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A great word from Dave Wood, co-founder of Empower Network. I'm liking this company more and more.
Posted by Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring) on March 08, 2014
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A great word from Dave Wood, co-founder of Empower Network. I'm liking this company more and more.
Posted by David Wood on 03/07/2014 Reblogged By Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring)
Originally, this blog post was intended to be longer, and more of a 'formal' declaration to the greater Network Marketing industry.
Unfortunately, in the process of massively re-engaging with our field leadership, remaking all of our core sales material, planning 3 regional events, launching a weekly bonus pool, and otherwise turning on 'supernatural-beast-mode' I don't have time - so I'm going to keep this a rather concise, yet detailed enough rant to get the point across.
Most of this was covered in a conference call I did about 3 weeks ago, which you can listen to, and freely share in this post.
For an official stance, I decided to write this, to directly set straight an unfounded criticism and myth being perpetuated by either people who are trying to sell our affiliates and customers their products using unethical, dishonest tactics, or from straight misunderstandings.
So we're going to hit the rumor first, and then come back to the message, and the real purpose of this blog post.
The Rumor Goes Something Like This:
Empower Network won't allow you to promote multiple offers, or multiple Network Marketing businesses. They randomly changed their terms of service several weeks ago, and are terminating people who are promoting multiple affiliate products.
Truth: Empower Network was built by marketers, for marketers. You can promote whatever you want here - that is not our business to monitor what businesses you want to build, and we have never terminated a single person (ever) for promoting 2 deals - or even 50. In fact, we've allowed people to keep their checks who have left Empower, promoted other things, and directly bashed us to their email lists.
The REASON we do that is because of a fundamental belief that this company was founded with, that if you're an affiliate, you're an INDEPENDENT affiliate, and therefore can pick and choose what you want to market - and if we want to keep you, you must have freedom, and be here of your own free will.
See below on our real message for more.
We also didn't change our terms of service, we re-organized them to be easier to read - except for adding a prohibition against directly and purposefully targeting other people's teams in Empower Network if you're an affiliate here - which I think you'll agree, is a slimy, unethical business practice.
However, in re-organizing our terms of service, we did realize there are things in there that we don't enforce anyways, never have, and are in the process of removing or rewording to be in line with our actual message.
Now, the reasons, message - and real INTENTION and MESSAGE of Empower Network:
The direct sales, affiliate marketing, and network marketing professions all GROW and attract new affiliates by a direct and specific message of freedom.
Whether it is financial freedom, time freedom, or the freedom to operate your business how you want - the message itself is and always has been freedom.
However, 'freedom' is the farthest thing from reality in most direct sales companies. I had first hand experience in this when a team of affiliates left Empower Network in January of 2012, and joined a well known vitamin company.
They joined, taking as many people from Empower Network to that company as humanly possible, and in the process said some things that in all honestly — would have created a direct 'termination response' from every single Network Marketing company I've ever heard of.
However, the only thing we 'Terminate' at Empower Network, is wussy commissions.
So instead of turning into the 'terminator' — I did the unthinkable.
I called them, and said:
"Hey dudes - I love ya. You come from here. Your team comes from here. You have a big check here - and it's not going anywhere. Can you do me a favor and knock it off?"
Bam! Problem solved. Amazingly, they all just stopped.
Because I just loved on em and gave 'em all a big cosmic hug instead.
Here's the funny thing, though:
Later, all these guys saw Empower Network taking off, and the truth was - their checks and their teams kept growing here. So one day, Lawrence Tam (yes, he was on the team) he decided to start promoting Empower Network again.
He sent an email to his list, and…
The company they joined terminated him, Layla and Toby Black, and about 60-70 others.
It blew my mind — because that whole team had come from here, and we didn't care.
The other company though, they threw a damned hissy fit. I literally couldn't believe it.
So Lawrence came back, started building, and you know what? He's now one of ten "million dollar earners" at Empower Network. Would have been pretty retarded of me to terminate him, wouldn't it?
So I'm at our "FREEDOM" conference in Miami this January (appropriately named, right?) and run into a bunch of reps from another well known, international Network Marketing company.
Here's the funny thing:
This company has a list of 'competing companies' — however, Empower Network isn't on the list. So you'd think an 'independent distributor' can do what they want, right?
Well, it turns out that 'independent distributor' has lost it's meaning.
Because this whole team got terminated from big dumb company X for just being in Empower Network. One of the reps asked a big wig at the company 'what the hell? I thought I was an independent rep?'
— and you know what the leader told them?
"You can't do what you want here. This is Corporate America with a 1099."
Well excuse my language when I say …
"What the F*%&?"
That certainly isn't why I got involved as an 'independent rep' … that certainly isn't why I STAYED an 'independent rep' … and that CERTAINLY isn't why I STARTED Empower Network.
I fell in love with this profession for the message of Personal Freedom.
Now, with freedom comes responsibility, as the father of spider man would say, so this doesn't give us a 'Green Card' to do unethical stuff… because life has a way of biting back, even if it's not against the rules.
However - for heaven's sake - if this is what Network Marketing has turned into, excuse me when I say "screw that. I'll live in a Van instead."
See, I believe that if you bring a customer to Empower Network - it was your hard work, your time, your effort, your hard earned advertising dollars, YOUR relationship.
And if you brought them here - you DESERVE to be paid according to our published compensation structure, regardless of whatever else you want to do.
Now that comes REGARDLESS of my personal philosophy, where PERSONALLY I believe that you're much better off focusing your energy on one thing if you are like MOST PEOPLE.
I believe it's better for you.
I believe it's better for your team.
I believe you'll be happier.
I believe you'll make more money.
HOWEVER, you're here to do what YOU WANT - NOT what I want.
If you don't agree with me - you're free to do what you want, as long as you're following laws and ethics.
So I don't care if you promote your vitamin deal.
I don't care if you promote your skin care deal.
I don't care if you promote your drop shipping deal.
I don't care if you promote your attraction marketing system.
And if you want to quit - there's a cancel button under every subscription product in the members area - you're welcome to do whatever you want to do.
Because you're an "INDEPENDENT" AFFILIATE.
To me that means I must win you over by the virtue of my leadership, by treating you right, by paying you more, by creating a more powerful message, by creating a better company, a better vision, a better culture, a SAFER place where you can BE who you WANT TO BE.
So that's my mission here.
I will keep my leaders around by my example.
I will keep my team around by my vision.
I will keep my customers around by my service, and by giving them the BEST PRODUCTS.
And you are FREE to stay.
And you are equally FREE to go.
I just ask that you follow the laws, dammit.
Do income disclosures every time you talk about income claims. A simple: * See our Average Earnings Disclosure HERE. in all your communications will do. You can even affiliate code it by adding ?id=YOURUSERNAME to the end of the link.
I ask that you not market or build your business by infringing on other people's trademarks, images, and copyrights. It's unethical, people hate it, and it sucks.
Let's build a business in the marketplace based off of VALUE …
… and do whatever other businesses you want - just understand there are 'life consequences' to doing lame stuff. It will bite you, eventually.
Empower Network is here to stay.
Our message is a message of freedom.
Our values are here to LIFT UP and EMPOWER others - not to tear them down.
So let's lock arms, and fight the forces of evil.
Thank you for allowing me to clear up the B.S.
LISTEN to the call in this post - it will blow your mind how "on your side" we are at Empower Network.
And if you're a big, evil company that terminates people because of your huge ass ego — I think you suck.
Also, if you're a slimy hairbrain that is targeting our people, and lying to them to try and recruit them into your deal - you suck, too.
Make a note of that.
On your side,
-David Wood
"The Guru Slayer"
- The EN Team
Posted by Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring) on January 01, 2014
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No more self-pity. No more wasting valuable time. The King has given me abundant resources to help spread his kingdom throughout the earth. If I don't use them, he'll remove them from me. I wanna hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
Any one else?
Posted by Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring) on December 20, 2013
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This is a recent talk given by Tom Naughton, the creator of the Fat Head documentary. It's 44 minutes and worth every minute of your time.
Posted by Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring) on December 09, 2013
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This is an interview conducted in 1970. It is pure gold and worth twenty minutes of your time.
Posted by Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring) on October 23, 2013
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This is what I'm learning how to do to make money online. The new platform is so innovative. You can post from a smart phone.
Dave and Dave are pretty rough around the edges, but they're geniuses at marketing.
Posted by David Wood on 10/23/2013 Reblogged By Lisa Brown (Freedom Ring)
I'm going to keep this short...
...tonight, I'm going to lay out a formula for creating wealth online ...blogging.
At 9pm EST, refresh this blog post... in the meantime, go ahead and enjoy the last leadership hangout we did down here at Empower Network.
A few assignments if you're already on the inside...
1. Reblog this post from the members area. Just login here, and from the live feed area, you should see this - hit 'reblog' and write your thoughts about tonight.
2. Put a custom join link in your reblogged version of this post. Making a custom link is easy, it looks like this:
* Obviously, replace 'yourusernamegoeshere' with your Affiliate username.
3. Share the blog post on Facebook, and let the world know about tonight's hangout. I'm going to share some secrets on creating cash online blogging ... the easy way.
4. Be a badass.
Love ya, and see you tonight.
I got to get my whiteboard out, it's getting rusty...
-David Wood
"The Guru Slayer"
* Getting ready to unleash the 'awesome'.
-The EN Team


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Moodley, Dhayendrea; Esterhuizen, Tonya Mb; Pather, Thusiea; Chetty, Vania; Ngaleka, Lindaa
aDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women's Health and HIV Research Unit, South Africa
bProgramme of Biostatistics, Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Congella, South Africa.
Received 24 August, 2008
Revised 2 February, 2009
Accepted 13 February, 2009
Correspondence to Dhayendre Moodley, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women's Health and HIV Research Unit, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu Natal, Private Bag 7, Congella 4013, South Africa. Tel: +27 31 2604684; fax: +27 31 2604753; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Objective: To determine the incidence of HIV during pregnancy as defined by seroconversion using a repeat HIV rapid testing strategy during late pregnancy.
Design: Cross-sectional study nested in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission program
Methods: Pregnant women were retested between 36 and 40 weeks of gestation, provided that they had been tested HIV negative at least 3 months prior.
Results: Among the 2377 HIV-negative women retested, 1099 (46.2%) and 1278 (53.4%) were tested at urban and rural health facilities, respectively. Seventy-two women (3%) were HIV-positive (679 woman years of exposure) yielding a HIV incidence rate of 10.7/100 woman years [95% confidence interval (CI) 8.2–13.1]. HIV incidence in pregnancy was higher but not statistically significant at the urban facilities (12.4/100 woman years versus 9.1/100 woman years) and at least two-fold higher among the 25–29 and 30–34-year age groups (3.8 and 4.5%, respectively) as compared with the less than 20-year age group (1.9%). Single women were at 2.5 times higher risk of seroconverting during pregnancy (P = 0.017).
Conclusion: HIV incidence during pregnancy is four times higher than in the nonpregnant population reported in a recent survey. Public health programs need to continue to reinforce prevention strategies and HIV retesting during pregnancy. The latter also offers an additional opportunity to prevent mother-to-child transmission and further horizontal transmission. Further research is required to understand the cause of primary HIV infection in pregnancy.
The 2007 National Antenatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus survey in South Africa reported an antenatal HIV prevalence of 28% [1]. Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV in South African primary healthcare clinics is offered to pregnant women at their first antenatal visit and despite national recommendations [2], repeat HIV testing of seronegative women at subsequent antenatal visits is rarely implemented and seldom reported. Undetected infections with low HIV antibody levels and newly acquired infections subsequent to the first HIV test and during a pregnancy may largely be missed if VCT is only offered to women at their first or at one antenatal visit. Women who are HIV seronegative in the early stages of pregnancy are at continued risk of seroconverting during pregnancy and breastfeeding [3].
Therefore, this study was aimed at using the repeat HIV testing strategy in pregnancy as an opportunity to determine the incidence of HIV during pregnancy in a country with a high antenatal HIV prevalence and describe the potential risk factors for seroconversion in pregnancy.
This study was nested in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program at one rural and two urban health facilities in each of three provinces in South Africa, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Free State between July 2006 and April 2007. The PMTCT program included pretest counselling, HIV testing by rapid tests and posttest counselling for pregnant women. If women tested HIV positive, they were provided the single-dose nevirapine regimen and infant feeding counselling to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV [2]. If women tested HIV negative at their first antenatal visit, posttest counselling included implications of a negative result, an explanation of the 'window period' and women were advised on the need for a repeat HIV test at least 12 weeks later. Women's HIV status was documented in their antenatal carrier cards in the form of a code to maintain confidentiality.
For the study, pregnant women were screened at a subsequent antenatal visit between 36 and 40 weeks' gestation, and women with a previously documented HIV-negative status were enrolled for HIV retesting. To ascertain whether the potentially eligible women had tested HIV negative more than 12 weeks ago, the date of initial testing was obtained from the antenatal record. A written informed consent was obtained at the subsequent antenatal visit for participation in the retesting study. Following pretest counselling at the study visit, HIV testing continued using two rapid tests (Determine HIV-1/2, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA; and First Response HIV-1/HIV-2 WB, PMC Medical Pty Ltd., Daman, India) according to a serial algorithm. A dried blood spot (DBS) was collected and tested for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as confirmation of HIV status.
Data obtained from antenatal records included gestational age at the first antenatal visit, date of initial HIV testing and the number of pregnancies (including index pregnancy). Study participants self-administered a short structured standard questionnaire that required their educational level and marital status, as well as frequency of sexual activity, number of sexual partners and condom use prior to and during the index pregnancy.
Stata version 10 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA) was used to analyse the data. Categorical risk factors for seroconversion were assessed using Pearson's χ2 (degrees of freedom = 2) test in the total sample and stratified by urban or rural grouping. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Binary logistic regression models were used to assess the independent effects of risk factors for seroconversion.
Regulatory approvals for the study were obtained from the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee, University of KwaZulu-Natal and provincial health authorities.
Between June 2006 and June 2007, 5233 pregnant women registered for antenatal care and 4715 (90.1%) accessed HIV VCT services offered as part of the PMTCT program at the selected primary health facilities in the three provinces. Among the 4715 women who received pretest counselling, 3742 (79.4%) accepted HIV testing. One thousand and fifty-seven women (28.2%) tested HIV positive at their first visit.
Among the 2685 women who tested HIV negative at their first visit, 2377 (88.5%) were referred for participation in the repeat testing study, 1099 (46.2%) and 1278 (53.4%) were retested during pregnancy at urban and rural health facilities, respectively. The median age was 24 years (range 16–47 years), the majority (61.2%) were single, among these 72% were not living with their sexual partner and 75% attained secondary level of education (grades 8–12).
The median gestational age at the first visit was 22 weeks (range 6–41), and the majority (98%, n = 2329) first attended a clinic at 28 weeks of gestational age or less. HIV-negative women were retested at a median gestational age of 36 weeks, 61% (1450) at an age of 30–36 weeks and 39% (927) at an age of more than 36 weeks.
Seventy-two (3%) of the 2377 pregnant women were HIV positive at the repeat test at an average of 24 weeks (range 12–25 weeks) after testing negative at their first visit (679 woman years of exposure) yielding an incidence rate of HIV of 10.7/100 pregnant-woman-years (PWY) [95% confidence interval (CI) 8.2–13.1]. HIV incidence in pregnancy was higher but not statistically significant at the urban (39 HIV infections) facilities as compared with the rural (33 HIV infections) facilities (12.4/100 PWY; 95% CI 8.5–16.3 versus 9.1/100 PWY; 95% CI 5.9–12.1). The incidence risk ratio of urban vs. rural infections was 1.37 (95% CI 0.86–2.17), P = 0.182.
None of the demographic factors was significantly associated with HIV incidence, but several trends were noted. The HIV incidence was at least two-fold higher among the 25–29 and 30–34-year-old groups (3.8 and 4.5%, respectively) as compared with the less than 20-year-old group (1.9%). HIV incidence was lower among women with tertiary education (0.5%) than those with lesser education (3%); single (3.4%) or divorced women were more likely to be at risk for HIV when compared with married women (1.5%, P = 0.017). The HIV incidence was higher among older women in rural areas and younger women in urban areas (Table 1).
Almost 50% of women had never used a condom prior to this pregnancy, and fewer women (40%) used a condom during the pregnancy. Condom usage did not differ between women who seroconverted and those who remained HIV negative (Table 2). At least 20% of women in both groups reportedly had at least two serial sexual partners prior to this pregnancy. Eighty-five percent of the women remained sexually active during pregnancy, though frequency was reduced among all pregnant women (n = 2377) independent of HIV status.
Three percent of pregnant women were HIV positive at the repeat test at an average of 24 weeks following the first test. HIV incidence in pregnancy was higher but not statistically significant in the urban as compared with rural populations. This study also revealed that the HIV incidence was at least more than two-fold higher among the 25–29 and 30–34-year-old women compared with the teenagers. A significantly higher proportion of women who remained HIV-negative had tertiary education or were married. This study revealed that the majority (98%) of South African women first attended a clinic at at least 28 weeks of gestation therefore offering, at a minimum, two additional opportunities for HIV retesting and PMTCT prophylaxis if required.
HIV incidence during pregnancy has been reported in a limited number of Sub-Saharan studies and range between 2.3/100 person years in Uganda and 4.8/100 person years in Zimbabwe [3,4]. The HIV incidence rates in Rakai, Uganda was 2.3/100 person years during pregnancy and 1.3/100 person years during breastfeeding [3]. Using an analysis model in Zimbabwe, the HIV incidence ranged from 1.8 to 3%, and seroconversion is assumed to occur for 4 months during pregnancy and 6 months during breastfeeding [4].
Data from Tanzania and South Africa suggest that approximately 3 and 5.2% of pregnant women who are initially HIV seronegative, seroconvert prior to delivery, respectively [5,6]. Other studies in Brazil and the United States reported HIV incidences of 0.2/100 pregnant women per annum and 5.3/1000 person years, respectively [7,8]. In the MIRIAD study conducted in six United States cities from 2001 to 2005, 11% of the HIV-infected women were shown to have primary infection based on a two-test approach at subsequent intervals, with a minimum of 12 weeks between [9].
The HIV incidence among the South Africa pregnant women in our study is higher than that of the general population reported in a recent study by Rehle et al. [6]. The HIV incidence in our pregnant population could be higher if women seroconverted prior to their first antenatal visit and hence were not included in this study. Rehle et al. also presented a higher HIV incidence in the pregnant population as compared with their nonpregnant counterparts. Similarly, Gray et al. [3] reported a higher HIV incidence among Ugandan pregnant women (2.1%) as compared with nonpregnant lactating women (1.2%). Gray et al. speculate that the higher HIV incidence rate in pregnant women as compared with their nonpregnant counterparts (1.1/100 person years) is independent of behavioral risk and is due to hormonal changes affecting genital tract mucosa or immune response during pregnancy [3]. Our study findings support the lack of behavioral association with seroconversion in pregnancy. Condom use, multiple sex partners and frequency of sexual activity were not significantly different between the HIV-negative and seroconverting pregnant women. Our study, however, had its limitations in further elucidating the association of biological risk factors to include the infectiousness of the sexual partners of pregnant women and vulnerability of women themselves.
Although sexual behavior could be influenced by demographic factors such as age and marital status, both characteristics were strong indicators for HIV susceptibility independent of sexual behavior in our pregnant population. Similar trends of decrease in HIV prevalence in the younger age groups were observed in the South African antenatal survey of 2007 and Malawi between 1999 and 2004 [1,10]. The authors also noted that the trend in HIV prevalence showed a decline in specific age groups of 15–19 and 20–24 years, but a significant incline in the older age groups (30–34 and 35–39 years). A decrease in the incidence of HIV among young primigravid women in India from 2.2/100 person years (95% CI 1.6–3.0) in 2002 to 0.73/100 person years (95% CI 0.5–1.0) in 2006 was attributed to a proportional decrease in high-risk behavior among young married men thereby reducing risk of HIV transmission to their families [11]. Shisana et al. [12] also demonstrated that the risk of HIV infection was significantly higher among unmarried compared with married people when sexual behavior factors were controlled for (odds ratio, 0.55; 95% CI 0.47–0.66).
The HIV incidence in pregnant women in this setting of high HIV prevalence is about four times higher than in women in the general population. Pregnant women continue to represent a vulnerable population, and HIV retesting late in pregnancy or labor offers an additional opportunity to prevent MTCT, prevent further horizontal transmission in the community as well as ensure continued care for women who seroconvert during pregnancy. In light of the above findings, public health programs need revisiting to ensure that HIV retesting in pregnancy is implemented, reinforce the need for continued education on prevention during pregnancy and extend the use of female-controlled prevention methods such as microbicides when proven well tolerated and efficacious during pregnancy.
The authors wish to thank the Centre for Disease Control, South Africa represented by Latasha Treger for the financial support of this study.
We acknowledge the support from the Provincial Head of Department, Management of the Maternal and Women's Health Departments, District Managers, and HAST Coordinators in Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Free State provinces. We greatly appreciate assistance from management and staff of the antenatal clinics, Global Laboratories, Durban for the laboratory support, Mr Samkelo Booi for assistance with the data management, Research Teams at each facility and Prof. S.S.S. Karim (Caprisa-UKZN) for editorial suggestions.
This article has been cited 2 time(s).
HIV seroconversion; incidence; pregnancy; risk factors
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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Evolution of an Ice Climbing Business
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Author and photographer Christina Eriquez will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Milford Historical Society.
The society will hold a short business meeting on Monday at 7 p.m. in Dodd Hall of the Mary Taylor Methodist Church, followed by Eriquez' talk at 7:15.
She will speak on "History Carved in Stone: a Visual Tour of New England Cemeteries." The program is free and open to the public. Eriquez has produced a book, with the same title which will be available for purchase.
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On March 8, 2012, Athletic Bilbao handed Manchester United a 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford.
Placing twice as many shots on target as their hosts and dominating possession, they returned to Basque country with a much-deserved 3-2 win and seven days later completed the double, beating the Red Devils 2-1 at the San Mames to book their spot in the next round of the Europa League.
In neither match did United's midfield even resemble a match for the Primera Division side; on both occasions Javi Martinez and Ander Herrera harassed, dispossessed and simply out-performed their opponents in the middle of the park—a showing that had more than a little to do with Martinez' €40 million move the following summer.
VIDEO: @GuillemBalague brings you the details on the Ander Herrera deal falling through for #MUFC #SkyDeadlineDay https://t.co/mQRyVnzutC— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) September 2, 2013
On Monday, it looked as though it was Herrera's turn to make a high-profile move, and with Manchester United having opened the bidding for him at €30 million earlier in the week, they had only to add €6 million to their offer to trigger the 24-year-old's buyout clause.
But some way, somehow, they managed to mess the whole thing up, adding an embarrassing final chapter to a transfer window story that, despite the late capture of Marouane Fellaini, will provide upsetting reading to the club's fans for some time.
Explanation from #MUFC is that they thought Herrera's buyout was the wrong valuation and couldn't get it down.— Daniel Taylor (@DTguardian) September 2, 2013
Just how they failed to get their man remains unclear, although some of the reports out of Spain that followed the deal's collapse were nothing short of bizarre.
With under four hours remaining until the transfer deadline, and with an additional hour of negotiating time having been agreed (Spain's registration period ended at midnight, while England's finished at 11:00 p.m.), representatives from United were spotted entering the offices of the Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional (LFP), presumably to conclude Herrera's buyout.
But they left without doing so, and while initial reports had the reining Premier League champions unsettled by a tax issue, it later surfaced that the club's representatives were not actually registered to do business with the LFP.
Ander Herrera deal has collapsed. 'Unauthorised representatives of #mufc'; were present at the Spanish League HQ, so says @GuillemBalague— Telegraph Sport (@TelegraphSport) September 2, 2013
Less than an hour later, The Guardian reported United had tabled a €40 million bid for Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira which, once rejected, saw them turn their attention to Everton's Marouane Fellaini, who had handed in a transfer request earlier in the day.
Crumbs now Marca reporting #mufc failed with €40m offer for Khedira...— jamie jackson (@GuardianJamieJ) September 2, 2013
Meanwhile, in an effort to push the transfer through, Herrera reportedly offered to take a pay cut at Old Trafford, although by this time United had adopted the line that his valuation was incorrect. They pulled the plug on the deal and dedicated what time remained in the evening to securing the services of Fellaini, who joined for £27.5 million, and Coentrao, who moved from Real Madrid on a season-long loan.
Reported fee for Fellaini is £27.5 million, £4 million more than his release clause. Looks like Coentrao is done as a years loan.— Simon Clancy (@SiClancy) September 2, 2013
Got to feel sorry for Ander Herrera in all this transfer business, he was happy to take a pay-cut to make a dream move to United.— Craig Norwood (@CraigNorwood) September 2, 2013
Nevertheless, the Herrera debacle casts a shadow over what was a mostly disappointing transfer window for United, who first sought Barcelona's Thiago in an effort to bolster their midfield, and then made failed approaches for each of Cesc Fabregas, Daniele De Rossi, Khedira and Herrera.
At times their intentions during the summer seemed confused, their strategy muddled. And with the club so used to landing their transfer targets there will no doubt be a lingering feeling that former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, in tandem with long-time chief executive David Gill, would have finalized their signings sooner rather than later—succeeding, as they do often did, where Moyes and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward did not.
Another image of those Manchester United reps, this one from Marca. pic.twitter.com/624BrgAATL— Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) September 2, 2013
And that they didn't—that a recognized negotiator with a history of success in big-money transfers wasn't present as they fumbled from one target to the next—is less an indictment on them than on an ownership group and board that hung them out to dry.
Embarrassments such as Herrera are supposed to happen to other clubs—not to United. This is new territory to many United fans, and no doubt they'll not soon forget it.


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Unit Plan
Literature Circles for Reluctant High School Readers
Three lessons that will encourage all of your students to get excited about literature
- Grades: 9–12
How can you get your reluctant readers to actually read the books you assign — or any books at all for that matter? Literature Circles are a wonderful answer to this dilemma, even for the most reluctant of high school readers.
Students will:
- Work in cooperative groups where everyone is involved to read a novel.
- Fulfill their chosen Literature Circle Role(s) to contribute to the group.
- Complete literature responses and participate in the "Technological Grand Conversations."
Lesson Plans for this Unit
Lesson 1: Training Students for Literature Circles
Lesson 2: Literature Circles in Action
Lesson 3: Technological Grand Conversations
Culminating Activity
Students choose between creating a summarization storyboard, a graphic novel of the book (or selected section of the book), performing a scene from the book with a context book talk, or writing a character journal. These projects all demonstrate a connection and comprehension of the novel while giving students a choice in how they are assessed.
Supporting Books
- Part of Collection:
- Subjects:Literature, Reading Response, Literature Appreciation, Journal Writing
- Skills:Reading Comprehension, Writing
- Duration:3 Weeks


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When i get depressed,i tend to eat,mostly sweets.I don't know why does it happen but it makes me feel better...
How can i stop this?My brain is sending false signals to my stomach and i wanna stop this! any of you ever been through this?is there any way to stop it other than medications?
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My mom used to go home after work on a Friday night and eat a huge bag of candy and she'd be comatose for the rest of the weekend.
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I spent the evening thinking of the goals I have for 2012 in terms of my blog and shop. I thought it would be a great time to sift through my blog posts from 2011 and come up with my favorites.
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Defenders In the News
Petitions bearing nearly half a million signatures urging protection of the endangered red wolf made their way to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week, about one year after the USFWS announced it would suspend a program reintroducing red wolves to the wild.The petition drive was organized by the Animal Welfare Institute, Care2, Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Coalition, Wildlands Network and a pair of North Carolina high school students.The only wild population of red wolves on earth, which once ranged throughout the Southeast, is in a five-county area of eastern North Carolina where they were reintroduced. The population includes only 45 red wolves.
Colorado animal-activist groups are outraged by the poisoning of several prairie dog colonies in the city of Monument not only because the prairie dogs are dying, but because other animals may be too. The groups raise concerns for the burrowing owl, a species that is federally designated as endangered, that lives in prairie dog holes, and for other animals that may eat prairie dogs that have been poisoned. They also fear that because prairie dogs are a keystone species, eliminating them will cause the food chain to collapse. However, city of Monument officials dismiss these accusations and say that the public's health is at risk if the animals aren't eliminated.
In a surprise move, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-3 late Wednesday to hold off on having a second bear hunt later this year. The vote marks a major change from last year, when the wildlife commissioners voted 6-1 to go ahead with Florida's first bear hunt in 21 years, which was held in October despite strong public opposition. The change in attitude was made more remarkable by the venue for Wednesday's all-day meeting, the tiny Panhandle town of Eastpoint, where two of Florida's five bear attacks on humans have occurred. Commission executive director Nick Wiley said that was just a coincidence.
Officials with the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife Tuesday petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the tricolored bat under the Endangered Species Act. Like several other North American bat species, the tricolored bat has declined dramatically over the past 10 years due to the fungal disease called white-nose syndrome and is at risk from cave disturbances, habitat loss and wind energy.
Though the gray wolf is indigenous to Colorado, a wild pack hasn't been seen here for nearly a century. The last were killed in the first half of the last century as part of a nationwide campaign — in many cases, encouraged by federal and state bounties — to eradicate the wolf from the American landscape. Since the mid-1990s, however, active efforts to restore the wolf to areas both north and south of Colorado have brought about a resurgence of the animal. Stable packs now make their homes in Yellowstone National Park, as well as parts of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona.
"We should be grandfathered in." That's how the manager of the Lower Yellowstone Project irrigation district in Montana put it. His farmers have been using a dam on the river to supply water to their fields since time immemorial—or for 112 years, anyway—and see no reason to change. But the pallid sturgeon would certainly say it should be grandfathered in too. The monster fish has depended on the river for 78 million years, roughly since Tyrannosaurus rex ruled this region. The problem is that the farmers and their timber-and-rock dam are now killing off the sturgeon. Intake Dam is an unimpressive structure, located near Glendive, Montana, just before the Yellowstone River joins the Missouri River. The dam—really just a weir—stretches for 700 feet across the Yellowstone but does not even rise above the water surface in some seasons. The irrigation district has to pile on new stones each year just to make it back up enough water for its purposes.
Volunteer researchers have gathered more information on one of the most elusive and rarest of Montana's wild animals. The Wolverine Watchers program spent from December through April looking for wolverines, fishers and other forest mammals. Defenders of Wildlife and 150 volunteers set up wildlife monitoring stations form Florence to the south end of Hamilton in the Bitterroot and Sapphire Mountains. It partnered with Forest Service biologists who are studying animals in the southern Bitterroot National Forest. Wolverines are shy predators known to live in Montana's high country. They are rare.
Last Nov. 1, about 400 spectators watched in delight as 10 huge, shaggy bison rumbled out of a holding corral onto 1,000 acres of windy shortgrass prairie, 30 miles north of Fort Collins, Colorado. The fenced grassland here is part of some 32,000 acres of city and county natural areas stretching from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains. Local managers plan to gradually expand the herd's range to 2,500 acres as it grows through a combination of natural reproduction and more reintroductions. The herd already has its own Facebook page and, of course, a limited-release commemorative microbrew, Prairie Thunder Imperial Brown Ale.The release restores the bison to the merest sliver of the species' vast historic range, and yet it represents a major conservation success. These animals are descended from the bison in Yellowstone National Park, the only population to survive wholesale slaughter by settlers during the late 19th century, and the last major reservoir of bison genes that have not been polluted by cattle DNA from cross-breeding.
Defenders of Wildlife has walked off the Red Wolf Recovery Team, claiming it's headed for a "dead end," meeting only once in the past five months. The only wild population of red wolves on earth is in a five-county area of eastern North Carolina where they were reintroduced. The population includes only 45 red wolves. Environmental groups had contested the N.C. Wildlife Resource Commission's management of the nearly extinct population, even filing a lawsuit to restrict coyote hunting in red wolf territory to avoid red wolves being mistaken for coyotes and shot.
Bill Moore isn't surprised that Oregon's wolf population has surpassed 100 for the first time since the animals returned to the state about a decade ago. Indeed Moore, who raises cattle near Unity in southern Baker County, believes there are far more than 100 wolves roaming the state. "You can't count all of them," said Moore, a past president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association. "I think we've already got considerably more wolves than their estimate." The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), which manages wolves in the state and compiles the annual population estimate, doesn't discount that possibility.


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Hafdis Huld leaves quirk
For some major folk tune-age.
Succeeds beautifully.
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Gist: If the rest are the country's stars, she is the Icelandic sun.
Download: "Joga," "Pagan Poetry," "Hyper-Ballad," "Crying," "Pluto," "Desired Constellation," "Wanderlust" and "Enjoy."
Gist: Contemporary folk wonder with volcanic emotion.
Download: "Sunny Road," "Jungle Drum," "Unemployment In Summertime," "Dead Duck," "Me & Armini" and "Tuna Fish."
Gist: Icelandic quirk delivered at its best and most loopy
Download: "Who Loves The Sun," "Pop Song," "Plastic Halo," "Könguló," "Tomoko," "Synchornised Swimmers" and "Litlar Stjörnur."
Gist: Dream pop before it was invented.
Download: "Green Grass Of Tunnel," "Nightly Cares," "They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded," "Marmalade Fires" and "Prophecies And Reversed Memories."
Gist: Winter darkness is long in Iceland, this is the remedy.
Download: "Jolene," "Please Don't Hate Me," "By And By" and "Farewell Good Night's Sleep."
Gist: Reykjavik melancholy captured by folk-inspired sextet.
Download: "Seoul," "Hilli (At The Top Of The World)," "Over & Again" and "What Are We Waiting For?"
Gist: Another folk chanteuse supported by Bjork.
Download: "Surrender," "Jonathan," "Close My Eyes" and "Solitary Man."
Gist: Overtly emotive band with rock mentality and alternative swagger.
Download: "Gobbledigook," "Hoppípolla," "Sæglópur" and "Ára bátur"
Gist: New artist born out of an arranged marriage between the feisty Lykke Li and the melancholic Agnes Obel.
Download: "I'll Drown" and "Pretty Face."
Gist: Their unabashed knack for Eurovision pop proves that Iceland is definitely a part of Scandinavia.
Download: "Let That Body Breathe," "Ticking Like A Bomb" and "Monster (Eat Me)"
Outside The Ring is the fifth solo album by Friðrik Ómar, but the first one originally written by himself. Young at age he started to write music, but in his home country Iceland he is more known for his great vocal ability and his nice voice which has ranked him as the one the best singers in Iceland. On his new album you find very nicely arranged melodies which Friðrik Ómar sings seamlessly. The songs are 10 in total. Friðrik Ómar co-writes three with Stefán Örn Gunnlaugsson and Karl O. Olgeirsson. The lyrics are made by Friðrik Ómar, Peter Fenner, Alma Goodman and Steinn Steinarr, the beloved icelandic poet. The theme song of the album is "Outside the ring", a poet by Steinn Steinarr, translated by Jón Óttar Ragnarsson but written by Friðrik Ómar. Great album that has got well deserved attention.


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Employ spontaneous mobile networks that are reliable and highly secure. Cisco 5940 Embedded Services Routers operate even in harsh environments, such as those with rough terrain and extreme weather.
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- Are designed for use in harsh environments
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- Are complemented by Cisco IOS Software and Cisco Mobile Ready Net capabilities
Cisco 5940 ESRs also provide highly secure and scalable data, voice, and video communications to stationary and mobile network nodes across wired and wireless links.
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The Cisco 5940 ESR:
- Supports multiple applications while running concurrently over wired or wireless networks
- Solves critical size, weight, and power challenges
- Offers onboard hardware encryption to offload encryption processing from the router
- Provides investment protection for bandwidth-intensive applications
These high-performance routers also include four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and a comprehensive Cisco IOS Software feature set. These components help protect your investment in deploying bandwidth-intensive applications in mobile or embedded networks in markets such as:
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I had the same revelation yesterday.
It's the same "Booty Dancing" that was done to the Miami inspired music from groups like The 69 Boys; 95South, 2 Live Crew back in the 90s. The kids now have just renamed it and added it to the foolishness like Planking, Batmanning, etc
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The Dallas Mavericks look to go up 3-1 on the San Antonio Spurs tonight when the two teams battle at American Airlines Arena for Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs first round series. The Dallas Mavericks took a 2-1 lead in the NBA Western Conference Playoffs with a dramatic 109-108 home win Saturday when Vince Carter hit a fadeaway three pointer to win the game.
Vince Carter caught an inbound pass from Jose Calderon on the left sideline, Carter pump- faked Manu Ginobili in the corner and let the shot fly as he fell out of bounds.
After it went in, Carter stomped on the court and was mobbed by teammates. Dirk Nowitzki put him in a headlock. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban rushed to give him a hug.
However, Dallas is already focusing on Game 4.
Vince Carter said, "I think it's behind us now. It was just a great opportunity. I mean, it was just great to come in and everybody was like, Hey, man, it still was a great shot. But once practice started we kind of put that past us and we prepped ourselves for tomorrow, because this is just as big as Game 3."
Monta Ellis led the Mavericks with 29 points, followed by 18 from Nowitzki. Calderon chipped in 16 and Samuel Dalembert gave Dallas a lift with 13 points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots.
Tim Duncan from the Spurs had 22 points and led the way for the Spurs. Tony Parker netted 19 and Kawhi Leonard finished with 17. Tiago Splitter registered a double-double with 14 points and 13 boards, while Ginobili managed 12.
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As focused as the Dallas Mavericks are for Game 4, the Spurs were as pragmatic about what happened at the end of Game 3.
"Vince made a shot. Manu guarded him, he did it well and Vince made a shot Give him credit. There was no breakdown or anything like that. Manu was right there and he did everything he could. Vince knocked it down," said Gregg Popovich.
The Spurs had won 10 in a row over the Mavs prior to the Game 2 loss. Now, they're staring at a very difficult situation, should they lose Game 4 on Monday night.
San Antonio could be the sixth No. 1 seed to lose to an eighth seed in the first round. The Spurs fell to the Memphis Grizzlies in this situation three years ago. Let's Go Mavs! The Legendary Swish Icon is the good luck charm for the Dallas Mavericks.
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Clark Howard & WTIC Live in ManchesterToday WTIC NewsTalk 1080 hosted a special presentation by financial expert Clark Howard. The presentation included a live Q&A with 100 lucky listeners in attendance, and will be recorded for use in a future installment of Clark's radio program. Take a look at these photos from the event, as Clark Howard meets Ray Dunaway and a room full of WTIC listeners!


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Effective SEO for nonprofits keywords should help boost your small charity website or to implement for your business strategy in the search engine rankings so that more potential donors and advocates can find your site online.
Search engine optimization is not that difficult once you do your homework. Fortunately, there are many resources available online to educate you on the SEO process, but keep in mind that advice for commercial SEO doesn't always work for nonprofits and vice versa. Looking at references which are specifically written for the nonprofit sector is probably your best source of advice on SEO.
One example of a useful resource is the 30 Day Guide to Search Engine Optimization which was posted on Wild Apricot, and another is SEOBook.org by Aaron Wall. Small charities which can't afford to hire professional SEO services can come up with their own effective SEO keywords based on free website analytics and business strategy reports.


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Every life has a story even though it is an ordinary one. Yesterday was miserable, today is good, tomorrow will surely be better...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
A bunch of flowers given to me by my hubby with a card saying "You made it despite of various constraints! Graduation doesn't mean just an end. Every end is another start. You have just opened a new door in front of you. Congratulations! "
The day before the commencement ceremony, I had a slight headache probably because of a long nap or an allergic hey fever. But anyway the next morning, I graduated from University of Air in Psychology and Education; it took me 5 years to get the diploma though...
Now I would like to extend my great appreciation to everyone who supported me in various ways throughout my school life, particularly Tabor, one of the bloggers I met on the internet world 8 years ago, who gave me a supportive push at the beginning.
I started expressing myself here in this blog in 2004. 12 years is quite some time, isn' it? Posting is always done in English, which is my second language, so that far more people can read compared to postings in Japanese. Recently I don't post so frequently but I have met many bloggers here so far and the number of the readers now is over 70, which is remarkable!
If my memory is right, Tabor is the first foreigner who left a comment to my posting.
Her comment was very impressive and convincing.
Here I would like to express special thanks to her by sharing my posting back on September 3, 2004 and her comment to it with bloggers
In this season, students in the States go back to school.
After a long vacation with various events like summer camp or internship program, college students head back to school.
Preparing for the new school year is kind of exciting. Stocking up on new school equipment, buying autumn clothes, and even packing with a lot of food and sweets.
Imagine yourself being on campus! Imagine yourself seeing your friends again! Imagine yourself living in a new dorm with a new roommate! How exciting!
It's been quite for a while since I left campus. I wish I could be there again as a student.
I know it's almost impossible, but if possible, if I have a chance, I do want to study counseling psychology at college either in Japan or the States. This is one of my dreams.
Tabor said...
That dream is certainly possible, and if it something you really wish for...don't let it slip away. This dream can come true!
3 years later I enrolled at the university and graduated from it this spring.
My dream finally completed.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Ami, Child of the Stars
Finished reading a little while ago. It was an interesting and convincing concept to me that we have 2 brains, one in head and the other in mind, and keeping a good balance between them is very important.
Education nowadays, I think, focuses too much on intellectual development. We should take a look more at social and emotional development.
The original title is "Ami, el niño de las estrellas" Translated into 11 different languages and I read the Japanese edition. Momoko Sakura's illustration was really cute.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Momo's First Girl's Day
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I Believe in Being a Kid
I believe in being a kid. Today's world is full of over-eager parents and competitions to cross the finish line. But where is that finish line? Life is not about breaking through the red ribbon or lapping your peers on the race track. I believe life is about enjoying what you have while you have it.
I don't mean you should shirk responsibilities, but you should enjoy what you are doing while you are doing it, like kids do. When I was younger, I was always encouraged (and sometimes forced) to amuse myself outside. "Run around, kick a soccer ball, do anything!" my mom would say. And we did. We played thousands of soccer games on our slanted backyard field, kicked numerous waterlogged balls into our neighbor's bushes, and engineered new sports around the obstacles that littered our yard.
But my sister and I, along with our neighbors, also played with our imaginations outside. We made rings out of the elegant Japanese maple leaves, sculpted pinch-pots from red clay dug up from behind the bushes, climbed trees, played tag, made movies, and built elaborate cities complete with shops, jails, and currency. Our money consisted of birch bark, pine cones, and walnuts. We even had a constitution.
Even rainy days were filled with fun, spending them expanding our Lego empires on the vast expanses of our blue tile basement. On the unbearably hot days, we had water fights with hoses and set up a chilling water slide into a grassy blow-up pool. On summer nights, we had sleepovers in gigantic tents, stuffing our faces with marshmallows and telling campfire stories.
The arrival of winter brought excitement as well. We played in the snow until we lost all feeling in our fingers and toes. After the first snowfall, we'd decorate our backyard with snow forts and ice castles and snowmen. We would sled down the endless hills on the Penn State golf course, and laugh at the maintenance workers who would tell us to get off.
Now I look back on those days and wish I were still living in them. Every time I get frustrated, I revisit those days of squishing mud between my fingers. I'm 16 now, no longer driving toy trucks in my backyard, but driving a real car. My mind is stuffed with worries about finals, what college to get into, and getting a job. I no longer hate to go to bed at night, but long for its comfort. When my world seems to be crashing down, I stop and think about the rain, the trees, the sky, and the clouds. I remember to catch snowflakes and to be in awe over their beauty, to run barefoot through my backyard, and to jump through the sprinkler after a long run. I remember to watch a bee pollinate a lilac flower without worrying about being stung. I forget about the race to the finish line. I let my mind be consumed by the wonders of life, just like kids do. I believe in being a kid.
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Cherokee Association churches witness with Christmas paradecomment (0)
January 5, 2006
By Scott Barkley
It was December 2004 when Grady Rhinehart of Rock Run was talking with some friends about the Christmas parades held in the nearby towns of Piedmont and Centre.
"Someone mentioned about Rock Run having a Christmas parade and I said, 'Why not?'," Rhinehart recalled.
Three weeks later, the parade became a reality as several churches in Cherokee Baptist Association joined together. The 2004 Christmas parade was the first in memory for this small, rural community.
One year later, the result of that conversation has doubled in size and spawned witnessing opportunities for several rural churches in northeast Alabama.
Rhinehart, a member of Rock Run Baptist Church, is among those who organized and spearheaded the 2005 Christmas parade, held Dec. 17.
"Things went even better this year," he said. "We had a great turnout with about 70 entrants and 175 people involved. The Lord blessed us with good weather and everything."
If it could be driven, then it was welcome in the parade as long as lights were on it. Church vans, four-wheelers and trucks rolled down County Road 29, beginning at Rock Run Baptist. Rhinehart drove a John Deere tractor, pulling a flatbed trailer covered in 9-year-olds.
"Any kid in the community could be on it," he said. "We had some 90 year olds driving tractors in this."
Rock Run Baptist Pastor Bobby Kirk said the close-knit community has become even closer because of the event. "It's a community project and wonderful way to advertise the churches," he said. "With the $5 entry fee for each float last year, we were able to purchase a defibrillator for our local churches to use."
Kirk estimated that about 70 families live in Rock Run.
Cherokee Association Director of Missions Wendell Dutton believes all of them were either in the parade or standing along the two-mile parade route that evening.
"I drove the associational van, and we tossed 130 packets of candy with tracts in them," he said. "If I'd prepared 200, I could've used them all."
Dutton credits Kirk with using the parade as an opportunity for Intentional Evangelism.
"The association has six churches in the area ... and they all participated in one way or another," he said. "It gave us the opportunity to come out and meet people who might not normally go to church and put a tract in their hands."
The effort also reaches across denominational lines. Union Grove United Methodist in Piedmont serves as the end point of the route and jointly sponsors the post-parade chili supper held at Rock Run Baptist.
"We wanted the Lord to be in this," Rhinehart said.


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Bizarro fiction
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works. The term was adopted in 2005 by the independent publishing companies Eraserhead Press, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Afterbirth Books. Much of its community revolves around Eraserhead Press, which is based in Portland, Oregon, and has hosted the BizarroCon yearly since 2008. The introduction to the first Bizarro Starter Kit describes Bizarro as "literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store" and a genre that "strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read."[1] According to Rose O'Keefe of Eraserhead Press: "Basically, if an audience enjoys a book or film primarily because of its weirdness, then it is Bizarro. Weirdness might not be the work's only appealing quality, but it is the major one."[2]
In general, Bizarro has more in common with speculative fiction genres (such as science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) than with avant-garde movements (such as Dadaism and surrealism), which readers and critics often associate it with.[3] While the genre may place an emphasis on the cult and outre, it is not without critical praise. Books by authors who have identified or have been identified as Bizarro have been praised by Lloyd Kaufman,[4] Michael Moorcock[5] and guardian.co.uk.[6] Bizarro novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award,[7][8] the Bram Stoker Award,[9] and the Rhysling Award.[10] A book of Bizarro criticism and theory was named Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2009 by 3:AM Magazine in Paris[11]
Bizarro literature can trace its roots at least as far back as the foundation of Eraserhead Press in 1999,[12] but the description of the literature as "Bizarro" is a more recent development. Previous terms used to refer to the burgeoning scene include "irreal"[13][14] and "new absurdism",[14] but neither of these was used broadly. On 19 June 2005, Kevin Dole II released "What The Fuck is This All About", a sort of manifesto for the then unnamed genre.[2][15][16] While the essay does not feature the word "Bizarro," subsequent discussion about the essay led to the name as well as the inauguration of the Mondo Bizarro Forum.
In his essay, "The Nab Gets Posthumously Bizarroized",[17] Tom Bradley traces the genre's roots back in literary history to the time of Vladimir Nabokov's "gogolization," and his cry of despair and horror at having his central nervous system colonized: "...after reading Gogol, one's eyes become gogolized. One is apt to see bits of his world in the most unexpected places."[18] Bradley claims the Bizarro movement is continuing and fulfilling that gogolization process, under the name "Bizarroization": "...we have been completing the preposterous project which [Nabokov] took over from Gogol nearly a hundred years ago.."[17] Bradley further asserts that Bizarro writers can trace their spiritual roots back to the letters which Ovid wrote while exiled on the Black Sea.[19][20]
Author John Skipp and fellow small press author Eden Robins have written in praise of the do it yourself, self-promoting aesthetic.[21][22] Thirdeye Magazine, an online zine, reinforces the perception of Bizarro writing as purposefully absurd.[23] In the io9 article "Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future," co-editor Charlie Anders praised Bizarro publisher Eraserhead Press as one of their favorite independent presses.[24]
The British magazine Dazed & Confused stated that "The bastard sons of William Burroughs and Dr. Seuss, the underground lit cult of the Bizarros are picking up where the cyberpunks left off."[25]
Wonderland Book Award[edit]
The Wonderland Book Award honors the best in bizarro fiction each year. The award recognizes two categories: best novel/novella and best short story collection. The award is voted on[26] by bizarro authors and fans, and presented in the fall at BizarroCon.
Best Short Story Collection[edit]
2015: The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert – Rios de la Luz
2014: I'll Fuck Anything that Moves and Stephen Hawking – Violet LeVoit
2013: Time Pimp – Garrett Cook
2012: All-Monster Action – Cody Goodfellow
2011: We Live Inside You – Jeremy Robert Johnson[27]
2010: Lost in Cat Brain Land – Cameron Pierce[28]
2009: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars – Cody Goodfellow
2008: Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere – Mykle Hansen
2007: 13 Thorns – Gina Ranalli
Best Novel/Novella[edit]
2015: Skullcrack City – Jeremy Robert Johnson
2014: Dungeons & Drag Queens – MP Johnson
2013: Motherfucking Sharks – Brian Allen Carr
2012: Space Walrus – Kevin L. Donihe
2011: Haunt – Laura Lee Bahr[27]
2010: By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends – J. David Osborne[29]
2009: Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland – Carlton Mellick III
2008: House of Houses – Kevin L. Donihe[30]
2007: Dr. Identity – D. Harlan Wilson[31]
See also[edit]
- ^ The Bizarro Starter Kit. Bizarro Books, 2006. p.5
- ^ a b O'Keefe, Rose (2 October 2005). "Bizarro FAQs – What is BIZARRO? – Discussion Areas – Mondo Bizarro – Message Board". Yuku. Retrieved 22 October 2010. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Bizarro_FAQs" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Randy Henderson (21 April 2010). "Fantasy Magazine » Bizarro Fiction 101: Not Just Weird for Weird's Sake". Fantasy Magazine. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Kevin Touch (21 May 2010). "Ass Goblins of Auschwitz at horroryearbook.com". horroryearbook. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Michael Moorcock (15 June 2010). "Curiouser and curiouser". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Damien G Walter (16 July 2010). "Bizarro fiction: it's terribly good". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "The Philip K. Dick Award – winners by year". Philip K. Dick Award. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "Steve Aylett Website - interviews section - WWW.STEVEAYLETT.COM". STEVEAYLETT.COM. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "Horror Writers Association – Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Mike Allen. "Rhysling Anthology and Awards: 2007". Science Fiction Poetry Association. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Put It Down in a Book by Tom Bradley, The Drill Press, 2009
- ^ "About « Eraserhead Press". Eraserhead Press. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Blu Gilliand (1 August 2009). "Dark Scribe Magazine – Feature Interviews – D. Harlan Wilson: Keeping It Irreal". Dark Scribe Magazine. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
- ^ a b Stephen Thompson (19 August 2008). "The Specusphere – Irrealism and the Bizarro movement". The Specusphere. Retrieved 22 October 2010. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "The_Specusphere_-_Irrealism_and_the_Bizarro_movement" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Kevin Dole 2 (24 August 2007). "So What the Fuck Is This All About?". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "Kevin Dole 2". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ a b Bradley, Tom. "The Nab Gets Posthumously Bizarroized". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Gogol, Nikolai (1995). The Overcoat and The Nose. Translated by Ronald Wilks. Penguin Books.
- ^ Bradley, Tom (2008), The Dream People
- ^ Bradley, Tom (2009). Put It Down in a Book. The Drill Press. pp. 3–19.
- ^ John Skipp (21 March 2008). "BIZARRO-MANIA!!!". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 21 March 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Eden Robins (23 November 2009). "Bizarro Fiction: Stout Hearts and Strong Stomachs". Ecstatic Days. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Jeff Siwanowicz (3 November 2007). "It Came From Below The Belt". Thirdeye Magazine. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Charlie Anders (20 November 2009). "Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future". io9. Gawker Media. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ Dazed & Confused, September 2007, p. 64
- ^ "Wonderland Book Award – Final Ballot 2015". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ a b "Wonderland Book Award winners announced!". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "2010 Wonderland Book Award". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "2010 Wonderland Book Award". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "House of Houses by Kevin L. Donihe | Odd Things Considered". www.oddthingsconsidered.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "D. Harlan Wilson". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "Steve Aylett". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Tom Bradley". Bizarro Central. Archived from the original on 8 December 2009. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Jeff Burk". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Chris Genoa". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Eckhard Gerdes". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Carlton Mellick III". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Cameron Pierce". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Bradley Sands". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "Bruce Taylor". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ^ "D. Harlan Wilson". Bizarro Central. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
External links[edit]
- General
- Publishers
- Publications


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|B&B: Bill asks Brooke for Help; airs wk 10/8
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|Oct 5 2012, 08:56 AM Post #1
Bill is at a loss when Katie's postpartum behavior takes a turn. They are home and what should be a joyous time, it is not. Katie has become very withdrawn and not bonding with the baby. So he reaches out to the one person he thinks can help, Brooke. He hopes Brooke can help bring her out of this funk because he's not getting through to her. Diamont says, Bill is not really a guy that likes to ask for help but stakes are very high. Between finding out about his antics with Deacon and the stress of the baby, Katie has become very fragile. Bill puts his differences with the Forresters aside for his wife, plus Bill has been there for Brooke in the past, not counting that Katie is her sister.
For more pick up the October 15th issue of SOD.
|Oct 6 2012, 09:50 AM Post #2
Can I just say...."HELLZ YES!" to this shiz. Cause you know this means Brooke and Dollar-mother-f***n Bill are going to have the most scandalicious affair. That would be hot, that would be friggin fabulous to see Brooke vs. Katie. If I'm right, this will be epic. Plus, it is smart for Bell. Cause everyone will want to see Ridge's reaction when he finds out. And - oh no! - Moss quit. Gotta see Ridge's reaction, therefore must re-cast. Oh so sadly.
Brooke's new arch-enemy and the shows new main rivals are Brooke vs. Katie. That's pretty hot. But I'm stoned so probably not. And hey, that rhymed!. But it's still better than the BEST page of MAB's stank ass! Her ass is lucky bitches can't go to jail for creative TREASON. The heifer is a SOAP TERRORIST! I didn't think anything would make me happier than when we took Osama out, well...when Sony and CBS told Maria "How does workin for MOCA full time sound? Well bitch you gon' find out! Security! In the name of Chipmunks and the continual RAPE of Sharon's character, get this hack the hell outta here! And I'll give you a bonus if you hoist this ho up by her ugly shoes and THROW her incompetent ass out the door. Preferably into moving traffic.
|Oct 6 2012, 11:14 AM Post #3
Well, you can forget that I have read Brooke and Dr. Meade will have an affair. I don't know if Brooke will be sick and meets the Doctor or what is going on...they meet and they become a couple. LOL!!!
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The surgeons listed above are members of The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, licensed by the state of Indiana and certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS).
Choose Your Plastic Surgeon Carefully
Remember, any licensed physician is legally allowed to advertise as a "cosmetic" surgeon, even if he or she has no formal surgical training. Your body is nothing to take chances with, so avoid the risk. Selecting a board-certified plastic surgeon from this list is your assurance that your doctor has the highest quality training and advanced surgical skills.
ABPS Certification and ASAPS Membership Matters
The ABPS is recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties to certify doctors in the specialty of plastic surgery. Following medical school, ABPS-certified plastic surgeons must have completed a minimum of 5 years of surgical training, including an accredited plastic surgery residency program. Members of ASAPS must be in at least their third year of active practice following ABPS certification.