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Trading in options that profit if Treasury yields rise surged before the House of Representatives voted yesterday to suspend the U.S. debt limit for four months.
Eighty-three percent of the volume on Jan. 18 in options on 10-year Treasury note futures was in puts, which gain in value if the underlying futures price falls, according to data from CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures exchange. During 2012, put volume on the 10-year futures never rose higher than 79 percent, CME data show.
Before yesterday's congressional vote, speculation had increased that U.S. politicians might fail to extend the debt limit and depress government securities prices.
"The trigger here was likely the debt-ceiling vote," said Bluford Putnam, the chief economist for the Chicago-based CME Group, in a telephone interview. "Also, the economy is improving and the portfolio-management community is feeling the fear-trade is gone and that yields could rise."
The Republican-led House voted to suspend the nation's $16.4 trillion borrowing limit until May 19. The measure goes to the Senate where Majority Leader Harry Reid said lawmakers will pass the bill unchanged and send it to President Barack Obama.
On Jan. 22, the day before the House vote, put volume accounted for 77 percent of total option turnover on the 10-year futures.
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The yield on the 10-year note reached a one-week high of 1.89 percent on Jan. 18, before retreating to trade today at 1.84 percent. Prices move in opposite direction of yield changes. The 10-year futures contract touched as low as 131- 22/32 on Jan. 18, and closed yesterday at 132-9.5/32.
"People that were holding Treasuries for a flight-to- quality purpose don't feel they need to do so as much anymore," New York-based Putnam said. "There is less fear now about the government shutting down."
Global investors surveyed Jan. 17 by Bloomberg said the state of America's finances represents the greatest risk to the world economy.
With the government weeks away from reaching its borrowing limit, 36 percent of respondents to a quarterly Bloomberg poll said the nation's fiscal woes was the biggest threat compared with 29 percent who choose Europe's sovereign-debt crisis and 15 percent who name a slowing Chinese economy.
Open interest in puts on the 10-year note futures outnumbered that for calls on Jan. 22 by a ratio of 1.6 to 1, CME Group data show. Open interest is the total number of contracts that have not been closed, liquidated or delivered.
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Australian bond futures prices are lower after the US central bank announced it would extend its bond-buying program.
At 1630 AEDT on Thursday, the December 10-year bond futures contract was at 96.770 (implying a yield of 3.230 per cent), down from 96.855 (3.145 per cent) on Wednesday.
The December three-year bond futures contract was trading at 97.260 (2.740 per cent), down from 97.320 (2.680 per cent).
At midday on Thursday, the December 2012 90-day bank bill futures contract expired, replaced by a contract expiring in June 2013.
ANZ head of interest rate research Tony Morriss said bond prices in both the US and Australia had unexpectedly softened following the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting.
"US bonds are weaker, and that's kept our market on the back foot," he said.
"We're trying for figure out why, since the Fed has looked to extend easing, and has an easing bias."
At the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, the FOMC said it would continue debt-purchasing, spending $US45 billion ($A42.95 billion) a month on long-term bonds, with the goal of keeping lending rates low, and stimulating spending.
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Mr Morriss said that in the lead up to Christmas, the only other event of market interest was the Japanese general election.
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MIAMI (AP) — The door for travel to Cuba cracked open during President Barack Obama's first term.
Cuban-Americans can now visit family on the island as often as they like. Americans can travel legally as part of an academic or religious trip.
Perhaps it's for this reason that Obama's standing with the Cuban-American community in Florida stayed largely steady on Election Day, even though the modest openings with Cuba have riled some of South Florida's more conservative exiles. Exit polling showed that 49 percent of Cuban-Americans voted for the Democrat, roughly the same percentage as four years ago.
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At the same time, Florida voters sent to the House a Cuban-American Democrat from Miami who supports Obama's expansion of travel and remittances to Cuba while still favoring the 50-year-old embargo that limits American trade with the communist country. Joe Garcia defeated Republican Rep. David Rivera, who was implicated in a campaign finance scandal and had supported a traditional, isolationist stance toward Cuba.
The victories by supporters of looser restrictions on Cuba travel illustrate changing attitudes of Americans who hail from the island nation: They seem to be less resistant to politicians who promote travel to Cuba and more focused on more traditional American concerns such as the economy, rather than Cuba policy. Those shifting attitudes could have implications for U.S. policy toward Cuba in the next four years, as well as how presidential candidates and politicians approach Cuban-Americans in Florida, an important swing state, in the future.
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There are plenty of other impediments, chiefly the continued detention of U.S. contractor Alan Gross by the Cuban government, which could delay a further easing of restrictions with Cuba. Gross was arrested in 2009 while working as part of a democracy-building program; he's now serving a 15-year prison term for bringing restricted communications equipment into Cuba.
But analysts argue that the political environment is ripe for reducing restrictions on the Cuba travel policy, and they point to both the election outcome and changes on Capitol Hill among Florida's Cuban-American delegation.


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Bulldog Sailors Reflect on Yale Experience
As They Prepare for Racing to Begin at the Olympics, Sailing Alums Comment on the Value of Their Yale Student-Athlete Experience
WEYMOUTH, England – As undergraduates, Yale alumni Sarah Lihan '10 and Stuart McNay '05 proved themselves to be some of America's best collegiate sailors, garnering numerous ICSA All-American and honorable mention awards and leading Yale to several top finishes at the nationals. Now, just a few years out of college, these Bulldogs find themselves at home amongst 380 of the world's best sailors at the Olympic sailing village in Weymouth, England.
That said, it can't be difficult to feel comfortable in a place where the accommodations include everything "from a full-time, full-service cafeteria to a gym to laundry service," as Lihan reports.
Lihan and McNay arrived in London on July 16th along with the 14 other members of the US Olympic Sailing Team. The next day they drove 150 miles southeast to the Port of Weymouth where the Olympic sailing venue is located. Since then they have been working hard to get their minds, boats and bodies to peak condition. With the opening ceremonies on Friday, they don't have much time left.
As any serious athlete will tell you, preparing one's self properly in the days leading up to a major competition is critical to success. But considering how much time, sweat, and money athletes spend to reach the Olympic level, not to mention their emotional investment, how does one ensure all of this comes together once they get there?
McNay, a 2008 Olympian as well, has a significant amount of experience preparing for big events. He remarked that he and his crew, Graham Biehl, "have practiced the type of preparation that [they] want to do". As a result, they have a very specific plan mapped out for the days between Friday's opening ceremony and their first day of racing on August 2. A couple of days off to "recover and get our bearings under us… short, focused sessions on the 29th and 30th," and then the Olympic practice race on August 1st, the day before racing in the men's 470 class officially begins.
The confidence McNay and Biehl have in their preparation methods stems from years of experience. When asked about the main lessons that they took away from their first Olympics, it was clear from McNay's response that thorough reflection and self-critique have helped him reach the level he is at today.
"Last time," he said, "we tried hard to optimize our equipment" for the extreme, light-air conditions that everyone anticipated in Beijing. Implying that their focus on gear came at the expense of weaknesses in other areas, McNay declared that this time he and Biehl committed early to equipment they were happy with so that they could spend more of their time focusing on "technique, starting, boat speed" and other important skillsets.
Likely as a result of his team's enlightened approach, McNay is confident that his and Biehl's biggest team strength is now their "ability to be good in all conditions." Although they may not necessarily have a significant advantage in any one condition, they feel "well-rounded" which should prevent them from being at a disadvantage at any time.
Unlike in many other Olympic events where the athletes are exceptionally specialized and one race or individual performance could decide their fate, in the sport of sailing the athletes will compete in 11 races over the course of 6 days and all of those races will count cumulatively towards their chances of winning a medal. Therefore, sailors must not only have the endurance to perform for multiple days in a row, but they must also have the ability to adapt to the racing conditions which frequently change day-to-day and even race-to-race.
"If the regatta is in a variety of conditions," said McNay, "then we will have the advantage of being able to maintain better consistency."
While he may feel that his chances of consistency are better than ever, after many years of sailing at the highest level, the concept is certainly nothing new to McNay. Doubtless, he learned some of his most important lessons about consistency when sailing at Yale. On almost every weekend of the season, college sailors race in series' of 10 to 20 races at venues where the conditions are ever-changing. That experience is part of what the Yale graduate was referring to when he mentioned that his time as a varsity sailor at Yale was a "crucial stepping stone" towards becoming an Olympian.
Beyond lots of valuable time on the water, McNay also attributes much of his success to the "strong support network that his coaches and the Yale athletic department provided [him] with." In particular, he spoke of the important influence that Yale's head sailing coach, Zack Leonard '89, had in getting him on the Olympic path.
McNay's not the only person with an appreciation for Yale's role in helping them to become one of the best sailors in the world.
"I see my experience at Yale as one of the most perfect situations I ever could have encountered, as I was able not only to have the most incredible college experience but also to get to fully embrace college sailing while continuing Olympic sailing," stated Lihan, who will be competing at the Olympics in the women's 470 class as a crew.
That "impossible, best-of-all-worlds opportunity," as she called it, was clearly invaluable to Lihan, considering she managed to qualify for the Olympics less than two years after receiving her Yale diploma. Starting an Olympic sailing campaign with less than two years to go in the quadrennial and succeeding is almost unheard of. On top of that, Lihan accomplished this feat in a class and crew position that was very unfamiliar to her at the time she graduated college.
Sailing challenges are nothing new to Lihan. She demonstrated in college that she has an incredible knack for learning quickly, especially if the subject is related to boats. Prior to her freshman year at Yale, Lihan was almost strictly a single-handed laser radial sailor. In college though, the primary two classes of boats sailed are FJs and 420s. They both have very different characteristics from the laser, primarily the fact that they require two people to sail them instead of just one. Lihan worked hard to learn to sail double-handed boats and how to work as a team with another crewmember. As a result, she was awarded Collegiate All-American honors as a skipper her senior year.
Upon graduating, the learning and the sailing did not stop for Lihan. In February 2011 she joined forces with another US Sailing Team member, Amanda Clark, (Lihan was on the team as a radial sailor at the time) and began a journey to learn to crew in the 470 and to try to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. Considering the multitude of new skills required to take on the 470 crew position: spinnaker flying, trapezing and, particularly for Lihan, sailing without the tiller in hand. One would have thought that 2016 would have been a more realistic goal. However, with a veteran 470 skipper, Coach Leonard's continued guidance, and her own experience learning new boats in college, Lihan went on to win the US Olympic Sailing Trials and qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
Not only did Lihan and Clark qualify, but they are respected as real contenders in the women's 470 class. Since earning their Olympic berth back in December 2011, the teammates have traveled to three major regattas on the ISAF World Cup circuit. They took silver medals in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, as well as Weymouth, England, where the Olympics will be held in the coming weeks. After combining those results with their previous results from 2011, Clark and Lihan were named the overall winners of 2011-2012 ISAF World Cup Series. Only two other 470 regattas are potentially more competitive than that series, the World Championships and the Olympics.
McNay and Biehl also did very well in the most recent ISAF World Cup Series, finishing fifth overall in the men's 470, just 10 points out of second.
There is ongoing debate in the sailing world regarding the difficulties that top American sailors face in simultaneously pursuing their Olympic dreams and a college degree. In many foreign countries the top sailors train for a living and that can put American student-athletes at a noticeable disadvantage. However, it seems evident that for McNay and Lihan going to Yale was much more of a "stepping stone," as McNay said himself, than an obstacle along the path toward achieving their Olympic aspirations.
Of course, getting to the Olympics is one thing and standing on the podium is a whole other, but these Yalies have proven to themselves and the world that they rank near the top amongst the world's best dinghy sailors. Follow along at the Olympic Games sailing website, starting August 2nd for the men and August 3rd for the women, to watch Yale sailors, trained off the shores of Branford, CT, compete on the world stage.
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The lead, 20-year-old model Morven McSween, is seen wearing a Jonathan Saunders coat throughout the ad as she walks home encountering various people preparing for Christmas, before arriving home to find her five-year-old brother waiting.
The ad, created by JWT, is markedly different to the last Christmas campaign that ran in 2006 and featured a dancing modern Santa (see second video below).
The return to Christmas advertising is part of the company's increasing investment in its brand, in contrast with a previous focus on "immediate sales return in tough trading conditions", according to marketing director Richard Cristofoli.
Cristofoli said the retailer now felt prepared to launch its 'Christmas Made Fabulous' push as part of an "evolution" of its 'Life Made Fabulous' activity, which began in summer 2011.
Debenhams has used the backing track 'Illumielle' by German composer Jo Blankenberg who has worked on movies including 'Harry Potter' and 'X Men', in order to create a cinematic feel.
Cristofoli admitted the campaign now put it "in the John Lewis and M&S territory", but claimed its strategy was not dictated by competitors.
He said: "It is about having the right strategy for us and rebuilding recognition of the brand. The good news is [using 'Illumielle'] does take us away from using an old track recorded by a young artist, which lots of other people do in various shapes or forms."
The Christmas ad will feature Designers at Debenhams newcomer Jenny Packham for the first time, alongside stalwart designers Julien Macdonald and Henry Holland.
The campaign will be supported by a 'Christmas Made Fabulous' website, which will encourage people to share photos of "fabulous" Christmas moments, hold discussions about finding the perfect present and share unique recipes for the season.
Every week, Debenhams will give away prizes to people who have shared content on the site and further participation on Twitter and Facebook will be encouraged by promoted tweets that feature the #christmasmoments hashtag.
TV activity will launch on Wednesday (7 November) after being debuted today on social media sites, with television spots due to run until 15 December.
Media planning and buying is being handled by Carat.
Debenhams entering Christmas advertising again comes against a background of a 4.2% increase in profits and like-for-like sales up 2.3% for its full year.


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Camping at Henderson, KY
Another pleasant outing in the faithful Coleman tent
John James Audubon, noted American ornithologist, lived at Henderson, KY, from 1810-1819. Today, the Audubon State Park preserves some of the old-growth forest where Audubon roamed along the Ohio River, observing the birds and collecting specimens to paint.
Isaac and I camped two nights at Audubon State Park, while we were sightseeing at Henderson, KY, and Evansville, IN, last week. Isaac had just three days free from both work and school. Dennis was still obligated at his job for part of that time, so Isaac and I went by ourselves.
The Audubon State Park campground is near the Ohio River, just off Highway 41 at Henderson. In fact, the traffic on the busy highway is clearly heard at the campground. Nonetheless, it's a beautiful site with tall trees and many squirrels. We were the only tent-campers there, and there were only about half a dozen RVs.
Isaac really likes camping, and Boy Scouts deserves the credit for it. I'm glad that he has a wholesome hobby that he can pursue all his life. When I camp with him, we don't rough it too much. We get a site with electricity so we can hang the "trouble light" in the tent for reading after dark.
This time, I also brought along a tiny television set, so I could see the McCain vs. Obama debate. To my surprise, half a dozen stations came in clearly with the small antenna. I watched most of the debate while reclining on my air mattress in the tent. Near the end, rain began falling, so it seemed prudent to unplug the extension cord and listen to my little radio instead.
Our campsite was under several black walnut trees. We set up the tent at the edge of the walnut area, but we still had to clear a spot by kicking dozens of black walnuts out of the way.
Whenever the squirrels ran through the treetops, the walnuts rained down. We weren't hit by any of them, but one did fall on my car's hood so hard that it made a little chip in the paint. Oh, well. That's a hazard of parking near walnut trees this time of the year.
The museum in the park has some of the Audubon sketch books, original paintings, and early prints. It's quite interesting. I didn't take any photos because there's a sign at the museum entrance that says, "No Cameras."
One interesting thing I learned at the museum was that Audubon set very high standards for himself. He went through his work every year on his birthday and destroyed everything that was not up to his current level of painting skill.
Like every other Kentucky state park I've visited, much of the infrastructure at Audubon State Park was put in place by CCC and WPA workers. The museum (photo below) was built in 1938 as a WPA project.
Next time we camp at Audubon, I want to hike some of the trails to see more of the forest. This park deserves more time than we were able to give it on this trip.


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Plexi-Glass CPU Fan Duct Guide
I was looking around my computer case trying to figure out how to get more cool air over my CPU. Then it hit me, "A Duct"! I wanted to run a duct from the front of my case to my cpu. I noticed that the removable hard drive cage in my Antec SX-830 case was right in line with the CPU socket on my motherboard. Also, the removable cage has an 80mm fan in it. So, this got me thinking! Why not run a duct from the cage to my CPU and have a steady stream of cool air feeding it? Lets get started!!!
Materials needed:
- Sheet of Plexi-Glass (18" x 24" $5.77)
- Plexi-Glass Bonder (small tube $3.34)
- Some fine sand paper
- Screws (to attach it to your mounting points)
- Drill and drill bit (to make holes for the screws)
- Good Measurements!
Start off by doing a bit of planning. Take your Measurements. Remember to subtract the width of the Plexi-Glass from the inside of an overlapping corner. Next, get some Plexi. I got mine from Lowe's. If you give them your cut list they will cut it at no charge. If you have never worked with plexi (like me) you will want more than you need, to test. I picked up an 18"x24" sheet of 1/8" plexi. The sheet was only $5.77! Leave the protective covering ON the plexi! You can drill right though it and peel and tape back the area you need to bond. Once you are done with the project only then remove the protective covering! On the test pieces try making a couple of joints and drilling some holes. Lightly sand the cut edges to get a flat surface for bonding. The plexi bonder is easy to use and you get a strong joint in about 45 seconds. You start of by applying the surface activator to both sides. Wait for the activator to completely dry. Then apply the bonding agent to one side. Next press both sides together and hold in place for 30 seconds. The two pieces should now be bonded together. For drilling just mark the holes and drill slowly. You will want to drill your holes first. So as not to put any unwanted pressure on the joints.
The duct I wanted need to be 12"L x 4"W x 3-3/4"H. With one closed end and an open end for the fan. One of the 12" sides was only going to have an 8" piece of plexi in it. This made a nice hole at the end of the duct on one side that fits right over the top of my CPU fan. Building the duct took about an hour and a half. Now I had to do a little work on my computer. I had to remove my hard drive from the cage and mount it in a 5-1/4" bay. Next I needed to cut away some metal from the tray that the drive cage sits on. Before, I had to pull the drive cage back about 3-1/2 inches to remove it from the case. With the metal cut away I only have to pull it back a half inch before it's free! I then mounted the duct in the drive cage. I used existing holes in the drive cage that matched up to the holes I made in the plexi. I then used short sheet metal screws to attatch it. The next step was to mount the cage and duct in my case. It slipped right in with no problems. Here is what the finished product looks like!
Well, for less than $10 and a few hours time, I was able to drop my CPU temperature 6-8 degrees under full load! I also like the look of it in my case. Now that I know how easy plexi is to work with, I will be using it a lot more! I highly recommend this type of project for everyone; it is very easy to do! I think I am going to use my left-over plexi to make a duct to force air behind my mother board near my CPU socket, using a 40mm fan. Look for an update on that! Best of luck on your projects!!!


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Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum (/ˈsɔrɡəm/) and also known as durra, jowari, or milo, is a grass species cultivated for its grain, which is used for food, both for animals and humans, and for ethanol production. Sorghum originated in northern Africa, and is now cultivated widely in tropical and subtropical regions. Sorghum is the world's fifth most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize and barley. S. bicolor is typically an annual, but some cultivars are perennial. It grows in clumps that may reach over 4 m high. The grain is small, ranging from 3 to 4 mm in diameter. Sweet sorghums are sorghum cultivars that are primarily grown for foliage, syrup production, and ethanol; they are taller than those grown for grain.[2][3]
S. bicolor is the cultivated species of sorghum; its wild relatives make up the botanical genus Sorghum.
The leading producers of sorghum bicolor in 2011 were Nigeria (12.6%), India (11.2%), Mexico (11.2%) and the United States (10.0%).[4] Sorghum grows in a wide range of temperature, high altitudes, toxic soils and can recover growth after some drought.[2] It has four features that make it one of the most drought-resistant crops:
- It has a very large root-to-leaf surface area.
- In times of drought, it will roll its leaves to lessen water loss by transpiration.
- If drought continues, it will go into dormancy rather than dying.
- Its leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle.
Richard Pankhurst reports (citing Augustus B. Wylde) that in 19th-century Ethiopia, durra was "often the first crop sown on newly cultivated land", explaining that this cereal did not require the thorough ploughing other crops did, and its roots not only decomposed into a good fertilizer, but they also helped to break up the soil while not exhausting the subsoil.[5]
Sorghum is cultivated in many parts of the world today. In the past 50 years, the area planted with sorghum worldwide had increased 66%.[4] In many parts of Asia and Africa, its grain are used to make flat breads that form the staple food of many cultures.[6][7] The grains can also be popped in a similar fashion to popcorn.
|Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
|1,418 kJ (339 kcal)
74.63 g
|Dietary fiber
|6.3 g
3.30 g
11.30 g
|Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
The species can be used as a source for making ethanol fuel, and in some environments may be better than maize or sugarcane, as it can grow under harsher conditions.[2] It typically has protein levels of around 9%, enabling dependent human populations to subsist on it in times of famine, in contrast to regions where maize has become the staple crop. It is also used for making a traditional corn broom.[8]
The reclaimed stalks of the sorghum plant are used to make a decorative millwork material marketed as Kirei board.
Sweet sorghum syrup is known as molasses in some parts of the U.S., although it is not true molasses.
In China, sorghum is known as gaoliang (高粱), and is fermented and distilled to produce one form of clear spirits known as baijiu 白酒 of which the most famous is Moutai (or Maotai). Sorghum was ground and the flour was the main alternative to wheat in northern China for a long time.
In India, where it is commonly called jwaarie, jowar, jola, or jondhahlaa, sorghum is one of the staple sources of nutrition. An Indian bread, jowar roti or jolada rotti, is prepared from this grain. In some countries, sweet sorghum stalks are used for producing biofuel by squeezing the juice and then fermenting it into ethanol.[9] Texas A&M University in the United States is currently running trials to find the best varieties for ethanol production from sorghum leaves and stalks in the USA.[10]
In Korea, it is cooked with rice, or its flour is used to make cake called susu bukkumi.
In Australia, South America, and the United States, sorghum grain is used primarily for livestock feed and in a growing number of ethanol plants.[11]
Sorghum is one of a number of grains used as wheat substitutes in gluten-free recipes and products.
Agricultural uses[edit]
It is used in feed and pasturage for livestock. Its use is limited, however, because the starch and protein in sorghum is more difficult for animals to digest than the starches and protein in corn.[citation needed] Research is being done to find a process that will pre-digest the grain. One study on cattle showed that steam-flaked sorghum was preferable to dry-rolled sorghum because it improved daily weight gain.[4] In hogs, sorghum has been shown to be a more efficient feed choice than corn when both grains were processed in the same way.[clarification needed][4]
The introduction of improved varieties, along with improved management practices, has helped to increase sorghum productivity. In India, it is estimated that productivity increases have freed up six million hectares of land. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in collaboration with partners produces improved varieties of crops including sorghum. Some 194 improved cultivars of sorghum from the institute have been released.[12]
Research is being conducted to develop a genetic cross[clarification needed] that will make the plant more tolerant to colder temperatures, since it is native to tropical climates.[13] In the United States, this is important because the cost of corn is steadily increasing due to its usage in ethanol production for addition to gasoline. Sorghum silage can be used as a replacement of corn silage in the diet for dairy cattle.[14] Other research has shown that a timely harvest of sorghum is essential for a safe feed product. The plants need to be harvested during the time when the plant's total moisture content is between 63 and 68 percent, to prevent lodging.[clarification needed] Approximately, this is when the grain reaches the "soft dough" stage.[clarification needed] More research has found that sorghum has higher nutritional value compared to corn when feeding dairy cattle. And the type of processing is also essential in harvesting the grain's maximum nutrition. Feeding steam-flaked sorghum showed an increase in milk production when compared to dry-rolling.[14] When a grain is steam-flaked, it is cooked slightly, this makes certain nutrients more available to be digested.
The genome of Sorghum bicolor was sequenced between 2005 and 2007.[15][16]
Sorghum is a host of the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica.[17] This parasite is a devastating pest on the crop.
See also[edit]
- ^ "The Plant List".
- ^ a b c "Grassland Index: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench".
- ^ "Sweet Sorghum". Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Producers. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d Jeri Stroade, Michael Boland, and Mykel Taylor. "AGMRC Sorghum profile".
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 193.
- ^ O P Sharma (1993). Plant Taxonomy. Tata McGraw-Hill. p. 439. ISBN 0-07-460373-6.
- ^ National Research Council (1996-02-14). "Sorghum". Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains. Lost Crops of Africa 1. National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-04990-0. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ "How to make a broom". Ogden Publications, Inc. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ Sweet Sorghum : A New "Smart Biofuel Crop" AgriBusinessWeek, 30 June 2008
- ^ Ceres and Texas A&M to Develop and Market High-Biomass Sorghum for Biofuels Texas A&M University System Agriculture Program, 1 October 2007
- ^ [1] United Sorghum Checkoff Program
- ^ Sorghum, a crop of substance. Downloaded 16 March 2014.
- ^ "Sorghum Research Showing Promise". Oklahoma Farm Report. 23 February 2011.
- ^ a b Micheal J. Brouk and Brent Bean. Sorghum in Dairy Cattle Production Feeding Guide.
- ^ Paterson, Andrew H.; John E. Bowers, Remy Bruggmann, Inna Dubchak, Jane Grimwood, Heidrun Gundlach, Georg Haberer, Uffe Hellsten, Therese Mitros, Alexander Poliakov, Jeremy Schmutz, Manuel Spannagl, Haibao Tang, Xiyin Wang, Thomas Wicker, Arvind K. Bharti, Jarrod Chapman, F. Alex Feltus, Udo Gowik, Igor V. Grigoriev, Eric Lyons, Christopher A. Maher, Mihaela Martis, Apurva Narechania, Robert P. Otillar, Bryan W. Penning, Asaf A. Salamov, Yu Wang, Lifang Zhang, Nicholas C. Carpita, Michael Freeling, Alan R. Gingle, C. Thomas Hash, Beat Keller, Patricia Klein, Stephen Kresovich, Maureen C. McCann, Ray Ming, Daniel G. Peterson, Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Doreen Ware, Peter Westhoff, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Joachim Messing, Daniel S. Rokhsar (2009-01-29). "The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses". Nature 457 (7229): 551–556. Bibcode:2009Natur.457..551P. doi:10.1038/nature07723. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 19189423.
- ^ Sorghum bicolor genome on Phytozome
- ^ Yoshida, Satoko; Maruyama, Shinichiro; Nozaki, Hisayoshi; Shirasu, Ken (28 May 2010). "Horizontal Gene Transfer by the Parasitic Plant Stiga hermanthica". Science 328 (5982): 1128. Bibcode:2010Sci...328.1128Y. doi:10.1126/science.1187145. PMID 20508124.


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Barbara Billingsley Beyond The Beaver
By: Legacy Staff
6 years ago
When Barbara Billingsley died two years ago, most obituaries focused on her role as iconic TV mom June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver. But Billingsley had a decade of work behind her before she started running the Cleaver household in 1957, and she would go on to have some memorable late career roles.
Here are 10 highlights from Billingsley's non-Leave It to Beaver work.
1. Billingsley's big break sort of wasn't one. After a year of junior college in Los Angeles, a revue she was appearing in called Straw Hat garnered enough attention to earn a Broadway debut. Unfortunately, the production closed after only five days. Billingsley stayed in New York to work as a model.
2. MGM signed her to a contract in 1945, and the next several years would see her appearing in a host of uncredited roles playing parts like "Party Guest," "Department Store Clerk" or "Blonde With Hives." Her first credited role on the big screen was in director Cy Endfield's The Argyle Secrets (1948).
3. In 1952 she did an uncredited turn in The Bad and The Beautiful, starring Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner. Though Billingsley's role was minor, she could boast appearing opposite true Hollywood legends, and the film would go on to win five Academy Awards.
4. Billingsley also appeared in Three Guys Named Mike (1951), a film about flight attendants, opposite Jane Wyman.
5. Her biggest role on the big screen would come in The Careless Years (1957), co-starring Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy. The film was neither a critical nor commercial hit, and is remarkable mainly for being the directorial debut of Arthur Hiller, who would go on to make 33 major studio releases including Love Story (1970), Author! Author! (1982) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989).
6. Though Leave it To Beaver ended in 1963, it appeared so frequently in syndication that Billingsley had difficulty escaping her image as the sweet 1950s matron. With trouble getting other roles, she took time out of her career to travel the world. Her second wind came when producers took comedic advantage of her wholesome persona to cast her as a jive talking passenger in the 1982 hit Airplane!.
7. After the success of Airplane!, she landed a number of comic roles on TV, including her 1982 appearance on Mork & Mindy. She would also appear on Roseanne in 1988, in 1991's Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and in My Name is Earl in 2007. Also notable was her participation in a Candid Camera sketch with fellow TV mom Isabel Sanford.
8. Billingsley had a small role in 1987's Back to The Beach. In case you're ever playing the Kevin Bacon game at home, Billingsley appeared in this film with David Bowe, who was in A Few Good Men (1992) with Kevin Bacon, giving Billingsley a Bacon number of 2.
9. Her longest recurring TV role outside of Beaver was as the voice of Nanny in Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, where she contributed to 17 episodes between 1984 and 1991.
10. Her final appearance was in a 2009 episode of The Office.


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Charles Bukowski, a kind of poet laureate of the seedy side of Los Angeles, wrote of life on its margins, at its racetracks, in its rundown bars. Bukowski was a poet and a novelist; in his novels, his alter ego Henry Chinaski made all kinds of bad decisions. But even while desperate, there was something appealing about Chinaski's desire to make something out of his beaten-down life. As in this passage:
"After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, 'Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.' "
That passage appears in our interactive map of Literary Los Angeles. In it you can see where Chinaski/Bukowski was working, and learn the title of the book where the passage can be found.
Bukowski spent much of his life as an outsider, with his books being published by the small independent house Black Sparrow Press. Bukowski once wrote to Black Sparrow's publisher, John Martin, "what hurts is the steadily diminishing humanity of those fighting to hold jobs they don't want but fear the alternative worse. People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The fingernails. The shoes. Everything does."
But his reputation grew, and in his last decades, he was recognized as a significant writer. His archive is now at the Huntington Museum and Library, part of which was put on display in the exhibit "Poet on the Edge."
Our literary map is a work in progress. What poets -- on the edge or not --do you think should be included in it in the future?
Charles Bukowski at the Huntington
Adam Johnson wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 2013
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The Journal News' Peter Abraham reports the New York Yankees signed international SS Damian Arredondo to a deal worth $850,000 and right-handed P Christopher Cabrera for $400,000. Arredondo, 16, has great speed, an above-average arm and very good hands according to scouting reports.
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Derry man faces felony charges for selling stolen propertyBy HUNTER MCGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
August 23. 2013 9:17PM
DERRY — The case of a Derry man, accused on multiple counts of allegedly selling stolen property to local businesses, was bound over to superior court Thursday because all of the charges are felonies, according to court officials.
Josh Decarolis, 26, of 32 Bedard Ave., is charged with eight counts of receiving stolen property, from $1,001 to $1,500 and eight counts of theft by deception, $1,001-$1,500, according to records on file at Derry District Court.
Decarolis sold the stolen goods last year to some local pawn shops, jewelers and tool shops, according to court records. The stolen goods, included such items as a Bowie knife, silverware, video gaming equipment, and tools, records said.
Decarolis appeared briefly in Derry District Court before the case was quickly bound over to Rockingham Superior Court in Brentwood.


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|MLB Career Stats
|Tampa Bay
|June 29, 2015
|Toledo Mud Hens released 2B Brendan Harris.
|June 2, 2015
|2B Brendan Harris assigned to Toledo Mud Hens from Erie SeaWolves.
|May 29, 2015
|2B Brendan Harris assigned to Erie SeaWolves from Toledo Mud Hens.
|May 24, 2015
|2B Brendan Harris assigned to Toledo Mud Hens from Erie SeaWolves.
|March 20, 2015
|2B Brendan Harris assigned to Erie SeaWolves.
|March 17, 2015
|Detroit Tigers signed free agent 2B Brendan Harris to a minor league contract.
|April 12, 2014
|Albuquerque Isotopes released SS Brendan Harris.
|April 1, 2014
|SS Brendan Harris assigned to Albuquerque Isotopes.
|November 18, 2013
|Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent Brendan Harris.
|November 18, 2013
|Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent SS Brendan Harris to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 4, 2013
|SS Brendan Harris elected free agency.
|August 21, 2013
|Texas Rangers signed free agent SS Brendan Harris to a minor league contract.
|August 21, 2013
|Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders released SS Brendan Harris.
|August 21, 2013
|SS Brendan Harris assigned to Round Rock Express.
|July 26, 2013
|SS Brendan Harris assigned to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
|July 25, 2013
|New York Yankees signed free agent SS Brendan Harris to a minor league contract.
|July 23, 2013
|SS Brendan Harris elected free agency.
|July 20, 2013
|Los Angeles Angels designated SS Brendan Harris for assignment.
|March 30, 2013
|Los Angeles Angels selected the contract of SS Brendan Harris from Salt Lake Bees.
|November 14, 2012
|Los Angeles Angels signed free agent 3B Brendan Harris to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 2, 2012
|3B Brendan Harris elected free agency.
|April 24, 2012
|3B Brendan Harris assigned to Colorado Springs Sky Sox from Tri-City Dust Devils.
|April 6, 2012
|Brendan Harris assigned to Tri-City Dust Devils from Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
|April 5, 2012
|3B Brendan Harris assigned to Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
|December 19, 2011
|Colorado Rockies signed free agent 3B Brendan Harris to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 2, 2011
|SS Brendan Harris elected free agency.
|February 3, 2011
|Baltimore Orioles invited non-roster 3B Brendan Harris to spring training.
|December 9, 2010
|Baltimore Orioles Traded RHP Jim Hoey to Minnesota Twins; Minnesota Twins Traded SS J.J. Hardy to Baltimore Orioles; Frederick Keys Traded RHP Brett Jacobson to New Britain Rock Cats and Rochester Red Wings Traded SS Brendan Harris to Norfolk Tides.
|June 25, 2010
|Minnesota Twins sent Brendan Harris outright to Rochester Red Wings.
Brendan Michael Harris ..... attended Queensbury (NY) High School and the College of William and Mary in
Virginia ..... originally selected by the Cubs in the 5th round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft and signed by scout Billy Swoope.
Opened the season with the Angels and batted .206 with four home runs and nine RBI in 44 games ..... batted .296 (21-for-71) with all four of his home runs against right-handed pitchers ..... Designated for assignment by the Angels on July 20 ..... signed by the Yankees on July 26 and assigned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ..... Released on Aug. 21 and signed by the Rangers on Aug. 22 (assigned to Triple-A Round Rock) ..... Combined to hit .237 with three home runs and nine RBI in 34 games in the minors.2011 Spent all of 2011 at Triple-A Norfolk in the Baltimore organization after the club acquired him and J.J. Hardy from Minnesota during the offseason...Hit .225 (116-for-516) with 21 doubles, 2 triples, 10 home runs and 50 RBI in 136 games for Norfolk...the 136 games he played for Norfolk are a career-Minor League-high...Saw action all over the diamond with the Tide, playing 45 games at second, 36 at third, 51 at shortstop and 2 in left...2011 was his first season since 2003 that he did not play a single game in the Majors. 2010 Started the season on the Twins Opening Day roster...Went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, May 9 vs. Baltimore...Collected just two hits in 33 at-bats, May 22-June 19...Batted .200 (9-for-45) in 18 April games, .140 (6-for-43) in 16 May games, .100 (2-for-20) in nine June games, and .157 (17- for-108) with just four extra-base hits (three doubles and a homer) before being outrighted to Triple-A Rochester, June 24...Hit safely in 13 of 15 games for Rochester, July 11-28, hitting .379 (22-for-58) with 10 RBI during the span...Went 3-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI and four runs scored, August 3 at Charlotte. 2009 Hit his first home run of the season, April 17 vs. Los Angeles (AL)...finished April batting .350 (14-for-40) in 15 games...hit safely in career-high 12 straight games, May 26-June 7...hit first career leadoff home run, June 20 vs. Houston...inserted into the leadoff spot for six games, while Denard Span was on the disabled list, June 12-20...finished the month of June, batting .303 (33-for-109) with four three-hit games...went 3-for-5 with a home run, three rbi and two doubles, July 12 vs. Chicago (AL)...played 123 games for the Twins, 56 at shortstop (50 starts), 11 at second base (10 starts), 44 at third base (34 starts) and three at first base...batted .302 against left-handed pitching. 2008 Hit safely in six consecutive games, going 9-for-21 (.429), April 3-12...hit first home run as a Twin, April 20 vs. Cleveland...hit safely in 9 of 11 games, May 15-28...six-game hit-streak, June 2-9...career-high 10-game hit-streak from June 18-June 28, hitting .328 (13-for-34) with two home runs during that stretch...hit safely in 17 of 19 games from June 18-July 10...homered in consecutive games, June 24-25 at San Diego with one being a go-ahead homer in the top of the ninth off Trevor Hoffman on June 24...tied a season-high with three hits on July 12 at Detroit, collecting three rbi...hit .294 (20-for-68) with 13 rbi and an on-base percentage of .355 in 21 July games...hit safely in six of seven games from July 31-August 6 with five multi-hit games and six doubles...matched a season-high with three runs scored as he went 2-for-4 with a home run and a walk, September 13 (game 2) at Baltimore...tied career-high with three triples on the season...ranked third on the team in doubles with 29...played all four infield positions including making 37 starts at second base, 51 at shortstop and 27 at third base. 2007 Twenty-seven year-old spent his first full season at the major league level ... played in 137 games, 4th most on the club behind Delmon Young (162), Carlos Peña (148) and Carl Crawford (143) ... Entered this season with a total of 52 games played over parts of the previous 3 seasons in the big leagues with the Cubs, Expos/Nationals and Reds ... batted .209 ... Was 3rd on the club with 149 hits, 35 doubles and 521 at-bats; 4th in hitting at .286 ... led team with 8 sacrifice hits ... Hit 12 home runs, one of 6 Rays with at least a dozen dingers ... half his homers went opposite field ... Avg. was .300 or better all but three days through Aug. 4 ... was leading the team in hitting as late as June 29 (.320) ... hit .246 (42-171) from that point on ... Best month was June as he led the club in RBI with 20 and tied for the team lead in avg. (.321) ... also hit 5 homers, tied for 2nd on club ... Hit .345 vs. left-handed pitching (49-142), tied for 4th best in the AL ... in fact, it's the 2nd-best avg. vs. southpaws in club history behind switch-hit- ter Randy Winn, who hit .347 (50-144) in 2002 ... Started just one of the first 11 games ... moved into the starting lineup on April 15 for slumping SS Ben Zobrist and started 132 of the next 140 games through Sep 17 until a strained left latissimus dorsi muscle limited him to pinch-running duties over the final two weeks ... Made 86 starts at shortstop, 45 at 2nd base and 2 at 3rd base ... moved from shortstop to 2nd base on July 30 with Ty Wigginton's trade to Houston ... Batted .302 (101-334) while playing shortstop, .251 (44-175) after the switch to 2nd base ... Was the Rays top fielding shortstop with a pct. of .968 (11 errors in 343 total chances) as well as 2nd base, where he committed just one miscue in 172 total chances, a .994 fielding pct - that error came in his final game - Sep 17 at Los Angeles. Rays were 23-22 in his starts at 2nd base ... Homered in his first official at-bat with the Rays, a 3-run shot April 7 at home off the Blue Jays' Tomo Ohka ... became the 7th Ray to do it joining Elijah Dukes who did it in the season opener at New York on April 2 ... Homered in his first two starts, also April 15 at Minnesota off Boof Bonser ... would be in the lineup everyday from that point ... Had 8 home runs through June 18 (214 AB), then went 263 at-bats without homering until going deep Sep 5 at home off Baltimore's Rob Bell ... finished the season with 4 HR in his last 11 games. Had a pair of walk-off RBI: May 5 vs. Oakland (12 innings) and May 15 vs. Texas at the Disney Sports Complex (11 innings) ... matched BJ Upton and Dioner Navarro with two walk-off RBI apiece ... Batted .643 in the Rangers series at Disney (9-14) with 3 multi-hit games, including a career-high 4 hits on the 15th ... also scored the winning run on Delmon Young's 10th-inning, walk-off HR May 17 ... Collected a career-high 5 RBI on June 10 at Florida ... Hit everywhere in the lineup except cleanup. Was acquired from the Reds in exchange for cash on January 2, 2007 ... was originally selected by the Cubs in the 5th round of the 2001 Draft ... Appeared in a club-most 27 games in Spring Training spending time at SS, 2B, 3B, LF and 1B. 2006 Was acquired by the Reds from the Nationals on July 13 as part of an 8-player deal...Opened the year in the Washington organization...made two tours with the Nats, April 14-27 and June 3-19 combining to bat .250 (8-for-32) in 17 games...With Triple-A New Orleans, batted .283 with 5 home runs and 32 RBI in 59 games before he was traded...for the Zephyrs, played all 4 infield positions plus catcher...Was involved in the 24-inning marathon between the Zephrys and the Nashville Sounds that spanned two days and tied a Pacific Coast League record for the longest game (innings)...Harris' 9th inning RBI single tied the score at 4-4 and sent the game to extra innings. » Reported to Triple-A Louisville following the deal and spent the rest of the minor league season there...named Louisville's Hitter of the Month for August (.370, 10-2B, 21-RBI, 18-R). » Was recalled by Cincinnati on August 31...appeared in 8 games for the Reds, including a start at second base in the final game of the season...On Sept. 22 vs. the Cubs produced his second career pinch-hit HR (off Rich Hill)...was his only homer of the season and third of his career...Was designated for assignment on 12/21, when the Reds acquired IF/OF Jeff Conine from the Phillies. 2005 Spent most of the 2005 season at Triple-A New Orleans and produced a career-high 81 RBI, second most in the organization...Appeared in 4 games with Washington (3-9, .333, 1 2b, 1hr, 3rbi)...on May 23 in his season debut at Cincinnati, he hit the first pinch-hit HR in the history of the Washington Nationals (off Eric Milton)...was optioned back to AAA on May 30...Following the season, played for the Peoria Saguaros in the Arizona Fall League (22 G, .376, 1 HR, 13 RBI)...had at least 2 hits in 10 of his first 11 AFL games...Entered the season rated by USA Today Sports Weekly as one of the Nats' Top 5 prospects in the "cream of the crop" category. 2004 Advanced beyond Double-A for the first time and excelled, hitting .302 with 27 doubles, 17 home runs and 59 RBI in 102 Pacific Coast League games for Iowa and Edmonton...was the final piece of the puzzle that allowed 4-team mega deal-that featured, among others, Orlando Cabrera and Nomar Garciaparra-to go through just one minute before trading dealine...Harris' .302 batting average kept his career mark (now .302) above .300 at the minor league level...'04 performance merited first big league stint...hit .169 (10-for-59) with 3 doubles, one homer and 3 RBI in 23 games for CHI and Montreal...was recalled by Montreal on September 7 after hitting .285 with 6 homers and 24 RBI in 33 games with Edmonton...was rated among Top 20 Players in the PCL following the season by Baseball America...recalled on July 5 when Todd Hollandsworth was placed on the 15-Day DL, made big league debut with CHI on July 6 vs. MIL...started at 3B and went 1-for-3...first big league hit was a double off Victor Santos in the 3rd inning...started 2 more games with the Cubs before being optioned back to Iowa on July 19...made Expos debut on September 8, ironically, at Wrigley Field...went 1-for-3...hit first big league homer in nightcap of doubleheader, September 15 at FLA...the solo shot to center field came in the 8th inning off Josias Manzanillo...during the September 15 doubleheader sweep at FLA, Brendan, Valentino Pascucci and Ryan Church all hit their first big league home runs...according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the last time 3 players on the same team hit their first major league homers in the same day was April 28, 1946, when the New York Giants hosted the Brooklyn Dodgers for, ironically, a doubleheader (21,325 days prior)...Bill Rigney, Buddy Blattner and Jess Pike all homered as the Giants took 2 from their cross-town rivals, 7-3 and 10-4.played both 2B (11 games, 10 starts) and 3B (7 games, 6 starts) for CHI and Montreal. In PCL: Was hitting .311 with 11 homers and 35 RBI in 69 games with Iowa upon being acquired by the Expos...hit safely in 17 straight starts for Iowa from May 26-June 14...hit in 12 straight games, August 10-22, as a member of the Trappers. Game-By-Game Highlights: Posted career-high 2 hits on in nightcap of doubleheader, September 15 at Florida. In PCL: Posted season-high 4 hits, June 14 at Albuquerque...homered in 3 straight games, June 23-25...hit 2 solo homers and walks twice on July 28 vs. Tucson...had 2 hits in first game with Edmonton, August 3 at Nashville...drove in season-high 5 runs on August 19 at Salt Lake. 2003 Brendan batted .280 with 46 extra-base hits and 52 RBIs at Double-A West Tennessee.


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EQU211 Survey of Theraputic Riding
This course provides an overview of the therapeutic riding movement in the U.S. and abroad. Students will receive full instruction form the NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped Association) manual in preparation to earn certification, if they so decide. Students will also be provided with instruction and opportunity to develop the video presentation portion for the certification process.
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Physics Around Mirror Symmetry
G_2 manifolds play
the analogous role in M-theory that Calabi-Yau manifolds play in string
theory. There has been work in the physics community on conjectural
"mirror symmetry" in this context, and it has also been observed that
singularities are necessary for a satisfactory theory. After a very
brief review of these physical developments (by a mathematician who
doesn't necessarily understand the physics), I will give a mathematical
introduction to G_2 conifolds. I will then proceed to give a detailed
Chiral gauge theories in two dimensions with (0,2) supersymmetry admit a
much broader, and more interesting, class of vacuum solutions than
their better studied (2,2) counterparts. In this talk, we will explore
some of the possibilities that are offered by this additional freedom by
including field-dependent theta-angles and FI parameters. The moduli
spaces that will result from this procedure correspond to heterotic
string backgrounds with non-trivial H-flux and NS-brane sources. Along
completely in the perturbative sector, yet it is able to compute
amplitudes in physical string theory and it also enjoys large N
dualities. These gauge theory duals, sometimes in the form of matrix
models, can be solved past perturbation theory by plugging transseries
ansätze into the so called string equation. Based on the mathematics of
resurgence, developed in the 80's by J. Ecalle, this approach has been
will describe a new method for understanding a large class of
generalized complex manifolds, in which we view them as usual
symplectic structures on a manifold with a kind of log structure. I
will explain this structure in detail and explain how it can be used
to prove a Tian-Todorov unobstructedness theorem as well as
topological obstructions for existence of nondegenerate generalized
complex structures.
The concept of wall-crossing structure (WCS for short) was introduced
recently in my joint work with Maxim Kontsevich. WCS appear in different
disguises in the theory of Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau
3-folds, quiver representations,integrable systems of Hitchin type,
cluster algebras, Mirror Symmetry, etc.
I plan to discuss the
definition of WCS and illustrate it in several well-known examples. If
time permits I will speak about a special class of WCS called rational
quantum gravity, as generating series of discrete surfaces, and
sometimes toy models for string theory. The single trace matrix models
(with measure dM exp( - N Tr V(M)) have been solved in a 1/N expansion
in the 90s by the moment method of Ambjorn et al. Later, Eynard showed
that it can be rewritten more intrinsically in terms of algebraic
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Man placing children in car outside Chuck E Cheese attacked with pepper spray
July 26. 2013 10:34PM
MANCHESTER — A local man was injured Friday when two men attacked and pepper-sprayed him while he and his children were leaving the Chuck E Cheese restaurant on South Willow Street.
Police said Jose Santiago, 30, was placing one of his children in a car seat when a man grabbed him from behind around his neck and pulled him backward. He was then sprayed in the face with "some type of liquid irritant and forced to the ground," police said in a release.
One man went through Santiago's pockets while another man repeatedly asked him "where is it?" the release said.
Santiago told police that the men never told him what they were looking for and that they left empty-handed. Both men were described as white and in their mid to late 20s. One is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall with spiked blond hair and the other is described as 5 feet, 11 inches with a shaved head and mustache.
Santiago and one of his children were treated for exposure to pepper spray, the release said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711 or anonymously at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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