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Now Samuel Johnson is pulling the plug. As he told The Panel - and, some time ago, he told Phil Webster - he's letting his various advertising contracts run out.
Webster, a producer and engineer who runs Risk Sound recording studios in Port Melbourne, where he makes ads for "everything from corporations to condoms" - says many actors have qualms about doing voice work for commercials, and will tend to take jobs on the sly. But Johnson isn't one of them.
"He isn't precious . . . rather, I think it's now starting to get in the way of his acting and the time he has available. He doesn't really have qualms about it. As a twentysomething, he has a good start to life as far as the bank balance goes."
Did Johnson become over-exposed? "Well, take someone like Sigrid Thornton. She's done a little bit of it [voiceover work]. But she's so talented with her voice, most listeners wouldn't recognise her. But it got to the stage with Sammy, there were so many commercials with the same voice, and then he does The Secret Life of Us ... and suddenly people could put a face and name to the voice and it came out of the cupboard, so to speak."
So if Sammy's cool, but out of the game, who's the next voiceover star? On the one hand, Webster can name a few up-and-comers.
"Like Angus Samson, an incredibly talented young man. Where Sammy is . . . Sammy, Angus uses a range of voices. And he's having a lot of fun seeing what he can do with them."
Angus who? Angus Samson: he does the breakfast show on 3RRR, and plays the cheery wog brother in Greeks on the Roof.
But he is possibly most loved for his naughty drongo character in Maggi Snack Stop commercials. The one where he says: "Your gran . . . she's another hairy one who likes it." (Samson has also starred in ads for Cadbury, Razamatazz stockings, the Yellow Pages and Scienceworks.)
On the other hand, Phil Webster says the voiceover game is no longer confined to the professional entertainer - and the next star could well be your garbage man or bus driver.
"Actually, there is a fellow called Peter Davis who was a coach driver . . . and we've used him for quite a few commercials - for VicHealth, Tattersall's, the White Pages. He's good at playing dads. He's a real everyday bloke with a lovely personality.
"Thirty years ago, it was very much a closed shop. There were about a dozen people in Melbourne who got all the work, including a few actors.
"These days, there are more actors trying to get voice work- and we're using more 'real' people.
"Like Peter Davis - he was doing a bit of amateur theatre when someone suggested he come and see us. That was about five years ago.
"We just put him in front of a microphone and put his voice on file (in a digital library)."
Webster has about 900 voices on file - "men, women and children . . . and a good number of them being actors looking for work".
"But we're always looking for someone new, someone fresh or a bit different.
"In fact, I wake up to a different radio station just in case there's a new voice out there."
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Prescott Valley, AZ (The Weekly Vice) – Kenneth Hook, a 41-year-old Prescott Valley man was jailed after he allegedly fled naked from police after a stop for suspected DUI.
According to Prescott Valley police, Hook was stopped by a K9 officer around 9:30 p.m. Friday for speeding. The officer suspected that Hook was intoxicated and took him into custody.
Hook told the officer that he had a seizure disorder, and he was taken to Yavapai Regional Medical Center East Campus for treatment.
The officer left the hospital for a short time, and when he returned to finish his investigation, he saw Hook walk out of the ambulance entrance, wearing only his hospital gown.
When the officer tried to speak to hook, he ran full-sprint into a barbed-wire fence and flipped over it, which ripped off his gown, leaving him completely nude.
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Kenneth Hook was being a punk,
The night he was caught driving drunk;
He should have jumped higher,
His gown hung on the barbed wire;
Damn lucky the gown not his junk.
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lol! Good one Ida.
The mental image I get from this is both hilarious and terrifying!
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You are on your game today Ida!
Captain Hook should have stayed away from Capitan Morgan.
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lesson learned...the rule of avoiding open fields while running from the cops apply if clothed or naked
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I hear Arizona is beautiful this time of year; Brisk walks in the nude are a must! Unlike here in Chicago, you don't want any part of your skin exposed to the elements...
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Since I have seen him naked, it definitely would have been nice to watch. ;)
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Gujarat Polls: Will Rahul's 'gandhigiri' shadow Modi's 'rajneeti'?
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Ahmedabad: Voting has ended for the Gujarat assembly elections 2012 on Monday with millions casting their ballot at 23, 318 polling booths at KutchBSE 4.96 %, north and central Gujarat in the second and final phase of the elections.
Elections in the second phase were held in 95 of the 182 constituencies.
8am: Long queues at polling booths across the state. Seems it would be more than the first phase.
8.15am: Jagruti Pandya. widow of former minister of state for Home Haren Pandya, casts vote after visiting a temple. Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) of Keshubhai Patel has fielded Jagruti from Ellisbridge seat in Ahmedabad.
8.10am:Congress veteran and former Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela exercises his franchise after paying obeisance at a temple. "The record turnout in phase-I shows the wave is in Congress favour. Anti-incumbency haunts BJP and will doom the party. The Congress will win 122 out of 182 assembly seats in Gujarat," says Vaghela .
8.15am: EVM machine of booth number 310 of Memnagar goes out of order.
8.16am: Narendra Modi's strongman and former home minister Amit Shah casts vote from Naranpura.
8.18am: Huge crowd gathers outside at Nishan school under Ranip polling station where Modi will cast vote shortly
8.20am: Education minister Ramanlal Vora casts ballot from Isar constituency.
8.21am: "I am fighting for truth amd will emerge victorious... I'm doing this very seriously, nobody takes such a decision in jest," says Shweta Bhatt, wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, before casting her vote from high-profile Maninagar constituency.
8.25am: Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas and Sports Minister Fakirbhai Raghabhai Vaghela cast vote.
8.30am: Congress candidate from Godhra CK Raulji casts ballot.
8.40: "Patel voters were with BJP and will always remain with us, they willnever accept Keshubhai's GPP. I will win with a margin of 1 lakh votes this time. Change in constituency won't affect my prospects," says Revenue Minister Anandiben Patel after casting vote.
8.55am: EC mulls action against BJP leader Amit Shah for allegedly violating the model code of conduct by taking out a procession after the poll campaign deadline had ended.
9am: Average 9% voting in 1 hour. Experts feel the today's turnout will break the first phase record.
910am: Modi's mother Hiraben backs him for prime minister's post after casting vote in Gandhinagar.
9.15am:Modi tweets, "Going to cast my vote for Gujarat Elections 2012. Let's vote and break our own record of the 1st phase!"
9.30am: EC contemplates issuing a notice to Modi for making adverse remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi during a 3D appearance on Friday.
Modi, while addressing 53 public meetings simultaneously, ridiculed Sonia as having "lost her mental balance" and also did not spare her son and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi either, warning him to "watch his tongue".
9.50am: Modi casts vote at Ranip constituency, amid thunderous applause from hundreds of his supporters and fans who shouted "dekho dekho kaun aaya. Gujarat ka sher aaya!" (Look who has come. It's Gujarat's lion).
"Iam cent percent sure that we will get a thumping majority in the elections. Just look at the surging crowd? This shows how pupular the BJP government is. Gujaratis will bring our government back to power," Modi said, flashing his trademark victory sign.
On his PM ambitions, he said, "I will continue to work for 6 crore Gujaratis... This is also a service to the nation. Gujarat is part of India."
10am: Congress legal cell files a complaint against Gujarat CM Narendra Modi for breaching of code of conduct by "voting in a procession'.
10.10am: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on the way to meet Modi at Ahemdabad party office.
10.40am:The high-voltage elections have led to a nationwide frenzy, with Modi's PR dominating Twitter trends for most part of the day.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi (Vote4Modi), BJP, Gujarat, his Maninagar constituency and NaMo TV channel remained trending on Twitter throughout the day.
11am: 21% turnout in first three hours, voters' surge continues. Sabarkantha district registered the highest turnout of 18%, followed by Kutch 15%.
11.15am: 78-year-old man dies of cardiac arrest after casting vote in Navavadaj area of Ahmedabad.
11.25am: 4 bogus EVMs found from BJP supporters at Anjar, Kutch. Investigations underway.
11.30am: Governor Kamla Beniwal and Chief Electoral Officer Anita Karwal cast vote in Ahmedabad.
11.50am: BJP MLA Jetha Bharwad admitted to hospital in a serious condition after his bodyguard fired at him in Shehara constituency. Three others were also injured in the incident at Tarsang village.
He was recently caught watching porn in the assembly.
After Karnataka ,another porn scandal allegedly involving BJP MLAs in Gujarat came to fore in March. Two BJP MLAs, including Bharwad and Shankar Choudhury, were allegedly caught watching porn clips on their tablets during assembly proceedings.
12noon: RM Patel, former IAS babu & BJP candidate from Asarwa, files complaint against Congress workers.
12.30pm: Trouble at Ellisbridge constituency in Ahmedabad after electronic voting machines conk off at five polling booths.
12.55pm: Samarjitsinh Gaekwad, Maharaja of Vadodara, says, "Good to see huge turnout. Results of election would be interesting."
1.pm: Mansa registers record 54% polling till 1pm, followed by Gandhinagar North 51%, Karjan 48%, Kapadvanj 47%, Matar 46%, Vejalpur 45%, Banaskantha 44%, Sabarkantha 41%, Maninagar 34.5%, Mehmedabad 33%, Kutch 32%, Thasra 28% and Balasinor 27%.
1.30pm:Serpentine queues were seen since morning at 23,318 polling stations, with women and youth coming out in large numbers.
1.50pm:Arun Jaitely casts vote at Chimanbhai Patel Institute opposite Karnavati club.
2.15pm:9% voting by 10am, 21% by 11am and now 38% by 1pm, experts feel at this rate it will cross 70% by 4pm. "Around 37-38 per cent polling has been recorded in the first five hours of polling till 1 PM, which is exactly the same as in phase-I till this time," a state Election Commission official said.
"It could be once again a record voter turnout in Gujarat as the trends so far indicate," he said.
2.30pm:BJP veteran LK Advani casts vote at Shahpur in Ahmedabad, meets Modi.
2.40pm: Liquor worth Rs 53,000 seized in Vadodara, Waghodia Congress candidate's son booked.
3pm:57% polling across the state till 3pm, breaks record of 2002 and 2007 elections. This figure is a clear improvement on the first phase of polling, when 53% polling was recorded in the same time period.
3.15pm: The Congress has reacted to reports of firing on Bharwad, with Arjun Modhwadia saying the BJP MLA is a notorious person, his people were the ones who started firing.
3.30pm: So it turns out that BJP MLA Jetha Bharwad, who claimed he was shot at in a polling booth may have actually started the firing himself!
Bharwad has been detained for opening fire on voters at the Panchmahal polling booth in Godhra, and injuring three people.
3.50pm:BJP leader Harin Pathak says Congress will not be able to hold to its traditional bastion in north and central Gujarat. BJP will cross 117, he adds.
4pm: A delegation from Bhutan, which is on a visit to Gujarat to study the election process, is impressed with the peaceful conduct of assembly polls in the state and hope to take home some electoral lessons.
Bhutan Deputy Governor Chewang Jurmi said, "We have witnessed quite and peaceful elections here. The entire process is very well coordinated and is going on smoothly."
Wishing to replicate the good electoral practices during polls in the Himalayan Kingdom, Jurmi said priority given to senior citizens and women for voting is a good move which can result in voter turnout increase.
4.30pm:67% voting till 4.30pm.
5pm:Voting ends. Total turnout 70% Vejalpur records the highest turnout of 73%, Ghatlodia 72%, Maninagar 71%, Naranpura 69.5% and Ellisbridge and Asarwa 67.5% each.
5.15pm: There has been large-scale practice of 'paid news' in the Gujarat elections, a fact- finding team of the Press Council of India has claimed.
PCI chairperson Justice Markandey Katju said, "I am informed that not only the print media but even the visual media (TV channels) indulged in large scale practice of paid news in the Gujarat elections."
Katju said that the full report on paid news in Gujarat elections is still being prepared and he plans to take it to the Election Commission, public and other authorities after it is submitted and seek action against erring politicians.
5.30pm: Large-scale practice of 'paid news' in Guj polls, says PCI.
7.20pm: Modi addesses supporters at BJP headquarters. "People have showed their respect for democracy with a record turnout. I thank voters, Election Commission and all those associated with the polling process for making Gujarat elections successful," Modi said.
7.25pm: According to initial exit poll results coming from C-Voter, BJP could win 124 out of 182 seats while another agency Chanakya predicts 140 seats for the BJP. Also, BJP is expected to get
"I am confident that people of the country want development and voted for us."
He said: "It is time for political pundits to learn a new word - pro incumbency."
High-profile constituencies:
Maninagar: Modi's constituency will see suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt challenging his might on a Congress ticket.
Naranpura: It will see chargesheeted-former Gujrat home minister Amit Shah take on Congress's Jitubhai Patel.
Kapadwanj:The constituency will see Congress strongman Shankersinh Vaghela battle it out against BJP's Kanubhai Dabhi.
Akota: Saurabh Patel of the BJP will take on Lalit Patel of the Congress.
Ghatlodia:The seat will see Anandiben Patel of the BJP against Rameshbhai Dudhwala of the Congress.
Sidhpur:It will see Jay Narayan Vyas of the BJP against Balvantsinh Rajput of the Congress.
About 1.98 crore are eligible to vote in the second phase for which 820 candidates are in the fray. Modi is contesting from Maninagar in Ahmedabad.
It will be an acid test of popularity for Modi and results on December 20 will also decide who'll be BJP's next PM nominee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
The polling will take place in 40 constituencies in five districts of central Gujarat, 32 in five districts of north Gujarat, 17 in Ahmedabad city area and on six in Kutch district.
The five districts of North Gujarat where polling will be held on Monday - Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Mehsana, Patan and Gandhinagar - are bastions of the saffron party while central Gujarat districts Godhara, Dahod, Kheda and Anand are Congress strongholds.
Vadodara city is a BJP bastion while the Congress holds the tribal-dominated seats in the district.
In the 2007 polls, the BJP swept north Gujarat, bagging 25 of the 32 seats but the party is unlikely to repeat the stellar performance this time. Expecting some losses there, the BJP has focused on central Gujarat where the Congress performed impressively in 2007.
Fifteen ministers in the Modi cabinet are also contesting in the second phase. They include Anandi Patel, Jaynarayan Vyas, Nitin Patel, Fakir Waghela, Ramanlal Vora, Saurabh Patel, Praful Patel, Pradipsinh Jadeja, Jitu Sukhadia, Vasan Ahir, Liladhar Waghela, Jaswantsinh Bhabhor, Jaysinh Chauhan, Jaydrathsinh Parmar and Parbat Patel.
Former minister of state for home Amit Shah and Gujarat NCP president Jayant Patel are also trying their luck in the electoral waters.
From Congress, its seniormost leader and former Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, his son Mahendra Vaghela, former state Congress president Siddharth Patel, Shweta Bhatt, wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt are in the fray.
For Ellisbridge seat in Ahmedabad, Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) of Keshubhai Patel has given ticket to Jagruti Pandya, the wife of slain BJP leader and former Minister of State for Home Haren Pandya.
For this phase, BJP has fielded candidates for all the 95 seats while Congress and GPP are contesting 92 and 84 seats.
Apart from these three major parties, there are total of 32 political parties and 284 independents in the fray.
Voting will take place in 23,318 polling stations, for which Election commission has made elaborate security arrangements.
The last day of campaigning saw intense political activities at many places, as both the major parties deployed a galaxy of leaders to woo voters.
Modi led the BJP's campaigning with six public meetings. Actor and former minister Vinod Khanna, party leader and actor Smriti Irani, Paresh Raval, Manoj Joshi, and the cast of TV serial Taarak Mehta…also campaigned for BJP.
The Congress's charge was led by Gandhi family scion Rahul Gandhi, who addressed a public meeting in Bhuj. Ahmed Patel, Manish Tewari and Raj Babbar also campaigned for the party. The counting of votes will take place on December 20.
Modi vs Rahul
Gujarat will hold a potentially game-changing vote today that could help decide whetherodi or Rahul, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, becomes the country's next prime minister.
If, as many polls predict, Modi wins a third term as chief minister of the state, he is expected to project himself as the presumptive prime ministerial candidate for his party in a general election due in 2014.
The margin of Modi's victory will help determine whether he wins his party's backing to lead the election-year charge.
Analysts agree that Modi, 62, would be a formidable foe for the Congress if he can triumph over both BJP infighting and fears within the party and its allies that he is too divisive a figure to take on the dynasty that has ruled India for most of the post-independence era.
Rahul, 42, in contrast, stayed away from Gujarat until the last day of campaigning. Analysts said Congress is certain to lose the election and its leaders do not want Gandhi associated with defeat again, after his failure to lead the party to victory in Uttar Pradesh this year.
Tough fight on Jamalpur-Khadia seat
Jamalpur-Khadia was abuzz with heightened poll activity on Sunday — with all three contenders for the seat making last ditch efforts to woo voters. Though money, muscle power, promises and previous developmental work flows free in the constituency, even guesstimates fail to predict which way the ballot will swing.
For BJP's Bhushan Bhatt, this is his last chance to hold on to the four-decade old saffron bastion in Khadia, a seat that sent his father, late Ashok Bhatt to power eight times. While this multiplies Bhushan's pressure to retain the legacy, the two times Congress MLA Sabir Kabliwala is fighting this polls as an independent candidate. Congress, meanwhile, has fielded Samirkhan Sipai, a fresh and young candidate.Kabliwala is adamant to teach Congress a lesson by being victorious, while Sipai too wants to promote himself to MLA from the seat, from his current position as a municipal councilor from
Historically important and one of the smallest constituencies in the state, Khadia is now merged with Jamalpur constituency and rechristened as Jamalpur-Khadia. And this has upset equations. The seat is now dominated by Muslims with almost 95,000 voters. There is significant votebank of 35,000 each of chhipas and dalits.
Ajmer trip on offer?
The battle between Girish Parmar and Shailesh Parmar at Danilimda is getting tougher by the day. The seat, which is dominated by Muslims and dalits, is abuzz with rumours that a particular candidate has offered Muslims a pilgrimage trip to Ajmer. However, most voters denied the offer and said they are okay with the pilgrimage idea, but it will have to wait till the polling day is over. Needless to say, the candidate withdrew his idea.
It is advantage Shah in Naranpura
Master strategist Amit Shah is relying on 'brand Modi' and BJP's development plank. Dr Jitu Patel, a medical practitioner, is counting on his clean image and easy accessibility
It is a battle between a spoiled image and a clean image in the Naranpura assembly constituency. BJP has fielded heavyweight leader and former minister of state for home Amit Shah while former BJP MLA Dr Jitu Patel is the Congress candidate.
Master strategist Shah is relying upon 'brand Modi' and development work done by the BJP government in the last decade. Dr Patel, a medical practitioner, is counting on his clean image and easy accessibility.
In the campaign material distributed to voters, Shah projects himself as the victim of a political conspiracy. Accompanied by a convoy of bikes, he comes out on streets and visits societies. Standing in a Gypsy, he accepts flowers, greetings and wishes from residents. His supporters praise him through the loudspeaker. The rally gives the impression that a big political leader is in the race. Shah said that he was sure of his victory and that he would secure two-thirds of the votes.
The doctor's style of campaigning is different. He solicits votes while walking with his supporters. He does not speak about the two criminal cases against his rival. The material asks voters to choose a leader without a blot on his image, and who is accessible to anybody, anytime. "I am not uttering any word against Shah and criminal cases lodged against him. I respect my rival and maintain dignity during my campaign," Patel said.
Though Naranpura seat was separated from the huge Sarkhej constituency after delimitation, it is a stronghold of the saffron party. BJP has an edge over the Congress due to the political clout and strategy of Shah. But Patel is giving a tough fight. The Congress' local unit, however, suffers from infighting.
Thakors, govt employees hold key to Gandhinagar
The Congress and the BJP seem to have weighed the prevailing caste configurations in each constituency carefully before choosing their candidates for the five seats falling in Gandhinagar district. Hence, a close contest on each of the seats seems inevitable. However, the Congress seems to have an edge in three constituencies while the BJP appears to have the upper hand on two seats.
Congress looks set to dent BJP citadel in North Gujarat
Rivers Banas and Saraswati got Narmada waters in their riverbeds during the BJP regime, which seemed to satisfy the thirst of BJP leaders of North Gujarat in 2007. In the last assembly elections, the saffron party won 23 out of the 29 seats in the region, with Congress managing six. The ruling party is, however, facing a tough battle in 2012. Delimitation has reduced the number constituencies to 27, of which BJP may win 17.
There are eight ministers from North Gujarat in the state cabinet, with every district represented by at least one minister. The BJP leaders' satisfaction has turned into political aspiration, which is affecting the party in Banaskantha. Delimitation has spoilt its show in Patan district. In Mehsana district, BJP candidates face anti-incumbency, whereas in Sabarkantha, the party suffers from attitude-related issues and non-performance of incumbents.
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Shopping Sherlocks Comparison Search Engine
While the Shopping Sherlock search engine is indeed a free tool to use, the company has "installed" a highly-unique tactic by only allowing private invites to access this simple search engine.
Thus, in order to get involved and signed-up with Shopping Sherlock, you must be willing to search the web and find or look for someone who's already involved with the opportunity.
By that point you'll be able to gain your own specified invite code allowing you to sign-up and register for Shopping Sherlock.
What Are The Benefits Of Shopping Sherlock?
– You can compare products and find some of the cheapest deals out there on the web from legitimate companies.
– Shopping Sherlock is especially beneficial for individuals looking for actual services vs. tangible products, for example flight tickets, hotel reservations, and other travel related purchases.
– By your invite code, you now attain special access to the Shopping Sherlock opportunity…
Shopping Sherlocks MLM Opportunity: Scam or Legit?
Now for the most-important factor of this review, let's get into greater detail of what this opportunity entails. To my own "unshocking" surprise, I knew within the first five minutes, without even having to join the opportunity, that there truly was an MLM home-based opportunity lying around in back somewhere!
If you're unsure of what MLM is, it's become one of the biggest, most-significant, growing ways for online companies to inspire as much growth as they can.. Atleast for the newer start-ups it is and is why I've taken time to write this article, as I believe more and more individuals are becoming widely taken advantage of by the use, promises, and most falsified income earning guarantees – Many of which are made by this product, Shopping Sherlock alone!
The result is you spend a lot of money, and if you're committed lose more time than necessary, and by the end, will tend to lose out because of the lack of proper training there and because of how significantly harder it appears to make money when finding others to recruit.
Shopping Sherlocks Invite Code
Hence, the use of Shopping Sherlocks MLM opportunity relies heavily upon taking advantage of bigger and greater numbers. That is why, Shopping Sherlock uses its own specific "Invite Code," that can ONLY be obtained from registered members – those members who are also better well-known as independent distributors, or business owners.
But, you might also be asking, why obtain a specific invite code to use the search tool and option?
That is an excellent question and the reason being, it makes Shopping Sherlock look more legitimate from where you're standing. In addition, it adds a nice little sparkle to the opportunity, by saying "hey, we don't (necessarily need or want) you here, unless you get an invite code."
Now, by having you go through that entire process, wouldn't you feel a lot more obliged to look into the underlying opportunity after all, than say if you were to simply join without any invite code or anything whatsoever..
Therefore, the primary reason for Shopping Sherlocks methods is to swiftly shift over your attention to what their really offering, an opportunity to make money, by referring others.
How Much Is It To Join Shopping Sherlock?
To join Shopping Sherlocks MLM based opportunity, you will be looking at spending an initial $249 setup fee with an additional $34.95 recurring monthly payment.
Clearly, this is how Shopping Sherlock creates its profit – not by its shopping comparison tools, nor sales of products, but by this incorporated Multi-Level Marketing opportunity.
How Can You Earn Money With Shopping Sherlock?
In order to make money and become compensated with Shopping Sherlock, you'll have to do the following:
Step 1: Find a Shopping Sherlock Independent Distributor.
Step 2: Obtain Your Unique Access Code.
Step 3: Register & Pay Your (hefty) $249 Fee.
From there, you must recruit, recruit, and recruit… In addition, in order to be successful as an MLM networker, you must be willing to properly train and correctly lead your team. Otherwise, it will all be for no good!
What I Don't Like About Shopping Sherlock?
There's plenty I don't like about them to be honest, but the biggest factor of them all, is how insanely high the fee is in order to join an opportunity for a service that offers so little value in return.
Obviously, if you were to search hard enough, there are plenty, and I mean plenty of Shopping Sherlock alternatives out there that would easily allow you to shop and compare for various products online. The only thing being distinguished in this case, is the opportunity to make money by it.
About Shopping Sherlocks Training:
While they also claim to offer some training and education claimed to be worth over $100 in value alone, is simply astounding. The opportunity and program in-fact offers little to no information on how to properly get started on the right foot, while also not showing nor teaching how to create an online presence.
Thus, for its own simplicities sake, Shopping Sherlock simply advises you to cold-call friends and family, while using basic e-mail messages to contact others. In addition, they even tell you to use a text message (SMS) approach.
Apparently all they care about is you referring your own friends and family, for their own larger audience, with much less emphasis upon you as one of their newest independent distributors.
Shopping Sherlocks Compensation Plan?
When joining, you will have a downline, consisting of two different teams. Each new person you refer gets added to that downline.
For each 2 personal sponsorship you get a $100 cycler bonus. Once you pass this mark, you go into your downline spillover. Once each of your personal referrers obtain 2 of their own personal referrals, gets you a $50 cycling bonus..
Hence, your personal referrals will have to obtain 2 of their own sponsored refferals as well, also equivalent to every 4 more referred you get a $50 bonus.
Nonetheless, your income becomes HIGHLY and very VITALLY dependent not merely upon the members YOU refer, but more importantly on each person within your downline. Otherwise, it simply will do you no good.. Therefore you'll have to consistently be recruiting and referring new and active paying members.
Once you reach 100 people on your left and 100 more on your right, you can begin to make $500 per month in residual income. That is a ton of active paying members and if you ask me, is not even close or worth spending your time one.. Trust me!
How Much Can You Make?
In order to make money with Shopping Sherlock, not only will you have to actively try and work to get people to sign-up with your invites, but also convince them to pay that crazy $249 fee!
Moreover, if you are looking to make a full-time income with Shopping Sherlock (even part-time in that case), you must realize you will have to recruit over 1,000 people to begin making around $2,500 per month!!
No Income Guaranteed!
As initially stated by the program, there is zero guarantee of you making money with Shopping Sherlock.
Shopping Sherlock Overview – Is It a Scam?
Now that we have finally reached the end of this lengthy and detailed review, I hope you see why I don't recommend joining Shopping Sherlock. In-fact I hope you make sure you have nothing to do with this company. There is no reason in the world for you to have to spend a fortune, in order to make a fortune!
As a result of this opportunities extremely poor product and service value, its over-exaggerated earning claims, and its extremely high membership fee, this has taken a huge plummet in my ranking of online earning products.
Therefore, because of the very low-earning potential, and lack of everything necessary to succeed, I've rated this as a scam! While others might believe otherwise, I find it very, very tough to contemplate on any potential legitimacy that deals with Shopping Sherlock and its useless MLM opportunity.
Verdict: Scam!
Rank: 5/100
Is There An Easier Way To Earn Money?
If you've had your hopes up for quite awhile, I hear you loud and clear.. Which is why I'd never leave you hanging without an awesome or special home-based job opportunity that you can truly work with.. One that specializes in the training and mentorship of online marketing individuals into business owners. If that's you, no matter your experience, then check out My #1 Recommended Opportunity!
The reason you will come to find this easier than any MLM, network, or other home-based opportunity out there is because it is a highly-specific product tailored to primarily educating, training, and handing over all the necessary resources and tools you will need to succeed.
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Chapter 10
The French army was now preparing to cross the Alps a second time, under the
command of Trivulce. Louis XII had come as far as Lyons in the company of
Caesar Borgia and Giuliano della Rovere, on whom he had forced a
reconciliation, and towards the beginning of the month of May had sent his
vanguard before him, soon to be followed by the main body of the army. The
forces he was employing in this second campaign of conquest were 1600 lances,
5000 Swiss, 9000 Gascons, and 3500 infantry, raised from all parts of France.
On the 13th of August this whole body, amounting to nearly 19,000 men, who
were to combine their forces with the Venetians, arrived beneath the walls of
Arezzo, and immediately laid siege to the town.
Ludovico Sforza's position was a terrible one: he was now suffering from his
imprudence in calling the French into Italy; all the allies he had thought he might
count upon were abandoning him at the same moment, either because they were
busy about their own affairs, or because they were afraid of the powerful enemy
that the Duke of Milan had made for himself. Maximilian, who had promised him
a contribution of 400 lances, to make up for not renewing the hostilities with Louis
XII that had been interrupted, had just made a league with the circle of Swabia to
war against the Swiss, whom he had declared rebels against the Empire. The
Florentines, who had engaged to furnish him with 300 men-at-arms and 2000
infantry, if he would help them to retake Pisa, had just retracted their promise
because of Louis XII's threats, and had undertaken to remain neutral. Frederic,
who was holding back his troops for the defence of his own States, because he
supposed, not without reason, that, Milan once conquered, he would again have
to defend Naples, sent him no help, no men, no money, in spite of his promises.
Ludovico Sforza was therefore reduced to his own proper forces.
But as he was a man powerful in arms and clever in artifice, he did not allow
himself to succumb at the first blow, and in all haste fortified Annona, Novarro,
and Alessandria, sent off Cajazzo with troops to that part of the Milanese territory
which borders on the states of Venice, and collected on the Po as many troops
as he could. But these precautions availed him nothing against the impetuous
onslaught of the French, who in a few days had taken Annona, Arezzo, Novarro,
Voghiera, Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona, Tartone, and Alessandria, while Trivulce
was on the march to Milan.
Seeing the rapidity of this conquest and their numerous victories, Ludovico
Sforza, despairing of holding out in his capital, resolved to retire to Germany, with
his children, his brother, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, and his treasure, which had
been reduced in the course of eight years from 1,500,000 to 200,000 ducats. But
before he went he left Bernardino da Carte in charge of the castle of Milan. In
vain did his friends warn him to distrust this man, in vain did his brother Ascanio
offer to hold the fortress himself, and offer to hold it to the very last; Ludovico
refused to make any change in his arrangements, and started on the 2nd of
September, leaving in the citadel three thousand foot and enough provisions,
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Good evening! Thank you in advance to everyone on this forum. You all have been extremely helpful to me as I learn more about my JGC. I have a 2011 Limited. It has the 430n. When I purchased it, I completely overlooked the fact that it has a single pane sunroof (long story). Now I know that usually only happens when there is an RES system installed, but mine does not.
So, my question is can I have the RES installed after the fact? I would love to have the dual pane sunroof, but thats obviously not possible at this point. So the next best thing would be the RES so my baby daughter can watch Sirius backseat and DVDs.
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I think Sirius is radio only. TV is provided by different company that I think will be out of business soon and this broadcast will stop. I don't have time to look up more info right now.
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I don't even want to blame Cameron for this. I want to blame Lexus for making a car which is, from an environmental standpoint, a total waste of time, and then selling it to mugs like Cameron who still think there is some cool, fun way out of the mess we've found ourselves in; people who need to look green but not too green.
I don't have to think about all that. I can just carry on killing the planet in my own modest way. But we all have something in common, Cameron and Blair and Prince Charles and me and you: we're none of us doing anything like enough to stop global warming. We're not even worrying enough.
The question is no longer whether it is possible to reverse global warming by drastically cutting carbon emissions, because even if it is, we're not going to. Instead we have found ways to be green that do not involve the least privation, and therefore don't do anything but present exciting marketing opportunities. Forget about your wind-up radio. You want be green? Stop flying and using your car. Quit buying stuff. Turn off all your lights and sit in the dark and don't eat anything. Keep it up.
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Fortunately I have found a solution to our present predicament, which involves lots of privation, requires no legislation and doesn't give anybody a way out: crippling petrol prices. Four times - no, 10 times - what we're paying now. All we need is a little reckless military intervention in the Middle East, say, something guarantied to backfire spectacularly and secure global instability. Why hasn't anybody thought of this? No one will be able to afford air travel, the roads will be empty, the economy will collapse, the government will run out of money and the planet will be saved. And I will be able to say that I did my little bit.


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What is an APRN-PMH Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing?
As described in the Scope and Standards of practice of Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing ( 2007), APRN-PMH practice focuses on the application of competencies, knowledge and experience to individuals, families, or groups with complex psychiatric mental health problems. Promoting mental health in society is a significant role for the APRN-PMH, as is collaboration with the referral to other health professionals as either the patient's needs or the APRN-PMH nurse practice focus may dictate.
How are the courses delivered online?
Blackboard Academic Suite is utilized for the internet delivery and management of courses. Faculty design course sites that include all components found in a traditional classroom and more. The system offers ability for synchronous and asynchronous communication and interaction through a discussion board and virtual classroom respectively.
How is the DNP different from the PhD?
The DNP is a practice doctorate degree for nurses seeking preparation in advanced practice roles. The PhD is primarily a researched-focused degree program, and a dissertation is required.
What types of students are admitted into the Psychiatric Mental Health DNP option?
Students admitted into the program have completed an entry level degree (MSN, BSN) into the profession of nursing, with all nursing backgrounds eligible for the Psychiatric Mental Health DNP option.
What are the application requirements and how do I apply?
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Any one can call out police and even ware police uniforms.
Just watch the house and catch this guy on the way to his car or something, each case would be different.
Bad tactics will not be made up for by bravery or self sacrifice.
It seems that taking down a hardened case (criminal) in the open with good tactics would be much less dangerous than KICKING THE DOOR IN and hoping he is in the bathroom on the pot.


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Wilmington's Boys and Hillsboro's Girls were the team winners of the Clinton Massie Invitational Friday afternoon.
The Hurricane landed 10 points ahead of Hillsboro to win the Boys Division with Clint Massie placing third.
The Falcons also placed third in the Girls Division behind the Lady Indians and Wilmington.
1) Wilmington 141
2) Hillsboro 131
3) Clinton Massie 108
4) Little Miami 62
5) Xenia Christian 60
6) East Clinton 24
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Washington 5, Clinton Massie 0
The Blue Lions wrapped up a very successful week picking up 4 wins---3 in the SCOL After Friday's win against Clinton Massie, the Blue Lions are now 8-0 overall and 7-0 in the SCOL.
Against the Falcons Washington CH Garrett Phipps and Drake Berlin stay undefeated with 6-0, 6-0 wins. Zach Johnson picked up a forfeit win at third singles and the doubles teams of Noah Mesker/Carson Ferguson and Garritt Mallow/Derek Eckstein also defeated their opponents 6-0, 6-0.
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if eating tons of garlic causes tons of gas - does that mean i have bad bacteria?
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Posted 31 December 2003 - 05:28 AM
Posted 31 December 2003 - 11:08 AM
10 cloves a day is a fairly high dose of garlic. It may increase gas, and if nothing else, the sulfur compounds in garlic will make your gas more noticeable. Garlic and onions are also rich in fructans ... starch-like molecules that break down into fructose, possibly causing gas. Garlic does tend to kill more of the harmful bacteria than the good bacteria - the studies I saw looked at things like Streptococcus, Salmonella, and E. coli. But it doesn't eliminate the gas causing bacteria. Consider stopping the garlic for a few days, then (if you are inclined) resume garlic at 1 or 2 cloves per day.quote:Proven adverse effects included malodorous breath and body odor. Other unproven effects included flatulence, esophageal and abdominal pain, allergic reactions, and bleeding.from:Arch Intern Med. 2001 Mar 26;161(6):813-24. Garlic shows promise for improving some cardiovascular risk factors.
Posted 31 December 2003 - 12:49 PM
For once, a bonafide gas complaint. From what you described it almost certainly has killed off your gas-consuming bacteria. Obviously, stop taking the garlic and give the bacteria a chance to repopulate.quote:i'm releasing lots of gas about every 5 minutes for 8 hours - no kidding.
I am not a doctor, but utilize sources of information not readily available to the public. Some of this information may contradict what you think you know and some of it may sound harsh, but the information is what it is, and you got it here for free. I am just a messenger. Always consult a real doctor.


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- Jitendra Dave, DNA
- Apr 03, 2011, 06:51 AM IST
Ahmedabad: The state government has raised the jantri rates by up to 1,000 per cent compared to the 2008-09 rates. This means the citizens will have to cough up more by way of stamp duty.
The government introduced new scientifically prepared jantri rates from April on Friday. The rates have been increased by up to 1000 per cent in many areas of the city and outskirts. Thaltej, Bopal, Vejalpur, Vastrapur and a few other areas have witnessed steep rise in the range of 500 per cent to 1000 per cent in jantri rates.
In Bopal, old jantri rate for residential properties were Rs 3,000 per square metre, which has now gone up to Rs 17,000 to Rs 25,000 per square meter-a rise in the range of more than 550 per cent to 850 per cent. The rate for open plot has been fixed at Rs30,000 per square meter which is parallel to market rates on prime locations.
Similar is the case of Thaltej where the open land rates have been increased to Rs 35,000 to Rs 1,00,000 per square metre in the new jantri.
They were Rs 5500 to Rs 9,000 per square metre as per the old jantri of 2008-09. In case of residential properties, the rates have increased between Rs 21,000 and Rs 50,000 as compared to Rs 5500 and Rs 7,000 previously. The rise in jantri rates will lead to higher payment of stamp duty making property costlier in turn. Developers believe that sudden introduction of the new jantri rates point towards dictatorial attitude of the state government as it did not invite any suggestion or objection from various stake-holders.
"The government has snatched away democratic right of submission of objections," said Suresh Patel, president of Gujarat Institute of Housing and Estate Developers. The jantri rates have been fixed in non-scientific manner as rates of Ambawadi that falls in R-1 zone, have been fixed between Rs 35,000 and Rs 40,000 per square metre, while in R-2 zone of Bodakdev it is between Rs 55,000 and Rs 80,000 per square metre, said Patel.
"Does it mean that Ambawadi has become cheaper and Bodakdev costlier?" Patel asked.


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With UltraISO you can edit the contents of an .ISO file (basically a digital representation of your CDs and DVDs) in order to add, remove, edit or replace files. The resultant image file can be mounted on a virtual drive, it can be burnt to an actual disc using your third-party software such as Nero Burning ROM which UltraISO integrates into itself, you can compress it and convert it to another disc image format, and so on. The program is the absolute pinnacle of disc image management and if you are working with these kinds of files on a regular basis UltraISO is essential.
~ [ Variety of Features ] ~
The main features of the software are listed below, and explanations are provided:
[Edit Disc Images]: if you create an image of your discs, or download one from the internet, you are generally restricted in how you can manipulate the data held within them just as much as you are with a physical CD or DVD. With UltraISO you can open and edit the contents in any way you choose, allowing you to completely recreate the structure and file content of the image, or to add updated versions of certain files.
[Extract Image]: you can unpack the data on a disc image and have it on your hard drive, just as you would extract the contents of a .ZIP file. You can extract individual files, selections of files or the entire contents of the image.
[Create Image From Hard Drive]: you can create a new image from scratch, and you can add files from your PC to the new image at will. When you've built the image you want to build you can save it as .ISO, .BIN & .CUE or in most other common disc image formats. The program offers a visual cue as to how much data the image file will contain, which is useful for keeping you under the filesize limits of the medium you plan to burn the image to.
[Create Image From Disc]: you can insert your desired CD or DVD and use UltraISO to make a digital copy of it in the form of a disc image. The image is essentially your actual disc but represented digitally; it behaves exactly like a normal disc when mounted on a virtual drive. Again, most common image formats are supported. Any bootable data on the disc is maintained.
[Extract Boot Image]: if you insert a bootable disc (i.e. one that your PC will run before your operating system if you have set your PC to check for CDs/DVDs first) you can extract the compact boot image from it, and you can do the same with disc images. You can also add and edit these files.
[Convert Image Formats]: almost every known disc image format is supported, and converting between them is a fairly straight-forward affair with UltraISO. It supports industry standards/conventions, such as Joliet ISO 9660 levels 1, 2 and 3.
When an .ISO image is created or edited the final product can be compressed and optimised, saving disc space.
[Shell Integration]: the right-click menu which pops up upon right-clicking a disc image on your hard drive will have options allowing it to be opened or manipulated using UltraISO. If you have set the program's options to make use of a third-party virtual drive application, such as Alcohol 120% or DAEMON Tools, you can mount images automatically by double-clicking them. All of this is designed to save time and to make the software more convenient. Likewise, you can burn images if you have the requisite third-party software installed (e.g. Nero or Alcohol).
UltraISO's feature set contains everything you could possibly need to manage your disc images. The only downside to the software I have found is that its virtual drive and burning functions depend on third-party software you already have installed, but the lack of native burning and virtual drive capabilities is probably what keeps the price at a measly 20 quid.
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I've been using UltraISO for several years, and have installed every new update which comes along, and I have never had a single crash or unusable disc image. The software is stable, and the images it creates and edits conform with industry standards.
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Disc images and virtual drives are things which require a certain level of savvy from the user already, given that most average PC users rarely come into contact with either. With that in mind, the software might be a little confusing if the principles involved aren't understood. However, if you're looking for a program which serves the needs UltraISO serves you must already know everything you need to know in that department, and in that case the software is 100% user friendly. Its interface is extremely basic, its options screen is streamlined and kept minimalistic, and the software's powerful features are deceptively straight-forward.
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The downloaded installer is currently less than 4MB, and when installed it takes up less than 6MB of space which is nothing when you consider what it contains. Installing the program is as simple as it gets; you install it, start it and then register it with your license information. No reboots or secondary installations required.
The software works on all Windows operating systems from Windows NT 4.0 SP6a+ onwards. That includes Windows 98, ME, XP, Vista and 7. The x64 and x86 versions of these operating systems are supported, too.
~ [ Update Possibilities ] ~
Updates come along every couple of months or so, and are usually little more than fixes for small bugs certain users have reported since the last update (as mentioned above, I have never encountered a bug or had a crash in my three or so years of use). Unless you have a specific problem you probably won't need to update the software at all, ever, unless a new version is released with extra features or significant improvements over existing features. The lack of regular updates reflects this reality; updates just aren't called for!
~ [ Conclusion ] ~
For £20 this software is a steal. It offers massive benefits over its rivals, such as ISOBuster and PowerISO, and it does so for less money. The software is well-designed/programmed, with no bugs or crashes that I've become aware of in my several years of using the product. I find UltraISO to be an indispensable piece of kit, and I find myself using it several times a day, at least. If you make use of disc images and related technologies UltraISO is something you should look into.


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Bachelor boarders weigh in on waiver challenge
Court asked to allow paralyzed boarder's suit to proceed
BEND, Ore. - The Oregon Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether Mt. Bachelor's liability release makes the resort immune to a lawsuit filed by a paralyzed snowboarder.
Anyone skiing or snowboarding on the mountain agrees to the release in some way -- and plenty of them have opinions about the legal dispute. (So do KTVZ.COM visitors, who have posted more than 120 comments on the initial story on this week's legal arguments, linked to here.)
"If you look at the back of the lift ticket, it says you're responsible for your own injury," skier Lincoln Farnsworth said Friday.
The language in the release reads, "I agree to release Mount Bachelor LLC... From any and all claims... Of injury or death..."
In 2006, expert snowboarder Myles Bagley broke his back and was paralyzed on Mt. Bachelor. He was boarding through a terrain park and went off a man-made jump. The season pass holder signed the release. His defense, however, says the table-top jump was flawed.
"You have a lip that goes up, and then it's flat, and then you have a down curve that you want to land in," said snowboarder Josh Court.
Bagley and his legal team want the release thrown out.
Kathryn Clark, Bagley's attorney, said, "It's a risk that could have been avoided by a reasonable design."
But Mt. Bachelor's attorney says risk is a part of the sport.
"Right, I mean you don't just stumble into a terrain park," Andy Balyeat said Friday.
If one does happen upon the area, there are signs at the terrain parks that warn skiers and snowboarders of the dangers.
"There's a warning that says this is extra dangerous," Balyeat said.
Experienced boarders, like Bagley, say they know what the sign says.
"Oh yeah, it says, you know, this is not for beginners, and please look at the jumps even," Farnsworth said. "Oh and and it even reminds you that you're at your own risk."
If the release is found to be ineffective, things could change at Mt. Bachelor and at parks around the state.
"We will then go back to the trial courts and put together a case and try it to a jury," Clark said.
Balyeat said, "It wouldn't just affect terrain parks. It would affect any purchaser of a ticket or season pass," as costs would go up.
A handful of snowboarders weighed in on the issue Friday and said they feel responsible for their own safety at the mountain.
"You'd be saying what Bachelor being responsible for people on the mountain is saying you'd be responsible for surfers in the ocean, which is next to impossible," said Jay Clark.
Balyeat said they don't expect a ruling on whether the liability waiver is effective in the case for four to eight months, possibly a year.


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Tuscola girls win Murphy Invitational, improves to 21-0MacDonald, Calhoun and Purrman leads Tuscola boys to a third place finish
MURPHY — At last week's eight-team Murphy Invitational, the Tuscola varsity girls swim team was missing junior and Ironman champion London Schumacher, who was out with the flu.
But no problem for the powerful Tuscola girls, considering the Mountaineers still have senior and Florida State-bound Katy Stringfield.
Once again, Stringfield picked up two wins in the 200 free and the 100 fly to lead the Tuscola girls to an easy victory at the Murphy Invitational.
Tuscola Head Coach Robin Batchelor's girls, which improved to 21-0 overall, beat second place Smoky Mountain by 108.5 points, 307-198.5.
Rounding out the rest of the girls meet, Franklin (185) was third, Hayesville (179.5) fourth, followed by Hendersonville (104.5), which finished fifth, Union (Ga.) County (97) was sixth, host Murphy (60.5) was seventh and Andrews (14) finished eighth.
In the boys meet, Tuscola finished third as the Mountaineers were edged out by for second place by Hendersonville, 213-199. Franklin (253) won the boys meet.
Rounding out the rest of the boys meet, Smoky Mountain (165) was fourth, Union (Ga.) County (120) was fifth, host Murphy (86) was sixth, Andrews (52) finished seventh and Hiwassee Dam (21) finished eighth.
Other Mountaineers winning individual events were Chloe Zacher (200 IM), Cora Dobson (500 free) and Hannah McLeod (100 breast)
Other notable finishes in the girls meet for Tuscola were Megan Jameson (second in the 200 free, third in the 100 back), Annie Ly (second in the 200 free, third in the 100 free), Vanessa Ly (second in the 100 free, second in ther 100 back) and McLeod (second in the 100 fly),
Winning individual events for the Tuscola boys were Jack MacDonald (200 free, 100 free), Mason Calhoun (100 fly, 100 back) and Collin Purrman (500 free),
The Tuscola 400 free girls relay team (Zacher, Dodson, V. Ly and Stringfield); the 200 free girls relay team (V. Ly, A. Ly, McLeod and Stringfield) and its 200 medley girls relay team (Erin Peterson, McLeod, A. Ly and Dodson) finished first.
The Tuscola 400 free boys relay team (MacDonald, Stefan Emsheimer, Calhoun and Purrman) finished first and its 200 medley boys relay team (Calhoun, Liam McLeod, Purrman and MacDonald) finished second.


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I live a complicated Calendar life. I keep my schedule in Outlook 2010 on my PC, which syncs to the cloud through Google Calendar but can't talk to Outlook 2011 on my Mac, which I use for travel. Can Apple's new iCloud save me? Let's talk platforms.
iCloud & Outlook 2010 For PC
iCloud is available to PC users, and it does work with Outlook 2010. I downloaded the iCloud Control Panel software, told it to sync with Outlook, and away it went.
After it was done, my first concern was that my Outlook Calendar was completely empty. Oh dear. Fortunately, none of my appointments were lost. iCloud had created two calendars, in a new iCloud section of Outlook.
One was for what I gather is now the new location for my calendar. The other was for conflicts that iCloud wasn't sure what to do with.
Now, if you want the full story of how I resolved this, keep reading. If you only want some highlights:
- You can't create a calendar in Outlook and have that appear in iCloud
- But you can create a calendar in iCloud and have that appear in Outlook
- You can't import into a calendar on iCloud
Merge Conflicts? Start Over!
The iCloud software helpfully alerted me to these conflicts, with a pop-up box promising further advice. That jumped me over to the iCloud Help home page, with no advice displayed for anything I can find when I search for "calendar merge conflicts" or "merge conflicts" or even just "merge."
I headed over to iCloud, to see if maybe it showed both calendars there in my online view, along with a way to merge them. No. Only the main iCloud calendar was shown. Nor was there any way to import a bunch of events, that I can see. That's something that Google Calendar supports, despite being online. It's also something that Outlook supports. I guess if you need to get a lot of events into your iCloud calendar, you'll have to use a software program like Outlook or iCal (I don't use this, myself).
Over on Google Calendar, my original Outlook calendar was still active — fortunately, even though I had auto-sync on, there were so many deletions that it was asked to do (because iCloud had wiped out my original calendar on my desktop) that it asked if I wanted to go ahead. I also quickly turned sync off quickly.
This is a good time to say that before you do ANYTHING with Outlook, export your calendar. That way, you can get back to where you where, if things get messed up.
In my case, since Google Calendar still had a clean record, I exported a iCal copy (use the private address option for this; Google's instructions are out-of-date). Then I opened that calendar using Outlook. That created a new calendar in a new group called "Other Calendars." I dragged the new calendar into my iCloud group.
That did nothing. Apparently, if you add new calendars in Outlook, even in your iCloud group, it doesn't care. Those aren't going to sync. But annoyingly, if you create a new calendar at iCloud, that calendar will sync over to Outlook. That would be a good workaround, if iCloud allowed for importing. As I said, it doesn't.
Over at the Outlook site, there was a help file that suggested there was a way to merge two existing calendars. No luck, however. Trying that, only my iCloud-based calendars were listed. There was no way to merge the new one I'd created from my Google Calendar data (or that you'd be able to merge if you created from any backed-up data).
Sigh. In the end, I found a help page on how to delete all entries in an Outlook calendar. I wiped everything off my main iCloud calendar within Outlook. That did the same online. Next, I went File > Options > Advanced > Export (yes, Export, it's a stupid name for trying to import) > Import an iClaendar file. Then I selected my clean Google Calendar export file (or you could use any clean file) and selected Import into my existing calendar rather than "Open as New."
And that did nothing put repopulate my old, original calendar with what iCloud had cleared out.
In the end, I turned off iCloud. I reimported my calendar into Outlook, into my main calendar, and I started all over again. And it took ages, because iCloud didn't clear out my old calendars at first. Hint: turn it off, then make sure you sign out.
In the end, the second attempt got all of my items into iCloud and the iCloud calendar in Outlook 2010. Now it was Google Calendar sync time.
Outlook: iCloud Or Google Calendar Sync, Pick One
Why on earth would I want to sync iCloud and Google Calendar? If two clouds combine, won't there be rain?
Why not? As I said, I really live in Outlook. When I'm traveling, I want my calendar on my travel devices. Often, that's an Android phone. Google Calendar plays nice there.
So, I'm not really syncing iCloud and Google Calendar. I'm syncing Outlook with both iCloud and Google Calendar. Does that work? No. Oh, no it doesn't.
I have happily used Google Calendar Sync as a lightweight way to keep Outlook and Google Calendar talking to each other. Every 30 minutes, the two talk. If I've made a chance in either place, they swap info. This has allowed me to always have my calendar on any device — even my iPhone.
Google Calendar Sync will only talk to your default Outlook calendar. iCloud, as I've explained, clears that out and makes its own iCloud calendar. That's not the default, so Google can't get at it. Why iCloud can't just use the default, as Google does, I don't know. But it means you have to make a choice.
You can sync between Outlook and Google Calendar, or between Outlook and iCloud. But you can't do both.
Outlook 2011 For Mac: iCloud & Google Calendar Both Hate You
My real dream, since I started using Outlook 2011 on the Mac last year, was that it would be able to sync with my calendar as Outlook on the PC can. But Google has never made a calendar sync option that worked. Or Microsoft hasn't helped. I don't know. But you've been screwed.
Now Apple doesn't care, either. iCloud has no ability to sync with Outlook 2011. There's nothing there. Checking further on the Apple site, only iCal on the Mac is supported.
In the end, I'm kind of disappointed. In terms of calendaring, iCloud isn't solving my cross-platform issue at all. It's also being more invasive than the current Google solution that I'm already using, coming along and pushing my Outlook default calendar out of the scene.
Why on earth didn't Apple support Outlook 2011 on the Mac?
It's also bizarre that the calendar app on my iPhone itself, it merrily deals with both.
Of course, if you're an all Apple person, iCloud calendar is probably awesome. If you're using a PC and Apple devices, still lots of awesome. If you're trying to use Android, staying with Google makes sense. If you do everything like me, well, you probably deserve all the pain that comes your way 🙂


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OTTAWA, Ontario, April 3, 2014 – The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and Canada's Minister for Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander today commended the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for its investigation leading to charges against two individuals and a company for immigration fraud in Montreal. CBSA today announced that Rafic Mansour, Meryem El-Hassani, and the company Méthode & Systèmes de données, Figures inc. were charged with offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and the Criminal Code.
"I would like to commend the Canada Border Services Agency on their diligent work that led to these arrests and charges," said Minister Blaney. "Our Government remains committed to identifying and charging fraudulent immigration consultants who take advantage of our country's laws."
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Buy By Data
States that can apply "strategic sourcing" to their purchasing operations stand to save millions of dollars.
Pennsylvania procurement officials like to lay out a familiar scenario: Imagine you're hosting a family picnic, and you need ketchup. A lot of it. Would you drive all over town, darting into convenience stores to buy enough small packets of ketchup to feed the family? No, you'd go to the supermarket, where you can buy one big bottle for a much better price.
That's common sense, but it's also a purchasing strategy that has eluded state and local governments for years. Now, some public procurement officers are realizing they can save significant amounts of money simply by monitoring state expenditures and selectively targeting vendors to get the best possible price.
The concept is known as "strategic sourcing," and many states now see it as a means of saving money through smarter purchasing. A private- sector practice for decades, strategic sourcing was largely absent from state procurement practices even a few years ago. Delaware was the first state to implement the method in 2002; a handful of other states, including Illinois, New Mexico, Virginia and Rhode Island, followed in 2003. Today, 24 states are either practicing some form of strategic sourcing or are in the process of implementing it.
Shifting to a strategic sourcing approach involves some challenges. It relies on more centralized controls and much more thorough data- collection. And it raises the specter of getting too cozy with a limited number of vendors. But as more states adopt the approach--and as they experience dramatic savings--they are finding ways to overcome the barriers. As a result, strategic sourcing is very quickly becoming the gold standard in state procurement.
The broad concept of strategic sourcing is incredibly simple: States can save money by paying close attention to purchasing practices-- who's buying what from whom and how much of it. Pinning down a more specific definition is slightly more difficult. There are as many variations of strategic sourcing as there are arenas in which it's utilized. The 2004 California Performance Review, which urged the adoption of strategic sourcing in California, called the concept "a rigorous, systematic process by which the organization analyzes its expenditures, evaluates both internal and external influences, and determines the appropriate supplier relationships necessary to support overall organizational goals."
If that is too dense an explanation, there's the ultra-simple one procurement officials in Pennsylvania use: smart buying.
Regardless of its variations, strategic sourcing is predicated on two broad concepts: analyzing expenditures and leveraging a state's collective buying power to obtain the lowest possible price for goods or services. Purchasing itself doesn't necessarily have to be centralized, but it's essential to have a central overseer to gather data from disparate agencies, use that information to negotiate with vendors and then steer agency buyers to the carefully negotiated state contracts. Purchasing officials who use the system say they are able to avoid the issue of favoritism for one vendor over another since all contracts are driven by purchasing data collected from the state agencies.
Strategic sourcing has borne substantial savings in almost every state that has implemented it. Pennsylvania can lay claim to being one of the bigger success stories. When Governor Ed Rendell took office in 2003, he faced a budget deficit of around $1.5 billion, a formidable shortfall for any state. Rendell looked to strategic sourcing as a salve for many of Pennsylvania's financial problems. "I knew we could do it," he says. "I had read during the campaign about private industry doing such sourcing, and I thought it was something we could get into easily."
Rendell says he inherited "some woeful contracts with private vendors." The state had 25 separate cell phone contracts--five with the same company and at five different rates. Purchasers were buying personal computers from 15 different companies. That made for some obvious opportunities for strategic sourcing. "We hadn't used our leverage as purchasing power for anything," Rendell says.
Three years into its strategic sourcing efforts, Pennsylvania can boast at least $140 million in savings. It went from maintaining 17 warehouses to running only four--for an immediate savings of $4.5 million. As more contracts are put in place, the state expects its strategic-sourcing savings to total more than $200 million a year.
One of Pennsylvania's biggest initial challenges came from suppliers who were concerned with one of the central tenets of strategic sourcing: Consolidating contracts means reducing the number of vendors that do business with the government. That can be a tough sell, says state General Services Director James Creedon. For instance, two years ago, Pennsylvania bought its office supplies from 1,800 separate vendors; now, a single vendor supplies all state agencies. Creedon acknowledges there were discussions about the trade-off and the economic impact of purchasing from fewer suppliers. Ultimately, he won the day by arguing that purchasing didn't have "a mandate from the voters to spend more money and buy more from more vendors. We had a mandate to reduce spending." A corollary of that point is that while states have an interest in supporting small businesses, they shouldn't do it through procurement. "You have to separate the notion of creating a favorable business environment in your state from the way you buy your goods and services," says Frank Kane, a spokesman for General Services. "Create an environment that's good for growing businesses, but don't try to subsidize those businesses through procurement."
The best way to combat vendors' concerns, Creedon says, is through information. In the case of the 1,800 office-supply contractors, 68 percent of those vendors received less than $1,000 a year from state contracts--hardly an amount worth the trade-off on higher prices for the state. Concrete information such as this allows procurement officials to show more explicitly what's best for the state, which can alleviate concerns about suppliers.
But getting that data--compiling accurate, comprehensive information about how a state is spending its money--is the single biggest roadblock states face when moving toward strategic sourcing. "You have to streamline your procurement and aggregate your data," says Ellen Phillips, the deputy state purchasing agent for Massachusetts and the president of the National Association of State Procurement Officials. "The most common obstacle is identifying what savings you're actually going to get through strategic sourcing." States frequently aren't initially equipped to identify those savings. The mere collection of current spending data can often prove incredibly difficult.
That was certainly the case in California, where strategic sourcing was adopted in 2004 to help address that state's crippling budget shortfalls. State officials were exuberant about the method's potential--and forecast $96 million in savings in the first year alone.
But when they began their analysis, they found the purchasing information in almost hopeless disarray. Shoddy bookkeeping in several agencies thwarted the effort to aggregate and examine statewide data. Purchasing officials had hoped to complete the data analysis in a couple of months; it dragged on for more than six. There was no consolidated data center. "The state was spending $4 billion to $6 billion a year," says California's general services director, Ron Joseph. "But we didn't really know how we were spending it or exactly what we were spending it on."
As an initial strategic sourcing effort stalled, the state was forced to revise its predictions on savings. Last May, the Department of General Services announced the new estimate: a mere $5 million for the first year. "We got off the ground quite a bit more slowly than we had hoped," says Joseph. "But we still saw the potential."
The good news for California is that the revised first-year prediction turned out to be too low. California ended up saving $11.3 million in fiscal year 2005. Since then, the effort has begun to yield substantial results. The state now anticipates $170 million in savings from the strategic sourcing contracts negotiated so far. That's certainly a healthy start, but some officials there are still unsure about the ultimate potential of strategic sourcing to save much more than that.
The issue of collecting purchasing information is also vexing procurement officials in Minnesota as they shift to strategic sourcing. Despite an electronic trail from official purchasing cards used by agency buyers, purchasing information was not sufficient to determine what was being spent on what.
But even as the state trains a closer eye on its procurement data, it is discovering another problem, something Director of Administration Kent Allin dubs "maverick spending"--non-contract purchasing where procurement employees in various agencies are not making use of the state-negotiated prices that are available to them. Reining in that practice is essential for the state to get a handle on its expenditures. The bottom line, Allin says, is that strategic sourcing cannot be successful without comprehensive purchasing information. "You need the foundation in data," he says.
And that may not be all you need. Strategic sourcing, California's Joseph says, "is more than saying, 'Okay, we're going to buy a lot. Give us a good price.'" Bundling purchases is just the starting point. "If you're going to do this at its fullest level," he says, "you need a very good understanding of yourself as a consumer. You need to know the marketplace very well. Strategic sourcing is a very simple concept that's very difficult and complex to implement."
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text: Physicians of the UC Brain Tumor Center utilize sophisticated, modern technology to navigate the brain. Image-guided surgery is like a GPS for the brain that helps surgeons to locate tumors for surgery. It uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to localize the functional, or "eloquent," areas of the brain that are associated with language, vision and mobility. Using these technologies, surgeries can be tailored to be less invasive. Functional areas of the brain can be mapped out prior to surgery to help maximize removal of the tumor and minimize neurological complications after surgery.