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How Facebook changes our behavior
Nov 18th
I always find it curious when people compare our social media presence with our REAL presence in the "real world."
What makes people think that Facebook is NOT the real world? Increasingly, we are beginning to see these lines blur.
We create our personality on Facebook.
But Facebook is also creating our personality. Facebook changes our behavior. Seriously.
Recently, Facebook demonstrated how it can alter our moods by manipulating our content. This is a company that can affect our opinions.
New research shows that social proof on Facebook contributes to our view of our self-worth, quantifies the value of friends and shapes what content we share.
Where will it lead, and in the near-term, what does this mean for marketers? Fascinating question, right? So fascinating in fact, Tom Webster and I devoted an entire podcast to it.
This one covers a lot of territory in 30 minutes!
- The power of social proof in our online marketing world
- Content competition and the homogenization of our streams
- How we are being "trained" on what to post on Facebook
- The Facebook reward system that is creating our online personas
- What are the implications for brand content
- Could Facebook manipulate political campaigns? Is it already happening?
I'm sure you are anxious to get right into this one! Let's get on with the show!
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Resources mentioned in this show
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Donna Tartt
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Counselor by Cormac McCarthy
Marketing Podcasts Dotcom by Jay Baer
Original Atlantic article on Facebook numbers by Benjamin Grosser
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Five 2015 digital marketing trends for your consideration
Nov 17th
It's a popular time to look into the crystal ball for the next year and make a few predictions. It is also what I love to do most … think about what's next!
Here are some views of possible 2015 digital marketing trends that have my wheels turning.
1) The implications of Content Shock
By 2020, the amount of information on the web is expected to increase by 600%. The challenge of cutting through that overwhelming information density is THE marketing challenge for the next few years.
I see "information density" like a big hammer forging the innovations in our marketing world. Here are three possible implications of the intensifying "fight to be seen."
- Business migration away from Facebook — The drop in organic reach has been apocalyptic for many businesses. Why? There is too much content on Facebook and the company is forced to ratchet down the reach. We will have to either spend a lot more money on Hollywood-quality content, a lot more money on advertising, or both, forcing some businesses to re-consider Facebook as a viable channel and enabling a migration to less noisy venues.
- Emergence of new content forms — As the web adapts and adopts to these new realities, it will drive innovations that help businesses stand out. I predict that we will see some interesting new content forms develop in 2015. One area ripe for innovation is interactive video.
- Fighting through filters — New apps and filters are emerging to help consumers make better content choices. As more people turn to these apps to sort the clutter, the marketer's attention will turn toward the new challenge of getting messages through these new filters.
2) Malignant complexity and security marketing
One of my predictions for 2014 was that the malignant complexity of the web would open the door for more massive Internet security breaches … and unfortunately this prediction came true.
I think we are getting to the point where Internet safety will be an important and distinguishing point of marketing differentiation. Who will step forward and claim "The world's safest online store (or credit card or social media platform)?"
Or, will that just put the target on your back for hackers?
3) Social media consolidation
Every social media platform faces similar challenges when it comes to increasing shareholder value — how do we increase the user base and leverage data for profits?
And here is what every platform knows — business would be a lot better if they could combine their data/software silos. Some tantalizing possible combinations might be Facebook + Pinterest or Google + Twitter.
There are a lot of egos involved in these companies but at some point the boards will take over and make rational decisions based on potential financial gains. Will that momentum occur in 2015?
4) Big Data for everyone
What does Big Data mean for a little business? Not much right now, but the potential is vast.
In 2015 I think we will begin to see complex data being presented in simpler, more accessible formats for smaller businesses. I am already starting to see sites that are aggregating statistics and data by category and online data-engines that take existing mountains of data and format it into accessible graphs and answers to queries from anyone.
Simplifying insane complexity will drive amazing new efficiencies and faster decision-making throughout the economy. It may also drive another huge wedge between developed and developing nations.
5) The double down on augmented reality
The opportunities presented by augmented reality promise to be more profound than the Internet itself.
But the progress seems to have stalled, at least with the most visible product, Google Glass. Developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much-hyped, $1,500 test version of the product. Google has pushed back the Glass roll out to the mass market and is focusing on workplace applications.
Glass is still very crude and expensive compared to the functionality you can get on a smart phone. The battery life is short, the device overheats, and isn't really true augmented reality.
Most of the truly immersive technologies are aimed at gaming but there are some other developments bubbling furiously away from the public view that are maybe a year or so away from mainstream applications. One leading developer told me that literally every Fortune 500 company has some sort of experimental AR activity going on.
With Facebook owning Oculus, I don't think Google will walk away from Glass. In fact, I think we will see some announcement of a Glass 2.0 in 2015 or 2016.
We're on the cusp of marketing's most exciting era and Google will certainly be part of that. What does marketing look like when there are no boundaries?
Share your thoughts in the comment section. What are you excited about for 2015?
This post was written as part of the Dell Content Partners program, which provides news and analysis on technology, business and gadget-geek culture. I've been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don't necessarily represent Dell's positions or strategies.
How to use Power Editor to Ignite your Facebook Marketing
Jun 24th
By M. Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez, {grow} Community Member
A few months ago, I began seeing Dunkin Donuts Facebook posts in Spanish.
Whoa. How did they know I spoke Spanish? I mean, I do but I always post in English. I liked this. It made me feel special. I wanted to run out and buy some of their coffee. And I did!
But the fact remained, I didn't know how they figured this out.
The Secret: Facebook Power Editor
What I discovered was that Dunkin Donuts is using a tool called Power Editor … and it's not just for big companies. I became even more intrigued when I heard Mari Smith speak with Kerry O'Shea Gorgone on the Marketing Smarts Podcast about it and I signed up for Mari Smith & Dennis Yu's Facebook Marketing Success System,
I have even been learning how to use this great application for my clients.
Facebook's Power Editor helps any business target individuals on an extremely granular level. Like reaching a specific group of working-moms who work at XYZ company, who like Bon Jovi, who buy a lot online, who drive a BMW, who work in Marketing, who have kids ages 5-10, who are connected to your friends. Pretty amazing, right?
Hold the presses. It gets better. This tool is FREE.
I have to admit, Power Editor is a complicated program but it can work wonders to increase organic reach with posts. You do know that only 6% of your audience actually sees your posts, right? Therefore, who wouldn't want to reach the right customers (all the time, every time)? All you need is patience, a budget, and Google Chrome to access this tool.
Step One:
- Download or Use Google Chrome to access the program
- Visit Facebook.com/PowerEditor
- Upload your Information onto this program
You might ask yourself, "Why would I go through all this trouble if I could just press the Boost Post button?"
Because you can create ads based on:
- Demographics (Relationship, Education, Work, Ethnic Affinity, Generation, Parents of children of certain ages)
- Workplaces (Promote your latest Press Release to the Media/Channels/etc)
- Buying Behaviors (Car, Charitable Donations, Digital Activities)
- Interests (you need to search them first using Facebook Graph Search. Go to the Search Bar on top of your personal page (not biz) and type "Interests liked by Fans of (type your business page name)". Personalize your ads using pictures from these results, mine include fans of hiking, camping, flip flops and you've set a common ground with customers!
Have an email list? It's your lucky day!
All you need is an email list and an Excel spreadsheet to turn your database into marketing gold. Of course you must only use email addresses from people who have opted-in.
For example, real estate agents can create ads to reach an email list or previous website visitors who have expressed an interest in buying a home (there's multiple buttons in Power Editor to reach Renters).
Retailers can use their email list to target ads to reach customers who are millennials, their top spenders, or those who have a preference for a selective product in their stores.
You can create special offers for people on your mailing list to get them to "Like" your business page.
Facebook Dark Posts — Groovy!
Marketers! You have a new best friend with dark posts. You click "Create New Unpublished Post" and target an audience without the post appearing on your timeline. None of your current fans see this ad. Think of the various ways you can do this with new markets without cluttering your current one page. I think this is what Dunkin Donuts did with the Spanish posts that I've been seeing on my Newsfeed. And they gained a customer for life!
Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez is the founder of Beyond Engagement, Social Media Solutions. She enjoys teaching her clients the latest on engagement marketing. You can find her on Twitter, LinkedIn, & Facebook. Photo Credit: 40 under Forty, Tri-Cities, TN/VA
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Facebook Tag Bombing is the new telemarketing
May 26th
This is a post that is probably going to piss some people off, but it must be said.
I am increasingly being tagged in stupid Facebook posts like this one:
What's your favorite flavor of lollipop? Go!
Now, when I get an alert that I have been tagged in a post (or photo), I always take a look to see what's going on. I think that is just polite and usually the content is something relevant and interesting. However, in cases like this, I sincerely doubt anybody actually cares about my favorite flavor of lollipop. I don't typically consume many lollipops. Perhaps that surprises you?
This practice of tag-bombing people to artificially drive engagement is simply the new version of telemarketing. You know, those annoying sales people who interrupt you with a call you to sell you insurance or something? Even if you hang up right away, it has distracted you from your day and wasted your time.
I have also noticed that family and true friends don't ever tag bomb. Why would they? It seems to be coming from the social media gurus and demi-gurus. To what end? The only possible explanation is that they need to drive the engagement numbers up that fuel a Klout score or other metric. Shudder.
C'mon folks. Stop this silliness. If you want engagement, do the work.
So far, I have been trying to provide gentle return comments like "It is not cool to tag me in a post that has nothing to do with me." But maybe I should give them a taste of their own medicine and start tag bombing them too?
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Nice lake with nice summer clouds reflections!
I see also lot of new pictures from you, but because I am in dramatic time shortage since last week - I will try come back later in next days with more attention! :) Cheers -a
Hello Ainars, you are welcome! But I'm offline then for some days. After it I hope to present new pictures from a new region. So much at first.
Regards Roland
Sorry for the interruption. @Ainars: what means -a ?
to Polytropos: '-a' <= just shortened initial letter from my name :(
Sorry - if this leads to misunderstandings, I will try sign my comments only with full name ahead :(
p.s. why Panoramio not have feature like 'signature'?
Ah, ok, I see. I just thought I missed one of this emoticons.
p.s. No idea. Maybe to complicated, bethinking they are not able to handle the tag problem ;-)
Ok. no problem with my signature! :)
About taging problem? Sometimes for me happens than some tags are not saved, if I tag few pics with one tag, then press I'm done or Done buttons, then right after previous tag choose next tag, and continue with taging. As I said, I fixed than sometimes happen unsaving problem - some tags are saved, some are not. But it happens for me less frequent if I do refresh > reload page after each tag. And this prblem never happened if I press and choose more than one tag at once, (for example year + place tags) and tag then by such tags group.
I beieve this unsaving problem happens because of overload of server after comming such popularity? How many users we are right now? Weeks ago we was >600 000 users?
...there is Petercurry (http://www.panoramio.com/user/282657). He's the one with biggest Favourites-List I know. The last in his ID-sorted-List is the number: 732672
Hi Roland1, tnx for Your comments!
I checked link! I was appreciated to see- I am in list too! ;)
Seems than problems with tagging are not conected with overload? At least I hope that?
Might be after merging with GE there are now included synchronisations between Panoramio and GE offices? Might be that are reasons for delays in refreshing screens?
This tagging problem has touched me too, and I can only tag my photos now by methods confirmed and recommended in Forum (in order to add new tag for some photo, remove all previous tags if such exists, and then choose desired tags (all at once = year+placename+properties like clouds, sunset or whatever), then apply all those tags in one pass. Boring task! :(
But it works for me somehow! :(
But I just began estimate total of my photos space - I am nearly up to 2GB!
What happens with account if I exceed? Upload command will warn me? Or just I will loose my new uploads?
Are there only exit to create new account?
Nice one Roland Happy New Year and Merry X-Mas too. greetings from Tetovo
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My mom arrived in town tonight to spend the next week plus with us. She hasn't seen the kiddos since Christmas and, boy, has Julian changed a lot in 3 1/2 months. He can hold his head up, roll over, play in the exersaucer, and eat his toes! Ava and I had been counting down the days until her arrival for just over a week now. I would tell her "Grandma will be here on Thursday." And she'd reply, "This Thursday?" Then as the day of her arrival grew closer I'd say, "Grandma will be here in three more days" or "two more days" orRead More →


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Putting aside whether the use of isinstance is harmful, I have run into the following conundrum when trying to evaluate isinstance after serializing/deserializing an object via Pickle:
from __future__ import with_statement
import pickle
# Simple class definition
class myclass(object):
def __init__(self, data):
self.data = data
# Create an instance of the class
x = myclass(100)
# Pickle the instance to a file
with open("c:\\pickletest.dat", "wb") as f:
pickle.dump(x, f)
# Replace class with exact same definition
class myclass(object):
def __init__(self, data):
self.data = data
# Read an object from the pickled file
with open("c:\\pickletest.dat", "rb") as f:
x2 = pickle.load(f)
# The class names appear to match
print x.__class__
print x2.__class__
# Uh oh, this fails...(why?)
assert isinstance(x2, x.__class__)
Can anyone shed some light on why isinstance would fail in this situation? In other words, why does Python think these objects are of two different classes? When I remove the second class definition,
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Shah Rukh Khan's injury, which his...ahem...colleague Salman Khan has described as "ok" is not so okay. According to an eyewitness, Shah Rukh was not just injured but also badly shaken by the accident.
"Shah Rukh was shooting with Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood and Deepika Padukone for Farah Jhan's 'Happy New Year' when a heavy 10x5 door came crashing down straight towards Shah Rukh. He ducked. But couldn't escape entirely though. He had bleeding gash on the right side of his forehead. His knee was also injured," said the eyewitness.
Worst of all, Shah Rukh's shoulder which has undergone several surgeries took the weight of the falling door.
Says the eyewitness: "Shah Rukh was in a lot of pain. He is also become frail because of the repeated injuries and surgeries. The entire team went to the hospital with him. They were there for more than four hours. Thorough tests including CT scan and an MRI scans were done."
The test reports are awaited.
In the meanwhile, Shah Rukh insisted on returning to shoot after the hospitalization.
Says the eyewitness: "Shah Rukh and the entire team went back to shoot at the Marriott. Shah Rukh had his hand in a sling. He took of his sling and did his shots. But he was quite shaken. The shooting has been cancelled on Friday to allow Shah Rukh to rest."
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Prices, Tax Credit Prompt First-Time Homebuyers
While changes in the housing market have been a crisis for some, it's created opportunity for others, especially first-time homebuyers.
The National Association of Realtors conducted a survey showing that 47 percent of those who bought a house last year were jumping into the market for the first time. That's up 6 percent from the year before.
Not only are prices down, but interest rates remain low. And an $8,000 federal tax credit is prompting a lot of activity at the cheaper end of the housing market.
Earlier this week, Brian Chalmers, 39, signed the closing papers on a 1950s, single-level brick ranch in Denver's North Park Hill neighborhood.
Getting to that point was not easy. Chalmers earns about $25,000 a year and saved up that much for a down payment.
"It's been a five-year struggle — living in very inexpensive apartments, cooking rice every day," says Chalmers. "I've gone without a cell phone for five years."
His new house is in pretty rough shape, but at $125,000, he can finally afford to make the jump into homeownership.
"There was a time back in 2004-2005 when people were purchasing this same kind of home for the high 100s, low 200s," says Chalmers' real estate agent, Ann Connelly.
Connelly says Chalmers got this house under a short-sale agreement. The lenders accepted about $75,000 less for the property than they'd loaned to the previous owner. There are other examples of good deals like this in the neighborhood, too.
Just a few blocks away, Courtney Gross, 27, and Rebecca Wolff, 28, are preparing to spend a first Christmas in their new house.
They're in their late 20s and both are social workers. They paid just a little more than $182,000 for the house last spring. That's $28,000 less than it sold for in 2004. And that was before the house was completely remodeled from the basement to a new roof.
"Because the market dropped — everything kind of went under — we were able to get a house that a few years ago we wouldn't have been able to afford," says Wolff.
There was just one thing missing: The windows needed updating. That's where the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time buyers came in handy.
"We turned around and used that tax credit to put in new windows, but then we get a tax credit on new windows," says Gross.
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How is congenital myasthenic syndrome inherited?
Almost all types of CMS are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. In order to have the autosomal recessive form of CMS, both parents of an affected individual must be carriers of the disease causing mutation. If a person has CMS, but their partner is not a carrier of a CMS mutation, then their children will be carriers but will not have CMS. If one person has CMS and one person is a carrier of CMS, each child has a 50% chance of either being a carrier of CMS or having the disorder.[1]
Only one form of CMS (slow-channel syndrome congenital myasthenic syndrome) has been shown to be inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. This means that if one parent has slow-channel syndrome congenital myasthenic syndrome then all of their children have a 50% chance of inheriting the disorder as well.[1]
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The Woelfel group consists of three companies with more than 80 employees, providing demanding solutions in vibrations and acoustics. Wölfel Beratende Ingenieure (`consulting engineers`), the engineering service company with intersectoral competence and experience when it comes to questions of mechanics, dynamics and acoustics. Wölfel Meßsysteme · Software (`measuring ...
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I'm not sure if something like this is possible (maybe it is?) it would be great to see though.
I'm presently working with a client who has requested a dynamically updatable product catalogue, which I've made 100% with WordPress, mostly with extensive use of custom fields. The one feature the client has requested that I haven't been able to achieve is password protecting certain elements of a page/post (in this case the custom field related to product price). I wonder if it would ever be possible to have a conditional type statement (i.e. if wpUser=="Admin" then display whatever code follows). This would be great with clients like the one I'm working with, who have clients that need to see prices, but end users who shouldn't be.
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Director: Jets pulled out of 'Draft Day' movie because of 'QB dispute'
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"Draft Day," the "fictional" account about the Browns moving up in the draft to grab a franchise quarterback, opened nationwide on April 11. Perhaps one of the least believable aspects of the movie was that the Seattle Seahawks held the top overall pick, which they eventually traded to Cleveland, thanks largely to the dogged determination of ruggedly handsome Browns general manager Kevin Costner.
The Seahawks weren't the first choice for that first pick, however. Nope, that honor was supposed to go to the Jets, but the team pulled out just a few days before shooting began because, director Ivan Reitman tells the Los Angeles Times, they had their hands full with a real-life quarterback controversy.
Mark Sanchez had just put the finishing touches on his worst season in the NFL, one that included 13 touchdowns against 18 interceptions and eight lost fumbles -- including BUTT FUMBLE.
"They were having something of a quarterback dispute, and the team said that this is just going to incite our fans a little more to criticize us, even though it's all fictional," Reitman said.
This was also coming on the heels of the Jets trading for Tim Tebow, an experiment that blew up in their face, and then watching as general manager Mike Tannebaum was run out of town. He was replaced by John Idzik, who promptly complicated the quarterback situation by drafting Geno Smith in the second round.
And if things weren't already FUBAR, Sanchez injured his shoulder during the second half of a meaningless preseason game, which lead to one of the most awkwardly hilarious Rex Ryan press conferences ever.
So while we understand the organization's concerns, the reality is that art can't come close to imitating life when it comes to the Jets.
ESPN's Rich Cimini says there's another reason the Jets were hesitant to participate in the movie: It might portray their fans in a negative light.
We suppose that's ... a(n extreme) possibly, though we'd like to think it has more to do with the team not wanting to draw more attention to their first-round draft record.


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a new rolling stones song??? it must be christmas! i had heard about the reissue of one of the greatest albums of all time, exile on main street, but i completely forgot the release was approaching. as i was driving home yesterday i turned on the radio to hear the familiar sound of the stones (…) Read more
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i picked the photos above specifically because i think they give you a little bit of the feeling of caribou's music… like a watercolor painting of greens, purples, pinks and blues swirling around in a pool of sunlight. his first album, andorra, was recommended by a staff member at amoeba in san francisco and the (…) Read more
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thom yorke mgmt the xx jay-z phoenix muse local natives just a few of the bands our girls are excited about seeing at coachella! we've also made a playlist of tunes by bands playing at the festival for you to enjoy: Music Playlist at MixPod.com (…) Read more
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if i had to put mgmt's music into words it would be… summer 2008, days spent in the parks of san francisco listening to music, hoola hooping and hanging out with friends, dancing barefoot all night till you're drenched in sweat, and watching the sun come up. few albums capture a moment in time so (…) Read more
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today's featured artist is actress/singer/style icon charlotte gainsbourg. she has long been france's sweetheart and calls paris home, but she's making a name for herself in the US as well thanks to her latest album, IRM. since releasing the album she has embarked on her first live tour, culminating with a top spot in this (…) Read more
what song was #1 when you were born?Mar 30, 2010
another fp girl asked this the other day and a bunch of us looked it up – the results were pretty funny. some of our songs were pink floyd's "another brick in the wall," "up where we belong" by joe cocker & jennifer warner and "careless whisper" by wham :) so tell me… what was (…) Read more
tunesday: angus & julia stoneMar 30, 2010
i had never heard of angus & julia stone until last week, when fp jemma told me about them. i'm so glad she did because their music is beautiful and they also happen to have a new album coming out today called down the way! angus and julia are brother and sister and their music (…) Read more
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zooey deschanel is probably one of the few actresses who has achieved a successful career in the music industry. she has a natural, sweet voice that could easily fool you into thinking you're listening to an old record from the fifties – and it probably helps that she's teamed with m. ward, who is insanely (…) Read more
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today's featured sxsw band is also one of my current obsessions – local natives! i heard the opening notes of the first song "wide eyes" and they had me hooked immediately…i've been listening to their album gorilla manor nonstop for a couple of weeks now and i love it from start to finish. it's full (…) Read more
tunesdayMar 09, 2010
i picked today's featured band for a few reasons- their new album came out today, they're playing at SXSW, and they also happen to have a show in philly tomorrow night! they are the morning benders, a san francisco band who make sunny melodic pop music reminiscent of the beach boys. the album, big echo, (…) Read more
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well everyone, march is finally here- which means spring officially starts this month! i am so ready for warmth and sunshine and leaves and flowers…and in that spirit, i made a little mix of music that feels happy and springlike and is brightening my spirits a little bit. hope you like it! Create a MySpace (…) Read more
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the first music festival of the season is just a couple of weeks away! this year a couple of our fp girls heading down to austin for SXSW and we're going to be bringing you the SXSW experience …fp style! i thought for tunesday today i'd feature one of their must-see bands for this year, (…) Read more


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The North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature concluded its final meeting for 2012 in Greensboro. During the two-day meeting, the group received an update on various programs for the aging in our state as well as volunteer opportunities in North Carolina. During the meeting, delegates also voted on their top five priorities to send to the General Assembly for its 2013 session.
The senior legislature meets three times a year for updates on the condition of federal and state programs for the aging. Dennis Streets, director of the North Carolina Division of Aging and Adults, explained how the possible federal sequestration would impact programs and services funded through the Older Americans Act and administered by the Administration on Aging.
In North Carolina, programs supported by the OAA could lose between $2.3 and $2.7 million in funding. Streets said this could result in nearly 3,000 older adults not being served a hot meal at their local senior center and nearly 1,000 older adults who may not receive a home-delivered meal. Currently, in North Carolina, there are more than 12,000 older adults on the waiting list for home- and community-based services such as in-home aide care, transportation, nutrition and respite care.
Streets says that �if sequestration happens, then we will need even more state funding along with strengthened partnerships with businesses and faith-based communities, education of policymakers about effective programs, increased collaboration between state agencies, and investment in evidence-based initiatives.�
The new 2013 legislative priorities to be sent to the General Assembly from the senior legislature include: 1) maintain funding for senior centers; 2) restore funding to sustain Project CARE; 3) mandate pre-employment and random drug testing for employees of nursing, adult-care homes and adult day-care facilities; 4) strengthen and fund North Carolina�s Adult Protective Services Program; 5) provide recurring funds of at least $7 million for the Home and Community Care Block Grant.
To close out the year, the Senior Tar Heels participated in their 4th Annual Food Drive. In years past, the donated items were distributed to local food pantries. The donated items will go to the McDowell County food bank. This year�s food drive was the largest and most successful to date.
The Senior Tar Heel Legislature promotes citizen involvement and advocacy concerning aging issues before the General Assembly and assesses the legislative needs of older adults by convening a forum modeled after the North Carolina General Assembly.
One delegate and one alternate represent every older adult in the state�s 100-counties. Please feel free to contact your local representative or the Eastern Carolina Council Area Agency on Aging.
In Onslow County, contact delegate Marge Zima at 910-324-1444. In Carteret County, you can contact delegate John Thompson at 252-726-7221 or email: email@example.com. You may also contact Tonya Cedars, the regional AAA director, at 252-638-3185 ext. 3009.
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I have a list of approx. 10000 items. The current situation is that every item has an associated weight (priority or importance). Now the smallest weight is
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1500. Weight is determined by intuition by people (how somebody thinks the item is important to community). Because it's not easy to determine the most important item, I'd like to use some random factor, so that items with lower weight will have less chance to be chosen and their weight will be adjusted in the future (some mix of common sense and randomness).
Do you know how to code a function
def getItem(dict):
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# but now I'd like to have this: The item with weight 1500 should
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Skip to comments.Carlton chief, sergeant face firearms charges (BATF now persecuting local police)
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The alarm that went out was "the Regulars are coming". Meaning the regular army. It was the colonists own army which was being used to confiscate civilian arms. Citizens of Boston were forced to disobey the order to turn in their weapons and had to smuggle them out of the occupied city in order to keep them.
It was not the firing of the regular's guns which raised the alarm, but several mounted riders including Paul Revere.
You can bet if our army is ever instructed to confiscate the arms of civilians, the army will have every weapon known to man at their service. You and I may not have silencers, machine guns, helicopters, or anti-tank missiles, but the forces sent to tyrannize us will have all this and much more.
This is the BATFE here. They don't have much use for the truth, nor much aquaintence with it either. I'm not sure they'd know what it was if it bit them in the a$$.
And that would be?
Like the BATFags at Waco?
incapable of handling said weapon
Like many women police officers?
mentally incapacitated beyond the point where they could be trusted to control their 'fire' (mentally incompetent - can't judge proper from improper use of weaponry that can potentially kill)
See Waco again.
d) deemed to be a risk because of their 'criminal bent'"
Like the SOB who murdered a woman carrying a child in her arms at Ruby Rudge.
Yeah, I guess there are some folks who shouldn't have guns.
Many, if not most, in the American military take their oath to defend the Constitution seriously. I'd also bet that the higher the 'skill' level of the soldier, the more likely they are to support the Constitution and refuse to obey any illegal edicts to violate the Bill of Rights.
You and I may not have silencers, machine guns, helicopters, or anti-tank missiles
Should such an illegal edict come down the pipe, I would guess that a lot of these items would either mysteriously disappear, or suddenly have "reliability" problems.
There are still quite a few Patriots in the American military.
No, it's not a federal crime, so long as you have the proper paperwork filled out and you've paid your tax.
The only reason they passed that edict was to raise revenue for the state. It needs to be repealed, as the 2nd amendment doesn't give the government the power to regulate silencers.
There were a lot of Republicans (as well as a few democrats) that talked about pulling their funding in 1994 after they won Congress, but the Bush/Dole wing of the party stopped that.
If that day ever comes, a decent bolt action rifle equipped with a scope is all many Patriots will "need".
I certainly did. Nevertheless, it was military tanks at Waco that injected CS gas into the buildings. If you tell enough lies and demonize the "enemy" you can get even well-meaning soldiers to support the wrong side.
It is in Finland. At some ranges, it's mandatory. The German military even has mufflers for artillery pieces. They are the size of largish storage shed, and I don't know how well they work, but I read about them in one of the European defense technology publications about 8 years ago.
It' a little more complicated than that. Their regulations (not the law, just their regulations) define any gun, which means any receiver, that was once a machine gun as a machine gun. That's the main reason all, well most the Navy still uses theirs, the M-14s haven't been distributed through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. They are select fire, and even with the select fire parts removed, even if "removed" means ground off the receiver, BATFE considers them to be machine guns, which the subjects are not allowed to possess. There is some RUMINT going aroudn that CMP and BATFE have come to some sort of agreement on that would allow the M-14s to have their recievers modified so that without welding and machine work, they could not be converted back to select fire, and thus sold through CMP. If so, and I stress it's RUMINT, I want one. All the CETMEs, FN/FALs, G-3s and any other "battle rifles" that have been imported must be fitted with a new receiver before the rest of the parts (a kit) can be assembled into a functioning semi-auto firearm. Even then they have to use a certain number of US made parts beside the reciever, due to the Bush I non-sporting purpose import ban and the subsequent codifying into law of the gist of that ban.
Actually not, they passed a $200 tax on a $15 (or thereabouts) suppressor because they didn't want thee or me to have one. $200 bucks was big money in 1934. They did it that way because they knew darn good and well they had no authority to ban such items, but they did have the power to tax, so they used it. Their model was the Harrison narcotics act, wherein they did the same to various herbs and plant extracts, again, knowing full well they had no power to ban them. (Since such keeping and using such herbs and plant extracts is not explictly protected by the Constitution, state governments may very well have had to the power to ban or severly regulate them, but not the feds, see the ninth amendment) Since then the Supreme Court has ruled that a constutionally protected right may not be singled out to be the object of such a tax, even one much less onorous than that laid out in the Federal Firearms Act. The particular case involved newsprint, IIRC. The same is true of keeping and bearing arms. The 1934 "tax" on machine guns, short barrelled shotguns, short rifles, suppressors, and other stuff was of course only the first slice of the salami, or if you prefer when the first turned on the flame, just a little one, under that pot of boiling water with the frog(s) in it.
The tanks belonged to the military, but the crews were FBI. There were however trained, poorly, by the military under the "war on drugs" exception to the posse commitatus act.
Well, it's actually $200 every time the thing changes hands. As I indicated earlier, in 1934, $200 might has well have been $2,000,000 for the vast majority of people.
Your post might as well have come from Handgun Control Inc. The 2nd Amendment states that the right to bear ARMS shall not be infringed. Rocket launchers and thermonuclear devices are not arms. Gun grabbers are very fond of using such scare tactic comarisons.
As for the rest of your points, if someone is too dangerousa to be trusted with a firearm, they should not be out on the streets, as if they really want to kill, they'll find a way.
You drug warriors have been showing your true colors quite a bit in the last few days.
I give up; what is it?
"It's a lot to have over your head," said Whalon, who has been a police officer for 12 years. "When you've gone all your life being the good guy, and all of a sudden you're the suspect, that can be draining,"
Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot doesn't it officer ?
That something may be used for evil is hardly a reason to ban it. This sort of thinking leads to official paranoia: Government officials trying to track purchases of the two most common chemicals used in agriculture, fertilizer and diesel.
Tearing up a deadbold is going to make a lot of noise no matter what. Besides, firing at hardened steel may earn the invader more than he bargained for anway.
It all started with the matter of a little $200 excise tax that the government now in large part refuses to collect. That in itself is telling as to which party is acting in good faith and which is fraudulent.
My conclusions are that the JBTs initiated the firing at the Davidians and continued to fire into a building they knew contained women and children. The latter cannot be disputed, and I believe the former to be true since the gov't has not proven otherwise.
They could have arrested Koresh at any time they wanted. Instead, they wanted to launch a high-profile attack where they slammed women and children to the ground, and could brag afterwards about all the guns and ammo they seized, as Congressmen licked their boots and voted to give them more funding.
Vernon Wayne Howell had a death wish that he carried out. TO the detriment of those innocent people under his 'care' I might add.
I guess we'll never know since he was murdered by the feds. Or do you believe that he just happened to commit suicide and murder his followers at the exact instance that the tanks rolled in?
Furthermore, if the federales believed him to be that dangerous, why didn't they simply pick him up during one of his daily trips into town?
Either way, they screwed the pooch (commiting numerous crimes in the process), and got away with it.
You, sir, are 100% correct.
My understanding is that the military guys that were there got very pissed off once they found out the feds had lied to them. So only a few of them remained to make sure the feds didn't lose their equipment. I think the feds, not the military, operated the tanks. But I could be very wrong, as all of this is based on stuff I've read elsewhere.
I'm with you 100%.
My point was simply that should the 'enemies of the Constitution' issue an illegal edict and attempt to have the miltary unlawfully carry it out, the "latest and greatest" equipment won't be necessary to defeat them.
In many cases, grandpa's bolt action deer rifle would suffice.
Or at least a few hundred thousand or a million of them.
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One of the more difficult events in track and field has to be the pole vault. The technique can take years to perfect, and this airborne event is not for those with a fear of flying.
Now, throw in another challenge — try competing in this event with Charlotte Brown's vision impairment.
Although Brown, 15, is legally blind, on Saturday she competed in the pole vault at the Texas girls Class 3A state championships.
Brown entered the final meet with one of the best measurements at 11 feet, 6 inches. According to the Associated Press, Brown listened to her Emory Rains High coach's voice as a guide to lead her toward the box.
While Brown could not top 10 feet in the finals and did not medal, her height would have been good enough to earn a medal last year at the Washington Class 3A state finals.
The AP also reported that fans in the stadium gave Brown a standing ovation after her third and final attempt.
On this Mother's Day, let's recall some of the greatest (and embarrassing) moments of Moms in Sports.
Nothing quite says motherly love like the video clip of the mom jumping into a boxing ring to attack her son's opponent. As the boxer was getting pummeled against the ropes, his mother appears in the frame and starts swinging a shoe in defense of her boy.
Also, who can forget during the NBA 2008 Eastern Conference playoffs when LeBron James' mother took umbrage to Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce bearhugging her son on a fastbreak attempt. The players' momentum carried into the baseline and Gloria James popped up to go after Pierce. The good son, LeBron James, could be seen telling his mother to: "sit your (behind) down!"
However the best moment may belong to former Milwaukee Brewers slugger Bill Hall and his pink bat. In 2006, as Major League Baseball commemorated breast cancer awareness, Hall hit a walk-off home run on Mother's Day with his mom in the stands.


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Mop-up of a large wildfire burning near Mount Adams has been turned over to local crews, U.S. Forest Service officials announced this week.
The Cascade Creek Fire has consumed 20,500 acres on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest since it sparked last month, but has grown little recently.
A large section of the Adams wilderness remains closed due to the fire, caused by lightning on Sept. 8. Rain is expected to help firefighting across the region this weekend, though state and local burn bans stay in effect for now.


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Nestled on the beach, this Ko Phi Phi resort is just steps from Ko Phi Phi Viewpoint and Loh Bagao Beach. Laem Tong Beach is 1.6 mi (2.6 km) away.
Resort Features
At Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort, spend the day on the private beach where you can enjoy kayaking, then return for a meal at one of the resort's 3 restaurants.
Room Amenities
All 201 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, along with conveniences such as refrigerators and coffee makers. Free WiFi and balconies are standard, as are TVs with satellite channels.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort49 Moo 8 Ko Phi Phi Krabi 81000
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- Dining venue
- Swimming pool
- One of the dining venues
- One of the swimming pools
- Select guestrooms
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Simply step outside to unwind on the resort's beach. After a day at the beach, enjoy amenities at Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort like an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and an outdoor tennis court.
Dining is available at one of the resort's 3 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 3 bars/lounges, a beach bar, and a swim-up bar. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach resort also offers a health club, a spa tub, and a steam room.
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 201
- Number of floors - 1
- Tennis on site
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Ferry terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Computer station
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Garden
- Poolside bar
- Beach bar
- On private beach
- Year Built 1988
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Direct access to private beach
- Outdoor tennis court
- Snack bar/deli
- Sauna
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Swim-up bar
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- On private beach
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis court
- Snack bar/deli
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Shower only
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Television
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
Marlin Restaurant - This beachfront restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Coconut Grill Bar - This restaurant serves dinner only. Open daily.
Ruan Thai Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in Thai cuisine and serves dinner only. Open select days.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach, an outdoor tennis court, and a health club are featured at the resort. An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
- Kayaking on site
Spa Services
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
No elevators
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: THB 5296.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: THB 2649.00 (from 4 to 12 years old)
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: THB 750 for adults and THB 441 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: THB 2100 per person (one-way)
- Rollaway bed fee: THB 1899 per night
Hotel Name
- Outrigger Phi Phi
- Outrigger Phi Phi Island
- Outrigger Phi Phi Island Resort
- Outrigger Phi Phi Resort
- Outrigger Resort Phi Phi
- Phi Phi Island Outrigger
- Phi Phi Island Outrigger Resort
- Phi Phi Outrigger Resort
- Resort Phi Phi
- Resort Phi Phi Island
- Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort
- Island Village Beach Resort
- Phi Phi Island Village Beach
- Island Village Beach
- Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort And Spa
- Phi Phi Island Village Beach Hotel Ko Phi Phi Don
- Phi Island Village Beach Hotel
- Phi Island Village Beach Resort
- Phi Phi Island Village Resort
We should mention
Guests must transfer via boat to the property. Guests must contact the property at least 72 hours before travel, using the contact information on the confirmation received after booking. This property offers transfers from the ferry terminal and airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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May 31, 2016
Former President Ronald Reagan died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.
Reagan led a conservative revolution that set the economic and cultural tone of the 1980s, hastened the end of the Cold War and revitalized the Republican Party. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease since at least late 1994.
At least two of his children and his wife, Nancy, were at his bedside, according to the former president's Los Angeles office.
Ron Reagan, Jr. and Patty Davis, children from his current marriage to Nancy Davis Reagan, were with him at his home in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles, the office said.
It was unclear whether Michael Reagan, his adopted son from his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, was at his side. Maureen Reagan, his daughter from that marriage, died of brain cancer in 2001.
Reagan's body is to lie in state at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before his burial at the library.
President Bush was informed of Reagan's death while in Paris, where he is on tour to honor the heroes of World War II on the weekend of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
The White House lowered its flag to half-staff after the news. Bush planned to issue a recorded statement later.
Michael Reagan released a statement soon after his father's death.
"I pray that as America reflects on the passing of my Dad, they will remember a man of integrity, conviction and good humor that changed America and the world for the better," Michael Reagan said. "He would modestly say the credit goes to others, but I believe the credit is his."
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Naibe Reynoso is a correspondent for ReelzChannel TV's Movie News, and occasionally shares stories from the field.
I recently spoke with Michael Welch — or Mike Newton, for the legions of Twilight fans. After wrapping up filming for New Moon, he's onto his next project, participating this weekend in the Young Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles.
Welch is playing the lead in After Maren, a one-act play about a young man who struggles to keep his life intact as his sister's ghost haunts him. A big fan of the stage, Welch died his hair for another play right before the Twilight premiere, making him one of the few cast members who went from blond to brunette.


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Fancy Trees by Amy Sullivan
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On the Wall : one great print, every Friday. Click through to see each previous week's print. It's like visiting a gallery or museum without that tall guy standing in front of you (and you can probably afford to buy it).
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KDE Plasma Netbook Revisited
Productivity Sauce
With Unity, Cinnamon, and Gnome 3 getting all the buzz, it's easy to overlook other interesting projects that attempt to rethink the traditional desktop metaphor. Case in point, the KDE Plasma Netbook interface. Despite its moniker, the KDE's alternative interface is not limited to netbooks, although it's designed for devices with small screens. KDE's alternative interface has been around for a while, but I only recently started using it as a primary environment on my trusty ASUS Eee PC 1005HA netbook, and I grew fond of it for a number of reasons.
For starters, KDE Plasma Netbook is surprisingly snappy. Even on my 3-year-old underpowered netbook, the interface is responsive enough for daily use. More importantly, it offers several customization options which can be used to configure the environment to your specific needs. KDE Plasma Netbook replaces the regular desktop with so-called pages of different types. By default, the interface has two pages: Search and Launch and Page One. The former provides quick access to all installed applications, while the latter uses the newspaper layout that can be populated with your favorite widgets. You can, of course, add other pages, if needed. To do this, click on the Plasma logo (Cashew) at the bottom of the page and click on Add Page in the configuration bar. In addition to the Search and Launch and Newspaper Layout, the system offers two other page types: Folder View that displays the contents of a specific folder and Desktop that acts as a regular desktop. This ability to add multiple pages of different types gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to customizing your computing environment.
KDE 4 also makes it easy to switch between the netbook and regular desktop interfaces. So you can use the netbook interface when you are out and about, and then switch to the full-blown desktop when you connect an external display to your machine. To switch between interfaces, go to System Settings | Workspace Behavior | Workspace and pick the desired interface from the Workspace Type drop-down list.
All of this, as well as a slew of other nifty features, makes KDE Plasma Netbook a viable alternative to existing graphical desktop environments. So whether you want to give your old netbook a new lease of life, or you're thinking about trying something different, KDE Plasma Netbook definitely deserves a closer look.
one desktop, many looks, many uses, many computing devicesThats what I want. An OS that changes according to my needs.
I dont use my desktop like I do my laptop or 9inch netbook.
I like being able to switch from netbook to full OS.
heck, my wife only uses it in Netbook mode on her 14inch laptop and shes happy with that.
After seeing videos of the KDE Plasma UI for tablets like the Vivaldi, they have taken that idea to another paradigm.
Id wish programs also offered this choice to have full featured UI or just a beginner-newbie one that would only offer the most used features with an option to change to a full service look at one click of button.
Not only for netbooksI have been using it on my desktop for quite some time now and I can only confirm that it's a very usable, fast, stable and beautiful desktop interface.
The KDE guys have also improved it's customization and configurability over the past versions. The good thing is that it's easy to use and the search function makes everything so much easier. One saves a lot of clicks and time using this desktop.al
how is this different from the search and launch activitythey look pretty similar
These Pages in the Netbook interface seem like Activities in the regular interfaceBut I cannot find where I would start and stop them.
How do they differ?
you are rightI too have have used it on my big desktop and I found
much to my surpise that it was very usable. It really is
an alternative interface for larger computers.
PraizeQuite right, Unity, Cinnamon and Gnome 3 battle is putting a shadow over KDE Plasma Netbook.
It's great and I use on my HTPC because of clean looks and easy navigation on a big screen.
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CHURCH schools are demanding to be allowed to carry on teaching that the Bible forbids homosexuality.
The Church of England has written to the Government requesting exemptions from proposed new laws banning discrimination against gay men and women.
Bishops insisted they were not seeking to discriminate against pupils or their families when deciding who to admit or discipline for poor behaviour.
But they said faith schools must be allowed to continue to teach in sex education and RE lessons that homosexuality and bisexuality are at odds with the teachings of the Bible.
The plea came in a submission to the Government's women and equality unit which has published plans for new rules barring discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. Since the proposals were published, former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has become head of the unit.
A devout Roman Catholic, she has been criticised for refusing to deny that she believes homosexuality is sinful.
Currently, many faith schools make children aware of different sexual practices but underline that anything other than sexual relationships between men and women are contrary to the Bible.
In a submission to the unit, the Church said there was a ' potential conflict' between the proposedregulations and the need for faith schools 'to operate in a way that is consistent with their school's ethos'.
It said existing Government guidance 'explicitly allows schools to teach in a way consistent with their religious ethos'. Church schools would wish to 'retain that freedom'.
The submission added: 'Imposing a duty not to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation in relation to the content and delivery of the curriculum would again seem to expose them (schools) to the possibility of legal challenge. …


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Paraded as a leading herbal medicine with a large global trade, the aloe vera plant is now being grown by 1000 Kenyan farmers, and locally produced juices and cosmetics are being sold nation-wide at a fraction of the price of international competitor products.
Aloe vera has long been used as a traditional herbal medicine for conditions such as heartburn and irritable bowel. The few clinical studies into its properties have often been inconclusive and contradictory, but research suggests it is useful in the treatment of diabetes, elevated cholesterol, external burns and wounds.
And cosmetic and alternative medicine producers have long marketed it for its soothing healing properties and moisturising benefits, with a large amount of testimonial evidence in agreement.
The resulting $120m global trade in aloe vera includes end products such as juices, lotions, gels, yoghurts, desserts, make-up, tissues, soaps, sunscreens, moisturisers, incense and shampoos.
An aloe vera plant
Kenya has been cited as an ideal country to grow aloe vera, which is currently produced primarily in the USA, Venezuela and Mexico in arid and semi-arid regions. However, Kenya's blossoming aloe vera industry is still in its infancy, after years under a 1986 medical export ban imposed by former President Daniel Arap Moi.
The reasons for producing the plant are plentiful, says Peter Otieno, the General Manager of Kenyan aloe vera supplier, Herbal Garden Limited. Aloe vera juice can augment immune system defence for HIV sufferers, he claims, as well as help those with liver and blood conditions, and skin conditions such as eczema.
The billing of aloe vera as a wonder-cure has certainly fuelled interest in the industry.
Mr Otieno estimates there are now over 1,000 aloe vera farmers in Kenya, scattered across 19 districts in the Rift Valley, Eastern, North Eastern and Coast provinces.
Yet, progress has been slow. Most of the aloe vera products on sale in Kenya come from imports, mainly South African and Brazilian products with a tight hold on the cosmetics and health industries.
International beauty product manufacturers such as Beiersdorf East Africa, makers of the Nivea brand, buy all their raw aloe vera materials through its overseas mother company, leaving no room for local farmers.
"A lot of aloe vera in Kenya is imported and there is a lot of exploitation in the market as it is so expensive. We need the benefits of doing this locally," said Otieno.
In the shops, cosmetics with 'aloe vera extracts', such as mass marketed shampoos and soaps, cost the consumer around Sh50-Sh90 each, whether locally or internationally sourced.
However, higher end gels and juices, which use up to 100 per cent aloe vera, cost far more if imported.
Local producers who only use Kenyan aloe vera and process it in the country, such as Herbal Garden, are undercutting many of the upmarket internationals.
A litre of Herbal Garden aloe vera juice sold in the Uchumi supermarket chain costs Sh650-Sh750, compared to the Sh1,800 price tag from international competitors such as Optima and GNLD.
Admittedly, Kenya's own grown and marketed aloe vera products have only made it into a handful of supermarkets and health stores, due to the relative immaturity and lack of investment in the industry.
To process raw aloe vera to trade standard Kenya's farmers need to face the financial hurdle of importing on average Sh20m worth of equipment.
Kenya's only aloe vera processing factory in Baringo, a Sh4m European Union funded facility built in 2004, has been fruitless. "There is nothing there, it is just a warehouse with a tractor," claimed Otieno.
Therefore most farmers only sell raw aloe vera. Manufacturing is outsourced within Kenya to those who have managed to invest in the processing equipment. "We won't go outside Kenya to manufacture as the import taxes are so high," he added.
However, steadily, Kenyan aloe vera is starting to penetrate the local market. In the last two weeks, Herbal Garden has employed a number of network distributors. "We want to create employment and we want to stay 100 per cent local," said Otieno.
As well as expanding their range of cheaper home grown products, Herbal Garden is also looking at the overseas market for growth.
"We are negotiating with New Zealand and China to export raw aloe vera products. We are hoping to do a fair-trade collaboration, rather than compete and bring the market to chaos."
Written by Chris Kay for African Laughter


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Denver to/from Honolulu
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SMACX provides us with, initially, excellent conditions for implementing the SMACX technology tree into Civilization IV. We have the technology quotes, text and audio, and the graphical technology representations.
I tried to replace the "agriculture" technology with Centauri Ecology, but quickly abandoned the project and decided to built the technology tree from scratch using the existing technology schema (template).
The "CIV4TechInfos.xml" and the "CIV4GameTextInfos_Objects.xml" files are the ones I use to define the technologies and get the proper names showing in the game. Technology text quotes are stored in the "CIV4GameTextInfos.xml" file.
In "CIV4TechInfos.xml" I can set a specific sound file to be played once a specific technology is discovered. Additionally, I can set which technology icon to graphically represent the technology. I found that all these icons are read from the "techtree_atlas.dds" file.
The grahics are a bit more complex to add, though. Using the SMACX icons, I copy, resize, and paste these into the "techtree_atlas.dds" file as shown in the attached image.
It would probably not be a problem to add all of the SMACX technologies this way.
I haven't done more than about 15 technologies, but would appreciate any comments on this particular project--especially if there would be a better way to implement the SMACX technology tree.


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Im using a Windows XP based HP Laptop. Until yesterday everything was working great on this system. I was able to login hotmail accounts & other Live products via my Passport login without any problem including Live Messenger. I dont know what went wrong at night, today when Im starting Live messenger it gives me an error message saying:
Error code: 80048821
Any idea why is it appearing?


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Obama administration intent on keeping 1st{+ }Lt. Michael Behenna behind bars
A year ago, syndicated columnist Diana West attended a hearing at which Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna tried (unsuccessfully) to get the military's highest court of appeals to overturn his conviction on unpremeditated murder. West said what she witnessed during Behenna's Washington, D.C., hearing last April "was enough to make the gold eagle on top of the American flag in the courtroom shake and then hang its head."
Behenna, an Edmond native, has been held in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., since 2009 for killing a man with terrorist ties in Iraq. That man, Ali Mansur, was part of a terrorist cell operating in the area where an attack in 2008 had killed two of Behenna's men. Mansur was detained for a short time and then released, with Behenna ordered to escort him back to his village. Instead, Behenna took Mansur to a deserted area for one more interrogation. He forced Mansur to strip and questioned him at gunpoint. The soldier said he shot Mansur twice after the man threw a piece of concrete at him and lunged for Behenna's weapon.
Perhaps most distressing about the case, West wrote, "were the lengths to which the U.S. government was prepared to go to strip this soldier, and by extension all soldiers, of their 'right to self-defense,' even amid the untenable conditions of urban counterinsurgency warfare and its restricted rules of engagement."
The Obama administration continues that assault with its response to Behenna's request for a review of his case by the U.S. Supreme Court. Behenna's attorneys argue that the ruling by the top military appeals court deprives soldiers of the right to defend themselves in unconventional wartime situations. The Justice Department says Behenna forfeited his right to self-defense when he ordered Mansur to strip and pointed a gun at his head. It noted that Behenna disobeyed an order when he chose to interrogate Mansur on his own instead of taking him home, pointed his loaded weapon at Mansur's head and threatened to kill him.
The soldier's use of a weapon, the Justice Department says, "viewed in context of all of the surrounding circumstances, deprived him of the right to claim self-defense in the conflict he created."
A conflict he created? Mansur had potentially helped kill two of Behenna's men! And just a few weeks later, he was being sent home to kill again. Any number of other soldiers and Marines convicted of unpremeditated murder in Iraq received sentences that were consider-ably less than Behenna's 25 years behind bars (subsequently reduced to 15). But they weren't convicted during a time when the United States was trying to get a Status of Forces Agreement signed with the Iraqis. One way to seal that deal was to make examples of some of our own fighting forces.
The Supreme Court reviews only a handful of petitions filed each year. Behenna's case should be one of them. Thirty-seven retired generals and admirals feel the same way, as does the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The administration, meantime, says justice has been served and no review is merited.
True justice would involve allowing Behenna, now four years behind bars, to come home to Edmond. A hearing before the nation's highest court might put that in motion, while providing some mercy for Behenna and clarity for soldiers faced with challenging situations in a war zone like no other.


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