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Manchester may be best known for its football team, but the city is actually worthy of fame for many different aspects of its culture. If you're thinking of going away for the weekend, why not book a room in one of our Manchester hotels, and explore a bit? From music, to architecture, to history, to sporting culture, there's so much to see and do. Here are a few ideas to help you fit it all in one weekend:
You don't have to be a big reader to appreciate the beauty of the John Rylands Library. The building is stunning, and well worth a wander, particularly as it's free. But you can see the real history of Manchester for free at the Museum of Science & Industry, which is often praised for its innovative ways of telling the city's industrial history. The Greater Manchester Police Museum is also worth a stop in, particularly if you've never been arrested and want to experience a simulation.
The Quays is a must visit area to see all the outlandish modern architecture. The Lowry art gallery and theatre is a bizarre site, as is the award-winning Imperial War Museum. Old Trafford is just around the corner, as is the Manchester United Museum, which no football fan should leave the city without seeing. Albert Square, Manchester Cathedral and the Manchester Town Hall are all beautiful and worth a quick visit, which can be done from one of the open bus tours.
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Stonerig Racing is every little car enthusiast's dream. The venue is entirely dedicated to scalextric tracks, of which there are 7, and with their high-tech computer system, the staff help to organise properly officiated races. Anyone with an eye for engineering design will be impressed by the construction of the tracks, and anyone who enjoys a healthy bit of competition will get thoroughly caught up in the chance to battle it out against the rest of the family.
Manchester has a bustling nightlife scene, with everything on offer from ballet and opera to good old-fashioned clubbing. Canal Street is a very popular hive of activity, with lots of restaurants, bars and late-night clubs. Manchester's Chinatown is enormous and is perfect to visit for a meal or just an evening wander. But, if you're looking for a really different night out, why not visit the Manchester Greyhound Stadium? The thrill of the trackside excitement is a great way to get any night underway.
If you like your brunch greasy and your environment basic, The Alchemist is not for you. But if you're looking to start the day in style with an exquisite meal, you'll love this brunch spot that transforms into a cocktail bar when evening comes.
If you happen to be in Manchester on a Sunday, The Northern Quarter is the place to go for lunch. The set menu has plenty of choice, including all sorts of British classics.
Richmond Tea Rooms is one of the hidden gems of Manchester. Walk through an unprepossessing entrance to find yourself in a whole Alice in Wonderland style world with an afternoon tea to match.
There is a lot of Asian cuisine in Manchester, the best of which is often considered to be Umezushi. Order the very popular tasting menu and you won't be disappointed.
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British inventor Laurence Kemball-Cook's flexible, recycled rubber Pavegen stones, harness the kinetic energy of people walking on busy city streets. According to Kemball-Cook's research, an estimated 50,000 pedestrians step on a typical paving stone on a busy street each day.
Each time someone steps on the flexible rubber Pavegen stone it flexes and creates kinetic energy. Each slab generates 2.1 watts per hour when located in an area with high footfall based on a hit rate of a footstep every four to ten seconds. Testing at trial sites has shown that five hours of walking at peak time will generate enough power to illuminate a bus stop for twelve hours.
The Pavegen System has the potential to supply renewable green energy to power automatic doors, lights, public information systems, ticket-machines in busy urban areas such as city streets, airports and schools.
Currently trials are scheduled for several locations in the UK for early 2010.
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A puppet master, she happily influences the movement of every instrument, creating detailed rhythmical patterns while pulling at each string. The word "come" runs in and out of the song, leaving us no choice but to follow her. By listening to her music, we too become puppets, bobbing along to hypnotic beats and jazzy bass, no idea of what's to come, but happy to have relinquished control.
An old hat at this, every part of Molina's approach appears effortless, and although far from a simple piece, the complexities settle in with ease. After several years of silence, her album, Wed 21, will be released through record label Crammed Discs on October 29. Enjoy!


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Mets battle back, fall to Nationals in ninth 8-7
Coming off a solid 7-3 victory in D.C., the Mets sent Dillon Gee to the hill to take on rookie Tom Milone. Gee started off the game by giving up a lead off home run to Ian Desmond down the left field line after a scoreless first by the Mets.
After a scoreless second for the Met offense, Gee blew up. He gave up four runs in the inning, including a three-run home run on the first pitch to Tom Milone. Milone really helped himself out, blasting one into the right field bullpen on the first pitch he saw in the majors. That home run came right after an RBI double by Jesus Flores. By the end of the inning, the Nats had pounded out four runs on four hits and were leading 5-0.
In the fourth, the Mets started to scratch away at the five-run deficit. With one outs and David Wright and Justin Turner on base, Angel Pagan came up big with a clutch single that scored them both and reduced the deficit to three. Two batters later, after Pagan stole second, Nick Evans homered to left, scoring Angel Pagan andnarrowing the Washington lead to just one run.
The Nats got an insurance run, extending their lead to 6-4 on a Roger Bernadina solo homer. That would be all for Dillon Gee. After the fifth, Gee left, allowing a total of six runs on eight hits. He walked one and struck out six on 95 pitches.
Jason Bay hit a two-run shot (Did I just actually say that?) in the seventh to tie the game at 6-6.
From then on, it was a battle of the bullpens, and of course, we all know how bad the Met bullpen is. However, for the first three innings, they kept their cool and shut down the Nats. Pedro Beato and Daniel Herrera, the new lefty from the Brewers got out of a jam in the sixth. Then came Manny Acosta, who was lights out over his two innings, striking out five, while only walking one. He was really impressive.
Then, came Bobby Parnell (Cue the horror movie music)
In the ninth, with the Mets up 7-6, Jesus Flores immediately got on with a single. Then, Brian Bixler, who pinch ran for Flores, reached second on a wild pitch by Parnell. Then Parnell walked the next batter to put runners on first and second. The net hitter, Ian Desmond, made the smartest play of the night (I have to give credit to the fundamentals!), laying down a great sac bunt to put Bixler and Johnny Gomes on second and third. From there, the game was in the Nationals hands. With runners on second and third this season against Parnell, hitters are hitting .333 against him. Roger Bernadina was then walked to bring in the double play possibility.
The next hitter, Ryan Zimmerman, killed the Mets, hitting a shallow pop up to right field that Lucas Duda just couldn't reach to win the game 8-7 for the Nats.
Overall, this game was really exciting, but it made me realize two negative aspects about the roster next year:
- Lucas Duda doesn't have the speed to be a full-time outfielder. Radio personalities and bloggers were saying that it's alright that the Mets have a bad defense next year, as long as they can hit. But in these types of situation, the Lucas Dudas of the world really hurt you.
- Bobby Parnell is not the closer of the future. It's over, just give the job to Beato so we can get on with this.
Shout out to Malcom: Thanks for the title!


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Tauck's "Classic New England" Tour
Scotty and I chat about this experience the rest of the day. We stop to shoot as we travel through the notches on our way west. We pass Twin Mountain, Bethlehem, Littleton. We stop at a covered bridge and at The Brick Store, in Bath, the oldest emporium in New Hampshire (established 1790). The owner, Nancy Lusby, is making her famous fudge. Leaf peepers are stopping by. High-school kids are selling pumpkins to raise money.
An overcast sky follows us the rest of the way southwest into Vermont. Once again, I pass through villages that are so familiar from years of family outings. When we turn onto Route 100A, heading for the Hawk Inn in Plymouth, I flash back to where I once lost my brakes in the dead of winter, driving down an incline with my 10-year-old beside me.
It's been a day of old and new memories. After dinner, exhaustion wins, and I'm down for the count.
Day Four
5:30 a.m. I open the curtains to a blanket of fresh snow, the season's first here. A white cover over the foliage creates an indelible image.
The day begins with homemade granola, banana pancakes, orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon, and fresh coffee. I have to shoot the food–it's part of the assignment, and I always fulfill the assignment! With snow turning to drizzle, we hit the road toward Calvin Coolidge's family homestead, a State Historic Site, just down the road. Scotty tells me that it was right here in Vermont that Coolidge learned of President Harding's death and was actually sworn in as president by his father, a notary public, right "over there in that house."
En route northeast to Billings Farm in Woodstock, we stop time and again to photograph cows, horses, and farmstands. After the long weekend, the tourists have departed, and we're free to enjoy less congested views. Billings is a century-old working farm that's also a beautiful museum. Susan Power, a gracious and informative guide, escorts us around the property. I'm struck that everyone we meet is so passionate about their work. Across the road from the farm is the home of Mary and Laurance Rockefeller, the last owners of Billings Farm, whose summer residence is now part of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
Day Five
We'll spend our final day making our way down to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, or what Scotty calls "the place where Arthur Tauck was first inspired to begin a touring company."
The skies are once again clear and blue against the yellow, red, and golden leaves, which have now nudged past peak. There's an expression I've picked up along the way: "Eventually the trees will go twiggy. That's when we know we've turned the corner."
After a cozy lunch at The Williams Inn in Williamstown, Scotty organizes a little photo shoot of the coach and its travelers from
Australia, Great Britain, and various Western states. He boards the bus and thanks everyone for letting us tag along on their tour; then we bid them all farewell. As the tour drives south to the town of Stockbridge and a stop at the Norman Rockwell Museum, we head east down the Mohawk Trail to get our final shots. We've saved the end for getting to the beginning, when in 1924 Arthur Tauck, the traveling salesman, was making his rounds in his Studebaker, peddling his coin trays (his own invention) to bankers in remote New England towns. As he drove this winding route, admiring its beauty, he wished that he had a few guests along with whom to share it, figuring that people would gladly travel here if only they had a guide. Thus the seed was planted, and Tauck tours were born.
Tauck advertised his first guided tour in a local New Jersey paper in 1925. The one-week excursion cost $69 per person, all meals and accommodations included; six people took him up on his offer. Everything I saw on this trip was different from that one, of course–except the chill mornings, the warming sun, the shimmering leaves.


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Thursday, 14 June 2012
Epidemic of Identity Theft
"J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, testified before Congress this month that the I.R.S. detected 940,000 fake returns for 2010 in which identity thieves would have received $6.5 billion in refunds.
"But Mr. George said the agency missed an additional 1.5 million returns with possibly fraudulent refunds worth more than $5.2 billion."
That's from a New York Times story a couple of weeks ago about a fast-growing new form of identity theft – false tax returns. South Florida, where the problem has been labeled "epidemic" by officials, has the highest rate of identity-theft tax fraud in the U.S. with elders being easy targets:
"Most vulnerable are records from health care facilities, assisted-living centers, schools, insurance companies, pension funds and large stores that issue credit cards. The police say employees steal the information and sell it, an increasingly common practice here."
It may be rampant in south Florida but don't feel complacent just because you don't live there. Here are a few figures on identity theft in general from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a part of the U.S. Department of Justice:
• In 2010, 7.0% of households in the United States, or about 8.6 million households, had at least one member age 12 or older who experienced one or more types of identity theft victimization.
• Among households in which at least one member experienced one or more types of identity theft, 64.1% experienced the misuse or attempted misuse of an existing credit card account in 2010.
In regard to identity-theft tax fraud, the Federal Trade Commission reports that "Government documents/benefits fraud" jumped from 10 percent of complaints received by the agency in 2005 to 19 percent in 2010.
My point is that identity theft can happen to anyone. According to the Times story, even a Tampa police officer whose job it is to investigate identity theft along with two dozen other officers "had their identities stolen and tax refunds diverted this year."
"[T]he problem has gotten so bad that police officers conducting unrelated searches or simple traffic stops routinely stumble across ledgers with names and Social Security numbers, boxes of stolen medical records and envelopes with debit cards."
Okay, okay. I'm pretty sure you've got the point. The remaining issue is what you can do about it. The simple answer is be alert but let's get more practical that that.
Never, ever give out your Social Security number to anyone who is not required to have it. There is a list here of organizations to whom you are required to provide your Social Security number. You can guess what they are – federal and state government agencies, employers, banks and others who are required to report monetary transactions.
But there is a gigantic catch-22: Your Medicare number is a dead giveaway: it is your Social Security number with a letter attached at the end. The crooks know that too, so while it's common to warn against carrying our Social Security cards in our wallets, few mention Medicare cards.
The non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center is a trustworthy source of good, wide-ranging information and this is their suggestion for the Medicare card dilemma.
Other good sources of prevention and other information include:
Social Security Administration
The Federal Trade Commission
The Privacy Rights Clearing House
Although it is becoming less common, many retailers ask for Social Security numbers – they use them, they say, as account or tracking numbers. Wrong! And you should never give out your Social Security number for a purchase. Do keep in mind, however, that if they insist, you may have to give up doing business with that company.
Sometimes it can take months before a victim becomes aware that his or her identity has been stolen, credit cards or loans have been made in the victim's name or a tax refund has been sent to the crook, etc.
The longer it goes on, the harder it is to untangle the mess. One way to track potential ID theft is through the three credit reporting agencies.
Everyone is entitled to one free credit report per year from each of the agencies. So here is a routine that will help keep you up to date on your credit activity:
- Request your free report from Experian.
- Wait four months.
- Request your free report from Equifax.
- Wait four months.
- Request your free report from TransUnion.
- Wait four months and then request your annual report from Experian again, and so on.
That way, you have a continuing, rolling report of credit activity throughout the year at no cost.
None of the prevention measures are perfect but these and other suggestions from the linked websites above will help keep you safer if not completely safe.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Jackie Harrison: The Canyon
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I had my identity stolen and the woman who stole it used my number to get Dish Cable. When she didn't pay the nearly $500 bill they charged the amount to my credit card. It took me several months a a lot of stress to untangle the mess. My credit card company did a sloppy job of investigating and I finally had to go up the ladder to the highest general manager to convince them that the charge was not mine.
The Dish satellite company then tried again to charge me. I threatened them with the Attorney General. They backed off, but all of this caused me sleepless nights and a lot of stress.
The only way the woman could have gotten my credit card number was at a restaurant where you give the card to the server at a table and they take it to the cashier.
Unfortunately, if you eat out often you will never know where the theft occurred.
Useful information, Ronni. I'm doing all these things to protect myself, but it hadn't occurred to me to get the free annual credit reports at four-month intervals. That's an excellent suggestion.
I do carry a card with contact information and "pertinent medical information" as the ITRC link recommends. I have type 2 diabetes and am prone to hypoglycemia and include that info., so emergency responders know that I may need sugar ASAP. I also note that I'm allergic to penicillin.
I, too, carry an emergency contact card with my PCP, allergies, and medications listed. I've never carried my Medicare card, knowing my SS was on it. Simply knowing my number has been sufficient in all but one situation, but I intend to get and carry a photocopy with the last 4 digits cut out.
Would you believe many years ago in Oklahoma they actually used your SS number as your driver's license number!?
It is fairly simple to "lock" your credit reports. This means that nobody (including you) can open a new credit card or up the limit on an existing one without unlocking. When you are establishing new credit (like with Dish), you unlock which ever bureau they use for them and only for them. I've done this for years and found it is only a minor nuisance.
Good practical advice.
We had to deal with credit card fraud a while ago. Quite a nuisance.
I have been carrying around my Medicare card but will stop doing so.
I stopped carrying anything with my SSN on it years ago and rarely use a card of any kind if it has to be taken out of my sight. Although it may be somewhat risky to carry cash, that's pretty much what my husband and I do on the occasional times when we eat out. Since we rarely eat at high-end restaurants (who can afford those prices?!), we generally know about how much the bill will be and plan accordingly.
I fondly remember the days when people didn't live in constant fear of being financially victimized one way or another. Finding ever more creative ways to steal seems to be a sign of the times.
Hmm, well, I have NO credit record. Haven't had any since I & late husband were in our mid-30s (60 now). No credit cards, period. It's sometimes a disadvantage, but on the other hand, I pity the poor thief who tries to steal my identity for a credit card. I've actually sent off for those credit card offers that come in the mail, all DENIED.
At this moment a brand new credit card is on its way to me via overnight post. My very alert cc company noted two strange overseas charges and put a hold on our card, then called us to verify. I don't know for sure how the thieves got the number, but it followed close behind an online lapse in smarts on my part. The only info I gave was my name and my cell phone number, but they must have sophisticated software that connects the dots somehow. What a pain to have to redo all my online autopay and purchase sites. Hard lesson learned.
The suggestion for dealing with Medicare card is a good one. I always have it in my wallet, but only need it for a new doctor or such. My prescription drug card has my husband's SSN as well. One more potential problem there.
PiedType mentioned that OK used SSNs on DLs. Many states did that. In addition, back in the 1950s-1970s, schools (post high-school) used one's SSN as their student number.
Dear Ronni,
I am a filmmaker. I am also the daughter of two elderly people who were the victims of such exploitation, and I was referred to you by a journalist who interviewed me yesterday.
My parents' life savings were embezzled by a man who insinuated himself into their lives. In my frustrating and ultimately futile struggle to find justice for my parents, I learned just how prevalent these crimes are — and how safe from prosecution and conviction the perpetrators are. I had to do something, and so my documentary "Last Will and Embezzlement" was born. It stars Mickey Rooney, it premièred in NYC in April and it's being distributed by Terra Nova Films Inc (http://terranova.org/Home.asp) in Chicago.
The film examines the financial exploitation of the elderly, featuring disturbing first-hand accounts from real-life victims, including Hollywood icon Mr. Mickey Rooney, as well as in-depth interviews with experts who discuss such key issues as victim profiles, the perpetrators' modus operandi, the symptoms and effects of these crimes, as well as potential solutions to this ever-increasing worldwide problem.
I just want to say 'Bravo!' to you for the work you do. Any and all blogs and well-written articles which draw attention to the issue are a boon not only to the elderly, but to baby boomers, who are on their way to being seniors, and to all those who love them.
FWIW the Terra Nova film link did not connect for me.
Good suggestions. Seems not much is secure any more.
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READ: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Letter of Resignation to Speaker Boehner
Fox News has confirmed that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), the son of Reverend Jesse Jackson, will resign from Congress. Jackson submitted his letter of resignation to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Read his letter of resignation below.
Jackson, 47, was re-elected earlier this month, having represented an area of Chicago since 1995. He had been on medical leave from Congress since June, undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder.
He won re-election overwhelmingly despite not campaigning. Jackson Jr. has also been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over the scandal involving President Obama's vacated Senate seat. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is now serving a federal prison sentence on corruption charges, one of which being his attempt to sell the Senate seat appointment.
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OLD stars make rude hosts. A survey of ageing stars offers some of the first direct evidence that the cantankerous elders often rip their nearest planets to shreds.
Planet-hunting surveys have found many sun-like stars with hot Jupiters, giant worlds in close orbits. However, hot Jupiters are rarely found around older stars called subgiants, which have burned through their fuel and puffed up to several times their original size. This is widely thought to be because the puffy stars were up to twice the mass of the sun when they were younger, and that might have influenced where their planets formed.
To help test this notion, Kevin Schlaufman and Joshua Winn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tracked the positions of 142 planet-hosting stars in our galaxy. Stars are born in clusters which disperse as they age. More massive stars burn out faster, so their elderly populations are usually found closer together.
But the team found that subgiants with planets are more spread out, so are older than expected, meaning that the stars were probably about the mass of our sun in their youth. That means more of them should have hot Jupiters. So where did they go?
The best conclusion, they say, is that the stars exerted extreme gravitational forces as they swelled up, stretching out their inner planets until they fell apart. The finding hints that the same fate may lie in store for Earth when the sun puffs up into a red giant in 6 billion years' time.
The work has been accepted by The Astrophysical Journal.
This article appeared in print under the headline "Elderly stars like to shred their closest planets"
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1st Colonial Bancorp, Inc. (1st Colonial Bancorp or 'the company') provides a range of business and consumer financial services through its three New Jersey branch offices located in Collingswood, Westville, and Cinnaminson. It is the holding company of 1st Colonial National Bank (the bank). The company primarily operates in the US, where it is headquartered in Collingswood, New Jersey.
ACE Limited (ACE or 'the company') is the holding entity of the ACE Group of Companies. ACE offers insurance and reinsurance products to individuals and corporates worldwide. It also provides miscellaneous financial services across different markets. The company primarily operates in Switzerland, Bermuda, the US, Japan, and Europe. It is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and employed approximately 21,000 people as of December 31, 2014.
Achmea B.V. (Achmea or "the company") formerly known as Eureko BV is one of the largest insurance providers in the Netherlands. The company offers life, non-life and health insurance, and banking products. Achmea operates in the Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Slovakia, Ireland and Australia. It is headquartered in Zeist, the Netherlands and employed 9,734 full-time employees as of December 31, 2013.
ADITYA BIRLA NUVO LIMITED (ABN or "the company") is a diversified conglomerate within Aditya Birla Group. The company through its subsidiaries operates a portfolio of manufacturing as well as service sector businesses ranging from textiles to financial services. The company primarily operates in 36 countries spanning across six continents. It is headquartered in Gujarat, India and employed approximately 69,000 people as of March 31, 2013.
Aegon N.V. (Aegon or "the group") is a holding company. Aegon's businesses focus on life insurance, pensions and asset management. The group is also active in accident, supplemental health, and general insurance, and has some limited banking activities. Aegon's operations are conducted through its operating subsidiaries. The group operates in the Americas, Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Hague, the Netherlands, and employed 23,474 people as at December 31, 2013.
Aetna, Inc. (Aetna or 'the company') is one of the leading health care benefit companies, offering a range of traditional and customized health insurance solutions. The company provides health insurance products and services such as medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life, long term care insurance, disability benefits, and medical management. The company operates primarily in the US. Aetna is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and employed 48,600 people as on December 31, 2013.
Aflac Incorporated (Aflac or "the company") is a general business holding company that sells health and life insurance including cancer life plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans and annuities through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac). AFLAC primarily operates in the US and Japan. It is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia and employed 9,141 people as of December 31, 2013.
Ageas SA/NV (Ageas or 'the group') is an international insurance group engaged in providing life and non-life insurance, and employee benefits. The group primarily operates in Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and employed 13,071 people as on December 31, 2013.
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Can Pinterest work for you? Don't hold your breath.
The recent explosion of Pinterest popularity begs the obvious question for marketers:
How can we use Pinterest to sell our stuff?
Here's the answer: Unless you're in retail, you probably can't.
That's the truth.
Here's why: It's critical to understand what Pinterist is and is not. For marketing purposes, it's high emotion retail. It's lifestyle-oriented hard goods. It's stuff that pinners think makes them look cool.
Let's set aside key Pinterest elements like recipes, inspirational quotes, humorous cartoons and dog/cat/travel photography. Chances are, you aren't trying to sell those. (And if you've figured out how to monetize those things, you sure as hell aren't reading this blog.)
If we focus on what's left, it falls into four main categories:
Cool. Cute. Inspirational. Funny.
Does your product mix contain something in any of those categories? Don't rationalize or stretch the truth to suit your own interests. Honestly answer the question. Do NOT be like the guy from a medical devices company who asks, "I wonder if we can use Pinterest to sell our products."
Hell, even the veritable Brian Clark (of Copyblogger fame) can't resist pandering to Pinterest. (That's OK, Brian. You're still cool.)
I'm all in favor of creative thinking and finding ways to solve problems, but come on. Medical devices on Pinterest? Um, no. Unless you're looking for giant pile of scorn and hate.
Professor Christopher Long, as quoted in Fast Company, explains it like this:
"Pinterest boards are like its users' personal happiness collages. [They represent] things that I appreciate, that I desire, and that express who I am, whether the things are cupcakes, shirtless David Beckham, or an inspirational quotation."
Spend 15 objective minutes with Pinterest and it's clear that many of the pins are for commercial products, magazines, cookbooks, blogs and more. But what makes it work is that users don't feel like they're victims of a hard sell or some robotically placed ad.
So in that sense, it's best to reframe the question. If you want success on Pinterest, don't ask "What can Pinterest do for me?" The real question is, "What can I contribute to the core mission of Pinterest?" And THAT requires empathy, something many marketers just don't have.
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The rhythms — quick, darting and syncopated — caromed around the inside of the bus. The sounds — horns, shakers and claves together — were infectious, beckoning her to dance.
Thousands of miles away from her home in West Palm Beach, Melissa Ortiz, 18, felt at ease traveling with her teammates on the Colombian national soccer team. The salsa and merengue music entertaining the players were no different than what her parents played as she grew up in the United States, the lively dance steps already a part of her repertoire.
Four years later, Ortiz, who played at Cardinal Newman High School and Lynn University, continues to embrace her heritage as she competes for Colombia in the London Olympics, courtesy of her dual citizenship. She is one of more than three dozen athletes with ties to South Florida participating in the 2012 Games. Half of those athletes are representing countries other than the United States.
The region's presence in London spans all four hemispheres and illustrates its vast diversity.
"I've grown up around Colombian culture," Ortiz said. "It's really connected me to my roots."
For some athletes, it offers the once-in-a-lifetime chance to compete on the highest international stage — an opportunity perhaps more highly contested on the U.S. Olympic team. For others, South Florida was merely home to the best available training, and uprooting one's life was necessary.
Ortiz was unaware Colombia even had a national team until she was in high school, when she decided to attend tryouts. With a smaller competition pool than that of the United States, the team is still in its fledgling stages. Colombia participated in theWomen's World Cupfor the first time just last year, though Ortiz did not make the squad.
So on Saturday, when Ortiz and Colombia take on the United States, a proving ground is in place. It's a game four years in the making and one to show that she belongs.
"I'm pumped," she said. "I can't wait to play against them."
Pride in one's homeland is undoubtedly a theme of every Olympic Games, and that is especially true of the South Floridians competing for other countries. Swimmers Esau Simpson and Branden Whitehurst, along with British volleyball player Ciara Michel, feel a similar passion that drives them through their rigorous training.
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Esau Simpson's Facebook page floods with messages from back home. Family, friends and perhaps even future Olympic hopefuls who train in the same four-lane, 25-yard pool that he outgrew all support the 21-year old from Grenada.
Simpson, who was raised in Grenada and recently completed his sophomore season at Nova Southeastern, will swim the 100-meter freestyle in London.
He is one of 10 Grenadians competing in the London Olympics. Eight are track and field athletes. One competes in taekwondo. And Simpson swims — alone.
"In Grenada we have a slight habit of kids just falling behind on the urge to swim," Simpson said. "This will motivate them to see that if I can do it, they can probably do it."
And like last year when he swam at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, Simpson said he feels pressure once again.
"I'm representing my country," Simpson said. "I'm representing all the swimmers past in Grenada. Past, present and future.
"But I've worked hard to swim at this level, so I'm pretty confident in that."
The goal for London is to simply exceed his personal best in the 100-meter freestyle. But his objectives in swimming are much larger. Simpson has two more years of college, then two more years until the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He calls that "another goal to strive for."
In the meantime, he hopes to be a lodestar for young Grenadian swimmers by generating a lasting interest in the sport.


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The horror… Part 1
I am a horror director… to many, including my family, that means that I am sick in the head…
I can't begin to tell you how many times I have been asked…
"Have you been dropped on your head?"
"Did your parents lock you in the basement?"
"Were you abused?"
The answer to all the above questions is undoubtably… NO.
I don't know if you would call me normal, but crazy I am not…
Recently, while researching this script, I was turned onto a variety of websites that explored various 'dark' religious practices and beliefs… The research led to dark corners, Satanism, cults, etc… Yet, most of what I was looking up rolled off my back, and was interesting but never scary… Having the love of horror has allowed me to see some pretty terrible things… All of them however, make-believe.
However, in my research of 11 11 11, I found myself becoming increasingly more and more unsettled… There was a point at which I got utterly depressed…
No longer was I researching horror movies, made-up monsters, or things that went bump in the night. I was seeing REAL people, doing really horrible things…
I am a poser…
I am not a killer or a psycho nor am I mentally damaged… I just like scary movies… I like Freddy Krueger, Jason, Michael Meyers… I like Jigsaw… I hate to shatter your perceptions of who you think I am… But I am just a dude who likes movies… Who owns a fluffy dog, and loves musicals…
Reading these websites, however, introduced me to a TRUE type of evil… It showed me something that seemed like works of fiction but were indeed FACT.
It got to a point that my wife FORCED me to stop digging… She pulled me from the rabbit hole. It wasn't until weeks later that I truly saw how fucked up I really was…
The research led me to question everything… Not only my religious beliefs – but also the world around me…
Knowing what people are capable of… Human Nature at its worst…
While my studying fueled the story of my script – it also awakened a morbid curiosity inside of me…
WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE? I am not talking about religion, or aliens, or any other cryptozoology creature… I am talking about life in general… Reality… What exists out there in the world that I am not aware of? Could Angels exist? Demons? God? The Devil? Could there be more to the world that I am not aware of? Or maybe there is truly nothing… Any of these possibilities fascinated me… But, at the same time, terrified me.
I finished the first draft of 11 11 11 without losing my mind – though at times I stepped into some very dark places… But my curiosity ended on the Web. Once I closed my computer and shut off the Internet I was transported back into the SANE NORMAL world in which I lived… My wife… My dog… Seinfeld.
Cut to today. Never in a million years would I have imagined that coming to Spain would bring me one step closer to the horrors I had read about online.
I would consider myself a rational and sane, thinking person… I try not to buy into outlandish concepts… But I can absolutely say, without pause or hesitation, that one of the locations we are using to shoot a big portion of the movie in is the scariest place I have ever been… Not scary in the BOO a ghost might pop out and scare us… Something much darker…
The horror director in me is amazed at the opportunity to step outside of my comfort zone, and work in a location that's history seems as dark as any movie I have worked on… But there is another part of me that is apprehensive about allowing myself back down the rabbit hole I found myself dropped into some months back…
The thing that is bumming me out the most right now, as every day I come from work, and I call my parents, and friends, and want to talk about the crazy shit I have just seen or learned… And almost all of them feel it's some ploy – or publicity to hype the film. Instead of being taken by my experiences and research – they roll their eyes and say…
"Yeah, right…"
I will make you a promise right now my dear readers… these next series of blogs are NOT hype for the film, or fiction…
Now that we have gotten the preamble out of the way… Let's talk about the house… The main location were we will be shooting 11 11 11.
But, that will have to wait until my next blog.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a new name for a very old condition. In the earlier 1900s, it was known as "shell shock" or "battle fatigue." Before then, it had no name. In PTSD, a witness or victim of a terrible event or tragedy is so haunted by memories of the event that personal health and personality is affected.
Research suggests that as many as 10% of the population will be affected at one time in their life with PTSD. Women are twice as likely to be affected as men. The specific type of trauma is important in the gender distribution. For example, women exposed to a physical attack or threatened with a weapon are more likely than men to develop PTSD if exposed to the same trauma. However, women who are sexually assaulted are less likely to develop PTSD than men who are sexually assaulted.
While approximately 50% of the population is exposed to severe trauma at some time during their life, fewer than 20% of these individuals will develop PTSD.
The kinds of events that can trigger PTSD were traditionally limited to the most violent and frightening situations, such as being involved in a plane crash, a shooting, or the collapse of a building after an earthquake or bomb. The main source of such trauma is war, and in North America the largest category of PTSD sufferers are war veterans. Much of what we know about this syndrome comes from studies involving former soldiers.
More recently, the definition has broadened. People who suffer rape or physical or sexual abuse may react in much the same way as those who have witnessed carnage or been threatened by violent death. In this context, PTSD among children has become a major focus because they are particularly likely to develop the symptoms associated with this condition.
The most noticeable signs in a person suffering from PTSD are introversion and joylessness. People with this syndrome are unable to take pleasure from things they might have enjoyed in the past. They avoid the company of others and become generally more passive than before. They wish to avoid anything that will trigger memories of the traumatic event. A person with PTSD might drift out of a conversation and appear distant and withdrawn. This is known among soldiers as a "thousand-yard stare." This is a sign that unpleasant memories have returned to haunt them.
Having trouble sleeping is almost inevitable in this syndrome. Nightmares are common, and even when someone with PTSD is not thinking about the event, sleep is often disturbed. A common symptom among veterans is nocturnal myoclonus, a sudden spasm of the whole body while sleeping or drifting off into sleep. It lasts for about a fraction of a second, but may occur several times in a single night. Often people with PTSD will sleep through such a spasm, but their partner may not. Children with PTSD may have many nightmares, yet those dreams may not contain anything that's obviously related to the original trauma.
Psychiatrists speak of three symptoms that define PTSD - intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal. Intrusion is the inability to keep memories of the event from returning. Avoidance is an attempt to avoid stimuli and triggers that may bring back those memories. Hyperarousal is similar to jumpiness. It may include insomnia (trouble sleeping), a tendency to be easily startled, a constant feeling that danger or disaster is nearby, an inability to concentrate, extreme irritability, or even violent behaviour.
Depression is very likely to go hand in hand with PTSD, and in severe cases, suicide is a real danger. People with this syndrome, as with any psychiatric illness, are more likely than average to abuse alcohol or drugs. Psychiatrists see this as an attempt to self-medicate the condition, but naturally the drugs involved are very unlikely to improve the situation.


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Why do you need four-wheel drive?
Not only for real SUVs has four-wheel-drive sense. Even the fashionable SUV ride it better, even if the majority of buyers, the 2WD models (2 wheel drive = 2-wheel drive) is preferred. Also pick-up trucks, these are the open cargo bed with the are better served with all-wheel drive. And even ordinary passenger cars have in everyday life with four-wheel drive significant benefits.
It's not just about the accidental jamming in a snowdrift, but the driving behavior in general. Four driven wheels provide extra security in the winter anyway, in the wet as well, with hill starts, when towing a trailer, fully loaded, with loose gravel and more.
What types of four-wheel drive is the right one?
Before you decide to purchase a vehicle with four-wheel-drive, but you should be clear about it, for what purpose you need the vehicle mainly. Then decides that is also the system of all-wheel drive. Basically there are three four-wheel systems: constant, switched on manually and automatically switch.
Permanent four wheel drive means that all four wheels are driven. The Japanese company of Subaru, the largest all-wheel manufacturer in the world, basically equips nearly all of its cars with four-wheel drive. Advantage: The power is always there when you need it. No delay in power-up, but always and everywhere instant readiness of all wheel drive system. Disadvantage: As driven constantly both axes – whether on dry highway or the bread get in the city – the fuel consumption is significantly higher than the two-wheeled vehicle-drive.
The manually selectable four-wheel drive system is the "real" affordable SUV. Typical example: The small inconspicuous Suzuki Jimny. Here the rider decides for itself when all the wheels to be driven. Advantage: In normal driving mode can be dispensed with the gas-guzzling four-wheel drive. Disadvantage: The driver can be wrong even once with respect to the substrate. Then he must act quickly.
Four-wheel drive automatically when you leave the actions of the electronics. Shows when the additional driving force of the other axis is necessary and it turns on automatically. This is the most expensive system. But beware, there are also differences. For example, the Honda CR-V, the electronics are too slow, as is pre-programmed hard drive. Remains absolutely brilliant: The foolproof, automatic system unmatched by Land Rover and Range Rover.
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs believe progress has been made despite a pair of shutout losses on the first weekend of Southeastern Conference softball play.
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Iyengar Yoga is based on the teachings of living yoga master
B.K.S. Iyengar and begins with the art and science of
asanas, or yoga postures. His innovative method sets him
apart from other methods of Hatha Yoga because of:
• his emphasis on standing poses,
• supported inversions and backbends that
pacify the nerves,
• the use of props (such as walls,
blocks, belts, chairs, blankets, weights,
and other devices) to facilitate ease and
depth of learning,
• specific sequencing of postures for general and therapeutic benefits, and
• careful, individualized adjustments.
Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means "to bind together"or a method of spiritual inquiry. B.K.S. Iyengar says "it is the harnessing and uniting of the mind, body and emotions under the guidance of one's intelligence." It is a practical method of physical culture combined with meditative attention. Yoga is freedom, and brings insight into the nature of mind and reality.
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Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar with his intellectual and spiritual practices has masterminded the techniques that can be used by all practitioners of yoga. "Research based experience" and "experience based research" has helped him in evolving this technique which is now known as "Iyengar Yoga". He has therefore made it possible for ordinary human beings to experience the wisdom of the yoga sutras.
Iyengar yoga is meant for all and is a way of life.
The use of props, designed by Iyengar, such as wooden
gadgets, belts, ropes helps the yoga practitioner to
achieve perfection in any asana.
Regular practice of 'Iyengar Yoga' definitely integrates
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ShareTweet Tufts Recycles! is currently working to promote Recyclemania, a national competition that runs from Feb. 2 to April 8. The Per Capita Classic division has 312 competing schools and Tufts has moved up from 65th Week 3. Tufts Recycles! also has been … Continue reading
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A connecting system for attaching a gangion or snood to a fishing line having a connector with a tubular body having first and second opposed ends, forming a slit. The body has a cut-out forming a tongue with a central aperture for receiving the loop of a swivel. The connector is free to rotate on the line and is held against axial movement on the line by a pair of stops having teeth that are crimped tightly into the line to prevent their axial movement.
1. A connecting system for attaching a gangion or snood to a fishing line, comprising:
a connector having a tubular body, including a circumferential plane, with first and second ends of the tubular body terminating in first and second opposed end surfaces forming a slit having a gap that can fit over a fishing line, the tubular body being deformable to reduce the gap of the slit to a dimension that will not allow passage of the fishing line through the slit, the tubular body having an internal diameter when the gap is reduced greater than the external diameter of the fishing line so that the connector can rotate about the fishing line, the body having a cut-out, a tongue with a central aperture, said tongue having a length extending outwardly from the tubular body, the cut-out lying in the circumferential plane of the tubular body and located at the base of the tongue, said slit being spaced on said tubular body circumferentially from said tongue and said cut-out, said cut-out having a length extending circumferentially along said tubular body from the base of said tongue, said length of said cut-out being approximately the same as the length of said tongue;
the central aperture adapted to receive a loop of a swivel.
2. The connecting system of claim 1, further including stops positioned on a fishing line, the connector being placed on the fishing line between the stops.
3. The connecting system of claim 2, the stops each including a clip closeable tightly over said fishing line.
4. The connecting system of claim 1, said connector being made from a blank, with the cutout being bent out of the blank.
This invention relates to fishing lines, particularly long lines normally provided with snoods or gangions attached to the long line by connectors.
Snoods or gangions are attached to a fishing line that may be miles long. A large number of connectors will therefore be needed on the line. It is important that the connector for the gangion attached to the line be strong and relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
It is an object to this invention to provide a fishing line connector that is relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
It is another object to this invention to provide a fishing line connector that is securely held on a line and is suitable for use on long lines which can connect a gangion and its hook to a long line.
Basically the invention includes a connector having a tubular body with first and second lateral edges and terminating in first and second opposed ends, the opposed ends forming a slit. The body has a cut-out forming a tongue with a central aperture, and this central aperture is adapted to receive the loop of one end of a swivel for connecting to a gangion or other fishing tackle between the connector and the fish hook.
FIG. 1 is side elevation of a connector shown attached on a fishing line.
FIG. 2 is a section taken along the line 2--2 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is an isometric of the connector showing partially the connection of a gangion.
FIG. 4 is a side elevation of a typical clip used to lock a connector onto a fishing line.
The connector 10 is in form of tubular body 12 including a circumferential plane and having lateral first and second ends 14 and 16; and opposed end surfaces 18 and 20. The opposed end surfaces form a slit 22 having a gap, which when open is large enough to fit over the long line or fishing line 24 but which can be closed into the phantom line position shown in FIG. 2 and the solid line position shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 to become locked on the line. The internal diameter of the connector is greater than the external diameter of the line so that the connector is free to rotate about the line.
Since the connector can rotate about the line, it is held against axial movement along the line by a pair of conventional clips 30. Both the connector and the clips are made of stainless steel or other suitable material, such as plastic, that will hold its shape after being locked in place and be resistant to corrosive effects of salt water. Preferably the clip has a pair of teeth 34 and 36 so that when the clip is squeezed tightly into the line (FIG. 3), the teeth dig into the line, preventing the clips from moving axially along the line. Thus, as is readily apparent and as is shown in the drawings, when the clips are locked into place, they act as stops to prevent the connector from sliding beyond the stops along the length of the line. This allows the connector to rotate about the line, but holds it in a relatively fixed position axially along the line.
The connector is formed with a cut-out 40, made by pressing out a tongue 42 from one of the ends 14 or 16. The cut-out lies in the circumferential plane of the tubular body and both the cut-out and the tongue are circumferentially spaced from the slit. The cut-out is located at the base of the tongue and having a length extending circumferentially along said tubular body from the base of the tongue. The tongue has a central aperture 44 which receives the open loop 46 of a conventional swivel 48. The opposite closed loop 50 of the swivel then can be attached to a gangion or snood 52 as shown in FIG. 3. In use, the connectors and stops are fitted over the line and then crimped tightly closed. The stops will be crimped to dig their teeth 34 and 36 into the line so that they do not move axially, and the connector will be tightly closed so that it cannot come free of the line, but yet is free to rotate freely around the line.
From the foregoing it will be appreciated that, although specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without deviating from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not limited except as by the appended claims.
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