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|Sarah Klein, Asst. Editor
June 30, 2000
Origins of the Project:
What follows is Parte Uno of a biography in serial form, with several installments to come in the months ahead. The full project, a biographical work on twentieth century American author Katherine Anne Porter, was originally conceived in the spring of 2000 when I had the good fortune of participating in John Fuegi's grad seminar on women and biography at the University of Maryland. Course content revolved around the metaphor of archaeology, and led us to examine the ways in which women's lives have historically and often systematically been made to disappear - and the ways in which new scholarship and work in a variety of mediums seeks to discover, uncover, and re-examine the stories of women's lives across historical, national, and cultural boundaries. Together we spent a good deal of thoughtful time examining the ways in which countless female life-narratives across time and place have been distorted for various interests, sidelined, minimalized, discredited, or entirely erased. We also spent time with the works of brave new voices doing groundbreaking biographical and autobiographical projects on extraordinary female subjects ranging from author Virginia Woolf to early filmmaker Alice Guy, from mathematician and early founder of comptuer programming Ada Countess Lovelace to composer and philosopher Hildegaard of Bingen; we explored the life-narratives from postwar women of Vietnamese ancestry and contemporary Phillipino politician Corazon Aquino.
Fuegi is the UM professor of comparative literature who authored the revolutionary biography Brecht & Co., uncovering the buried stories of the women whose creative work and dedication hugely contributed to the esteemed dramas attributed to Bertolt Brecht. He has also committed a significant portion of his professional life to telling women's stories through documentary filmmaking and the Women of Power series. John Fuegi led us through a metabiographical critical journey of traditional text works, film, and multimedia that has forever changed the way in which I think about the lifewriting genres of auto/biography and women -- the seminar has radically enhanced and in some ways altered my own work with literature, women's writing, and feminist theory. The final projects presented by my colleagues in the class were wide-ranging in subject matter and form - they were profoundly revealing, creative, important, and exciting. For the first time since entering this labyrinth called professional academia, I've been truly inspired.
My own semester project was a multimedia biography of Katherine Ann Porter, and one which became quite complicated early on by a number of factors. Primary among these were the issues of access and permission for use and reproduction of primary sources, coupled with institutional reservations about multimedia works and more specifically, about uncontrolled public access and Internet publication. Porter designated the University of Maryland as the primary site for her papers and her personal library, and is therefore THE location for Porter scholars working with the primaries. U Maryland holds (and has recently microfilmed for interlibrary loan availability) vast amounts of important and fascinating Porter documents and artifacts - including vast correspondence, personal papers, photographs, writings and fragments, manuscripts, and personal effects. With the help of the collection's curator I was able to spend 3-4 weeks daily going through the collection, primarily on microfilm. This crucial source provided the backbone of my project, coupled with the works of Porter's fiction and the key critical works available on KAP. However, the presumed ease of access provided to me as a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, an "accessibility" which in part attracted me to my subject matter, did not somehow magically guarantee an easy pathway for the particular aims and theoretics of my scholarship. In fact, I met obstacles and challenges at every turn. (A less stubborn researcher might have been swayed from the work altogether, so I'm told!)
The project was initially envisioned as a Web site database/biography/interactive source on Katherine Anne Porter, inspired by and modeled loosely after exciting projects such as the acclaimed "Romantic Circles" Web resource and the online Emily Dickinson Project spearheaded by U Maryland's own MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities). However, my initial blueprint was not to be fully realized. Due to institutional fears about the lack of control over and legal policing of the Internet and content there published, as well as the university's desire to guard and be compensated for use of the valued KAP collection, as well as the necessity of gaining certain permissions from the private individual entrusted with KAP's estate, compounded by the time constraints I was under and my status as a graduate student, the project was quickly and extensively pared down and modified. It became indeed a multimedia biography, but its audience and reach, as well as its content, were markedly curtailed.
After a period of negotiations and my fledgling attempts to convey my benevolence as a researcher, agreements were at last made and I set to work at ensuring that university requests for absolute security and nonpublic access of the project were strictly maintained. In exchange, I was granted limited use of those photographic images of Porter which were uncredited, as well as standard public access to the collection on microfilm. Security of the text and images was enhanced by building the project in Macromedia Flash, and in a CD-ROM format made available only to the collection's curator, to my professor, and in one screening to my colleagues in the seminar. The complications about copyright versus holdings control, of "fair use," and of "educational use," paired with a clear reluctance on the part of the university to support my project on any level and my own desires to not "rock the boat" or garner negative attention at my own degree-granting institution, created a fearful and sometimes quite confusing climate in which to conduct the research and write the project's content. I meticulously walked on eggshells throughout the process, working hard to meet the university's requests at the same time I was learning how to be a biographer - and one working in new multimedia, at that. I came into the project excited and idealistic about the theoretics of my undertaking, but uninitiated and inexperienced by a background of researching largely with secondaries and of keeping my scholarly work entirely private. I completed the project a little wiser for the wear. I quickly lost any lingering naivete about the glory of scholarly research, intellectual "brotherhood" and "free educational use," about the biographical process, and about the brave new world of democratic cyberspace publishing.
This project was a process, and taught me a great deal about (a.) the theory and practice of biography, (b.) the yet-unresolved dilemmas and controversies of Internet publication and multimedia scholarship; (c.) the politics of the Ivory Tower, of working with collections, and of the delicate dance called primary research. Somewhere along the way I also came to know Katherine Ann Porter more intimately and fully than ever before, and to appreciate her and to value her artistic work on new levels and through new and more complex lenses.
The serialized biography that begins here and will come in installments over the next few months unfortunately does not include the striking visual and multi-sensory impact of the actual project, with its highly interactive format and its use of a number of photographs of Porter, linked through an extensive textual timeline of her life and her work and connected to excerpts from Porter's fiction. However, it's my hope that here publishing excerpts from my essays that made up a portion of the CD-Rom project will somehow make worthwhile in a more accessible forum this work, and most importantly, will encourage interaction amongst scholars and biographers working on women's lives in a range of media to dialogue more fully about our projects and experiences, the constraints and challenges we face, and about exciting ideas for future work. The project may or may not be expanded, or ever made accessible, in the future. I wish I could share its visual, interactive impact here, in this forum. Yet within the capacity of the text alone, I hope to begin, here, to share the basic foundations of the project, in hopes of sparking a critical dialogue with others like me doing biographical work on women and investigating new forms and new media, as well as with those literary critics and teachers working on Katherine Ann Porter.
The CD-Rom is titled "Katherine Ann Porter: A Biography." Its composition and navigation are completely nonlinear and interactive by design - so my publication of bits of the text here is somewhat arbitrary, the product of my own construction due to the available format.
The primary textual credo grounding the project is titled, simply,
Given the limitations of time, access, copyright, trustee holdings, and security, the project has attempted to accomplish, in a preliminary way, the telling of a life in a new medium, a new form, using a new "language" of visual combined with text in an interactive format. Wherever possible, it has included and attempted to privilege Porter's own words and expressions, and to use primary documents as its key sources. It has also integrated the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of its content into its form - expressed and designed to be received in a largely nonlinear fashion. Hopefully, this initial project reflects the belief that form and content pack the greatest punch when they together form the overall integrity of a work.
As a protection to address concerns about copyright, Internet access, and security of particular sections of the text used, this biography has been built in formats (ex: Macromedia Flash) that optimize the visual effects of the work while protecting the text and images from downloading or other reproduction. As an added safeguard, the project has been built in a CD-ROM format rather than as a Web site posted to the Internet.
Given permissions and access, the fullness of time for more thorough and extensive work, and security and legal provisions for Internet publication, this project has many potentials for future development. It was initially conceived with two main goals: (1.) To make use of a wide variety of biographical materials, including primary documents such as reproductions of original manuscripts, extensive photographs, audio recordings, and video feed, to maximize the sensory forms and the narrative layerings of the presentation; and (2.) To more fully integrate form with content and theory by making the project widely available in an international, diverse audience through relatively accessible and democratic medium (i.e., at this time, the Internet). In this format, the text of the project could also be translated for non-English speaking viewers.
Ideally the project should make use of more visual images of Porter, drawing from the very extensive amount of such images extant of the author, her family, friends, associates, and the places where she lived, worked, and traveled. It would also capitalize on the availability of audio and video of Porter herself (ex: conducting interviews), of her works as they've been produced for stage and film, and of the music she loved and collected. It would also ideally incorporate visual image reproductions of original manuscripts of Porter's writing in various forms (exs: correspondence, fragments of personal writings and fictional works). Also possible for an eventual project to be taken on by the University of Maryland could be a digital archive of hypertext Porter works.
This initial stage of the project includes two text-rich segments that are biographical sketches written by myself, drawing largely from primary documents. These are organized thematically - and could include countless other topics, and integrate visuals and audio, given more time for research and writing as well as access/permissions.
Stage two of this project would also ideally incorporate the ability for a user to launch her/his Web browser from the CD-ROM in order to link directly to the wide range of Porter resources available currently as sites on the Web. While the accuracy and quality of such sites varies widely, the presentation of some of these projects for evaluation and information-sharing would be ideal.
And finally, the site would incorporate pedagogical tools, resources for educators and students interested in Porter. This section of the project could include a Porter discussion listserv, announcements of Porter-related events, and the posting and exchange of syllabi, for example.
There are a number of constraints and concerns at this early stage - yet the possibilities are almost limitless, and very exciting. The implications of such work are immense, and the integration of new forms and theories for narrating women's lives may be the new lifeblood of that known as "biography," and that known as "scholarship."
Transitioning . . .
The CD-Rom project includes various thematic biographical essay-sketches, which can of course be linked in a multimedia format to photographic visuals, textual excerpts, and other links. In its CD-Rom form, all notes and credits are linked from within the text itself, and require only a "click" for quick viewing. The following introductory text is one of my essays included in the CD-Rom project, titled:
Lifewriting and KAP
Carolyn Heilbrun, in her now-classic book Writing a Woman's Life, tapped the theoretics of Nancy Miller's scholarship, using Miller's work as a foundation for her own new thinking about women and the biographical act. As with so much of the best of feminist scholarship, the referential quality of Heilbrun's work makes it all the richer. In that Heilbrun and Miller take part in an inter-textual dialogue, a tradition is formed into which other voices and other scholars can enter and take part. In this project I've drawn heavily on the theorizing of Heilbrun, which draws heavily on the theoretics of Miller (and others) - I understand Heilbrun's text as crucial to what this biographical project is all about, the heart and soul of the endeavor. In doing so, I enter a conversation. This "conversation," by its very nature, fosters new theorizing, new questions and new ways of answering them. Likewise, we also draw on subversive theoretics as a means of applying new tricks to old texts or subjects.
In working biographically on writer Katherine Anne Porter, at first glance much of the work "has been done." Porter's may not appear to be one of the scores of accomplished women's lives in need of major feminist archaeology. Her death in 1980 makes her almost our contemporary. An established legion of Porter scholars is alive and well (albeit smaller in number than those of many of her male contemporaries), and publishing, and networking, and promoting, and conferencing. Her works are in print; they are anthologized and, on occasion, even taken seriously in the halls and classrooms of the Ivory Tower. Merely 30-something years ago, her most popular novel was made into a Hollywood film. Porter has been the subject of a major, contemporary biography by Joan Givner, and the traditional boys-club of Texas literati has begun a substantial, even zealous, reclamation of its once under-rated and estranged native daughter. It's been pleasant to discover that Porter's stature as an artist is more fully recognized, and taken more seriously these days, than her relative lack of contemporary popular recognition suggests.
Outside literary circles and the strange world of academia, Katherine Anne Porter's name and works still remain largely silent and unrecognized. Just ask anyone on the street if they can identify her. Yet this woman rose above poverty, obscurity, ill health and no education to win the Pulitzer Prize (beating out Vladimir Nabokov, who has been immortalized not only in the literary world but iconized in American youth culture, such as in the 1980's pop song by The Police). Porter also won the coveted National Book Award. She traveled the world, corresponded with presidents. She worked in a variety of arts, and her persona was in many ways larger than life. She was connected to some of the most important and famous literary figures of her day. She also left copious documentation of an extraordinary existence. Yet, in popular culture, and even in many an English department, this is a life writ in the margins. In large part, it is this mystery of relative silence that prompted my project.
Porter makes an exciting, and daunting, subject for biographical work. There is much new ground to cover in writing this woman's life. In part because we haven't always asked the right questions, in part because we've only asked them in particular ways or with particular agendas. In part because the biographical task is large and ongoing, a work in progress no matter who's publishing it outright at any given time. And in part because of Porter's own complicated feelings about lifewriting itself, and her desire for control over the narrative of her life.
Porter continually discarded, revised, buried, and reinvented some of the events and circumstances of her own life, struggled personally with the art of lifewriting throughout her career, and, particularly later in her long life, became nervous and defensive about living under a biographical lens. This state of things makes Porter a frustrating subject to work on biographically, and it also makes the task more important and more exciting-particularly for a feminist scholar working with the likes of Miller and Heilbrun as a foundation. Porter took every disadvantage classically attributed to the woman writer - lack of formal education, lack of opportunity and economic stability, social expectation of marriage and gender conventionality, ageism, professional underappreciation, sense of alienation - and transformed herself again and again, self-creating, surviving, flourishing. Her own narratives of her life, told through countless of her private letters, her interviews, her scores of fragments and writings, are fascinating - we need not denigrate, nor diminish the true implications of such acts by arguing the difference between Fact and Truth. Porter was a consummate and fiercely driven artist, and the line between "her art" and "her life" is, thankfully, not always sharply drawn and explicated.
Katherine Anne Porter struggled off and on for many years working on another lifewriting project, her never-completed biography of Cotton Mather. She apparently thought regularly, and at some urging from family and friends, of doing an autobiography, yet it never came to fruition. She spent considerable time and energy in revising, responding to, critiquing and correcting countless biographical depictions of herself during her lifetime, sometimes with an angry and indignant frustration. She expressed a real ambivalence about lifewriting, and certainly about the narration of her own. Put in context, sometimes her thoughts on the matter reveal a great deal about her own struggles with personal narrative, and exude a particular awareness of the role of gender and its relation to telling a life:
Porter here comments, perhaps, on the struggle with locating the true self, and for a heroine, in women's writing about their lives -- and this was the difficult task in which she herself often engaged -- the search-and-recovery of the self in the heroic narrative, the attempt to cut a new path with few known models to look to. Porter was aware that, as Heilbrun puts it, lifewriting tends to engage women in "the inevitable conflict between the destiny of being unambiguously a woman and the woman subject's palpable desire, or fate, to be something else." 2
The tension between Fact and Truth in telling a life, clouded or illuminated by that called Memory, seems to have been on Porter's mind when, late in her life, she wrote:
The reasons for Porter's oft-expressed reticence and ambivalence about writing her own life and having it written by others are probably quite complicated. But from a gender-conscious perspective, Porter's desire to survive, to tell her own story on her own terms, to represent the self and the life as she knew and understood it, to control and maintain the power of and over the self, makes a great deal of sense. It makes this project all the more meaningful, and it pressurizes the vast research endeavor that is KAP biography in ways that cannot be ignored. This project of lifewriting is one small, new step in a new medium at giving a voice to an extraordinary woman's life. It has, whenever possible, prioritized her own words, her own expressions, her own vision of her life as well as the circumstances of it which the historical "facts" reveal.
This then is a feminist biographical project - "feminist" here as defined by Nancy Miller and adopted by Heilbrun - the desire to "protest against the available fiction of female becoming.'" 4 As Heilbrun argues, "Miller has shown us how 'the literal failure to read women's writing has other theoretical implications.' The same may be said of reading women's lives." 5 She rightly argues that "it all needs to be invented, or discovered, or resaid." 6 If power means "the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter," then my biggest hope is to reinforce and re-inscribe that power for Katherine Anne Porter. 7
To Be Continued, with More Textual Excerpts from the CD-Rom "Katherine Ann Porter: A Biography" coming soon . . .
1 Notes/fragment writings on Biography and Autobiography, Series II, Reel 81, Box 14, Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, Special Collections, University of Maryland, College Park.
2 Heilbrun 20
3 Notes/fragment writings on Biography and Autobiography, Series II, Reel 81, Box 14, Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, Special Collections, University of Maryland, College Park.
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Hampshire, GU34 5JT,
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Street, Warnham, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 3QW
The Sussex Ox, Milton St, Polegate,
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The Swan Inn, Lower St, Fittleworth,
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The Thatched Cottage, Prospect Road,
Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8NU,
The Three Horseshoes, Elsted, Midhurst,
West Sussex, GU29 0JY,
The Tollhouse Inn, 167 Southampton
Road, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9HA,
The Trevor Arms, The Street, Glynde,
Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6SS
The Trout Inn, Main Road, Itchen Abbas,
Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1BQ
The Trusty Servant, Minstead,
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The War Bill in Tun Inn, Warbleton,
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Tiger Inn, The Green, East Dean,
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Trooper Inn, Alton Road, Froxfield,
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Turfcutters Arms, Main Road, East
Boldre, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42 7WL
Well Diggers Arms, Pulboruth Road,
Petworth, West Sussex, GU28 0HG,
Woolpack Inn, Sopley, Christchurch,
Hampshire, BH23 7AX,
Wykeham Arms, 75 Kingsgate Street,
Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9PE,
Ypres Castle Inn, Gungarden, Church
Square, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7HH


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€65m road N86 upgrade 'in danger of collapse'
FUNDING for the proposed €65million road improvement scheme on the N86 Dingle-Tralee road may be in jeopardy following An Bórd Pleanála's recent decision to reject the plan in its current format, according to a local county councillor.
An Bórd Pleanála has requested that a number of revisions be made before the plan can be re-submitted. Included in those requests: that the road's carriageway and the overall land-take be reduced; less interference with natural landscape features, and more detailed proposals in relation to the re-instatement and landscaping.
The revisions also call for the omission of the cycleway from the main route, suggesting instead that an alternative cycleway could be developed along non-national routes such as the Dingle Way walking route.
However, according to Dingle councillor Seamus Cosaí Fitzgerald the €65million investment in the road may now be at risk. He says that if the cycleway is removed from the plans for the main route, the N86 DingleTralee road may "no longer be seen as a priority for upgrading" and, as a consequence, "the project could collapse".
"It is because of the inclusion of the cycleway on the N86, as identified as a tourist strategic route for cycling, that the project has been prioritised for funding and without this, it may not receive funding for improvements and upgrades," Cllr Fitzgerald has pointed out.
Commenting on An Bórd Pleanála's revision requests, he added that while the request to reduce the carriageway in width is reasonable, the development of an alternative route through private landholdings and narrower by-roads has the potential to be "fraught with difficulties".
He also expressed concerns regarding the safety of the N86 in its current state.
"We must live in a practical world and if this project isn't allowed to proceed we could still be talking about the possibility of developing a cyclepath on parts of the Dingle Way and by-roads in 20 years' time," he said,
This issue has proven itself to be a divisive one as some feel the road development to be excessive and that unique landscape features - such as the hairpin bends near Annascaul - should be preserved.
Others, however, have cited grave concerns as to the N86's current state - the main route connecting Dingle and Tralee - in terms of road safety for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians if the improvement scheme was not to progress.
Dingle Peninsula Tourism issued a statement on the matter this week, stating that while they 'welcome any sensitive improvements to access routes to the area' they 'acknowledge the decision of An Bórd Pleanála and await with interest any further developments ...
'It is not for us to take a position about a situation like this, one way or the other, but to promote the peninsula as best we can depending on what the final outcome will be,' the statement concluded.
Dingle Chamber sent out an appeal this week to all the parties - those in favour and against the upgrading - to come together ' to ensure such a huge investment in the infrastructure of the Dingle Peninsula is not lost', offering the services of their organisation to start 'a mediation process to ensure the plans are not shelved'.


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Robin's Healthy Take: Revamped Chicken Wingsby Robin Miller in Uncategorized, August 20, 2012
My boys love chicken wings – mild, medium, hot – ALL chicken wings. During our recent summer vacation, I let them order wings at our favorite oceanfront restaurant almost every day. I knew they weren't healthy, but they're active little boys (on the run 12 hours per day, especially at the beach) so they were considered a special treat. I decided to check the nutrition stats when we got home and, although I know wings aren't "health food," I was still shocked at the amount of calories, fat and salt in an appetizer portion. One appetizer dishes up half of your day's calories and two days worth of fat and salt. And, my guess is, most folks that eat wings aren't chasing them with hours of body surfing, castle-building and paddle ball. Behold the gory details:
Regular Chicken Wings, Individual Appetizer (numbers vary depending on the sauce and restaurant):
Calories: 700-1200
Total Fat: 30-90 grams
Saturated Fat: 15-24 grams
Total Carbohydrate: 4-101 grams
Sugars: NA
Protein: 39-72 grams
Sodium: 2350-4450 milligrams
Cholesterol: 267 milligrams
Fiber: 1-7 grams
Since my boys adore wings, I decided to do a recipe revamp. They're mildly spicy, baked not fried and just as crispy as the restaurant version. And because I bake the wings and drumettes on a baking rack, a ton of fat drips away. As a result, calories and fat have been tremendously slashed.


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Ross murder defendant loses appeal
A Wisconsin court of appeals has denied a Welch man who was convicted of first-degree premeditated homicide the right to a new trial based on new evidence.
A District III court of appeals handed down the decision to Jeffrey Daniel Burr, 27, Tuesday.
Burr was convicted Feb. 20, 2002, for the murder of Ronald Ross, 51. On March 9, 2001, Burr beat and kicked Ross while at a party at a Red Wing residence, Wisconsin court documents say. He and others then drove Ross into Wisconsin and dumped him in a wooded area.
Ross' body was discovered by loggers later that day. An autopsy showed that Ross died of "multiple traumatic injuries associated with assault," court documents say. Burr was 15 years old at the time of the murder, but was charged as an adult.
In January 2002, a jury in Pepin County Court found Burr guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and false imprisonment. He was given a mandatory life sentence with the eligibility for extended supervision in 60 years.
Burr then moved for a new trial arguing prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias, evidentiary errors and newly discovered evidence. The court denied Burr's motions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the court's decision to deny Burr's motions.
On March 9, 2012, Burr again sought a new trial based on new evidence. He also argued that the Wisconsin statute allowing him to be tried as an adult was unconstitutional.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals rejected Burr's appeal Tuesday, stating that "it is not reasonably probable a new trial would produce a different result."
Burr's new evidence relied heavily on statements that Jackson's girlfriend told a private investigator in 2010. Her statements recapped the murder based on what Paul Jackson, who was at the party and testified after being granted immunity, told her the day after the murder. The court determined that this was double hearsay and would not be admissible at a new trial.
Burr will be able to apply for extended supervision in 2062. The Wisconsin Circuit Court website shows Burr began serving his life sentence at the Dodge Correctional Facility in Waupun, Wis.
Noah White III and Arlo White were found guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and sentenced to 20 years. They could be released in 2017, according to court documents.


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The important thing to realize about Safelists is that from a Traffic point of view, all the hits you get to your website as a result of the email messages you send are targeted - i.e. people only visit your website if they have read your advert and are interested in what you have to offer. In other words you avoid the disadvantages of "raw hits"
When using Safelists you have to understand that more Email Ads you send out the greater the chance is you will start selling your products. A few messages here or there wont work terribly well but if you are a member of lots of Safelists, then when you send out your advert, you are going to get your message into thousands and thousands of inboxes, and even if only 5% of people read the message then that could be hundreds of real targeted visitors
It is critical to understand that most people wont read your messages - however if you are sending out hundreds of thousands of messages, then some of them will be read, and actual visitors who click on a link in your ad will be potential buyers. This can be quite an effective "pruning system" i.e. only the people who are really interested will respond. You have to be sending out a large number of emails to be effective
The secret to success with Safelist is in what is called the "ad copy" i.e. how the message is worded. The most important thing is the subject of the Email. You need 4 or 5 words only, in capitals, which tell people something about your product/ service which is appealing enough to get people to click. Then you need a short email message that will get people to click on the link in the email to your site. Most subject lines you see are completely useless!! e.g. "program "x" is great - join now free" - this tells me nothing about the program so is a complete waste of time!! but something like "Make money with us or your money back" is much more likely to be clicked
Its best to track the ad and see how many clicks you get. I generally use a Lead Capture page as my link so I know immediately how many people have not only clicked but sent me the Name/ Email for more info. However once you get the ad right - and it will take time to fine tune it - then you will be surprised how many leads you can get this way. However do not just simply blindly post any ad as you see fit - it is vital in all advertising to track your results. If you have your own site there are FREE scripts you can easily install which will do the tracking for you - these scripts will tell you how many clicks you got, uniques etc - this is a vital part of your Business system. Some Safelists also provide some tracking facilities for you. Generally if you have a great subject line with a good Email ad linked to a Lead Capture page/ Autoresponder then you will do just fine


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Hotel Surja Guest House
The famous rooftop view at Hotel Surja Guest House view restaurant has been attracting guests and photographers for years. Our relaxed atmosphere and hospitality is what has people always coming back.... Daha fazla...
- Fiyat Oda Tipi
Hotel Tokyo Palace
Like a Japanese metropolis of Tokyo. Wed like to gather people around the world, Wed like to make a comfortable hotel.
Opened in Fall 2010,Hotel Tokyo Palace.
There are a lot of owners commitment,... Daha fazla...
- Fiyat Oda Tipi
Shahi Palace
Ideally located just outside the walls of Jaisalmers fairy tale Fort and nestled within the quiet and charismatic streets of the old city, the Shahi Palace Hotel is your premier choice for an unforget... Daha fazla...
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Gaji Hotel
We are a unique hotel based in the desert city of Jaisalmer in the heart of the Thar Desert. we offer 12 Rajasthani Style decorated rooms with ensuite bathrooms to suite all travelers budgets. We offe... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Royal Haveli
Hotel Royal Haveli is a tourist hotel in Jaisalmer. Situated at the heart of the Golden City, is walking distance from Railway Station, Hotel Royal Haveli is the most comfort Hotel in Jaisalmer at ver... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Suraj
Hotel Suraj
About Hotel: - Hotel Suraj is a 500+ year's old Haveli. It belongs to the teacher's of Maharaja of past time. It is the only as well as biggest residential Haveli of Jaisalmer Fort. The H... Daha fazla...
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Golden Marigold Hotel
This super clean budget hotel offers amazingly fresh and comfortable rooms at incredible prices. All rooms feature new linens, a fan, a seating area with chair(s) and table, cable TV, free WIFI and en... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Renuka
Welcome to Hotel Renuka, I'm your Host Sunny Purohit. We have a total of 12 clean spacious rooms with private attached bathrooms. Our Hotel is run by our friendly English speaking family which has bee... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Helsinki House
The name 'Helsinki House' is a tribute to the city that gave Ali Khan (the owner) the opportunity to turn his childhood dream into a reality. Ali khan is living and working in Helsinki, Finland and he... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Sanjay Villas
Welcome to Jaisalmer and Hotel Sanjay Villas!
Our hotel is constructed throughout with the golden stone, laced with unique Jaisalmeri carved features. Located near the beautiful sunset point which is... Daha fazla...
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Hotel Golden Haveli
Family run newly opened hotel backing onto Gadasar Lake with wonderful views over the fields. Having 37 double rooms and 4 suite - all rooms have satelite flat screen tvs, fridges, air conditioners an... Daha fazla...
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Heera Court Hotel
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Not to date myself, but when I got into bass fishing the fastest baitcasting reel on the market had a gear ratio of 3.5:1. If you bought a Gator Grip conversion kit, you could ratchet it up to 5:1. Fishing spinnerbaits and buzzbaits at 3.5:1 was work, as you can imagine.
Sometime in the early 1980s, the 6:1 "barrier" was broken (though I can't remember who did it) and a few years later Daiwa came out with the PT33SH, which was a lightning fast (for its day) 7.1:1. I still have one of those reels in my garage and used it for years when fishing lipless crankbaits.
Then reel speeds stalled. The seemingly never-ending trend toward faster reels took a break ... for a while. The "need" was still there, but the demand was gone as anglers shifted to Carolina rigging, finesse fishing with spinning gear and other techniques that didn't require fast casting tackle. Even the heavy-duty crankers of the day, like 1993 Bassmaster Classic champion David Fritts, were preaching the virtues of slower retrieves (around 4:1) that didn't "overwork" the baits.
Eventually, though, the pendulum swung back, and the need for speed returned. What drove it was what has always driven rod and reel development in the fishing market — tactics and techniques that require (or at least prefer) specialized equipment. In particular, two things pushed the market toward faster reels: (1) the decline of finesse fishing and growth of power fishing and (2) pitching.
Power fishing for bass has always been popular, though it lacked that cool term until the '90s. Before there was Kevin VanDam, there was Rick Clunn, Hank Parker, Jimmy Houston and a bunch of other anglers who earned their keep by chunking and winding horizontal baits.
Flippin' came out of California in the early 1970s. Within 15 years or so, flippers were outnumbered by pitchers who preferred short, precise underhanded casts that may not have been quite as subtle as flips but were faster, covered more water and were more efficient. Despite the fact that flippin' used heavy line, it was really a finesse technique. With flippin', all the reel did was hold the line. Pitching was (is) a different style of casting, and it's power fishing all the way. In the late '70s, a few top pros could flip. By the early '90s, every serious bass angler had at least one flippin'/pitching outfit in his boat at all times.
If you don't think bass tactics are subject to the whims of fashion and trends, you're just not paying attention.
Power fishing and pitching demand faster reels. Power techniques draw reaction strikes, and are about speed. Pitching is all about making multiple presentations quickly and efficiently, and you can't do that with a slow reel.
So reel manufacturers went back to their engineers and looked for ways to add speed. Soon, reels with gear ratios of nearly 6:1 were standard. By the 2000s, they picked up a little more speed. Now, in the 2010s, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bassin' buddy without several 7:1 casting reels in his rod locker. That's about twice as fast as the fastest reel available when I started some 40 years ago.
And the evolution isn't over. (Evolution never is.) Now we have casting reels with gear ratios of better than 8:1 and at least one at 9:1. Of course, gear ratio is at least partly a distraction. What anglers should focus on is just how much line a reel picks up for every turn of the handle, which the industry refers to as inches per turn or "IPT." That is currently topped out at around 37 inches.
Where will it stop?
I posed that question to some of the top engineering and marketing minds in the reel industry.
Q: First, what's your fastest casting reel?
Scott Castleberry (Daiwa): The Tatula at 8:1 (33.9 inches per turn).
Rick Collins (Lew's): The TS1XSMB at 8.3:1 (35 inches per turn).
Chris Strickland (Quantum): The Smoke SL100XPTA at 8:1 (35 inches per turn).
Dan Thorburn (Shimano): The Metanium 100XG at 8.5:1 (36 inches per turn).
Andrew Wheeler (Abu Garcia): The Revo Rocket at 9:1 (37 inches per turn).
Q: Where do you see the market in five years — what will be "fast" then?
Scott Castleberry (Daiwa): "Reel size is a limitation. To get faster, the drive gear needs to be larger, but that's limited by reel size and angler comfort. We may be semi-topped out around 9:1, which is about the same as a 6:1 spinning reel in terms of inches per turn."
Rick Collins (Lew's): "I think gear ratio may top out at around 10:1 in five years. Of course, inches per turn is what really matters and our limiting factor is the loss of power when reels get faster."
Chris Strickland (Quantum): "If we don't get to 10:1, I'll be surprised. Our engineers tell us that nothing is impossible, so 12:1 could be attainable."
Dan Thorburn (Shimano): "They may get as fast as 12:1, but it will be driven by fishing applications and techniques. Fishermen and the lure companies drive things. Rods and reels catch up. In recent years, the Alabama Rig and big, deep-diving crankbaits like the Strike King 10XD have started to create new rods and reels for those techniques. If the demand is for faster reels, we'll be in the mix."
Andrew Wheeler (Abu Garcia): "I think we'll top out at around 10:1 in terms of gear ratio, but with inches per turn and spool size, we might get up around 38-39 IPT."


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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 'Can't Hold Us' Feat. Ray Dalton [Video]
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have released the epic video for "Can't Hold Us" featuring Ray Dalton.
We'd be lying if we said we can make sense of what's going on here– the days of music videos making sense are long gone; now it's just about doing stuff that looks cool– but the video finds the pair making their way through the snowy terrain of the arctic to the oceans of somewhere tropical to a city street where there's like, a camel.
Seriously, WTF is happening here? And yet somehow we can't stop watching.
Metaphorically, we get it. It's their way of saying, we've been all around the world and we're all together in this and hey, you can't stop us. Cool! No, seriously, that is cool.
Watch Macklemore & Ryan Lewis "Can't Hold Us" Feat. Ray Dalton Video


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Dave Martinez
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David Martinez
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Height 5' 10", Weight 175 lb.
- School Valencia Community College
- High School Lake Howell High School
- Debut June 15, 1986
- Final Game October 7, 2001
- Born September 26, 1964 in New York, NY USA
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Dave Martinez was signed after being selected in the secondary phase of the January 1983 amateur draft by the Chicago Cubs and scout Jim Zerilla. He first reached the major leagues with the Cubs in 1986. he had a very good season for them in 1987, when he hit .292/.372/.418 in 142 games as the team's starting centerfielder. However, he slumped during the first half of the 1988 season and on July 14th was traded to the Montreal Expos in return for Mitch Webster. He never became a star player, because he lacked power and his batting averages were not quite high enough to compensate, but he developed into a very useful fourth outfielder with the Expos from 1989-1991, getting 360-400 at-bats each year while playing all three outfield spots. However, the Expos came up with three excellent young outfielders during the period, in Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker, and with Otis Nixon also around and a number of youngsters in the minors, he became supernumerary. Before the 1992 season, he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in a trade that brought closer John Wetteland to Montreal.
He moved around a lot in the second half of his career, and while never a starter at a single spot, he was a quasi-regular for the Chicago White Sox from 1995 to 1997, even though he did not have a fixed position. He hit .307, .318 and .286 those three years, scoring 85 runs the second year and hitting a career-high 12 homers the next. He was an original member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, being signed as a free agent by the expansion team before its inaugural 1998 season. He played mainly right field for them in their first two seasons, getting the most at-bats of his career in 1999 when he hit .284 in 514 at-bats.
During the 2000 season, he was traded three times in two and a half months:
- First, on May 12th, he was dealt from the Devil Rays back to the Chicago Cubs for Mark Guthrie and cash;
- On June 9th, he was dealt to the Texas Rangers for Brant Brown; and
- Finally, on August 4th, he was sent to the Toronto Blue Jays for a player to be named later (who turned out to be P Peter Munro, named on August 8th).
Remarking on this whirlwind of moves, he was quoted as saying: "At least teams want me." Despite all the moving around, he played 114 games that season, hitting his customary .285. He finished his playing career with a final season with the Atlanta Braves in 2001, where he hit .287 in 120 games. He finally got to play in the postseason that year, going 1 for 6 in two series as the Braves were eliminated by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS.
During his career, Martinez was twice used as a pitcher in blowout games, by the Expos in 1990, when he gave up 2 hits and 2 walks in a third of an inning and had to give way to Junior Noboa, another position player, to finish the inning, and in 1995 with the White Sox, when he gave up a couple of walks but no runs in one inning of work.
After retiring as a player, Martinez became a coach, joining the Devil Rays as first base coach for Joe Maddon in 2007, and then moving to bench coach in 2008, the year the now re-named Rays reached the World Series. He stayed in the position until the end of the 2014 season, when Maddon left to manage the Chicago Cubs. Martinez was considered as a potential successor to Maddon in Tampa Bay, but instead moved to Chicago where he became the Cubs' bench coach in 2015.


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Petition aims to shut down strip bar
Encouraging ministers
The City Beautiful isn't the place for a gentlemen's club that features exotic dancing.
So says the Storm Lake Ministerial Association, which has presented the city council with petitions signed by more than 600 of its constituents asking the body to shut down Hot Shots, a bar on Flindt Drive that features strip dancing.
The ministers say the site gives the community a black eye, and is demeaning to women.
Jack Barber of the Storm Lake Church of Christ was one of the ministers coming to the council, but he noted that the city's attorney, Paul Havens, told the group that what Hot Shots was doing was legal, but that some cities have dealt with the problem of bars with nude dancers through zoning.
"We're going to be talking and learning about zoning," Barber said. "We know they have a legal right to be there but ...we will be looking into zoning and what our legal rights are."
Barber said it was a personal issue for him.
"We call this the city beautiful and it is, with the lake and schools and churches we have here," Barber said. "But what is really beautiful here is the people of Storm Lake, and having a bar like Hot Shots so near the high school and the elementary school just paints everything kind of grim."
Barber said Jamie Cutler, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Storm Lake has been the prime mover on this issue for the association, feeling that such bars are demeaning of women.
Barber said the association got the petitions signed "in only a couple of weeks" and all the signatories had to be from Storm Lake.
"People have been encouraging me," Barber said. "I had a woman come up to me today in the drug store and tell me how much she appreciated what we are doing about this issue."


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Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne to miss Nationwide race
The apparently lingering effects of an insect bite will sideline Trevor Bayne from Friday's Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway
The Daytona 500 winner was hospitalized Thursday and undergoing tests for symptoms that are believed to be related to an insect bite he sustained earlier this month. Bayne was hospitalized briefly after the April 10 race at Texas Motor speedway and released after treatment for the bite on his left elbow, which he might have suffered earlier in the week at home in North Carolina. He returned to run the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at Talladega Superspeedway and last week's Nationwide event at Nashville Superspeedway.
"Trevor was not feeling well early this week and he is currently being evaluated for lingering symptoms that may be related to his previous insect bite," Roush Fenway Racing president Steve Newmark said in a statement. "Unfortunately Trevor will not be available to drive the No. 16 Ford for us this weekend in the Nationwide race at Richmond. As of now, our plans are to use a substitute driver from the Roush Fenway family of drivers in place of Trevor at Friday night's race.
"Obviously Trevor wanted to be in Richmond, and he's upset about not being able to compete. However, his health is our top priority and we insisted that he have these tests to get to the bottom of his symptoms. We will work to provide you with further updates as they become available."
Bayne, 20, was scheduled to run a full Nationwide season with Roush, and a partial Cup schedule with Wood Brothers Racing, whose No. 21 Ford he drove to victory in February. The youngest Daytona 500 winner in history isn't scheduled to drive for the Wood Brothers again until next month's Sprint All-Star Race.
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Taxi drivers say these are dark days for taxis in Canberra - too many cabs and public service cuts, mixed with economic uncertainty, have made people thrifty and the passengers stop coming.
It used to be when you drove a cab in Canberra, the deal was simple - you got fifty per cent of your earnings and the rest went to your employer.
The cab owner pays for registration, serving and petrol; all the driver had to do was drive the cab and count the money.
But Canberra cab drivers said everything changed in the past five years and, as public service cuts began to bite and more cabs hit the roads, business has decreased sharply.
Taxi driver 30-year-old Daniel Van de Zandt said he has been driving for four years and in that time his weekly take had dropped about a third.
"When I started it was easier to make money and now the pay has gone down significantly, for the hours working. In a car, when I started, I was doing six days a week and I could be earning $1400-1500 a week for a 12-hour shift," he said.
"Now it probably could be $400-500 less a week, or more."
Daniel said before you can drive a taxi in the ACT you have to have had your licence for more than a year, be over 21 and have a language certificate from CIT to prove you can speak English.
He said you also had to buy your uniform from the company, with shirts costing about $60 a pop and jackets setting you back more than $100.
"Then you pay to do a course, which is actually quite expensive. When I did it four years ago it was under $500, and that's just the theory test, then there's the driving test that was $125," he said.
Compared with some Canberra drivers, Daniel has barely started - 78-year-old Mick Simon has been driving a taxi in the ACT for 43 years, coming to Canberra straight from working on the Snowy Hydro Scheme in the 50s.
He said over the past four decades he'd had at least three Prime Ministers, two Opposition leaders and a number of politicians pass through his cab.
"I had that McMahon fella before he died, I had him in the cab. He was like a lost brother, he was too friendly, very talkative. But most of them are okay with taxi drivers," he said.
Mick said business in the capital was the worst he'd seen in four decades behind the wheel.
"What's happened is that before it was a co-operative society, cab drivers, and now it's become a company. I sold my cabs. Since it's become a company they only worry about how they can make money, they don't worry about service any more," he said.
Gurtejwar Singh has driven a taxi in both Canberra and Melbourne, for seven years all up, and he blamed the government for issuing new taxi licenses when there were already too many.
"The government is putting in a lot of new taxis because they earn a lot of money, so taxis are very expensive, wages are going down, taxes are increasing," he said.
"It used to be cheap to take a taxi [but] these days people just want to drive their own cars and sometimes [even] to the airport."
For drivers who started during the lean years, driving an ACT taxi has been difficult. 30-year-old Amit Khajuria started driving this year and found it hard going.
With a wife at home and a dream of one day owning a restaurant, Amit has driven 12-hour shifts in a taxi sometimes earning less than $100 a night.
"It's hard. We're just sitting around waiting for a customer. When it's cold, nobody wants to go outside at night after 8pm. Sometimes we make only $50 in a day despite sitting in a car for 12 hours. It depends how busy it is," he said.
Amit said he doesn't want to keep driving for much longer, another six months at the most.
Mele Hamilton is one of Canberra's few female taxi drivers. She has been driving a taxi for her husband Ted for more than 32 years and says she'll keep going till the doctor tells her to stop.
Despite often driving the night shift on Friday and Saturday, she said she rarely feels unsafe on the streets of Canberra.
"Ninety-five per cent of kids, they're alL right... they hop into the car and they're screaming and I say, 'Hey, hey, keep calm, there's no need for that,' and they say `sorry'," she said, laughing.
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May 26, 2013 - By Alejandra Silva, Staff WriterWyoming Indian High School's graduation on May 19 was the last one for the departing superintendent.
Departing superintendent Michelle Hoffman did her best to hold back tears during the Wyoming Indian High School commencement ceremony May 19. The graduation was her last at Fremont County School District 14 after announcing her retirement in 2011. She had been superintendent for the district since 2004.
"Thank you for all the memories," Hoffman told the graduates. "It's a happy occasion but it's sad."
She presented scholarships to Stephen Headley, Donald Clifford Jr., Jacinta Goggles, Kanani Washakie and Breanna Shakespeare. The school also repeated last year's surprise by providing each graduate with a laptop computer.
"Everywhere you go, there's going to be the naysayers," principal Phil Garhart said. "Just remember who you are and where you came from -- we believe in you and wish you all the best."
Salutatorian Tianna Redman provided words of encouragement to the graduates.
"This is the day we all dreamed about since we walked in those doors," she said. "By no means is this our final destination. Never give up."
Valedictorian Donald Clifford Jr. reminded the graduates that the hard earned diploma could not be taken away.
The graduates had invited Debra Parker, an Indian Country activist, to be the keynote speaker for the ceremony.
"You chose to finish, that is why you are taking your rightful seats today (and) every experience you have helps you grow," Parker said. "Believe in what you have because if you don't, who will? You deserve to be happy today and for the rest of your lives."
Arlen "Bunny" Shoyo presented an opening and closing prayer as well as a moment of silence for Thurlo Jenkins Sr. who was a member of the Northern Arapaho Business Council and died in April.
Students who received their diplomas included Joey Aragon, Chardale Brown, Clifford, Aleigha C'Bearing, Goggles, Headley, Torrie Little Coyote, Paige Medicine Horse, Shoshanna Miller, Skyler Quiver, Tyler Quiver, Redman, Shakespeare, Alden Spoonhunter, Alvin Spoonhunter, Garland Spoonhunter, Jocelyn Underwood, Ambrose Underwood and Washakie.
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The Tempe, Arizona-based State Bicycle Co. is celebrating the Wu-Tang Clan's 20th anniversary.
The company is teaming up with the group to release the "Wu-Tang Brand 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Bike."
The custom made bicycle comes complete with a yellow and black paint job. It's also branded with the group's name across the frame and features the group's logo in numerous places. The bike will set hardcore fans back $599.
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The dangerously out-of-touch secretary of defense bristled at reporters' attempts to challenge him on differences between U.S. and Iraqi officials on benchmarks for progress in Iraq.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters today to "just back off" and "relax" instead of looking for differences between U.S. and Iraqi officials on benchmarks for progress in Iraq toward political and security goals, and he rejected the idea of penalizing any failure to hit the targets.
In a Pentagon news conference, Rumsfeld sparred repeatedly with questioners over reported discord between U.S. officials and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on a timeline for Iraqi security forces to assume more responsibilities from U.S. troops. Rumsfeld disputed a characterization of Iraqi forces as chronically failing to meet benchmarks, saying this assertion was "flat wrong" and that the Iraqis have "done a darn good job."
In response, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "Today a secretary of defense, who should have been fired a long time ago, lost even greater touch with reality."
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This is one of those "I hope against hope that I'm wrong, but I doubt it" stories.
According to a Denver TV Station (HT Michelle Malkin), many of those who are expecting tickets for Barack Obama's Invesco Field speech on the final night of the Democratic Convention in the Mile High City are being told they have to do volunteer work for the campaign -- this week -- to qualify.
Will this story get any traction outside of Denver in traditional media outlets? As I said, "I hope against hope that I'm wrong, but I doubt it."
Read the whole thing, but here are the details:
The Obama campaign has begun notifying people who got tickets for the big acceptance speech at Invesco Field the final night of the convention.
Many of those who received tickets told 7NEWS they have come with a caveat.
Those viewers said the campaign told them they must volunteer six hours for the campaign by Friday in order to get a ticket.
"I got a call that if I want the tickets I have to volunteer two shifts of three hours apiece -- for one ticket. If I want two tickets, then it's four shifts of two hours apiece," said Berenice Christensen.
..... Dozens of Obama supporters are already volunteering. They are volunteers who believe working for tickets to the biggest night of the convention is a small price to pay.
"They're trying desperately. I mean, they're almost panic-stricken, they want tickets to hear his acceptance speech," said volunteer Terry Andrews.
..... Christensen said she too is excited, but a part of her believes the process for signing up was disingenuous. "I mean they made it seem like any Coloradan could go, and now you have to work for your ticket."
A Breckenridge resident e-mail 7NEWS with a similar experience:
"My experience matches what you are hearing from other sources. Because of my work schedule and other activities going on, I did not sign up for the All Star tickets. But I was called by the campaign and told that I had to volunteer this week in order to get tickets at all. I finally agreed to one three-hour shift, but it left a bad impression for this lifelong Democrat ....."
..... The Obama campaign insists that volunteering is not a requirement to get a ticket.
The article goes on to note that the Obama campaign is now claiming that you have to volunteer to get better "all-star seating." But if you don't volunteer, it appears that "you retain your place in line for what is called a 'community credential.'"
Someone in the media ought to be on the lookout for overbooking, which I would think is a legitimate danger, given the mechanics of how things are being handled. Or maybe overbooking is a deliberate plan to make it appear as if the teeming masses can't get enough of this guy.
Can you imagine the traditional media outcry if the GOP convention and its stereotypical mean, exploitative capitalists started demanding "slave labor" as a condition for entry -- and either incompletely disclosed the requirement, or only disclosed it after the fact?
Another personal reax: Maybe this guy really does think he's "The One."
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Many a great political deal has been brokered and many a political plot hatched between mouthfuls of food and slugs of alcohol.
Our history is often a history of breakfasts, lunches and dinners between leaders. That's the theme of "Power Eating", a new series about meals that made history first broadcast in May 2005 for The Westminster Hour.
In the first part, Anne Perkins uncovers what happened over lunch at Chequers when Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady of the Cold War, first met the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
In the second part, Anne Perkins looks at the fateful dinner in 1925 which convinced the then Chancellor, Winston Churchill, that he should take Britain back onto the gold standard.
In the final part, Anne Perkins recalls a Summer meal at Chequers in 1969. The Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson had invited trade union leaders for a dinner which was anything but cosy.


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PERAK is set to see a boost in its education as well as hospitality and tourism industry through a collaboration between UCSI University and Jumbo Straits Sdn Bhd (JS).
It will see the development of UCSI University's fifth campus and its first to be built in the education hub of Bandar Seri Iskandar in Perak.
An agreement was signed on Thursday at the university's Kuala Lumpur campus, witnessed by Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.
Bandar Seri Iskandar is the biggest township development project in central Perak encompassing an education hub, residential properties, and leisure and entertainment facilities.
UCSI Group founder and chairman Datuk Peter Ng said the partnership would generate more skilled as well as specialised human resources for the hospitality and tourism sector to meet the needs of this growing industry.
"Tourism is a multibillion-ringgit industry, which has been earmarked by the Perak government as one of the key sectors with excellent growth potential.
UCSI University vice-chancellor and president Prof Datuk Dr Khalid Yusoff said the industry was constantly on the lookout for skilled employees.
"Higher education institutions need to step up efforts to cater to this increasing demand," he said.
"UCSI University has a long and proven track record in this field.
"We welcome the opportunity to contribute to the hospitality and tourism industry and to Perak through the new campus at Bandar Seri Iskandar."
Upon completion, the campus can cater to more than 5,000 people and is expected to attract students from the northern states of Penang, Perlis and Kedah.


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Falling natural gas prices hit states' pocketbooks
Energy-producing states are bracing for lower tax revenue from the plummeting price of natural gas, which is just above half of what some states forecast when they put together budgets for 2013 and beyond.
Production of natural gas is up nationally largely because of the spread of hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice that allows tapping of deposits formerly out of reach. A warm winter cut demand, driving the price below $2 per thousand cubic feet in April.
That reduces natural gas heating costs for millions of Americans — the Energy Information Administration estimates they will be 25% lower this year than in 2008 — but crimps states dependent on natural gas taxes. Some are preparing for lower prices for 2013 and 2014 budget years.
Wyoming Gov. Mead, a Republican, was operating on $4 forecasts in December, revised them to $3.25, and last month directed state agencies to prepare for 8% budget cuts in 2014 if prices don't improve by then. Mead says if the price remains around $2 the rest of the current year, the state's receipts could be about $125 million lower than expected.
Wyoming is among a handful of states that have enjoyed rising revenue from the energy boom in recent years. Its two-year state budget has gone from $1.58 billion in 2003-04 to a projected $3.24 billion for 2013-14. The state has used windfalls from energy taxes since 2005 to put an extra $3.3 billion into highways, state construction and aid to local governments.
Wyoming's legislature already has authorized Mead to tap $150 million from a reserve fund if prices don't improve, but he has ordered agencies to plan for future cuts before tapping further into the reserve.
"My approach is to try to stay in front of potential pitfalls and be proactive," says Mead, whose state depends on natural gas taxes more than any other source of revenue.
New Mexico, which gets one of every six dollars from oil and gas taxes, loses $82 million annually for every $1 drop in the price of natural gas.
Finance and Administration Secretary Tom Clifford says, "New Mexico is definitely concerned" but that higher oil prices and production are offsetting the losses, for now.
Oklahoma estimated a $3.64 price for its 2013 budget, which begins in July. Every $1 drop in price costs the state roughly $70 milion a year, state Treasurer Ken Miller says.
"We are concerned, but we don't want to get things out of perspective," says Miller, adding that natural gas proceeds were expected to be about $188 million out of a $6 billion budget.
Miller says it's difficult to predict future prices but notes that electric utilities around the country are switching from coal to natural gas and that "eventually, the free market will work itself out and prices will rebound."
Some states are getting around the lower prices with heavy production.
Texas, far less dependent on oil and natural gas tax receipts than 20 years ago, has increased production so much that its $1 billion in natural gas revenue from the first seven months of the 2012 fiscal year was 65% higher than last year. Tax receipts from oil production were up 54% and cushioned the lower price of natural gas.


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In demyelinating disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), targets of injury are myelin and oligodendrocytes, leading to severe neurological dysfunction. Regenerative therapies aimed at promoting oligodendrocyte maturation and remyelination are promising strategies for treatment in demyelinating disorders. Endogenous precursor cells or exogenous transplanted cells are potential sources for remyelinating oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS). Several signalling pathways have been implicated in regulating the capacity of these cell populations for myelin repair. Here, we review neural precursor cells and oligodendrocyte progenitor cells as potential sources for remyelinating oligodendrocytes and evidence for the functional role of key signalling pathways in inhibiting regeneration from these precursor cell populations.
In demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), targets of injury are myelin and oligodendrocytes leading to a profound loss of myelin sheaths, axonal injury and degeneration. Demyelination occurs in a range of human neurological conditions, most notably in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in adults and white matter injury in the newborn brain. In these demyelinating diseases, the body has a natural mechanism for repair by a process called remyelination, in which axons are provided with a new, thinner myelin sheath by the regeneration of mature oligodendrocytes [
Signalling pathways have been identified that are inhibitory for oligodendrocyte differentiation and maturation and consequently for remyelination. Here, we review the evidence for these signaling pathways in regulating the response of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and neural precursor cells (NPCs), which give rise to mature oligodendrocytes to promote remyelination. We summarize the roles of these signalling pathways in demyelination and remyelination and how they can be inhibited to promote myelin repair.
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) are an endogenous source for replacement of oligodendrocytes [
Once the oligodendrocyte lineage is specified during development, the OPCs subsequently migrate and proliferate throughout the CNS [
The adult CNS also contains OPCs, indicating that not all OPCs differentiate during development [
Oligodendrocytes regenerate naturally by differentiation of OPCs residing within the adult CNS in white and gray matter [
Neural stem cells and multipotential neural precursor cells (NPCs) residing within the subventricular zone (SVZ), an active region of neurogenesis within the adult brain [
In response to brain injury, cells produced in the SVZ have been shown to migrate to injured areas and differentiate into oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and neurons [
Cell transplantation represents a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of myelin disorders such as MS. Transplanted cells can include NPCs, which, following injection into the brain of hypomyelinated mice, can result in differentiation into oligodendrocytes and myelin production [
In recent studies, banked human CNS stem/precursor cells (HuCNS-SC) were successfully transplanted into the brains of hypomyelinated mice and patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease (PMD), a rare congenital leukodystrophy in which developmental myelination is never established [
Human glial-restricted progenitors (GRPs) and OPCs have also been shown to generate donor-derived myelin in congenital hypomyelinated mice. Windrem
While transplanted OPCs are effective in myelinating shiverer mice, treatment of MS patients with exogenous OPCs remains a challenge to the field to be viable as a potential therapy. In MS, lesions are multifocal and heterogeneous, in contrast to shiverer mice, which have global hypomyelination making evidence of donor-derived myelin very clear. In the MS brain, directly targeting lesions with exogenous OPCs would be difficult, given that lesions may need to be neuropathologically assessed to determine if they were predisposed to repair. For example, acute lesions are more prone to repair in the cuprizone model of demyelination than chronic lesions, where the infiltration of inflammatory cells is reduced compared to what is observed in acute lesions [
Here, we discuss signalling pathways that play central roles in the regulation of endogenous precursor cells and their capacity to inhibit myelin repair (
In the developing spinal cord, the Wnt proteins are dorsal factors that signal through the canonical β-catenin signalling pathway and inhibit the differentiation of oligodendrocytes [
The Wnt pathway has been shown to be active during developmental myelination and in remyelination in the adult. The transcription factor Tcf4, a mediator of Wnt signalling, forms a complex with β-catenin in the nucleus and regulates the expression of target genes [
The roles of Bone Morphogenic Proteins (BMPs) during development have been very well characterised, however, their role within the adult brain is less well described, particularly in the context of a demyelinating insult. There is recent evidence that BMP signalling influences the response of progenitor cells
There is an important role for BMP signalling in modulating differentiation and remyelination from endogenous OPCs within cuprizone-induced demyelinated lesions of the mouse brain. Intraventricular infusion of BMP4 into the brains of mice during cuprizone-induced demyelination revealed that exogenous BMP signalling transiently increases the proliferation of endogenous OPCs that are rapidly cleared following recovery from a demyelinating insult [
In other animal models of white matter injury, there is evidence to suggest that downregulation of BMP signalling increases oligodendrogliogenesis and repair. Dizon
Recent data from Weng
Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a factor that plays an important role in the production of oligodendrocytes originating from NPCs in the healthy adult SVZ. NPCs in the adult mouse SVZ express FGF2, and FGF2 knockout mice have reduced numbers of slow-dividing NPCs, implicating a role for FGF2 in maintenance of NPCs [
In the mouse spinal cord, FGF2 mRNA and protein expression is increased from postnatal day 7 to postnatal day 15, spanning the postnatal period of mature oligodendrocyte generation and myelination [
FGF2 plays a key role within the corpus callosum during cuprizone-induced demyelination and remyelination. In acute demyelinated lesions induced by cuprizone challenge, FGF2 mRNA expression is increased in the corpus callosum [
While several studies have reported that genetic deletion of FGF2 is beneficial for remyelination
Levels of FGF2 have also been evaluated in human MS patients. In active demyelinating plaques and chronic active and inactive plaques from the brains of MS patients, Clemente
During development, the Notch pathway, which is mediated by the Jagged and Delta ligands, regulates OPC differentiation and myelination. In cultures from postnatal rat optic nerve, OPCs, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes express the Notch1 receptor while its ligand, Jagged1, is expressed by oligodendrocytes and retinal ganglion cells [
Demyelinating and remyelinating lesions have been shown to express members of the Notch signalling pathway. In the demyelinated spinal cord of EAE animals, Notch1 was expressed in macrophages and astrocytes, while Jagged1 expression was restricted to astrocytes [
Studies using genetic deletion strategies have also been used to describe the effect of Notch signalling on remyelination. Zhang
The Notch pathway has also been investigated in human MS lesions. In adjacent sections from an acute lesion, John
Regenerative therapies aimed at promoting oligodendrocyte maturation and remyelination are promising strategies for treatment in CNS demyelinating diseases. Here we have reviewed some of the potential sources for remyelinating oligodendrocytes and evidence for the functional role of four signalling pathways (Wnt pathway, BMP pathway, Fibroblast growth factor 2 and Notch pathways) in inhibiting regeneration from these precursor cell populations. We have provided evidence that these pathways are inhibitory for OPC differentiation and maturation. Furthermore, we have reviewed published work that suggests inhibition of these pathways promotes mature oligodendrocytes and/or remyelination. Manipulation of some or all of these pathways
Signalling pathways that regulate the response of endogenous precursor cells and the implications for myelin repair.
|Signalling Pathway
|Regulation of Endogenous NPC
|Regulation of Endogenous OPC
|Capacity for Myelin Repair
|Wnt pathway
|Inhibitory for OPC differentiation during developmental myelination
|Tcf4 and Axin2 are expressed in oligodendroglia in remyelinating lesions in rodents and in active MS lesions and neonatal white matter lesions in humans [
|BMP pathway
|Inhibiting BMP signalling with Noggin infusion during cuprizone-induced demyelination increased oligodendroglial cell numbers in the SVZ (↑) [
|Increasing BMP signalling during cuprizone-induced demyelination increased OPC proliferation within lesions (↑) [
|Downregulation of endogenous BMP signalling during demyelination promoted mature oligodendrocyte regeneration and myelin repair (↑) [
|Inhibiting BMP signalling with Chordin infusion induced the differentiation of SVZ neuroblasts into oligodendrocytes in lysolecithin-demyelinated corpus callosum (↑) [
|Inhibiting BMP signalling during cuprizone-induced demyelination increased OPC differentiation (↑) [
|BMPs have been detected in human brain chronic MS lesions [
|Inhibiting BMP signalling with Noggin infusion increased numbers of Olig2+ cells in the adult healthy SVZ (↑) [
|Transcription factor, Sip1, inhibits BMP signalling and promotes oligodendrocyte maturation
|FGF2 regulates SVZ NSC maintenance (↑) [
|Inhibitory for OPC differentiation during developmental myelination (↓) [
|Knockout mice show enhanced remyelination following recovery from acute and chronic cuprizone-induced demyelination (↑) [
|Treatment of EAE mice increased OPC and mature oligodendrocyte numbers in the spinal cord (↑) [
|Upregulated in macrophages/microglia in human MS plaques [
|Notch pathway
|Inhibitory for OPC differentiation
|Expressed in demyelinated and remyelinated lesions in animal models [
|Genetic deletion of Notch1 in oligodendrocytes enhanced remyelination of the lysolecithin-demyelinated spinal cord (↑) [
|Expressed in human demyelinated lesions, but absent in remyelinated lesions [


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I looking forward to seeing Freya again. A second original sister will be interesting. Sorry for those who don't watch Witches of East End for the first reaction. It's all I thought when I heard that her name was Freya. I highly doubt that they would be able to get Jenna Dewan Tatum to be able to play Freya but she was awesome as a witch and it sucks that Witches of East End was cancelled.
Can I just say that Joseph Morgan is awesome? When he got mad and he was like "You went after my child! My daughter!" that was really powerful. I want to see more Daddy!Klaus. Have we heard Klaus call hope is daughter before? I can't remember him saying that before.
I'm pretty sure even if Klaus knew that Hope being alive would bring back lady rumpelstiltskin he would still be as mad as he is. I don't think Klaus would see that as a good excuse to try and kill his daughter.
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