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Technology has done many things in recent years that would have been impossible a few years ago. Now it can determine the identity of a pet's owner with the swipe of a scanner.
However, that can happen only if a microchip has been implanted under the animal's skin.
"It's about the size of a grain of rice," said Kristen Ruest, whose practice is at the Village Vet in Lewiston.
The chip is injected with a special wide-bore needle and doesn't require anesthesia, Ruest said, but puppies and kittens are usually microchipped under general anesthesia at the same time they're spayed or neutered.
From 2 to 4 p.m. today, she will be at a Heart of Niagara pet adoption event in the Town of Niagara, volunteering her services to insert the chips into pets of low-income families who otherwise couldn't afford the service.
The overall adoption event at Blackwinds Pet Supply, 2494 Military Road, runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"I think it's very important that there's a permanent identification on the animal. Collars can be lost," Ruest said.
Before insertion, the chip is encoded with the name and address of the animal's owner, which is entered into the National Animal Recovery Database. With a special scanner, the dog or cat's owner can be determined if it's picked up as a stray or separated from its owner during a disaster.
It's the latter scenario that inspired the Niagara County Health Department to get involved with microchips and other animal efforts.
Elaine Roman, director of public health planning and emergency preparedness for the department, has been working for years on response plans to various types of mass disasters, from bioterrorism to widespread bad weather.
The involvement of pets can play havoc with evacuation plans. A survey by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals determined that near two-thirds of pet owners said they would risk their lives to save their animals.
"In an evacuation order, if they're told they can't bring their pets or there's no place to place their pets, they're not going to leave," Roman said.
During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to the Fritz Institute, 42 percent of the residents in the storm's Gulf Coast path did not evacuate, in part because they didn't want to be separated from their pets, for whom no evacuation arrangements had been made. For some residents, that refusal cost them their lives.
"It's both a public health and a public safety issue, because without the guarantee or assurance that they can bring or should bring their pets while evacuating, people stay home, which is obviously a concern for public safety," said Elise Pignatora, the county's public health resource and Strategic National Stockpile support officer.
When an evacuation zone is determined, people aren't allowed to re-enter it to try to rescue their pets or for any other reason, Pignatora added. "When they try to, that causes other issues for rescuing personnel," she said.
A federal law called the PETS Act, for "Pets Evacuation and Transport Standards," passed in 2006, and a state law passed in response, ordered localities to make plans for sheltering and transporting "companion animals," which means pets.
Federal Homeland Security money has been made available for counties' efforts in that direction.
Roman said Niagara County succeeded in winning a $60,000 grant in 2011, which enabled it to purchase two special trailers to be made available throughout Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties. One is kept in Lockport and the other in Cattaraugus County.
"I designed them specifically so they're dual-use," Roman said. "They have stainless steel fold-up tables and they also have air conditioning and a heat strip so they can be used to house the animals in an emergency once the equipment is removed … We have the food dishes. We have cages in it. We have leashes, tethers for both small and large animals."
The trailer was used at the SPCA of Niagara last year after a mass cat-hoarding case in Somerset overwhelmed the agency's capacity, Pignatora said.
Roman said pets are supposed to be licensed and registered, but a lot of them aren't. In an emergency, "We want to make sure we have a method of identification if they do show up at a shelter," she said.
That involves the microchips.
"It's not a GPS chip. The chip does not ping somebody's GPS," Roman said. The scanner has to be waved next to the pet.
Besides dealing with a missing pet, the chip also could help authorities find a responsible party in the case of a loose dog who bites someone, Roman noted.
Ruest said the chip is inserted between the animal's shoulder blades. While it can shift within the body, Pignatora said there are no reports of health problems for pets from migrating microchips.
Pignatora said the animal owner will be given information, including a bar code sticker, to correspond with the code on the chip.
"Let's say five Labs show up at a shelter," she said. "How are you going to differentiate between the five Labs, assuming the animal would be calm and aware enough to just behave excitedly when they see their owner?"
Once the scanner is waved over the animal, the bar code number comes up, and the shelter operator can call the national database to find out the name of the owner.
"It's lifetime enrollment. Every year they get an email for the owner to update their contact information," Pignatora said. "It's for life. They're no additional fees."
Roman said the county obtained a donated scanner and spent $5,000 to buy 950 chips, some of which will be used by Ruest at today's event. Animals adopted between 2 and 4 p.m. also will receive chips, Roman said.
Many veterinarians offer this service for a fee. Since early 2012, the SPCA of Niagara has implanted microchips in all dogs and cats brought in for adoption, shelter director Amy Lewis said.
She said the SPCA will charge pet owners $15 for a chip. The organization offers the service to people who claim strays, and plans a microchip clinic at its two-day fund-raising event, "Dog Days of Summer," set for Aug. 3 and 4.
Pignatora said that in New York, only a vet or a veterinary technician under a veterinarian's supervision is allowed to insert the chips, except for animals controlled by shelter agencies.
The county keeps a list of pet-friendly hotels and animal handlers who can help with evacuations. Roman said the county is trying to identify evacuation facilities where temporary animal shelters can be set up.
The Health Department held a two-day training exercise June 25 and 26 at the Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Education Services building in Sanborn, which drew about 50 volunteers and professionals affiliated with the Niagara County Animal Response Team.
"In order to have a plan, we have to test our plan," Roman said.
But so far, the county has not been able to test the effectiveness of the chips in an emergency situation, because the county's overall evacuation plan, being drawn up primarily by Emergency Management Director Jonathan F. Schultz, is not yet complete.
However, another free microchip event may be held later this year, perhaps in conjunction with one of the Health Department's free rabies vaccination clinics, Roman said.
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With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
-The New York Times Book Review
Table of Contents
Principal Characters
Prologue: Accounts Receivable – September 1996
Part One: Blood Brothers – November 1979 to February 1989
1. "We're Going to Die Here
2. "Lenin Taught Us"
3. "Go Raise Hell"
4. "I Loved Osama"
5. "Don't Make It Our War"
6. "Who Is This Massoud?"
7. "The Terrorists Will Own the World"
8. "Inshallah, You Will Know My Plans"
9. "We Won"
Part Two: The One-Eyed Man Was King – March 1989 to December 1997
10. "Serious Risks"
11. "A Rogue Elephant"
12. "We Are in Danger"
13. "A Friend of Your Enemy"
14. "Maintain a Prudent Distance"
15. "A New Generation"
16. "Slowly, Slowly Sucked into It"
17. "Dangling the Carrot"
18. "We Couldn't Indict Him"
19. "We're Keeping These Stingers"
20. "Does America Need the CIA?"
Part Three: The Distant Enemy – January 1998 to September 10, 2001
21. "You Are to Capture Him Alive"
22. "The Kingdom's Interests"
23. "We Are at War"
24. "Let's Just Blow the Thing Up"
25. "The Manson Family"
26. "That Unit Disappeared"
27. "You Crazy White Guys"
28. "Is There Any Policy?"
29. "Daring Me to Kill Them"
30. "What Face Will Omar Show to God?"
31. "Many Americans Are Going to Die"
32. "What an Unlucky Country"

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Not only is Sweden home to the world's largest Torrent site (despite its recent legal woes), pirates in the country also have their own political party, aptly titled the Pirate Party. The party lists deregulating copyright, abolishing the patent system, and reducing surveillance on the internet as some of its objectives.
Late last week, Europe held election for the European Parliament, the legislative branch of the European Union. The Pirate Party apparently appealed to Swedish voters, as it scored 7.1 percent of the vote, enough to snag a nice bounty -- a seat in the Parliament.
Christian Engstrom, the party's top candidate, cheered the news, stating, "This is fantastic! This shows that there are a lot of people who think that personal integrity is important and that it matters that we deal with the Internet and the new information society in the right way."
Ironically, reports are indicating that it was the conviction of the leaders of Swedish torrent site the Pirate Bay that catapulted the party into the public eye. The ringleaders of the site were sentence to a year in jail and over $3M USD in fines; however, it was later revealed that the judge on the case was a member of copyright protection organizations and should have recused himself. An appeal is ongoing.
The site and the party are not officially linked. However, the two entities share similar philosophical views on many topics. The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 and had in the past received less than 1 percent of the vote.
Sweden has 18 seats on the EU's 785-seat Parliament. While the single Pirate seat will be unlikely to be able to enact sweeping change, party leaders believe it will give the party a voice and means to fight decisions it views as corrupt.
Mr. Engstrom thanks younger voters for the election success, saying, "We are very strong among those under 30. They are the ones who understand the new world the best. And they have now signaled they don't like how the big parties deal with these issues. We will use all of our strength to defend personal integrity and our civil rights."
There have been attempts to launch a similar Pirate Party in the U.S., but they have thus far gained little traction.
quote: Introduction to Politics and Principles The Pirate Party wants to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system , and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected. With this agenda, and only this, we are making a bid for representation in the European and Swedish parliaments.
quote: Pharmaceutical patents kill people in third world countries every day. They hamper possibly life saving research by forcing scientists to lock up their findings pending patent application, instead of sharing them with the rest of the scientific community. The latest example of this is the bird flu virus, where not even the threat of a global pandemic can make research institutions forgo their chance to make a killing on patents.
quote: I'd say they do pretty well on their investemnts of research, regardless of the patents.
quote: knockoff's have to run through the same rigerous testing. the only advantage they have is no research costs. which is offset with the inventor marketing his idea FIRST, getting market share FIRST, and beeing able to charge the highest prices because something is new.
quote: why innovate when you have a steady flow of money comming in?
quote: when you have a patent, make your invention as cheap as possible, sell it for as expensive as possible, and prevent anybody else from making your invention as long as the patent lasts, and get rich.
quote: But wait, without patents some other company can simply look at the data you had to file to the FDA, or hire some cleaver chemists, and figure out what the active component of your wonder drug is. They can then manufacture it and sell it without having the research overheads, the clinical trial overheads, or the advertising overheads. Without the overheads they can undercut you, which means you no profits for you and no future developments.
quote: I'm sorry but trying to abolish copyrights and patents is retarded. Companies have a right to protect what they've spent money and time developing. Otherwise what's the point of it?
quote: Do you really know what you are talking about? The Pirate Party is not trying to abolish copyrights and patents .... Here you go, please educate yourself
quote: The Pirate Party wants to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system , and ensure that citizens' rights to privacy are respected.
quote: The party's stated objective is to abolish copyright, patents, and internet monitoring.
quote: If somebody has the right to patent a gene that is God himself.


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The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) honored Rep. Jason Conger (R – Bend) Thursday as their Legislator of the Year. The award recognizes Rep. Conger's work on hospital and healthcare issues during the 2013 Oregon Legislature.
"Rep. Conger was a tireless advocate for Oregon's hospitals this session," said Andy Davidson, president and CEO of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. "He worked collaboratively through the session with hospitals to improve vital health care access and funding for the Oregon Health Plan, and his support is greatly appreciated by Oregon's 58 community hospitals and the patients they serve."
The mission of OAHHS is to provide "leadership in health policy, advocacy and comprehensive member services that strengthen the quality, viability and capacity of Oregon hospitals to best serve our communities."
"Healthcare access, cost and quality are among the most pressing issues facing Oregonians, our state and our nation as a whole," said Rep. Conger. "It is an honor to be recognized by an organization that represents one of the most important institutions in our communities - our local hospitals."
Among other things, OAHHS cited Conger's work on Oregon's healthcare transformation, medical liability reforms and Medicaid system as well as his thoughtful, bipartisan efforts to improve the lives of Oregonians as reasons for the award.
Conger is a member of the House Healthcare Committee, House Revenue Committee and the Joint Committee on Tax Credits. 2013 was the third session that Rep. Jason Conger represented Bend in the Oregon Legislature. For more information, contact him at email@example.com or 503-986-1454.


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Sharpshooting Ohio Eliminates MBB from MAC Tourney
ATHENS, Ohio -- Ohio put on a shooting clinic in the early part of Monday's Mid-American Conference Tournament first round game and rode its hot start to a 76-64 win over Ball State.
The Bobcats stormed out of the gate to build a 20-point lead in fewer than eight minutes. Ball State took Ohio's best punch and rallied to get back in the game by halftime. The Cardinals cut the deficit to 10 multiple times but could never get within striking distance.
"I told our players in the locker room I was really proud of them," Ball State head coach James Whitford said. "We really fought. I've been coaching a long time and I haven't seen many games start like that."
Freshman point guard Zavier Turner finished one shy of a career-high with seven assists and led four Ball State players in double figures with 14 points. Majok Majok scored 13, while Franko House added 12 and Jesse Berry 10 for the Cardinals (5-25).
Nick Kellogg led all players with 17 points to help fifth-seeded Ohio (22-10) move on to the tournament's second round Wednesday. The Bobcats will meet No. 8 seed Miami University, which won Monday over Kent State. All four home teams advanced on the tournament's opening night.
Ohio blistered the nets early, knocking down nine of its first 10 shots from the floor and seven of its first 10 from 3-point range. They had their largest lead at 36-14 with 8:25 left in the first half after a 3-pointer from Javarez Willis.
Ball State had to play a 7-minute stretch during Ohio's early barrage without leading scorer and top defender Chris Bond. The senior forward suffered a gash on his forehead in a scrum for a loose ball when he collided with teammate Tyler Koch. Koch also left the game bloodied but returned quickly.
"I couldn't believe Chris came back," Whitford said. "There was so much blood on the floor I thought he popped an artery. It was incredible. In my mind I was thinking we were going to have to go on without him."
But Bond returned patched up and the Cardinals weathered the storm as Ohio began to cool off. The Willis 3-pointer was the Bobcats' last field goal before halftime and Ball State rallied to close the gap to 38-26 at the break.
House played a big role for the Cardinals, taking the ball aggressively to the basket for the second game in a row. Coming off a career-high 19 points in the final regular season game at Northern Illinois, the freshman forward continued to attack. He and Majok combined to shoot 11 for 15 when the Cardinals were able to get the ball inside.
Majok went to the bench early in the second half after picking up his fourth foul and played only 10 minutes after the break. Bo Calhoun filled his spot and was active on the glass with a career-high nine rebounds in 13 minutes. He helped the Cardinals to a 22-14 advantage on the boards in the second half.
Ball State just was not able to get enough shots to fall, making 4 of 21 attempts from 3-point range and connecting on 43.6 percent from the floor for the game. Ohio, after its hot start, finished the night 9 for 23 from beyond the arc. The Bobcats shot 52 percent for the night.
"We had some good looks," Whitford said. "For us to win at Ohio, a very good team, on the road, we would have needed a good shooting night to do it. That's the part you can't always control. The parts we could control, I thought we did a terrific job."
It was a 10-point game with fewer than five minutes to play before Ohio scored seven straight to push its lead to 69-52 with 3:23 left. The Cardinals made one last push but again could not get closer than 10.
Monday marked the final game in the careers of Ball State seniors Berry, Bond, Koch, Majok and Kindon Crowder, all of whom are on pace to graduate in May.
Majok, the MAC's leading rebounder, grabbed five boards and ended the season averaging 11.1 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. He became the first Ball State player to average a double-double in a season since Theron Smith in 2001-02."I'm proud of our seniors," Whitford said. "It hurts for our guys right now, and it should hurt. That's okay. There's no shame in anything, for our season, for our team. Our guys competed hard."


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DiZ is the real Ansem. The main villian of KH1 was only an impostor who stole the real ansem's name.
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A position of power over people. Most people critize authority until they eventially come into power. Then they complain when they are critized. Hypocrites.
"It's okay to fight everyone else's authority...except mine!"
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what you must respect
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Ambiguous group with unknown special powers or knowledge that someone refers to for the purpose of intimidation.
I am going to call the Authorities...
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The executive branch should decrease its authority to fuck with the black man.
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Something that is widely misunderstood by many ignorant teenagers, dumb skaters, and clueless punks. Knowledge is power, and the authorities of our time have that power, so instead of being morons who have good intentions but don't know a fucking thing about the polotics behind authority, lets all actually go pick up a book, or become and activist and TAKE DOWN THE FUCKING SYSTEM. All of these cockfucks posting about how we "need authority" are bullshitters and close minded dickheads at best. The only thing we "need" in this world is common sense, and therefore authority won't have to provide us with it. Wake up people, and stop being a dickless puppet of the system that many of you claim to "hate".
The authorites and powers that be have seen it fit to convict innocent marijuana smokers, concious objectors, and activists of crimes and therefore put them in a little manmade thing called prison. Authority is mostly a byproduct of greed and facism.
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At this juncture, observing politics resembles watching paint dry. Both parties seem virtually exhausted, out of ideas, bereft of solutions....
It appears What is angry because he sees he's really ALONE in his radical progressive socialist foolish and stupid ideas.
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Democrats have ruined themselves. They have no one to blame but their own ARROGANCE; CONTROLLING CHARACTERS; and total STUPIDITY thinking freedom-loving Americans would TOLERATE such traitors and dictators in AMerica!!!
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Westminster College has all the qualities Zeke Elias was in search of—a great aviation program, western U.S., snow and a variety of undergraduate programs. After stumbling upon the university through a college-match survey, Zeke didn't even have to look at another college. "It was really a perfect fit," he says.
What further convinced him to attend Westminster were his parents. They "fell in love with the university"—the program, location and architecture. Though Westminster is more than 2,000 miles away from home, they are supportive and thrilled with his choice. Zeke laughs, saying, "He [my dad] is a Griffin."
Zeke, freshman, is pursuing a major in flight operations and business management. While he has always wanted to become a pilot, the ability to branch out beyond aviation was important. He not only wanted to meet people outside the program, but have the option to take courses outside of it as well.
In addition to a double major, Zeke, who's fluent in English and Spanish, is a French minor. "[I] took some French classes in high school, so I thought French was my next best choice," he says.
Zeke wanted to become a pilot at an early age. While his flying experience as a pilot didn't take place until Westminster, he has had plenty as a passenger—including moving a few times. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Zeke lived in Virginia for a short time and Mexico City for about eight years before relocating to Salt Lake.
When asked the difference with living here, he calls it "a breath of fresh air." The people are nice and everything is nearby. Westminster, nestled in the Sugar House neighborhood, is minutes away from downtown and within an hour of the mountains. "I love waking up in the morning and looking up at the mountains and it's snowy," he says. Living within a grid system makes it impossible to get lost and it's a relatively safe area as well. "I just love everything about it," he says.
Relocating to an unfamiliar place was intimidating, but Zeke's adventurous spirit has made for a smooth transition. Always willing and ready to try new things, there's never a dull moment in his life. "Don't be afraid to get out," he says. "I do what I have to do and go that extra step all the time."
What's great about Westminster is that finding something to do is never hard. Working at the Campus Concierge, Zeke is one of the first to know what's happening on campus and in the city. "[Westminster] is so involved with the outside community that we found out about the events in many different ways," he says.
Whether you're in Salt Lake, or a neighboring city, such as Park City—located 30 minutes from campus—you're bound to run into a few Griffins. The Westminster community is like a big family. "We're small and we still find people everywhere," he says.
In addition to class, work and new adventures, Zeke also stays involved on campus and in the community. He's currently an Associated Students of Westminster (ASWC) aviation senator and a member of the Flight Team. He recently became an aviation advisor for the START Center and will be a Resident Advisor in the freshman dorms for the upcoming academic year. He also volunteers at the Humane Society of Utah and with Griffins for the Greater Good—a campus service club.
Zeke considers Westminster a lucky find and perfect fit—the campus, community, location and program are incomparable. Westminster's discussion-based courses "actually engage you in the learning process," he says. "It's very active." As pilot, you're in a plane by the second day of class, getting hands-on training.
Whether it's in the classroom or through a game of capture the flag during First Year Student Orientation—Westminster does an amazing job at engage students. For Zeke, Westminster has been the best decision of his life.


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NEW CUMBERLAND-Hancock County's lawsuit against Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort over the hotel occupancy tax can proceed now that a judge has struck down the casino's motion to dismiss the case.
Hancock County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Wilson, in a decision filed earlier this week, denied Mountaineer's motion to dismiss, saying the casino had not established that it was "entitled to judgment as a matter of law."
"The court finds no basis for granting a dismissal," Wilson said in the one-page opinion.
Mountaineer's motion, which did not address the merits of the case, asked for dismissal on the grounds that Hancock County failed to state a legal claim under which relief could be granted.
"Obviously, we're happy with Judge Wilson's decision, and the case will proceed accordingly," said Weirton attorney Daniel J. Guida, who is representing Hancock County. "Ultimately, the issue will be given to Judge Wilson to decide it on the merits."
Hancock County is suing Mountaineer over the casino's practice of not collecting the 6 percent hotel occupancy tax on complimentary rooms-rooms occupied for free by patrons who have earned enough rewards.
Then-Sheriff Mike White filed suit in September 2012 on behalf of Hancock County commissioners after months of discussion about the hotel occupancy tax. Current Sheriff Ralph Fletcher is now listed as the plaintiff.
Commissioners contend that Mountaineer's practice of not collecting the tax on "comped" rooms has cost the county more than $500,000 in lost tax revenue since March 2009. The county's lawsuit asks for a declaratory judgment in the amount of $600,000 and any other compensatory damages permitted by law.
Revenues from the hotel occupancy tax are split evenly between county commissioners, who use it for parks and recreation purposes, and the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Mountaineer spokeswoman Lesley Campbell declined to comment on Wilson's decision, saying, "We will allow our pleadings and exhibits to serve as our response at this time."
Mountaineer General Manager Chris Kern has previously said that it's not reasonable to charge a tax for free services. Like many casinos, Mountaineer offers free hotel rooms as an incentive to regular patrons. The casino's "IN Club" loyalty program allows patrons to accrue points based on past gaming that entitle them to, among other things, complimentary rooms.
"Simply put, six percent of nothing is nothing, and thus, no tax is now or ever has been due," Charleston attorney Alexander Macia said in Mountaineer's motion to dismiss. Macia did not return a phone call seeking comment.
But the county's lawsuit reasons that even though a room is complimentary, it is not free because the gaming patron has earned the room through some sort of reward system.
In his answer to Mountaineer's motion to dismiss, Guida asks the question, "Is a 'free' hotel room really 'free' when it cost you $3,000 to get it?" His answer, provided in Latin, translates, "There is no free lunch."
"That's really the case in a nutshell," Guida said.
Regardless of how Wilson decides the case, it probably will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Guida said. "Make no mistake about it. ... There's just too much money at stake here," he said.


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Rob Kardashian may be having a hard time these days, but sister Kim says she's not one to baby him.
On Sunday night's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Rob, 27, failed to show up to the airport for the family's trip to Thailand. Though sister Khloé was worried, Kim ... not so much.
"We've all been here to offer him help and he won't take it, so I don't have sympathy," Kim, 33, said during breakfast one day on the vacation.
She went on to tell the cameras, "I think I'm just more of the tough-love kind of person." As opposed to Khloé's coddling, "My personality is like, 'All right, you complain, you don't like it, get up and do something about it.' "
But it may not that be that easy. "Rob has deeper issues than just weight," Khloé, 30, said during the episode, citing how hard he took her split from Lamar Odom.
Rob, who later skipped the European wedding of Kim and Kanye West, is at least trying to tackle his weight struggles, hitting the gym with trainer Gunnar Peterson.
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John Fondren's 53-yard fumble recovery return for a touchdown broke a 24-24 tie as St. John's scored 14 unanswered points to down Faith Christian 30-24 and even their record at 3-3.
SJCA hosted Faith Christian Friday night in Moncks Corner.
By SCISA's 8-man football standards this was a low-scoring game. There were punts, turnovers, and stalled drives.
And never a dull moment.
"I'm really proud of the way the guys fought back in this game," said SJCA Coach Matt Gilbert. "They didn't give up."
Faith Christian hit the ground running, taking the game's opening kickoff and marching 58 yards on eight plays to take an early 8-0 lead on Zack Teske's two-yard bulldozing run.
Just over two minutes later the Cavaliers answered when quarterback Dustin Parsons scored the first of two touchdowns on a 43-yard run down the home sideline.
After the Knights went three-and-out on their next possession, the Cavaliers coughed up the football for the first time when Logan Winningham picked off a Parsons pass at the St. John's 30-yard line with 2:47 remaining in the quarter.
Liam McDaniel turned in the drive's big play with a 26-yard run to the four-yard line.
The game was delayed for almost 20 minutes as McDaniel went down hard in the touchdown saving tackle and suffered a concussion.
Once play resumed Teske tallied his second TD of the night on a two-yard run to give Faith Christian a 16-8 lead.
Two plays later lightning struck again, this time on a Parsons 58-yard touchdown run nearly identical to his first, a sweep left down the home sideline to knot the score at 16.
For the next 16-plus minutes the defenses would take over and neither team found pay dirt until Teske scored his third touchdown of the game on a one-yard run with 7:37 remaining in the third quarter. Teske's TD trifecta put the Knights on top 24-16.
On its next possession, Faith Christian threatened to put the game out of reach when Devin Kirkwood broke a 65-yard run to the SJCA 34, but on the ensuing play the Cavaliers' Colin Murchison picked off a Brandon Wilson pass to kill the drive.
The Cavs offense took over as Parsons broke a 10-yard run for a first down into Knights' territory. Harun Scott bobbed and weaved his way through defensive traffic to score on a 44-yard run at the buzzer to tie the game at 24-24 and set the stage for Fondren's big play.
Faith Christian mounted a late fourth quarter drive to possibly tie the game, but a Jonathan Feagin pass was picked off by Damian Hurta to squelch the drive and preserve the win for St. John's.
"We held serve from our three games at home and that was important," Gilford said. "We played three good football teams during our first three games on the road but we've improved with each game. These guys are battling hard every Friday night and we have to maintain the momentum when we hit the road for Beaufort next week."
The Cavaliers travel to Beaufort Academy on Friday and then return home on Oct. 18 against First Baptist for homecoming. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.
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What: Eighth annual LifePoint Gift of Life 5K run and 2K walk.When: 9 a.m. Saturday.Where: James Island County Park.cost: $30.More info: Register at www.lifepoint-sc.org
And it's a joy that seems lasting, whether it is Vernelle Dickerson, who received a heart 18 months ago; Sharon Kearns, who got a liver five years ago; or Phil Borden, who has been living with another person's heart inside his chest for two decades.
"Every morning when I brush my teeth, I look in the mirror and say, 'You're still here. This is amazing,' " says Borden, who is a Vietnam War veteran. "I'm still surprised to be here and thank God every day. Absolutely."
Besides their common experiences, all three show their gratitude to the families of organ donors and to organ procurement efforts by coming together for the annual Gift of Life 5K run and 2K walk, the largest awareness and fundraising event for LifePoint in the Lowcountry.
The eighth annual event will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at James Island County Park.
1993 | Phil Borden
Borden, 64, of James Island recalls that he was resolved to die 20 years ago when cardiomyopathy, a deterioration of the heart muscle, had become so severe that he couldn't even muster up strength to brush his teeth. His body withered to a mere 128 pounds.
Doctors told him that his only hope of surviving was a heart transplant, which Borden initially rejected as "being too Frankenstein" but later accepted as "cooperating with a science experiment." A heart became available, and his last words to the surgeon before the surgery were "good luck."
"When I woke up from the surgery, I was frankly shocked to be alive," Borden says.
His new lease on life allowed him to work for Ness Motley researching documents on the landmark tobacco settlement in the mid-1990s and to enjoy two decades of life with his wife, who tragically died at 55 following a fall last summer
Regardless, Borden says the most important lesson he learned from the experience is "to love everyone all the time."
2008 | Sharon Kearns
Likewise, Kearns, who is the director of testing at Trident Technical College, was on the brink of dying from primary biliary cirrhosis and liver cancer when she received a liver transplant on March 8, 2008.
"I was a scrawny, yellow thing ... and I was freezing all the time," says Kearns of her condition prior to getting a liver from a 57-year-old anonymous donor.
Within 24 hours of getting the liver, Kearns says the yellow in her eyes started to fade. Weeks later, the yellow in her skin faded and she stopped having the freezing sensation.
"It was a miracle," says Kearns who turned 56 on Feb. 11. "People complain about getting older and getting wrinkles. I don't. The experience totally changed me as a person."
2011 | Vernelle Dickerson
The decade following Vernelle Dickerson's 50th birthday was tough.
Diagnosed with leukemia in 2003, aggressive treatments that cured her cancer damaged her heart, leading to cardiomyopathy and eventually a heart attack in 2009. She went from 150 pounds to 74.
"I couldn't walk from my bedroom to the kitchen without being out of breath," Dickerson says.
Like Borden and Kearns, her condition worsened, and by spring of 2011, her only hope for living was a heart transplant. She endured a month of tests for an investigative report to see if she was capable of even accepting a new heart, was listed in early June and on Father's Day, the heart of a 50-year-old female became available.
"When I heard a heart was available, I just cried and cried. I was so excited," she recalls, adding that she could not have survived without faith in God and the support and prayers of her family.
The experience — and prospects for a healthier, happier decade in her 60s (she celebrated her 60th in December) — has changed her.
"Life is very different. You don't take things for granted. I've learned not to get anxious, stressed out or upset."
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Saturday will be Dickerson's first Gift of Life event, while Kearns and Borden have been regulars.
Mark Johnson, spokesman for LifePoint, says the race and walk event is special because of the participation of transplant recipients and donor families.
"The LifePoint Gift of Life 5K/2K Run Walk is our biggest event in the Lowcountry. It not only helps raise awareness about donation organs, eyes and tissues, but also is a key fundraiser for LifePoint to help in our statewide outreach efforts," says Johnson.
Johnson says the race has continued to steadily grow each year, including 400 registering last year.
Phil Borden, who received a life-saving heart transplant 20 years ago, dotes on his Corgi in the backyard of his James Island home. Borden is a victim advocate for the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.×
Vernelle Dickerson, who received a heart transplant on Father's Day 2011, recently participated in the Go Red! Heart Run.×


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LOCKPORT – The former owner of Peters Dry Cleaning will be on probation for three years for building code violations, City Judge Thomas M. DiMillo said Thursday.
Patrick S. McFall, 42, of Newfane, will need longer than three years to pay all the money he owes the City of Lockport, according to his attorney, Jon R. Wilson.
McFall pleaded guilty last month to the code violations served on him in the wake of the Dec. 15 collapse of the west wing of the nearly 80-year-old Willow Street store. The pile of bricks still has not been cleaned up. Thursday, McFall made the $5,000 down payment he promised last month, but Wilson and Deputy Corporation Counsel Matthew E. Brooks haven't nailed down how much the total tab will be.
McFall owed about $43,000 in back taxes and water bills, but after a conference with the attorneys, DiMillo said the city is trying to include costs of enforcement and prosecution. "To somehow make amends for the wrong done to the city, that number will include all that," the judge said.
But Wilson said the total McFall will pay will not exceed $40,000. The sides are to return to court Nov. 29 to complete the payment negotiations.
"I would say the settlement is 99 percent complete," Brooks said.
In June, McFall sold the property for $1 to Eddie Person, a Lockport man who says he is illiterate and was tricked into taking the property. It is listed as a Class 2 inactive hazardous waste site by the state Department of Environmental Conservation because of dry cleaning chemicals dumped on the ground decades ago, before McFall bought the store.
Wilson and Brooks said they are looking for what the latter called "a global settlement," including resolution of the civil suit Person filed in late October to void his purchase of the property.
McFalls denied tricking Person and said he doesn't think the man is illiterate.
Brooks said if Person wins his case, the property will revert to McFall. Wilson said he wants to make sure the city won't charge McFall with more code violations for dates since the sale.
Brooks said the city plans to foreclose on the property if it reverts to McFall. Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said the city wants a deal similar to the one it used to take control of another brownfield, the old Dussault Foundry on Washburn Street, when its owners abandoned it and left cleanup to the DEC.
DiMillo said he is keeping his promise of no jail time for McFall, but switched from a one-year conditional discharge to three years' probation. The only condition of the probation is that McFall pay the money he owes the city.
Wilson said a conditional discharge would leave DiMillo with no option but to jail McFall if he missed a payment. DiMillo would have other options in a probation scenario, Wilson said.
McFall served five days in jail in June after DiMillo convicted him of code violations in a nonjury trial and sentenced him to seven months. Wilson belatedly argued that McFall should have had a jury trial. DiMillo agreed and freed McFall, and a plea deal ensued.
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Nashville, Tenn. - After winning a pair and securing the A-Sun regular season title on Saturday the Hatters experienced a bit of a letdown Sunday and fell 9-3 in the final game of the series. Stetson is now 39-13 overall and 22-5 in conference play while Lipscomb improved to 19-32 and 10-17 in the league.
Stetson's offensive highlight came from the bat of Nick Rickles (Loxahatchee, Fla.). After Robert Crews (Port Charlotte, Fla.) reached base on a single up the middle Rickles stepped in and blasted a home run deep over the 400-foot marker in center field. According to Lipscomb press box personnel it is the only home run hit to dead center at Dugan Field this season.
Rickles and Crews, along with Jeff Simpson (Valrico, Fla.) and Trey Blackman (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) finished the game with two hits each. Rickles led the team in runs batted in with two.
Stetson starter Austin Perez (Loxahatchee, Fla.) lasted 3.1 innings and took the loss falling to 2-1 on the season. He gave up three runs on eight hits. Lipscomb starter Chris Nunn picked up the win raising his record to 3-4. Chad Fromm tossed the final four innings of the game for the Bisons and earned his second save of 2011.
"A very disappointing game today", said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn. "I felt that we would come out today and play with a lot of intensity knowing that we could get number 40 but we didn't do it."
"If we don't make the routine plays we don't win. We had opportunities to get out of some innings today and didn't do it. We can not go into the post season and be successful if we don't make the routine plays", he added.
The Hatters return to DeLand for a Tuesday night game against UCF at 6:30 p.m. and then a weekend series against Belmont to finish up the regular season. The Belmont games are scheduled for Thursday and Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Stetson fans can see the games on Hatter Vision at GoHatters.com with Bill Topping calling the action. Tickets for home games are available at the gate or can be purchased online at GoHatters.com or by calling 738-HATS.


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Kim Zolciak shared a picture of her double-baby bump via Instagram on Saturday.
The mom-to-be appeared pool-ready, sporting a black strapless bikini with white lace trim.
"Going swimming with the kiddos," she wrote in the caption. "This pool makes me feel so much lighter! This belly #twins #excited #blessed #nofilter."
The Don't Be Tardy star, 35, announced in August that she is expecting twins.
"I was completely shocked," she said at the time. "I had no idea. It was a natural conception, but twins do run in the family, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised."
Zolciak is married to Kroy Biermann, a defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons. The couple have two children together, sons Kroy Jr., 2, and Kash Kade, 13 months. Zolciak also has daughters Ariana, 9, and Brielle, 16.
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When I try to describe the situation in Syria, I keep coming back to an earthy expression that begins with �cluster.�
As Joel Brinkley explains in a column I just received, the battles between the al-Qaida type insurgents and the Free Syrian Army insurgents has become as intense as the fight between the insurgents and the Assad regime.� A Sunni cleric has issued a fatwa decreeing all Syrian Shi�ite women be raped.
I regret choosing to watch the video of the� Syrian rebel pulling the heart out of a government soldier he�d shot and taking a bite of it.� There�s really no one to root for here.
The Syrian civil war is yet another tribal tug-of-war in a country badly mapped by colonial powers.� It�s a proxy war for regional powers Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.� It�s a religious war for Sunnis and Shi-ites. It�s a struggle between competing radical factions, with Hezbollah on one side and al-Qaida on the other.� Now someone has thrown poison gas into the mix. How much does it matter who did it?� The Syrian air has been toxic for a long time.
It�s hard to think of another ingredient that would make the situation worse � except for the insertion of the U.S. military.
I don�t think this is 2003 all over again. Bush never really cared whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. He wanted to invade. Obama has been resisting rising pressure to intervene for two years.� I�m certain the option of boots on the ground is off the table.
The best argument for doing something, comes from Brinkley, who warns that a continuing stalemate � a likely scenario � leaves al-Qaida in a control of a geographic base far more strategically important than bin Laden ever had in Afghanistan.
Brinkley doesn�t say exactly what should be done, and I�ve yet to see any plausible scenario with a happy ending. That�s why it�s so tough a call. All the more reason why Obama shouldn�t hurry to react to the chemical attack.� The act will be no less despicable, and the punishment less appropriate if the options are openly debated in the UN and the Congress. Let�s talk this over.


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I would love that, but it seems extremely unlikely. I posted an article in the lockout thread that talks about how the 4 major sports are represented by the same law firm in these negotiations. These 3 lockouts in three different sports is not a coincidence. And both Bettman and Stern worked at this firm.
we need people who loved the game growing up, not basketball and baseball lawyers
So you're talking about one law firm that has major interests that have nothing to do with the sport itself and certainly not their fans.
I'm fine with Fehr going. This lockout has gotten beyond absurd and he is partly to blame.
and if fehr is still head of the pa, you can be sure that there will be another lockout. i think this latest blow up in talks really showed how the owners truly hate fehr. both need to go or else another lockout is guaranteed.
But Bettman has had two lockouts without Fehr, so if he stays I don't think it matters who's head of the NHLPA.
That's what makes this stupidest of all. This league can't seem to succeed in spite of itself. Every time it's poised to take another significant step, there's a lockout.
they can't even figure out how to get a new cba after record revenues. i can't even imagine what would happen if there is declining revenue coming off the new cba


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Parents staying involved is how to improve schools
February 28, 2013
Per Mr. Miller's letter of Feb. 15, it seems his enthusiasm at the prospect of inflicting in-school beatings on an open ended definition of miscreants misses the point....
Privatize all education!
And, then segregate schools by gender again, and you would see a cure to a vast and significant variety of problems in our "education" today!
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"Home school and private school kids perform far beyond what the liberals "Good Enough" public schools turn out."
DrGooo, All the data that the social scientists have crunched does show that the home school and private school students outperform public school students, Don't you believe in science?
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No, Mr. Tabor, I don't believe Mr. Miller supports beatings. A good paddling served him well apparently - and would probably do the same for some of the troublemakers in school today. You are correct in noting that parents SHOULD be involved, but you miss the point that many of these kids DON'T HAVE PARENTS. Open your eyes and you may begin to notice the number of homeless kids, parentless kids, kids living with "friends" and other sad situations. Never mind the number of sperm and egg donors who refuse to BE parents to their offspring. We need a comprehensive system of discipline that gets the TROUBLE out of the troublemakers. In the meantime, you have idiots think private schools are the only way to go -- they don't see that the troublemakers can't go to private school.
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For many families, the Thanksgiving holiday is a wonderful time for creating and cultivating traditions. Stories are told – and retold (as I'm often accused), memories are created and, intentionally or unintentionally, a set of values gets handed down like the family silverware.
Part of our job as wealth managers is to help families make conscious choices that will shape their relationship with money over multi-generations. The arrival of Thanksgiving weekend inspired us to revisit a whitepaper we had written in 2012 with input from Dr. Julie A. Morton, of Conscious Legacy Coaching, entitled: Net worth. Self worth. What values will you pass on? A practical guide to conscious choices that will shape your family's relationship with money. Click this link to download the booklet or watch the video.
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Since the split, Mulligan has been in Los Angeles shooting the indie film Drive, opposite Ryan Gosling. She checked in to the Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel for a few days while the film shot nearby.
"I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western," Mulligan joked to PEOPLE at Monday's Hollywood Film Awards in L.A., where she presented her Never Let Me Go costar Andrew Garfield with an award. "They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had."
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This is a 1* free play on Saturday's MWC game between San Jose State and New Mexico.
Kenny Potter's status for this game is uncertain. The San Jose QB was unable to go against Iowa State and he's very iffy as of now for this week's game. He has a leg injury that won't require surgery but if the swelling doesn't subside, he won't be able to play. If that's the case, then it's freshman Josh Love, and the rookie really struggled at Iowa State.
Beyond that, the Spartans have absolutely horrific on defense. They've been outgained by a whopping 547 yards in the losses to Tulsa, Utah and San Jose State. The defensive rushing stats in those games were abysmal, 5.5 yards per carry and all three opponents went run-heavy on San Jose. That will definitely be the case Saturday as New Mexico prefers to run out of their option as much as possible.
I think we're catching a good spot here, as New Mexico has had an extra week to prep and should be extremely motivated after losing two games they really should have won. The bye week should be a real plus coming out of those two tough losses, and New Mexico also has a revenge motive from a poor showing against the Spartans last season.
It looks like a good matchup for the Lobos in terms of strength vs. weakness, and if Porter is unable to play, this is a bargain price in my opinion even with the bump from where it opened on Sunday night. I'll therefore go ahead and lay it right now with New Mexico.


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|A Hollow-Ion Resonance of Unprecedented Strength
A so-called hollow ion is formed when core electrons are removed or excited to higher energy levels, leaving an empty inner shell. Such states can be produced in He-, a fundamental three-electron system and prototypical negative ion. The nuclear Coulomb attraction is efficiently screened in negative ions, greatly enhancing the effects that the electrons have on each other and providing an ideal opportunity to verify and further motivate theoretical models of electron correlation. Our understanding of these basic interactions can elucidate processes of importance in many fields, from the interpretation of cosmic spectra to x-ray lasing efforts using inner-shell ionization and hollow-ion formation. At the Ion-Photon Beamline at the ALS, researchers have detected in negative helium ions a resonant simultaneous double-Auger decay of unprecedented strength, evidence of a triply excited hollow-ion state that has eluded observation for 25 years.
In contrast to valence-electron excitations, decay pathways of core excited states are highly correlated phenomena, typically involving multi-electron processes such as Auger decay. States located above the double-ionization limit (such as triply excited hollow-ion states) can decay via two-electron emission in a single step if one electron is demoted with the simultaneous emission of two others (double-Auger decay). The significant challenges presented by these complex and exotic multi-electron processes to high-level theoretical models make detailed studies in computationally accessible three-electron prototype systems of prime interest.
The first experimental investigation in He- indicated that some of the observed structure was inconsistent with predictions and stimulated renewed theoretical interest. Included in these new ab initio calculations were detailed investigations of hollow-ion resonances. The positions, widths, and cross sections of these resonances present sensitive parameters for evaluating the calculations; however, such measurements remained unavailable. In addition, while the lowest triply excited quartet state in He- (the 2s2p2 4P state) was predicted 25 years ago, until now it has eluded observation. In fact, this state has not been observed in photoexcitation of any three-electron system.
At the Ion-Photon Beamline at the ALS, researchers were able to measure, for the first time, the photoexcitation widths, line shapes, and absolute cross sections of He- triply excited (hollow-ion) states. A rubidium-vapor charge-exchange ion source was used to produce a 9.96-keV He- beam in the 1s2s2p 4Po ground state. A 60-nA beam of He- was merged with a counter-propagating photon beam from ALS Beamline 10.0.1, leading to excitation of the He- from its ground state to the 2s2p2 4P, 2p3s3p 4D, and 2p3s3p 4P states. Subsequent Auger decay in the merged region led to two-electron loss. The resulting He+ ions (the signal) were deflected by a demerging magnetic field and counted to obtain the cross sections (i.e., probabilities) of the various resonances versus incident photon energy.
Because the 2s2p2 4P state lies below the 2s2 threshold, there is no intermediate state to accommodate sequential (two-step) Auger decay. The observed signal must therefore be due to a double-Auger process, involving all three electrons of the ion simultaneously. This represents the first observation of double-Auger decay from a photoexcited negative ion, and its strength is three to four orders of magnitude larger than similar observations in other systems. Calculations of double-Auger decay in He- are not yet available and would be of great value in improving our understanding of this unexpectedly strong resonance. Otherwise, theory is in good general qualitative agreement with the new data, except for differences in the position and shape of certain features. A fourth feature in the spectrum, resolved for the first time, is observed to be Lorentzian in shape, contrary to predictions. The researchers conclude that, while our understanding of this three-electron system has advanced considerably in the past few years, further improvements in theory are still needed.
Research conducted by R.C. Bilodeau and G. Turri (Western Michigan University and ALS); J.D. Bozek and G.D. Ackerman (ALS); A. Aguilar (ALS and University of Nevada, Reno); and N. Berrah (Western Michigan University).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: R.C. Bilodeau, J.D. Bozek, A. Aguilar, G.D. Ackerman, G. Turri, and N. Berrah, "Photoexcitation of He- hollow-ion resonances: Observation of the 2s2p2 4P state," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193001 (2004).


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A group of odd people. Who typically like to joke around, talk about sex, and/or dance to techno.
"Wow Dan, your friends are so jarp!"
"Well, my friends are Jarpies."
"Well, my friends are Jarpies."
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That lass has got a canny pair of jarps on her.
โดย Jonny23 14 เมษายน 2011
Ancient pygmy form of greeting, originating from the river dwellers and predominately used between neighbouring tribes. The expression is usually accompanied by an open palm signal of the right hand, similar to a high-five. Today, it is often used between family groups and friends who live some distance apart and translates, typically as "Hello, friend, I harbour thee no ill-will."
1# (ancient): "Jarp! I bring you these two virigins in exchange for seven pigs."
2# (modern): "Jarp! Wassup!"
2# (modern): "Jarp! Wassup!"
โดย Oondeenie Queu 24 ธันวาคม 2004
Illest woman out! Grumpy as hell when she's sober or has no cigarettes. Will bite your fucking toes off if you cross her. Smashes booze like there's no work tomorrow.
Man that chicks a Jarp!
โดย jarpi 05 ธันวาคม 2014
To jarp, or poke someone. To be jarped.
That great gallah just proper jarped me in the ribs.
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With a simple WordPress theme you often get a good start on a web design project. A simple start often makes a better platform for adding a personal touch.
I am sure you noticed that simplicity is a strong trend right now in web design. This is why simple WordPress themes tend to be very popular – they are good for usability and typically good as a starting point for creating an individual online look and feel. Lucky for you there are many high quality cool minimalistic WordPress themes available to pick from. This is why we keep updating this resource with new themes quite often. Website and blog designs certainly can be complex, colorful and overwhelming and many themes for WordPress belong to that category.
Some web-masters and bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their sites leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. Minimalistic designs generally help visitors find what they are looking for easier and compared to heavy loaded web designs, they are often more inviting and easy to navigate. If you are looking for simple WordPress themes that help your design comply with basic elements of minimalistic design you have come to the right place! I am sure the list of WordPress simple themes below will be a real time saver and a source of good inspiration. You will find both premium and free minimalistic and simple WordPress themes organized into two sections. This makes it easy for you to find the type of theme you are looking for.
One of the hot and current trends in web design right now is themes with responsive design and WordPress layout builders. The WordPress community have picked this up, there are many interesting responsive themes for WordPress available now, and they are worth considering making sure your site looks great on all platforms including mobile devices. Many of the themes in this article are responsive, but check the preview to test how each theme looks in mobile browsers. Just resize your browser if it is easier for you to test on a PC or MAC. I recently updated this resource with more simple WordPress themes and all links have been checked.
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The simple WordPress websites below below are good for many purposes as they are clean and have good space for content. Remember that most premium themes are supported, documented and typically well coded by the theme vendors and they are often updated quickly when WordPress is taking large steps in its development. There are many options and finding the right premium theme for your WordPress site can be a challenge. I hope this post will help you out.
Article Overview
- Premium Simple WordPress Themes
- Free Simple website templates for WordPress
- Essential tips for selecting a great simple WordPress theme
Premium Simple WordPress Themes
Cleaner Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
This is the Cleaner WordPress theme. It is a responsive business and portfolio template with a very minialistic and clean design. The clean layout and sleek features make Cleaner a great option for your e-resume, online portfolio, agency, small business, entrepreneur or other professional website. The theme uses portfolio and services custom post types to make it easy to add and edit items, and the awesome homepage template can be customized with the Drag & Drop Homepage Builder in the SMOF admin panel.
Nine – Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO
Nine is a responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress theme with a simple and clean design. It is best suited for business websites and users who want to showcase their work on a professional portfolio style website. The theme have to powerful slider scripts build in and tons of useful shortcodes.
Flexible – Theme for WordPress – MORE INFO
Flexible is a simplistic and cool looking portfolio theme for WordPress. With ElegantThemes page builder this theme turns into a powerful web design framework. the style is flat and minimalistic but with great use of colors to keep users happy. While perfect for online portfolios I also think the blog layout makes Flexible useful as a simple blog theme.
Brada Innovative WordPress Template – MORE INFO
Brada is a fresh new theme with a clean and different design that will make your website stand out. The layout makes use of a left-hand side navigation and sidebar. The theme is responsive and adapts well to mobile screens. There are several built in scripts suchs, flexslider, masonry, filterable portfolio and more.
SimpleMag – Magazine Theme for Creative – MORE INFO
Simple Mag is a responsive, retina ready, minimalistic magazine theme with lots of useful, unique and awesome features.
Revenant – Responsive Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Revenant is a responsive business WordPress theme with a clean and fresh design. The theme comes with a drag and drop page builder, Revolutions slider, innovative AJAX loading of posts and portfolio items and more.
TRIM – Simple Responsive Theme – MORE INFO
TRIM is one of the cool responsive themes with a simple design one need to check out. It is optimal for a business portfolio website. With the page builder from the theme vendor it is possible to set up nearly any type of web page without coding at all. The theme comes with a mobile friendly design and adapt to the visitors screen size.
Trim is a WordPress template and it is simple, professional, versatile and fast. at first sight Trim might look simple, but with this also get a good balance and a user friendly layout. The theme have many build in features and it is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully mobile friendly with a responsive design that adapts to your user's variable screen size.
System – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – MORE INFO
System is called a multi-purpose theme and for a reason. It includes overall layouts for business, portfolio and creative one page websites. Further, you will find a page builder with drag and drop that will help you build your own page layouts without coding. System also have the Revelution slider in the package and much more.
Epical – Simple Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Epical is a business WordPress theme with a clean and simple look. It comes with a minimalistic and bold web design that makes perfect space for your content. The theme is fully responsive and helps you give mobile visitors a great experience. It is packed with design options for customizing you website: unlimited colors, 10 custom page templates, 6 custom widgets, 100+ shortcodes, 6 post formats and a meaty admin panel.
Responsive – MORE INFO
Responsive is a dynamic theme that helps you create a responsive portfolio site that displays beautifully on all devices, be it a smartphone or a tablet or monitors with different resolutions. Ideal for business owners, freelance photographers and professional individuals. Responsive also supports WooCommerse and therefore may function as a professional online store.
Pixelogic Responsive Multi-purpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
With Pixelogic you get a WordPress theme with a simple and minimal design however it is far from simple when it comes to layout options and features. The theme comes with 7 home page layouts, 7 blog variations, a page builder, various post types, flexslider and much more.
Metropix – Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Metropix is a minimalist WordPress theme with a clean metro design and a multi-purpose focus. In this theme you will find a good option for creating galleries. In the blog section you will find a standard format and one for video posts.
Smarald – Retina Ready Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Smarald is a responsive WordPress portfolio theme with a simple design. It is well suited for creatives, agencies and it will also do a great job for blogs. There is a cool page builder included in the theme and several portfolio templates, custom post types and more.
Septimus Responsive Portfolio WP Theme – MORE INFO
Septimus is a business style theme with a clean and minimal design. The theme is built with Bootstrap and offers a great responsive layout. There are more than 65 shortcodes included, a shortcode generator, custom widgets, custom post types and more.
Qualeb Simple and Clean WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
With Qualeb you have two color schemes – Dark and Light. The theme is responsive and well prepared for mobile visitors. The slider is also responsive and adapt to small screens. You get plenty of page building blocks in the custom widgets, custom post types and shortcodes included in this theme.
ProMotion Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
ProMotion is a premium responsive WordPress theme simple aimed for business and service or product promotion. Features mOover slider with amazing effects and super easy drag&drop interface. Includes many features and is controlled by powerful option panel with possibilities to change styles, sizes and colors for many elements, also includes background uploaders for all areas. Theme is SEO friendly with usage of heading tags and content placement above the sidebars. Promotion theme includes full user guide and quick setup guide with visual illustrations. Demo content with replacement images are provided to setup "as seen in preview" pages in minutes.
Rumblings – Responsive MultiPurpose WP Theme – MORE INFO
Rumblings is a powerful responsive business/corporate/portfolio & blog premium WordPress theme jam-packed with features. The theme is very powerful yet easy to use and customize, whether you're a WordPress pro or a beginner with no coding skills.
SimplePress – Simple WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
SimplePress is a page-based corporate WordPress theme clean and simple design. It is great for anyone looking to give their website professional look and feel. The theme features a business style homepage with a beautiful well integrated JavaScript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections. This theme is part of the very interesting Theme Club at ElegantThemes where everyone can get access to around 70 very professional themes at around half the price of most Premium themes. This is in particular interesting for web designers as they will be able to deliver great websites to their clients. It is even possible to get the PSD files also if some changes will be needed. Check out the video showing the ElegantThemes options framework enabling high flexibility with no-coding needed.
Molly – MORE INFO
Molly is a clean and minimal blogging theme for WordPress with a responsive layout. The theme have an audio player built in, support for galleries and video embedding.
Slate Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Slate is a simple and minimal WordPress theme with a responsive design. The theme comes with both a light and a dark design. Slate offers built-in swipe support for your portfolio images, videos and more for mobile visitors. Slate makes useof a mixture of custom styles and shortcodes to help you set up your own page layouts.
Reason WP: Smart, Responsive, Customizable – MORE INFO
A radically customizable responsive theme that promises to do what it says and not pull your leg with silly over-the-top features. It's designed for users, not geeks – all by a dude in Southern California who just loves making rockin' WP themes for other folks.
Sensica – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Shepard – Premium responsive corporate theme – MORE INFO
Shepard Premium responsive corporate theme is exactly what you need! Enjoy a great variety of possibilities to adjust your own site to be totally awesome: admin panel, slider manager, form builder and others. Let the graceful design and convenient functionality represent yourself or your company!
Elemin – MORE INFO
Elemin is a blogging theme with a simple design and great responsive layout. The theme includes several custom post formats that are well integrated into the design of the pages. There are 11 skins included, wigetized footer and more fueatures as well.
HyperMind – MORE INFO
Hypermind is an incredibly easy to use WordPress portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, the detailed manual, and the carefully structured code, HyperMind is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your visitors. HyperMind has got you covered on all fronts, so if you ever get stuck on anything, rest assured that you're going to get the help of a professional, if and when you need it, because HyperMind comes with excellent customer support.
Structure – MORE INFO
The Structure Theme is a set of premium WordPress themes masterfully created with a modern and minimalist design aesthetic.
Aries – Responsive Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Aries is not simple from a feature point of view. It is loaded with great stuff but comes with a simple and minimal design. In Aries you find a page creator, SliderRevolution and 4 more slider scripts, Font manager, portfolio manager, table manager, 50+ shortcodes and a manager to insert them, unlimited sidebars, custom widgets
Echo Theme – MORE INFO
Echo is a clean and simple WordPress Theme, but a very powerful and a highly customizable portfolio theme, aimed at anyone who needs a showcase. If you're looking for a gorgeous portfolio theme, then you've just found it.Echo comes with an excellent customer support and a bulletproof documentation file that discusses every aspect of the theme in details, ensuring you don't face any difficulties in setting up the theme and maintaining it. This is one of the Simple WordPress themes you should check out!
Odyssey – MORE INFO
Odyssey is a minimalistic and simple WordPress theme for building a magazine style website. The theme support a double sidebar layout that is often used in online magazines. With Odyssey you get a few custom widgets, multiple layouts and more.
Free simple website templates for WordPress
It is possible to find great free WordPress themes with a simple design and layout. Some are even responsive and have cool otpions pages to set up the theme. Having said that, it is likely that free themes are not supported now and less likely when planning long term.
Minimable – MORE INFO
Minimable is a cool simple one page WordPress theme with an exceptional parallax scrolling effect. The theme is based on Bootstrap and comes with cool features such as page templates, adjustable colors, portfolio function and more.
Imbalance – MORE INFO
Imbalance is a cool free choice for building an online magazine, a blog or your personal portfolio website. This simple WordPress theme is designed with a contemporary modern vibe in a minimalistic style. If you choose the Imbalance theme, you can easily fresh-up your project whether it is a blog or i-magazine.
Tint Free Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
With Tint you get a free portfolio theme with a minimal and simple look and feel. The theme use colors to spice up the design and the interactive slider at the top is great for featuring content, videos and images. You will find custom widgets, shortcode generator, page templates that you can use to set up your own pages.
Time – MORE INFO
Time is a clean responsive theme for personal blogs. It comes with an advanced options manager, portfolio and slider functions.
Shutterloop – MORE INFO
ShutterLoop is a fully responsive free photography wordpress theme. The theme has great feature control through with custom control panel.
Hatch – MORE INFO
Hatch is a simple photography and portfolio WordPress theme. Optimized for mobile browsing – the responsive layout will automatically detect if the visitor is viewing your site on a desktop screen or a mobile device (Smartphone or tablet) and will adjust accordingly. A parent theme – easy to customize via child themes, and built on the Hybrid Core framework.
Responsive Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Responsive Pro adds exciting new customization features to WordPress including the Theme Customizer which lets you visually change the appearance of the theme live with 12 colorful skins to select from, typography options with Google Fonts, and other powerful customization tools.
SimpleCorp – MORE INFO
A simple corporate theme for wordpress. It is super responsive that it adapts up to mobile devices.
Aselia WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
The aselia WordPress theme, concisely with other theme elephant themes, is clean, minimalistic, but nevertheless absolutely breathtaking. A featured image slider with a customizable title and slider make the landing page a true attention-catcher.
Free Base WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Base is a simple responsive wordpress theme that is easy to customize. It has a lot of customization options that will suite your very needs. It also has animated back to top button, Custom header and footer navigation, Custom comment template, Basic column grid included, Child theme support and many more.
TrulyMinimal – MORE INFO / DEMO
TrulyMinimal is a free highly customizable minimalistic theme fully focused on typography. Powered by a powerful backend TrulyMinimal can be easily personalized.
WordPress Svbtle – MORE INFO
WordPress svbtle is a clean and simple theme for wordpress.
Hybrid Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework – MORE INFO
Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized parent theme, featuring several custom page templates and multiple widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
Modern – MORE INFO / DEMO
Here is a free themethat you're sure to love (as long as you're into super-clean, killer looking Swiss design style themes!
Foghorn – MORE INFO / DEMO
Foghorn is a minimalist WordPress theme built off the foundation of Twenty Eleven. It has a custom options panel for switching layouts, removing sidebars, uploading a logo, and changing footer text. Further it is responsive, and therefore it looks good at any browser width including iPhones and other mobile devices.
Modern Clix – MORE INFO
Modern Clix is a minimal blog theme inspired in the Swiss Style of Design: It features Arial/Helvetica, grids, a generous use of whitespace for better readability and a strong focus in typography.
Essential tips for selecting the perfect simple WordPress theme
I have collected some hard earned experiences as a quick reference to help you make the most important considerations before choosing your theme.
- Keep you investment safe. Setting up a new site takes a lot of effort and sometimes it is a costly project to finish. So how do you ensure your new website is easy to maintain and update. First, you have accept that it is not enough to look at the design and features of a WordPress theme. It is essential that the theme you choose is relatively fresh (still maintained), well documented and comes with support. Otherwise, you risk your website investment get in trouble the first time WordPress release a major update or a critical security fix. Look for active support, other user's comments, check the documentation, and test the theme preview page to see if it seems solid. When it comes to documentation then I personally like video demonstrations of the initial setup and the most important features.
Keep it simple! Make sure the design is simple and stripped from all unnecessary design elements. This is a much easier approach for setting up a unique web site compared to finding a crowded and busy theme where you need to start removing stuff.
- Invest som time in analysing your needs before choosing a simple WordPress theme. This is the hard part, knowing what features you need long term is like reading the stars. One way, however, to get safe through this stage is to look for a theme that have been build for multi-purpose websites. This category of themes get more and more popular and often have a huge collection of layout specific shortcodes, widgets or a powerful page builder. In addtion, multi-purpose themes often have flexible layouts, such as placements of sidebars, multiple header and footer layouts etc.
- Be clear on what page items you need, such as image slider, animated content slider, news widget, call to action bars, content boxes, build in icons, support for custom fonts etc.
- Another important feature to look out for is a demo content importer. This is a true time-saver in most projects because you get the demo site setup on your own server. This way you can quickly see how specific parts of the demo website was configured and you can replicate it on your own pages.