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Combined pesticide exposure affects bumblebee colony success

Monday, October 22, 2012

Individual worker behaviour and colony success are both affected when bees are exposed to a combination of pesticides, according to research conducted by Dr Richard Gill and Dr Nigel Raine at Royal Holloway, University of London.

This research, published in Nature, investigated social bumblebee colonies which rely on the collective performance of numerous individual worker bees. It showed that chronic exposure to two commonly-used pesticides (a neonicotinoid and a pyrethroid), at concentrations approximating field-level exposure, impaired natural foraging behaviour and increased worker mortality. This led to significant reductions in colony success, and increased rates of colony failure.

Bees are typically exposed to numerous pesticides when collecting pollen and nectar from crops, and this is the first study to examine the potential effects of exposure to a combination of pesticides under realistic field conditions.

While recent studies have investigated the role of pesticides on either individual bee behaviours, or the impact on whole colonies, how changes to individual behaviour could have knock-on effects for the colony has not previously been shown.

Dr Raine said: "There is an urgent need to understand the reasons behind current bee declines as they are essential pollinators of many agricultural crops and wild flowers. We rely on these insects to produce most of the food we eat and maintain the landscapes we enjoy".

"Previous studies investigating the possible role of pesticides in current bee declines have focused on honeybees, but it is also crucial that we understand how pesticides affect other bee species," added Dr Gill.

This study mimicked realistic scenarios in which 40 early stage bumblebee colonies received four-week exposure to two pesticides that are frequently encountered when foraging on flowering crops: the neonicotinoid 'Imidacloprid' and the pyrethroid 'lambda-cyhalothrin'.

Imidacloprid was provided in a sucrose solution at levels that could be found in nectar and lambda-cyhalothrin was administered following label guidance for field spray applications. Bees were able to forage in the field providing a realistic behavioural setting, and the foraging behaviour of individual workers was recorded using radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging technology.

The researchers found that bees exposed to imidacloprid were less able to forage effectively, particularly when it came to collecting pollen. This meant treated colonies had less food available to them, so could not raise as many new workers. On average, the percentage of workers leaving the colony and then getting lost was 55% higher in those receiving imidacloprid than those that were not exposed to pesticides. The results of this study also indicate that combinatorial exposure to pesticides increases the tendency of bee colonies to fail.

Dr Gill commented that: "The novelty of this study is that we show how the sublethal effects of pesticide exposure affects individual bee behaviour with serious knock-on consequences for the performance of the colony as a whole".

Dr Raine added: "Policymakers need to consider the evidence and work together with regulatory bodies to minimize the risk to all bees caused by pesticides, not just honeybees. Currently pesticide usage is approved based on tests looking at single pesticides. However, our evidence shows that the risk of exposure to multiple pesticides needs to be considered, as this can seriously affect colony success".

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George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way ? and that he had done so.

It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, calling Nixon the most corrupt president in history.

But the Democrat could not escape the embarrassing missteps of his own campaign. The most torturous was the selection of Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton as the vice presidential nominee and, 18 days later, following the disclosure that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression, the decision to drop him from the ticket despite having pledged to back him "1,000 percent."

It was at once the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and called "possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate" by the late political writer Theodore H. White.

After a hard day's campaigning ? Nixon did virtually none ? McGovern would complain to those around him that nobody was paying attention. With R. Sargent Shriver as his running mate, he went on to carry only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, winning just 38 percent of the popular vote in one of the biggest landslides losses in American presidential history.

"Tom and I ran into a little snag back in 1972 that in the light of my much advanced wisdom today, I think was vastly exaggerated," McGovern said at an event with Eagleton in 2005. Noting that Nixon and his running mate, Spiro Agnew, would both ultimately resign, he joked, "If we had run in '74 instead of '72, it would have been a piece of cake."

A proud liberal who had argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a Democratic senator from South Dakota and three-time candidate for president, McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice, family spokesman Steve Hildebrand told The Associated Press. McGovern was 90.

McGovern's family had said late last week that McGovern had become unresponsive while in hospice care, and Hildebrand said he was surrounded by family and lifelong friends when he died.

"We are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life advocating for the hungry, being a progressive voice for millions and fighting for peace. He continued giving speeches, writing and advising all the way up to and past his 90th birthday, which he celebrated this summer," the family said in the statement.

A public viewing is planned for 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. A church prayer service will follow the viewing.

Funeral services are set for 1 p.m. Friday at Mary Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Sioux Falls.

The private burial will be at a later date at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington.

A decorated World War II bomber pilot, McGovern said he learned to hate war by waging it. In his disastrous race against Nixon, he promised to end the Vietnam War and cut defense spending by billions of dollars. He helped create the Food for Peace program and spent much of his career believing the United States should be more accommodating to the former Soviet Union.

Never a showman, he made his case with a style as plain as the prairies where he grew up, sounding often more like the Methodist minister he'd once studied to become than longtime U.S. senator and three-time candidate for president he became.

And he never shied from the word "liberal," even as other Democrats blanched at the word and Republicans used it as an epithet.

"I am a liberal and always have been," McGovern said in 2001. "Just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be."

McGovern's campaign, nevertheless, left a lasting imprint on American politics. Determined not to make the same mistake, presidential nominees have since interviewed and intensely investigated their choices for vice president. Former President Bill Clinton got his start in politics when he signed on as a campaign worker for McGovern in 1972 and is among the legion of Democrats who credit him with inspiring them to public service.

"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat," Clinton said in 2006 at the dedication of McGovern's library in Mitchell, S.D. "Senator, the fires you lit then still burn in countless hearts."

George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in the small farm town of Avon, S.D, the son of a Methodist pastor. He was raised in Mitchell, shy and quiet until he was recruited for the high school debate team and found his niche. He enrolled at Dakota Wesleyan University in his hometown and, already a private pilot, volunteered for the Army Air Force soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Army didn't have enough airfields or training planes to take him until 1943. He married his wife, Eleanor Stegeberg, and arrived in Italy the next year. That would be his base for the 35 missions he flew in the B-24 Liberator christened the "Dakota Queen" after his new bride.

In a December 1944 bombing raid on the Czech city of Pilsen, McGovern's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire that disabled one engine and set fire to another. He nursed the B-24 back to a British airfield on an island in the Adriatic Sea, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. On his final mission, his plane was hit several times, but he managed to get it back safety ? one of the actions for which he received the Air Medal.

McGovern returned to Mitchell and graduated from Dakota Wesleyan after the war's end, and after a year of divinity school, switched to the study of history and political science at Northwestern University. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees, returned to Dakota Wesleyan to teach history and government, and switched from his family's Republican roots to the Democratic Party.

"I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American," he said.

In the early 1950s, Democrats held no major offices in South Dakota and only a handful of legislative seats. McGovern, who had gotten into Democratic politics as a campaign volunteer, left teaching in 1953 to become executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Three years later, he won an upset election to the House; he served two terms and left to run for Senate.

Challenging conservative Republican Sen. Karl Mundt in 1960, he lost what he called his "worst campaign." He said later that he'd hated Mundt so much that he'd lost his sense of balance.

President John F. Kennedy named McGovern head of the Food for Peace program, which sends U.S. commodities to deprived areas around the world. He made a second Senate bid in 1962, unseating Sen. Joe Bottum by just 597 votes. He was the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from South Dakota since 1930.

In his first year in office, McGovern took to the Senate floor to say that the Vietnam war was a trap that would haunt the United States ? a speech that drew little notice. He voted the following August in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution under which President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the U.S. war in the southeast Asian nation.

While McGovern continued to vote to pay for the war, he did so while speaking against it. As the war escalated, so did his opposition. Late in 1969, McGovern called for a cease-fire in Vietnam and the withdrawal of all U.S. troops within a year. He later co-sponsored a Senate amendment to cut off appropriations for the war by the end of 1971. It failed, but not before McGovern had taken the floor to declare "this chamber reeks of blood" and to demand an end to "this damnable war."

President Barack Obama remembered McGovern in a statement Sunday as "a statesman of great conscience and conviction."

"He signed up to fight in World War II, and became a decorated bomber pilot over the battlefields of Europe," the president said. "When the people of South Dakota sent him to Washington, this hero of war became a champion for peace. And after his career in Congress, he became a leading voice in the fight against hunger."

McGovern first sought the Democratic presidential nomination late in the 1968 campaign, saying he would take up the cause of the assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He finished far behind Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who won the nomination, and Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who had led the anti-war challenge to Johnson in the primaries earlier in the year. McGovern later called his bid an "anti-organization" effort against the Humphrey steamroller.

"At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early," McGovern quipped at the time.

The following year, McGovern led a Democratic Party reform commission that shifted to voters power that had been wielded by party leaders and bosses at the national conventions. The result was the system of presidential primary elections and caucuses that now selects the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.

In 1972, McGovern ran under the rules he had helped write. Initially considered a longshot against Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, McGovern built a bottom-up campaign organization and went to the Democratic national convention in command. He was the first candidate to gain a nominating majority in the primaries before the convention.

It was a meeting filled with intramural wrangling and speeches that verged on filibusters. By the time McGovern delivered his climactic speech accepting the nomination, it was 2:48 a.m., and with most of America asleep, he lost his last and best chance to make his case to a nationwide audience.

McGovern did not know before selecting Eagleton of his running mate's mental health woes, and after dropping him from the ticket, struggled to find a replacement. Several Democrats said no, and a joke made the rounds that there was a signup sheet in the Senate cloakroom. Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, finally agreed.

The campaign limped into the fall on a platform advocating withdrawal from Vietnam in exchange for the release of POWs, cutting defense spending by a third and establishing an income floor for all Americans. McGovern had dropped an early proposal to give every American $1,000 a year, but the Republicans continued to ridicule it as "the demogrant." They painted McGovern as an extreme leftist and Democrats as the party of "amnesty, abortion and acid."

While McGovern said little about his decorated service in World War II, Republicans depicted him as a weak peace activist. At one point, McGovern was forced to defend himself against assertions he had shirked combat.

He'd had enough when a young man at the airport fence in Battle Creek, Mich., taunted that Nixon would clobber him. McGovern leaned in and said quietly: "I've got a secret for you. Kiss my ass." A conservative Senate colleague later told McGovern it was his best line of the campaign.

Defeated by Nixon, McGovern returned to the Senate and pressed there to end the Vietnam war while championing agriculture, anti-hunger and food stamp programs in the United States and food programs abroad. He won re-election to the Senate in 1974, by which point he could make wry jokes about his presidential defeat.

"For many years, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way ? and last year, I sure did," he told a formal press dinner in Washington.

After losing his bid for a fourth Senate term in the 1980 Republican landslide that made Ronald Reagan president, McGovern went on to teach and lecture at universities, and found a liberal political action committee. He made a longshot bid in the 1984 presidential race with a call to end U.S. military involvement in Lebanon and Central America and open arms talks with the Soviets. Former Vice President Walter Mondale won the Democratic nomination and went on to lose to President Ronald Reagan by an even bigger margin in electoral votes than had McGovern to Nixon.

He talked of running a final time for president in 1992, but decided it was time for somebody younger and with fewer political scars.

After his career in office ended, McGovern served as U.S. ambassador to the Rome-based United Nation's food agencies from 1998 to 2001 and spent his later years working to feed needy children around the world. He and former Republican Sen. Bob Dole collaborated to create an international food for education and child nutrition program, for which they shared the 2008 World Food Prize.

Clinton and his wife, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in a statement Sunday that while McGovern was "a tireless advocate for human rights and dignity," his greatest passion was helping feed the hungry.

"The programs he created helped feed millions of people, including food stamps in the 1960s and the international school feeding program in the 90's, both of which he co-sponsored with Senator Bob Dole," they said, adding, "We must continue to draw inspiration from his example and build the world he fought for."

McGovern's opposition to armed conflict remained a constant long after he retired. Shortly before Iowa's caucuses in 2004, McGovern endorsed retired Gen. Wesley Clark, and compared his own opposition to the Vietnam War to Clark's criticism of President George W. Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq. One of the 10 books McGovern wrote was 2006's "Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now," written with William R. Polk.

In early 2002, George and Eleanor McGovern returned to Mitchell, where they helped raise money for a library bearing their names. Eleanor McGovern died there in 2007 at age 85; they had been married 64 years, and had four daughters and a son.

"I don't know what kind of president I would have been, but Eleanor would have been a great first lady," he said after his wife's death in 2007.

One of their daughters, Teresa, was found dead in a Madison, Wis., snowdrift in 1994 after battling alcoholism for years. He recounted her struggle in his 1996 book "Terry," and described the writing of it as "the most painful undertaking in my life." It was briefly a best seller and he used the proceeds to help set up a treatment center for victims of alcoholism and mental illness in Madison.

Before the 2008 presidential campaign, McGovern endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination but switched to Barack Obama that May. He called the future president "a moderate," cautious in his ways, who wouldn't waste money or do "anything reckless."

"I think Barack will emerge as one of our great ones," he said in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press. "It will be a victory for moderate liberalism."

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McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service: http://www.mcgoverncenter.com

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Walter R. Mears, who reported on government and politics for The Associated Press in Washington for 40 years, covered George McGovern in the Senate and in his 1972 presidential campaign.

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Indian gov't suspends Kingfisher license

NEW DELHI (AP) ? The Indian government on Saturday suspended the license of Kingfisher Airlines, which has been struggling to resume flights following a strike by pilots and engineers who have not been paid for months.

India's Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said the decision was made following concerns about the safety of passengers.

"Their planes are not being serviced, their engineers are on strike and they are not even able to give their flight schedule," Singh told reporters.

Kingfisher, once one of India's best airlines, is battling for a lifeline with India's airline regulator. The company, which is drowning in debt, hasn't operated any flights since early this month.

The Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, an airline industry research group, puts Kingfisher's outstanding debt at $2.5 billion, including about $1.1 billion in bank debt, and says its accumulated losses swelled to $1.9 billion by the end of June.

The cash-strapped airline has stopped selling tickets on its website through Oct. 20 and was still trying to convince pilots and engineers to return to work.

Last week, a court in the southern city of Hyderabad issued an arrest warrant for Kingfisher owner Vijay Mallya on charges his airline bounced four checks worth over 103 million rupees ($1.9 million) to the consortium running the airport in the city. The money was meant to cover landing, parking and navigation fees at the airport.

Industrialist Mallya is famous for his flashy lifestyle and lavish parties attended by fashion models, Bollywood movie stars and cricket players. Mallya's United Brewery Group is India's largest brewer and owns other businesses in industries from chemicals to information technology. He also owns Force India, an F1 team and Royal Challengers, a cricket team. Mallya's net worth is $1 billion, according to Forbes.

Kingfisher earlier said it would be able to engineer a turnaround and pledged to provide India's aviation regulator with a "comprehensive plan for restoration of services after negotiations with our employees" by Oct. 20. But it failed to do so.

The company hasn't made a profit since it was founded in 2005, according to FactSet, a financial information provider.

Associated Press

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Suspect Dyslexia? Here are some tips to prove it. | Special Education & IEP Advisor

Suspect Dyslexia? Here are some tips to prove it. | Special Education & IEP Advisor.
You?ve suspected it since your child was three. You were quite sure of it when your child was five and now your child is in school and you are convinced and unwavering about it. The school is not quite as convinced and they are slow to react to your suspicions. Be prepared; the road to the diagnosis may not be easy or cheap, but in the long run it will be worth it. The steps to diagnosis below make the assumption that you have done your research about dyslexia and you understand the symptoms. If you are still at that stage, you can visit www.interdys.org for more information.

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Looking For Advice On Purchasing Video Games? You Came To ...

Video games aren?t all shooting and killing! Many games today work you out, let you dance, or train your brain. From games for handheld devices to consoles, you can find a great variety of options which are non-violent. Don?t just write off video games because you think they?re all blood and gore!

Video games come in an assortment of genres, so it is essential to know what kind you or a loved one likes before buying them. Normally the salesmen at the retail stores can help you, but it also helps a lot to do some prior research on websites as well as read reviews.

If you are into gaming on your personal computer, know what it can handle. Personal computer games come with system requirements, ranging from CPU speed to graphics card model and power. Always remember that the listed requirements on the box are minimums. Your system needs to be more powerful to play the game well.

Take video game breaks. Sitting in the same position for too long can be dangerous to your overall health. Force yourself every half an hour to hit that pause button and walk around the room for a bit. This will help your body as well as clear your mind.

Start out playing any new video game at the easiest level to become familiar with the rules of play. Make yourself familiar with the basic game elements before you advance to the higher levels. You can also try to improve your play by muting the sound so that you can concentrate on the action.

Remember to take regular breaks when playing video games. When you are playing video games for extended periods of time without any breaks, your eyes can start to dry out and become sore. Therefore, it is important to take a 15 minute break from video games at least once every 2 hours.

Before your child plays a video game, play the game yourself. Don?t only use ESRB ratings and the word of others. There may be content in the game that you really don?t want to expose your child to, and the only way you?ll know is by playing for a little while first.

Avoid buying big name games near their launch dates. Waiting means that you are more likely to buy a game after a patch or two has come out to fix glaring holes and bugs that could impact your enjoyment and game play. Also keep an eye out for titles from studios that are known for good patching and support.

The price of a new release game has become outrageous. If you want to save yourself some cash, wait a few months after the general release. Usually the game price will go down as it gets older. The manufacturer wants to have high sales when released, and in order to maintain those high sales, they have to drop the price later.

If you are concerned with anyone in your home doing too much sedentary video gaming time, get them to include more active video gaming hours. Hardware and titles now exist where video gamers can play various sports, dance, practice balance and agility and even strength train. These all make for good activity on rainy or dark days.

When buying games for your kids, look into the features of each selection. Many new games allow for interaction with other players, most of whom will be complete strangers. Some games feature online chatting, for instance. Take your kids? ages into consideration, but also think of their maturity levels.

One of the best things that you can do to maximize your overall experience during game play is to turn off the lights. This is especially fun with horror games, as it can increase the overall effect that you get. Creating an optimal environment when playing is very beneficial for you and your friends.

Playing against others is the best way to become a better gamer. Ask friends and family to play with you as often as possible. The more you practice, the better you?ll be, and the same goes for those you play against. Entice them with the lure of being a better gamer!

MMORPG games are no fun to play alone. With so many members, there is a new world that can appeal to you. Make as many friends as you can with your online gaming. Friends who have similar rankings as you do can understand what you love about the game. Having a lot of MMORPG friends can be more satisfying than having top 10 rankings.

An excellent way to please your children with a gaming system and ensure they stay fit is to buy a Nintendo Wii. This gaming system requires actual activity to play. Your kids will not be sitting for hours on end playing a game. They have to be moving around in order to play the games on this system.

No matter what your game or level of play, the world of video gaming can really enhance your life in so many ways. You can just kick back and relax, engage your friends in fierce competition or learn something new and valuable. Hopefully the article you just read takes your game to the next level.

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Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake marry in Italy

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FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE - This May 3, 2010 file photo shows actress Jessica Biel and actor-singerJustin Timberlake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

FILE - This May 3, 2010 file photo shows actress Jessica Biel and actor-singerJustin Timberlake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York. The couple released a statement Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, to People magazine confirming their wedding. They said the ceremony was beautiful and it was special to be surrounded by our family and friends. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

(AP) ? Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel tied the knot at a seaside resort in southern Italy.

The Borgo Egnazia resort declined to comment Friday about the superstar nuptials.

The couple released a statement to People magazine saying, "It's great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends."

Representatives for the couple confirmed the report Friday.

The 31-year-old Timberlake and 30-year-old Biel got engaged in December after dating for several years.

Timberlake, who has been acting more than singing lately, stars in the Clint Eastwood baseball film, "The Trouble with the Curve." Biel stars in the remake of "Total Recall." She will next be seen in "Hitchcock."

Associated Press

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95% Argo

The third directorial film from Ben Affleck ("The Town"), plunges those old enough to remember this time period, back into an air of nostalgia while edifying a vast mass of others on the attitudes of feuding nations and the realities of the Iran Hostage Crisis as seen by two nations during the Cold War. Also starring in this film, Affleck takes on the blank slate of Tony Mendez, a disheveled CIA agent with a shaggy haircut and a flippant backstory. The film shifts between historical fiction and thrilling caper, Affleck portraying a steely eyed spy, traipsing through the entire movie as a confident and reserved escapist. The film covers a touchy time in American history, as it centers on the Iran Hostage Crisis. Six employees of the embassy escape into the streets only to go into hiding. In comes Tony Mendez, a seasoned operative of the CIA and the only man who is able to save their lives in a time of public outcry. The main premise of the film is one that strikes interest immediately: Mendez must secretly promote and create a sci-fi film and smuggle out the escapees with fake passports purporting that they are a Canadian film crew, in Tehran for location scouting. Mendez accomplishes this with the help of a monster makeup expert and a washed up producer. Besides being thrillingly entertaining, it's surprising to note the level of historical accuracy that went into the making of this film. The soundtrack is a nostalgic throwback, though it doesn't aim to be pushy about the setting. Much of this was meant to look and feel like a seventies' political thriller. Not only did Affleck really think about the film's progression, but it's texture, including using seventies' style filming techniques when recreating scenes from real events, including a public hanging by crane and the organization of readings to the press. The historical framing and attention to detail were very specific. Even the casting was specific in reference to the look of the characters. Some amazing choices included John Goodman as Oscar winning makeup artist John Chambers, Bryan Cranston as CIA senior executive Jack O'Donnell, and Alan Arkin as the hammy award winning producer Lester Siegel. Though the premise may seem gimmicky, it never even borders on over the top. The film is far more about the fear of an entire country gripped in revolution and social unrest than it has anything to do with goofy sub-plots involving aliens and monsters. The violence that centers on the Iranian peoples' revolt is heart chillingly cruel and horrific while being vividly realistic. The reason it isn't the best, or even one of the best films of the year, is because Affleck skews the truth by using false starts again and again. It's not the facts that are being diverted, but instead the stakes of the film, heightened by situations that swell with the rise of Alexandre Desplat's score. The tension keeps building to achingly uncomfortable levels, but doesn't grip you, only heightens your fear to an anticlimactic plateau. It doesn't hurt the integrity of the story or diminish the courageous tactical planning of Mendez, the Canadian ambassador or the hostages' predicament, but it does lose credibility to an already fantastical feeling story. The lesser characters are mostly flat and revolve around the plot without evolving past vaguely interesting. Arkin is certainly the most interesting, providing the same shock humor in this film that he shown us before in "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Get Smart." Interesting enough Arkin isn't the only comedic presence in this film. Threaded throughout are hints of dark humor, and the some edgier fair . More often than not you will be on the literal edge of your seat, either in anticipation of the characters' fate, or laughing at the well placed humor. Though it depicts some vague human cruelties and is obviously showing a nation strangled by oppression and violence, the film seems very keen to keep from having Iranians be outright demonized. While the CIA agent's dialogue and footage from American protesters in the film would say otherwise, it's really about peace between nations and saving lives. It's a taut thriller because the circumstances surrounding that time in history were unflinchingly grim, not because Affleck takes liberties with historical events. It's exciting to see what next this sophomoric director will show us.

October 10, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/argo_2012/

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The Secret to Unlocking the Power of Integrated Marketing ...

Never before have marketers had so many choices in how and where we communicate with customers. The landscape that once consisted primarily of print, direct mail, TV and radio has now changed beyond all recognition with the addition of internet, mobile, and social marketing.

With so many new options, many marketers find themselves in a never-ending game of catch up. Just when we have figured out our Facebook or mobile marketing strategies, we are then scrambling to wrap our heads around Pinterest or some other new channel that has just emerged on the scene.

What often gets left behind in this repetitive cycle is an integrated marketing strategy. As we jump back and forth between and explore new tactics, we can forget about the various ways to make all these great communications options work together.

Integrated marketing has long been known to boost campaign results. For example, when a direct mail piece is combined with a marketing message sent by email, the response rate of the direct mail campaign can jump significantly. Traditional large advertising campaigns would normally consist of ?blanket coverage? that included outdoor and print and broadcast media. Through repetition comes retention and then a response!

The secret to making integrated marketing work in today?s landscape is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the various communications options at your disposal. Which tactics and channels are good for immediate response? Which ones provide the best options for gathering customer insights? Which ones are best for two-way communication of timely news and feedback?

To help answer those questions, a recent article on this site provides a great overview of the current communications landscape, discussing the various merits of social, mobile, email marketing, and blogging. And it?s not just about the new kids on the block ? direct mail and other traditional marketing channels are enjoying a renaissance as marketers test and learn how well they work in combination with other channels and tactics.

Integrated marketing is a classic example of something that is more than the sum of its parts. Understanding the strengths of combining those individual parts is the secret to making it work well.

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Janet Granger is in charge of Solutions Marketing for Pitney Bowes? North American Mailing division. ?She is responsible for the marketing strategy and execution of Pitney Bowes mailing and direct mail solutions for enterprise and mid-sized businesses. ?This includes marketing campaigns, social media, lead nurturing, website management, and search optimization,? View?full?profile

Source: http://www.business2community.com/marketing/the-secret-to-unlocking-the-power-of-integrated-marketing-0310410

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