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How much time and money should I spend on social media?
This frequently asked question sums up the frustration of countless business owners and website publishers. Many social media experts say it's essential to have a social presence. But not all businesses are the same, nor do they all make money the same way, so it's critical to first develop an integrated online marketing plan before executing a successful social media strategy to promote it.
Define your messaging
Start with your marketing message and strategy, and clearly define the unique value proposition of your business. What do you bring to the table that sets you apart from your competitors, or solves your customers' problems more efficiently? Once your message aligns with your business goals and reflects your strengths, you'll need to assess how and where to communicate it.
In my course Building an Integrated Online Marketing Plan, I survey the major marketing channels available to you: SEO (search engine optimization), pay-per-click advertising, video, Facebook, email campaigns, and Twitter promotions, among others—and consider the pros and cons of each. The marketing channels you select must be reflective of your goals, mindful of your resources, and able to effectively communicate your message.
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Once your message is solid and your marketing channel opportunities are identified, it's time to create a clear, executable plan that addresses all the elements of digital marketing.
By taking a holistic, long-term approach and building a year-long content marketing plan, you'll find it easier to identify social media opportunities based on related content and broader goals, instead of wondering what you should be doing on social each day.
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Now that you've determined your long-term goals, integrated marketing opportunities, and 12-month plan, make sure to cover all the components of your plan each day. Social activities and campaigns should be balanced alongside fundamental marketing activities like search engine optimization, keyword research, and tuning your advertising models for efficiency. Check your site analytics to measure how successful your efforts have been. Then adjust your plans accordingly.
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BERGEN: Today, itslearning announced that it will acquire a 51% stake in educational technology provider Dactique. This cooperation will make itslearning the largest learning platform provider in the Netherlands, enabling the company to offer even better service and products to the Dutch educational sector.
Norwegian-based educational ICT provider itslearning announced today that it will shortly acquire majority ownership of the Dutch company Dactique. Both companies provide learning platforms and related products to customers in primary, secondary, vocational and higher education.
As a result of the deal, itslearning will establish a subsidiary in the Netherlands, called itslearning Nederland which will combine both Dactique and itslearning's current Dutch operation. itslearning has operated in the Netherlands since 2004 through partners.
itslearning AS CEO Arne Bergby comments: "One of our main goals with this deal is to be able to serve our customer in the Netherlands better. We want to be closer to our customers on the ground so we can offer them even better service and support, and Dactique are known for their strong customer support and service – so joining forces will be advantageous for all."
"We're delighted with the deal," says Quirijn Hamel, Managing Director, Dactique. "After years of fierce competition between the two companies, the new cooperation will give us more room for product development and innovation – which will be good news for educational institutions across the country."
Currently, Dactique provides two products to the education sector in the Netherlands: Dapter, a learning and ePortfolio system; and Teletop an advanced learning platform. The two products have a combined total of around 400,000 users.
Operations will continue in Dactique's facilities in Enschede, the Netherlands and the management team will remain the same. Dactique and itslearning will now work together to combine the best features of their two learning platforms, while continuing to develop Dapter.
The acquisition will consolidate itslearning AS's position as one of the world's leading learning platform providers with around 180 employees and millions of users.
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Online Tool Helps PA Growers Reach New Markets
Posted: November 5, 2010
For those of you that are not familiar, PA MarketMaker is a primarily business-to-business tool that connects buyers and sellers in the food industry, from production to retail. It was first developed by the University of Illinois and has spread to cover several states in the Midwest, South and East Coast. With its growing strength in numbers it is now being heavily promoted to national restaurant, grocery and wholesale organizations. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Penn State Cooperative Extension and several other organizations partnered together to bring MarketMaker to Pennsylvania this past summer. It is designed to help businesses who wish to buy locally grown products find those products and, in turn, contribute to agricultural profitability for producers.
PA MarketMaker is much more than an online directory for your business; several of those already exist. Individual consumers make up the main audience for most of those websites. MarketMaker is different in that the producers are now able to reach the food industry as a whole including brokers, retailers, processors, wholesalers, restaurants, etc. On the functionality side, one thing that really sets MarketMaker apart from other sites is the demographic data that it provides. With this tool you are able to access in- depth demographic data for specific regions of the state. For example, if you want to know the average food expenditures on fruits and vegetables in a specific county or even a smaller region, you are able to access that information. Curious if it would be worth your time to grow a specialty vegetable that is preferred by a certain ethnic group? MarketMaker can help you make that decision. In fact, you can retrieve data based on age, household type, race, income, education, food preferences and ethnicity of foreign born citizens. It is exciting to think about how you could tailor your marketing strategy with this type of data in your hands. In the past, businesses have had to pay outside market research firms to do the kinds of things that this tool can do. The ability to conduct this sort of market research on your own, at no cost, is invaluable.
You also have the ability to search for processors, retailers, restaurants and other potential buyers in a map based format. Likewise, a buyer can seek out farms and products to meet their needs. Additionally, the Buy-Sell forum connects you to thousands of producers and buyers across all participating MarketMaker states. For example, on October 5th of this year, a farm in Illinois posted that they were looking for bulk organic frozen fruit such as apples, strawberries and peaches to be processed into jams and pies. Within two weeks that post was viewed over 350 times. Likewise, a post from somebody looking to sell winter squash was viewed almost 1,000 times in the course of a month. Of course, there is no guarantee that this will lead to a successful business relationship, however, your odds are much greater when you have a chance to reach thousands of people every day.
All businesses can create their own profile on the website. You are encouraged to list more information than what can simply be found in a phone book. If you are an organic grower, GAP certified or have received some other type of third party certification it is suggested that you list this in your profile. These attributes are searchable on the site and help you to create a more targeted marketing profile. To learn more about how to use MarketMaker, please visit the main website at http://national.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/.
If you think that your business would benefit from MarketMaker, I would encourage you to register today. Registration and use of the site is free of charge. To get set up on Pennsylvania's site visit the following website: http://pa.foodmarketmaker.com.


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The legal paper was filed by Emma Czikai, a sufferer of cervical spine neuritis who auditioned for 'Britain's Got Talent' but failed to make it to the next round.
Music mogul Simon Cowell is facing legal action from a disgruntled contestant on his hit reality show "Britain's Got Talent", amid allegations she was discriminated against because she suffers from a spine condition. Emma Czikai, a sufferer of cervical spine neuritis, auditioned for Cowell and his panel of TV judges last year but failed to make it through to the first round with her rendition of "You Raise Me Up".
Show producers invited her to appear on the U.K. spin-off programme "Britain's Got More Talent", which features clips of funny and unusual acts, and Czikai agreed - on the condition that they made it clear she suffered from an illness. However, Czikai claims producers failed to make it clear when the show aired, making her look like a "fool" and prompting her to file an official complaint with U.K. employment tribunal officials.
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Originally posted on Seahawk Addicts | Last updated 12/24/12
Two weeks ago, the Seahawks shocked the division, the league and even the country when they shamelessly bludgeoned the Arizona Cardinals at CenturyLink Field by a score of 58-0. Touchdowns on offense, defense and even special teams contributed to a total massacre of a division rival that nobody saw coming. Last week, the Seahawks followed it up with a dominant showing on the road in Toronto, when they beat the Buffalo Bills, 50 to 17. They proved that they weren't a one-trick pony, only powerful in their own domain, as many pundits were quick to call out. The real test, though, was the following week, when the big, bad, division rival San Francisco 49ers were coming to town. Since last weekend, the city of Seattle has felt like the playoffs were coming to town, because the matchup was flexed into primetime. Expectations were set in place, given the 'Hawks recent dominance - but the 49ers looked like they were poised for big things when they managed to defeat the New England Patriots on the road last Sunday night. Then, they came to Seattle. The 12th Man, having been loud enough to be considered legitimate psychological warfare all season long, was ready for San Francisco. Ready, waiting, and hungry. The Seahawks stopped the 49ers on a three-and-out on their opening drive, firing up the 12th Man to be point of being heard from space. When Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and the Seahawks' offense took the field on their opening drive, all it took was a Wilson pass to Sidney Rice and a breakout Lynch run to get six points on the board. But as I posted on the blog's Facebook page at that moment, "This will be the first of many." The energy was palpable, even from my seat at my family's house in nothern California. (Ill-timed holiday visits, you are the bane of my football-watching existence.) On the Seahawks' next possession, Lynch hauled in a nine-yard TD pass from Russell Wilson to quickly make it 14-0 with 4:52 to play in the first quarter. That, however, was only the beginning. Just when the Niners looked like they were going to put points on the board with an easy chip shot field goal, Red Bryant jumped up and blocked the punt, which led to Richard Sherman grabbing the loose ball and taking it 90 yards to the house for the third Seahawks touchdown in the past 15 minutes. And it just kept going. Russell Wilson would go on to throw his first four-touchdown game as a pro, finishing the night with 15 of 21 pass completions, and a QB rating of 115.3. Doug Baldwin caught two touchdown passes, with Anthony McCoy and Lynch rounding out the other two. The Seahawks won the matchup, 42-13. The Seahawks are the hottest team in the NFC right now. They trail only the Broncos for the hottest team in the league. They came out tonight on national television and made a huge statement against a division rival - one they hadn't beaten since Pete Carroll took the reins as head coach two seasons ago. And they got the perfect setting to display such a powerhouse victory. To quote Rocky Bernard in 2005, moments after the Seahawks finally knocked off the St. Louis Rams in the "Greatest Show on Turf" era: "We finally got that monkey off our back." After tonight, nothing should scare this team. Nothing should strike fear into their hearts from this point forward. They passed their ultimate regular-season test with flying colors, and did not back down for one single quarter, one single possession, one single play. Make no mistake about it: the Seahawks are the most dangerous team going into the 2012 playoffs. They control their own destiny from here on out, but given what we've seen in the past three weeks, the only question they should be asking is how many more 40-point games they can put up.
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This pain desperates me. I'm afraid it would compromise my healing. Not even Oxicodone gives a little relief. What's wrong with me????
I Had a Tummy Tuck This Morning. Since I Woke Up I Have an Acute Pain Like Rhinitis?
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Concerns after Tummy Tuck Surgery?
I am sorry to hear about the problems you are experiencing after tummy tuck surgery. Unfortunately, online consultants will not be of great assistance to you; your plastic surgeon will be your best resource when it comes to clinical advice regarding the rhinitis symptoms.
Best wishes for an otherwise smooth recovery.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_tummyTuck.htm
Acute pain post Tummy Tuck
Hello and congratulations on going through with the surgery.
You have only just had your surgery and yes, you will have some pain that is going to be uncomfortable and you will require some strong pan relief like oxycoedone. I suggest you rest as you have been instruted and take some regular pain relief. If the pain continues you should contact your plastic surgeon.
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Local Malls Beefing Up Security
After this week's shooting at a New Jersey mall and the attack at a mall in Nairobi earlier this year, many of you are wondering if the malls around Houston are going to have enhanced security in time for the holiday shopping season.
Memorial City Mall officials tell KTRH that they are constantly reviewing and updating their security plans, but Jeff Addicott of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University says that's not good enough for him.
"We haven't beefed up security at malls. Unfortunately we react to things. We're not proactive. I have a lot of concern. I have a permit. I carry my weapon when I go into the mall underneath my shirt," Addicott told KTRH.
Addicott says even if it's one person with a gun, it is still terrorism.
"We don't have a universal definition. But if you're using violence against civilians to incite fear then you are a terrorist," Addicott said.
And malls are bracing for less shoppers to come through the doors this holiday season. Shopping analyst Jodi Furman tells KTRH there's a reason for that.
"I've seen an increase in security at airports. We see it in many other places. The one place we haven't seen it is at malls," Furman explained. "There are huge security concerns. People would rather sit in the security of their own homes than venture out to the mall."
KTRH contacted officials with the Galleria Mall. They declined comment.


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With a 19-4-1 career record at Amherst, the 1999 senior class is eager to solidify the Lord Jeff's position as one of the elite teams in New England. There is a great deal of pride associated with the Class of '99, being one of the pivotal classes involved in the turn-around of the Amherst football program. With 19 seniors and 8 returning starters from last year's 7-1 squad, the 1998 Jeff's are primed to "MEET THE CHALLENGE" of the upcoming season.
The offense will be led by a stable of returning starters in the backfield. Darin Byrne '99, a 1997 All-NESCAC performer, and Jeff Coviello '99 should find plenty of holes in the defense running behind senior fullback Bob DiSabato '99, a three-year starter. New triggerman Mike Sweeney '99 looks to pick up where he left off against Bowdoin in 1997, completing 8-17 passes for 138 yards and three scores. Sophomore receiver Matt Hall '01 showed promise in '97. Hall should be joined by seniors Paul McGeehan '99 and Matt Hunt '99E as the Lord Jeffs prime their air attack in '98.
Heading up the talented but untested offensive line will be returning starter Luke Blocher '00, who will be making the move from guard to center. 6' 5", 300 pound Alex Zywotchencko '00, senior Jim MacDonald '99, and converted fullback Angus Leary '99 will all be relied upon to bring stability to the trenches, clearing running lanes for the Lord Jeff veteran backfield.
The Amherst defense, like the offense, will be led by a core of returning starters from last year's unit that gave up a mere 11.6 points per game. The Jeffs return their entire defensive backfield, led by two-time All-NESCAC and All-ECAC safety Todd Nichols '99. Also returning are senior safety James DeLuca '99, senior cornerback Peter McConville '99, and sophomore cornerback Brian Daoust '01, who was also named the Amherst College Rookie of the Year in 1997.
The linebackers will be anchored by senior quad-captain Alex Tracy '99, the Jeffs leading returning tackler. Supplying the heavy rush from the outside will be senior "rock" Alex Neifer '99, who returns for his senior season after leading the '97 Jeffs in sacks with 9.5. The defensive line will rely on the outstanding speed and strength of senior Greg Gottheimer '99 to fill the void left by graduation. The punting and kicking duties will be assumed by sophomore Liam Flemming '01


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Celebrity breakups are so common these days that most are just met with a shrug. But the news that Hollywood's favourite pirate and his gapped-toothed French partner of 14 years has come as a blow to romantics around the world.
Indeed, you could say that Johnny Depp has lost his Vanessa Paradis.
On Tuesday, Depp's publicist Robin Baum confirmed the split to Entertainment Tonight and Agence France Presse.
"Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have amicably separated. Please respect their privacy and, more importantly, the privacy of their children," she said.
The couple never married but had two children together, ages 10 and 13. Mr. Depp was married for two years in the early 80s to Lori Anne Allison, but his previous romances with Winona Ryder and Kate Moss helped secure his heartthrob status pre-Paradis.
Their adieu, however, does not come out of the blue. In an interview with French television channel Canal Plus last January, Ms. Paradis denied split speculation, rambling on that people are always drawing false conclusions about her private life. "This rumour can hurt my family and my children. And of course the rumour is untrue."
Mr. Depp also spoke out about the rumours just last month.
Unlike other celebrity couples whose trips to the grocery store and runs on the beach are tracked like weather patterns, Ms. Paradis and Mr. Depp (39 and 49, respectively) managed to keep a low profile.
Ms. Paradis recently starred in Café de Flore, a movie set in Montreal and Paris, from Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée. Most recently, Mr. Depp appeared as an 18th century vampire thrown into life in the 1970s in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.
Rebecca Leffler, France correspondent with The Hollywood Reporter, told Hot Button that it's too early to tell whether the split will have any professional impact on the stars. "They were definitely a power couple so it will be interesting to see how the breakup affects their respective careers in terms of box office for their films and, in Paradis' case, concert tickets sold."
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This Saturday, November 20th, come out to Treasure Island to watch two exciting pre-season match-ups: the Fog Men's A-side vs the Mendocino Steam Donkeys, and the B-side vs the San Jose Seahawks' rookies.
Mendocino is in the same Northern California Rugby Football Union (NCRFU) Division III league as the Fog, and in their last meeting in January of this year, the Fog walked away with a 57-10 victory. The Seahawks are a Division II team in the NCRFU.
Kickoff for the A-side game is at 1pm, and the B-side game will commence at 2:30. Both games are at the Fog Rugby pitch.


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by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardMillions of Evangelical Christians are in an uproar over A&E suspending Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson over his homophobic, racist remarks made in a recent GQ magazine interview. Facebook, Twitter, and the Sunday pulpit have been awash in defenses of Phil Robertson's right to publicly state what he believes about homosexuality and the Jim Crow days of the South. I thought I would use this post to summarize the various articles, news reports, and blog posts about Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty: … [Read more...]
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Dude, Seriously? – Answering Kevin Swanson
by Calulu cross posted from her blog True Love Doesn't RapeRecently Kevin Swanson, radio babbler and righteous rabblerouser against all things not homeschooling fundamentalist Biblical patriarchy has been making more of an ass out of himself than usual. It's not merely due to the fact that he has a new book to flog about and promote by calling everyone that doesn't agree with him an 'Apostate', a title that is also a big part of the title of his new book. Oh no, Kevin seems to be off the internet deep end this week. … [Read more...]
John Piper's Defense of the Genocidal Christian God
by Bruce Gerenscer cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardThere are many reasons people choose to leave Christianity. Contrary to what apologists for Christianity suggest, deconversion stories have many elements and are rarely the same. That said, there are four elements that show up in most deconversion stories:The existence of evil The existence of suffering God acting contrary to the commands he gives people God commanding people to act contrary to the commands he gives to people … [Read more...]
The Delusional Followers of Convicted Felon Jack Schaap
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardJust when I think the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church movement can go no lower into the muck they surprise me. Delaine Rae, a recent guest post writer, a former IFB preacher's kid, sent me a link to a Jack Schaap FAN page. I kid you not. This page was started AFTER Schaap's arrest and conviction and has comments as recent as a few days ago. … [Read more...]
Is Clergy Sexual Infidelity Rare?
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardDoug Phillips, of Vision Forum/Vision Forum Ministries, recently confessed that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a woman who is not his wife. (see my previous post in this) Defenders of Phillips have taken to their blogs, websites, Twitter, and Facebook, to do damage control on the behalf of Phillips and the patriarchal movement. One such defender is Voddie Baucham, the African-American version of Doug Phillips, sans the scandal. Baucham is an Independent Baptist pastor. (you can find Baucham's website here) … [Read more...]
How Should Churches Handle Allegations of Abuse?
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardFirst of all, churches shouldn't "handle" anything. This is what gets churches, pastors, and church leaders into trouble to start with. Instead of immediately doing the right thing when someone makes an allegation of abuse they often: … [Read more...]
Mark Driscoll Tweet on Thou Shalt Not Kill
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardYesterday, misogynist Fundamentalist Calvinist pastor of Mars Hill Church, Mark Driscoll tweeted: "Thou shall not murder" includes suicide, terrorism, euthanasia, abortion, but not necessarily capital punishment, just war, self defense. Currently, Driscoll is incoherently preaching through the Ten Commandments at Mars Hill. This past Sunday, Driscoll preached on the command, thou shalt not murder (kill) . Based on Driscoll's tweet, he thinks:Murder is:Suicide Terrorism Euthanasia AbortionMurder is not:Capital Punishment Just War Self DefenseWelcome to the schizophrenic world of Evangelicals … [Read more...]
God Don't Make No Mistakes Says Ray Lewis
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardOr so says Christian Ray Lewis, retired linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens.I love the way Ray Lewis played football. A hard-nosed, no-excuse, disciplined player, sure to be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in a few years … [Read more...]
Why Would Any Woman Want to be an Evangelical Christian?
by Bruce Gerencser cross posted from his blog The Way ForwardWhy would any woman want to be a Christian? If the Bible is the Word of God, inspired by God, and every word is true, why would any modern, thinking woman ever darken the door of an Evangelical church?Over the past hundred years women have continued to gain rights and privileges kept from them by men, law, and social propriety. The right to vote. Equal pay for equal work. The right to use birth control. … [Read more...]
Pastor Rapes Away the Gay and Gets By With It
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From: Jeanne Lloyd <>
Subject: Thomas Lloyd of Pennsylvania
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:01:41 -0400
Nice to be back on-line after ten days of a computer shut down! Can
anyone verify one or the other of these Pennsylvania (?) marriages that
hopefully led to my John Lloyd and Susanna Field?
(1) THOMAS LLOYD b. 3/8/1697/98, in Moreland Township, Philadephia, d.
12/29/1781, m. MARY HARKER, 3/14/1723/24, dt. of Adam Harker,
(2) THOMAS LLOYD , m. MARY ELGAR, March 6, 1766 in Birmingham Mtg.?
(Where is Birmingham?)
I am looking for the parents of John Lloyd of Moreland Township,
Philadelphia County, PA m. Susanna Field. Their issue: John Lloyd
February 09, 1759, rec. of Abingdon MM, buried with wife Mercy Baldwin,
at Short Creek burial ground. Their issue: Isaac Lloyd m. Ruth Harrison
m. December 02, 1818 at Mt. Pleasant, OH, Short Creek MM.
I've found a lot of information on Gov. Thomas Lloyd, but cannot connect
him to my John through his wife Patience Storey. I've also combed the
Quaker Encyclopedia by Hinshaw. But can't quite make this connection.
Can't really tell when a Thomas Lloyd is actually connected to a John
Lloyd through the meeting notes. So am looking for other Thomas' with
other wives . . .
Thanks - any help appreciated.
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Hey Sky
Your bass is a very important part, especially in the beginning of the track. There it's loud, but surely not to loud. To me it's even too thin when the drums come in! It should or could have much more very low frequencies, since it should "carry" the whole thing with it's sustained notes. But I really miss the bottom! I have a calibrated high-end speaker setup with a additional subwoofer, but it sounds as would the subwoofer has nothing to do.
If you like to hear a track with insane bass, you find it here:
It's very beautiful and well balanced – but it shows in my opinion the very very upper limit of bass frequencies level!
So relax, you could have MUCH more bass and still be on the safe side Just don't let it clip of course. But if you use a (multiband) compressor and/or limiter in your sum you should be able to handle it!
And: A very nice track in my opinion btw!!
Good luck mate!
matsteiner said
But if you use a (multiband) compressor and/or limiter in your sum you should be able to handle it!
I'm not able to listen to it now. Sitting in my company without speakers.
I just want yout to suggest to make sure "not" to use a multiband-compressor in your master as long as you're working on the track. Crazy things can happen´than.
I'll have a listen later.
Cheers, Udo
I dont think that bass is loud, because he represents main groove in intro. Maybe piano need some eq and kick need just a little more meat – for me its sounds too lush – but overall theme is superb anyway))


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Last year I was invited to speak at several national conferences, but could not attend a single one because I was deployed. I gave this speech in Fort Lauderdale Florida last month, at the FLASH / American Atheists regional meetup. It was my first official public speaking engagement. http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ryGnr7nKtY? I had to follow a pretty awesome [Read More…]
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Amazingly, this just happened. http://www.youtube.com/embed/7XQXBAGQ7xY? I already typed this into YouTube's description, so forgive the 3rd person narrative. The Chaplain respectfully leaves off "so help me god" for the deployed atheist soldier's re-enlistment ceremony. Chaplain (Colonel) Strohm is overseeing Sergeant Justin Griffith's re-enlistment ceremony. The Chaplain is a devout Christian with decades of active-duty service. [Read More…]
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COLD-RESISTANT LUCERNE (Medicago sativa)
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is in the extreme north-west of China; its climate is arid to semi arid and markedly continental with very cold winters; much of the region is mountainous. Extensive livestock rearing, mainly by traditional, transhumance is therefore a major land use. Crop production is mostly limited to the traditional oases and some modern irrigation developments which have been installed in the past half century. The herdsmen belong to minority nationalities, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Mongol. Good grazing is only available, on mountain pastures, in summer; production and fattening is, therefore, based on the summer pastures. The winter is very long and the herds have to survive on very meagre grazing at lower altitudes by the desert fringe; winter and spring losses are often heavy. Provision of winter feed to improve survival and delay the move to spring pastures (which are regularly damaged by being grazed too early) is an important tool in attaining better herd output, higher family income and in reducing damage to the transition pastures.
Lucerne, Medicago sativa L., is a crop of very ancient cultivation in the irrigated areas of Xinjiang and is the main crop grown for hay for winter feed. Large areas of lucerne are being developed in the north of Xinjiang, an arid region with very cold winters. Given the very limited number of cultivars it was deemed desirable to have a wider genetic base. Under a UNDP/FAO project a large number of cold-tolerant, disease-resistant lucernes, mostly from North America, were identified and introduced for screening. Their testing was undertaken by the Xinjiang Agricultural University at Altai. The initial growth of many of the introductions was impressive and their first year performance far outstripped the local control (Beijang). Next spring, however, none of the introductions survived at Altai (except for a few isolated plants) - only the control was alive! The project sites, on the desert fringe, have little or no snow cover in winter so the young plants had no protection; perhaps they had been selected in areas with snow cover. It later transpired that earlier introductions from Russia had failed in a similar way. There was, therefore, no easy way to diversify and improve the lucernes in use by importation of commercially available cultivars. After discussions with the fodder specialists of Xinjiang Agricultural University the Grassland and Pasture Crops Group of FAO/AGPC agreed to provide some support so that the Universitys ongoing work on local breeding and selection of lucerne could be intensified.
In 1995 thirty three plants were selected, when they greened up in spring, from a four-year-old plot of Spredor2** lucerne at Urumqi; the Spredor2 had been sown in 1990 and grown unprotected through the subsequent winters; the selection was made among the survivors. These were open pollinated and the seeds mixed to form line 9501 (later relabelled Xinmu No 3). Some stems were taken as cuttings and taken to 183 Farm, Beitun, Altai (hereafter referred to as Altai) in August for cold tests. Splits of twelve mother plants were grown in a greenhouse to speed up seed production; seed was harvested in November.
Four cultivars were chosen for testing at Altai and Urumqi from 1996; line 9501, Beijang, Xinmu No. 1 and Spredor2. These were sown in randomised block with three replications at both sites in plots of 5.63 m2 with a 30 cm row spacing and a seed rate of 3 kg/ha. Harvest was at early flowering (2 - 3%) with two-and-a-half cuts at Urumqi and two at Altai. The last cut was taken one month before growth was expected to stop. Five hundred gramme samples were air-dried for dry-matter estimation. The trials received five to six weedings, three to four hoeings and five to six irrigations annually. Yield data are given in Tables 1 and 2.
Line 9501 was the highest yielder throughout the trials at both sites. In both cases second year yields were much higher than those of the seedling or third year - this may be due to the absence of maintenance fertiliser - normal practice on the Altai scheme.
Table 2 Yield trial at Altai over three years; tonnes per hectare air-dry material
Testing for cold resistance was done at both sites. Surviving and dead plants were counted after greening up each year; since some plants which were injured by low temperatures, but had not died, greened up 3 to 20 days later than normal plants three counts were made. Plants which had not greened up at the first counting were marked; if they greened up at the second or third counting the were added to the survivors; those which had not greened up by the branching stage were counted as dead. Results for the two sites are given in Table 3. Survival was very good throughout; all entries in the trial were, of course, known to be adapted to local conditions. Survival of Spredor2 and Beijang at Urumqi in the third year was much poorer than that of line 9501 and Xinmu No. 1 but at Altai all survival rates were similar.
The effect of removal (by brushing) of any snow cover from the third replicate was studied between November and April of the establishment year (Table 4). Snow removal delayed greening up by a few days and caused a small decrease in survival.
As part of the characterisation of the new cultivar for registration, phenological data and information on the proximate composition of its forage were collected. 9501 (renamed Xinmu No 3) has at least as good a feeding value as Beijang.
Overwinter survival, of course, reflects more than cold tolerance, disease susceptibility is also involved. In all both line 9501 (Xinmu No 3) was superior. Snow removal led to a mortality of between three and six percent with no difference between line 9501 (Xinmu No 3) and Beijang.
As formal testing advanced, field-scale observations were installed at Beitun/Altai and Urumqi, under conditions similar to those used by herders to see how the selection performed as a commercial cultivar. As can be seen from Table 5, line 9501 performed well at both sites.
Seed production of line 9501 was a priority from the outset to provide enough for proper testing; now that the line has shown promise provision of breeders and foundation seeds is being organised so that these can be supplied to producers. It is necessary that a well supervised three-step production system (breeders seed à foundation seed à certified seeds) be used for future lucerne seed production. Clean, dodder-free, healthy seed of adapted varieties is the key to sustainable, high yielding lucerne production in Altai.
The very cold, arid areas of northern Xinjiang pose a problem when broadening the genetic base of lucerne cultivation, especially since introduction of cultivars from elsewhere does not succeed. Earlier work (development of Xinmu No 1 and Xinmu No 2) showed that considerable progress can be made by working with local material. The work described above shows that introduced material can have a very positive role in lucerne improvement, at least insofar as material with some M. falcata in its background is concerned. The cultivar Xinmu No 3 has shown itself to be superior in yield to the cultivars currently in use and well adapted to the conditions and methods of husbandry used locally. It may well prove to be valuable through a much wider area in the colder arid tracts of Northern China and North-eastern and Central Asia.
* Unpublished data taken from a forthcoming paper by Min Jichun et al.
** Spredor2 was released by Northrup King in 1974, its parentage is Travois, Rambler and Vernal; these are cold tolerant cultivars with Ladak, M. falcata, Siberian, Cossack among their parents. Spredor2 has variable flower colour; it is highly resistant to bacterial wilt and moderately resistant to verticillium wilt and fusarium wilt.


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New Delhi, Aug 28: The country's largest realty firm DLF has decided to end its five-year long association with Indian Premier League (IPL) as the title sponsor and did not renew its contract that was due by last month.
The company, however, said it will promote other sports and is currently exploring various such platforms for association. It had last week gifted luxury sports utility vehicle 'Audi Q5' to four Olympic medal winners from Haryana.
"We have just stepped off the IPL. Sponsoring IPL over the last five years was a strategic decision wherein we wanted to establish our brand presence across India as the leading real estate player," DLF Group Executive Director Rajeev Talwar told PTI.
The last date for renewal of the contract was July 28 and the company did not do it. The firm has the first right of refusal for title sponsorship of the Twenty20 league, Talwar said.
"Our IPO came in 2007, a year before the IPL started. We were very aggressive pan-India then. We had good presence in all big cities," he said.
DLF is now concentrating on those cities, where the company's core strength lies, he added.
"Currently we enjoy significant reach, brand recall and presence across the country. We believe that we have been able to achieve the desired objectives to a great extent," Talwar said, adding that the company would continue to nurture talent through various CSR initiatives undertaken by DLF Foundation.
The company has spent Rs. 250 crore in five years for IPL, he added.
Talwar said, however, DLF will continue to be very active in promoting sports and encouraging healthy living.
"We are looking out for what is the big platform in the country. We want to promote different sports for a good, clean and healthy living, which we do in our all the townships also," he added.
When asked if the company has identified any other sports to nurture, he said the firm is assessing what kind of game is emerging in areas where the company has business operations.
"We are not for any franchise and we will not own any team," Talwar said, adding DLF was also exploring options on joining hands with any federation, academy or government.
Talking about spending on other sports, he said: "There is no limit and we have not earmarked anything, but it will be less than Rs. 50 crore a year that we spent in IPL."


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Justin Bieber Turns Himself into Toronto Police, Charged with Assault
Going under the microscope for yet another set of illegal activities, Justin Bieber turned himself into Toronto police on charges of criminal assault Wednesday evening (January 29).
A video obtained by TMZ shows the 19-year-old popping out of a car and making his way into the police station while dodging a massive crowd of fans and reporters, and this time, Justin faces the charges after an alleged attack on a limousine driver back in December.
Not long after making his way into the station, Toronto police confirmed that the "Baby" crooner was officially charged with assault and is set to appear at Old City Hall courthouse on March 10, this according to CBC News.
Hearing about the news, talent manager, Scooter Braun tweeted about the situation, writing, "for all those asking @JeremyBieber and @pattiemallette love their son. Stop passing judgement on a situation u dont understand," also adding, "I ask people to be kind and hope for the best in people. not assume the worst. thanks."
Who knows what this could mean for the Biebs' career, but he doesn't seem to be slowing down yet as the "As Long As You Love Me" singer's new music video for "Confident" just released moments before he turned himself in.


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Parallel algorithms for continuous multifacility competitive location problems
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Ups, I meant the compileSwf method of the DefaultFlexCompiler class -----Message d'origine----- From: Frédéric THOMAS Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:43 PM To: email@example.com Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: Compiler Arguments Thank's Chris for that precision. I tried to reproduce your issue but I wasn't able to. I did a mvn test on flexmojos-395 wherein I defined a dependency to the sdk 4.8 but in the dump-config file there is no mention of the localesRuntimes. Debugging it in FM6, I looked at the arguments passed to the compiler in the execute method of the MxmlcMojo class and didn't see any mention of the localesRuntimes. -----Message d'origine----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:17 PM To: email@example.com Subject: AW: AW: AW: Compiler Arguments Nope, This would be the case if you wanted to add 3 different locales. If you define es_MX,es_ES,en_US this is more a locale-chain (I reverse learned this from the unit-test code. Assuming you have 3 locale property files, en_US containing the complete set of values and only some of them being translated to spaninsh in general and only some of those having a different mexican translation, then when setting the application to es_MX, the application would use es_MX if they are provided, but fall back to es_ES if they were not and again fall back to en_US if no spanish translation at all was present. This alllows you to sort of translate the stuff you need without having to translate all the stuff Flex would complain about if it was missing. So there is in fact a great difference. Chris -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Frédéric THOMAS [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. November 2012 20:43 An: email@example.com Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Compiler Arguments Chris, The locales shouldn't be express like that from FM4.x ? <localesRuntime> <locale>es_MX</locale> <locale>es_ES</locale> <locale>en_US</locale> </localesRuntime> -----Message d'origine----- From: email@example.com Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:34 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: AW: AW: Compiler Arguments Hi Alex, well the goal oft he project isn't to do anything "sensible" from view of the resulting SWF, but it's part of the Flexmojos Unit-Test suite. In this case the maven config is this: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>net.flexmojos.oss</groupId> <artifactId>flexmojos-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>%{flexmojos.version}</version> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <localesCompiled> <locale>en_US</locale> </localesCompiled> <localesRuntime> <locale>es_MX,es_ES,en_US</locale> </localesRuntime> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> Which should instruct the compiler to add en_US as compiled locale, and to add es_MX as runtime locale while defaulting back to es_ES or en_US if the corresponding properties are not defined in those locales. This test worked for every FDK up to 4.5.1 but fails randomly in 4.6 and 4.8. As I mentioned ... somebody doing a real project wouldn't do such a thing, but that projects sole test is to to test the compiler-configuration and it seems that we have an issue here ... unfortunately I have never ever used the commandline compiler therefore I currently don't know if this is a Flexmojos issue or a Flex-Issue that I have to build some workaround for. Chris -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Harui [mailto:email@example.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. November 2012 19:39 An: email@example.com Betreff: Re: AW: Compiler Arguments On 11/1/12 10:33 AM, "email@example.com" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Well it is used several times ... > > -metadata.language=es_MX,es_ES,en_US > -metadata.language+=en_US > > I've never touched that part of Flexmojos code and I just wanted to > know what those lines should be and what has changed before startig to > implement anything. > I have never used metadata, so I don't really know, but it looks like it should be a single string (whereas locale takes an array of strings). So I think the parser just gets fooled and thinks there is a comma separator between arguments. I saw a comment about having to guess when parsing about the end of a list. This also makes me wonder if the following line where you do += is going to work either since this isn't a list. You can try a simple app and compiling it from the command line with these options and see what works and what doesn't. Is there logic or a config that is causing the +=en_US? It seems like it would be better to concat them on one single string without duplicates and without comma as the separator. I don't know if quoting will work or not but you can try that as well. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 2, No. 53. Saturday, 16 Feb 1991.
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 91 17:17 EST
Subject: Spinoffs
I see from today's TV listing that tonight Torontonians will be treated to
a three-star Finnish comedy called *Hamlet Goes Business*(1988), starring
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius and Esko Salminen. *Broadcast Week* sets it up:
"Playboy Hamlet acts weird after seeing the ghost of his father, a paper
baron in today's Finland." On your marks! Set VCRs!


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Chrysler Group will be without a marketing chief, at least temporarily, with the departure of George Murphy.
Chrysler confirms the 51-year-old Murphy, who has been senior vice president-global brand marketing since 2001, is leaving the auto maker, effective June 1.
No replacement is named.
Murphy joined Chrysler after a 2-year stint at Ford Motor Co. and 11 years at General Electric.
"George has made a key contribution to our efforts to retool our brands – Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge," says Steven Landry, executive vice president-North American sales, marketing, service and parts. "Most recently, he engineered a new identity for the Chrysler brand featuring a new theme line – Engineered Beautifully. This campaign shows that there is more behind the sheet metal and distinctive style of this brand."
The new advertising campaign for the Chrysler brand debuted May 8.


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So it was interesting to see two major newspapers dealing with the role of blogs over the last few weeks, first in an article by Trevor Cook in the Fin Review payment required) and also in a piece by Julia Baird in the SMH.
The Cook piece sought to deal with the issue of quality in the blogosphere by comparing the approaches of two bloggers, John Quiggin and Tim Blair, saying:
Blair and Quiggin represent two strands of commentary blogging. Blair is tabloid and provocative, something more akin to a blogging shock jock, while Quiggin, though not dull, tends to stick more strictly to his academic and policy orientations."
Elsewhere, Rob Schaap has been contemplating the lifeworld, while Geelong journalist Bernard Slattery is saying I told you so about the Spanish elections and also about some recent anti-war demonstrations. Steve Edwards loves coups, and Zem is disturbed by the new terrorist laws.
Rob Corr is is your one-stop shop for Labor logos, and Yobbo is not going to be applying for a job at ASIO. Gary Sauer-Thompson notes that his blog is "becoming the site of conflicting opinion about international affairs" but I think he means it in a good way. Tony the Teacher is showing his age. Oh yeah, go check out John Abercrombie's new Powerup site and see what you make of it.
The Catallaxy blog has a new home, but they still think markets rule. William Burrough's Baboon is having an unusually busy period and I notice Wogblog is asking to be nominated for Blogjam. Hasn't happened, but here's a link anyway to what she thinks of Mark Latham. James on L'affaire Thorpe.
Three quickies from overseas: Randy on the other hemisphere; you've-got-mail syndrome; and you're hit-pick of the week.
Over here in the capital city of the hegemon du jour, all the political talk has been about former counterterrorism supremo Richard Clarke, his new book and his testimony at the 9/11 Commission. Kerryn Higgs' piece is a good summary, while Bargarz collects links and offers opinions about why Clarke is not to be trusted. If you want to read some extracts from the book, as well as some comments, I've been doing a rolling review at my place. More next week, including bias in the blogosphere.
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|man tcp wrote:
These variables can be accessed by the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* files or
with the sysctl(2) interface.
tcp_retries2 (integer; default: 15)
The maximum number of times a TCP packet is retransmitted in
established state before giving up. The default value is 15,
which corresponds to a duration of approximately between 13 to
30 minutes, depending on the retransmission timeout. The
RFC 1122 specified minimum limit of 100 seconds is typically
deemed too short.
man 7 tcp describes the purpose of
tcp_retries1 and
tcp_retries2, and
man 2 sysctl explains how to call sysctl, if you have to.
/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h to learn that tcp_retries2 is known to sysctl as


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The title '"Supreme Governor" of the Church of England is rather misleading. It dates back to the time when Henry VIII determined that the Pope should have no authority in England. That decision was primarily political rather than theological. Henry denied the power of the Pope to refuse Henry an annulment of his first marriage, which had only been permitted by an earlier papal dispensation. Henry wanted a male heir, and Catherine of Aragon had only one child who later became Queen Mary following the death of her half-brother Edward VI. It should be noted that under Mary the Church in England was reconciled with the Pope and the final break only came during the reign of her half-sister Elizabeth, when the causes were even more clearly political than they had been during Henry's reign.
At that time the "divine right of kings" gave monarchs virtually unfettered authority. This authority was presumed to extend to the Church as well as secular matters. Its effect was reduced over the century and a half following Henry's repudiation of papal authority to the extent that James II was ousted in 1688, largely because of his overt membership of the Roman Catholic Church. Even now nobody who is a Roman Catholic, or married to someone who is, can succeed to the throne of the United Kingdom.
The United kingdom now has a constitutional monarchy where the monarch is advised by the Prime Minister on how to exercise their authority, and is effectively bound to follow that advice. In the relatively recent (past few decades) past there has been a move to reduce the power of the political power to direct the affairs of the Church of England. The selection of names to be considered for appointment as bishops now rests with a Church-appointed committee, though the Prime Minister does retain the right to choose between the two names submitted. Having made that choice the preferred candidate (assuming they are willing to accept the nomination and pass the medical) is nominated by the monarch and duly elected.
Church legislation receives close scrutiny in the Church's General Synod before being submitted for Parliamentary approval, which does not include the power to amend what is placed before Parliament. Once approved by Parliament it receives the Royal Assent. The power of the monarch, and of the Prime Minister, has been significantly attenuated over the years though UK coinage still carries the initials FD. These initials stand for "Fideii Defensor" or "Defender of (the) Faith" a title bestowed on Henry VIII for a paper he wrote defending the Catholic concept of seven sacraments against the two recognized by the reformers


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Salena Godden's short stories, stage and page poetry have been published in anthologies such as Penguin's IC3, Canongate's Fire People and The Handbook of Decadence, published by Dedalus. As a performance poet she has toured extensively and read alongside writers such as Irvine Welsh and Will Self. She has hosted a number of radio and television programmes and been a guest on BBC Radio 4's Bespoken Word and Woman's Hour, and BBC Radio 3's The Verb. Salena writes and performs in nu-ska duo SaltPeter and is a co-founder of The Book Club Boutique. Her first novel, Springfield Road, is due to be published later this year.
Salena is Writer-in-Residence at Highbury Grove School.


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February 21, 2013
Predators' Barry Trotz becomes NHL's longest-running coach
By PAUL FRIESEN, QMI Agency
Barry Trotz could see the question coming all the way from Nashville.
When Lindy Ruff was fired Wednesday after nearly 16 years as head coach of the Buffalo Sabres, Trotz knew exactly where it left him.
"As the next coach to be fired — is that what you're trying to say?" a chuckling Trotz said, just before hitting the ice for a Predators practice.
Actually, that wasn't what I was getting at.
The 50-year-old former Winnipegger and product of Dauphin, Man., is now the longest tenured bench boss in the NHL, with nearly 15 years under his belt.
As unheard-of as Ruff's run with the Sabres was, Trotz's in Nashville is no less remarkable. He's the only coach the Preds franchise has known.
And while his sense of humour certainly helps, the former Dauphin Kings (MJHL) and University of Manitoba head man says there's a simple recipe for that kind of longevity — even though every head coach knows it's complicated as hell.


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|Consumer-Directed Promotion of Regulated Medical Products; Part 15 Public Hearing
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| I have just read an most enlightening article on this web site - http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get- document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392
The data contained within this document shows me that TV ad claims for antidespressents citing curing chemical imbalances are false. Many countries follow the US's lead and so I would like the FDA to take a stance and stop this false advertising. The world is becoming place full of drug addicts- some 'legitimately' for false reasons...much better to find the real reason for the depression than to mask it with drugs, when the placebo effect is almost as effective ( and definitely MUCH safer)!


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Mesa police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a suspect in a Sunday hit-and-run crash that killed one pedestrian, severing his leg, and severely injured another.
Jose DeJesus Padilla-Rodriguez, 23, faces two counts of failure to stop at a serious injury or fatal collision and two counts of failure to remain at a serious injury or fatal collision, both felonies.
He told investigators he was aware he struck the pedestrians, whom he described as a male and a female, and did not stop to render aid.
After media reports of the crash, a concerned Mesa resident reported a suspicious Toyota Celica in the parking lot of her apartment complex that was similar to what police said could have been a teal green Honda. When officers arrived they found a glass company employee with orders to replace the Celica's windshield.
Officers obtained a phone number from him and contacted the car's registered owner, who said he had lent it to Padilla-Rodriguez, who did not return the vehicle and told him it had been stolen.
Part of the lower-left leg of the deceased victim still is missing, according to Mesa police Sgt. Ed Wessing.
"When a vehicle hits a body at that speed, generally it's a pretty violent collision and the persons are thrown over the car," Wessing said.
The hit-and-run occurred about 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of west Broadway Road.
Two men were walking to their nearby apartment after leaving a bar when the eastbound car struck both of them.
The survivor was severely injured but is in stable condition now, Wessing said.
The suspect vehicle passed another vehicle after the collision, and that driver provided police with the car's description.
The men, both 25-year-old Hispanic males, did not carry proper identification but their friends arrived at the scene after the crash and offered their names.
Police are tracking down relatives before they release the names, Wessing said.
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Two car bombs exploded at police stations in and near Baghdad today, killing at least seven people and shattering any hopes of a quick end to violence after the capture of Saddam Hussein.
A car bomb ripped through the Zuhour police station at Husseiniyah village, 30km north of Baghdad, killing six policemen and injuring more than 20 people, a police official said.
The official had earlier said nine people were dead but later revised down the death toll.
A second explosives-laden car, with the driver inside, exploded outside Amiriyah criminal investigation department in Baghdad shortly afterwards.
The driver was killed and 12 people - eight police and four passers-by - were injured. Four cars were destroyed in the blast.
A police officer on the scene said the attack was a suicide bombing.
"We were standing outside the police station when a very fast car came, we shouted to try to stop him but he detonated the car," officer Mohamed Hashim said as blood poured from his injured hand.
Another attack on the station was foiled minutes later when police fired at an approaching speeding car. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled.
Explosives were found in his car and defused.
The three cars were all Toyotas - two Land Cruisers and a saloon, police said.
The wave of attacks came two days after US troops captured Saddam near his home town of Tikrit. Saddam loyalists are blamed for most attacks on American soldiers and allied Iraqi security forces.
A car bomb killed 17 people at a police station west of Baghdad yesterday.
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Italian Multiple Birth Statistics
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Jogger Finds Jawbone On Beach
The Michigan State Police at the Wayland Post is currently investigating a found jawbone that was located washed up along Lake Michigan.
The partial jawbone was found along Lake Michigan near West Side Park, which is near 121st Ave in Ganges Township/Allegan County. A jogger discovered the jawbone while running along the beach. A further search of the area by the State Police failed to locate any more bones.
The partial jawbone still has three teeth attached, with two of them containing fillings. By the degree of deterioration it appears the jawbone has been in the water for quite some time.
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Located on a private peninsula along Brazil's Southern coast and part of the esteemed Relaix & Chateaux group, Ponta dos Ganchos ranks among one of the world's most exclusive resorts. With over-the-top luxurious bungalows, genuinely gracious staff, a no kids under 18 policy and plenty of activities that take advantage of the naturally lush surroundings, a trip to the hotel offers the kind of total relaxation that's difficult to achieve otherwise.
After a car and driver delivered Ami and me from the Florianopolis airport (about an hour's drive), a glass of champagne and several staff greeted us at reception and whisked our luggage on a golf cart to our rooms. We followed behind with the concierge who personally escorted us to go over the details, all of which are top-notch.
Our accommodations consisted of two of the four recently-opened Emerald Villas—spacious bungalows (nearly 2500 square-feet) kitted out with an infinity plunge pool, dry sauna and whirlpool bath, among other amenities. With sweeping views of the bay, dotted with Oyster traps and the occasional fishing boat, we couldn't get enough lounging on the private deck while listening to music on the surround sound speakers (a custom CD of Brazilian music is yours for the taking) and taking frequent dips in the pool to cool off.
Indoors, a huge and inviting sectional couch (great for watching movies that are available for check-out), a king-size bed with 600 thread count sheets, as well as a Nespresso coffee maker, well-stocked minibar and wine cellar offer plenty of other options for hanging out. Other less obvious features, such as dual showers with glass walls that lend the feeling of bathing al fresco and two separate WCs, make every little experience an enjoyable one.
While the romance and seclusion of the Villas is unrivaled, Ponta dos Ganchos provides a host of other ways to enjoy your time there. We spent several hours lounging on the private beach, sipping caiprinhas and snacking on food served by the attentive staff. (All food is included while alcohol is not.) In addition to beachside dining, the seven-course breakfast, served on a deck overlooking the ocean, is a great way to enjoy a meal too. Dinners in the restaurant specialize in seafood and haute interpretations of local cuisine, which can also be reserved by couples on the private island.
A swim across the bay to the tiny island is a welcome diversion, but sailing, fishing, an indoor heated pool, tennis, snorkeling, a game room and more are all available for the taking as well. We opted for a decidedly more lazy approach and booked massages (not included in the price) at the Dior spa, which—set along the edge of the peninsula in canopied open-air rooms—was an unforgettable treat.
From the spectacular rooms to the lush landscaping and all the sumptuous details in between, Ponta dos Ganchos is high on our list of favorite destinations. To book, visit the reservations site. Rack rates start at about $530 nightly.


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