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Smack my pitch up
Congratulations go to Paul Ashcroft after he was awarded the Premier League Groundsman of the Year award for 2012.
The 'Sports Turf Research Institute' announced their findings after looking at all the professional playing surfaces in England, and said that Premier League pitches were "all to a very high standard."
Clearly they didn't visit the Stadium of Light in February when the pitch there looked like no-man's land after a week of intensive shelling which was then ripped to pieces by Godzilla tromping about the field in pointy stilettos and immediately followed by the Horse of the Year show except instead of horses they were genetically modified be-hooved elephants.
Arsenal have a long tradition of exceptional playing surfaces, so much so that Real Madrid no less poached former Groundsman Paul Burgess in 2009.
It is believed that this summer Barcelona will pursue Ashcroft by proving he's got Catalan DNA after a week long holiday in Arenys de Mar when he was seven years of age.
And they say we haven't won a trophy in seven years!
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I get a nice little bit of pride every time I'm watching a game where nothing much is happening and the commentator goes "Of course the pitch is perfect here at the Emirates, just how Arsene likes it…"
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and how it's cut to a specific number of inches :O and also a few of Wenger's little rules, e.g. even in training you have to take off your boots before entering certain areas of the training ground so as to prevent the spreading of dirt. Little things like this which make us stand out as a club really. Immaculate stuff!!
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Well played, Strame. Well played indeed.
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Ahhh good old Arenys… all they need to do now is prove the entire team were out for a weekend in Malgrat 😛
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haha, or that hive of excitement Lloret de Mar
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Not sure they could handle the adventure in Lloret!!
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We can be cynical or joke about it, but I'm proud of our stadium and how the pitch looks almost perfect every game.
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What can you say, Arsenal's pitch is the flat of the land!
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Nicely done
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Heard Sunderland's guy was in the running. But he tripped on a divot, went over on his ankle, had surgery and was ruled out for months.
Stolen from Twitter. Thought I'd share.
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even playing with the handbrake on so much hasn't ruined the pitch. good job lads.
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When I grow up I want to work in the 'Sports Turf Research Institute'. It has to be breathtakingly exciting to work there 🙂
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I saw a program on this before and the amount of work and research that goes into sports pitches are incredible, its not just about laying down some grass but also what goes underneath and how regularly it is mantained and also different stadiums have to have different turf types.. Pretty interesting stuff.
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It looks like you could sleep on there
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Actually I remember that having a playing surface 'as good as Highbury' was one of the top bullet points on the promo site for the new stadium, so props to meeting that KPI!
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In Holland we know a thing or two about grass.
But the pitch at the Grove is indeed good shit for a smokin' team.
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Grass? Good shit? Smokin'? Holland? Oh, you sucked me in. Now I'll have to find one to celebrate tonight's win!
Well done to our Groundsman of the year and his crew ofcourse. Great team effort, only way we know how. COYG!
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Surely this will be enough to keep hold of Rvp!
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And get Hazard AND Gotze!
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Can't believe we beat ac milan's pitch! that looked tip fuckin top when we played there!! >:-(
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Except AC Milan isn't in the Premier League.
Small detail, I know.
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Can't believe the writer of this article didn't pun on the cliche 'pitch perfect'…
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LMAO at the groundskeepers "Catalan DNA" comment by the OP.
All we'd have to do is follow Ashcroft around the pitch and see if he dives all over it. If he can't go more than 10 yards without falling to the turf and raising his hands to the heavens whilst looking around as he gets to his feet then he's surly a Barcelona prodigy. No fancy medical tests needed!
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Anytime I take a look at that pitch I cant stop feeling it was mis-named. Flushing Meadow anyone?
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I think you're getting mixed up with the S**rs stadium; Flushing Toilets.
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I want to see invincibles Mark II on that pitch
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I'm a bit worried that Arseblog underplayed the condition of that Sunderland pitch. You were at least seven negatives away from the reality, but luv the evocative description.
Its also a concern that the Emirates looks sooooo smooth that Ashley Young will be tempted to lay down in the penalty area.
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As if Ashley needed another excuse to be on the ground….
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Sorry for the dislike there!!
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So, if your name is Paul you must be a terrific groundsman?
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It's too bad Paul the octopus passed on then. Could have been multi-purpose for us.
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If they visited Stadium of Shite and still think pitches in England are the best, it's because Arsenal and many others are keeping excellent standards and maintaining a really good average. Well done and congrats to Mr Ashcroft.
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Nasri better pay up fast to Piers Morgan.
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Get Me: Vertonghen, Podolski.. try to sign gotze (splash it as much as you can) retain campbell and wellington from loan
Clear out : Squillaci, denilson, bendter, Vela, Park, Mertesacker, chamakh, arshavin, benayoon
And WIN EVERYTHING!! couldn't be more simple
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People need to start taking Gotze out of their wish lists, he just signed an extension and Dortmund are going to win their 2nd straight Bundesliga title. He's also played for Dortmund (his hometown team) for his whole career and has shown absolutely no desire to leave there anytime soon. Us wishing for Gotze is comparable to some other team wishing for Wilshere, not gonna happen.
Montepellier's owner said Younes Belhanda is available for the right price, if that price isn't ridiculous I think he'd be a fantastic buy.
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Woody Pitkat celebrated, while Keith Rocco went looking for a dictionary.
Last lap dramatics on Thursday at Thompson International Speedway saw Keith Rocco go from second to the lead, take the checkered flag as the race winner, only to be stripped of the victory by officials after the conclusion of the event.
In the, Woody Pitkat of Stafford was declared the winner of the 50-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature Thursday at Thompson International Speedway.
It was the second victory of the season for Pitkat at Thompson, who took over the Jimmy Paige owned SK Modified ride in June after Ted Christopher left the team.
Rocco, the reigning Whelen All-American Series national champion was relegated to a fifth place finish by track officials. Rick Fuller of Auburn, Mass. awarded second place and Andrew Charron of Thompson third place.
Pitkat was in control for much of the event but it was Rocco, of Wallingford, who made a last ditch effort to take over the lead in the final two corners. Rocco's move to get under Pitkat in turn three on the final lap resulted in contact between the two cars. Pitkat was able to save his sliding car and go side-by-side to the checkered flag, but was edged at the line by Rocco.
"Last lap, I tried making a bid for the lead and I threw it under him and he tried to protect," Rocco said. "I don't blame him for trying to protect. I just caught him with the right front and kind of went up and over his left rear nerf bar. It shot us both back up the racetrack. Then he crossed back underneath me and it was side-by-side coming off of [turn] four and he was pushing up on me, trying to run me up a little bit, I was trying to run him down. I thought for sure they were going to have to go to a photo finish for that one. I came across the line and just had the nose over him. Next thing you know they told me I was off the scoreboard."
Thompson competition director Mike Chapman said his decision was made the moment Rocco made contact with Rocco in turn three.
"In my opinion Keith just sailed it in there," Chapman said. "He was just going for it and just threw it into the turn and Woody came down, which is natural to try to protect the low side of the track. He ran right up into him, right over him and made contact and pushed Woody up out of the way. He tried to stay off of him the rest of the way, but in my opinion, I'm not going having anybody going in there and running people out on the last lap. He drove into the leader and it could have been avoided. I'm not going to allow that. I was not going to let him get the win. He just drove it way farther than he ever would have ordinarily."
Rocco said he was "dumbfounded" by Chapman's explanation for the penalty.
"The race director's quote to me was 'When I crashed him.' Maybe you should look that up in the dictionary or I don't know where you want to look it up. Maybe there's a racing handbook you can look up the word crashed. Last time I checked the word crashed usually meant two cars in the fence or one car in the fence or extreme damage maybe. That was the closest finish they've had all year. Probably the closest finish they've had across the start finish line in three years. I guarantee every fan in the place was on their feet. I'm still trying to figure out how I 'crashed' him. I'm dumbfounded by it all."
Pitkat said he was surprised that Rocco made the desperation move on the final lap.
"On any given night there's one guy that can win a race and there was two guys going for the win," Pitkat said. "He drove it under me and wheel hopped the left nerf bar and tried to come inside me, inside the car almost. I think that it was the right call. I think that I had the best car tonight and that was the only way that he had any chance to win was driving it in way over his head."
Pitkat said in the aftermath there were no hard feelings between himself and Rocco.
"I have to give [Rocco] credit, he did come over and apologize to me and told me that he screwed up," Pitkat said. "I usually am always like that, if I [screw] up I try to let people know and say I'm sorry and move on. It takes [courage] to do that and people don't usually do that. I appreciate that because I really didn't want to talk to him, I wasn't very happy about what happened. I didn't think he would do that and I was kind of mad about it, but at the end of the day he came over and apologized and I respect that. We're out here to win races and nobody is out there to finish second, but some night's you've got to."
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During the course of tracking recent events
at the South Pole, one of the curiosities that has arisen centers on the
bizarre involvement of the National Security Agency in civilian Antarctic
research. Although JPL's Frank Carsey, who runs the JPL Vostok/Europa
drilling project in Antarctica, confirmed that he had no knowledge of
any current NSA drilling efforts similar to his own, he did make
it clear that the NSA had been a source of major Antarctic research
funding in the past, and that their monies are now sorely missed.
The history of Antarctic exploration (especially post WWII), with the
heavy (and surprising) involvement of the US military and its security
concerns, is a strange and unique tale that deserves more space than
we can provide here (however, we will address this major subject in a
later update). Suffice it to say, US security agencies have had
a far deeper, if not mystifying, interest than they should have over the
years in Antarctica -- given the desolate, non-strategic and totally isolated
nature of the White Continent. Although there have been recent rumors
of a HAARP-like project near the South Pole, it's unclear exactly what
long-term national security interests may have been involved on the least
populated continent (unless you're counting the penguins!) on the planet.
What has become clear in the last five years is that Antarctica
has unique research value in the context of at least one extraordinary
new idea that does have rampant national security implications--
on Europa.
As the NASA-commissioned Brookings report
makes clear, the discovery of artifacts or extraterrestrial life in the
solar system is considered a preeminent national security concern. Presumably,
the discovery of similar ancient artifacts below the ice at the South
Pole (left) would fall under the same security umbrella.
doesn't take a very broad reading of the Brookings document to see how
Europa -- the second major
moon of Jupiter -- could now fall into exactly the same category. The
confirmation of life under the icy crust of Europa, especially if it is
complex, developed life -- as Enterprise principal investigator
Richard C. Hoagland suggested over twenty years ago in his historic paper,
"The Europa Enigma" -- would have
far reaching social and political implications of precisely the nature
that so concerned the authors of that key NASA Study over forty years
ago. Perhaps it is this concern which has driven NASA and the National
Science Foundation to suddenly all
but abandon their experiments at the South Pole (above, right).
This has had the result, as one strategically placed NASA source
informed us (on the condition of anonymity), of putting drilling into
Europa so far on the backburner that we will likely never see
the question [of alien life beneath its ice] settled in our lifetimes.
However, as JPL project director Frank Carsey has made clear in published
interviews, the problem with getting through the Antarctic ice into Lake
Vostok is not technical -- his team has a second device (below,
left) now ready to test -- but overwhelmingly political. Citing
recent environmental concerns, Carsey has complained, "NASA is
seriously dragging its feet." The mystifying cessation of his NASA
grant, reported earlier this year, would seem to confirm that stance.
According to Carsey, NASA seems content to hide behind the "green"
concerns as an excuse for not proceeding aggressively with the Vostok
experiments now which, if properly funded, could have a penetration
and sample-return as early as 2004.
The problem with these environmental concerns is that, as happens many
times, here they may be seriously over-blown. Another source familiar
with the JPL project told us that the microbes found in the Vostok ice
core samples procured a couple years ago are simply not that unique,
given the glacial (pun intended) rate at which such organisms evolve.
Carsey has made it clear in his previous interviews that it was impossible
to create a sterilization technology for his probes without any standard
by which to work toward. "No body, national or international, has
said how clean is clean enough," Carsey said in a
Scientific American quoted interview "We need a target to work
Beyond that, NASA seems curiously unwilling to challenge the question
head-on and move forward in places other than Lake Vostok with the critically
needed engineering research. They have done nothing to push for
an international standard, so that the experiments can proceed. And make
no mistake -- without an ultimately successful Vostok drilling experiment
-- there will be no Europa probe.
It almost seems like NASA "doesn't want to go there."
That would appear, on the surface, completely illogical -- given the supposed
mandate of the Space Agency to look for alien life. It would seem to
us that the confirmation of a liquid ocean below Europas ice -- and all
the stunning possibilities that discovery would imply -- would be the
best way for NASA to advance its entire exploration agenda, certainly
with a public and Congress eagerly looking for any kind of life
in space. But as we all recall, NASA was quick
to cancel its initial plans to explore Europa several years ago --
even in the wake of stunning Galileo images that seemed to confirm the
presence of that liquid ocean. Only under public pressure were
those plans eventually, partially reinstated. As it stands today, there
are no fully funded plans for any kind of Europa robotic exploration:
no orbiters to take images or spectral analysis; no landers to explore
the mysterious dark cracks, which may contain actual biological materials
(below). And certainly, without Vostok, no missions capable of drilling
through that ice and discovering the wonders down below.
Only in the context of "Brookings" does such a seemingly
illogical course make any sense. Only if there is quiet, clandestine
determination by those at the top not to aggressively seek out
new life -- no matter the many public NASA statements to the contrary
-- does this head-in-the-sandstance seem justified.
Twenty years ago, Hoagland's seminal article inspired Arthur C.
Clarke to "think the unthinkable," and by his own admission
revisit the worlds of "2001" with an equally surprising sequel,
2010. We've all seen the tragic way in which NASA inexplicably squandered
the political capital of that first historic film.
As we look back on Clarke and Kubricks vision of 2001 from thirty years
perspective, we see no grand, wheeling Hiltons offering hotel rooms
to ordinary mortals in Earth orbit (Dennis Titos unique experience
notwithstanding); no "Orion" space clippers taking tourists
to and from those rooms. No daily shuttles carrying more of them to a
thriving lunar outpost; in fact, NO permanent human presence of any
kind on the beckoning surface of the Moon, over thirty years after
Armstrong and Aldrin left their mark ...
we now, with that failure to "dare greatly" staring us in the
face every time we look up at the Moon (or at the calendar) this year
going to find ourselves in a similar position vis-à-vis the greatest
solar system challenge of our time, in nine more years? Are we going to
look back on twenty years -- since the idea of finding "something
wonderful" below the ice fields of Europa first entered our discussions
ala Hoagland -- and wonder why we never followed through on that
dream too ..? Are we going to stand on the precipice of the second decade
of the New Century -- no smarter, no less self absorbed, and no more determined
to find our true place in the Universe -- than we have been in the 33
years since "2001" Premiered?
Are WE going to squander the legacy of "2010" the same
way we have the mantle of "2001?"
We will not be given what we have not earned. We will
not reap the benefits of that which we have not demanded. We will not
have the truth about ourselves without taking the responsibility
to find it for ourselves.
Europa beckons. The world named for the goddess of life,
Isis herself, is waiting. When will we reach out and take her outstretched
hand ..?


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In a huge boost to the campaign of Democrat Dannel Malloy, all six affiliates of the Service Employees International Union have endorsed his candidacy for governor.
The SEIU Connecticut State Council, which has 55,000 members, voted Friday to support the ticket of Malloy and lieutenant governor candidate Nancy Wyman in the August primary against Greenwich cable TV executive Ned Lamont and Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman. The official announcement will be made later today.
Union endorsements are important in Democratic primaries, and the two sides have been battling for support from various unions. Unions spread the word among their members through literature both in the workplace and mailed to union households in the crucial get-out-the-vote drives in the final weeks. The unions also operate phone banks to make sure their members get to the polls.
Previously, four of the six major unions had announced their support, but the leadership of SEIU wanted to make it six for six.
The previous endorsements were by the New England Healthcare Employees Union, District 1199, which is known as one of the state's most politically active unions, and Connecticut District/SEIU Local 32BJ, which represents custodians and security guards. Last week, both CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 and CEUI/SEIU Local 511 stepped forward in favor of Malloy.
The coalition says that the endorsements were made partly because of Malloy's record during 14 years as mayor of Stamford - from 1995 through 2009.
Lamont had sought the endorsement by meeting with the executive council of CSEA for an hour on July 8 in the same way that Malloy and Wyman had met with union leaders for an hour for regarding their policies and issues that have been discussed on the campaign trail.
"SEIU - those are great folks,'' Lamont said Monday. "I respect what they do and the power they have for fighting for the middle class. If [the workers] weren't organized, they wouldn't have enough to get by. They'd be getting $10 an hour.''
Regarding the endorsement, Lamont said, "They tell me Dan crosses every "T'' and dots every "i'' and tells us everything we want to hear. There's no question about it. I can't out-promise Dan Malloy. I can't meet every promise down the line. ... I make promises I can keep.''
"If that's not sour grapes,'' Malloy responded without completing the sentence. "I would love to debate him on a stage in front of TV about that. ... Sometimes you have to be gracious.''
Both Malloy and his chief strategist, Roy Occhiogrosso, said the SEIU endorsement is crucial in the closing weeks. Malloy said he believes that his willingness to debate helped secure the endorsement, and Lamont's unwillingness to debate on television in New London has "backfired'' on him.
"I certainly wanted to have their endorsement - and wanted to have it four years ago and didn't,'' Malloy said, adding that the SEIU nod is "pretty tremendous.''
Occhiogrosso said the unions simply believe that Malloy would "be a better governor - flat out. It's hard for Ned to hear that, but he's hearing it more often. Dan's grateful for the support. It comes at a critical time with three weeks to go.''
He added, "Every time Ned doesn't get an endorsement, there's an excuse.''
Lamont has opposed the paid sick leave bill that was pushed by the legislature's labor committee but never came to a vote in either the House of Representatives or the Senate this year. The paid sick leave bill, though, was not a major issue in his discussion with the unions, he said.
"It's layoffs, pensions, health care,'' Lamont told Capitol Watch. "I think laying off people in the middle of a recession is a lousy idea. I'm not in support of layoffs. For the next generation of employees, there may have to be some changes [in pensions]. A 401 (k) is not necessarily less expensive than a defined benefit plan.''
In the battle for union support, Lamont has been endorsed by the Connecticut Education Association - the state's largest teachers' union that represents more than 40,000 members statewide - and the 10,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers union. The UFCW supported New Haven Mayor John DeStefano only during the final week of his battle against Malloy in the 2006 Democratic primary, which Malloy lost by 1.5 percentage points. The union decided to make an endorsement much earlier in this election cycle.
Lamont has also been endorsed by the United Auto Workers, the sheet metal workers, and the ironworkers, among others.
DeStefano had massive union support in 2006, and Malloy has been working to gain union support this year. In addition to being endorsed by the state AFL-CIO umbrella organization, DeStefano had 45 local unions behind him that made many insiders believe that he would defeat Malloy by 5 to 10 percentage points. When DeStefano won by only 1.5 percentage points, Republicans and even some Democrats questioned how much political clout the unions actually had.
DeStefano, however, did not have the support in the primary from the Connecticut Education Association, which has endorsed Lamont now. The CEA did not endorse DeStefano until the morning after his victory in 2006.
Leo Canty, the executive secretary of the AFL-CIO, said after DeStefano's victory in 2006 that the unions are actually less effective in primaries than in general elections because not all of the members can vote. With 200,000 members, Canty said at the time, more than half of them could not vote in the primary because they are Republicans or unaffiliated voters.
Malloy lost by less than 4,300 votes in 2006, and union spokesman Matt O'Connor says now that CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 "could be the difference in a close election.''
CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 has nearly 25,000 members, and about 8,000 of them are registered Democrats.
Malloy has also been endorsed by the Hartford and New London police unions, Carpenters Local 210, and the Communication Workers of America, Local 1298, among others.


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Self Taught MBA: Strategic Planning, Part 2 - The ABCs of Strategic Planningcomments (2) May 7th, 2012 in Blogs
This morning I received a distressing phone call from a subcontractor, Randy. He owns a small basement company and called to ask if I had any contacts for work, having none since November. "I'm going down the tubes," he confided. I thumbed through my mental rolodex, but on the heels of the worst year for new housing on record, I had no good leads to offer. I suggested Joe, "He's only doing remodels," Randy reminded me, and I suggested a few others, but he had already contacted each with no prospects for work. Randy used to build a foundation every three days, now he's lucky to install one per month, and he was obviously suffering, emotionally as well as financially.
Randy needs a new direction, because chances are the new home market will not rebound anytime soon. Many contractors have been in Randy mode, waiting for things to improve. So I suggested basement repairs. Randy said he'd been looking into it, and knew about a competitor that had gone from basements to repair services about two years ago, "Now he's got a six-month backlog now," Randy told me, "but he doesn't need my help." Randy needs a new strategy, and our conversation turned into an impromptu strategic planning session. I suspect many builders have come to the end of their carrying capacity, and have to figure out an alternative to waiting for the economy to improve, which is like holding your breath. It's time to do some serious strategic planning.
In the last blog, we touched very lightly on the standard business plan, which defines the steps for a new business. It covers standard topics including a description of products or services, the local market, the management team, and revenue and earnings projections. For most of us, this is a wasted effort. We're not starting a new business, but, like Randy, in need of a new approach that leverages existing skills and resources in a market-appropriate direction.
There are two steps to this effort: the first is tactical-what are we going to do and how? The second, operational, which is a detailed and specific implementation plan including duties, dates, and milestones required to achieve the goals outlined in step one.
ABCs of Strategic Planning
To start, a strategic plan represents an internal plan; it's not designed to sell your business idea or to obtain financing. You can forgo a lot of the pro-forma elements of a formal business plan, such as the product/service description, management structure, and financial history. But you will want to analyze the environment in which you're doing business, the threats and opportunities. You'll want to consider your company's resources, financial and personal. You will identify actions needed to move toward your goals, assign tasks, set dates and milestones, and then a program to track your progress.
The strategic plan may have more bullet points than narrative, and represents both a map and a to-do list. You may start with a vision, what will the company look like this time next year? Or you could start with the present situation, known challenges and opportunities, and through the planning process develop a vision. This is a problem solving approach, which sometimes supersedes the inspired, visionary goals that make strategic planning compelling. Either way, it will lead to setting specific goals and then reverse-engineering a route to obtain them.
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Over the last 30 years I have had to reinvent my business several times. I think we get comfortable within our older, more developed business, forgetting that it has taken many years of hard work to develop it into what it had become. If the sales, and therefore revenue goes away, the expenses need to be cut just as quickly and budgets recast and reworked quickly. This often adds a large administrative burden during the transition. This is especially true when you are letting go of epmloyees who once handled tasks that still need to be done. As business owners we find ourselves putting hats back on that we haven't worn in years to keep the business alive.
These are turbulent times and we all need as much help as we can get to navigate the storm. Bravo Fernando for offering insight into hidden opportunities and helping the good guys win.
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Cyprus government to consider marriage equality
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March 1st, 2010
From the Cyprus Mail:
The Government will soon examine the issue of making same-sex marriages legal in Cyprus, Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides has told the Sunday Mail.
Savvides said that the intention is to hold a meeting next month involving the Attorney-general's office, Law Commissioner Leda Koursoumba, Ombudswoman Eliana Nicolaou – who also heads the Authority against Racism and Discrimination – as well as senior representatives of the relevant government ministries.
Should Cyprus enact marriage equality, it could have an impact on the area. Israel does not have civil marriage laws and those who wish to marry must either do so according to Orthodox rules or leave the country to marry elsewhere. Those who aren't Jewish or aren't religious often go to Cyprus. Israel does currently offer some limited recognition to foreign-married gay couples, so a change in Cyprus would be a benefit for gays in Israel as well.
Cyprus is one of the most religious nations in the European Union, primarily Greek Orthodox, as well as being its furthest east. Although discussions will occur, there is no certainty that equality will result.


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'[H]e will dream about this scene, understanding that his story is a sort of prologue: the tale of the moment when the first blackbird lands' – Salman Rushdie
In his recently published memoir, Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie makes a connection between the fatwa placed upon him in 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001. Borrowing an image from the opening sequence of Hitchcock's The Birds, he suggests that that the conflict with Islamist extremism that characterises discourse around the current 'war on terror' first made itself felt in the West during the Satanic Verses affair. More than a decade on from 9/11, the attacks now sit at the midpoint of Rushdie's post-fatwa career, from the moment he was forced into hiding to the publication of his memoir in 2012. Some critics have identified a rightwards shift in Rushdie's politics over the second half of this period, while others have argued that it would be more accurate to identify a shift in the political world around him.
This symposium aims to contribute to this debate by questioning Rushdie's work – both fictional and non-fictional – throughout the last decade. In doing so, it seeks to answer the following: What changes have taken place in Rushdie's writing in the early 21st Century? What can his recent writing tell us about the contemporary world? And what might it tell us about the role of literature in an age of conflicting fundamentalisms?
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We never expected we'd see a review of a Rutles-related event in which the reviewer has to spell out that "Rutles rhymes with shuttles," but that's where we stand when it comes to general knowledge of pop culture and history, and it might as well serve as a reminder as Eric Idle and Neil Innes' 30th anniversary of their historic (and historically low-rated) All You Need Is Cash Beatles parody TV special wraps its first big bang.
Idle's Rutlemania! show ended a four-night run in New York City this weekend, after opening with five shows in LA earlier in the month. The multimedia stage production, which featured a Beatles tribute band playing Rutles favorites and acting out scenes under a screen that mashed up the best bits of Idle's two Rutles mockumentaries, as a great crowd pleaser, and all the more remarkable in that Idle put it all together himself, from idea to onstage introduction in three weeks.
We didn't see a lot of press about the New York run, despite the involvement of Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels as executive producer with Idle, and the presence of the original Rutles for the kick off of the run in Los Angeles.
But the Washington Post sent along a reviewer-- the guy who explained how "Rutles" is pronounced-- who seemed a bit baffled by the idea of
"…a concert by a band re-creating the music of a fake band that satirized the songs of a real band. Or maybe it's a reenactment by four men of four men farcically reenacting the lives of four other men. Or maybe it's a new genre of rock: heavy meta."He was also put off by the fact that the crowd stayed in their seats, while girls in the old Beatlemania days would stand up and scream. He blamed that on the audience being full of "men over 40.
"Including Salman Rushdie. How much leaping and shouting do you think Salman Rushdie does?
"But those facts only partially minimize the weirdness of sitting and listening to a Rutles track like 'Number One,' an imitation of the Beatles circa 1964, and realizing that you're sitting. Because everyone is sitting. Because it would be odd to do anything but sit."
"But those facts only partially minimize the weirdness of sitting and listening to a Rutles track like 'Number One,' an imitation of the Beatles circa 1964, and realizing that you're sitting. Because everyone is sitting. Because it would be odd to do anything but sit."
Rhymes with "hush me."
Oh well, at least we know what a famous author does for fun after he's survived a fatwah by the Ayatollah, Bono, a knighthood and getting dumped by Padma Lakshmi.
Rutlemania! may be popping up elsewhere. We'll keep you posted on that, further Rutles tributes in the coming months, and of course the premiere of The Seventh Python, the Neil Innes musical biopic from our pals at Frozen Pictures.


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UC continues road swing with trip to Glenville
CHARLESTON -- After four straight wins following its only loss of the season, the University of Charleston must have finally shown something to the American Football Coaches Association, which included UC in its top 25 poll.
The No. 25 Golden Eagles (7-1, 4-1 West Virginia Conference) find themselves ranked for only the second time in school history and the first time since 2009.
Fresh off a grueling 27-14 win at West Liberty on Saturday, UC is putting itself in solid position for a postseason berth and at least a share of a WVC title.
That door was opened when Shepherd (6-2, 5-1) dropped a 17-16 decision to that same West Liberty team on Oct. 13.
Shepherd still owns the tiebreaker over UC via a 16-10 win over the Golden Eagles earlier in the season, but truth be told, it's doubtful either team is looking at league titles just yet.
Charleston is just halfway through its four-game road tour, and the highway won't get any smoother this week when it travels to Glenville State for a 1 p.m. game.
The Pioneers are the wild card in the race for conference supremacy, standing at 4-1 in the league and tied with UC for second. However, Glenville is at 4-4 overall after dropping all three of its nonconference tilts.
Meanwhile, Shepherd will get a week off before hosting the Pioneers on Nov. 3.
Needless to say a muddied top of the conference should clear up greatly over the next two weeks.
While Charleston is driving toward a league crown, West Virginia State is just trying to find footing after dropping three in a row to West Liberty, Glenville and Shepherd.
West Virginia Wesleyan will come calling at Institute Saturday for a 1 p.m. kickoff in a matchup of teams with equal records (2-6 overall, 1-4 WVC).
In other conference games on Saturday, Fairmont State visits Concord at 1 p.m. and the Hilltoppers travel to Seton Hill for a 3 p.m. kickoff.
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Boxing: Lennox Lewis out; Freddie Roach in?
It is official, former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has departed from HBO. Here is a statement released by HBO:
After four years with HBO's Boxing After Dark, Lennox Lewis will be leaving his post as commentator to begin fundraising efforts for his international training academy.� Lennox is looking forward to developing a state of the art training facility for young boxers to improve their competitiveness in professional competition.� � Lewis also continues to explore innovative business ventures and film and television projects.
Trainer Freddie Roach was at the Kermit Cintron-Paul Williams fight card doing some test commentary on the preliminary fight card. Maybe Roach is next in line.
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I haven't been a pastor throughout my career. In fact, I spent most of my career to this point in the business world. (I realize that makes me an odd duck in many pastor circles, but it's actually served me well in my ministry roles.)
Coming into ministry later in life, after being a church member, deacon and Sunday school teacher, has given me a unique perspective. I've seen ways the church interacts with the pastor I simply had no idea of before I was a pastor. A few surprises have occurred, probably especially when interacting with other pastors who are now my peers. Thankfully, I've been in churches that mostly support me as pastor, but I interact with pastors in caustic church environments everyday. Even so, they are some similarities it seems with all pastors. And some of these, or at least the degree to which they exist, has been surprising.
Here are 7 of the biggest surprises in being a pastor:
People don't understand the role – The old adage that the pastor only works on Sunday…I'm surprised how many think something similar. They may not think Sunday is the only day the pastor works…some can catch on that the message actually has to be written…but they don't realize the weight of other responsibilities the pastor deals with on a weekly basis. It really is simply an innocent misunderstanding of what's involved in the position of pastor. (It may seem a contradiction and yet this next one is equally true.)
Various opinions of how a pastor should pastor – Some think I should be the only speaker the church has. Some think I should make every hospital visit. Some want me to do more administration. Some believe I am the resident counselor. Some think I should know every detail of every ministry and every event on the church's calendar. You get the idea. As diverse as the people of a church are exists the range of opinions here. Thom Rainer recently wrote an interesting post on this issue and how many hours a week accomplishing expectations would mean a pastor should work. Read it HERE.
People lose their filter when talking to a pastor – It amazes me what people feel comfortable telling a pastor. It is beyond the expected confidentiality issues one expects. It could be criticism of the pastor or gossip about someone else, but many don't hold back their opinion no matter how harsh it may be. And they don't clean it up before they present it. I had a pastor tell me recently that one man in his congregation blasts him every Sunday about something in a very hurtful way, yet this man claims to be one of his biggest supporters. The pastorate appears to be a "safe" place to unload raw, gut honesty. Unfortunately, however, I think some people believe the pastor has no feelings or is expected to be "tough enough" to handle the jabs and process the rumors.
The job is never finished – I guess I knew this, but not to the degree I do now. Job security is in the fact that the job is never completed. There is always one more thing I could've done when I go home at night. Lives keep falling apart. People keep sinning. Marriages are in trouble. It could be overwhelming, and I could refuse to rest and neglect my family if I wasn't disciplined, and if I didn't have a keen awareness that Jesus is ultimately in control. My heart goes out to (and it is part of the motivation of this blog) pastors who haven't learned or aren't practicing this discipline or this truth.
Everything isn't always as seems – People are hurting. Many of those hurts are hidden. You can't "judge a book by the cover" when it comes to people. There are always two sides to an issue. Everyone has a story and it isn't always the story you are thinking. Being a pastor has taught me it is unfair to judge people by what you think you know until you know the whole story. I've better realized the importance of extending grace before I know, and even if I never know, the full story.
Sunday is coming – Every single week. I never realized how fast the weekend comes around until I became a pastor. Don't misunderstand…I'm glad it does, it's my favorite day of the week, but I just never realized how fast it does so until now.
Some people love their pastor – And, I'm so thankful. It's amazing how supportive and encouraging some people can be. I honestly believe they would do anything for Cheryl and me. Most pastors have people like this in their church. (These are Kingdom-building people!) I know, especially from some of my pastor friends in especially difficult situations, that these type people keep a pastor going some days. If you're one of those pastor supporting types…on behalf of all pastors…THANK YOU!
Those are a few things I didn't know, as well as I do now, before entering the pastorate.
Pastors, any you would share?


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A man was gone from his home for just 10 minutes, but that's all the time two crooks needed to steal thousands of dollars in valuables.
It happened in a neighborhood in the Security-Widefield area Monday.
When Vincent returned from buying a lottery ticket, he saw a car pulling out of his driveway with a woman behind the wheel. Then he saw another woman leaving his house, arms full of stolen stuff.
Vincent said he chased after that woman, who dropped some of the stolen items as she fled, but was ultimately able to get away.
When Vincent returned home, he discovered his back door was busted in. A laptop and $1,400 worth of jewelry were all missing.
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These pics are from a map I began a few days ago, being created for a rpg convention game in February. As can be seen the map began on graph paper (this was the final sketched version, out of 5 or 6), which was scanned then played with to determine rough districts & streets.
When finished this should be a reasonable representation of a town of around 4,000 with quazi-medieval Austrian architecture.
This is my 1st map after a couple year break from mapping. I Had a detailed campaign world mapped out during college, but my PC after college wouldnt let me use CC-2.


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In a large bowl, mix together the mint, ginger, sugar, garam masala, salt, and tamarind water. Add the chicken and mix it well. Cover the bowl and allow to marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Thread the chicken onto the 4 skewers. Oil the grill and place the skewers onto it. Grill the skewers, turning frequently and basting with the remaining marinade for about 7 to 8 minutes per side, until the chicken is done and the juices run clear. Cut a piece of chicken open with a small knife to test for doneness.
Per serving: Calories 113; Total Fat 2 grams; Saturated Fat 0.5 grams; Protein 18 grams; Total Carbohydrate 4 grams; Sugar: 3 grams; Fiber 0 grams; Cholesterol 54 milligrams; Sodium 174 milligrams;
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Juanita and Maria Mendoza were raised in a musical family, that honed their talents and experience in a vaudevillean environment in south Texas. Singing in bars and clubs, accompanied by their mother on guitar and performing in the company of their sister, Lydia, Juanita and Maria sang beautiful Spanish duets of corridos, traditional ballads and popular love songs. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Mendoza sisters launched their recording career on the newly established Azteca label in Los Angeles.
The selections on this CD represent the finest of these Azteca recordings from 1946 -1952.
1. Mis Pensamientos
2. Sone Que Me Jurabas
3. Algun Dia
4. Vale Mas Que Te Alejes
5. Los Pachucos
6. Cada Vez Que Me Acuerdo
7. Dos Seres Que Se Aman
8. Por Ultima Vez
9. Las Isabeles
10. Delgadina
11. Corrido De Arnulfo Gonzalez
12. Valentin De La Sierra
13. Que Chula Prieta
14. No Llores Pancha
15. Linda Morenita
16. Los Picones
17. El Contrabando Del Paso
18. Los Versos Del Casamiento
19. La Rancherita
20. Manuelita
21. Yo Vivo En La Parranda
22. Pero Lupita
23. El Resbaloso
24. Por Ahi Se Dice
25. El Desquite
26. Tu Sentencia
"Down and out in a Mexican cantina in 1930s San Antonio, you may have heard the Mendoza sisters sing these grief-ridden love ballads. This was a time when traveling variety tent shows called carpas took entertainment to farm and barrio communities, and when the words pachuco and Chicano were still derogatory.
Juanita and Maria Mendoza follow the traditions of Mexican ranchera music with a prominent 12-string guitar and gutsy vocals. The music does not vary a great deal through the 26 songs on this album, so it's the Spanish lyrics that carry the listener through the emotion-packed ride. These are songs of love, betrayal, of prominent figures of the time, and of cultural affirmation. A bilingual songbook includes most of the lyrics. 'Los Pachucos' is surprising and fascinating for its use of the colloquial Spanglish of the time and for its contempt of extravagantly-dressed youths. Also, listen to 'El Resbaloso' for an 'I've had enough, I'm getting rid of you' stand against male chauvinism."
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Cosmic Forecast, May 24-May 30
Ahhh… Gemini — the breath (air sign) of spring. In astrological mathematical parlance: Aries + Taurus = (the duality of) Gemini. Ahhh…the ability to perceive both sides of the truth — at the same time! Let's have some fun! Time to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk — and eventually communicate? Me first…
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Summer is definitely in the air, can you feel it? Arriving with the season are a slew of new boutiques and salons to keep you looking fresh this summer. Check out a few of my top picks from all over the city.
Parlour 1887, 6068 Maple Street
Benson's newest addition, Parlour 1887, is an Aveda concept salon with a classic feel. The salon only opened its doors on May 17th, but with an experience team of some of...
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You don't have to have a weather app to know it's been a warm spring and that summer is leering right around the corner. As Earth transits the annual circle of the Sun, our axial tilt leans the Northern Hemisphere more directly into the radiant glow. More than in winter, sunlight comes intensely to us through less atmospheric filtering. Based on what the Mad Men say, Americans will be rushing to slather on...
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Reception 7-9pm, exhibit thru July 7
The nude has been a subject in art since the idealized figures of ancient Roman sculpture. Some contemporary artists have taken a more modest and personal approach, accentuating the beauty of the human form in all shapes and sizes. Omaha-based photographer Monte Kruse takes neither and...
The London Diaries
Editor's Note: Our formidable and fabulous Filthy Fashionista (aka Jesica Hill) recently graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. (Congrats!) With diploma in hand, FF did what any fashion-forward girl would do — board a plane and head for Europe. (Hello?) Girlfriend will be sharing her anglo experiences for the next few weeks. Following is FF's first installment from the land of Kate Moss:
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Gordon Brown's New Year Resolution: Reach Climate Consensus in 2010
Posted By Bridgette Meinhold On January 4, 2010 @ 11:50 am In Environment,global warming | 1 Comment
The beginning of a new year is a time to set goals and make plans for the future, and a New Year's resolution [2] we desperately want to come to fruition is a global agreement on climate change. That being said, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking matters into his own hands and has made reaching a climate change agreement one of his priorities for the upcoming year. In a recent interview with the BBC, Brown says [3] that he thinks it is still possible to come to a global agreement after the initial (rather disappointing) COP15 [4] talks in December laid the groundwork for a successful solution. And with other world leaders pledging to continue work on the agreement, 2010 could be the year we've all been waiting for.
When asked what came next after the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, Brown said "I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this." He also thinks "it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by." In the next few months, Brown will be working on coming up with a plan, and "… can see a way forward because what prevented an agreement was suspicion and fear and forms of protectionism that [he] think[s] we've got to get over." Although he hasn't given any details to what that plan may include, it is heartening to know that just because the talks are over, work on the issue isn't.
Other world leaders have also made New Year's Resolutions [5] about moving forward towards a global climate change agreement. Obama wants to move a cap-and trade bill through Congress, and has firmly stated that clean, renewable energy [6] will "drive economic growth for decades to come [7]," with hopes that the US becomes the leader in renewable energy technology development. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel have both committed to hosting talks during the year. Mexico is pushing for the most controversial commitment of a cut of 50% by 2050 [8]. Brazil plans to stay in keeping with its own ambitious targets [9]. Meanwhile, India has launched a plan for special green economic zones [10], and even China has released new regulations to increase the use of renewable energy [11].
Via The Times of India [3] and Grist [5]
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Former President George W Bush is "fired up" to become a first time grandfather as his daughter Jenna announces she is pregnant.
16:23, UK, Wednesday 12 December 2012
Former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager has announced that she and husband Henry Chase Hager are expecting their first child.
The 31-year-old daughter of former President George W Bush made the announcement Wednesday on NBC's Today show, where she is a contributing correspondent.
"I'm nervous and so excited to say that Henry and I are pregnant, or I'm pregnant," Mrs Hager said on the show.
"It's something I've always wanted," she added.
During a phone call on the show, former President Bush said he is "fired up" about becoming a grandfather, and former first lady Laura Bush said she is "thrilled".
"I'm excited for Jenna and Henry," Mr Bush said. "I could barely contain the news when I found out. Now I can tell all my buddies."
The baby will be Mr and Mrs Bush's first grandchild.
Mrs Hager and her husband married in May 2008 in Crawford, Texas.
Henry Hager joined his wife on the show Wednesday, saying his wife would be an "amazing" mother.
"She's a teacher she loves to teach kids and I know she will instil wonderful values and such a loving family."
The couple's baby is due in the spring.
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Re-animating classic games with ScummVM
The SCUMM engine is the basis of almost all the classic
adventure games by Lukasfilm Games/LukasArts.
Now fans can launch these game on Linux thanks to
The SCUMM ("Script Creation Utility
for Maniac Mansion") adventure
engine was developed by
Ron Gilbert for Maniac Mansion, a game
released by Lukasfilm Games in 1987.
Lukasfilm Games, which was later
renamed LukasArts, made continual
improvements to the engine and used it
for a whole series of classic adventure
Adventure games based on the SCUMM
engine introduced a sensational new feature
at the time. Players no longer
to type keyboard commands to
control the characters in the game, but
could simply point to objects to enable
hidden verbs. This genre is known as
"Point & Click Adventure."
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Death can't stop cicadas' effect
Bodies nourish plant life after mass die-off
Published: Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 12:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 12:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON - Even in death, the 17-year cicadas made their mark.
WHEN CICADAS DIE: Decaying cicada carcasses provide a massive boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulate seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported.
BUG INSPECTORS: The scientists conducted their studies in 2002, 2003 and 2004 in the eastern United States, including last summer's noisy invasion by the 17-year cicadas known as Brood X.
SIDE EFFECTS: The findings might explain why tree growth increases for several years after a major cicada emergence.
Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The findings might explain why tree growth increases for several years after a major cicada emergence, experts said.
Bard College professor Felicia Keesing likened it to someone pouring a pound of fertilizer per square yard over the forest floor. She co-authored an article accompanying the research paper on the impact of cicada carcasses on soil and plants.
Louie Yang, a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, conducted the studies in 2002, 2003 and 2004 in cicada-infested areas in the eastern United States.
Last summer's infestation was the largest, with 17-year cicadas known as Brood X inundating the mid-Atlantic region and filling forests from Georgia north to Pennsylvania and west through the Ohio River Valley to the Mississippi.
The beady-eyedinsects spawned a public fascination and worries about the insects' impact on trees, plants, pets and even driving visibility.
While most worries weren't borne out, scientists have long been concerned about the impact of such outbreaks in which there is a sudden hyperabundance of organisms with potentially vast consequences for ecosystems.
Andrew Sugden, Science's international managing editor, said Mr. Yang's research was significant because "it quantifies for the first time what is likely to happen when you get large outbreaks of insects all at once," like the swarms of locusts that recently hit portions of Africa.
In his field studies, Mr. Yang experimented with naturally occurring densities of cicada carcasses of as much as 300 bugs per square yard. For each density, he measured the soil's nitrogen and bacterial and fungal growth over varying periods of time after carcasses were applied.
Soil content of a form of nitrogen used by plants was many times higher in ground littered with cicada carcasses.
Mr. Yang also measured the nitrogen content in the leaves of bellflower plants, with and without cicada carcasses applied to their soil, as well as bellflower seed production. The bellflower is a forest floor plant common to the geographic range in which cicadas occur.
He found bellflowers supplemented with cicada carcasses produced seeds 9 percent larger and foliage with a nitrogen content 12 percent higher than bellflowers without cicadas.
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Manchester United's transfer funds to increase by £80 million, cause for concern for Arsenal?
It looks likely Manchester United's transfer funds may be increased to
well over £80 million with the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real
Madrid and Manchester United will be losing possibly the best player in
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Are some American schools too dismissive about the moral implications of bad behavior?
Consider this tale of a grade school thief.
A fifth grader was caught stealing money from his fellow students' backpacks. Apparently, he'd been doing this for weeks before he was caught in the act.
The mother was very upset and called the school, asking, "What can we do to stop this? I don't want him to develop a habit like stealing."
But the school asked her to stay out of it.
They were obliged to inform her, of course, but they had things under control:
"In fact, we just held a conference about it, and we decided not to say that your son was caught stealing." A teacher explained.
"That would only give your child a bad image of himself. We are calling it 'uncooperative behavior.' We've told your son that if he acts this way, he's not going to get along very well with his friends. This is not the way to behave if you want to have a nice life."
When the mother tried to discuss the incident with her son, he said "Look, Mom, the teachers aren't making a big deal of this. Why are you?"
I don't know how accurate the details of this story are. Neither does William Damon, the Stanford professor of education who heard this woman's account on a call-in radio show. But Damon says he hears stories like this all the time. And they illustrate what's wrong with the way character is being taught–or not taught–in the United States and places like it.
In this essay on character education, Damon notes there are two big problems with the school's response.
1. "Uncooperative behavior" doesn't cut it. Some things are just wrong. "It's absolutely critical that we are willing to use a moral language with kids when discussing the consequences of their behavior," says Damon.
2. The school can't tell parents to butt out. "The school sets itself up as an enclave of professional expertise—it knows better than parents, who after all aren't trained–rather than seeing itself as embedded in the community, sharing its values."
You can read the whole story–and Damon's analysis– here.
What's the right way to handle student theft? Or other social misdeeds?
The answer depends on all sorts of things, including the maturity level of the defender.
In defense of the school's position, I've seen research suggesting that people don't behave well when they feel ashamed. Shaming a person often backfires, making him feel victimized, angry, and (most important for the rest of us) unrepentant.
Moreover, harsh, authoritarian discipline may cause more problems than it solves–stunting a child's moral development, and encouraging her to lie or cheat.
But that doesn't mean we have to reframe wrongdoing as a suboptimal route to self-fulfillment and personal happiness. Is it even true? Plenty of bullies, cheaters, and tyrants have abused other people without paying the social consequences. They're feeling plenty happy, thank you very much.
So appealing to a child's sense of self-interest leads to a dead end. If we want kids to make ethical choices, we need to do the opposite: Get kids to think about the rights and well-being of other people.
What happened to the victim of your theft? In what possible world do your pleasures outweigh his pain?
Experimental studies show that very young children have a strong sense of fairness, egalitarianism, and empathy–the building blocks of moral reasoning and conscience. And that's what we want, isn't it? A society where people treat each other well out of conscience.
Happily, that's what we're adapted to do. When we treat someone badly, we feel guilt. It's the psychological mechanism that keeps us from committing sociopathic crimes. And it's distinct from shame.
Shame is about feeling humiliated and being focused on yourself. Guilt is about empathy and regret. It's focused on the feelings of other people.
Research bears this out. When people feel guilty, they are less likely to repeat an offense. They are motivated to make amends. These should be the goals of any disciplinary measure — in school, or anywhere else.
More reading
If you're interested in the building blocks of a moral conscience, check out "Babies expect fairness," "Even babies want to help," and my Parenting Science pages about the development of empathy.


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Deer Hunting: Getting Started
almost entirely nocturnal, except when does are in heat during the fall rut or breeding season.
Missouri offers a variety of deer-hunting seasons. Check and make sure to buy clothing that complies with hunter-orange regulations.
Missouri also allows you to hunt deer by way of a variety of methods. Regardless of method, purchase quality equipment. If you decide to hunt with a bow, get a good one. All bows require implements that reduce the sound of the string when you release an arrow. Compound bows also have cables, which make noise when the bow is drawn and shot. Without quieting implements, deer hear bow noise and bolt — hunters call it jumping the string. Cheap bows tend to make more noise and are more difficult to quiet.
If you decide to hunt with a rifle, again, buy a quality one. You need an accurate rifle with a good trigger. As far as caliber, pick one that is readily available at most places that sell hunting supplies. Know that some bullets for some calibers are quite expensive — more than $2 a shell. The 30-06 is a favorite of many deer hunters, because it is moderately priced and versatile.
Most deer hunters like their rifles equipped with a telescopic sight. Scopes make sighting for a shot far easier. They also gather light, which makes for better shot placement under the low-light conditions of early morning and late evening. Scopes are available for a wide range of prices. Avoid the cheaper ones. You can buy a good scope and mounts for $200-$300.
Tree stands, such as ladder stands and climbing stands, offer three big benefits: They can place you above the line of sight of deer, so deer are far less likely to see you; they help keep your scent off the ground; and they often give you a wider field of view.
The big problem with tree stands is that they can be dangerous. Every year hunters are seriously injured—sometimes fatally—by falling out of tree stands. Most hunters fall when they are climbing in or out of their stands.
If you decide to hunt out of tree stands, don't hunt out of homemade ones. They are prone to fail. Buy one that meets the standards of the Treestand Manufacturer's Association (TMA), and buy and use a fall-arrest system that meets TMA standards. Use the system the moment you leave the


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Rowland's Calumet Brewery & Brew Pub
Rowland's has been brewing since 1990. The brewer makes more than a dozen beers, including seasonal beer and specialty beers with a total of nine beers on tap at any time. Rowland's also produces gourmet sodas including rootbeer, blue raspberry cream, cherry cream and more. The bar/brewery is housed in 1870 building that once served as the Chilton's City Hall and the city's first fire station.
Hours of Operation
2pm-2am, Tuesday-Thursday, Noon-2:30am, Friday, Saturday, Noon-2am, Sunday. Closed Monday
Uptown Chilton, one block north of the corner of State Highway 151 and State Highway 57.