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NEW YORK: Wall Street finished a turbulent week with another huge drop Friday after major banks warned of further losses on their debt portfolios, raising investor concerns that the credit market slump shows no sign of abating. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 220 points.
Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wachovia Corp all said the ongoing credit crisis will cause another round of heavy losses during the fourth quarter. Financial institutions took big hits during the last quarter as losses from subprime mortgages hurt their balance sheets.


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
The Soybean Looper, Pseudoplusia includens, is an abundant plusiine caterpillar that is a pest of soybean, sweet potato, peanut, cotton, tomato, peas, tobacco. They mainly feed on the soybean foliage, but sometimes feed on pods as well. The young larva starts at the interior lower portion of the leaf surfaces, but as they mature they move towards the top of the leaf surfaces.
CharacteristicsThe name looper comes from the way their larval body humps up in the middle in a looping motion while walking. The larva are light to dark green with light horizontal stripes running along each side of the body and have two pairs of abdominal prolegs and an anal pair. The rear of the body is thick and tapers down towards the head. They can reach a length of 1.3 inches and some have black legs or black markings on the head and body. The pupae are a 1/2 inch long and range in color from white to green. Moths are from brown to black with a wingspan of 1 or 1.5 inches. The forewings are brown with golden and silver markings near the center.
Life CycleThey overwinter and come out in June. The eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves and the larva hatch in three days. They feed for two to three weeks and then pupate in silk-like cocoons on the underside of the host plants leaves. The pupae develop for a week.

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Meditation at Lagunitas
by Robert Hass
The Pastoral World
Symbol Analysis
"Pastoral" poems frequently depict cliché images of nature: fuzzy lambs, lush grass, cascading waterfalls, thatched-roof houses, and beautiful maidens. But, the images in this poem are very specific and realistic, like the "dead sculpted trunk" of the tree at Lagunitas. For the speaker, nature is the world of the particular, the mind is where ideas reside, and language is capable of bringing the two together. He treats words as natural events, and compares things in nature to words.
- Title: The title announces the setting of the poem at Lagunitas, a beautiful, rural area of northern California.
- Lines 4-6: The speaker uses intense nature imagery to create the sense that the woodpecker and the tree are unique, specific, and "particular" things. Although woodpeckers exist elsewhere, this "clown-faced woodpecker" – the one the speaker is looking at – exists only in one place at that moment.
- Line 10: The metaphor comparing the sound of the word "blackberry" to a bushy bramble reminds us of a real blackberry bush.
- Lines 20-23: The speaker's desire for his "childhood river" is compared to a "thirst" using metaphor. It's not just "like" a thirst, it is a thirst. Once again, the pastoral imagery is immediate and tense, letting us know we're dealing with a "particular" thing and not a "general idea."
- Line 29: A metaphor compares pleasant days to the erotic satisfaction of "good flesh."
- Line 31: The poem fools us into thinking that it has ended on a pastoral image of blackberries, but the line's beauty is in the repetition of the sound of the word, even more than in the image that it conjures.


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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction
by J.D. Salinger
Analysis: What's Up With the Title?
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter" and "Seymour: an Introduction" were originally published separately, several years apart. When they were combined in this short story collection, Salinger chose to combine the existing titles as the new title of the collection. So let's look at each one separately, as the stories were originally titled.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
This is a line taken from a poem by Sappho, a lyric poet from Ancient Greece. A piece of the poem makes an explicit appearance about halfway through the short story, so let's start by taking a look at its place in the text:
[Boo Boo] had easily managed to post the following message up on the mirror: "Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. Love, Irving Sappho, formerly under contract to Elysium Studios Ltd. Please be happy happy happy with your beautiful Muriel. This is an order. I outrank everybody on this block." The contract writer quoted in the text, I might mention, has always been a great favorite – at appropriately staggered time intervals – with all the children in our family, largely through the immeasurable impact of Seymour's taste in poetry on all of us. I read and reread the quotation, and then I sat down on the edge of the bathtub and opened Seymour's diary. ("Roof Beam" 3.28)
The poem from which this line is taken is a celebratory wedding hymn. This is a fitting source for Boo Boo's congratulatory well wishing of Seymour's marriage. But why does it deserve the title spot? We can think of a few reasons, but you should feel free to add your own.
- As Buddy points out, this "was a day, God knows, not only of rampant signs and symbols but of wildly extensive communication via the written word. […] If you slipped into bathrooms, you did well to look up to see if there were any little messages, faintly apocalyptical or otherwise, posted high over the washbowl" ("Roof Beam" 3.26). We talk extensively about the theme of language and communication in the text in "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" and "Themes." Boo Boo's message is one element in this much larger discussion, so be sure to check out the "Symbolism" section for the full picture.
- Buddy's use of the word "apocalyptical" reminds us of the message's irony. At the time we read it, Seymour has failed to show up for his wedding, which means the bridegroom is not coming like Ares. In fact, he's not coming at all. The word, apocalyptical, also reminds us that Seymour will be dead within a short time. As Boo Boo wishes him a happy wedding, we know that her wish will never come true.
- Speaking of happiness, it's a major theme in "Roof Beam" present in this mirror message. Recall that Seymour insists he is too happy to get married. There's more on what that means in "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory."
- Writing a message on the bathroom wall with a wet piece of soap is apparently one of the Glass-isms of this singular family. So is the love for Sappho. The Glass siblings speak to each other in their own way, through their own mannerisms and in their own language. To wish someone a happy wedding by quoting Sappho – and to do so on the bathroom mirror – is to speak the Glass family language. One of the major themes in both "Roof Beam" and "Seymour: an Introduction" is the insularity of the Glass family and the difficulty, for Buddy, of communicating Glass-isms to the outside world. Buddy can never get anyone outside the family to understand Seymour giving Charlotte the nine stitches, for example. Yet, everyone inside the Glass family understands it perfectly. There's more on that in "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory."
- As Buddy points out, the Glass children's love for Sappho is "largely through the immeasurable impact of Seymour's taste in poetry on all of us" ("Roof Beam" 3.28). Seymour's literary influence on his siblings is explored more in Franny and Zooey than it is here, but title "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" reminds us of the impact Seymour has had in shaping each of the Glass siblings, and the Glass family dynamic as a whole.
- Sappho's poetry is written in Greek, and so there's some flexibility when it comes to word choice in translation. Salinger chooses the word "carpenters" where others have used "workmen" or "craftsmen" or any number of similar nouns. We know from the character Cybil Carpenter in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" that "carpenter" is an important word for Salinger, probably because Jesus was a carpenter. This line of poetry thus becomes more complicated, as it mixes an allusion to Christianity with an allusion to ancient Greek religion (the Sappho poem is actually a bridal hymn to Hymenaios, or the ancient Greek God of marriage rites). This is perfectly in line with Seymour's brand of universal spirituality. In his personal religious philosophy, Seymour combines elements of several different religions, including Christianity and Zen Buddhism.
Seymour: an Introduction
This title seems a lot more straightforward, but it's no less informative and consequential than "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters." Again, the title serves several interesting functions:
- In "Writing Style," we talk about the fact that Buddy's narratives are meta-fictional. In other words, they acknowledge the fact that they are fiction. The title fits right in to the meta-fiction. By claiming that the following is "an introduction," Buddy acknowledges immediately that this is a work of writing serving some explicit purpose for the writer.
- Later in the text, Buddy discusses the title explicitly (yet another example of meta-fiction). Let's take a look:
[Seymour] lends [himself] to no legitimate sort of narrative compactness that I know of, and I can't conceive of anyone, least of all myself, trying to write him off in one shot or in one fairly simple series of sittings, whether arranged by the month or the year. […] I'm anything but a short-story writer where my brother is concerned. What I am, I think, is a thesaurus of undetached prefatory remarks about him. […] I want to introduce, I want to describe, I want to distribute mementos, amulets, I want to break out my wallet and pass around snapshots, I want to follow my nose. In this mood, I don't dare go anywhere near the short-story form. ("Seymour" 1.4)
The point is that "Seymour: an Introduction" is not a short story – it's an introduction. And so the title prepares us for the form of the piece. The title tells us not to expect a typically plotted (or typically anything else) short story.
- "Seymour: an Introduction" reinforces Buddy's point that Seymour is simply too large to fit on paper. He can't possibly describe everything about his brother (though it's not for lack of trying) on the written page. This is merely an introduction – merely the early beginnings of an infinitely large project. Don't expect to know everything about Seymour from this one piece, the title says, because there's lots more where this came from.
- Lastly, the title is a tad ironic since this is one of Salinger's last stories about the Glass family, not one of the first. We've already met Seymour in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and learned all about him in "Franny," "Zooey," "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and even subtextually in "Teddy." All of this makes this "Introduction" anything but.


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Levitating Falls
Category: Nature
Photo and caption by Amiel Maerling
I took this photo in November of 2010 for my Photography 1 class at Sullivan County Community College. It was taken around 6:00 pm at an unnamed falls in Greenfield Park, N.Y. using a Nikon D5000. Photographer Amiel Maerling
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The Department of Economics at Texas Tech is committed to rigorous theoretical and quantitative analysis in teaching and research. The Department of Economics offers programs that lead to a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, a Bachelor of Science in Economics, a Bachelor of Science in International Economics, a Master of Arts in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics.
Seminar: Professor David Laibson, Harvard, Thursday, March 10th, Holden Hall 239, 1:30 – 2:45 pm
"Myopia and Discounting"
Additional information on Professor Laibson's visit
Study Abroad Opportunity: Environmental Economics at the TTU Center Seville, Spain
Graduate Student Instructors met with Professor Mankiw at the Cengage Economics Teaching Conference, Nov. 5th - 6th, Dallas, TX.
Job Opening: Tenure Track Faculty Position, Assistant Professor, Macroeconomics, International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics (JOE listing)
Congratulations to Economics majors Jessica Rachel Glockner and Noah Christopher McCullough for being named to the College of Arts and Sciences list of highest ranking Spring 2015 graduates.
Nobel Laureate, Professor Paul Krugman gives public Lecture
The theme of his talk was "that old-fashioned macro, including of course the liquidity trap, has done remarkably well in this crisis. Unfortunately, half the macroeconomics profession forgot all that, and most policy makers chose to ignore it in practice.
Fall 2015 Seminar Series
|Sept. 16
|Social Context and Sexual Assault: Evidence from Big Time Sporting Events
|Jason Lindo, Texas A&M
|Sept. 30
|Measuring Uncertainty of a Combined Forecast and Some Tests for Forecaster Heterogeneity
|XuguangSheng, American U
|Oct. 21
|The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans
|Jonathan Morduch, NYU
|Nov. 4
|Minimum Wage Effects on Small Businesses
|Kaj Gittings
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|Competitiveness and Macroeconomic Impacts of Reduced Wait Times at U.S. Land Freight Border Crossings
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Score Another Victory for Scientists, Michael Mann, and the Freedom of Inquiry
Chris Mooney | November 2, 2011
By Chris Mooney • Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 06:04
Yesterday in a Virginia courtroom, Michael Mann—who is quickly becoming the Galileo of climate science—triumphed over the conservative American Tradition Institute, and ongoing attempts at scientist-harassment.
More specifically, Prince William County Circuit Court Judge Gaylord Finch both allowed Mann to join the case that ATI is pursuing against the University of Virginia to get Mann's emails, and allowed UVA to back out of an agreement with ATI to let it review some of Mann's emails that the university is nevertheless claiming are exempt from disclosure.
This is a bit technical, as is often the case in ongoing court proceedings, but let's remember why it matters.
The ATI lawsuit is a follow-on to Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli's outrageous harassment of Mann. And protecting Mann's emails from disclosure is critical for ensuring that ideological fishing expeditions that attack and harass scientists aren't permitted. The contrary result, as many scientific groups have asserted, could have a chilling effect on academic research and freedom of inquiry in controversial areas.


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Batista's Billions Wilt on Missed OGX Goal in Brazil
Eike Batista, who energized Brazilian markets by taking six startups public since 2006, is no longer among the world's 20 richest people after shares of his commodity empire plunged, wiping $3.8 billion from his fortune.
OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA, Batista's biggest company, lost 40 percent of its value in the past two days after cutting production targets at its first two oil wells by as much as 75 percent. The drop dragged down Batista's mining, logistics and shipbuilding companies on concern the enterprises, some of which rely on OGX for revenue, will scale back targets as well.
"People are not confident any more in the speeches from Eike's companies," said Dany Rappaport, who manages 250 million reais ($120 million) at Investport in Sao Paulo. "Investors are avoiding any kinds of surprises."
Batista, 55, emerged as Brazil's richest man by building an empire of interlinked oil, mining, shipbuilding and logistics companies to harness the nation's natural resources. His fortune peaked at $34.5 billion in March, putting him in eighth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index after he sold a 5.6 percent stake in his EBX Group Co. holding company. As of today's close, Batista, who says he aspires to surpass Mexico's Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest person by 2015, ranked 27th with a net worth of $19.6 billion.
Rethinking Ratings
OGX's tumble belied its ranking as the second-most recommended stock by analysts in Brazil. Before yesterday, the company had a consensus analyst rating of 4.5, the highest of any company in Brazil after iron-ore producer Vale SA. The rating, which is the average within a range of one to five, with five being the highest, fell to 4.39. The ratio of borrowed stock in OGX, an indication of short selling, exceeds 7.7 percent of floating equity, the most of any energy company in Latin America, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"Analysts who have buy ratings are going to have to rethink," said Joao Pedro Brugger, who helps manage about $100 million in stocks and bonds at Leme Investment Fund in Florianopolis, Brazil. "There's more pessimism about production."
Commodities tumbled into a bear market June 21 as U.S. reports on manufacturing, jobless claims and home sales signaled a faltering economy after the Federal Reserve refrained from announcing another round of stimulus. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials has dropped 21 percent from this year's highest close of 715.52 on Feb. 24.
In an e-mailed statement, EBX responded to questions on the outlook for Batista's empire by saying its companies have enough cash to continue fulfilling their business plans.
Short-term Targets
OGX fell 2.12 reais to 6.25 reais in Sao Paulo trading yesterday, the biggest decline on the benchmark Bovespa index. Logistics company LLX Logistica SA and mining company MMX Mineracao & Metalicos SA rounded out the top three losers with 7.5 percent and 6.9 percent declines, respectively. Ship builder OSX Brasil SA fell 13 percent to 10.50 reais.
OGX lost a further 19 percent today, while OSX dropped 11 percent, LLX slid 8.1 percent and MMX dropped 17 percent. CCX Carvao da Colombia SA, Batista's coal unit, slumped 8.8 percent.
OGX's tumble made the company a bargain even if it only delivers on a third of the 1.38 million barrels a day it has promised to produce in 2019, said Rogerio Freitas, a partner at Rio de Janeiro-based hedge fund Teorica Investimentos.
OGX is focusing on short-term equipment delivery targets, Chief Financial Officer Roberto Monteiro said yesterday on the call, declining to comment on long-term output goals.
"The key word here is trust," Lucas Brendler, who helps manage about 7 billion reais ($3.4 billion), including OGX shares, at Banco Geracao Futuro de Investimento, said by telephone from Porto Alegre, Brazil. "The market is asking if the numbers for the other businesses are trustworthy."
'Exaggerated' Drop
"The fall in the market was a little exaggerated," Freitas said in a telephone interview from Rio de Janeiro. "There's a large discrepancy between the value of the company and the implicit value of the company."
Teorica bought OGX shares yesterday, marking its first holdings of the company in "a long time," he said. The fund doesn't hold any other Batista companies.
OGX has had over 90 percent success exploring for oil in the Campos Basin where its biggest oil fields are, more than the 59 percent success rate in 2011 trumpeted by Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-run oil company.
"Eike didn't really manage to deliver on the promises," said Brugger, who doesn't own any OGX shares. "We prefer companies that have in fact been producing for a while with operational results."


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Hive pocket is the very same wonderful game we all love, but in a compact version. With all its pieces in a portable small cloth bag, this game can provide fun just about anywhere! This edition includes two bonus pieces, "The Mosquito" and "Ladybug," expansions to the game which provide additional hours of fun!
The object: To surround your opponent's queen bee while trying to block your opponents from doing the same. Each player has 13 tiles; representing different insects. Each insect has a unique way of moving (as in chess) and resembles the movement of the insect depicted on the tile. Content: 26 Hexagonal tiles Rules Cloth bag.
Product Information
John Yianni
Gen Four Two Games
Year: 2012
Players: 2
Time: 20 - 30 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 277 grams
Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item. Manufacturer's rules are printed in English. Game components are language-independent.
Product Reviews
Average Rating: 4.2 in 7 reviews
This is good stuff… really good… pure strategy and tactics… no luck here. Like chess the opening is all about strategy. Which pieces will you bring out first and where will you place them. The middle game is the battle, one that usually goes back and forth several times. Often you will think you have it won… but then find you lack the fire-power… coming up one piece short of making the final kill. And the end game is pure tactics… a blunder against a better player, and you will lose. This game has become one of our favorite lunch-time games at work. It's awesome… it's deep… the more you play (like chess) the more you see how good this game really is. And it plays in 20-30 minutes which makes it excellent for those times when you do not have a lot of time (like lunch). It is also easy to transport, plays almost anywhere, and the Bakelite pieces are of the highest quality (thick and heavy… they feel good in your hands and stay-put on the table)… what more can I say?
"Again!", says my wife.
"We just played three times and you want to play again?", I stammer in rapt incredulity!
"Again!", she demands...
A demand I willingly fulfill!
This game is easy to explain, easy to remember, easy to love! We play best out of five when time allows (read; when kids stay sleeping long enough). And we have had to get three copies thus far because guest keep leaving with our latest copy.
One thing I must say is I believe that a previous reviewer thought that you couldn't end movement touching another colors piece. You can. The only restriction on touching an enemy color is when you are bringing a new piece into play, it may only touch your pieces. It can't touch an enemy piece at all.
The interaction of the various bugs is tough to coordinate as you opponent can pin and isolate your pieces even as you do the same to him.
The choices of which pieces to bring out in the first 4 are the start of hostilities. I like to start off with two beetles and the queen then a Grasshopper. This seems to allow a lot of flexibility in the early going.
A great game to carry with you it plays anywhere and always attracts people.
I am a big time gamer and Hive is a wonderful, simple to learn, difficult to master, 2 player game. It is a definite 5 star game in the category of 2 player games. The no luck factor goes along way with me. It goes anywhere since there is no board and has endless replay value. It is kind of like chess in 10-20 minutes. Great wood figures as well.
Having an interest in insects and other arthropods, purchasing this game was a given. Having it be a quick, two-player game that plays well was a bonus. I have found it to be a very enjoyable game, though lately I've been getting my abdomen handed to me. Although it is an abstract game, something about the different movement types (jumping, crawling, etc.) seem to really fit with the various arthropods depicted on the pieces. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.
All that Hive lacks is the Indonesian House Cricket scenario. Since those insects hop and hop fast, that would add to the liveliness of the game.
When my opponent, referred to as the Silver Player, started to play the game, we had no idea that three different games would result. The game starts out with a simple premise: Protect your Queen Bee from being taken over by your opponent's pieces.
Pieces consist of Three Driver Ants, Two Spiders, Two Beetles, and Two Grasshoppers. You must conserve your pieces, and the Silver Player did just that by holding back the Driver Ants. The Driver Ants remind one of the power of the chess pieces, Rook and Knight. The Driver Ants can move in any straight line direction around the blocks and can prove quite formidable when blocking the opponent's pieces.
The Grasshoppers were particularly enjoyable to move, because they can hop in any straight line. However, the Silver Player pinned my two grasshoppers in the third game. That brings up a nasty feature of the game. You must always form a chain with your blocks, and the chain can never be broken. If I had moved one of the pinned grasshoppers, I would have broken the chain.
The game starts with the Queen Bee having to appear by the fourth turn. You have two choices for each turn: move or place. You cannot do both, and that creates some fascinating dilemmas in deciding what to do.
As one discovers quickly, it is not a good idea to surround your Queen Bee with two of your pieces for protection. Then, the Queen Bee cannot break the chain. Also, the rules state you can surround a queen bee with your own pieces and your opponent's. That constitutes a win for either the Silver or Blue Player.
Spiders are quite troublesome in the game. As I discovered, the spiders can only move three spaces (no more, no less) around the periphery of the blocks. In the third game, the Silver Player effectively used his spiders to pin some of my blocks from moving to surround his queen.
One must keep a wary eye on colors matching. You cannot end the movement, say, of the Blue block next to another block of a Silver color. The colors have to match on all sides of each hexagonal block. That creates a hair-raiser when one is running through all the possibilities of trying to move an insect.
The third game proved our closest one for the Blue and Silver players. Each of us immediately placed two blocks to start surrounding the queen. Then, it became a contest of who had the most moves and pieces to finish the surrounding effort. I made an error by allowing two of my grasshoppers to be pinned and not taking advantage of the beetles' capability.
The beetles move one block or space. They can pin whatever is underneath and, for a time, change that opponent's color to the beetle's color. It is important to use the beetles wisely instead of letting them languish among the blocks.
As you can see, Hive hooks you, creates a buzz, and provides endless possibilities to pin the Queen Bee.
Any good board game normally has simple rules, but is built in such a way that it is not obvious how to build a winning strategy.
This game is quite the opposite.
As you can see from the picture, there are 5 different creatures, each has its own rules how it can move during the game, plus the game has its own constraints such as the hive has to be connected at all times. The only thing that is not taken into consideration when you make a move is maybe the layout of stars in the sky.
So after you spent 15 minutes reading the rules, and another hour trying to explain it to your kids, you get to play maybe 10 or 15 times, and by then all players have pretty much figured out the winning strategy. Because of the constraint that the hive has to be connected at all times, you use your ant to lock in the enemy bee, and then you can tell exactly in how many turns you win. First player who can do it wins. This is normally player 1 unless you are new to the game.
You then use the two other ants to make it impossible for the bee to escape; you use your choice of grasshoppers or spiders to take the remaining 2 squares. Once you started winning, the fact of it is obvious to both players, and nothing can be done about it. You have about 8 more turns before the end of the game, and it is clear who won, so you just stop the game at that point.
The author spent too much time trying to come up with a set of complicated rules, and it still doesn't give any flexibility to the game.
The only good thing about this game is maybe the quality of porcelain pieces - they feel really good in your hand. But of course there is no much use of it since the game is quite unplayable.
Hexagonal tiles show your creepy-crawly warriors: Ants, Grasshoppers, Spiders, Beetles and Queen Bee. Players in turn form a turbulent hive of insects by laying a piece adjacent to others. After the Queen Bee is placed (no later than the fourth turn), turns may consist of moving placed insects. Queen Bees move one space, and Spiders three spaces, around the hive's edge. Beetles move one space, and may jump onto an adjacent insect, thereby immobilizing it. Ants move anywhere they please around the hive. Grasshoppers jump over one or more pieces. Insects cannot move if they would split the hive into several sections. You win by surrounding the enemy Queen Bee; its adjacent friendly insects contribute to its defeat. This game's chess-like strategy will leave you itching to explore more of its subtleties.
Hive is an abstract game of placement for two people. Each uses 11 hexagonal pieces, which are made of smooth wood about 1 cm in thickness and which provide a quality feel to the game. The eleven pieces are a queen, 3 ants, 3 grasshoppers, 2 spiders and 2 beetles. Each player has an identical set that is distinguished by the background colour of the sticky label (which is already attached to the wood when you get your game). While they look pleasant on a display -- metallic silver and metallic blue -- under fluorescent light they can be hard to tell apart. [Funagain Editor's Note: This issue has been resolved in the second edition of the game; the material and construction of the pieces is the same as before, but the tiles are now nonrefelective and the colors are thus easily distinguished.]
The game is played with each player playing one piece at a time and the object is to capture your opponent's queen. This is achieved when the queen is surrounded by pieces, and mainly this will be with your pieces. Each type of insect has its own movement rules. For example, once placed the grasshopper can jump to a vacant space along a straight row of joined pieces, while the ant scoots around the edge of the pieces to a new position, a move that is incredibly good at times. Except for the first turn, when pieces are first placed on the board, they must only touch their own colour. When they move (on a subsequent turn) they must form one continent, i.e. all pieces must be linked somehow. Your queen has to be played during the first four turns and this is also a telling time, as it can end up in the middle of a load of pieces and be "in check" early on, or find itself stranded at the edge of the developing continent and unprotected.
The game reminds me of the old Hartland Trefoil classic (sadly, out of print now) called Ancient Kingdoms. This game was about hexagonal tile placement and movement of pieces and was for 2 to 5 players. But it had a similar feel to it as pieces were moved into better positions.
The rulebook is extraordinarily good: the colours match the colours of the pieces, there are good examples and the clarity of the rules is first class. Why comment on this? Well, since this is a first production you do not normally get either this attention to detail or this quality. It all comes at a cost of course. The game is 20 in the UK, but if you are at all interested in abstract games, then you should consider this. It plays quickly, has an addictive quality and, with so many options in the play, does not have a perfect strategy or set so many initial moves.
After several games now, I am uncertain about the position of the first player. We have had more first player wins than second, but this is simply resolved by reversing the order in the next turn. It could be argued that the second player can counter any move by the first player, but I haven't played sufficiently to guarantee that this is the best way of playing second. (The website says that there is no advantage in going first, but I can only comment on the games I have played so far.) Like chess, there is plenty of room for analysis. Personally, the rule I like the best is that all pieces have to be in contact. This makes for some interesting plays as the continent stretches out.
The game is readily available in England and also from the www.hivemania.com website, which itself is well constructed and will provide sufficient further information for you to follow up this review. Some of the site is still under construction, but there are some pictures of the prices, which are useful to see.
The cover of the game says, "Hive is a game crawling with possibilities". This set my mind working to the various puns that could be used in the game. The best I came up with was an "all ant attack", but working with insects I'm sure you will do better.
While I do not rush to get abstract games, this one has more appeal than most, plays quickly and is well produced. I would recommend adding it to your collection, even if you only have a casual interest in abstract games.


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Kansas City police are asking for help finding a 69-year-old man suffering dementia and other medical issues.
Troy Duckworth was last seen walking in the area of 23rd Street and Topping Avenue about 6 p.m. Tuesday.
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Family members that Duckworth left after an argument Tuesday night. They said they thought he was going to another family member's house, but he never made it there.
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Exercise for the management of cancer-related fatigue in adults
Fatigue is a common and potentially long-lasting side effect of cancer and cancer treatment, which may last for months or years. As a result of improved therapy, people with cancer are surviving longer and having to deal with long-term consequences of the disease and its therapy. Fatigue can have a significant impact on quality of life, not only interfering with daily activities, but also having the potential for negative social and economic consequences
Dealing with cancer-related fatigue is crucial to effective treatment, because those who suffer the effects of fatigue may be less inclined to continue with treatment. In the past, people with cancer-related fatigue were frequently advised to rest; current advice is that long periods of inactivity may lead to muscle wasting and increased tiredness, whereas balancing rest with physical activity may help to reduce fatigue.
For healthy individuals, research has shown that exercise can reduce fatigue and increase exercise tolerance. It may also improve mood and reduce anxiety. However, it was unclear whether exercise would be beneficial for patients with fatigue arising from their cancer or its treatment.
A 2008 Cochrane Review found some benefits of physical activity for fatigue in cancer, based on limited studies. The research team has updated the review, adding another 28 studies to those assessed in 2008. Altogether, the newly updated Cochrane Review includes 56 studies, involving a total of 4068 people undergoing cancer treatment. The findings indicate that those with solid tumours benefited from aerobic exercise, such as walking or cycling, both during and after cancer treatment. Other forms of exercise, however, including resistance training, did not significantly reduce fatigue.
"The evidence suggests that exercise may help reduce cancer-related fatigue and should therefore be considered as one component of a strategy for managing fatigue that may include a range of other interventions and education," said lead researcher Fiona Cramp of the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. "This updated review provides a more precise conclusion, showing specifically that aerobic exercise, both during and after cancer treatment, can be beneficial."
Further research is needed to understand how the frequency and duration of exercise, as well as the type of cancer, affect the results. "Twenty-eight of the studies we included were carried out in breast cancer patients, so we need to know more about how exercise can help people with a broad range of diagnoses, including patients with advanced disease," said Cramp.
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Hunting from a boat is a great way to utilize North America's public lakes, rivers, marshes, and swamps. A boat outfitted with a blind and the proper equipment will allow hunters to follow ducks that move as water or feeding conditions change. My personal rig is a 16-foot Go-Devil boat and motor with an Avery Quick-Set blind. This is no big-water outfit. I use it mostly in backwaters when the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and their tributaries are flooding. This boat-blind has provided me with many wonderful hunts in the past 15 years.
One key to success in this style of hunting is carrying the right gear. My boat has a spacious dry locker, and I stock it with items that facilitate my hunting efforts in different situations.
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I have decided to take a break. I have a lot on my mind, and just got my heart broken recently, so I don't have much energy to edit photos and write posts.
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Hospitals allocated system resources to the end-point of continued deterioration (the training and availability of Cardiac Arrest teams), but little was in place to recognise early events that may precede this. This suspicion was confirmed in a paper by Schein et al published in Chest in 1990 which observed that of 64 patients who had arrested within 160 hours of hospital admission, 84% of them had a documented clinical deterioration preceding this.
In June 2011, after 18 months of development, Wellington Regional Hospital introduced a new adult Early Warning Score (EWS) system to replace the previous Patient At Risk (PAR) scoring system.
The new EWS system now included mandatory Medical Emergency Team (MET) calling for patients whose observations indicated they were severely ill and in need of urgent medical attention.
A graded scoring system precedes this activation with mandatory steps designed to either increase observation frequency or reverse early deterioration by increasing treatment levels and bedside expertise.
In its first year of use in Wellington Regional Hospital, the new EWS & accompanying vital sign chart reduced in-patient cardiac arrests by 30%
The fluid balance chart was also redesigned and united with the vital signs chart to create an A3 size colour-coded double-sided chart. This provided space for a complete set of vital signs on a single patient over a 48 hour period, along with EWS calculations and the escalation pathway (both shown above).
Working parties from the Paediatric and Obstetric departments were set up to look into applying similar systems in their unique areas of practice. The latter developed a Wellington 'MEOWS' chart which was implemented late in 2012.
More information about such a proposal can be read by clicking on the nzEWS logo above.
Cardiac Arrest teams are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff; Medical Emergency Teams are the fence at the top.
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What makes a GREAT bagel? I've been having that debate with friends ever since tasting my first one in the early 1970's. Some say it's the flour, some say the technique, and of course New Yorkers claim that it has to be the Manhattan water. Well, we can all agree on one thing. There is nothing like an authentic bagel.
Fortunately, out here in the Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon we have some of the best bagels you'll ever find. East Coast skeptics, hold your fire – Ken Gordon, the owner of Kenny & Zuke's Delicatessen, turns out bagels that are just as meticulously crafted as everything else he bakes, brines, pickles, roasts and prepares.
He starts with Northwest-sourced ingredients like Shepherd's Grain flour. Then, Ken and his bakers roll out each ball of dough and form each bagel by hand – no machines here. The bagels proof for 36 to 48 hours, allowing time for the flavors to develop. Finally, starting around 1 am each morning, they boil the bagels to ready them for baking.
What you get are bagels that are just chewy enough, with the right yielding texture and complex flavor. They have eight varieties – plain, onion, garlic, salt, poppy, sesame, everything and pumpernickel – with whole wheat, cinnamon raisin, pecorino cheddar and jalapeno coming in September. We're fortunate enough to carry all these bagels along with Kenny & Zuke's freshly baked rye bread and rugelach at all of the Portland-area Whole Foods Market® stores and also in Vancouver, WA.
What I think is most special about Kenny & Zuke's is that Ken has gone back to the traditional roots of a neighborhood delicatessen. It's not just these bagels and the rye bread – everything is made in house; from brining the pickles and pastrami to roasting the turkey and corned beef. The attention he puts into the ingredients can't be matched. For example, the rugelah and cheesecake are made with Gina Marie Cream Cheese, which is a small-batch cream cheese that is only found at specialty cheese shops (and some Whole Foods Markets.) Everything they do at Kenny & Zuke's they do with great care and you can taste that passion in everything they make.
Ken is carrying on a tradition that started over 100 years ago. You don't find delis like Kenny & Zuke's in many places around the country anymore! We have a real treasure here in Portland. I hope you stop by and visit if you're ever in the area – and swing by one of our Portland-area Whole Foods Markets to pick up a bag of bagels for the road.
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VERONA � Contestants are now being accepted for the 2014 Multi-County Maple Royalty Contest, which will take place at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, during the annual New York Maple Producers Winter Conference.
The event will be open to young people ages 12 to 24 who are interested in promoting the maple industry. They may be from any county that does not otherwise host their own maple queen or princess competition, including Oneida, Herkimer, Fulton and Montgomery counties. The competition will consist of a private interview, public speaking presentation on a topic related to maple, poise in formal attire and answering a spontaneous on stage question. A county title along with a crown and sash will be awarded to the top scoring contestant from each county represented in their respective division. Princess or prince contestants must be between ages 12 and 15 and queen or king contestants must be between ages 16 and 24. The queen and princess winners from each county will have the opportunity to advance to the New York State Maple Queen and Princess competition in Croghan in May 2014. King and prince winners do not compete at the state level, but may represent their titles locally.
An optional preparatory workshop will be offered for any potential contestant who would like to attend. This will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School and will include an overview of the program, public speaking tips and practice and mock interview sessions. To participate in the workshop, call 717-6288 no later than Dec. 13.
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The fourth meeting of the Spring Semester 2001 for the Undergraduate Research Committee began at 5:30pm Monday, March 19.
Present: Lloyd Bogart, Bonnie Bratine, Carl Foster, Anne Galbraith, Bill Gresens, Aaron Monte, and Rick Rodrick, Chia-Chen Yu, and Melissa from the Involvement Center.
The applications are in for the Celebration on April 6. There are about 70 posters, 33 talks, and 3 other, compared to 72 posters and 18 talks last year. Melissa and the Involvement Center will help with publicity for the day such as a Pepsi banner, chalking the sidewalks, signs, table tents, an ad in the Racquet, etc. They will also be on hand during the day to help with setting up posters, etc. Anne will get a list of student e-mails and send out a reminder during the week of the Celebration as she did last year.
Bill reported on the success of the NCUR trip to Kentucky. There were about 2500 students and about 150 of those were from UW-System. The UWL students did "splendidly". Next year, NCUR will be at Whitewater so perhaps more of our students will attend.
Grant applications are due Wednesday. There are three in already. The committee decided on the following schedule for the remainder of the semester:
· March 27th (Tuesday): Each reviewer should pick up a packet of grants in 145 Main.
· April 2nd (Monday): The committee and the student representatives chosen by Rick will discuss the criteria for reviewing the grants.
· April 9th (Monday): A special meeting will be held starting at 530 to discuss each proposal. FYI: Last year this meeting took 3-1/2 hours and there were about 40 proposals.
· April 11th (Wednesday): The reviewers will turn in their final scores to Bill.
· April 16th (Monday): Funding and final budget decisions will be made.
· April 30th (Monday): Final scheduled meeting of the semester will be held.
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I think Hitman: Absolution would be a perfect title to make another "definitive" version of IMO.
There's so many good games that I wouldn't mind playing again with upgraded looks.
But honestly I think ALL resources should go to getting out "new" games.
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Sometimes you have a well running blog, and you decide you want to create a mailinglist. What's easier than to kickstart it by exporting the list of your blog's users, or even all your commenters, to a CSV file, and importing that into your mailinglist software? Nothing. Right. But where's the export button?
This plugin adds just that: an admin screen under users with two links: one to export the users, one to export all the unique commenters on your blog. See for yourself:
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This plugin relies heavily on code from the IAM CSVDump class, thx for some nice code!
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Special Stoopville Road Meeting
Minutes of March 28, 2012
The Newtown Township Board of Supervisors held a special meeting on March 28, 2012 in the Township meeting room at 7:30 PM. In attendance and voting were Supervisors: Chairman Michael Gallagher, Vice Chairman Matthew Benchener, Secretary/Treasurer Ryan W. Gallagher and Robert Ciervo, member. Also in attendance were: Joseph Czajkowski, Township Manager, and Henry Pasqualini, Chief of Police.
Call to Order: Chairman Gallagher called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM. He acknowledged Upper Makefield Supervisor Daniel Rattigan and Wrightstown Supervisors Chester Pogonowski and Jane Magne, who were also in attendance.
Discussion of Stoopville Road Project: Eric Kaufman and Larry Young of Gilmore & Associates, Engineers on the project, explained that this is a required public hearing to update officials on the project thus far and to present the final design of the second phase, which will include a traffic signal at the intersection of Durham Road (Rte 413) and Stoopville Road, a left turn lane on southbound Durham Road at the intersection and some changes to the proposed walking path.
Mr. Young explained that a portion of the walking path between the entrance to Rosefield development and Eagleton Farm development has been removed, as had been agreed at a previous meeting. The trail will now begin at Eagleton Farm, cross Stoopville at Hemlock Drive and continue East on the southerly side of Stoopville Road to Eagle Road; at Eagle Road it will proceed south to Marigold to a crosswalk to join an existing trail on the east side of Eagle Road. Crosswalks will have decorative treatments and curb ramps. All crosswalks will be ADA compliant. The path will resume on the north side of Stoopville Road at Creamery Road and continue to the Village Market, where it will cross and continue to Highland Road and the National Cemetery. It will then cross at Highland and join an existing trail in Lower Makefield. The intersection at Highland and Stoopville will be widened and a turning lane to the National Cemetery will be added. Gateway signage and other improvements will be added at Dolington Village and a three-way stop sign will be placed at the intersection of Dolington and Washington Crossing Road (Rte 532.) The paths will be asphalt and will be five feet wide. Drainage issues at White farm will be addressed and some pipes will be extended under the path. Stormwater trenches along the walking path will be filled with stone.
Public Comment: Resident Jim Ott said that throughout the planning and implementation of this project he has asked that the drainage issues in front of his home on Stoopville Road be addressed. Nothing has been done to correct the drainage problems and there have been two recent auto accidents in front of his property, one of which crushed the culvert pipe on his property. He also noted that the planting beds in the medians have not been maintained and are full of weeds. He asked about the proposed crosswalks, noting that the Sycamore Street crosswalks have remained attractive but those at Lindenhurst Road have been crumbling. They seem to be made of inferior materials which cannot withstand the truck traffic.
Mr. Young said that the proposed crosswalks will be made of a resin material. He is aware of the issues at Lindenhurst Road, which may be the result of the base roadbed beneath the crosswalk. This problem will be considered when installing the new crosswalks. Regarding the drainage issues near Mr. Ott's property, the Township must reach out directly to PennDOT as this is now a maintenance issue.
Mr. Czajkowski said that he has spoken to Mr. Brown at PennDOT about this in the past and will contact him again.
Resident Carol Richardson said that she is disappointed that the walking path between Rosefield and Eagleton Farms has been eliminated. That portion of the path would only have crossed in front of two homes, both of which have run off problems during rainy and snowy weather. She had hoped the drainage issues would have been part of the installation of the path.
John Fowler of Wrightstown said that he is very pleased to see the sidewalks and trails as part of this project. He asked for more details about the trail locations and intersection improvements.
Mr. Kaufman reviewed a number of slides of the various intersections along Stoopville Road; he pointed out that the mast arm for the signal at Highland Road had already been installed as part of phase one. A 12-foot wide right turn lane will be added and the signal will include pedestrian walk buttons. The intersection at Stoopville Road and Washington Crossing Road at Village Market will also have a pedestrian signal button. The third signal at Durham Road will include a 200 foot left turn lane and a 310 foot left turn taper. Widening will be on both sides of the road. The installation of walking paths will require acquisition of some easements for the points where the paths are not in the right-of-way.
Ruth Brown of Wrightstown asked about the stop bar for traffic, which could block her ability to exit her driveway.
Mr. Kaufman said that PennDOT had relocated the stop bar; he will again review this with PennDOT. If the bar remains, signs would be installed to warn against blocking the driveway. He noted that the stacking should be about the same as is currently seen. PennDOT had wanted the stop bar to make Mrs. Brown's driveway governed by the traffic light.
Mrs. Richardson said that she objected to the stop light because it would increase traffic on Stoopville Road.
Wrightstown Resident Le Sheppard asked Mr. Kaufman to review the widening of the road near his Durham Road property.
Mr. Kaufman reviewed the plan, noting that the widening will begin beyond Mr. Sheppard's property. Some right of way will need to be acquired.
Mr. Sheppard said that he has been concerned about the speed at this intersection; it has been difficult for him to get out of his driveway and turn left toward Wrightstown. He had some concern about a possible blind spot and asked Mr. Kaufman to look at safety concerns exiting driveways.
Mr. Kaufman said that this would be reviewed again.
Mr. Fowler asked whether a three-way stop sign is needed at Dolington/Washington Crossing Road (Rte 532).
Mr. Young said that it is needed because of the sight distance for cars turning left from 532 to Dolington. There will be advance warning signs of the stop.
Mr. M. Gallagher thanked everyone for attending and for the residents of the community for their input as the plans move forward.
Lower Makefield resident Sue Herman, who arrived late, asked that the trail plans be reviewed.
Mr. Kaufman showed the plans a second time, pointing out the portions of the original trail plan which have been altered in the phase two plan.
Mrs. Herman said that she is president of a group of residents for regional traffic solutions. She said that the signal at Durham Road is part of a plan to connect I78 with I 95, creating a northern bypass road. She showed a series of maps and outlines made by Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission in 1988, noting that in these plans Stoopville Road was to have been widened and the intersection with Durham Road was to have been signalized. The plans also had included a roundabout at the intersection of Stoopville Road and Rte 532. She said that she feels that all of the proposed improvements in phase two of this plan are steps toward the eventual northern bypass, which will greatly impact the quality of life of residents. She urged the Board to abandon the plan.
Mr. M. Gallagher said that no members of the current or former Township Boards of Supervisors has been supportive of a northern bypass. The plans discussed this evening are designed to improve safety for our residents.
The meeting adjourned at 7:00 PM
|Respectfully Submitted:
Mary Donaldson, Recording Secretary


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Here's a screenshot of a map from Sony's GPS Image Tracker software showing the course area with a couple of race photographs plotted directly on it:
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My friend the cheetah:
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I live about a mile from my office, so my daily commute consists of a glorious walk along the Chicago River. On my walk home last night, I wanted to test the DSC-W80's various settings for twilight shots and slow shutter speeds exposures. Of course, since it was in the mid-30's in Chicago, my gloveless shaking hands gave the steady shot technology all it could handle. Here are a few of my favorites:
Looking south down the river from the Randolph Street Bridge:
The Merchandise Mart:
North on the Kennedy Expressway from the Washington Boulevard overpass:
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