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Feed the World...with what?
Had I responded to Joseph A. Komonchak's post a few days ago, I would have mentioned that one of my favorite, albeit not Christ-centerd, Christmas Carols (or let's just say "songs that you hear at Christmas") is Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid. I'm sure you are probably pretty sick of hearing it on the radio by this point, but I am a big fan. The social justice advocate in me can't help it. Unfortunately this year, it looks likeit will be harder than ever topractice whatthe chorussuggests, "Feed the world."An article appeared inthe International Herald Tribune yesterday stating that the UN is nervous about the dangerously low food stocks all around the world. The article states:
In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels.
Needless to say, this is creating problems. Climate changes, weather patterns, oil prices,each of these thingsplays a role in this dramatic situation, but the fact remains that something has to be done. Mark Howden of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia mentions the fact that the United States probably won't feel the impact of this problem as much as others:
"In the U.S., Australia, and Europe, there's a very substantial capacity to adapt to the effects on food - with money, technology, research and development. (...) In the developing world, there isn't."
This is obviously an economic problem, among other things. But I wanted to shed some light on this situation since "in our world of plenty/we can spread a smile of joy/Throw your arms around the world/at Christmas time."How are we going to be able to "Feed the hungry," "Feed the world," or "Feed [His] sheep" if there is nothing to feed them?
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I heard this song last night--at Whole Foods. The irony has just become apparent.Thank you for the reminder to do something real for Christmas.
I'm sure that the unfettered free market will take care of this just as well as it takes care of everything else.
Too often, "feed the world" means "help our farmers by helping others." I have no idea what, in the end, will do the most good, but it seems that we ought at least begin by changing the phrasing ever so slightly: "help the world feed itself." This would, among other things, highlight the sometimes destructive consequences of exporting grain to the developing world. Without meaning to be Pollyanna, it's just possible that excess agricultural supply in the developed world contributes to the problem rather than doing all that much to solve it.
Plumpynut!There was a very interesting report on 60 Minutes a few weeks back about a very simple prepared food called Plumpy or Plumpynut. "The ingredients are: peanut paste, vegetable oil, milk powder, powdered sugar, vitamins and minerals, combined in a foil pouch," says Wikipedia. It is cheap and simple to make, it doesn't require refrigeration, and kids like it. Of course it will not "feed the world," but it is an example of the kind of innovation that is needed. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/19/60minutes/main3386661.shtmlhtt...'nut
Freeman Dyson, the highly respected futurist and emeritus member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, did a fascinating article on the possibilities opened up by the biotech revolution. Black leaves made of silicon, for instance, might make plants so productive that less land and effort would be needed to produce what is needed. Dyson recognizes that production of such new species will be dangerous. He is, I fear, too sanguine about the possibie unintended consequences.The article is interesting for several other reasons, including his view of non-Darwinian evolution. Read it at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20370


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Narendra Modi's Online Marketing Strategies – Jay Thadeshwar
Jay ThadeshwarFebruary 2, 2013 0
Alas, Most followers aren't fans !!
When Shashi Tharoor replied Narendra Modi's tweet, "million followers! Not mere numbers, signifies your love & affection. Heartfelt thanks" with the above juvenile statement, I wanted to answer him with following facts. We all know that Gujarat's assembly election was a no contest, it was all about Narendra Modi. Since I belong to Gujarat, let me share a fact with you; when you ask people going to vote during election, "which party are you going to vote for?", they'll answer, "Narendra Modi". Yes, he's bigger than BJP in Gujarat. People recognize Narendra Modi and his developmental endeavors more than a political party called BJP. Someone had refered to him as "Propaganda machine", which I feel truly goes with what Narendra Modi has done during last election.
Much publicised 3D speeches, 29 Vikas Raths equipped with projectors, 10 LED Raths, each with a 110″ screen, which roam interior villages, more than a million followers on FB and Twitter, reaching more than a million people on Google+ Hangout, and launching his own TV channel NaMo Gujarat etc. clearly exhibits his art of exploiting digital media.
If at all you have to learn digital media marketing, you can't ignore this prodigy. So I decided to do an article on his online marketing strategies.
Web Presence
Naredra Modi is among those few politicians in India who have their own website to communicate with their fans and stake holders. Gujarat CM Narenda Modi has a website/blog NarendraModi.in where he keeps adding information about his latest campaigns, works, achievements and future plans.
The beauty about Narendra Modi's campaigns is that he makes every campaign a brand. He gives beautiful names to all his campaign individually and the home page (Direct Landing Page) of his website also keeps changing according to the campaigns. Some of his campaigns which gathered significant visibility on social media are,
- Sadbhavna Mission,
- Vivekanand Vikaas Yatra,
- Ek Mat Gujarat, BJP Sarkar
- Vibrant Gujarat,
- Ramshe Gujarat, Jeetshe Gujarat etc.
Different Web Platforms
Narendra Modi has left no stone unturned when it comes to online marketing. He has used;
- Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
- Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google+)
- Social Aggregators
- Blogging Platforms (Blogspot, Quora)
- Online Video Sharing Platforms (Youtube, Google+ Hangout)
- Online News Channel (Namo Gujarat – Narendra Modi's exclusive news channel in Gujarat)
- Web Properties (Firstpost.com)
- Web PR (Nomination in Mashable.com – Most famous politician on web)
- Narendra Modi was nominated in top 5 political personalities in the world who have made a mark on web in 2011 along with the US president Barack Obama.
Now let's understand how he used all the above mentioned platforms to generate visibility.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Mr. Modi uses the most famous SEO plugin "All in one SEO pack", this plugin includes title optimization, description, meta tags and it understand Google algorithm very thoroughly. This Plugin is regularly updated and since a decade it has been considered the best SEO plugin available for open source.
Since the person himself is a big brand, he didn't need extensive SEO to be done on his website. His SEO efforts majorly cover optimization of the articles regarding his latest activities in Gujarat. Every news about Mr. Modi's achievements and developmental activities is posted on his website in the form of articles. All these articles are optimized for search engines so that when anyone searches about Mr.Modi's latest movements on Google or any other search engine, they land on his personal site. These articles also include videos and pictures which are optimized for search engine as well.
All his videos are uploaded on his youtube channel and titles to these videos formed in very search engine friendly manner. Pictures on Narendra Modi's website are given Meta tags and description tags behind so that his website comes ahead in search results when some users search about Narendra Modi.
All his web profiles are interconnected and interlinked. You can navigate among all his social media and web profiles from any of them.
These are the keywords for which he targets his website on search engine:
Narendra Modi, Politics, Politician, Leader Gujarat, Gujarat Politics, Vibrant Gujarat, Gujarat Chief Minister, India Politician, BJP Gujarat, Election, Swarnim Gujarat, Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat CM, Gujarat Political, Narendra Modi Biography, Narendra Modi Photos, Narendra Modi Wallpapers
Social Media
Narendra Modi's presence on Facebook is phenomenal. His official FB page has 1,314,530 likes which has potential of reaching 170,888,900 people. His personal website is linked with his facebook page and any user can easily navigate from his FB page to his website and viceversa.
Become Gujarat's Ambassador:
In this campaign he allowed people to share their stories and ideas on his FB page with aid of an app. The best ideas and stories were selected and posted as Cover Page of the Facebook page. This campaign was a great success, thousands of people registered and submitted their stories and developmental ideas to get displayed on the cover photo of Naredra Modi's official FB page.
To get followers on FB, he has used FB Social Ads and Promoted Stories.
Narendra Modi is the second politician in India after Dr. Shashi Tharoor who enjoys more than a 1 Million followers on Twitter. Narednra Modi is very active on twitter and he keeps tweeting about his day to day happenings. He voices his opinion very openly on twitter without much of censorship. Most of his tweets contain links to the detailed articles.
Narendra Modi had partnered with Google+ to interact with people online. With help of Google+ Hangout service, he had interacted with more than 1 million people on web. He is the first politician in India to interact with people online. This Google+ Hangout was hosted by Bollywood star Ajay Devgn. The hangout really proved to be a very successful campaign and all social media platforms got flooded with talks about Mr. Modi's hangout. This hangout had been Twitter's most followed trend for a few hours.
Narendra Modi has his youtube channel as well where all his speeches and videos are uploaded. His channel is directly linked with his personal website. This channel is privately coded to include the integration feature. There are 24,371 subscribers on his Youtube channel which has achieved more than 49,42,000 views and majority of videos have more than 1,000 views. This means the videos are going viral with the aid of other social media platforms.
So, Mr. Tharoor, Is it enough to answer your question? Your 'Alas' makes it sound like you wish they were fans of NaMo. And if you know all followers are not friends, how do you known this? From personal experience on Twitter? Or from the people who attend your public rallies?

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When Obama bangs on about taxing the 1% is that most people making more than 250k are unincorporated small business owners (shopkeepers, contracters, farmers, etc.) whose revenues get counted as income, and excess revenue after expenses is both their living money and their capital. So he's really fucking over hard working small entreprenneurs not THE EVIL RICH when he goes after upper incomes.
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The college system provides a unique opportunity for students to experience the university in ways that go well beyond the classroom. Its main strength is that it makes students part of an extended family, a family that includes not only the current students, RAs, College Coordinator, and Masters, but also all the previous generations, as well as all the future ones. College Masters help the students administer the College and serve as representatives of the College to the University at large. In addition, Masters host several social events, share many of their meals with you, celebrate your many successes, and also provide a shoulder to cry on when you are down. We became Masters because we believe we can enhance the experience of the Martel students. We are caring and, at the same time, bring with us a wealth of experience that we believe equip us with a unique perspective that we can share in order to assist you in any way we can.
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Travelers have varying tastes in temporary living accomodations. Here are five apps to get you started when you're looking for a hotel, motel or a furnished apartment.
Airbnb is a free app that serves as a hub for people to find and list their own homes for other strangers to stay in. The Android app brings with it some new features to the Airbnb model, including the ability for the guest and the owner to instant message quickly back and forth with one another should any problems arise. If you're looking for something a little different in travel accommodations, Airbnb is a pretty cool place to start.
But there are plenty of other app options for Android users if they're not sold on the Airbnb experience, too. On the opposite side of the spectrum from Airbnb, there is the more conventional Orbitz (free). With Orbitz you can book flights, hotels and rental cars in just a few quick taps. The Android app also includes a feature called Orbitz Mobile Steals that offers additional mobile-only discounts on room rentals.
If you find you'd like to look at vacation rentals while also keeping an eye on the apartment rental market, HotPads Rentals & Real Estate (free) does a good job providing a little bit of everything under the sun. The app offers listings based on location with listings shown either in list or map form. Potential renters can see detailed pictures, floor plans and price comparisons.
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China/EU: Make Rights Central to EU-China Summit
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The European Union (EU) should use its upcoming summit with China to demonstrate its new commitment to protect and promote human rights around the world, Human Rights Watch said today. The EU-China summit will take place September 20 in Brussels.
EU foreign ministers pledged in June 2012 that the EU will now "raise human rights issues vigorously in all appropriate forms of bilateral dialogue, including at the highest level."
"China is often a litmus test for other governments' willingness to raise human rights," said Sophie Richardson, China director. The upcoming summit presents an ideal opportunity to reverse a legacy of EU reticence in addressing human rights concerns with Chinese officials."
In 2012, Human Rights Watch has continued to document serious human rights abuses in China. Those include, among others, increasing restrictions on the freedom of expression, movement, and religion for Tibetans, likely contributing to the crisis of self-immolations in that region; the forced return of more than 4,000 Kachin refugees from Yunnan to a conflict zone in northern Burma; the adoption of a second National Human Rights Action Plan that significantly weakens previous rhetorical commitments to the universality of rights; and the alarming growth and unchecked power of domestic security forces.
The EU has historically pursued a weak approach on human rights concerns in China, expressing concern only when the majority of member states agreed to do so and often failing to raise human rights for fear of jeopardizing economic ties. In advance of the last EU-China summit, held in February 2012, Human Rights Watch urged the EU to raise a number of issues; there is little evidence to suggest these steps were pursued. In May 2012, the EU held its 31st round of official human rights talks with China. While this round was not abruptly cancelled by the Chinese government, as has happened as recently as late 2011, it did once again fail to establish benchmarks to be met by the Chinese government for continuing to convene the discussions. Moreover, the Chinese government has repeatedly stated over the past year that the dialogue should be held once rather than twice a year.
On some occasions, the EU has offered forceful interventions on human rights concerns. At the June 2012 session of the Human Rights Council, EU diplomats offered a forceful statement under Item 4. They expressed concerns about freedom of expression, arbitrary detention, the rights of minorities, use of the death penalty, and enforced disappearances, among other issues.
With the adoption on June 25, 2012, of a landmark human rights package, EU foreign ministers pledged that human rights, democracy, and rule of law will be promoted "in all areas of the EU's external actions without exception" and that the EU will "place human rights at the center of its relations with all third countries including strategic partners."At that time, Human Rights Watch said that the test of this commitment would be whether the EU would follow through with its promise to throw its "full weight behind advocates of liberty, democracy, and human rights throughout the world."
On June 26, 2012, however, following the conclusion of the 3rd High-Level EU-China Strategic Dialogue, the joint dialogue communique made no reference to human rights. In her public remarks, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, noted "a good exchange on our respective views on human rights issues. We covered individual rights, the protection of vulnerable groups, the importance of the rule of law." She provided no details about individual issues or cases raised, nor did she clarify what other steps may have been proposed to better defend human rights.
"High Representative Ashton has many choices in the issues she could raise with Chinese officials," said Richardson. "Whether it's the crisis of Tibetans self-immolating, ongoing persecution of human rights defenders, or the forced return of Burmese refugees to a conflict zone, the key is demonstrating seriousness of purpose with respect to the EU's new policy."


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CCW: Butler and VCU are blossoming into legit national contenders. Saint Louis has found itself defensively and will be a major factor. Temple remains Temple. A few other teams are OK. 7. Pac-12 (DR: 6) DCW: Arizona's question mark (Mark Lyons) has scored well, but been suspect with distribution. UCLA's question marks (many) remain somewhat unanswered as the Bruins morph by necessity into a small-ball team. Colorado is trending well. Stanford's been OK. Cal's been better than expected. The bottom of the league has improved a bit, for whatever that's worth. CCW: Arizona remains very good. UCLA is surging. Colorado is fading badly. Washington has emerged ahead of the Bay Area teams as a possible dark horse contender. Arizona State is better than expected. The rest of the league is still not very good. 8. SEC (DR: 7) DCW: Kentucky's definitely not as good as '11-'12 ... or '09-'10 ... can we see a growth curve like '10-'11, which went 10-6 SEC but made the Final Four? Florida is making things work and looks like the league's best team. Missouri is going to miss Michael Dixon. Alabama has potential. The bottom looks soft. CCW: Kentucky likely would sign for 10-6 and an NCAA bid, and take its chances. Florida's the league's best team. Missouri is pretty good but beatable. And, ummm, errrrr, yeah. Not a good league this year. 9. Missouri Valley (DR: 8) DCW: I got the quality of depth right, but perhaps the Creighton challenger wrong. Rebuilt and unbeaten Wichita State has been a pleasant surprise. Illinois State looks tough despite recent late fades at Louisville and home to Wyoming. Overall, the league looks very solid. CCW: The league is morphing into a 2.5-team race, with Creighton likely getting a strong challenge and either Evansville or Indiana State maybe making half a run. Creighton is an absurdly good shooting team, with five players at 43 percent or better from three-point range. 10. West Coast (DR: 9) DCW: Gonzaga is the best team in the league by far. Saint Mary's and BYU aren't quite as good as expected at this point. Santa Clara definitely is much better. CCW: That's pretty close to correct. Saint Mary's made a great run at Gonzaga and then won at BYU on Matthew Dellavedova's 35-foot runner at the buzzer, so they may end up as the primary challenger. BYU losing that game pushes the Cougars' profile down another notch and makes this potentially closer to a 1-bid league. And what about (4-0) San Diego eating up wins at the Slim Gym? 11. Horizon (DR: 11) DCW: Still like Valpo as the league favorite, but can Illinois-Chicago provide a surprise challenge? The Flames have wins over Iona, Mercer and Northwestern already. Cleveland State should also be right there as Gary Waters has another good club. Detroit has disappointed thus far. CCW: Wright State is the sole unbeaten, with Valpo, Detroit and Cleveland State in hot pursuit. Tough, competitive league. The conference tournament should be crazy. 12. Conference USA (DR: 12) DCW: Confirmed: This is not a good year for the league. Memphis clanged its opportunity at Battle 4 Atlantis and appears in some disarray. Marshall and UTEP have disappointed. SMU is 8-1 with a couple of not-entirely-bad wins! Southern Miss is also better than expected, for whatever it's worth. CCW: Mehhhhhhh. Memphis, flawed or not, is going to crush most of this league. They have a couple semi-tests late in their schedule. Not good times. 13. Ohio Valley (DR: 17) DCW: The pecking order looks solidly intact. Murray State and Belmont are both solid, if not great. Murray State hosts the Bruins in the only regular-season meeting, so advantage Racers. Tennessee State has been a little disappointing thus far, albeit against a very challenging schedule. CCW: Belmont is unbeaten. But so are Tennessee State and Eastern Kentucky, both of which are in Belmont's division, so they'll all play home-and-home. Belmont hosts both this weekend (Thursday and Saturday). Murray State lurks on the other side of the league at 3-1. 14. Mid-American (DR: 13) DCW: Ohio is very solid (despite a home loss to Robert Morris). Akron's also pretty good. Kent State's OK. The rest of the league is ... not great, despite a couple teams with decent records. CCW: Nailed it in December. Those are your three contenders. If form holds, the team that avoids the semifinal against one of the other two will have a huge leg up for the auto bid. 15. MAAC (DR: 14) DCW: Loyola and Iona have lived up to billing. Manhattan, Siena and Niagara have not. Still should be a competitive league season and exciting conference tournament. Maybe the best of the 1-bid leagues. CCW: Maybe I spoke too soon? Niagara shares the league lead at 5-1 with Iona. Loyola (and Rider) is a game back. Conference tourney will be really fun and hotly contested, despite its Springfield, Mass., location that annoys everyone. 16. WAC (DR: 16) DCW: The Zombie Conference is trying to stay alive by grabbing every piece of flotsam it can find, including inviting for-profit Division II Grand Canyon University. New Mexico State and (especially) Denver have underachieved. Utah State looks like the clear favorite. CCW: Utah State is finding itself and remains the clear favorite. Denver is playing much better and may be the prime challenger after all. The Pioneers host the Aggies this weekend. Louisiana Tech is raising its hand, too, at 5-0 so far. 17. Patriot (DR: 15) DCW: Nothing's changed, other than maybe Bucknell is now a slight favorite over Lehigh. The battle for league POY between C.J. McCollum and Mike Muscala should also be sensational. CCW: Uggggggggh. C.J. McCollum's broken foot is cheating us out of a season-long battle. He may make it back in time for the conference tourney, which potentially would give him and the Mountain Hawks one final shot at silencing the Sojka Psychos. It hurts Bucknell's at-large hopes, too. No one else in the league is in the RPI top 200. 18. Summit (DR: 20) DCW: As long as Nate Wolters is healthy, the Jackrabbits are a strong favorite. NDSU probably is the best bet to unseat them. CCW: North Dakota State looked like the best bet. They already beat South Dakota State and stand 6-0, but lost leading scorer Taylor Braun for awhile to injury. Western Illinois, also 6-0, has a chance to stake a claim. They host the Bison and the Jackrabbits this weekend. The Jackrabbits have lost twice already. 19. Sun Belt (DR: 19) DCW: MTSU remains the clear best team in the league. Western Kentucky has looked OK. North Texas has been disappointing. South Alabama is out to a 2-0 league start along with the Blue Raiders. CCW: Carry on. The Blue Raiders should win the regular-season title but they'll need to take care of business in the tourney to make the NCAAs. 20. Ivy (DR: 21) DCW: Princeton is still probably the favorite, but Harvard has looked pretty strong, led by freshman point guard Siyani Chambers. Columbia (won by 18 at Villanova) lurks as a legitimate title dark horse. CCW: Harvard may be the nominal favorite at this point, but the title will go to either the Crimson or Princeton, with Columbia having an outside shot at a run. 21. Northeast (DR: 22) DCW: The whole league has started off slower than expected, but the best teams still look like they will be the best teams and Monmouth definitely is making some noise. Robert Morris, with a strong win at Ohio, may be the slight favorite at this stage. CCW: Who's the only undefeated team? Bryant, with former Ohio head man Tim O'Shea at the helm. The Bulldogs are in their first season of postseason eligibility and would make a great story. Wagner's figuring things out. Robert Morris is surprisingly 2-2. LIU, the preseason pick, has been derailed by injury and subpar play. 22. Southern (DR: 20) DCW: If you ignore touting Georgia Southern, the October assessment was correct. The Wildcats are easily the best team in the league. The bottom half of the league looks really weak. CCW: Charleston and Davidson remain the best teams by a significant margin. This isn't a vintage year for this conference, though. 23. Colonial (DR: 18) DCW: The Blue Hens did win the Virginia subregional and almost took out Kansas State at the Garden. Everything else has pretty much been a disaster. Drexel is one of the biggest disappointments in the nation. This was clearly a one-bid league three weeks into the season. That's really bad. CCW: The league is awful by its normal standards. The champion may very well end up in Dayton. One of the best teams may be ineligible Towson. Drexel, somehow, is 5-11. Old Dominion is 2-15! 24. America East (DR: 26) DCW: Vermont's been as advertised. Stony Brook has been better than advertised. Albany (a win at Washington) has been much better than advertised. It could be a much more interesting league season than expected. CCW: How 'bout them Seawolves? The league's only unbeaten sits a game in the loss column ahead of both Albany and Vermont. This is another league that looks like a three-team race, meaning winning the regular-season crown will have huge bracket advantage (along with the NIT parachute). 25. Atlantic Sun (DR: 25) DCW: I still like Mercer as the slight favorite, although KenPom picks Upstate at this stage. CCW: Six teams are tied with two losses just four to six games into the league season. Florida Gulf Coast joins Mercer and USC Upstate as the presumptive favorites. 26. Southland (DR: 27) DCW: If you believe KenPom, I had the four contenders correct, but the magnitude of Oral Roberts' favorite status has dwindled significantly. Unbeaten (only three D-I wins, but still), defensively stingy Stephen F. Austin is making an early statement of intent. I'd still take the Golden Eagles. CCW: Three of the contenders -- SFA, Oral Roberts and Northwestern State -- remain intact. The Lumberjacks lead the league at 5-0 and are 14-1 overall. Did someone say Southland at-large? Nah. 27. Big Sky (DR: 28) DCW: Montana and Weber State look like the two best teams and it's impossible to know the size of the gap between the two until Will Cherry comes back from injury and plays a few games. CCW: Cherry is back and the Grizzlies are 6-0, but so are the Wildcats. No one else is better than .500. The two meet for the first time, at Montana, on Jan. 26. 28. Big West (DR: 24) DCW: It's hard to tell what Long Beach State will end up being until they get several transfers eligible in a couple of weeks, but they should win the league. Irvine and Fullerton have lived up to billing and Pacific is looking friskier than expected in Bob Thomason's final season on the bench. CCW: Pretty much the same story. Long Beach should eventually emerge as the class of the conference in a somewhat down year. 29. MEAC (DR: 30) DCW: Slow and stingy Savannah State still looks like the best team in the league. They were very competitive against solid nonconference foes and sport an extremely rare offensive (horrible)/defensive (excellent) points-per-possession split. CCW: Norfolk State, NC Central, Hampton and Delaware State all are unbeaten (although at 4-0, 3-0, 2-0 and 1-0 respectively). Savannah State is 2-1 with a loss to Delaware State. If the right champ emerges, the MEAC could avoid the play-in round in the NCAAs. If it's NC Central, they could land a matchup with intra-city foe Duke. 30. Big South (DR: 28) DCW: The league will be a mess. KenPom has seven teams projected between 9-7 and 12-4. So far, this has been an awful league offensively. Only Charleston Southern is even at one point per possession for the season. CCW: The cluster continues. Three teams are 3-0. Three others are 2-1. The South division looks to be the stronger of the two, for whatever it's worth. 31. SWAC (DR: 31) DCW: Prairie View has played decently and picked up two legitimate D-I wins, including one against Houston. Texas Southern has shown some potential, especially in the double OT loss at Colorado. CCW: Southern has emerged as the league favorite. Grambling has emerged as possibly the worst Division I team in the last several decades. Sad state of affairs in northern Louisiana. 32. Great West (DR: 32; no auto bid) DCW: NJIT is staking a claim to nominal league favorite, but KenPom has all five league members finishing between 3-5 and 5-3 at this point. More important is finding greener (auto-bid) pastures for next season. Utah Valley and UTPA (WAC), and Houston Baptist (Southland) are already on their way. CCW: NJIT does appear to be the best team. The champ lands in the postseason CIT. Comments More College Basketball


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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania-based animal rights group said Monday it failed to raise enough money to buy NFL star Michael Vick's former dogfighting compound and turn it into a rehabilitation center for chained and penned dogs.
Dogs Deserve Better of Tipton, Pa. had until Sunday to raise nearly $600,000 to buy the 4,600-square-foot house in Surry County, Va. The house and the 15 acres it sits on served as headquarters for the Bad Newz Kennels dogfighting operation.
Dogs Deserve Better raised about $130,000 from about 1,500 donors, according to organization founder Tamira Thayne. Thayne said she is now asking for a 30-day extension to secure financing and is hoping more donations will come in.
The group's ultimate goal is to raise $3 million to buy the site, install fencing and build a facility for the dogs.
The house would be used for offices.
The property has five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, two fireplaces, cathedral ceilings, walk-in closets and an attached, two-car garage. It was originally listed for sale for $1.1 million in 2007 following Vick's prison sentence.
Thayne said it was important to buy the Vick house rather than a less expensive piece of property for a dog facility because of the symbolism it would convey.
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The 11-point margin of victory was the third closest call of the season for Stanford which improved to 19-0, 7-0 in the Pacific-10 and set a school record for best start to a season and most consecutive wins at any point in a season.
Only number two Duke (84-83) and preseason number one Arizona (85-76) have come closer than the Cougars to defeating the Cardinal.
Jason Collins led the way with 18 points and 12 rebounds while brother Jarron added 18 points as well. Casey Jacobsen and Curtis Borchardt each chipped in 11 points and seven rebounds.
Junior Mike Bush (Riverside, Calif) score a game-high 23 points to lead Washington State (7-10, 1-7 Pacific-10). Freshman Marcus Moore (Inglewood, Calif.) dished out six assists and tied his season best by committing only one turnover.
Stanford used a pair of 6-0 runs to put the game away in the second half. After the Cougars closed to within 38-33 a on a layup by junior J Locklier (Rock Hill, S.C.) with 17:32 remaining in the game, the Cardinal scored the next six points capped by a Ryan Mendez three-pointer to increase its lead to 34-23 with 16:04 to play.
Then, with the scored 55-46, Michael McDonald and Mendez connected on back-to-back three-pointers to provide the Cardinal with its biggest lead of the game at 61-46 with 6:32 remaining. WSU never got closer than 11 points the rest of the game.
"I'm proud of how we played," WSU head coach Paul Graham said. "Our young team is getting better and playing hard. Thursday and today we put together back-to-back good efforts. This was the best game we've played this season."
Stanford led 34-28 at intermission after a tightly contested first half. Bush scored the game's first points on a trey just over a minute into the game to give Washington State its only lead of the day.
The Cardinal's biggest lead of the half was five until a 14-5 run opened a 34-23 lead with 1:48 left in the first half. Jason Collins had six points and Jarron Collins and Jacobsen each had four during the spurt.
Washington State responded with a layup by junior Framcecio Little (Anderson, S.C.) and a three-point play by Bush to pull with a half dozen at the break.
"WSU played very well," Stanford head coach Mike Montgomery said. "On the perimeter, they got us off sink and we turned the ball over too much in the first half. We hadn't been challenged for the last three or four games, so we needed it."
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How do hand-drawn diseños and more formal surveyed land case maps show how land was viewed differently by Californios and by the US legal system?
What can you learn about their lives by looking at the Californio family portraits and the image of Indian "Joe" and his family?
How did 20th-century Ramona Pageants romanticize life on Californio ranchos?
Californios, elite families that received large land grants from Spain and Mexico, flourished during the 1830s to 1880s. The hand-drawn diseño maps underscore their vital connection to land ownership. The more formal surveyed maps that followed US acquisition of California show changing values regarding land ownership. As Californios lost land and power in the late 19th century, they tried to adapt to these changes by using social networks to maintain their identities as elites. The formal portraits were one way to bolster this image. Photographs of the Ramona Pageant from the 1950s testify to the mythologizing of California's Mexican and Spanish pastoral heritage less than 100 years later.
The wealthy Spanish Californian families called Californios were the first group to receive large-scale benefit from California's rich agricultural resources. Many were given land grants from Spain. After 1821, other families received land title from the newly independent Mexico to encourage settlement in what was known as Alta California.
Californio wealth was closely tied to their land holdings and provided credit at local markets. Californios cultivated orchards and crops, but large-scale cattle ranching on large ranchos was key to their wealth. As the paintings show, even small-scale Native American and Mexican rancherias contributed to the management of cattle.
Nearly all aspects of Californio society were connected to its relationship to the land. This is reflected in diseños, hand-drawn maps, which mark the natural geography of the land. Diseño del Cayuma includes sketches of trees and waterways and provides a key in the lower left corner explaining details of the land.
With the Gold Rush, and the end of the US-Mexican war in 1848, a massive influx of settlers laid claim to Californio land. Californios were forced to prove their land title in court, incurring large legal fees.
Under the US legal system, official surveyor maps replaced imprecise diseños as legitimate markers of land ownership. The official 1884-85 surveyor map of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino counties charts the grids of land with straight lines and careful measurement. Court cases often took over a decade to settle. Many Californio families were forced to sell off their land piece by piece in order to pay mounting legal fees.
As transcontinental rail transportation moved westward, railroads pressed the US government for large land grants. Californios' holdings grew smaller, as the official map of land granted to the railroads by 1875 makes clear.
Californios depended on labor supplied by Native Americans and Mexicans. In exchange, they would provide shelter and lodging, further intertwining laborers to the land and patriarchal relationships. The photograph of Indian "John" and his family at the Santa Rosa Rancheria highlights the identification of this Native American family to the rancho. In contrast, Californios such as Julia, wife of Joaquin Bolado, and Juan Ignacia Cantua are photographed in studio portraits as individuals.
Towards the end of the 19th century, immigrants from around the world were flooding into California. Many Californios married American and European settlers to secure their land and class status. The stately portrait of Dona Ramona Carillo de Pacheco de Wilson is a good example. Her title, Dona, and her elegant attire denote her elite Californio heritage. Her marriage to a Scottish settler and US military official would continue to secure her status in the early years of American control.
As the 19th century came to a close, Californios found their political clout vastly reduced and their past already becoming mythologized. Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona told the tragic story of a Californio orphan girl who married an Indian. Written to create sympathy for the plight of native Californians, it was instead received as the portrait of an idyllic past. This romanticized vision persisted well into the 20th century.
The 1950s-era photos of light-skinned actors in the popular Ramona Pageant illustrate contemporary racial biases rather than the cultural reality of early Californio society. During this period, the Bracero Program was in full force. Increased border regulations and immigration concerns began to separate California's future from its Mexican past. Commercialized tourism surrounding the Ramona myth, shown here in the photographs of the curio room at Ramona's marriage place (which never existed), reinforced the curiosity of modern Californians about its Spanish pastoral past. Today, descendants of Californio families still live in the state, and their names—Sepuvelda, Yorba, Pico, Vallejo, Peralta—mark the streets and towns of modern California. Californio society, however, is gone forever.California Content Standards
1.0 Writing Strategies: Research and Technology
2.0 Writing Applications
2.3 Write information reports.
2.0 Speaking Applications
2.2 Make informational presentations.
4.2 Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods. (4.2.5, 4.2.7, 4.2.8)
4.3 Students explain the economic, social, and political life in California from the establishment of the Bear Flag Republic through the Mexican-American War, the Gold Rush, and the granting of statehood. (4.3.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.3.5)
4.4 Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development since the 1850s. (4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4)
Students analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to the visual arts and artists.
3.1 Describe how art plays a role in reflecting life (e.g., in photography, quilts, architecture).
3.2 Identify and discuss the content of works of art in the past and present, focusing on the different cultures that have contributed to California's history and art heritage.
3.3 Research and describe the influence of religious groups on art and architecture, focusing primarily on buildings in California both past and present.
The original captions on some of the historical photographs may include racial terms that were commonplace at the time, but considered to be derogatory today.
6C's of Primary Source Analysis (PDF) (Source: UCI History Project)
Photographs (PDF) (Source: Library of Congress)
Posters/Visuals (PDF) (Source: Bringing History Home)
Written Documents (PDF) (Source: NARA)
Primary Source Activity (PDF) (Source: Library of Congress)
A land grant is a gift of real estate made by a government or other authority to an individual. It may be as a reward for services, or as incentives to develop undeveloped land in a relatively unpopulated country.
A diseño, which means "drawing" or "sketch" in Spanish, is an informal, hand-drawn map made by Californios to mark out their properties.
A surveyor map is an official land map created for legal purposes and drawn by trained professionals.
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NICOMA PARK — A 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook Oklahoma County about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake's epicenter was two miles southwest of Nicoma Park and 11 miles east of Oklahoma City.
Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said he has received reports minor of damage from residents, such as ceiling cracks and molding and pictures being knocked off.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a smaller earthquake about 6:30 a.m. about four miles southeast of Choctaw and 15 miles east of Oklahoma City. It measured 2.5 magnitude.
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"In light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."
Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park on a fire that gutted Aardman Animations' warehouse in Bristol, England, and destroyed sets and props for the company's popular "claymation" films. The fire came after the latest Wallace & Gromit film, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (see "review") topped the U.S. box office chart.
"I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes."
Former Arkansas State Rep. Jim Bob Duggar, 40, on plans to have more children after his wife Michelle, 39, last week gave birth to their 16th child. The Duggars are currently building a 7,000-square-foot home that will include nine bathrooms, four washing machines, four dryers, and a commercial kitchen.
"I think the answer is no, because he hasn't gotten back to me yet."
Tim McOsker, father of quarterback Miranda McOsker, 15, who threw for three touchdowns in an Oct. 8 varsity game. He had asked her uncle John, who also played for Bishop Montgomery High in Torrance, Calif., if he ever threw for that many.
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Gathering in auditoriums with our fellow humans for entertainment's sake is the stuff of the ages. I love how the NZIFF becomes our humming town square for the season.
I have hazy, formative memories of screaming at the screen at the full-house, midnight screening of Pump Up The Volume at The Civic during the 1990 festival. I reckon this year's best music party will be a tie between The Punk Singer - seen it, adore it - and Pulp: A film about life, death and supermarkets.
Any film showing young women making their way in the world is going to push my feminist buttons, so 52 Tuesdays, Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars and We Are The Best! are naturally on the list. I've added Linklater's highly-anticipated Boyhood for balance.
The Armstrong Lie is a jaw-dropping piece of journalism; Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? puts two of my favourite humans in a room; Frank has Fassbender, say no more. Orphans and Kingdoms is on the list because it's the debut feature by the guys I made the short film Dead Letters with, and what's the point of nepotism otherwise? (Also, actor Colin Moy is a privilege to watch).
Finally, I've been disgusted, appalled, scared shitless, revolted, visually assaulted and pants-wettingly hysterical at Ant Timpson's festival selections, but I have never, ever been disappointed.
Gemma Gracewood is a producer and writer, and reviews film for Metro magazine.
The Punk Singer
An inspiring close-up encounter with feminist punk rock legend Kathleen Hanna. Frontwoman for Bikini Kill throughout the 90s, then the hugely popular dance group Le Tigre, she's a powerful presence onstage and off.
Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets
NZer Florian Habicht's acclaimed collaboration with Jarvis Cocker fixes the triumphant 2012 concert billed as Pulp's last ever within a loving portrait of Sheffield and Sheffielders.
Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhall play fiercely avant-garde musicians in this weirdly celebratory satire of an obscure art rock band propelled via Twitter into the limelight.
We Are the Best!
Vi är bäst!
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson returns to the subversive high spirits of his earlier Show Me Love, adapting his wife's graphic novel of 80s schoolgirl misfit friendship – and no-talent punkette attitude.
Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars
Sepideh – Drømmen om stjernerne
In a provincial town in Iran, young Sepideh dreams of becoming an astronomer, although almost no one she knows thinks this a fit pursuit for a young woman. Filmed over several years, this doco traces her surprising progress.
52 Tuesdays
A delicate and frequently touching debut drama, Australian director Sophie Hyde's film, shot over a year of Tuesdays, traces a teenage girl's explorations of her own sexual identity while her mother undergoes gender transition.
Richard Linklater's enthralling and moving drama of a boy's progress from childhood to young manhood is truly unprecedented: it was shot over 12 years, capturing its star and his fellow cast as they themselves grew and changed.
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?
Director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mood Indigo) and philosopher-activist Noam Chomsky talk about life and language in a conversation gorgeously illuminated with Gondry's hand-drawn animations.
The Armstrong Lie
Investigative filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron, We Steal Secrets) incorporates amazing all-access footage of the 2009 Tour de France into a comprehensive interrogation of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and the world he dominated.
Orphans & Kingdoms
In writer/director Paolo Rotondo's debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.
Kung Fu Elliot
This surreal Slamdance-winning doco captures two years in the lives of a passionate amateur filmmaker, his supportive girlfriend and their outrageous cast – all trying to realise his dream of martial arts stardom.
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
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A man that may know new Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Bill Lazor better than anyone is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles. In Lazor's first and only season in Philly, Foles was able to elevate his play to the next level, becoming one of the league's best and most efficient signal callers in the league, throwing for 27 touchdowns and only two interceptions en route to leading the Eagles to the NFC East division title.
Foles' play was good enough to get him to this year's Pro Bowl, where he took the time to speak to the Finsiders own Tristin Jones about his former QB coach. Foles spoke about Bill Lazor very glowingly, and said he was very proud of his former coach for getting a new opportunity. He knows that Lazor is a guy that is always incredibly prepared, and someone who's a great teacher that'll thrive as an OC in this league.
"Bill (Lazor) is a tremendous coach. He's a guy that knows the game in and out, and one of the hardest working coaches I've been around," said Foles. "Me being a quarterback, he was able to in our quarterback room make us better players, and that's what he does. He's very detailed in his work, he'll give you so much information when you go into the game and then corrections during the game. He's on top of everything. "
"I'm very happy for Bill and his family. He's got a great family, he's a great father, so I'm excited for him and the Dolphins have a good coach."
Now the marks during the season for Foles are almost unparalleled compared to other quarterbacks in NFL history. Despite only starting 10 games and getting time in 13, the University of Arizona product had a season unlike any other in league history. Foles' 27 TDs to two picks was the league's best ever TD/INT ratio, and he produced the 3rd best quarterback rating of all time (119.0) during the season, only being eclipsed by Aaron Rodgers (122.5 in 2011) and Peyton Manning (121.1 in 2004). And don't forget about the ridiculous seven-touchdown performance and perfect passing rating (158.3) against the Oakland Raiders in Week 9 either.
Foles sees his success as a result of the team having success, but definitely attributes some of it to Lazor.
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If you want to back a specific wind turbine project, for example, Abundance enables you to do that.Since launching in 2011, Davis said, Abundance has raised £6.3 million for various projects in the UK, most of which are independent energy producers. By the end of July the platform will have around 1,400 users, he said.The financial product it sells is effectively a 20-year bond with a 6-9 percent rate, so unlike other crowdfunding sites Abundance is debt-based, not equity-based."Abundance is a building society for the 21st century," said Davis, who said that they were looking at how their model could be extended to other areas like social housing.Startup index alice. was up next, with CEO Samer Karam reminding the audience that as someone from Lebanon, "I understand risk in ways most people here don't."alice. is about bridging the gap between seed funding and Series A financing. The platform monitors and gathers information on thousands of startups and creates "indexes" for investors to purchase. In essence, the indices are securitised assets."It's basically a due diligence platform," said Karam, explaining that alice. does the legwork of assessing the likelihood a startup will fail. "We're looking at everything from overlaps of different networks to the 'truthiness' in the conversations we have with the startups."Two bitcoin companies followed: Blockchain.info and Coinometrics.Blockchain.info CEO Nicolas Cary began in bold style, telling the judges his company is the "world's most popular bitcoin website".The company provides a range of bitcoin services, including a wallet service for people to hold bitcoin and also "a search engine for the bitcoin economy".Since its founding in 2011, Blockchain.info has "transacted 20 billion dollars worth [of bitcoin]," said Cary, who emphasised the crucial difference between Blockchain.info and a bank is their "non-custodial relationships with our users. You are your own bank"."We do not have custody over your funds, we do not have a central point of failure. As we scale our growth, our risk profile does not change."How will it make money? That's a question for a later stage, Cary suggested: "We've been in landgrab mode."Coinometrics on the other hand is strictly an analysis business, processing and digesting the vast amounts of information created in the bitcoin economy, cofounder Jonathan Levin said."We're seeing a fundamentally re-engineering of the financial system. This needs new types of data provision and analytics," he said.The business is pre-product he admitted, but said that it would be a subscription-based service that provided "high level macroeconomics statistics" on bitcoin.CurrencyTransfer CEO Paul Plewman continued the emphasis on payments, specifically in the foreign currency exchange space."In any industry where there is inefficiency, we've seen a new wave of tech disrupters," he said, before arguing the FX payment space is next.CurrencyTransfer is a platform for executing large scale currency transfers easily and quickly online."An Expedia for currency transfer," Plewman called it.One challenge the company faces is working with brokers to connect their APIs with CurrencyTransfer's platform, with institutional inertia an ever-present spectre."We created a fully functioning trading platform in less than six months. [Big institutions] spend almost as long debating the size of their logo," he joked.eToro followed and though not strictly a startup -- the company was founded in 2007 -- communications manager Nadav Avidan gave a compelling argument for the need to simplify the investment process."The look and feel of investing shouldn't be complicated and shouldn't be something I'm afraid of," he said. "We took out all the finance jargon about where your money goes."One of eToro's core selling points as an investment network is transparency. You can see where each of their 3.5 million users have invested their money -- you can't get away with not putting your money where your mouth is.The sessions most creative pitch came from Guevara, a peer-to-peer car insurance site whose brand is centred around Che Guevara and the idea of "revolution" in the insurance space."We've eliminated the underwriter. The people are the insurer," said Guevara founder Kim Miller, who noted that the company launched "at 9pm last night".With Guevara, you pool your insurance premiums with other users who have a similar risk profile. Any money left over in the pool at the end of the year allows for cheaper premiums the following year -- you can either be invited into a pool by friends, or Guevara will allocate you based on your details.Miller claims it could, over time, reduce your premiums by up to 80 percent.The final pitch came from Margaret Mackenzie, CFO of JustInvesting, an investment platform aimed at institutional investors."The future of private capital is a global platform that replaces the old organic way of doing things. It's online access for qualified issuers, investors and intermediaries," she said. "I have great respect for crowdfunding, this isn't it."The platform "essentially connects the capital ecosystem", she said.That was session one -- still 12 more startups to come! 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May 3, 2013
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Eighteen Patriot Leaguers from six different schools received membership into the 2013 National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college career.
Representatives on the list from the Patriot League include the following players.
Bucknell: Ryan Gutowski, Patrick Joyce, Samuel Oyekoya, Troy Steinhilber
Colgate: Evan Goldszak, Chris Looney
Fordham: Brendan Melanophy, Patrick Murray, Nick Womack
Holy Cross: Reed Apfelbaum, Josh Hauser, Tom Mannix
Lafayette: Rodney Gould, Jason Marshalek, Sam Stuart, Ethan Swerdlow
Lehigh: Zach Barket, Ryan Spadola
Looney was the 2012 Patriot League Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and one of seven Hampshire Honor Society members that made the Academic All-Patriot League Team in the fall. Oyekoya, Melanophy, Murray, Mannix, Barket and Spadola also made the Academic All-Patriot League squad for their work in the classroom and on the field.
Fourteen of the honorees were also named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in January for achieving at least a 3.2 grade-point average in the fall semester.
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· Being a starter or a significant substitute in one's last year of eligibility at an accredited NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, Division III, or an NAIA college or university;
· Achieving a 3.2 cumulative grade point average throughout entire course of undergraduate study; and
· Meeting all NCAA-mandated progress towards degree requirements and graduation.
A total of 703 players from 259 schools qualified for membership in the society's seventh year, marking the highest school participation in the history of the program, which began in 2007.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF's current National Scholar-Athlete program greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year. The program further strengthens the organization's leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes who play football at the more than 700 college and universities with football programs nationwide. The initiative has honored 4,081 student-athletes since its inception.
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New River offers more than trophy smallmouths
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It's "whopper time." The warm months between late spring and early fall are when lots of people go fishing, and it's when they catch lots of big fish.
Last year, West Virginians earned 684 Trophy Fish Citations from the state Division of Natural Resources. DNR officials award the certificates to anglers whose fish meet the agency's size requirements.
They also keep records on which waters yield the most trophies. The list for 2012 included 89 creeks, rivers, lakes and ponds. Twenty-five different species of fish were represented.
Problem was, the list didn't clearly indicate which bodies of water produced the most of any given species. Well, I'm a nerd. I wanted to know.
So I took the supplied information, entered it into a computer spreadsheet and printed out the results.
Very quickly, it became apparent that a handful of species garnered the lion's share of the trophies.
To be precise, seven species - largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, muskellunge, brook trout and rainbow trout - accounted for 441 of the 684 citation-sized fish.
But before you dig into the statistics, remember a couple of things:
One, the brook- and rainbow-trout numbers are more a reflection of where the DNR stocks trophy-sized "brood fish" than an indication of a true trophy fishery.
Also, bear in mind that some waters' numbers might be artificially inflated because a local angler fishes a lot, catches a lot of fish, and has a goal to wallpaper his or her house with citations.
With no further ado, then, here are the top waters for each species:
So what do the statistics mean? Well, if you like to catch big bass, catfish or muskies, plan to spend some time on the New River. If you like to catch big trout, follow a stocking truck.


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