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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Year's in Your Community
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Republican Candidates Take to the Web in the Battle for Iowa (Mashable)
Republican presidential hopefuls are turning to the web and social media as weapons in the war to win Iowa. On Jan. 3, Iowa Republican caucus-goers will pick their choice for presidential nominee. One of the seven remaining candidates will move a step closer to becoming the GOP's choice to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. What online strategies are each of the candidates using to ensure that Iowa votes their way?
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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney's digital team has been hard at work in the Hawkeye State. They released a YouTube video explaining the caucus, a process known to cause confusion for first-timers. Romney is using Storify to share information about campaign stops and post behind-the-scenes pictures as he tours Iowa. The campaign is using popular services like Tout to engage supporters.
Zac Moffatt, Romney's digital director, said that the campaign is using data collected over 6 months to coordinate their geolocation-based digital effort. According to Moffatt, they're using pre-roll video footage -- short advertisements placed before other video content -- in an effort to show Iowians how and where to caucus.
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Moffatt understands how to use social media and digital advertising to generate offline action. The Romney campaign has identified supporters online, and gotten them in the door to volunteer in the real world.
"It's fine for people to talk about how great social is," said Moffatt, "but you have to leverage offline."
Ron Paul
Ron Paul has a huge online following, and his campaign is seeking to tap into that precious resource.
Paul's website, ronpaul2012.com, features a donation drive with the goal of raising $6 million "to win in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and Nevada." The campaign originally called for $4 million, but it upped the ante after surpassing that mark. The widget automatically shows recent donations along with donors' names.
For those in Iowa, Paul's site provides a number to call to hit the streets and volunteer. Another system allows out-of-state Paul supporters to dial into Iowa to encourage caucus-goers to vote for Paul.
Facebook users who "like" Paul's page have been seeing an abundance of photos and links to live streams of Paul events in Iowa in their news feeds.
According to The New York Times, the Paul campaign has been asking its volunteers not to tweet about their activities or share them on any other social networks, presumably for fear of providing other campaigns with sensitive insider info.
Rick Santorum
Visitors to Rick Santorum's website, ricksantorum.com, will find his "Iowa Surprise Moneybomb" donation page, complete with a countdown to the Iowa caucus. Like Paul's page, the widget also automatically increases and proudly displays the names of donors. It also offers a widget for supporters to embed on their own personal websites and encourages donors to post about their donation on social networks.
His featured photos on Facebook are of a recent pheasant hunting trip in Adel, Iowa, a subtle appeal to Iowans. Santorum has been tweeting mentions of the word "Iowa" more often than other other candidate aside from Michelle Bachmann.
Santorum's digital team is still being haunted by his "Google problem." The first hit when searching for "Santorum" isn't a campaign website or WikiPedia article. Instead, it's a crude joke started by columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage in response to Santorum's controversial comments about homosexuality made in 2003. Santorum asked Google to remove the search result this year, but Google has yet to do so.
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich's campaign website, newt.org, asks visitors to donate and make calls. Blog posts written about campaigning in Iowa are featured on the main page, and visitors can find more about upcoming Gingrich appearances.
Gingrich's Facebook page offers many unique tabs and widgets. "Team 10," a reference to the 10th amendment, is a unique crowdsourcing platform where users vote on which issues Gingrich should bring to the forefront of his campaign. Through these interactive features, Gingrich has built a vibrant online community of fans who interact with each other on his page.
However, aside from the prompt for phone calls, blog posts and a few tweets, Newt's online strategy doesn't show an obvious Iowa-focused strategy.
Rick Perry
Rick Perry's website, rickperry.org, also opens with a donation drive and countdown to the Iowa caucus, but no tallying widget or donor shout-outs are to be found. Perry's site offers a unique question to visitors: "Do you blog?" Bloggers who support Perry are encouraged to add Perry widgets and graphics to their personal site. The site has an "Iowa Action Center," where visitors are greeted with a 30-second clip of Perry's travels through the state and a call to action to get involved with the caucus. There's a Google Map featuring Perry's campaign bus stops, but it isn't easily readable.
Perry's Facebook controversial "Strong" YouTube video.
Twitter is where the Perry campaign has been fighting hardest to win support in Iowa. @TeamRickPerry started "#PizzaBomb" Thursday, asking supporters to donate slices of pizza to Perry's "Iowa Strike Force HQ."
Michelle Bachmann
Michelle Bachmann's website, michellebachmann.com, is chock-full of information about the Iowa caucus. Visitors can find out how and where to caucus and purchase a "caucus kit," featuring campaign swag dedicated to Iowa. Bachmann is on an ambitious tour of all 99 counties in Iowa before the caucus, and she's keeping a blog, posting videos and tweeting prolifically about the tour.
Bachman's jon2012.com, offers a "countdown to New Hampshire," which encourages supporters to donate to his efforts there. The Huntsman website is unique in that it also calls on supporters to call in to talk radio shows broadcasting in New Hampshire to spread the Huntsman message.
Huntsman is attempting an ongoing "Twitter Takeover," which asks supporters to make sure Huntsman's name is mentioned on the micro-blogging service at least 1,000 times each day. The widget on the page isn't moderated, however, so plenty of negative tweets about Huntsman appear on his site.
Will These Efforts Pay Off?
Will the candidates' online efforts make a major difference during the Iowa caucus on Jan. 3? We'll be doing additional coverage featuring social media sentiment analysis, national polling data and caucus results early next week.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Ghana Football Mafia: GFA/Serbian Agent Collusion?
There is a credible speculation of a GFA/SERBIAN Agent collusion (kind of a football Mafia) that goes like this: A Serbian football agent that recruits Serbian coaches for the Black Stars also manages some Ghanaian players.
Such players get to play on the national team (regardless of their performance) because the appointed Serbian coach who is part of the network ensures the success of the players whose market value and opportunity to be picked up by top European teams depend on their Black Star selection. In return, the big cats at the GFA get kickbacks from hiring Serbian coaches and from the success of Serbian managed Ghanaian players.
So Prince Tagoe gets to make national team selection consistently even though a second rate Bundesliga team had to let him go for nonperformance, and he has been the weakest link on the Black Star team any time he has played. Coach Plavi says he appreciates his work rate and justifies Tagoe?s inclusion in the final 25 players to play in the next African Cup on that fact alone.
If work rate is the sole criteria for Black Star selection, then many hardworking Ghanaian farmers who can till the soil from dusk to dawn nonstop should make first team Black Star selection. Or even better, Plavi should go to Ghana?s boxing capital at Bukom to recruit Bukom Banku and co. Tagoe simply doesn?t have the football skill required to play for the mighty Black Stars.
Why am I saying this rumor is credible? Our last four coaches have all been Serbians. This has never happened in any nation's football history -- and certainly not Ghana's.
Now if this is true we have dysfunctional and unscrupulous leadership at the GFA and that's dangerous for the future of Ghana football. Just consider the short term impact -- we deny players that should make the team the chance to play and by so doing weaken the Black Star team. In addition, such a miscarriage of fairness will eventually dampen player morale and nibble away at the unity and strength of the national. Even though it's all speculation at this point (such allegations are impossible to prove anyway), the warnings signs are starring us in the face like big graffiti on a billboard.
Blind followers of this administration will as usual dismiss such concerns as nothing but a witch-hunt. But fair-minded Ghanaian football fans with no ax to grind but are rather are motivated first and foremost by the success of Ghana football ought to be concerned. A word to the wise is in the direction of Tamale, as we say we say jokingly in Ghanaian parlance.
Source: http://sports.peacefmonline.com/news/201112/86775.php
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Arkansas defeats Texas Southern 77-49
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Mardracus Wade scored 18 points to lead Arkansas to a 77-49 victory against Texas Southern on Friday night.
Wade made four 3-pointers. The sophomore guard is shooting 49.2% from beyond the arc this season for the Razorbacks (10-3), who won their fifth straight.
Arkansas led 7-0 just 1:12 into the game and never trailed. The Razorbacks led 39-19 at halftime and by 31 points in the second half.
Arkansas forced Texas Southern (1-11) into 25 turnovers, scoring 30 points off of the miscues. The Tigers made only 18 of 56 field-goal attempts en route to their 10th loss in a row.
Fred Sturdivant led Texas Southern with 19 points and 13 rebounds.
Hunter Mickelson scored 13 points and seven blocks for the Razorbacks. Marvell Waithe and Rickey Scott added 10 points each.
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Source: http://www.newschannel10.com/story/16421416/arkansas-defeats-texas-southern-77-49
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Molecular mechanism links temperature with sex determination in some fish species
ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? A study led by the CSIC's Institute of Marine Sciences, in collaboration with researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), has found the epigenetic mechanism that links temperature and gonadal sex in fish. High temperature increases DNA methylation of the gonadal aromatase promoter in female.
The environmental temperature has effects on sex determination. There are species, such as the Atlantic silverside fish, whose sex determination depends mainly on temperature. And there are other species whose sex determination is written within its DNA but still temperature can override this genetic 'instruction'.
Previous studies with the European sea bass, a fish whose sex determination depends on a combination of genetic and environmental factors, had shown that starting with a normal sex ratio population -equal proportions of male and females, it was possible to obtain an all-male group just through an increase in water temperature during a critical period of early development.
The most intriguing observation was that effects of temperature were maximum at a moment when gonads were not differentiated nor had they even started to form. Why was this happening, what makes temperature override the genetic component and so early was, until now, a long-standing puzzle.
Now, a research lead by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has found out the answer. The team, lead by Francesc Piferrer, a CSIC professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences, in Barcelona, describes the mechanism which is induced by increased temperatures and triggers aromatase gene silencing.
Aromatase is an enzyme that transforms androgens into estrogens, which are essential for the development of ovaries in all non-mammalian vertebrates. If there is no aromatase there are no estrogens, and without estrogens the development of ovaries is not possible. The research, that has been realized with the contribution of the Center for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, is being published this week in PLos Genetics.
Early effects
In the experiment, scientists exposed two groups of European seabass larvae at different temperatures, normal and high temperature, during their first weeks of life.
Results show that high temperature increases the DNA methylation of the gonadal aromatase promoter (cyp19a), which, in turn drives its silencing as its transcriptional activation is inhibited. In the group exposed to high temperature there were genetic females that were only partially affected and yet developed as females. However, there were other genetic females with the highest level of DNA methylation that therefore developed as males because aromatase was fully inhibited.
This is the first time that an epigenetic mechanism linking an environmental factor to a cellular mechanism related to the sexual determination has been described in any animal. Previously, only a similar mechanism had been described in some plants.
As researcher Francesc Piferrer points out, 'animals are affected very soon, before differences between females and males become visible in histological samples, which happens on the 150th day of life, and even before the gonads start to form, which happens on the 35th day of life'.
This work explains why a few degrees of temperature rise masculinize these animals, something relevant in a context of global change.
It also explains why many fishes raised on farms are males, since farmers raise larvae in warmer waters in order to accelerate their growth. Piferrer adds that 'sex determination by temperature is very common in reptiles. It will be interesting to see if a similar mechanism to the one described exists in this group of vertebrates'.
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- Navarro-Mart?n L, Vi?as J, Ribas L, D?az N, Guti?rrez A, Di Croce L. DNA methylation of the gonadal aromatase (cyp19a) promoter is involved in temperature-dependent sex ratio shifts in the European sea bass. PLoS Genetics, Dec 29 2011 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.10021002447
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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111229203027.htm
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