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Thrifty Car Rental in Oman is now offering customers in the sultanate transport solutions in Ruwi. A new outlet has just been opened in the important business district to supply rental vehicles to residents, tourists and business travellers. The new location is in addition to shops in Al Khuwair, Muscat, Sohar and Salalah.
As well as adding locations, Thrifty has confirmed that it will be increasing the size of its fleet by around 10 per cent in order to be able to cope with the growth in demand expected over the next couple of months. Thrifty Car Rental deputy managing director in Oman, Mehdi Jaffer, said this year had seen an increase in demand for 4-wheel drive cars.
He added that because the cool season is approaching, many people will be looking forward to getting outside and enjoying the good weather. It is also a popular time for people living in the sultanate to go away on holiday, according to Jaffer.
He went on to say that as well as growing its fleet, Thrifty was offering its customers the latest in Sat Nav technology. Jaffer said that due to the way people travel in Oman, Sat Nav was often requested by drivers.
The firm has also improved its breakdown service. Jaffer said it was imperative that Thrifty supplied the best possible road side assistance to its customers, especially at a time when there is likely to be more traffic on the roads. Breakdown support will be made available at any time of the day or night.
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Awwww, a Thursday Rachel Bilson treat. She was looking adorable (AS USUAL, sorry, yelling again, love her) at LAX this week. There are only 3 episodes left of the OC (sob*), so she better be staying close to LA for all the finale parties...at which she and Adam will reunite over their shared loss of the show. Ah, a girl can dream, right? Some good news, though, on the OC front is that SOAPnet has bought the rights to show all four seasons of reruns starting in April. A daily Seth/Summer fix? Sign me up.
*I say that like I still watch religiously, but apparently I can't even commit to one show a week. I have no one to blame but myself for the show's demise.
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oc-addict-x 7 years
i don't like the boots, but i love the coat, it's cute! she looks so pretty here :)
Shpohlc 7 years
she is totally adorable. She is my favorite actress ever. I cant believe the shows ending!! Fine...series finale is next week...omg im soo not prepared for this. Even tho its prety obv. whats going to happen. At least there are going to be playing the OC reruns. But nothing compares to the real new thing. It doesnt really mattter for me, cause i own all 3 seasons, and the fourth season is taped on my DYR.
BlondeSugar 7 years
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that coat!!!! I want!
divinedebris 7 years
she's just so freaking adorable!
Justinsbelle 7 years
love her! she is too cute! love the outfit especially the coat.
andaman 7 years
BEAUTIFUL..she knows how to dress well!
Luna13 7 years
love the coat! cant afford it though...
aras8218 7 years
pretty girl-I like that she's wearing the hood.
rubialala 7 years
*boots* not boot - they both suck.
rubialala 7 years
I don't like that she's wearing the hood but I like the coat...the boot suck.
MissAntipodea 7 years
Oh! I am in love with that coat. I think the whole ensemble is brilliant.
MissAntipodea 7 years
Oh! I am in love with that coat. I think the whole ensemble is brilliant.
jor2590 7 years
love her. i heard through the rumor mill that adam and her are possibly back together? hope so. their adorable.
Wicked 7 years
Cutest outfit ever. I love the coat!
DulceSkye 7 years
She is so adorable. I guess I'm the only who doesn't like that coat. LOL It's too youthful...looks like something I wore in kindergarten. I have those boots but they're high heeled. They're not so bad when you pair them with jeans.
Acey 7 years
Rachel Bilson is my favorite by far. Love her.
cari907 7 years
cute outfit
cari907 7 years
cute outfit
Christina23559 7 years
Good Job Whip! I like it MUCH better in black than that Fug grey color.... IMHO but everything I wear is black so to those who prefer grey, good for you. I have said it a gazzillion times, that I love Rachel, she is the cutest girl ever! I only like the OC for the first season after that it went downhill, so I'm not shocked it's going buh bye!
VaneM77 7 years
She is just naturally pretty....no make up and she looks absolutely adorable! I sure am going to miss The OC!!!
WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
I love her boots, too. As a matter of fact, I'm considering buying something similar... Should I or Shouldn't I?
WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
Here it is. The photo shows it as grey but they have black as well. I've been eyeing this up for a few months but I can't afford it. :(Check it out
WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
Here it is. The photo shows it as grey but they have black as well. I've been eyeing this up for a few months but I can't afford it. :( Check it out
WhatTheFrockBlog 7 years
I know who makes the coat!! :woohoo: It's Mike and Chris. I think so, anyway... Lemme see if I can find it online.
kendalheart 7 years
Never watched the OC but i think she is so cute! She will have no problem being a long standing actress
lilxmissxmolly 7 years
Rachel always looks so cute, but I'm so over the OC. **"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet." -Will Smith **
lilxmissxmolly 7 years
Rachel always looks so cute, but I'm so over the OC.**"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet." -Will Smith **
LizaToad 7 years
she looks great - WHIP find us the coat!!!!
Aggie 7 years
She looks so cute! But the boots gotta go! ______________________________________ \People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character/
Aggie 7 years
She looks so cute! But the boots gotta go!______________________________________\People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character/
blahhchic 7 years
WOW! that coat is def a NEED! too cute! any ideas as to who its by?
swwonder 7 years
She looks adorable. I want that coat!
Neural 7 years
Yeah, the boots screw up the outfit!
JK-Boogie 7 years
She is so stylish...I love her whole ensemble esp the coat
UnaBellaSorpresa 7 years
LOVE her, but what's with the hideous boots?
Fantasia1 7 years
awwww shes the cutest thing ever!
JustMe21 7 years
Ugly boots, cute face.
Midnightkiss4u09 7 years
She is so pretty.
Midnightkiss4u09 7 years
She is so pretty.
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- Jessica Alba is on top of the world — Lainey Gossip
- Kristen Stewart is blaming past costars for her "bad acting" — Dlisted
- Ashlee Simpson is getting married this weekend — ET
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// National Winners
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Jump to a grade: 10-12 / 7-9 / 4-6 / K-3
2005 Winners
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Earthquake Detection: 7400 Leagues Above the Sea is an early-warning tsunami detection system that could prevent catastrophic loss of life as in the recent Asian tsunami. It uses geosynchronous satellites to detect electromagnetic waves and magnetic fields weeks before the impending event.
Highland Park High School
Highland Park, NJ
Second Place
Body MASS: Multi Analysis Sensory System is an artificial intelligence system that monitors vital signs and nutrient and mineral levels. Worn as clothing, it allows patients to monitor their health and provide information to their doctors.
Don Mills Collegiate Institute
Toronto, Canada
Grades 7-9
First Place
Visible-Light Photocatalysis uses nanotechnology to detoxify and clean polluted water and air. It can also clean facilities such as hospitals to prevent the spread of disease.
Hawken Middle School
Lyndhurst, OH
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MID: Microbe ID System uses sensors in a handheld device to identify the microbes that cause a patient's illness. It draws samples of air from a patient's breath and observes how particles react with specific MID sensors. Medical diagnosis can be more accurately determined.
Loomis Grammar School
Loomis, CA
Grades 4-6
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VEWS: Volcano Early Warning System
People living in volcano or mudslide-prone areas will get to higher ground safely thanks to VEWS: Volcano Early Warning System. This CD unit uses holographic GPS to relay an emergency signal that calmly informs people of the best safety route.
Home Connection-Oak Harbor School District
Oak Harbor, WA
Second Place
The Appy-Bot eliminates the need for appendectomies in the future by using nanotechnology to repair a patient's appendix. A gel-cap taken orally will release a fleet of Appy-Bots to clear away obstructions and flush them from the body.
Heritage Heights Elementary School
Amherst, NY
Grades K-3
First Place
L.I.F.E.: Living Impaired Future Eye allows visually impaired people to lead more independent lives. This hands-free unit uses an infrared motion system and ultrasound to detect and communicate movement to the user, allowing blind people to walk without a cane.
Dardenne Elementary School
O'Fallon, MO
Second Place
MiraclEyes 3000is a multi-sensory aid for the blind. It uses radar, GPS and mapping software to provide real-time walking directions in any city in the world, in any language. Instead of a cane, a vibrating belt worn around the waist alerts users to nearby objects.
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North Reading, MA


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The Dying Sun (by Naveed Mughal)
If you're tired of those incessant Valentine's Day ads hawking heart-shaped, diamond-encrusted jewelry for your honey from the nearest chain store, enjoy a breath of fresh air with the Clarity Project. Started by Rachel Lichte, Shane Rogers, and Jesse Finfrock, the social enterprise sells fairly sourced fine jewelry and diamonds, and then invests its profits back into local organizations working in the mining communities to improve the lives of the miners and their families. We spoke with co-founder Rachel Lichte about how the Clarity Project is sourcing gems responsibly and supporting local communities while imbuing your keepsake with even more meaning in the process. We also got some tips on how we can all be savvy consumers when it comes to purchasing fairly sourced jewelry.
PopTech: How did The Clarity Project get its start?
Rachel Lichte: The Clarity Project started as a search for a personal solution to the challenge of finding a diamond engagement ring that we could feel confident about and comfortable with. After research and conversations internationally and industry-wide, we could not find a company out there that shared our belief that the diamond industry has an obligation: the very best diamonds can and must be a powerful tool for community development in historically marginalized mining communities.
Jewelry is a platform for storytelling and self-expression. So often the story of the diamond itself is avoided and unknown. We wanted to make this a story worth sharing. So we decided to do something about it. And we started by making one ring.
In the three years since our founding, the project has developed three interconnected goals: Create beautiful, timeless jewelry to match the top jewelers; improve the quality of life for miners and their communities; and build a new type of sustainable business that can make our first two goals possible. Shane, Jesse, and I each lead the charge on one of these three interconnected goals.
Artist Simon Beck must really love the cold weather! Along the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, he spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art. Working for 5-9 hours a day, each final piece is typically the size of three soccer fields! The geometric forms range in mathematical patterns and shapes that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels.


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Documentary on the making of the Homeland audiobook with Wil Wheaton
Skyboat Media produced this great little documentary about Wil Wheaton's recording sessions for the audiobook of my novel Homeland, in which he had to read out Pi for four minutes straight, read out dialog in which the narrator had a fanboy moment about meeting Wil Wheaton, and many other fun moments.
Homeland wins the Prometheus award!
Homeland shortlisted for the Sunburst Award
Little Brother challenged in Florida high school
Humble Ebook Bundle adds Lawful Interception audio, From Hell Companion, Too Cool To Be Forgotten
Humble Ebook Bundle adds Lawful Interception audio, From Hell Companion, Too Cool To Be Forgotten
Name your price for them -- all DRM free, and you can contribute to charity when you buy!
2014 Locus Award finalists, including Homeland
As always, the Locus list is a great guide to the best sf/f published in the previous year. On this year's list are some books I really enjoyed (like Stross's Neptune's Brood) and others I've got in my high-priority to-be-read pile, like Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
My sincere thanks to everyone who nominated Homeland for the prize; I couldn't be more delighted!
Homeland audiobook, read by Wil Wheaton, is back on downpour.com
In which I make Wil Wheaton read out Pi for four minutes
There's less than a week left during which you can get the independently produced Homeland audiobook through the Humble Ebook Bundle!
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Noah Swartz reads Aaron Swartz's afterword to Homeland
Before he died, Aaron Swartz wrote a tremendous afterword for my novel Homeland -- Aaron also really helped with the core plot, devising an ingenious system for helping independent candidates get the vote out that he went on to work on. When I commissioned the indie audiobook of Homeland (now available in the Humble Ebook Bundle, I knew I wanted to have Aaron's brother, Noah, read Aaron's afterword, and Noah was kind enough to do so, going into a studio in Seattle to record a tremendous reading.
Here is Noah's reading (MP3), released as a CC0 file that you can share without any restrictions. I hope you'll give it a listen.
And a reminder that the complete Humble Ebook Bundle lineup is now available, including work from John Scalzi, Mercedes Lackey, and Ryan North, as well as the core bundle, which features Wil Wheaton, Holly Black, Steven Gould, and Scott Westerfeld!
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It wasn't pretty, but Michigan State will take it. The Spartans went into one of the toughest arenas in the Big Ten and escaped with a 51-47 win over Wisconsin.
Neither team could get anything going offensively. Michigan State won with a 38% field goal percentage while Wisconsin finished with a brutal 29 percent mark from the field.
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The Spartans won despite getting next to nothing from their post duo of Adreian Payne and Derrick Nix, who combined for only 4 points on 2-of-7 shooting. Instead, Keith Appling and Branden Dawsen took over the game from the perimeter, accounting for almost all of Michigan State's offense with 37 points.
Wisconsin scored only 4 points in the last 7:30 minutes, as Michigan State was able to keep them in the half-court, where they had no one who could create any easy looks against Tom Izzo's fierce defense.
The win gives the Spartans some separation in a tight Big Ten race. They now have a 6-1 conference record while Wisconsin falls to 4-2.


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This self-portrait is an aesthetic creed: Passavant depicts himself in German Renaissance garb before an Italian landscape, with a Medieval church in the background. He wished to emulate the Christian masters of the Renaissance in his life as well as his painting. Already during his ten years in Rome, beginning in 1817, he turned to the study of sources and the analysis of artworks. Especially captivated by Raphael's work, he finally gave up painting and devoted himself to art-historical scholarship. Beginning in 1840, he was the director of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Städel Art Institute) and oversaw the acquisition of high-quality works of Italian and Netherlandish art.


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Facebook PMD Fanbooster launches ads platform
Norwegian Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Fanbooster announced recently that the company has launched a Facebook ads platform. Fanbooster started four years ago as an app creator, but now the company is evolving to support advertising.
Fanbooster aims to make Facebook advertising simpler and more time-efficient. Through the company's ad offerings, advertisers can create and save target groups, split campaigns and utilize Facebook's complex targeting and bidding motels with just one button.
Fanbooster's Vice President of Marketing, Alex Grimstad, described the new vision of the company to Inside Facebook:
We spend a lot of time working with Facebook ads, for both ourselves and for our clients. We've seen that the Boost Post button is really powerful as it gives advertisers a really quick way to get your messages out there. Meanwhile there are some really great targeting options in Power Editor and Ads Manager that you don't get by hitting the Boost Post button. With the launch of the Fanbooster ads platform, our ambition is to reinvent the Boost Post button, and we call it One-Click Promotion. It's as easy as boosting a post and equal to setting up an advanced campaign. The best from both worlds.
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Top 25 Facebook apps: September 2014 — King rules Facebook app landscape
King still rules, in terms of Facebook apps. The maker of the highly addictive game Candy Crush Saga has three of the top five Facebook apps, sorted by daily active users (DAU).
While Candy Crush Saga is the top Facebook app, of course, Farm Heroes Saga is No. 2 in Facebook DAU, according to AppData. Pet Rescue Saga is No. 5.
Check below to see the full leaderboard of most popular Facebook apps.
Top 25 Facebook pages: September 2014 — Facebook for Every Phone nearing 500M likes
Facebook for Every Phone has been the most popular page on Facebook for quite some time. Now, the hub of Facebook users on feature phones is quickly approaching the 500 million like milestone.
As of Tuesday, Facebook for Every Phone has 492 million fans and is growing at a rate of roughly 3.5 million fans per week.
Want to see the Facebook pages with the most likes? Check out the monthly leaderboard, courtesy of PageData.
Facebook responds to Pew study on social self-censorship
Facebook's overarching goal is to make the world more open and connected. While they're doing their best about the connection part, a recent Pew Research study asks if the site is making people be any more open.
The study, Social Media and the 'Spiral of Silence,' examines social self-censorship and how open people are to talking about controversial or polarizing topics on social media sites. For instance, 86 percent of U.S. people polled said that they willing to have an in-person conversation about the NSA, but only 42 percent of Facebook and Twitter users were open to posting about it. Of the 14 percent who were unwilling to discuss NSA with others, only 0.3 percent would post about the topic on Facebook or Twitter.
The study points out that Facebook users may be shy to point out conflicting beliefs that may anger or upset their friends and colleagues on the site.
Can a CEO or star employee boost your Facebook engagement?
As organic reach continues to decline, Facebook page admins are looking for any way to get their messages read by more of their fans. Some companies are experiencing success by operating two pages: one for the business, and one for the CEO or popular employee. SumAll, a marketing analytics firm, has found that the employee page (not a profile) has in many cases outperformed the business page for engagement.
SumAll CEO Dane Atkinson described this approach to Inside Facebook:
Even before the great mess of the algorithm, it was a good point to have your major personalities driving attention to your overall brand. It could be a chef for a restaurant, or for a bigger company, there's a thought leader or a CEO or a great engineer. There's things out there that help bring attention. … There's a lot of content that you don't want to put money around, and you'll find that the personal page still has a multiple of how much its content gets used.
Atkinson noted that brand pages usually get 5 percent reach nowadays. He's seeing double that on personal pages.
Facebook improves event ads, launches insights
Facebook has made the event much more powerful for page admins.
In the next few weeks, Facebook is rolling out the ability to make it easier to promote events (not just boost a post about an event), as well as insights showing how many people have seen the event.
Facebook and death: Using social media to grieve and memorialize
For many of Facebook's estimated 1.3 billion active users, the social media platform has become an extension of their lives. Nearly every event is shared out with friends near and far. But what happens after that life has come to an end? Facebook has cornered the market on death too.
In yet another indication of how social media continues to take over our lives, over the last few years Facebook has become a place where users can process death. We come here to grieve for those we've lost, connect with family to celebrate and toast the lives of loved ones and even join the larger online community in remembering those who have passed on.
4 ways to benefit from combining Facebook brand & direct marketing
Many marketers think of Facebook marketing as a brand activity – not one that can drive conversion directly. However, it doesn't have to be an either-or proposition. By combining brand marketing and direct marketing actions, social media marketers can drive both amplification and conversion.
Companies are growing their social media budgets and with more money comes increased expectations (and scrutiny). The need to prove ROI of efforts and social media's role to the bottom line is becoming essential. This still isn't down to a science, however. As Social Media Examiner points out in its 2014 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 88 percent of marketers still want to know how best to measure social media ROI.
This makes Facebook ripe for a convergence of brand marketing and direct marketing. Why? Because by combining brand marketing and direct marketing actions, social media marketers contribute to specific data and revenue objectives, allowing them to show ROI and measurable business impact. In the process, they prove the value of the social media investment and the social marketer's value as well.
Facebook to mobile users: Get the facts about Messenger
Facebook is addressing the fear associated with its Messenger application. Some mobile users are seeing a prompt atop News Feed, titled Messenger: Myths vs. Facts, according to a story in TheNextWeb.
Much of the unease over Facebook's Messenger app — which is now the only way, other than mobile browser, that Facebook users can check and respond to messages — comes from a fear-mongering Huffington Post article and a story from a radio station, both of which have been widely circulated around the social network.
Facebook is now answering these rumors. When a user who sees the prompt taps "Learn More," it leads them to a post explaining the truths about Facebook Messenger and privacy.
Do you trust Facebook with your personal information?
Facebook users love announcing to the world that they've checked in at Disneyland, uploading hashtag-filled selfies and writing public posts with a little too much information. On more than any other social platform, it seems that Facebook users are most willing to hand Mark Zuckerberg and company their intimate details, such as hometown, college, employer, who they're dating and birthdate.
But when 4,000 U.S. users were asked if they trust Facebook with their personal data, the answer was a resounding, "No."
A new study by online identity manager MyLife shows that 82.9 percent of those polled said they did not trust Facebook with their personal information.
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GALLATIN, TN (Submitted) - Legendary professional angler Pam Martin-Wells claimed her second straight Lady Bass Anglers Association (LBAA) tournament victory today on Tennessee's Old Hickory Lake. But equally important Martin-Wells pulled off a come from behind win in the Angler of the Year race to capture the LBAA's first pro division Angler of the Year (AOY) title.
Martin-Wells of Bainbridge, Georgia only brought three bass to the scales today but they weighed a hefty 9.23 pounds and pumped her two-day total at Old Hickory to 17.63 pounds.
"I've always said I liked tough tournaments," she commented, "for that is when the luck factor is taken out of the equation and I really put my head down and get to it. I pre-fished from daylight until dark and told Steven (husband) this tournament would be similar to Guntersville in that you could not sit in any one place and win it. I tried to stay just like I did at Guntersville – stay open minded and be versatile."
Martin-Wells calculated that she ran her Legend 69 miles on Old Hickory on day one alone.
Finishing behind Martin-Wells in second was Centre, Alabama's Lisa Johnson who had a two-day total of 15.87 pounds.Rounding out the pro division's "Super Seven" at Old Hickory was Plano, Texas's Cheryl Bowden in third with 15.69; Greenville, Texas' Judith Hart with 15.47 was fourth; Lynda Gessner of Foristell, Missouri was fifth with 13.93, Murchison, Texas resident Pam Ridgle was sixth with 13.54, and Dayton, Tennessee's Jenny Nevans was seventh with 13.11.
Sarah Davis from Livingston, Louisiana led wire-to-wire to capture her first LBAA co-angler crown. Davis brought her second three-fish limit to the scales today to give her a two-day total of 11.51 pounds and the prestigious victory.
"It took a lot of patience," Davis stated, "I threw a lot of baits and most of my short fish were on faster moving baits, so most everything was slow (larger worms and Fluke's). It is awesome to win this! When I first saw these trophies I said I want one of those, and now I have it."
Following Davis in the LBAA's Old Hickory co-angler "Super Seven were: Lebanon, Tennessee's Diana Montgomery in second with 9.95; Bonnie Ward of Snohomish, Washington was third with 8.23; Alpine, Alabama's
Kim Giddens was fourth with 6.81; Martinsburg, West Virginia's Shannon Wood was fifth with 6.62; and Martha Goodfellow from Simpsonville, South Carolina was seventh with 5.59 pounds.
Judith Hart took big bass awards for the Old Hickory event in the pro division with a bass weighing 3.66 pounds, and Jan Bruner captured the award on the co-angler side of things with a bass that weighed in at 4.66 pounds.
In the AOY races, Martin-Wells with her victory today at Old Hickory overtook Kim Bain-Moore to claim the LBAA Pro Division AOY title with 1170 points. Martin-Wells and Bain-Moore went into today's final day of competition tied for the AOY lead.
"This is totally awesome," stated a very happy Martin-Wells. "To win this title in the inaugural year of this organization is fantastic. They can never take this away from me – I was the first! It is neat that I now have won AOY in every woman's circuit that I have competed in. The Good Lord has definitely shined on me!"
The LBAA pro division AOY "Super Seven" was Bain-Moore in second with 1140 points and Pam Ridgle followed her in third with 1095. Fourth was Lynda Gessner with 1052, and Gessner was followed in fifth by Emily Shaffer with 1029. Sixth and seventh respectively were Jenny Nevans with 988 and Debbie Kemp with 972 points.
In the co-angler division, Kim Giddens claimed the 2011 LBAA Co-angler of the Year title with 1150 points. "It is pretty amazing as this is my first year fishing with these wonderful ladies," Giddens said. "When I started into this I felt like I could compete but I never expected to win this."
The LBAA co-angler of the year Super Seven are as follows: Kim Giddens in first with 1150 points and she was followed by Diana Uebelhack with 1085. Third place was claimed by Bonnie Ward with 1067 and fourth was Martha Goodfellow with 1024. Vicki Henderson took fifth place with 1017 points, and Barbara Harris followed her in sixth with 986 points. Donna Newberry nailed down seventh with 969 points.
Murchison, Texas resident Pam Ridgle nailed down the 2011 LBAA Rookie of the Year award today as she was the highest finishing pro division rookie in all four regular season LBAA events this year."I'm very pleased and ecstatic to maintain and pull off a win like this," Ridgle stated. "It was a pretty tough season with all of the mechanical errors I did have, but overall I'm very ecstatic that I did this."
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I'm a life long kings fan who currently lives in Orem, Utah. I saw Jimmer live in college. I don't post often on STR but I really appreciate the community here. Ya'll crack me up.
I would just like to say I am happy to see Francisco Garcia play meaningful minutes for the Rockets. He was always a player I enjoyed during his limited action on our dysfunctional team. He has played great and probably earned himself a future.
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Now, I'm as big a Duck fan as there is and I hope I end up eating crow for writing this. While this is how I feel, I hope this can generate discussion of the Ducks chances on January 2nd.
1. Chip Kelly can't win the big games
As much as we want to make excuses for each game, Kelly has been unable to win a big game against a non-Pac opponent. Sure he has led the Ducks to big in-conference wins over Stanford and USC, but an alarming trend has emerged. The Ducks have lost to Boise State, Ohio State, Auburn and LSU over the last 3 years. Of course, all of those teams were great teams with great quarterbacks and good to great defenses. But you cannot ignore 0-4 against highly ranked OOC opponents or the 0-2 in BCS bowl appearances. Maybe these losses can be explained away by the time the other team has to prepare, Kelly's inexperience on a big stage in bowl games, poor play by the Ducks offense, etc. Until the Ducks win a big game though, doubts will remain.
This is not going to be a Bryan Bennett should be our quarterback discussion. DT is and should be our QB. But DT has looked poor at times this season, particularly in the beginning of games. Whether his struggles are injury related or mechanical, his inability to start games well gets us in trouble against quality opponents. How many times has he overthrown a wide open WR? How many times have his throws been behind a WR? Fortunately, he generally takes care of the ball and doesn't turn it over to the other team.
3. The Dropsies
Our weakest point on offense this year is the receiving corp. Will Murphy. Justin Hoffman. Huh? One of the most infuriating things about this WR corp is that they are prone to dropping the ball. Our best WR is a freshman RB and he only has 571 yards receiving. That's half of what Jeff Maehl had last year. Not only do our WRs drop balls, but they have trouble getting into space.
4. The O-Line
Our O-Line has played poorly in each one of those 4 losses. It is not a big O-line. And you never know what you're going to get with them. Either they show up and play really well or they just don't show up, get pushed back and LMJ/KB are making cuts 5 yards in the backfield.
5. Fumbles
After handing the ball to LSU so many times I lost count, Oregon didn't put the ball on the ground much in the following 7 games. But lately, Oregon has been fumbling the ball at an alarming rate. The Ducks have fumbled the ball away 8 times in the last 5 games. Not good. We can't afford to fumble the ball away and put our defense on its heels.
6. Time of Possession
I have been very pleased with our defense all year with the exception of the USC game. But even in the USC game, the offense did nothing to help the defense through the first three quarters. I am not a fan of TOP as an indicator of football success. Obviously, the Ducks have disproved this indicator over the last three years. But when you're facing a Wisconsin team that has a power running game who eats up clock and keeps you're defense on the field for a long time, it is imperative for the offense to either score or move the ball successfully. This year, the offense has been stymied on three and outs, turnovers and other "drives" that harm the field position and gives our defense little rest.
I personally think Wilson is overrated, but that doesn't mean he's not very good. Wilson is perfect for the Badger offense. He doesn't have an ego and doesn't mind handing the ball off as long as it is working. Not only can he make plays with his arms, he can keep plays alive with his legs ala Terrelle Pryor and we all remember the fits that Pryor gave our defense.


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"I really believe Phil Lewis and myself, we are lifers. Before we joined L.A. GUNS , Phil and I had done a lot of stuff other than him just being in GIRL , and me being in W.A.S.P. We are a little bit older than the crowd. We have been playing since the mid-'70s. We are really gypsies; there is no doubt about it. We have to be on the move, we have family lives, and personal lives in L.A., but we are two gypsies. I think our families are gypsies now too. (Laughter) That is the secret to L.A. GUNS . It doesn't matter if we are playing a small club, or on a big tour. We have to play, and we have to record new music. I think that is the difference between us and other bands. We must record for ourselves. If we don't do new material there is no point. We love our old repertoire. We have to play a lot of it every night. We just love it all, but we can't live off that. We have to be writing new songs all the time."
"There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan"
"Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors"
"I have a lot of role models to study. Guys like Ray Lewis, Tedy Bruschi and Kendrell Bell. You learn from those guys and you learn as you go."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"
"Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness."


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Beef is a big business in Kentucky. The Commonwealth is the biggest beef producer, east of the Mississippi River. If it's on your shopping list, get ready to spend more for it.
More than 2,300 cattle were up for auction at the Blue Grass Stockyards on Monday. They're being sold are record-high prices.
"The high prices just reflect the high demand we have for our product," said Jeremy Wiles with Eugene Barber & Sons.
"Basically we're setting new records every day right now," said Jim Akers, COO for the Blue Grass Stockyards.
Akers says drought out West and last year's high grain costs have sent the number of cattle in the US to its lowest level since 1953. Now supply and demand is causing cattle prices to increase.
He says prices started going up in the fall and now is trickling down to the consumer which means beef will cost more at the grocery store and restaurants.
"There's not going to be some dramatic, next week I go to the grocery store and meat is twice as expensive," said Akers. "It's not going to be like that."
The USDA expects choice-beef prices to be 2.5-3.5% higher than last year. Akers expects prices to keep going up until the cattle supply can catch up with demand.
"We deal with a very slow biological process and it will take several years to build those numbers back up to where it will stabilize," said Akers.
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I have been going to hockey for 38 fucking years on this fucking planet, and I played in a fucking sweet intramural league at East St Louis Community Fucking College (ESLCFC), which makes watching the fucking Blackhawks really fucking painful sometimes. In all of my long amount of years attending or playing the fucking game, I have never met a fucking group that is more fucking inconsiderate group of sissies in my entire life.
I spent a fuckload of alot of money to get tickets to game 1 since it was the goddamn fucking Stanley Cup Finals, for fucking out loud. I have never been to a championship game for any of my fucking teams because I am too much of a pussy to root for the Bears or Bulls even though I fucking live in Chicago. So you can imagine I was fucking excited to go to this fucking game with three of my friends who are 30-45 years old.
Once we got to our fucking seats, we saw this fucking family sitting in front of us. I didn't think much of it until fucking Toews couldn't win a fucking face-off and the fucking Hawks kept missing the fucking net on every fucking shot; what the fuck were they doing? These fuckers in front of us turned around and told us that somehow even with that fucking horseshit defense letting in five fucking goals, it was my fucking language that was offending them. I mean, with all that fucking flailing at the puck, in the Stanley Cup Finals, they're worried about what I'm fucking saying?
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Then their fucking punk ass kid turns around and starts in on us about having respect for our fucking elders. Well we're 30-45 fucking years old, his parents aren't our fucking elders, so he can shut his bitch face right the fuck up. We offered to settle it, but of course he fucking pussied out. The point all of this brings to is 1) by the time you are 18, you should be able to handle a few fucking swear words, and 2) don't be such a fucking pussy.


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Jemima Prees from near Corsham, Wiltshire, was skiing with her family in Mayrhofen in the Tyrol region of Austria. She died after careering head first into a tree, despite wearing a helmet. Her brother and father tried to help her at the scene.
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text: It can be tough for the homeless to maintain a healthy lifestyle. With that in mind, over 50 Carroll High School students donated 150 hygienic kits to the Corpus Christi Metro Ministries.Items from the hygiene kits came from a donation run that started back in November of last year. Organizers praised the young teens for donating their time."It really teaches them leadership skills," said Nancy Bonilla, special projects manager for SERCO of Texas. "It's just really important for them in achieving their career goals."In addition, students received clothing items in the donation run, which will also be given to Metro Ministries.


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Wow, this salad was really delicious. Sometimes I'm in the mood for salads, and sometimes I just cannot stand them, to be honest. I have started tracking my calories and my workouts, mostly to make sure I'm making balanced meals and eating healthy and getting enough calories. We have increased our workouts to about everyday, sometimes twice a day. Nothing crazy, the second workout is usually walking a mile or 2 and playing with Elijah in the park.
I've tracked my food for about a week now, and I've learned several things. First, not surprisingly I am not getting enough calories. Second, vegetarian foods really do have less fat & calories. Third, I've learned that actually tracking your food & fitness during the day really does make you think about what you're eating and how active you are for the day.
This salad was great, I loved the different textures and the sweet and spicy peppers taste great with the lemon olive oil dressing.
buckwheat sprouts
Here is our first batch of buckwheat sprouts.
I adore these sprouts because they grow very long and have beautiful green leafy tops. Unfortunately, I've learned that these healthy good for you sprouts can also be toxic. What the heck?! I'm still learning a lot about them. But, from what I have read so far, if you eat too many buckwheat sprouts, as in juicing large quantities every day, you could suffer from a skin irritation/sun sensitivity called fagopyrism. The best article I have been able to find will give you fantastic information and a personal account of the toxicity can be found here, Are Buckwheat Greens Toxic? by Gilles Arbour.
I will continue to eat buckwheat sprouts because they do have a lot of nutritional value. I eat my sprouts raw in salads, soups and pastas in small quantities (a small handful). Just something to be aware of, know why you eat the food you do, the good & the bad.
cabbage soup
The other day, I made cabbage soup in my crockpot. It turned out delicious. I had quite a few fresh veggies like green beans, carrots and potatoes that I also added, along with a can of cannellini beans.
Cabbage is a great way to detox your body and add some roughage to your diet. This soup is fresh, full of vitamins, and is very good for you.
First I washed and cut the veggies. I used 2 carrots, 1 tomato, about a cup of green beans, 1 or 2 potatoes and 1 small head of cabbage. I filled the crockpot with water and added a bay leaf and 2-3 small veggie seasoning cubes. Cook on high for 6 hours, stir every so often. Near the end I added a can of white beans and adjusted the seasonings. I also added pepper, salt, cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes & banana pepper slices (I wanted it spicy).
Plain & simple, it's good for you!
I harvested some delicious alfalfa sprouts tonight. The sprouting seeds that I got from the Bread Becker's sprouted so very well. I started them Monday evening. You can see how dense they are:
3 quart sized bags stuffed full of alfalfa. Rinsing the sprouts daily under cold water will help them keep longer. I found an Oprah article about 10 Superfoods, with sprouts being one, of course. For more information about sprouts, visit the section on sprouts, here.
My first watermelon of the summer…sweet & juicy and delicious.
Fun Facts about Watermelons:
- Every part of a watermelon is edible, even the seeds and rinds.
- Watermelon is an ideal health food because it doesn't contain any fat or cholesterol, is high in fiber and vitamins A & C and is a good source of potassium.
- The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt.
- Watermelon is 92% water.
My sprouts did pretty well… For the first time sprouting, I am pretty happy. I started a new batch last night, I will keep you updated on the process.
were you wondering how my sprouts were growing?
here they are day 3: the first day we notice them coming up thru the tray
day 4: they almost doubled growing thru the tray
what did you learn today?
Ben always asks me, "What is one new thing you learned today"?
…today I learned how to sprout!
I have been wanting to grow sprouts for some time. We got this great automatic sprouter, Freshlife 2000 Automatic Sprouter, from Ben's parents. It was very easy to set up and I started the seeds yesterday. I will let you know how it goes in a few days! I am also reading a book, Sprouts The Miracle Food: The Complete Guide to Sprouting that Connie loaned to me.
I'm really looking forward to having my own sprouts instead of buying the box in the store. Sprouts are super duper baby plants extremely rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and beneficial enzymes. The benefits are endless.
The sprouter takes very little room in my kitchen, I have it placed directly behind my sink. You can see the blue water tube sprinkles water intermittently throughout the day, every hour. So, basically all you have to do is change the water a couple times a day!
vegetable plate
what: vegetable plate
tonite, I made a very filling vegetable plate, I could only finish half my plate. i roasted asparagus and brussel sprouts with coarse sea salt, pepper, and olive oil in a 400° oven 30 mins. for the sprouts and about half that for the asparagus. i boiled the corn for a few minutes and brushed with salt, pepper, EVOO, basil & italian parsley. the red beans were sauteed with garlic and onion.
? did you know?
that according to a survey in 2002, Brussels sprouts are Britain's most hated vegetable! They contain good amounts of vitamin K, A, C, folate and dietary fiber. for more detailed nutritional info go here.
have you heard the recent news about Almonds? raw almonds will no longer be "truly raw" b/c of a new mandate that all almonds including organic must be pasteurized. almonds have some amazing benefits, such as, a reduced risk of heart disease, cancer prevention, great source of calcium, magnesium, vitamin E, protein, fiber and antioxidants. these benefits will be reduced if not destroyed in the pasteurization process. go here to sign the petition. love this cartoon by Mike Adams:
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a testing question!
no rush at all on this _
i'm doing an online jQuery course and in one exercise they have posted a question erroneously _ it's not included in the answers BUT i just wondered if anyone here would like to puzzle it out
create a jQuery selector for_
the last element in any section of the page which is a <p> tag
(the exercise page had a <header> <article> and <footer> sections)
i had a go but i am a newbie to this and couldn't get it _
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Presumably jQuery allows you to use the pseudo selector so the answer would be whichever of the following three corresponded to the section of the page you wanted to find the last paragraph in:
at least that's how you can reference them from CSS and to the best of my knowledge that's how jQuery selectors work even in older browsers that don't support them directly in the CSS.
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I believe the
last-of-typeselector wasn't included in the sizzle selector engine jQuery is using. However, the non-standard
:lastselector is and I would interpret the question to simply mean this:
Which would address any paragraph that is a last child of any section in the document.Code:$('p:last')
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hey guys _ thanks for such a fast response!
sadly neither answer works!
i recognise the .last method and ran the code you wrote on the exercise question_ i appended your code with .css(background-color" etc) but only the last paragraph is highlighted
as far as i can tell the trick would be in how to bring the 3 sections together before applying the 'last paragraph' clause_ perhaps as the 'method' element
$("something in here").find("p.last");
anyway guys _ my thanks again
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We have good news this morning as the thunderstorm-wind damage threat has diminished.
Also, the bulk of the heaviest rain has moved east, but many towns have picked up more than 2" of rain during the last 12-hours and some areas have received 3-4". These lofty totals in addition to the 1" totals from Monday have caused soils to saturate quickly. Saturated soils have made tree-root systems unstable and to make matters worse... consistent, gusty winds this morning have brought trees down in some locations leading to power outages. We are hearing that power crews are working hard to restore electricity in many locations.
Also, even though the heaviest rain have come to and end, rivers and streams continue to rise and flood their banks in some places. A River Flood Warning has been posted for the French Broad River system in Henderson and Transylvania county until Thursday afternoon. Also, an Urban & Small Stream Flood Advisory has been issued for Cherokee, Union, Spartanburg and Laurens counties until 11:00AM today. Click here for the full statement from the NWS.
Western NC temperatures will remain in the 40s for many towns this morning, then drop into the 30s and some 20s tonight as off/on snow showers develop in the high elevations. There will be some light accumulations along the ridge tops, but the relatively brief and inconsistent nature of the snowfall shouldn't cause many problems on area roads other than some slippery side roads and back roads. NC scattered snow showers will come to and end by Thursday morning.
Upstate temperatures have warmed into the 50s for many towns on Wednesday morning and even some low 60s in the southern Upstate this morning. We normally have the warmest temperatures in the middle of the day, but that's not happening today! By afternoon, a strong cold front will pass and cause temperatures to fall into the 40s late this afternoon... then 30s overnight as our sky turns mostly clear by Thursday morning and the breezy conditions calm down.
If you have travel plans tomorrow (Thursday), the roads will have dried out as sunshine and a clear sky with cold conditions will be the focus Thursday morning.


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Goddard faces $550,000 deficitBy Eric Blaisdell
STAFF WRITER | June 15,2013While avoiding any layoffs, Goddard College in Plainfield is imposing pay cuts on its faculty and staff to help counter a $550,000 deficit.
President Barbara Vacarr and Chief Financial Officer Faith Brown met with a reporter and Times Argus Editor Steven Pappas on Friday to discuss the cuts and how the school plans to turn around its financial situation.
The school is running a deficit in its $12 million to $13 million operating budget, Brown said. To bring that number in check, she said, faculty and staff will see tiered pay reductions based on how much money they make. Employees making $30,000 or less will be unaffected, Vacarr said. Other cuts include a suspension of matching contributions for retirement, no severance pay, and some reduced hours for the equivalent of 1½ full-time employees in all departments.
Brown said the school is planning for the cuts to last only a year.
The deficit does not affect any of Goddards capital projects already in the works, they said.
Vacarr described the plan, which was outlined to the Goddard community Friday, as a correction. It received unanimous approval from Goddards board of directors earlier Friday.
Brown said the reason for the deficit is the same problem colleges across the country are facing: declining enrollment. She said higher education is under pressure from a sluggish economy, and with Goddard being 96 percent tuition dependent, with a very small endowment, the school has been forced to look to other revenue sources.
Another reason for Goddards financial difficulties is the way the school fixed its previous economic problems. In 2002, the school closed its residential program and focused all of its efforts on its low-residency model, where students are on campus for just days rather than months and do most of their work at home.
Vacarr said that change put a tourniquet on the problem, and enrollment started to come back. But no one had a plan for the future, she said. What the school is doing today is trying to correct those changes to help keep the school financially solvent, Vacarr said.
The school could have simply raised tuition to help balance the budget, but after already raising tuition by 4 percent earlier this year, Vacarr said, she decided against another increase. She said she did not want to pass any costs on to students.
Our commitment is to keep tuition accessible and within the range of public (college) tuition, Vacarr said.
Instead, Vacarr said, they are continuing to invest in areas of the school where results are taking root, including marketing, partnerships and fundraising.
Laying off employees to help fix the financial issues was another option Vacarr said she refused to consider.
There have been decisions made in fear, and I dont think thats a good way to make a decision, she said. It has to be data driven.
But its not all bad news, as Vacarr said that data and initiatives the school has put into place are starting to show results, and she hopes continuation of those programs will help dig the school out of its financial problems. Certain partnerships that have generated interest in the school are feeding students to the college.
The school is leasing parts of its campus to the Waldorf School and EarthWalk, and Goddard is in talks with the Center for Circumpolar Navigation for a lease.
Goddard also is getting much more interest from potential students, Vacarr said, as inquiries have increased by 33 percent to 5,074 and raw applications have increased by 155 percent to 1,106.
The fundraising the school has been doing is also starting to pay off, Vacarr said, with a once-nonexistent fundraising initiative having gone up 88 percent in the last year. There were 155 new donors to the college in fiscal year 2013, she said.
Faced with the challenges, Vacarr and Brown indicated they will not know if the seeds of their work will yield fruit until about April, when a complete analysis is finished.
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