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Should the Department of Natural Resources have full law enforcement authority? Should state employees be required to tell the truth? And is it time to dump the time limit on welfare? State legislative committees today will debate all these and more questions, likely with little public input and perhaps even little notice.
I was unpleasantly surprised last week when the media stayed away from the tax increase hearing. Few issues impact more Washingtonians than taxes, and the hearing was a prelude to a budget debate that will not be avoided much longer. At least talk of transportation tax increases is drawing some notice this week.
Streamlining and sunsetting. First thing this morning, the House Government Operations Committee has a public hearing on HB 1591. The bill would require the departments of Ecology, Labor & Industries, and Health to develop and deploy an annual review process for all the rules they impose on people and businesses. The bill is an attempt to implement the findings of a 2012 performance audit. Up at the same hearing are HB 1714, which would allow a court to require an agency that has violated the Open Public Meetings Act to record its proceedings for the next two years, and HB 1746, which would create an ethics law exemption to allow city officials to "have a beneficial interest" in renewable energy companies.
Jay Inslee B&O Bingo. The Governor last week sketched out his agenda, which includes special tax rates for industries Gov. Inslee thinks are neat. This agenda comes before the House Technology & Economic Development Committee as HB 1693, which would allow a deduction of up to $2 million for new businesses in selected fields. Restaurants? No. Landscapers? Nope. Residential builders? No again. But all those businesses will get to pay a little more of the share so that software publishers, data hosts, computer makers, and a few others can get a special deduction.
Un-reforming welfare? This afternoon, the House Early Learning & Human Services Committee will hear public testimony on HB 1734. When Congress reformed federal welfare programs in 1996, they converted the largest cash payment program into a block grant program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The new program was designed to push those who can work ... to work. And it did, even according to Bill Clinton. One provision in welfare reform was a 5-year time limit on benefits for most recipients. HB 1734 would have the effect of eliminating the 5-year limit in Washington State, allowing most or all recipients to become life-long welfare program dependants. (The Senate Human Services & Corrections Committee will hear testimony on the Senate's version, SB 5643, this morning.)
In other House Committees ... Logal Government will hear testimony--including a requested statement by the Freedom Foundation's Glen Morgan (who is a school board member)--on HB 1848, which would allow buildilng new schools outside of "urban growth areas" designated in the Growth Management Act planning process. Education has HB 1680, which would solve the "opportunity gap" (formerly and more precisely known as the "achievement gap") by, among other things, mandating multicultural sensitivity training for school staff ... Appropriations has HB 1152, the House version of the bill to let certain health care workers set their own break schedules ... Public Safety considers "giving general law enforcement authority to natural resource investigators" in HB 1399.
In the Senate, the Government Operations Committee will hear SB 5504, which would make it an ethics violation for a state employee to lie about his or her job. The Human Services & Corrections Committee will hear testimony on SB 5643, the Senate's version of HB 1734 (removing the time limit for welfare), as well as SB 5600, which would double the time limit for vocational training for welfare reciepients.


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BRECKENRIDGE - Some people loathe the snow but in Breckenridge they celebrate it with Ullr Fest.
Going on right now, Ullr Fest is a week of parades, parties and people donning Viking helmets.
The festival is named after Ullr, the God of winter in Norse mythology.
During the week, people compete in games like the frying pan toss, group ski races and ski boot relays in the "Ullympics."
One of the biggest events of the week is the Ullr Parade on Main Street, which celebrates Breckenridge and winter fun.
Before the parade participants try to break a record with the World Record Shot Ski Attempt. People line the streets and take shots in unison off skis. In 2013, 192 people drank from 60 skis measuring 313 feet.
Kids can take part in the Family Snow Day by trying out snowshoeing and Nordic skiing and end the day with S'mores over a fire pit.
Other events include a pond hockey tournament, a film showing and a talent contest.
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STUDENTS from Droitwich Spa's German twin town have paid a visit.
Youngsters from Bad Ems went to St Richard's House, Victoria Square, on Wednesday, August 19. They viewed the council chamber, mayor's parlour, radio broadcasting room and the salt museum.
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KINGSTON'S landmark York Pharmacy changed hands on October 20 in what former owner Garth Moodie described as a seamless transition that culminated sale negotiations lasting over a year.
Moodie told the Jamaica Observer on Saturday that the new owners, local firm Serron Pharmaceuticals Limited, will continue to operate the business under the York Pharmacy name, an agreement obviously designed to capitalise on the strong brand Moodie developed at the same location in Half-Way-Tree over the past 41 years.
Moodie said Serron actually started operating the pharmacy on Sunday, October 21 and have kept approximately half of his workers, while taking in other staff themselves.
Asked whether he was content with his decision to sell a business he had developed and run for 41 years, Moodie, now 71 years old, responded with a quick 'yes'.
"It was very easy. I want to retire, man," he said, adding that he wanted to enjoy the rest of his life. That, he said, will include some travelling and tending to property he owns.
"I have a little place up Red Hills I want to grow my guava and guineps, and cut my grass and plant some other stuff — stop the hard work," Moodie said.
"I used to get to work at 7:00 am each day and stay until 8:00 pm, and that's seven days a week, he said while seated in his modest office in York Plaza, one of the properties he owned and developed in the general Half-Way-Tree area.
"York has a reputation of being open nearly every day. In fact, we only closed for two days a year — Christmas and Good Friday. Even through hurricanes we try to stay open. So people knew that any time they wanted service, York was always open, except for those two days a year," he said.
Moodie admitted that he doesn't know whether the new owners will maintain that tradition, even as he pointed out that the pharmacy was open on October 22 — National Heroes' Day.
Although he operated the pharmacy for four decades, Moodie is not a pharmacist. In fact, he laughed when the question was put to him.
"I'm a pharmacist by love of customers," he said. "The pharmacy business has been good to me. I've made a lot of friends and developed a lot of relationships. My father, Leslie H Moodie, was in the pharmacy business and he was not a pharmacist, but he just grew up in that business, which I fell in love with and decided to take over."
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Voters were deciding Saturday which of Louisiana's congressmen is to be pushed out because of the state's shrinking U.S. House delegation, answering a question created two years ago with the latest federal census data.
Republicans Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry were forced into the same district - the 3rd District covering southwest Louisiana and Acadiana - when the state lost a congressional seat because of anemic population growth.
The two men were in a runoff election to determine who returns to Congress next year.
The congressional race has been attack-heavy, since both men have run as conservative Republicans opposed to the policies of President Barack Obama and have had little philosophical ground in which to distinguish themselves.
"The race itself has kind of brought out the worst elements on both sides. It's one of the reasons people are fed up with politics," said Pearson Cross, chairman of the political science department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The district design favored Boustany, a traditional Republican candidate allied with House Speaker John Boehner. A doctor from Lafayette, Boustany was seeking a fifth term.
Landry, the tea party favorite, has tried to build grassroots support from his GOP base on the eastern end of the district and on the strength of his tea party backing. A lawyer from New Iberia, Landry was running for a second term.
Though they had three other challengers in the November election, the two congressmen have campaigned as though it was a two-man race for months.
Boustany described his GOP opponent as a good ol' boy politician who would say anything to get elected, habitually skipped votes in Congress and spread distortions about Boustany's record to distract voters from his own lack of accomplishments.
Landry criticized Boustany as lacking the courage to make tough votes for his district and instead following in lockstep with Washington Republican leaders even if south Louisiana voters didn't support the policy.
The race has been one of Louisiana's most expensive congressional contests, with nearly $6 million spent between the two men and even more from outside groups. Boustany had a significant edge in fundraising, raising nearly $2 million more than Landry, according to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal didn't issue an endorsement in the race, steering clear of the GOP dispute.
Also on the ballot was a runoff for an open seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court representing the eight-parish Baton Rouge region. The seat is vacant because Chief Justice Catherine "Kitty" Kimball is retiring at the end of January.
Two appeals court judges were vying for the job: John Michael Guidry, a Democrat and former lawmaker from Baton Rouge, and Jeff Hughes, a Republican and former district court judge from Livingston Parish.
Whoever wins the race will be sitting on a court expected to face headline-grabbing challenges in the upcoming year, including a decision on whether the financing for Jindal's state-funded private school tuition program is unconstitutional.
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A man has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly beating a pit bull to death behind the Norms-Dale Mobile Home Park.
It was a senseless crime that has outraged countless animal lovers in South Jersey over the past week. A 2-year-old dog named "Bella" was beaten to death back on January 28th.
Robin Brainard lives near the alleged dog killer and told NBC40, "It's horrific. I don't even know what to say, it's just sad, justice for Bella. I think they should all go to jail."
And jail is exactly where officials in Egg Harbor Township say 49-year-old Steven Geisel Sr. could soon be headed, after he was issued a complaint summons, and charged with animal cruelty on Tuesday.
Detective Sergeant Fred Spano of the Egg Harbor Township Police Department said, "For something like this, it's disturbing - it's senseless behavior and it's really unacceptable."
Officials say a witness hunting in the woods saw Geisel beat the dog to death, and after other residents also called in tips, they were able to connect the dots that lead to the dog's owners.
Nancy Beall, President of the Atlantic County SPCA, explained, "We have the necropsy report, which shows that the dog definitely wasn't hit by a car. Both sides of its head were crushed. It had been smashed in by some sort of object. Initially he denied even knowing the dog or ever seeing the dog. When I took the pictures to the trailer and showed him, he said he never even saw the dog."
Officials with the Atlantic county SPCA say the suspect's daughter, Kristen Geisel, had been trying to find a home for Bella on Facebook. But now, neighbors want to know why beating and starving the dog to death seemed like the best option for the emaciated pit bull.
Brainard said, "I cried. It broke my heart to even know that. I felt like I should have done something you know what I mean? I called the SPCA twice and left messages." Beall added, "I'm glad that we brought this to a resolution and that this dog didn't die for nothing."
SPCA officials say the Geisels also had two other dogs living in their mobile home - but since the beating death of Bella, the dogs have been removed and placed in foster care in Burlington County, where they are now safe.
Depending on his criminal history, police say Geisel faces six months in county prison, or a fine, if convicted on February 21st.
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Start Screen 2.0. Give me your wildest ideas.
I don't know about others who moved back to Windows 7 after Windows 8, but the moment I started using it I missed the Start Screen dearly. It was from a Lenovo to a Dell - and from the moment I clicked the Start button I missed the whole experience of seeing Live Tiles cover the whole screen.
IMHO the Start Screen was something different and unique, unlike the Start Menu. Here's what I feel:
It started from expanding the menu size to full screen. And it was a huge opportunity for MS to do something with the huge canvas of space: put app tiles for instance. With that the Start Screen brought app data and content in the most direct way, more so than the original Start Menu.
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A 57-year-old drug trafficking suspect was arrested Thursday night in Bradenton.
Demares Beatrice Castillo-Isa, who is also known by the name Lourdes Ortiz Canuelas, had been sought since August for her role in a large heroin ring.
She was booked into the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office where she is being held without bond.
According to a Sarasota County Sheriff's Office report the department was working in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force when they arrested the suspect.
Castillo-Isa's last known address is 3100 Hawthorne St., Lot #69 in Sarasota the report states.
Investigators say the suspect was distributing large quantities of the illegal narcotic out of her home and out of a location in the 2800 block of Ringling Blvd. Undercover detectives with SCSO and the Sarasota Police Department allegedly obtained heroin from Castillo-Isa and two co-defendants.
The other two suspects were apprehended in June and are now facing federal charges related to the case. One witness allegedly procured 500 grams of heroin from the suspect over a period of several months.
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Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options
This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production. The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.
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I have a new routine: Watch a 'Cuse game, get angry, drink heavily, get angrier, try to sleep, and repeat. Supposedly if you do something 30 days in a row it becomes a habit. So I don't think this whole losing streak will transform me into an alcoholic unless we lose to Connecticut, South Florida, Georgetown, Louisville, and West Virginia. That would cover 30 days, but honestly, I'm pretty sure my heart would give out before we lost 9 games in a row.
This losing steak has me depressed, but I'm trying to be optimistic. Despite a few soul-crushing turnovers, Scoop finally played a half-way decent game. If he plays like he did against Marquette the rest of the season, I think we'll be just fine. That's good. Rick Jackson is still the baddest man in the Big East as far as I can tell. That's good. Kris Joseph is hitting 3's, but not settling for them, and I'm not sure any team in the Big East can stop him one on one. That's good. Brandon Triche continues to step up his game in the second half, hitting open 3's, getting into the lane and finding guys on the perimeter or knocking down the mid-range jumper. That's good. Plus, he and Scoop FINALLY stopped allowing penetration into the lane in the second half against Marquette. That's really good. CJ Fair is reminding more and more of Josh Pace every game. That's good. After struggling through pretty much the entire run of Big East games, Keita finally played some solid minutes for us. That's good. Fab Melo was just as ineffective as usual, but at least he was able to run up down the court and play 14 minutes. That's... not totally awful.
So I tell myself, Waiters will be back (hopefully sooner rather than later) and Boeheim will have made his point and Dion will bust his ass and start contributing like I think he's capable of. That's good. And James will be back, because quite honestly I have no idea why he didn't play against Marquette and I can't believe that no one knows why or that no one asked why during Boeheim's presser, but anyway, when teams try to go zone against us, he'll rain 3's on them like whoa and maybe even grab rebounds (plural). And that's good.
Basically what I'm saying is, I'm pretty sure Syracuse looked really good on both offense and defense in that second half against Marquette. Maybe it's my drunken imagination, but I think if it hadn't been for a couple of untimely turnovers, a few baffling calls and non-calls, a little foul trouble, some fatigue, and Jimmy Butler stabbing me in the heart twice, Syracuse wins that game. And that's good. Eventually, we're going to win a game, hell, I'll go so far as to predict we have another winning streak at some point, and once we do, I get this whole drinking problem under control... And that's good.


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Chiddy Bang Breakfast Album
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Released : February 21, 2012
Label : Virgin, I.R.S. (U.S.), Regal (rest of world)
Producer : Xaphoon Jones, Yuri Beats, iSHi
Breakfast is the debut studio album by American rap duo Chiddy Bang, released in the United States through I.R.S. Records and Virgin Records on February 21, 2012 and outside the U.S. through Regal Recordings on March 5, 2012. The album includes the singles "Mind Your Manners" and "Ray Charles". From Wikipedia
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Release Date: 02/21/2012
Tracks in Breakfast: Breakfast, Handclaps & Guitars, Mind Your Manners, Ray Charles, Does She Love Me, Run It Back, Out 2 Space, Whatever We Want, Talking To Myself, Happening, Baby Roulette, 4th Quarter
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- Breakfast Lyrics
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- Mind Your Manners Lyrics
- Ray Charles Lyrics
- Does She Love Me Lyrics
- Run It Back Lyrics
- Out 2 Space Lyrics
- Whatever We Want Lyrics
- Talking To Myself Lyrics
- Happening Lyrics
- Baby Roulette Lyrics
- 4th Quarter Lyrics
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News: Jadakiss Promises To Eliminate Album Delays, "It'll Never Be That Long Again" [Video]
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Ruff Ryders' Jadakiss recently spoke on the five-year delay behind his latest album, The Last Kiss, and promised to never keep fans waiting that long for his music again.
According to Jada, he is still on Roc-A-Fella Records.
"I'm on Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam and I had made a transition, so that took a little while for me to work things out with Jimmy [Iovine] and Ruff Ryders," Jada said in an interview. "I had a case too, a gun charge that I was fighting for a year. So that was the two timely discrepancies between this new album and the last one. It'll never be that long again." (The Round Table Show)
Debuting atop all urban releases last spring, Kiss opened within Nielsen Soundscan's Top 5.
The Lox's Jadakiss leads this week's urban artists as The Last Kiss debuts at No. 3. According to Nielsen Soundscan, the rapper's Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella debut sold 134,900 copies after seven days in stores. (Sales Wrap)
Following the release, Kiss shared his reaction to selling over 100,00 copies in his first week.
"I ain't know what to expect now with the way the game is," Kiss said in an interview. "But I know I got a core fanbase. I don't think Def Jam expected that, so now we gotta get on the same page. I will say that's a great number for the climate and the way the music industry is right now and that's without a big hit at radio...I got longevity, that's why I got legs...It's always good when you can say I told you so. It's always good when you get the last laugh. But I'm just happy to be embraced after all these years, 'cause hip-hop fans' ears change hourly. I'ma be here for a while." (XXL Mag)
Aside from his own records, Jada is also prepping his Lox group project.
"Our main focus right now is that Lox album," Jada stressed in an interview. "It might be coming out through Diddy, it might be coming out through some other people, but it's going down. Yeah, Diddy just did a new deal with Interscope as y'all know with his Dirty Money and all his other stuff, he put an offer out there for a one album deal over there, so you know, we thinking about making it. If it don't make dollars, it could make cents and we'll do it again. It's about the evolution, it's about growing. We came into the business with him, despite our differences [because] of our lack of knowledge in the game and other sh*t and what so, we still learned a lot from him and to work all them things out and make a full 360 and possibly work again with him after ten years -- that would be incredible. It shows maturity as artists, it shows respect as men and it's good for the outside far as what he can do for us and what we can do for him." (Power 99)
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As a people, we decry the negativity brought on by the politics of fear, yet this culture continues for one reason -- it works. Voters respond positively to the negativity. It behooves the voter to take the time to seek out honest, unbiased political information. There are two outstanding local sources for this information. The Estes Park League of Women Voters is part of a national network in existence since 1920, whose purpose is to encourage responsible political participation. It is nonpartisan and carefully studies the pros and cons of each major national issue before taking a reasoned position. It supports voter registration activities and regularly holds candidate forums. This year the Estes Park League of Women Voters will again conduct responsible voter participation activities, several of which will be in collaboration with the Estes Valley Library. The library will also be conducting a range of positive voter information activities. It carries a wide range of Colorado daily newspapers as well as major national papers that contain political news and syndicated columns. The Estes Valley Library also has electronic links to municipal and state websites. From a library member's home, it is possible to access America's Newspapers, which is the largest database of its kind and includes a large variety of online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Other important sources of accurate, quality information the library circulates include sets of compact disks, DVDs and many books and magazines on current politics and political history.
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Von Miller could miss additional games for the Denver Broncos as a result of his latest legal issues, according to ESPN.com. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has the authority to lengthen Miller's suspension in light of Miller's recent citation for speeding and driving with a suspended license. Miller is already in the midst of a six-game suspension for submitting a diluted urine sample for drug testing.
Though traffic violations don't usually draw the ire of the league in isolated instances, the fact that Miller is a repeat offender could run him afoul of Goodell. Miller's most recent citation was his second in Arapahoe County, Colo. Court records show that the county cited Miller for careless driving, driving without a license and not having proof of insurance in Oct., 2012. Miller was arrested in August for failing to appear at a court date to answer for the charges.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) -- Roughly 70 percent of Kentucky National Guard members face potential furlough, one day a week, and in essence, a 20 percent pay cut, officials say.
Just one example: If there's not a budget resolution in Washington very soon, guard members will make fewer Blackhawk chopper flights -- with tighter times at home and at work.
"The work that they're doing is also not being done, and their work is to prepare the equipment -- for the part-time people, the traditional airmen and soldiers to do their jobs. We (could) have (a) very, rapid breakdown in readiness, which is what we are all about," Ky. Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Ed Tonini said.
An assistant secretary of the army who spoke at the Wendell Ford Training Center near Greenville, Ky., on February 22, agreed.
"We will not have as many training missions so our army will not be able to respond to issues faced," said assistant secretary Katherine Hammack. "It is so difficult to plan for because the cuts are so deep they affect critical services."
The forced budget cuts could also mean Kentucky soldiers and airmen on active duty in places like Afghanistan might not come home as scheduled.
C-130 cargo aircraft personnel at the Air National Guard Wing in Louisville aren't immune to cuts, either.
"Not only is it our ability to generate the sorties, because of maintenance on the aircraft, it's also just the number of flying hours that we have. So we face the possibility of our people being non-current pretty rapidly," Tonini said.
WDRB News reported last week that the sequestration could keep current military aircraft from participating in the Thunder Over Louisville air show in April.
Kentucky Adjutant General, Major General Ed Tonini, spent last week telling members of Congress of the potential harm.
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Like many of you Bengals fans out there, I too feel that they have done a good job this season in free agency (although the first few days were agonizing!). After seeing the flurry of signings, I am buying into the theory that they are well-positioned to take the best player available in most rounds. Historically, a large number of Pro-Bowlers / Hall of Famers seem to come from picks in the first two rounds, which made me curious as to how successful various clubs have been with their picks under this criteria. So I started to pull draft stats in this regard (the nerd that I am!) - I gathered all the picks from the FIRST TWO ROUNDS since 1970 for ALL the clubs and put a spreadsheet together to see if I could spot any trends / pattern.
When I looked across all the clubs, I initially didn't see any one position stand out over the others - 33% of QBs and 32% of RBs made it to Pro Bowl / HOF while many of the other positions ranged between 26-29% (I excluded FBs, K, P etc. since the number of picks for those positions were quite low compared to the rest). I was a bit disappointed that I hadn't unearthed anything meaningful from this but I then lumped up the various positions into offense, defense and special teams, and then compared the Bengals performance vs. the league as a whole. Some interesting stats started to emerge:
Since 1970, the Bengals have sent 17% (8 of 46) of their defensive picks in the first two rounds to Pro Bowl / HOF. Correspondingly, the league as a whole has sent 25% (306 of 1211) of the first and second rounders. When we look on the offensive side, the Bengals have sent 32% (16 of 50) of their picks in the first two rounds to Pro Bowl / HOF. The corresponding league number is 28% (348 of 1227). Clearly, we are doing better on offense than defense!
I took it a step further and narrowed down the same analysis just for the Marvin Lewis era (2003-present). On the defensive side, the Bengals sent just 11% (1 of 9 - Johnathan Joseph). This ranks us at 21st of 32 teams. On the offensive side, the Bengals sent 40% (4 of 10 - Carson Palmer, A.J. Green, Andy Dalton, Jermaine Gresham). This ranks us 5th of 32 teams. It is noteworthy that if we don't consider the 2011 Pro Bowl, our offensive side stat wouldn't look that great either but obviously, we made some great picks the last couple of seasons in the first two rounds.
In the same Marvin Lewis era, the Packers (44% - 4 of 9), Redskins (43% - 3 of 7) and Bears (38% - 3 of 8) were the top 3 in defensive picks in the first two rounds while on the offensive side, Chargers (80% - 4 of 5), Browns (50% - 5 of 10) and Giants (50% - 3 of 6) were the top 3 on the offensive side.
Despite recognizing that this type of analysis is not a perfect science (for example Eli Manning counts towards the Chargers even though he went to Pro-Bowls as a Giant), the larger picture questions to be asked are this - What can the Bengals learn from looking at the draft picks of the top teams? Are there any characteristics / qualities to be learned by the Bengals from their own offensive picks that they can use on the defensive side since they seem to be doing better on offense? Of course, there are certainly some defensive players in the current roster who were picked in the first two rounds that could be future Pro Bowlers - Carlos Dunlap, Leon Hall etc.
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If the novelty of attending a live webinar is wearing off, is the power of webinars gone, or are there new and more effective ways to use them to generate leads? Here are some new webinar best practices.
When marketers list the types of content they're producing, many put a check next to the box titled "webinars." These online presentations have been used effectively for many years, and the webinar's popularity has surged with the decline of tradeshows during the recent recession.
Webinars are traditionally viewed as a singular event, where there is an invite to attend, a pre-planned hour (or less) for execution, and a follow-up. However, in a recent survey I conducted, only 16 percent of people preferred to see a webinar live, vs. viewing a recording of the webinar after the fact.
If the novelty of attending a live webinar is wearing off, is the power of webinars gone, or are there new and more effective ways to use them to generate leads?
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In my research, I asked 400 B2B consumers how they prefer to watch a webinar. While only 16 percent said they prefer to watch it live, the other 84 percent either didn't care if it was live or preferred to watch it at another time. If you are only looking at driving leads from webinar registration, you might be missing the biggest trend in lead generation from webinars: the people who can't make it.
Anita Wehnert, who is responsible for product strategy at webinar solution ReadyTalk, advises, "At ReadyTalk, we've seen average attendance of our own live webinars drop from about 45 to 50 percent to about 35 to 40 percent over the past year, but we're getting three to five times that number of leads from the recording."
What if we looked at the webinar as a series of small videos instead of a singular, one-off event? What doors would this open, and how could we drive more leads with the same input?
For those 84 percent of people who either can't or don't want to attend your live webinar, here are three tactics to make your webinar more of a long-term lead generator:
Split it up. When putting together your webinar, make sure you create slides that give you easy stopping points. With your content packaged together in divisible chunks, your single webinar can easily be sliced into several short segments. These short segments can then be used separately in lead-nurturing programs, email blasts, and as trailers for promoting other content. The key here is building your presentation in sections.
Pro tip: When outlining your webinar, give your speaker a list of questions to answer, and have each single question on a new slide to make editing easier later. Make sure the questions are thought-provoking enough to provide several minutes of commentary time.
Host it on your site. After the webinar is over, publish those short segments, as well as the full webinar, on your site. Advertise them differently, and host them separately. Suddenly, your content library will appear much fuller, as you split up separate pieces of the original webinar to publish more content. At the same time, customers who are only looking for information about one segment of the webinar can find that more quickly.
Pro tip: Use dynamic content on your site. If you have your webinars split up you can then advertise different ones at different times dynamically. So if you know the person is an executive buyer you might only want to show the webinars with statistics, or high-level information, and when a manger shows up it shows more tactical webinars.
Use appropriate CTAs. People are willing to give up an email address in return for good content, so don't be shy - ask for their email addresses. Calls-to-action in videos are the best-kept secret for online lead generation today. Ezra Fishman, director of marketing for online video hosting company Wistia, says they see a 20 percent conversion rate on videos that use a call-to-action directly within the video content.
Pro tip: For the first video, do not require any registration. The video should run about 60 seconds to two minutes. After the video, offer another in the same series. When the next video pops up, make sure you have an email registration box. This also should be tied into your marketing automation solution for full lead tracking.
Webinars belong in your digital strategy, and implementing these three essential techniques should help you earn more ROI out of each webinar. Your lead generation can increase significantly through webinars - just remember that if only 16 percent of people can watch your webinar live, you still have that valuable 84 percent to influence. Market to everyone within your webinar's touch points by creating separate video content out of the original live event, and you'll continue to see results from the webinar long after the event has ended.
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Alumni Association scholarships are available to full-time undergraduate and graduate students at UNM. Scholarships are awarded using a variety of factors such as academic achievement, community involvement, employment experiences, areas of study, financial need and several others. Scholarship amounts may change annually.
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In addition to being enrolled as a full-time undergraduate at UNM; applicant must demonstrate academic achievement and financial need.
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- John "Puffy" Leonard Memorial Scholarship: $350/semester - $700/year
In addition to the specific criteria listed for these scholarships, applicant must also be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate at UNM and demonstrate outstanding service, leadership, and involvement on campus or in the community.
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The creator of this product, Sara Blakely has been inducted to this year's Forbes billionaires list, which was released yesterday.
Spanx, an international undergarment company, is worth an estimated $1 billion. Here are a couple of interesting facts about her from a Forbes feature:
- She learned how to write her own patent from reading a Barnes and Nobles book and she saved $3,000 in legal costs.
- She worked at Disney World for three months and spent eight-hour days buckling customers into a ride.
- She's the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world.
- She has never spent money on advertising.
- She owns 100 percent of the company.
- She went from just having $5,000 in savings when she was 29 to owning a billion dollar company at the age of 41 today.
- She has her eccentric moments, and her husband describes her as "50 percent Lucille Ball, 50 percent Einstein." Some of her goofiest moments include wearing a boot on one foot and a Christian Louboutin heel on the other in Bloomingdale's, and wearing stretchable candy necklaces and bracelets (bought from a nearby candy store) to the Screen Actors Guild Awards because she left her jewelry at the hotel.
- She witnessed a car run over her best friend when she was only 16, and facing mortality at such a young age has driven her. "I think that when you witness death at age 16, there's a sense of urgency about life," Blakely says. "The thought of my mortality — I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up."
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ENGLEWOOD! Had to do a shout out one time for them. Antwon Jarell Gibbs aka TwonDon, is hands down one of the hardest working rappers I know! He displays incredible talent on and off the mic and is a lot more than just a rapper. TwonDon is also a director, songwriter, entertainer, and entrepreneur and he's only 18 years old! This kid is definitely someone not to be taken lightly. This Englewood, NJ native has an outstanding combination of music that combines his NY roots and NJ swag. TwonDon delivers both lyricism and party vibes in his music and reaches all types of people. Did I mention TwonDon is also the man behind Upper Class Entertainment? Holding down the 2 0 1, TwonDon has many more tricks up his sleeve. I advise everyone to keep their eyes on this kid.
TwonDon has gotten great recognition by some of our popular music industry artists/DJs such as Fred The Godson, Travis Porter, Lloyd Banks, Waka Flocka, Future, DJ Jazzy Joyce, Bobby Konders, DJ Camilo, and many more. TwonDon's hard work and success earned him the title of 'Most Requested Artist' on Street Market Radio with AD the General. This unstoppable kid's music has even been aired on NYC's Hot 97 for his 2011 summer single "Hula Hoop." This summer single received play time for 4-8 weeks straight by Hot 97′s Bobby Konders. But wait, there's more! Hot 97 Boston's DJ Chubby Chub also gave TwonDon air play after he remixed Wiz Khalifa's "Black & Yellow" with his version "Green & White" as a dedication for the New York Jets. The Jets players loved and acknowledged the song so much that it led TwonDon into getting more radio play on 92.3NOW FM by Nick Cannon. Nick Cannon mentioned TwonDon to be "a real emcee on his grind". I couldn't agree more with Nick Cannon. There's no argument that TwonDon has made himself a force in the music industry at such a young age.
His most recent mixtape "False Advertisement" was hosted by DJ Ill Will who has also hosted for Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, Wiz Khalifa, and Sean Kingston. This project clearly displays TwonDon's growth from when he first started out until now. The flow and production of this mixtape is on point! I hope to see more collaborations with DJ Ill Will and TwonDon.
Be on the lookout for TwonDon's newest project "Dream Gold" coming out soon! Stay tuned!
Check out TwonDon's video for his single "Panoramic Vision" below.
Check out TwonDon's new visual for "Pretty Eyes (DR.UGS)" below.
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Google has just announced the launch of Google Drive API Push Notifications. This is a useful functionality for any third party developer who uses Google Drive in their apps.
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If your app needs to keep up with changes in Drive, whether to sync files, initiate workflows, or just keep users up to date with the latest info, you're likely familiar with Drive's changes feed. But periodic polling for changes has always required a delicate balance between resources and timeliness. Now there's a better way. With push notifications for the Drive API, periodic polling is no longer necessary. Your app can subscribe for changes to a user's drive and get notified whenever changes occur.
This should further boost the capabilities of web services which uses Google Drive as their storage platform.
Cloud Storage powered web services are increasingly becoming popular today. Dropbox also expanded their offerings in this segment of the market earlier this week. Box is already a major player here.


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Sunday's warmer weather brought many people out to one of the earlier farmers markets in Eastern Iowa. Shoppers say they like to know where their produce is coming from but there's a few things you need to know to make sure that fresh food is safe to eat.
John and Janet Reasoner spent Sunday at the first Hiawatha Farmers Market of the year.
"We get most of our food here at markets," said Janet.
The rRasoners have been going to farmers markets for years.
"We like locally grown, we like organic, we like the hormone free, anti-biotic free meats," said Janet. "We just really enjoy visiting with the people and doing our market outside."
They've gotten to know the vendors like knowing where their food is coming from.
"It's not organic but it's safe," said Paul McClaine of McClaine's Garden in Vinton. "It's what I eat. What my grand kids eat."
There are local and federal regulations in place to ensure food safety at the marketplace, but experts say contamination can still happen.
The Iowa Farmers Market Association says to make sure your food is safe to eat, check all fruits and vegetables for bruising before you buy them and pay special attention that has close contact with the ground. Once you get home, make sure you wash everything before you eat it.
At farmers markets, you get a chance to do something you can't always do at the grocery store. You can ask questions about the food and where it comes from before you buy it.
"Typically a lot of the consumers want to know if we spray, if we use herbicides, pesticides, that type of thing," said Beth Kerr of Ineichen Tomatoes in Bluegrass. "Generally speaking we do not."
The Reasoners trust the markets and say they know who's got the best produce.
"Your get to know the vendors and pretty soon you're calling them at home to make sure they have what you want when you come to venue," said John.
They, along with many others, are glad that farmers market season has finally arrived.
Right now most of the produce available at farmers markets come from greenhouses. Farmers say if the rain dies down and the temperatures stay warm, they'll have much more to offer later this year.


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Shares in Ocado fell by a little over 3pc on Tuesday to close at 507.37 as the firm reported a loss of £12.5m for the 2013. The increased loss was attributed to the result of costs associated with its delivery partnership with Morrisons.
However, sales did rise by 18.6% to reach £843m for the year.
Despite the inability to make a profit, Ocado is still valued at nearly £3bn following its impressive surge since its tie-up with Morrisons.


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Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball now has 78 career touchdowns, tying him with the former sole Division I record-holder, Miami (Ohio)'s Travis Prentice, who finished his college ball in 1999. Ohio State entered Saturday fully aware of Ball's quest for the mark, and there was plenty of chatter about Urban Meyer using the record as motivation for his defense.
This is not the NCAA record, as has been claimed. Division III Mount Union's Nate Kmic had 130 career touchdowns, and other lower-division players have had more than 78.
With the Badgers so close to the goal line, you could almost sense the anticipation in the crowd. Ball got some great blocking from the finally cohesive Wisconsin offensive line, then made a maniacal effort inside the three to finish it off:
He's got 37 more minutes to get another touchdown here, plus three more games to add some distance.
I would say BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE WINNER, but this game quite literally means nothing for the Big Ten standings, the BCS, the Big Ten championship game's participants or anything else beyond bragging rights.
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A Four State native raises money for military morale, welfare and recreation from the seat of a kayak in one man's journey to ReDiscover America.
On Tuesday, Will Hembree of Seneca, Missouri ended a two month kayaking journey that began in New York and ended at Twin Bridges Park in Ottawa County, Oklahoma - two months ahead of schedule.
"Being so close to nature for such a long period of time was probably the most enlightening thing of this trip," says William.
Through snow in New York, to rain on the Great Lakes and extreme heat closer to the Four States, William has seen it all.
His family says they weren't worried that the ski and kayaking instructor would weather all storms.
"He's always been an outside boy and this is the kind of life he likes and I'm very proud of him," says William's father, Wesley Hembree.
William says for as long as he can remember he dreamed of becoming a pioneer and floating down the river on a raft like Huck Finn. This was the opportunity to make that dream a reality.
"What every kid gets asked - 'what you want to be when you grow up?' and I said 'an explorer' and the first thing that the teacher responded to is 'an astronaut?' because that's about all that's left to explore," says William.
But after around 2,300 miles he says he's proved that teacher wrong. He says this exploration is paying it forward and inspiring others to do the same.
"I think I've inspired a few people to finally go out and do some of the trips they've been dreaming about their entire lifetime, so America's adventurous," says William.
William says the next step is to raise awareness for military personnel and to create a documentary of his journey to spread his adventure inspiration on a wider scale.
William says he plans on raffling off his kayak to raise money for military personnel. He hopes to have his documentary entitled "ReDiscovering America" complete sometime this fall.
For more information on the trip visit http://www.rediscoveringamerica-kayak.com/
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DEAR DOCTOR K: I have a bunion on my left foot and it hurts! What can I do?
DEAR READER: With a bunion, your big toe turns inward, bending toward, or even under, the other toes. Since your feet probably are inside shoes and not easily visible, I'll try to explain what happens to your big toe by asking you to look at your hand. Look at your thumb. Feel the joint where the thumb starts sticking out from the hand. Unless you have arthritis, the bone in your hand and the first bone in your thumb are lined up pretty straight.
If your thumb developed a bunion, the bone in your hand would be pointing outward and the bones in the thumb would be pointing inward.
Bunions most often result from shoes that squeeze the toes into pointy or narrow toe boxes. This forces the toes to fold over one another to fit in. Over time, a bunion develops. At first, it's just a little ugly, and it can make it hard to get into shoes. It may not even hurt.
If and when it does begin to hurt, there are several things you can do to ease your discomfort. You can pad the bump with felt or moleskin. Or try a shoe stretcher to stretch the front of your shoe, relieving pressure on the bunion part of your foot. Shoe inserts called orthoses can redistribute your weight so the bunion doesn't constantly rub against your shoe. Foot doctors called podiatrists can fit you with these inserts.
For pain, try NSAID pain relievers such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or naproxen (Aleve). Hot and cold compresses may also help.
If you continue to experience significant pain, you may need to consider surgery. Surgery will partially or completely restore your toe to its normal position. The specific procedure will depend on the severity of your condition.


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