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There has been a lot of talk lately about companies offering content for links and there are people on all sides of the fence, including myself. I just read an excellent article by Linktank(must read blog btw) entitled The Content For Links Debate, and I completely agree with what he has to say in regards to going about this tactic. A lot of the chatter has been revolving around the Go Compare fiasco which has seen them up and down in Google.
If you haven't heard about it, then let me fill you in quickly. They were basically sending out mass emails saying they'll write content for your site and include one simple link back to their website. This method can work out great but I can see how a lot of people didn't like the way they went about things. Mass emailing a template to webmaster's is not a great way of doing things. I however think that this is a great method of link building if done properly, and by properly I mean getting personal in each and every email. I also read that they were offering around 400 word articles as content, and to me this doesn't come close to cutting it. If you're wanting that link from the other site you'd best be writing at least 2000 words on something new and fresh, not rehashed. Spend the time doing the social media marketing to attract links to that content, which will in return pass on quality link juice.
Now it isn't clear that they(Go Compare) received a penalty mainly because they bounced back quickly. If you've done link building in a tough niche you'll know that your rankings will fluctuate all over the place. You also don't want to be too aggressive going after one keyword because that's going to get you notice and slapped.
I could go on and on about this subject but i'll let you folks write me some comments with your thoughts. I'm also going to link to a bunch of great posts already talking about what I've covered here and then some. It's a touchy subject, and link building is a mine field of an industry so it's fun(hard?) to keep up on things.
How to Determine a Search Engine Penalty – Jonathan Stewart
Go Compare Penalized Again – Patrick Altoft
The Content For Links Debate – Linktank
Content For Links – Kieron Donoghue
Link Building In Ultra Competitive Niches – Red Cardinal

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28 Saves for Leonoff
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – For the second straight game Saturday, Yale held one of the top offenses in the country below its season average. But as they had done Friday night, the No. 4 Mercyhurst Lakers had enough firepower to overcome the Bulldogs' defensive effort, led by 28 saves from sophomore goaltender Jaimie Leonoff. The end result was a win by the same score as Friday: 4-0. Two forwards from Mercyhurst's top line, Christine Bestland and Emily Janiga, scored two goals each.
Mercyhurst (12-1-1, 4-0-0 CHA) scored just one even strength goal Friday night, but the Lakers got two in the first period Saturday. But after holding the Lakers scoreless for more than 35 minutes Friday, the Bulldogs put together a similar string again Saturday. The Lakers did not score again until 11:21 of the third period, taking advantage of their one and only power play of the game to go up 3-0. That snapped a streak of 39:35 without a goal.
Another Lakers goal four minutes later put the game out of reach. Leonoff finished with 28 saves, while Stephanie Ciampa made 18 for Mercyhurst.
Yale (1-9-0, 1-5-0 ECAC Hockey) returns to action next Friday, hosting UConn in the first round of the Nutmeg Classic at Ingalls Rink.
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When I first found these fabric panels, knew I needed to make one for my friend's 4-year-old daughter who a) loves to dress up as a fairy, and b) loves to play in the garden with her mother.
Then I saw that my 9-year-old niece had the old garden fairy story books, so had to make HER one.
Then my friend saw the quilts and reminisced "oh I used to read that to my daughter when she was little and now she's graduating from college" and so made HER one. I think I'm done with the garden fairies. Here's the quilt and the graduating senior (who, by the way, told her mom: I'll never be too old for the garden fairies!)


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Municipal elections tend to creep up on voters. And that�s a shame.
Municipal elections tend to creep up on voters. And that�s a shame.
Held on odd years � even that expression gives it an unflattering connotation � municipal elections are the breathers between those years when millions of dollars are spent in local, state and national elections for everything from N.C. General Assembly, Congress, U.S. Senate and president. Somewhere in-between are judges, district attorneys and even soil and water conservation district supervisors.
A lot races, a ton of candidates, a dizzying amount of talk and media coverage. An unappetizing stew of partisan posturing is always on the menu.
Races for city and town offices are different. In Craven County all are non-partisan. We see this as a positive for the voting process. After all, voters are required to judge each candidate on his or her own merits without the wingspan of Democratic or Republican philosophies providing cover.
But it does force voters to pay attention, do their homework and brush up on the issues that will define the races and those running for office.
They have about two weeks to do it, before the Oct. 8 election.
Some voters have it pretty easy. In some cities there are no contested seats.
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We urge residents to do themselves and their communities a favor and learn about the candidates and the issues before heading to the polls. Read more about the candidates on the Sun Journal�s website newbernsj.com. Under the News section header look for the Elections 2013 section.
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UC Irvine third baseman Taylor Sparks and pitcher Andrew Morales were both named second-team All-West Region by the American Baseball Coaches Assn.
In addition, Sparks was named a West Region Gold Glove winner.
Sparks, a sophomore in 2013, shared Big West Conference Field Player of the Year honors and was a third-team All-American. He hit .360 with 10 home runs and 50 runs batted in.
Morales, a junior in 2013, was 10-0 with a 1.89 earned-run average and was second-team All-American.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA's Great Observatories, following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. JWST combines qualities of two of its predecessors, observing in infrared light, like Spitzer, with fine resolution, like Hubble.
The telescope has a 6.5-meter mirror composed of 18 hexagonal segments in a honeycomb pattern. Protecting the sensitive research instruments is a large sunshield about the size of a tennis court. Further protection comes from the observatory's remote location in a place called the second LaGrange point (L2). Orbiting the Sun at L2, JWST will be about a million miles from Earth (roughly four times more distant than the Moon) and will always be positioned with the Earth and the Sun in the same direction, behind its sunshield.
In this animation, designed as an homage to a shot from "2001: A Space Odyssey," pans past a model of JWST at L2. The opening of the sequence illustrates the L2 location, showing Earth in the mid-ground, and the Sun in the background. Later in the sequence, notice the reflection of the secondary mirror sweeping across the primary mirror.
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Has anyone ever heard of this? I heard this was a good site to find some of those Fett Kurt Adler Fabriche figurines that are hard as heck to find intact, and stumbles on this. I noticed they also have the Fett Chubby's for sale already on this site, as well.
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Copywrong RevisitedSeptember 10, 2003
When is an orange not an orange? When someone colors it purple. I have learned more about copyrights and licensing in the past 24 hours than I ever thought I'd need to.
This post is about the general issue. The specific dispute has been resolved, as the person I was quoting has both privately and publicly apologized and settled this in a way acceptable to me and hopefully all the Zen Garden authors. The funny thing about repentence is that it places the accuser in a spot of feeling guilty for doing the accusing in the first place, but I digress, and we've moved on.
It would seem that Creative Commons is a tangle of worms, and the simple three-step process they offer when selecting a license is overly simplistic. Back in May when I evaluated CC and chose the license I did, I made sure to read the full legal code and didn't find anything that I couldn't agree with. Experience since has highlighted the problems with CC licenses in real world conditions which I never could have foreseen at the time:
- 'Derivative Work' is an undefined term. Technically, someone could grab any work governed by this license, modify a single pixel, and re-release it as their own 'derivative work', and that's okay.
- 'Attribution' is an undefined term. The same person is not obligated to credit the original author visibly; they could just bury their attribution in an obscure spot of the source file that no one but the most conscientious developer will ever see.
- The license is definitive. You cannot add terms on top of it. This effectively means you lose any control of your copyright beyond what Creative Commons affords. This is what I got tripped up on; I assumed it was okay to further refine some points, considering I/we still owned the copyright on the original work.
- The license is non-revokable. If someone chooses to do something with your work that you don't approve of (think hate or porn sites here) you're out of luck. Worse: they have to attribute you. You can't even request they use your work but not associate it with you. Stew on that for a while, it'll leave a bad taste in your mouth.
I wanted to keep things simple and open. To me, and to many of you, there are clear lines between fair use, respectable use, and outright theft. To others, there aren't, and this is why things will have to change.
I want people to be able to use these .css files. I want them to learn from them, I want them to take the techniques within and produce new work with them. That's how I and many others learned what we know, and I want to fully encourage it to continue.
But I don't want wholesale copying. Images or no, the designs are not templates. Zen Garden submitters are not spending their free time putting together work so that others may re-use and possibly profit from it. This, it would seem, is what some can't differentiate. There's no license in the world that says "use some, but not all," and even if there were, the definition of "some" is too vague to be legally binding.
So, because of the few, the many once again suffer. I now have to spend the next few weeks refining a more specific license for the Zen Garden. The spirit of openness and learning will be preserved as far as it can, but since it was obviously too open to begin with, it will be much more restrictive.
None of us is glad to see it come to this. I think Michael said it best in this comment:
The sad part in all of this is the legalistic vantage points that everyone has to come from nowadays.
It can't just be about what's proper, polite, courtious, considerate, correct, or nice.
It has to be about what the license says, what the offender feels entightled to, how far the offender feels he can go with it, what the letter of the law says can and can't happen.
It can't be a nice little "oh sorry", "hey, no problem" affair. It's gotta be "sorry bucko you lose, too bad" and "listen here you jerk". Maybe I'm just a little polly-anna but I expect better behavior out of people whether or not there's a license covering that behavior. It saddens me that there are people out there so immature and so self-absorbed that they just can't understand it when people don't want to give them the world for free and act belligerent when people challenge them for that behavior.


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Christiane Amanpour was spotted Friday by our own Hilary Phelps at Bar Boulud, a restaurant near Lincoln Center frequented by New York Fashion Week attendees. The veteran journo was eating soup and sipping on what appeared to be a pink grapefruit cocktail, according to Phelps.
Ramona Singer was spotted Friday making her rounds at various shows. We first saw the "Real Housewives of New York" star at designer Walter Baker's show at "The Box" in Lincoln Center. Singer was dressed in a lovely form-fitting Moroccan blue dress, which is one of the top colors of the season.


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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Before I get to today's post, I want to apologize for my prolonged absence from the blogosphere. I am in the midst of a cross-continental move, and therefore have been so busy putting off packing that I neglected WTFWJD? and it's loyal readers. I should also note that the next month or so will likely be pretty sparse in terms of posts, but I promise not to ignore you for three weeks again. That's just lame.
Anyway, on to this awesome video:
Bored of trying to convert heathens with flawed logic and scare tactics, blowing up abortion clinics, and judging the living and the dead, it seems that some Christians have moved on to attacking the NIV Bible. I find this to be more disturbing than the other kinds behavior I just mentioned, because it displays a progression of intolerance from "the Bible is 100% factually correct about everything" to "only certain versions of the Bible are 100% correct about everything, and the rest are blasphemous." This is cause for concern.
The Bible is a collection of books written over a vast period of time in several different languages, none of which exist in the same form today. As such, it is impossible to translate into English in a way that is both completely accurate and readable. I don't envy any translator faced with that task. That said, I like the NIV (obviously, as it's the translation I use here. Don't tell the Catholics), because it is a decent combination of accurate translation and English readability. Any inaccuracies, which every translation will undoubtedly have, are the product of human fallibility, not active aggression toward the original text.
This presents yet another reason why strict adherence to Scripture is not a practical way of realizing one's faith. The Scripture is now and has always been, regardless of what some might think, pretty malleable. It has been changed and added to over the years in ways that far outstrip any minor inaccuracies a particular translation may have. Believing that it is the literal word of God means believing that the literal word of God has changed significantly, even since the first couple hundred years of Christianity.
One wonders, then, what is particularly Christian about throwing a Bible into a barbecue when there are hungry people who need feeding, sick people who need healing, and violence that needs to be stopped.
Matthew 25:34-40 says:
Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'The message of that passage, in every translation of the Bible, is essentially the same. Perhaps it would be wise for those who spend their time bickering over semantics to remember that. WTFWJD?
Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
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Vampire and the witch
Edward never never came back, and Bella never jumped off the cliff. She moved to Jacksonville to live with Renee, but encounters witches. She soon finds that she is one as well.Bella returns to Forks after Charlie dies, bringing her knew witch friends about forty years later. Her witch powers, have stopped her from aging. What she finds in forks is something she never thought she'd find again
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Bella's POV
i stared up at the small house in front of me. It had been years since my last visit and even longer since i had lived here. I felt a reasuring hand on my shoulder. I looked up into the eyes of Chris. My whitelighter.
"Ready?" he asked. I turned back to the house. No. I wasn't ready, nor would i ever be. But i had to do this. For Charlie.
"yeah." i said and pushed myself to take the next step. I could feel the tears trickling down my cheek. I climbed the set of stairs leading to the front door. Chris was following silently, he knew how much this hurt. He had loved Charlie too.
I reached out to turn the knob, but frooze and pulled away. When i entered the old home, Charlie would not be there. Realization washed over me as i thought of the memories i had had with him.
No more Charlie searching aimlessly for his tie. Nomore Charlie calling me up to see how the sisters and i were doing. No more Chief swan titiles.
He was gone. And it was all my fault.
I took a deep breath, fighting back more tears and reached for the knob again. This time turning it and letting the old wooden door swing open to releal the dark emptiness of the house.
Chris's POV
Bella and i entered the house slowly. At first i was expecting Charlie to call from the living room telling me to come watch the game with him. He had been Bella's father, but he had also adopted me as his son. My own father ignored me, and Charlie hadn't.
I watched as Bella fingered the chair where Charlie used to sit. Her eyes were teary, and i could tell she was trying to hold them back. She hated crying infront of people, it made her feel weak.
"I'll go pack some of his things." i said and bounded up the stairs.
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Dealing with Overwhelm
Yesterday all was well. But today? Hell broke lose and today's an all together different story. Suddenly, your work load, your kids, your bank account, your health all need your attention and they need it now! What seemed easy to put off yesterday, feels like an emergency today. How will you manage the seemingly unmanageable? And as your anxiety holds hands with fear, will you be able to survive whatever it is and make it out okay?
It's a question that could likely leave most us wishing to be kids again, to want to hide from the responsibility that adulthood brings. As someone who's suffered from health issues and constant career fears (I am a writer), I understand the urgency. I know what it's like to need answers now, to want to wake up from the nightmare that is your current life. Fortunately there is always another way. I've discovered that even in the worst circumstances, light paves the way through the darkest of shadows. We only need to to know where to look to get to it.
Brandi-Ann Uyemura is a freelance writer who specializes in psychology and self-help articles. She has a MA in Counseling Psychology and writes for several publications and websites.


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Go ahead, Mr. Boehner, that's right, let it all out. This time around you'd be excused for a bit of that trademark blubbering. In fact, so would investors who found themselves on the wrong side of the S&P last night.
The market has had a tough time interpreting some of the developments in the fiscal-cliff drama in recent weeks, but not Thursday. It was a no-brainer.
Boehner's embarrassing failure to unite his party behind his "Plan B" was met with a consensus as stocks snapped lower. Now, traders, the ones that aren't already taking a Christmas hiatus, are left to pick up the pieces.
Before the sharp downturn, investors were feeling pretty good, according to the AAII Sentiment Survey, which posted its second highest bullish level of the year yesterday. That reading would probably look a touch different this morning.
Cullen Roche on the Pragmatic Capitalism blog isn't all that worried though: "Once a bunch of millionaire politicians see their bank accounts in a world of hurt because of their own ignorance, they seem to get their acts together."
Key market gauges: All eyes are on the S&P futures after that flash plummet last night. They've recovered from their depths but are still off more than 1%. When things go haywire in the States, it tends to spill over across the pond and into Europe , where all the major indexes are approaching 1% declines.
The economy: The Commerce Department posted personal-income, up 0.6%, and consumer-spending, up 0.4%, while analysts had been looking for a 0.4% uptick in both. Also, the final University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters consumer-sentiment index will hit later, and it's expected to be revised up slightly to 75, though that's down from 82.7 in November. Read: What to watch on the U.S. economy.
Boehner is expected to hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Eastern.
The buzz: It was good while it lasted. Research in Motion shares, long left for dead by many, had an autumnal rebirth, more than doubling in the past three months. Then came last night's report. The stock is lining up for a double-digit beatdown when markets open. There may be hope in the form of a buyout, however, according to this analyst.
StockTwits CEO Howard Linzon didn't have much sympathy for those getting caught holding the bag as he tweeted: "Honestly if you were chasing $RIMM at $14 ...you can't last in the business of investing. please unfollow us"
Other top-trending tickers include Sina Corp. , CF Industries and Nike , which reported yesterday.
General Electric , pointed out by Bespoke Investment as one of the Dogs of the Dow, has also found its way on to the premarket radar. The company is set to pay 3.3 billion euros for Avio's aeronautics unit.
The chart of the day: Feeling a bit overexposed to Apple ? Thinking about hedging your technology-heavy bet by loading up on the "safe haven" that gold is supposed to provide? Not so fast. Check out how closely the two have been linked in the past year, from Global Macro Monitor.
Here's a look at what BlackRock and Midas fund managers think about gold, from The Tell blog along with a list of some of the best charts for all of 2012, compiled by Business Insider. And another from The Atlantic.
The call of the day: Arne Slason of Alsin Capital says the stock market is going higher next year. "Maybe a lot higher." Some of the catalysts include a rebound in housing, an emerging energy boom, and more innovations in technology. One way to play, he says, is to buy Berkshire Hathaway . In his post on Seeking Alpha, Slason said the stock has 50% upside over the next two years, "but that's not an important number. This is a stock you want to buy and forget about."
Following up on yesterday's call, The Fly says it was a "watershed moment" for VirnetX and, despite the pullback in shares, he's still "super bullish."
Random reads: It happens to the best of them. Yes, Twitter seems to be growing more corporate in feel with each passing day. Read about more of its growing pains from All Things D as the company tracks toward an eventual IPO.
"Computers were traded for plastic surgery, iPhones were smashed like part favors" and more from this Gizmodo piece on corrupt Apple store employees.
As for the stock, should you panic? Brett Arends breaks it down.
Check out "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek." An amazing example of digital storytelling. Also from The New York Times: Cracking down on the Doomsday believers, China-style, .
This guy is no doubt wishing the Mayans were right.
As a gutted Oakland Raiders fan about to kiss off another brutal season, I can tell you that angsty New York Jets fans have it easy. But this "Agony and Jets-tasy" piece from the Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay is still worth a read.
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Everything Everywhere, the combined entity of Orange and T-Mobile, has switched on its 4G network in four UK cities, so that the company's engineers can begin live testing and systems integration in preparation for a commercial rollout, but customers of the existing brands will not have access to the new 4G services.
Last month, communications regulator Ofcom approved Everything Everywhere's request to use its 1800MHz spectrum holding for next generation 4G services, which will allow it to roll out a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network several months before its competitors.
The LTE network will become available to consumers and businesses in London, Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham in the coming weeks, and is expected to launch in 12 more cities – Edinburgh, Belfast, Derby, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and Southampton – by Christmas.
Further towns, cities and rural areas will follow rapidly, with 2013 population coverage to reach 70 percent, and 98 percent covered by 2014.
Orange and T-Mobile customers will not have access to 4G services when the network goes live. Instead, 4G services will be offered under a new brand name, EE, which the company is characterising as a "superfast" customer brand to stand alongside its existing brands.
Orange and T-Mobile customers with compatible handsets will have the option to upgrade to the new EE brand. Supported devices include the Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE, the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820, the HTC One XL, and the Huawei Ascend P1 LTE, E589 Mobile WiFi and E392 Mobile Broadband stick.
EE was not able to confirm whether the forthcoming iPhone 5, expected to be unveiled tomorrow, will be supported. However, Olaf Swantee, CEO of EE, said that the company would be "announcing more devices very shortly".
Swantee said that the UK's digital backbone has become "as important as the roads, the railways and the airports". He said that existing networks are too slow to meet current demand, and the advent of 4G would allow Britain to become "a more modern, connected country".
The company will also offer fixed-line broadband services under the EE brand, which will be provided using BT's fibre infrastructure. Fotis Karonis, CTO of EE, told Techworld that this would allow EE to move away from being a simple mobile operator to become an "creative communications provider".
EE did not offer any pricing information for either its 4G mobile or fixed-line broadband services, but Karonis said the intention was "to be really competitive and address the broader public".
He added that, although Orange and T-Mobile customers will not have access to 4G services, they will benefit from ongoing investment in EE's 2G and 3G mobile network.
"We've invested quite heavily to support the growth and the quality of the network – developing the 2G network, putting huge investment into the 3G network, integrating the two together to make it fully seamless, adding all of this backhaul capacity. You need all of those ingredients to allow you to launch 4G," said Karonis.
EE expects its new "superfast" brand to be particularly attractive to small and medium businesses and large enterprises. This is because, as employees become increasingly mobile, the reliability of the network becomes a major priority.
"The improvements that we have made over the last year by integrating the Orange and T-Mobile networks has given us the capability to offer business customers much wider coverage and better SLAs," said Karonis. "We also have indoor coverage, and we study businesses' vertical requirements to provide end-to-end solutions."
To support the launch of the new brand, EE is opening more than 700 branded stores across Britain's high streets. The new EE stores – formerly Orange and T-Mobile shops – will serve customers of all three brands.
Britain has previously been criticised for being in the slow lane when it comes to 4G mobile services, trailing countries such as Angola, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. However, Ovum analyst Matthew Howett said EE's decision to cover London in its entirety from day one makes it "one of the most ambitious rollouts we have seen".
Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who attended the press conference at London's Science Museum, welcomed the imminent arrival of EE's 4G network in the capital. "We are now the city with the greatest 4G coverage anywhere in the world," he claimed.


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Insulation resistance testers measure the following three quantities:
- Absorption current starts high and then drops. At the same time, voltage starts low and rises. What you're measuring is the rate of storage (absorption) of potential energy in and on insulation. Understanding this process is important to understanding the time resistance method of insulation testing.
- Capacitive current is the initial surge of current that occurs when you apply voltage to a conductor. The conductor acts like a capacitor in that it "charges up." As with absorption current, capacitive current starts high and then drops.
- Leakage current, also called "conduction current," is the steady flow of current through and on the insulation. If you graph this on a time trend, you should notice a gradual sloping of the line. When that slope suddenly changes, the insulation is undergoing accelerated deterioration.
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Webb Simpson ready to defend US Open at 'favorite golf course in the world' Merion
ARDMORE, Pa. – Webb Simpson already played for an amateur championship at Merion.
He's ready to win a major there on his next visit.
Simpson is one of the few active PGA Tour members to play at the suburban Philadelphia course, competing at the 2005 U.S. Amateur. When he returns in June, Simpson has a grander goal in mind than finishing 72: Simpson wants to defend his U.S. Open championship.
The U.S. Open is set to return in June to Merion Golf Club for the first time since 1981. With good reason. The U.S. Open at Merion will be the shortest course for a major championship in eight years.
The U.S. Open was played at Merion in 1934, 1950, 1971 and 1981. Bobby Jones won the U.S. Amateur in 1930 and tournaments from the Curtis Cup to the Walker Cup have all been played at the course.


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Australia's top banks are moving forward with plans to support near field communications (NFC) despite Apple's decision not to support the contactless payment technology in the iPhone 5. A number of NFC-enabled devices running Google's Android mobile platform are available in Australia, including smartphones from Samsung, HTC and Sony.
"NFC and mobile payments is still an emerging solution and I still think it will be some time before all the interested parties are ready to come to the fore," Westpac head of mobile payments, Daryl Babus, told Computerworld Australia.
"We will continue to monitor closely what Apple is doing in this space."
The iPhone 5's lack of NFC surprised NAB, the bank's technology head of strategy and innovation, Denis Curran said at a recent conference in Sydney.
"We all thought that the Apple iPhone 5 would come out with NFC," he said.
"What will that do to adoption of NFC in Australia for mobile? How do we adapt our strategies to them?"
In a blog post last month, CommBank general manager of online banking, Drew Unsworth, said he was "a little disappointed" that Apple didn't include NFC in the iPhone 5.
"There are also other factors to consider which will potentially help with NFC adoption in this country," Babus said. That includes "the prevalence of contactless terminals and the familiarity of making contactless payments, and Australia is well positioned on these two fronts to still see NFC take-off."
For other banks, however, NFC may not yet have the customer base needed to support an investment. Suncorp Bank is looking at NFC but isn't ready to commit to the technology, said Suncorp Bank Channel Specialist, Simon Clarke.
"While the pace of mobile developments are rapid, in many cases consumers are still coming to grips with contactless payment systems," he said.
Here's a look at where some of Australia's top banks stand on NFC deployment:Westpac
"Westpac is committed to embedding mobile payments and progressive payment solutions including NFC into all aspects of our core business," Babus said.
Westpac is testing NFC as customers use mobile more and more for payments, Babus said. "Westpac currently has 200,000 customers who only use mobile banking," and no other channel, she said. "NFC is one of these important solutions that Westpac is working on to satisfy this demand."
A Westpac NFC trial with Optus and MasterCard "is continuing and progressing well," and the bank expects to roll out NFC "more broadly" in 2013, Babus said.
"It is definitely meeting our learning expectations with the feedback from participants on their experiences and expectations of an NFC mobile payment solution helping to define the next step in our journey and the final product offering."
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CommBank has already invested in NFC with its Kaching platform. While the iPhone lacks NFC, CommBank has built a case called iCarte that adds the function to the iPhone 4 and 4S. CommBank also has integrated NFC into Pi, its new tablet-like payment terminals.
While iCarte doesn't support the iPhone 5, Unsworth wrote on the CommBank blog that the bank's mobile apps team is "already working on a holistic solution for all CommBank Kaching users (both iPhone and Android) who wish to make contactless payments with their smartphone." A CommBank spokeswoman declined to provide a release timeframe.
"Near Field Communication innovation is part of a broader evolution that include contactless payments and chip-enhanced cards," an NAB spokesman said. "NAB's strategy is to partner with global technology leaders to ensure our customers can benefit from world's best practice in payments."
NAB this week announced a partnership with VeriFone to deploy mobile payments technology, including a sleeve for iPhone and iPad that turn the devices into payment terminals for merchants. The companies will also be rolling out new EFTPOS terminals including an embedded contactless reader.
ANZ announced last week that it's trialling an NFC-based mobile wallet for Android phones as part of a $1.5 billion technology investment. The trial includes 25 ANZ employees and the bank aims to make NFC available to customers in mid-2013.
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"While NFC is likely to play an important role in facilitating further mobile technology developments, it is only one component," Clarke said.
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WFP is using its logistics expertise to help the humanitarian community in North Africa assist the people fleeing -- and remaining in -- conflict-torn Libya. The agency is working in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and on the Egyptian and Tunisian borders, organizing aid deliveries and building the pipeline to carry them.
CAIRO -- As WFP and its partner, the Libyan Red Crescent, distributes food to some 7,000 internally displaced people in eastern Libya, staff are operating in Benghazi, the major city of eastern Libya, where enough food to feed more than half a million people has entered the country or been pre-positioned for use when needed. See the latest operational update.
Underpinning the food relief operations now under way in North Africa is WFP's emergency logistics team, which is building and improving channels for moving food supplies around the region.
"The future of the public food distribution system in Libya is very worrying to us," said WFP Logistics Director Martin Ohlsen. "To the best of our knowledge, the food that is in the country is currently being consumed without being adequately replenished."
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The logistics operations are not just aimed to ensure speedy and timely WFP assistance in North Africa, but also to help the humanitarian partners who work alongside the food agency.
Ready to move into Libya
Much of the logistics work and preparations for delivering future humanitarian assistance in Libya are taking place on the desert border areas of Egypt and Tunisia.
In Egypt, WFP has already airlifted from Italy half a dozen prefabricated mobile offices for staff to operate from, along with six warehouses to store food, blankets, medical supplies and other humanitarian items. They will remain at Egypt's Salloum border with Libya as part of contingency planning to establish logistics operations inside that country.
WFP's logistics team has also secured 25,000 square meters of space in Benghazi to store food and supplies for the humanitarian community. Poised at Salloum border, too, are more vast, mobile storage units.
"We are now ready to move to Libya to further strengthen our team in Benghazi, as soon as we have safe humanitarian access to the country," said Regional Logistics Coordinator Bekim Mahmuti.
Every detail -- from handling cargo services of food and other aid, to assessing the capacity of local ports and facilitating customs requirements for vehicles and telecommunications equipment vital to our operations -- is critical. WFP's logistics staff is involved in all these aspects -- for both our organization as well as for other humanitarian agencies.
Helping our humanitarian partners
"We've drawn up a list of transporters and publicized it to the rest of the humanitarian community, so if they need transporters fast, they can just go on the WFP website and find the full list," said WFP's Tunisia logistics Information Officer Esther Russell. "And we can do custom-made logistics maps for any organization that asks."
In Tunisia, a three-member WFP logistics team based near the border has also built two mobile storage units - essentially large tents -- to store emergency warehouses for eventual operations in Libya. The tents also store supplies for other humanitarian agencies.
An essential part of the work is also ensuring food gets to thousands of people who fled Libya and remain in border camps in Tunisia and Egypt.
In Tunisia, for example, staff are finalizing preparations for WFP to take over all four kitchens that feed some 7,600 people -- mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh -- in Shousha camp, about seven kilometers from the Libya border. WFP has the capacity to ramp up operations to feed 20,000.


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Report updated on December 4th 2009.
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I don't blame the aircrafts. It's their mechanics. So many other countries possess the same types of Russian aircrafts, such as China and Bangladesh (Mig 29's), yet I don't see such levels of crashes among them.
It is apparent that if I was a fighter pilot, I would never want it to be in the Indian Air Force!


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At St Michael's students used strip design to retell the main events of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They used images from the internet and their own drawings.
Another class presented a freeze frame retell of the story ' I am jack'. They used the camera roll and story patch. A different class brainstormed ides about solar energy using Google Docs then they were able to represent ideas using any App.
Additionally, other students had to persuade others to read their favourite book using iMovie trailer. Firstly they had to brainstorm ideas in popplet then create every image using any app. Students used explain everything, drawing pad, pic collage and feltz. They also draw images. They then shared their iMovie on Google Drive.


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MIDDLEBURY — UD-3 school board members will consider cost cuts and the use of a fund balance to reduce the property tax impact of a draft 2010-2011 budget that includes a 3.2 percent increase in spending. The increase in the $16,025,483 spending plan is overwhelmingly driven by anticipated surges in special education expenses.
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WHITING — Anyone who's driven through Whiting on Route 30 recently couldn't have helped but notice something happening in the ditches beside the road.
The Whiting Water Corp. is replacing its main water line, which runs beside the road from the firehouse, south along Route 30 for around 4,400 feet. The work began in mid-September, and company operator Bob Wadsworth estimates that work on the line will be done by the end of December.
In listening to President Barack Obama outline his strategy for sending 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan on Tuesday night's televised address, we found ourselves wanting to believe his rationale and his assessment, but what we recognized was that it was little more than a well-delivered political speech carefully calculated to cause the president the least amount of political damage.
That was a disappointment.
Too often I have taken Thanksgiving for granted as simply a day off from work to gorge myself on turkey, pie and just about anything else that doesn't move. Pilgrims? Have never really given them, their funny costumes and blunderbusses much thought.
But this year, I thought I'd take some time to put the "Thanks" in Thanksgiving — specifically from a journalist's perspective. In no particular order, I thought I'd extend my heartfelt newsroom appreciation to:
With the holidays approaching, our house is already filling up with the love and laughter of family and friends. Surrounded by my favorite people day and night, I keep coming back to one question: How do I make them go away?
Oh, I'm all for family togetherness; it's just that the constant presence of nearly everyone on my Christmas list has made it impossible for me to work on their gifts in secret.
That's right, I'm a stealth knitter.
It's hard to sit on the bench in any sport. I know this from personal experience, though some time ago.
It's especially hard in basketball, it seems to me. There are so few players — only five can play at any one time, and then there's the tyranny of the clock: only 32 minutes to be parceled out in high school games, 40 in college.
At Middlebury College, two of the best players on this year's talented team (5-0 so far, with two more home games this week), Kevin Kelleher and Ashton Coghlan, are sitting on the bench and haven't played a minute this season.
MIDDLEBURY — A young and shorthanded Middlebury College women's basketball team outlasted visiting Castleton on Tuesday for its first victory, 51-43.
The Panthers — who are playing this semester without key juniors Lauren Sanchez and Allison Needham, who are studying abroad, and on Tuesday were without senior guard Alana Wall due to a scheduling conflict — improved their record to 1-3.
Castleton dropped to 2-3 despite team highs from former Middlebury Union High School standout Katie Hoxsie, a senior guard, in minutes (36), rebounds (9), assists (5) and steals (2).
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President Obama reportedly will select Jeh Johnson to succeed Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Johnson is a New York lawyer. He served as General Counsel of the Defense Department during Obama's first term.
I'm not a fan of Johnson, with whom I had some slight, peripheral contact when I practiced law. I criticized his manipulative role in ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" here.
I expected that Johnson would succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General when the lawless one finally stepped down. I'm glad he won't be assuming that position, at least not anytime soon.
But head of DHS in some ways is an even more important post. And I don't find it encouraging that late last year, addressing the Oxford Union, Johnson declared: "Now that the efforts by the U.S. military against al Qaeda are in their 12th year, we must ask ourselves, how will this conflict end?"
Soon afterwards, Obama echoed the sentiment, saying: "This war, like all wars, must end" and "We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us."
Unfortunately, the fight against terrorism is defined by what terrorists attempt to accomplish. Thus, as much as we would like to, we cannot "define the nature and scope of this struggle;" nor can we end it because we think it's high time for it to end. If we wish to fight terrorism successfully, we must be prepared to combat it in all of its forms, with special focus on the terrorists' methods of choice, which are always evolving.
Johnson doesn't seem temperamentally suited to this work. Like Obama, he is too prone to ask "are we there yet?"


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TIGERVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's basketball team lost 81-71 to North Greenville (7-13, 5-11) on Saturday (Feb. 9) in a Conference Carolinas match. The Cobras fall to 12-10 on the year, and 8-8 in conference play.
North Greenville (NGU) jumped ahead of Coker quickly with an 11-4 run within the first five minutes of tip-off. However, the Cobras responded by shooting 48-percent (12-of-25) from the floor and entered the break only down by six points.
Coker started the second half with a10-4 run, and tied the game at 44-points with a little over 16-minutes remaining in regulation. However, a three-pointer by NGU's Tyler Powers put the Crusaders back up by three points. From there, both teams would exchange points as neither team could separate. Then, with five minutes remaining the Crusaders went on a 16-7 run and put themselves up by 11-points with just 30-seconds remaining.
Autumn Lau led the Cobras once again in scoring with 24-points on the day. Lau also pulled down six rebounds, with a game high six blocks. Amber Lau was second on the team in scoring with 12-points, followed by Jasmine Evans with 11 and Hailey Yohn with ten. Priscilla Fenty had the game high seven rebounds.
Coker will continue on the road next week as they travel to face Mount Olive on Wednesday (Feb. 13). The game is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. start time.


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NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s historic $13-billion settlement with the federal government will pay down a major chunk of the bank's ballooning legal tab.
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the widely expected settlement of faulty mortgage investments leading up to the financial crisis.
"Through this $13-billion resolution, we are demanding accountability and requiring remediation from those who helped create a financial storm that devastated millions of Americans," said Associate Atty. Gen. Tony West. "The conduct JPMorgan has acknowledged -- packaging risky home loans into securities, then selling them without disclosing their low quality to investors -- contributed to the wreckage of the financial crisis."
But the nation's largest bank still faces a host of criminal investigations and lawsuits stemming from its varied lines of business, not just baggage left over from the housing bust.
The Justice Department's news release on the settlement noted high up: "The settlement does not absolve JPMorgan or its employees from facing any possible criminal charges."
"It's not just mortgages," said Erik Oja, a banking analyst at S&P Capital IQ. "There's just a lot of stuff."
Here's the rough math: $13 billion resolves less than half -- about 45% -- of the potential legal costs JPMorgan has said it expects to potentially pay in the matters.
The New York-based bank disclosed recently that it had set aside $23 billion to cover mounting legal costs, and noted it could pay as much as $6 billion more.
Though the $13-billion deal lays to rest a raft of government probes into mortgage investments leading up to the financial crisis, it does not end a parallel criminal investigation led by Benjamin Wagner, the U.S. attorney in Sacramento.
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The civil and criminal divisions of Wagner's office have been investigating mortgage securities packaged and sold by JPMorgan from 2005 until 2007. These in particular are not the mortgage investments bundled by Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, troubled banks JPMorgan gobbled up during the financial crisis.
Wagner nearly filed a civil fraud lawsuit against JPMorgan, which had been hoping to avoid any criminal penalty as part of a deal with the Justice Department. The department balked at that scenario, and JPMorgan eventually came back to the negotiating table.
In addition to Wagner's criminal probe, federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating the bank's relationship with Bernard Madoff and what it told regulators before his Ponzi scheme collapsed, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Also on the criminal front, U.S. Atty. Preet Bharara in Manhattan has said his office's investigation into JPMorgan's "London Whale" debacle is continuing. Bharara charged two mid-level traders in August with trying to cover up trading losses from risky derivatives bets that cost the bank more than $6 billion.
"Those are just the big ones," Oja said of major legal issues left outstanding after the $13-billion deal. "There's millions of smaller ones."
JPMorgan's second-quarter regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals a number of other legal headaches.
Litigation involves everything from brokerage MF Global's collapse, the investment bank Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the unfolding scandal into manipulation of the benchmark interest rate known as the London Inter-bank Offered Rate, or Libor.
Earlier this year, California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris sued JPMorgan over its credit card litigation practices, claiming the bank cut corners and ran a debt-collection mill that victimized thousands of borrowers.
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We love coming to work on Sundays because something new happens every week. (Also: It's borderline criminal we get paid for this.)
Relive every game this season online and on-demand with enhanced viewing features, including the "All-22" coaches film. Get NFL Game Rewind.
This week's brand new twist: 98 seconds ran off the clock in between plays during the first half of Sunday's tie game between the St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park. Let's set the scene.
Quarterback Alex Smith completed a 14-yard pass on third-and-14 with 13:40 left in the second quarter for the 49ers. The officials attempted to stop the game shortly thereafter to bring the chains out for a measurement. The only problem: No one ever stopped the clock.
What happened after that is a little confusing, but this much we know: The 49ers ran their fourth down play with 12:02 left. Roughly one minute and 12 seconds were lost. The clock is not reviewable by replay. Once the next play ran, it was too late to make a change. We contacted the NFL, but they had no official comment at this time.
The 49ers ended up converting their fourth down and and scoring a touchdown on the drive, but the mistake happened while they were trailing 14-0. That 1:12 could have come in handy, and the 49ers aren't getting it back.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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American Superconductor, Westborough, Mass., and Wisconsin Public Service Corp., (WPS) Green Bay, Wis., recently announced that the world's first commercial superconductor-based solution for power grid reliability is now operational. The solution consists of multiple Distributed Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (D-SMES) units deployed at electrical substations in WPS' 200-mile Northern Transmission Loop. This D-SMES system will increase power reliability and capacity throughout the Northern Loop.
"The nation's power grid is highly stressed, which has led to brownouts and rolling blackouts with increasing frequency in recent years," says Greg Yurek, chief executive officer of American Superconductor. "Our new D-SMES product line provides the quickest, lowest cost and most effective solution for power reliability and capacity needs."
Distributed SMES systems are virtual generators - ready to instantaneously inject large quantities of power into the grid when needed. It's a distributed resource, and because the individual SMES units are easily moved, they can be redeployed as needed to meet the changing requirements of the grid. The installation is for large-scale power grids around the world.
"The American Superconductor D-SMES system provides us with a technically and economically superior solution for improving the voltage stability of the Northern Loop," says Larry Weyers, chief executive officer of Wisconsin Public Service. "This system will allow us to provide improved reliability to our customers immediately and create a better base for load growth and new transmission facilities in the future."


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It's Always A Conspiracy: Derrick Bell Edition
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Yesterday, the Breitbart empire stepped up to the plate, called their shot, swung, missed, hit themselves in the face with the bat, then took a triumphant trot around the bases as spectators looked on with piteous and mocking wonder.
Hug-gate, as it quickly came to be called, was the big story the Breitbart people had been teasing for weeks now -- a videotaped hug between then-Harvard Law student Barack Obama and the late Harvard professor Derrick Bell at a 1991 protest supporting Bell's push to have a woman of color offered tenure at the school. Why the controversy? Because Bell, per the Breitbart indictment, is a dangerous radical who, in the act of pressing his body to the young Obama's, imparted to him all the insane radicalism that now animates the moderate liberal currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
As Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro put it, in characteristically grandiose fashion: "This is just the beginning. And this video, in its entirety, is the smoking gun showing that Barack Obama not only associated with radicals but believed deeply in their principles - and wanted the rest of us to believe in them, too."
The problems with the story stack high. 1) The video has been online since 2008 and snippets of it were included in a PBS special on the '08 election; 2) David Remnick wrote specifically about Obama's speech about Bell in The Bridge and even noted on page 214 that "his speech concluded, he hugged [Bell] in front of a cheering crowd"; 3) The NY Times reported on Obama's praise for Bell at the rally in 2007; 4) Buzzfeed obtained the video and published it yesterday morning, squashing the Breitbart "scoop"; 5) Derrick Bell was a respected academic, an influential figure in the Civil Rights movement, and nowhere near the dangerous frothing radical the Breitbart team would have us believe; 6) Even if Bell were a dangerous radical, they present zero evidence whatsoever that Obama "believed deeply" in Bell's alleged radicalism; and 7) A hug? Seriously?
That's embarrassing enough, but remember: this is BIG Journalism. And when the journalism is this big, you have to go deeper.
The conspiracy, argues team Breitbart, extends to the media in general and Buzzfeed in particular. Dana Loesch twisted herself in knots trying to explain Buzzfeed's alleged perfidy:
WGBH refused to give Breitbart.com the video and didn't even respond to the request for the footage -- but they'll reply to Buzzfeed and license them portions of the video? Isn't that preferential?
Additionally, if the President's embrace of Bell was unimportant, why did Buzzfeed choose not to pay the hundred bucks to license those seconds? If it wasn't a big deal, why cut it?
"If it wasn't a big deal, why cut it?" There should be a word for someone who fails to recognize their own accidental logic. Maybe the Germans have one.
From Buzzfeed it's a quick, utterly illogical hop to the rest of the media, who are alleged to have ignored/covered up this tape, despite having reported on it extensively for several years: "Obama's many mainstream media scribes were either too lazy to find the Bell protest speech or complicit in its suppression."
Breitbart.com editor Joel Pollak went on CNN this morning to defend the story. It didn't go well. Pressed by Soledad O'Brien to explain what the "bombshell" is in the clip, Pollak said "the bombshell is the revelation of the relationship between Barack Obama and Derrick Bell" -- something we already knew.
Remember, this is all about a hug. A hug that, per team Breitbart, shows the president to be the secret radical they've always believed him to be anyway. And if you can convince yourself that an embrace between two men is "smoking gun" evidence of the president's radicalism, then a media-wide cover-up doesn't seem so far-fetched.
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Many Georgia cotton producers will remember this past growing season as one of spectacular yields. But Extension Entomologist Phillip Roberts will remember it as "the year of the stinkbug."
"The 'who dids' and the 'who did nots' were very obvious this past year in Georgia as far as controlling stinkbugs," says Roberts. "Some of our cotton this past year resembled cotton from back in the boll weevil days. We saw extremely high stinkbug populations in some parts of the state."
Roberts reviewed Georgia's most recent cotton insect year at this winter's Georgia Cotton Workshop, held in Statesboro.
The year 2003 was a historic one in Georgia, he says, as no boll weevils were captured in the state. "This was the first year that boll weevils have zeroed out in Georgia. This has occurred for several reasons. One is that the Boll Weevil Eradication Program has expanded and pushed back the threat of boll weevils. Also, growers and ginners have been more diligent in insuring that equipment is clean when it comes back into the state," says Roberts.
Even better news, he adds, is that other states in the Southeast — such as the Carolinas and Virginia — also have zeroed out in boll weevil captures.
Alabama reported only one boll weevil capture in 2003.
"We all know what boll weevil eradication has meant to our industry," says Roberts. "We declared ourselves boll weevil-free in 1992, and we saw a big decrease in the number of insecticides being used. Bt cotton came on the scene in 1996 and we saw another big drop in insecticide applications. That technology, along with boll weevil eradication, have had a great impact on insect management in Georgia cotton."
Georgia growers have been averaging two to two and one-half cotton insect sprays per season in recent years, he says. At the same time, however, treatments for stinkbugs have increased.
"It's important that we understand why this is occurring. Since boll weevil eradication and Bt cotton, we have used fewer broad-spectrum insecticides such as pyrethroids. Pyrethroids were knocking down or coincidentally controlling stinkbugs. When we removed those sprays from the system, the stinkbugs were left."
Understanding why the stinkbug problem has developed will go a long ways towards helping growers manage the problem effectively and efficiently, notes Roberts.
"We're not just talking about the stinkbug. We're talking about a complex of boll-feeding bugs, whether they be the brown stinkbug, Southern green stinkbug, tarnished plant bug, leaf-footed bug or clouded plant bug.
"We talk a lot about beneficial insects and natural enemies. But, unfortunately, they don't help us much on the bug pests like they do on the caterpillars. That's just another reason why this problem has evolved."
There are three primary species of stinkbugs, he explains, including the Southern green, green and brown stinkbug. In most years, the Southern green stinkbug will be most common in Georgia cotton fields. This past year, growers saw high populations of the brown stinkbug.
Due to their differing susceptibility to certain insecticides, the species of the stinkbug will help determine management strategies, he says.
Stinkbugs, says Roberts, have piercing, sucking mouthparts, and they damage cotton by feeding on the seeds of developing bolls. Stinkbugs feed by piercing the boll wall with their beak and injecting a digestive enzyme into the boll in or near the seed to soften or dissolve tissues, enabling the bug to remove them.
In addition, this process allows for entry of rot organisms, contributing to the degradation of bolls.
"When we treat stinkbugs in a cotton field, we should be treating adults that migrate from other host plants. These hosts may be weeds on the edge of the field or on the side of the road, brush in nearby woods, or other row crops.
"You or your scout typically will be detecting adult stinkbugs. If you start seeing a lot of immature stinkbugs in your cotton field, that should be a warning that you've dropped the ball at some point."
An interesting point about stinkbugs, says Roberts, is their longevity. "If we make mistakes in trying to control corn earworms or tobacco budworms, the worm will cycle out in 12 days or two weeks at the most. A stinkbug may live for more than a month. Once a stinkbug establishes in your cotton field, it'll be there until the end."
Stinkbugs also will move from a neighboring peanut field into cotton, he says. A good indicator of impending problems will be when stinkbugs are found on the edge of an adjacent peanut field, he says.
"We have the knowledge base to do a decent job of managing stinkbugs, but it's a matter of getting the job done."
In southwest Georgia this past year, extremely high numbers of stinkbugs were found in some fields on pre-bloom cotton, says Roberts.
"Based on our experience and observations during the last few years, we did not believe a stinkbug would damage pre-bloom cotton. Research conducted in Louisiana demonstrated that stinkbugs do not damage pre-bloom cotton. We start having damage potential when we get to bloom."
The recommended economic threshold using internal boll injury has been that when 20 percent of quarter-sized bolls display internal signs of stinkbug feeding, and stinkbugs are observed in the field, it's time to begin
treatments, says Roberts.
"We'll change that recommendation this year to state that boll sampling should begin when bolls are present. If no bolls the diameter of a quarter can be found, the largest bolls present should be sampled. Once cotton begins to flower, it becomes susceptible."
Pyrethroids and organophosphates will do an excellent job on green stinkbugs, he says. The organophosphates also work well on brown stinkbugs, but pyrethroids aren't as effective on this particular species, he adds.
"In some situations — like in late August — bugs will be your only target, and organophosphates will be your material of choice. There are other times, however, when you might have corn earworms on Bt cotton, in addition to fall armyworms and bugs. That's a great fit for pyrethroids."
Stinkbugs can't be controlled without disrupting beneficial insects, says Roberts. "Fortunately, stinkbugs primarily are a problem late in the year.
We can walk a fine line and keep beneficials in the system as long as possible. But we have to bite the bullet when the time comes to treat stinkbugs. It's much more important that we don't disrupt the system in June and the early part of July. But we need to protect cotton as we move into August."


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[Hook: Curren$y] (X1)
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[Verse 2: Killa Kyleon]
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