomplish this is to increase the number of bee colonies per acre of watermelons grown. Other growers have used bee attractants in an effort to encourage bees to visit the flowers. However, most studies on bee attractants and honey bee pollination of watermelons have not shown a benefit of using bee attractants.
A standard pollination recommendation for watermelons grown in Florida does not exist. Like recommendations for many beekeeping practices, there is no good "cookbook" formula that works well for every producer under the extreme variety of possible conditions found at any particular time. In the long run, it will be best for the grower to work with a beekeeper in determining the best possible population of bees and their placement for optimum watermelon pollination.
To that end, it is important to use a written contract which details the expectations of both parties--grower and beekeeper. It is extremely important that the grower gain knowledge of beekeeping practices and bee biology to help in developing such a contract. It cannot be assumed that each colony or unit must necessarily have a queen, adequate food supplies and a generous population of worker bees for doing the pollinating work. It is important to remember that although bees may be collecting pollen and nectar from a watermelon field, they will not be able to sustain themselves solely on this source of nutrients. A supplementary source in the form of stored honey and pollen will be needed or the colonies will lose populations and become ineffective pollinating units.
A primary concern of beekeepers when involved in contracting their bees for pollination is the use of pesticides by the grower. The University of Florida published an EDIS document "http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1027" which provides important pointers on this subject. A sample pollination agreement can be found here- https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa169.
Delaplane, K.S., Mayer, D.F. 2000. Crop Pollination by Bees. CABI Publishing, New York, NY, pp. 344.
McGregor, S.E. 1976. Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants, Agriculture Handbook Number 196, ARS-USDA (out of print).
This document is ENY-154, one of a series of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date December 1992. Revised November 2009, April 2010, and April 2016. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Malcolm T. Sanford, professor emeritus and Jamie D. Ellis, assistant professor; Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.


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Albert Brooks Returns For 'Finding Nemo 2;' Disney May Help Andrew Stanton Return to Live-Action Directing
Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton had a rough year in 2012, but he's going back to calmer waters for his next film. Stanton is set to direct Finding Nemo 2 for Pixar, and last year he recruited Ellen DeGeneres to reprise her role of Dory.
Now Albert Brooks has been signed as well, and so we can be fairly certain than Marlin will return for the sequel as well.
Deadline reports that Brooks will be well-paid for the work, without giving away any specifics. We might infer from that info that his character will be a fairly substantial part of the film. Victoria Strouse is scripting, and we can expect to see Finding Nemo 2 in late 2016.
The most interesting tidbit in the Deadline news break may be this: Disney and John Stanton will work together on another live-action feature. Stanton's first live-action effort was John Carter, which became a notoriously costly write-down for Disney.
What his follow-up will be remains to be seen. Prior to John Carter's release, Stanton talked of plans for a sequel, but any realization of that plan doesn't seem very likely at this point.
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Sometimes I make things and wonder — Am I the only one who would like this? Maybe my tastes aren't as picky since I'm the chef.
Last night I had 20 minutes to whip together dinner before running errands with the family. I had fish defrosted and I wanted a rice based side dish. I love rice and fish. It's such a classic combo but sometimes not a very filling one. Plus I only had 1 filet of fish for each of us.
So I decided to bulk up the rice with some beans. Using a few other pantry items I whipped together, what I thought was, a very tasty said dish.
Apparently I was the only one. I watched the husband pick apart his plate like a 3 year old. I was like, you got to be kidding me?!? It's rice and beans for God's sake. Ugh. The little guys ate some but the mushrooms threw him for a loop. So he left about half of it on his plate.
I don't know. Maybe I'm too tough on them. Maybe what I cook is just not good. I like it and I was proud of myself for whipping together something tasty in no time at all. Sometimes I feel so under-appreciated. I'm sure if we would have gone to McDonald's on the way to the store they wouldn't have gobbled it up. That's what kills me.
*sigh* oh well… just needed to vent. Maybe you guys will like it. :)
- 2 tsp olive oil
- About 2 cups of cooked brown rice (I used the 90 second kind)
- 1 14oz can of diced tomatoes
- 1 small can of mushrooms
- 1 15oz can of northern beans drained and rinsed
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- Kosher salt to taste
It's the not the freshes meal but you can whip something up from the pantry with healthy ingredients..
As you can see someone was in a helpful good mood..
Heat the oil in a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add the rice. Break up and cook for a minute. Add the remaining ingredients one by one and stir to combine the flavors. Cook for a few minutes until everything comes up to temperature.
I served with flounder fillets that were season with the same combo of onion, garlic and thyme plus a squirt of lemon juice and kosher salt. It was a great combination, in my opinion. :)
I think the dish even makes a great quick meal, it also made a lot! If you go by 4 servings it well over a cup each but I'll still leave it at 4 servings for simplicity. What you see in the picture above was about 1/6 of the recipe.
Servings | Amt per Serving | |||
4 | 1/4 of the recipe | |||
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235 | 4g | 7g | old: 4 | new: 6 |
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Country's largest public sector lender State Bank of India launched a slew of measures for farm loan borrowers, including interest rate reductions on irrigation and crop loans, to support drought-hit farmers.
SBI today reduced interest rates for minor irrigation loans up to Rs 25 lakhs to eight per cent in the first one year and nine per cent in second and third year. The existing rates in this category are 10.5 per cent to 13,25 per cent.
"SBI has decided to provide interest rate reductions as cash flows of farmers have been hit owing to the drought. We are watching the situation and will come out with more measures if necessary," SBI's General Manager (Agri business Unit) Niranjan Parsha told PTI.
From fourth year onwards, customers will have to pay normal interest rates on this loan, Parsha said.
The bank has also reduced interest rates on crop loans between Rs 3-25 lakh to 10 per cent for one year.
At present, crop loans between Rs three to five lakh are priced at 11.75 per cent while those above Rs five lakh and up to Rs 25 lakh are being offered at 12.75 per cent.
Besides, SBI has also extended the moratorium period for new minor irrigation loans by additional one year and announced an additional one per cent interest rate concession to borrowers who pay loan within the stipulated period.


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Yeah I was just gonna ask if it was the currency kings tee. The jeans are dope but I'm not crazy about the tee. Shit broadcasting your wealth is a bad look IMO, especially if your money isn't clean.
yeah but fuck it i thought it was raw so i copped it....i got this evisu shirt too ill post that up later


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Collect your own regular expression library with RegexBuddy. RegexBuddy's regular expression library includes all the examples on this website, plus many more. Easily edit any of the regexes or create your own. Build your own personal regular expression library. It'll often come in handy and save you time when searching through files on your computer, writing applications or scripts, or processing text or data. Get your own copy of RegexBuddy now. |
Often, you want to match complete lines in a text file rather than just the part of the line that satisfies a certain requirement. This is useful if you want to delete entire lines in a search-and-replace in a text editor, or collect entire lines in an information retrieval tool.
To keep this example simple, let's say we want to match lines containing the word "John". The regex John makes it easy enough to locate those lines. But the software will only indicate John as the match, not the entire line containing the word.
The solution is fairly simple. To specify that we need an entire line, we will use the caret and dollar sign and turn on the option to make them match at embedded newlines. In software aimed at working with text files like EditPad Pro and PowerGREP, the anchors always match at embedded newlines. To match the parts of the line before and after the match of our original regular expression John, we simply use the dot and the star. Be sure to turn off the option for the dot to match newlines.
The resulting regex is: ^.*John.*$. You can use the same method to expand the match of any regular expression to an entire line, or a block of complete lines. In some cases, such as when using alternation, you will need to group the original regex together using parentheses.
If a line can meet any out of series of requirements, simply use alternation in the regular expression. ^.*\b(one|two|three)\b.*$ matches a complete line of text that contains any of the words "one", "two" or "three". The first backreference will contain the word the line actually contains. If it contains more than one of the words, then the last (rightmost) word will be captured into the first backreference. This is because the star is greedy. If we make the first star lazy, like in ^.*?\b(one|two|three)\b.*$, then the backreference will contain the first (leftmost) word.
If a line must satisfy all of multiple requirements, we need to use lookahead. ^(?=.*?\bone\b)(?=.*?\btwo\b)(?=.*?\bthree\b).*$ matches a complete line of text that contains all of the words "one", "two" and "three". Again, the anchors must match at the start and end of a line and the dot must not match line breaks. Because of the caret, and the fact that lookahead is zero-length, all of the three lookaheads are attempted at the start of the each line. Each lookahead will match any piece of text on a single line (.*?) followed by one of the words. All three must match successfully for the entire regex to match. Note that instead of words like \bword\b, you can put any regular expression, no matter how complex, inside the lookahead. Finally, .*$ causes the regex to actually match the line, after the lookaheads have determined it meets the requirements.
If your condition is that a line should not contain something, use negative lookahead. ^((?!regexp).)*$ matches a complete line that does not match regexp. Notice that unlike before, when using positive lookahead, I repeated both the negative lookahead and the dot together. For the positive lookahead, we only need to find one location where it can match. But the negative lookahead must be tested at each and every character position in the line. We must test that regexp fails everywhere, not just somewhere.
Finally, you can combine multiple positive and negative requirements as follows: ^(?=.*?\bmust-have\b)(?=.*?\bmandatory\b)((?!avoid|illegal).)*$. When checking multiple positive requirements, the .* at the end of the regular expression full of zero-length assertions made sure that we actually matched something. Since the negative requirement must match the entire line, it is easy to replace the .* with the negative test.
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