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A city or county school board could let high school students be excused from school to attend classes in religious instruction conducted by churches or other private groups, under a plan that could be debated by the House of Representatives as soon as next week, Birmingham News writer Dave White reports.
The House Education Policy Committee approved the plan, House Bill 133, on a voice vote Wednesday. No school board would have to adopt a "released time" policy if the bill, sponsored by Rep. Blaine Galliher, R-Rainbow City, becomes law. But for any board that did, the bill outlines a set of guidelines for its operation. Galliher said he sponsored the bill at the request of one of his constituent who hopes to see a non-profit group teach creationism to public school students if the bill becomes law.
The bill evoked some strong reactions in the online community while others urged moderation. Read some of what people are saying:
• "I was all set to be critical until I read the article. So here's one "lib" (moderately conservative centrist, actually) who sees nothing wrong with this. Religious studies used to be considered part of a well-rounded education. Thanks to hyperactive zealots on both sides of the issue, it has become such a hot button that most schools won't touch it, even though courts have ruled that "Biblical history" and other such classes are technically legal. Schools allow elective credit for all kinds of activities; I can't see where this is any different. The law as described sounds non-sectarian, so if the local Hindu temple wants to host a class, have at it. Williams is right about needing more math & science emphasis, but that doesn't have to preclude this." -- sixpetdad
• "Wow! Religious education is the responsibility of the parents or guardians of the children. Time, effort and money in the school system should be on educating the youths.
"The candidates in the last election campaigned on getting jobs. However, their emphasis has been on moral legislature not jobs.
"Where are the jobs?" -- peterrice
• "This bill should be defeated. Students should learn religion at home or on their respective sabbath day. The school day is for secular instruction, including the theory of evolution in science class. Creationism and intelligent design are pseudo-sciences, and the secular State should neither explicitly nor tacitly endorse their teachings." -- AmandaBReckonwith
• "people that want their kids to have religious teaching..... also pays taxes to support the school..just like you do..they have got just as much right to say about the schools as you do..." -- altoknow


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In New York City, two recovering alcoholics, one a New York broker and the other an Ohio physician, found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program that eventually helps countless people cope with alcoholism.
Based on psychological techniques that have long been used in suppressing dangerous personality traits, members of the strictly anonymous organization control their addictions through guided group discussion and confession, reliance on a "higher power," and a gradual return to sobriety.
The organization functions through local groups that have no formal rules besides anonymity, no officers, and no dues. Anyone with a drinking problem qualifies for membership.
Today, the world has millions of members. Other addiction support groups patterned on A.A. include Narcotics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous.]]>
On this day in 1975, the Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie (Voight) is born in Los Angeles, California.
Jolie's father, the actor Jon Voight, had been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Midnight Cowboy (1969); he won the award for Coming Home (1978). Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, was also an actress; the couple divorced when Angelina was still an infant. As a young girl, Jolie worked as a model and appeared with her father in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out. She later studied acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York University.
After appearing in a small role in Cyborg 2 (1993), Jolie landed a sizeable part in the better-known Hackers (1995), which co-starred the British actor Jonny Lee Miller. Jolie and Miller married that year but split in 1997 and later divorced.
After a string of forgettable films, Jolie was nominated for an Emmy and won a Golden Globe for her role as the wife of the segregationist Alabama governor, in the television movie George Wallace. She earned another Emmy nod the following year for her portrayal of the troubled bisexual model Gia Carangi in the TV biopic Gia.
Suddenly very much in demand, Jolie landed roles in higher-profile big-screen projects such as Playing By Heart (1998), Pushing Tin (1999) and The Bone Collector (1999).
It was Jolie's mesmerizing turn as the charismatic sociopath Lisa in Girl, Interrupted, however, that catapulted her to A-list Hollywood stardom. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role, and characteristically raised eyebrows by locking lips with her older brother, James Haven, at the 2000 Oscar ceremony. That May, Jolie again generated a flurry of headlines when she wed Billy Bob Thornton, her much older, four-times-married co-star in Pushing Tin (1999), in a quickie ceremony in Las Vegas.
Later in 2000, Jolie starred in the fast-paced hit Gone in Sixty Seconds and the thriller Original Sin. During a brief reconciliation with her father, the two appeared together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), a blockbuster action film in which Jolie performed the majority of her own stunts. Despite poor reviews, Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel were both huge box-office hits. Less successful was the romantic comedy-drama Life or Something Like It (2002).
The press painted a vivid picture of Jolie and Thornton's eccentric devotion to each other, including the fact that they wore vials of each other's blood around their necks. Still, Jolie filed for divorce in mid-2002. By that time, she had been appointed a goodwill ambassador by the United Nations, having first made goodwill trips while researching her role as an aid worker in 2003' Beyond Borders. She also adopted a son, Maddox, from Cambodia.
In April 2004, Jolie began filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which she and Brad Pitt played a married couple who are secretly both hired assassins. Rumors soon began flying about their off-screen romantic involvement, and only intensified after Pitt and his wife Jennifer Aniston announced their separation in January 2005. Two months after his divorce from Aniston was finalized, Pitt petitioned to adopt Maddox and Jolie's daughter Zahara (adopted in June 2005 in Ethiopia).
In January 2006, during a visit to the Dominican Republic, the now-official couple–dubbed "Brangelina" by the press–announced that Jolie was pregnant. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born that May in Namibia. Jolie adopted another son, Pax Thien, from an orphanage in Vietnam in March 2007; she gave birth to twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, in France in July 2008.
Though her film career often seemed to take a backseat in the headlines to her globetrotting lifestyle and ever-expanding family (not to mention her romance with the equally photogenic Pitt), Jolie continued to work steadily in films, notably in the spy drama The Good Shepherd (2006) and A Mighty Heart (2007), in which she played Mariane Pearl, the wife of a Wall Street Journal reporter who was killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. In 2008, she starred in the summer action film Wanted and the crime drama Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Happy Birthday Angelina.
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1. Potatoes cannot be flushed down toilets.
2. Setting a fire alarm off rarely solves non-fire related problems.
The unnamed man learnt these lessons after pouring potatoes down his toilet for some unknown reason which unsurprisingly led to it becoming blocked up.
After calling the building maintenance for his block of flats in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the man thought they weren't responding to his crisis quickly enough so he set off the fire alarm to get their attention.
The entire building was evacuated and fire fighters showed up thinking there was a genuine emergency.
After the man told police that he was the one who set the alarm off and revealed his reasons for doing so, he was promptly arrested.
A police spokesperson said they will be pressing charges against the man.]]>
I have a female colleague at work who is making my life a misery. She's really ambitious and competitive, and she tries to better everything I do, especially when the boss is around. I've been trying to ignore her endless one-upmanship for a while now, but it's getting close to the point where if she tells me her lunch looks more tasty than mine one more time I'm going to staple her eyelids to the desk, set fire to her hair, and forcibly insert a filing cabinet into her anus. Is there a last solution you can offer me before I resort to violence?
Lily says – Take it from me, you need to whip this wannabe alpha-female into submission before she becomes a serious threat to you. I got embroiled in a drawing competition with my arch enemy Amanda Sullivan just before Christmas last year when she announced to the whole class that she was going to draw the nativity scene and that hers would be better than mine because I can't colour inside the lines (which is a complete lie). It was touch-and-go when she produced a Joseph reminicent of a young Bruce Springsteen, but it soon became clear I was the stronger contestant after I used my new silver and gold glitter pens to give the impression of moonlight dancing on the face of the baby Jesus. Already sensing defeat, Amanda Sullivan nearly soiled herself when, armed only with an HB pencil and a sheet of baking proof-paper, I superimposed Cheryl Cole's face on to the angel Gabriel.
So when your colleague challenges you next, instead of ignoring her you need to take the challenge on, and make sure you wipe the floor with that bitch – maybe you'll even get a gold star like me!
Hope that helps!
In 1843, Britain succeeded the Boers as the rulers of Natal, which controlled Zululand, the neighboring kingdom of the Zulu people. Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 17th century. Zulus, a migrant people from the north, also came to southern Africa during the 17th century, settling around the Tugela River region.
In 1838, the Boers, migrating north to elude the new British dominions in the south, first came into armed conflict with the Zulus, who were under the rule of King Dingane at the time. The European migrants succeeded in overthrowing Dingane in 1840, replacing him with his son Mpande, who became a vassal of the new Boer republic of Natal.
In 1843, the British took over Natal and Zululand.
In 1872, King Mpande died and was succeeded by his son Cetshwayo, who was determined to resist European domination in his territory. In December 1878, Cetshwayo rejected the British demand that he disband his troops, and in January British forces invaded Zululand to suppress Cetshwayo.
The Zulu War had begun.
The British suffered grave defeats at Isandlwana, where 1,300 British soldiers were killed or wounded, and at Hlobane Mountain, but on March 29 the tide turned in favor of the British at the Battle of Khambula. At Ulundi in July, Cetshwayo's forces were utterly routed, and the Zulus were forced to surrender to the British.
In 1887, faced with continuing Zulu rebellions, the British formally annexed Zululand, and in 1897 it became a part of Natal, which joined the Union of South Africa in 1910.]]>
As I was standing there, I noticed 4 grave diggers walking about with a coffin.
Three hours later and they're still walking about with it. I thought to myself…they've lost the plot !
In olden times the prisoners sentenced to death were taken by horse and cart from the prison to Marble Arch where they were hanged.
It was a long journey with streets thronged with crowds. The beer shops were packed with revellers heading for the show.
Along the route they would offer the driver of the cart free drinks of beer. Sometimes they would kindly offer the accused a drink. But the answer from the driver was always the same.
"He can't have a drink because he is on the wagon"
And that's where the saying on the wagon comes from for anyone who doesn't drink or has given up alcohol.
It's all true.
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On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul.
He told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in which the Afghans gave the defeated Anglo-Indian force and their camp followers no quarter.
In the 19th century, Britain, with a goal of protecting its Indian colonial holdings from Russia, tried to establish authority in neighboring Afghanistan by attempting to replace Emir Dost Mohammad with a former emir known to be sympathetic to the British.This blatant British interference in Afghanistan's internal affairs triggered the outbreak of the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1839.
Dost Mohammad surrendered to British forces in 1840 after the Anglo-Indian army had captured Kabul. However, after an Afghan revolt in Kabul the British had no choice but to withdraw. The withdrawal began on January 6, 1842, but bad weather delayed the army's progress.
The column was attacked by swarms of Afghans led by Mohammad's son, and those who were not killed outright in the attack were later massacred by the Afghan soldiers. A total of 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 camp followers were killed. Only one man, Dr. William Bryden, escaped to recount the details of the military disaster.
In retaliation, another British force invaded Kabul in 1843, burning a portion of the city. In the same year, the war came to an end, and in 1857 Emir Dost Mohammad, who had been restored to power in 1843, signed an alliance with the British.
In 1878, the Second Anglo-Afghan War began, which ended two years later with Britain winning control of Afghanistan's foreign affairs.
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TRENTON - Democratic legislative leaders Friday presented parts of a plan to help the state's underfunded public-employee pension plans.
Under the proposal outlined by Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D., Essex), public employees would be required to contribute more toward their pensions to keep a 9 percent increase in benefits granted in 2001.
"Employees can keep the more expensive benefits they were handed if they are willing to pay for them," said Sweeney, who blamed former Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican, and a GOP-led Legislature with starting the pension problem a decade ago. "The unfunded pension boost Gov. DiFrancesco and the Republican Legislature handed the unions has been a significant weight holding the system underwater for the past decade," he said.


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Check Out the New 'Who's Going?' Feature
We are lucky in the UK and Ireland to have some great country shows and rural events, and for a while now we have been trying to list as many of them as possible on our Country Calendar. With so many like-minded people going to these events, it dawned on us that they should be excellent places to meet other single people who share our love of the countryside and all things muddy, but somehow for most of us it rarely seems to work out like that. Our aim at Muddy Matches has always been about changing the way we meet new people in the countryside and so we put our heads together to see if there was anything we can do about this. As a result, we came up with the idea for our new 'Who's Going?' feature to help you find which other members like going to the same shows and events as you, and potentially find new people to go to the events with or arrange to meet up with while you are there. Plans are also afoot for an exciting new feature that will also help you meet new people when you are actually at an event, so watch this space about that one!
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2012 Country Calendar – What's Going On In Your Region?
We have been working hard updating our Countryside Calendar with details of lots of country shows, equestrian events and other countryside social events for 2012. Why not take a look to see what's going on in your region?
If there's something you think we have missed, drop Jo a line at email@example.com.
Results from Royal County of Berkshire Show
Emma and I had a great time at the Royal County of Berkshire Show last weekend and really enjoyed judging the small tradestands. There were more than 80 in our category to look at and it was hard to choose between so many great stands but after much deliberating we finally settled on three stands to take the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.
And the winners were…
Third place went to Mil-tek who make waste balers and compactors. We thought it was a really well laid out and eye catching technical stand and the staff were really friendly.
Second place went to Farmer Brown's Products who manufacture and supply high quality wild bird, poultry and animal feeds. Their products looked great and we thought they had done a great job in making their stand look friendly and inviting.
And finally a big congratulations to Albert Rose who took first place. A quirky-looking stand selling country chic accessories, furniture and furnishings for the home and garden, we thought this stand had the wow factor in terms of presentation.
CLA Game Fair – Photos and Thank Yous
We're back from another fantastic CLA Game Fair which this year was held in the grounds of the stunning Blenheim Palace.
An action-packed couple of days as always, we were on site from Thursday morning getting the Muddy Matches motorhome in position and setting up our stand. We were a bit scared as it chucked it down with rain for most of the day but luckily the weather cleared before everyone arrived on the Friday.
In fact, we were blessed with the weather as it was an absolute scrocher for most of the weekend and there were nearly 150,000 visitors to the show over the three days – the second highest number of visitors in the show's 53-year history!
We all had a great time on our stand as literally hundreds of our members (past, present and joined-at-the-Game Fair) popped in to have a chat. We signed up hundreds of new members and were giving out a week's free subscription to current members who came to say hello so, if you're still looking to meet rural singles who love the muddy lifestyle, now is an excellent time to be using the site. Why not do a search for our 'newest members' and send some of them a message to welcome them to the site?
Success stories
Just a couple of years ago, we were celebrating the fact that 17 couples came up to us at the Game Fair to say that they were getting married or living together. Can you believe then that around 65 couples came up to us this year to say that they were either engaged or married?! There were also a lot more who had recently met and a few others who were there on a first date, inspired perhaps by Gareth and Kelly's story that had featured in the Daily Telegraph the week before?
To read more of our countryside dating success stories, please click here.
One couple, Charles and Sophie, met on the website in 2008 and came to tell us about it at the 2009 Game Fair. Two years on, we were delighted to hear that they had got married – a big congratulations to them both!
The 'Muddy AfFair' dating show
A big thank you to the three strapping chaps – Jake, Jonathan and Martin – who took part in our dating show in the Game Fair Theatre on the Saturday. They were fantastic fun and completely entered into the spirit of the show to whoops of approval from the packed audience.
Hosted by Apprentice finalist Claire Young, each chap took their turn to try and impress a group of about 20 country girls with a view to taking one of them on a date at the end of the show. First up was Jonathan, who ended up picking Hannah, then Jake who picked Stephanie and finally Martin who picked Mary.
After the show, the three couples went off to enjoy a bottle of champage and a yummy picnic in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. A massive thank you to Pipers Crisps, Lymn Bank Farm Cheese Company, Mr Pitchfork's Pickles, Deli Farm Charcuterie, Belleau Smokery, Loopy Lisa's Fudge and Breckland Orchard who were all exhibiting at the Game Fair and kindly supplied the goodies for the picnic.
Next year's Game Fair is being held at Belvoir Castle near Grantham, Leicestershire – see you there?
Bag Yourself a Date at the CLA Game Fair!
Are you Fair Game? We are currently looking for fun-loving muddy people to take part in the dating show. It's going to be a very light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek event, so if you, or any of your friends, are single and game for a laugh, why not give it a go…you only live once! We need men and women of all ages to apply, and those chosen to take part could end up being whisked off to enjoy a romantic picnic in the grounds of Blenheim Palace.
Click here for more information about the dating show and how to take part.


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Lifetime Television Premieres
Monday, October 10 9:00 p.m.
In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Lifetime Television will premiere FIVE on Monday, October 10 at 9:00 p.m. Five is an anthology of five short films depicting the affects of cancer on each of the title characters. Each of the short films is interconnected with one another showing the impact that cancer has on various members of the various families.
Five has an all star cast of directors; each directing one of the short films. Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Penelope Spheeris, Patty Jenkins share their talents bringing light to breast cancer, awareness, treatment and survival.
The opening film, Charlotte, directed by Demi Moore and written by Stephen Godchaux, takes place in July 1969 when young Pearl (Ava Acres) finds herself trying to find a way into her dying mother's bedroom to ultimately say good-bye while everyone in the family tries to keep her away. While everyone is glued to the television as the first astronaut is taking the first step on the moon, Pearl finds a way to get to her mother and realizes the severity of the situation. This film stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, Josh Holloway, Annie Potts, Jennifer Morrison and Bob Newhart.
The second film, Cheyanne (Lyndsy Fonseca) focuses on a sexy young stripper who is faced with the radical treatment of having both breasts removed and must redefine her relationship with her new husband Tommy (Taylor Kinney). This film, directed by Penelope Spheeris and written by Howard Morris, shows the impact of breast cancer and how it changes Cheyanne's life physically, emotionally and financially.
Lili, directed by Alicia Keys and written by Jill Gordon, is the third film in this series. Lili (Rosario Dawson) is a successful attorney who has had to take care of herself her entire life. Being the younger of two daughters, Lilli found herself alone after her sister (Tracee Ellis Ross) moved to college and was forced into independence as a result of her self-absorbed mother (Jenifer Lewis) and absentee father. With the help of her sister, Lili must break the news to her mother that she has breast cancer and insists she go through it alone, as she has done most things in her life alone. This film highlights the impact and necessity of family support as Lili is introduced to a male patient (Jeffrey Tambor) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer and faces the disease all alone and realizes that she needs her family.
Film number four, Mia, directed by Jennifer Aniston, written by Wendy West follows Mia (Patricia Clarkson) on a comical yet sad two year adventure through the diagnosis, treatment and realization that she will survive. Not wanting to miss out on anything including her own funeral, Mia insists on holding a mock funeral in which she can attend and hear her family and friends eulogize her. After burning many bridges, spending all of her money and ridding herself of all of her belongings, Mia realizes that she is in fact cured and does not know what to do. Finding love in the process was not what she expected but she does and her life takes on a whole new meaning with her brand new husband Mitch (Tony Shalhoub).
Pearl, the final film directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Deirdre O'Connor, follows Pearl the oncologist that we have followed since 1969 as she finds herself facing the same diagnosis of breast cancer that she has given the other four women in the series. Pearl is faced with telling her little girl that she has cancer and tries to find the strength to assure her that she will be okay, unlike the way she was forced to face it as a child in 1969.
As I sat and watched each of these films, I was reminded how fragile life really is. These films show the reality of breast cancer and how important it is to detect it early. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Lifetime does an amazing job reminding women and men the importance of breast exams. Take charge of your health, get an annual breast exam/mammogram to ensure that in the event you receive that diagnosis, you detect it early and you like the women in this film, become survivors.
Watch FIVE on Lifetime Monday October 10 at 9:00 p.m.
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NHL general managers discuss player safety, integrity
TORONTO -- The National Hockey League Players' Association plans to canvass its membership on visors.
Mathieu Schneider, a special assistant to NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, said some 72-73 percent of NHL players currently wear shields.
"By the sheer numbers of players wearing them, you're seeing a big change in visors," Schneider said.
"Guys come into the league now having had to wear a visor before. We're definitely going to look at talking to the guys about grandfathering them in."
Schneider was involved in a day of meetings with NHL GMs, who talked about everything from embellishment and goalie equipment to trying to maintain the integrity of faceoffs.
The issue around faceoffs involves "cheating" -- having players kicked out to buy time, Schneider said.


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Mendy says "guys we a going to leave at 10am sharp,m ceitlin time" and he shows up 20 minutes later.
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ACU's Baptiste honored by Southland Conference
FRISCO, Texas - New Orleans sprinter Darius Roy and Stephen F. Austin thrower Baptiste Kerjean were named the Southland Conference Men's Track and Field Athletes of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.
Men's Track Athlete of the Week – Darius Roy, New Orleans
Roy, a freshman from New Orleans, La. (West Jefferson H.S.), picked up his first outdoor track and field award after winning the 100 meters at the McNeese SpringTime Classic, hosted by McNeese State. His time of 10.41 seconds is a personal best and ranks fourth in the Southland this season. Roy also placed third in the 200 meters (21.25), which is the eighth-fastest time in the conference this year.
Honorable Mention: Rodney Jones, Sam Houston State; Hampton Hawkins, Stephen F. Austin; Chris DeWitt, UIW; Bennett Harris, Oral Roberts.
Men's Field Athlete of the Week – Baptiste Kerjean, Abilene Christian
Kerjean, the senior from St. Brieuc, France (Lycee Rabelais H.S.), won the hammer throw with a toss of 215 feet, 1-inch at the inaugural Wes Kittley Invitational, hosted by Abilene Christian. He has recorded a distance of more than 200 feet at each of his last seven meets. Kerjean leads the conference with a mark of 217-7 that he recorded at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays earlier this month.
Honorable Mention: Tim Jones, Oral Roberts; Johnathan Reece, Lamar; J.P. Vidrine, McNeese State; Colton Ross, Stephen F. Austin.
Each school's sports information director nominates and votes for the athletes of the week, though is not permitted to vote for his or her own student-athlete. To receive honorable mention, an athlete must receive votes from 25 percent of the Southland sports information directors.
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Health lecturer promotes free university
The mere thought of participating in an international roundtable discussion with Canada's Governor General David Johnston at the world's largest science fair in Vancouver this month makes physician and SFU health sciences lecturer Kate Tairyan nervous.
It's a "big step up for global health education," says Tairyan, who will use the opportunity at the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference, to promote NextGenU.org, the world's first tuition-free online university.
Tairyan is also NextGenU's public health director and one of two Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health federal grant recipients the Governor General has invited to the roundtable on gaining more global recognition for promising entrepreneurs.
NextGenU, which opens it's virtual doors this spring, is initially emphasizing health education, targeting millions of existing and prospective students in the developing world to help meet a global shortage of more than four million health workers.
Tariyan is nurturing the NextGenU project with a $100,000 Canadian Rising Stars grant from Grand Challenges Canada, which she won for a video about the free university. In the video, she demonstrated the fledgling free university could evolve into a coordinated application of scientific, technological, social and business innovation to solve complex challenges in educating health professionals.
"Imagine a prof from Harvard, Oxford or other world-class universities coming to your house to give a lecture or share some open-source peer-reviewed articles," says Tairyan.
"You then discuss the questions to test your knowledge. You work with your mentor to apply what you just learned and the cycle continues until you feel comfortable with the competency you are trying to achieve."
Tairyan looks forward to telling other roundtable participants including scientists and government representatives how NextGenU has met the challenge of granting online degrees and other credentials for free. "We've established partnerships with governments, universities and accrediting organizations locally and globally," she says, "to co-offer the credentials students will obtain through NextGenU.org to practice locally and afar."


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And so, the first moves by Red Sox GM Ben Cherington are on the books. But he is not done.
In two days, Cherington began the effort to redefine the margins of his roster. In a vacuum, the moves – made, it is worth noting, in the aftermath of the significant-yet-overlooked development that was David Ortiz' decision to accept arbitration and return -- look small. The Sox signed a backup catcher (Kelly Shoppach), traded for a reliever (Mark Melancon) and signed a utility infielder (Nick Punto).
The three players will earn a bit more than $3 million combined next season. These are moves that address the complementary pieces of a roster rather than its core.
Yet they highlight an interest in creating a functional roster, one, perhaps, where the whole has a better chance of being the sum of its part than was the case for the Sox at the end of last year, when the amassed assembly of talent enacted the greatest September failure of all time. Moreover, in some respects, the moves thus far remain preliminary ones that anticipate more action to come in the coming days and weeks.
So what did the Red Sox accomplish with Cherington's first three additions to his 2012 big league roster and what remains to be done?
Every acquisition of a pitcher comes with a "buyer beware" sign, particularly in the high-stakes gamble that is free agency. The idea of investing huge, long-term dollars in a free-agent starter reliever is the sort of thing that can keep general managers up at night.
But the Sox entered this offseason in a position where some bold moves to address the pitching staff had to be made. The idea of minimizing risk was going to be, at best, a challenge.
Yet in Mark Melancon, the team acquired precisely the sort of arm that it covets: young (26 going on 27), cheap (he is not yet eligible for salary arbitration) and controllable (he won't be eligible for free agency until after the 2016 season). Melancon is viewed as a pitcher with excellent stuff, a fastball with the sort of movement to elicit lots of groundballs, and a curveball that can yield swings and misses. He has also developed a cutter and is working on a changeup to help him navigate the perils of left-handed hitters.
"We really like his stuff and have liked the stuff back to his college days in Arizona," said Cherington, who said that the team views Melancon as "definitely capable" of closing even as his ultimate role is unlikely to be determined until spring training. "He's a really aggressive pitcher, tough, confident. We think he has the intangibles to compete in the American League East. We just felt he was a really good upgrade."
Melancon became the closer for a terrible Astros team in May, and ended up saving 20 games. His Houston manager, Brad Mills, a veteran of years of fighting in baseball's toughest division, suggested that the right-hander has the arsenal to close in the American League East.
"I'm not going to sit here and say he's going to dominate when he hasn't been there, but he has the stuff to do it," said Mills. "Once he sees that his stuff can play, and it is good enough to do it, once he sees it, then he'll take the ball and run with it."
Melancon's salary will be a drop in the bucket for the Sox. Is Melancon the equivalent of departed closer Jonathan Papelbon? Probably not. But he is a very good back-end bullpen arm who will contribute somewhere in the late innings for the Sox (whether the seventh, eighth or, possibly the ninth) . . . and in 2012, he comes at roughly $12 million less than what the Sox paid Papelbon to close games for them last year.
The Sox needed to add quality options at the end of the game. Now, they have taken their first major step towards building the post-Papelbon bullpen. Perhaps the team will feature Melancon and Daniel Bard at the end of games. If the Sox end up moving Bard to the rotation (not a given), perhaps it will be Melancon and a free agent such as Ryan Madson (whom, yes, the Sox are continuing to monitor as a possible addition, watching to see if his price will crater given the disappearance of teams looking for closers). Perhaps it will be Melancon and a trade candidate such as A's closer Andrew Bailey.
No matter the direction that the Sox decide to go, they preserved tremendous flexibility in trading for Melancon.
But at what cost?
The Sox believe that Lowrie's hitting potential is well above-average for a middle infielder, and even feel that, in theory, he has the bat to be a third baseman. He showed that ability in stretches during parts of four seasons.
But just as frequently as those flashes, he also emerged as an injury-riddled player whose ability to impact the team was inconsistent. That being the case, Lowrie had drifted into the role of a utility player in the blueprint for the 2012 season, falling behind Marco Scutaro on the shortstop depth chart. His pronounced career splits against right-handed and left-handed pitchers (the switch-hitter was far better batting right-handed, his natural side, against southpaws) made him somewhat redundant with Mike Aviles.
With Lowrie, Scutaro and Aviles, the Sox had surplus inventory, players whose skill sets were at times difficult to differentiate. All three hit lefties well. All three have defensive limitations, with Lowrie having suffered through a dismal defensive season in 2011 (a stark contrast, it is worth noting, to his career to that point, where he had proven sure-handed enough to be passable at short).
Lowrie did not have a path to a starting spot at the outset of 2012 barring an injury to a teammate. Longer term, the Sox -- who once thought he could be their shortstop of the future -- could not commit to him as a starter given the uncertainty about his ability to stay on the field. Moreover, with Scutaro on the 2012 roster and Jose Iglesias being groomed as a future starter, there was very little window for Lowrie to assume a significant role.
It wasn't just the Sox who had drawn that conclusion. Other teams had also shifted their assessment of the 27-year-old. He once had made a convincing case to many teams that he was a major league starting shortstop or infielder. But the Sox, seeing value in him on their team, hadn't sold high. Instead, they saw his trade value erode steadily as other teams began to question whether he could be an everyday infielder.
The Astros -- whose roster is such a mess that former Sox castoff Angel Sanchez was in the mix for regular playing time at short -- were in a position to take a chance on Lowrie and give him the opportunity to start. Whereas there was no clear everyday role for him in Boston, that isn't the case with his new club.
"If he steps up and is able to be our everyday shortstop, that helps everybody out. It's going to help his career and it's sure going to help our ballclub and our organization," said Mills. "It's almost like you're going to wipe the slate clean and almost start all over. That's a situation that he's in. He has the opportunity to do that. He has a lot of skills. He's shown that at times in Boston.
"We know he has those abilities. Any time we can get an offensive guy like Jed, and a guy who's talented and able to play three infield positions – or really all four – it's nice."
The Sox thus traded Lowrie at a time where they could still gain value for him as a potential starter. The likelihood of being able to do so had they waited was dwindling, particularly given that he was going to be a utility backup for the Sox.
If Lowrie can change his career path and establish that he can remain on the field and blow past his career high (88 games in 2011) to stay at shortstop for 120-140 games, it will be easy to wonder whether the Sox overpaid for a reliever. But the reality is that Lowrie likely never would have a shot to flourish into such a role with the Sox, and so, he was eminently tradable.
The Sox asked themselves internally whether Weiland might be the same type of player as Melancon. The team believes that the 25-year-old right-hander (0-3 with a 7.66 ERA for the Sox in his first taste of the majors in 2011) has a chance to be a back-of-the-rotation starter, even if there is a decent chance -- despite his significant progress as a pitcher -- that he ends up moving to the bullpen, where he can become a good late-innings contributor.
However, even if Weiland ends up being a pitcher capable of delivering a comparable impact to Melancon, he was not going to be able to do so out of the gate for the Sox in 2012. And given their current pitching needs, and the fact that a team that has spent around $350 million in the last two seasons has not had a single postseason game to show for it, the Sox had to pay a premium to accelerate the timing of the impact on their pitching staff.
And so, they gave up six years of Weiland in exchange for five of Melancon, while parting ways with a player in Lowrie who will have more value to the Astros then he had with the Sox.
While Weiland represented a meaningful depth option for the Sox, he also represented a replaceable one. The Sox have left-hander Felix Doubront, a pitcher who now has health questions attached to him but who can impact the team either as a reliever or as a rotation depth option. By sometime in 2012, right-hander Alex Wilson may be ready to step into the majors as a spot starter or impact reliever, capable of delivering what the Sox would have hoped for out of Weiland.
Kelly Shoppach put up numbers that, at first glance, looked atrocious in 2011. He hit .176 with a .268 OBP, .339 slugging mark and .607 OPS, hardly the sort of performance that would demand that the Sox acquire him and, in the process, displace a franchise icon in Jason Varitek.
But in other ways, Shoppach -- signed to a one-year, $1.35 million deal -- represents a good fit for the Sox roster. He is a tremendous catch-and-throw guy behind the plate, having gunned down 41 percent of attempted base stealers last year (in contrast to Varitek's 14 percent). And, as a right-handed complement to switch-hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia (who fares better against righties than lefties), he represents a solid platoon option. Shoppach hit .241/.344/.444/.788 against southpaws last year, production that would make him a strong option off the bench.
"We felt like there were a couple of things that were important to us as far as the catching position. One was to continue to find ways to help in the running game and help control the running game, which was an area of concern for us last year," said Cherington. "Shop's been able to help the pitching staff control the running game I think pretty consistently throughout his career. He's also a guy that can consistently hit left-handed pitch and that sort of fits in and makes him a good complement to Salty."
Meanwhile, after the trade of Lowrie, the Sox moved quickly to sign Nick Punto to a two-year, $3 million deal. Whereas Lowrie was redundant with Aviles -- a player primarily capable of hitting from the right side but a below-average defender at multiple infield positions -- Punto appears to be a more complementary option.
The 34-year-old is offensively limited, as he is a career .249/.325/.327/.652 hitter who has never had more than four homers in a season. But he is a reliably healthy player, and he is a solid to above average defensive option at second, third and short, something that could be important for the Sox given that the left side of their infield defense (Scutaro and Kevin Youkilis) dealt with injuries last year that limited the Sox' work in the field.
Indeed, when Youkilis was first limited and then unable to play in September, Lowrie and Aviles struggled badly in the field, contributing to team-wide defensive butchery that played an oft-overlooked part in the team's September collapse. The Sox allowed a .344 batting average on balls in play in September (while also permitting 13 unearned runs), tied for the highest mark in the American League and a huge bump up from its .288 season BABIP.
"Nick's a guy we've had interest in in the past. The timing has never quite worked out to get him here," said Cherington. "But he's a guy that plays really good defense, smart baseball player, puts together a good at-bat, is really good in the clubhouse, is just a smart, smart baseball player and I think understands his role on a winning team. He certainly showed that this year and down the stretch in October with St. Louis."
In a vacuum, the Sox would have preferred a one-year deal for a player like Punto, who spent last year with the Cardinals on a one-year, $750,000 deal. (Punto started 15 of 18 postseason games for the World Series-winning franchise.) However, the bar was set early and often at two years for utility players this offseason, with players such as John McDonald, Willie Bloomquist, Jerry Hairston, Laynce Nix and Clint Barmes all receiving multi-year deals.
And so, the Sox were comfortable with this deal for Punto, given that his salary is essentially a wash with what Lowrie would have earned, and given that he helps the team to upgrade tangibly in at least one area (bench defense) and, perhaps, intangibly in another (clubhouse).
The Red Sox are not done.
"The offseason certainly isn't over," said Cherington. "We've got a lot of time between now and spring training and we're going to continue to look for ways to upgrade the team."
The team's focus remains primarily on run prevention and, more specifically, pitching. But with one important (and cheap) addition now having been made in Melancon, and with both Bard and Aceves being considered as potential options for either the rotation or bullpen, the team has a number of options at its disposal.
The club continues to explore both the trade and free agent markets for further pitching additions. The team is looking into both starters and relievers. One more move for a significant pitcher seems a strong likelihood, and there appears to be a good chance that the team will even make two additional acquisitions.
In that regard, the payroll flexibility afforded by Melancon is one of the elements that made him so appealing to the Sox. In all likelihood, he will cost the team little more than $500,000 next year.
As such, the Sox still have money left for a potential free agent deal. They won't be diving into the Prince Fielder sweepstakes, but there will likely be room to capitalize if a player who had been aiming for the high end of the market adjusts his asking price to shoot lower.
Madson, who closed for the Phillies last year, represents one possibility, given that there is no clear landing spot in a big market for him. A year ago, when the market went dry for Rafael Soriano, the Yankees offered a safety net with an inexplicable three-year, $35 million deal to add him in a setup role. This year, with the Yankees not in the market holding out a ridiculous contract for a setup man, Madson may be left to seek a shorter-term (1- or 2-year deal) for a lower-than-expected annual salary.
Of course, Madson's agent Scott Boras excels at pulling rabbits out of hats. Or, as the agent put it, "I'm kind of in the musical chairs game. … I only need one chair."
Still, that chair might not be quite as comfortable a perch as Madson once appeared likely to enjoy.
The market for starters seems somewhat less likely to plummet. Still, the Sox continue to monitor potential fits on short-term deals (hence, the absence of the Sox from the now-concluded C.J. Wilson and Mark Buehrle derbies, and the non-participation of the team in the Yu Darvish posting sweepstakes) who would allow them to stabilize the back of a rotation whose only known members for next year are Jon Lester, Josh Beckett and Clay Buchholz.
There will come a time in the not-too-distant future when some free agents will feel a sense of panic. It typically occurs either just before or just after the holidays, as players confront the possibility of spending a week at home with extended family members facing question after question about an unsettled future and/or why they didn't submit a winning bid for a LeapPad on eBay.
The end of a calendar year thus typically spurs players and agents to set aside patient negotiating tactics and jump towards an end game. When that happens, the Sox hope, they will be positioned to have enough money and an impressive enough opportunity to add arms.
Meanwhile, the chief movers in the trade market this offseason -- the Athletics and White Sox -- both appear to have cooled a bit in their approach to the trade market for now. Perhaps they will accelerate anew their shopping of arms once Darvish's destination becomes clear. It remains the case that both the A's and White Sox are expected to take offers on top talents such as starters Gio Gonzalez, John Danks and Gavin Floyd as well as reliever Andrew Bailey; the Cubs will also listen on pitchers such as Matt Garza, though there is a strong chance that Chicago will wait until the season to deal arms.
Beyond those options that would be dropped directly into key roles in the rotation or the bullpen, the Sox are still engaged in explorations to build depth in their system as insurance for the inevitable injuries and attrition that they will encounter during the season. But their greater need in the short-term is for key contributors who would be expected to contribute out of the gate.
Obviously, the Sox parted ways with a couple of tradable assets in Lowrie and Weiland. However, even though the team has a limited stock of major league-ready assets as trade chips in the upper levels -- particularly players who could act as the centerpiece for deals for top-end arms -- the Sox have found enough interest among a number of teams in their prospects to suggest that more trades can be done.
(One aside: According to a major league source, there has been significant interest in Ryan Lavarnway, but the Sox -- while not ruling out trades for any players -- have shown little inclination to move him given their view of the 24-year-old as a potentially elite offensive catcher. The signing of Shoppach was done with an eye towards allowing Lavarnway to get more development as a catcher in the minors in preparation for a future big league role with the Sox; it was not evidence that the team has plans to deal him.)
In fairness, there are some teams who are singularly unimpressed with the state of the Sox' system, and who are unlikely to match up with the Sox in a deal for top pitchers. However, there are teams that have given the Sox reason to believe there are trades to be made, with as many as 15 or 20 names having been brought up as key pieces of potential deals.
In particular, teams like the A's and White Sox -- who appear to be focused on competing a few years down the road, rather than in 2012 or even 2013 -- could match up well with the strength of the Sox' system, which resides in the lower levels of the minors.
The Sox have a number of high-ceiling players with, as former GM Theo Epstein described it, superstar potential but who are likely a couple years from the majors and thus carry greater risk of flaming out. For teams like the A's, who appear to be targeting a potential move to San Jose in 2014 as the focus of their competitive ambitions, the idea of dipping into the lower levels for high-ceiling players represents a workable construct. The same is true of the White Sox, who will likely need a couple years to rebuild if they commit to moving their key big league assets.
The flurry of activity represents a starting point in the tweaking of the Red Sox roster. However, it is impossible to understand the impact of these moves without seeing what subsequent maneuvers await the Sox.
The addition of Melancon and the building of what the Sox expect to be an upgraded bench are meaningful. But in the absence of further pitching additions to either the rotation or bullpen, the Sox would still be entering next season in a state of significant uncertainty about their pitching staff.
Yet the need for more moves underscores the notion that Melancon was a strong initial gesture. The reliever represents a building block for the offseason. He is young, cheap, talented and under team control for the long haul. He upgrades the bullpen in a way that does not interfere with any other moves the Sox were considering.
And so, he fits in with what the Sox must do this offseason. Now, however, next steps remain. That being the case, for now, the Sox' offseason grades as incomplete. It will take time for the complete picture of the team's maneuvers to come into view.
The boys get into the media and how they cover the Pats. It's not always easy covering Belichick and a team that will not give any substance to reporters, but things could be worse.
The guys discuss the upcoming week for the Patriots with the Bills coming to town.
Curran joins the boys live in studio to discuss the future of the QB position in New England.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
Isaiah Thomas talks to Glenn and Lou about why he loves Boston, the NBA Money Bump, oh, and some Durant guy
Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Joe and Tim talked to the Sox catcher, who caught 23 strikeouts from Sox pitchers in the extra-inning win in Tampa Bay.
Joe and Tim talk with the Red Sox DH, Big Papi, who provided the only offense for the Sox with a 2-run home run that gave the Red Sox a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays
In the midst of the Patriots routing the Texans, Mut recaps the game marking the sweep of the Orioles. David Price picks up his 17th win as the Red Sox have all but cemented their strangle hold on the AL East. They finish their final game with Baltimore in a 5-3 win.
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Mike Lombardi discussed Bill O'Brien's tough night and Bill Belichick's approach to dealing with injured players.
In the final hour of the show Sean, Gerry and Kirk heard from some drunk callers to the Real Postgame Show and discussed how the Sox fared head to head against the Patriots last night on TV.
In hour three of the show Sean, Gerry and Kirk discussed the Pats win and took calls on Brady vs. Jimmy G.
Patriots DB Duron Harmon joined Glenn, Lou, and Christian. He talked about playing against Brock Osweiler, and the team's mindset at 3-0.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian are joined by Mike Florio of ProFootball Talk. He thinks Brady will eventually win out over Garoppolo, and Rex Ryan will be out of a job soon.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian talk about the surging Sox and their new mission of Playoff positioning.
We check in with the playmaker, hall of famer Michael Irvin breaks down the Pats win over the Texans and whether or not he'll be changing those Lombardi trophies.
Dale, Michael and Jerry spend the majority of our show breaking down an amazing win for the Patriots on Thursday night football.
We look at four instances in the NFL in which Bill Belichick earned his 'genius' title for coaching.
Kirk Minihane sits down with the Boston Globes Sports Media Columnist, Chad Finn. Kirk and Chad talk about the long and storied feud between WEEI and the Boston Globe and the ongoing ratings war between WEEI and the Hub.
Kirk and Gerry talk about how the show is going since the departure of John Dennis, how the fill-in hosts have been doing so far, and what they are looking for in a third host.
Kirk Minihane loves TV and movies, he sits down with TV critic and author of the new book "TV (The Book)" Alan Sepinwall to discuss the best TV shows of all-time and which show should be number 1. Kirk and Alan disagree on which show is the best of all-time and they both have compelling arguments. Kirk and Alan talk about "Cheers" being one of the most underrated and forgotten TV shows of all-time.
After another big win for the Pats on Thursday night, New England rejoices so Jim Hackett and Pete Davidson get their thoughts in on the game, the Pats future at Quarterback and the difference between the Patriots organization and everyone else. Then the conversation turns to Fantasy Football featuring the slew of injured Runningbacks and who you need to get and start in their place, including Jerrick McKinnon, Charles Simms and Theo Riddick. The boys wrap it up with a look at solid Starts & Sits from RB to WR to TE. Something for every Fantasy Footballer and Football fan. Make sure you join Jim and Pete on Sunday at 8:00am for the WEEI Fantasy Football Hour.
Lucy Burdge is in to host the second edition of the K&C Recap pod with producers Ken Laird and Chris Curtis, but they don't get far as Kirk Minihane hijacks the program to dish on the show hosts and to blast Curtis.
Kirk Minihane sits down with the Boston Globes Sports Media Columnist, Chad Finn. Kirk and Chad talk about the long and storied feud between WEEI and the Boston Globe and the ongoing ratings war between WEEI and the Hub.
Mike Lombardi discussed Bill O'Brien's tough night and Bill Belichick's approach to dealing with injured players.More from this show
Kirk, Gerry and Sean discussed the Pats dominating win over the Texans and Phil Simms made a fool of himself.More from this show
In hour three of the show Sean, Gerry and Kirk discussed the Pats win and took calls on Brady vs. Jimmy G.More from this show
Kirk Minihane sits down with the Boston Globes Sports Media Columnist, Chad Finn. Kirk and Chad talk about the long and storied feud between WEEI and the Boston Globe and the ongoing ratings war between WEEI and the Hub.More from this show
Dale, Michael and Jerry spend the majority of our show breaking down an amazing win for the Patriots on Thursday night football.More from this show


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World Cup
World goes nuts for Tim Cahill's amazing goal against Netherlands at Brazil 2014
- From: FOX SPORTS
- June 19, 2014
THE world has gone crazy for Tim Cahill's wonder goal, declaring it a goal of the tournament contender and worthy of sitting alongside the masterpiece volley of Dutch genius Marco van Basten at Euro '88.
Cahill's 21st minute strike against van Basten's native Netherlands saw the Socceroos talisman smash a floating cross from Ryan McGowan on the run with his weaker left foot, with the ball cannoning in off the bottom of the crossbar.
Not only has it been hailed a goal of the tournament contender, but one of the greatest goals in World Cup history.
Even better, it has been declared an effort to rival perhaps the greatest volley of all time: that of Holland's van Basten in the European Championships final against the USSR 26 years ago.
Remarkably, van Basten was an idol of AC Milan fan Cahill growing up. The Australian was humbled by the magnitude of the strike post-match.
"When you look at your idols like Marco van Basten and even Robin van Persie, they're the sort of goals they score," Cahill said.
"You dream as a kid for these opportunities. At home in my garden I score like that every day but this is what's it's all about.
"When the ball was flying over normally people expect me to jump and head that from 18 yards but it just sat so beautifully off the shoulder of the defender and I struck it and it went in. "Football is all about these moments and what better place to do it that in the home of football in Brazil."
It was Cahill's fifth World Cup goal and undoubtedly the finest of his illustrious career. The British media was in awe of the strike from the former Everton EPL star.
"The finest players on the planet will certainly do well here in Brazil to better Tim Cahill's 21st minute strike; an equaliser that goes straight into the greatest volleys in history file alongside men like Marco van Basten, Tony Yeboah, Paolo Di Canio and Robin van Persie. It was Australia's 10th World Cup goal and a perfect one at that," wrote Matt Lawton in the Daily Mail.
"It was brilliant, spectacular; the fashion in which he connected with McGowan's long diagonal ball just fantastic; a left-foot volley, his weaker foot, crashing home off the underside of the crossbar."
Been some astonishing goals in this #WorldCup2014 - but that volley by @Tim_Cahill was van Basten-esque. Incredible!— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 18, 2014
"@piersmorgan: I'm calling it - best World Cup goal of all time. @Tim_Cahill #AUSvNED" Proud day Piers #Boom #CahillBrazil— Tim Cahill (@Tim_Cahill) June 18, 2014
The Independent's Ian Herbert wrote that Cahill's effort did justice to the very Dutch flavour of Australian football.
"The Australians were desolate when the afternoon was over yet their contribution to this occasion will be remembered for many a long year," Herbert wrote.
"The nation has developed something of a Dutch football obsession since Guus Hiddink took them to the 2006 finals and … Tim Cahill, delivered a masterclass moment of Dutch calibre; a volleyed goal of imperious technique to match Marco van Basten's against Russia in the 1988 European Championships final."
Jonathan Liew of London's Telegraph wrote: "The immediate reaction was not bliss, but bewilderment. By the time Cahill had reached the corner flag, punching it to the ground, the stadium had erupted in the shared experience of a deeply special moment."
.@Tim_Cahill You little ripper.... #boom What a goal !!!!!! 👍— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) June 18, 2014
Wow! Tim Cahill has scored an absolute stonker!— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) June 18, 2014
Ex-@Everton star Tim Cahill also scored one of the goals of the tournament for Australia in Porto Alegre #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/yFnO4ytKlJ— Premier League (@premierleague) June 18, 2014
Stuart James of the Guardian wrote: "Ange Postecoglou promised that his players would take the game to Holland and the Australia coach was true to his word.
"Inspired by the evergreen Tim Cahill, whose breathtaking first-half volley will be remembered as one of the classic World Cup goals, Australia played without fear and made life far more uncomfortable for Van Gaal and his players than they could ever have imagined."
The Huffington Post declared: "The competition for best goal at the World Cup just became tighter.
"Australia's Tim Cahill made us temporarily forget Robin van Persie's flying header when he scored this top-shelf beauty against the Netherlands."
Matt Norlander from CBS Sports wrote: "It's been a beautiful World Cup for scoring, and Wednesday brought the best-looking goal of the tourney to date.
"Trailing 1-0 to the Dutch in the first half, Aussie striker Tim Cahill took a beautiful, parabolic pass from Ryan McGowan and one-timed it right into the twine. Ball never hit the ground between touching McGowan and Cahill's feet."
Australia's Tim Cahill volleyed home a spectacular equaliser for the @Socceroos v #NED earlier http://t.co/CrTjd1bZqc pic.twitter.com/CuyY4fSho8— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) June 18, 2014
EQUALIZER! OH MY! Tim Cahill with the gorgeous lefty volley ties it just a minute after Netherlands takes the lead. 1-1 now. WOW.— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 18, 2014
Sports Illustrated's Avi Creditor wrote: "Robin van Persie was likely in the lead for best goal at the World Cup, but he had a front-row seat for his greatest competition.
"Australia and New York Red Bulls star Tim Cahill scored an incredible volley, as an immediate response to Arjen Robben putting the Netherlands ahead."
Twitter also went into a storm over Cahill. There were nearly 130,000 tweets per minute as Cahill followed Arjen Robben's goal for the Dutch.
He's done it again! Another World Cup goal for @Tim_Cahill - and a belter to boot. Well done, Tim! #AUS #EFC— Everton (@Everton) June 18, 2014
What a goal by @Tim_Cahill there! Didn't half catch that one well lad— Ross Barkley (@RBarkley20) June 18, 2014
.@Tim_Cahill, ladies and gentlemen. #GOOOOAAALLLLL #AUSvNED #RBNY— New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) June 18, 2014
#ForClubAndCountry RT @Socceroos Retweet if you think these men stepped up against the World #15 tonight #GoSocceroos pic.twitter.com/T8FOv5fehk— New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) June 18, 2014
Originally published as World goes nuts for Cahill goal
OOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOD WHAT A GOAL TIM CAHILL UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1-1— FutbolBible (@FutbolBible) June 18, 2014
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Twenty-First Century British Fiction – A Symposium
Friday 11th and Saturday 12th May 2012, Birkbeck, University of London
Keynote speakers: Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway) & Dr. Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck)
Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century.
We invite submissions for 20 minute presentations. Papers on individual authors and single works are welcome, as are essays on broader trends that explore the cultural, historical and stylistic contexts that have produced twenty-first century British fiction. These might include, but are not restricted to, the following topics and themes:
Authenticity – Writing after theory – The waning of postmodernism – Science and medicine in literature – Transnational belonging – Postimperial/global imaginaries – Genre/post-genre fictions – Post-devolution writing – Narrative multiplicity – Provincial/urban voices – Fictions of suburbia – Hysterical Realism – The post-9/11 novel in Britain – Ecocriticism – Digital media and the novel – Graphic fictions – Adaptations and appropriations – Class, power and marginality – Literary inheritances – Fictions of alterity – Children's/young adult literature – Gender, sexuality and feminism – Post-millennial utopian/dystopian spaces…
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, with brief details of biography and affiliation, to Bianca Leggett and Tony Venezia at firstname.lastname@example.com no later than 23rd March 2012. We are planning to publish a volume based on the proceedings of the event. The symposium is sponsored by the School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London. Keep up to date with us on Twitter @C21st_symposium.


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Lou Gehrig had a house in Lyme
Lou Gehrig, the world's first ALS patient (ALS is often called "Lou Gehrig's Disease" in the US) owned a holiday home in Lyme, Connecticut where he spent a lot of time gardening over the years. This means that the world's first diagnosed ALS patient spent a lot of time outdoors in the biggest Lyme hotspot on Earth at the time – the town with the world's first diagnosed Lyme cases.
(This photo is of his house in the Bronx though. So far, we have been unable to independently verify this extremely important claim.)
Lou was diagnosed with ALS in 1939. Lyme disease was discovered in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975, but only after a long history of illness in that area.
We are trying to locate an original source. If anyone knows of one, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. If Lou Gehrig really spent a lot of time outdoors in Lyme, Connecticut, this would be too much "coincidence", given the strong evidence for the case that ALS is a symptom of Lyme Neuroborreliosis and not a disease in its own right.
We already searched some of his biographies in Google Books.
3 secondary sources:
There is an earlier, independent mention of the same claim:
We found an even earlier reference to Lou Gehrig's Lyme, Ct. holiday home from a third forum poster:
A note on bioweapons allegations: It is true that after WW2, the US "invited" Nazi scientists to develop biological weapons based on tick-borne illnesses. This research was done on Plum Island, south of Lyme, Connecticut. We do not think that an alleged accidental release of Lyme-bioweapon agents there has anything to do with the global spread of Lyme disease. We do think however that the fact that the US was producing Lyme-based biological weapons so close to Lyme, Ct. could be a factor in the reluctance of government (affiliated) institutions to recognize the existence and severity of chronic Lyme disease.
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According to the fictional character Will Smith from the NBC sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air it refers to the Philadelphia slang term for snack packs.
back in philly we call snack packs boomsheeka
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Ani and Kimmy
Ani is a working mother of two daughters and never having taken a dance class herself, only her daughter Kimmy is currently enrolled at Stars Dance Studio. From a very young age Kimmy wanted dance lessons on her own — two of the first things she asked for as a young child were ballet shoes and a tutu.
A resident of Miami and raised in the Hispanic culture, Ani believes Miami's beauty is insurmountable primarily because of the diversity in people and cultures. She notes, "Maybe I'm biased because I am Hispanic, but I think Miami's Latin 'Salsa' adds a little extra spice to our dance culture."
About Ani
Ani's favorite style of dance to watch:
I enjoy watching ballroom dancing. I am also a big fan of contemporary numbers and loves the performance aspect of it.
What are your hobbies and interests besides dance?
I'm a homebody and love all things home; gardening, home repairs, organizing, decorating, etc. I enjoy crafting and scrapbooking but rarely have time for it. I'm a big movie buff.
What do you think your child is learning most about while competing in dance competitions around the country?
I think the out-of-state competitions provide Kimmy with a broader perspective of the dance world. Seeing how many great dancers are out there proves humbling at the very least.
What have you learned most about while being involved with this dance company and traveling to the competitions?
I've realized that this is a family endeavor and that everyone needs to be on board for it to work. I've also had the opportunity to witness the extent of Kimmy's commitment to dance. I knew she was a hard-working, driven little girl but the joy with which she does it has proven inspiring. It makes all the sacrifices well worth it.
About Kimmy
Favorite style of dance to perform?
My favorite style of dance is lyrical because I prefer slow and graceful technique.
Favorite style of dance to watch?
I like to watch funny, jazzy numbers.
Do you hope to be a professional dancer one day?
Yes, my goal is to be a professional dancer one day.
If you don't end up being a professional dancer, what other job would you like to have?
I would also be interested in being an actress. My back-up plan is to be a Physical Therapist.
What do you think you are learning about most from this experience and dancing in these competitions around the country?
I've seen some different styles of dance that I really liked. I've met some kids that were really great dancers.
What's your favorite subject in school?
My favorite subject in school is Science. I especially like learning about the human body.
What's your favorite color?
My favorite color is pink.
What do you like most about living in Miami?
I love the beaches, the warm sunny days and it's where all the people I love live.


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WHARTON — A minor accident caused major delays on Route 80 west Monday afternoon, the State Police said.
A two-car crash stymied traffic, and sent an ambulance to treat two people complaining of injuries, according to the State Police.
Drivers were slowed for as long as 15 minutes, according to the state Department of Transportation.
The right shoulder was closed as of 4:48 p.m., the DOT said.


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Update: MLive Media Group wins 14 first place Michigan AP awards, including public service
LANSING, MI — MLive Media Group has been named finalists for numerous state Associate Press awards, including two entries for best public service for the investigative series "Uneasy Riders" and "Distracted Driving: A Deadly Reality."
The Michigan Associated Press Media Editors announced finalists for the 2012 newspaper competition on Thursday. The order of the winners — first, second and third places — will be announced at the annual Michigan APME awards banquet June 1 in Lansing.
MLive Media Group includes AnnArbor.com, the Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and Saginaw News. It also has reporting teams in Lansing and Detroit.
Here are a list finalists from MLive Media Group. View the full list here for Division 3, Division 2 and Division 1
DIVISION 3, Newspapers with a daily circulation of more than 50,000
Best Digital Presence:
- John Serba, The Grand Rapids Press, "Project Mayhem"
Best Informational Graphics or Illustrations:
- The Grand Rapids Press, "ArtPrize 2012"
Best Feature Story:
- Sue Thoms, The Grand Rapids Press, "Family Finds Comfort and Blessings"
Best Editorial:
- The Grand Rapids Press, "Bring Back the Mandate"
- Dave Murray, The Grand Rapids Press, "Michigan Isn't Wisconsin"
Best Sports Column:
- Ansar Khan, MLive, "Amazing Career of Red Wings' Nicklas Lidstrom"
Best News Column:
- Dave Murray, The Grand Rapids Press, "Michigan Education Department"
- Sue Thoms, The Grand Rapids Press, "Facing Death"
Best News Picture:
- Cory Morse, The Grand Rapids Press, "Comforting Driver"
- Emily Zoladz, The Grand Rapids Press, "Sgt. Scott Tatrow Funeral"
Best Feature Picture:
- Chris Clark, The Grand Rapids Press, "Give Me 5"
- Cory Morse, The Grand Rapids Press, "ArtPrize Lights in the Night"
Best Picture Story:
- Chris Clark, The Grand Rapids Press, "Charlotte Ponce's Operation"
Best Public Service:
- MLive, "Uneasy Riders"
- MLive, "Distracted Driving: A Deadly Reality"
Best Sustained Coverage of a Single News Event:
- The Grand Rapids Press, "Crane Collapse"
- MLive, "Judgment Day for Michigan's Juvenile Lifers"
- Meegan Holland, John Barnes, MLive, "Wildfire: Michigan's Massive 'Duck Lake' Blaze"
DIVISION 2, Newspapers with daily circulation of 15,001 to 50,000
Best Digital Presence:
- David Harris, The Flint Journal, "Offbeat by David Harris"
Best Feature Story:
- Justin Engel, The Bay City Times, "The War Room"
Best Sports Enterprise:
- Scott DeCamp, Kalamazoo Gazette, "Life on Track"
Best Sports:
- Ryan Garza, The Flint Journal, "Gold: Claressa Shields Brings it Home"
- Ross Maghielse, The Flint Journal, "State Wrestling Finals"
Best Sports Column:
- Eric Woodyard, The Flint Journal, "Flint Legend Terry Furlow"
- The Muskegon Chronicle, "Tim Flahive Retires as Basketball Official"
Best Sustained Coverage of a Single Sports Event:
- Jackson Citizen Patriot, "Promise Bowl"
- AnnArbor.com, "Footbrawl"
Best News Column:
- Andrew Heller, The Flint Journal, "Sam Goes to College and Dad's Not Ready"
- Clayton Hardiman, The Muskegon Chronicle, "The Power of Goodwill to Transform Us is the Hope of Christmas Day"
Best Breaking News:
- AnnArbor.com, "Dexter Tornado"
- Justin Engel, The Bay City Times, "Bay County Commissioners Brawl"
Best News Picture:
- Jon Garcia, The Saginaw News, "Firefighters Enter Burning Vacant House"
- Ryan Garza, The Flint Journal, "Deadly Shooting on Mary Street"
Best Feature Picture:
- Colleen Harrison, The Bay City Times, "Haunted Temple Preparations"
- Jeffrey Smith, AnnArbor.com, "Dinosaur Terror"
Best Sports Picture:
- J. Scott Park, Jackson Citizen Patriot, "Early Injury"
- Nikole Hanna, The Muskegon Chronicle, "Red Card"
- Sean Proctor, Jackson Citizen Patriot, "Halftime Chat"
Best Picture Story:
- Hannah Potes, Jackson Citizen Patriot, "Christopher Klavon Helps Others Heal"
- Libby March, The Muskegon Chronicle, "Electrified"
- Ryan Griffin, Griffin Moores, The Flint Journal, "Flint's Golden Girl"
Best Investigative Reporting:
- Julie Mack, Kalamazoo Gazette, "Schoolcraft Football Coach"
Best Public Service:
- Kalamazoo Gazette, "Debates for Kalamazoo County Offices"
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Situated in Udine, this spa hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Museo d'Arte Moderna, Loggia del Lionello, and Piazza della Liberta. Porticcato di San Giovanni and Castle of Udine are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
2 restaurants, a full-service spa, and an indoor pool are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a spa tub are onsite.
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Best Western Hotel La' Di MoretViale Tricesimo 276 Udine UD 33100
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Best Western Hotel La' Di Moret features an indoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center. Event facilities measuring 0 square feet (0 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers a spa tub, a sauna, and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 88
- Number of floors - 7
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Full-service spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Health club
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- Computer station
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- Express check-in
- Multilingual staff
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- Year Built 1967
- Free self parking
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- Free WiFi
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- Number of restaurants - 2
Family Friendly Amenities
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
American Bar Insolito Mor - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Happy hour is offered. Open select days.
Il Fogolar - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A health club and complimentary bicycles are featured at the hotel. An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Free bicycles on site
- Mountain biking nearby
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, BLUMORET Wellness e Spa. Services include massages, facials, body treatments, and manicures and pedicures. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam.
Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Steam room in spa
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Manicures and pedicures
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed
- Dogs only
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between EUR 3,00 and EUR 3,00 for adults, EUR 3,00 and EUR 3,00 for children (approximately)
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Posted on February 20, 2010 - by Lisa Nalewak
Content Formatting Tips for WordPress Pages
WordPress is a popular content management platform that many web designers use to enable content management features on sites they build for their clients, meaning that someone at a client's organization can access content on their website through an editor and make modifications to the content on a page as they like, without knowing any code or having to FTP web files up and down from their web server.
For the most part, our WordPress clients are fairly conversant with the content management editor (and if they aren't, we train them), so learning how to efficiently use WordPress tools generally isn't a challenge. What does become something of a challenge for our clients is understanding some design fundamentals for text and content layouts that allow for neat, professional looking web pages, and that helps each page clearly communicate its message or value proposition.
It is not uncommon for folks untrained in design and layout to try and embellish pages with too many fonts, typesizes, or colors in an effort to give pages some "pizzazz", which instead leads to pages that look "too busy" or "messy". Or, perhaps they are not sure how to break up text and arrange other elements on a page to give it proper visual hierarchy and make it easy and intuitive for a reader to follow. Or perhaps content isn't being clearly communicated because there are not enough subheads or supporting graphics on a page to help tell the story at a glance.
To help, I've put together a quick list of tips to keep in mind when formatting pages. While these tips apply when laying out pages in WordPress managed websites, they also are general formatting principles that will help any document look more professional and polished.
1) Text fonts, sizes and styles
The same text elements on every page should be consistent. For example, all titles should be the same font, typestyle and type size. The same goes for subheads and body text.
2) Placement of graphic images in content areas
The size, placement and treatment of graphics on each page in a Word Press site should be similar. For example, if a large image is associated with an article, it should be someplace very visible within the body text of the article and above the fold and the text should always have the same margins around the photos from page to page. Images should be similar in size. Some clients prefer images to be in the same place each time. Some prefer placement variation. What is important is that each page is consistent in how the text and photos interact.
3) Splitting text into 2 columns
Splitting text into 2 columns helps add more white space to a page and makes large passages of text look more manageable, which makes it more likely people will read the content rather than skip over it.
4) Using subheads to split up large chunks of text, and to aid in the communication of messaging.
By using subheads in the body of text, you accomplish a few things: a) Users get a good sense of the main messages being communicated on a page by reading the title and subheads before having to read all the text, so you can communicate your main points faster. In addition, calling out the main ideas of text in subheads means you will enjoy reinforcement of your message or value propositions in the subheads as well as in the main body of the text, so you drive your point home more than once. b) Breaking up text using subheads makes a page look less "threatening" visually. When you break up text into smaller, "digestible" chunks, readers are more likely to read each bit than if it were presented in one long passage.
5) Addition of graphic under page titles
The addition of a graphic under page titles, like a rule line, (be sure it's consistent across all pages) adds visual interest to the page and gives it a more polished appearance.
6) Inclusion of larger graphics or call-outs to each page to visually communicate messaging
The addition of graphics to a page can be extremely helpful in illustrating your messages or value propositions for the content on that page. Graphics can be photographs, charts, or even text that communicates your main points, but is laid out in a way that is graphically interesting and pulls a reader's attention.
For example, a long passage of text on a single web page might explain the 3 steps of a "How To" process. To help communicate the main message of the article, create a graphic call-out that lists the "3 steps" in bullet points. Embellish it with graphically interesting (but appropriate) text, and perhaps supporting background graphics (but be sure it is still easily readable). Place the graphic near the top of the article.
This page now communicates the 3 steps of our "How To" process immediately upon hitting its URL. As a reader, I already understand the main point of this entire page of text without reading a single word in the main body of the article. Now that I'm interested, I'll read the rest to get the full story.


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I'm a Social Media Community Manager!
[Originally published February 6, 2013.]
I always knew I'd be successful. Yep, just out of college and I've got my first job, and what a job it is: I'm a Social Media Community Manager for a B2B SaaS company.
What is a Social Media Community Manager? Oh sorry, I didn't hear you over the sound of how hip my job is. I'm responsible for engaging current and prospective customers via social media channels, building a strong community around our brand, analyzing relevant metrics, SEO management—you name it, I do it.
I spend all day on Facebook, writing blogs, chatting up customers, whatever I need to do to ensure maximum ROI for our company; basically playing around on the internet. It's pretty much every college kid's dream job so I—oh god, I can't do this anymore.
What have I become?
It's too unbearable, I'm sorry. Yesterday I went to sleep and dreamed about inbound-lead generation via LinkedIn. I woke up wallowing in the dark depths of the severe depression that has overtaken my life. I never wanted to be a Social Media Community Manager. I wanted to be a fireman, or a policeman, or anything! I just want to be a real person again.
84% of B2B buyers said word of mouth recommendations are the most important factor in purchasing decisions. Oh god, I can't stop. I'm sorry. The impersonality of it all!
I wrote a guest post for a high-profile social media blog yesterday. It got 200 shares on Facebook, and yet I felt nothing. Do they like the brand or me? I can't even tell anymore. My social profiles are so integrated into the fabric of the company that I look in the mirror and all I see is the dashboard of Google Analytics—oh look! Our referral traffic from Facebook is up 30% this month!
No! Stop! I'm not looking for a higher CTR or increased engagement on your goddamn social networks! I'm not a cog in your sales machine! I'm a real person with real feelings, not a profile picture to analyze for your own amusement. My status updates say, "Check out our newest eBook!" but read between the lines; what I really mean is, "Check out me, please. I need validation!"
What's happened to me?
As I look back on a life filled with regret and self-depreciation, the overwhelming burden of my daily tasks seem too much to bear. Thoughts of suicide bring relief; the relief that maybe one day I won't wake up and immediately check Pinterest for new followers—the relief that there exists a world beyond Twitter; a world with people and flowers and sunlight and trees.
And the relief that I have so many followers on Twitter, when I tweet out my suicide letter it'll totally get retweeted like, 100 times.
Share this if you've ever had a social media identity crisis!
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Welcome to Aston Court Hotel
Located in the heart of Derby, our modern city centre hotel offers stylish and spacious accommodation, free Wi-Fi internet access and most importantly friendly service including business service, wedding service, christmas party and other celebration services. Derby rail station is a brief walk away. Parking is available at the rear of the hotel.
Aston Court Hotel boasts an onsite restaurant and an extensive lounge area, where a varied daily menu is offered to suit all tastes and budgets.
The Westfield Shopping Centre is within walking distance of us here at Aston Court Hotel in Derby.
There is an abundence of local attractions and things to do in the area for all ages including Alton Towers, Chatsworth House and Royal Crown Derby.
Click Here to view our Full Guest Information PDF
We look forward to welcoming you to Aston Court Hotel.


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