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The (Alleged) Goings On In John Friend's Wiccan Yoga Sex Coven
For those of you who don't know the name John Friend, he is the founder of Anusara yoga — a form of Hatha yoga that focuses on the universal principles of alignment, life-affirming philosophies and heart-oriented expression — who found himself at the center of a highly publicized sex scandal last year. There were rumors of him practicing "sex therapy" on his students, including off the charts inappropriate stuff like massaging a woman's urethra to heal her migraines and exchanging naked photos with a married student he was allegedly helping overcome early life trauma. The most outrageous rumors were those of a secret Wiccan sex coven within the Anusara community called the Blazing Solar Flames.
Friend stepped down as CEO of Anusara Inc. after lewd and incriminating emails and inappropriate photos were leaked on the internet, saying that he was taking a "leave of absence for self-reflection, therapy, and personal retreat." Well, that's one way to put it. He's currently on an extended sabbatical. OK, now that you are up to date on Mr. Friend, the abridged version, the latest is that one of the former members of the Wiccan sex coven is speaking about her experiences.
A woman going by the name of "Melissa" claims to have been the High Priestess of the Blazing Solar Flames. Melissa shared details about the coven's congregation at Friend's Texas home for the 2009 Winter solstice. "John wanted us to do the ritual in sexy underwear and kiss each other on the mouth, tongue-y kissing," she explained. Once stripped down to their skivvies on his bear-skin rug, they massaged his entire body (crotch included) with oils. Friend, who referred to himself as the Grand Magus or GM, encouraged everyone to give each other sensual massages throughout the day as the "sexually charged rituals would heighten everyone's senses and therefore raise more energy."
"There was no digital penetration, but there was definitely this mix of kissing and rubbing," Melissa recalled. "Suddenly I started crying and I didn't know why. I couldn't tell if I was embarrassed, even though these were people I was supposed to trust … [it] was like something out of Hustler or Penthouse, and I just thought, Wow, this guy is living the dream."
Eww. I have to stop for a moment before I go on. This is skeeving me out. Deep breath. Here I go. Continuing on.
Melissa claims Friend suggested various rituals, like cutting off locks of the women's pubic hair, putting them in a jar and placing them on an altar. These types of rituals allegedly went on throughout the year, as did sexual relationships with the various members of the coven. When Melissa tried to leave the coven right before the Spring solstice, Friend threatened to replace her as High Priestess, reminding her that the Blazing Solar Flames were meant to serve as a "battery for Anusara."
Although Friend denies these allegations, he does admit to engaging in "non-traditional spiritual groups" and "prayer circles." He has gone on record saying he was sorry for attracting a former coven member with a "vampire novel imagination." We can't confirm whether or not this was Melissa.
If these stories are indeed true, I agree with yoga instructor Livia Shapiro, who likens Friend's actions to "spiritual incest." As a person who has had such wonderful experiences with very appropriate yoga teachers (including those that specialized in Anusara), this pisses me off. While it's possible that these stories may be embellished or exaggerated, I believe that Friend was blurring the sexual boundaries in his community. Any teacher or spiritual leader who abuses their power, sexually or otherwise, should pay for their actions (like, say, self-help guru James Ray who was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide for deaths that occurred during one of his sweat lodge ceremonies). Stay tuned to see if Friend receives any formal charges for his misconduct.


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Andrew Murray is not just the next big thing in Scottish tennis - he's the first big thing. Michael Gleeson profiles one of the tour's rising stars.
The shaggy-haired Scottish kid mumbled and fidgeted, in the manner you might expect of a teenager facing a battery of the world's most inquisitive press at a post-match Wimbledon press conference. But lack of familiarity should not be confused with intimidation.
The wee Scot, who looks not unlike a set of bag pipes with skinny legs poking from baggy shorts and flappy T-shirt, was asked what had been said at the net while shaking hands with the more experienced Czech player he had just defeated in a tense clash.
Expecting a typical sportsman's inane reply, the gathered media were disarmed when young Andy Murray responded: "I wasn't even listening to him at the end. I don't like him. I just said 'bad luck' to him." There was a pause as those in the room digested what had been said and were unsure whether to laugh or sing hallelujah. Here was a kid - suddenly British not Scottish - who not only could play but had more character than an indoor plant.
Murray went on to describe why he wanted to win: not because of any implied reverence for his history-making feat of being the first of his countrymen ever to be deemed worthy of playing on centre court at the All England club (in fact he has said he cares little for Wimbledon), but because his opponent Radek Stepanek the tournament's 14th seed, annoyed him. "I was very happy because I was a little bit disappointed with him at the end, 5-3, because he was trying to put me off," Murray said.
"I was really happy that I'd won because he'd done that. Because if I'd lost, then his plan would have worked. But unfortunately for him it didn't. Everybody told me before the match like he's gonna try a bit of gamesmanship, and he ends up looking a bit stupid because he lost."
Oh my, could it be? Young, talented, honest and outspoken, without an air or a grace. And he was British. He was Wayne Rooney with a brain. Could it be true? Could the British, fresh from finally unearthing "the next Botham" in Andrew Flintoff be so lucky as to have discovered in the same year a potential legitimate contender for a Wimbledon crown? OK, any grand slam will do, but Wimbledon would be nice.
The answer is yes. Murray is without doubt the most exciting tennis prospect to emerge from the British Isles in a generation. No, more than that, several generations. In 2004 he won the US Open boys singles title. He turned pro last year at 17, still eligible to play juniors, but within the year enjoyed the most meteoric rise witnessed in recent times, surging 449 ranking points to finish the year at No. 63 - the first British teenager to finish a year in the top 100 since Buster Mottram in 1974.
The 185-centimetre tall right-hander with the double-handed backhand made his ATP tournament debut in Barcelona in April, defeated highly rated American Taylor Dent (ranked No. 24) at Queens then went to Wimbledon where he beat Stepanek before losing to David Nalbandian (incidentally as he predicted he would after beating Stepanek) in five sets after leading two sets to love. He then took a set off Australian Open champion Marat Safin in his debut Masters Series appearance.
But it was his performance in making his first ATP final in Bangkok that generated the most interest, and not just in success-starved Britain. Murray suffered the misfortune of playing Roger Federer in the final, losing 6-3, 7-5, but the way he made world No. 1 work was significant.
"Andy will become a good player; I am sure of that," the Swiss said afterwards. "I also lost my first final when I made it onto the tour. This time he had to face the No. 1 in the world, but it is great experience for him ... Murray has a big repertoire of shots, a lot of qualities. However, he's got to figure out how he wants to use his potential. If he works hard he'll be a good player. I was impressed by him."
In the final ATP event of the year last year at Basel, he defeated Tim Henman. The torch of British tennis was at that moment passed. Henman, nice Tim, always played to his ability, problem was he didn't have enough of it to fulfil inflated expectations. Not so Murray.
Andrew Murray was born to tennis. His mother Judy was coach of the Scottish national team for 10 years until she quit last year to help her son. His brother Jamie was a prodigious talent - No .2 in the world at 13 until England's Lawn Tennis Association coaches got hold of him and in Andy's words "ruined him for a few years".
But for Andy it may never have been. The family is from Dunblane, Scotland. Andy was eight and a student at the Dunblane Primary School when on March 13, 1996 a lunatic whose name deserves no repeating entered the grounds and killed 16 of his schoolmates and a teacher.
Andy was one of those to survive by sheltering in the headmaster's office. Perhaps, without belittling the horror he endured, it was an experience that moulded an attitude to sporting pressure not unlike that of Australian all-rounder Keith Miller, whose wartime experience as a fighter pilot famously made him place sporting pressure in perspective: "Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse." Murray is aware of the pressure placed on him by a desperate British tennis public, but is untroubled by it. Likewise with the media, of whom he half jokingly pleaded to treat him kinder than they did Henman, he has remained stoutly unafraid to say what he thinks.
When questions were raised about his fitness after he cramped in matches including the five-set loss to Nalbandian, he responded at Flushing Meadows after a victory over Romania's Andrei Pavel in five sets by putting his fingers to his lips signalling to his critics that he had silenced them.
The pressure and attention has left him endearingly unaffected. "I'm not interested in a big house or flash cars. I just want to start driving and get around the place. Mum's annoying enough but if I have to spend more time with her in the car it's even worse. Especially with her singing," he once joked to his mother's guffawing laughter.
He remains very much a teenager, from listening to 50 Cent before matches to his screaming, racquet-slamming, hotheaded tantrums on court. Though dare we say it, he is Scottish. And he did live and train in Spain for three years. It is a trait he realises appeals to fans who enjoy seeing a player's passion and relate to someone who hurts like they do, but he also realised Federer was the same as a kid. He isn't now.
"I think to be a consistent player you need to be calm," Murray said. "Federer used to have a pretty bad temper when he was younger, but he's addressed the matter. One of the reasons I get annoyed is that I am a perfectionist and right now my tennis is not where I want it to be. I get annoyed when I play bad shots or make stupid mistakes. I think the better I get then the better my temper will be.
"He (Federer) has got the best forehand but he doesn't have a massive serve, although he places it well. He moves great, he can do everything - he can serve and volley, he can play hard from the back, he can chip and charge. The hardest part was not knowing what he was going to do next. But there was nothing that I thought 'Jesus, I could never match that'."
He remains focused and realistic in his view of where he stands. "I'd like to win a grand slam and I think I've got a good chance of doing it," he has said.
"The last thing I want to be thought of as is arrogant. I just want to be seen as someone who wants to be doing well. But the one thing I've always had is high ambition and you always have to try and aim for the best. And now I've started to do well, I want to try and match Federer's ranking when he was 18, which was 64. I'm getting close."
By way of further comparison, Henman did not finish a year inside the top 20 until he was 23 years old, Federer until 20. Lleyton Hewitt was in the top 10 at 19.
Last week, Murray lost in his second match of the year in Adelaide but was pleased with his improved fitness after a summer training camp in South Africa where they were doing sprints on Christmas Day. He was realistic of where he sits with the year ahead.
"A lot of people are expecting a lot of me this year but I think it will be a difficult year," he said. "A lot of the young guys have a good year on the tour but it is not that easy just to jump to the top straight away ... It's going to be difficult for me because I'm sure a lot of the guys want to beat me and I'm expecting quite a lot of myself.
"Everyone is expecting me to have a great year and I hope that I do, but it's not the end of the world if I don't. I'm only 18, so I have a lot of time to improve."
What they are saying about Andy Murray Andy will become a good player; I am sure of that. Murray has a big repertoire of shots, a lot of qualities. However, he's got to figure out how he wants to use his potential. If he works hard he'll be a good player. I was impressed by him.
A lot of players are talented, but they don't apply that talent. You cannot say that about Murray . . . Murray is not the future. He is the now. He is part of a generation that includes Rafael Nadal, Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils, who can challenge in the next five years and, for what he has achieved in the past seven months, I put Murray second to Nadal.
Andy's game is there. He's got all the shots. He has power, he has finesse, he has a very good first serve. His whole game as an 18- year-old is very mature. He maybe needs a little bit more work on the court to improve his conditioning and strength. But once he incorporates that into his game then he will be spectacular.
Murray is naturally feisty and I am loath to suggest he should cool it, but he may have to tone it down a bit for his own good... I believe he could be top 20 within a year, maybe even better.
JOHN McENROE
Andrew Murray is as gifted as anyone that has ever played the game ... The boy has played fantastic tennis. I don't think I've seen anything like it. He's won a couple of three straight-sets games, then he's gone two sets up against Nalbandian who was a Wimbledon finalist. It's inspiring. I've witnessed Wimbledon over the years, but I've never seen anything like the response he got here.
SIR SEAN CONNERY (actor, famous Scotsman and tennis lover)
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Harley-Davison Museum is a slice of Hog heaven
William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson had simple goals when they began working together in a 10-foot by 15-foot shed in 1903: they wanted to make a quality motorcycles and a decent living.
They ended up making history.
That history, 105 years worth, was on display recently when the Harley-Davidson Museum staged its grand opening at 6th and Canal Streets in the Menomonee Valley.
The museum, a gleaming structure housed on a 20-acre campus adjacent to the Milwaukee River, took two years to construct at a cost of $75 million.
Two OnMilwaukee.com reporters recently experienced a "sneak preview" tour of the exhibits, which includes a staggering display of motorcycles, engine parts, photographs, videos and advertising materials that trace the roots of a company that celebrates its history like few others.
The industrial architecture of the 35,000-sq. ft. display area features exposed brick, steel beams and a glass wall that allows for a lot of natural light.
"When you think about it, these bikes are designed to be rolling works of art that are viewed outside," said Harley-Davidson spokesperson Amanda Lee, who led the preview tour.
Among the motorcycles on display is a circa 1903 bike with serial No. 1. It's believed to be the oldest Harley-Davidson bike in existence, but company historians aren't certain whether some of the parts came from 1905.
The first floor features famous bikes from pop culture, such as replicas of the "Easy Rider" bikes, Elvis Presley's first motorcycle (complete with paperwork on which Presley's job is noted as "self-employed vocalist") and customized bikes such as "King Kong," a 13-ft. monstrosity that brings a smile to everyone who drifts past it.
Other highlights include interactive exhibits, video and a gallery dedicated to racing and hill-climbing bikes, complete with a portion of a dramatically banked velodrome.
"Racing was such a bit part of the company's history," Lee said. "It's really where the whole enthusiast movement started."
The signature statue outside the museum captures the spirit of that movement. Commissioned by Willie G. Davidson, the grandson of co-founder Arthur Davidson, and constructed by Jeff Decker, the 16-ft., 5,000-lb. statue depicts a hill racer doing a wheelie -- and about to lose control.
"The Harley-Davidson museum means so much to me and my family that we wanted to leave something permanent here as a gift," Davidson, senior vice president and chief styling officer at Harley-Davidson, said in dedicating the statue.
Hundreds of Harley enthusiasts also capitalized on the opportunity to leave a permanent gift. The "Living the Legend" walls and plazas contain rivets with personalized messages that range from marriage proposals to "No, officer, I wasn't speeding." The individual rivets cost $250; the larger ones, geared toward dealers and chapters, cost $1,500.
Lee said the park-like plaza around the museum would be open to the public, free of charge, 24 hours a day. "It's a great resource," she said. "It's a beautifully landscaped park."
The complex also includes a retail store, restaurants and an archive that houses motorcycles and other material for future exhibits.
Harley officials expect 350,000 people to visit the museum each year, with each guest lingering for between 90 minutes to two hours.
"You don't have to be a rider to find things that are interesting," Lee said.
Tickets to the museum are $16 for adults (18-64), $10 for children (5-17, under 5 free) and $12 for students and seniors.
sas_tarr | Sept. 18, 2008 at 12:30 p.m. (report)
it is indeed a very interesting museum, interesting not only to the bikers, but to anyone who is interested in american culture and history.
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A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate easement curve. Thanks Wikipedia!
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The purpose of this article is to help you in calculating various requirements around your water garden. I have used information from my own experience, plus various articles and forums on web sites. If you are just starting out as a 'ponder' these calculations should help you get it right the first time. If you have an existing pond and are having problems, following these calculations may explain some of them. If you are thinking of changing your pond, these calculations will help guide you and lastly, if you are wondering if it's safe to add more fish, the answer is in the calculations below.
Determining size of liner required
For the length of liner required calculate Max. length of pond + (2 x max. depth of pond) + 2 feet overlap at each end
For the width of liner required calculate Max. width of pond + (2 x max. depth of pond) + 2 feet overlap on each side
Be sure to measure across the maximum length and width and at right angles to each other.
As an example, if you have decided on a location that measures 10 ft. by 13 ft. and you want 2 ft. deep and including a minimum liner overlap of 2 feet for both length and width, you determine a required liner size of 18' x 21'. (10 +(2+2) +(2 +2)) by (13 + (2+2) +) 2 +2))
Note - you may be able to use shorter overlaps. The overlap needs to be large enough so that it can go under the edging materials and then rise up a couple of inches at the back of the material to prevent overflow
When planning a new pond you may want to consider that liners often are sold at fixed sizes or at least in widths at 5' multiples. So in the example above you would be buying either 18' x 20' which would reduce the pond length by 1 foot or buy 18' by 25' which would allow a combination of greater length or depth in part or all of the pond.
Some common conversions
To calculate power consumption:
Volts x Amps = Watts
To calculate yearly cost of operation: Watts divided by 1000 x the price of electricity in $ per kilowatt hour x 24 hours x number of days in use in a year
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One U.S. gallon = approx. 3.78 liters
One Imperial gallon = approx. 1.2 U.S. gallon
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million) = mg/liter or milligrams per liter
Potassium permanganate is a powder used by some Koi keepers to control parasites. It is recommended to use at 4 PPM. First create a stock solution that can be used for multiple treatments. Measure a level teaspoon of PP powder (approx. 7 grams) and put in a container, which will hold a liter of water. Add a liter of water and mix until the powder is dissolved. You now have a stock solution, which has 0.007 grams per milliliter. If you are doing the treatment in a quarantine tank which holds 67 US gallons the calculation is - 67 times 8.4 pounds per gallon = 563 pounds of water. 563 times 454 grams per pound gives 255,000 grams of water, or 0.255 million grams of water. 0.255 million grams times 4 parts per million of PP gives 0.255 times 4 = 1.02 grams of PP needed. 1.02 grams of PP needed divided by 0.007 grams PP per ml = 146 ml of the stock solution described above to obtain a 4 PPM charge of PP to the 67-gallon tank.
You will find some articles, which give dosage rates in metric and quote rates per ton of water. One ton of water equals one cubic metre of water, which contains 1,000 liters and weighs 1,000 kilos. To calculate the tonnage of a system from imperial gallons divide the total pond volume by 220. For example if a pond contains 7,500 imperial gallons it holds 34.09 tons (7,500 divide by 220). To calculate the tonnage of a system from US Gallons divide the total pond volume by 264. For example if a pond contains 10,000 US Gallons it holds 37.87 tons (10,000 divide by 264).
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Average length (ft) x average width (ft) x average depth (ft) = total cubic feet x 7.48 = Actual Pond Volume (US gallons)
For Actual Pond Volume in Imperial gallons multiply total cubic feet by 6.25
Pond is 12' avg. length x 10' avg. width x 2' avg. depth
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12 x 10 x 2 = 240 cubic feet. C.f. x 7.48 = 1,795 gallons
Note - Unless your pond is box shape, you will not be using the same numbers used in calculating liner sizes. To calculate a good average, measurements should be taken at several points.
If starting with an empty pond options include using a flow meter, monitoring water tank measurement change or timing how long it takes in seconds to fill a bucket such as 10 gallon and then time how long it takes to fill the pond. If it takes 15 seconds to fill 10 gallons and it takes 3000 seconds to fill the pond then you have 2000-gallon pond. In determining the total water to be filtered, additions must be made for volume in the tubing, filters and any other areas such as a header pond for the waterfall.
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When selecting the proper size equipment for your pond, actual volume alone is not enough. You must determine the effective volume of your pond, which is influenced by various environmental factors. Determine if your pond is affected by direct exposure to sunlight, shallow depth, or climate conditions, and add to the actual volume by the factors listed below:
If average pond water depth is less than 2' 6": add 25 % (This is a guide and is not meant that if your pond is 2' 5" add 25% and if 2' 7" then add 0% - shallow water heats up more and therefore requires more filtration so if around 2' 6" use a reasonable value).
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Copy My Blogging System To Sell Your Online Course. Follow My Step-By-Step Blueprint, Updated For 2017
I'm always amazed that interns at my company can do so much with the web. I'm even more amazed at the limitations social media has put on young aspiring entrepreneurs and how it hinders the necessary fundamentals to start a business.
If you want to open a B2C (Business to Consumer) company, than yes, social media helps. In B2C, social media is necessary because the "C" element is all on social media. However, in B2B (Business to Business) models, social media is not needed as much.
What is the basis of my argument?
Decision makers of companies are on average much older than even I, thus they find Facebook confusing, frustrating, or consider it a kid's game because their teenage daughter plays with it on the car ride to school.
Therefore, no real decision maker has the time to go and look up your Facebook page. If it weren't for my writing, etc., I would not have learned social media either.
Plus, if you're selling to another business, use of social media is looked down upon or considered to be recreation in today's corporate culture.
As a whole, technology is specifically geared towards those who are the kids of decision makers, so they can harass their parents to buy the product, hence the B2C appeal.
Facebook ads are the new obnoxious Saturday morning breakfast cartoon commercials, grown up with the generation that used to pester its parents for the toys advertised during Nicktoons.
When you're in start-up mode, I recommend that you focus on your website rather than your Twitter profile or Facebook page. The VPs and higher don't care how cool a timeline is; they want results.
1. The Phone Also Makes Calls
Sales is essential to any healthy business. This means cold-calling until you get the corporate branding that leads your customers straight to you (it doesn't work the other way around).
The lack of socialization I've seen from younger people due to social media is not staggering because they can still speak. The ability to persuade and sell comes from practice and most below a certain age don't have it. Until your brand is recognized to the point where the customer is beating down your door, you need to be chasing that individual.
Yes, social media is a good tool to find them, especially in B2C, but finding them takes simply a minute. Selling them and coming across in a professional manner is a whole different story.
The only way that people gave me a chance when starting my business is that I tracked them down, cold-called them and sold them. I was able to sell them because they believed in me. The same method is so rarely used by intelligent people that young entrepreneurs have an even greater advantage over their peers than I did… if they are willing to deal with others.
2. "There" Vs. "Their" vs. "?"
Social media's entire point is to connect people as quickly as possible and make it as seamless as possible for them to connect (the more connections = increased advertising accuracy). Therefore, you can have an hour-long conversation without writing a sentence longer than any in this article.
Short sentences in and of themselves are great. It's the shortened words common to social media that damage young aspiring entrepreneurs' credibility.
Writing skills are the foundation of effective marketing and those hanging out on Facebook and texting lack the ability, among other issues, to persuasively write, which is necessary to start a company.
Next time you're on Facebook talking about how cool your business idea is, consider the following:
3. Little Education, High Compulsion, Low Return On Investment
Social media is really addictive because it's fun. I was given some cool access on Google+ and for literally a day (12 hours) played on the site until I self-imposed a ban on social media from my browser for a few days unless work related.
The programmers and marketers at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., are more intelligent than you can 99.9999% know. Essentially, it's their job to keep you on their site. The more often you look at the pair of shoes advertised, statistically the more likely you are to buy that product.
If you like Facebook, Twitter and social media sites so much, study how they advertise and the businesses behind them; it is a great education and the research will be helpful to any entrepreneur.
4. What About Networking?
When you're on a social media site (let's use LinkedIn) browsing all the people who can help you with your business, you save your money buying contact packages until you can help them with a problem. Otherwise, you're just one of the many random people who are out in cyber space selling a commodity no better than the next person's.
I don't recommend "networking" for anyone until they have something to bring to the table.
Hone your skills to where the prospective contacts need you before you go and ruin a bunch of contacts, as they won't answer your duplicate InMail without a compelling reason for their own benefit.
Look at the bright side. If you're a young entrepreneur and you take the time to learn the key fundamentals of entrepreneurship (which I consider to be sales, marketing and good old fashioned work ethic), then you can Tweet from your yacht 7 days a week about how you once read an article telling you that you could be wealthier than 99.9999% of Facebook junkies.
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cold calling until they lead straight to you..??and social media.? Really cold calls are still the backbone of sales.?
You will be surprised at the amount of VERY well known marketers friends who have gone back to cold calling and direct mail methods. The vast majority of newbies walked away from them, making it once again a very viable marketing method.
Don't simply do what everyone else is doing and fight for the same pool of potential customers, go where the grass is fresh – the competition is low and you help expand your potential client base.
I'm surprised social media is looked down upon by these "decision makers" because it's seen as a "kid's game". Strange, given the amount of people and businesses interacting on these networking sites.
This is a great article, and I would love to add that even people who are searching for a job are affected negatively by their facebook page, as potential employers are going to facebook to get a hint about the potential employee's personality.
Also, and you can delete this if you like, but I found you blog by networking with other bloggers with similar interests. I would have been likely to bookmark your very nice blog, except that I like commentluv blogs that can help me build my own products by allowing backlinks to recent posts.
Your policy of real name instead of keywords is a putoff also, Joe as anchor text to a Japanese Chin Puppies website isn't helpful.
I didn't just want to leave without saying so, but I couldn't find a clear way to contact you on your website either so I was stuck with writing a comment here.
Good luck!
As a fellow contributor here on EJ maybe I can jump in here on behalf of Ken. Whilst you may like a certain preference, you must understand that with each site you have multiple (different) types of users. Some like you use commenting primarily for anchor text, others prefer to comment for the interaction and even networking.
As a site owner you can choose whichever TYPE of user you wish to support, as clearly you can not keep all people happy.
If you didn't add a comment simply because you had to use our name, then perhaps you are not the type of user he is wanting to attract. I know many well known blogs which have the same rules. They prefer to attract user based on their quality content, and not always people who simply want useful back-links.
You comment came across as a little disrespectful of Ken's vast experience. Maybe I'm wrong, but that is simply the feeling it portrayed.
PS- when I write good comments on quality blogs I almost always gain regular traffic from that comment. Your marketing should not always be about SEO, as Ken states, marketing is about good content too.
Thanks! Appreciate that.
As Seth says "Do the work"
I wanted to chime in and follow-up on what Dee has just said…
Using highly popular blogs as a back link building tool only isn't nearly as effective as leaving a really valuable comment that adds to the conversation.
An extremely valuable addition to the conversation can work wonders for your online business, and it also helps to get yourself out there and opens up a bunch of new doors for yourself.
I think Yaro's decision to sway from allowing the keyword back link and instead allow only names is going to drastically increase the quality of material on the site, and I know when my site becomes popular enough that I've got 100's of comments coming in per article I'll definitely follow his model.
And Ken, good article – I think one thing that hurts a lot of people with using social network as a business tool also is that they tend to waste too much time falling into the fun side of Facebook and Twitter instead of getting the business taken care of and getting off. It's extremely easy to fall into that trap and that's why I've completely avoided FB and stuck to the good ol' fashion hard work strategy that creates the real results.
I'd like to be tweeting from my yacht someday. The ability to make a sale is crucial in business as well as a solid work ethic. I have encountered people who have been in the MLM business for over 20 years and they still do the lame "pushy salesman" approach which is a huge turn-off.
I agree with your points and would add that "warming up" the cold calls with a tool like LinkedIn is very helpful. With these types of tools you can target people who are predisposed to want to hear from you before you call. I'm sure you know this already as a recruiter, but wanted to assuage the fear of some of your readers who are fearful of the phrase "cold calling". If it's done properly the cold call can actually be quite warm:)
Strangely, when I worked as an attorney, most of my colleagues looked down on social media (many still do). The regarded it as a place where people who were less serious minded went to play.
However I believe that even if your business is the B2B model, you can still benefit from using social media IF your target market is there. If you are providing a service or product for small business owners or solopreneurs, social media is where you should be because it is a cheap source of marketing that such businesses make use of. The important thing is to know who your clients are and go find them where they hang out.
I agree with Ken though that you really should forget about networking if you are not bringing anything to the table. Why should I do business with you if you do not have anything I want? It is simple common sense, or maybe just business sense.
This was a good post. Thank you for writing it.
Thanks for the response!!
I think the most important part is to mix different count of marketing. If you do 100% social media, you will definitely will have a hard time getting customers. It is an opportunity everyone should use, but the specter should be much wider, than only one or true marketing tools.
It should be a balanced mix, but I understand many get carried away by social media. I had these moments myself. Because it costs time to update it every day, and it is a waste of time if you do not target your potential buyers, but just fire away hoping someone will pick up your brand, service or product.
Hi Ken,
Some extremely valid points I must say, I look at facebook or any other social media site the same way as a learning experience. A lot of these social media site can teach you how to target clients or advertise.
As well as you can get a valid lesson on how to promote, advertise and copy write from the advertisement. In all you can get free lesson in marketing, advertising, and people management.
I myself often make silly mistake on facebook with misspelling but I am learning to fix it and become a better writer (I hope). I believe marketing is the key to any business and learning how to communicate will not only save you time but increase your bank balance as well.
Thanks for the inspiring post and I look forward to putting them into action especially learning how to write and communicate more.
Thanks akil
I absolutely agree with you when you say that older generations are reluctant when it comes to social networking sites. I used to be that way too. It took me a while to recognize how much I can benefit from those things.
This is exactly what I am saying to entrepreneurs and at the same time I encourage them to use Social media in B2B exactly for those same reasons describe here.
You don't make profit via B2B with social media, no more explanation needed, but you can use B2B for other reasons.
1. It is a fun way to understand new ideas to broadcast information. It opens your mind and maybe one day you will find a great way
2. You keep on be related to your products and services and any moment
3. You can help your B2B customers with information. It is an easy cost effective way to broadcast your message.
I have b2b platform for the tourist industry and we see that Fan Pages and Twitter etc is not really working for them (Even it is b2c). The reason is simple Travellers or not Locals (http://yabbedoo.com/Travellers-Are-Not-locals.aspx) , as well our Social Media didn't bring in Premium members for us neither. Phone calls, conferences, the old school is doing very well 🙂
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Fallen But Not Forgotten: The Simple Booklet That Brought Hope To Millions Of Terrorism Victims Worldwide
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Sixteen-Page Magazine Touches the Lives of Sept. 11 Victims With Inspiring Stories and Words of Comfort
"Gazing upward, we saw plumes of fire and smoke staining the morning sky. . .Gazing upward, our hearts were broken. Yet gazing upward, we can find our hope." So begins the short but powerful Fallen but not Forgotten, a 16-page booklet given to millions of New York City's victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Produced within one week of the attacks by Campus Crusade for Christ International, Fallen but not Forgotten features a collection of stories, prayers, and poems designed to encourage and comfort the grieving victims, rescue workers, and others touched by the devastating tragedy. Since September, it has been printed in five languages and distributed to 14 million people worldwide.
"We felt it was important that New York City's residents know that despite the evil that exists in the world, there is a God that loves them," said Judy Nelson, executive editor of the simple booklet. "Fallen but not Forgotten offers them¾and all Americans¾a ray of hope amidst the literal and figurative clouds in their lives."
Fallen but not Forgotten is the centerpiece of The 911 Remembrance Project, a partnership of thousands of churches nationwide. The booklet includes:
An article about Shelley Genovese, widow of a Cantor Fitzgerald employee lost in the attacks
"Honor Their Memory," an article about grieving written by Darrel Scott, father of Rachel Scott, a victim of 1999's Columbine school shooting
President Bush's remarks from the recent National Prayer Breakfast and from the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance (Friday, Sept. 14, 2001)
"It Only Takes a Moment," which speaks of the brevity of life and answers questions about good, evil, suffering, and the sovereignty of God
Fallen but not Forgotten is produced by Campus Crusade for Christ International, one of the world's largest non-profit, interdenominational organizations. Founded by Bill and Vonette Bright in 1951, Campus Crusade has more than 25,000 staff members and a ministry presence in 191 countries around the world. Campus Crusade is dedicated to showing people how to know and experience God's love and plan for their lives. For more information, visit the Campus Crusade for Christ website at www.ccci.org.
For more information about The 911 Remembrance Project, visit www.911remembrance.com.
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Tax Office auditors are aggressively pursuing small businesses and wealthy individuals, presuming an intention of cheating and conducting excessive fishing expeditions, accountants and lawyers have alleged.
They claim that the heavy-handed approach of some auditors has increased both the cost and length of audits, and also taxpayer uncertainty.
"Bully boy tactics," Hall & Wilcox lawyer Andrew O'Bryan said. That is how he labelled the "very aggressive attitude" of Tax Office staff at the "street level".
"This is consistent across the lower levels of the Tax Office, the people who taxpayers and advisers are dealing with," Mr O'Bryan said.
Accountants said auditors were using penalties to strong-arm taxpayers and described the use of penalties as a "stick" or a "threat".
But tax commissioner Michael
"We have the highest ratings of that independent survey," he said recently.
The Tax Office received an extra $559 million in the 2008 and 2009 budgets to target small business and the wealthy.
Accountants said that the focus on small business had now escalated as the Tax Office tried to close the gap between tax collections and accounting profits.
Mr D'Ascenzo was asked by an accountant at a conference in March about the "increasingly difficult to deal with" staff, with an attitude that "I do not think really looks after the good taxpayers".
In response, Mr D'Ascenzo said the accountant asking the question might have been "an exception to the rule".
Tax Institute tax counsel Robert Jeremenko said complaints from Tax Institute members of auditors not following the Tax Office's own rules of engagement had increased in recent months.
"This is an issue that really does affect advisers and the taxpayers themselves," Mr Jeremenko said.
"There seems to be a presumption of guilt by the Tax Office.
"How does that give taxpayers certainty in relation to their tax affairs?"
He said he hoped the complaints, which were in the small business area but were not concentrated in a particular industry, were not "evidence of a pattern on this sort of approach".
Former Tax Institute president Neil Earle, who has his own practice, said he was concerned there was a disconnect between audit staff actions and the understanding of senior staff.
"My concern is that there are practices going on at the coalface which I don't believe the top echelons at the Tax Office would agree with," he said.
He said at the Tax Institute conference in March that the audience of tax advisers scoffed when the tax commissioner defended his auditors.
"I've never seen a reaction like that to a commissioner before," said Mr Earle, an accountant of 30-plus years.
But there were two sides to any story, he added, and emphasised that Mr D'Ascenzo had the unenviable task of managing more than 22,000 staff.
He said of most concern was that fellow accountants had reported "very unprofessional conduct", whereby the Tax Office would conduct full benchmark audits directly with a client, cutting out their tax agent.
Benchmark audits arise where a business falls outside financial indicators, such as cost of goods sold, set by the Tax Office to measure businesses according to industry average.
Businesses have complained the benchmarks are ill-fitting – a city restaurant operating differently to its country equivalent, for example. The onus is on taxpayers to justify why they fall outside the benchmark.
Inspector-general of taxation
"What the taxpayer or their representatives have been alleging is that the record keeping required to discharge that onus is far too restrictive – they're stuck," Mr Noroozi said.
The inspector-general will report on alleged aggressive Tax Office tactics against large business by midyear, and small business by the end of the year.
Pitcher Partners executive director Ray Cummings said aggressive Tax Office conduct came in "waves".
"Sometimes it does depend on the auditor rather than the particular approach," he said.
He echoed concerns about benchmarking. "They might take a general retail benchmark but the particular business might have, say, seasonal clothing lines; so you'd expect it to behave differently to more general clothing lines," he said.
"Some are at the low end and some are at the high end, and all of a sudden you have to justify yourself because you're at the low end."
He said he recently assisted a client in an audit, in which the Tax Office said it wanted to understand why there had been losses.
"If you have any idea of how to turn it around I'm sure the business would love to hear it," Mr Cummings said he had told the auditors.
One accountant from a mid-tier firm – who preferred to remain unnamed due to the number of audits he is undertaking for clients – described the situation as a "lucky dip". Taxpayers can either expect to have a commercial, reasonable auditor allocated to their case; or a letter-of-the-law person who views the taxpayer as a cheat from the outset.
"As Forrest Gump would say, you never know which chocolate you're going to get," he said.
Accountants said SMEs at the top end of the sector – those with annual turnover of between $100 million and $250 million – were particular targets of aggressive action.
Hall & Wilcox's Mr O'Bryan said the increased intensity of focus on those small businesses stemmed from the ATO shifting them from the large business to small to medium enterprise category nearly four years ago.
"People have been doing things or taking a position they thought was OK but it hasn't been subject to scrutiny," he said.
The change is reflected in Mr O'Bryan's workload: a few years ago 10 per cent of his practice was audit activity. It now makes up 90 per cent.
He said the characterisation of a sale of property or shares as capital or revenue was a particular focus of the crackdown. It can have a substantial impact on the tax outcome, as the 50 per cent capital gain discount could be available.
Trusts also attracted intense scrutiny.
He said it was common for the ATO to give 28 days to respond to an extensive client questionnaire, while the ATO would take months – sometimes up to 14 months – to respond in turn.
During negotiations, auditors sometimes use the threat of penalties to push clients to succumb to its view.
"They just push and push," said Mr O'Bryan.
"Unless you're prepared to push on, they'll just push you over and unfortunately some do get pushed."
He said scrutiny was applied to taxpayers in very complex areas of law.
"Yet the Tax Office takes the position that these are simple issues that a suburban tax accountant can understand – and that's just not the case.
"We practise in it all the time but we still have to be careful."
Mr O'Bryan said it was not clear which surveys the tax commissioner was referring to in his defence of the auditors.
"I've got one to fill now and they're going to get both barrels," he said.
ATO statistics show that of the $1.63 billion in taxes disputed by SMEs in the five years to 2008, the amount settled was just over $1.13 billion – with taxpayers knocking 30 per cent off their bill. The amount was higher when broadened to all taxpayers, with the $9.7 billion bill almost halved in settlement.
Aggressive pursuit in that area, and of wealthy people who are the faces behind the businesses, triggered the inspector-general of taxation to review activity last April. Put on hold due to the review of the ATO's technology upheaval, the inspector-general is again focused on the review.
Results are due by year-end but accountants continue to complain of aggressive behaviour. They perceive it as the spreading of the tough approach taken by the Project Wickenby taskforce, which targets offshore tax fraud.
Mr Earle said Australian residents with legitimate accounts overseas had been subjected to two-year long audits under the high net-wealth initiative, separate to the Wickenby force.
"The general view of the tax community is you provide this enormous amount of information, then you don't hear back for months," he said.
"So they get very frustrated and understandably so." One tax barrister had his clients patted down, crime-show style, he said.
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In this installment of "Pumping Prescriptions," I have a quiz for our readers. A typical pump system is shown in Figure 1. A centrifugal pump delivers 200 gallons per minute of water from an open tank. Using the information from Figure 1, answer the following questions:
Figure 1 (right). Typical centrifugal pump system
1. What is the available NPSH?
2. What pressure does a suction gage read?
3. What differential head is this centrifugal pump producing? What differential pressure is it generating?
Here are a few rules and pointers to consider when solving this quiz. The first is the relationship between pressure and head. Figure 1 shows a mix of "apples and oranges"—units of pressure and units of head. You will need to convert them all to a consistent set expressed in feet.
The next hint is to review the basic definition of pump head. It is the difference between the total discharge head and the total suction head. But what is total head? It has three components: pressure, elevation and velocity (dynamic). You need to estimate each (there is enough data provided to do that). Then calculate the difference.
With NPSHa, you need to consider the absolute pressure versus gage pressures (or absolute/gauge head expressed in feet). Then you will need to look up a vapor pressure of the fluid given (to make it easy, this system uses cold water).
Figure 2 (right). The basics needed for the quiz
One thing you are not given is the length of suction pipe from the tank to the pump. So do not worry about calculating friction losses to adjust the NPSHa (perhaps next time!). However to make it a lot more real, the suction losses are nevertheless calculated for you, as 10 feet of head loss from the tank to the pump. Therefore, those of you who are super adventurous, may want to (for extra credit) back-calculate what the length of this 3-inch suction pipe needs to be to produce 10 feet of head loss.
With these hints and pointers, you are ready to start!
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The news spread everywhere, and the people on the tyneside knew that the hand of the oppressor was upon them.
Our men were ponderous, uncouth pitmen from tyneside and the Clyde.
Between the two great tyneside towns the river is narrower than at almost any point of its course from Hexham to the sea.
George Stephenson, the inventor of the locomotive, began life as a trapper on a tyneside colliery.
As in the case of Chester the gang there was an importation, having been brought in from tyneside by Lieuts.
We had only been there a day or so when we were ordered to relieve the tyneside Scottish who were badly knocked about.
Seventy-three officers and men of the tyneside Irish received decorations.
Unluckily it has been so modernised that not a vestige of the local colour or tyneside dialect remains.
There is a tyneside glass industry still, but it no longer maintains its former eminence amongst local trades.
From the river itself the blackness, the squalor, the apparent dilapidation, of these tyneside towns are not so conspicuous.


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Five categories of evidence of carcinogenic activity are used in the Technical Report series to summarize the strength of evidence observed in each experiment: two categories for positive results (clear evidence and some evidence); one category for uncertain findings (equivocal evidence); one category for no observable effects (no evidence); and one category for experiments that cannot be evaluated because of major flaws (inadequate study). These categories of interpretative conclusions were first adopted in June 1983 and then revised on March 1986 for use in the Technical Report series to incorporate more specifically the concept of actual weight of evidence of carcinogenic activity. For each separate experiment (male rats, female rats, male mice, female mice), one of the following five categories is selected to describe the findings. These categories refer to the strength of the experimental evidence and not to potency or mechanism.
Clear Evidence of Carcinogenic Activity is demonstrated by studies that are interpreted as showing a dose-related (i) increase of malignant neoplasms, (ii) increase of a combination of malignant and benign neoplasms, or (iii) marked increase of benign neoplasms if there is an indication from this or other studies of the ability of such tumors to progress to malignancy.
Some Evidence of Carcinogenic Activity is demonstrated by studies that are interpreted as showing a chemical-related increased incidence of neoplasms (malignant, benign, or combined) in which the strength of the response is less than that required for clear evidence.
Equivocal Evidence of Carcinogenic Activity is demonstrated by studies that are interpreted as showing a marginal increase of neoplasms that may be chemically related.
No Evidence of Carcinogenic Activity is demonstrated by studies that are interpreted as showing no chemical-related increases in malignant or benign neoplasms.
Inadequate Study of Carcinogenic Activity is demonstrated by studies that because of major qualitative or quantitative limitations cannot be interpreted as valid for showing either the presence or absence of carcinogenic activity.
For studies showing multiple chemical-related neoplastic effects that if considered individually would be assigned to different levels of evidence categories, the following convention has been adopted to convey completely the study results. In a study with clear evidence of carcinogenic activity at some tissue sites, other responses that alone might be deemed some evidence are indicated as "were also related" to chemical exposure. In studies with clear or some evidence of carcinogenic activity, other responses that alone might be termed equivocal evidence are indicated as "may have been" related to chemical exposure.
When a conclusion statement for a particular experiment is selected, consideration must be given to key factors that would extend the actual boundary of an individual category of evidence. Such consideration should allow for incorporation of scientific experience and current understanding of long-term carcinogenesis studies in laboratory animals, especially for those evaluations that may be on the borderline between two adjacent levels. These considerations should include:
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Love Apple or loathe it, there's no logical way to deny the company's influence on everything, from personal computing to the gadgets we use in our day to day lives to the overall aesthetic and terminology of pop culture. There's also no way to deny that Apple is synonymous with the man who is widely recognized as the impetus behind the company's output for the last 16 years: Steve Jobs. And while Jobs' influence on Apple and technology as a whole is well documented, his legacy is one that left massive marks on the comic book industry, whether most fans are aware of them or not.
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lol. I noted in the weekly chat that ds2 (3) thought the birth would be stinky. When I asked him why he showed me that picture in the book and I realized he thought she was pooping the baby out and he thought the baby was going to stink like poop!
"Guess what? It's a magical world. And when I sing, my songs are in it."
Madly in love with my 7 and 4 year old daughters
Too funny! Neela told me today that she doesn't like my vagina (it's too hairy), but that she likes her own vagina mostly- when it's not pooping. Despite many explanations and a lot of self-exploration, she's still a little anatomically confused. At least she's given up on the idea that she has a vagina but will get a vulva when she grows up
She's still pretty set on the idea that she'll catch the baby, though, so we'll see how things go...
Hey mamas! I finally had time to catch up on this thread!
I had my 34 week appointment today, and was reminded by my midwife that I've got about 2 weeks to gather my birth supplies and have everything (somewhat) ready to go, because she goes on call as of 3/13! It was kind of an eye-opener, and not that I think I am going to go early or anything, but just that that window of possibility will be open soon! I still have "two months to go" in my mind, and I think I'll probably keep thinking that so as not to get all antsy if/when my due date comes and goes like it did last time.
I'm feeling so great about our homebirth decision. My good friend had her baby boy at home yesterday and everything went great...and it's just made me feel very inspired and excited for when our baby comes.
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Wife to DH (September '05) and mama to Ezri (August '07), Oz (April '09) and Ezekiel (August '11).
i scared myself earlier by watching that baby story show (bad idea!). two episodes that were awful and ended in c-section and failed bfing, but i couldnt turn it off. then the last episode ended with a woman who had gotten an epidural going to ICU with brain swelling due to the epi, and i started to feel better about my natural birth at home. i will NOT be watching that show again anytime soon though! yikes!
i havent even hardly thought about getting things ready for the hb yet. i have the list, and eventually we'll make an afternoon out of going to get things. maybe we should do that this weekend before we put things off for too long! i am excited though. i scared myself earlier by watching that baby story show (bad idea!). two episodes that were awful and ended in c-section and failed bfing, but i couldnt turn it off. then the last episode ended with a woman who had gotten an epidural going to ICU with brain swelling due to the epi, and i started to feel better about my natural birth at home. i will NOT be watching that show again anytime soon though! yikes!
OMG. That show irritates the crap out of me. : It only ends that badly because they let it. And they don't breastfeed because they are whiney and lazy and don't want to do the work. Of course it hurts! Keep doing it so you don't get engorged and it'll stop hurting. Don't go into the hospital when you're not contracting, the baby hasn't moved down and you're only 2cm dilated. They'll give you pitocin. That will hurt. You'll get the epidural. Your contractions will slow. They'll up your pit. Nothing will happen because the baby hadn't moved down. They'll cut you open and remove you baby. Now you have 6 weeks to recover from major surgery. Congratulations.:
I know!!! People keep saying, "You're so brave!" and I'm like, really? Brave to stay home where I'm comfortable and peaceful, where I will only be surrounded by love and complete support; I won't be harassed and prodded and hooked up to machines and shown a complete lack of respect? Well, OK, if that's what brave means to you!
the more I teach them about it, the better it gets, she even started making comments to my bro about wanting a similar type of birth as to what I'm planning
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So do you have any labor projects in mind for when the big day actually arrives? I'm trying to think of something...
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Raising 2 peanuts. #3 due in June
Must look good in a flimsy blue gown that is open up the back.
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I'm reminded of this:
Are You a Good Candidate for A Hospital Birth?
By Gloria Lemay, Vancouver, British Columbia
Must not be scared of needles. Must not be claustrophobic or uncomfortable in confined spaces. Must be able to go for long periods of time without eating or drinking. Must be happy to share a bathroom with others. Must enjoy sleeping on a mattress covered with plastic. Must not have a rebellious or questioning nature. Must accept the possibility of contracting antibiotic-resistant infections. Must be confident with caregivers who are overtired and overworked. Must realize that a limited amount of time can be spent in a hospital room before it is needed for the next patient. Must like and trust electronic equipment. Must be comfortable with cesarean rate of 30%. Must accept that the mood of the nurse on duty will be a large determinant of the birth outcome. Must realize that they will be delivered by someone they have never met before. Must realize that the written birth plan will be ignored. Must be willing to have florescent lights turned on at all hours. Must be capable of birthing without making loud noises. Must look good in a flimsy blue gown that is open up the back. Must be willing to be a teaching subject for student doctors who are learning to do pelvic exams and suturing. Gloria Lemay is a Private Birth Attendant inVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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The Fosse Ardeatine Massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass execution of 335 Italians carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome, that ambushed 35 Nazis, and were retaliated on a Ten for One basis
The Cave Ardeatine (also known as the Fosse Ardeatine ) became a National Monument and a Memorial Cemetery . Every year, on the anniversary of the slaughter a solemn State commemoration is held at the monument in honour of the fallen. Popes Paul VI and John Paul II each visited the memorial once during their respective reigns, as did Pope Benedict XVI on March 27, 2011.
Although it may be expected (and is frequently claimed) that the victims of the Fosse Ardeatine were predominantly Jewish, this is not so; only 75 of the 335 victims were Jews. Most of the victims selected were those already in jail, some for criminal offenses, most for partisan sympathies. Some had simply been residents of Via Rasella. Others had been casually picked up on the streets. There were NO QUOTAS or Preferences.
This Massacre was by Germans against Italians after Italy joined the Allies. In Fact there were an estimated 1,000 Massacres that claimed 20,0000 Italians during the occupation of Italy by Germans.
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Associated Press; March 27, 2011
ROME (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed at the memorial to victims of a 1944 massacre that was one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II and denounced what he called the "abominable" legacy of violence unleashed during war.
The visit won Jewish praise that Benedict had taken yet another step to heal centuries of painful Vatican-Jewish relations.
The German-born pontiff visited the Ardeatine Caves on the outskirts of Rome to mark the anniversary of the killings of 335 civilians in Rome to avenge an attack by resistance fighters that killed 33 members of a Nazi military police unit.
Among those in attendance were children and other relatives of the victims, with some of the elderly family members weeping at the memory of their loss and clutching flowers.
"What happened here on March 24, 1944, is a very grave offense to God, because it is violence perpetrated by man upon man," the pope said in speech at the simple memorial fashioned out of the walls of the caves. "It is the most abominable effect of the war, of every war," the pontiff said.
The wounds are still fresh for Rome's tiny Jewish community. Many of them expressed outrage last fall when former SS Capt. Erich Priebke, 97, was allowed to go shopping and to church in Rome. Priebke was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the massacre but later given house arrest due to his age.
Elan Steinberg, a leader of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, praised the pontiff for paying "moving homage to the victims of this Nazi crime " Catholic and Jew."
[RAA: The Portion below is MISLEADING because of course Jews Killed Christ a supposedly Jewish "False Prophet", a RADICAL that Threw the "Money Lenders out of the Synagogues, and preached viciously vs the Rabbis that had strayed from Jewish Basics
More important, current Jewish Historians don't deny it, the question is whether ALL JEWS of ALL CENTURIES should bear the burden. The answer is obviously NO, Just as we can't Hold ALL MUSLIMS responsible for 9/11]
"Coming on the heels of his strong pronouncement exonerating Jews in the death of Jesus, this latest gesture by the German-born Benedict is a further dramatic step in binding the wounds that have disturbed Vatican-Jewish relations in recent years," Steinberg said in a statement.
The landmark exoneration came in the pope's new book, "Jesus of Nazareth-Part II," in which Benedict lays out biblical and theological reasons why there is no basis in Scripture for the argument that Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus' crucifixion. Interpretations to the contrary have been used for centuries to justify the persecution of Jews.....
In 1994, Priebke was extradited to Italy from Argentina, where he had lived for years, and put on trial. The Germans had ordered 10 Italians to be executed for each of the 33 Nazis killed by resistance forces in Rome a day earlier. Priebke admitted shooting two people and rounding up victims, but insisted he was only following orders.
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The late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes is again in the running for the prestigious Whitbread Book of Year Award - for the third year in a row and a year after his death.
Hughes, who died in October 1998 aged 68, took the Whitbread posthumously earlier this year for Birthday Letters, following his win in 1997 with Tales from Ovid.
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Published 5:30 am, Friday, August 27, 2010
Because Pearland lives to play another day Saturday for the national championship on KTRK (Channel 13), the Disney empire is in line to catch another big audience in Houston from the Little League World Series.
Pearland's loss to Auburn, Wash., on Wednesday night registered a 6.1 Nielsen rating on ESPN in Houston, which equates to average viewership of 129,532 of the area's 2.1 million TV households.
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As an afternoon game, Pearland's comeback win over Auburn probably didn't match the Wednesday prime-time audience but could be in line with the other ratings from South Williamsport, Pa. The opening-round game against Plymouth, Minn., had a 2.3 rating in Houston, and the Monday game against Fairfield, Conn., had a 4.5 rating.
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Throughout all the negotiating and deal-making that accompanied and continues to accompany the college conference alignment shuffles, there is one constant: At some point, everybody calls Burke Magnus.
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