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3 Ways to Improve Ecommerce Conversions this Month
Banner ad retargeting, live chat, and a well-planned series of checkout abandonment emails could boost an online retailer's conversion rates and sales immediately with a relatively small investment in development time and money.
In the second quarter of 2013, U.S. average ecommerce conversion rates were around 2.6 percent, according to Monetate's EQ2 2013 Ecommerce Quarterly report.
Even a small improvement in conversion rates can have a significant impact on sales and profits. Consider an Internet merchant that has 1,000 site visitors per month (12,000 per year) with an average order value of $75.00. At the 2.6 percent conversion rate that Monetate reported, this merchant would have about $23,400.00 in annual sales. But, if the seller was able to improve its conversion rate to 3.6 percent, annual sales would rise to $32,400.00, an increase of about 38.5 percent.
There are many things ecommerce marketers could do to boost purchase conversion rates, including employing banner ads that appeal to recent visitors, adding live chat, and initiating a series of checkout abandonment emails.
Retargeting Ad Banners
"Retargeting" can describe a number of marketing tactics aimed at encouraging shoppers to return to a retail site after they have looked at products but choose not to purchase.
One of the most common forms of retargeting is to show shoppers banner ads that show the products they look at earlier. This approach can be effective and is easy to implement.
The most difficult part of employing retargeting banner ads is actually creating the ads. Pasting the appropriate code into place on a website takes a couple of minutes and, typically, retargeting ads cost the same as other online display ads or pay-per-click ads.
Live Chat
Live chat can help an online retailer answer customer questions, respond to customer concerns, and boost sales. In fact, adding live chat may be one of the easiest ways to improve an ecommerce business overall., and it can be simple to implement.
It is worth nothing that live chat is not new to the web or to ecommerce. As a feature it has been around for years, and there is a lot of data showing the value of adding live chat to a site. For example, a 2010 Forrester Research report, Making Proactive Chat Work, stated that 44 percent of online shoppers liked having questions answered and concerns addressed in the very middle of the purchase process.
Live chat addresses the reasons that shoppers leave a site without making a purchase. It can help identify problems in site design or the checkout process. It can provide insights about how product photography, product descriptions, or even price are impacting sales, and it can be a great marketing tool too.
With live chat is it very easy to identify shoppers' most common questions or concerns. Those questions can be addressed in blog posts, other site content, or even in social media. In this way, what the merchant learns through live chat becomes part of a content marketing campaign — helping shoppers and encouraging an increase in site traffic.
Live chat is also easy to implement. In some cases, the merchant needs only to add a snippet of JavaScript to its site. The actual chat session may be done via a web interface so there may not even be any software to load. In terms of pricing, live chat can be reasonable. Some providers offer a free plan for very small merchants — Olark, as an example, is free for up to 20 live chat conversations per month — and paid plans might start at $15.00 per month for one operator.
The most difficult part of offering live chat is having someone available to answer customer questions. But merchants can easily control when live chat is available and offering it even a few hours a day is better than not having it at all.
Checkout Abandonment Emails
If an online retailer knows a shopper's email address, it is possible to remind that shopper about products left at checkout, and recover a significant number of sales.
According to an October 2013 report from Listrak, an email service provider, shoppers abandon a checkout process 73 percent of the time.
To address all of those abandoned checkouts and increase conversion rates overall, about 24.5 percent of the top 1,000 online merchants in the U.S. send at least one checkout abandonment email to known shoppers, and many of those top 1,000 retailers send checkout abandonment email series of up to three messages in an effort to recover or encourage sales, again according to Listrak.
Of the conversion-boosting tactics mentioned here, checkout abandonment emails are relatively more challenging to set up and execute. Nonetheless, it is within reason that an online seller working with a good email service provider could have a robust checkout abandonment email series up and running in a week or less.
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Great post and list of tools. I may add that http://www.retentionscience.com provides dynamic abandoned cart item treatment based on the products and individual behaviors. We leverage machine learning to determine the best frequency to reach back out, and when to add an additional incentive to help maximize the probability of conversion.
Thanks for your advice in this post.
Great information. These 3 points are really very essential to focus on better conversion. For the live chat (Point -2),if you can't afford Olark, you can use Live2Support live chat. Just pay $9.99 and enjoy unlimited features of live chat.
Great set of tools you've put up here.
You might also consider Marketizator, a start-up and the first conversion rate optimization tool specifically built for e-commerce websites.
To boost conversion in our online shop we don't have costumer registration form.
And how we can send Abandonment Emails if don't know where to send this email as we can't track costumer.
We added Live Chat to our website and won a lot of points with our customers. We tried a ton of different live chat services and landed on LiveChat INC. Their desktop app is by far the best, it's super customizable, integrates in with Zendesk and Desk.com if you want to combine live chat with customer support. LiveChat was one of the more expensive options but it has bee well worth the cost for us.
Great post,
Live chat is probably the most tricky part, as you need it to be backed up by knowledgeable sellers.
Naturally I would add http://BestMat.ch to that list, but I would not really be unbiased…
I heard about Zopim, It is a good software but currently I am using eAssistance Pro live chat software, which works very effectively for my website. If anyone need this software can get it from https://www.eassistancepro.com/addchat.php
their site http://www.inside.tm/magento-chat, it morphs a business website into a virtual storefront so business personnel can see and help their site visitors in real-time using chat.


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Kelly ClarkSon
"A pretty girl," says Knowles of the Burleson, Texas, native, 20. "All the elements are there"—scrambled like scat notes. She's a solid pop belter, but her style has roamed from vamp to Annie Hall—a flaw that makes Mackie lament: "She's too good a singer for that."
July 16
"This is Elvira in the bordello," says Mackie of the red-and-black top. Knowles agrees: "Too much going on—way too fussy."
Aug. 20
In her matching jacket and pants, Kelly "looks like a cowgirl on a budget," says Dalrympie. Says Mackie: "Young, cute and sexy."
Aug. 13
The pink top makes for "an okay outfit," says Dalrymple, "but she needs to pull it down to cover her tummy."
Justin Guarini
With his lean legs, mop of curls and a face that seeks the camera like a heat-tracking missile, the 23-year-old from Doylestown, Pa., already seems groomed for his official TRL debut. But the dude can overdo the groovy dressing, making him look like a rejected Austin Powers extra or even a clone, says Dalrymple, of "another Justin." Timberlake, that is.
July 30
The brocade ensemble was "the worst," says Mackie. "It looks like he borrowed his daddy's shirt."
Aug. 20
Dalrymple disses the " 'Livin' La Vida Loca' look" on Justin: "It seems way too casual. He looks best when he actually dresses for the occasion." But Mackie calls this sleeveless, bell-bottomed style "sexy."
Aug. 6
In a black tux with open-necked shirt, "Justin does the Rat Pack," says Dalrymple.
Tamyra Gray
The 23-year-old from Norcross, Ga., has not only wowed Simon Cowell—he called her Aug. 20 performance "world-class"—but wins over our judges with an eye for color and style. At her best, "she's got that little neo-soul vibe," says Knowles. "Young, fresh and cool."
Aug. 20
"Pretty and classic, not trying too hard," says Mackie of this relaxed black ensemble. "It just looks good."
July 23
The fringe element? "Horrible," says Mackie. To Dalrymple, "a feather duster."
July 30
Knowles's fave, from hair to makeup to the matching top and skirt: "It all works."
Nikki McKibbin
The 23-year-old single mom from Grand Prairie, Texas, "has beautiful features, almost a throwback to the '40s," says Mackie. But her style is ersatz punk-priestess. Result? "She looks like a road company version of Kelly Osbourne," says Mackie.
Aug. 20
The denim-on-denim look is a hit, says Dalrymple. "Young and funky. It reflects her personality."
June 29
Not flattering, Knowles says. Still, "plaid pants on TV," says Mackie. "Brave!"
Aug. 6
Sighs Mackie: "Here she is again in a midriff. No comment."
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Destiny's Child stylist and mother of Beyoncé.
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Designer for pop divas such as Cher and Diana Ross.
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JACKSON — Jovious Wade rushed for 61 yards and a touchdown as West Bolivar beat East Marion 26-7 to claim the Mississippi High School Athletics Association Class 2A state championship.
It's the fourth state title for West Bolivar and its first since 2007. The Eagles forced seven East Marion turnovers.
Demario Brown sealed the game for the Eagles on Friday with a 46-yard fumble return in the third quarter to give West Bolivar a 19-7 lead.
Demarrion Haynes also had a rushing touchdown for West Bolivar (15-1), which finished with 243 total yards.
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BUDAPEST — Helmer Istvan Szabo's next project will be "The Door," about a woman novelist and her enigmatic housekeeper, based on the novel of the same name by Hungarian Magda Szabo.
The German-French-Hungarian production will begin shooting in fall 2009 after the Hungarian-born Szabo completes "Utas es holdvilag," which is now in production.
Jeno Habermann, of FilmArt Studio, will co-produce "The Door" with Sandor Soeth of Germany's Inuit Pictures. The budget and cast have not been announced.
The novel, translated into 36 languages, won France's Femina literary prize in 2003. The author, who died in November, is considered one of Hungary's foremost femme scribes and is no relation to the helmer.


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Courtney Love is celebrating her 50th birthday in style – by joining the hit show Sons of Anarchy for its final season.
The rocker confirmed the news in a blog for xoJane, listing her role on the FX series as one of 50 obsessions she can't live without on her 50th birthday.
"Acting, acting, acting. Including my newest role on Sons of Anarchy!" she wrote for number 16.
Love will be playing Ms. Harrison, a preschool teacher who takes an interest in Abel, the son of Charlie Hunnam's character Jax, according to the network. She will also tangle with Abel's mother, who is played by Drea de Matteo. Her multi-episode arc will begin with an appearance on the seventh and final season's fourth episode.
This is not Love's first dramatic role: She earned a Golden Globe nod in 1997 for her work in The People vs. Larry Flynt. She has also appeared in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon and the crime thriller Trapped, among others.
She won't be the only musician appearing on the show. Marilyn Manson also has a recurring role as a white supremacist whom Jax uses to expand his power base.
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"Dream Girls" dazzled in Reading for one night only.
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For decades the professions of landscape architecture, civil engineering,
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the ease and precision of drafting site plans. And laser-based robotic
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topographic measurement. Yet, until recently, the construction industry
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From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change.
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Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
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"Huge difference," defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. "Helm is a bit of an engine for us, the way he plays, with the energy he brings. Stuff like that is contagious."
The speedy center will play in his first postseason game in more than two years Friday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
"He's going to be extremely important, especially with his speed on the penalty kill, getting up ice, disrupting power plays," goaltender Jimmy Howard said. "Just his speed is dangerous enough. Having him in the lineup just makes our top forward lines that much stronger.
"He can flat out fly, with or without the puck. With a team as big as Boston it's going to be a key."
Helm will center a line with Daniel Alfredsson and Tomas Jurco.
Helm's most recent playoff game was on April 11, 2012, in Game 1 of the opening round at Nashville. His night, and his season, ended early in the first period when he suffered lacerated tendons in his forearm after being cut by Alexander Radulov's skate.
Last year, a back injury limited Helm to just one regular season game.
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Helm appeared in 65 consecutive playoff games before missing the past 18.
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Economic Research Report No. (ERR-132) 30 pp, April 2012
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly
called the Food Stamp Program) plays a vital role in the social
safety net in the United States, providing almost $72 billion in
benefits in 2011. An important measure of SNAP's effectiveness is
the extent to which the program reduces poverty. Evaluations of the
antipoverty effect of safety net programs often focus on the rate
of poverty. However, the poverty rate reflects only one aspect of
the antipoverty effect of a safety net program-whether or not
adding program benefits to a family's resources lifts them above
the poverty threshold. Two other measures, portraying the depth and
severity of poverty, capture how program benefits increase income
among the poor even if they do not lift them out of poverty. Both
measures provide richer information on how program benefits improve
the well-being of poor families, and the severity measure is
particularly sensitive to how program benefits increase well-being
among the poorest of the poor.
In this report, we calculated the rate, depth, and severity of
poverty, using the definition of family income in the official U.S.
poverty estimation (which does not include SNAP benefits). We then
estimated the reduction in the three poverty measures for the years
2000 through 2009, after including SNAP benefits in family income.
Our analysis focuses on a time period that includes the 2001 and
the 2007-2009 recessions as well as the implementation of
additional SNAP benefits through the 2009 stimulus legislation.
SNAP benefits have a relatively stronger effect on the depth and
severity of poverty than on the prevalence of poverty, and have a
particularly strong alleviative effect on poverty among children,
who experience significantly higher rates of poverty than the
overall population.
Specifically, we found that:
• SNAP benefits led to an average annual decline of 4.4 percent in
the prevalence of poverty from 2000 to 2009, while the average
annual decline in the depth and severity of poverty was much larger
(10.3 and 13.2 percent, respectively).
• When SNAP benefits are included in family income, the average
annual decline from 2000 to 2009 in the depth of child poverty was
15.5 percent and the average annual decline in the severity of
child poverty was 21.3 percent.
• SNAP benefits reduced the depth and severity of poverty in both
metropolitan areas and nonmetropolitan areas, with somewhat greater
poverty reductions among individuals in nonmetropolitan areas.
SNAP's antipoverty effect was strongest in 2009, when benefit
increases were authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package. In 2009, SNAP
• Reduced the depth of child poverty by 20.9 percent and the
severity of child poverty by 27.5 percent.
• Ensured that the depth and severity of poverty in the overall
population increased only slightly from their 2008 levels despite
worsening economic conditions.
Our analysis shows that examining the basic poverty rate on its
own leads to an understatement of the role of SNAP benefits in the
reduction of poverty. Extending the analysis to include the
poverty-gap and squared-poverty-gap indices adds to our
understanding of the role SNAP plays in improving the welfare of
individuals in low-income households.
We used 10 years of cross-sectional data from the U.S. Census
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households that provides information on several different sources
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official U.S. poverty calculation. We added the value of SNAP
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Certain segments announce their comic intent upon arrival. This fake commercial, however, insidiously deploys its central conceit as Bill Hader's increasingly concerned father wonders what his wife (Kristin Wiig) has bought them for dinner. The commercial goes increasingly dark and weird as it progresses, but maintains an internal logic that never makes the proceedings feel as if they are being weird for weird sake. By the time the pizza achieves sentience and starts attacking the family, the audience is laughing too loud to hear the screams of terror coming from the kitchen.
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Three weeks is a long time not to keep food down, I would suggest seeing the doctor but you have done that.
You could also try fasting 24hours, to give your gut a rest. Keep drinking pure water though.
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A group of senior citizens desert an oppressive nursing home in a geriatric Great Escape. The cast, including Strother Martin, Donald Pleasance, Lou Jacobi, Jeanette Nolan and Larry Storch, is sprightly. The script is not: The antics seem too flippant against a backdrop of death and depression.
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A space heater is to blame for a fire in northwest Oklahoma City that destroyed a home and killed four animals, fire officials said.
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While Eric Edkin may be a relatively new face in the tap service business, his family is not.
Edkin started Edkin Tap Services last July after his father-in-law, Larry Koch, invited him into the business.
"My father-in-law started in 1974. It was just him and another guy," Edkin said. When Koch's partner wanted to retire, Koch asked if Edkin would be interested in taking over his route. Edkin's brother-in-law also works in the tap service business.
Edkin's Tap Services, which offers cleaning services for local establishment's beer taps and lines, has been going well for Edkin ever since. Many of his customers are inherited, but he's picked up a few on his own since starting his company.
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Edkin keeps a pretty packed schedule from day to day. He starts most mornings in the bar at 5:30 a.m. and on Fridays he starts at 4:30. Each tap needs to be serviced once a week, so each client he deals with has a specific time slot on a specific day. Getting behind at one stop can knock his whole schedule out of whack. This can make figuring out holidays particularly difficult.
"If people are closed on a holiday, you've got to figure out how to fit them in with a full schedule on Thursday," Edkin said.
And nowadays, there's the matter of bars having more taps to clean, a change since Koch started his business 40 years ago. Koch shared that he used to be able to cover 100 stops during a week, but with the increased number of beer taps at each establishment, that schedule would be impossible to keep up with now.
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RESPONSIBLE. 3 3 3 As high pressure builds in this evening the winds will diminish and temperatures will drop quickly. We'll see lows around midnight in the low 20s. A fast moving clipper system will move out of the Midwest and spread clouds over us later tonight and a period of light snow or just flurries into midday Tuesday. While I don't look for much accumulation, I wouldn't be surprised if some places got a fresh coating.We're in for another chance of scattered light snow early Wednesday. We're keeping our eyes on a coastal storm, but it looks like it'll be too far out to sea to give us much snow.After a very cold day in the 20s on Wednesday, another cold front will cross the Susquehanna Valley on Thursday, keeping it very cold for this time of year right into the weekend. In fact we're watching yet another chance of snow on Saturday.It's too early to tell how much or if we get anything.Tonight: Clear this evening with diminishing wind. Colder. Low: 20.Increasing clouds later. Winds: NW 5-10 mph.Tuesday: Some flurries or light snow into midday then some clearing. Chilly.High: 32. Wind: W 5-15 mph. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Light snow or flurries early. Very cold. High: 26. Wind: NW 5-15 mph. 3
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Nathan Lam has been a cantor most of his life. Born in Los Angeles, he began the study of Hazzanut at the age of eight under the tutelage of Cantor Allan Michelson. At the age of 16, he was engaged by a leading congregation to serve as its cantor for the High Holy Days. Cantor Lam holds an Honoris Causa from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Cantor Lam joined Stephen S. Wise Temple in 1976. The Temple has established scholarships in his name that are given to students at the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological and to students at the School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College.He is founding Dean of The Academy of Jewish Religion, California, Cantorial School. He has been president of the Cantor Assembly, the largest organization of cantors worldwide, and currently serves as president of the Cantors Assembly Foundation. He has developed a group of children called M'Shor'rim, Synagogue singers who sing at special events and the High Holy Days. These children delight and inspire the congregation with their solos and interpretations of the liturgy. Cantor Lam and his wife Donna share the joy of two wonderful children. Michael is a graduate of the University of Southern California and is married to Alexis White and Jenna from the University of Wisconsin and is married to Joey Pitson. The Lams are delighted to have three wonderful grandchildren and consider their greatest accomplishment to be the commitment to Jewish life and Israel exemplified by their children and grandchildren.
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The Christmas spirit took many forms throughout New Jersey today.
For Ed Armsted, it was a caring Highland Park community that threw a big Christmas lunch — complete with presents — for senior citizens who couldn't be with their families and had no place else to go to celebrate.
Armsted said had he not had the luncheon to attend, he would have spent the day alone in his apartment at the senior citizen apartment complex in the borough.
"All of my family is spread out all over the country," he said while waiting to be served at the Highland Park Senior Youth Center. "This is the only enjoyment I've got."
Hannah Zuberman is a college student who volunteered to help feed the 175 guests.
"The Christmas spirit is giving back," Zuberman said. "It's not my holiday. I'm Jewish, but it doesn't matter. It's Christmas. I'll get Chinese and a movie later."
That Christmas celebration was the idea of Elsie Foster Dublin, the council president in Highland Park.
"It began three years ago after we had our Thanksgiving luncheon and someone came up to me and asked if we were doing this for Christmas because she had family in California and there was nothing for her to do,'' Dublin said. "It touched my heart. I felt we had to do something."
The first year, 70 people came for lunch, a number that grew last year to 150.
Dublin said she is proud of how the whole community responds.
"We have 51 people who volunteered to help," she said. "Our police department donated the turkeys and the Bagel Dish Cafe baked all 16 of them. I feel blessed I live in a town where they all care."
In Newark, three New York Jets spread Christmas cheer when they visited an emergency shelter, where they talked to people and signed footballs and photographs of themselves. The special teams trio of placekicker Nick Folk, punter Steven Weatherford and Tanner Purdum, the long snapper for both, showed up about 9 a.m. and chatted with the residents of Apostles' House.
"We enjoy giving back to any community we can, and Newark is part of our community here in New Jersey," Folk said. "It's an awesome feeling. You can't ask for anything more."
Chanetal Eunice, a resident of the shelter and the mother of Azajamine, 5, and Aniylah, 1, said she was thrilled.
"My girls love it," Eunice said. "They got to meet a lot of different people and make new friends besides the ones they see at the shelter every day. It's a good life experience."
The shelter serves seven families headed by women who are homeless or are victims of domestic violence or substance abuse. Yesterday's event, sponsored by the East Orange-based Shaugher Group, also featured bags full of presents for the children and a continental breakfast for the families.
In Flemington, more than 40 people gathered under a street lamp outside the firehouse at Park and Court Streets for a pre-dawn Christmas tradition that stretches back 100 years.
Each year, carolers have gathered just before 5 a.m. and walked the streets, finishing in the center of town. The tradition began with students at the Flemington Children's Choir School who were sent to cheer up a sick teacher. Alumni carried on the tradition even after the school closed many decades ago.
"It's just the most charming tradition," said Alice Schwade, who has gotten up and waited on her porch with her husband, Bob, for 17 years. "It's something you hear about, but something I don't think most towns or cities do."
Steve Gillberg, who has taken part in the tradition for 11 years, proposed to his fiancée, Katie Voskoboynik, during last year's event.
"I waited until no one had any requests, and when no one had any requests, I said 'I have a request,'" Gillberg said. "And I got down on one knee and I asked her to marry me."
Locals who want to hear the carolers leave a porch light on — in older years, when the streets now lined with snowflake lights were just dirt roads, it was a candle in the window.
The quaint tradition was perilously close to ending this year after the death of Rich Hill, one of its biggest proponents. Hill had taken over from Doug Niece, 90, who organized the event for some 75 years before illness prevented him from joining the carolers three years ago.
This year, Hill's brother, Eugene, of Stockton, said he was "real close" to letting the tradition end. But after hearing his pastor speak about the importance of traditions and realizing this year would be the tradition's centennial, he started a Facebook page and generated interest.
Rich Hill's 17-year-old daughter, Keriann, also took part.
"It was the biggest turnout since I was kid and there were three groups," Hill said. "I'm very happy. I'm ecstatic."
"It's a powerful community we have," said Doug Peters, who has been waiting to hear carolers for the last 19 years. "Especially in tough economic times, people enjoy coming together, and it's one thing they can hold onto."
Meanwhile, with thousands of fans cheering him on, George Washington crossed the Delaware River, for the second year in a row after a three-year hiatus, in the 58th annual re-enactment of the famed Christmas crossing of 1776.
The general was portrayed by John Godzieba, who also played Washington last year.
Staff writers Ben Horowitz and Michael Monday contributed to this report.


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• The Australian actress, 31, bravely battles the undead in 30 Days of Night. It's aliens and zombies that creep her out.
WAS FILMING AS COLD AS IT LOOKED? Inside the studio it was boiling, which was terrible because I had that big fur jacket. But outside in New Zealand was freezing. I needed to have hot tea before "Action!" because my lips were frozen.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN NICE GAZING AT JOSH HARTNETT INSTEAD OF THOSE UGLY VAMPIRES. Fantastic! My list of leading men is so good: Josh Hartnett, Clive Owen, John Cusack. It's lovely.
WHAT MOVIES FREAK YOU OUT? 28 Days Later. I was a mess. And remember when Mel Gibson put his hand under the door in Signs and that thing was there? [Stuff] like that could happen to me. There could be somebody in my laundry when I get home, or under my bed ... Oh, God, I don't want to go home now!
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The world is on the brink of disaster and the clock is ticking. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiahknown as the Twelfth Imamhas just arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran, under the Twelfth Imams spell, will soon launch a nuclear attack that could bring about a second holocaust and the annihilation of Israel. The White House fears Jerusalem will strike first, launching a preemptive attack against Irans nuclear facilities that could cause the entire Middle East to go up in flames, oil prices to skyrocket, and the global economy to collapse. With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Irans nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
The Tehran Initiative is easily Rosenberg's best novel to date, and includes something for virtually every reader. It combines the action and exquisite detail of Tom Clancy with the tense religious drama of Left Behind into a fast-paced thriller that builds to a climax that satisfies as much as it leaves the reader anxious for the coming sequel. The novel's violence and warfare, though ever present, are subdued in a way that adds to the tension while simultaneously keeping the book appropriate for sensitive readers and even young teens. Rosenberg also manages to weave in numerous family struggles and religious conundrums without the story feeling burdened.
Central to The Tehran Initiative's emotional conflict is David Shirazi's struggle between Christianity and career. As a covert operative, he's expected to lie to everyone, including his own family, kill without mercy, and sacrifice others in order to protect his own life and his cover. Yet, as a Christian, he is naturally appalled by such things. As a result, the novel subtly wrestles with interpretations of John 15:13, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for ones friends." For Christian readers especially, this dilemma provides an additional level of spiritual and theological depth to what is already a thought-provoking book.
Readers may disagree with Rosenberg's views on current world events and eschatology, which are only thinly veiled through the novel, but neither should distract too heavily from enjoyment. And though The Tehran Initiative is a sequel, it provides enough context to be enjoyed as a standalone novel. For anyone remotely interested in world events, The Tehran Initiative is an entertaining and enlightening novel of unparalleled value. Ryan Dennison, www.ChristianBookPreviews.com
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Savour the best of Zest
Next Buffet: Wednesday, 28th September
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Next Buffet: Wednesday, 28th September
Patrons enjoy free parking at Spinola Park
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Throw a Christmas party they'll still be talking about in the New Year
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Wednesdays & Fridays
8 to 10 pm atop Hotel Juliani
live music + sharing plates + refreshing aperol spritz
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8 to 10 pm atop Hotel Juliani
live music + sharing plates + refreshing aperol spritz
Zest Restaurant is where East meets West in both dining and décor. Opened in 2002 as the first Asian fusion restaurant in Malta, Zest remains an award-winning pillar in Malta's contemporary culinary scene.
Located on the first floor of Hotel Juliani, within a lovingly restored St Julian's townhouse, Zest enjoys the added bonus of an open-air terrace overlooking romantic Spinola Bay. Attractive features include an open wine cellar and a sushi bar on the restaurant floor, where patrons witness the art of preparing Japanese sushi.
Year after year, Zest has been voted one of the most popular "best ambience" and "best service" restaurants in Malta by its discerning guests. For the past ten years Zest has also been awarded by The Definitive(ly) Good Guide to Restaurants survey, sponsored by the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) and supported by HSBC and Marsovin.
In the historic heart of Spinola Bay
In the historic heart of Spinola Bay
We are proud to be located in a lovingly converted townhouse on the first floor of Malta's top boutique Hotel Juliani.
Our neighbourhood of Spinola Bay is the cosmopolitan centre of Malta's entertainment district, effortlessly blending city style and seaside charm. From our small terrace you can still see colourful fishing boats bobbing on the sparkling waters of the bay, unloading their daily catch.
We are located at 25 St. George's Road, on the first floor of Hotel Juliani.
By car take Triq Mikiel Anton Vassalli to Triq Mikiel Ang Borg. Four hours of complimentary parking at Spinola Park is offered to patrons dining at Zest.
Each dish balances Eastern and Western influences.
Even dessert.
Each dish balances Eastern and Western influences.
Even dessert.
Our menu will take you on a culinary journey from Singapore to Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and the Mediterranean. In our Continental dishes you will experience a nod to Eastern influences, and in our Asian dishes you will find a hint of Continental flair.
From sushi to seafood teppanyaki and French lamb sous vide, our menu truly offers something for everyone. And take our word for it—you'll want to save room for dessert.
A unique gastronomic experience
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We believe great dining experiences leave lasting impressions, and we strive to deliver exactly that every night.
We host an intimate and elegant dining atmosphere that offers something truly memorable to local and visiting patrons.
Celebrating a birthday or special occasion? Looking for a taste of contemporary Maltese cuisine? Craving the best sushi Malta has to offer?
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Indonesian dishes are known for their colourful presentation and delicate spices. For a taste of Indonesia try our Bami Goreng noodles or Beef Rendang.
The Japanese approach to food is precise, focusing on the beauty of fresh, seasonal ingredients and intricate presentation. Each Japanese dish is the result of millennia of tradition and training. For a taste of Japan, try our exquisite sushi, teppanyaki or Shabu Shabu.
Singaporean cuisine is a blend of East and West—like the country itself—with bold spices and unexpected flavour combinations. For a taste of Singapore try our prawn and chicken Laksa soup.
China's Guangdong province produces one of the best-loved culinary styles in the world: Cantonese. Cantonese food is well balanced, modestly spiced, and fresh in flavour. For a taste of Cantonese food, try our dimsums.
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Study: The right to education: a comparative view. Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Finland
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The Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago) has conducted a study entitled "The Right to Education: a comparative review of selected legislations". The study focused on the legal frameworks that govern the education systems of Argentina, Uruguay, Finland and Chile, with emphasis on this last country.
The study was led by Vernor Muñoz, former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education (2004-2010) and member of the Deliberative Council of the Civil Society's Regional Fund for Education. A team from the Ministry of Education in Chile, and other relevant actors also participated in the preparation of the document.
The work focused on reviewing the conceptual and normative framework of the right to education, and analysed the current situation from the perspective of its main elements: availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability. These are elements that define the obligations of the State with regard to the right to education, and its application. The study shows that the objectives of education determine institutional priorities, including curricular development on the one hand and, on the other, the nature and scope of education management which requires adequate funding to progressively advance towards guaranteed free education for all.
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Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia, will host the Second Annual Conference of the Georgia Philological Association on Friday, March 30, 2007, beginning at 9:00AM and concluding at noon on Saturday, March 31, 2007. For specific information and printable forms, please view our website at: www.bpc.edu/gpa.
A refereed journal, The Journal Of The Georgia Philological Association, will publish selected proceedings from the conference.
Those who choose not to submit a proposal but who would prefer to chair a session, please contact Dr. Bayne directly to discuss areas of interest at email@example.com.
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Mobile World Congress: Nokia's Ovi store
Ciara O'Brien
With so many online stores hawking applications and content for your mobile, there needs to be a new angle for people to take notice of yet another one.
Nokia has unveiled its Ovi Store, which will use a customer's social connections and location to target content. Nokia is promising "exciting new content" by summer.
Publishers will be able to put their work into the store through publish.ovi.com.
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Texas A&M's whirlwind exodus from the Big 12 to the SEC appears well on its way. If the move is completed, it would be the first in a series of dominoes that will shape the face of the game. It begins with the SEC moving to 14 teams—a high-placed SEC source told Sporting News the conference will stick to 14 teams and not advance to 16.
The big question: How does the rest of the landscape play out in the BCS conferences?
Potential subtractions: None.
Potential additions: Texas A&M and either Virginia Tech, Missouri, Clemson, Louisville or NC State.
The fallout: The biggest, baddest conference just got stronger. If that's possible.
Big 12
Potential subtractions: Texas A&M, Missouri.
Potential additions: Houston, SMU, TCU, BYU.
The fallout: Texas desperately wants to keep the Big 12 alive, and that may mean reconstituting the old Southwest Conference. Would TCU leave (relative) stability of the Big East for the unknown of the Big 12?
Potential subtractions: None.
Potential additions: Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri.
The fallout: Commissioner Larry Scott's original plan from the summer of 2010 can still be pulled off—if the Pac-12 comes up with a revenue sharing plan for Texas that allows it to keep the controversial Longhorn Network.
Big Ten
Potential subtractions: None.
Potential additions: Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Maryland, Rutgers.
The fallout: The apocalypse commissioner Jim Delany tried to create last summer to land Notre Dame may have fallen into his lap.
Potential subtractions: Virginia Tech, Clemson, NC State.
Potential additions: None.
The fallout: The ACC stays at 11 teams and eliminates divisional format.
Big East
Potential subtractions: TCU.
Potential additions: If Big 12 disbands, Kansas. If not, UCF, Houston, ECU, Villanova, Memphis.
The fallout: Turmoil is bad news for Big East's new television deal—especially if the Big Ten raids the league to keep pace with the SEC.
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COLUMBUS - Sentinel Career and Technology Center students' desire to aim high is reflected in the school's chapter display at the 60th annual Skills-USA Ohio championships this weekend.
The display was built around an amusement park theme and features a Ferris wheel and carousel. Sara Shellhorn, a senior public safety services student from Mohawk High School, said she came up with the idea to include a Ferris wheel to represent the idea that Sentinel students strive to reach to the top.
"It was a process, a long process," she said.
Shellhorn is one of four Sentinel students who are to present the facility's chapter display during judging today.
Tyler Toland, a junior electrical trades student from Upper Sandusky High School; Eric Radford, a junior building trades student from Upper Sandusky High School; and Jeffrey McCrann, a junior building trades student from Seneca East High School, also are on the presentation team.
Radford said the Ferris wheel spins, and Toland said the wheel's spinning helps power lights. Horses on the carousel move up and down, and Toland said a motor and belt turn the carousel.
There were 1,746 hours of work on the project. Forty-one students from the building trades, collision repair, computer automated design, computer communications network technician, cosmetology, electrical trades, precision machining and welding programs assisted with the hands-on work. Every program had a student participate on a committee for the chapter display.
Shellhorn said she didn't think the display would turn out like it did, and she was pleased with the result.
"It looks amazing," she said.
Shellhorn had to memorize a seven-minute speech for today's judging, and she said she was nervous, excited and ready Friday afternoon.
"They'll be standing behind me," she said about her teammates.
Team members said their goal was to do the best they could and win. McCrann said he thought the team had a chance at winning a gold medal.
It has "a lot of time and dedication to it (and) good ideas," he said.
Three seniors in Sentinel's cosmetology program competed in the Tech Prep showcase for cosmetology Friday.
Deana Halcomb, a Hopewell-Loudon High School student, said the competition involves the team explaining what it did to bring the community, business and industry into the career center.
The team started organizing a project in January to teach first-graders about hygiene. They explained how to clean fingernails, styled the children's hair and gave them manicures and pedicures.
"(The project) was so much fun," said Sara Ernst, a student at Calvert High School.
The team was interviewed by three judges for the state competition.
"We were the first team to go," said Ginny Becker, a student at Old Fort High School.
Becker said she thought it went well.
"We prepared, and we knew what we were talking about," she said.
Brandon Hicks, a senior in Sentinel's building trades program and at Columbian High School, is competing in the two-day carpentry contest. He took the written test Friday and is to compete in the hands-on portion today.
Competitors got to see the plans Friday for the miniature house they are to build today.
"The contest is a lot harder than last year. ... I competed last year and got second," he said.
Hicks said he would love to win so he could go to the national competition. He practiced every day at school and usually every Sunday in preparation for state competition. It takes a lot of preparation to do well, he said.
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December 28, 2008, 07:23 PM
Ok, I dont really deer hunt and the only rifle I have is an AR-15. If I were to go deer hunting what the best round to use (150 yrds and in). Not going after some huge white tail just hunting for the meat.
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December 28, 2008, 07:34 PM
December 29, 2008, 08:12 PM
If you dont handload I would suggest the federal premium with the 60gr partition bullet.
December 29, 2008, 08:13 PM
69gr sierra matchking HPBT rounds would work good. I used them in my 1 in 9 twist bushmaster m4a3 a few years back and took a big deer in Montana at about only 50 yards.
December 29, 2008, 08:15 PM
if you have the right twist rate the 90gr burger would be my choice.
Tom Krein
December 29, 2008, 10:39 PM
The Federal Premiums are DESIGNED to hold together on deer sized game.
What ever you get make sure it is designed for deer sized game and NOT a varmint round.
December 30, 2008, 09:21 AM
I know a few people down here that hunt with model 700 .223's and they all swear by the winchester ballistic tip bullet. The one in the black box and the bullet is black with a silver casing. They are about 22 bucks a box though. I almost went with a .223, but sided with the 6.8 SPC.
January 1, 2009, 06:46 PM
I had a one shot kill on a big buck useing Black Hills PSP 55 grain.The bullet performance was excellent.
January 22, 2009, 08:38 PM
Hunting in GA - question, do you have keep it to a 5 round magazine? If so, what is the best magazine to do this?
January 23, 2009, 04:32 AM
The only restriction on magazine capacity for hunting in Georgia is with SHOTGUNS.
For migratory birds and small game, and Turkey- 3;
For deer, and bear......................................- 5.
No restriction on rifles...... (.22cf or larger however...)
Except, no full-automatic rifles, and must use expanding type ammo. (NO full metal jacket, except hollow point version...)
As I've stated in many other posts......
Use a 55gr or heavier SOFT POINT bullet in the .223 for deer, and you'll do well.
DON'T use the 55gr or lighter "PLASTIC TIPED" AMMO. Insufficient penetration. Yes, accuracy is usually excellent, and it'll probably work OK on broadside chest shots, but I've seen more of these fail to anchor a deer than anyother type bullet. BTDT
January 23, 2009, 08:41 AM
Thank you Goose. I have a few options for hunting deer, but none are stellar...
OK, perhaps I could use slugs in the 12 GA, but not a huge fan of the kick (no flames, please)...
Thoughts on the .357 and .45, one a 4" Model 19, the other a 5" Full Size, respectively. I figure "bow hunter's mindset" - max range of 25 yards (which is WELL within my capabilities of shot placement) - right idea?
January 23, 2009, 08:59 AM
Hammer, you are definitely on the right track, but what about that shotgun? I am not flaming, just probing. With the right recoil pad, your felt recoil will be quite diminished. If it is a bird gun, and for some reason you don't want to go through the effort of making it a slug gun, I could understand.
If you are confident with either of your handguns, I think you could push past the 25 yd mark and still deliver sufficient energy out to fifty yards.
January 23, 2009, 11:48 AM
No worries, John - I appreciate the idea. My idea was to use what I have. I figured the handguns (esp. if I can push out past 25 yards - again, no worries on accuracy, just have to check energy levels), and the newly acquired AR would be my best bets.
I have several options with the shotgun. However, the 16 gauge and one of the 12 gauges are "safe queens" - passed down from my grandfather, to dad, to me. Well, I guess the 12 ga (1897 Remington) could be used, but don't want to modify it at all. The other 12 gauge would be an option, it is an older Mossberg model.
Oddly enough, I do have a .30-06 (which was passed down), but it is a Woodmaster 742, which they don't make parts for anymore, and I would hate to do something to damage it.
I am afraid 80% of my experience with firearms is handgun related, or shotgun related (hunting ducks and dove) - so I am learning about rifles.
I try to read as much as I can, and talk to friends who hunt deer, but most use .270, or 7mm; they are a little leary that a .223 can take down a deer (though forum postings on here have indicated otherwise). I am very accurate with an old 22 which was handed down (I realize how blessed I am to have such considerate grandfathers / father) - I anticipate the skill will carry over to the AR (I hope)...
WHEW - long post - sorry. :(
January 24, 2009, 01:12 PM
60 gr. Nosler Partition
January 24, 2009, 03:18 PM
Winchester also makes a factory loaded Deer specific .223Rem round. The 64gr Power Point.
They have taken quite a few deer in Eastern NC for me.
January 24, 2009, 04:29 PM
I've used the 55grn Remington SP with very good success.
January 28, 2009, 01:28 PM
You could always get yourself a 6.8 upper and a couple mags to have it be a dual purpose gun if you dont feel confortable with the .223. I personally hunt with a 6.8 built AR
February 2, 2009, 04:51 AM
In New Zealand I use PMC 64gr pills. They are very impressive. My son and I have shot big red stags up to 260m with one shot. Unfortunately this round is no longer available. We will be switching to 63gr Sierra reloads. Never under rate the 223 as a deer cartridge.;)
Art Eatman
February 2, 2009, 08:15 AM
The R&D in bullet development these last fifteen or so years has changed a lot of notions about what's suitable.
The centerfire .22s are no longer "just for varmints".
In .30s, it seems that some of today's 180-grain premium bullets give equal penetration with yesterday's 220-grain bullets.
And so it goes...
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A delegation of seven members of the National Lawyers Guild arrived in Manila earlier this week and will join several hundred international election observers to monitor the nation's historic May 10, 2010 elections. Guild members are expected to be posted in areas throughout the archipelago, including Visayas, Luzon and Mindanao, where electoral violence and corruption are endemic, owing to long running civil conflicts.
"Filipinos will be braving bullets, bribes and voting machine breakdowns to make their voices heard," said Radhika Sainath, a civil rights attorney at Hadsell Stormer in Los Angeles, CA. "We hope that our presence will help deter and expose any potential election-day fraud," she added. The delegation will monitor pre-electoral and election-day conditions up through the vote count and issue an extensive report upon returning to the U.S.
The election marks the first time the country will use automated voting machines. The new voting technology has not been independently inspected and lacks manual backup, so it is widely expected to be a source of electoral fraud. Neither the NLG delegation nor the other monitors can ignore the history of the current president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who has been publicly exposed as being complicit in election manipulation and of having stacked the supposedly independent electoral commission and the judiciary with loyalists. Nevertheless, observers are committed to being objective and impartial and hope that their mission will assist the Philippines in moving toward a free and fair election system.
NLG delegates include Jacques Morial, a New Orleans-based human rights worker, Harvard academic Suresh Naidu, attorney Radhika Sainath, and UCLA law school students Lincoln Ellis, Farnoosh Hashemian, Christian Kurpiewski and Kyle Todd.


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Tommy Tiernan: It Won't Go Away
Deaglán de Bréadún
I see from today's Sunday Tribune that the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland has called on comedian Tommy Tiernan to apologise for his rant about Jews and the Holocaust. There are many critics of Israeli policies towards Gaza and the West Bank but they should not allow those matters to detract from the point at issue here.
Are we really supposed to think this is funny? Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto 1942 (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
One of the depressing features of this controversy is the failure of non-Jewish people in this country to come out and demand that Tiernan do the decent thing and issue a full and wholehearted apology for his obscene outburst.
Apart from Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the only other public objectors I am aware of are the Jewish Representative Council, Deputy Alan Shatter of Fine Gael and the film producer Louis Lentin.
It would be nice if some of the broadcasters who have given Mr Tiernan a platform over the years were now to say to him, in unequivocal terms, "Cop yourself on, Tommy." Who are Tiernan's advisers or does he listen to anyone on an issue like this?
Ambassador Evrony sums it up: "When the topic is that of mass murder and genocide based on the propagation of racial hatred, the right of humorous comment cannot be absolute."
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How do you get DLC for Animal Crossing?
Recently i have started to recive alot of things from Nintendo thru the mail including, DSi Benches, Money, Bus Model, and Shamrock Hat. I love this DLC aanf thought to make a thread about it. So if anybody heres of any uppcoming exclussive items, justpost them here so we can Discuss them.
Thanks, I hope this turns out to become a great thread!!!
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How do you get DLC for Animal Crossing?
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The day didn't start off well for Daniel Delgado, 23, a University of Florida junior. Because of tight scheduling between a financial-aid interview and an introductory geology class field trip, he didn't have time to go home to pick up his digging tools. And a geologist without his rock hammer is about as much good as a canoeist without a paddle.
When his class reached the dig, a limestone quarry 10 miles from the Gainesville campus, Delgado's spirit sank further; the students would be searching for fossils in a rockbound site. "I thought I could borrow a tool, but no one had one to spare," he reports. "You can't dig in rocks with your fingers." So Delgado wandered off alone to a place about a half mile away where he spotted a limestone wall containing a layer of clay. Hanging by one arm some 25 feet up, he dug into the soft sediment with his free hand, and there it was—a bone and then another, each a dinner-plate-size oval about five inches thick. "I almost fell off the wall," he says.
Fetched by the excited Delgado, others in the digging party came over to pitch in, and Prof. Paul Cisielski immediately recognized the bones as vertebrae of a long-extinct giant ground sloth. The professor allowed his class to uncover some more bones "to experience the thrill of the discovery" and then called a halt, knowing that inexperienced diggers were likely to damage the site for future excavation. They left all their finds in place—except a half dozen bones—and returned to campus.
There scientists verified the bones as the remains of a rare Eremotherium sloth, in this case a 15-foot specimen that lived around 2 million years ago. A distant cousin of today's South American tree sloth, giant sloths were lumbering vegetarians that became extinct about 10,000 years ago, probably as a result of climatic changes or over-hunting by humans. Further excavation revealed that Delgado had stumbled on a complete skeleton, the oldest of this species found to date—and that another one lay just below it, with part of a third nearby.
Delgado acknowledges that his achievement, now classified a "major find" by experts, owed a lot to beginner's luck. The Miami-born son of an auto-body repairman, Danny had been planning to go to medical school. But since his amazing chance find, he's wavering ever so slightly on his career path. "If someone were to offer me a scholarship to study paleontology," he says, "I would consider it."
Boning Up Leads to Sloth as a Student Makes a Rare Find
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Susquehanna Township police are investigating a report of a suspicious man who approached a young girl as she walked home from school.
The 9-year-old girl told officers she was walking in the area of Redwood and Canby streets Monday afternoon when a man driving a silver or gray Chevrolet truck approached her.
She told police he asked if she lived nearby and if she needed help.


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FRIDAY ... huge weekend for OSU football coach Mike Riley, and it has nothing to do with the ESPYs, football recruits who might sign baseball contracts, JC wide receivers enrolling late, or how quickly his one-time starting QB recovers from rotator cuff surgery.
For the guy in charge of this program, there is nothing more important than church and family so you know how excited Mike Riley and wife Dee are at this moment because son Matt is getting married this weekend.
Matt was a fixture at the Valley Center last season, shooting video for the athletic department. Aside from being a video assistant, OSU grad Matt does a lot of work on OSUBeavers.com ... Matt and Lydia, congratulations!