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Eleanor Cropper from Grayling's team in Leeds, UK, reviews #BotGate and what it means for PR professionals looking to engage with bloggers.
Over Easter, the Twittersphere exploded in debate around #BotGate: a conversation relating to the idea of bloggers buying 'fake' followers and likes to enhance their popularity and appeal to PRs and brands. The question over whether they used Instagram 'bots' to artificially do this was under scrutiny and the conversation, for PRs, prompted a closer look at how we detect these individuals before choosing to engage with them.
Securing a third party, non-biased endorsement from a journalist has always been a driver for PR professionals: someone with 'influence' and a large, targeted audience, impartially choosing to give a client exposure is always the goal. Ultimately, the same principal applies to working with bloggers but the question over which bloggers to reach out to, has come under the spotlight once more following #BotGate: how do we select honest, hard-working, authentic bloggers from those who are artificially growing their 'fan' base?
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An illegal immigrant was jailed for a year after tending a cannabis farm in a case described as having "a tang of slavery."
Judge David Pugsley made the comment after hearing how Xuan Phan was caught in a house on Prospect Street, Alfreton on December 2.
Police found 265 cannabis plants which could have provided street drug sales of between £74,000 and £222,600, Derby Crown Court heard.
Phan, 42, had been provided with food and promised £1,200 in pay for every crop.
He arrived illegally from Vietnam nearly four years ago and had not been in trouble before. He admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
The judge said: "Underneath the trappings, we would find a tang of slavery in the sense he was doing this purely as a means of staying in the country.
"I have been in the law for 40 years and don't think I have been involved in a drug case where Mr Organiser sat in the dock.
"This is yet another case of exploitation of someone who is an illegal immigrant."
He asked the Crown Prosecution Service to write to the Home Office to ensure Phan is deported. The judge added: "We can't allow this affront to people who come to this country to be part of this vicious and ugly crime."
Katrina Wilson, prosecuting, said there was "a sophisticated cannabis grow" and the electricity supply had been bypassed.
"In the attic, lights were suspended from ceilings, there were sheets over the windows, extractor fans were present and the lighting system was on a timer," she told the court.
Plants were also found in two bedrooms and all were "in good health." Phan was doing the job of "gardener," she added.
Austin Newman, mitigating, said: "He came here to seek work and has been in this country for nearly four years.
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"There is no submission on his behalf that he was coerced into this other than by dint of his economic circumstances. He was held out the promise of financial reward."


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Seguin's natural hat trick pushes Stars past Flyersby Steve Hunt
DALLAS -- Tyler Seguin scored a natural hat trick in the second period, and the Dallas Stars defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 Saturday at American Airlines Center.
Dallas got a goal and three assists from Valeri Nichushkin, who became the first Stars rookie with four points in a game since Jere Lehtinen did it in 1996.
The line of Seguin, Nichushkin and captain Jamie Benn combined for nine points.
"They came back. Look at all their opportunities in the last game that should have been goals," Stars coach Lindy Ruff said, referencing a 3-2 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
"They came out in the second period and scored right away. We double-shifted them early, and they got it going."
Defenseman Alex Goligoski had two assists, and backup goaltender Dan Ellis stopped 27 of 28 shots in his third win of the season.
"He played an excellent game," Ruff said of Ellis. "He gave us some real good saves. He's won the last couple. That gives me confidence to keep him in there more often."
Seguin hadn't scored in six games before Saturday and was playing his second after missing two with concussion-like symptoms. His most recent goals came in a 7-3 win at the Calgary Flames on Nov. 14, when he had four.
His first goal Saturday came 39 seconds into the second period when he finished a rush with a snap shot inside the right side of the net to make it 1-1.
After being denied by Flyers goaltender Steve Mason on a breakaway at 9:21 of the second, Seguin connected from the slot at 17:03 after a pass from Goligoski.
With Dallas missing two of its most experienced defensemen, Stephane Robidas (leg fracture) and Trevor Daley (lower body), each injured in the past week, Goligoski led the Stars with 27:31 of ice time, an increased workload he handled well.
"He really has been our best defenseman back there," Ruff said. "With the absence of Robidas and now Daley, we've really loaded up the minutes on him. I admire his bounce-back from sitting out (earlier in the season). You have to give him a lot of credit. He knew he wasn't good enough at the time and came back and wanted to make a difference. He deserves all the credit in the world for that. He's really just taken the ball and run with it."
Seguin's third goal (15th of the season) came 40 seconds after his second when it appeared his wrister was knocked in by Philadelphia's Luke Schenn at 17:43. Dallas scored a third goal in a span of 1:02 at 18:05 when Nichushkin beat Mason with a wrister from the left circle to make it 4-1.
Seguin said his timing was not quite right in the loss to Toronto, but there were no lingering effects against Philadelphia.
"The first practice in Toronto I felt off, and really in the first and second [periods] against the Leafs, I had trouble tracking the puck," he said. "That's because I was coming off a concussion and I hadn't skated really. The third and overtime it felt better last night, and tonight I didn't feel it."
Flyers coach Craig Berube said allowing three unanswered goals in the second period doomed his team.
"Well, I thought that we had trouble with their speed, that one line especially," Berube said. "We didn't do a good enough job with our high forward, and our D had bad gaps, and that's a combination. We let them come at us too much in the second period and it was a problem."
Dallas' Cody Eakin scored a shorthanded goal with 4:33 remaining in the third period.
Philadelphia led 1-0 when defenseman Andrej Meszaros scored his first of the season 1:09 before the first intermission. Wayne Simmonds started the rush for Philadelphia, sending the puck in from the right side. Ellis made a play with his left pad, but with the puck sitting in front of the goal, Meszaros skated and tapped it in.
Mason, who left after two periods for backup Ray Emery, stopped 22 of 26 shots. Emery stopped seven of eight.
"Obviously, there was a minute-and-a-half span where three goals go in," Mason said. "Started off 30 seconds into the period giving up a goal, kind of put us back on our heels, and [we] just were never able to recover after that."
Philadelphia's Zac Rinaldo gave the Stars a seven-minute power play 1:15 into the game. Rinaldo confronted Dallas' Antoine Roussel and earned 27 minutes of penalties, including a game misconduct.
Dallas was unable to score, generating five shots.
"Those guys (penalty kill) killed off seven minutes; great job and we never picked up off it," Berube said.
Dallas was 0-for-5 on the power play, making the Stars an NHL-worst 1-for-42 at home.
"It looked pretty good, but we didn't score again," Ruff said.
Stars center Vernon Fiddler suffered an upper-body injury late in the first period and did not return.
"We'll re-evaluate him on Monday," Ruff said. "Nothing too serious, but he'll miss a little bit of time."
Philadelphia continues its five-game road trip Monday against the Ottawa Senators. Dallas ends a two-game homestand Tuesday against the Chicago Blackhawks.


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The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately.
Two application performance vendors recently released gaudy, yet vague, growth numbers for 2011. AppDynamics claimed 400% growth in customer bookings, while rival BlueStripe boasted a 700% jump in revenues. And even though neither has released more detailed data behind these figures, analysts in the industry do not believe they are exaggerating, especially when considering the ongoing trends in the market.
SURVEY SAYS: Bad alignments hamper app management
"With private companies, there is no way to know revenue numbers other than what they tell you," Julie Craig, research director for application management at Enterprise Management Associates, says. "However, many of the APM vendors I have spoken to recently do report triple-digit year-over-year growth, particularly this year. Budgets are freeing up somewhat, and part of the growth is a result of pent up demand. APM solutions are very hot right now."
Vic Nyman, co-founder and COO of BlueStripe, says his company, which he claims was in the "high-seven figures" for revenues in 2011 and will reach eight figures this year, has taken advantage of a market in which competitors have fallen flat.
Even as the CEO of a competitor himself, AppDynamics' Jyonti Bansal agrees with Nyman's assessment of the competitive landscape for APM tools. That's because many vendors trying to get in on the growing wave of customers in this space have marketed their broader network monitoring tools as those for APM, Bansal says. Customers, as a result, have gotten tripped up while trying to maintain an increasingly complex infrastructure without the right tools.
"It's kind of like operating a Boeing 757," Bansal says. "It's very powerful and very complex, but if you're operating without the right dashboard and cockpit or without auto-pilot, you can't really do it. It becomes very complex."
A survey of IT operations and support executives conducted by BlueStripe found that 64% of respondents manage applications that support seven or more technologies, as opposed to 20% whose applications support five to seven technologies and 16% with fewer than five. Resulting management issues appear to be dragging down efficiency, according to the survey. The top complaint, as cited by 64% of respondents, was that it takes too long to resolve business-impacting application outages. That was followed by a lack of support for the broad mix of technologies in their applications, claimed by 61%, and the need for too many subject-matter experts to resolve application incidents, cited by 60%.
Although 2011 was what many consider a turning point for the APM market, the trends pushing it to that level have been years in development. Mainstream acceptance of service-oriented architectures, cloud adoption and new approaches to application development have pushed many enterprise IT decision makers to incorporate APM tools alongside their network management arsenal, Craig says.
"Over the past year and a half, more companies have become aware of the need to move beyond infrastructure and network management to actual application management. The trend is being driven in part by cloud, and in part by new application architectures," she says. "These applications are way too complex to manage without application-specific management technologies. It simply takes too long to diagnose and fix performance issues manually."
Both executives pointed to these issues as top priorities for their companies, as well as the growing acceptance of e-commerce and adoption of the agile development life cycle for applications. Nyman says although the problems of monitoring and maintaining application performance in a complex environment are nothing new, what has changed is the recognition that APM can be simplified.
BlueStripe, AppDynamics and their customers, though, are hardly the only to have realized this, with competitors likely to catch up fast. Jonah Kowall, research director at Gartner, says the current marketplace is beneficial for innovators that have broken the mold, but as more light is shed on the opportunities, larger vendors that have so far remained idle will not be dormant for long.
"We are seeing a growing trend for SaaS delivery and other changes in the buying centers as well as the approaches that are being taken to capture end user experience, and deep-dive diagnostic capabilities," Kowall says. "These are shifting attention from many of the incumbent vendors to innovators in the market. Naturally the larger vendors are working to develop and acquire these capabilities to broaden their portfolios."
Colin Neagle covers Microsoft security and network management for Network World. Keep up with his blog: Rated Critical, follow him on Twitter: @ntwrkwrldneagle. Colin's email is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Militants aligned with al-Qaida fighting in Mali and other parts of North Africa are "armed to the teeth," the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman said.
The Malian government requested military support from France, the former colonial power, last month to help fight foreign and al-Qaida rebels.
Mali's government lost control over northern Mali in a coup in early last year.
U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said it took multilateral action in Mali to address the threat.
"In Mali, you have battle-hardened, al-Qaida-affiliated militants, armed to the teeth with weapons from Gadhafi's stockpile, seeking safe haven," he said in a statement.
Some of the militants in Mali fought alongside forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during civil war in 2011.
With French and Malian forces pushing north, European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs said Tuesday the European Union was resuming development aid in Mali.
"We will assist the country in restoring democracy and peace by focusing primarily on reconciliation, conflict prevention and supporting the electoral process," he said in a statement.
Royce scheduled a hearing for Thursday to discuss what he said was policy that would give the United States "the best chance to work with African forces to rid the region of militants."


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I only do flower gardens right now. With all the darn deer and elk that run thru our yard, I'm afraid to do veggies until we can build a fence around a garden.


text: Home- Academics- Departments and Programs- Native American Studies- Student Resources Menu Menu Native American Studies Student Resources and Programs We've compiled some resources, programs, and sites that students like you, who are interested in Native American studies, find useful and interesting. Longyear Museum of Anthropology The Longyear Museum at Colgate is a teaching collection of archaeological and ethnographic materials from Africa, Oceania, Native North America, and the Pre-Columbian cultures of North, Central, and South America. The museum is located on the second floor of Alumni Hall (campus map), and admission is free. Learn more about the Longyear Museum of Anthropology. Summer Research Fellowships Undergraduate student research is a prominent component of many Colgate students' educations. Fellowships are available during the summer months through the auspices of the divisions of humanities, social sciences, and university studies. As a Native American studies student, you can apply for fellowships in one or more of these divisions, depending on the research topic. Each fellowship normally supports eight to ten weeks of research on campus. Research topics may be generated by faculty members or they may be based on students' individual interests (though faculty sponsorship is required). Learn more about summer research fellowships. College Bound Program for American Indian Youths Native American students and those in the Native American Studies program are eligible for a one-week paid assistantship serving as mentors and guides in this community outreach program that invites Native American students from area middle schools and high schools to the Colgate campus for a one-week program of classes taught by Colgate faculty and visiting Iroquois specialists. The program, presently organized with the assistance of the Title IX coordinator in the Syracuse school district and the North American Indian Project (NAIP), is designed to acquaint youths with college life and expand their future goals to include attending college. Contact the department for more information. The Iroquois Study Group Colgate is set among the historic lands of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), one of the most powerful and famous confederacies of American Indians. These peoples — the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks, and Tuscaroras — live on seven different reservations throughout New York state; several other reservations are located just beyond the borders in Quebec and Ontario. This on-campus study group of four varied yet complementary courses about the Iroquois goes off campus to observe and participate in festivals and social celebrations, and to meet with such prominent figures as clan mothers, artists, museum administrators, environmentalists, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) committee members, and faithkeepers. Throughout the semester, Native American studies programming fosters Iroquois presence on campus. The Longyear Museum hosts an exhibition of Iroquois art. Iroquois speakers visit classes and speak in public forums. Native American Student Association (NASA) Membership in Colgate's NASA is open to students of Native American heritage, students in the Native American studies program, and all other students with a sincere interest in Native American cultures. Learn more about NASA. ALANA Cultural Center The African, Latin American, Asian, and Native American (ALANA) Cultural Center serves Colgate as a learning center and focal point for students and organizations belonging to those cultures or who wish to learn about them. Learn more about ALANA. Summer Archaeology Program Advanced students with a background in archaeology may gain additional experience by assisting in ongoing summer excavations at local Native American sites. Professor Jordan Kerber and his students supervise Onondaga Nation students at an Archaeology Camp run by teachers from Fayetteville-Manlius High School. The project focuses on limited archaeological excavation of the Broadfield site in Manlius, N.Y., which was settled by the Onondaga around 550 years ago. 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From polluted colonial port to pristine consumerist hub, Singapore has changed at a dizzying rate over the past century. Scratch the surface of this compact city and it will soon become clear that modern Singapore is a multidimensional, culture-crammed contemporary city.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Singapore is its fabulously futuristic architecture. There are enough sci-fi-inspired structures – among them the gargantuan three-towered Marina Bay Sands and the petal-shaped ArtScience Museum – to give architecture enthusiasts a cricked neck. For the more traditionally inclined urban wanderer, the well-preserved British colonial buildings, incense-clouded temples and ornamented shophouses will more than suffice.
Rather unexpectedly for such a densely populated urban space, Singapore is one of the greenest cities in the world; nature, albeit in unusual guises, is never far at hand. Trees and parks are plentiful and balance the effect of the abundant concrete and glass. Head for the rainforest of downtown's Botanic Gardens, hike the Southern Ridges Walk that links three major parks, and marvel at the Gardens by the Bay's colossal mechanical 'supertrees', each of which possesses its own vertical garden. If you're still hankering for the wild, join day-tripping Singaporeans on the cable car to Sentosa Island, where white sand, cheeky macaques and insect-guzzling plants await.
Food is another highlight. Eating well here is no great challenge, whether you munch on Singapore's signature dish, chilli crab, or sample the Chinese, Indian or Malaysian-influenced cuisine sold by a bewildering number of vendors at the famous hawker centres. These food stalls are held to high hygiene standards so you can indulge freely without worrying about the dreaded travellers' tummy.
You could spend months exploring the mass of glittering malls, perusing for trinkets in the cluttered bric-a-brac shophouses of Chinatown and stocking up on potent spices in Little India. Culture-wise, the city presents several excellent options, including the superb National Museum, the Asian Civilizations Museum and the National Gallery Singapore. Meanwhile, families are guaranteed smiles at kid-friendly spots such as the Jurong Bird Park, Sentosa's S.E.A. Aquarium and the world-class Singapore Zoo, where creatures ranging from sloths to cheetahs can be seen lounging (or racing!) around their spacious digs.
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A brick wall that has remained for years is the identity of the parents of my 6x great-grandfather, William Easter.
According to information I've inherited, he was born in 1675, in Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire. However his baptism isn't in the parish records for Stow, so he must have been born elsewhere.
There is a possibility that he was baptised at Holy Trinity in Cambridge – the date is about right, but it's not a positive identification yet.
William married in 1700, in Stow – that is in the parish records. However there's some confusion as to whether his wife was called Ann or Jane. The marriage register shows Jane, but my "inherited" records show Ann. Sadly none of my inherited records for this family have sources, but I have to accept the marriage record – unless she was baptised as Ann, and preferred to be called Jane. I do know her surname was Bradwell. Her parents moved to Stow after her birth, as she isn't in the parish records. So I need to look further afield for her, too. Her parents were David and Ann Bradwell. (That may be where the error in the name of William's wife has come from.)
After their marriage, they had three children in Stow, Mary (1701), Margaret (1703), and Anne (1706). They had two sons, John (1708), and my ancestor, William (1710), both born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where the family remained until about 1850.
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Dan Walters: Rainy-day fund not best option, but perhaps only one
State Controller John Chiang reported Thursday that after counting April's income tax payments, revenue is running $2.2 billion above assumptions in the current state budget.
The windfall continues a boom-and-bust pattern that has marked state finances for decades – big increases in revenue when the economy is in an up-cycle and big drops when it fades. The swings have gotten wider because the state has become more dependent on volatile personal income taxes, especially capital gains from the state's most affluent taxpayers.
A big chunk of the extra money will automatically be set aside for schools under a mind-numbingly complex constitutional provision.
However, Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature have options on the remainder: spend it on more government programs, pay down the state's debts ($340.7 billion according to a report this week), leave it in the bank to cushion the impact of a future down-cycle, or even reduce taxes.
In years past, the tendency of the Capitol's politicians has been to squander windfalls, then face deficits when the inevitable economic downturn comes.
However, the current political crop, from the governor down, is claiming to have learned a lesson and now wants to create a rainy-day fund to capture some windfall money.
As Chiang was reporting the newest windfall, Brown and legislative leaders were finalizing a proposal for such a fund that would go on the November ballot, replacing one that predecessor Arnold Schwarzenegger had pried from a reluctant Legislature.
It's progress, one supposes, that politicians indirectly admit that they cannot be trusted to do the right thing when windfalls occur, and are willing to impose some restraints on themselves.
However, even if the measure is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, it cannot be airtight. The clever people in and around the Capitol have demonstrated many times that they can find ways around seemingly explicit constitutional provisions.
Indeed, the aforementioned school finance law, passed by voters in 1988, has been manipulated on numerous occasions when it interfered with what Capitol politicians wanted to do.
A better approach to revenue volatility would be to overhaul the tax system so that revenue would become more predictable, making it less dependent on income taxes from a tiny fraction of the population.
A good tax system, either sales or income, has a broad base and low rates, but California's is just the opposite, with high rates on narrow bases. It therefore is much too sensitive to even tiny changes in the economy.
Tax reform isn't happening for a variety of political reasons, however. Since politicians are admittedly untrustworthy when it comes to spending money, we are left with a rainy-day fund – in effect, an indirect spending cap – as the only viable option.


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Hope College's success in teaching through original, collaborative research and creative performance will become a resource for colleges and universities around the country during the forthcoming national Undergraduate Research Week (April 11-16).
Hope College's success in teaching through original, collaborative research and creative performance will become a resource for colleges and universities around the country during the forthcoming national Undergraduate Research Week (April 11-16).
The Washington, D.C.-based Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has singled out Hope to present a webinar that is being made available to educators nationally to help others better take the same approach.
"Hope has been a leader nationally in teaching students effectively through original research with members of the faculty and creative performance opportunities," said Dr. Nancy Hensel, who is CUR's executive officer. "Hope's highly successful program serves as an outstanding example, and CUR invited Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences and professor of chemistry, and Hope to present the webinar so that other institutions can benefit from the college's experience in implementing its program and perspective on how student learning is enhanced."
Hope will be presenting the webinar, "Transformational Learning through Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance," on Tuesday, April 12, at 2 p.m. To make the event accessible to as many as possible, CUR is offering the event at no cost.
Students at Hope engage in collaborative research with the faculty during both the school year and the summer across the campus. The summer program regularly hosts some 170 students engaged in research full-time for eight to 10 weeks, including not only students from Hope but also students from other colleges and universities and from area high schools.
The webinar will discuss the value of undergraduate research and creative performance in promoting learning, the resources available to develop and enhance such programs, the transformation of student learning at Hope through research, and the caliber of research that can be pursued while involving undergraduate student collaborators. The presentation will review the development of the approach at Hope across more than five decades, from its advent in the natural and applied sciences to its use across all disciplines at Hope. In addition, there will be discussion on studies to demonstrate that research, even in the context of a classroom, will benefit student learning.
In addition to Dr. Lee, the presenters, speaking from campus through the online event, will be Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis, professor of psychology; Dr. William Pannapacker, associate professor of English; and Dr. Michael Seymour, professor of chemistry.
Hensel will serve as the event's moderator from CUR's offices in Washington, D.C. She will have been at the college just the day before. On Monday, April 11, she will deliver the address "Making Explicit the Implicit: Defining Undergraduate Research" at 2:30 p.m. in the DeWitt Center main theatre as the opening keynote event for Hope's six-day celebration of the national week. Admission to Hensel's address is free.
The week of April 11 has been declared National Undergraduate Research Week by the U.S. House of Representatives. The resolution describes undergraduate research as "essential to pushing the Nation's innovation agenda forward by increasing the interest and persistence among young people in the crucial science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and to cultivating the interest of would-be researchers who pursue a new aspiration of graduate education after participating in undergraduate research."
In addition to Hensel's opening keynote, the college's commemoration will include multiple presentations in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied sciences across the week. The numerous activities open to the public include concerts in music and dance, an art exhibition, a play, multiple lectures and panel discussions about involvement in research, and the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance featuring poster presentations on more than 200 projects in which more than 360 students participated.
Learning through research has been a teaching philosophy at the college for more than half a century. The late Dr. Gerrit Van Zyl, who taught chemistry at the college from 1923 to 1964, is widely recognized for developing research-based learning at Hope in its modern sense. More than 100 years ago, biologist Dr. Samuel O. Mast had designed research laboratory space for the college's Van Raalte Hall, which opened in 1903.
Hope has received recognition in a variety of ways through the years for its model of teaching through collaborative faculty-student research.
Hope holds five awards through the National Science Foundation's "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" program, in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics. Among all institutions nationwide, including major research universities, fewer than a dozen hold more of the grants.
Overall in terms of NSF support, Hope received the sixth-highest total in funding in 2010 out of all institutions in Michigan, surpassed only by five Ph.D.-granting universities. Hope is the only college or university in the country to have received "Beckman Scholar Award" support for student research from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation of Irvine, Calif., since the foundation began the program in 1998.
Since the category debuted in 2003, the "America's Best Colleges" guide published by "U.S. News and World Report" has included Hope on its listing of approximately three dozen institutions that it cites as exceptional for their emphasis on undergraduate research and creative projects. The guide also includes Hope among the top 100 national liberal arts colleges in the U.S.
Among other recognitions historically, in 1998 Hope was one of only 10 liberal arts institutions in the nation to be recognized for innovation and excellence in science instruction by the NSF with an "Award for the Integration of Research and Education" (AIRE), and in 1994 Project Kaleidoscope named the program in the natural applied sciences a "Whole Program That Works"--a model for other institutions to emulate.


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Vodka, oil, weapons, and ... russian girls are objects of Russian pride. I wonder if there is any country in the world where women are considered of national pride.
The whole world has already recognized that Russia is a country of special people - not the same as everywhere else, and Russian women are the most beautiful and amazing. And it is not only in terms of face and figure, donated by the girl's nature. We assure you, in France or Japan, women are exactly the same and just as good. It's about inner strength, which is filled with the image of Slavonic women.
About Russian Women there are a lot of sayings, but the best is "she is going to enter the burning hut, and stop a galloping horse." And it makes sense. They are the residents of the north, of the country with a harsh climate and violent militant manners.
So the girl in Russia brought a silent inner strength, the legendary "Russian spirit." This force is not physical, but the ability to defend that woman dearly: her honor, her family, her man and her business of a life. Centuries have passed; there are a lot of changes now. But most of the things are still the same. And though rouged humble "Darlings" were replaced by rude and cold-blooded businesswomen or, on the contrary, sophisticated and fashionable women who know their own worth, they have remained the backbone of all the same.
For many people the image of Slovyanka (Slavic woman) is traditionally associated with dense golden girl with long hair, tucked away in a braid .But the subject to modern standards of beauty, Russian women now look much more fashionable and stylish. Taking care of your appearance has remained one of the main features of Russian women. While Europeans have long switched to a comfortable half sportswear, the Russians cannot afford that.
They always used to look like a winner, and their beauty is like armor. Therefore, foreigners, being in this country, literally "neck fold" on each met beauty.
Therefore, Russian girls are renowned for their beauty: they love themselves; they have a special relation to themselves and their appearance. The image of Russian women of our time - it is a multifaceted concept. And over time it develops and becomes more complex and beautiful.
Russian and Ukrainian girls are the best mothers and wives, excellent workers and equally talented leaders. It doesn't matter what they are doing - they will always want to succeed and prove themselves. That is why the attitude to those women has always been special. One thing is certain: Russian women will never ever be lost!
The last tip, we'll give you: hurry up! It has been two decades since the fall of communism. Time flies fast; socio-economic factors are changing. Women are also changing, becoming more emancipated; with the ability to travel they have greatly expanded their horizons. Unfortunately, many of them have begun to act on the Western model - dreaming of becoming a fashion model or to participate in a reality show.
While it is not too late, start planning a trip to Russia.
"How to marry a Russian and live happily ever after" - a book with the same name coming out in many languages, reveals all the secrets to foreign men of the winning girls from Russia...
Some people believe that foreigners love Russian women and marry them because:
1. Russian girls are the best in the world housekeepers, kind, friendly, caring mothers and wives.
2. Externally, the Russian-speaking women are more beautiful, elegant and well-kept and also sexy.
3. Slavonics like to emphasize their femininity and beauty through clothing, expertly selected clothes.
4. It's not a secret that Russian women are patient and hardy
5. Girls from Russia are well educated and well-read; it is always interesting with them.
6. Among other things, Russian women are excellent in sex and very temperamental.
Is this true? How to conquer the Russian girl? What men does she like? What does she expect from an affair with a foreigner? These and other questions are answered in the books- bestsellers by their authors..
A phenomenon of a Slavic wife. How should one understand a mysterious soul? How did women from eastern Europe win hearts of western men?
There are many stereotypes about Russian brides, often controversial ones – they are both provident and housewifely, family oriented and depraved to vulgarity. Mostly this image is formed on the basis of two sources: behavior of Slavic tourists, who escaped to get off a nightmare of their working routine somewhere to Turkey, Egypt, Bali or Thailand, or Russian immigrants who left their motherland in a search of better life. In more details
Conclusions about women's attractiveness is made individually, but the fact is that the most beautiful women in the world live in Russia or in Ukraine. What is the difference between beauties of these two different folks? And is the difference real at all? Experts' opinion.
There are literally tons of legends about the beauty of Russian girls. But the question is if they are true or not. Do their priceless qualities help them to make good and long relationships and, as a result, marriage?
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There has been a surplus in the U.S. Postal Service's Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) pension program since 1992. Most recently, the FERS surplus was projected to be $11.4 billion, accounting for most of the Postal Service's total $13.1 billion pension surplus.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) asked Hay Group, an actuarial firm, to examine the causes of the FERS surplus, and a new OIG white paper presents the results of Hay Group's work.
Hay Group found that the main reason for the surplus was differences between the Postal Service and the rest of the federal government. In particular, postal salary growth was lower than the assumptions made in the liability estimates. The surplus grew as actual postal experience replaced the initial assumptions used for the entire FERS population.
Hay Group recommends using Postal Service-specific assumptions to provide a more accurate estimate of the liability. When Postal Service-specific assumptions are used to measure the Postal Service's liability, the surplus increases from $11.4 billion to $24 billion.
Given the Postal Service's current financial health, the existence of the FERS surplus raises some questions. What should be done about the postal FERS surplus? Right now, there is no mechanism to return a FERS surplus once it occurs.
Also, what about the contribution rate? The Postal Service currently pays the same FERS contribution rate as other federal agencies, 11.9 percent of payroll for most employees. This contribution rate has increased twice in the past 3 years despite the existence of a surplus for the Postal Service. Should the Postal Service's contributions be adjusted to reflect its specific characteristics?
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Tampa community members cheered on Centre, Hope, and Hillsboro high school girls' basketball teams competing in state tournaments this week.
Members of the Red Hat Society enjoyed their own games after dinner and a meeting at Hilltop Community Center in Herington. Barbara Askew hosted the meeting for those in attendance — Joyce Cox and Dixie Kracke of Abilene, Rhea Kolling, Rose Mary Deines, Karolyn Schlesener and Helen Sorenson of Herington, Anita Hummel and Betty Schlesener of Hope, Adeline Bernhardt and Dee Duggan.
Helen Costello passed away recently. She formerly taught at the old Tampa High School before moving to Mulvane and Derby.
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Vernon Stika passed away and many from the community attended visitation with the family March 6 at Zeiner Funeral Home and a graveside service March 7.
The annual Thrivent member awareness dinner took place March 5 at Trinity Parish Hall in Ramona. St. John's members attending included Pastor Clark and Kathy Davis, Joyce Medley, Leona Kleiber, Adeline Bernhardt, Betty Mueller, David Mueller, Raymond and Janet Bielefeld and Michele Berens. Marissa Makovec catered the dinner.
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One corollary to the Fluorescent Therapy outlined in my previous post is what is commonly called "Boredom Therapy." This is most commonly applied to patients with complaints which are factitious or derived from personality disorders, or those with complaints most likely related to drug-seeking behavior, or other presentations in which there is clearly little to no medical urgency coupled with a patient interaction which is likely to be difficult, complex, and confrontational.
Theses cases differ from fluorescent therapy in that there is no obligatory time delay built in by reasonable and justifiable medical tests. Patients view such a time interval and its attendant fluorescent exposure as valuable and itself therapeutic.
Boredom therapy is that in which the physician provider simply ignores the patient and leaves them neglected in the room for an extended time, while nothing happens. Although this may seem callous or even abusive, it is usually not, nor is it even deliberate in most cases. For example in a typical busy ER, the doctor is likely juggling coordinating the care of several critically ill patients, and simply does not have the spare time to sit down and explain to the patient with Chronic Recurrent Abdominal Pain why, in this the seventh ER visit in two months, we will not be able to provide a definitive diagnosis for their pain. Or perhaps the doctor is simply scared of what is certain to be a challenging confrontation and "ducks" the problem patient, paying attention instead to all his other patients until the nurses, who cannot avoid the increasingly annoyed glares from the patient, who is now standing in the doorway of their room, force the doctor out from his hiding spot to go discharge the patient.
In some rare cases, with patients who clearly are abusing the ER, deliberate boredom therapy is applied, with the intent of making the patient understand that the ER is not a fun or productive place to be, and to negatively reinforce the behavior that brought them in.
In all cases, "Boredom therapy" facilitates the discharge of the patient, by wasting enough of their time that they simply don't want to be in the ER any more and want to go home. The value is that these patients would otherwise be resistant to discharge, either because they had unrealistic expectations of what could or would be accomplished in the ER, or because they somehow enjoy coming in. The cost, which must be balanced, is that the patient, who really didn't need to come into the ER in the first place, ties up a bed for several hours, and makes your nurses hate you. If the waiting room is full, it's generally better to forgo the boredom therapy and just discharge them directly, even though that usually means an ugly fight.
[Please note: if you ever came in to the ER as a patient and had to wait a long time, it was most likely because ERs are busy and inefficient. Boredom therapy as described above is reserved for patients who are clearly abusing the ER. This is in all likelihood not you. Please don't rant in the comments about how long it took when you went in for "x" -- I've heard it a million times, and really, we're sorry about it, but it's off-topic. On the other hand, if you are a malingerer or psychologically disturbed person who has been abusing the ER, then by all means, go right ahead and flame on! (dons asbestos underpants)]
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Fluorescent Therapy: Corollary
One corollary to the Fluorescent Therapy outlined in my previous post is what is commonly called "Boredom Therapy." This is most commonly applied to patients with complaints which are factitious or derived from personality disorders, or those with complaints most likely related to drug-seeking behavior, or other presentations in which there is clearly little to no medical urgency coupled with a patient interaction which is likely to be difficult, complex, and confrontational.
Posted by shadowfax at 11:28 AM
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- Teresa3/25/2008 4:04 PM
I'm actually thinking of going to the ER tonight. You see, I have this one spot on the toenail of my big toe on my right foot where the polish just won't stay on, no matter how many coats I use. I've even switched colors. Same thing with the lighter color.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you mentioned the boredom thing. I'll be sure to take a nice thick book with me.
I would call my PCP, but he's probably about to leave for the day and I doubt he would stay to see me. Maybe I'll see you tonight, Shadowfax.
Oh, I think I'll take an ambulance. I wanted to buy gas today, but I didn't have any cash, and I don't get paid until next Thursday.
When you say "one corollary" you mean the exact same thing, right?ReplyDelete
They're similar but the difference is intent, and process. in FT, there is a necessary and useful step (testing) which induces the delay. In BT, the delay is purely wasted time for the patient.
The outcomes differ, too. In FT, the patient smiles and tells me they feel better and they are happy (often). In BT, the patient is pissed off and just no longer wants to be there anymore.
Subtle distinction for semi-imaginary treatments...
Sigh. That is negative punishment, not negative reinforcement.ReplyDelete
Punishment decreases the likelihood of a behaviour; reinforcement increases it.
Positive is doing something; negative is not doing something.
The classic example of negative reinforcement is nagging. If you put away your laundry I'll stop nagging you. The blessed relief of silence is such that it makes you think that next time you should put away your laundry right away so as not to have to listen to me nagging.
In the case of the malingerer in the ER, you want to decrease their malingering (reducing a behaviour = punishment), so you withhold (not doing something = negative) stimulation.
Likewise, spanking is positive punishment.
Anyway. This is one of my little nits, and I pick it whenever I have the occasion.
- Anonymous3/25/2008 7:39 PM
I have a suggestion. Instead of tying up the bed with the patient who doesn't need to be there try telling the patient "I'm sorry I can't help you" and then discharging them. Its very effective. Quit being so fucking passive aggressive. You're probably as irritating as your patients are to the nurses who have to work with you.ReplyDelete
Just discharge them already. Say "no" to the drug seekers. Its a one syllable word. Say "I don't use narcotics to treat this."
Have some backbone. Show some spine. That's why you get paid the big bucks.
- Anonymous3/25/2008 9:14 PM
This actually upsets me. I am a patient who has abdominal pain that noone has been able to pinpoint until recently. Its such a shame you actually treat people like that. What if someone treated your family members like that??? I realize you do deal with people who are seeking drugs, but what about the people who are actually seeking relief and answers. I am glad I finally have a diagnosis, I almost want to go back to the smug doctors and nurses who acted like I was trash and show them that not everyone who is a mystery diagnosis is a drug seeker.
Anons 7:39 and 9:14 do a great job of illustrating the needle I have to thread:ReplyDelete
"Just throw 'em out!"
"How dare you treat patients like that!"
Just for reference:
1. I am undoubtedly the most blunt ER doctor in my group, and by far the most likely to call bullshit on a patient I think needs to hear it.
2. As I said pretty clearly, in most cases the boredom is not deliberate, but due to prioritizing the important stuff over the non-urgent time-consuming stuff. Sometimes it's passive-aggressive, but usually not.
3. The hard thing about chronic abdominal pain is the expectations management. I don't know your story, but when someone has come in half a dozen times in a month, gotten three CT scans, bloodwork, scopes, etc etc, there's no way I'm going to figure it out on the seventh visit if nothing else has changed. People with this are typically frustrated and demanding, and it takes a long time to talk them down. And that necessarily will fall low in my sequencing matrix, so they have to wait a while to hear the reason why we're not going to re-invent the wheel (and the same can be said for chronic anxiety, headaches, etc etc etc).
- Anonymous3/25/2008 10:16 PM
So instead of being passive aggressive some of the time how about none of the time. I'm not an asshole most of the time is a pretty lame excuse for being an asshole some of the time.ReplyDelete
To the other annonymous:
If you have a complicated abdominal pain problem that you have been seen for repeatedly in the ER without diagnosis why would you return to ER for the same thing? Go to a gastroenterologist. See a specialist.
What was your diagnosis anyway? My curiousity is piqued.
Me too. I also use BT for young mothers who bring Infant in with routine spit up/choking episodes. "Breathed funny." I ask the mom to point out an episode in real time when it recurs. She gets bored waiting and eventually asks to be discharged. The process is accelerated by having her other rambunctious toddler child in the room.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/26/2008 4:11 PM
Its Crohns. And I have seen a specialist. The reason I went to the ER a few times, was because my pain was horrible and my doctor told me to go to the ER. Before they pinpointed what I had, I had bad episodes where I was severely dehydrated and passed blood.ReplyDelete
As frustrating as it was to the ER docs, it was even more for me.
But I certainly did not go to the ER 7 times in one month.
I apologize if I attacked you, it just sounded like you were treating all abdominal pain people like that.
I wonder, Shadowfax, if you could comment on when it is appropriate for someone with undiagnosed abdominal pain to return to their doctor or to the ER. At some point I suppose you would agree they should seek medical care again. What is that point?ReplyDelete
Your comment may help people make a better decision.
Bearing in mind that I am not giving anybody medical advice, in general pain which is new, pain which is different (in location, quality, timing), or pain which has new associated symptoms (fever, etc) are most appropriate for ER evaluation.
Otherwise, coordination of care with the PCP is always appropriate.
Actually, being dehydrated and passing blood is worthy of a look in the ER. And anonymous 7:39--what do you do if the patient in question WANTS to be in the ER. For the hot meal/cot whatever? Is resistant to leaving? And will complain to the press/hospital/whatever that the BIG DOCTOR was MEAN to them? Sheesh. Better to have them leave of their own volition.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/01/2008 6:40 PM
Bloody stools and dehydration are objective signs warranting an er visit.ReplyDelete
What doesn't warrant an er visit is no objective symptoms. Normal vital signs. Just the same pain without any other symptoms that the patient has had for the past month, year, 2 years etc.


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Good morning, TexMessagers! The Inspector General has cleared Eric Holder in the Fast and Furious investigation. Do you think that was the right conclusion?
Yesterday's report on Operation Fast and Furious might have cleared the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, but some Texas lawmakers still would like to see him resign, or better yet, get fired.
Rick Perry wants him to vacate the office.
Ted Cruz wants the voters to sign a petition to fire him.
Rep. Ted Poe wants him to take "responsibility for this botched operation and resign immediately."
But the Texas representative probably most unhappy with Holder? Rep. Blake Farenthold, who was the first one to make the suggestion that Holder resign in October of last year.
The reason for Farenthold's frustration with Holder is the recent revelation by The Daily Caller that the Department of Justice staff has been collaborating with Media Matters, a "non-profit progressive research and information center," on stories about former department staffers and other reporters covering the department.
"I think we need to look at the 501(c)3 status of Media Matters, and I think this is just more evidence that the Justice Department under Eric Holder is out of control. And it's more evidence that Mr. Holder is not fit to run a lemonade stand," Farenthold said during a radio interview with NRA News.
According to him, another investigation into the behavior of the DoJ officials as well as Media Matters is likely, "I think the House oversight committee would definitely have jurisdiction over it and I would imagine we'll be taking a look at it. I would be surprised if we didn't."
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★ Obama acts cool on Letterman; Romney dredges up 1998 tape of Obama talking 'redistribution'
★ Romney dines in Dallas at $50,000 a plate as protesters yell 'we are the 47 percent'
★ A dozen Obama gaffes — with a little help from Joe Biden
★ Napolitano: Immigration hasn't been 'a linchpin, red hot issue' in 2012
★ Poll: Overwhelming public support for photo identification laws
★ Romney raw: Here are the unedited tapes. Decide for yourself.
★ Mitt Romney's top twenty gaffes of the year
★ Rapid Response: Team Obama ridicules Romney for '47 percent' comment
★ Fact check: Romney's '47 percent' claim is not entirely accurate
★ Top ten campaign gaffes in modern presidential history
★ Politico pulls back the curtain on Mitt Romney's 'stumbling' campaign
★ Romney calls for 'fair and enforceable' immigration laws in speech to Latino business leaders
Reader Comment of the Day
In response to our Texas on the Potomac article Romney dines in Dallas at $50,000 a plate as protesters yell 'we are the 47 percent', "CSA" wrote in the comments forum:
Romney did a typically Rovian thing. He has been blaming President Obama for dividing the country when indeed it is Mitt Romney himself and the GOP that has been doing this all along. The GOP has been playing this trick since Richard Nixon and his Southern Strategy of scorched earth, divide and conquer politics. Today it is "those dirty filthy 47% moochers" vs. the wealthy. In the past it was "others" vs. everyone else. The "others" natch were people of color. The good news is Mitt Romney finally outed himself for whom he really is.
Texas Watch
TxPotomac lets you know what stories to look out for.
★ Economic indicators: U.S. leading economic index, weekly mortgage rates, and weekly unemployment insurance claims
★ House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (Chairman Issa, R-Calif.) will hold a hearing focused on the inspector general's report on the failures of Operation Fast and Furious at 9:30 a.m.
★ House Armed Services Committee (Chairman McKeon, R-Calif.) will hold a hearing on Department of Defense plans for sequestration at 10:00 a.m.
★ Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee will be holding a discussion focused on bullying called 'Stick and Stones: The changing face of the 21st Century'
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ Oct. 3. First Presidential Debate, University of Denver, Denver, Colo. Moderator: Jim Lehrer
★ Oct. 9. Voting Registration deadline.
★ Oct. 11. Vice Presidential Debate, Centre College, Danville, Ky. Moderator: Martha Raddatz
★ Oct. 16. Second Presidential Debate, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. Moderator: Candy Crowley
★ Oct. 22. Third Presidential Debate, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla. Moderator: Bob Schieffer
★ Oct. 22 to Nov. 2. Early Voting in Texas.
★ Nov. 6. Election Day.
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Dan Walters: Shootout for Los Angeles County board may be most interesting race
In an otherwise lackluster campaign season, California's most interesting political duel may be one for a rare vacancy on the five-member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
It's interesting because a supervisor's seat in a county that's more populous (10 million-plus) than all but eight states is a powerful political prize. And it's interesting because of the two candidates who survived the June primary.
A few decades ago, when all members were white men, the board was known colloquially as the "five little kings."
It's more diverse these days, and its five seats have been carefully apportioned by the board itself – one African American seat, one Latino seat, one Jewish seat (all Democratic) and two Republican seats.
Latino activists believe that with half of the county's population, they should have another seat.
For now, however, they have just one that will soon switch from Gloria Molina to Hilda Solis due to term limits, although Solis is under investigation for allegedly soliciting campaign contributions for President Barack Obama while serving as his secretary of labor.
The seat representing the county's wealthy west side – Beverly Hills and environs – has been held by a succession of Jewish politicians, but the current occupant, Zev Yaroslavsky, is also termed out and it will no longer be overtly Jewish.
Rather, it will be filled either by Sheila Kuehl, a former actress who later became a law professor and the Legislature's first openly homosexual member, or Bobby Shriver, a nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and sister of Maria Shriver, the estranged wife of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kuehl has been angling for the seat ever since leaving the Legislature six years ago, and for years was virtually the only aspirant, but then Shriver, the former mayor of Santa Monica, declared.
It was widely assumed that when a member of the vast Kennedy clan jumped in with a million dollars of his own money, it was lights out and he might even win the seat outright on June 3.
But Kuehl, who claims a very faint Jewish family connection, has been a gritty contender, and she outpolled Shriver, 36 percent to his 29 percent.
The third-place finisher, gay-rights advocate John Duran, has endorsed Shriver, thus dividing the LGBT community, while Kuehl appears to have gained important union support.
The stage is set for a high-decibel shootout in November with the kind of financing and strategizing more typical of a statewide race, complete with two veteran campaign managers, Bill Carrick for Shriver and Parke Skelton for Kuehl.
There's not much ideological difference between Kuehl and Shriver, although he might be a tad less liberal, so the campaign is likely to focus on personalities and could be, if post-primary utterances are any guide, very negative in tenor.


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kalira wrote:Sabrar wrote:@SDK: full claim please.SirGabriel wrote:What does everyone think about doing a mass claim today? At the very least, I would like Bard and SDK to claim, as they're the two who claimed to have info about other players in their PM.
Mass claim usually doesn't go well for town, but I'm willing to consider it. So I'm confused. SDK claimed the way his role interacts with bessie makes her highly likely town, but unless I'm mistaken, bessie didn't confirm she knew the same abt SDK? Or was that all just smokescreen for them being masons together? I don't necessarily want SDK to full claim right now, but I *do* want him to tell us if he was bessie's mason partner.
I'd like Bard to claim before SDK.
Hrmm, I haven't interacted with you much as of yet (actually not at all except for saying that I would consider compromising to your slot since it was pretty inactive via freezeblade). Who in your general opinion is scum/town at this point?
Massclaiming probably isn't necessary yet, I agree.
As for myself claiming, I don't mind claiming if I'm prompted enough from other avenues. I actually think it's beneficial at this point if I do since it will paint a clearer picture of what's going on.
SDK wrote:I don't think it's in town's best interest to have me confirm or deny being masons with bessie. If I am, that confirms me town and gets me killed. If I'm not, that confirms that they should look elsewhere. If you'd like to ask more politely with some reasoning attached, I'd be happy to consider it.
Also Gopher, you shouldn't be speculating on such things. It is not in town's best interest to determine bessie's buddy before it's time.
More later.
Strongly disagree with this considering our interactions yesterday. Bessie claimed to have no reciprocating information on your behalf; if there is a player that claims mason other than yourself, I will be promptly gunning for you because I feel it's unlikely that a mason pair, your connection to Bessie, and my connection to Laserguy are all a part of the game.
Anyway, I had my response to your earlier post, but deadline hit. I'll post it in the following post.
Sabrar wrote:I believe it is in the best interest of town if the mason-buddy claims. This is assuming that s/he doesn't have any additional powers (reasonable given bessie's flip). Reasoning: s/he is currently Vanilla/Innocent Child. Won't have any night results and all advantages of being a mason are lost already. Claiming now also lessens the chance of a counterclaim, or lessens the impact of a mislynch if there is a counterclaim. If scum leaves him/her alive we still have a confirmed townie. If s/he is killed then there is more chance that another townie has a useful result. Also could draw both NK-s (and still could be protected by doc if not). Furthermore we could see who was attacking a confirmed townie.
So in my opinion there are quite a few advantages of the other mason claiming and only 1 drawback (lessens the chance of scum cross-shooting).
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Pesticide use is surging among U.S. farmers who are worried about insect resistance to Bt corn. But scientists warn that overuse of chemicals may create a worse problem down the road.
Pesticide use is surging among U.S. corn farmers who are worried that some insects have become resistant to genetically modified versions of the crop.
That's an unexpected reversal since one of the promises of engineered corn when it was introduced 17 years ago was its ability to kill pests. The use of soil insecticides for the crop plunged 90 percent through 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Whether the return to pesticide use makes sense, or is simply spurred by a chemical industry marketing campaign, is at the center of one of the biggest debates in the Corn Belt this spring. At the heart of the controversy is whether snuffing out pests in the short term with chemicals may create a worse problem down the road.
Farmers say they need to do whatever it takes now to control the western corn rootworm, the most damaging U.S. corn pest. Although Monsanto Co. designed its corn to kill the worms, resistant bugs have been found in four states and growers say pesticides are needed again to protect their crops.
It would be "financial suicide" to plant rootworm-killing corn without a soil insecticide as a secondary way to control the larvae, said Illinois farmer Mike Jenks, echoing the views of growers across the Midwest.
That view is driving up profit for pesticide makers like FMC Corp. and American Vanguard Corp. They're marketing corn insecticides as a kind of insurance policy that costs $12 to $25 an acre. Root-eating larvae of the flying insect has historically cost U.S. farmers $1 billion in expenses and lost harvest, according to USDA estimates.
Pesticides Unnecessary
Some scientists are skeptical that a return to pesticide use is in the long-term interests of farmers. Soil insecticides don't improve root health or yields when the corn is already producing its own insecticide, according to a paper by University of Illinois scientists published online April 25 by the Journal of Applied Entomology. Iowa State University researchers reached a similar conclusion last year.
Chemical insecticides are simply redundant, said Michael Gray, a University of Illinois entomologist.
"It's pretty clear where the science and the scientific community is on this point," Gray said. "It really does not add much."
Entomologists also warn that the additional insecticide may exacerbate the resistance problem that farmers fear. That's because pairing pesticides with engineered corn exposes insects to extra toxins, delaying maturity. That leads to increased mating between resistant worms, hastening the evolution of rootworms that aren't vulnerable to GMO corn.
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An EPA panel of scientific advisers warned in March that "the use of a soil insecticide with a Bt hybrid should not be done." The report refers to GMO corn as Bt because it includes a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis, a soil bacterium widely used to control insects.
That echoes a 2012 warning to the EPA from 22 corn entomologists that "an insurance-based approach" to insecticides "will only increase insect resistance."
That concern over resistant rootworms is driving up sales for insecticide makers including American Vanguard, FMC and Syngenta AG, which dispute the scientists' findings.
There haven't been any studies confirming that soil insecticides are speeding the evolution of resistant rootworms, said Peter Porpiglia, head of product developing at Newport Beach, California-based American Vanguard. "It's pretty much conjecture."
Surging Demand
American Vanguard may have the most at stake. Net income jumped 56 percent from 2011 through 2013 and soil insecticides for corn have been "a very material driver," said William Kuser, a spokesman. More than a quarter of its sales come from soil insecticides such as Smart Choice 5G and Aztec, used on about 5 million acres (2 million hectares) of corn.
Farmers' concerns will boost demand for soil insecticides through at least 2015, American Vanguard Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eric Glenn Wintemute told analysts on a May 1 conference call.
"We will continue to push our message," Wintemute said on the call. "It's a good return on investment to make a soil insecticide application."
FMC runs ads in farming magazines showing insects gorging on corn roots, warning that Bt "protection isn't enough." The Philadelphia-based company promises to boost yields by as much as 11 bushels an acre with its Capture LFR insecticide.
The campaign seems to be working. Profit in its agriculture unit jumped 55 percent from 2011 through 2013, driven by rising North American pesticide sales.
FMC CEO Pierre Brondeau expects sales to increase this year, in part due to "concern over corn rootworm," he said on a May 7 conference call.
Resistance Rare
The company dismisses concerns that promoting Capture for use with Bt corn may accelerate resistance.
"That's not a theory we necessarily agree with," said David Wheeler, FMC's technical business manager for North American crops.
FMC dropped 0.3 percent to $77.99 at the close in New York while American Vanguard declined 1.1 percent to $14.25 and Syngenta depositary receipts also fell 1.1 percent.
Insecticides are effective in controlling grubs, wire worms and other lesser pests, and are appropriate when resistant rootworms are are known to be in a field.
Monsanto says resistant rootworms are rare. Only 0.2 percent of the 37 million acres with Monsanto's rootworm- protected corn have had "unexpected damage" from the insects, said Jeffrey Neu, a spokesman for the St. Louis-based company.
Toxin Overexposure
Grey, the entomologist, said resistance is probably more common. Resistant worms have been found in six Illinois counties and they may be about as common in other states, he said.
Rootworm resistance can occur when farmers plant GMO corn on the same plot year after year, overexposing bugs to toxins. Other growers fail to plant a so-called refuge of conventional corn to deter resistance.
Similar overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide led to the evolution of superweeds that aren't vulnerable to the world's best-selling weedkiller.
Rotating crops, planting a refuge and using a variety of Bt corn types are the best ways to control rootworms, not insecticides, said Gray.
"When these Bt hybrids came into the marketplace, one of the biggest selling features was that producers were going to eliminate the use of soil insecticides," Gray said. "Right now we are basically throwing everything at this insect. It's not a sustainable approach."


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In case you missed my musings on Brune in Part 1, please be sure to catch up here. Otherwise, you'll be a bit lost.
Allow me to apologize that such a long period of time has passed since the initial excursion. The first edition was produced on a perfect Sunday night. I was all alone in my cellar dwelling with nowhere to be and no one to distract me. I was warm and blanketed in glorious sounds, scents, tastes and visions. I had been craving Belgian ales so deeply, and I needed a calming escape from the rigors of life. I found it that night, and it felt amazing. I wanted to recreate the night for Part 2, but the stars really have to align just so for a true recreation. It took a few weeks, but here I am, blissful as before.
I figured that I should, again, offer a score to the experience. Last time saw a pairing with an undeniable founder of the long standing shoegaze movement. Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie is a master of distortion, and some of the world's most highly revered albums, namely My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, would not have existed where it not for him. Tonight, I again attempt to pair my mind meltingly complex Belgian ale with equally profound sounds. Though The Campfire Headphase is no Music Has the Right to Children, it's never-the-less a pillar in the world of IDM, ambient, and downtempo. It pairs perfectly well with relaxation, and even better with transcendence of mind and palate.
Triple Imperiale fills the glass with aquarium like wonderment. To gaze upon this brown, highly carbonated, viscous mess in my glass is much like what it would be to open your eyes beneath the goopy confines of a hot bayou. The waters are muddy brown, but life thrives. Bubbles rise from the depths… something stirs on the floor of this slimy hotbed. Amidst the uncomfortable submersion, to see only briefly is unmasking evidence that there swims near endless translucent organisms, weaving in and out of every nook and cranny of the body. Are these wiggling jellyfish with stingers at the ready, or may they be amoeba like microorganisms, mutated far from any micro precursor?
We need not contemplate these things, for a blind man would surely find endless delight here. May the scents, sounds and flavors guide us tonight.
Triple Imperiale has all the complexity of nose that the world's greatest ales possess. It's staggering. It's challenging… to the writer part of my brain, but completely delightful to the rest. This beer is not too different from the Brune that I last reviewed in odor. I wouldn't say that it has a cherry tartness to it, but the esters power through the brown sugar and caramel and deep, slightly browned pie crust fumes at the forefront. There's more of a prune and date and robust red wine scent. It smells wood aged in many ways. There is a mustiness deep within, vanilla notes, caramelized, charing, with subtly bubblegum, taffy and cotton candy. Good gracious! Again, there must be a crucially long boil with this brew to cook the sugars so fully, and a yeast strain that could go toe to toe with the very best of them. Brilliant.
I feared that the flavor could never rival the scent, and that's mostly true, but the music and the candle light in my room and the ominous crackling of the needle against the vinyl and the Belgian masterpiece before me… this is just all too much for me right now. What a night!
The flavor is very wine like in it's fruitiness and heat. With the glaring exception of a malty-er-than-thou finish, this is a seriously vinous, estery, fruitscapade of a beer. But beer it is. The malty, baker's chocolatey dry finish is profound, but long before the aftertaste, all that fruit lies upon breads and cookies and pie crusts and cakes…all slightly overcooked and crusted. But like Momma used to say, the crust is the best part. All the sugars are crystallized at the edge. The peripheral is often the most exciting place to be.
This shit is super sweet, and I'm not speaking in colloquialism, but I could be. The typical Belgian candy sugar meets Belgian yeast reaction in bubblegum is present, but it's possibly closer to creme brulee, as was Brune. Blue hot scorching of soft sugars. Male vs. female. Power vs. subtlety. Pro-fun-dity.
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Tomonobu Itagaki, former head of Tecmo's Team Ninja and creator of the Dead or Alive and 3D Ninja Gaiden series is gearing up to reveal his next big project at E3 2010 next week. Will breast physics be involved?
With his long hair and trademark sunglasses, Itagaki is as much a character as the ones appearing in the game's he's created over the past 18 years. Along with creating the Dead or Alive series and transforming the Ninja Gaiden franchise from 2D platform to 3D action-adventure, Itagaki is also known for his frank personality and his unabashed appreciation of the female form.
Following a dispute over unpaid bonuses, Itagaki left Tecmo in 2008 to find his own way, founding Valhalla Game Studio along with other former members of Team Ninja.
And now he's ready to show us what he can do on his own.
In a blog post on the Valhalla Game Studios website, Itagaki promises a "new gaming paradigm."
In the past, I created four unique games - "Dead or Alive", "Ninja Gaiden", "DOA Xtreme", and "NG Dragon Sword". Thus, this announcement will be the fifth all-new project in my lifetime. I don't know if that number is large or small, but I know as a fact that every one of these announcements was a presentation of a new gaming paradigm from me to all of you. This time, it is no different.
Considering Itagaki's track record, I'd say we're in for something incredibly sexy.
We'll have more for you next week, during E3 2010!


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Accused murderer questions lawyer
copyright the Chronicle March 16, 2016
by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT – A breach between an accused murderer and his lawyer was apparently healed by a talk from Judge Robert Bent.
Jeffrey M. Ray, 52, of Brownington sent a handwritten note to the clerk in the Criminal Division of Orleans Superior Court on February 26 to say he and St. Johnsbury attorney David Sleigh met that day and had "a breakdown with our communication."
He asked that he be allowed to find a new lawyer.
On May 26, 2015, Mr. Ray pled innocent to first degree murder in the shooting death of Rick Vreeland, 53, also of Brownington, and his former wife's husband. Judge Timothy Tomasi ordered Mr. Ray held without bail.
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