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Two main fields of interest form the background of actual demand for optimized levels of phenolic compounds in crop plants. These are human health and plant resistance to pathogens and to biotic and abiotic stress factors. A survey of agricultural technologies influencing the biosynthesis and accumulation of phenolic compounds in crop plants is presented, including observations on the effects of light, temperature, mineral nutrition, water management, grafting, elevated atmospheric CO2, growth and differentiation of the plant and application of elicitors, stimulating agents and plant activators. The underlying mechanisms are discussed with respect to carbohydrate availability, trade-offs to competing demands as well as to regulatory elements. Outlines are given for genetic engineering and plant breeding. Constraints and possible physiological feedbacks are considered for successful and sustainable application of agricultural techniques with respect to management of plant phenol profiles and concentrations.
It was about 15 years ago that a booming interest in phenolic compounds,
Based on the increasing knowledge of the biological activities of secondary plant constituents a number of commercial products have been introduced as food additives claiming health promoting properties and intending to counterbalance nutritional deficits of the Western diet as compared to Asian or Mediterranean food considered to be rich in phenolic compounds. Prominent examples are products containing grape seed meal or extracts. The respective bioactive components are catechins and proanthocyanidins [
Some beverages are promoted as being of health promoting value because of their phenolic contents. A famous example is red wine with its phenolic constituents anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins and the stilbene resveratrol [
The profitable commercial use of phenolic compounds claiming their health benefits anticipate exact scientifically based knowledge about the daily intake being beneficial or essential or at least advisable for humans. This situation was critically reviewed by [
The contribution of some phenolic compounds to taste properties of plant food is known for the astringent mouth-feel due to condensed and hydrolysable tannins (proanthocyanidins, gallotannins, ellagitannis). Prominent examples of fruits are cider apples [
Condensed tannins influence palatability and nutritive value of legumes [
Meanwhile the accepted wide range of beneficial effects of phenolic compounds initiated attempts to stimulate their accumulation in crop plants by agricultural technologies. Several reviews present and discuss the modification of phenolic profiles in plants for possible nutritional enhancement of our diet [
Besides the nowadays desired enhancement of phenolic compounds in plant crops, in the past, several undesired phenolic compounds were removed by breeding and selection of varieties with a weak biosynthesis of secondary metabolites [
Concurrently with the increasing popularity with respect to nutrition and human health the interest in phenolic compounds has also increased among plant scientists. Within the last four decades the opinion that phenolic metabolites are of major ecological and physiological importance has spread. The arguments against the old waste-product lobby were listed by [
The aim of this article is to review visions and efforts being undertaken to manage the content and the profile of phenolic compounds in crop plants by cultivation technology, by using the genetic diversity of natural resources and by breeding. The outcome of those efforts is discussed with respect to their relevance on the basis of examples selected from literature. It is attempted to elucidate possible mechanisms behind the plant's response to cultivation technologies. Further questions are treated: are there constraints, unexpected feed-back loops and physiological side effects? Which way shall we go in agricultural quality production?
Natural phenols in plants are derived from the shikimate pathway from which the gallic acid molecule and its polymeric gallotannins and ellagitannins are directly derived. As a further product from that pathway the amino acid phenylalanine is released. This amino acid is the precursor of phenylpropanoids and further phenolic classes derived from them. These are flavonoids, isoflavones, pterocarpans, stilbenes, coumarins, phenolamines, aurones, chalcones, lignans and lignin. A simplified example of flavonoid biosynthesis is given in
It is well known that the secondary metabolism of plants is markedly influenced by changing environmental conditions. On the other hand phenolic profiles can be used for cultivar identification, which was applied for roses [
The examples described above show the interest in stable phenolic fingerprints for variety discrimination. On the other hand, plant growers take advantage of environmental effects on crop yield and quality and, moreover, agricultural technologies have been developed to optimize Nature's control. A prominent example is the management of the skin color of apple fruits which is equivalent of controlling anthocyanin biosynthesis and accumulation. The red skin of apple fruits is due to accumulation of anthocyanins and for weakly colored cultivars it is a suitable marker for both fruit development and inner fruit quality. Only those fruits developing on young, vigorous spurs and being exposed to sunlight exhibit strong sink potential for attraction of substantial amounts of assimilates from the leaves. A high sugar content of the fruits is an important parameter of fruit quality and is a prerequisite for the formation of flavor as well. Many apple cultivars produce anthocyanins as red pigments when exposed to sun light thus the red skin correlates with fruit quality as expected by the consumer (
Improved pigmentation of 'Fuji' apples was obtained by covering the orchard floor with light reflecting films [
Beside a strong increase in anthocyanins and quercetin-glycosides as a result of sun-exposure, Hagen
The level of condensed tannins measured as tannin containing cells increased by increasing light intensity in leaves of
The effects of light on the accumulation of phenolic compounds in plant tissues may not only be explained by providing energy for carbon assimilation thus providing carbon resources for biosynthesis. It is furthermore the quality, namely the UV fractions, which stimulate the formation and accumulation of certain phenolic compounds in plants. Light and particularly UV-light enhances anthocyanin biosynthesis in apple fruit skins [
In another experiment [
UVB irradiation of
Apples grown in warm climates often lack of sufficient skin coloration. This may mostly be due to high night temperatures during the last weeks prior to harvest. It was found that low night temperature during fruit ripening is a trigger for accumulation of red pigments in apple fruit skins [
Low night temperatures also favour anthocyanin accumulation in grape berries [
A short time stress treatment applying heat shock (40 °C for 10 min) or chilling (4 °C for 1 day) to young lettuce plants induced the accumulation of chlorogenic acid and chicoric acid while quercetin 3-
Maintenance of minerals is a prerequisite for providing co-factors for many enzymes of the phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathway. Mg2+ and Mn2+ ions ensure the functioning of PAL, of CoA-ligases, and of methyltransferases [
The accumulation of phenolic compounds in plant tissues is often negatively affected by high N-nutrition. This was described for barley [
The effect of long-term N-supply on growth and phenolic compounds in the leaves of apple trees were examined in relationship to scab resistance [
Whereas the phenolic levels in apple fruits and leaves suffer from excessive N-fertilization, strawberries seem to accumulate highest phenolic amounts when they were grown under conditions optimized for plant growth and fruit yield [
Conflicting results are presented by Anttonen
In cell cultures of grapevine and maple the quantity of anthocyanins was reduced when cultivated on high N containing medium [
Bongue-Bartelsman and Phillips [
Plants grown under stress conditions often produce and accumulate phenolic stress metabolites [
The propagation of many fruit tree varieties is only successful by grafting on compatible rootstocks. During centuries of fruit growing, rootstock genotypes have been selected which influence growth vigor of the combined tree consisting of two genetically different partners. Special scion/rootstock-combinations have been developed for optimized fertility, fruit yield and for high fruit quality which benefit from the rootstock's influence on uptake and transport of water and minerals [
Global climatic change comes along with an increase of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The increased supply of carbon may favor plant growth and provide resources for carbon based secondary metabolites. It was shown for tobacco that under limited nitrogen supply the ratio of secondary metabolites changed in favor of carbon-based phenolic compounds at the expense of alkaloids [
During tissue differentiation and organ development the phenolic profiles often undergo remarkable changes indicating that their metabolism is integrated into programs of growth and development. In the skin of young apple fruits cv 'Golden Delicious' at beginning of June the concentration of chlorogenic acid exhibits values of up to 30 μM/g dry weight dropping sharply down to 2 μM up to July and further reaching values near zero in the skin of mature fruits in September. Flavonol glycosides and phloridzin also show high concentrations in the skin of young fruits in June but with a plateau up to July and dropping down to about 30% of the initial values with concentrations in the mature fruits of 10 μM/g dry weight for phloridzin and 21 μM/g dry weight for flavonol glycosides [
At the early stages of bilberry fruit development, procyanidins and quercetin were the major flavonoids, but the levels decreased dramatically during the progress of ripening. During the later stages of ripening, the content of anthocyanins strongly increased and they were the major flavonoids in the ripe berry [
When we attempt to actively influence phenolic profiles in plants we must keep in mind that biosynthesis and accumulation of phenolic compounds are mostly restricted to specialized cells and tissues and, moreover, at a subcellular level [
The skin of apple fruits being exposed to the environment may function as a protective layer thus expressing biosynthetic pathways different to those of the flesh and the core. In 'Golden Delicious' the glycosides of the flavonol quercetin are mainly accumulated in the skin whereas their concentrations in the inner parts of the fruit are quite low [
The mechanisms involved in the targeted accumulation of phenolic compounds in plants are complex and depend on the biosynthetic pathway to be controlled, on its localization and compartmentalization. Furthermore, diverse signal chains may be involved and the efficiency of measures depends on the accessibility of the respective target. Each primary signal such as abiotic or biotic elicitors will be followed by secondary messengers and an activated signal chain [
Carbohydrate availability is a prerequisite for phenylpropanoid accumulation. When apple skin pieces were floated with sucrose, anthocyanins increased [
The accumulation of phenolic compounds in plant tissues under stress conditions may be explained by the action of elicitors stimulating signal chains towards biosynthesis and accumulation of metabolites. Another mechanism behind a stress related enhancement of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis may be driven by a deficiency in reduced pyridine nucleotides (NADPH). In that case, it is supposed that the pentose phosphate pathway is stimulated for providing NADPH thus releasing substrates for shikimate and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. In model experiments using methylene blue for reconverting the reduced nucleotide to its oxidized form, anthocyanin formation was increased in apple [
An interesting link between primary and secondary metabolism was recently discussed by Lattanzio
The regulation of the biosynthesis of phenolic compounds is complex and in part undertaken by spatial organization and subcellular channeling. The consecutive enzymes of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid biosynthesis are supposed to be organized into linear or globular multienzyme complexes that can be associated with membranes or form metabolons [
Transcriptional regulation is the major controlling step for secondary metabolite pathways [
Some knowledge could also be gained on the regulation of anthocyanin accumulation in apples. Evidences that anthocyanin biosynthesis in apple skin depend on mRNA formation were discussed some times ago by Faust [
The creation of new varieties of a given crop plant is a powerful tool to enrich our food with beneficial secondary metabolites and to increase the plant's resistance against pathogens and pests or for utilizing any other advantage of a phenol-rich plant. This goal can be achieved by classical breeding if natural resources of high diversity are available. In the last century, classical breeding methods were applied to create ornamental plants with a vast diversity of flower colors based on profiles of anthocyanins with a range of flavonoid co-pigments (e.g., [
Outlines of different approaches for directing the flavonoid biosynthesis in crop plants by genetic engineering were presented by [ overexpression of petunia chalcone isomerase heterologous expression of the maize transcription factor genes ○ fruit-specific RNAi-mediated (RNA interference) suppression of the regulator gene
overexpression of petunia chalcone isomerase
heterologous expression of the maize transcription factor genes
○ fruit-specific RNAi-mediated (RNA interference) suppression of the regulator gene
Novel pathways using metabolites of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid biosynthesis have to be introduced for getting tomato fruits containing isoflavones and stilbenes. This was realized by using the following strategies:
○ overexpression of a soybean isoflavone synthase gene ○ overexpression of a stilbene synthase gene
○ overexpression of a soybean isoflavone synthase gene
○ overexpression of a stilbene synthase gene
Overexpression of petunia chalcone isomerase in tomato results in 78 fold increased levels of flavonols, mainly rutin, in the skin [
Simultaneous expression of the two regulatory genes
Commercially relevant are the transgenic ornamentals which are already introduced into the market. Since the first transgenic petunia with pelargonidin type flower color was generated [
Metabolic engineering strategies rely on the current knowledge. Thus, if the knowledge on biosynthetic pathways is incomplete, a proposed strategy may fail. One exciting example is the attempt to create red forsythia flowers by introducing dihydroflavonol 4-reductase and anthocyanidin synthase genes [
In an outline on molecular breeding for color, flavor and fragrance Gutterson [
In a trial with strawberries which were cultivated under several varying environmental conditions and cultivation methods like conventional and organical it could be shown that the variability of the phenolic contents among the varieties was much higher than the effect of cultivation techniques to be expected [
For optimized triggering the accumulation of target phenolic compounds in crop plants information is needed on the complete reaction chain starting with the primary elicitor and its effects on secondary signals followed by gene expression, transcription and activity of related enzymes and ending with the formation of metabolites. Possible side effects on other biosynthetic pathways must be taken into account. As described above (Section 3), a couple of tools are available and are practiced to a certain extent. However, a generally valid prediction of the plants' response to a newly applied inductive method is scarcely possible and must take into account that the secondary metabolism of the respective plant is embedded into growth and differentiation. It may help to clarify first which role a given phenolic compound may play in the plant. One important function of flavonoids is the activity of a sunscreen [
Depending on the mechanisms of induction or elicitation of the stimulation of biosynthesis it is furthermore essential to know if the respective constitutional pathway is active and if the constitutive enzymes are already working. This may be modified by development and differentiation of the plant or at least the respective organ since the phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathways are integrated into these processes. For instance, UV-B induced flavonol accumulation in Petunia leaves declined with increasing leaf age [
If the prerequisite of the available and active enzymes is fulfilled a further constraint could appear if resources are limited or trade-offs exist. A negative relationship between apple shoot growth and accumulation of phenolic compounds was reported formerly [
When the goal of an enrichment of phenolic compounds was reached it has to be anticipated that a physiological feedback may occur. The physiological activity of phenolic compounds with particular roles in growth related processes is debated since long [
What may happen if phenolic compounds leave their vacuolar compartment? In incompatible graft unions of cherries, naringenin 7-glucoside was found to accumulate as a stress metabolite [
As long as phenolic compounds are put away in vacuoles or vesicles they may not exhibit significant effects on any physiological process of the respective plant tissue. However, in stress situations membrane integrity may be affected [
Morphological effects induced by the flavones isovitexin were also reported to occur in a non-glycosylating
Several approaches for managing the contents and profiles of phenolic compounds in crop plants are presented. Among the cultivation technologies, the application of controlled mild stress conditions is sometimes propagated and several ideas are born from
The main route of targeted phytochemical farming (
Before such efforts in adapting cultivation technologies can be advised to the plant grower we should know:
○ the beneficial effects of target chemicals ○ the beneficial concentrations
for plant resistance for human or animal health ○ environmental impacts on biosynthesis and metabolism ○ the role of the target phytochemicals in the plant.
○ the beneficial effects of target chemicals
○ the beneficial concentrations
for plant resistance for human or animal health
for plant resistance
for human or animal health
○ environmental impacts on biosynthesis and metabolism
○ the role of the target phytochemicals in the plant.
A further prerequisite is an expected financial return. If a particular phenolic composition and concentration could be achieved, the question is how sustainable is the commercial return? Consumers' attitudes may change or a reappraisal of particular bioactive components may happen based on advances in scientific knowledge. A curious example is the loss of the value of apples' red skin colour as a marker for inner quality. Red coloration of many fruits like apple and strawberries may portend high fruit quality and optimal ripening stage based on the often observed biosynthetic relation to developmental processes in such fruits. High taste quality correlates with red pigmentation of old weakly colored apple cultivars (
Despite such uncertainties with respect to the sustainability of a measure for phytochemical farming, it is inevitable to increase our knowledge on optimization and influencing the composition and enhancement of "bioactive" metabolites in plant foods (namely fruits and vegetables) by breeding (classical methods, genetic engineering), production technology, storage and processing. At the same time, the plant grower should keep an eye on the progress in nutritional science and nutrition medicine which may state the biologic activities of phenolic compounds more precisely. At the moment, it may not be recommended starting the production of plant foods with an attributed enhanced nutritional quality for a common market. However, the production of fresh "functional food" with defined health claims may be favorable for a premium market segment. In future, it may be expected for the global market that minimum quality of plant foods will be defined on the base of their content of bioactive components.
This paper is dedicated to Walter Feucht on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Multifunctionality of phenolic compounds.
Simplified scheme of the biosynthesis of selected phenolic compounds. Abbreviations: ANR: anthocyanidin reductase, ANS: anthocyanidin synthase, C4H: cinnamate 4-hydroxylase, CHI: chalcone isomerase, CHS: chalcone synthase, 4CL: p-coumarate:CoA ligase, Coum3H: coumaroyl 3-hydroxylase, DFR: dihydroflavonol 4-reductase, F 3'-H: flavonoiod 3'-hydroxylase, FGT: flavonoid glycosyltransferase, FHT: flavanone 3-hydroxylase, FLS: flavonol synthase, FNS: flavone synthase, IFS: isoflavone synthase, LAR: leucoanthocyanidin reductase PAL, phenylalanine ammonia lyase.
Relationship between red coloration of apple skin and taste evaluation (data from [
Development of red pigmentation of apple fruits cv. 'Red Chief' (% coloration) ripening under warm day (26 °C) and warm night (22 °C) conditions (A) and under warm day (26 °C) and cool night (11 °C) conditions (B). Data from [
Flavonoid biosynthesis in strawberry fruits indicating development related pathways restricted to young and mature fruits, respectively [
Note: F3'5'H = favonoid 3',5'-hydroxylase, FGTs = flavonoid glycosyl transferases, other abbreviations see
Tissue specific levels of phenolic compounds in young apple fruits cv. 'Golden Delicious' in May and June. Data from [
Transient alteration of flavonoid biosynthesis in young apple leaves treated with the bioregulator prohexadione-Ca. The newly formed 3-deoxycatechin luteoliflavan and the constitutive intermediary metabolite eriodictyol 7-glucoside accumulate most in the very young leaf no. 1 whereas the subsequent, older leaves at the shoot show weaker response. Data redrawn from [
Phenolic compounds in buckwheat seeds (mg/g dry weight) from a breeding programme using
Effect of nitrogen nutrition on the prohexadione-Ca induced accumulation of 3-deoxycatechin (luteoliflavan). Redrawn from [
Route of targeted pytochemical farming indicating constraints and physiological feed back.
Red coloration of apple fruits and content of phenolic compounds (mg/g dry weight) in the skin as affected by fruit position in the tree. Data from [
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|Outer east
Growth parameters and anthocyanin concentrations in green and red leaves of lettuce cv. 'Lollo Rosso' grown under plastic films with and without UV transparency. Data from [
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|red leaves
|green leaves
|red leaves
Phenolic compounds (mg/g fresh weight) in outer leaves of lettuce grown in open air and in a polycarbonate greenhouse, 16 days after planting [
|Chlorogenic acid
|Chicoric acid
|Quercetin glycosides
Effect of plant growth temperature (day/night °C) on concentrations (μg/g) of phenolic compounds in fruit juice of strawberry cv. 'Kent'; data from [
|Phenolic compound
|Pelargonidin glycosides
|Cyanidin glycosides
|Quercetin glycosides
|Kaempferol glycosides
Effect of N-fertilization on N-content and on the content of phenolic compounds in apple skin (cv 'Elstar' mutant 'Elshof'). Data from [
|N concentration in the fruits (mg/100g fresh weight)
|Phenolic compounds in the skin (mg/g dry weight)
|Cyanidin 3-galactoside
|Quercetin glycosides
|Chlorogenic acid
Phenolic compounds (mg/g dry weight) in young leaves of apple cv. 'Golden Delicious' as influenced by nitrogen fertilization with N1 as the conventional control and N3 as an excessive treatment. The C/N-ratios of the shoots indicate the different physiological situations. Data from [
|Shoots C/N ratio
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|Flavonols (mg/g dw)
|Phloretin (mg/g dw)
|Hydroxycinnamic acids (mg/g dw)
|Procyanidins (mg/g dw)
|Catechins (mg/g dw)
Phenolic compounds in fruit of strawberry cv 'Honeoye' as affected by fertilizer strength. Data from [
|μg/g fresh weight
|half strength
|full strength
|Pelargonidin glycosides
|Cyanidin glycosides
|p-Coumaroyl glucose
|Kaempferol glycosides
|Ellagic acid
Changes of flavonoid concentrations (% of untreated controls) in the inner bark (phloem) of
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Issues in Contemporary Christianity
I didn't want to write about these issues of exclusion because I had convinced myself I didn't really feel them. Wrong. The electin of Pope Benedict XVI scared me. He speaks of other religions as deficient. And he demotes those priests who, having studied and ministered in Other Cultures, have said that there are many paths to God, including other religions. He stresses obedience of the Church that Was, and that reminds of Islam's looking back to days of yore when things were as they ought to be. Except that Christianity in Europe was never as it ought to be. Else how could the pogroms have preceded Cristal Nacht? How can I explain Bronfenbrenner?
It's hard work being a Christian. You have to want it badly. And it's hard work being a Jew, or a Muslim, or a woman, or a Zen Buddhist, or a poor person. Being is hard, folks, at least "being" in a way to look back at the end of your life and recognize that you have lived that life well.
Pope Benedict XVI wants orthodoxy, at least in theology. That's hard for someone who counts priests and nuns in her heritage and who ended up in rabbinical studies. I find the demand for orthodoxy and the arrogance of "knowing" that he's right a terrible sin before all the religious values I have studied and practice which teach, above all, humility and love.
My goodness, he's adamantly opposed to the ordination of women; all those cardinals were male! And this, right after I wrote of the role of women in Islam. What now, shall be the role of women in Christianity? Women are often those who give themselves to the struggle for social justice. Shall we not be included in making decisions as we give our lives for the end we seek? (Marla in Iraq this week.) And those who struggle for social justice are those who spread liberation theology throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Pope Benedict XVI suppressed liberation theology in the name of it's being tainted by Marxism and communism. Excuse, Pope Benedict XVI, did you miss the rape of Latin America by the Catholics who colonized it? Did you miss the rape of Latin America by corporate America who exploited it in cooperation with those of the old colonization who managed to retain power over the indigenous peoples? Colonization wasn't political?
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Thayer has high expectations for West Mifflin girls basketball program
Dan Thayer is returning home.
Thayer, head coach of the Brentwood girls' basketball program the past two years, was hired as the girls' floor boss at West Mifflin in May.
Thayer is a 1988 West Mifflin graduate.
"The assistants and I have high expectations at West Mifflin," Thayer said. "They made the playoffs last year, and have all but one player returning. With that being said, there is (still) a lot to learn about the team."
Thayer took over the Brentwood girls' program prior to the start of the 2011-12 season. After a 1-20 season, the Lady Spartans improved to 9-13 in 2012-13.
"My experience at Brentwood was great; the two years coaching there were very enjoyable," Thayer said. "The team struggled the first year, but really made great strides last season. The players had a great attitude, and were really receptive to coaching.
"I would look for more progress at Brentwood next season and think they would contend for a playoff spot."
Thayer is employed as a math teacher in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. He was head coach of the Baldwin girls' basketball team from 2005 to 11.
Back in 2005-06, Thayer took over as head coach of a downtrodden Baldwin basketball program. The Lady Highlanders ended up 2-22 overall that season.
Four years later, Baldwin advanced to the WPIAL Class AAAA championship game and the PIAA quarterfinal round.
Following that initial season at Baldwin, Thayer guided the Lady Highlanders to a 6-18 overall slate in 2006-07. The program turned the corner in 2007-08, improving to 15-8, 17-8 and 22-6 over the next three years.
The Lady Highlanders, who finished 17-6 in Thayer's final year at the helm in 2010-11, went to the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs three times and the PIAA Class AAAA playoffs twice under his direction.
He went 77-60 in six years at Baldwin, including an 8-5 postseason mark. Baldwin opened his job a year after the girls' team finished as the Class AAAA runner-up.
"I enjoyed my time working with the players at Baldwin," Thayer said, "but I'm now focused on working with the athletes at West Mifflin."
Thayer was hired as head coach of the Brentwood girls' basketball program in early November of 2011.
His assignment mirrored what he faced as Baldwin's rookie head coach seven years before that— to revamp a once-proud local girls' basketball program.
Thayer faces a new challenge at West Mifflin, and that is to return the Lady Titans to WPIAL basketball prominence.
Over the past decade, the West Mifflin girls' team has advanced to the WPIAL playoffs 10 times, and to the PIAA playoffs four times.
Former West Mifflin head coach Phil Shar, who was hired as Thomas Jefferson's girls' head coach earlier this year, built the girls' program at West Mifflin to WPIAL prominence.
West Mifflin advanced to the WPIAL finals in 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Following Shar's departure four years ago, West Mifflin has finished 12-10, 17-7, 10-10 and 10-13 overall.
"Yeah, you can say that it has been a lot different," Thayer said. "The first couple years at Baldwin, we were real bad. It was low numbers, and it was low talent. We were really struggling. Brentwood was sort of the same thing. Those were last-minute, and obviously this is different on how it worked out."
Thayer has assumed the reins from Rob Yeschenko, who resigned after leading the Lady Titans to a 20-23 record and two playoff victories.
West Mifflin has four of five starters returning for the 2013-14 season, including the 2012 McKeesport Daily News Player of the Year, point guard Ciara Patterson.
"There are some kids returning and in years past, they've had good numbers," Thayer said. "If we can continue that and build up a consistent amount of kids coming through and playing, it could make it a good situation."
Thayer, a Pitt graduate, owns a 87-93 record in eight WPIAL seasons. He coached in North Carolina before moving back to the area.
Prior to coaching and teaching on the local front, he was an assistant coach at Millbrook High School in Raleigh, N.C. for seven years, followed by a head coaching stint at Middle Creek High School for three seasons.
"My parents were a great influence," he said. "My mom taught at West Mifflin, and my dad taught and coached football at West Mifflin North, then finished teaching at Gateway. They both had a great passion for teaching that they passed along to me and my sister."
Thayer's middle school coach, Nick DeRosa, provided the biggest influence on his coaching career.
"Coach DeRosa was a very intense coach, but a great teacher of the game. He was extremely organized and demanding," Thayer said. "He taught me the values of hard work and preparation. His teams weren't always the most talented, but were well prepared and always improved as the season went on.
"When I started coaching, Coach DeRosa gave me a lot of his coaching materials, and some very helpful advice. He taught me a great deal about basketball, and he fueled my desire to be a basketball coach."
Ray Fisher is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-388-5820 or email@example.com.


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Shares of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) rose over five per cent in premarket trading Wednesday, as the search engine giant posted fourth-quarter earnings and sales that topped analysts' expectations.
Google, which reported its fourth quarter results after the bell Tuesday, saw its shares rise 5.14 per cent as at about 8:45 a.m. EDT, trading at $739.03.
For the quarter that ended December 31, the company posted net income of $2.89 billion or $8.62 per share, compared to $2.71 billion to $8.22 per share in the year-ago period.
Google noted that reported income excluded stock-based compensation expense, as well as restructuring and charges related to the sale of its Motorola Home business, which was reported as a separate line item.
The internet giant, which agreed to buy Motorola Mobility in 2011 for $12.5 billion, this past December announced it would sell Motorola Home for $2.35 billion. The transaction is expected to close in 2013.
Adjusted income for the quarter was $3.57 billion or $10.65 per share, compared to $3.13 billion or $9.50 per share in the year-ago quarter.
Revenues were $14.42 billion, an increase of 36% compared to $10.58 billion a year earlier.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected per share earnings of $10.52 on revenues of $12.36 billion.
"We ended 2012 with a strong quarter," said CEO Larry Page.
"Revenues were up 36 per cent year-on-year, and eight per cent quarter-on-quarter. And we hit $50 billion in revenues for the first time last year – not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half.
"In today's multi-screen world we face tremendous opportunities as a technology company focused on user benefit."
The company's advertising revenues were $12.91 billion, or 89 per cent of consolidated revenues, in the fourth quarter, a 22-per-cent increase over $10.58 billion a year ago.
Google-owned sites posted revenues of $8.64 billion, an 18-per-cent increase over $7.29 billion in the year-ago period. Network revenues from partner sites stood at $3.44 billion, up 19 per cent from $2.88 billion.
Other revenues were $829 million, more than double the year-ago revenues of $410 million.
Google revenues from outside of the U.S. totalled $6.9 billion, up 23 per cent from $5.6 billion a year earlier. The company's UK unit posted revenue of $1.30 billion, up 22 per cent year-over-year.
Paid clicks, a measure of how frequently consumers click on Google's advertisements, increased about 24 per cent year-over-year, while the average cost-per-click fell roughly six per cent.
The decline comes mostly as a result of increased use of Google's search engine on phones and Page said that he believes the company's ability to drive revenue through mobile devices will improve.
Traffic acquisition costs (TAC), or the portion of revenues shared with Google's partners, increased to $3.08 billion, compared to $2.45 billion a year earlier.
The company's Motorola Mobile business reported revenues of $1.51 billion.
Capital expenditures for the quarter were $1.02 billion, the majority of which was for production equipment, data center construction and facilities-related purchases. Google said it expects to continue to make "significant capital expenditures" in the future.
As of the quarter's end, the company had cash, equivalents, and marketable securities totalling $48.1 billion.
"The success of our products and our continued strong performance continues to give us the confidence to fund our strategic growth in areas such as search, YouTube, Android, Chrome as well as in our overall infrastructure with a view to the long-term," said senior VP and CFO Patrick Pichette.


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As robots and automated software take hold in the workplace, will they leave companies and consumers richer or poorer? For Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science and professor of information technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, there's no simple answer. But he and Joshua Gans, Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, are clear that automation will deliver ever-speedier change.
Dr. Brynjolfsson, who also directs the MIT Center for Digital Business, co-authored the recent book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies with Andrew McAfee, the centre's associate director. Here, he and Dr. Gans discuss how businesses can prepare for the next half-decade.
Will the rise of automation mean fewer jobs and fewer people buying things? What will the business world look like in 2020?
Erik Brynjolfsson: The economic disruption that we saw in the past decade will be even bigger and the technological change will be even faster, partly as a function of the power of exponential change as well as the increased digitization at the core of more and more industries. It's going to have two broad economic effects, I think. One is bounty, which is a lot more wealth and productivity, although not all of it will be measured in the official statistics. So we'll have a lot more very cheap and free goods, and that will make us better off in many ways.
But there's also this concern about jobs and I would also say inequality, which is related. For 200 years, the Luddites have been wrong in that technology, contrary to their fears, has not led to any fewer jobs. But there's no economic law that says everyone is going to benefit from technology.
It's a genuinely open question whether we will have job creation continue at the pace it has historically or whether we're going to see more and more difficulty, especially for certain classes of jobs – routine information-processing kinds of jobs. Even as [technology] makes the [wealth] pie much bigger, it's possible for some people – even a majority – to be made worse off, and for people to have a much harder time finding employment. Since the 1990s in the United States and in most OECD countries, median income has stagnated.
What will be the effect on consumers? There's this classic, perhaps apocryphal, anecdote about Henry Ford II and Walter Reuther, who was head of the United Auto Workers. Henry Ford was pointing to a lot of automation he'd put in place in one of their factories, and he said, "How are you going to get these machines to pay union dues, Walter?" And without missing a beat, Reuther responded, "And how are you going to get them to buy cars, Henry?"
There is a real fear that as jobs disappear, it will be more difficult to maintain GDP and consumer spending if there aren't people who are earning that income, and if the remaining income is concentrated in a relatively small group of people who don't have the propensity to spend.
Joshua Gans: I definitely agree with the notion of accelerated technological change. We're six years away from 2020. Look at what has happened in the last six years: They made millions upon millions of people walking supermen in terms of their ability to access knowledge anywhere, especially on their mobile phones.
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- An Interview Explaining Restorative Justice Boston Research Center. Patti Marxsen interviews Carolyn Boyes-Watson in the Spring of 2003. Backup. The question-answer process might help make the issues clear.
Focus The focus I intended to share from my reading of this interview was on the need to establish a commnity in which we can live peacefully by recognizing that more is needed to end the daily conflicts that rightfully arise than retribution and revenge. We need to heal the community and each other. That may be an idealistic
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Conceptually Linking Restorative Justice to the Classes We Teach:
Restorative Justice is an important factor in all our classes. It's important certainly in the field of crimnal justice, for it draws on constitutive criminology to the extent that expects us not to just to prevent through policing and enforce through incarceration; it expects us to find better alternatives, since policing and incarceration are not working. We have some of the highest rates in violence and incarceration in the developed world, and there is convincing evidence of racial bias in the system we are operating of criminal justice.
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Restorative Justice should be an ever-present guide to the law and law-makers that they are ethically and morally bound to care for all the people. The tenets of restorative justice are a good framework for analyzing our legislation in the process of formation and of enforcement. The rule of law is not unbiased. All the biases that lead to institutional and interpersonal injustice are translated into our law, and if we don't keep ourselves aware, we are complicit in denying those biases.
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To Hamra Street
Every morning Umm Nagi
makes a lousy joke
and stirs our coffee.
We look at her dirty nails,
we hold the warm plastic cups and
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in their endless repetitions,
small labyrinths
we have memorized,
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in which we get lost on purpose:
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and another,
where our fathers curl politics
with their cigar smoke
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with their sugar spoons
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the ancient coffee shop,
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like a wild plant that sprouts
voices and memories and small conversations.
turning into a Vero Moda,
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history buried in clothes,
outshone by Starbucks.
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in which the fat man barely fits,
in which the fat man sings and spits,
and nods and nods,
as if to God,
saying business is slower than old age,
releasing Arabic music
into crowded streets that move
to the inborn beat,
here is the tiny cassette shop,
and another.
Here is the deserted movie theater
where the bald man sighs
into a red telephone,
then shouts at his wife,
then cries
his bills and anger away,
you'd never expect
inside the smell of old semen
and posters of movies that never really play.
Here is the deserted movie theater,
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Things are heating up in the days leading up to stockmarket competition on October 31 and the major market players are jockeying for position ahead of the start date.
The ASX and its incoming rival, Chi-X, are exchanging blows over prices, five major investment banks have just taken a stake in Chi-X Global and the incumbent exchange, the ASX, is pushing for a start date on its version of a market to go head to head with Chi-X, called Pure Match.
That is the context in which the Australian Securities and Investments Commission yesterday dropped a 165-page consultation paper proposing new rules for the stockmarket.
To add to the increasing build-up toward October 31, listed technology provider
It announced that it was cutting prices for its Best Market Routers – the technology needed by brokers to ensure they get the best price for trading, whether it is on the ASX or Chi-X.
Now that Chi-X has been given final approval for its start date, the industry associations were largely pleased that ASIC had moved quickly to put greater protections for investors back on the agenda.
Both the Stockbrokers Association and the Australian Financial Markets Association agreed that most of the proposals seemed "measured".
Introducing volatility control to limit trading when prices move by 15 per cent in any five-minute period did not raise any major alarm bells by the industry on day one and is similar to moves in the United States.
But a bigger battle is brewing over the regulation of dark pools down the track.
In April, ASIC proposed a $20,000 limit – meaning that only trades over $20,000 would be allowed to operate in dark pools. That caused an outcry from those who used dark pools, questioning the $20,000 limit when the average trade is only $8000 to $10,000.
Yesterday, ASIC revealed it was essentially putting the industry on notice. That is, ASIC proposed regulating the dark pool market even harder – by lifting that threshold to $50,000 – but only if dark pools grow by more than 50 per cent over the next three years.
Experts were divided on how likely it was that the market would grow by three times but you can bet that if it does, there will be another outcry if ASIC imposes the $50,000 limit.
"Whenever a rigid limit is put on a market you have to question it," executive director of AFMA Duncan Fairweather said yesterday.
The Stockbrokers Association is more concerned that ASIC has side-stepped the issue that most bugs their members – the fact that non-market participants or so-called shadow brokers will not be covered by the new rules.
ASIC said yesterday it was aware of the issue but essentially hand-balled any call to Treasury, claiming that bringing shadow brokers inside the tent would require legislative change. It will continue to push Treasury hard to take the issue seriously.
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Taiwan Quake Shuts Down Some LCD Suppliers
According to analysts, panel makers Chi Mei Optoelectronics and HannStar Display Corp. shut down after the quake, which measured 6.4 on the Richter scale. Avanstrate, a small glass supplier, also suffered damage at one of the company's tanks. All supply components to both notebook PC manufacturers, LCD monitor makers, and manufacturers of LCD TVs.
More generally, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest foundry, said that it had lost the equivalent of 1.5 days of production, while rival UMC said it had lost between 1 and 1.5 days of production.
Until the companies provide a more comprehensive damage assessment, it's unclear whether the effects will be a short-term blip or a more prolonged vacuum in the supply chain. Analyst firm iSuppli ranked Chi Mei fourth in the world in LCD panels whose dimensions were 10 inches or larger, or about 13.3 percent of global shipments. HannStar ranked seventh, with a 3.0 percent share. Avanstrate is also a minor player, with just 5.0 percent of the global glass supply.
Taiwan is a central hub for all sorts of manufacturing operations, especially chipmaking and LCD manufacturing. However, the island's role as a focal point of technology has faded somewhat, especially since a 7.6 earthquake struck the island on 1999, severing supply lines as Taiwan's tech companies shut down, rebuilt, and then reopened. Since then, the island's ODMs have themselves begun outsourcing manufacturing operations to partners on the Chinese mainland.
Analysts said that it can take a varying amount of time to restart manufacturing operations once a plant has been shut down. Theoretically, a plant can be restarted in between 12 and 24 hours, iSuppli said. But in previous quakes, CMO required two to three days to restart operations, and Hannstar required three to five days. Damage, moreover, can prolong the down time.
Typically, first-quarter production slows in both the PC and LCD TV industry, as sales peak during the fourth-quarter holidays, and prices fall. iSuppli estimated that sales would fall by about 5 percent compared to the fourth quarter. Still, the shutdowns may eliminate any price declines, robbing first-quarter buyers of any deals. A reported shortage in LED backlights may also put a double whammy on manufacturers and purchasers of high-end LCD TVs.
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I thought Australia would be good for the future, good for my family. Youssef Eid, 2012
Brothers Youssef, Romanos and Tansa Eid were born in Hadchit, a small Maronite Catholic village in the mountains of northern Lebanon. After receiving a letter from his brother-in-law praising the economic opportunities in Australia, Youssef and his wife Nadimie migrated in 1965 with their three children. He later sponsored Tansa, Romanos and his family. They all planned to stay for a few years and return to Lebanon with enough capital to establish businesses. Instead they settled permanently and can't imagine living anywhere else.
The Eid brothers decided to establish taxi businesses in the early 1970s. After working in textile factories the prospect of greater earnings and 'being your own boss' outweighed the long hours and personal and financial risks. Popping home for lunch or a coffee became rituals that reinforced their sense of freedom.
Romanos Eid with his wife Yvonne and son Tony aboard the Patris, 1967Source: Eid families collection
Romanos was the 'King of the airport'. His penchant for multiple-hiring and attracting skybus passengers to his taxi exemplified an entrepreneurial drive. His gregarious and jovial nature made him very popular with other drivers.
Handling 'the good, the bad and the ugly' in the back seat of their taxis became a way of life. Youssef was firm with his passengers and he didn't suffer fools. Tansa was a stickler for rules, preferring to use psychology to get out of tricky situations in his taxi.
With over 75 combined years of driving taxis, the Eid brothers left the industry in the 1990s and 2000s – weary of the working conditions and fearful of the impact of deregulation.
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Like the tide going out, a long period of market weakness has exposed a number of inconsistencies in the way top executives are paid, resulting in this year's acrimonious round of complaints about pay packets at annual general meetings.
Salary packages have been restructured to shift away from long-term share incentives when equity markets haven't been producing consistent returns, and bonuses are being paid at some companies that are not necessarily in direct sync with shareholder returns.
But despite this noise, the fundamental point revealed in The Australian Financial Review's latest annual survey of executive salaries is that the market is working overall. The average increase in the pay packet of chief executives of the top 300 companies was 4 per cent, which follows a total increase of only 2 per cent last year and a 20 per cent slump in 2009. This is a vast contrast with the double-digit increases before the global financial crisis.
The advent of short-term bonuses has sparked debate about whether executives have shifted the goalposts due to the way long-term incentives lost favour when the markets tumbled. But many of these companies are still competing to retain the best executives even in more challenging economic times.
However, the main lesson about salaries that arose during AGM season is that we need a more sophisticated debate around the issue than that sparked by the "two-strikes" rule. While there have been concessions after negative votes, many major company boards have made it clear they will stick with their chief executives if forced to a spill.
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text: Posted March 27, 2012 Just imagine last year without the rookie cap. Do you think that Marty Hurney would have pulled the trigger Cam Newton if he had to pay him $70M? I'd like to think he would but somewhere in my gullet I believe he may have opted for the safer pick...like a DT. Ugh. Thank The Golden Calf of Bristol for a rookie cap, right? Well this year the rookie cap might actually help the Panthers once again. Rookie contracts are much lower than they used to be and are set by the league. So there's no holdouts no real negotiations. Sign here and play for us for 4-5 years. Still, people keep saying that picking a RB like Richardson or reaching for a QB like Tannehill in the Top 5 is way too high. Not anymore. Teams drafting in the Top 10 can take more chances on prospects and therefor reach for players that 2 years ago wouldn't have made any sense. Need a QB Cleveland....why not Tannehill? He would have been a huge reach 2 years ago. Now his contract is much more manageable and the gamble isn't as huge. The same can be said for Richardson, Floyd and a host of other picks that people do not think are a consensus Top 10 players. Teams can worry less about where they are picking and feel safe selecting THEIR guy. Which means for the Panthers at 9...players with higher grades may be available when their pick rolls around. 2 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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