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A day after refusing to comment on an Ohio bill that would limit the collective bargain rights of public employees, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he supports the measure "110 percent."
Romney was working at Ohio Republican Party phone bank Tuesday when he was asked about Issue 2, a bill that Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) hopes voters will ratify on Nov. 8.
"I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues," Romney said at the time. "Those are up to the people of Ohio. But I certainly support the efforts of the governor to reign in the scale of government. I am not terribly familiar with the two ballot initiatives. But I am certainly supportive of the Republican Party's efforts here."
Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign immediately attacked the former Massachusetts governor for "finger-in-the-wind politics."
At an event with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) on Wednesday, Romney didn't miss a second opportunity to prove he was for curbing worker rights.
"I'm sorry if a created any confusion in that regard," he said. "I fully support Gov. Kasich's — I think it's called Question 2 in Ohio. Fully support that."
"I don't even know what Question 1 is. If there is a Question 1, I don't know what that one is. So with regards to Question 2, which is the collective bargaining question, I am 110 percent behind Gov. Kasich in support of that question."
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Oct. 24, 2011.
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Anyone catch the dUI AD interview on KTIK yesterday?
Whoo, boy! Grim barely describes the dude. My initial insinct was to change the channel but my morbid curiousity got the better of me. So, I was motoring along sipping my hot cup of Schadenfreude, when one of the buffoons posed a question along the lines of, "So what kind of conference do you see yourself in three years from now?" Spear: "Well, we'd like to be in a conference of [ed. wait for it...] land grant schools with strong academics..." THAT'S when the swear words flew from my lips and the channel change occured. Same, tired BW! Screw you, dUI.

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Archive for category SEO
Business Listings
Finding good backlinks can be such a chore, right? Well we are now offering a really nice business listing service that will:
- Get your business listed in over 50 important local and national business directories.
- Allows you to control the listings from one spot which avoids any mistakes
- You can include advanced content to many of the listings, like a restaurant menu, your personal bio or team, even your daily special or coupons
- Monitor what people are commenting about your business – get notified when they do it
Follow this link to the business listing service page to get a current status of all your listings as they are right now. Find out what you already have, what you are missing, and any mistakes it may include.
Keyword Privacy?
As you may or may not have heard, Google Analytics is no longer going to report statistics for organic search traffic. You may have seen some gnashing of teeth by the SEO community already bemoaning the development. Apparently "online privacy" is so important we are no longer supposed to know (the rumor is that Google wants to push more people into their paid traffic platform Adwords)
Anyways, thought I'd pass along a little nugget of information about what can be done about it, because there is a method to still the activity. Two ways to see the keyword data:
- Connect your Google Analytics account with Google Webmaster Tools. Once you do that go to Acquisition > Search Engine Optimization > Queries
- Or you can use GWT directly Site Dashboard > Search Traffic > Search Queries (though it doesn't give as much control as GA does)
The query table shows which keywords are being queried in Google search that is getting your website listed in the search results. The table is great because it not only shows which keywords are triggering your website, it also shows you the number of impressions, clicks, its average position, and its click thru rate (CTR). Wow, right? Each column can be sorted, so you can see which keywords are getting the most clicks. Here is what it looks like:
SEO Cheat Sheet
Click the below image to download the latest SEO cheat sheet from MOZ. Four pages full of useful info about SEO related things; like important HTML elements, canonical meta tags, and other social media.
How to Increase Traffic to Your Website
The question that inevitably comes up is how to increase the number of website visitors you have coming into your website. Especially now with this struggling economy. So what can you do about it? First understand that all website traffic can be placed in one of four categories;
- Search traffic – otherwise known as SEO traffic. This is the free traffic coming from the search engines (Google) and what is most sought after by people. If you don't already have a SEO plan, then this is the first place you probably should look to fix.
- Direct traffic – this is traffic coming from book marks, or they are typing your web address into the browser. They probably know you already, or maybe they found your web address in the newspaper or a flyer, etc.
- Referral traffic – this is website traffic coming from another website. This could sometimes be more SEO traffic, since it is traffic coming from the backlinks you have been getting.
- Paid traffic – this is traffic that you get from pay-per-click advertising, from banner ads you purchased, from email campaigns you ran, etc.
Here is what you should do:
This is a list of things I have found to be effective in increasing website traffic that results in sales. Read further down for methods that will increase traffic WITHOUT sales.
- Set up an account with Google Adwords (paid traffic). If you need traffic now, this is one of the more attractive options because it is so immediate. If you are selling doohickeys, then Google can place your ad in front of people searching for them.
- Optimize your website for SEO (search traffic). Everyone should already be doing this, because it is for free website traffic. This is a long-term option, because it takes time to build up.
- Get other websites to link to you (referral traffic, or search traffic). This is easier said than done, unless you are paying someone. Not only will it bring you website traffic, but it can also help you with your SEO (backlinks).
- Email campaigns (direct traffic). You can send emails to potential customers if you have an email list. If you don't have a list, you can sometimes purchase them.
Here is what you should avoid:
- Social media (referral traffic). Social media is such a crock when it comes to selling stuff for your business, I recommend against wasting your time. If you don't care about selling anything, it works great though! You can get Facebook pay-per-click ads and get lots of traffic that won't sell product.
- Links in directories (referral traffic). There are some directories you want to be included in, but that is for their SEO value. Basically, no one looks in a directory, and I am not aware of a single one that is worth the time, effort, or money.
If I can think of others, I'll add to the list later…
Backlink Strategies
Once you create a website, one of the most important things you can do to market your site is to get some backlinks (someone linking to your website, from their website). Why? Because Google cares, that is why. Google uses the number of backlinks that you have (among others) as a method of measuring your ranking. And the higher you are ranked, the more web traffic you should get.
But getting backlinks can be difficult if you don't have a strategy. So with that in mind, I recommend you get out pen and paper and read The Complete List of Link Building Strategies that was created by Point Blank SEO. And remember, getting one good backlink will outweigh a hundred lousy ones – so think 'quality' and 'relevancy'.
Long Tail Keywords
Posted by Joe in Maintenance, SEO on April 12, 2012
The importance of optimizing your website for long tail keywords cannot be overestimated. Because while the top searched keyword might individually get you the most traffic, it is the sum of all the long tails that gets you the big traffic levels. You can see this to be true just by looking at your website traffic statistics, where you maybe get 50 visitors from your top keyword – but you get a thousand from the sum of all the others.
How do you pursue a strategy to get more long tail keywords to your site? It is easy – you make sure you use keyword 'themes' when you optimize your page. Don't get hung up on just a single keyword, too narrowly defined. Don't just use the one keyword, you use it plus all the other similar meaning keywords. You group your keywords into 'themes' and then you use lots of them in the content, tags, and links.
I read a nice article on the subject that explains well – it is recommended reading.
How to Monitor Your SEO
So maybe you have been trying to improve the SEO values of your website, and you now want to check to see if you are being effective. Or even better maybe you are paying someone else to do your SEO for you, and you want to get an unbiased status of how they are doing. What to do?
Some people simply open Google and do a search using their main keywords, to get a feel for how they are doing. But this is a bad idea since Google is giving you skewed results because your setting say you are living in Idaho. Doh! So you turn the location setting off, and now you get better search results, but then you can't remember what your ranking was last time you checked.
So what you really need is a tool that will 1) check the keyword ranking for all the search keywords you need, and 2) keep a history of it all over time, showing you the trend lines.
But wait, there's more! You also need to know something about your backlinks coming into your site. 1) How many do you have, 2) what are they, and 3) are the backlinks any good.
Anyways, the point I wanted to make is that you need a good SEO ranking tool – and I just happen to have one. The service is online so you can check your keywords any time of the day. And here is the price list for the service, click to get more information:
Reciprocal Linking
Is reciprocal linking bad? This is the practice where you place a link on your site, in exchange for someone else doing the same back to you from theirs. I think the answer to this question depends on your site, how well known it is already. Because if you have a new website with few or no backlinks coming to it, then getting reciprocal links can help you to get started, to help you create your 'web presence'.
On the other hand if you have an older established website that is already decently ranked by the search engines, then reciprocal linking can be bad. By linking to other sites, you lend your good credibility to them and can thus dilute what you have. So as your site moves up the ranking ladder, you don't want to be linking to sites of lesser or questionable value.
And if you do create a link page on your site, here are a few rules to follow:
- Give it a good name like "Partners" or "Sites We Recommend". Don't call it your backlink page.
- Place links on the page that really will be helpful to your website visitors.
- The links should be helpful to your customers, relevant to your industry, and be quality sites
- Include not only sites that are linking to you – also link to sites that don't. Magazine sites about your industry, trade groups, and any other sites people might consider 'helpful' to them.
Having nothing but a bunch of links to bogus sites is bad, it identifies your site as nothing but a spammer site engaged in a linking scheme. Google says this about it:
"some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites… and can negatively impact your site's ranking in search results"
Do you really need backlinks?
I've worked SEO for some years now, and remember fondly (not) how I would put my websites into various directories, lists, blogs and phone books. Spent quite a bit of time doing it, and today find that it means next to nothing.
So I saw the image below recently on Wikipedia, under Page Rank, which clearly shows that 1 good backlink will trump a hundred lesser backlinks every time, (the orange website C). Even though website B (red) has lots more backlinks, website C is almost as high with just the single link coming into its site from a highly ranked site.
So the point I would make here is this: stop wasting your time on getting lots of poor back links. Instead concentrate on getting authority backlinks – backlinks that are from "quality" websites relevant to your own. I'll write a another post on this, because it is important enough to deserve its own space.
And to be clear on one point. For a new website just starting out, the lesser known backlinks can and do help to get your site discovered around the web.
Website Analytics
So which website statistics are most important to look at when evaluating the performance of your website? The easy answer is to say the traffic levels – and you would be dead wrong. A high traffic website can still fail if it is not converting the traffic into sales or leads.
So for someone like me who gets hired to improve the performance of a website, the website analytics are crucial to the cause. Knowing which statistics to look at, understanding what they mean, as well as making them understandable to the client is what it is all about. The first order of business is to get a good snapshot of how the site is performing right now, then second is to figure out how to make things better.
If you are selling stuff, or gathering leads from the site – a good performer is usually pretty easy to spot. With a good performer you don't need to look at the statistics to know – you look in the cash register (smile). But wait a second, even with a so-called good performing website – don't you want to improve it even more, make even more money? Of course you do!
And you don't want to just look at the current statistics for the site – what is important is to know the trends. You put the statistics into a spreadsheet if you have to each week, and that way you can tell if you are improving or not. You can take an action on the site and then watch and see if it results in the desired way.
When I first work on a site, I can usually get some significant improvements made because the site is usually missing some fundamental stuff – this is the low hanging fruit. But as you continue, it gets harder and harder to improve things, and at that point you have to look for incremental improvements over time – which is only identified by using trend data.
Anyways, sorry for being so long-winded with this. But with that in mind, here is a breakdown of some stats I tend to watch close. The most important ones are #1 – #3, the others are helpful indicators for your site.
- Traffic level breakdown – knowing who it is coming into your site, broken down into 4 main areas.
- SEO traffic. Your 'seo traffic' is coming in from the search engines, and can be improved by implementing some SEO tactics and strategies. This traffic is highly valued because it is free, and typically represents the level of new customers you are attracting.
- Referral traffic. This is traffic coming to you from other websites. Also helps with your SEO efforts because these are the holy backlinks everyone talks about.
- Direct traffic. This is the traffic coming from bookmarks, or otherwise from people who already know you.
- SEM traffic. This is your paid traffic like PPC, banner ads, or what have you. A larger company probably has this broken down further by source.
- Keyword ranking is important because you will want to increase your SEO traffic into the site. Find a tool that will check the ranking of your desired keywords, and measure them each week.
- Goals achieved tells you if the website visitor is doing what you want, buying something, submitting a lead, funneling to certain information, etc.
- Bounce rate will show you if people are actually viewing your site, or coming to it by accident.
- Pages per visit will show how interested people are in your site and what you are offering.
- Unique visitors will tell you how many new visitors are coming into the site, instead of returning visitors.
- Top content will give a list of pages that are most visited on your site.
- Site navigation will tell you the most often traveled paths thru your site.


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NEWTON FALLS, Ohio - With the recent heavy rainfall, the runoff of water was more than the city's sewer system could handle. Now residents are trying to repair what has been damaged.
The heavy rain quickly turned low lying areas and streets into rivers and ponds.
"Yesterday was a torrential rain. We received 4.5 inches within once hour from the start of the rain. We received an additional .4 inches in the next hour," says Newton Falls City Manager Jack Haney. "I don't know any system that is capable of handling that much rain in that short of a time period."
Some of the worst flooding was along Ravenna Road, and one of the homeowners facing the biggest clean-up is Newton Falls city councilman Phillip Beer.
"In my yard at the side yard where the culvert is, it was probably at lease five feet deep," Beer says. "My whole basement was full of water, all the way up to the second step down from the kitchen."
Beer was in the process of fixing a basement fall that caved in during flooding from the last big rain two weeks ago.
City council is once again considering a storm water utility fee which would be used exclusively for water related projects.
"The would be a revenue source and if that was put in place it would be designated to just those projects," says Haney.
Beer says the fee would allow for more projects to separate storm water and waste water.
"These torrential rains have been so bad, the whole system failed," says Beer.


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Principal Investigator
Nick Ouellette (CV) is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2002 with a double major in Physics and Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. (in Physics) in 2006 from Cornell University, where he worked with Eberhard Bodenschatz. Before coming to Yale, he was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in 2006 (working with Eberhard Bodenschatz) and from 2007-2008 in the Physics Department at Haverford College (working with Jerry Gollub).
James Puckett is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. (in Physics) in 2012 from North Carolina State University, where he studied granular materials with Karen Daniels. At NCSU, he investigated mixing in fluidized systems as well as equilibration of temperature-like variables in jammed systems. In the Ouellette lab, he is investigating collective dynamics in midges (Chironomus riparius) using three-dimensional particle tracking.
Rui Ni is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale and the Department of Physics at Wesleyan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 2011 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he worked with Ke-Qing Xia on turbulent thermal convection. Rui's current research has two focuses: he is developing a scanning particle tracking system to measure turbulent flows and is using it to study the dynamics of anisotropic particles in turbulence, and is also studying the collective motion of swarming midges.
Graduate Students
Alexandre de Chaumont Quitry is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from Brown University in 2009 with a BS in Engineering and Physics. In the Ouellette lab, he is investigating Von Karman turbulent flows in complex fluids using Lagrangian particle tracking.
Yang Liao is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. She graduated from Zhejiang University in China with a BS in Physics and English. In the Ouellette lab, she is studying two-dimensional flow and turbulence.
Julia Salevan is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2012 with a BS in Physics. In the Ouellette lab, she is studying the erosion of granular media by shear flows.
Doug Kelley (postdoc), now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester.
Nidhi Khurana (Ph.D. 2013), now a postdoc in epidemiology at Imperial College London.
Pearson Miller (B.S. 2014), graduate school in Physics at MIT.
Ben Green (B.S. 2014), graduate school in Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard.
Jerry Wang (B.S. 2013; McCrosky Prize winner), graduate school in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Courtney Engle (B.S. 2012), graduate school in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins.
Kevin Shen (B.S. 2011), graduate school in Chemical Engineering at Caltech.
Sophia Merrifield (B.S. 2010; Lichty & Waters Prize winner), graduate school in Physical Oceanography at MIT.


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Express summary of Venezuela's situation for curious people and/or the poorly informed
February 21st, 2014
Rafael Uzcategui [from El Libertario newspaper]
On February 4th, 2014, students from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira (Experimental University of Táchira), located on an inland state of the country, protested due to the sexual assault of a fellow female classmate in lieu of the current insecurity situation of the city. The protest was repressed, and several students were detained.
The next day, other universities around the country had their own protests requesting the release of these detainees, being at the same time repressed and some of them incarcerated.
The wave of indignation had the context of the economic crisis, the shortage of first necessity items and the crisis of basics public services, as well as the beginning of the enforcement of an economic plan on behalf of the President Nicolas Maduro.
Two opposing politicians, Leopoldo Lopez, and Maria Corina Machado, tried to capitalize on the wave of discontent rallying for new protests under the slogan "The Way Out" and try to pressure for the resignation of president Maduro. Their message also reflected the rupture and divisions on the inside of opposing politicians and the desire to replace Henrique Capriles' leadership, who publicly rejected the protests. The Mesa de la Unidad Democratica (Democratic Unity Table) coalition, didn't support them either.
When the government suppressed the protests, it made them grow bigger and wider all over the country. On February 12th, 2014, people from 18 cities protested for the release of all of the detainees and in rejection of the government. In some cities, inland, particularly punished by scarcity and lack of proper public services, the protests were massive. In Caracas, three people were murdered during the protests. The government blames the protesters, but the biggest circulating newspaper in the country, Ultimas Noticias (Latest News), who receives the biggest advertising budget from the government, reveals through photographs, that the murderers were police officers. As a response to this, Nicolas Maduro stated on National television and radio broadcast that police enforcement had been "infiltrated by the right wing".
Repression against protesters not only uses police and military enforcement agencies, it incorporates the participation of militia groups to violently dissolve the protests. A member of PROVEA, a human rights NGO, was kidnapped, beaten and threatened to death by one of then on the west side of Caracas. President Maduro has publicly encouraged these groups, which he calls "colectivos" (collectives).
The Venezuelan government actually controls all of the TV stations, and has threatened with sanctions, radio stations and newspapers that transmit information about protests. Because of this, the privileged space for the distribution of information has been the social media networks, specially twitter. The use of personal technological devices has allowed the record keeping through videos and photographs of ample aggressions of the repression forces.
Human rights organizations report detainees all over the country (many of them already released), the number has surpassed 400, and they have suffered tortures, including reports of sexual assault, cruel treatment, inhumane and degrading. As this is being written 5 people have been murdered in the context of the protests.
In his speeches, Nicolas Maduro, stimulates the protesters that are against him to assume even more radical and violent positions. Without any criminalistic investigation, he automatically stated that each deceased person has been murdered by the same protesters, whom he disqualifies permanently with all of the possible adjectives.
However, this belligerence seems not to be shared by all the chavista movement, because a lot of it's bases are waiting for what happens next, without any expressions of support. Maduro has only managed to rally public employees to the street protests he has done. In spite of the situation and due to the grave economic situation he faces, Nicolas Maduro continues to make economic adjustments, being the most recent, the increase of the tax unit.
The state apparatus reiterates repeatedly that it is facing a "coup", that what happened in Venezuela on April 2002 will repeat itself. This version has managed to neutralize the international left wing, which hasn't even expressed its concern about the abuses and deaths in the protests.
The protests are done in many parts around the country and are lacking in center and direction, having being called through social media networks. In the protesters themselves, there are many diverse opinions about opposing political parties, by which it is possible to find so many expressions of support and rejection at the same time.
In the case of Caracas they are starred specially by middle class sectors and college students. On the other hand, in other states, other popular sectors have joined the protests. In Caracas the majority of the petitions are political, freedom for the detainees y the resignations of the president, while in other cities social demands are incorporated, such as inflation, scarcity and lack of proper public services. Even though some protests have turned violent, and some protesters have used fire guns against police and militia groups, the majority of the protests, specially outside of Caracas, remain peaceful.
The Revolutionary Independent Venezuelan Left (anarchists, sectors that follow Trotsky, Marx, Lenin and Guevara) don't have any incidence in this situation and we are simple spectators. Some of us are simply actively denouncing state repression and helping the victims of human rights violations.
Venezuela is a historically oil driven country, it possesses low levels of political culture amongst its population, explaining why the opposing protesters have the same "content" problem as the bases of support for the government. But while the international left wing continues to give its back, and support without any criticism the government's version of "the coup", it leave thousands of protesters to the mercy of the most conservative of opposition's political parties, without any reference to anti-capitalists, revolutionaries and true social change that could influence them.
In this sense, the detention of Leopoldo Lopez, conservative opposition leader, tries to make his own figure the center of a dynamic movement, that up until this moment, that this is been written, had surpassed the political parties of the opposition and the government of Nicolas Maduro.
What will happen in the short term? I think nobody knows exactly, especially the protesters themselves. The events are developing minute after minute.
For more alternative information about Venezuela, we recommend:
http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com (in Spanish)
http://www.derechos.org.ve (in Spanish)
http://laclase.info (in Spanish)
http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario (in Spanish, English & other languages)
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for posting this. Seems like the situation in the Ukraine is dominating the international (english language) media.
>The Revolutionary
>The Revolutionary Independent Venezuelan Left (anarchists, sectors that follow Trotsky, Marx, Lenin and Guevara) don't have any incidence in this situation and we are simple spectators.
Was about to comment with the
Was about to comment with the same thing....
What the fuck is the point if @s and communists don't intervene and engage in moments like these?
Thanks for posting this. I
Thanks for posting this. I have not trusted the leftist reporting but have not found any info that I found trustworthy.
I think there's a lot more
I think there's a lot more influence from the oposition in the protests and most of the protesters are pretty bourgie, but fuck the police and the gov't none the less
also most the protestors that have come on the scene of the revolts since the oposition lost the election seem to want the old neoliberal model back
but regardless i'm sure there are some homies in the thick of it and also some homies maybe a little more sympathetic to the chavistas(they did give hella poor folks food security n shit) but yeah...remember the previous coup attempt? same kinda shit was happening and the capitalist media did make it seem like protestors were fired apon by chavistas back then and that wasn't true and hella fake ass propaganda has been coming out and the US is literally funding the oposition and yeah...
I stopped reading here:
I stopped reading here:
"The Venezuelan government actually controls all of the TV stations, and has threatened with sanctions, radio stations and newspapers that transmit information about protests."
The fact is there are 4 main privately owned TV stations, and three public stations, only one of which could be called favorable to the government:
That's dated in '06
Things may have changed. As I understand it, the chavizmo government has pressured/threatened the television media enough to have a degree of control. That's my read, could be wrong, of course.
I don't know what to make of the article posted here to a-news. It seems to be the only one painting things so lightly. I also don't care too much about politics however. The important thing for anyone who wants a real revolution today is to equip themselves with the ability to inhabit the disaster of contemporary society - especially the openings like in Venezuela, Ukraine, Bosnia etc. - and to actually live in those times...and not have to go back. Regardless of politics, anyone who can't do that will fail.
"Those who make half revolutions..."
Mmm...don't see the same.
Apologize this is not translated into English but you should see it:
Estados unidos a la conquista del este....
Information on the other side -chavistas-:
The closed right fist, the symbol of Otpor!, used by Serb movement very useful for other lobbies. Same trend, same smooth stroke...informed deeper about what is the right. Must cut the wings to "derechas" and give no encouragement, and less from a page that is supposed anarchist.
The anarchist outlets
The anarchist outlets tenuously supporting this paradigm manipulation towards phony revolutions are more than just the naive idiots they show up to be, it's most logical that at least some of these are shills paid by NGOs. Perhaps even DHS cognitive infiltration agents.
Cry me a river
Wahh CIA backed lifestyle punx got arrested by big bad Maduro. Oh no I forgot throwing molotovs at cops is illegal . Must not be real socialism! The media is soooo controlled by the state lol weaklings
Thierry Meyssan Is Correct
Thierry Meyssan is correct the other day when he wrote the other day that the student protest movement was led by affluent Anarchists and Trotskyists. Anarchists have the worst political awareness and strategic thinking. Anarchism is a Middle Class lifestyle by bored and ignorant students of Postmodernist philosophy. You are stupid dupes and pawns of imperialism just as in Ukraine.
you are an identity
you are an identity politician and one who embraces and uses the same concept which has divided and enslaved people for thousands of years as the basis for your political position.
keep fighting for your nationalist utopia that you will fortunately never realize.
http://www.derechos.org.ve are right-wing populists, fer fucks's sake!
And on democracy... not that I'm defending it but Chavez was not only elected but did a referendum to pass a package of reform policies. No fucking fascist CIA regime would do this, especially with their tradition of assassinating opposition figures.
I think what's hidden beneath the anti-chavismo diatribe of some of the so-called anarchists is actually FASCISM.


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Jim Tressel's predecessor as Ohio State football coach, John Cooper, took aim at the university's compliance department for failing to make sure that the team followed NCAA guidelines. Cooper appeared on local Columbus television the same day Tressel resigned and said the following (via Sports by Brooks):
"Compliance is not doing their job when this kind of stuff happens and they act like they don't know about it. When I was coaching over there, compliance was around everywhere. It's almost like they were trying to find us violating a rule."
What could have caused the compliance department to overlook many of these violations while his program was looked over with a fine tooth comb? It's what's even more important than winning the National Championship: defeating Michigan, which Cooper could not do and Tressel did.
Tressel and other Ohio State officials invoked the compliance department for all the good that they had done, but clearly there is a problem when scandals like this occur for nearly a decade.


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The no. 25 LSU Shreveport Lady Pilots took down their former Red River Athletic Conference foe, the Texas Wesleyan Lady Rams, on Friday night 62-60 in the opening game of the SAGU Classic. LSUS' Dionecia Warr made only one shot but she made it count as she sank the winning bucket with four seconds to play after collecting the offensive rebound.
Both teams struggled shooting the basketball from the field as LSUS shot a slim 28-percent while the Lady Rams made 35-percent. The Lady Pilots made just 20-percent of their shots in the first half and only trailed by two, 24-22, at the half.
Head Coach Ronnie Howell, who is in his 11th season at the helm of the Lady Pilots, knows his club could have played much better but is excited about tonight's win, "Neither team can say that they played their best. We really struggled shooting the ball, especially in the first half. I was proud of the way we overcame the rough first half and shot it a little better in the second half, which was enough for the win tonight."
LSUS had three scorers net double figures with Kiara Taylor leading the way off the bench with 16 points while Shanovia Gamblin had 15 and Byroneshia Santiago a dozen. Taylor and Gamblin charged up the struggling offense draining eight of the nine total three's made by the Lady Pilots.
"You can't say enough about the role played tonight by Kiara and Shanovia. They both hit some big shots," Coach Howell continued. The Lady Pilots made 26-percent from downtown netting sinking nine of 24 attempts. On the other hand Texas Wesleyan struggled to get good looks from the outside against the Lady Pilots defense as they attempted only 13 from beyond the arc and made only four.
The Lady Pilots won their season-opener game on the glass, a category that they lost on paper against the much taller Lady Rams squad. LSUS collected 51 total rebounds while cleaning the glass 19 times on the offensive end. Seven of the eight Lady Pilots that played had at least three rebounds with Santiago leading the way with nine rebounds while Jenna Diakos had eight on a night where she also struggled shooting just two of 10 from the field finishing with six points.
Texas Wesleyan (1-2) grabbed 47 boards including 14 offensive rebounds.
"Texas Wesleyan has a good team, they were picked to finish in the top tier of their conference. They are a lot taller than we are; I was proud of how we outplayed them on the boards tonight," Coach Howell said.
Texas Wesleyan received votes in the preseason NAIA top 25 poll and picked to finish fourth in a tough Sooner Athletic Conference but they struggled shooting tonight as they had only two in double figures led by Kashay Barnes who netted the game's high of 18 points while Takoia Larry added 10 points. The Lady Rams shot 35-percent from the field and was eight of 13 from the free-throw line while the Lady Pilots were a bit more accurate from the charity strip making 13 of 16.
The Lady Pilots picked up their six straight win over the Lady Rams and have now won seven of the 11 meetings between the two schools since 2007. "We have always had barnburners against each other and tonight was no different," Coach Howell ended.
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Social Media Gone Vile
January 13, 2012
Early Friday the profession of the media lost one of it's finest craftsman when former ABC and CBS correspondent Richard Threlkeld was killed in a traffic accident on Long Island, New York. The local paper Newsday filed a picture along with their story Richard Threlkeld, former CBS newsman killed in crash and that has unleased a cascade of comments taking issue with bumper stickers on Threlkeld's car – labeling him part of the 'liberal", "biased", an "Obama supporter" and member of the "lametsream" media. Inaccurate since the title of the article described Threlkeld as a 'former" newsman… no longer in the profession and free to advocate for any position he might choose.
But the question that is more appalling, and frightening, is what is it – even in death – that makes people feel that social media is a forum for invective — even it seems about some one they don't know personally? What is it about the anger that seems to exist, just simmering at the surface of too many people's daily lives? What did happen to all those cries for greater civility following the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gifford just a year ago.
Or, just as challenging, what is it about the media that seems to have raised such hatred, distrust and anger among some consumers? Obviously those who made these insulting and personal remarks are consumers of media – they read the Newsday article and then felt perfectly OK to make judgments about the victim.
The ability to make comments is of course protected free speech. But the anger, the rush to judgment, the inappropriateness of the timing of these comments gives me pause.
Veteran Correspondent Richard Threlkeld – RIP
January 13, 2012
Dick Threlkeld was a masterful writer, story teller, correspondent and a good friend of both my father during the Vietnam war and me when Dick and I both worked at CBS and ABC on the US west coast.
He was a craftsman – a wordsmith – a gentleman – a friend.
From the Associate Press
By FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Threlkeld, a far-ranging and award-winning correspondent who worked for both CBS and ABC News during a long career, has been killed in a car accident, CBS said.
The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., and was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. He lived in nearby East Hampton.
Threlkeld spent more than 25 years at CBS News, retiring in 1998. He was a reporter, anchor and bureau chief. He covered the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
He worked alongside Lesley Stahl as co-anchor of "The CBS Morning News" from 1977-79, and reported for "CBS Sunday Morning" from its inception in 1979, as well as for "The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather."
In 1981, Threlkeld decided to go to up-and-coming ABC News without fanfare and without telling CBS.
"I don't like to horse trade. I'm not a horse," Threlkeld told The Associated Press at the time. "After I decided ABC was the best place for me to go, it would have been wrong to make a verbal agreement and take it back to CBS to see what they could do."
At ABC News, he served as a national correspondent for "World News Tonight."
Real news doesn't include nipple slips
August 6, 2011
Once upon a time when news was not a commodity and what was editorially selected for print or broadcast was of the most pressing nature so that it deserved reporting, there were fewer stories about incidental nudity or wardrobe malfunctions.
But Nicki Minaj Nip Slip During "Good Morning America" today this has become news… It doesn't matter which network – or how it happened – or if it was incidental or accidental. This is now grist for the content wheel. And it is, forgive me, awfully superficial stuff.
And here is a worthy-to-be-remembered apologetic quote using the term "regrettably." From TV Newser, "ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider, "Although we had a five-second delay in place, the live East Coast feed of the concert regrettably included certain fleeting images of the performer that were taken out of later feeds in other time zones. We are sorry that this occurred."
And then – adding this, again from TV Newser, "TMZ spoke with the Parents Television Council: "For the umpteenth time in recent memory a morning news show has included inappropriate content for children and families." It prompts me to ask — the "umpteenth time"? Did I miss so many of the others? How can they be so carried away with hyperbole – "the umpteenth time"? I guess we should ask for their list (Hah!) – or maybe just watch morning news more carefully.
Maybe this is just a Saturday story… but here's the point. Until you can put a smoking gun in the hands of the ABC producers and prove they intended this to happen, which I don't think is even remotely reasonable, can't we just move on? Is this a worthy-to-be-reported story?
It would seem that there are are more editorially worthwhile things to discuss. My argument here is: this isn't news. It isn't fashion. It seems at best to be an isolated and fleeting screw up.
Content matters – this even isn't worthy. Even by ranting I have given it undue prominence. I guess I just wanted to make a clean breast of how I felt.
The Buck Stops Now – ABC to Stop Paying for Interviews
July 26, 2011
In what is a wise and I hope foresighted decision ABC is the first of the big 3 networks to say it won't continue to pay licensing fees associated with securing major interviews.
ABC ends checkbook journalism, will no longer pay for interviews appearing on the Poynter website includes a quote that ABC News President Ben Sherwoood, "concluded that the cash-register approach to journalism was starting to tarnish the network's credibility, even though the practice was relatively infrequent."
That's putting a good spin on it. Paying for access, paying large sums including $200,000 to Casey Anthony was just one in a series of stories that date back many years and include free travel, accommodations, gifts and more to secure prominent interviewees.
I've been critical calling the practice perverse and decrying the practice of raining money for some time.
Admittedly I have witnessed examples of this practice by all major broadcast and cable networks and been personally involved in such stories – and while I found the practice distasteful I admit that I too had involvement.
ABC deserves major kudos for breaking away from this practice. The audience is better served. The business of journalism is better for their decision. The network is at risk of losing some "exclusives" but in the world where that word has lost all meaning, relevance and importance, it is a courageous step and the network has earned acknowledgement.
It's been going on since before the verdict but now the bidding war for Casey Anthony's story has gone big time with attorneys holed up in pricey New York hotels as they negotiate Casey for her licensing rights. That's right – network's don't pay for interviews so instead they offer lavish treatment and buy the rights to photographs and other family memorabilia; it's called the licensing rights for everything surrounding her actual tell-all tale. Payola by any other name is still wrong.
Postings in social media on this are colorful ranging from outrage and revulsion to snide comments about the ethics (or lack thereof) involved in even considering buying her story, much less rewarding her. None of this is new. None is shocking. It is what tabloids and quick-books have made fortunes on over the years. The networks should not be blamed – they are selling a product and need to corner an ever shrinking piece of the viewer's loyalty. Sadly this is being done under the banner of news, but that seems to cause few any pain or difficulty.
Meanwhile – Casey may be in Palm Springs according to some… while cross country her lawyers are no doubt turning up the heat in their bidding war… and the weatherman said it was going to be a scorcher in New York today. No doubt.
ABC News has reportedly moved its "World News Tonight" into an automated control room, much as it had previously done with other news broadcasts including "Nightline". I saw the story when it appeared on TVNewser .
The 'old' model was certainly effective for broadcasts with Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel, so there must not have been anything wrong with what they had — this is simply the future – this is automation – this is also an investment which pays dividends in the diminution of soft costs often otherwise referred to as human operators. The article featured this quote explaining the advantages, "An ABC spokesperson says: "The automated technology allows the news division to have greater uniformity and consistency in the way all broadcasts are produced – from creating a more streamlined production workflow to allowing producers more creative control throughout the production process."
I am glad they cleared that up.
My point is this – why be obtuse? As communicators and journalists who theoretically are pledged to speak simply and accurately, why not be forthright and say this is more efficient from an economic base. The problem many people – including me – is that we read quotes like these which feel massaged – which read as saccharin, false or phony – which fail to be credulous… and because of that, we begin to feel a lack of trust, a loss of trust.
The real question is – and this has nothing to do with ABC – when did we lose our way in the world with truth? When did we decide to use words as shields for what we really don't want to say? When did spin, manipulation and verbosity become preferable to just plain old speech?
And why does it continue – even when so many of us – maybe you – really see through it? My posting, while admittedly feeble, is my way of saying – "Caught ya! I accept your decision, but I don't buy your words."
ABC Rains Money
July 11, 2011
Paying for interviews is against network standards but there is nothing prohibiting payments for licensing rights and other perks paid to news sources and potential interviewees. The latest? A two-hundred thousand dollar ($200,000.00) payment to Casey Anthony! It isn't new – it happened as recently as last night (Sunday)with a six figure deal with Jaycee Dugard and her publisher for a 'first-look' at her story. It has happened over many years – and each network is guilty of doing it, although ABC and NBC have been in a more financially secure position reportedly to be more lavish in their offers.
And don't think that money only flows to the victims or good guys in such stories. Two networks were in a fierce bidding war for the songbook of Phillip Garrido – Dugard's admitted captor and rapist – shortly after the story broke. Attorneys representing a friend of Mr. Garrido received six figure offerings for his songs which included lurid details of a cross country sex odyssey and other perversions.
The audience doesn't seem to see a difference between paying for news or paying for access. In a celebrity driven world it seems as if we have become accustomed to the habit of stars and news makers wanting to be compensated for their first hand stories. Networks have been more than obliging in paying sums for what guarantees them the right to brand the interview an "exclusive". But does all this loot change the story – does more money make it ever so much more necessary to add an adjective or color the telling of a story in a particular way to make it seem worth the cash? One cannot demand top dollar and then disappoint the paymaster. It wouldn't be good for business, especially when that is show business.
It may be good for business but it is bad for ethics, and there's just no way around that.
A Smart Move – or just strageic? Or am I a skeptic?
July 7, 2011
ABC News has hired Elizabeth Smart, formerly in the news as a Utah kidnap victim when she was a child, as a correspondent assigned to kidnapping and high profile missing person cases, according to The Hollywood Reporter and reported in People Magazine.
Is this a strategic move or one aimed at creating and fostering special appreciation among victim's families?
Is she a bona fide journalist or a talented 'talking horse'?
The issue is simple – what's her training, journalistic experience or story telling? Obviously she will work alongside talented producers; obviously she will be guided and hand-held… but is she being sent out as a lure to sway the sympathy of victims?
It is worth asking is this good journalism or smarmy public relations and booking?
Paying for News Interviews – is it ethical or just another example of: it's not personal it's business?
June 21, 2011
Paying for interviews? Rewarding executives or news makers or personalities for their bon mots?
Not in the old days – not when news wasn't expected to make money – not before corporate ownership took hold and made news divisions responsible for their bottom line and turning a profit. But now, in the wild west of media frenzies thanks to networks, tabloids and scandal sheets, it's anything goes – and the highest bidder may win, regardless of the terms or conditions associated with the interviewees' demand.
This For Instant Ratings, Interviews With a Checkbook in a recent New York Times received very little attention, or so it seemed to me. I would have expected, maybe just hoped, for more attention to be paid to the consequences.
Once upon a time people appeared on media because it was truly an opportunity to reach a mass audience. Now thanks to a plethora of media there's little doubt that any one can get attention, some times far too much or unwarranted attention.
Paying for interviews – or rather for access is not new. The Times piece makes it seem as if it is a recent development… it has existed for years – prime time programs have done it, programs with the most prominent of news anchors have done it. A wink and a nod and money is paid for family photos or archive material in the thin guise that this is the cover for what will become a guaranteed interview with the personality too.
It can be paid to the prospective interviewees, or it may come in the form of lavish wining and dining for friends or families. It happened during the Koby Bryant case, for John Mark Karr who confessed to the Jon Benet Ramsey killing, even to people associated with Phil Garrido who recently plead guilty to the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard. It's just not new. And it feels skanky to do it – even when under the direct instructions of senior news managers in New York.
There are so many questions – if you pay, will some one be more forthcoming? If you pay too little, will they hold back? If you pay for one media does that count if some one else pays more for a different platform? Does payment change their story – are they more likely to juice it up to hike the price, or claim to know more than they really do — but money makes them be bold, even to the point of lying?
News divisions once had a policy that prohibited paying any one for a news story. That existed as a fire wall within news, but was not as rigid for prime time magazines or the morning shows which at some networks are produced by the entertainment divisions. Times have changed. Networks demand all programs produce a profit. And now news figures – even temporary news headliners – are sought after as exclusives. They may or may not have much to say – they may not even offer much to discourse or common knowledge – but they command payments just to speak. I don't feel good about a lot of this whatsoever.
Anchors Awash
May 17, 2011
Sometimes when anchors go into the field to show their commitment to the audience they seem to forget that it isn't about their glow or their presence. This is a pretty blunt MEMPHIS: IT'S ALL ABOUT DIANE SAWYER piece attacking ABC anchor Diane Sawyer for her presence as well as coverage of the Mississippi floods.
It's a good reminder that the media is not the story – has never been the story – should never be the story.
With all the equipment involved – and the high financial stakes – remember this is May sweeps time – it is easy to forget the media is only and forever witnesses to history. Just the witness, not the story.
Do anchors add to the coverage? Or drain resources, no pun intended for the flood story? Do people in trauma 'relate' to anchors better than they respond to journeymen reporters with more connection to the territory?
You be the judge.


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John Underkoffler, UI designer (and I suppose futurist), behind the heads-up displays and gestural computing in Iron Man and Minority Report shares insights on UX and UI design. This talk goes into detail about how he's bringing this kind of computing into the real world.
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I have a half-baked idea that I've been discussing with friends recently–alright, half-baked might be generous, this idea is still flour and water.
Being a communications geek in the company of more geeks, I often get onto tangents about mass media, annoying advertising, ads that don't work, the changing media landscape, etc.
I keep coming back to the idea of a metaphor, a thing taken as something different. Metaphor is at the core of understanding and creativity, it makes it possible to take wild leaps and connect far away ideas. It can make something liquid into something more concrete, and vice versa.
Some folks, like George Lakoff, even hold that metaphors are the tools that shape how we see the world, and that understanding how we use metaphor to connect objects and ideas can pull back the curtain on how our minds work.
For instance, why are all of the metaphors for marketing about warfare? We position* ideas and products to best reach our target*. With the right strategy we might even win a price-war*.
Our messages typically get packaged, sharpened, and shipped out to reach an audience. But there's just one problem: ideas don't travel by freight.
This isn't news, as brains like Seth Godin and Russell Davies will tell you, but those of us in cultures that are inundated with mass media have become desensitized to the messages we are bombarded with on a daily basis.
Apathy is a gateway drug, and it's usually the best defense against the weapons of mass distraction that litter most public spaces under the guise of commercial speech. But–and here's the interesting part–there's another way to communicate with people that doesn't rely on the packaging of content, but rather the illumination of context. Design.
It makes sense that the professionals who routinely get pre-packaged content (along with a scribbled note that says 'make this pretty') are experts in getting an idea across through context.
Commercial communicators (advertisers, marketers, bears who dance with signs) have a lot to learn (read:steal) from the designer's toolbox.
A lot of the best art inspires, in part, because it makes a space for a person to enter in to and live their own story. Also, I think we're too quick to forget that all of those Medici sculptures and temples (David and Il Duomo included) were ads in their own way … for a bank!
The beauty of digital media is that background and foreground can swap pretty effortlessly. Messages can be subtle, pixelated, and elegant, all without the aid of an idea assembly line.
//How many ads can you think of that would've benefited from a little negative space?
//How many jokes are better when told REALLY LOUD?//(almost none)
//As Ogilvy put it, "I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard."
//Considering that I spend an inordinate amount of my time absorbing touch screen radiation, I'd like nothing better than to see an ad that was actually beautiful, or even cool.
//Ultimately, being cool is useless, except for when it makes something interesting.
Just a thought …
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This Watermelon Lemonade Margarita is perfect for your summer BBQ or a Cinco de Mayo celebration! And the kids aren't left out – they get a non-alcoholic version of Watermelon Lemonade!
I have never been late to school pick-up, not once in almost 3 years. More, if you count preschool. Until last Monday.
I had to run an errand before pick-up, and I left in plenty of time to make the round-trip. Until I hit every red light both directions and followed every single slow driver across my city, literally.
By the time I got to the school, I had less than one minute until the bell. Of course, at this point there was no parking, so I ended up a block away. As I was getting out of my car, I heard the bell ring.
Now, Jordan's class always gets out late. Always. But, you know it's Murphy's Law: the one time I'm late I figured she'd end up out early and be standing there, crying, because I "forgot" her. And the other moms at pick-up would wonder what shopping line I got stuck in or if my computer ate me or something (not all of them, just the ones that think I play internet games all day and eat bon bons on my couch).
I muttered an obscenity under my breath and did what any sane, rational person would do. I removed the thought-they-were-cute-at-the-time brown wedge sandals I was wearing and ran, barefoot, sprinter style all the way down the block, across the street while waving my arms to stop cross traffic, and over to the second grade classroom waiting area, where Jordan was nowhere in sight, still in her classroom.
And there I was, panting and sweaty from my second workout, waiting when she came out. I dusted off my feet and put my shoes back on. I made it in time. I wasn't late. No harm, no foul.
Until we got home later that afternoon and I could barely walk. You know, from the sunburn the bottoms of my feet got from my barefoot sprint.
I don't know about you, but all that calls for a Margarita. Yes?
And because my kid wants one of everything I make, regardless if she's allowed because it's "for adults only", I made her a kid-friendly (and non-drinker friendly) version.
You start the recipe with a seedless watermelon. Please, I beg of you – buy a seedless one. The first time I made these I didn't. Do you know how long it takes to de-seed a seeded watermelon? A long, looooong time.
Cut up your watermelon and add it to a blender. Run the blender until it's completely pureed. Pour the puree into ice cube trays and freeze. This can be done several days in advance. I like to keep cubes in my freezer in case the urge for a margarita hits at random.
In the warmer months, I almost always have lemonade on hand, either a carton, freshly made, or my old standby: Crystal Light. You can make these drinks with whatever lemonade you have or like.
The margarita has the usual suspects: tequila and triple sec (orange liqueur). But it also has one of my absolute favorite liquors in it: midori. Midori is that green liquid in the liquor section – otherwise known as melon liqueur or melon schnapps. I love me a Midori Martini. Sometime I'll make that for you. And tell you a really good story.
You blend the frozen watermelon cubes with the liqueurs, some lime juice, and lemonade and you get an amazing Watermelon Lemonade Margarita. These aren't too strong (feel free to add more tequila if you like your drinks to punch you in the face) but they hit you all at once. Like, it tastes like juice and all of a sudden you realize…it's not.
And never fear – if you don't drink or your kids beg you for a margarita when you drink one, I've got you covered. Leave out the alcohol, blend up the watermelon with lime juice and lemonade and you will have your favorite lemonade yet. Seriously, it was SO good. Jordan couldn't get enough of it!
And after my school yard sprint, neither could I!
- 4 cups watermelon puree (from 1 small seedless watermelon), frozen into cubes
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 1 cup lemonade
- 2/3 cup frozen watermelon cubes
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 1 ounce tequila
- 1/2 ounce triple sec (orange liqueur)
- 1/2 ounce midori
- 4 ounces lemonade (I used Minute Maid 15 calorie from a carton, use what you like)
- 2/3 cup frozen watermelon cubes
- Cut the seedless watermelon into chunks, remove the rind, and puree in a blender. I used a mini watermelon and got 4 cups of puree. You can use a bigger watermelon, if you want! Pour the puree into ice cube trays and freeze, a few hours or overnight.
- To make a kid-friendly lemonade: Place lemonade, lime juice, and frozen watermelon cubes in a blender and puree until smooth. Serves 2.
- To make margarita: Place lemonade, all alcohols, and frozen watermelon cubes into a blender and puree until smooth. Makes 1 large or 2 small margaritas.
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DECHERD (WATE) - An East Tennessee Endangered Child Alert was canceled Wednesday morning after 14-year-old Christopher Smith from Decherd in Middle Tennessee was found safe.
Officials say the teen was located safely Wednesday morning but provided no other details.
Christopher has Crohn's disease and requires medication.
Christopher had advised his babysitter that he was walking to a local restaurant to use the Internet at 11:00 a.m. on December 31, 2013, but was not seen after that until finding him Wednesday morning.
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The Houston Texans are releasing RB Steve Slaton and promoting RB Chris Ogbonnaya from the practice squad, according to NFL Network's Jason La Canfora.
Slaton was originally the Texans third round pick in the 2008 NFL draft and was immediately placed as the feature back in Houston. He had a solid rookie season gaining over 1,282 yards rushing and 377 yards passing along with 10 total touchdowns.
His feature back status didn't continue into 2009, nor in 2010, when the team acquired RB Arian Foster, who became the main running back. Foster is now battling injuries yet the Texans chose to elevate RB Ben Tate to receiving a bulk of the carries.
Slaton was rumored to be cut or traded prior to the final roster cut down but ultimately remained on the Texans roster. In the 2011 season, Slaton has seven carries for 20 yards and one reception for six yards.
Slaton is a former All-American out of West Virginia, where he was also a Heisman Trophy candidate.
Check out SB Nation's Battle Red Blog for more on Slaton's release.


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By Jessica Steindorff
Author of The Art of War: As Featured on the Sopranos
Similar to "Dear Abby," "Ask Jessica" will be known for its "uncommon common sense and youthful Sun Tzu perspective." Now you can ask a Sun Tzu author your own questions about The Art of War and life's many issues.
Jessica Steindorff is an actress and author of The Art of War: As Featured on the Sopranos. At a very young age, she became executive in charge of development for New Millennium Entertainment. She is also co-author with Michael Viner of "George Schlater's Big Book of Showbiz Bloopers and Blunders." She has done audio abridgments for Patricia Cornwell's "Cause of Death" and "Unnatural Exposure," and has been a contributing writer for the Malibu Times.
Currently, Jessica is attending UCLA Film School and working at William Morris Agency, one of the leading talent agencies. She can be seen on the hit NBC show "Las Vegas."
If you have a question for Jessica, send it to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gabrielle asks: Life can pull us in so many directions. We all (well most all) believe we have a divine path, laid out for us many, many moons ago. But we control this path to our destiny. There are many roads we can unwittingly take to the end of our journey. Do they all lead to the same conclusion? In the big scheme of things, do the small/big choices we make lead us to the very same end?
Jessica answers: This is an awesome question. In my opinion, we are the creators of our own destiny. But I am also a believer in the fact that everything happens for a reason. Life is like an ocean, there is a low tide, and there is a high tide, you cannot control who enters your ocean, and you cannot control who leaves, life floats in all different directions.
Jinny asks: How did you get into writing? Who are your influences?
Jessica answers: When I was around eight years old my parents and I were at the beach in Malibu, where I grew up. I remember seeing this gentle blonde haired man, and he had a girl, facing the same direction as he, but she was walking on his feet. She must have been around six. I remember in that instant my head racing with ideas on why she was walking on his feet, as it was usually something very young children did. That night when I got home, I wrote down all five of my conclusions, turned it into one solid essay and turned it in at school. There was a writing contest for some Woman's club and my teacher entered my essay without even telling me. I won 2nd place.
Some of my influences are Hubert Selby Jr., John Fante, Bradley Allenstein, Katayoun Marciano, Astrid Lindgren.
Tim asks: How did you became involved with the art of war philosophies? I am also curious if you have a martial arts background.
Jessica answers: I myself do not have a martial arts background, but my younger brother studies Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so I grew up watching him study the philosophies. I find it to be quiet a beautiful art, though.
I grew accustomed to The Art of War at a very young age, as my father was constantly using quotes from the book to 'control' my young adult life. It stuck. I began reading the Cleary translation and a few years later was offered an opportunity to work on the actual book myself. I have the utmost respect for this book, as it is so important to the way I live almost every angle of my life.
Iva asks: I find in the market of successful, attractive women it is much harder to hold on to a man or just find one that isn't intimidated by either your intellect or beauty. What are your thoughts on this?
Jessica answers: You have to have balance in life, in every aspect, in order to maintain a career and relationship, as well as a social life. It is very difficult as women are shunned in today's world. It is hard to find a secure successful male companionship, but they do exist.
Amardeep asks: How can I balance my time between family and work?
Jessica answers: Like they say, everything in moderation. Try to work hours, if possible, that can evolve around your family's schedule, without being too overbearing. But also remember to do one nice thing for yourself everyday. You can't work and spend time with your family, without taking care of yourself.
Kirk asks: What's your favorite movie and why?
Jessica answers: BIG FISH. To me, it is everything that a movie should embody: fairy tales, real life characters, magic, adventure, beauty, love....everything about it was whimsical with and undertone of innocence. It was beautifully made and I wish more movies were similar.
Rafael asks: I work for a demanding boss. What can I do?
Jessica answers: Quit.
William asks: What are your thoughts on Bush and company?
Jessica answers: I respect the man for taking on such a grave and demanding responsibility. What he does with it is completely up to him, and in all honesty, if our voices were heard - would it really be a good thing? I did not vote for him, and who I did vote for is not important, and I don't always agree with the decisions that he has made. But then again, in today's society, we don't really know all that much about the truth.
Ricardo asks: What is it like working with James Caan? Any actors or actresses you worked with you thought were cool?
Jessica answers: Jimmy is a great man with an untamable spirit. It's an honor to stand in his presence. I worked with this wonderfully crazed woman named Milli Sheridan. There was something about her wonderfully wild personality, yet focused and driven on screen talent that really motivated me to stick with it.
Bobby Jean asks: Could you give me some suggestions to give support to my family to alleviate the pain and suffering some experience?
Jessica answers: When faced with difficulties, pain and suffering are just that - something painful, injurious, or unpleasant. But when removed from the situation, you come out taller and stronger than before. Those who lack experience, are void of imagination and inner strength. There is nothing that you can do to assist others in pain, except standing strong and experiencing the occurrences with them. In the end, you will learn and embrace a depth that those who do not experience hard times in life do not have.


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Regine Beliard
Assistant Professor - Clinical and Administrative Sciences, School of Pharmacy
Office: Bunting 254
To schedule an appointment and/or general information, please contact:
Department of Clinical & Administrative Sciences
PGY 2 – Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency – James A Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL
PGY 1 – Pharmacy Practice Residency – The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY
Doctor of Pharmacy – University of Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA
Research and Practice Interests
Diabetes Mellitus, HIV, Public Health
Poster Presentation
Chou A and Beliard R. May Thurner Syndrome: Treatment with Long Term Enoxaparin. National Conference on Anticoagulant Therapy. Phoenix, AZ, May 2013.
Beliard R and Venugopalan V. Impact of Vancomycin MIC on Mortality in Patients with MRSA Bacteremia. Making a Difference in infectious Disease Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL, April 2012.
Beliard R, Gatti D, and Chou A. Management of Iliac Vein Compression Syndrome with an Aggressive INR Range. ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. New Orleans, LA, December 2011.
The role of single tablet regimens in the current and future treatment of HIV. ACPE Accredited Continuing Education Program. Presented at the James A Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists


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· Easiest country in Europe in which to pay business taxes.
· A corporate tax rate of 12.5% applies to all corporate trading profits.
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December 04, 2012
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December 04, 2012
'twas a joke, SkoolCop. I know about the Dragnet reference, too. The ";)" was there to denote sarcasm. Oy. :)
mz66...... the "Eeeeeewe" as used in my post is for YUCK!!!!! The statememt "I'll bet his mother had a mean bark" is a Sgt Joe Friday Quote from one of the old "Dragnet" shows.
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GAK!! What an INSULT to the DOGS!! "Neighborhood dogs"? DOGS PLURAL?? A serial DOG RAPIST?? PLUS internet solicitation? PLUS DV? If the charges are true this guy is definitely BARKING MAD!! Next stop - the NEAREST NUT HOUSE!!
over 1 year ago
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No surprise here. Seen the aftermath of a sexual assault on a five month lab pup. Her hind leg was broken.
SkoolCop, Ewes are female sheep--there's another word for female dogs. ;)
over 1 year ago
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That is beyond disgusting. What a sick b$#@ard!
SkoolCop... lmao
Eeeeeewe....... I'll bet his mother had a mean bark too.
over 1 year ago
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A whole new meaning to intercourseing the K9


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - For nine days a community in Shelltown has been mourning the death of a woman who sacrificed her life for her young daughter and neighbor.
San Diego police say on Jan. 22 Ana Herrera was hit and killed by an SDG&E truck while walking her 5-year-old daughter and 4-year-old friend to school on Cottonwood Street.
The crosses, candles and flowers continue to fill the common area at the family's apartment building, just feet from where the tragedy happened.
"It is hard because I lost who I really love," said Jose Herrera.
He is Ana's husband who is speaking for the first time to the media. In the past week he has been seen quietly grieving, standing on the side, praying and fighting to stay strong for their four children.
"I have a family supporting me and lot of friends. Her friends and my friends who really love her," said Herrera.
Ana was well liked in the neighborhood. She sold homemade tamales and sold them in front of her daughter's school at Balboa Elementary.
He says he and Ana met 14 years ago working at a swap meet. A decade later and two children of their own they married in November.
"Finally I did. Two months ago. We lived together for 12 years," said Herrera.
This was a new chapter in their life taken too soon.
As Ana walked her daughter Anahi and her neighbor to school on Jan. 22 around 7:30 a.m. she pushed them out of the path of an SDG&E truck coming down their street. Police say Ana was pinned under the truck where she later died at the hospital.
Ana's daughter Anahi is bound to a wheelchair for a month to six weeks recovering from a broken pelvis and ribs.
Police believe the utility pole inspector was distracted but wouldn't say by what. Ana's family says they know this was an accident and do no want the unidentified driver to go to jail.
Police say since this case is still under investigation and no one has been arrested officers are not releasing the name of the driver. SDG&E would not release the driver's job status and wouldn't comment on the case.
The fundraising page for Ana Herrera's funeral and daughter's medical cost says she has raised $12,000. It shows SDG&E donated $10,000 two days ago.
Ana's family says she will be cremated.


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Apple for the first time ever began to use celebrities in its iPhone TV ads only about a month ago. The first ads to use celebrities were for the company's popular personal assistant Siri, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. After receiving very positive feedback of the work done … Read the Full Story →
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Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.
"We want to put pressure on security forces and the government to take greater care of our safety," Boonsom Thongsriply, chairman of the teachers association in the region, told AFP.
The move means 321 schools will temporarily shut from Tuesday in Pattani, one of several southernmost provinces plagued by an eight-year-old insurgency. It is unclear when they will reopen.
The unrest has claimed more than 5,300 lives, with near-daily bomb or gun attacks.
Teachers working in non-religious schools are frequently targeted because they are seen as a symbol of government authority. Militants view the school system as an effort by Bangkok to impose Buddhist culture on the south.
More than 150 education workers have been killed in the Thai south since 2004. The latest victim was a head teacher who was gunned down last week.
Critics accuse the government of failing to address the grievances of Thailand's Malay Muslim minority, including alleged abuses by the military and a perceived lack of respect for their ethnic identity, language and religion.
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The previous post, as well as this one, are dedicated to my city, Detroit. This is the overpass at Telegraph Rd and I-96. The oncoming traffic (the white light streaks) are cars exiting Detroit and entering Redford.
~ by Michael LaCombe on February 26, 2012.
Posted in Images, Just For Fun, Night, photo-a-day, Photographer, Photography Tags: #febphotoaday, detroit, February photo-a-day, i-96, light streaks, light trails, night, night photography, photo-a-day, telegraph
Beautiful photo! I am a WordPress photographer too, so I love seeing posts like this. This reminds me of my motion category I took on the road. Great job, and keep it up!
Aaron Cohen Photography said this on February 26, 2012 at 10:03 PM | Reply
Thank you very much!
Michael LaCombe said this on February 27, 2012 at 7:57 PM | Reply
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