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Source, screen, and qualify potential IT candidates utilizing cold calls, job boards, social networking and internal database etc. Interview prospective IT candidates via phone/in person to assess skill set, work history, and salary requirements. Recruiter will also be responsible for developing and maintaining a strong pipeline of qualified IT talent to submit to current and future client base.
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Welcome to April chickadees!
Light snow showers and heavy wind this morning, so I'm gambling on postponing my 14 miler to tomorrow morning. Luckily I'm right on the coast so there won't be any accumulation - a half hour inland there's 5 inches on the ground!
I went to the gym, did some light cardio and LOTS of stretching and foam rolling. I'm happy with my +100 mile month of March, and I'm planning out my April schedule.
How's it going for you? A
Yes - welcome to April!
After all day yesterday's nonstop rain, the sky is clearing this morning. Patches of bright blue starting to appear just in time for my LR. I want to get out there quickly in case it doesn't last.
I notice NJPhil close behind me in the Bunny Race. You're making steady progress. Are you working towards a marathon soon?
Go as long as you can, and then take another step.
Light snow showers and heavy wind this morning, so I'm gambling on postponing my 14 miler to tomorrow morning. Luckily I'm right on the coast so there won't be any accumulation - a half hour inland there's 5 inches on the ground!
55 F and sunny here in Virginia today. I'm so glad winter is over for us!
Had a pretty good result in my triathlon today. My swim and bike could definitely use some work but the run went great (20:52 for the 5K). Overall I shaved 10 minutes from last years performance. My time would have been good enough for 2nd in my AG last year. Unfortunately there were a bunch more fast people this year and I ended up 9th out of 28 for my AG.
Way to go Jeff! Ten minutes faster than last year is a big increase. Nice weather for your triathlon too.
Happy April everyone,
I'm back online It had everything to do with a tiny phone line cable.
Anyways, didn't run much last week. Just the 6 kilometer doggie run I did this morning. I did a LB w/o on Thursday, first time ever with a sort of gliding disk. Man, my adductors have been screaming at me for two days! I'm still sore but at least I could run again without being in pain (I'm not kidding).
I've taken as much control back of my life as I possibly can in the current family situation. Meaning I'm ready to go out there and run again. Vancouver is out for this year, but its back on my list for next year.
The pink monster is ahead of me for the first time this year I think, so time to catch up with it again.
Heffa: great tri, you were a lot faster than last year. Congrats! Wasn't the swim very cold?
Dutchie I go running in the early morning, before my brain figures out what I'm up to.
Run the day, or the day runs you.
Actions determine state of mind - Aristotle
Yes - welcome to April!
After all day yesterday's nonstop rain, the sky is clearing this morning. Patches of bright blue starting to appear just in time for my LR. I want to get out there quickly in case it doesn't last.
I notice NJPhil close behind me in the Bunny Race. You're making steady progress. Are you working towards a marathon soon?
Hi HappyFeat,
yes I am working toward the NJ Marathon on May 1st. Things had been going well until this week when I was out of commision with some sort of flu/cold. One more week of training and another long run before I taper. Hopefully I can keep up my mileage after the marathon.
NJPhil: Maybe your body was just telling you that you needed a little more rest than you had planned at that point. Hope you're feeling better and that the next couple weeks go very well for you. Is this the first marathon you're doing? I expect you'll be chasing the Bunny again soon after. The Bunny can be verrry motivating!
Jeff: Great job on that tri time improvement. I'm a wee bit jealous of your speed and weather (more snow predicted here for overnight aargh)!
I'm getting rid of a cold that hit hard yesterday, so I scraped my long run this week. I don't think I've stayed in bed that long for a couple of years! I ran a slow 3 miles this morning just to get outside - still a little shaky and headachy, but I think its moving on... A
This morning was a very nice 5.7 kilometer run with Spooky. It's actually very nice not to feel the pressure of following a training plan
Imminent Catastrophe
My rain trend continues, 39°F, windy and rainy today in Boston. I wore a rainshell, which was great when it was raining but a bit warm when it wasn't. Anyway it was a nice 8. I'm supposed to be in Anchorage Sunday and guess what the forecast says--cold and rainy! I am getting used to it, anyway.
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
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Western States 100 June 2016
Not so effortless 10.9 kilometer run this morning. Legs felt heavy. Maybe because of last nights PT appt. Managed to pass the bunny again. For now
Gorgeous sunrise which didn't last long because of clouds rolling in. Nice outside though.
Heffa: great tri, you were a lot faster than last year. Congrats! Wasn't the swim very cold?
It was a pool swim. The cold part was going from the warm pool to 50F outside for the bike.
I knew I had not trained enough for the swim and the bike part of the tri. I am still very sore through my shoulders and my calves. I've been trying to take it easy for a while. I couldn't help getting in some barefooting yesterday. It was 85F and just beautiful and it just had to be done. I'll call today a complete rest day and pick back up again tomorrow.
NJPhil - Good luck on your marathon. What a crappy time in your training to have a cold. Make sure you still taper even though you probably will feel like "making up for it".
A - It's very impressive the way you are keeping your mileage up in the face of harsh weather and sickness. Ready for spring much?
Kind of a roller coaster day. Woke up this morning and decided I wasn't going to race this Saturday due to the weather (82, sunny and breezy). Even planned how I was going to update my RA signature. Then I went for my morning run (per the plan 4x400). On the warm up jog out to flat ground I passed a man being trailed (about 15 feet behind) by a wire-haired Jack Russell that had a two-foot long stick in its mouth. I found this hilarious and got the first burst of energy I've had in weeks and had a pretty good run.
So I think I've changed my mind back and will run Saturday after all, but I'm going to adjust my goals. I was shooting for 4:15 with 4:22 as a minimum. Now I'm thinking 4:30 or slower if that's what's needed. The overarching goal for this whole training cycle has not been a specific time but to have a positive experience and a strong race with a neutral/negative split so I'm going to refocus on that. Then a quick break and try to find a training plan for when you don't have anything specific to train for.
Dutchie: sorry to hear about your marathon and trip, I was looking forward to having you in the neighborhood (well, the same side of the ocean).
Jeff: good job last weekend
New Orleans Marathon - 2/24/2013 4:16:32
Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon - 4/27/2013 4:09:56 PR!
Honolulu Marathon - 12/8/2013
Ready for spring much?
Ready for spring much?
DrPhibes: take a break, it'll do you good
5.75 kilometer slow run this morning in drizzling rain and pretty strong winds. Think both my dogs are sick. They both haven't eaten yesterday and their poop has a very strange yellowish colour. But they are active and playful. Not sure what's bothering them.


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Gluten-Free Spiced Matcha Crunch Trufflesby Silvana Nardone in Gluten-Free, Healthy Recipes, February 19, 2012
The one thing that matters to me, even after Valentine's Day is that there is chocolate in the house—really, any kind will do. By nature, chocolate is gluten free. But chocolate treats are often full of dairy—and other added ingredients that aren't exactly good for you. After a little playing around in the kitchen, I realized that there was no reason to pigeonhole myself in traditional truffle-making technique.
Instead, I relied on the properties of individual ingredients to give me the texture I wanted. In place of heavy cream, which adds silkiness, I used tempered egg yolks to emulsify the chocolate truffle mixture. To hold the truffles together, I swapped coconut oil (I prefer the flavorless kind, but you can use either) for the usual butter.
Then came the fun part: Adding immune-supporting spices and teas, like turmeric root and green tea. In these truffles, which are infinitely adaptable to any flavor combination, there also just happens to be some feel-good, aphrodisiac ingredients, like chocolate and vanilla.
Spiced Matcha Crunch Truffles
Unlike traditional truffles, these can be stored at room temperature.
For the matcha truffles:
8 ounces dairy-free bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces, such as Ghirardelli
3 tablespoons coconut oil
1 tablespoon brown rice syrup
2 large egg yolks
1 tablespoon matcha powdered green tea
1 tablespoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
¼ cup gluten-free rice cereal, crushed, such as Kellogg's
For the spice coating:
¼ cup superfine sugar
¼ cup sifted cocoa powder
1 tablespoon matcha powdered green tea
½ teaspoon ground Chinese five spice
¼ teaspoon ground turmeric root
1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/8 teaspoon salt
For the matcha truffles: In a double boiler over simmering water, melt together the chocolate, coconut oil and rice syrup.
Place the egg yolks, powdered tea and vanilla powder in a medium bowl. In a steady stream, whisk in the melted chocolate mixture. Stir in the crushed rice cereal and refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
For the spice coating: In a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder, powdered green tea, five spice powder, turmeric, cardamom and salt.
Roll rounded teaspoons of the chocolate mixture into balls, toss in the spice mixture to coat and enjoy immediately or store in an airtight container.
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Silvana Nardone is a food lifestyle expert, magazine editor and motivational speaker. She is the editor-in-chief of the all-digital, gluten-free magazine, Easy Eats. Silvana is also the author of Cooking for Isaiah: Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals and publisher of Silvana's Kitchen, a blog that takes the guesswork out of how to feed a family with food allergies. Previously, she was the founding editor-in-chief of Every Day with Rachael Ray.


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The Penguins of Madagascar
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The Penguins of Madagascar is a show about four penguins who don't live anywhere in Madagascar, but in the Central Park Zoo. As unfitting as the title may seem, the whole thing actually started from the film Madagascar, which involved the penguins, as well as a lion, hippo, zebra, and giraffe being stranded in Madagascar and made into slaves by the evil lord King Julien. Then the penguins built a plane and managed to fly off, but soon crash landed in Africa. Later in the sequel, the penguins managed to rebuild the plane and fly it back to New York, leaving the other animals behind. Sometime afterward, Nickelodeon decided to screw up two films at once by making an uninspired spin-off. To make it seem more "interesting", they put Julien in it.
edit Premise
The show takes place sometime after Madagascar 2, when the penguins make it back to New York. King Julien took over the zoo and screwed it up the whole system. The penguins made a resistance and now try to fight off against this injustice, only to screw things up even more.
The Penguins of Madagascar chronicles the life about penguins who frequently fight for the freedom of other animals, go on secret commando missions, or invent top-secret technology. This usually ends up failing and almost destroying the whole zoo, which the penguins treat their own personal battlefield.
edit Characters
edit The Penguins
edit Skipper
Skipper is the abusive leader of the penguin resistance. He constantly bosses around the other penguins and forces them to waste time risking their lives on dangerous life-threatening missions. He also enjoys bitch slapping Private across the face whenever he screws up. Whenever he gets caught masturbating, he's all like "You didn't see anything".
edit Private
Private is short for "private parts", which he ironically doesn't have. Due to this, Private is abnormally nice and very sensitive, making him the pussy of the group. Private has a whole lot of other serious medical conditions, such as his desire for rainbows, lollipops, kittens, and things other people would hate (Such as My Little Pony). How he even got into the penguin military is a mystery. So is "his" actual gender.
edit Rico
Rico is a psycho penguin with a scar on his cheek, and possibly the most likeable character on the show. He was most likely dropped when he was still inside his egg, causing him to become a homicidal psychopath who can't speak proper sentences. He also has the ability to puke out various objects which he is somehow able to keep in his stomach. His speech disability makes it hard to tell whether or not he wants to kill you.
edit Kowalski
Kowalski is the genius of the group. He is so smart that he builds all sorts of inventions that routinely malfunction, destroying the zoo.
edit Supporting characters
edit King Julien
King Julien is the singing, dancing gay lemur king who somehow ended up at the zoo with his minions despite the fact that they stayed in Africa at the end of the sequel. He soon took over the entire zoo and fucked up the entire system. While he may not seem so threatening, Julien actually has incredible brain-shrinking powers, which he accidentally used on himself. He also goes Ape-Shit Crazy whenever someone (usually Mort) touches his feet.
edit Maurice
Some people call him the Space Cowboy. Some people call him the Gangster of Love. But most people call him Maurice. He is Julien's right hand man and possible love interest. Even though Maurice is ten times smarter than Julien, he strangely didn't become the king.
edit Mort
Mort is some sort of tiny creature with big ass eyes who made himself part of the lemur community, though he is obviously not a lemur at all. He is madly in love with Julien's feet, and once touched them, only to be banished from the kingdom but instantly allowed back. Mort serves no purpose to Julien, except for emergencies when he makes a great stress reliever/punching bag.
edit Marlene
Marlene the otter is pretty much the only female character of the show (unless you count Private). She doesn't appear in many episodes, unless they involve something. Skipper secretly holds a big crush on her, but can never find the right time to tell her, because of something else. Due to the fact that she was raised in captivity, she goes insane and wreaks havoc whenever she's outside her habitat.
edit Dr. Butthole
An evil dolphin who rides a segway. He lost his eye to hungry sailors, leaving a scar. He was later captured by the government, who gave him some sort of device to replace his eye and then
brainwashed trained him to become an evil mastermind like they do with any animal they bring in. Butthole now spends time with his army of lobsters thinking of ways to kill innocent "painguins" and take over the world. He may possibly have demons due to constant nightmares about a ring of fire.
edit Critical Reception
The Penguins of Madagascar was the first film of Dreamworks Animation to become a TV show. It surprisingly turned out good and became one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows - considering the "new" Nickelodeon after it redesigned their logo, cancelled all the shows, and replaced them with stuff like iCarly, Fanboy and Chum Chum, and other shit.
Oscar Wilde said "the show would come in handy for teaching children about joining the military and going on missions. And it may also prepare them for World War 3". Penguins were the only things that got childrens' attention, so they made it about penguins. Many critics give the show 4 stars. Julien gave it -1 stars because he wanted to be the star of the show, but sadly, penguins are more popular than lemurs.
edit Future
After three successful seasons, the future of The Penguins of Madagascar is being put into consideration. Due to the release of a third Madagascar film which focuses on Afro circuses, the show may be put on hiatus or, even better, cancelled. Though Nickelodeon may want to keep this show alive due to its fan base, and the fact that it is one of the few decent things left on the channel. For all we know, if a spin-off is made after the movie, it may or may not be total shit like everything else on Nickelodeon these days.


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I went to see a movie not long ago, and after the lights went down I noshed on popcorn, Goobers and Raisinets. As usual, they tasted pretty good. Then, as the movie continued, I had an egg roll dipped in tomato relish, some eggplant caponata served beneath three slices of pork tenderloin, a freshly fried doughnut on a puddle of pomegranate jam, and an amuse-bouche-sized milkshake made with small-batch artisanal peanut butter ice cream.
No, I hadn�t smuggled the contraband into the theater in Tupperware containers in my purse. I was attending a �Film Feast� � a themed tasting menu served by a stealthy, nimble wait staff during a movie screening � at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nitehawk is one of hundreds of dine-in movie theaters that have popped up nationwide over the past several years, and it�s one of the most ambitious.
In a way, the dine-in theater is a logical extension of the way most movie theaters make money. Typically, theaters split the proceeds of ticket sales with studios, with studios taking a majority of the revenue during the first couple of weeks of release and theaters getting a bigger cut the longer the movie is shown. The proceeds that movie theaters make from ticket sales rarely cover the costs of employee wages and equipment, so movie theaters make up the loss by charging exorbitant prices for ridiculously large portions of snack foods (and by showing commercials before movies).
While customers tend to grumble (or sue) when asked to pay $6 for a container of popcorn that would cost a few cents to make at home, they are generally happy to shell out for dishes carefully crafted by professional chefs. Which is where dine-in theaters come in: They�re upfront with customers about the fact that food is a major part of their business model. Charging more money for higher-quality food � and serving full meals instead of just snacks � lets Nitehawk charge less for the movie tickets themselves. (General admission to first-run movies at the Nitehawk is $11 instead of the $14 that�s typical in New York City.) Serving restaurant-caliber dishes also lets Nitehawk charge extra for special events that explore the interplay between food and cinema � like the Film Feasts, which cost $75 per person.
At most Nitehawk screenings, you order � la carte from a menu consisting of typical upper-midscale restaurant fare � kale salad, truffle ravioli, bresaola, etc. � plus beer, wine, and cocktails. Film Feasts are a different animal. At these monthly events, patrons are served a multicourse tasting menu (with drink pairings) that�s themed, and timed, to complement specific moments in the movie. The goal is what Nitehawk chef Michael Franey calls �a 4-D experience,� in which the food enhances your appreciation of the movie, and vice versa.
It�s one thing, albeit a difficult thing, to serve a 60-seat theater drinks and snacks � la carte, with no imperatives other than getting the order right and not blocking the screen while you�re serving it. (Nitehawk�s servers are expert crouchers.) It�s quite another thing to serve a 60-head tasting menu that must be timed down to the minute to achieve its intended effect of adding a new, Smell-O-Vision-like dimension to the audience�s experience. How do Film Feasts translate a movie to the plate? First, Nitehawk�s cinema director, John Woods, rewatches the chosen film and takes notes of moments that might lend themselves to culinary greatness. Then chef Franey watches with those notes in hand and starts thinking about ingredients, flavor profiles, and timing (since the courses can�t be served too close together).
Sometimes the dish choices are obvious. Early on in �Fast Times at Ridgemont High,� for instance, we see corn dogs coming out of a deep fryer, so Franey made homemade corn dogs � with duck sausage, tomato compote and Dijon mustard. Others are more conceptual. The main course of the Film Feast I attended, for the 1993 cult classic �True Romance,� was called �You�re an Eggplant.� It was served during a scene where a hapless former cop (Dennis Hopper) tells the mob boss who�s kidnapped him (Christopher Walken) that Sicilians have dark hair because of their Moorish ancestry. (Hopper actually delivers this news in far less polite terms.) It�s part of a quintessential non-sequitur Quentin Tarantino monologue, and it culminates with Hopper telling Walken, �You�re part eggplant!� Franey decided to represent the speech with eggplant caponata � a classic Sicilian dish � made with North African spices and dates instead of the traditional raisins. The pork tenderloin came in because �I just like cooking with pork.� It wasn�t until a sous-chef brought it up that Franey realized serving a Moor-inspired pork dish might be offensive to those who keep halal. �But they go well together,� he says. Besides, the taboo of pork kind of jibes with the scene, which is already pretty offensive.
It�s also pretty violent: Hopper�s character is beaten up, has his hand sliced open and is eventually shot in the head. I was grateful for my iron stomach as I ate my way through �True Romance,� and I was happy to have something to look at other than the screen during the bloody parts. I should note that the beer pairings, from Lagunitas, helped smooth out the feeling of dissonance that came from watching blood spurt out of people�s bodies as I nibbled on a tasty meal. But, for the most part, I can�t say that Franey�s cooking helped me grasp the movie any better than I would have if I�d been streaming it from Amazon on my laptop at home.
There was one exception: The first dessert course, the powdered sugar doughnut with pomegranate and blood orange jam, matched up with a moment in �True Romance� where a package of cocaine explodes all over Bronson Pinchot�s face. The confetti-of-coke scene occurs right after James Gandolfini, in a breakout early role as a vicious thug, thrashes Patricia Arquette. Pints upon pints of fake blood are spilled during the Gandolfini-Arquette melee, and it was fresh on my mind when I saw the sticky, red blood orange jam slicked on my plate. It was revolting. It was also delicious. Franey had created a pretty good metaphor for the perverse pleasure that comes from watching violent movies � the thrill that people get from consuming pain and suffering as entertainment.
When I saw Franey after the show, he said that he�d been hoping all the doughnut-eaters in the audience would get powdered sugar on their shirts, becoming mirror images of Bronson Pinchot getting cocaine all over his face. I looked down to see that I had indeed gotten powdered sugar on my shirt. So I guess you could say the dish worked on more than one level.
As did the evening on the whole.
I can�t say I�d ever had movie food so delicious, or a restaurant meal so provocative. The dine-in theater might be a natural outgrowth of the usual cinematic business model, but Nitehawk has transformed that business model into something new and surprising � and very, very weird.


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SMWC education majors celebrate Read Across America
April 1st, 2014 | SMWC
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" Yellow shirts with this famous Dr. Seuss quote across the back could be seen in every first and second grade classroom at West Vigo Elementary on Monday, March 3, 2014. On the front, they said "Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College." SMWC education majors and members of the College's Future Teachers of America student organization wore them as they led activities in the classroom for Dr. Seuss' birthday and National Education Association's 17th annual Read Across America celebration.
Read Across America is a national event designed to encourage elementary students to read. This reading motivation and awareness celebration is held each year in conjunction with Dr. Seuss' birthday.
"It means so much to me to have such a wonderful opportunity as an education major because it's real classroom experience," states Kristin Bell, junior art education major and president of Future Teachers of America at SMWC. "There's always something that I can take away from the experience that actually pertains to my needs as a future educator. It gives students the challenge of handling differentiated learning tasks and more first hand. This is valuable because we, as future educators, can utilize this event to be more prepared and highly qualified teachers in the classroom."
Fifteen students from The Woods participated by leading a lesson centered around the Dr. Seuss book, "Put Me in the Zoo." The classroom activities included reading and discussing the book, decorating their own zoo animal masks and ending the lesson with an appropriate snack, zoo animal crackers. The students participating consisted of Future Teachers of America members and education majors enrolled in ED 203: Effectively Collaborating with Families and Community Resources.
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Return here for updates throughout the day from round one of the Masters.
Richard Hinds on Adam Scott.
Matt Murnane on the long putter controversy.
5.00 pm
Latest scores:
Matthew Guyatt -7 18
Adam Scott -5 18
Michael Hendry -5 16
Kalem Richardson -4 18
Craig Hancock -4 18
Rika Batibasaga -4 18
Peter O'Malley -4 18
Jake Higginbottom (AM) -4 18
Ian Poulter -4 16
Stuart Appleby -4 16
Paul Gow -4 15
Perfect conditions at Kingston Heath have opened the door for low scores, and little-known Queenslander Matthew Guyatt has taken full advantage, overtaking Adam Scott with a stunning seven-under par first round.
Guyatt is the surprise leader of the Australian Masters late on day one after a near flawless round that included seven birdies.
After finishing three-under after the first nine, the 32-year-old rolled in three straight birdies at the 6th, 7th and 8th to pass world No. 5 Scott, who had earlier carded a five-under par 67.
Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter and former Australian Masters champion Stuart Appleby are both closing in on Guyatt at four-under par through 16.
New Zealander Michael Hendry is also a chance to challenge for the lead by day's end, moving to equal second with Scott at five-under with four holes to play.
The defending champion at this year's Australian Masters, Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter, is on the hunt for current leader Adam Scott. Playing the first round on the Kingston Heath course he has described as the "best yet", Poulter began the first day well, holing two birdies on the first three holes. However further chances during the front nine went begging, leaving the Englishman at two-under par turning into the back nine, three shorts behind Scott.
The top-ranked Australian shot a five-under par 67 earlier in the day and remains the outright leader, however Queenslander Matthew Guyatt is emerging as another first-round boulter, moving to equal second at four-under after 12 holes.
Former Masters champion Stuart Appelby, who is playing in the group with Poulter, is one-under after a first nine that included two birdies and a bogey.
Another former Masters winner Richard Green, also playing with Poulter, went even through his first eight holes before a bogey on the ninth to end up one-over.
Latest scores:
Adam Scott -5 (18)
Kalem Richardson -4 (18)
Craig Hancock -4 (18)
Rika Batibasaga -4 (18)
Peter O'Malley -4 (18)
Matthew Guyatt -4 (11)
Rohan Blizard -3 (18)
Mahal Pearce -3 (18)
Andre Stolz -3 (12)
Cameron Smith (AM) -2 (18)
Latest scores:
Adam Scott -5 (18)
Kalem Richardson -4 (18)
Craig Hancock -4 (18)
Rika Batibasaga -4 (18)
Peter O'Malley -4 (18)
Rohan Blizard -3 (18)
Mahal Pearce -3 (18)
Matthew Guyatt -3 (9)
Cameron Smith (AM) -2 (18)
Andre Stolz titleist -2 (11)
Adam Scott has finished his first round of the Australian Masters as outright leader after a stunning second nine holes, which included five birdies. The favourite for this week's tournament at Kingston Heath had no trouble living up to his billing, overcoming a slow start to card a five-under 67.
Scott turned into the inward nine at even with the book, but exploded with four straight birdies on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, including a 40 foot-plus putt on the par four 2nd. The world no. 5 said he was satsisfied with his performance, but admittted it could have been even better - as good as "nine or 10 under".
"There was a good score out there for me today, really low," he said after his round.
"But I'm very happy with my start, it's going to keep me in touch with everybody... even if someone does go very low, at least I'm on my way there.
"Today was a perfect day, the courses defences were down. There was no wind and the greens were soft and not very fast."
It puts Scott one shot ahead of four players who finished four-under, Tasmanian duo Kalem Richardson and Craig Hancock, Queenslander Rika Batibasaga and Peter O'Malley from New South Wales. International headliner Graeme McDowell carded a one-under par 71, a round that included 15 pars.
Richardson, who lived in Melbourne for three years and played pennant golf for Victoria Golf Club, admitted he was ahead of where he thought he would be after the first day.
"I set my goals pretty high... but my goals are towards the end of the week now," the 24-year-old said.
"I know I can start tournaments well, now it's all about putting four rounds together."
Two-time Masters champion Robert Allenby picked up two birdies during a solid back nine to finish the day at even, while fellow Australian US PGA Tour player Alistair Presnell finished one-over. The afternoon groups are out on the course, and defending champion Ian Poulter has already made a strong start, rolling in two birdies in his first five holes to be two under.
Latest scores:
Adam Scott -5 (18)
Kalem Richardson -4 (18)
Craig Hancock -4 (18)
Rika Batibasaga -4 (18)
Peter O'Malley -4 (18)
Rohan Blizard -3 (18)
Mahal Pearce -3 (18)
Matthew Guyatt -3 (8)
Cameron Smith (AM) -2 (18)
Jake Higginbottom (AM) -2 (9)
Adam Scott has started superbly in his quest for a maiden Australian Masters title, taking the clubhouse lead after his opening round at Melbourne's Kingston Heath. Scott, chasing his first win for the year, holds a one-shot buffer over Tasmanian pair Kalem Richardson and Craig Hancock and Queenslander Rika Batibasaga, all also in the clubhouse, and NSW tour veteran Peter O'Malley, who is nearing the end of his round. Scott played with Irish 2010 US Open champion Graeme McDowell and 18-year-old West Australian amateur Oliver Goss. Defending champion Englishman Ian Poulter and Victoria's 2010 champion Stuart Appleby are just starting their rounds.
Latest scores:
Adam Scott -5 (18)
Kalem Richardson -4 (18)
Craig Hancock -4 (18)
Rika Batibasaga -4 (18)
Peter O'Malley -4 (17)
Rohan Blizard -3 (18)
Mahal Pearce -3 (18)
Cameron Smith (AM) -2 (18)
Craig Parry -2 (17)
Luke Paroz -2 (15)
World No.5 and tournament favourite Adam Scott is starting to make his move at Kingston Heath, joining little-known Tasmanian Kalem Richardson as joint leader on day one of the Australian Masters.
Scott has exploded with four birdies in the first four holes of the inward nine to jump to four-under after 12, equal with Richardson, who is four-under through 15. Scott, chasing his first Australian Masters title, turned out of the back nine at even with the card but the surge has left playing partner and fellow big-name draw card Graeme McDowell behind, with the Northern Irishman still at even par after 12 holes.
The third player in that group, Oliver Goss, is the highest-placed amateur, tied for second at three-under.
With all morning groups out on course, there are just 15 players in the red.
Latest scores:
Kalem Richardson -4 (18)
Craig Hancock -4 (17)
Adam Scott -4 (15)
Rohan Blizard -3 (18)
Mahal Pearce -3 (17)
Cameron Smith (AM) -3 (16)
Rika Batibasaga -2 (15)
Oliver Goss (AM) -2 (15)
Craig Parry -2 (14)
Peter O'Malley -2 (14)
Headliners Adam Scott and Graeme McDowell will turn into the front nine of the first round of the Australian Masters at even with the book and three shots behind the leaders.
Australian star Scott blew an opportunity to go into the front nine at two-under and tied for second. His approach shot at the par four 18th was the best of his group, but he finished with a bogey after failing to hole a putt to save par. It undid his birdie on the par four 16th, a hole McDowell also picked up a shot on, however the 2010 US Open champion also gave one back on the par four 17th to end up at even.
Two-time Masters champion Robert Allenby finished his first nine holes at two-over after going for bogey on the 10th, 15th and 16th, but birdied the par five 14th to ensure his round hasn't got out of hand just yet. The 40-year-old also had a tough mid-range putt to save par on the 18th, but kept his head to drop it in.
Also in his group was Peter Senior, who turned the corner at one-over after a bogey at the 16th. New US PGA Tour elevation Alastair Presnell rode the bumps through the tricky back nine to be at two-over, a scorecard that so far includes a two bogeys, a double-bogey and two birdies. Tasmanian Kalem Richardson, through 14 holes, and Rohan Blizard, through 13 holes, from New South Wales are still joint leaders at three-under, one ahead of seven players on two-under.
-3 Kalem Richardson 15
-3 Rohan Blizard 15
-2 Ryan Haller 15
-2 Craig Hancock 13
-2 Rika Batibasaga 12
-2 Adam Scott 11
-2 Craig Parry 11
-2 Thomas Petersson 11
-2 Peter O'Malley 10
Matt Murnane reports from Kingston Heath:
Tasmanian Kalem Richardson and Rohan Blizard from New South Wales share the outright lead early in the first round of the Australian Masters. Richardson, who turned professional late in 2011, shot an eagle at the par 5 14th and then birdied the par 5 1st hole to go to four-under after 11 holes, while Blizard has five birdies and a bogey in his four-under after 11 holes.
The pair are two strokes ahead of four players on two-under - Jason Norris (VIC) through 14, Ryan Haller (QLD) through 12, Grant Thomas (NSW) through 11 and Rika Batibasaga (QLD) through nine. Defending champion Ian Poulter is scheduled to tee off at 12:10 in a group that also features former Masters winners Stuart Appleby and Richard Green.
Rohan Blizard -4 (12)
Kalem Richardson -4 (11)
Jason Norris -2 (14)
Ryan Haller -2 (12)
Grant Thomas -2 (11)
Rika Batibasaga -2 (9)
Kalem Richardson -4 (10)
Rohan Blizard -3 (11)
Jason Norris -2 (13)
Ryan Haller -2 (11)
Rika Batibasaga -2 (8)
Australia's top player Adam Scott and Ireland's Graeme McDowell have both made steady starts to their opening rounds in the Australian Masters at Melbourne's Kingston Heath.
Playing together, Scott and McDowell have both parred their first four holes.
Tasmania's Kalem Richardson shares the early lead with Victorian Ryan Lynch and NSW's Rohan Blizard, all on two under par.
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National Review Comes Up Empty In Campaign To Keep Kagan From Hearing Health Care Cases
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National Review Online blogger Carrie Severino keeps pushing the argument that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan may need to recuse herself from cases dealing with the constitutionality of the health care reform law. However, after a series of posts suggesting that Kagan might have lied when she said she was not involved in strategizing over how to defend the health care law, Severino has acknowleged that she doesn't "see enough evidence to know whether Justice Kagan must recuse herself from considering the upcoming Obamacare challenges."
The campaign to stop Kagan from hearing health care cases began last summer during her confirmation hearings.
The Wall Street Journal argued that Kagan might have participated in strategizing over litigation involving the constitutionality of the health care reform law and therefore might have to recuse herself from health care reform-related cases. The Journal suggested a series of questions for Republicans to ask Kagan before voting on her nomination.
When Republicans asked those questions, Kagan responded that she had not been involved in discussions of the health care reform law or litigation involving the law. That appeared to settle the matter for the Journal, which subsequently said, "We have no reason not to take Ms. Kagan at her word."
However, others in the right-wing media have since filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in order to try to prove that Kagan was lying. A FOIA request by the right-wing media outlet CNS News turned up no evidence that Kagan discussed the health care reform bill or litigation, but Severino still argues that at some point in the future, perhaps some documents showing that Kagan was involved will surface.
In posts on March 30, April 1 and April 8, Severino hyped the documents CNS News received. She did this even though the CNS News article to which she links, while filled with innuendo, makes a key admission. CNS says that nothing in the released documents triggers the recusal standards of federal law:
Did Kagan at any time as solicitor general express an "opinion concerning the merits" of the lawsuits filed against the health care law -- an act that would trigger one of the recusal standards in 28 U.S.C. 455? In the text of the emails the Justice Department provided to CNSNews.com, Kagan does not do so.
In her latest post, however, Severino herself acknowledges that neither she nor CNS has discovered anything that would require Kagan to recuse herself. Severino wrote today: "From what we know so far, I don't see enough evidence to know whether Justice Kagan must recuse herself from considering the upcoming Obamacare challenges."
That's not to say Severino is going to give up; she immediately adds that the FOIA documents "certainly point" in the direction of recusal. She then adds: "This is precisely why JCN filed its FOIA request trying to reach more documents on this issue. The public deserves answers to the growing questions about Kagan's involvement in Obamacare."
And if those documents turn up no evidence that Kagan should recuse herself, surely Severino will find yet another reason to believe that she is right around the corner from finding the smoking-gun document that will prevent Kagan from hearing challenges to health care reform.
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Madikwe is surrounded by a 150km perimeter fence to safeguard elephants and large predators.
You'll be richly rewarded with scores of sightings when you go birding at Madikwe Game Reserve. And because of the great variety of habitats, from open grassland and forest to dams and rocky hills, there's an eclectic variety of birds flitting about.
Madikwe Game Reserve is a joint venture between the government, private enterprise and local communities, with over 30 community-run lodges in the reserve. Day visitors aren't allowed in the reserve, so you will have to stay at one of the many lodges where you'll be taken on day and night game drives or bush walks.
A good birdwatching tip is to stay in camp when others go off on game drives. Birdlife is prolific, particularly in the older, well-established camps, especially if there's an adjacent waterhole.
You'll easily spot one of the world's biggest birds – the stately, rather fearsome (it can kill a lion with a kick) ostrich – in the open grasslands. Secretarybirds also stalk the savannah and you're almost certain to see the world's heaviest flying bird – the impressive Kori bustard – hunting in the grass for insects and frogs.
High up above the numerous inselbergs (big rocky crags) expect to see eagles such as the bateleur and martial, and once the day has warmed up and the thermals get going, Cape, white-backed and lappet-faced vultures will start circling looking for carcasses.
There are bush birds galore. Have your camera ready for one of its most dramatically coloured stars – the crimson-breasted shrike. Ask your guide to listen out for its piercing whistling call and then track it down.
Madikwe Dam is an absolute must. Watch thirsty birds of all kinds, including sandgrouse, come to drink as the sun goes down. You may well see wild dogs, elephants, lions and rhinos come to drink as well.
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Take the N4 from Johannesburg or Pretoria towards Swartruggens and Zeerust. At Zeerust take the R49 and follow the Madikwe Game Reserve signs. It's about five hours' drive.
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Guided bush walks are a great way to spot birds.
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ALLIANCE (AP) Mount Union broke its own NCAA record by winning its 55th consecutive game Saturday, beating Bridgewater 66-0 in a Division III semifinal game Saturday.
Randell Knapp and Nick Sirianni each caught three touchdown passes as the Purple Raiders (13-0) broke the 54-game streak they set from 1996-99.
Oklahoma set the record for consecutive victories in major college football, winning 47 straight from 1953-57.
Three-time defending national champion Mount Union will play St. Johns, Minn., which beat RPI 38-10 in Saturdays other semifinal, in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl on Dec. 30 in Salem, Va.
We havent completed what we set out to do, Knapp said. Well go out there next week and try to win the championship. Thats the goal.
Mount Union has won six of the last seven Division III titles. The Purple Raiders only loss in their last 110 games was a 27-17 overtime setback to Rowan in the 1999 semifinals.
The Purple Raiders picked up their sixth shutout of the season, their most since the 1931 team also had six, and have outscored opponents 654-84.
Bridgewater (12-2) lost three of five fumbles, had two punts blocked and had a pass intercepted.
We gave them quick momentum and were never able to recover. We were outplayed in every aspect, Bridgewater coach Michael Clark said.
Im shocked. We got off the bus and everything went downhill after that.
Mount Union coach Larry Kehres, who has a 205-17-3 record at the school, said the streak is secondary to his overall objective.
The job of a coach is to prepare his team, he said. You do that, you have a chance to win. Ive always tried to put the emphasis on the game today rather than what has happened. Im not even sure our players remember back a few games, let alone 55. But it is a great achievement.
We beat a very good team today that really gave us all we could handle the last time we faced them.
Bridgewater fell to Mount Union in the 2001 title game 30-27 and was making its fourth consecutive playoff appearance.
Mount Union, alternating Zac Bruney and Jesse Burghardt at quarterback, overcame a sluggish start and amassed 473 yards. Bruney started, but Burghardt was 11-for-12 for 210 yards and career-best four touchdowns.
Knapp caught touchdown passes of 5, 40 and 16 yards to help Mount Union to a 35-0 halftime lead. He finished with five catches for 92 yards and set a school single-season record with 1,459 yards receiving.
Sirianni caught touchdown passes of 15, 35 and 34 yards.
Ken Whitfield scooped up a fumble and returned it 42 yards for another score to make it 63-0 with 3:17 left in the third quarter. The touchdown was the second defensive score of the game and sixth of the season for the Purple Raiders.
Bridgewaters Steward White had an interception and Antony Hunt recovered a fumble on Mount Unions first two possessions.
The Eagles offense failed to capitalize on those chances and was slowed by turnovers.
Three plays after Hunts recovery, Andrew Doak intercepted a pass by Brandon Wakefield at the Eagles 16 and returned it for a score.
Anthony Frate blocked a punt and Mount Union took over at the Eagles 48. Six plays later, Bruney rolled left and found Knapp with a 5-yard scoring pass for a 14-0 lead.
Jeff Strauch scored on a 6-yard run in the third quarter and George Wilders added a 21-yard field goal with 4:47 left to complete the scoring.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
The ultimate goal of e-mail marketing is to achieve increased sales conversion rates through ongoing top-of-mind brand communications with the customer base. Measuring the effectiveness of e-mail marketing campaigns goes well beyond simply open and click-through rates. Although e-mail metrics provide a basis for analysis, determining the impact e-mail marketing has on increased e-commerce sales now is traceable and linked to behavioral site metrics, along with attitudinal surveys conducted with subscribers. Optimizing e-communications to cater to multiple customer segments requires strategic testing of various e-mail campaign components to determine which subject line, body copy, calls to action, promotional offers, or design and layout components will work best together to effectively engage a target audience.

 Few marketers take the time and effort to test their campaigns on a regular basis, but even a slight copy or graphic change could go a long way to improving the performance of an e-mail marketing campaign. According to eMarketer, only 63 percent of U.S. e-mail marketers test their campaigns. Those that fail to conduct any form of e-mail testing simply don't know how to do it (33 percent) or do not have enough time to test (27.5 percent). Agencies that offer e-mail marketing services may provide their clients great creative, but tracking and measuring e-mail program ROI is a low priority. Few agency account managers know how to evaluate their own creative masterpiece, nor would they want to. Moreover, both agencies and mass mailers do not have the research expertise to analyze recipient data and often resort to third-party research consultants, charging clients a higher premium.

 The best way to conduct ongoing e-mail testing is through a full service e-marketing solutions provider grounded in research fundamentals, where interests are aligned in improving e-mail marketing ROI and program health. More importantly, research companies that are able to track both customer attitudinal data (from surveys targeted at subscribers) and behavioral metrics down to the individual recipient level for analysis provide a great advantage for understanding key customer segments. Engagement no longer is measured solely on "clicks" as a means of determining e-mail campaign success. Marketers are looking for a more profound understanding of their online marketing efforts linked to both customer attitudinal and behavioral metrics and ultimately, growth of e-commerce sales.

 A North American-based consumer retail company with more than 65 store locations placed a higher emphasis on its e-commerce Website to drive overall corporate sales. E-mail marketing has become a necessary component of its marketing strategy in staying top-of-mind among its online customer base. It wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of two promotional offers targeted at the same audience: shoppers who made at least one purchase on an e-commerce site within the last six months. In an A/B split test, 50 percent of the target group received an e-mail campaign offering free shipping with no minimum purchase, while the remaining half of the group received 15 percent off any one regular-priced item.

 Both promotional offers performed equally well in terms of open rates and click-through rates, with the 15 percent off discount performing slightly higher at 74.7 percent and 21.5 percent, respectively.

 A/B Split Testing of Promotional Offers

 Open Rate:
 A: Free Shipping After 7 Days: 73.2 percent
 B: 15 percent Off After 7 Days: 74.7 percent

 Click-Thru Rate
 A: Free Shipping After 7 Days: 20.8 percent
 B: 15 percent Off After 7 Days: 21.5 percent

 Click-to-Open Rate
 A: Free Shipping After 7 Days: 28.4 percent
 B: 15 percent Off After 7 Days: 28.7 percent

 Online Purchase to Open Rate
 A: Free Shipping After 7 Days: 1.8 percent
 B: 15 percent Off After 7 Days: 0.9 percent

 Online Purchase to Click Rate
 A: Free Shipping After 7 Days: 6.5 percent
 B: 15 percent Off After 7 Days: 3.1 percent

 What was interesting though, was that 6.5 percent of subscribers who clicked through to the Website made a purchase using the Free Shipping promo. Only half that amount (3.1 percent) who received the 15 percent off discount made a purchase.

 In determining possible reasons why there were fewer transactions made among shoppers who received the 15 percent off discount, we examined subscriber behavioral data from the e-mail marketing campaign and linked this information to their behavioral metrics collected on the e-commerce Website. We discovered that approximately 38 percent of shoppers dropped out of the transaction on the last page prior to confirming the purchase. Delving deeper into the data collected, we conducted a quick online survey with the specific shoppers who were identified in the system as having dropped off the final transaction page to uncover their reasons for not completing the process. The primary reason customers declined to purchase was traced to frustration with the extra shipping charges that were incurred, which often outweighed the 15 percent discount applied. Customers stated they would rather visit a physical store to avoid paying these additional fees.

 As a result of these key findings, the client continued to offer free shipping to the same subscriber parameters and also tested its effectiveness among other target audiences, such as more frequent shoppers or those who had never purchased from the e-commerce site before. Remember, not all audiences will want the same type of content; testing e-mail marketing campaigns is essential in determining how to best cater corporate communications to multiple audiences over time to encourage higher sales conversion rates. Further strategic testing included using different combinations of subject lines and graphic elements to drive subscribers to the e-commerce site.

 Marketers no longer can afford to measure subscriber engagement levels solely on open and click-through rates reported on an aggregate campaign level. Going the extra mile in collecting both behavioral and attitudinal data on an individual customer level from multiple marketing channels enables marketers to optimize their ROI more effectively over time. This may include tracking the subscriber's entire e-marketing experience, from the moment the e-mail campaign was opened, through all the product pages browsed on the e-commerce site, and finally to the check-out stage. Coupled with research fundamental expertise, this detailed level of analysis is unmatched compared to any agency or mass mailer company that adheres to "batch-and-blast" e-mail marketing practices. Using this methodology, sales conversion rates can be optimized through strategic testing, providing a much closer measure of e-mail marketing ROI than ever.

 Melissa Chien is manager of OnXpress e-Marketing Solutions, and Jason Ten-Pow is president of Research Operations, at OnResearch Inc.


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CYPRESS, Texas - A northwest Harris County man who lives in a Cypress neighborhood full of children has been arrested on child pornography charges.
Bruce Robert Estep was arrested Monday after federal agents searched his home in the Cole's Crossing neighborhood.
Investigators said Estep was involved in international child pornography.
"It's distressing because there are lots of little children around here," neighbor Jackie Gunther said.
Last April, neighbors watched as federal agents surrounded the home. Concerned mothers, like Susan Zuniga, decided to alert their children.
"I did talk to my kids. They know who he is and that he was under suspicion for participating in child pornography", said Zuniga
According to court documents, Estep has been charged with two counts each of promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Sources told Local 2 that police in London, England, captured an online record of a user calling himself "Hedoalltan," who was sharing pictures of children engaged in sexual activity. Investigators said they traced the activity back to Estep's home in Cypress.
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Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake Pie Recipe
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- Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons raspberry jam
- Line unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake at 450° for 5 minutes; remove foil. Bake 5 minutes longer. Remove from the oven; reduce heat to 350°.
- In a bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add eggs, beating on low speed just until combined. Pour into pastry shell. Stir jam; drizzle over the filling. Cut through filling with a knife to swirl the jam. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. Refrigerate overnight. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before slicing. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake Pie in Taste of Home April/May 1999, p31
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"My new "favorite" dessert recipe."
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"This recipe is easy and very good. I used a graham cracker crust instead of the crust the recipe calls for. Everyone who ate it enjoyed it and asked for the recipe."
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"Yummy! This pie won 1st place at our church Memorial day picnic!"
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"This is one of my favirote recipes, make it all the time, found it in a taste of home magazine years ago. I usually use a graham cracker crust, and it turns out heavenly especially for the amount of ingredients used."
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"I made this cheesecake for my family at Thanksgiving and my husband said it was the best cheesecake he has ever eaten. I will make this again, changing the kind of jam to suit the season."


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80% of success is just showing up. -- Woody Allen
There are many reasons why marketing does
not come naturally to attorneys. Most of us are uncomfortable
with self promotion (shouldn't clients just hire us because we do a
good job?) Many of my clients would rather be doing billable work
than spending time at networking functions. And most of us
graduated from law school with no training in how to market a
professional services practice.
But there is one valuable marketing skill that most lawyers
master when they enter private practice. Lawyers learn how to
record their time and this in turn is a tool that can help you
stick with marketing long enough to be successful.
Whether or not you like recording your time, having the
discipline to keep track of what you are doing as a practicing
attorney is a very important skill that you can use to increase
your marketing success. One of the truths about building a
professional services practice is that it can take a long time
before the relationships you cultivate will turn into referrals.
Therefore, you need to stay in contact with your referral sources
over a long period.
There is no magic to it. You need to find creative ways to "show
up" over and over again. In some cases, you may not see referrals
for years. So keeping track of your time and budgeting an amount of
time that you devote each week to marketing, ensures that you are
not simply putting off marketing for a rainy day.
This is a great strength of many lawyers. If you get involved in
any community or nonprofit organizations, you know how hard it is
for many people to simply get things done. If nothing else, lawyers
know how to make lists and document what they are doing.
If you make the effort to write down your marketing goals and
create a specific list of marketing tasks each week, you
dramatically increase the likelihood that you will follow through.
If you then record your time and describe what you have done, you
can keep track of what activities seem to be effective ways to
build your referral relationships and where you may be spending too
much time tinkering with the bio on your firm's website.
The billable hour is being challenged and increasingly, clients
are looking for more fixed fee arrangements. But the billable hour
is far from dead. So start recording your non-billable time and
watch your marketing activity increase. You may not see any
results in the short run. But in the long run, your practice will
benefit greatly.
Tip courtesy of Stephen Seckler, president, Seckler Legal
Consulting and Coaching.
Published November 8, 2012


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Copy the URL you want for the link (e. g., highlight, right-click, and select copy or highlight and type CTRL-C).
Type the name of the link, e. g., Stargzer's Meager Web Site
Highlight it and click the URL button on the upper right. it will put URL tags around the name of the link.
[url]Stargzer's Meager Web Site[/url]
Now put an equals sign ("=") in the opening URL tag between the "l' in "url" and the right square bracket ("]").
[url]Stargzer's Meager Web Site[/url]
(Hint: After it puts the tags around the link name, it keeps everything highlighted and leaves the Focus on the highlighted item. You can just do one Left Arrow and four Right Arrows to get to the proper spot and then do a CTRL-V to paste (which is the next step). I do as much on the keyboard as I can unless I really need to use the mouse.)
Finally, click between the equals sign and the right square bracket and paste your URL.
Click Preview.
Stargzer's Meager Web Site
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[url=http://www.stargzer.com]Stargzer's Meager Web Site[/url]
[url=http://www.stargzer.com]Stargzer's Meager Web Site[/url]
You will run in to problems if the URL has parentheses or some other special characters in it. When that happens, you'll have to replace them with an escape sequence. This really drove me crazy for a while until I figured out what was going on.
Typing an URL with parentheses:
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(astronomy)
Trying to encode an URL with parentheses:
-- Asterism
See how the first one stops at the left parenthesis and the second just doesn't encode?
This is how you fix it:
Substitute a %28 and %29 for the left and right parentheses, respectively.
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For more on URL encoding go to W3Schools. On the left, under HTML Tutorials, click Learn HTML and then scroll down until you see HTML References on the left and click HTML URL Encode. This is the long way to that page, but I want you to see what else is available at the site. I've found this site very helpful. In their tutorials, they have a window where you can enter code and then see how it displays.
Don't forget, you can always click the Quote button in a post to see how it is coded. That's how you can bypass the Profanity Filter to see the underlying offending words! That's also how I figured out how to use the ="some name" parameter in the Quote tag to add the name of a site I'm quoting, like the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Notice how in this post I put the URL tag around the name and put the whole shebang in quotes to have "Online Etymology Dictionary" be a link.
Final note: in the lower left corner of the edit or compose window there is a list of Options. Click the BBCode link to read more about BBCode, the code used in posts and replies. It's similar to HTML but different. I personally don't think the List code works well, so I rarely use it, but the Formatting, Linking and Image Linking instructions are worth reading.
Post early, post often, and try to keep it at least vaguely related to the original topic.


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