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Edith Reeves Solenberger Papers, 1897-1979
Collection: DG 176
Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
Telephone: 610-328-8557 (curator)
Fax: 610-690-5728
Email: email@example.com (curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
Descriptive Summary
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Solenberger, Edith Reeves (1886-1976)
Edith Reeves Solenberger Papers
Inclusive Dates
Dates of 1897-1979
Call Number
Language of Materials
Materials in English
four linear feet [papers only]
Edith Gertrude Reeves Solenberger (1886-1976) was a Quaker peace activist who participated in a broad range of organizations. She was Co-Clerk of the Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, a founder of the Lansdowne-Upper Darby branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and an officer of the Delaware County WILPF Council. Edith Reeves graduated from Radcliffe College, earning an AB in 1907 and an AM in 1910. Her career included social work, writing, and public speaking. She was WILPF's referent on Native Americans in the 1950s. Edith Solenberger was interested in disability issues and had a notable impact on the treatment of children with physical disabilities in the Philadelphia area.
Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
Usage Restrictions
Yes, this collection is located off site. Please contact SCPC staff at least two weeks in advance of visit.
Alternate Form of Material
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Robert Solenberger, 1994, 1995, [Acc. 94A-082, Acc. 95A-036]; Purchase, [Acc. 08B-061]
Processing Information
Processed by Kate Myer, October 1993, revised by Anne Yoder, May 1995; revised by Wendy E. Chmielewski, September 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Edith Reeves Solenberger Papers (DG 176), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
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Related Collections
DG 043 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (Local Branches, Series B, 5 PA)
Diary of Edith Reeves available at the University of South Dakota;
Diary of Edith R. Solenbeger and photograph at Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
Historical Background
Edith Gertrude Reeves Solenberger (1886-1976) was a Quaker peace activist who participated in a broad range of organizations. Edith Reeves was born in 1886 in South Dakota. She attended the University of South Dakota and graduated from Radcliffe College, earning an AB in 1907 and an AM in 1910, with an interest in crippled children. Reeves married Edwin Solenberger of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania and moved to that community in August of 1913. Edith Solenberger was Co-Clerk of the Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, a founder of the Lansdowne-Upper Darby branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and an officer of the Delaware County WILPF Council.Her career included social work, writing, and public speaking. She was WILPF's referent on Native Americans in the 1950s.
Together with her husband, Edwin, Edith traveled to the 1955 Pacific Yearly Meeting as a representative of the Lansdowne Monthly Meeting. Other Quaker sponsored trips included those to Canada to learn about the Doukhobors, a Russian immigrant-based pacifist Christian group. Warm friendships developed as a result of her trips in 1951, 1955 and 1956.
As a WILPF member, Edith Solenberger represented that organization at the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco. Other conferences she attended were the first and second Pendle Hill Pacifist Conferences, Wallingford, Pennsylvania. in1940 and 1941, and the All American Friends Conference, Richmond, Indiana, 1942.
Other organizations which attracted Solenberger's interest ranged from the America First Committee to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Subject matters of interest to her included academic freedom, chemical warfare, disarmament, fallout shelters, referenda on war, the role of the clergy in wartime, and world reorganization.
In addition to her special collection on Doukhobors, Solenberger collected information on Native American issues, and she corresponded with legislators on this topic--especially concerning the Kinzua Dam Project--from 1957 to 1964. Edith Solenberger sponsored a young Native American student with whom she corresponded from 1963 to1969.
Within the Philadelphia community, Edith Solenberger had a notable impact on the treatment of children with physical disabilities. This crusade began as early as 1910 with her work with the International Society for Crippled Children in Elyria, Ohio, and lasted until1968.As Edith Reeves, she authored the semiunal volume of its day on this topic in 1911 entitled Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States.. The Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults issued a Letter of Introduction describing Edith Solenberger as a Charter Member of the Society's Board of Directors. She was a pioneer in work on behalf of disabled children. In 1949, she visited post-war Europe inspecting hospitals institutional homes, schools and agencies for persons with orthopaedic handicaps.
Persons of interest to her included Jane Addams, Gandhi, the Duke of Windsor, and Norman Thomas. She was concerned with the treatment of refugees, post-war Germany, and United States involvement in Vietnam prior to her death at age 90 in 1976.
Edith Reeves Solenberger's life journey ranged from a frontier childhood in the South Dakota Territory to international scholarly travel, and included family commitments, rearing four children, and spiritual and intellectual dedication to many diverse causes.
Collection Overview
The Edith Reeves Solenberger papers, distributed between correspondence, handwritten notes on various subjects, printed literature on organizations, and clippings files, are organized by headings: Correspondence, Articles by her, Conferences attended and Committees served (chronologically arranged), Countries which concerned or interested her, Organizations, Reference Files and Special Collections: The Doukhobors, American Indians, and Work Related to Crippled Children. The majority of correspondence in the Crippled Children Special Collection is between Edith Reeves Solenberger and Edgar F. "Daddy" Allen, President of the International Society for Crippled Children (1924-1937). Beyond 1937, she maintained her volunteer activities for this cause with the Philadelphia Society for Crippled Children and Adults, of which she was a charter member. These special collections include correspondence as well as published information.
Accession 08B-061 was acquired through purchase in 2008. This accession includes a school copy book of Edith Reeves, dated 1897-1899; a diary, dated 1900; an herbarium (n.d., but perhaps from 1913); wedding announcements and correspondence, 1913; telegram from Edith Reeves on women's rights, 1912; University of South Dakota [?] graduation program for Althea Margaret Reeves [Edith's sister?], 1914; three family photographs-two of Emerson G. Reeves [Edith's father], one of Emma Sprague Reeves [Edith's mother]. Edith Reeves, and Harrison Sprague Reeves [Edith's brother], circa 1892; one lock of hair [unidentified]
Items removed:
Memorabilia-lock of hair; herbarium
Arrangement of Collection
The arrangement of the Edith Solenberger Papers closely follows their original order. When clear, Edith Solenberger's folder titles were retained. All materials were removed from their original folders and placed into acid-free folders. Those papers within the areas described above appear in either chronological or alphabetical order, depending on which better serves the nature of the information contained therein.
The third special collection, Work Related to Crippled Children, was created as Box 10 and contains the documentation of her fifty years' commitment to bettering the treatments and education for crippled children and adults.
The 1994 accession further expands the documentation of the Solenbergers--Edith, and Edwin who accompanied her--under the auspices of the Lansdowne Meeting of the Society of Friends. From the early 1950s until 1968, the Meeting issued "Minutes" introducing Edith to British and European Meetings where she was warmly received. (Edwin Solenberger was not a Quaker.)
Also from this later accession came an expanded biographical file including clippings, which document her broad spectrum of involvement in social causes, as well as copies of her speeches, articles published in Friends Intelligencer, conference proceedings, and letters to editors.
Family information about her ancestors, immediate family and descendants can be found in the biographical information folder and correspondence files, particularly in the holiday letters sent annually from the late 1950s through the 1960s.
Material from Accession 08B-061 has been integrated with the other biographical material in Box 1.
Re-File Box, Miscellaneous material received in 1997, after the collection was processed
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box 1
Removal Sheet and finding aid
Biographical material
-Composition book, 1897
- Diary, 1900
-Wedding-newspaper announcements, correspondence, visiting cards
-Other items: telegram Edith Reeves to Franklin B. Gault, on women's rights, 1912; University of South Dakota graduation program, 1914
Writings of Edith Reeves Solenberger
Articles and speeches, pre-1950
Articles and speeches, 1950-1968
Bibliographies, Book Reviews of interest to Edith Reeves Solenberger
-with Karl Franke, German Family, 1947-1948
Box 1a
-1945-1959 [see also Doukhobours correspondence]
-1961-1969 [see also Doukhobours reference files; American Indians]
Box 2
1938 Conference on World Economic Cooperation; National Peace Conference
1940 (First) Pendle Hill Pacifist Conference
1940-1941 Committee on Conscientious Objectors,Peace Section of AFSC
1941 (Second) Pendle Hill Pacifist Conference
1942 All American Friends Conference, Richmond, Indiana
1951 Japanese Peace Treaty Conference WILPF Representative
Germany, post WWII recovery
Korea, Asia, India
Box 3
America First Committee
Dept. of State, U.S. Government
Emergency Peace Campaign
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Foreign Policy Association
Friends Peace Committee
Friends World Problems Committee (later Friends Committee on National Legislation)
Keep America Out of War Congress
League of Nations/World Court
"Red Network", Fifth Column, American Communist Party
Society of Friends: Lansdowne Monthly Pacific Yearly Meeting (Minute for ERS to Attend the Pacific Yearly Meeting, 1955)
United Nations
War Resisters' International
War Resisters League
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Disarmament Committee of1935, Delaware County
-National (U.S.) Section
-Lansdowne-Upper Darby Branch
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia


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When you are preparing a salad, do you like to add leaves with tang or to provide a peppery taste. Start with a selection of loose leaf lettuce leaves and some small red-ribbed beetroot leaves and just begin adding and mixing. Let me provide a few suggestions, all of which are easy to grow in the home garden.
The secret is to sow a little and repeat the process regularly, so that you will have a good, continuing supply. All of these little vegetables grow quickly, provide them with regular feeds of liquid fertilisers, either seaweed or fish emulsion mixes. Keep the soil moist and mulch around the plants.
Leaf mustards add a tang to any salad mix. The leaves are tender with a spicy, pungent flavour. It is a quick growing summer plant which will yield small leaves in just three to four weeks. Dig in plenty of compost when preparing the bed, as the plant is a gross feeder plant. Sow the seed just 5mm deep directly into the garden bed, allowing 15cm between each plant.
Red giant mustard has large savoy crinkled leaves with a white rib running up the centre. The leaves are dark green and deep purple in colour. Osaka purple has very dark purple, round leaves which are also quite tender.
Some mustard greens are also called wasabi greens. These have quite a sweet flavour and look brilliant in a salad mix. Two good options are the golden streaks leaf mustard with finely serrated bright green to golden leaves. Ruby streaks has similar fine serrated leaves but they are dark green to burgundy in colour. Leaves can be harvested regularly in just three to fourweeks from planting.
Mizuna is a Japanese salad green which belongs to another subgroup in the mustard family. It produces a bunch of feathery, yet crisp dark green leaves and it has a mild spicy, piquant flavour. You can pick off a few leaves at a time to mix with other salad leaves. If the plant grows for longer periods, then the older leaves can be harvested and cooked like spinach.
Rocket will also provide you with a good, peppery tasting leaf that is rich in vitamin A and C, folates, potassium and anti-oxidants. It compliments open type lettuce leaves in a mixed salad. This is also a quick growing herb which can be sown directly into the garden bed. Make sure that you pick the young, tender leaves. Pick often to promote new growth. The edible flower of rocket is also a lovely addition to an entree or added to a mixed salad bowl.
Salad burnet is a lovely little perennial which produces soft, grey leaves and tiny magenta coloured flowers. Its flavour resembles that of cucumber. Pick the leaves while still tender and young and add more zest to your salad bowl.
Try growing these in balcony planter boxes, if you have few backyard garden options or if you just want to have them handy to the kitchen. Provide a rich base soil and mix in some compost. Place the planter boxes in a sunny location but keep them well watered. Ensure that there is good drainage in the bottom of the box.
Summer zesty salad
1 mignonette lettuce
½ cup green mustard leaves
½ cup mizuna
¼ cup rocket leaves
1 medium-sized red onion
2 cloves garlic
juice of 1 lemon
2 tsp olive oil
15 cherry tomatoes
Roughly tear up the lettuce and add in the leaf mustard, mizuna and rocket leaves. Thinly slice the red onion and add into the bowl. Crush the garlic and add to the mix. Then pour in the lemon juice and the olive oil and mix well. Slice the cherry tomatoes and add to the salad.
This week in the garden
* Try to find some space for a row of cucumbers and beans, beetroot and a selection of open leaf lettuces.
* As well as planting out brassicas for a winter crop, consider sowing a row of kohlrabi, parsnips and leek seeds.
* Maintain a regular watering program for tomatoes, to avoid blossom end rot that will set in when moisture content ranges across extremes.
* Take a look at your apple and pear trees and remove a portion of the smallest fruit if the branches are bending under the increasing weight.
* When you have time, turn your compost and add in a good quantity of green lawn clippings, any animal manure that you can obtain and as much vegetable scraps that you can secure.
Owen Pidgeon runs the Loriendale Organic Orchard near Hall.


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IAN today announced it's investment in a Mexican Quick Service Restaurant, Poncho. The Mumbai based food chain started it's first outlet in in September 2011. The amount of funding is undisclosed. Founded by two IIT alumni, Anshul Gupta and Amit Raj, Poncho has quickly scaled up to 6 outlets in the ensuing year. Kaushal Aggarwal, an IAN member has been guiding the startup and will be working closely with the firm.
Anshul and Amit, both foodies, started this up after their investment banking stint. Having made many overseas trips, they felt the need to do something with food in India and the first outlet was setup at Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. "We did a lot of research before setting up the first outlet. Having quit our jobs in June 2011, we setup the first outlet in September. And a lot of effort has gone in to be able to scale up very quickly," says Anshul.
Padmaja Ruparel, president of IAN said, "This is our first foray into the F&B space and we believe it to be a very promising one. Indian consumers are indulging in eating outside and this niche can only grow." Being a relatively low cap-ex industry, the QSR area has been very promising with multiple entries in the field.
Poncho offers Mexican food in an open kitchen style (like Subway). All ingredients, including the four different special chillies used here, are sourced locally from various parts of India and are displayed. Burritos and tacos are made on the spot to the customers' preferences. Recently they've added pasta to the menu too. Targeting office complexes, the sales have been quick and they managed to break even within a couple of months. Talking about unit economies, Amit says, "We've been very frugal and and keep our rentals low which ensures a quick break even."
Poncho has a 35 member team and plans to scale up to 15 outlets by the end of the year. Read more about Poncho here


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Woolies' sales deliver strong results
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Australian retailer Woolworths today delivered earnings for 2003/04 at the top end of its guidance, and expects its net profit to grow 10-15 per cent in the current financial year.
The supermarket and department store group reported a net profit of $730.7 million for the 12 months to June 27, 2004, up 12.3 per cent on the same period a year earlier.
Net profit after servicing income notes rose 12.8 per cent to $687.8 million.
Earnings per share rose 15.6 per cent before goodwill to 70.1 cents, above Woolworths' guidance of 68-70 cents.
"A strong result in a highly competitive market with an excellent profit result, solid sales increase, continued cost reductions, a strengthened balance sheet and strong cash flows," Woolworths chief executive Roger Corbett said.
Mr Corbett said Woolworths' supermarket sales increase had been affected by the "once off" roll out of competitors' petrol offers.
"...this has resulted in some rebalancing, however the impact of this will diminish during the coming year as a further 110 Woolworths/Caltex jointly branded sites are rolled out and the 12 month anniversary of a competitor's petrol openings passes," he said.
"As we continue to expand the sites the resultant increases in supermarket sales is encouraging."
Rival supermarket and department store group Coles Myer has been unrolling its petrol discounting joint venture with Shell during the year.
Woolworths said that sales since the end of the financial year had grown 6.7 per cent from continuing businesses and that sales from food and liquor in June, July and August have had a positive change in trend from the fourth quarter of 2003/04.
"We believe that our FY05 sales will grow in the upper single digits and we anticipate that net profit after tax (NPAT) will increase in the range of 10-15 per cent," Woolworths said.
Woolworths said the liquor operation continued to perform well with strong growth in sales and profits.
Total liquor sales for the year, including the MGW joint venture with the Bruce Mathieson Group, were $2.1 billion and the company said it was confident of exceeding its stated target of $2.5 billion in sales in the near to medium term.
The petrol supply division had sales of $2.2 billion, up 28.3 per cent on the previous year.
Woolworths said it currently had 407 sites, with 470 the optimal number of sites for the operation. It was track to achieve its target to have around 410 sites by the end of the first quarter.
Mr Corbett said it had achieved a further 0.54 percentage points reduction in costs as a percentage of sales for the year from continuing operations.
He said Woolworths would continue to cut costs in the future, reflected in better prices for customers and shareholders.
"We are confident of achieving our five year target of reducing cost of doing business by at least another one per cent of sales or 20 basis points per annum," Mr Corbett said.
The supermarket division including petrol reported a 6.3 per cent increase in sales while food and liquor sales were up 4.6 per cent in the year.
Total supermarkets' earnings before interest and tax (EBIT), after goodwill, was $960.3 million, up 12.3 per cent.
Woolworths said it expected to add 15 to 25 supermarkets each year for the foreseeable future.
The Big W division achieved sales of $2.7 billion and EBIT of $116.2 million, a 12.1 per cent rise.
The consumer electronics division achieved sales growth of 12 per cent as EBIT after goodwill rose 19.2 per cent to $44.1 million.
Woolworths and The Bruce Mathieson Group are currently bidding for Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) through a joint venture vehicle called Bruandwo Ltd. ALH directors have rejected the offer.
Woolworths also said it would revisit its capital management strategies at the conclusion of the takeover battle for ALH.
"Subject to the current circumstances, our ongoing objectives remain to continually review and implement appropriate capital management strategies, to maintain an efficient balance sheet and to achieve low double digit (earnings per share) EPS growth," Woolworths said.
The group would continue to seek appropriate bolt on acquisitions which were value accretive and fitted overall strategy.
"The strength of our balance sheet allows us to address larger acquisitions should they become available."
Woolworths lifted its final dividend to 24 cents from 21 cents a year earlier. This lifted total dividends for the year to 45 cents from 39 cents previously.


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History Center
The founder of what was to become Bethel Seminary was an unusually gifted man. Born in Varmland, Sweden, in 1839, Edgren received a fine education in Karlstad. At an early age, he became a seaman and by the time he was 20 years old, he had achieved the rank of captain. During a terrible storm on a voyage to America, Edgren turned his life over to Christ. He was baptized in 1858 at the Mariner's Baptist Church in New York City. He offered his services to the Union Navy in the American Civil War and was honored by the Union for his service and bravery.
Edgren took theological training at Princeton Seminary and the Baptist Theological Seminary in Hamilton, N.Y., before returning to Sweden as a missionary. He taught at Bethel Seminary in Stockholm, and served as a pastor in churches in Uppsala and Göteborg. His wife's poor health prompted a move back to the United States.
Called to serve as the pastor of the First Swedish Baptist Church in Chicago in 1871, he immediately advertised the beginning of a Swedish Baptist Seminary, which soon became the Swedish department of the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. He completed academic work at the Baptist Union Seminary for his B.D. degree and was granted a D.D. by that school in 1883. At first, Edgren was the sole instructor and administrator of the new seminary. The school struggled with inadequate budgets and few students. However, in five years, all the Swedish state conferences had voted subsidies for the school and the American Baptists were assisting in finding financial supporters. By 1879, the Swedish Baptist Conference had established a school board. At the end of the first 10 years, the student body numbered 28 students, with more than 50 graduates serving churches in the rapidly growing Swedish Baptist Conference.
Edgren was a multi-talented scholar. He painted wonderful oil pictures as an avocation. He mastered 32 languages and was consulted by European scholars on the translations of ancient manuscripts. He was a friend of Professor Stafford, the outstanding astronomer on the University of Chicago staff, and often studied the stars with him. He published scientific papers of his own in the field of geology and began a Swedish language paper called Zions Waktare.
The relationship between Edgren and the Baptist Union Theological Seminary was not an easy one. Edgren had received a faculty appointment and some financial assistance, but his salary was still well below that of other professors. The school had grown to such an extent that there was little room for the expansion of the Swedish program. Edgren took issue with some of the other faculty on topics such as pre-millennialism as well as Christians becoming part of secret societies such as the Free Masons. Eventually, in 1884, the Swedish Conference voted to establish a seminary in Minnesota, and Edgren moved his students to St. Paul.
Now the seminary was called the Swedish-American Bible Seminary and was housed in First Baptist Church in St. Paul (now Trinity Baptist). The faculty consisted of seven full- and part-time instructors. However, after one year in St. Paul, the seminary responded to a generous offer from Swedish Baptists in Stromsberg, Neb., and moved the school there. The name was changed to Central Bible Seminary, and a large building was erected on 40 acres of land donated to the school. Doctrinal controversies around the issue of atonement arose between Edgren and the pastor of the Stromsberg church. These controversies and the heavy burden of the school that Edgren had carried for many years led Edgren to take a long vacation for his health in 1887. From there, he submitted his resignation in August and recommended that Eric Sandell be his replacement.


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Pens' Bylsma has timetable down for stars
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said Sunday, on the first of two days between Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference final, that he took the extra rest into consideration when playing centers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin a combined 40 minutes, 57 seconds Saturday in a 6-2 victory at RBC Center.
"Knowing we had two days in between games, I was less concerned about the volume of ice time they got," he said. "They played less and less, even though it was quite a bit as the game went on."
Funny guy
Bylsma on right wing Bill Guerin's beautiful backhand, cross-ice, saucer pass to Crosby, who converted it into a 2-1 Penguins' lead in the first period of Game 3: "I didn't teach him that. I would have taught him to dump it."
Hurricanes center Eric Staal, on goaltender Cam Ward, who has allowed 11 goals on 80 shots for a .863 save percentage in Games 2 and 3 of the Eastern Conference final: "You can't really blame him on a lot of them. (Those are) some pretty good players coming in (for the Penguins). That first one was a breakaway. Some odd man rushes, some 3-on-2s, some screens. He made some big saves. I thought in the second period he gave us a chance, and in the third we came within one and had a few looks after that."
Healthy goalie
Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice, on Ward's health: "He's 100 percent today. Everybody's got something. But when he's gotten to the net, he's been able to perform."
Who's to blame?
Hurricanes defenseman Tim Gleason was one of several Hurricanes pointing fingers at themselves following their 6-2 loss in Game 3.
"We can't completely shut these guys down every time, but we have to do a better job of doing it," he said. "Again, it starts with (me). I have to do my job correctly. I'm disappointed in the way I played."
Gleason's failure to clear a puck on a first-period penalty kill Saturday directly led to Malkin's tying goal.
By the numbers
Malkin's six consecutive multi-point playoff games are the most since the NHL introduced its modern format in 1994. Wayne Gretzky's all-time record is eight. ... Malkin and Crosby have combined for 54 points in 16 playoff games. Last season, they combined for 49 in 20 games.
Power to Sid
Crosby has scored five of his NHL-leading 14 playoff goals on the power play. Over the past two regular seasons, he scored just 13 power-play goals. He and Malkin, also with five power-play goals, are three from tying Mario Lemieux's franchise playoff record set in 1992.
"I don't think I've ever seen this. It seems like he knows what is going to happen the next second. I'm talking about 'Geno,' but I can say that about Sid, also. It's more than unbelievable at this point." — Penguins right winger Miroslav Satan, on teammates Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, who are first and second in playoff scoring with 28 and 26 points, respectively.
16 — Goals scored by the Penguins in three wins to open the Eastern Conference final. Their previous best goal total when opening a best-of-seven series with three wins was 15 against the New York Rangers in a 1989 Patrick Division semifinal.


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Photokina 2010 hits the airwaves with BoinxTV
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BoinxTV to power official photokinaTV program – photo news and trends straight from world's largest photographic & imaging trade show; Boinx products to be featured on official ASH "Boinx-branded" booth
Boinx Software joins Apple App Store Volume Puchase Program
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Special pricing giving big breaks to educators buying Boinx in bulk. Purchase 20 or more "You Gotta See This!" Apps from the iTunes App Store and receive a 50% bulk discount per Apple's new Volume Purchase Program incentive.
BoinxTV review of the Silicon Mountain Macintosh User's Group
by Sarah - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - Permalink
In days-gone-by if you wanted to broadcast professional looking video interviews on the TV or Stream to the internet, you had to fork out big bucks for equipment and software. This ability was out of the reach of the average person. But now with BoinxTV, a computer, and a DV video recorder anyone can have their own TV studio and create professional looking videos.
'You Gotta See This!! review of iPhoneLife
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You Gotta See This is an app you can have fun with at concerts, scenic landmarks, and other places that you wish to share with your friends.
Review Fotomagico - Making Still Sequences in Moments
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I must confess my software discovery of the month is the new version of Fotomagico 3.5.
Top apps for August
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Thinking of investing in a new iPhone 4? If so, the 'You Gotta See This!' photography app may well just convince you to make the upgrade. Remember those awesome photo collages that British artist David Hockney used to do back in the 1980s? This app lets you make those, by simply waving your phone around and letting it take panoramic pictures of the scene that surrounds you.
The Beginning
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iStopMotion film made by Carly White. More about her work: www.thesilverfly.com
B&E Whiteboard
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Whiteboard animation made with iStopMotion at the Newtown Movie School, July 2010.
Eden Project 2010
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The Eden Project in Cornwall, July 2010. Slideshow created using FotoMagico.
Diashow Sandwüste
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Impressive slideshow with desert photos of Karl Armbruster. Created with FotoMagico.


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Consumer products manufacturer GUD Holdings, heading for double-digit profit growth in the first six months of 2003-04, is expecting an even better second half thanks to the strong Australian dollar.
GUD chief executive Ian Campbell said yesterday the first half had been excellent, with all of GUD's business divisions, which include the Sunbeam brand, doing well.
"Sunbeam has benefited from the strong dollar but because of our hedge strategy we don't see the immediacy of the spot rate on a day-to-day basis," Mr Campbell said.
He said that typically GUD held three months of stock that had been paid for at a lower rate as the dollar continued to rise.
"We hedge three months on our commitments so we will benefit in the second half from the stronger dollar," Mr Campbell said. He said that to take advantage of the stronger dollar, GUD had halved the workforce in its manufacturing business.
"On some of the short-run products, it's more economic to import it than it is to manufacture," he said. "We are well and truly on track (for double-digit profit growth), and that's after we take out the significant items of redundancy in the filtration business."
Mr Campbell said that in the past 18 months GUD had spent a lot of time looking at acquisitions without getting excited.
"My view is that unless we can can buy the right sort of acquisition at a multiple that makes sense to shareholders then we are not going to do it," he said. He is confident the board will increase dividends when the half-year result is announced this month.
GUD shares closed 10 cents stronger yesterday at $6.90.
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2015-16 Season (Sophomore): Appeared in all 26 games with three starts... averaged 2.6 points while finishing with the third-best three point percentage on the team at 32.6... went 5-5 from three point range at Coker for a career-high 17 points (12/12).
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2014-15 Season (Freshman): Appeared in 21 games...finished the season wih 58 points for a 2.8 points per game average...had a season-high 14 points at Converseon Feb. 9 where she went 6-of-9 from the field and 2-of-4 from three point range...shot 46.2 (18-for-39) percent from the field and 41.7 (10-for-24) percent from beyond the arc.
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Personal: From Taylorsville, N.C. ...Graduated from Alexander Central High School...Played for coach Brad Mangum...named to the CVC Tournament Team and All-Conference teams twice...was an 1,000 point scorer...was a member of the conference championship teams during final two years...also played golf...was an A-Honor Roll student, Junior Marshall, and named Wendy's Heisman...daughter of Paula and Keith Rhyne.


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Pain - Poem by Reaper666 blood
Do you know what it's like to want to end your life?
Do you know how it feels to drag the blade across your wrist?
Do you know what it feels like to write that final note?
I know what all of this feels like
It's like I'm drowning and I can't be saved
It's this never ending cycle of pain
Most people are glad that they're alive
Well I'm furious that I'm here
I don't know how to live
I'm miserable but I know how to fake a smile
This isn't a life I wanna live
Every fucking day I have this depression that's just
Consuming me
I don't understand how people find happiness
Why can't I have that?
Instead I half to find a way to not hurt myself
I half to find a way to get by
While I'm trapped in these thoughts of suicide
I'm losing my will to survive
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To draw big national TV ratings, who says you have to draw big ratings in the USA's biggest cities?
The NBA Finals are playing unusually well outside America's big cities. Of the eight local TV markets with highest ratings for the NBA Finals, none are among the USA's top 10 TV markets. Despite that, the Miami-Oklahoma series is averaging 9.7% of U.S. TV households per game -- the highest-rated NBA Finals since Detroit-L.A. Lakers in 2004.
The local markets with the highest Finals' ratings (and the rank of that market size): Oklahoma City (the USA's 44th-ranked market), Miami (16th), Tulsa (59th), West Palm Beach (38th), Cleveland (18th), Memphis (49th), New Orleans (52nd) and San Antonio (36th).
Spice rack: On Jay Leno's Tonight show on NBC, Leno showed a replay of show guest Cory Booker, now mayor of Newark NJ, as a Stanford tight end. In the footage, Booker scores a touchdown and kneels in the end zone in a very Tim Tebow-like fashion. Booker, who graduated in 1991, joked he has a lawsuit against Tebow for "stealing my move. ... He should be Bookering." Said Leno: "Bookering doesn't have the same panache."
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He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Pleased to have my thoughts on failure -- and why we must fear it if we want success -- featured with my friend Skip Prichard. The beginning of the post follows. Visit his site with a click here to read the post in its entirety. If you fear failure, you are not alone. A quick Google search reveals countless resources to help you overcome the fear of failure. Certainly, an unhealthy fear of failure can paralyze us and destroy the culture of the teams we lead. But the lack of any fear of failure c … [Read more...]
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Vegas NAACP Joins Call to Ban Police Neck Holds After DeathThe president of the southern Nevada chapter of the nation's oldest civil rights organization joined a call Friday for Las Vegas police to stop using a neck restraint that can render suspects unconscious.
One Voter Registration Case ResolvedAnother still pending
Nevada Activists Protest Missouri Police Shooting Local activists and leaders of the NAACP in Nevada joined the call on Monday for the immediate arrest of a Ferguson police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old Missouri man more than two weeks ago, triggering raucous street protests and police patrols in the St. Louis suburb.
Biden Decries Voting Restrictions In NAACP AddressVice President Joe Biden Wednesday called on members of the NAACP to spread the word about what he called "a hailstorm" of measures to restrict citizens' ability to vote, trying to rally the Democratic Party's base before the midterm elections.
Vice President Plans Las Vegas VisitVice President Joe Biden is making a stop in Las Vegas next week.
NAACP-KKK Meeting Believed To Be A FirstA secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said.
Live And Local With Kevin Wall 08/15/13: Mary Ratliff, John Lee, Gripe LineNAACP Missouri Chapter President Mary Ratliff joins Live and Local to discuss the NAACP's opinions on the Obama Rodeo Clown story. Ratliff called the act a hate crime and believes this should in now way no happen at a taxpayer funded event.
NAACP Bringing Convention To Las VegasLas Vegas has been selected to host the NAACP national convention in July 2014.
Joe's Journal: It Wasn't About Race Back ThenWith the Zimmerman verdict a major topic in America, Joe looks back at a friend he shared discussions with and one was never about race.
Opinion: Rev. William Owens Confronts Barack Obama On Same-Sex MarriageRev. William Owens takes great issue with Obama's linkage of Dr. King's civil rights movement of the past to the current gay rights movement regarding same-sex marriage. Owens says that King embraced traditional religion, and he strongly suggests that King would not want his civil rights' mission altered to include same-sex marriage.
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Opinion: Romney's Speech To NAACP A Cynical Play For White VotesRomney had an opportunity to open a dialogue with the NAACP. Instead he talked about denying civil rights to a civil rights organization and spoke in condescending and paternalistic terms about being a better president for African Americans than Barack Obama. It was a clear and cynical play for white votes.


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Moscow (AP) - Violent rampages outside the Kremlin have highlighted the need to strengthen public order and raise police prestige, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Putin spoke after a weekend rally of 5,000 racists and hooligans in Moscow left more than 30 people injured and raised doubts about the government's ability to stem a rising tide of xenophobia. Police on Wednesday, however, prevented a replay of the violence between nationalists and mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the capital and several other cities, detaining hundreds.
Putin said during a call-in session broadcast live Thursday on Russian state television and radio that the violence demonstrated the importance of maintaining law and order. He used the occasion to lash out at liberal critics who have criticized his government for sending riot police to disband opposition protests.
"It's necessary to prevent extremism from all flanks," Putin said. "The liberal community must understand the need for maintaining order. The government exists to protect the majority's interests."
He continued a scathing attack on his critics, saying that the rallies demonstrated the need to raise the prestige of the nation's police force. The force has faced public criticism over corruption and other abuses.
"We mustn't paint them all in black and bring them down," Putin said. "Or otherwise the liberal intellectuals will be the ones who have to shave their thin beards off, put helmets on and go out on the square to fight the radicals."
Preceding Putin's comments, his longtime aide Vladislav Surkov, now serving as the Kremlin's deputy chief of staff, accused critics of the government of helping pave the way for racist hooligans by holding unauthorized rallies. "People were different, but their attitude was the same," he said in an interview published Thursday in the daily newspaper Izvestia.
Many Russian observers in the past have noted links between nationalist groups and some part of officialdom, saying that hard-liners within the government may be supporting the nationalists to justify tight Kremlin controls and fend off efforts to open up Russia's political system.
While Russian police quickly and brutally disperse peaceful protests by anti-Kremlin activists, some nationalist groups have been allowed to hold their rallies freely in recent years. Opposition groups claim that pro-Kremlin youth organizations have hired soccer fans and ultranationalists to carry out attacks on Kremlin critics.
Putin said that the rioting also underlined the need to protect the rights of every ethnic group and educate the population to fight xenophobia.
Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said some of the 800 people detained in the capital on Thursday were released immediately. Others, particularly those found to be carrying weapons, were held for investigation. He said he could not say how many were still in police custody.
Putin shifted into the premier's seat in 2008 following two consecutive terms in office, but has remained the nation's No. 1 leader, overshadowing his protege and successor, President Dmitry Medvedev.
His call-in show, an annual event helping him retain his pre-eminence, is closely watched for signals on whether he will seek to regain presidency in the 2012 election.


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Book Review: '3 War Stories' by David Mamet
Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, May 15, 2014
This is a war book like I never read. It not only spans centuries and continents, but it also explores the important themes of redemption and forgiveness.
The book is written as a series of three novellas. In each of them, Mamet does a superb job of explaining the dynamics of war and how it impacts on people and societies as a whole.
In the first novella, "The Redwing," he explores a Secret Service naval officer as he becomes a prisoner, novelist and finally memoirist. In the process of the novella, he explains some of the transformations that he went through during his imprisonment. The story is touching and very painful in places. I really found it sad.
In the second novella, "Notes on Plain Warfare," he examines religion and how they can impact wars, specifically the American Indian Wars. This novella was very vividly written and a clear account of some of the origins of war.
In the last novella, "The Handle and the Hold," the reader will be sucked into the story of two ex-military men who undertake an amazing adventure before the Israeli War of Independence. It is the best story in the book as it is gripping and the dialogue is very vivid and spellbinding.
This book is written very clearly and cleverly. I just love the style. I didn't read Mamet's other books, but I intend to look them up and read them in the near future.


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Justin Bieber sure is fond of ugly ink work.
The 18-year-old pop star revealed his latest tattoo on Instagram yesterday with the caption 'Newtat' (superstar singers don't have time to use the space bar, it would seem) and, at first glance, it was pretty hard to figure out just where it was on his body.
In fact, only one thing was for sure - it certainly wasn't pretty.
The unidentified body part could easily have been his arm. However, the keenest-eyed Beliebers would have clocked that the new rose tattoos (original) sat beneath the praying hands artwork that the Beauty and a Beat singer had inked onto his leg earlier this year.
Justin later posted a follow-up picture revealing the tat in all it's glory.
The praying hands aren't the only religious reference The Bieb has had permanently etched onto his bod - he's also got a picture of Jesus' face on the same leg (the left, if you were wondering) and the holy one's name in Hebrew on his rib cage.
He's said in the past: "I'm a Christian; I believe in God, I believe that Jesus died on a cross for my sins.
"I believe that I have a relationship and I'm able to talk to him and really, he's the reason I'm here, so I definitely have to remember that.
"As soon as I start forgetting, I've got to click back and be like, you know, this is why I'm here."
We can only pray that his next session in the tattoo artist's chair is less offensive to our eyes as the latest one.
In other Bieb-related news, it appears he has reunited with girlfriend Selena Gomez after the pair were snapped smooching recently .


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Lady Cats play at Clarksville
From staff reports
Aug. 19, 2008 - The undefeated Sulphur Springs Lady Cats will be looking to continue their winning ways tonight when they travel to Clarksville for a non-district volleyball game.
The games are scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. with the freshmen, followed by the JV and the varsity.
Sulphur Springs comes into the game with a 2-0 record after wins overMount Vernon and Chapel Hill.
"We're playing well right now. We still have a lot of things to improve on, like serving. We practiced yesterday on serving. We gave up too many points on serves," said head coach Rachel Curtis.
Curtis said that Clarksville is an athletic team which should provide good competition.
"Clarksville is a good team. We played them last year. We need to be aggressive and work hard," Curtis said. "We also need to have fun. This should be a good match for us."
The Lady Cats will play in the Terrell Tournament Friday and Saturday. Curtis said the team will be in pool play at 9 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Friday with other games to be set later.
The next home game for Sulphur Springs is Aug. 26 against North Lamar.
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text: Sherlock versus Sherlock How does CBS series Elementary stack up against the BBC's Sherlock? Paul Jones compares the Holmeses, their styles and their partners in crimes... Comments Written By 4:28 PM, 17 May 2012 When US network CBS first announced that it would be creating its own modern-day Sherlock Holmes series, Sue Vertue, executive producer of the BBC's Sherlock, confessed herself "worried". CBS had previously approached her and husband, Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, about translating the show to America. The fact that they were turned down yet went ahead and did their own version, Elementary, had some people whispering "rip-off". Having now seen a synopsis and a trailer for Elementary, Moffat has gone the other way, suggesting that its hardly Sherlock Holmes at all. Meanwhile, fans are wondering how it stacks up against Sherlock. Well what better way to find out what's really going on than to compare the two detectives across some of the areas that really matter, from dress sense to addiction, sidekicks to solving crimes... Dress sense Sherlock: Sherlock's uniform - dark trousers and jacket, tightly-wound scarf and collar-up overcoat - is something close to a superhero outfit, with the coat flying behind him like a cape when he runs. There's also "the Sherlock Holmes hat", a failed attempt to hide his face from the paparazzi. Sherlock despises it but its a deserved nod to Conan Doyle illustrator Sidney Paget, who first imagined the detective in the now iconic deerstalker. Elementary: So far, Jonny Lee Miller's Holmes has mostly been seen wearing, er, an overcoat and scarf (although to be fair I have been known to don that particular combo myself on a cold day). But his sartorial choices also appear to demonstrate a sense of humour – take the "I'm not lucky, I'm good" shamrock t-shirt seen in the trailer, for instance – and we also see Holmes topless, which gives him a chance to show off some extensive tattoos. Cumberbatch's Sherlock would no doubt allow himself a derisive snort at that... Addictions Sherlock: He lines his arm with nicotine patches (referring in one scene to a case as a " three-patch problem" as opposed to the original Holmes's "two-pipe" version) and is partial to a cup of coffee - even if it is both cold and "horrible". Elementary: The precise nature of Holmes's addiction has yet to be revealed but since he's been in rehab, and is now under the care of an addiction specialist (Joan Watson), I think we can assume we're talking something stronger than coffee and cigarettes here. Detective background Sherlock: The world's only consulting detective - "I invented the job" - Sherlock takes cases based on their points of interest rather than just the seriousness of the crime. He's also an unofficial consultant to Scotland Yard via one Detective Inspector Lestrade. Elementary: Miller's Holmes describes himself as a former consultant to Scotland Yard - "I wasn't paid for my services and therefore I answered to no-one but myself" - although his NYPD contact Captain Gregson (see below) puts it a little differently: "Ten years ago I was assigned to Scotland Yard… Holmes worked homicide." Methods Sherlock: Lightning quick deductions based on observed minutiae define Sherlock's methods, with text sometimes appearing onscreen to help us understand how he does it. Of course, his deductive skills very much extend to unravelling bigger, more intricate puzzles too - and he's a master of the long game himself. Just look at the way he deduced (at least some of) Moriarty's plans and set up his own faked death as a response. Elementary: We've been told he's "brilliant" and "eccentric" but those are no-brainers for any version of Holmes. Examples of unusual skills revealed in the initial trailer include spotting that there's more broken glass on a kitchen floor than accounted for by just a single smashed tumbler (something any decent detective, let alone a CSI, should be able to do) and the neater trick of deducing the presence of a secret "safe room" in an apartment from a slightly sloping floor. So far, it seems this Sherlock's tricks provide short-cuts to the truth, rather than digging out conclusions that would not eventually have been arrived at by others. Of course, it will only be fair to fully judge him when we've watched him over the course of an entire case. Dr Watson Sherlock: John is the everyman to Sherlock's aloof genius. Like Conan Doyle's Dr Watson, he's also his (blogging) biographer and has a military medical background, having served in Afghanistan. And Martin Freeman's character gets plenty of chances to air his frustrations at his friend's sociopathic tendencies. Elementary: I don't want to alarm you Holmes fans - but Watson's a woman! Yes, Lucy Liu is Dr Joan Watson, a former surgeon who lost her licence following the death of a patient. She's also an "addiction specialist" initially hired by Holmes's father to be his "sober companion". Of course, Watson (or can we call her Joan?) begins to accompany him on cases, lending Holmes her medical experience and discovering she has a knack for investigations too (what luck!). Liu says Joan "comes from a more emotional place" than Holmes, who "can't really articulate things in a very sensitive fashion", while Miller reckons "the relationship between Holmes and Watson really is the driving force for the piece". The police Sherlock: Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade of the Metropolitan Police Force (played by Rupert Graves) is cast (not unlike Watson) as a frustrated admirer of Sherlock. He's the one the detective will go to when he has to involve the police and he pops up here and there to ask the detective for help/beg him to stop annoying the press. Elementary: Filling the Lestrade role here is Aidan Quinn's Captain Gregson (his surname a reference to one of the few Scotland Yard inspectors to impress Holmes in the original stories). Gregson has respect for Holmes's abilities, having known him from his time on attachment in London ten years ago when Holmes was a consultant to Scotland Yard. Since Miller's Holmes is now working as a consultant to the NYPD, rather than in his own practice, it seems likely Gregson will be a more constant figure than Sherlock's Lestrade. Along with Gregson, we've also been introduced to Detective Javier Abreu (Manny Perez), a unimaginative police officer who distrusts Holmes's methods and acts as a foil for highlighting his abilities. What do you think of the two Holmeses? Does Elementary intrigue you or are you Sherlock all the way? Post a comment below and let us know. Like Sherlock? You'll love our Facebook page, Sherlock Times Follow @Jonesvision Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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I have taken a read through many posts, and this seems to be a great place, so I decided to join. Thank-You all for all of the info. out there.
I am starting to get more interested in the "art" of cooking instead of slapping something together, and am hungery for information.
I do have a question though. I have just picked up a set of Wusthof knives. Oh, wait you dont like to hear "set". Well, I picked up a 8" Cheif, 6" Sandwich, and 3.5" Pearing knife. Well, I dont like the idea of using a steel on the knives. I have poor judgement on freehand angles, and do not want myself (or wife) to ruin the knives. I do have a nice Spyderco Triangle Sharpening System that works very well. Can you substitute using a steel with a fine toughup on the ultra fine stone with the Spyderco system? If so, would you use it every time the knife is used, or just every dozen times?
If you are in Canada and want to pickup a nice set of knives, the best deal I have found is at Costco.ca. They have those three knives with no block for $130.00, and if you live in Canada, you know how everything is somehow more expensive than purchasing from the US, and places like amazon.com will not ship knives to Canada.


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Bonus Entries for Facebook & Twitter Sweepstakes via Shared Link
There's a new option for Sweepstakes offers that doesn't require Facebook permissions to award Bonus Entries! Now, you can choose to "Award n bonus entries per user that clicks and enters from entrant's share link." With this feature, users share a unique tracking link to your sweepstakes and get Bonus Entries for anyone that enters after clicking their shared link. The new Bonus Entries option is available for both Facebook and Twitter-based Sweepstakes offers; and it's a great incentive to encourage people to share your promotion more often, in more places!
Awarding Bonus Entries for Facebook Friends Who Enter
This is the original method used with the Bonus Entries feature; and with this option, additional entries are awarded when a user's Facebook friends enter the contest after them. Because the Bonus Entries are based on an entrant's Facebook friends, enabling this method requires a Facebook permissions dialog to authorize the Sweepstakes app. This feature has worked very well to create a viral effect for offers, and the average share rate with this option is over 60 percent when used with the other viral features such as the automatic Share dialog popup window. There are a number of benefits to this method, including a more game-like feel to Bonus entries. Since everyone who is already entered automatically gets bonus entries from all Facebook friends that enter, it generates more Bonus Entries overall and creates more opportunities for entrants to get excited about inviting and sharing with friends repeatedly as they see their bonus entry counts grow fast.
Awarding Bonus Entries for Entrants via Unique Shared URL
The new option for Bonus Entries has its own benefits that we are very excited to announce. First of all, using this option removes the need for entrants to grant any Facebook permissions to the app. Because the bonus entries are based on a unique sharing URL, there is no need for the app to access a person's friend list, as with the Facebook friends method. This also means that bonus entries will be awarded for anyone who enters through the unique share link — they don't even have to be Facebook friends with the person. Additionally, this new method allows you to award bonus entries in your Twitter offers!
How Does It Work?
Awarding bonus entries based on the shared link is done by creating a unique URL for each person who enters the contest. This URL is automatically generated and simply adds a five character tracking code to the Woobox Shareable Offer URL. For example, an offer with the short URL http://woobox.com/123abc would turn into http://woobox.com/123abc/456de — with the unique share code (456de) added to the regular short URL. Bonus entries are shown in the Entry Export File the same way regardless of what option you choose to use for your offer (the from_email column shows the email address given by the person whose entry generated the bonus entry for the original entrant).
This new feature provides another great opportunity for maximizing the viral effect of your contests if you don't want to require Facebook permissions, plus it works with Twitter sweepstakes!
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North Korea continues threats
South Korea's defense minister says North Korea has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, but says it is not capable of hitting the United States.
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on Thursday dismissed reports in Japanese and South Korean media that the missile could be a KN-08, which is believed to be a long-range missile that if operable could hit the United States. He said there were no signs North Korea was preparing for a full-scale conflict.
Experts say North Korea has not demonstrated that it has missiles capable of long range or accuracy. Some suspect that long-range missiles unveiled by Pyongyang at a parade last year were actually mockups.
Analysts on both sides of the Pacific attribute the aggressive posture is part of an attempt by North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un to consolidate his power in the communist state founded by his grandfather. Kim has been very unpredictable and more aggressive over a short period of time compared to the last 20 years. North Korea also has plenty of conventional military firepower, but it's not clear if their nuclear weapons are as strong as their military says.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called North Korea a real and clear danger, and the Pentagon is sending an anti-missile defense system to Guam to block any possible attacks.
Nuclear analysis research fellow Andrea Berger, of the Royal United Services Institute, commented.
"At the present time we don't feel that North Korea has the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and put it atop a ballistic missile to send to Washington, Guam or Hawaii. Its missiles we feel don't have the accuracy or the range to accomplish the strikes that it has threatened to carry out. However, the fact that analysts are still uncertain about North Korea's capabilities is something that Pyongyang is banking on in issuing these threats," she said.
Meanwhile, hackers have apparently disrupted North Korea's government-run Twitter account. The disruption comes at a time of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Both sites are running but carrying content that differs sharply from the usual far of praising North Korea and its leaders.
North Korean border authorities denied entry to South Koreans who managed jointly run factories in Kaesong for a second day.
The North Korean military has warned it has been authorized to attack the United States using "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons.
The reference to smaller weapons could be a claim North Korea has improved its nuclear technology or a bluff.
"It's possible that North Korea might try to have a small scale military provocation like it did in 2010 with shelling an island or sinking a ship. The difference this time around will be that South Korea has already made very clear that it will respond in kind to any such provocation and will not tolerate a death of South Korean citizens. So North Korea's facing a different response if it goes down that road like it did in 2010," said Berger.
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Meantime, Russia says North Korea's decision to pursue its nuclear program seriously hurts the chances of resuming six-party talks.
A spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said in Moscow that North Korea's decision "radically complicates" or even practically ends the chance for the resumption of international talks. He also condemned North Korea's disregard for United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding the country's nuclear program.
North Korea announced earlier this week it would restart a nuclear facility closed in 2007 capable of producing material for nuclear weapons.


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Indiana's Super Bowl Race to the Bottom
Governor Mitch Daniels — or, as he's known around the David Brooks household, Daddy's Mancrush — today will sign the We Can Be Mississippi Act of 2011. This has occasioned several thousand of his constituents to pay the little feller a visit, and not to tell him that he gave the Bestest State of the Union Response Evah!, either. This may come as something of an embarrassment to Daniels, since there are only about eight gozillion reporters in town covering the Super Bowl, for which his state capital hocked the family jewels to the Irsay family. Mitch, who twice denied during campaigns that he would push for a right-to-work law, is so proud of his achievement that he will decline to sign the bill in public, and he will hold no press conference on the matter, either. This is the kind of bold leadership for which various Republican panjandrums yearn while looking wistfully at their current presidential field, sobbing into their pillows.
Indiana passed one of these before, long ago, and repealed it after eight years, so maybe there's some hope there, but that was long before corporate money put a hammerlock on democracy at almost every level. And it has done so in such a way that weaselish characters like Mitch Daniels can push through a law he'd previously said he would never advocate, reverse himself, wreak his havoc, and suffer no real political consequences as a result. (Scott Walker's assault on public-sector unions in Wisconsin came as a shock to the people who took his campaign rhetoric seriously.) As long as you don't say or do anything that discomfits the folks writing the checks, who cares what you may have said to the proles back in August? All the money has made even rhetorical integrity obsolete. It has drained the honesty from campaign mendacity.
Mockery's fine. Protests are great. Protests that muck up the fiesta of banal corporate greed that is the Super Bowl are even better than that. But the deed's done here. Indiana has committed itself and its people to the race to the bottom which the Republican party, through all its actual presidential candidates, has stated it believes is the way to run a national economy. Willard Romney, who never had the cojones to say anything of the sort when he was running in Massachusetts, is now in favor of a national right-to-work law. Sneak thieves, got away clean.
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More than 80% of builders say energy-efficient features are now pervasive in new homes and are making their construction greener than just two years ago, a new report finds.
Two-thirds of builders and remodelers say customers request green homes to lower their utility bills -- more than twice as often as any other factor, according to the SmartMarket report by McGraw-Hill Consruction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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The report, which surveyed members of the National Association of Home Builders, was released Tuesday at NAHB's National Green Building Conference and Expo in Nashville.
"In the current residential market, there is an enormous need to differentiate your homes for consumers," McGraw-Hill Construction's Harvey Bernstein said in announcing the findings. "When builders are able to offer homes that not only are green, but also offer the combination of higher quality and better value, they have a major competitive edge over those building traditional homes."
The report estimates that the green-homes share of the construction market -- 17% in 2011 -- will increase to 29% to 38% by 2016. It says consumers want green homes because they see them as not only saving money but also having higher quality in terms of durability and air quality.
It also finds that home builders are increasing their focus on indoor air quality to meet consumer demand. Nearly all high-volume builders (95%) say they now include features to improve air quality.
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


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Contractor Misses IT Delivery Date
November 3, 2003
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GSA and FBI Working to Ensure Delivery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U. S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) failed to meet a critical delivery date for implementation of a portion of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) information technology upgrades.
The upgrades are part of the FBI's plan to transform its technology with high-speed networks, state of the art computers and user applications. This delay impacts the Information Presentation component of the three-phase plan. Phase one was completed when more than 21,000 new desktops, as well as new printers and scanners, were deployed throughout the FBI. Phase two of the plan was completed March 28, 2003, with deployment of the FBI's state of the art Wide Area Network to 595 sites and including 622 Local Area Networks, 2,612 switches and routers, and 291 servers.
CSC's failure to meet its delivery date will prevent the FBI from fully deploying the third component, User Applications, by December 13, 2003. The User Applications phase includes the "Virtual Case File."
GSA is working with both CSC and the FBI to determine an immediate corrective course of action. In the interim, the FBI is continuing to train its 28,000 employees on all operational phases of the information technology upgrades.
GSA officials continue to work with CSC to ensure that they deliver the contracted services, as promised despite the most recent delay. "Customer service and satisfaction are of critical importance to the Federal Technology Service," said Bob Suda, Federal Technology Service Assistant commissioner for IT Solutions. "While we are disappointed with the missed deadline, GSA is fully committed to working with the FBI and CSC to ensure the successful completion of the FBI's information technology upgrades."
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property management agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies, and services. GSA, comprised of 14,000 associates, provides services and solutions for the office operations of over 1 million federal workers located in 8,300 government-owned and leased buildings in 1,600 U.S. communities.


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Albany lawmakers reach deal on 'heroin package' of bills to curb addiction
ALBANY – Negotiators at the Capitol have reached a deal to try to prevent and treat a rising number of heroin and prescription opioid drug addictions and overdoses, though some advocates, including Western New York parents who lost children to drug problems, said earlier that the package of bills does not go far enough.
The deal, contained in 11 different bills, calls for:
• Expanding coverage by insurers of people with addictions and for patients who see health care providers specializing in substance abuse services and two new demonstration programs, including creation of up to six programs, including one in Western New York, to send addicts to non-hospital settings to cut down on what the state says is over utilization of expensive hospital-based emergency room and inpatient detoxification services. Another will address relapse problems for addicts by providing a range of services, from treatment to transportation to job information, for patients for a nine-month period.
• Launching new public awareness campaigns, using social media and mass media outlets, by two state agencies, as well as new "age appropriate'' drug addiction prevention curriculum developed by the state Education Department to be provided to junior and senior high school students;
• Allowing parents of a minor with drug addiction to get an assessment of the problem under Persons in Need of Supervision services, opening the door for access to variety of help programs;
• Strengthening of penalties – making it a Class C felony – for criminal sale of controlled substances by health care providers and pharmacists and allowing law enforcement to obtain eavesdropping warrants to investigate such cases, and also giving direct access to state narcotics enforcement bureau investigators at the Department of Health to criminal histories of people they are investigating for possible illegal diversion of prescription drugs.
Not included in the final deal is the measure sought by a number of advocates: mandatory continuing education in drug addiction awareness for doctors.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday that the heroin package, its shorthand description at the Capitol, is a priority of his administration and lawmakers in the final few days of the 2014 session.
Several parents who lost children to drug addictions have been camped out at the Capitol for the past couple of days pushing a measure to require all doctors to get three hours of specialized training as part of their professional development requirements in pain management and drug addiction issues and how to evaluate a patient before prescribing a potentially addictive painkiller or other drug.
The group, which includes Buffalo residents Avi Israel and Patricia McDonald and Niagara Falls resident Cheryl Placek, came away angry and frustrated after meeting with one veteran lawmaker, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, who has raised concerns about the doctor training component.
Israel, whose son, Michael, killed himself in 2011 while addicted to prescription painkillers, said Glick told him and the other parents that patients need to take greater responsibility for the drugs they are prescribed by doctors and that they should notify physicians if they do not want to take drugs that could be addictive.
Holding photographs of their dead children, the three parents said they were outraged by Glick's comments. "Do we expect an 18-year-old to make a decision on what medication to take? She's passing blame onto kids who didn't go to medical school. Patients didn't go to medical school and we assume doctors have our best interests in mind," said Israel, who was among the parents who helped push a measure two years ago bolstering regulation of the dispensing of prescription drugs in New York. Now they say the next step – better education of doctors – is needed to help that first law succeed.
Glick appeared surprised the group was angry with her. "People hear what they want to hear. I said there has to be a balance," she said.
The doctor training issue has caused splits in the Assembly among Democrats, and proponents privately say an intraparty squabble, more so than organized opposition from outside groups, is helping to stall it.
One Democrat said physicians and patients both need the bill. "It's important we legislate doctors' continuing education to address a clear public health issue and that is the overprescription of highly addictive pain medication," Assemblyman Sean Ryan, a Buffalo Democrat, said of the bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat. The Senate has already passed the bill.
The heroin-related package of bills being negotiated was among hundreds lawmakers are trying to get through in the session's final days. Other high-profile measures include how to amend the state's teacher evaluation system in light of delays on student performance assessments under New York's Common Core system. The issue is complex because districts have different calculations for scoring teacher evaluations.
The sides say they are also closing in on a bill to permit the dispensing of marijuana for certain diseases and health conditions. Cuomo has said he is opposed to letting the drug be dispensed if it has to be smoked – there are oil-based and vapor-type systems – though he has also called for the decriminalization of marijuana possession that critics say would lead to more people smoking the drug.
Stalled is a bid by some health groups to ban the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public places. Nearly 60 bills received final legislative approval Tuesday, many of them pertinent to just one local community in places scattered around the state.
Bills with a more statewide impact given final legislative passage Tuesday included setting new safety rules for "moveable'' soccer goals, creating the state-recognized title of "professional geologist," and asking – though not mandating – that the state Education Department develop a program to teach high schools students how to perform CPR.
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