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Ten Tree Species
Ten Tree Species: A Guide to Recognizing Special Natural Areas in the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire
Ten Tree Species:
A Guide to Recognizing Special Natural Areas in the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire
Jason Sachs
Preliminary draft Apr 21 2009
work in progress: still under construction
This page may be viewed online at http://www.nhbotany.org/content/ten-tree-species
The Merrimack Valley contains a number of remarkable habitat types, many of which are at the northern end of their geographic range and do not occur in many other places in New Hampshire. Some examples of these, such as the Concord Pine Barrens, are well-documented and well-known, but others are either undocumented or not well-known to community leaders and planners.
Protecting these special natural areas presents a challenge: the area within roughly 20 miles of the Merrimack River between Concord and Nashua contains New Hampshire's largest population centers and its heaviest transportation corridors (including I-93 and the Everett Turnpike), and is within commuting distance of Boston and its northern suburbs, making unprotected lands at great risk for residential and commercial development. It is vital that we identify areas of high ecological value for our plant and animal species, to protect those areas which are important for our state's biodiversity.
This guide contains descriptions of ten tree species which can be used as indicators of special natural areas in this region of New Hampshire:
- Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus)
- Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
- Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
- Basswood (Tilia americana)
- Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)
- Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
- Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
- Pitch pine (Pinus rigida)
- Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
- Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides)
All of these are easily recognized, and many are well-correlated with some of the rarer forest, floodplain and swampland habitats in this region of New Hampshire. Trees are useful indicators because they may be examined year-round (unlike grasses and herbs buried under snow) and are often visible and recognizable from a distance. Each of these species is described in two ways:
- photographs and identification hints
- a description of the natural communities in which they are found
In addition to these ten species, other trees found in this region are mentioned, including five of the most common species (red maple, red oak, white pine, hemlock, and beech) which are indicators of "mainstream" forests in Southern New Hampshire.
All descriptions are non-technical (no dichotomous keys or Latin terms like "terete" or "strigose") and are aimed at anyone interested in studying and preserving New Hampshire's natural landscape.
Natural Communities for the Beginner
The term "natural communities" is used in ecology to refer to groups of plants that are often found together because of their adaptations to various sorts of environmental conditions, including:
- soil type (rich or poor, acidic or neutral or alkaline)
- hydrology (dry or wet or seasonally flooded)
- exposure to sun or wind
- temperature influences (from altitude, proximity to water, or cold air drainage)
As a rough analogy, natural communities are the ecological equivalent of music types. (Apologies to the professional musicologists here.) Classical, jazz, folk, country, blues, rock, and rap each have different groups of instruments that are commonly used. Some instruments can be viewed as "specialists": if a piece of music uses a bassoon, it is probably classical rather than rap, and music that uses a mandolin is probably folk rather than jazz. Some instruments, such as drums, appear in many different musical styles and are "generalists".
In the same way, some plants appear in many different natural communities, whereas others are specifically adapted to one particular set of environmental conditions.
The natural communities discussed in this guide are taken from the book "Natural Communities of New Hampshire" by Sperduto and Nichols. Southern New Hampshire contains a number of natural communities that are rare (rated S1 to S2S3 in the Natural Communities book), and that fall into one or more of the following categories:
- Upland forests with nutrient-rich bedrock content
- South-facing hillsides
- Areas of sand deposits (Pine barrens, sandy ponds, etc.)
- Floodplain forests
- Swamps containing black gum or Atlantic white cedar
Not included here are other rare wetland types — various marshes, river-edge habitats, etc. — that do not contain trees and are generally more difficult to categorize. Excluding these wetlands, if you visit the rare natural communities that fall into the above categories, you can recognize them fairly easily by several characteristic tree species that grow there. In addition, you are less likely to see other tree species that are found in more common natural communities in Southern New Hampshire.
Three of the above types of sites (rich soils, south-facing slopes, and floodplains) support forests that are more hospitable to plant species found further south. Nutrient-rich bedrock and floodplains provide greater concentrations of minerals to plants. South-facing slopes collect more sunlight, and are therefore both warmer and have longer growing season — snow melts earlier — than other areas in this region. (The term "south-facing" should be taken broadly; a "south-facing" slope may actually be closer to west or east-facing; the point is that it faces towards the sun during a good portion of the day.) These two factors are "kinder" to southern plant species, and allow them to overcome the handicaps of New Hampshire's colder climate. As you travel further north in New Hampshire, these southern species disappear primarily due to decreasing temperature and growing season. Tree species in this type of habitat include various oaks and trees like sugar maple and basswood that like "sweet" soils.
Sand deposits are influenced by the history of New Hampshire's glaciers. As the glaciers receded and melted, they washed large quantities of sand towards their southern extent, and are more commonly found in areas to our south such as Cape Cod, Long Island, and New Jersey. Soils with high sand content are often poor in nutrients, acidic, and well-drained. In New Hampshire they are found primarily in the Merrimack Valley and in the Ossipee Lake region. Pitch pine is a characteristic species.
Black gum and Atlantic white cedar are found in shallow acidic basins; they are common along the eastern seaboard south of New Hampshire, and they reach their northern limit here or in the very southern portions of Maine.
Ten characteristic tree species
One last note before getting into detail about these species: it is important to realize the difference between finding one individual tree, and finding many of these trees together. If you find a single one of these trees, it is worth noting the location, as it may be an errant descendant of a nearby population. But a single tree does not indicate a natural community. On the other hand, if you find large numbers of one of these tree species, or moderate numbers of them with large individual trees making up a significant portion of the tree canopy, it is likely that they indicate one of the natural communities that are infrequent in the Merrimack Valley and the area may be worth protecting.
Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus)
There are a number of oak species in New Hampshire, but the one that is most easily recognizable at a distance is chestnut oak. It has bark in thick furrowed ridges, and leaves that are generally oval in shape, with a smooth wavy or scalloped edge. (This puts chestnut oak in the white oak category, with smooth-edged leaves; the red oak category has small sharp points around the margins of its leaves.)
Chestnut oaks are usually found on rocky ridges or south-facing rocky hillsides, where they can tolerate poor soils. A good example of this may be seen at Rock Rimmon on Manchester's West Side, where chestnut oaks are abundant between the bare cliffs of Rock Rimmon and a pitch pine forest. In states to the south of New Hampshire, they are often found in pine barrens or other sandy soils (chestnut oak can be found occasionally in places near Lake Massabesic in the vicinity of the Massabesic Audubon Center).
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
The hickories like rich soil and lots of sun. They have compound leaves: these consist of a number of leaflets along a stalk which all emerge from the same bud in the spring, and serve to present a large surface area for photosynthesis, while at the same time being more resistant to damage by wind than a large simple leaf of the same area. Hickory leaves, in particular, consist of an odd number of oval leaflets, usually 5-11 (although sometimes as many as 17), arranged in pairs along the leaf stalk with a single leaflet at the end.
The husks of hickory nuts split into 4 quadrants as the nut matures.
Shagbark hickory has easily recognizable bark: it splits along vertical lines and forms shaggy strips that bend away from the tree (hence the name). Shagbark hickory nuts are one or two inches in diameter, and are edible (although the squirrels are more likely to get them before we can).
Hickory species in this area are usually found on south-facing rocky hillsides with enough nutrient content that they can outcompete other species, and are not usually found north of Manchester, although there is a population along the floodplain of the Merrimack River in Concord.
Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
Pignut hickory has bark that does not separate like shagbark hickory does; instead it forms a lattice of diagonal rough grooves that remind me of a lattice-topped apple pie. The nuts are small, about 1/2-3/4" in diameter, and are allegedly edible although there is so little to eat inside that it seems hardly worth the effort to crack them open — for a person at least; they're a good food source for smaller animals.
It is found in the same general habitats as shagbark hickory.
There are other hickory species found in similar habitats; two others in New Hampshire are mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa) and bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis), but other than the bright yellow buds of bitternut hickory, they all look fairly similar.
Basswood (Tilia americana)
Basswood has heart-shaped leaves and an odd-shaped fruit: a cluster of small round greenish-brown seedpods on a stalk that emerges from the middle of an oval, somewhat tongue-shaped leafy thing (called a "bract"). The leaves are asymmetric and have serrated edges.
The trunk of a basswood is round with a distinctive set of narrow vertical grooves of irregular lengths that make the flat strips of bark between the grooves look somewhat like a chaotic series of highway lanes merging and diverging. The wood is lightweight and is said to make a hollow thumping if you slap the trunk (although every time I try I just end up hurting my hand).
Basswood is common in floodplain forests, where occasional river floods dump nutrient-rich silt and sand along the banks. It can occasionally be found elsewhere as scattered individuals in forests with rich soils.
Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)
In some areas of the country this tree is known as "ironwood" because it is very hard wood sometimes used for handles of tools. The bark is very distinctive, with a thin, shredded look to it.
Hophornbeam is a good indicator of soil enrichment: look for other trees nearby such as sugar maple, basswood, white ash, or hickory. It's not usually very large, up to 5 or 6" diameter in most cases, and is more of an understory tree. By itself it's not really a good indicator of rare natural communities in this part of New Hampshire, but it's easy to spot and may catch your eye.
Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
Hornbeam is also known as musclewood: it's a small tree with a ripply smooth gray bark that looks like the tree is trying to flex its muscles or something. It likes to grow near streams or in floodplain forests with enriched soils.
Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Sycamore is a tree with camouflage patching: as it ages its bark flakes off in patches to reveal a layer of a different color underneath. It likes sandy or gravelly floodplains, and is not often found far away from running water unless it has been planted. There is an excellent example (still standing at this writing) outside of the church in Concord just north of where Main Street heads off to the northwest and Rt. 393 begins heading east. These trees can be huge! They are essentially the largest tree east of the Mississippi River. Fruits are gumball-shaped, and the leaves are somewhat similar to maples, with more shallow lobing.
Pitch pine (Pinus rigida)
There are four pine species native to New Hampshire: the common white pine (discussed below), red pine, jack pine, and pitch pine. A fifth, introduced pine that was a popularly planted tree in the mid-1900's is Scotch pine, which has orangish bark towards the upper sections of the tree. Jack pine is found in ledgy areas, in our area only on Mts. Welch and Dickey in Waterville Valley and near Lake Umbagog, with a possible appearance in Crawford Notch. The other pines can be easily distinguished by their needles, their bark, their cones, and their general shape. Pitch pine usually has a crooked, gnarly look to it, and is usually found in dry sandy or rocky upland areas. The needles are in bundles of threes, usually shorter than white pine's bundles of five, and the cones tend to be short and squat. The big giveaway with pitch pine is that it often has needles growing out of the bark along the trunk, making it look like the unshaven, shaggy cousin of our other pines.
Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
This tree likes to get its feet wet, preferring to grow in the margins of shallow swamps, primarily in Hillsborough and Rockingham counties. The bark is very distinctive, with grooves on younger trees that with age change into thick, blocky furrows. The trunks tend to be somewhat wavy on younger trees (like it has had a bit too much to drink and can't quite seem to grow straight). The big giveaway for me is to look at the branching angle: nearly every twig or branch comes off of its larger neighbor at almost a right angle. If you stand under a black gum and look up, it appears somewhat like a broken umbrella with spokes coming right out of the trunk. The twigs alternate off of the branches; the leaves are a nondescript oval that often grow in groups forming whorls around the twig. Occasionally in mid-summer you may see the blue fruits, which look like small single grapes. In the early fall this is one of the first trees to start turning color, and it may turn a bright red-orange long before anything else except the red maples.
These have a slow growing habit, and because their wood is not particularly desirable and they tend to be in swamps, they have often been left untouched by timber operations in the state and can indicate habitat that may have been undisturbed for centuries. These are the oldest trees east of the Appalachians, with some specimens in Rockingham County having been verified through core samples at over 700 years of age. Trees of 18" diameter or more can easily be 250 years old.
Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides)
Atlantic white cedar is one of three "cedar" species in our state, each of which have a distinctive shaggy bark. Northern white cedar (Thuja canadensis) or arbor vitae is found in the northern portion of New Hampshire and likes calcareous fens or mesic forests. Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) is a juniper, with prickly needles and blue waxy fruits, found in rocky uplands or fields or coastal areas. I have rarely seen it outside of Rockingham County. Atlantic white cedar is a resident of acidic swamps in southern New Hampshire. There are only 500 acres of Chamaecyparis swamps estimated in the state, making it a very uncommon tree. You may find it along with black gum or mountain laurel.
Five common tree species: the usual suspects
The best way I have discovered to find unusual plant species, is to know the common ones, and get used to them, so that when you see something different, it stands out and catches your attention. Natural communities that the following species dominate (i.e. a large percentage of the canopy trees are of one or more of these species) are almost all fairly common in southern New Hampshire. Put another way, these tree species are "generalists", meaning they can thrive under many different environmental conditions. You've probably seen these trees many times.
I should also mention blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium and other species of this genus): although they are not trees, blueberry species are very common shrubs in the forest understory of New Hampshire. Their presence indicates acidic soils. If you are in a forest and the blueberries suddenly disappear, especially on a hillside, it often means that the soil is rich enough for other low-growing plants to thrive, and it's a good clue to look for other interesting plants.
Red maple (Acer rubrum)
Red maple is also known as swamp maple; if you are in a swamp (as distinguished from a marsh by the presence of trees and shrubs) in Southern New Hampshire, chances are that there are red maples present. They can tolerate a modest amount of flooding at their roots. But they are also found in many upland habitats.
Maples are one of a small minority of tree species that have opposite branching. If you look at the photographs above (or better yet, go out and find a maple tree!) you will notice that the buds and twigs always come off in pairs on opposite sides of a branch. Most tree species are alternate (birches are a very good example), meaning that they form a sort of zig-zag pattern where as you follow the length of the branch, a single twig or leaf grows on one side, then a little further down another one grows on the other side. The only large trees that are native to New Hampshire that have opposite branching are maples and ashes; among the smaller trees and shrubs, ones with opposite branching include dogwoods and honeysuckles.
The seeds of maples are contained in twin flat wing-shaped fruits called samaras or keys, and are sometimes known as "whirligigs" by the way they spin as they fall through the air to the ground. All of the maple trees in our area, except for box elder (Acer negundo), have simple lobed leaves that look vaguely like the leaf on the Canadian flag. (Box elder has compound leaves.) Red maples are one of only two large maple tree species in New Hampshire that have sawtooth edges, and if you count the lobes you will usually see 5 of them (3 major ones and 2 small lobes at the base of the leaf). Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) is a large tree found in floodplain forests with sawtooth edges but fairly deep gaps ("sinuses") between its 5 lobes. Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum) and mountain maple (Acer spicatum) also have sawtooth edges but are usually 3-lobed, and they rarely get to be more than 20 feet tall or a few inches in diameter.
The new shoots and roundish buds of red maples are often a deep red in color, hence the name. They can be easily distinguished from sugar maples, which have smooth-lobed leaves, brown shoots and pointed conical brown buds.
If you are stuck with trying to identify a tall red maple in winter, your best bet is to try to look at the canopy to see evidence of opposite branching (ashes have opposite branching also, but they have fat, upward-curving twigs and X-grooved bark) or to look at the bark and just get used to it. The bark of red maples is fairly variable but tends to go from smooth gray bark on young trees of only a few inches in diameter, to shaggy brown-gray bark on large, older trees. The grooves of the bark of medium to large red maples are almost exclusively long vertical grooves, sometimes with a slight twist, with one exception: occasionally you may see a sort of "bulls-eye" pattern of circular ringed grooves in some trees, which probably occur where a branch used to be. Many red maples as they get older have fluted trunks near the ground: if you were to look at a cross-section of trunk, it would not quite be round, but sort of "wavy" with a small number (perhaps 4-8) of curved bulges where the trunk flares outwards.
Red maples are among the earliest trees to turn color in the fall, reaching a bright orange-red in September or early October, with some stressed trees even beginning to change color in late August.
Red oak (Quercus rubra)
Of the oak species in New Hampshire, red oak is the only one that is common in the northern part of the state, and is probably the most common oak throughout the state; red oak and white oak (Quercus alba) are the two most common species, with several other oak species only in the southern part of the state.
Red oak has deeply-lobed leaves with pointed tips. Its bark forms long vertical strips or grooves, not as deeply furrowed as chestnut oak. Black oak has very similar leaves, but the bark forms strips that are much shorter, giving the bark a much more "blocky" look. Scarlet oak is similar to red and black oak, but I've never been able to look at an oak tree and think "Aha, that's a scarlet oak!" without a lot of doubt: some professional botanists have told me the best way is to look carefully at the buds and acorns. Oh, and by the way, these species can hybridize with each other, making identification difficult.
Red oak trees that are round and straight and free of knots or lower branches can have high timber value for their use in veneer production.
White pine (Pinus strobus)
White pine has needles in bundles of 5's. It has a dark gray bark that tends to fissure into rough plates that don't separate from each other quite as happens in the smooth-barked red pine (Pinus resinosa, which is uncommon in southern New Hampshire, being more common in the Saco River valley of Carroll County and Oxford County in Maine) or in pitch pine.
This is one of the most common tree species in southern New Hampshire, and in colonial days was so valuable as ships' masts, that the largest trees, marked with an arrow, were reserved for exclusive use of the British Royal Navy, and transported across straight roads to the seacoast; many of these still bear the name of Mast Road today in towns such as Durham, Dover, Epping, and Goffstown.
Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
Hemlock is a tree that is very common in shaded areas on the north side of hills in southern New Hampshire. It is shade-tolerant and can grow on rocky, acid soils. Not many trees will grow under the canopy of a forest dominated by hemlocks.
The needles of hemlock are short (about 1cm long) and flat. It has roundish cones that are small, not much more than 1cm in diameter. The other conifers with short flat needles in New Hampshire are balsam fir (Abies balsamea), which has larger cones that point upwards, and is rarely found south of Concord, and yew (Taxus canadensis) which has red "berries" and is more often found in shrub form, rarely more than a foot or two high because it is a favorite food of moose and deer. If you look closely at the undersides of the needles of these three species, you will see two light-colored lines that are whitish in hemlock and fir, and yellowish in yew. These contain stomata, which are tiny pores that let the trees exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.
The hemlock is under threat from an invasive insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid which is native to Asia and has spread northward from Virginia over the past few decades. It has been found in several towns in the Merrimack Valley in recent years, so please keep a lookout for this pest; if you see a whitish woolly coating on the underside of hemlock twigs in New Hampshire, please contact the N.H. Forest Health Program at 271-7858.
Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
This is a tree with so many distinctive features.
We had a beech tree in our back yard when I was growing up. I didn't know what it was then, and I haven't been back there since we moved away in 1983, but I know it was a beech from the memory of finding lots of odd, triangular nuts in roundish cases with small flexible spines like the hooks of a piece of velcro. Beech nuts are a favorite food of bears; sometimes you can find beech trees with clawmarks visible on their otherwise-smooth gray bark.
The buds on beech trees are long (2 or 3 centimeters) and very pointy. Don't run around in a beech forest in the winter and early spring, unless you are wearing eyeglasses. The leaves are generally oval with small shallow teeth, and are marcescent, meaning they often stay on the tree throughout the fall and winter, dropping only in the spring. It is quite a sight to stand among beech trees in winter when the wind shakes the leaves.
Beech trees are often found in colonies (they sprout from root suckers) and are very good at regenerating: if you cut them down but leave the roots, they can resprout. They are shade tolerant, often found with hemlocks.
Notes and other miscellanea
Thanks to Deb Lievens and Joann Hoy for reviewing a draft of this page and for suggesting additions and changes.
In case you are reading this page in print: this page may be found online at http://www.nhbotany.org/content/ten-tree-species where you can follow some useful hyperlinks and view larger copies of the photographs.
In going through my photograph collection for this page, I realized I am missing a number of important pictures (leaves and nuts of pignut hickory, basswood leaves, hophornbeam leaves, sycamore fruits, red oak leaves, white pine needles, hemlock bark, and cones from pitch pine, white pine, and hemlock), which are now on my list for things-to-photograph for 2009. So stay tuned!
What to do if you find one of the 10 indicator species
Treat it as a lead to something interesting. If you know someone who's very familiar with trees, ask them to double-check your identification. Talk to your town's Conservation Commission and let them know you found an interesting site. (If you found them on private property, please be sure to speak with the landowner first, to let them know what you've found and to make sure it's okay to discuss with others; some landowners may not appreciate other people getting involved in what's on their property, especially if those people are connected with town government.) Some of these sites, especially those on public land, are already well-known to groups such as the Nature Conservancy or New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau, but with a land area of 6 million acres, and a handful of people to study this state's botanical resources, there are surely many significant sites in New Hampshire that are yet to be discovered.
There are some of us in the New Hampshire Botanical Club who would be glad to take a look at interesting botanical areas. We will add an email address to this publication as soon as one is set up.
For further information
Online information
- Dendrology at Virginia Tech (http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/factsheets.cfm)
- New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau (NHB) has a number of excellent resources on rare plants, animals, and natural communities, particularly the following:
- Natural Communities of NH — Photo Guide
- Black Gum in New Hampshire, Sperduto, Nichols, Crowley, Bechtel, and Kimball. New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau, 2000.
- Natural Communities of New Hampshire, by Dan Sperduto and Bill Nichols, New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau, 2004.
- Trees and Shrubs (Peterson Field Guides), George A. Petrides. Houghton Mifflin, 1973. ISBN 039535370X. Illustrations, no photographs. My favorite for general use as a field guide.
- The Tree Identification Book, George W. D. Symonds. HarperCollins, 1973. ISBN 0688050395. Detailed black and white photographs of leaves, bark, seeds, etc.
- Trees of North America (Golden Field Guides) Frank Brockman, et al. Macmillan, 2001. ISBN 1582380929. The name of Herbert S. Zim is enshrined forever in 1950's and 1960's-era field guides for children and young adults, with its exclusive use of the distinctive sans-serif typeface Futura (look for the curveless vertical-stroke j). It's not particularly detailed but describes and illustrates a huge number of tree species throughout North America, including a number of obscure species in tropical Florida. Species are organized taxonomically by family and genus, and include range maps.
- A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America, Donald Culross Peattie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991. ISBN 0395581745. If you want to learn to identify trees, the previous guides are good. This is not a field guide but rather a rich, descriptive book full of expository anecdotes, historical information, and other apocrypha.


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Sooo...I have been recomended to try working cow horse(reined cow horse) with Champ. He's become a handy little reining horse, very cowy. "Buffaloey" because hes only been worlked on buffalo haha. It's an event that interests me. He is 11 is that to old to start?
A show called reinin in the sun is held in town here every august long weeked, with working cow horse classes. I would like to enter next year. Is that do-able if I get lessons 4 times a month with a pro? Is that pushing it? I know its hard to judge if it is but I would like to know how long you trained until you showed.
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I am aiming for October to start the training. It will keep me busy over the winter.
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5: The Charms of Anti-Americanism
6: Barbara Castle's Bevanite Sigh
7: Chou En-lai's Winning Smile
Part II: One Good Elk and Dinner with the Politburo (Moscow)
8: Flowers for Edith Summerskill
9: Just Like Manchester a Hundred Years Ago
10: The Tragic Thoughts of Chairman Smith
11: Stanley Spencer's Pyjama Cord and the Socialist Tree
Part III: Anticipating China (Moscow to Ulan Bator)
12: Ghosts over Siberia (Casson and Pulleyblank)
13: A Blue Jacket for Abraham Lincoln (Paul Hogarth)
14: How China Came to Cookham (Stanley Spencer)
15: Brown Phoenix Over Mongolia (Cedric Dover)
Part IV: Listening to the Oriole (China)
16: Clement Attlee's Break
17: Popeyed Among the Tibetans: the Undiplomatic Rapture of the Cultural Delegation
18: Cadillacs, Coal Mines and Co-ops: the Second Labour Delegation Grapples with the Facts
19: 'Nuts About Pavlov?' Resuming the Scientific Dialogue
Part V: The Artist's Reckoning (China)
20: Revolution in the Art Schools and Museums
21: Paul Hogarth's Sky Full of Diamonds
22: Stanley Spencer's Takeaway
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A recent study by researchers at the University of Arkansas found that the federal Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program decreased childhood obesity rates in elementary schools by 3 percent at a cost of only $50 to $75 per student per year. That's significant. Previous studies looking at other strategies to reduce childhood obesity rates estimated costs of $280 to $339 per student every year to move the needle by a mere 1 percent. Read More
National School Lunch Program: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
March 19th, 2015
A March 13 article in U.S. News & World Report on the federal school nutrition standards barely gets a passing grade. Beyond misinterpreting the law, the article offers a narrow, glass-half-empty perspective for readers. For an increasingly politicized debate involving our nation's children, it's necessary to look at all the evidence. Read More
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March 9th, 2015
If you give kids more fruits and vegetables, do they eat more? That's a key question facing Congress as it gears up to debate legislation authorizing the National School Lunch Program and other healthy food initiatives for children. A new study from researchers at the University of Connecticut suggests the answer is "yes." Read More
Who's Against Healthy School Lunches for Kids? (No Really, Who Is?)
March 4th, 2015
Debates about child nutrition and the quality of taxpayer-subsidized school lunches are heating up in the nation's capital. Last week, the Partnership for a Healthier America (the non-profit spin-off of the First Lady's "Let's Move" initiative) held its annual summit here. And this week, the School Nutrition Association, a trade group representing 55,000 school food service professionals, is holding a DC conference complete with "lunch ladies" lobbying members of Congress. Sounds great, right? Read More
Lessons from the Lunchroom: What Do We Know About School Lunch and Kids' Diet?
February 27th, 2015
This week was the release of my first co-authored report at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Lessons from the Lunchroom: Childhood Obesity, School Lunch, and the Way to a Healthier Future details the extent of America's childhood obesity crisis and how school meals play a role in influencing diet. Read More
As School Year Ends, Will Congress Fail Lunch?
June 11th, 2014
UPDATE (June 12, 3:40 p.m.): The House vote on the school nutrition waiver, expected last night, was postponed. According to reporting by the New York Times today, the vote has been delayed "until sometime next week," although that could change. Meanwhile, the public can keep writing to Congress in support of healthy school meals!
A Congress that is already routinely failing science is poised to flunk an even simpler school subject: lunch. As early as this evening, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including school nutrition programs. Shockingly, the bill they'll vote on contains a provision that would roll back new healthy school food standards, just as they are starting to bear fruit. Read More
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Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese
Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese is handmade in the traditional way by Ann & Pat O'Farrell at the Rock, Carrigaline. Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese is available direct from the cheese plant, and is also distributed nationwide.The milk which is produced from Friesian Cows is pasteurised at the cheese dairy. Vegetarian Rennet is used throughout. The cheese has a firm and flexible texture with round or oval gas holes. It has a delicate flavour becoming piquant with age. Each wheel is coated with food wax to prevent dehydration. As well as the natural type, the cheese is produced with garlic and dried herbs. Both types are free from any artificial additives or preservatives. Both are suitable for vegetarians. The cheeses are presented in 200gm. and 400gm. rounds and are also available in 1.8 kg rounds which can be vacuum packed to individual specifications. It is suitable for vegetarians.
Our cheeses are made with the following flavours:
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Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese is best eaten at approx. 12 weeks or older, but is an excellent mild cheese at a younger age. Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheeses are delicious served in sandwiches, superb for cooking and an excellent choice on cheeseboards.
For storing cheese a good overall rule is to keep it in a cool environment, and bring it up to room temperature before eating.
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How the GOP Can 'Run Against the Center'
Republicans' best shot at success in 2010 is to craft a campaign against the Washington-centric policies of the Democrats.
New Jersey and Virginia Governors' Races Heat Up
Both races are a replay of the 2008 elections — but with a party role reversal.
Obama Sounds the Retreat
Obama's failure to castigate Iran's nuclear weapons program is a reckless and naive policy switch.
Sotomayor: Rules for the Nomination Battle
Republicans would be wise to follow four rules of conduct during the Sotomayor debate.
Let's Have That Discussion About Race, Shall We?
Eric Holder has his wish. With the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, everyone is talking about race.
Democrats: It's OK When We Politicize the Justice Department
Why did political appointees at the DOJ override career prosecutors and drop a civil rights suit against the New Black Panther Party?
Democrats Must Face the Music
Republicans are about ready to move from being the party of "no" to the party of "I told you so."
Obama SCOTUS Choice a Blow to Racial Equality
Sonia Sotomayor appears to doubt the fundamental premise of our government: that "all men are created equal." (Also read Roger Kimball: "Life Experience, Affirmative Action, and You.")
Roosting Chickens Plague Obama
Bad news on unemployment and a squishy national security speech reveal an administration totally on the defensive.
Democrats Fire and Fall Back in National Security Debate
Playing politics with America's security has backfired on the majority party.
Justice Run Amok
Eric Holder is on the hot seat.
Government by Geithner
The entire American economy cannot be effectively micromanaged out of the Treasury building or the White House.
Obama's Competence Gap
For the president, the distance between campaigning and governing has never been starker.
The GOP and the Stimulus Bust
The stimulus was a missed opportunity, and one that Republicans may now see as a juicy political opening.
Madame Speaker, Have You No Decency?
How can Nancy Pelosi seek to prosecute Bush officials for condoning "torture" when she herself seemed unconcerned when briefed about the practices?
GOP Showing Signs of Life in Virginia Governor's Race
For Republicans, it's a chance to prove that a key swing state is still within their grasp.
Shimon Peres Addresses AIPAC Conference
The Israeli president adopts Obama's message of "an outstretched arm" at Washington's annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
The Lawless President
Riding roughshod over the law of the land seems to be the price Obama is willing to pay for "change."
A Ray of Sunshine for the GOP in State Races
Smartly selected local candidates are making a huge difference.
GOP Finds a Chink in Obama's Armor
Republicans are betting that the president's national security approach is far less popular than the man himself with ordinary voters.
Specter's Exit an Opportunity for the GOP
A chance for the party to develop broadly conservative themes that would lead to victory.
GOP vs. Obama: The Gloves Come Off
The stage is set for what is sure to be a blistering fight over the past and future conduct of the war on terror.
Conservatives Torn on Interrogation 'Truth Commission'
Visions of Nancy Pelosi on the stand dance in Republicans' heads.
Government Bullying of Private Industry More Serious than Imagined
The Bank of America scandal is the latest evidence of undue government interference in business.
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YIELD: Makes 6 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 30 min
TOTAL TIME: 1 hr
- 2 small shallots, finely chopped (2 tablespoons)
- 1 large garlic clove, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 1/2 lbs plum tomatoes, chopped
- 6 stalks fresh lemongrass, tough outer layers removed and lower 6 inches coarsely chopped
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 6 (1-inch-thick) pieces halibut steak with skin (6 oz each)
Cook shallots and garlic in 1 tablespoon oil in a 3- to 4-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, lemongrass, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil, stirring. Reduce heat and cook at a bare simmer, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes fall apart and form a chunky sauce, about 20 minutes.
Force sauce through a medium-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on and then discarding solids. Season with salt and pepper.
Prepare grill for cooking. If using a charcoal grill, open vents on bottom of grill, then light charcoal. Charcoal fire is medium-hot when you can hold your hand 5 inches above rack for 3 to 4 seconds. If using a gas grill, preheat burners on high, covered, 10 minutes, then reduce heat to moderate.
Brush fish on both sides with remaining 2 tablespoons oil, then season with salt and pepper. Grill fish, covered only if using gas grill, on lightly oiled rack, turning over once, until just cooked through, 7 to 8 minutes total. Serve fish with sauce.
Cooks' notes: If you aren't able to grill outdoors, fish can be grilled in a well-seasoned large ridged grill pan (without crowding) over moderately high heat, turning over once, until just cooked through, 8 to 9 minutes total. Sauce can be made 2 days ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature or reheat to warm before serving.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories272
- Carbohydrates13 g (4%)
- Fat10 g (15%)
- Protein34 g (67%)
- Saturated Fat2 g (8%)
- Sodium418 mg (17%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber2 g (10%)
- Monounsaturated Fat6 g
- Cholesterol83 mg (28%)


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The tables were loaded at the Bothwell Garage Sale at Parkview Christian Church on Saturday, Oct. 27. Thank you to everyone in the community who contributed to the sale. About 125 people stopped by to shop, and Bothwell raised $1,221. All proceeds benefited the Sedalia-Pettis County United Way, helping 25 organizations in our community. Photo submitted.
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Stephen Colbert is one of the Faces of America
by Bob Sassone, posted Jan 13th 2010 4:02PM
PBS has a new documentary series debuting on February 10 titled Faces of America. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (he of the famous "beer summit" at the White House last year) interviews many celebrities about their family history, including Stephen Colbert, Eva Longoria Parker, Malcolm Gladwell, and Mario Batali. Here are three clips where Colbert (hard T) talks about his family.
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I logged in on the specific page, but it said I already recieved a code. I never saw the code.
I logged in on the specific page, but it said I already recieved a code. I never saw the code.
Same thing happened to me. I created an account here at OnRPG, activated it, went to the promo page. It asked me to log in (right there on the promo page) and when I did it said I already received my code.
Does it check the IP address of my computer? Cuz there's more than one computer on the net here, so someone else may have done it too.
From the promo pageOnrpg New Year Give-Away Prize Packs
The New Year Give-Away will be handed out to the winners who vote for their games in 10 categories on the Onrpg boards, for the Onrpg Member's Choice Awards 2008. The winners will be announced on January 31st and prizes will be sent by mail. The New Year Give-Away includes prizes such as TQ Point Cards (USD15.99 each) and special items and keys for the following games: 9Dragons, DOMO (Aeria), 2Moons, Last Chaos, Angels Online, Myth War II, Wonderland Online, Tales of Pirates, and Zu Online. Contents of the different Prize Packs will be announced!
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I have that issue as well. It says "Sorry, you already have a key"
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I saw an interesting article in the Denver Post today...online version. According to Parks and Wildlife the license sales for 2013 were up. The total licenses/tags sold was 489,327 (includes small game) with 86,493 being non residents, up 4% over 2012. That generated 45.6 million dollars ( 38 for N/R & 7.6 for Res)
Numbers sure don't lie.....non residents are paying the bills! So much for the boycott because of our legislature's unpopular passing of anti gun legislation.
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War is spending
It is amazing how many knee-jerk conservatives in both the Post-Gazette letters to the editor and the PG's Open Letters blog claim that tax reduction stimulus plans are the only things that have been successful in reviving the economy in the past. They invariably cite the failure of FDR's spending and make-work projects during his first two terms, and then, in the next breath, they incomprehensibly claim that our entrance into World War II was the only thing that brought the country out of the Great Depression.
Huh? What do they think World War II was, if not a gigantic government spending project with no tax-cut stimulus?
And don't they understand that the "guns and butter" spending and tax cuts during both the Vietnam and Iraq wars is what helped precipitate the current economic crisis and also the severe stagflation of the late 1970s? President Carter had his share of faults, but, like President Obama, he inherited the consequences of a highly questionable war of choice initiated on false premises and fought on the ridiculous notion that people at home did not have to make economic sacrifices.


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Sometimes being cheesy works. You open up with a line from a movie or make a comparison that leaves people rolling their eyes yet still opening the message. However, cheesy doesn't always work during the holiday season because every company is doing it. Making cheesy holiday references is just too easy—Rudolph has a red nose for crying out loud: how can you not make a red sparkling, easy to see reference out of that?
All cheesiness aside, it's important that your company isn't just another company trying to force the holidays onto customers in the hopes of extra clicks. People might still open your messages, but it's probably not going to be because you're the only one with a clever holiday reference. You still have to be smart during the holidays, and fortunately there are many ways to do that.
How to Set Your Emails Apart During the Holiday Season
The reason that email marketing during the holidays is such a slippery slope is because there is so much competition. Every company wants to mention Cyber Monday or Black Friday or the 25 days of Christmas, so you have to set yourself apart. Below are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to email marketing and the holidays:
- Be Brief. You don't want to continually send out holiday messages because people will get annoyed. Referencing the holidays now and again is OK, but every single week from Halloween to Christmas is overkill. Even though some holiday openers might be more effective than nothing at all, it will surly lose its luster after a week or two.
- Gives Dates. Tell people that certain deals are only available until a certain date. This will prevent you from receiving tons of responses all at once, which could cause your website to move slower. Some people might not get it together in time, but you can have another deal announced later during the holiday season so that no one misses out.
- Subject Line. Put your deal right in the subject line. If you want to be cheesy in your content then OK, but the subject line is the place where people make that "yes" or "no" decision to click. As much as you may wish it weren't true, people are more likely to click on "50 percent off all shoes" as opposed to "Santa comes through with new shoes!"
- Shipping Messages. Many companies will be sending messages to let a customer know that his/her order has been shipped. This is a message that someone is going to open, so this is a great time to throw in a little bit of email marketing. Tell them about a sale and how long it will last just after you explain that the item has shipped. This won't be annoying and is usually incredibly effective.
- Holiday Series. Consider setting up a holiday series of email marketing campaigns and let your customers and clients know. This gives people enough warning that you're not being annoying because they can opt out if they'd like.
Some companies actually avoid email marketing entirely during the holidays. It's important that you continue to test your campaigns and see if marketing during this time is worth it for you in the long run. If your customers are simply too preoccupied to open emails during the busy holiday rush, it might be in your best interest to slow down your messages altogether. In either case, it's important to test out different strategies first and decide what's best.
Do you know a great way to help your email marketing efforts stand out like Rudolph's nose during the holiday season? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Daniel Briere notched a pair of goals and added a helper for the Canadiens in Thursday's 6-5 shootout win over Pittsburgh.
Jimmy Howard will be between the pipes on Friday against Toronto.
Tyler Johnson (undisclosed) is back on the ice for Wednesday's practice.
Nicklas Backstrom (hip) is making progress.
New Jersey has returned Pavel Zacha to Sarnia of the OHL.
Jakob Silfverberg (head) has clearance to practice with his teammates.
Frank Corrado has been claimed off waivers by Toronto.
Mike Reilly has been assigned to the AHL.
Pascal Dupuis will miss the next four-to-five weeks with a lower-body injury.
Zack Kassian has been placed in stage two of the NHL/NHLPA Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program.
Teuvo Teravainen is slated to start the regular season alongside Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa.
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Get 60 pounds of produce for $10 at events all around the Valley
You don't have to go broke trying to feed your family because there is a way to get 60 pounds of food for just $10 in the Valley.
It's called Market on the Move .
It's almost like a very cheap, traveling farmers market.
When farmers and grocery stores have too much food, they obviously don't want to throw it away. So they sell it to Market on the Move and that's good news for you!
For a $10 donation you'll get 60 pounds of fresh produce. Keep in mind, this produce is very ripe, so you won't be able to store it for long. But for $10, it's worth sharing it with your friends and family.
The events are every Saturday from 7 a.m.-10 a.m. at locations all around the Valley.
All you have to do is go online to find out the locations of the events.
We visited the St. Mark Lutheran Church and they had all sorts of produce, including avocados, tomatoes, even watermelon.
You simply give the $10 donation and you will get a full box of produce.
The food goes quickly, so you're best off getting to the event early, before the food runs out.


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WARNING : On this website, I am trying to give balanced points of view BUT, as a Frenchman, I have my own strong personal opinions. I don't know if they are representative but they are mine. If you hate my comments read about Americans and criticism. See also my resume.
Philippe ROCHEFORT
:stupidity and selfishness! The sub-prime
crisis is an interesting example of stupidity and selfishness.
As everyone knows, American households do not save money : the
rate of saving of Americans is next to zero, when it's around
15% in France and in this range everywhere else in Western countries.
However, the US society considers that :
- everyone can buy a house even if he/she cannot afford it :
they call it the American dream
- the Government
must not interfere in your personal life and prevent you from
doing irresponsible things : they call it freedom
Well, today it is a nightmare and it is not freedom in the USA.
This could not happen elsewhere : all over Europe (and in France
of course), you cannot buy a house with a 100% credit and the
bank regulators forbid loans to people who are unlikely to pay
it back (there are rules on minimum income, etc...). If you cannot
afford something, you don't buy it...
But the American society tolerates that millions of poor people,
fooled by irresponsible banks acting without any serious regulation,
lose their house and have their life destroyed. This is not freedom,
this is a stupid jungle.
In addition to that, a large part of the credit risk has been
transferred all over the world through structured finance vehicles.
This is not market economy : this is a rip-off and Europe has
to pay for America's irresponsible behavior.
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medicine? Give me a break!
Sometimes the US political
debate looks totally unreal to an European. When I hear Rudy
Giuliani saying " The American people do not want socialized
medicine " followed by Hillary Clinton saying " We
don't want bureaucrats to make decisions for our health ",
I can't believe it. Here in France, I can choose my doctor (I
am free). He gives me whatever treatment seems appropriate (he
is free). The Social Security system reimburses 60 to 70% of
the cost and my private insurance covers the sum above that according
to the choice I made (and the premium I paid). The key-point
: if the illness is serious or chronic, the SS reimbursement
is 100% (it's free!). An example ? Every six months I go to one
of the best hospitals in France for a cardiology check-up. I
am followed by the Head of Department himself. Last time, the
cashier apologized : they had been forced to raise the price
they charge and I now had to pay Euros 7,80 ($11)! Except for
fraud, the SS system NEVER refuses to cover an expense. Everything
is computerized : no paperwork, no mean bureaucrat in the way,
no letter to claim a reimbursement, no lawyer, etc... It is against
the law NOT to be covered. However the system is efficient and
globally, the cost for health care in France is 30 to 40 % BELOW
what it is in the USA (and we live longer!). Where is the mean
communist state in all this? (For once) which country is the
most reasonable and creates better life conditions for its citizens
: the USA or France?
More on health
in France and a personal view
about it. (Winter 2008) Back to top
of the page.
Therefore, my humble request for the coming years, as our European
countries will try to overcome a disastrous geopolitical and
financial situation which has been largely created by the above-mentioned
lecturers is : " Please, no more lectures ! ". Why don't you, Americans, try to look
around you, to accept differences, to be humble when you don't
know something (as a Frenchman, I must admit that it's hard!).
Don't force other countries to be exactly like you. America does
bring a lot to the world and deserves admiration and praise for
it. Do not try to bring us EVERYTHING you do in your country.
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American expats : remember it's another country !
Many Americans living here live as if they were not in France. Either on a short stay or having lived here for 30 years or more, they watch the news on CNN (or on BBC World), read the International New York Times, etc... : no French paper, no French TV. If in addition to that they live in one of these neighborhoods where most people are foreigners (Le Vesinet, St.Cloud,...), send their children to an American school, go to the American Church, never discuss with French friends, their information on French issues is not very different from what they could have if they still lived in the USA. Therefore, on many issues, they express an opinion which is just like the one of the average journalist in New York. All they know about the French comes from their discussions with shop-keepers and with their "concierge" (who often is Portuguese). Very frankly, this situation is not very different from the situation of French (or British) colonists in the old days of colonization : you spend several years in a country and, actually, keep the vision you had before you set foot in it. A typical case of that is the issue of the Islamic veil : if you put on your American glasses ("religious freedom", etc...), are you sure you can read it well ? Do you know what "secularity" means for the French ? Are you sure that American values are "universal" ? Are you sure American TV is any better than French TV ?
More unbiased ? (July 2009) More on French TV channels. Back to top of the page.
Credit ? No thank you.... Americans (including the US government) live on
credit. It is very dangerous for them and, as the sub-prime crise
illustrated so well, it can be very dangerous for the whole world.
One of the most absurd concepts is the concept of credit card.
I read that it amounts in average to more than $8,000 for each
card holder. With an average above $8,000, if the outstanding
is zero for so many, it means that it is incredibly huge for
some (one third of card-holders do not pay in time) : those irresponsible
consumers should be protected against themselves. For me, a credit
card is totally useless and potentially dangerous. If you can't
afford something, don't buy it : buying on credit will just make
it more expensive. When I discuss this with my American friends,
many have this very strange answer : " I have one but I
don't use it ". For me it is as absurd as saying : "
I go on week-ends with my secretary but I am faithful to my wife
". If you don't use it, don't get it and if it's required
to have a good credit score, challenge the absolute stupidity
of the US credit scoring system, which forces you to have credit
cards. The total outstanding of credit cards in the USA is between
a half and a third of the one of subprime credit : potentially,
there is another world financial crisis in it.... Are you ready
for it ?
(October 2008) More on the French and money.
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Lately, I've focused a lot on articulating why I think much of the work that purportedly contributes to our understanding of international conflict fails to do so. Nonetheless, I see hope that we can do better, and believe that some parts of the literature are already doing so. In particular, I think the application of bargaining theory to the study of armed conflict has been very fruitful. This will be the first of a series of posts attempting to make that case.
I've argued that it is not useful to ask whether our theories are right, but instead whether they are useful. I haven't said a great deal so far about what makes a theory useful.
As Primo and Clarke discuss, there are many purposes a theoretical model (formal or informal) might serve. They articulate 5: foundational, structural, generative, explicative and predictive.
Gartzke rightly observes that, by its own terms, the incomplete information explanation for war that emerges from many bargaining models undermines the goal of prediction. So far, not so good.
However, I think that bargaining models have served each of the other four purposes, and done so fairly well. I'll discuss how scholars have used bargaining models to identify useful directions for future study (their "generative" value) and how they have served to organize extant empirical findings (their "structural" value) in future posts. For now, I'm even going to leave aside the value of bargaining models in highlighting causal mechanisms (their "explicative" value), which is perhaps the most obvious contribution of this stream of literature.
What I'd like to focus on here is the way bargaining theory has helped by providing important insights into a general class of problems.
Since Fearon used a simple ultimatum crisis bargaining model to identify three core explanations for war (one of which Powell demonstrated is a special case of another, leaving us with two core explanations), a rather remarkable thing happened. Scholars started talking to one another rather than past one another. Looking back at the old debates about absolute versus relative gains, bipolarity versus multipolarity, the balance of power versus power preponderance, offense-defense balance, the role of anarchy, etc, it's hard to overstate what a profound change this is. At least as far as I can tell, the number of scholars who could agree on both the definitions and the putative logic by which such factors produced the outcomes they were alleged to produce was rather unimpressive. In contrast, the number of scholars who are in agreement about what it means to say that states have incentives to misrepresent private information, and understand why this might cause them to come into conflict, is fairly substantial -- even amongst the less technically minded. I suspect that common arguments linking commitment problems to the onset of war may be somewhat less widely understood by those without training in game theory, but one would be hard pressed to find a published study disputing the core logic underlying claims linking commitment problems to war. If only we could say the same about any of the concepts lying at the heart of theoretical debates in international relations in the 70s and 80s.
Naturally, this is only takes us so far. Equipping scholars with a new framework for discussing old questions would hardly be a virtue if that framework did not allow us to address the questions of greatest interest, did not lead to the discovery of new empirical findings, etc. As I said above, I think that bargaining theory has performed fairly well in these respects as well, but I will leave that discussion for future posts. The primary point for now is that, if nothing else, the application of bargaining theory to the study of armed conflict has changed the way many of us think about conflict, facilitating true dialogue. For better or for worse (and I obviously believe it's been for the better), theoretical debates actually build off one another these days, rather than simply running in circles, never quite succeeding in establishing precise definitions of key concepts, let alone producing consensus on the logical implications of those concepts.
Of course, it's pretty sad that we should consider that to be worth celebrating. But I think even a cursory glance at the history of the subfield suggests that it is.
UPDATE: I didn't discuss what genuine insight was brought about by applying bargaining theory, focused as I was on arguing that these have been rare enough that the arrival of one fundamentally changed the scholarly discourse. I would say that the main insight (which has many profound implications, as I'll discuss in future posts) is the inefficiency of war, which implies that it's not enough to focus on which factors lead states to disagree with one another but that we must explain why they choose war as a means of resolving their disagreements. It may sound trivial, but a great deal of scholarship has focused on when war is more or less attractive than it otherwise would be, without ever considering how or why it would be more attractive than what states could get at the negotiating table.
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• Many biotech tech transfer failures can be traced to an inability on the part of the sponsor to adequately perform initial due diligence. Chapter 3
• Over the next five years, the role of biotechnology in drug development is expected to expand strongly as biotech drug sales rise by 17.7% per year while small molecule drug sales grow by just 2.9% annually. Chapter 4
Key questions answered
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• Which types of biotech tech transfer approaches are currently most common? (Licensing and acquisitions)
• Which trends will further boost biotech tech transfer in the future? (Economic recovery, healthcare reform, clarification of biosimilars regulation, rising biotech funding)
• What are the most common reasons for the failure of biotech tech transfers? Deficiencies in due diligence, inappropriate deal structure, differing cultures, inappropriate project organization and expectations and technology failure)
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An exhibition of Chinese artists shines a light on the effects of the country's rampant development.
As you can see on my Instagram - and my lack of other social media this week - I'm currently in Shanghai, China as a guest of Christian Dior, visiting the city for the brand's spectacular Esprit Dior exhibition at MOCA. More on that to come, but before leaving this afternoon I had the chance to see Critical Landscapes, an exhibition in the gallery space adjoining the retail store of Italian leathergoods brand Bottega Veneta. The fourth in an ongoing series of three-month-long exhibitions curated by Gu Zheng, an associate professor at the Fudan University, the exhibition focuses on the changes to the natural landscapes of China as a result of the rampant urbanisation over the past three decades.
The group exhibition of six artists is comprised solely of photography, with each having captured scenes of an evolving home country outside of the major city hubs, offering a rare, critical view of the drastic effects such developments has had on the natural landscape and traditional Chinese culture. In one large, striking print, a luscious green setting is depicted in vivid colour, with what appears to be bright green grass covering fields between mountain ranges; the colour, however, is actually artificial, the grass instead a rare type of algae that sprouts from extreme pollution, covering a river in its entirety. Another series of black and white prints depict beautiful ancient Chinese architecture sitting in a remote village, the history made unbalanced by the implanting of a McDonalds restaurant and beaming construction tower. The contrast could not be sharper, the implication of negative destruction more damning.
As Zheng explains: "The juxtaposition of natural and artificial scenery in the photographs not only subverts the usual aesthetics of landscape photography, but also provides us with visual cues, form the artists' own perspectives, challenging us to reflect not only on who we are, but also our relationship with nature and the future of the human race." While the rapidly changing Chinese landscape has been a focus for local artists in the past decade, photographic works, particularly curated in group shows focused on the subject, are still quite rare. While the works individually are incredibly strong, the potency of this exhibition lies in its incongruous context. European brands have been using art as a tool to connect with the Chinese consumers in their ever-expanding development in the country - for most of them, their biggest in the world today - but even where other brands have invited local artists to collaborate, such as with Esprit Dior, the overall focus is still on the brand's heritage and culture, an intelligent promotional tool. Bottega Veneta may employ Zheng as a commissioning curator, but there's none of the brand to be seen in these works, except in the reflection of the country that they provide. That is: a country injured by its own growth, and Bottega Veneta for one is complicit in such an evolution.
The brand, like most European luxury houses, has an astounding 36 stores in China, six of them in Shanghai, feeding of the country's burgeoning middle class. For Bottega Veneta then to hold up a mirror to the effects of China's rapid evolution is a brave artistic endeavour; it doesn't admit regret or loathing, but helps to pose the question of our own actions in an excessive material world and offers a platform of support to the emerging artists shining a light on the subject.
Critical Landscapes is on show at Bottega Veneta, Yifeng Galleria, Shanghai, until 31 October 2013.


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A traditional lead-up to the Golden Slipper, this year's Pago Pago Stakes shed little light on the $3.5 million race with the winner Time For War headed in another direction.
Fitted with a barrier blanket, pacifiers and a browband to help counter the problems which caused him to be scratched late at Randwick two weeks ago, Time For War gave Damien Thornton some anxious moments when he veered out in the straight.
But after the 18-year-old managed to get the whip through to his left hand, Time For War ($5.50) held on to beat the favourite Kumaon ($4.20) by a half neck.
It was the second win from two starts for Time For War who will now head to the Kindergarten Stakes in two weeks ahead of a possible Queensland campaign.
"He's not entered in the Slipper and he still has a lot to learn," trainer Gerald Ryan said.
"We'll head to the Kindergarten and if we are going to stretch him up in distance we will do that in Queensland.
"I don't know if it was the blanket, the pacifiers, the browband or keeping the kid on that made the difference.
"I suspect the latter. Damien rides him every day in trackwork."
It was the first stakes win for Thornton who transferred to Ryan's stable last year and was rewarded with the ride in the Group Two race.
"It's a great thrill," Thornton said.
"It's my first black-type win. He's a tricky horse but he got the job done."
Trainer Peter Snowden said the runner-up would also miss next week's Golden Slipper and head to the $1 million Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) in two weeks.
Third-placed Klammer, also trained by Ryan, will join his stablemate in the Kindergarten Stakes (1100m) on the same day.


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My Darkest Days guitarist Sal Costa has announced his departure from the group. The band is currently writing for their third studio release which is due later in the year.
Thanks Steve
My Darkest Days, Sal Costa
Nooo! He seemed like a pretty big part of the band in terms of the live show and vocals and lead guitar. But at least they parted amicably. Wish the best to both parties fo sho!
People actually care about this joke of a band?
Band underperformed and was overproduced.
So the guy left the band. Id bet dollars to donuts this band doesnt even exist anymore.
He left a car that had no gas or engine. No big loss. No fucks given.
This band needs to break up already. One hit wonders.
Well Matt Walst is now the Lead Singer of Three Days Grace. So sounds ya guys got your wish……
Just an awful replacement!
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Seven individuals determined to be Mexican nationals illegally present in the U.S. escaped from a burning vehicle with the help of Border Patrol Agents. Image by Tucson Sector Border Patrol
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On Saturday night, a Casa Grande Station agent working near Federal Route 15 observed a suspicious vehicle traveling northbound. As the agent initiated a vehicle stop, the sedan suddenly stopped and burst into flames.
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Agents managed to open the trunk and rescue one adult and two juveniles who were trapped inside.
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I'm very excited about having finally managed to sort through the data and produce what I believe are some of the first visualizations of our contemporary remix culture. The data is from the ccMixter online community which is focused on music production and remixing. We have managed to plot all the links between source and derivative works in this community and have conducted a preliminary analysis at the Participatory Media Lab, with the aim to understand the structure and the dynamics of participative action, especially as relating to the collaborative production of digital media content.
One of the visualizations, consisting of all uploaded audio tracks that have been remixed and all remixes thereof, is shown below. I was very surprised by the structure, density and connectedness of the resulting network. I was expecting to see a more weakly connected set of "islands of common interest", as defined by genre, friendships or location. Instead, before we even go into deeper analysis, the figure suggests that the creative reuse of cultural content (such as enabled by licenses like Creative Commons) leads to a very high degree of cross-pollination across authors and across works, forming a dense network of greatly enhanced collaboration and creativity through open sharing and reuse. We have posted a working paper and more cool hi-res visuals on the Participatory Media Lab wiki.


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Back in the day, a sweatshirt was simply not a sweatshirt without the protective cover of the hood. The hoodie was standard uniform for jocks, thugs, and punks alike because of its versatility and potential for incognito status. Slowly, the hoodie started to come out of the flat, single-color shadows and into wild prints. The prints got even more buck, it finally shed the hood, and now the crewneck is back in full-force. In that lineage, the Born Fly crewnecks are from a year in the future. Cop one of these joints now and stay ahead.
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When we begin the search to hire our summer leaders, we first look for individuals who absolutely love the game of soccer. The incredible travel opportunities provided by working for Woza allow us to to be highly selective in choosing our leaders, who are required to attend a comprehensive leader training at Woza Soccer HQ in Seattle at the beginning of every summer.
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- Leaders: Our staff takes the idea of leadership seriously, with experience as team captains and club presidents. They hone the craft of leadership through their regular activities and at Woza's mandatory leader training, held in Seattle, WA before every summer.
- Educators: Our leaders love working with youth and have a wealth of experience doing it across former roles in teaching, coaching and trip leadership.
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- Bowdoin College c/o 2009
- From Framingham, MA
- Captain, Bowdoin College men's varsity soccer
- Math Faculty and men's varsity soccer coach, Pingree School (MA)
- Played semi-pro for Seacoast United Mariners (NPSL)
- Club coach, Massachusetts Premier Soccer (MPS)
- Lived in South Africa 2009-2010 working for GrassrootSoccer