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James Cromwell Inspired Judd Apatow to Try Vegetarian Diet
Producer Judd Apatow credits actor, James Cromwell, with inspiring him to go vegetarian for a year. Apatow says he will "probably" try again.
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News Archives
November 11, 2008 3:39 pm
My Guest Appearance on the Tavis Smiley Show
Tavis' "My America" program gives selected U.S. citizens the opportunity to offer a personal reflection on how the upcoming presidential election will have an immense affect on their lives. I decided to offer a personal testament on the relevance and importance of education for our nation.
November 11, 2008 3:33 pm
The Historical Victory: Celebrated in The Atlanta University Center
I stood in line for three hours. I was nervous. This was the first time I have ever voted and I had prayed that the person I had decided to vote for would win. I couldn't believe that I casted my ballot for an African American candidate for president. I voted for Barack Obama, a Black man and a person I believe could lead our country in the right moral and social path for at least the next 4 yrs. Never in my lifetime could I have imagined a Black person having a legitimate chance of becoming President of the United States of America.
November 7, 2008 1:24 pm
Election Night at Bates
Regardless of what presidential candidate you supported there is no doubt that Tuesday night was a special night for America. To see Barack Obama, an African-American, be elected as President of the United States, is truly something remarkable. Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, this is a historic moment in our country's history and one that I know I will never forget.
October 25, 2008 12:00 pm
Anthony Phillips '10 talks about improving this country's education system
Anthony Phillips '10, a double major in African American studies and philosophy from Philadelphia, offered a commentary for "My America 2008," a special election-year series of The Tavis Smiley Show, broadcast by Public Radio International.
October 21, 2008 2:20 pm
Students discuss presidential election in civic forum
The Harward Center for Community Partnerships continues its 2008-09 Civic Forum series with a student panel discussion on possible outcomes and implications of the upcoming presidential election.
September 24, 2008 3:52 pm
What Happens On November 5? Activating Citizenship (No Matter Who Wins)
Peter Levine, Director of The Center For Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Tufts University, gives his lecture "What Happens on November 5? Activating Citizenship (No Matter Who Wins)."
May 11, 2008 12:04 pm
An Important Visit
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, following his speech in the Chapel on Feb. 8, 2008, in support of Democratic presidential candidate…
September 23, 1996 10:10 am
Friday lectures resume
Bates College has resumed its popular series of TGIF lectures by faculty members and students at 4:15 p.m. Fridays while school is in session.

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Rated 5 out of 5 by Luv2hunt New to Rocky-So far so good I have had other brand hunting boots over the past many years. These are the first Rocky boots that I have ever owned. The look is good. The tread design seems aggressive enough for any terrain. In "teen" degree weather, my feet have stayed warm. I have yet to test them in snow/rain/wet weather, so I can't comment about how well they perform in the "waterproof" area. As I was not able to try on a boot before buying, I chose to take a chance and order the next size up online (Local sporting goods stores don't carry anything above size 11). Glad I stepped up a size as these seem to be made smaller than what I was previously buying. These are a stiff boot, so be patient until break-in. Not lacing them all the way up will help during this process. Hopefully, these will live up to the Rocky hype! December 27, 2014
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Rated 2 out of 5 by Firephil OK but not fantastic I bought "wide" size, but they seem to be the same width as most other standard widths. My previous pair of Rocky boots (same size/width) definitely fit much better than the new ones. The boot feels OK, but a little too tight. The inside top of the boot rubs against my legs to the point of being annoying (and somewhat painful), so I end up not tying them very tight and not using the top hooks. Unless I have really tall boot socks on, the boots tend to pull the socks down. It seems to help by not tying them so snug, but still not good. Unlike previous boots, I have a tough time wearing them for more than three or four hours. Definitely would not recommend them for hunting or other activities that would entail lots of walking. Might be better if pants were tucked inside the boots military style to prevent chafing. February 25, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Namtac Rocky utility max field boot Over all its a great boot , I wear them for work . I work construction and I get into some pretty harsh conditions, these make my third pair . They last me about a year and a half. February 25, 2014
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Ahern Very nice boot for the price very warm, great traction on snow. good stability & waterproof January 15, 2014


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Open Forum for Dr. Vincent Tinto
Dear Campus Community,
I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Vincent Tinto, a renowned student success expert, will be coming to campus on Thursday, October 17, 2013. I am writing to invite each of you to come to a campus-wide conversation about student success facilitated by Dr. Tinto on Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 2 – 3:50 p.m. in the Commons. Everyone is invited to participate in this important conversation. Please note that this is separate from the morning Leadership Retreat.
As we strive to increase the success of every student at CSUSB, it is important that all of us have a deeper understanding of the role we play in making student success a reality. I know how busy all of you are, but I strongly urge you to come to this session if at all possible.
If you can attend, please RSVP no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. RSVP today!
In addition, the following documents should be reviewed by those planning to attend any of Dr. Tinto-related events (including those attending the Leadership Retreat).
- Advancing to Completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students, Mary Nguyen, Erin Ward Bibo, Jennifer Engle, The Education Trust, September 2012. (PDF 3MB)
- How Four-Year Colleges and Universities Organize Themselves to Promote Student Persistence: The Emerging National Picture, A report from the College Board Study on Student Retention by the Project on Academic Success at Indiana University and the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California, March 2011. (PDF 1MB)
- Guided Pathway to Success, Boosting College Completion, Complete College America, 2013. (PDF 808KB)
- Time is the Enemy, Complete College America, 2011. (PDF 11MB)
We look forward to seeing you on October 17!
Warmest regards,
Tomás D. Morales
Ph.D. The University of Chicago, Education, Sociology
M.S. Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Physics, Mathematics
B.S. Fordham University, Physics, Philosophy
Vince Tinto is a Distinguished University Professor at Syracuse University and the former Chair of the Higher Education Program. He teaches courses on Understanding Educational Research and Research on the College Student. He has carried out renowned research and has written extensively on higher education, particularly on student success and the impact of learning communities on student growth and attainment. His book, Leaving College, published by the University of Chicago Press, lays out a theory and policy perspective on student success that is considered the benchmark by which work on these issues is judged. His most recent book, Completing College, also published by The University of Chicago Press, lays out a framework for institutional action for student success, describes the range of programs that have been effective in enhancing student success, and the types of policies institutions should follow to successfully implement programs in ways that endure and scale-up over time.
He has consulted widely with Federal and State agencies, with independent research firms, foundations, and with two and four-year institutions of higher education on a broad range of higher educational issues, not the least of which concern the success students in higher education in particular those of low-income and underserved backgrounds. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and with various organizations and professional associations concerned with higher education. He also chaired the national panel responsible for awarding $5 million to establish the first national center for research on teaching and learning in higher education and served as Associate Director of the $6 million National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment funded by the U.S. Office of Education.
Professor Tinto works with the American Association of Community Colleges, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Council for Opportunity in Education, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, and the United Negro College Fund's Institute for Capacity Building on issues pertaining to student success in higher education. He has consulted with the European Access Network and the Dutch Ministry of Education to develop programs to promote access to higher education for disadvantaged youth in Europe. His research, funded by grants from the Lumina Foundation for Education and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, focuses on the impact of learning communities on the academic achievements of under-prepared college students in urban two and four-year colleges.
He has received numerous recognitions and awards. He was awarded the Council of Independent Colleges 2008 Academic Leadership Award, the National Institute for Staff Development International 2008 Leadership Award and was named Distinguished Fellow in the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations. He has some 50 notable publications, including books, research reports, and journal articles, to his credit and has lectured across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. From 1990 to 1996 he was associate director of the National Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.


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Motivated by the terrorist attacks of 2001, Jessamyn Sobecki-Engle of Cloverdale joined the California National Guard at age 17 and went off to war in Iraq a few years later in 2004.
A slender, 5-foot-6 woman, Sobecki-Engle served in a military intelligence unit and earned a combat action badge as a Humvee gunner, manning a .50-caliber roof-mounted machine gun.
Now in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on her second overseas deployment, Sobecki-Engle, 28, has been promoted to sergeant first class and awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service.
The 2002 graduate from Cloverdale High School said she has found a niche in the military, serving her country, seeing the world and helping others.
"It is such an honor to wear this uniform every day, I am so grateful," Sobecki-Engle said in an email from Afghanistan.
But she's also retained the childhood lessons she learned from her parents, Skip Engle and Marybeth Sobecki, who involved their three daughters in buying Christmas presents for the needy, raising more than 50 puppies for the Canine Companions for Independence assistance dogs program and sponsoring a low-income elderly woman and her special-needs son.
"Even as young children, we got to see the fruits of our labor in giving back to the community we loved and to those in need," she said.
Sobecki-Engle, who will spend Christmas in Afghanistan, said she often reads The Press Democrat online and was inspired by a Nov. 27 story about holiday season efforts to assist the needy.
Officials at the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County were stunned by Sobecki-Engle's online gift of $100.
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Trinity Hillwww.trinityhill.com
First set up in the late 1980s, Trinity Hill is the benchmark Hawkes Bay wine producer. John Hancock has been firmly at the winemaking helm from the beginning, along with partners Robyn and Robert Wilson who own the successful 'The Don' and 'Bleeding Heart' restaurants in the City of London. Focused purely on making the highest quality wines from Hawkes Bay and Gimblett Gravels vineyards, these wines are an excellent choice from New Zealand to grace any restaurant's wine list. Sourced from small vineyard sites situated throughout Hawkes Bay, and including some from Gimblett Gravels in the blends, the Hawkes Bay range from Trinity Hill represents fantastic value-for-money and a great introduction to the Trinity style. The signature across this range is balanced alcohol levels, site expressive minerality and ripe fruit balancing natural acidity.
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You Don't Always Know What You Think You Know
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Daniel Radcliffe'll Never do a Rom-Com With Emma Watson
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Film Critics Need to Learn to Look and Enjoy
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Anna Kendrick Had Her Heart Broken by a Hot Dog
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Richard Linklater Explains His Secret Movie Boyhood
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Alex (William H. Macy) is a hired killer unlike any you've seen before. He's a sad, shambly suburbanite who doesn't kill out of bloodlust, or even for the money. He kills because it's the family business, and he can't bring himself to tell his jolly, slithery old dad (Donald Sutherland) that he wants out. Alex loves his capable if unglamorous spouse (Tracey Ullman), and he does all he can not to let her know that their marriage is falling apart. He's drowning in middle-aged angst, until the day he meets Sarah (Neve Campbell), a ravishing young lady who is less than half his age but has already managed to become almost as screwed-up as he is.Panic begins with a familiar scene to anybody who has seen The Sopranos: a miserable professional killer goes to a shrink, where he pours out his soul as the incredulous, horrified doctor listens. Having never seen The Sopranos, I can't say if the series lives up to the endless praise lavished upon it by the critics. I can say that it would have to be damn impressive indeed to trump Panic, a marvelous little picture that deserves far better than it's going to get.
The film was completed in 2000 (on an astonishingly scant budget of $2.5 million) and has since followed a tortuous path on its way to theaters. Artisan, the film's original distributor, gave it one test screening for a group of teenage Campbell fans at a suburban mall. Predictably enough, the kids hated it (one can imagine their horror at the idea of the hottie from Scream getting busy with the old guy from Boogie Nights), and Artisan promptly cut its losses and sold the film straight to cable. Fortunately, director Henry Bromell screened Panic at Sundance, where it garnered critical raves, and the rights were eventually picked up by Roxie Releasing, a company with better taste than Artisan but unfortunately little of that company's clout or capital. The film is now very gradually making its way across the country, enriching the lives of the few who are lucky enough to see it.
The performances are excellent throughout. While Macy does wonders with the lead, we've seen him be wonderful often enough before that it's no huge shock here. Campbell, on the other hand, is a revelation. This is a raw, sexy and fiercely intelligent performance, surprising indeed coming from an actress who has previously been notable chiefly for her impressive bone structure. Ullman, by contrast, is remarkable for her uncharacteristic subtlety here. The woman has made a career out of shtick and noise, but in Panic, she is drab enough that we can see why Alex has tired of her; but she's also strong, smart and sexy enough that we can see why he's never really stopped loving her. Sutherland is likewise fantastic, creepily compelling as a man whose surface charm masks immeasurable depths of sleaziness.
Bromell has written fiction for The New Yorker and produced quality TV shows such as I'll Fly Away and Homicide: Life on the Street, and while his debut film works expertly in cinematic terms (especially given the laughable budget), it also has the intensity and precision of the best TV and the careful observation of a good short story. This is a film in which you can never guess what's going to happen next, but after it happens, you can't imagine it happening any other way.
Panic was written and directed by Henry Bromell; produced by Matt Cooper; and stars William H. Macy, Tracey Ullman, Neve Campbell and Donald Sutherland. Now playing at Edwards Town Center, Costa Mesa.
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New Zealand High Commission Port Vila, Vanuatu
Development cooperation
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade manages the New Zealand Aid Programme and provides policy advice to the New Zealand Government on international development issues.
The New Zealand Aid Programme's mission is to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world. Over time this approach will allow developing countries to fund their own social services (for example health and education services) and further development activities.
New Zealand's development assistance is focused on the Pacific region, but also supports programmes in Asia, southern Africa and Latin America. New Zealand also works with multilateral agencies to address poverty, conflict, governance issues, and humanitarian crises worldwide.
New Zealand is committed to providing effective aid, as agreed by the international community. This includes support for the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action
For more information visit the New Zealand Aid Programme website
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is committed to building a long-term and effective development partnership with Vanuatu. MFAT's aim is to strengthen the Vanuatu Government's own ability to deliver development benefits and reduce the poverty and hardship faced by the people of Vanuatu, particularly those living in rural areas.
Of interest
United Nations Handbook
The UN Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the UN system and how it works. Read more
New Zealand wins Security Council seat
New Zealand has secured a place on the UN Security Council for 2015-16. Read the Prime Minister's media release
Registering your overseas travel made easier
New Zealanders travelling or living overseas, registering your travel online now made easier. Read more
The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal
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Marr, Ana (2012) Does transformation enhance or hinder financial relationships in microfinance? The struggle between financial and social goals in Peru. Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 23 (3). pp. 201-216. ISSN 1755-1978 (Print), 1755-1986 (Online) (doi:10.3362/1755-1986.2012.021)
Marr, Ana (2012) Effectiveness of rural microfinance: what we know and what we need to know. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12 (4). pp. 555-563. ISSN 1471-0358 (Print), 1471-0366 (Online) (doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00373.x)
Marr, Ana and Awaworyi, Sefa (2012) Microfinance social performance: A global empirical study. Applied Econometrics and International Development, 12 (2). pp. 51-68. ISSN 1578-4487
Marr, Ana, Leon, Janina and Ponce, Fatima (2014) Financial inclusion of the poor in Peru: Explanatory factors and determinant. Applied Econometrics and International Development, 14 (1). pp. 101-130. ISSN 1578-4487
Marr, Ana and Tubaro, Paola (2012) Global financial partnerships in microfinance: India, Peru and Tanzania. La Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo / Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, 1 (1). pp. 29-57. ISSN 2254-2035
Marr, Ana and Tubaro, Paola (2011) Wholesale funding to microfinance and social development goals in Peru, Tamil Nadu, and Tanzania. Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 22 (4). pp. 304-321. ISSN 1755-1978 (Print), 1755-1986 (Online) (doi:10.3362/1755-1986.2011.033)
Marr, Ana and Tubaro, Paola (2013) The microfinance wholesale lending market: A comparative study of India, Peru and Tanzania. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 5 (1). pp. 33-54. ISSN 1756-9850 (Print), 1756-9869 (Online) (doi:10.1504/IJEBR.2013.050641)
Morton, John F. (2010) Why should governmentality matter for the study of pastoral development? Nomadic Peoples, 14 (1). pp. 6-30. ISSN 0822-7942 (Print), 1752-2366 (Online) (doi:10.3167/np.2010.140102)
Book Section
Jackson, Cornell and Marr, Ana (2013) The strength of weak ties in microfinance. In: Basu, Ranajoy, (ed.) Microfinance: A Practitioner's Handbook. Globe Business Publishing Ltd., London, UK, pp. 193-205. ISBN 9781905783977
Marr, Ana (2015) Tensions between financial and organisational sustainability: The problematic case of group-based microfinance and possible ways forward. In: Sorell, Tom and Cabrera, Luis, (eds.) Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 145-162. ISBN 9781107110977
Morton, John F. (2012) 'Responsible companies' and African livestock-keepers: Helping, teaching but not learning? In: Catley, Andy, Lind, Jeremy and Scoones, Ian, (eds.) Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins. Pathways to Sustainability . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 108-118. ISBN 9780415540711
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Marr, Ana (2011) The challenges of group-based microfinance and suggestions for improvement. In: Contemporary Microfinance: Institutions, Policies and Performance, 5-7 Sep 2011, Cairo, Egypt. (Unpublished)
Marr, Ana, León, Janina and Ponce, Fátima (2012) Financial inclusion of the poor in Peru: explanatory factors and determinants. In: Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES): 2012 Annual Meetings, 1-3 Nov 2012, Universidad del Pacifico at Lima, Peru.
Marr, Ana and Schmied, Julian (2013) Financial inclusion and poverty: The case of Peru. In: 3rd European Research Conference on Microfinance, 10-12 Jun 2013, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. (Unpublished)
Marr, Ana and Schmied, Julian (2013) Financial inclusion in Peru. In: 9th University Meets Microfinance Workshop: Financial Inclusion and Microfinance in Latin America, 30-31 May 2013, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. (Unpublished)
Marr, Ana, van Asseldonk, Marcel, Burger, Kees, Lensink, Robert and Bulte, Erwin (2015) Optimal Packages: A review of impact assessment approaches of bundled insurance, credit and inputs. In: The 4th International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference (IARFIC), 7-9 Jun 2015, Washington DC, USA.
Morton, John F. (2010) Pastoralism and climate change:clarifying research and policy agendas(with particular reference to the Horn of Africa). In: Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions, 16-20 Aug 2010, Ceará Convention Center Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. (Unpublished)
Morton, John F. (2011) 'Responsible companies' and African livestock-keepers: acting, teaching but not learning? In: International Conference on the Future of Pastoralism, 21-23 Mar 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Unpublished)
Baio, Andrew and Marr, Ana (2012) Economic appraisal of Public Private Partnership arrangements for four fish receiving centers in Sierra Leone. Project Report. Natural Resources Institute.
Dougnon, Isaïe, Sanogo, Siaka, Coulibaly, Bakary, Diamoutene, Abdoul Karim and Morton, John F. (2010) "Leaving farmers as orphans": agricultural privatisation and reform of farmer organisations in Mali. Discussion Paper. Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG), Manchester, UK.
Marr, Ana and Chiwara, Charles (2011) Investment supply for small and medium enterprises. Project Report. University of Greenwich, London, UK. (Unpublished)
Marr, Ana, Chiwara, Charles and Munyuki, Elijah (2011) Financial services for SME fisheries: the case study of South Africa. Project Report. University of Greenwich, Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA).
Marr, Ana and Tubaro, Paola (2011) Crisis in Indian microfinance and a way forward: governance reforms and the Tamil Nadu model. Project Report. University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Marr, Ana and Tubaro, Paola (2011) Escape the low-growth trap? Microfinance in Tanzania. Project Report. University of Greenwich, Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA).
Martin, Adrienne, Gundel, Sabine, Apenteng, Essie and Pound, Barry (2011) Review of literature on evaluation methods relevant to extension. Other. GFRAS – Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services , Agridea Eschikon 28 8315 Lindau Switzerland.
Morton, John F. (2008) Morality and institutions: an exploration. Discussion Paper. Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG), Manchester, UK.
Morton, John F. (2010) The innovation trajectory of sleeping sickness control in Uganda: Research knowledge in its context (Discussion Paper 08). Discussion Paper. Research Into Use / UK Department for International Development (DFID), Edinburgh, Scotland.


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Your support makes a significant impact in the lives of our families everyday. Whether it is a parenting class a young mother is able to attend, an hour of counseling for a family with a child that has chosen risky behaviors, or a mother and father who risk losing their dream home because of ballooning mortgage payments.
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COLLECTORS CORNER: The Avengers: Captain America Limited Edition Collectible Figurine
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text: Game industry tax relief plans are shelved Gaming 22 June 10 by Will Hines The Government announced today that planned tax breaks for the gaming industry will not be introduced. Despite contributing £1 billion per year and over 20,000 jobs to the UK economy, the Tory party has chosen not to honour the tax incentive initially announced by Alistair Darling, prior to the General Election.Speaking in Parliament today, the relief tax was described as "poorly targeted" by Chancellor George Osborne. The tax breaks were initially missing from the Conservative manifesto, but after pressure senior party figures assured the industry that follow-up proposals would include the planned break.This is a devastating blow for the UK game industry, and has serious implications for the future. The break was originally suggested in response to the UK's rapidly failing fortunes in the gaming industry, after slipping from 3rd to 5th in the world standings. This is only set to get worse; the planned cuts offered an incentive for local talent to stay in the UK, against similar programs run in competing countries such as Canada, France and Germany. Instead, the UK now faces more "brain-drain", where talented developers move abroad to more profitable development hotspots.It's a disapointing turn of events considering UK game revenues were 44 percent higher than those of the box office last year, and the game industry continues to break records -- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare's opening week was the biggest entertainment event ever, generating $401 million (£270 million) of revenue in a single day (although it should be noted a game can cost five or six times as much as a cinema ticket).Since the announcement, a number of statements have been made against the decision. Trade association TIGA said it "condemns the Coalition Government for failing to introduce video Games Tax Relief in today's Emergency Budget." Trade body ELSPA said: "Bearing in mind the pre election commitment towards tax breaks made by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats we are extremely disappointed by the outcome of today's Budget. Our industry will be rightly puzzled as to how tax breaks can be lauded before an election, only to be seen as 'poorly targeted' and scrapped just six weeks later."A number of excellent games have been produced on UK soil, but with the barriers to entry looming ever larger, the game industry is in for a tough ride. Edited by Nate Lanxon Comments Latest on wired.co.uk


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Texas Tech quarterback Seth Doege met with Leukemia survivor and big fan less than 48 hours after loss
Seth Doege's Heisman Trophy hopes and Big 12 Championship hopes most likely ended last week in a 55-24 loss to now-No. 3 Kansas State.
It must have been a tough pill for Texas Tech's quarterback to swallow.
But less than two full days later, Doege appeared in good spirits and hosted a special visitor in 10-year-old Myles Galvan who is a Leukemia survivor and a big fan of the Red Raiders' quarterback. The boy had wanted to meet Doege for some time.
Galvan was invited to Texas Tech's media availability Monday and watched Doege while the quarterback spoke to the media and then the two tossed the football on the practice fields and took a tour of the Red Raiders' football facilities.
KJTV-TV reporter Nicole Garza chronicled Galvin's big day.
Galvan left the football training facility with Doege's autograph on the left shoulder of his No. 7 jersey and will be on the sideline for the Red Raiders game against Texas on Saturday.


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Hi Louis,This isn't an issue with our API, but is something that would need to be fixed in the Quicksilver plugin. I presume you mean this one (the same one we've featured on our site). It appears that this issue has been added in the project's issue tracker.Hope this helps you get on the hunt for the bug.
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I've combed through dozens of podcast interviews Juliette Wolf-Robin has conducted with influential art buyers and creatives. In this article, art buyers talk about how they organize the hundreds of printed and electronic direct-mail campaigns they receive from artists.
Juliette Wolf-Robin: How do you organize and store the promotional material you receive from artists–printed and electronic?
"We have art files containing promo cards that have been filed according to category. I also have a file in my [computer] inbox with folders for different promos. I keep telling everyone: Use the subject line wisely. If the subject line has something in it that says "Food Photography" or "Still Life" … you've pre-categorized for me. It makes it much easier to find later and it also prompts me to open it sooner." – Kat Dalager, Manager of Print Production, Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis
"We have an area – a big board – where we display cards we really like or that other people would like. Then we'll file them, but we have to clean it out because it gets unwieldy after about six months. We used to keep a big file on everything but now, with digital and the Web, we really don't need to. – Aric Rist, Global Brand Photography Manager, Nike, Portland, Oregon
"We have a binder… broken into different styles of photography, with leave-behinds from all sorts of photographers." – Wade Atkinson, Publicis Seattle
"It's New York… we don't have a lot of space. I might keep [printed promos] for a month or two but, eventually, I clear my wall off. I usually save an email that somebody sends me. We also like to keep a large catalog of illustrators' websites." – Darren Cox, Director of Creative Services, SpotCo, New York
"I keep some [printed promos]… The quicker and easier they are to look through, the better. You just want something where you see the work. – Aylin Koker, Art Producer, Cole + Weber United
"We organize material two different ways. All of us pool our absolute favorite things and categorize everything in notebooks – photography and illustration – and the style of it. So, if an art director is looking for a car photographer, we've got a couple of three-ring binders with tons of great examples that we've edited and that we feel are the best. We rotate things out, occasionally. We also have an electronic version, an Excel spreadsheet with links to our favorite reps and photographers. And we have all of those bookmarked by category in our Internet browser." – Dave Lewis, Managing Art Buyer, Fallon, Minneapolis
"Usually everyone in the department gets the same postcard. I've kept some promos for 10 years. Usually, I put the date on the back. And it's definitely important to have your name and phone number on a promo piece. Sometimes I'll get an accordion-style mailer and it has the artist's name on only one of the panels. Someone might rip it apart, then you don't know who the photographer is." – Wini Barron, Senior Art Producer, McCann Erickson, New York
"I'm a saver. I will take all my promos and put them in a big box. When I have some downtime, I'll go through and sort them. All the ones I really like, I'll keep. We have flat files or hanging files where we try to categorize everything. When I'm working on a big project and I can't find what I'm looking for online, I will look through my promo box. There's nothing more disappointing than seeing a really great promo with a great picture on it, and then going to the website but there's not enough work to really support it. You end up tossing that promo and you're not going [to the website] again." – Lisa Oropallo, Art Buying Manager, Digitas, New York
"We have flat files that our assistant makes – copies of favorite images whether photography or illustration – and we have them all categorized. So, landscape, still life, product, portrait, celebrity portrait, environmental portrait, etc. There's like 20 different categories." – Marni Beardsley, Head Art Buyer, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Oregon
"I typically bookmark information. Because I work with a variety of agencies, I'm not able to keep everything. [People at the agencies] keep their own material. I guess that's similar to someone's Rolodex. I know some art directors who have tons and tons of promo pieces, and some even have systems to keep track of them. But, the art directors, a lot of times, are working in TV so they're not necessarily following photography closely. They rely on [art buyers] to bring in talent." – Michelle Jackson, Freelance Art Buyer/Print Producer and Founder of Snap Indigo


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I need help. I guess I don't get how to use metatags right. I have a nice list of them on my site, but can't get the crawlers to show mine. How do I do that and how do i get my metatags right?
Thanks!!! www.starightwaylc.com
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The meta tags all look good. The problem might just be time. Different search engines use different methods for how they rank a website as being relevant to a search, but they all require time for their bots to find you. Of course, you could take care of this little problem by submitting your site to them instead. If you're not willing to pay to have your site automatically submitted to every search engine imaginable, then I recommend submitting it manually to some of the major sites-- at least Google, AltaVista, Webcrawler, etc.
Also, you must realize that some search engines these days use meta tags as a secondary method of classifying web sites. I'm pretty sure Google makes their own list of keywords based on the content of the site, but uses the meta tags as the primary words. Then you're only going to be page 1 by getting clicked on a lot.
Either way, don't sweat it. I think the best advantage of a website for small businesses is that it's an extension of your business card. While it's true that some people who want lawn care might go to a search engine and type: "lawn care indianapolis," it's still more effective to use other marketing techniques (flyers, business cards, referrals) and have your website listed on any media. Most people are scared to call a stranger whose work they haven't seen, but if you have a website with pictures they can check out then you're in business!
Thanks for the little lesson. I do use flyers,ad in paper and cards as a primary way to get the name out, but it would be nice to "pop" up if my info was typed in, lol. I only did the web page as you mentioned, an extra extention of everythong else. I have actually had some response on it and it paid for itself with my first customer singed fron it, so it is good. I am just trying to make sure I am putting things together right. I am not a computer guru(play one on tv) and need to learn a lot still. Thanks again!
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"DantheMan" gave you some good advise concerning advertising for a local service business.
Nice to have a website, they make your business appear larger and more professional if done right. However we found that having a website is a lot like phone number advertising. If you want calls (hits) you have to advertise.
First, no one calls until you are listed in the book (search engine).
Second, which book should you be listed in Verizon, Bell, Yellowbooks (Google, Yahoo, MSN).
Third, if you want to stand out you need a yellow page listing (meta tag/keyword).
Fourth, to maximize effects you should have display ads (pay per click/pop ups).
Fifth, should you get a quarter or full page ad (banner or featured).
This goes on and on until the advertisers are the only ones making money.
We do spend a lot of money to advertise since our market is national. Since your market is local concentrate your advertising efforts there. Word of mouth has always been the best and most cost effective method.
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Hi Eric,
Since your question was about Meta Tags, I took a look at yours. First off the link to your site has a typo, but I found it anyway.
Meta Tags are not quite as important as they used to be. Many of the search engines don't pay a lot of attention to them. They still should be on the site and done as well as possible. The Keywords used to be the important ones. These days that is not the case. The title and description can be more important.
Yours are, ok but need a little fix. First off you don't have a Title meta tag at all and that is important to have. Second your description one needs some fine tuning.
For the title I would use something like Straight Way Lawn care serving Indianpolis Indiana You really need to get this in there.
For the description you have "serving the metro south side on Indianapolis" Let me ask you this Eric, Serving them with what? apple pie and coffee? How about "Straight Lawn care, mowing edging and lawn work in Indianapolis Indiana"
Your keywords need a little help too. Talk about what you do. Mowing, edging, lawn care, grass cutting. Any works anyone might search for.
The best order for meta tags are Title, Description, Keywords, other tags. You have other first, then no title then keywords then description.
Once you have them how you want them you can go to www.scrubtheweb.com and they will do an automated evaluation of your meta tags.
A good place to get your site listed is www.selfpromotion.com. It is free although they don't turn down donations. I usually give them about $ 20 a year which gets me some extras.
Hope I helped you a little. I don't mean to sound critical. You just need some help with them. I did not check anything but your home page. The meta tags should be on every page.
No offense taken, I am learning and the only way to learn is to be thick skinned and take advise, which is what I asked for. I am thankful that you took the time to educate me some, it is great advise and I will us it to better my page. By the way coffee and apple pie can be served for the right price, LOL. If I can ever help in a non computer way let me know. I am really good with things that burn and medical emegencies!!!!!! Thanks and Gob bless!
www.straighwaylc.com helps if you spell it right, duh lol.
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Hi Eric,
Glad I could help. I think I have suggested about as much as I can but when you get the changes made, if you want me to take another peek, I would be happy to do that.
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Seeking the Truth — Or Obscuring It?
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On August 20, 2010 @ 8:49 am In Apprenticed Investor,Investing,Psychology,Weblogs | Comments Disabled
Over the past few weeks, I have posted on an eclectic assortment of items. That is keeping with the blog's sub-title: Macro Perspectives on Capital Markets, Economy, Technology, and Digital Media. A few of you have commented (here [1] and here [2]) or emailed about this recently.
I want to take a few moments to explain the thought process behind what appears to be a random collection of posts, but actually, is not. Instead, it is part of a broader process that ranges across a variety of disciplines, interests, methodologies.
The broader mission of what I try to do is seek the Truth.
I define "the Truth" as being in accord with objective reality. Philosophers have argued we can never achieve that degree of perfection, so to me it means getting as close as possible to the Truth as any slightly cleverer, pants-wearing monkey [3] can.
I do this for three reasons: The first is that I am interested in it intellectually. I am aware that our individual universes are mere constructs of a sophisticated cognitive process, the evolutionary apex of this planet. I am also all too aware it is filled with flaws and biases and error. So few people seem to understand what objective reality is that it is a rarified space to even get near, much less inhabit.
This means venturing far and wide in search of "enlightenment." No one discipline has a monopoly on the Truth, and very often a brilliant insight from one field can be applied in another. Hence, Behavioral economics, music, neurophysiology, methods of data-depiction (aka chart porn [4]), market history, even automotive innovations all part of the cross-discipline process.
The second reason is professional: Fund managers whose universe deviate from reality eventually come to major losses, under-performance, and professional ruin. The most public version of this was Bill Miller: His failure to understand the derivative situation, creaky Housing edifice, and the artifice of the 2002-07 finance rally led his fund to load up on banks, GSEs, investment houses — and ruined [5] an incredible record [6]. There are many other examples, but this one is the most acute. Note there is a distinction between those who play probabilities that do not play out, and those whose world view is so flawed as to make losses all but inevitable.
I believe in Variant Perspective [7] as an investment thesis: Identify where most of the investing public is objectively wrong; determine what the best approximation to reality is; factor in timing, and invest accordingly. Value investors do this when they buy undervalued stocks; they are saying the public is wrong (the variance) about the lack of worth of an issue; short sellers do this as well, explicitly stating the opposite — that the variance is the public overvaluing a stock, and making their bets.
One of the surprising things this blog has taught me is how long it takes Reality to go viral. There are entrenched interests opposed to the Truth; they release their grip on their subjective fantasies very, very slowly.
When people said that Housing never falls in price, that is an example of entrenched interests pushing their false view of the world. Some argued that sub-prime mortgages were such a small part of the economy, they could never have much of an impact. That was not an error, or a difference of opinion, mind you, but a cognitive failure on their part to hypothesize a probable or likely outcome. Years passed before the Truth became known.
The inverted Yield Curve as an omen of impending recession? Dismissed as different this time (inviting our criticism). Erroneous discussions of how cheap home builders were, how expensive tech stocks were, how low inflation was, and how high employment were all subjects of discussions here as alt.universe fantasies. It took years before the Truth became widely accepted — and even that required a massive global crisis.
There are 100s of such examples. Some people claim that nobody forecast a possible housing/derivative/market collapse (a blatant lie to obscure their own failures). When the CRA or Fannie/Freddie are blamed for the economic crisis, I recognize this as false, a blatant attempt to obscure, rather than reveal the Truth. Arguments talking up or down the economy usually have a specific agenda apart from the objective reality of the situation.
Which leads us to our headline: Seeking the Truth — Or Obscuring It?
I have explained my motivations as a truth seeker. It is intellectually stimulating, and it can be profitable. The major investment houses have, for the most part, abandoned it as part of their model. I should be thankful they left that market niche open to smaller, nimble firms (like mine).
But what motivates people to pursue a narrative that is blatantly false, misleading or intellectually dishonest? Typically, it meets a powerful group's specific agenda. There is a embedded interest amongst the entrenched to preserve the status quo. The thought process seems to be "Hey, its working for us, let's not mess up a good thing."
Said another way, look at what it is they are selling.
We see this in a variety of areas: Politics are notorious for disregarding the Truth. Political objectives are to win votes, control public monies, amass power and influence. The Truth is an obvious casualty in this process.
Amongst corporate interests, the Truth can get in the way of sales, earnings reports, and profitability, impacting careers, stocks prices and of course bonuses. Regulation reduced profits. Impacting the debate to achieve a desired outcome is worth billions [8], even if the consequences to society costs trillions.
Even academia is suffers from this error prone tendency to obscure the Truth when it contradicts a long held theory or belief system. Look no further than the Efficient Market Hypothesis [9], and the way it was applied in real world discussions of policy, and self-regulation. Then consider the tortured route it took to go from the intellectual standard of academic capital market explanations to a partially discredited, somewhat outmoded belief system.
I initially mentioned three reasons. The third is simply that we live in a society where decision-making takes place with less and less reverence for the Truth, with terrible consequences. Those people who seek to obscure the Truth for personal gain do an enormous disservice to our nation. Public policy is made based on false pronouncements, monies are allocated based upon misleading arguments, laws are made, taxes levied, policy executed. The lives of 100s of millions of people is significantly impacted by our public policy.
When the entire edifice rests on falsehoods, mistruths, faulty assumptions, false premises, future outcomes, as we have seen over the past few years, can be horrific. History teaches us that eventually, the Truth will reveal itself. When that happens, there can be terrible consequences: Economies collapse, wars occur, empires crumble, millions die.
Whenever I read a major policy piece, newspaper article, or OpEd, I ask the following question: Is this person a truth seeker, or a truth obscurer? When you see nasty posts that dissect/shred/fisk these, it is because I was not happy with the answer to that question.
Are you a truth seeker, or a truth obscurer?
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[1] here: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog../2010/08/the-rise-web-video/#comment-373026
[2] here: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog../2010/08/the-rise-web-video/#comment-372901
[3] monkey: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&cx=015905226837203657063%3Ax1cwdcykvvw&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&cof=FORID%3A11&s=Search&q=slightly+cleverer%2C+pants-wearing+monkey&sa.x=0&sa.y=0#1539
[4] chart porn: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&cx=015905226837203657063%3Ax1cwdcykvvw&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&cof=FORID%3A11&s=Search&q=chart+porn&sa.x=0&sa.y=0#1418
[5] ruined: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/7/legg-mason-s-bill-miller-i-m-sorry-our-performance-has-been-awful
[6] record: http://www.fool.com/investing/mutual-funds/2008/07/21/was-bill-miller-just-lucky.aspx
[7] Variant Perspective: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&cx=015905226837203657063%3Ax1cwdcykvvw&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&cof=FORID%3A11&s=Search&q=Variant+Perspective&sa.x=0&sa.y=0#1146
[8] worth billions: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/07/2009-lobbying-expenses-3-49-billion-dollars/
[9] Efficient Market Hypothesis: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&cx=015905226837203657063%3Ax1cwdcykvvw&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&cof=FORID%3A11&s=Search&q=Efficient+Market+Hypothesis&sa.x=21&sa.y=13#1546
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Peppermint Patty Bark
Prep time
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1 hour 3 mins
A creamy peppermint filling surrounded by thick chocolate.
Lemons for Lulu
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candy, dessert
2 pounds chocolate candy coating (such as Ghirardelli)
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
4 cups powdered sugar
1 T mint extract
green gel food coloring
For the chocolate:
Melt 1 pound chocolate bark according to package directions. When completely melted, pour out onto a wax paper lined baking sheet. Spread chocolate out, but not too thin. Place in freezer while you prepare your filling.
To prepare filling:
In a mixer add condensed milk and 1 cup of powdered sugar. Mix in mint extract. Continue to mix on medium speed until all the ingredients are well incorporated. Add additional powdered sugar one cup at a time until you find your filling is a spreading consistency. You don't want it too stiff or it won't spread. Thin with a tablespoons of milk if necessary. Add in gel food coloring if desired. Once your peppermint filling is ready, spread out over frozen chocolate layer. Return to freezer.
Melt your remaining 1 pound of chocolate and spread over mint layer, making sure to cover the entire surface. Freeze until set. Break into pieces with a knife. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator until ready serve. Bark will stay good for about 1 week.
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Our Ethical and Aesthetic Mind
|My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
There is, of course, a huge desire to say the reason our minds can come up with thoughts against ourselves, the reason we can accuse ourselves, has a source outside us: somebody else made us dislike ourselves. This desire has been much fostered by the counselors of our time, who have been ready to tell you the chief reason you disesteem yourself is that you were abused by somebody in some fashion.
Our Mind Is Ethical and Aesthetic
Eli Siegel showed that we can give ourselves trouble, we can make ourselves feel bad, we can be unwittingly severe with ourselves, we can dislike ourselves—because our mind, by its nature, is ethical and aesthetic. This principle, stated by him, is true about our seemingly so refractory mind: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." There is an ethical demand in us, which is also an aesthetic demand, to put together the two opposites of self and world. In the same way that we are made with a need to breathe the world's air, we are made with an irrevocable inner demand that we be just to this world we were born into—see meaning in it, care for it.
"Man's deepest desire, his largest desire," Mr. Siegel wrote, "is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis" (Self and World, Definition Press, p. 1). This desire is a force as existent in us as our heartbeat, saying, "Listen lady, listen gent—you can't be yourself unless you are trying to be just to the world, which includes trying to know it!" The goodness of our mind, its intelligence, its originality, is how fully we welcome into it what is not ourselves. A mind that doesn't have the alphabet in it, knowledge of arithmetic, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the play Hamlet, awareness of the American Civil War, is a mind deeply curtailed, not truly itself—but the alphabet, numbers, Beethoven's notes, Hamlet, the Civil War are the outside world. This is aesthetics—the oneness of opposites—and ethics: for our mind to be really ours is for it to be just to the world.
The aesthetics and ethics of mind is also in the fact that we cannot like ourselves unless we are trying to like the world. Mr. Siegel writes, in a sentence I love: "The greatest biological fact in human history is this: that the whole world went to the making of every individual; in other words, that it was the universe, or existence, or reality, which gave us birth" (Self and World, p. 52). Our atoms are not different from those of a tree, a brick, a lizard. And we have, Mr. Siegel showed, in our physical beings and personalities, the opposites that are reality's. For example, the being and change that go on in all our cells are opposites to be seen any day in the sky, which is there always yet is always changing. Our personalities have in them gentleness and strength—which are also in a bird flying—and we want gentleness and strength to be together well in us, as they are in that bird. That we are continuous with what the world is, has to do with the Hopkins lines—with why a person uses his own mind unwittingly to pain himself. Mr. Siegel explains, in other sentences I love for their sheer and vibrant truth, and their kind and ringing prose:
The Other Desire
Mr. Siegel has explained what it is in us that we ourselves punish ourselves for whether we wish to or not. It is contempt, "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it." Contempt pits those opposites of care for self and justice to the world against each other: it is utterly unaesthetic; yet it is "the greatest danger or temptation of man." He showed that contempt is the source of every unjust act and mean thought. For instance, racism, in all its hideousness, comes from that feeling "I'm more if I can make what is different from me less." Meanwhile, contempt is immensely ordinary. It is the hope that someone look stupid so we can look smarter. It is the feeling, constant in people, that the chief thing about another person is how he treats us—we do not have to think about who he is, how he sees everything. It is the constant sense of ourselves as more real than other people: our feelings are important, urgent; theirs are dim or nonexistent.
The next lines of Hopkins' poem tell, in his usefully rocky way, that he is unable to bring comfort to himself:
|I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
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|Large interclone differences in melezitose secretion in the facultatively ant-tended black bean aphid Aphis fabae.
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|PMID: 21896277 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|Many aphids are known to engage in a trophic mutualism with ants, whereby the aphids secrete sugary-rich honeydew which is collected by the ants for food, and the ants, in exchange, protect the aphids against natural enemies. Previous results, however, suggest that the production of some of the honeydew sugars, such as the ant-attractant trisaccharide melezitose, may induce an indirect cost to the aphids. This led us to believe that large differences in the nature of the secreted honeydew might exist, due to some clones capitalizing more or less on their mutualistic interaction with ants, or due to some "cheater" clones foregoing the production of particular sugars, instead taking advantage of the ant-attracting effect of other non sugar-deficient clones, co-occurring on the same plant. Here we present data on clonal variation in the composition of honeydew of the black bean aphid Aphis fabae which confirm this prediction. In particular, our results show that there was large interclone variation in the amount of glucose, melezitose and total sugar produced. The variation in the production of melezitose, however, showed particularly large differences, with 54% (7 out of 13) of the clones screened being virtually deficient for the production of this sugar, irrespective of whether the aphid colonies were ant-tended or not. The consequences of this finding in the context of the evolution and maintenance of the ant-aphid mutualism, as well as the adaptive benefits of oligosaccharide synthesis in aphids and other insects are discussed.
|A Vantaux; W Van den Ende; J Billen; T Wenseleers
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Re: Is it smart to have families on the Enterprise-D?
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Doesn't that seem like they're putting a lot of innocent people at risk?
But they would be doing the exact some thing by "leaving them behind." The 24th century is a dangerous place, Planets are attacked, civilian populations are wiped out. The long war with the Cardassians (pre-Dominon war)
cost millions of lives, it's doubtful all of those deaths were solely from starships. During the Dominion war San Fransisco was attacked by the Breen, if say one percent of the people in San Fransisco were casualties, how many attacks on starships (where again one percent of the people were casualties) would it take to equal the attack on San Fransisco? A thousand? Ten thousand?
Except the amount of firepower necessary to destroy or even devastate a planet or space station is far more than needed to take out a starship, in fact I'm pretty sure there were way more threats to a starship than threats to a planet show in Star Trek, so you have better odds living on a planet or space station.
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Derek Lam's Wise Words About Tod's And Chicago Style!
Tod's triumphant return to Chicago is really something to celebrate. We're thrilled that the brand can once again call Chicago home and we're not the only ones excited. We got a minute with designer Derek Lam, who gave us his thoughts on how Tod's and Chicago are a perfect match.
Tods, 121 East Oak Street (just West of Lake Shore Drive); 312-943-0070.
In your opinion, how will Tod's impact the Chicago style scene?
"Real women inspire me. Women and men who are juggling a career and family and yet still manage to look elegant and put together. The Chicago woman and man definitely represent the person that I design for. There is a great sense of family and elegance in Chicago that is very tangible and I feel like those venerable roots work well with the Tod's brand and DNA."
What do you love about Tod's?
"Tod's is the archetype of everything that's great about Italian luxury and fashion. They have been able to masterfully combine old world craftsmanship with modern technology to create a totally new type of luxury item. Tod's has made a commitment to maintain beautiful and modern design hand-in-hand with the highest quality materials and levels of craftsmanship."
We've dished about Tod's but what about Chicago? Where do you love to go when you visit us?
"Chicago is known for and has such amazing architecture. Architecture is all about design and a big point of influence and inspiration in my work. There are also so many great museums I would love to visit when I am there—The Art Institute and The Museum of Contemporary Art. Art is another big influence in my design aesthetic. Millennium Park as well which the city has done such a beautiful job building—I love the Anish Kapoor structure there."


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Prince William cancels event to stay by Kate's side
Prince William pulled out of an appearance at the spectacular British Military Tournament over the weekend to stay by his pregnant wife's side.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is resting at Kensington Palace after again suffering severe morning sickness on Sunday.
Catherine was only recently released after spending three nights in King Edward VII Hospital recovering from hyperemesis gravidarum .
"The Duke of Cambridge will no longer attend the British Military Tournament at Earl's Court this evening, but will spend Sunday privately with the Duchess instead," a St James's Palace spokesman said.
The Prince originally planned to attend the event with Kate prior to her falling ill and announcing her pregnancy, but all of her public engagements have now been cancelled.
However, Prince William did attend the fundraising Winter Whites Gala in London on Saturday and commented on his wife's condition.
"I don't know why they call it morning sickness — they should call it all day and all night sickness," William said.
"[Recovery is] a long old process but she is getting there. She feels like it is going to go on forever."
The Duchess will remain on bed rest as she recovers from her severe morning sickness.
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Kaze_Memaryu wrote:
I hope they lose soon. I live in germany, and one thing's certain: football fans are one hell of an annoying pack. My neighbours won't shut up about that corrupt farce that is called "sports event", and if germany actually wins the cup, the entire country will be unbearable for four years flat! I'm putting my faith in each and every opponent of germany.
But, just to get that outta the way: I don't watch it. There's no way I'm gonna waste my time on football.
Seems like you just don't like football and thus everyone openly interested in it is "annoying".
Great way of discrediting an entire country by the way.
I bet you'd post the exact same nonsense no matter what country you would live in.
I love how ya'll replied to him saying the country would be unbearable by calling him a nonsense spouter.
I'm very glad USA lost so I could stop hearing about it. My deepest sympathies to @Kaze_Memaryu. May yer neighbours quiet themselves of soccer soon.


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Ian Williams Says He Still Has a 'Mental Hurdle' To Clear
Ian Williams is back.
But as the nose tackle explained on Tuesday, there's still plenty of work to be done.
"I don't really think I'm clear of that final hurdle yet. I'm still working, everyday just to get better. Push myself to see how far I can go. Better myself. That's all I'm trying to do everyday."
On Monday, the San Francisco 49ers activated Williams off the physically unable to perform list, 11 months after he sustained a severe ankle injury.
"When [they] activate you off PUP and stuff like that, that's the paper hurdle. You still got to get over that mental hurdle."
Williams return couldn't come at a better time for the 49ers, as fellow defensive lineman Glenn Dorsey faces an indefinite stay on the sidelines after tearing his bicep earlier in training camp. Williams has learned a lot from Dorsey since the 29-year-old arrived a season ago.
"Everybody wants to blow it up as the D-tackle battle, but having a great vet like that come in, and actually talk to you, and teach you some things."
The rest of the team's defensive lineman has been a big help for Williams, as well.
"Also having Justin [Smith] and Ray [McDonald] in there like that, and other guys. Watching Tony [Jerod-Eddie] this year play nose guard, I try to take everything from all those guys' games and mix it all into mine."
On Tuesday, Williams took full part in practice for the first time during training camp. It was also the first day for Smith and McDonald. With Dorsey out, Williams knows there's an extra urgency to be ready for Week 1 of the season.
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Changes in iTunes policy draw scrutiny from US government
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Could run afoul of federal privacy protections
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is being called upon by the US government to answer nine questions regarding its new iTunes location data policy. The co-chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, are reported to have sent a letter to Jobs yesterday, expressing concern that the policy might break Section 222 of the Federal Communications Act, preventing companies from sharing location data without someone's permission. A new portion of the iTunes Store agreement gives Apple and its partners the right to track the "real-time geographic location" of devices to "provide and improve location-based products and services."
The major point of concern is that people must either accept the policy or stop using iTunes-related products entirely. "It is our understanding that Apple's consumers cannot use newly-purchased iPads, iPhones, Apple computers or purchase products for existing Apple products from the iTunes music store unless they accept the revised terms and conditions and include agreeing to the collection and sharing of geographical location data," the letter reads.
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