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Sharpley Golf Club is the new dawn for golf in the North East of England. Set in its beautiful rural surroundings, with panoramic views over undulating fairways and greens and out across the North Sea, this course will appeal to the senses of all true golfers. This 18 hole, par 71, course has been designed for 'enjoyable golf' and has to date met with many excellent independent reviews.
Sharpley Golf is a jewel on the Pay as you Play circuit, with membership also available and welcome. The new temporary club house is already installed with the pine club house and 16 bay driving range with power tees for right and left handed players.
Sharpley Golf course is also part of Sharpley Leisure which incorporates Sharpley Springs Fishery, located just next door with its own 8 unique spring fed trout fishing lakes with wheelchair fishing access also. For the more adventurous and energetic, Sharpley Leisure also has Massive Attack Paintball, just across the B1404 and Down at the Farm an adventure play ground for children and special events, quads, lazer gun. Also including Sharpley clays, archery and four wheel driving.
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Governor Martin O'Malley unveiled what he called a "jobs" budget proposal today, claiming a balanced blend of tight-fisted cuts and
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At the start of his seventh year in office, Governor Martin O'Malley submitted a state budget yesterday that nearly closes a long-time gap between income and out-go that he blamed on overspending by his predecessors and revenue lost to the Great Recession.
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These have been challenging years to say the least; the biggest economic downturn since the great Depression. And yet the people of our state have continued to move forward. And they expect just as every family is doing more with less, they expect their state government to do more with less.
The proposed budget would reduce the so-called structural deficit—which once totaled nearly $2 billion. The new gap would be $166 million. Democrats gave the spending plan good reviews, but Senate Republican leader E.J. Pipkin dismissed O'Malley's claim of careful budget management. He said the books are coming into balance because the governor has raised nearly $2 billion in sales, income and other taxes.
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If you've got a $2 billion structural budget deficit and you raise taxes by $2 billion and spending goes up, what have you really accomplished? Is it really that hard to close a structural deficit by taxing people to death?
O'Malley's new budget proposal represents a 3.3 percent increase over the current year. The governor has set some of that money aside in the state's rainy day fund as a hedge against the disaster that could occur if congressional Republicans fail to resolve their bitter budget dispute with President Obama.
The reason for doing that is to safeguard against, you know, the hari-kari Congress down the street and what they might do to our economy because of ideology.
Thanks to other new spending, O'Malley said his budget would create 43,000 jobs in construction alone, mostly building schools and transportation projects. Yet he sidestepped the issue of whether he expects to sponsor an increase in the gas or sales tax to finance the additional transportation work, saying he plans to consult with General Assembly leaders.
There will be discussions about the fact that….we suffer as a state from our chronic under-investment in transportation.
Senator Pipkin scoffed at that analysis.
The challenge of it is, it's not the tax amount. We take in $3.8 billion every year into the Transportation Trust Fund. It's that the governor won't stop spending.
On another controversial topic, the governor firmly injected himself: proposing $1.5 million for a study of standards for hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—in Western Maryland. Some members of the legislature are trying to ban fracking in the state, but O'Malley said the Chesapeake Bay is already hurt by natural gas mining nearby.
So, we can pretend that fracking isn't happening in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. We could content ourselves by saying that without a standard it won't happen here. But I believe the more responsible course is for Maryland to be a leader in protecting the health of the bay.
On that point, Sen. Pipkin contended that the governor wasn't moving fast enough to secure the economic and environmental benefits he said Maryland could gain from moving from coal to cleaner natural gas.
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"How do my ads compare to others in the search auction?" Have you heard that question before as a marketing manager? In the world of paid search, competition is everything, every click, impression, and conversion drives the business. As such, any marketer wants to know how they stack up against the competition.
A few months ago, Google Adwords and Bing Ads opened up their competitive metrics, to share insights into how your ads and keywords are performing against other advertisers in that same space. This is called, "Impression Share" or "Share of Voice" in Google and Bing, respectively. Impression share is the impressions you've received divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive. Simply put, how much of the time was my ad being shown, compared to how many times it could have received an impression.
This is a great overall indicator of the performance headroom in each ad group and campaign. Allowing you to garner a high level overview of your performance, and see if there are opportunities.
Great, right? Well, yes, but it doesn't tell you enough. That is where your "Lost Impressions due to Ad Rank" steps in. This is an actionable number, because you can control your ad rank through a variety of levers.
Quick recap, what is ad rank? How well your ad has performed overtime, in combination with Quality Score. Quality Score is the combination of a few metrics: Click Through Rate (CTR), Account History, Display URL performance, landing page relevance, and other "black box" numbers that Google and Bing won't share. Keeping in mind, you can change these parts of your account through some hard work and analysis.
With Impression Share, you can get a quick glance to your performance, and making sure that each day, you're getting the most out of your account, and the most out of each query. Bing and Google make it easy to view this metric now, so take advantage of it!
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Which metrics are best in SEM.
There are so many numbers and metrics available with online marketing and advertising. So much so - that marketing jobs are now considered to be the "new finance jobs." The reality is that every dollar spent through online advertising can be tracked and accounted for. In SEM, what are the key top-level metrics that you should focus on for optimizing your adCenter or AdWords campaigns.
1. Click Through Rate [CTR]: The basic. CTR is simple, how many clicks per impressions did your ad/keyword receive.
Why it is important: CTR is a good measure of your ad's effectiveness. How well does your ad catch the eye? This metric is good for testing ad copy. Learn to love it.
2. Conversion Rate: The start of something good. Conversion rate requires that you have conversion tracking enabled on your landing pages [which you should]. Assuming you do: Conversion rate tells you how many conversions occur per click received on your ad. Why it is important: Conversion rate is indicative of your landing page's performance. Does the user get the expected landing page when clicking on an ad served by their query? Your landing page is an opportunity to sell your company or service. Don't go over the top, but be thoughtful on your content.
3. Conversions Per Impression [CPI]: The overall indicator. CPI is simple enough, per given impression – how many conversions were received. This tells you how well your: keyword matches the query, which meets the user's expectation/intent, that directs them to a landing page that resonates, and results in a conversion.
Why it is important: By quickly doing this analysis, you can get an overall health check of your SEM campaigns. By itself, it isn't indicative of any one symptom. But if measure overtime, you can tell if overall performance is improving or decreasing. Note: neither adCenter nor AdWords UI provide this metric, time to bust out the calculator.
4. Exact Match Impression Share: Me vs. the World. Exact Match Impression Share is the percentage of impressions for an exact query that your keyword matches, and displays on the paid portion of the search engine results page [SERP].
Why it is important: This metric provides insight into how well your campaigns are faring against your competitors. If you're below 100%, then you Quality Score or budget could be holding you back.
These are four extremely important metrics, but which is the best? Answer: All of them. No one single metric can diagnose if something is going well, or not. That is why all must be consider. If your CPI is low, and your Exact Match Impression Share is large, the CTR will likely be low, as such, you should change your ad copy or revisit your landing page. If you CTR in high, but your CPI is low, time to test new landing pages. In short, think of each metric's strength, and how another metric can fill in the remaining gaps. In tandem, all of these metrics will ensure success.
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If you love what you do, it doesn't stop after you leave work. I love search, and I'm always looking to try something new. As such, I turned to my LinkedIn profile.
I'll be honest, since starting at Exsilio, I hadn't really touched my LinkedIn profile – like most that aren't looking for a new job, it gathered a little dust. I decided that I could test some techniques to increase my performance on LinkedIn search.
Here is what I did:
- Increased the use of industry keywords in my descriptions of past positions and personal summary. I researched by looking at profiles of people in mid-level roles [because they're still looking to move up in a company and presumably care about their LinkedIn profile]
- Joined 40 groups relevant to my industry, and other's that interested me.
Here is why those two steps are important:
LinkedIn uses a modified character-based search [keywords], just like Google & Bing. To show up in a search related to your industry, you need to have industry terms. Simple, right?
Groups - who cares?!
Joining groups is important because it creates a connection to people outside of your network, regardless if you've ever worked or connected with them.
Example: A small business is looking for a SEM professional - they search for that term in LinkedIn. Because we both share "small businesses of Seattle" as a group on LinkedIn, I will show up in their search results, even though we have no other connections.
In addition, I chose to update my headline to reflect the accreditations that I have in the Search industry. Why? Because that is the blurb that people see next to my name in the search results page.
Up Up and Away!
Since implementing these changes, my appearances in LinkedIn search have increase by 283% percent! That is amazing! LinkedIn provides metrics of "How Many Times Have You Appeared In Searches" = your new best friend. Although the data is quite sparse, you can get a good idea of how well your changes are performing.
Since making these changes, I've continued to refine my keyword strategy, and am testing how apps and other LinkedIn features. Nothing conclusive yet, but I'll keep on testing!
You've done the hard work, you've chosen the keywords, dialed in the targeting, and built the landing pages – Google & Bing are ready to serve your ad, and you're ready for some new customers. But why should a user click on your ad as opposed to another, or even an organic result? Writing a PPC ad is like trying to get a date through a text message, you've got to be convincing, and you don't have a lot of characters to spare. This is the art of SEM, and here are a three proven techniques that will help.
1. In exact match ad groups, use keywords in ad headline
a. Because you have spent the time to break down keywords into relevant ad groups, spent the time to make sure the ad copy is relevant. Not only will this increase your CTR, but it will increase your relevance, which will increase your Quality Score on Google & Bing.
2. Use anxiety in your ad copy
a. When testing ad copy on a high volume ad group, I tested the core message of that ad – one with anxiety, one without. Guess which worked better?
i. "Don't miss another customer"
ii. "Reach millions of customers"
b. "Don't miss another customer" had a higher click through rate in all ad groups it was tested.
3. Dynamic Ad Headlines with broad match ad groups
a. If you have broad match ad groups, you recognize that your keywords are going to cover a large set of queries.
b. To help increase CTR in these ad groups, use dynamic text. {KeyWord:PPC Advertising}
i. Capitalize the "K" and "W" so that proper case is used when inserting the keyword.
ii. Choose a relevant ad title in case keyword is greater than 25 characters. In this case, I used PPC Advertising as the ad title. Assuming that the keywords were relevant to that query.
Now it is time to test. Set both engines to even ad rotation [Google has "experiments" to aid with this], and watch the CTR and conversions. A key metric to understand the true effectiveness of an ad is Conversion Per Impression [CPI = Conversion/Impressions]. It is a true measure of your keyword choice, and ad copy, and landing page quality.
Keep in mind that testing is not a one-time event; it needs to be continually tested and optimized. Don't be afraid to try something new or bold.
Business Consulting | Marketing | Search | SEM
Data, it makes the world go round. In the realm of SEM, it is the lifeblood that justifies the changes I make, the improvement I seek, and the outcomes I chase.
Here is the catch - when a new account is established and you are launching into the dark with a new set of keywords, ad copy, and targeting – data is a little hard to come by. Sure, there are tools to estimate keyword traffic, bid amounts, and competition. But SEM is based a human element of resonance with an ad. Computers don't click the ad, humans do. As such, the first shot at launching an account is shooting into the dark with confidence that "the data" will arrive shortly.
Now we arrive at one of my first projects on the job: optimizing an account that had impeccable structure, logical organization, and a substantial keyword list. On paper, this account looked like it should exceed.
But "the data" said otherwise. This account had a high impression rate, low click through rate, and minimal conversions. When diving into the performance of the account, it was clear that there were some keywords that were generating conversions – and others were pulling from budget that should be focused on the keywords that actually had positive performance.
Additionally, there were ads that had a high impression volume, but a shockingly low click through rate, and no conversions. What does that mean? – The human element is not resonating with the ad copy before them on the screen.
The symptoms had been identified, and the solutions are relatively simple:
1. Build out more experiences surrounding the keywords that are working well. 2. Restructure account to accommodate for these new experiences. 3. Shift budget from ad groups that are not performing, to ad groups that are driving conversions. 4. Develop and test ad copy based on the top performing ads in each ad group keeping in mind the relevancy between both keyword and ad title. 5. Stop spending money on terms that are not converting. 6. Build out negative keyword list to include terms that do not convert.
How are things performing now? – Glad you asked. Within 24 hours of making these changes, impressions have doubled and click-through-rate has tripled. No word on conversions yet, but I am confident those results mentioned previously will increase conversions.
If not, this process starts again.
Tags: Search Marketing, marketing, SEM
For those running SEO campaigns and need help constructing a landing page that drives users to your site and/or goal, Formstack put together a really nice infographic on the Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page. It covers everything from layout, trust indicators and use of links, to which color you should use for your specific site. I think it's a good, concise "cheat sheet" and something I wish I had on the recent campaigns I was running.
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The New Guy
Everyone has a first day, whether it is the first day of existence in the world as a child, first day of school, or first day of work at a new job. Being that I am writing this blog for Exsilio, it should be reasonable to conclude that I have arrived at the new-job "first."
Here are the things I know for sure about my first day:
1. Traffic in Seattle fluctuates like crazy. The same commute that took 45 minutes one day took 15 the next; I arrived 45 minutes early – too early.
2. Anthony has an affinity for cars. I like that.
3. You are judged by the size of your coffee cup.
Regardless of the facts, I am now cooking along at full speed and feeling comfortable and feeling welcome here at Exsilio.
But what will I be doing?! Glad you asked. I am a new Marketing Manager at Exsilio focusing on Paid Search and landing page Search Engine Optimization. By focusing on this form of marketing, I hope to bring a valuable asset into the Exsilio family and provide knowledge to help all of our clients meet their marketing needs.
But why are SEM and SEO important? According to Netcraft, as of this month, there are over 555 million websites world-wide. With 29.5 million created last month. Though getting a dance to high school prom was difficult, try standing out in this crowded digital world. This is where SEM and SEO become even more valuable. They are the tools that businesses can use to make sure they are at the top of search queries for potential customers.
Having a good website is no longer enough – firms need to grasp these tools firmly to ensure that they can get the exposure they need. We need to think about this in terms of a storefront to a business that has the answer to life. Having a nice sign that has the "key to life" message on the storefront, maybe even a flashing "open" sign in the window, and a sandwich board outside the front door are a good start, and will likely generate some good foot-traffic. But foot-traffic is not enough. Everyone wants the answer to life, so we need to provide a roadmap to the business. This is where SEO and SEM step in. They are the roadmap that brings in customers from all over the country to this store – and in the digital world, this is possible.
This is why SEM and SEO are important. They help to ensure that a business can stand out to their desired customer and provide the exposure they need on the internet.
From this point out, you'll be able to find me with a big coffee cup, arriving at work no more than 15 early, and learning the "ins and outs" of SEO and SEM.
Tags: marketing strategy, Search Engine Marketing, SEM
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The roasting machine is right in the middle of the store and has a wonderful aroma. It is free to have a taste of all of their coffies to decide wich to order. Two blocks from hotel.
The roasting machine is right in the middle of the store and has a wonderful aroma. It is free to have a taste of all of their coffies to decide wich to order. Two blocks from hotel.
What a great selection of coffee and tea. Delicious baked goods, too. Friendly, helpful staff. A bit chilly in there, though.
On our walk to the Anvil, we checked out other establishments. We found this coffeehouse and checked it out. We were going to go to a little place in Thiensville the next morning, but decided that this was the place we wanted to go! Small, but not crowded. Games you can play while sipping away. Regular coffee and specialty drinks;... More
very cool old style coffee shop, we try and come here as often as we can although our son prefers starbucks, we prefer cedarburg roastery, friendly staff lots of flavors, try and stop in if you are in town, we adore it.
I'm a coffee addict and ever since I've been traveling to WI, I have to make a trip to the Roastery every time I'm there usually at least 2 trips and now I'm so happy to have discovered I can order their coffee online. It's not quite the same as having them make it but at least it's a taste... More
We stopped by for coffee drinks all 3 days we were in town! A short walk from our hotel, right on the main street. Loved, loved, loved the pumpkin macchiato!
Great aroma and great tasting coffee. Grab a cup and sit outside on the weekend while all the visitors walk around shopping! Nice staff!
I had the pumpkin latte hubby had a sugar free vanilla mocha! Both very flavorful and yummy! Cookies are the size of your head! Very cozy nice seating and very accomadting to diabetics with sugar free needs!
I enjoy going to this quaint coffee shop as the service is always friendly and the home made bakery is outstanding. The scones and specialty pastries and cookies are like no other. They roast their beans weekly to provide only the freshest brews and offer their coffee in bulk as well. The variety of smoothies and seasonal drinks are great!... More
SAve ur money go to fiddle heads or the java house....horrible service and dirty place
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NOTE: Z Magazine subscribers and sustainers have access to all Z Magazine articles here and in the archive. The latest Z Magazine articles available to everyone are listed in the Free Articles box at the top of the table of contents, and are starred in the list below. Questions? e-mail Z Magazine Online.
The Shura Case
In a case that involved extensive surveillance of Muslim community groups and leaders, the Obama administration argued that the government not only can lie about its surveillance activities, but can, in turn, lie to federal judges when "national security" is involved. Despite his strongly worded April 27 decision censuring the government for lying, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ultimately ruled that the government will not be charged with contempt of court or perjury or face any other kind of official sanction.
The origins of the current case, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California et al. v. the Federal Bureau of Investigation et al., stretch back to 2006 and involve five Muslim community leaders and six Muslim organizations:
· the Islamic Shura Council of
· the Council on American Islamic
Relations-California (CAIR)
· the Islamic Center of
· the Islamic
the West Coast Islamic Center
· Human Assistance and Development International, Inc.
These men and groups were among the first Muslim Americans to meet and share information with the FBI after 9/11 and included individuals like Mohammed Abdul Aleem, who served as a government witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in a 2004 terrorism case in
By May 2006, the plaintiffs began to feel that they had become the targets of extensive government surveillance and so filed a joint request for their FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). After almost a full year had elapsed, the government told nine of the plaintiffs that they had "no records responsive" to their request regarding FBI surveillance. In June 2007, the FBI sent a single redacted page to CAIR and three redacted pages to Hussam Ayloush. Unconvinced by this report, the plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against the government, challenging the adequacy of the FBI's search.
In light of the lawsuit, the FBI conducted new searches and produced some 120 pages of documents that they heavily redacted or withheld entirely because they claimed they were "outside the scope" of the FOIA request. This was the government's first instance of lying to the court. They had, of course, already lied to the plaintiffs in their previous correspondence, which, as Judge Carney cited in his decision, was a curious tactic to take as, under FOIA, they could simply have identified the "statutory and factual basis" for not releasing certain documents and so would have been well within current legal bounds for not issuing requested documents.
In April 2009, faced with cross-motions by the government and the plaintiffs in the case, the court ordered an in camera review of the FBI's searches (with only the government present) in order to determine the "propriety" of the FBI's "outside the scope" determinations. Shortly after this order was given, the government—which had now shifted from the Bush to the Obama administration—revealed to the court that it actually had identified other "responsive" documents, but had never disclosed them to the court or to the plaintiffs. It was at this juncture, under Obama's watch, that the government asserted that it had the right to lie to the court because of national security.
Realizing that the government had, as Judge Carney's decision later worded it, "provided false and misleading information to the Court," Carney ordered two in camera hearings, after which he issued a sealed order in June 2009. The government immediately appealed this order and sought an emergency motion to stay the decision. In its ruling, the appellate court supported government secrecy. Judge Carney's decision—amended as per the appellate court's order to eliminate all statements which the government designated too sensitive—finally saw the light of day two years later at the end of April, 2011.
Citing the case of United States v. Richard M. Nixon to explain why "the very integrity of the judicial system and public confidence in the system depend on full disclosure of all the facts," Carney rebuked the government's attempts to claim that its representations to the Court were not "technically false," writing that the government "cannot negotiate the truth with the Court" or "under any circumstance affirmatively mislead the Court." He went on to write that, "the Government argues that there are times when the interests of national security require the Government to mislead the Court. The Court strongly disagrees. The Government's duty of honesty to the Court can never be excused, no matter what the circumstance."
Despite these fine sentiments, Carney (a George W. Bush appointee) was ultimately unwilling to impose any kind of penalty or even order that the requested FOIA documents be released, leaving the U.S. government with nothing to stop it from lying in court in the future.
Under the basic rules of court, the actions of the FBI's lawyer, Marcia K. Sowles, appear to be clearly unethical. Yet Judge Carney did not refer Sowles to a state bar for, at the very minimum, a disciplinary investigation. By failing to hold the government accountable for lying, Judge Carney succeeded only in ultimately bolstering the government's confidence in acting with impunity.
For many scholars of history, government surveillance of Muslim American groups over the past decade parallels the excesses of the FBI's shameful and often illegal COIN- TELPRO program of the 1950s-1970s. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the government's ability to wiretap phones, read emails, and gain access to personal information, including bank records, medical records, and even library records.
This over-reach lost the government many allies in the Muslim American community who, like the plaintiffs, were initially eager to work with the government after 9/11. The government hinted at the new level of unfettered reach they now wanted in one section of their appellate brief not under seal, writing that the courts needed to "give special deference to the Executive Branch when it invokes national security concerns."
The only public comment made by the government regarding the case appears to have been made by a Department of Justice spokesperson, Tracy Schamler, after the sealed order was opened. She stated: "We strongly disagree with the characterization that the Court was misled"—an eerie echo of Richard Nixon's claim to David Frost in 1977, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
That our government, four decades after the Pentagon Papers, is able to lie in a federal court, get caught, and have no price to pay speaks volumes about the state of justice in the United States. What might be most shocking is how the case reveals the
Sally Eberhardt works with Educators for Civil Liberties researching civil rights issues post-9/11. She is founding member of Theaters Against War and has worked for human rights organizations, including the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the National Labor Committee.
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MOTHER'S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother's Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
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Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
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ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
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Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; email@example.com; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; email@example.com; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; email@example.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; email@example.com http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; email@example.com; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; email@example.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.childrensdefense.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: email@example.com; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: email@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; email@example.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti's government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; email@example.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.' long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; email@example.com; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year's theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; email@example.com; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year's theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.nomas.org/.
OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
Contact: email@example.com; http://occupynationalgathering.net/.
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, "Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy," will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
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Contact: Zach Bremer, email@example.com; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
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Mariposa Woman Pleads Guilty to Survivor Benefits Fraud
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FRESNO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Michelle M. Hollis, 57, of Mariposa, pleaded guilty today to theft of government money for collecting death benefits she was not entitled to receive.
According to the plea agreement, between January 2004 and May 30, 2008, Hollis stole $115,759 in Veteran's Affair's death benefits to which she was not entitled. In 1993, her husband John Hollis was on active duty in the United States Navy and died from a lethal ingestion of ethylene glycol, also known as antifreeze. After her husband's death, Hollis began to receive survivor benefits from the Department of Veteran's Affairs. In May 2008, Hollis pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of her husband. She was not entitled to receive any of the survivor benefits since she caused the death of her husband.
The maximum statutory penalty for the theft of government money is 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years of supervised release. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.
The case is the product of an investigation by the United States Department of Veteran's Affairs Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Assistant United States Attorney Michele Thielhorn is prosecuting the case.
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June 28, 2011
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital interventional radiologists Daniel B. Brown, M.D., FSIR, and Carin Gonsalves, M.D., FSIR, were recently inducted as fellows into the Society of Interventional Radiology. The Jefferson interventional radiologists were two of 26 fellows inducted nationwide during 36th Annual Scientific Meeting held in Chicago earlier this year.
Thanks to a unique approach to cancer treatment called photodynamic therapy, Ron Whitehead feels he's had the chance to live longer than he would have and with a better quality of life. The therapy, available at the Jefferson Digestive Disease Institute, was pioneered in the treatment of some esophageal cancers and obstructing lung carcinoma, and is now being applied for bile duct cancers.
June 27, 2011
Christopher J. Farrell, M.D., recently joined the Department of Neurological Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and was named assistant professor of Neurological Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Farrell specializes in brain tumor surgery and research.
June 14, 2011
Receiving radiation therapy immediately after a radical prostatectomy is a cost-effective treatment for prostate cancer patients when compared with waiting and acting on elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, according to a new study by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital.
June 09, 2011
Survival rates of wealthier patients and those younger than 70 with glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor, have improved since 2000, according to an abstract presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital researchers.
June 08, 2011
More women are opting for radioactive implants and those with estrogen positive tumors are opting out of radiation therapy, according to an abstract presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital researchers.
June 07, 2011
Metastatic prostate cancer patients who received an investigational vaccine made from their own frozen immune cells lived 10 months longer than those not treated with it.
June 01, 2011
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The results of a study involving 53,000 current and former smokers who were screened with low-dose CT scans showed that lung cancer deaths can be cut by 20 percent compared to using standard X-rays.
Jefferson University Hospitals recently took part in an effort to lower the incidence of wrong-side, or wrong-site, procedures.
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A rare skin disease known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB) can leave a baby with missing or fragile skin and blisters on the skin and inside the mouth. Dr. Uitto is one of the first doctors to describe Bart's syndrome, a variant of EB.
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The article discusses an occupational therapist in Bucks County who is using techniques learned at the Mindfulness Institute to teach students in his summer program tools to control their anxiety and frustration.
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With additional comment given on other injured members of the Phillies pitching staff.
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Researchers at Jefferson found during a study that receiving radiation therapy immediately after a radical prostatectomy is a cost-effective treatment for prostate cancer patients when compared with waiting and acting on elevated PSA levels.
Kathleen Begley's life turned upside down when her healthy husband told her that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 62. Seven months later, Kathleen said goodbye to the love of her life. Kathleen writes about her experience in an op-ed piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The story is about the running community's ability to raise millions of dollars each year to fight cancer.
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D. Craig Hooper, PhD, and Bernhard Dietzschold, DVM, of Thomas Jefferson University have been conducting research on the brains of mice to see how the rabies virus attacks immune cells.
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The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and other area hospitals such Fox Chase Cancer Center and University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center are conducting research genetic mutations so that doctors can provide more precise treatments.
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He recommends that all men at the age of 50 get screened for prostate cancer, unless you have a family history, in which you should be screened at 40 or 45.
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For years it's been difficult for the average person to comprehend what the various sunscreen labels mean. The FDA hopes to fix that with its new requirements to provide simpler but adequate information on how to avoid painful sunburns and increasing your risk of skin cancer while out in the sun.
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Exercising in the heat puts extra stress on the heart and lungs as your body tries to regulate its temperature, so hydrating and sweating are critical for exercising safely in the heat.
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Dr. Gomella tells Everyday Health that the PSA (prostate-specific antigen), which measures the level of PSA in the blood, is a great test but it's not perfect to detect prostate cancer.
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Many women struggle with the demands of juggling work and raising a family. For female physicians, decisions about having children can be extremely difficult, depending on what they specialize in, how many patients they have and whether they will lose their career footing by becoming a mother.
Many soldiers who return from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. They will use medication or talk therapy to relieve their symptoms, but sometimes that just doesn't help. One soldier turned to transcendental meditation.
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson discovered what makes a tumor grow — and how to make it stop.
Featured June 03, 2011
Children at the event video-Skyped with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Edward Murray, 92, the first person to successfully perform a kidney transplant, in 1954.
Called a "miracle baby" by physicians, nurses and her family, Rebecca Kamens returned to Jefferson as a healthy 16 year-old to volunteer on the floor as part of a Special Studies program at the Agnes Irwin School.
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