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According to police, on Thursday, June 12, officers began investigating at a pair of facilities -- the Gold's Gym on Brentwood Drive and the Planet Fitness on South Texas Avenue -- where victims had their lockers broken into and their credit cards stolen. The cards were later used at area businesses.
CSPD investigators believe the same person is behind credit card thefts and quick use of the cards in other area communities.
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The suspect is a Hispanic male around 6'0" tall and weighing around 300 pounds. He has what's described as a large, sun- or compass-shaped tattoo on his neck. The suspect was driving a vehicle described as being similar to a Chrysler 200.
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By Douglas J. GillertAmerican Forces Press Service
TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Hawaii, March 26, 1997 From thousands of islands -- tiny specks in the vast Pacific Ocean -- they come seeking treatment for the rarest diseases. The United States pays their way to and from Oahu and pays, too, for the life-changing -- sometimes life-saving -- care they need. They are thankful, as the smiles on their faces reveal in the photos Army Dr. (Col.) Donald Person keeps of them.
He keeps "before" photos that convey the depth of their misery. From elephantine tumors to ulcerated skin bleeding and oozing to a little boy's open skull, where you can feel his brain thumping up and down, up and down. And he keeps "after" photos that reveal the wonders of modern medicine they could ill afford and wouldn't get otherwise.
Since 1962, when the Articles of Confederation created the American Trust Territories in the Western Pacific, the mostly poor people of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas and American Samoa have been entitled to U.S.-provided medical care. Their governments were supposed to reimburse the United States for care provided, but they, too, mostly are poor.
In 1988, Hawaii Sen. Dan Inouye sponsored a bill to fund treatment of the Pacific Islanders at Tripler. The bill reasoned care not only would represent a major humanitarian outreach to the islanders, but it also would expose interns and residents here to tropical diseases and conditions they wouldn't otherwise see. Such exposure is vital to physicians in training, Person said, because it expands their overall capabilities.
Congress passed Inouye's bill in 1989, allotting $500,000 annually for islanders to travel to and from Tripler. The first patients arrived a year later. More than 2,000 men, women and children have come here since, often for major repairs to their damaged bodies.
"The care was all provided gratis," Person said of the early years of the Pacific Island Health Care Project. "For 300 to 500 patients a year, Tripler spent between $6 million and $10 million. Obviously, we couldn't sustain those costs for long."
Inouye once again helped out, convincing Congress to authorize millions in annual funding to help defray the medical care costs. The fiscal 1997 allocation of $5 million doubles the fiscal 1996 amount. The extra bucks enabled Tripler to care for nearly 200 patients in the first five months of fiscal 1997 and, Person predicted, at least 400 by year's end.
Treatment often includes surgery and covers a host of tropical maladies. For example, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease run rampant in the Pacific, Person said. "Many women in their childbearing years contract the fever. They get pregnant, then develop heart disease, and many of them end up here."
Other diseases Tripler doctors see include tuberculosis, which is widespread, and malignancies of the bowel, thyroid and other organs. Urologists treat large numbers of islanders for kidney stones, also rampant in the Pacific. Many little boys suffer from a condition where the urethra doesn't fuse and their urine just spills out. Genital tract cancer, too, is prevalent.
Orthopedic surgeons operate on islanders with bone infections, while neurosurgeons treat brain abscesses and tumors. Ear, nose and throat surgeons treat numerous cases of mastoiditis -- a condition that causes chronic middle ear infection, not seen in the United States for more than 40 years, Person said.
Vascular and cardio-thoracic surgeons replace heart valves and patch holes between the chambers of damaged hearts. And pediatric surgeons see and treat many children, like one little boy whose photo showed his scalp eaten away by tuberculosis. He's healed now and home again, living a normal life, Person said.
"This project covers a huge area of the world that is medically underserved," Person noted. "Many of these people live in abject poverty, and their governments are also too poor to help them. We may provide the only critical care they'll be exposed to their entire lives."
Tripler commander, Dr. (Brig. Gen.) Warren Todd, champions the Pacific Island Health Care Project for its humanitarian aspects and the training it provides. "Tripler is the national training center for Army medicine," Todd said. "We're in our wartime role every day we come to work. It's vital we learn about the kinds of diseases American service members deployed in the Pacific Theater may contract.
"The Pacific Island health care program allows us to bring in people who normally would not be eligible for DoD treatment, but they're good teaching cases. I'm an infectious disease doctor, and we've cases here I've never seen."
The care Tripler gives islanders doesn't interfere with its primary beneficiary population, Person assured. "The intent was never to have anyone refused or given second-rate care because of this program. If anything, it's enhanced our overall health care. It just makes everybody involved more experienced and more able to cope with our beneficiaries' sicknesses.
"We just try to be good stewards of our resources and provide the best care for all the patients we see."
To this end, Person and the physicians from the various island states he works with have a new weapon in their health care arsenal, telemedicine. Using electronic mail, island medics consult with the Tripler staff, describing patients' conditions, even sending scanned photographs over the Internet.
Holding a photograph of a Micronesian baby with a vascular tumor that has grotesquely twisted the infant's mouth and cheek,Person marveled at the time such link-ups save.
"We got this photo and the physician's description and said, 'Yeah, we can treat this. Within 24 hours we had the baby coming here and getting treatment," he said.
Telemedicine will allow more follow-up, as well, the physician said. "Rather than bringing patients back, we can link up with their health clinics back home, see pictures of them, talk to them and their local physician, and see how they're doing. This really makes a difference in our ability to provide the islanders quality health care."
Whether they see their patients live or over the Internet, Tripler residents gain valuable experience treating rare, tropical diseases, and Pacific islanders live healthier lives.

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The following are the responses received on the 2008 BPN Nanny Survey in answer to the question "If you have paid your nanny to stay over a weekend, what were the details of your arrangement (e.g., $x/day, or lump sum for the weekend, ages of your kids, etc)."
"$100 for each night, plus her hourly rate during the day."
"$17 per hour during day, $10 per hour overnight"
"$50 per night, plus hourly rate for every hour the child is awake. My daughter is almost 5."
"80 fro 9-6am, and then hourly rate for all others"
"Friday 6pm- Sunday noon, $350, kids ages: 12,8"
"full days hours (until about 9pm), $120 extra per overnite and reimbursement for any expenses. she stayed with 2 of our boys ages 3 yrs and 2 yrs and we took the baby with us."
"Gift from nanny, birth of second child. And our first child was already sleeping."
"I would pay approx what she earns in a day, which is approx $100/day."
"Lump sum $150 day; I was working out of town and she came to stay at the hotel with me and the kid. That lump sum covered about 10 hours of caring for the kid while I worked, and I came in and out and slept with the kid; she got to go out and explore a
"lump sum for 24 hour period, kids stay at her house"
"lump sum for the weekend, I think $250 or $300"
"lump sum, no pay for when kids sleep"
"nanny only housesitted and watched our dogs... paid her a flat fee for the week while we were on vacation as she didn't work 24 hours a day... we paid her 375.00 to watch our dogs, get our mail"
"No, but my son has stayed at her house."
"No, but she has kept the child overnight once. We paid her 1/2 time for the time she (the nanny) would have been sleeping."
"Normal hourly rate during the hours the child is normally awake (i.e., 7am-8pm) then fixed rate (I think it was ~$60) for the night. Our child was 2 at the time."
"our 3.5 year old was the only child. we paid $75 per night and then a reduced hourly rate for the days. another time, we did a lump sum of $250 for 1 night and 2 days"
"We know she charges half-rate for any hours the children sleep at night, and full-rate for all times they are awake (even if they wake in the middle of the night)."
"We've paid full rate for the child's waking hours and 1/2 rate for the time the child is sleeping. (Consequently, we don't do this too often, but we've no family close by.) The nannies we've had have been worth it (we've had sick dogs to take care of and
$10 per hour
$100 a day
$12/ hour during waking hours and $45 for the overnight example: We leave at 11am on Sat and r/t 3pm on Sun. 11am-9pm: $12x 10 hours - $120 PLUS 9pm-7am (baby sleep) = $45 PLUS 7am- 3pm = $12x 5hr= $60 Total for overnight = $225
$125 - $150/day for 2 boys age 5 & 3. Plus LOTS of cash to spend doing fun things and eating out while we're gone.
$150 per 24 hours
$150 per night on the weekend
$50 flat for the night hours when baby is asleep; regular hourly day rate
$50 for night time when our daughter was sleeping. Regular pay ($15.50/hour) during all daytime hours.
$50. from the hours of 9pm - 7 am than the hourly rate.
12 hr days + $50 for overnight on a weekend. 14 hr days + $50 for overnight if it is during the week
300 for 24 hours plus money for takeout food
450 for the whole weekend
daily sum: 200
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Haven't ever done that.
Hourly for children's waking hours and $75 over night.
Hourly plus $50 from 9-7pm when my daughter is asleep.
Hourly rate for daytime; $150 for nighttime (when they were asleep)
hourly rate plus $100 total for hours which the child is asleep at night.
Hourly rate while kids are awake plus flat $50 overnight fee
It's part of her job. She can work weekends for us -- her schedule is at our disposal.
lump sum4 lump sum ($500 per two night weekend)
Lump sum for overnight.
Lump sum for the weekend and we let her girlfriend come stay with her. She is very nice. We paid $800 total for the weekend
lump sum for the weekend. One child 1 1/2 years old.
lump sum weekend
Lump sum. 2.5 year old twins
normal rate
overtime rate plus $150 for night time
Pay dropped to $8 an hour from 8pm to 8 am
Previous nannies have been paid at half-the-hourly rate at night (when children are supposedly 'asleep').
regular hourly rate
regular hourly rate when kids were awake plus $100-150 per night
Same as # 13.
SHe does house sit/dog sit for us $75/weekend (2.5 days)
she had our kids for a day and night at her house and we paid her 200.
She has house/petsit over the weekend. We paid her a lump sum of $250 for 4 nights over and above her weekly pay. This was difficult to negotiate since we didn't know what was fair and she didn't state her expectations clearly.
She minded my daughter over a weekend once. We paid her $500
she was very giving and would offer to work extra when she saw a need. i was also very kind to her and her family. it wasn't just about money.
the same rate
Usually I'll pay her a little more then her hourly salary for every waking hour of my child and then $50 for the night time portion.
We have dropped two kids off at her house for one night only.
We paid her for all of the hours that she worked and also added about $25 per night as an extra for having to sleep over.
We pay $15 per hour for the whole weekend minus 8 hours for each night while kids are sleeping.
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I would like to know what is a reasonable price to pay someone who will sleep at my house while my kids are asleep. My kids are 5 and will be asleep when the childcare person arrives & will not wake up until about 7 a.m. The childcare person will then take care of them for 2 - 3 hours. I am not sure if there is a flat rate for staying overnight ( and what is that) & then I pay by the hour or if I should offer a flat rate for the whole thing & if so what is a fair amount. Thanks ginny
I'm looking for advice on what to pay for overnight childcare. We have a 2-year old, whom we're considering leaving at home with her nanny for a few days (24 hrs x 3-4 days) while we travel. I've checked the archives and haven't seen any recent postings (and the rates suggested seemed incredibly low). I'd like to make a fair offer. Any guidance will be appreciated. -- Ann
I am wondering how much people are now (2004/2005) paying for both overnight and/or weekend childcare. I pay my occasional babysitter $15 per hour which I think is on the high end but she is reliable. However, I can't afford to pay that much for a weekend and an overnight especially when a lot of that time she doesn't really need to do much. The youngest child is 91/2. Has anyone had recent experience with this - the listings are from 2003 and I know the going rate now must be higher. Anon
My husband and I are taking a four day trip and leaving our 2 yr. old at home with her part-time nanny while we're gone. I'd like to get some input on what people are paying child care providers for overnight/24 hr. care. What's the going rate? (The 4 days we'll be gone are not days our nanny would normally watch our daughter, if that makes a difference.) Thanks.
I was wondering if anyone has suggestions of what to pay an overnight babysitter. We usually pay her $12 an hour. What would be a fair rate to pay her for a 24 hour shift? Thank you very much for your feedback! Madeleine
We are considering asking our current sitter to stay overnight with our then almost 3 year old son when our baby is born in late October. It would most likely entail a couple hours each in the evening and the morning with our son awake, but the rest of the time he would be sleeping. I am wondering if there are "going" rates for this kind of sitting. Lucy
As a nanny who has done overnights on several occasions here is how I charged the families I stayed with. My normal rate is $10.00 per hour. I charge that from the time the kids woke up (7:00am) -their bed time (9:00pm)...then the over night was a flat fee of $50.00. I hope that is helpful to any and everyone. Melissa
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"A very Victorian recipe! Some people are put off by the notion of herb cookies, but you'll be pleasantly surprised. The flavor improves with age (best 2 days after), keeping for about a week."
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1 1/2 cups
unsalted butter
2/3 cup
white sugar
2 tablespoons
chopped fresh rosemary
2 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon
2 teaspoons
white sugar for decoration
I have had a favorite cookie recipe since I was a child, but yesterday me and my girls made these cookies and that once favorite cookie has been replaced by these cookies. My best tip is DO NOT OVERBAKE. Don't wait for the edges to get too brown. We liked them on the much paler side. So beautiful, unique, and if you love rosemary and shortbread, so perfect!!!! I made another kind of cookie after this and though I am sure the cookie was absolutely fab it greatly paled in comparison to these. It is refreshing to try something different and these are a pleaser! Do not change the recipe at all because it is perfect. Although I must confess, over time, I would like to expirement with a few other herbs. A good cookie if you want to impress or have friends for a tea party. I felt like the workds best cookie maker when I made these! Approved by kids dads grandpas and moms and soon to be grandmas I am sure. Something I notice with these that was unlike cookies I have had in the past, I could taste each seperate taste individually-butter, salt, rosemary and a some sugar sweetness, and then I could taste them together at the same time. That, to me, was kind of interesting. Also they are very rich! I can eat cookies,
believe me, but I can only eat 1 or 2 of these at a time, and trust me, that's fine. Like good dark chocolate, just a little is enough to satisfy because the quality is so good. I got 48 round cookie from this batch.
Is something missing? I ended up with NOT a creamy mixture. Too much flour, or not enough of something else. Too powdery to roll out.
110 Ratings
The only thing I changed about this recipe was the prep before it went into the oven. I hand rolled small balls of dough (about 1 T each) and slightly flattened them into 1/4 inch thick discs on the baking sheets, then popped them in the fridge for about 30 minutes. With a butter-heavy dough like this, I knew that the dough would have to be very chilled and firm before being cooked so they would maintain their shape and not flatten out - good shortbread is thick and flaky! Everyone LOVED these cookies and I will be making them again.
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I really, really like these cookies! I rolled them into a log shape and placed them in plastic wrap before refrigerating them. Once chilled I sliced them, sprinkled sugar on them and baked them. They are Fabulous!!! This is a keeper!
I've had a small rosemary tree in my kitchen as a Christmas decoration and I happened upon this recipe. The rest is history. This cookie will now become a prized addition to my repertoire. It's lovely. I added some lemon rind to half the batch so I could try both rosemary shortbread and lemon rosemary shortbread. Both were good, but I like the lemon the best. Thanks for a great recipe!
Wonderful - I rolled the dough into a round 'loaf' and chilled it, then cut thin discs rather than roll it out and cut rectangles. Worked great. It's such an unusual and tasty cookie - very sophisticated, if you ask me!
Delicious crispy, buttery sweetness with a hint of rosemary. These are a delicious and different cookie. I found the dough rolled better when it wasn't quite as cold. Flour the surface you're rolling them on and flour the rolling pin. Turn the dough over and re-flour several times when you're beginning to roll them out, and you shouldn't have any problem. I used a cookie cutter, but they would be even faster to make if you just cut them into rectangles as directed. Each year I like to try new cookie recipes for Christmas as well as the old standbys, and this will be one of my new ones this year, topped with green tinted sugar instead of white.
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Calories: 118
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Danger, sorry for the confusion- I was using a bit of sarcasm there. The point is if he would have supported his opinion with facts, such as those I listed, he would have been ok. Those are words directly from Mr. Fladung himself. The reasoning for the reassignment is very questionable, and as other people have posted, needs to be better explained. Something smells fishy here.
Calling Lerner pathetic and irrelevant is factual reporting. I am not a Grossi fan, I find his reporting lacking depth and he hardly breaks any stories. Yet this reassignment disgusts me. If Tony would have expanded on his point would he have been reassigned? If he would have pointed to Lerner's growing absence in town and in NFL circles, his poor history of personnel decisions, and the bubbling fan apathy that his leadership has created as reasons for calling Lerner pathetic and irrelevant- would that have been ok? Firing a guy that has been on the beat for this long for a questionable comment just doesn't make sense. It points to other factors at work here. Maybe the Browns didn't say a word, but the spineless reaction by the editors is practically the same thing. How can I trust any reporting coming out of this paper? Put another nail in the coffin of the PD.
Your right dave - it's all because of Obama. Probably has nothing to do with increased cost pressures on food commodities caused by the burgeoning demand for food from emerging nations such as India and China.
I have yet to go to xyz, but any fool can see that they are not trying to be a LOLA. I look forward to my visit to xyz, and will not even take this review into consideration. It's like mr. Farkas is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. How about reviewing the place for what it is trying to be, not what you want it to be? This is an embarrassing review for the author, and even more embarrassing that the PD let's such poor writing/reviews into its paper. It's ok to give a place a bad review, but give them a fair review.
Mr. G's in Fairlawn!! Game over.
grumpyoldfan- your name says it all. what's wrong with an optimistic story? why do you have to bring politics into it? stay grumpy, old fan!!
Going to St. Paul's Croatian church near St. Clair and E. 55th. I'll never forget the drive over from the Lake County - particularly those rare Cleveland sunny days. Traveling along 90 and coming right up against the lake before the 55th exit and seeing all the sail boats out on the lake - what a site!!
Skipping school and going to the St. Patty's day parade. Regardless of the weather the city is always so alive that day. From the sites of the parade to the smells of the street vendors!
Mentor Headlands. Going on the weekends with a group of families, bbq'ing and just enjoying the beach! We'd have upwards of 20 people, we'd find our spot on the grass in the parking area to cook out - and then steak out a spot on the beach to enjoy the rest of the day. Who ever said Cleveland didn't have any beaches!
I love this guy's passion for the Browns - but calling the city a wasteland? PD needs to check themselves - if you want a story about browns fans, find a clevelander - someone who is and has remained dedicated to this town through good time and bad here in the CLE. There are plenty of people here that give up just as much as this guy to keep their tickets, and they would never call this city a wasteland because they are from Cleveland, born and raised, they ARE CLEVELAND. This guy seems like a decent guy, but for the PD to post his video of him calling OUR city a wasteland - that is a SLAP IN THE FACE. GO BROWNS. GO CLEVELAND.
Helping curb the people relieving themselves?!!! How about putting up more than 10 porto pots for 7000+ people?!!!!! This is going to be like the raid in '02 when they tried to curb tailgating with more cops - it lasted about 2 hours. We'll get there earlier than ever, they'll try and stop us, and we'll make our way in. Power to the people!! Sad thing is, its not the early tailgaters that cause these problems. People will still binge drink, there will still be problems, and this is not going to help those causes. It's going to just cause traffic and needless unruliness. God, I love Cleveland - but they sure don't make it easy!!
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This makes no sense?! Every division, every year has someone come out of nowhere and claim the division title?! I can't believe how many times the Colts and the Patriots have been surprised?
Also - the Bengals quietly leading the AFC North? I guess there was not a huge game between the stillers and the bungles two weeks ago that every media outlet was talking about? Jeez, PD, I really want to think you are credible, but this article solidified it, I'm canceling my subscription.
Hang in there bro and don't mind the nutjobs on this board. We love you Bernie - and thank you for everything you have done for Cleveland - as the current version of the Browns continue to lose and bleed fans, many people hold the memories of you and your teams to keep bringing them back to that crap we have on the field now. GO BROWNS!
wait - there is a pitsburg, ohio? we are cursed until that town is renamed.
Nice article Connie. Simply put - would one rather be a big fish in a dirty pond or a smaller fish in a clean pond? I'll choose the clean pond every time. It is the duty of those more fortunate to support those less fortunate.
Trick-or-Treat "hurt, disappointed, embarassed, depressed and ripped out the hearts of Clevelanders" more than anything but Fart Hodell?! Clever idea for an article - but a region dedicated to Albert Belle and advancing him to the finals seems more like an unfinished ax to grind than anything else. I'm fairly certain that Elway or Mesa hurt a bit more than some trick or treaters being chased down. Bill, this just shows how out of touch you truly are with this town.
I'm sick of hearing this talk that Jamal is having a horrible year. Given that our wide outs can't catch a cold, qbies going from scott mitchel incarnate to rookie qb, and an injured o-line it is amazing Jamal has been able to gain any positive yards. This guy runs hard every down - it's just not easy when the defense doesn't have to worry about defending the pass. Jamal opened up the offense for Braylon and DA last year and this year they have repayed him with absolute crap play. Jamal is a pro's pro and we are lucky to have hime on the team.
Have moondog and the Cavs apologized yet for their stunt in Pittsburgh??? Until they do, this team is dead to me. Go Browns!
Kashkari - a local guy taking to us hard. This guy should be as unwelcomed to the city as Fart Hoedell.
Have the Cavs publicly apologized for Moondogs antics in Pittsburgh yet??? I don't think so - until then - heck with the CAVS. Neuter Moondog!
Cry me a river!!!! Its sap stories like these that is causing the NFL to become the No-Fun-League. It's a Browns game - bringing your kid is a right of passage. If you don't want to be subject to it - DO NOT COME! "WAH-THE MAN THROUGH PEANUTS-WAH!!" Get a life lady. And as far as those Broncos fans go - they deserve all they get. If you are going to be arrogant enough to come into our house wearing that crap - you deserve all the crap you get. The interactivity from the fans is part of what made football so popular - and to that point - it's what made the Browns, and the DOG POUND so popular and famous. Bill shame on you for writing this - and to the lady - stick to your saturday day pee-wee games. GO BROWNS!!
It's going to take a Browns championship. Don't get me wrong, people will go crazy if we win any sort of championship in the big 3 sports - but this city has a deep connection with the Browns. That's why the NFL brought a team (granted a shell of a team) back to the city after Fart Hoedell took our team.
The Indians would draw a lot of excitement, the Cavs can muster up their share too - but it's a different relationship with the Browns. We've stuck and are sticking by them as they struggle and they were there for us when we were down (the 80's). This is BROWNS TOWN!!


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The west is going to get a little wilder when They Die By Dawn hits the big screen! The action flick starring Nate Parker, Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu and Rosario Dawson tells the stories of real life African American cowboys from the past, teaming up, kickin' ass and taking names!
Our very own Meghan O'Keefe was lucky enough to attend a screening last night, and asked the stars which African American rough riders from history were their biggest inspirations. Michael K. Williams had to go with Ben Hodges, whereas Jeymes Samuel went with Rufus Buck and Cherokee Bill. "When Cherokee Bill was getting executed they said to him, 'Any last words?'," he shared. "And he said, 'I came here to die, not to talk.'" OK, it's pretty hard to top that for badass-ness. But we're sure as hell going to try with our very own list of the 10 most badass African American cowboys in cinema history. Enjoy!
10. Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan in Unforgiven (1992)Morgan Freeman may be pushin' it a little bit in the age department, but this retired gunslinger isn't ready to be put out pasture quite yet.
9. Will Smith as James T. West in Wild Wild West (1999)
OK sure, the movie kinda blew. But the Badass levels Will Smith is able to transport to the 19th century totally makes up for it in this confused steampunk feature.
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Welcome to BNA Online, the leading source of life history information for North American breeding birds. This free, courtesy preview is just the first of 14 articles that provide detailed life history information including Distribution, Migration, Habitat, Food Habits, Sounds, Behavior and Breeding. Written by acknowledged experts on each species, there is also a comprehensive bibliography of published research on the species.
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The California Condor is one of the most spectacular and highly endangered birds in the world. The largest of the North American vultures, it is also currently the largest soaring land bird of the continent, although it was greatly exceeded in size by a variety of native teratorns of the Pleistocene. Its wingspread of about 2.8 m and body weight of about 8.5 kg make it a near twin in size to the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) of South America, and together these two species crown the extant communities of scavenging birds in the New World. Rarely flapping, except during takeoff and landing, condors are superb gliders that cover enormous distances in their daily activities and occupy huge home ranges, consonant with the dispersed and erratic nature of their food supplies.
Earlier known as the California Vulture or Royal Vulture, the California Condor is an exclusive carrion feeder, primarily dependent on large mammalian carcasses, and it enjoyed a wide North American distribution prior to the late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Comparable to the Old World griffon vultures (genus Gyps) in many ecological characteristics, the species is highly social in feeding behavior, congregating in substantial numbers at carcasses and bathing sites, and commonly associating in communal roosts, both in nesting and foraging regions. Both condors and griffon vultures also share many physical features, such as feet adapted mainly for walking and a tendency toward unfeathered heads and necks. Both kinds of vultures also feed their young by regurgitation and exhibit nearly equal sharing of nesting duties between males and females. Unlike the griffon vultures, however, condors do not build substantial nests of twigs and branches, and instead rely on natural cavities for reproduction, most commonly caves in cliffs. Perhaps because of the usually dispersed nature of their nest sites, they are not known to have ever nested in the dense colonies typical of many of the griffons, and in this respect condors are more similar to other large solitary-nesting Old World vultures, such as the Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos).
An invariable clutch size of a single egg and a minimum of 6 years to attain sexual maturity in the wild make the California Condor crucially dependent on low mortality rates to sustain its populations. Its endangerment has evidently been due primarily to excessive mortality, caused in large part by various sorts of poisoning and shooting. Because of the condor's continuously declining abundance and progressive range contraction, its extinction has been confidently predicted by naturalists almost throughout history.
By 1987, the only California Condors still in existence were captives at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. First breeding of the species in captivity was achieved in 1988; since then, captive production of the species has been substantial. Attempts to reintroduce the species to the wild have been underway in California since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996. These attempts have not yet achieved viable wild populations, in part because of high mortality that can be traced to continuing lead-poisoning threats in the wild.
This condor has received intensive study since the late 1930s. Principal historical research on its natural history and conservation was conducted by Robinson ( 1939, 1940), Koford ( 1953), Miller et al. ( 1965), Sibley ( 1968, 1969, unpubl.), and Wilbur ( 1978b), although it has also been the subject of dozens of additional specialized studies and popular accounts. An intensive program of the 1980s, involving numerous organizations, led to a detailed characteriza-tion of many aspects of its biology, with special emphasis on determination of limiting factors (Snyder and Snyder 1989, 2000). Despite the difficulties in studying such a wide-ranging species, the primary environmental constraints it has faced, especially various mortality factors, are now relatively well known.
Snyder, Noel F. and N. John Schmitt. 2002. California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/610


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Those students at E.O. Young Elementary Jr. Elementary School who made the honor roll for the second nine-week grading period of the 2012-2013 academic year are as follows:
A honor roll
• Third grade — Mrs. Tucker's class: Jalyn Avant, Eduardo Granados, Damar Zackery
• Fourth grade — Mrs. Carey's class: Mackenzie Henrich, Harley Newman; Mrs. Short's class: Ariel Ellis
• Fifth grade — Mrs. Wortham's class: Allie Pulley
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• Third grade — Mrs. Bowen: Trinity Branche, Ta'Niya Eaton, Zoe Holland, Makayla Speed; Mrs. Tucker: Brandon Bullock, Alexis Dixon, Jabria Fuller, Jaela Jones, Ryan Nuss, Ruben-Elijah Skinner, Shamaria Zackery
• Fourth grade — Mrs. Carey: Stephanie Pegram, Javonte Waverly; Mrs. Short: Aniyah Alston, Amari Bennerson, Asia Dunston, Adrian Durham Thomas, Joy Peace, Cecilia Rivera, Tylar Strickland, Lamyah Towns
• Fifth grade — Mrs. Wortham: Lori Blanks, Naujal Wilkins, Bryton Yarborough; Mr. Parrish: Ivett Rivera, Kellen Tucker


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With as convenient a location as Beverly Hills' larger hotels, this tiny boutique packs a lot into a small space: pool, restaurant, bar, and fitness center. Rooms aren't very big, but come with luxe amenities like Frette robes and Bulgari toiletries.
Housed in a quaint, yellow four-story building just off Wilshire Boulevard, this 49-room Beverly Hills boutique offers up more personal -- and significantly cheaper -- lodging than some of the grand Beverly Hills superhotels like the Peninsula and Beverly Wilshire. Slightly pricier than other Beverly Hills boutiques, including (Maison 140 and Luxe Rodeo), the Mosaic bridges the gap between these boutiques and the extravagant mega-hotels. It has all the boutique charm and personal service you'd expect, along with added amenities you don't -- like a car to shuttle guests around within a three-block radius, pitchers of cucumber-infused water in the lobby, and a heated outdoor pool.
Mosaic plays its name out in the distinct brown, gold, and white mosaic tiles that accent lobby walls, as well as the bar table, and the curving restaurant banquette. Other itty-bitty boutiques, take note: The greeting area -- flowing from the lobby into mosaic-tiled enclaves separating the warmly lit bar and restaurant -- is a study on how to make a limited space look invitingly cozy instead of cramped and disjointed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the rooms. Standard rooms (called Deluxe) are noticeably small at 250 square feet and all of them are decorated in a considerably more staid fashion (the cheery gold and brown tile work of the lobby, now exchanged for muted tapestry prints). Top-of-the-line amenities like plush Frette spa robes and Bulgari toiletries help make up for the rooms' modest size. But if space is still a concern, book a Preferred Luxury Room -- these corner rooms cost a bit more and offer about 30 to 50 more square feet of space (note: Rooms 302 and 402 are the biggest corner rooms). Or request a standard Deluxe Room with outdoor patio seating -- they don't cost more, but a lot of guests don't realize that.
The Mosaic's nightly rates run a bit higher than Maison 140's or Luxe Rodeo's, but Mosaic offers the extra aforementioned features, as well as a restaurant (which the Luxe has, but Maison lacks). Score a cheap nightly rate at the Mosaic, and you'll find that this diminutive yellow house packs a lot in for the price.
In Beverly Hills, a few minutes' walk from Rodeo Drive
The Mosaic is located just off Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, an enclave of wealthy living and luxury shopping on L.A.'s westside. It's about five blocks, and a few minutes' walk, from the high-end designer shops of Rodeo Drive.
Impressive for a boutique this tiny
While the one-computer business center and one-room fitness center are pretty standard for a small boutique hotel, the free car and pool with poolside service are rare treats. (Maison 140 guests have to use the pool at Avalon; Luxe Rodeo doesn't even have access to one.)
Housed in a charming, yellow four-story building just off Wilshire, this cozy 49-room boutique offers a lot in a little space, including a heated pool, restaurant, bar, and free fitness room. Even though standard rooms can feel cramped, they come luxuriously outfitted with Frette robes and towels, Bvlgari toiletries, 37-inch flat-screens, and Bose stereos.
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The governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) met in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 3–7, 2003. The most serious of the many unresolved issues concerned legally binding action to reduce mercury pollution, an international code of conduct for sustainable production and consumption, the creation of a new intergovernmental panel on global environmental change, increased public access to information, and efforts to accelerate progress toward international chemicals management. The council learned that mercury pollution was much more widespread than had been thought and that 70% of mercury emissions were from coal-fired power stations and waste incinerators.
The third World Water Forum held a week of talks in March in three Japanese cities—Kyoto, Osaka, and Shiga. Ministers from 182 countries were among the 24,000 delegates, but the forum made little progress toward the objectives of sustainable water management agreed on at the 2002 sustainability conference in Johannesburg, S.Af. The closing declaration reaffirmed a commitment to reducing by half the number of people lacking access to basic sanitation or clean drinking water but made no reference to how this might be achieved. (See Special Report.)
The first of two ¥50 million (about $423,000) Blue Planet Prizes was awarded to the 74-year-old Vietnamese ornithologist Vo Quy for his lifelong efforts to restore Vietnamese forests damaged by war. He had also helped draft Vietnam's first environmental law. A second Blue Planet Prize was shared by F. Herbert Bormann, professor emeritus at Yale University, and Gene E. Likens, director of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Milbrook, N.Y. They were honoured for having established the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in New Hampshire. The $1 million Templeton Prize was awarded to environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston III, and the Whitley Gold Award was presented to Raman Sukumar for his conservation efforts.
National Developments
The sluice gates on the 190-m (630-ft)-high Three Gorges Dam began to close at midnight on June 1. The first of the dam's 26 generators was connected to the grid at 1:31 am local time on July 10, 20 days ahead of schedule.
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A European Union directive that went into effect on May 17 aimed at promoting the use of "biofuels" and other renewable fuels in transportation. Each EU member country was asked to achieve 2% biofuel use by December 2005 and 5.75% by December 2010.
The U.K. government published an Energy White Paper on February 24 setting out proposals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 60% of 1990 levels by 2050. This would be achieved by increasing the amount of electricity generated from renewable sources to 10% by 2010, with an "aspirational" goal of 20% by 2020. When the existing nuclear power stations reached the end of their working lives, they would not be replaced. Critics doubted that the contribution from renewable sources, especially wind power, could be achieved and considered it unwise to reduce reliance on nuclear power. Plans were also announced for the establishment of a new U.K. Energy Research Centre, with a budget of £8 million–£12 million (about $13 million–$19 million) over five years, to form the hub of a National Energy Research Network. There would also be a dedicated facility located off the coast of the Orkney Islands, costing some £5.5 million (about $8.7 million), to test ocean-wave energy. Grants to expand existing renewable technologies, such as wind power, would be increased by £60 million (about $95 million) to take government expenditure on these technologies to £348 million (about $550 million) over four years.
The Dutch government signed an agreement in March with groups representing farmers, environmentalists, and the national waterworks association; the goal was to reduce the environmental impact of chemical pesticides by 95% of 1998 levels by 2010. It was hoped that the measure would prevent the recurrence of an earlier situation wherein the criteria for pesticide use were so restrictive that farmers complained that their competitiveness was undermined and environmentalists took legal action to oppose each new pesticide introduction.
On August 21 the Danish Environment Ministry announced the appointment of Ole Christiansen to head the environmental protection agency. Christiansen, deputy director of the national forest and nature agency since 1995, took over from Steen Gade, who resigned in June in protest against budget cuts.
In late August a panel of five academics published a 16-page report, commissioned by the Danish government, assessing the first eight reports from the Institute for Environmental Assessment (IMV), headed by Bjørn Lomborg (see Biographies), the controversial author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, which had attracted fierce criticism from environmentalists. The panel concluded that none of the reports represented scientific work or methods in the traditional sense but pointed out that the IMV had never claimed to be scientific and the IMV reports were well presented, topical, and easily accessible to the public.
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This weekly course covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré. Authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman will also help you understand the impacts of compression and the difference between cropped (or micro 4/3rds) and full-sized sensors in cameras, and much more. This continual FAQ guide is a handy way to find the answers to the questions that plague you the most.
Robbie Carman: So Rich, in situations where you want to use an ND filter, you know, that obviously cuts down on the amount of light coming into the camera. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: However in a situation like this, we're out on this beach, and we have sort of, a mixed environment where, part of the scene might be a little dark, part of the scene might be a little bright. Rich Harrington: The clouds are moving. The light can change at any moment. Robbie Carman: An ND filter is sort of a hammer on something that needs more of like I don't what something more gentle than a hammer would be. Rich Harrington: A small chisel. Robbie Carman: A small chisel. Exactly. So enter the variable ND Filter. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: Tell us a little bit about that. Rich Harrington: Well what it has here is this particular filter has a minimum and a maximum value, and essentially as you turn the dial it actually gets darker.
So you can see right through there. How it's changing. Robbie Carman: Yep, absolutely. Rich Harrington: And it's basically two filters, and as you adjust them you end up getting a, a shift. So it's kind of cool what happens there. Robbie Carman: So instead of having to swap out, you know, various levels of ND on your lens every time you want, you know, what, one stop, two stops, three stops, you can put one filter on the lens and have control over adjusting the amount of ND that's supplied. Rich Harrington: Yeah. And this one's threaded like the others. I'll just attach that. It has a little bit of a larger body. Robbie Carman: Yep. And it operates very similar.
If you ever used a circular polarizer. The idea is kind of the same. It kind of, rotates around the front element of the lens. Rich Harrington: Yeah. So we're at the minimum value there. What I'll do is I'll go to the mid point. Robbie Carman: Yep. Rich Harrington: sort of halfway between minimum and max. Robbie Carman: Yep. Rich Harrington: And now we can actually dial in a more open, F stop. So instead of shooting at F11 to get the shot. And let's go to something a little more open. I'm going to take that to F7. Robbie Carman: Yep. Rich Harrington: And it reads as a bit overexposed. And as we adjust, you see it goes bright, or we can really darken that down quite a bit.
And so it's even changing the apparent time of day. Robbie Carman: Yeah, and I love variable ND filters also for situations where you're going maybe run and gun, where you're going from inside to outside. So you're properly exposing something inside and you need to quickly go outside. It's very hard, hard on the DSLR these days to do, you know, what, you know dps refer to as some sort of split exposures. Because every time you use that sort of exposure or shutter control. You know? That's going to cause you steps and it's sometimes something you don't want to do. So using the ND, the variable ND filter, you can very smoothly adjust exposure in the various situations that you find yourself in.
Rich Harrington: Yeah, so we'll go ahead. Jason, why don't you go ahead and do the walk towards us. And so, as he walks in here, if my lighting was to change, I can ride that. And unlike a traditional lens, even if you had an external aperture ring, Robbie Carman: Yup. Rich Harrington: A lot of times that has clicks or stops. Robbie Carman: That's what I was referring to. Yeah, I mean, it's just stop, stop, stop, stop, and you don't want that. And this will give you that nice, smooth exposure change. Which is perfect for mix exposure situations. Rich Harrington: Yeah. So it's working really great. I'm just going to go ahead and monitor the rest of this shot. And we'll finish this take. Yeah it's really working, I like the shallow depth of field here. So he's a bit shallow focused, and as he walks in to play, he's going to come into focus.
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Yokohama Tire Corporation Opens Ride & Drive Program to Enthusiasts
September 22, 2011
FULLERTON, CA (Sept. 22, 2011) – Yokohama Tire Corporation annually offers experiential ride and drive training programs across the country for dealers. Now, the Fullerton, California-based tire manufacturer is looking at opening the event to consumers.
On September 21, Yokohama invited a group of enthusiasts from local car clubs at a special ride and drive function held at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California.
"Yokohama has always believed in the importance of interacting with enthusiasts face-to-face," said Theresa Palang, Yokohama manager of public relations and digital marketing, "and that's why we wanted to give consumers a chance to try our tires and learn what they can do. We reached out to enthusiast forums online and received a very positive response. Having the consumers experience our ride and drive firsthand is a great way to get feedback from the public."
The participants drove Yokohama's ADVAN Neova® AD08 (dubbed the "fastest street tire") on 305-horsepower 2011 Mustangs through various slalom courses. Besides "burning rubber," they were timed on laps and vied for prizes such as Yokohama gear and exclusive pre-opening night tickets for the 2011 LA Auto Show in November.
"This was an opportunity like no other," said enthusiast Satakal Khalsa from La Mesa, California. "Testing tires like this gives you a good feel as to how the tire will react to turns and how it grips the road. The Neova AD08s were really talking to me."
Ferdie Ang of Irvine, California added: "This was a brilliant move by Yokohama. It's so much better to actually drive on the tires in a controlled environment than to just read about them."
The inaugural public event, which coincided with a Yokohama dealer training program, "was a successful precursor for bigger enthusiast events in the future," said Palang. "We definitely want to do more of these."
Yokohama Tire Corporation is the North American manufacturing and marketing arm of Tokyo, Japan-based The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., a global manufacturing and sales company of premium tires since 1917. Servicing a network of more than 4,500 points of sale in the U.S., Yokohama Tire Corporation is a leader in technology and innovation. The company's complete product line includes the dB Super E-spec™ – the world's first tire to use orange oil to reduce petroleum – as well as tires for high-performance, light truck, passenger car, commercial truck and bus, and off-the-road mining and construction applications. For more information on Yokohama's extensive product line, visit www.yokohamatire.com.
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Fire officials: Change smoke detector batteries
It's that time.
As Eastern Standard Time begins Sunday, Durham fire officials say it's a perfect opportunity to change the batteries in your smoke detectors.
"By changing the battery, we ensure it is working when we need it," Edward Reid, assistant chief and fire marshal for the Durham Fire Department, said. "In the event of a fire, a smoke detector can save your life and those of your loved ones."
Reid said all homes should have a working detector.
"Rental properties are required to have working smoke detectors provided by the owners, but if anyone needs a smoke detector, please stop by your closest fire station to obtain one," Reid said. There is no charge.
Smoke detectors with a 10-year lithium battery are available on the market, and Reid said that would be a good choice for most people.
Reid also offered these suggestions:
- Install carbon monoxide detectors.
- Plan and practice escape plans several times a year.
- Be sure your family knows when and how to call emergency telephone numbers.
- Buy and learn how to use a fire extinguisher.
- Consider installing fire sprinklers in your home.


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The Irrelevance of Social Media: Chasing Nothing
Posted by Melissa Galt in Best Business Practices, Business Development, Marketing Strategies, Melissa Galt, Referral Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Success Habits
A couple of week's ago I got a long awaited invitation to pinterest. (Oh and if you've no clue what that is, it is a social media network devoted solely to sharing images, sans text.) I say long awaited because when I first discovered the site through creative colleagues, it informed me I needed an invitation to join. When I spoke recently to some 600 floorcovering dealers, I mentioned pinterest and was tickled when an attendee kindly sent me an invitation.
So I climbed up and took five minutes to poke about. Clearly not enough time to make any kind of footprint, barely enough time to even follow more than one or two others. And yet, the last week particularly, I've noticed that I'm getting notices saying so and so is following me on pinterest. I have created nothing worthy of following. I haven't build a profile, curated a series of photos or even bulletin boards . . . heck I'm not even entirely clear on how to do that! Yes, I'm being followed.
(Of course, I intend to, when I have time! But sheesh with all of the other million and one things we each are responsible for keeping up with today, I don't know exactly when this will be. While I love pictures, I love the words that form pictures even more . . .it's that writer in me.)
This is the irrelevance of social media, the idea that anyone would follow someone else for absolutely no real reason is nuts. Now you may be thinking that these are folks that know me through other channels like Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and they may be. Even still is it just my name that attracts, is there no discrimination as to the quality of the profile created, the information curated, the opinions served up??
This is tantamount to the drive-by friendings I get on Facebook. Total strangers that see my face show up because we both know the same person, click the friend button. They haven't visited my profile, gotten to learn anything about me, care about what I stand for, or taken 30 seconds to send me a personal note. Most often I bounce them with an invitation to join me on my business page. And it is only about one out of every twenty (5% if you want the math) that will come back with a note about how they found me and why they want to connect. Why didn't you tell me that to begin with?
I have no interest in being chased, followed, trailed, friended, or even liked for no reason. If you get some charge out of building your numbers, knock yourself out. I have learned through extensive experience that while numbers may impress others they really don't mean a thing. In fact, social media is a breeding ground for the put-on-your-best-facers with vast hordes of empty nothing followings. People who fan, friend, follow, and trail because they suffer the illusion that they will derive some benefit by association instead of by real relationship (that would require work.)
Stop the madness this year, don't wait until next. Before you friend, follow, chase, connect, like, or fan someone for goodness sake and your own sake find out about them? Who are they? What do they stand for or against? What is important to them and why do you want to follow them? Be discriminatory and put the relevance back into social media. Chasing something gives purpose to the hunt, chasing nothing is simply a waste of your time.
As always, I genuinely want your thoughts, opinions, experiences and more here. Most of all I want to know WHY you are following me and make it relevant!
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Melissa, Thank you for saying something that needs additional consideration –and action. I am intrigued by the number of times I see that someone has followed me who shares no interests, guarantees a follow back and has many thousands of followers with only a few tweets or comments. I also wonder about the purpose of all this. If we could channel the thousands of hours of activity into something more productive (like, say, world hunger or clean energy), we could have a major impact.
Melissa Galt
Ahh Lyn,
Even better we could take the time to build real relationships with real people and create a friendlier world, less war torn, and a better sense of community!
BTW, that is one of the best avatars, I've seen. Kudos!
Hugs, Melissa
Margret E Covell
Thank you, Melissa, for saying what so many are thinking! Only yesterday I had a conversation with my web designer who expressed how concerned he was about business owners wasting their time on social media – and for reasons pretty much the same as you expressed in your article.
It seems that what began as a wonderful way for people to connect in a meaningful and productive way has become diluted to the point of futility. As you so rightly say, let's concentrate on building real, friendly relationships.
warmest good wishes, Margret
Melissa Galt
Diluted is a good way to put it. Keep me in your real relationship loop.
Oh and go to gravatar.com and put your headshot in so we can "see" you!
Hugs, Melissa
This is exactly why I follow YOU!
Integrity, honesty, intelligence and talent with a purpose.
Thank YOU Melissa!
Continued blessings in helping so many,
Melissa Galt
Thanks Deb,
Always glad to know I am making a difference!
And know you are keeping it real in your relationships.
Hugs, Melissa
Diane Bogino
True. I love when someone I have never met states: "Since you are someone I trust, I want to ….."
What's the old saying? Everything in moderation. Does anyone even remember the meaning of moderation?
Melissa Galt
Hey Diane,
Hmm moderation is kind of a lost art these days as is creating a real relationship it seems.
Wouldn't it be neat to have social media close for a month each year and see if people still know how to communicate in real time?
Ahhh, I dream . . .
Hugs, Melissa
I shall make 3 comments!
Comment 1: I agree in a generalistic sense with what you say. The term "friends" has become vauge and nebulous in definition. There was a time when friends and family meant survival and you HAD to learn interpersonal skills and work to be part of that social survival network. Now you are a name and a face with luck. The psycological aspects can be debated ad nauseum.
Comment 2: I am not a sheep but a "Wolf". I use social outlets for back links and high PR etc. Regardless of how you couch your words in this post, by the right hand side acknowledgements you, too, are a wolf.
Comment 3: Hmmm, I don't as much 'follow' you as I study you. Examples: I am a lone, rogue wolf sitting silently inside a dark timber stand watching a she wolf on a moonlit night in an open glen, stalking, trailing (marketing) her prey as she goes in for the kill, (sells, providing that which is needed, income), or if you will, you need to move something some distance and need a wheel, you don't need to re-design it or anything ,you simply look for the best wheels out there build your wheel like those few great wheels and the likelyhood of your success of easily moving things from point a to b is relatively assured. I do not do what successful people say, but do as they do! To most, that may seem only a minor point in semantics, but the differences are vast!!! Simply put, I don't do as they say but do what "they" are doing. The difference is MAYBE a little success or almost assured great success!
I trust I have answered your query. No?
May the rest of your week be fantabulous!
Melissa Galt
Thanks so much for your insights. I agree I am not a follower, but I do think "wolf" is a bit of a strong term. I think I am more of a shephard or as a friend once noted a sheep dog, nipping at your heels to keep you in line and headed in the right direction!
Hugs, Melissa
Okay then!
Hi Melissa,
I have been in your mailing list for several months and impressed with your well written articles. I must admit that not all of them I read through. One particular article that bear good reminder is in respect of IMs who incessantly bombarded the mail box with their offers for products they have no or limited knowledge.
Melissa Galt
Thanks Tony,
Glad to know you are getting the gold nuggets.
I still hold true to my stance that when you build a real relationship if value, the sale becomes a foregone conclusion, no pitch necessary.
Hugs, Melissa
Hi Melissa-
There is a mindless time wasting portion of the Social Media. There is also a good way to keep up with the large number of people that were once a part of our lives, and for normal reasons, now we don't see often. For me, since I moved a fair amount as a student and I have some years on me, this is indeed a large number. I have also made friends with customers of my business as well as colleagues and vendors over the last 25 years. Some of them I genuinely like, not in the greedy wolf-like way brought to the fore in another comment. I learn of their lives and their families. They know a little about mine. I like social media especially for this level of "friend". Casual contact with people that you no longer see, but in some way care about.
I don't find this takes a lot of time, that later I find is poorly spent.
Melissa Galt
As long as your time in social media is working well for you, that is all that matters.
I'm not at all sure I concurred with the wolf comment, I'm more of a shephard!
Hugs, Melissa
I follow you because you have a no nonsense, straight forward approach to marketing and you throw in an amusing comment now and then. You are very direct which I find refreshing.
When I first got involved in social media I, too, concentrated on numbers because that's what I thought I was supposed to do. Now I connect only with people who I can learn from or are in my target market. I try to interact with them in a way that will build a trusting relationship.
When I go to "real" networking events I don't try t meet everyone in the room so why do it on social media.
Keep up the good work!
Melissa Galt
Sounds like you learned the biggest lesson early enough to avoid too much wasted time and you are growing your business with real relationships.
That rocks! Keep up the good work. Go on over to gravatar.com and add your headshot so we can "see" you here.
Hugs, Melissa
Hi Melissa,
Very interesting. I don't know anything about following, facebook or anything else come to that. I had a look once out of curiosity and decided it wasn't for me. I'm here now because I want to find out what it is you have to say and hopefully learn.I only speak to people who make sense to me… so far, you do!
Kind regards,
Melissa Galt
Thanks, I hope I always make sense! Curious as I checked out your blog and you are sharing it with social media (Facebook, Twitter and the like) yet you said you aren't using it. What am I not understanding?
Hugs, Melissa
Happy Holidays Melissa,
As you know, and we've been in "real" contact with TRUE connection over cupcakes *wink*, I have been a huge fan of your message and work for a long time now. AND THIS is precisely why!! Authenticity, Integrity, Organic Connections and a wealth of expertise and brilliance that you share – and all while cutting out the B.S. (to be very blunt).
I myself am rather upfront and it gets me in trouble at times but no matter. I too have not "followed the flock" (at times most definitely that is way more difficult than drinking the Koolaid as I call it). Still, as a fellow Pioneering spirit – it simply feels more in alignment to do it my way. YET I do find myself occasionally falling into the "trap" of the numbers, the game, the competition like high school of who is more popular and all the other social media "noise" — luckily I catch myself-Most of the time. 😉 In fact, I'm not sure if you've read the book by Sherry Turkel entitled, "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other." It's fascinating if you haven't.
Well thanks again for another brilliant – authentic share and I hope you have a FAB holiday weekend.
With Honor,
Melissa Galt
Hey Mandy,
Good to hear from you always. I'm not familiar with the book mentioned but it does sound right up my alley and I'll grab it for holiday reading.
I agree it can be hard not to fall into the numbers trap since I am well aware (as you are too) that numbers carry disproportionate weight in too many circles even when evidence of nothing . . .
Stick to your own path, it is the right one for you.
Hugs, Melissa
It is predicted that the nameless (brainless) befriending and following will start to slow down over the next year or two as social media takes its place in the mainstream. There has been a flurry of crazed activity and people think they are "missing something" if they don't befriend everything that moves. There is great value to social media and the gold nugget will be in discovering the value for yourself. That will mean real connections to real people and sharing of useful information.
Thanks for this. It's truly excellent.
Melissa Galt
Thanks Susan,
Oh, I've no doubt there is benefit. I've gotten that in my own business. It simply can be challenging to find the benefit amidst the noise and clamor of empty chasing . . .
Great to hear from you always,
Hugs, Melissa
All I can say is "ditto"! I roll my eyes whenever I hear that someone has 400 friends but, they can't even name half of them. At some point along the line these people have confused the quantity of friends with the quality of friends.
Social media is meant to be a personal assistant for our relationships. Not a replacement for them.
Melissa Galt
That is a great way to put it! "Social media is a personal assistant for our relationships; not a replacement for them."
The trick is to leverage the assistant in a way that truly helps and doesn't simply add to the noise and distraction.
Hugs, Melissa
Hi Melissa.
As a general rule, I do agree with you, and think that it is true as well in real life situations as many do make connections w/others for superficial reasons.
And until recently, I was a HUGE sceptic about the importance of Social Media in my own life; whether professional or socially. Having started blogging earlier this year, and connecting with many like minded people on Twitter through the blog, my feelings have changed dramatically!
Especially about Twitter – I would not have seen this post, for example, if not for a "friend" on twitter..
While thinking about why I Blog.. a huge part of it has to do with sharing my thoughts not only w/those that choose to follow my blog, but I imagine that I am speaking directly to those new found friends on twitter..It's about a conversartion I am having which makes it a lot more tangible, authentic and therefore alot easier to create each post for me.
So I have to say that because of many new connections made through twitter, and because of connections that appear simply because we have "friends" in common, perhaps this also mimmicks a little of what happens IRL, w/friends that introduce us to others that have similar ideas, tastes, and interests..
Remaining genuine is key, but I find that its easilly felt who is not _ even when on social networking channels like FB, or twitter.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it is definitely thought provoking..
Happy Holidays
Melissa Galt
Thanks Jennifer,
I have no doubt the value of blogging and enjoy when friends deliberately share their preferences and recommendations. I think what irritates and frustrates me more is the "marketing" that something like FB does and I get drive by friendings for no more reason than they saw my face and how many friends we have in common. I like to know someone did a bit more work than that.
I am likely super sensitive growing up with a celebrity mom and seeing "fans." My definition of a fan is a stranger who wants a piece of you. . . food for thought.
Hugs, Melissa
Excellent post Melissa. These are points other self proclaimed social media experts should be highlighting.
I had seen the pinterest site a while back and wasn't overly impressed. I personally only use twitter to follow specific sites relative to niches I'm working in so that periodically I can check posts they've been tweeting. For me it kind of works like a quick reference library.
Looking at some who decide to follow me usually leaves me asking "why" and as you say many obviously give little or no thought to who they follow or friend.
Best wishes for a great Christmas and fantastic 2012.
Melissa Galt
Thanks Jonathon!
Yes, Twitter can be a valuable reference library, great point of usage.
Happiest of Holidays!
Hugs, Melissa
Mistaking numbers for relationships reminds me of the worst in high school culture where popularity was touted over value and discernment.
I think Twitter is the worst. People follow you not because they're interested but because they want you to follow them. And, if you don't, delete their follow they will. The automated DM notes on Twitter feel phony, too. Why not leave it to me to look you up and find you on Facebook…if I want to.
Per Maureen's point, it is said that on any given day most of us are only authentically connected to 150 people. (I think that's the number, though it might be 250.)
Melissa Galt
Not sure it really matters how many you may be "authentically" connected to. For some it would be 5, for others 500. The key as I see it is to step out of the blind friendings and random followings.
I agree on Twitter D/M though can see why someone may want to save me the lookup by sharing their link. It would be better if personal and by request . . .
Hugs, Melissa
Jonathan Good
Melissa – I agree it's very noisy out there, but I don't think irrelevant is a good word to associate with social media – it's more relevant than ever and will continue to grow.
To your statement "I have created nothing worthy of following. I haven't build a profile, curated a series of photos or even bulletin boards . . .."
I'd say you've created something worthy of following already… You!
Also, your blog looks like you use social media heavily to promote it – and it must be working because I found this article via a Facebook friend.
I think many people look for others who they know (or even just heard of or read something they wrote, etc.)
Pinterest is just another new channel to share interests in a different way.
Lastly, I think it is difficult for start up networks to have enough content to be interesting and show their usefulness — once the early adopters do their work everyone else will start to get on board and the "network effect" takes hold.
Melissa Galt
I deliberately chose a controversial title for this as it means more readership . . .gaming or smart, you decide.
I don't dispute that social media has an important place. However I do think that far too many are relying on it in less than productive or even healthy ways. I lost a very, very dear friend earlier this fall to suicide and he had a following in the six figures and gave to everyone yet had nothing left for himself and too few gave back to him.
Yes, I appreciate that experience is on the unique side, but I've a feeling it isn't as unique as it should be.
57.2% of people interact more online than in real life, I find that scary and isolating on many levels.
Hugs, Melissa
Thanks for your clear-headed comments about social media.
I have never made friends easily. I still can't make friends as easily as others on Facebook but I do connect with about 40. Some are friends, some are past co-workers, very few are possible prospects. I use LinkedIn for business contacts and see much higher quality in meaningful connections there. I don't use Twitter because I don't wish to be a twit or find out that someone has eaten a bologna sandwich for lunch.
I do agree that we have been mowed over by technology and that by the time we stand up and dust ourselves off, we get mowed over by the next greatest trend.
I'm just tired of being tired. So I will resolve to cut WAY back on my email and social media frenzied time, and consider that my computer and iPhone can be turned off for days at a time without the world coming to an end.
Melissa Galt
Hey, I never made friends easily either because I switched schools too much and wasn't even military!
Yes, you can unplug and disconnect and the world won't end. Go for it as often as needed.
Hugs, Melissa
Hi Melissa, thanks again for an interesting and thought-provoking article. I'm relatively new to the social media scene and am described as an "Observer" or Dabbler" on Klout. However, scocial media is a way or broadcasting and sharing ideas and equally of listening to other people that one would not normally encounter. It is always interesting to listen to what other people have to say and understanding their perspective on something. I guess we are all into social media for different reasons and if we find that it does not work for us, then we can opt out and opt back in again later. As for yourself and why I follow you – well you are always interesting and thought-provoking. Regards, Michael
Melissa Galt
Hey Michael,
Glad to know I am interesting and though provoking, keep me posted if I ever slip!
Ahh yes, the broadcasting . . .not always recommended. It's too close to having a convo by yourself. Social media works best if it is fueling a target and creating genuine points of connection.
Hugs, Melissa
GREAT post! Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts and wise observations Melissa! While I was trying to build my online presence in 2010, I probably joined a tad bit too many sites. Now that I moved (and it's a NEW year!) I'm trying to update my profiles, and I'm seeing this over abundance of insane nonesense… I'm trying to delete a few along the way (although this is NOT as easy as it would seem). Wish me luck! and BTW: if you're looking to build some of your boards on Pinterest, I have plenty of pins to share – so stop by and repin!
Melissa Galt
Thanks Lynda!
I know that feeling really well and struggle with unsubscribing as well. I do look forward to the difference it will make and when you create a vacuum, you create room for more positive energy to happen.
Hugs and Happy New Year!
Brandi Harrigan
Twitter: JunkiesRising
Wonderful honesty Love it. Which is why I read your stuff and follow you, too, like other commenters have mentioned. I'm newly on Twitter with a business profile… I've not sat down to figure out the whole Page Timeline thing on Facebook yet… While I faithfully use Twitter everyday to post my 140 characters of whatever, I don't watch the numbers so much. Actually, when I see my followers take a jump in numbers, I tend to go through and cull out many of the ones that just don't make sense or are blatant spam (gotta love all the porn actresses trying to get followers with "inspirational" tweets, lol).
I've actually gotten a few of my best leads through Twitter itself, so I appreciate that part of it… but yes, there is little to no meaning in the number of followers that I have… it doesn't mean anything to me to have a bunch of people who randomly DM people with the "follow me and I'll follow back" style tweet following me, ya know?
Thanks, Melissa, for your honest and authentic style and thanks to all the comments in discussion around this.
Love & Light~
Brandi H
Brandi Harrigan recently posted..Out on a Limb April 7, 2012
Thanks Brandi,
Always glad to pull back the curtain.
BTW, easy tool to keep the spammers and dead weight inactives out of your following is http://www.manageflitter.com. Free and easy.
Hugs, Melissa
Hey Melissa:
Good thought – and here is an interesting trend – fewer and fewer of my real friends are spending time on Facebook these days. The real information (genuine status updates that matter from people you know) are getting drowned and diluted in the fake ap driven updates (Bob played Hokey pokey) or updates from people I barely know who are using FB for marketing (Hey – are you coming to the event?).
So… what do you think the future is for social media?
There are articles I've skimmed recently predicting Facebook's demise in the next decade.
In the case of what your friends are experiencing, I hide those people from my feed so I still get good stuff.
If it weren't for business I wouldn't be on FB, I miss REAL time and the phone.
Social is here to stay, it is HOW it looks and feels that is morphing and changing rapidly.
Hugs, Melissa


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