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WINTER PARK, Fla. – After the historic 2012-13 season, the Saint Leo women's basketball team has been tabbed to finish 5th among the Sunshine State Conference schools, it was announced Wednesday morning from the conference office in Winter Park.
Nova Southeastern, who claimed just their second-ever SSC regular-season title in 2012-13, collected 62 points and seven of the nine first-place votes in a preseason poll conducted among the conference women's basketball coaches.
Rollins, which won the 2013 SSC Tournament, was picked to finish second. The Tars received 52 points and one first-place vote. Florida Tech and Tampa both received 44 points to tie for the third slot, while Saint Leo received the final first-place vote and a total of 39 points for the fifth spot.
Eckerd and Lynn tied for sixth with 28 points, while Barry (16 points) and Florida Southern (11 points) rounded out the poll. Lynn shared the 2012-13 regular-season title with the Sharks.
The Lions, led by head coach Nikki Jessee, had a historic 2012-13 season, where they defeated Lynn University in the Sunshine State Quarterfinals to earn their first-ever trip to the SSC tournament championship. With a roster that saw only the loss of two players, Saint Leo has returned many key impact players, including the SSC Newcomer of the Year and a Daktronics All-South Region Second Team member, Teresa Manigrasso.
The Division II Women's Basketball Bulletin preseason top-25 poll was released on Oct. 8 with Nova Southeastern ranked No. 5 and Rollins ranked No. 18
For more information regarding the Saint Leo women's basketball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook, and 'Follow' Saint Leo on Twitter and Instagram.
2013 Sunshine State Conference Preseason Women's Basketball Poll
Rank – Team, Points (1st-place votes)
1 – Nova Southeastern, 62 (7)
2 – Rollins, 52 (1)
T3 – Florida Tech, 44
T3 – Tampa, 44
5 – Saint Leo, 39 (1)
T6 – Eckerd, 28
T6 – Lynn, 28
8 – Barry, 16
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Trey WimmerClass: Senior
Position: C
Height: 6-2
Weight: 230
Previous School: Greenwood HS
Hometown: Greenwood, S.C.
2012 (R-Jr.)
• Big South All-Tournament team
• Team captain
• Played in 59 games, starting 57
• Started two games at third base, one contest at first base and the rest at catcher
• Hit .229 with 23 runs scored, 27 RBIs,13 doubles, one triple and three home runs
• Had two hits, a double, a two-run home run, a run scored and two RBIs at the Citadel during the Citadel Challenge (2/19)
• Collected two hits and drove in two runs at No. 14 Virginia (2/28)
• Posted three-hit game at Old Dominion (3/6)
• Had two hits, including a triple, and scored a run against Gardner-Webb (3/23)
• Drove in three runs with a bases-clearing double at Winthrop (4/13)
• Collected two hits and walked against Coastal Carolina (4/27)
• Drove in a season-high four runs with two hits, including a double versus UNC Asheville at the Big South Championship (5/22)
• Had two hits, including a walk-off two-run home run against Gardner-Webb at the Big South Championship (5/24)
2011 (Jr.)
• Received a medical redshirt
• Earned Big South Presidential Honor Roll mention
2010 (So.)
• Played in 59 games, with 43 starts
• Posted a .249 batting average with 19 runs scored, 35 RBIs, 14 doubles and four home runs
• Collected two doubles and two RBIs at Kennesaw State (2/20)
• Had three hits with a home run, five RBIs and scored two runs against St. John's (3/13)
• Tied a Liberty record for doubles in a game with three, driving in five runs and scoring twice versus George Mason (3/30)
• Collected two hits and two RBIs against High Point (4/3)
• Had a double, a home run and four RBIs versus No. 26 VMI (4/16)
• Recorded two hits, including a double, and scored a run at Presbyterian (4/23)
• Collected two hits, a double and three RBIs at Presbyterian (4/25)
• Hit a home run at George Mason (5/4)
• Had three hits with an RBI and a run scored at Charleston Southern (5/9)
• Collected two hits, a home run and two RBIs against Coastal Carolina in the Big South title game (5/29)
2009 (Fr.)
• Played in 53 games, with 50 starts
• Batted .299 with six doubles, six home runs, 28 runs scored and 32 RBIs
• Collected four hits with two RBIs and two runs scored against Temple (3/8)
• Hit a three-run home run and walked against William & Mary (3/11)
• Went 4-for-5 with a home run, driving in four runs and scoring two runs versus Fordham (3/18)
• Collected four hits, a double, four RBIs and two runs scored at N.C. State (3/25)
• Hit three-run home run against Presbyterian (3/29)
• Had two hits, walked, scored two runs and had two RBIs in a 10-5 win at Winthrop (4/18)
• Hit a game-winning home run at Gardner-Webb (4/26)
• Named to the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Graduate of Greenwood High School
• Selected to the 2008 All-State and Diamond Prospects All-DP teams
• 2008 Diamond Prospects Gold Glove recipient
• Named to and played in the SCBA North/South All-Star game
• Selected to the All-Lakelands team
• Hit .477 with 14 doubles, 25 RBIs and a .795 slugging percentage as a senior
• Two-time all-region team member
• Was named to the Wheels Spring Break All-Tournament team as a junior
• Named Greenwood Booster Club Male Athlete of the Year as a senior
• Member of National Honor Society and Beta Club
• Recipient of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Academic Excellence Award and the South Carolina High School League Athlete Award
• Son of Lee and Tammy Wimmer
• Majoring in exercise science: pre-professional
• Birthday is May 21


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While no one will mistake the Red River Valley for the Coast Mountains of southwestern Yukon, St. Vital Coun. Brian Mayes has done his best to spark a gold rush right here in Winnipeg.
On Thursday, city council's governance committee will consider his request to spend $28,000 of his ward allowance on Save Our Seine, a volunteer group that maintains trails and tries to preserve forests and riparian zones along the Seine River.
If the grant gets approved, and there's no reason to expect otherwise, all 14 other city councillors should prepare for an influx of calls and emails from other small non-profit organizations in desperate need of funding.
The $28,000 Mayes wants to give to Save Our Seine will mark the first large ward-allowance grant since city council voted last month to allow all 15 councillors to increase their discretionary spending by $40,000 this year.
Councillors may spend this cash in a variety of ways, including salaries for executive assistants, mailouts to constituents, new office furniture or grants to community groups. If any of the latter exceed $5,000, they must be put before council's governance committee, which has the power to reject any grant it considers inappropriate.
Mayes, who promised to fund Save Our Seine when he ran for office in a 2011 byelection, is hardly making a surprise move by choosing to fund the organization, which has had no executive director for more than a year. The grant also isn't going to curry favour with any powerful interests, given the historical enmity between Save Our Seine and real-estate developer Ladco, which used to be at odds over the Royalwood development.
Yet by dispensing of most of his extra spending allowance in a single grant, Mayes is setting up his council colleagues for a barrage of other funding requests.
"That will be their problem to deal with, I guess," Mayes said Tuesday, acknowledging the larger ward allowance opens up the floodgates for what are known as "asks" in the fundraising world.
"This was the risk. (Fort Rouge Coun. Jenny) Gerbasi identified this: We may get $400,000 worth of requests when we have $40,000 worth of room," Mayes continued. "If some people want to spend it all on community groups, that's up to them. I wasn't worried about that. I just wanted to deal with this as quickly as I could."
Mayes was one of the city councillors who supported the additional spending during January's debate on the city's operating budget. The irony is phones will now be ringing in the offices of councillors such as Gerbasi and Charleswood-Tuxedo Coun. Paula Havixbeck, who didn't support the increase.
Intentionally or otherwise, the office of every city councillor has been transformed into a public funding agency with a theoretical spending limit of $114,000. And the discretionary nature of the spending, governance-committee oversight notwithstanding, only increases the opportunity for patronage and reduces the transparency surrounding funding decisions.
The largest discretionary spending power lies within the mayor's office, which has the power to spend $500,000 a year on "civic initiatives" and also tap other pots of money. In 2006, a Katz decision to spend $300,000 on St. Boniface theatre Cercle Molière sparked accusations the mayor was trying to curry enough favour in the francophone ward to re-elect Franco Magnifico, who nonetheless lost to Coun. Dan Vandal.
In 2012, Katz teamed up with former rival Vandal to spend $100,000 a year over three years on a Salvation Army facility in Island Lakes.
The mayor also used discretionary-spending powers to fund a Southdale community centre considered a funding priority by the provincial government, but all but ineligible for city recreation funds.
The mayor, however, has a staff to consider funding requests and more importantly, come up with diplomatic ways to reject them. Councillors have fewer people at their disposal to run interference on their behalf.
What remains to be seen is whether those who voted for the extra cash will regret the move in the long run. By getting out early, Mayes has announced his cupboard is all but bare -- and rung a dinner bell outside his colleagues' offices.


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The family of a popular Ben Rhydding teenager who "had his whole life to live for" have told of their hope that his sudden death from a suspected ecstasy overdose will be a warning to others.
The parents and brothers of Joe Preston, a former Ilkley Grammar School pupil, described the 17-year-old as a loyal friend, who was about to take his driving test and was passionate about becoming a joiner – but said he paid the ultimate price for trying drugs.
Joe's father Ed Preston said drugs did not discriminate and his son's death, on Sunday morning, showed that such a tragedy could happen to anyone.
"Joe had his whole life ahead of him and was lucky in that he would have had the support to fulfil his ambitions, but all that's gone now," said Mr Preston.
"Joe's gone now, we can't bring him back. I just hope it's a lesson for his friends."
Mr Preston, 54, said his youngest son was not a habitual drug user and to assume he was an addict would be wrong, but he had tried them on a few occasions.
"Lots of kids do it and he was just unlucky. He made a mistake and he's paid for it," he added.
"We talked to Joe, but there's only so much you can say and that they'll listen to. They'll more likely listen to their friends, but nobody made Joe take it – it was his choice and he's paid the price."
Joe died at Bradford Royal Infirmary after he collapsed at a friend's house in Shipley.
A group had been celebrating an 18th birthday on Saturday night at Canal Mills, in Armley, Leeds, and afterwards went to the house in Bank Crest.
Panicked friends called 999 and an operator instructed one of them how to perform CPR while waiting for paramedics.
The Preston family was called at about 9am on Sunday by hospital staff.
"They just said we had to get there as quickly as we could, but to drive safely," said Mr Preston. "By the time we got there, he was already dead."
Mother Viv Preston said: "Joe thought he knew what he was doing. His friends thought he was okay and had been fine, and he wasn't. People just think they're invincible."
She added: "It's just all over now. Being from a smallish community, it's not like living in a big city where you just don't know people. Everybody should be aware of it. For kids that live in this area it should make a massive impact on them."
Joe, a former pupil at Ben Rhydding Primary School, was a second year student in carpentry and joinery at Craven College. It was a course he loved and one he hoped would lead to a career.
Mrs Preston said: "He was doing really well. It was all coming together. He seemed happy."
His father, a design engineer, said Joe was enthusiastic about joinery and would scour catalogues studying which tools to buy.
"The last 18 months or so since he finished school, he'd just started to grow up and make plans," Mr said Preston.
"He had a real talent," added Mrs Preston, 50.
"It was something he wanted to do. He got excited about it," said Mr Preston, who in December started setting up a workshop with his son.
Craven College principal Robert Bellfield said Joe was "a very dedicated student" heading towards a successful career.
"He was well-liked and will be greatly missed by his fellow students," he added.
Ilkley Grammar School head teacher Gillian James remembered Joe as a quiet, but popular student.
"It is very sad and tragic," she said.
"So many people have been touched by Joe, and will be affected by his death. It is a terrible waste of such a young life."
Joe lived in Wheatley Lane, Ben Rhydding, with his parents and brothers Ollie, 19, and James, 21, who said he was a devoted friend.
Mrs Preston said: "His friends were everything to him. He was a really loyal, caring friend – he'd put his friends first all the time."
Joe enjoyed listening to music and would often surprise his mother by singing 80s songs, out of tune, in the kitchen.
"I'd say 'where've you got that from' and he'd say he'd just heard it. He was tone deaf, he couldn't sing for toffee! I never knew where that saying came from, until I heard Joe," Mrs Preston said fondly.
Mrs Preston said stories about teenagers dying after taking drugs could easily wash over people.
"But this is a small community and the people he knows will likely take more notice. If it means they think or stop and not take drugs, that will be a positive thing," she said.
"If people can just stop and try to imagine what we're going through now – a kid won't want their parents to go through what we're going through.
"The message is simple – just think."
l Police said a post-mortem examination on Tuesday proved to be inconclusive and further tests will now be carried out to establish the cause of death.
Two 18-year-old men, who were arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs, have been released on bail. A spokesman said: "Inquiries into this incident are ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."
An inquest into Joe's death will be opened today, Thursday, at Bradford Coroner's Court.
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CMA Award-winning artist and five-time GRAMMY nominee Hunter Hayes is bringing his hits and new music to the streets of downtown Nashville with his second annual free concert on Monday, Nov. 2, once again kicking off an event-packed CMA Awards week that will culminate with the release of his Read More
With her single "I Got The Boy" Top 20 and climbing, Elektra Records Nashville/Warner Music Nashville artist Jana Kramer debut's Top 10 on the all genre, Billboard 200 Albums Chart, with more than 21,000 album equivalent units. With 18,000 albums sold, thirty one debuts at #3 on the Billboard Read More
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Blake Shelton, the reigning 5 time CMA Male Vocalist of the Year and coach of NBC's hit show The Voice, will hit the road in February for his Blake Shelton presented by Gildan tour.
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Blake Shelton, the reigning 5 time CMA Male Vocalist of the Year and coach of NBC's hit show The Voice, will hit the road in February for his Blake Shelton presented by Gildan tour.
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Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music Nashville's Frankie Ballard will rock around the Kalamazoo State Theatre with his 6th Annual Country Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 19th in Kalamazoo, MI. Bringing the spirit of the season to his hometown, all of the proceeds from the show will benefit Read More
With the lead single "I Got The Boy" nearing Top 20 on the country singles charts, Jana Kramer is ready to release her new album, thirty one, tomorrow on Elektra/Warner Music Nashville. Kramer will be celebrating its release with a performance of "Boy" Monday, October 12 on Good Read More
Country's critically acclaimed duo Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) are about to begin their "Just the Right Kind of Crazy" Tour, kicking off this evening in Louisville, KY. Named by a lyric from their current and nearly Top 10 single, "Nothin' Like You," the October trek features Black Read More
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REDDITCH Borough Council has won the contract for providing early help services in Bromsgrove.
The decision, made by Worcestershire County Council, means that the borough council will now be responsible for delivering early help services to families in the town with youngsters aged up to 19 years old, identifying needs and demonstrating significant and sustained improvements to outcomes for children and young people.
The service will work with families at risk of difficulty, in order to nip problems in the bud before they have a chance to escalate to the point where specialist services are required.
The council won the contract after being able to show that it could demonstrate value for money through the innovative use of volunteers and investing in local organisations.
Councillor Liz Eyre, Worcestershire County Council's cabinet member for children and families, said: "We are delighted to announce Redditch Borough Council as the preferred provider for delivering early help services in Bromsgrove. Their bid illustrated a whole family approach to the services they will be delivering and I feel confident that they will be able to make a real difference for the families they will be working with."
The contract was won following a robust tendering process which started in October of last year, and the new early help services will begin to be delivered in Bromsgrove from August 1.
The contract lasts for three years, with the option to extend it for a further two year period.


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A term used in the seduction community. Approach invitation is best defined as a sign that a woman is interested in a man, and she wants him to approach her. Approach invitations come in many ways. They include prolonged eye contact, being unnecessary close to the man in particular, unnecessary hair touching/tossing, loud talking/laughing when near. In other words, the woman is trying to get his attention in a subtle, or not so subtle way. Approach invitations don't last forever though, the woman might get frustrated when her invitation is ignored after a short amount of time, and she will give up. The man needs to recognize these signs and approach her fast.
"James, stop standing against the bar like a police officer! Can't you see that HB over there that keeps glancing over to you and tossing her hair like crazy. She's giving you a massive approach invitation. Go talk to her and make her happy while you still can, you blind idiot."
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Awhile back I picked up some good-looking pork chops at the store and about a week ago I grilled a pair of them. While I certainly don't need a reason to grill I wanted to play around with some old-school photo gear and this was a good opportunity.
After poking around online I decided on an herb paste. I can't remember where I found the recipe but it was basically parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, and garlic...kind of a Scarborough Fair chimichurri.
The paste was pretty loose because of the amount of oil but it stuck to the chops pretty well.
I started them indirect and seared at the end, thinking that the indirect heat would help set the herbs and make them less likely to fall off during the sear.
I was pretty happy with the results, although Mrs. Chicken took exception to the red pepper flakes. The chops were thick and decently marbled to begin with so they stayed nice and moist, and the herbs added another level of flavor.


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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - The countdown to the biggest game in the Texans franchise history is on as two heavyweights set to clash in Foxbourough Monday night.
A win would mean the Texans are a step closer to securing home-field advantage.
Texans fans poured into Patriot country to show their support.
The diehard fans were in Providence, greeting the Texans when the team buses carrying the players and staff arrived at their team hotel Sunday afternoon.
"Our team is so underrated," said Texans fan David Mendez. "They're about to go there and prove to the nation why we're 11 and one."
Some teenage fans who live in Foxborough, just minutes from Gillette Stadium where the game will be played, proudly proclaimed their allegiance to the Texans.
"We grew up in Houston. They moved up here, and we just love the Texans," said Texans fan Patrick Brion.
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Adobe Showcase: The Making Of
Adobe Showcase is an iPad app to help sales teams find success stories, white papers and webinars to share with their customers. Adobe Showcase is currently available internally only at Adobe. This video explains the efforts of design and development that went into the creation of the application. At the same time, it highlights some of the Adobe technology used in Showcase, including Adobe Analytics, Adobe Recomendations, Adobe Experience Manager, and Scene7.


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Oracle OpenWorld 2013, where I'll be...
It all starts on Sunday with a day long seminar. I'll be doing a series of "five things about" - in the areas of SQL, PL/SQL, Performance and more. You can check out and register for those sessions (and many others) here: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/oracle-university/index.html
Next, on Monday I'll be delivering:
Session ID: GEN8579
Session Title: General Session: What's New in Oracle Database Application Development
Venue / Room: Marriott Marquis - Salon 8
Date and Time: 9/23/13, 12:15 - 13:15
I've done a session like this every year for the last 8 or so years, It'll cover what new Oracle Database Application development techniques have become available over the last year (and will include a few Oracle Database 12c repeats from last year where relevant).
Next, on Tuesday I'll be doing:
Session ID: CON8426
Session Title: The Five Best Things to Happen to SQL
Venue / Room: Moscone South - 103
Date and Time: 9/24/13, 10:30 - 11:30
This is not just the five best things to happen to SQL in Oracle Database 12c - but rather - five of the coolest things to happen to the SQL language over the years. You might be surprised at how many you did not know about....
And lastly - on Wednesday - the last slot before the appreciation event - I'll be presenting on:
Session ID: CON11637
Session Title: What's New in Oracle Database 12c
Venue / Room: Moscone South - 103
Date and Time: 9/25/13, 17:00 - 18:00
This is not a repeat of last years "Top 12 Things about Oracle Database 12c", this is all new content - things discovered and found useful in the last year of using Oracle Database 12c. So, if you have seen my "12 things" talk - or videos - or read the articles in Oracle Magazine, this will be all new and different.
I hope to see you around - I'll be on site all week from Saturday evening until Wednesday night (flying back home on a redeye Wednesday).
Enjoy the show!


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PREPARATIONS are well underway for Wirral's biggest event of the decade - the Open Golf Championship at Hoylake.
The eyes of the world soon will be on the borough, and no stone has been left unturned in the mammoth logistical task of making sure the show runs without a hitch.
Work on building grandstands around Royal Liverpool Golf Club links is well advanced, and a pioneering hi-tech wireless "mesh" will allow spectators to keep up with the action around the course on their smartphones and tablets.
The stands will cater for 20,000 spectators each day, while 200,000 are expected to walk the course to follow superstar players when the four-day feast of golf tees-off on Thursday, July 17.
Several changes have been made for this year's tournament, including a horseshoe-shaped grandstand around the 18th green for the first time at a British Open.
The course will be extended by 54 yards compared to 2006 — the last time the Royal Liverpool hosted the major — and the green on the first hole has been reshaped and rebunkered to make it the "hardest opening hole on the Open rota."
Malcolm Booth, communications director for organisers the R&A, says the cauldron feel around the 18th is sure to "provide a unique atmosphere for an Open."
While the Open perhaps is seen as the game's most traditional competition, the R&A have spent a fortune ensuring the very latest technology is on hand to enhance the "spectator experience."
A wi-fi mesh network is to be introduced at Hoylake this year, allowing fans to download an app which will let them view the BBC's television coverage in real time on their mobile devices.
Listening through earphones will be a must, of course.
Other innovations will see giant LED screens at 17 of the greens displaying information about the day's play.
Only the 18th - where the eventual victor will raise aloft the championship's famous Claret Jug trophy on the final day - will retain the iconic yellow leader board.
Underground fibre optics will ensure digital communications to media organisations across the world are super-fast, keeping a global audience of many millions up-to-date through instant coverage.
Hoylake Municipal Golf Course will be the players' practice ground and to minimise delays between there and the Royal Liverpool, travel plans have been revealed for Hoylake station to be the line's terminal for the week of the competition.
A fleet of buses will ferry passengers to and from West Kirby station, in a similar system employed the last time the Open came to Wirral.
The key question now for fans will be the "Tiger Factor".
Will the game's most famous and successful player - and its biggest draw - be involved in the 2014 Open and defend his Hoylake triumph?
Injury meant him missing the recent US Masters, and the R&A are waiting to hear about his fitness levels after he underwent back surgery on March 31 to relieve a pinched nerve.
However, at a press briefing today, the organisers seemed relaxed about the outcome; tickets are selling fast and at this point there is "no debate" about Tiger missing the British major.
When a smiling Tiger lifted the Claret Jug in the July sunshine of 2006, he declared Wirral was home of "The Friendly Open."
His fans from Hoylake to Hawaii will be hoping he's here to repeat the performance.


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The second trailer for Ridley Scott's Prometheus launched today and has already caused something of a stir. Over the course of two and a half minutes, this trailer fills in some more details about the overall storyline of Scott's first sci-fi movie in 30 years, gives us more of a sense of its epic scope, and – in a couple of shots at least – explicitly says that this, after all the speculation, is a prequel to Alien. Here, in an incredibly detailed trailer breakdown, Chris Hewitt explores the links and much more. Warning: there are what appear to be MASSIVE SPOILERS in this breakdown. Do NOT read on if you haven't seen the trailer, or if you want to go into Prometheus as pure and unspoiled as John Hurt's T-shirt before lunch on the Nostromo.
We begin with a tranquil shot of a waterfall that gradually reveals a huge spaceship, moving away from the falls.
Over a shot of a grey-blue skinned/scarred bald humanoid, standing near what we assume is the same waterfall, we hear a woman with a cut-glass English accent – Charlize Theron's Vickers? – say, "A king has his reign." Is this our first look at the true face (well, back of the head) of a Space Jockey? Is this the king Charlize is referring to, or…?
This is the Prometheus. "And then he dies." Is she referring to her boss, Peter Weyland? As played by Guy Pearce in the TED viral video from a couple of weeks, he's a guy in his 40s. But that's in the year 2023. Prometheus takes place, apparently, in 2085. Is Weyland a king whose reign is about to be rudely interrupted by death, that most implacable of foes? It also gives us our first look at the hi-tech interior of the Prometheus, a world away from the Nostromo. It's clearly a very different, much more expensive ship.
This is our heroine, the new Ripley, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace, seen here in cryo-sleep. Again, this is far more advanced than the Nostromo's cryo-stasis chambers, indicating that the Weyland Corp have sunk a lot more cash into it. Who does that hand belong to? Our guess is David (Fassbender), the ship's robot. "It's inevitable," says Charlize, softly, in voiceover. Or is it? Is that really what this expedition is about? Staving off the inevitable?
Here we see Idris Elba's Janek, the captain of the ship, at a control panel on the Prometheus' bridge. Cracking design here by Scott's long-time collaborator, Arthur Max. Let's hope that glass is reinforced, or that he has the number of Autoglass in case of emergencies. "Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace!"
Push in as the scientific crew of the Prometheus - including Rafe Spall's Milburn (note the funky glasses), Rapace's Shaw and Benedict Wong's Ravel - check instruments. Are they preparing to land on a planet? Good question. And yes, they are preparing to land on an alien world (LV-426? Or is this a different world?), as helpfully explained by Janek: "Prometheus has landed."
A briefing session on the Prometheus, indicating that not everyone on the crew has been fully informed about the purpose of their expedition. A modern powerpoint presentation flashes up stone tablets from ancient civilisations around the world. We know this because Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) explains, "These are ancient civilisations." Holloway, along with Shaw, seems to be the leader of the expedition.
A bleak landscape… is this the planet they're on? Holloway continues, "that were separated by centuries…" Interestingly, these sections were shot in Iceland.
"And yet…" says Holloway, as we can just about make out 'North Island' and 'Mesopotamia' behind him, examples of locations around the world that may have been visited by an alien intelligence long before mankind started stomping all over the planet. He conflates the diagrams into one… revealing something that has huge implications for mankind. "This same pictogram was discovered at every one of 'em..." Shaw looks into a crevice back on Earth and sees something that makes her smile with wonder. She'll be laughing on the other side of her face before too long. Still on Earth, Holloway gambols up the hill, like a newborn lamb, with good news for Shaw: the biggest discovery in human history. "You're smiling," he tells Shaw. And he's right, she is.
As we see a cave painting in which a humanoid figure is pointing at what may be stars, Shaw has a Eureka! moment. "I think they want us to come and find them," says Shaw. Maybe… or is this another version of the rescue beacon from Alien that actually turned out to be a warning to stay away?
We've seen these before, as the landing party gets ready to roll out. But this sideways shot of a mini-SUV heading out of the Prometheus is brand-new (bottom left). Meanwhile, Sean Harris' Fifield is raising dissent: "We're all here because of a map you two kids found in a cave?"
"Not a map," says Shaw, the Swedish Rapace modelling an intriguing British accent. "An invitation."
Our first glimpse of Fifield, with his rockin' sci-fi tattoos and haircut: "From whom?" he asks, rather reasonably. We also see Kate Dickey's Ford for the first time. She's holding a cup of Future Coffee, presumably purchased from Literal Starbucks.
That's a good question. Shaw and Holloway, sporting a lovely cravat, look at each other in a manner that suggests they don't entirely know.
An ominous shot of a huge mountain - or is it a structure? Presumably, this is where our heroes will find the answers they seek, along with a great deal of running and screaming and melting.
David looking at ancient alien hieroglyphics. "Please tell me you can read that?" asks Holloway. David, who is Michael Fassbender and therefore can do anything, looks at him in a way that says, "Please… I'm Michael Fassbender, and therefore can do anything." But is David reading a warning or a happy greeting? And would he tell his human creators if it were a warning? Remember how Ash went all nutjob psycho doolally?
Incoming message from the Big Giant Head! Sadly, The Shat will not be appearing in this motion picture. Unless he rips his way out of someone's chest. Shaw, in the ampule chamber, shines a light at the Big Giant Head. "Prometheus?" she says, with awe speckling her voice. "Are you seeing this?"
And now the shit/fan interface starts to begin, as the trailer takes a turn for the ominous. Two humans shine a torch down a corridor and find some decidedly Giger-esque biomechanical markings…
Fifield and Milburn throw up some interesting looking red laser probes that flit around the room they're in.
David looks disturbed by something. Can an android be disturbed? Can an android have feelings? That seems to be part of the big themes Prometheus is tackling.
Holloway shines his torch on what looks like a bowl. Evidence of an intelligent lifeform, or has he stumbled upon an interstellar branch of Habitat? Janek, back on Prometheus, is monitoring the expedition's data, and doesn't like what he sees. "Whatever that probe is picking up…"
And now we see Charlize Theron's Vickers, a Company rep, also on board the Prometheus, looking at the data as red dots start to home in on yellow triangles (that we guess represent the scientists)… Janek adds, "It's reading a lifeform." Ulp.
Three besuited figures enter a room. Is that an egg? Surely not…? Notice how the scientists aren't wearing helmets here, yet are outside the structure. Interesting…"What do you mean, 'a lifeform'?" asks Holloway, as we see David approach an ampule.
A shot of the ceiling of one of the chambers. It seems to be moving. "Overhead!" cries Shaw. And as we see her look up with her torch shining on something, we notice that she is crying, incredibly moved by the discovery she's made. "They're changing…" she whispers.
Vickers echoes the thoughts of everyone watching this: "Changing into what?" Oh, Sir Ridders, you tease!
David watches a tiny creature, what looks like a bean, jump around. He has an eerie smile on his face.
What appears to be a gloved hand coated in plasma, slowly prises its fingers apart. A panicked Fifield, who doesn't want to be there, asks: "Moving? Are these things moving?"
What… the… hell? Enshined on the wall is a very old, familiar figure, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reminder that this is an Alien prequel. Can we expect to see something like this up and running around before too long?
In the alien pyramid, a lightshow flickers into life. "What is that?" asks a voice that, given its Scottish lilt, we presume belong to Ford.
Back on Prometheus, Janek and Vickers aren't happy. "That's a ship," says Janek.
And, lo and behold, we see a hologrammatic representation of the ship. Alien fans, hold on tight - we've seen that before. Yes, it's the Space Jockey's Derelict. And then we see the ship for real, as the structure opens. "They were leaving," says a voice that may be Fassbender's.
Something is rising up through the darkness…
"To go where?" asks Shaw.
David, holding a lightglobe that looks familiar, says: "Earth." So, having stumbled upon the Space Jockeys, have our heroes inadvertently set them on a path that may lead to mankind's destruction? Oops. In the grand tradition of movie scientists, their meddling may lead to lots of death and destruction. And, frankly, we wouldn't have it any other way. Remember kids - don't read books and get smart, or we'll all die! With David then surrounded by the starmap, looks exultant, drinking in the discovery.
Shaw, in a robe, back on Prometheus, says "We were so wrong." These words were heard, faintly, at the opening of the last trailer. What was she wrong about? The Space Jockeys' intentions?
Back to the ship! Get to da choppa! Etc. Etc. A shot of David's helmet cam - note the Weyland logo? (top left) - shows someone running for their lives.
"Take us home!" yells Vickers, who is also British. On it. Janek lifts Prometheus off the planet and into space. Phew, that was a close one. Movie's over, folks! File out in a neat and orderly… oh. It's not over, is it? Something's going to go horribly wrong on board, isn't it?
Back on the planet - and we don't know whether this is happening at the same time, or later on - Shaw feels the ground open beneath her feet. "If we don't stop it, there won't be a home to go back to!" she yells, lending credence to those early rumours that the Space Jockeys might be planning to use the Aliens as a bio-weapon to wipe out entire races and civilisations.
Shaw runs for her life.
We can't entirely make out what Janek's saying here, but it appears to be, 'Why's that door open?' And he's not best pleased. Ravel rises from his seat in horror, looking at something out of shot. Has something got on board the Prometheus?
Interesting one, this. Shaw, drenched in sweat, stands looking at a mirror in her quarters, while a voice yells, "CUT IT OFF! CUT IT OFF!" Cut what off? And from whom?
And now, as that Alien-style high-pitched wailing begins, we see a terrified Vickers high-tail it down the corridors of the ship, looking for a way out.
Seen for a split-second… is this a Space Jockey on the planet? And what is that glowing thing he's looking at? This cannot be good.
An approaching storm – or has it been whipped up by the Space Jockeys' departing ship – heads straight for the Prometheus.
On board the ship, two suited figures use their flamethrowers to ward off something.
Another slightly longer version of a shot from the first teaser, as a Prometheus crew member – now horribly mutated or scarred by something – leaps at one of his colleagues. What could have mutated or scarred this individual? Something from the ampule chamber? Is someone tampering with DNA? Has the Prometheus stolen something, akin to fire, from the Gods? If so, no wonder the 'Gods' are pissed off.
The Space Jockey looks on at something very familiar to fans of Alien – the cockpit/turret from the Derelict. Is this where he meets his doom?
What we presume is a medical capsule opens… We can't see the patient, so we can't be absolutely sure, but could this be Shaw?
The Prometheus hurtles through space… And Janek doesn't seem too happy about something coming towards it. Be warned – the next shot is a HUGE SPOILER, or certainly seems to be. Don't say we didn't warn you. In fact, from hereonin, it's a spoiler-o-rama.
Here, the Prometheus seems to be crashing into the Derelict. A noble sacrifice to prevent the death of the human race? Or something else? Is there more to this than meets the eye? And it's interesting that this shot is in here, and that Sir Ridley would have approved something so spoilerific. But, if we're playing Devil's Advocate, Prometheus is a mood movie, in which very few things blow up. Audiences don't like it when things don't blow up these days, so if you have a chance to insert an explosion into your trailer, perhaps you seize it…
Shaw, on the planet, leaps over a chasm as it gets wider – all the better to allow the Space Jockeys to leave.
Someone's having a bad day.
Shaw, covered in blood and in Ripley-style underoos, staggers through the corridors of the Prometheus. There's a big orange suit behind her – what could that be for?
Now we know why the Derelict is called the Derelict. This is another shot that was seen in the first teaser.
During a massive storm, someone tries to prevent themselves from being blown away. It doesn't seem to be working.
Vickers crams herself into an escape pod and hopes for the best. But what is she escaping from? Where's the rest of the crew?
Say hello to the most famous Jockey this side of AP McCoy.
Another shot from the first teaser, of some guys – mercenaries? Bodyguards? – firing guns at something that's on board the Prometheus. Again, let's note what appears to be an old man standing behind them. Is this Guy Pearce's Peter Weyland?
The Derelict crashlands. If Zoolander were here, he'd say something like, "You can derelict our balls, Space Jockeys!" Charlize Theron's Vickers runs for her life.
Shaw, in full-on Ripley Warrior Mode. She's furious with something…
Here we see what it is. Or what it appears to be. A Space Jockey, on board Prometheus, and cornering Shaw. But is it a Space Jockey, per se? Or a mutated, augmented crew member? Find out the truth when Prometheus hits in June.
And now the last shot of the trailer, a tongue-in-cheek confirmation – to go with all the other confirmations - that Prometheus is an Alien prequel, as David tells someone, 'Big things have small beginnings'. It's fair to say that Prometheus could be an even more intense, bleak summer movie experience than The Dark Knight Rises, but this line shows that it's not entirely without a sense of humour. And, following Shame, giving Fassbender a line like this is, somehow, rather apt.


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Oaty raisin cookies
Member recipe by hopeth
ServingsServes 1 - 12 Cookies
These cookies are amazingly easy to make, and have a crumbly-cakey texture to them. Quick and easy and PERFECT with warm milk, natural yoghurt, or just a tastey and healthy treat. This recipe makes 10-12 (depending on how big you want your cookies!) but the amounts can be easily doubled to make larger amounts for more people. Instead of raisins, try chopped dates, small pieces of ginger, chocolate chips...go crazy!
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- 50g low-fat margarine or butter
- 50g caster sugar
- 1tbsp set honey OR dessert spoon of runny honey
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 50g wholemeal flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- 80g porridge oats
- 50g raisins
- Heat oven to 180 C / 160 C (fan assisted) / gas 4. Grease a large baking sheet
- In a large bowl, mix the margarine/butter and sugar together until soft, then beat in the honey (using an electric whisk makes it quick and easy!)
- Add the egg and cinnamon powder and mix well
- In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, oats and raisins and mix together before adding to the butter mixture.
- Drop heaped dessertspoonfuls of the cookie dough onto the baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden
- Remove them from the oven, they should be golden but will still seem a tiny bit soft to the touch. Leave them on the tray for a minute (this lets them settle slightly) before transferring them to a cooling tray to completely cool. Store in an air tight container or (if you're anything like me) dive straight in!
Comments, questions and tips
11th Aug, 2013
These are definitely more like little cakes. However in the description it does state that they will have a crumbly-cakey texture. I used 35g of dark brown muscovado sugar and added chopped almonds along with the raisins. They do taste lovely and are quick and simple to make but if you are after a true cookie then you may want to try a different recipe.
24th Mar, 2013
I adapted this recipe today and the bics were delish! the substitutions i made were: maple syrup instead of honey lowered the sugar to 35g used a raisen and chopped dried apricot mix instead of just raisen added small handful of roughly chopped mixed nuts (brazil, almond & walnut) dunked the top of the cookie into ground almonds before baking.
27th Dec, 2012
These were fab with a few of my little alterations for the second. batch: I used Soft brown sugar instead of caster. I added a little bit of vanilla extract. I reduced the amount of flour (not by a lot) and increased the oats to make them less cake like in texture. I also like to boil the raisins for 10 min or so to make them extra plump and juicy before adding them.


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GARY Havelock has accused the British Speedway Promoters Association (BSPA) of sending out conflicting messages as the row over his farewell meeting rumbles on.
Pirates legend Havelock was left fuming when speedway chiefs moved the Elite Riders Championship to the same date as his long-standing date at Poole to accommodate broadcast partners Sky.
In a statement released on Sunday, the BSPA said that Sky "provide the association with potential schedule dates for events" and were "not to blame for the direct clash", a stance supported by vice-chairman Jon Cook in an interview with the Daily Echo.
However, Havelock claimed that two members of speedway's governing body – Chris van Straaten and Cook – had "blamed" their broadcast partners in telephone conversations with him over the issue.
Havelock said: "Chris van Straaten swore that it was out of the BSPA's control and that Sky had demanded that date. Jon Cook told me the same story the next day but the statement said something completely different.
"It has started to become clear that was never the case and nobody has called me since to say otherwise.
"I would have thought after everything that has happened that they would have had the decency to be up front and tell me the whole truth."
In response, Wolverhampton promoter van Straaten said: "On Wednesday, I told Gary that Sky had requested the meeting which the agreement allowed them to do.
"That was exactly how I understood it and the information I gave him at the time was correct."
Cook said: "I didn't blame Sky but did explain it was their need for the date to move from the Sunday to the Friday because they had a scheduled slot on that day."
He added that the situation was not caused by "direct malice from the BSPA, Go Speed (commercial rights holders) or Sky."
Meanwhile, support for Havelock's cause continues to gather momentum with the 1992 world champion admitting to feeling "overwhelmed" by the backing.
Havelock added: "I was in such a bad place when they told me but the amount of goodwill messages I have received since has been absolutely staggering. So many people have told me to stick to my guns and not change the date.
"Several riders have got in touch to say what a disgrace it all is and it is great to have the support of my fellow professionals."
Havelock confirmed talks were ongoing over when his meeting would take place with an announcement scheduled via a live telephone link during Poole Pirates' quiz night on Wednesday evening.


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Traffic signals at the Clinton Keith Road/Interstate 15 interchange in Wildomar are scheduled to go dark Thursday and Friday, and motorists should anticipate delays traveling through the area.
According to the Riverside County Transportation Department, the traffic lights are going to be shut down so that workers can install a new signal system.
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Ford Motor Company (
) this morning
pulled the wraps off
a major update to its MyFord Touch (MFT) and MyLincoln Touch (MLT) (SYNC Gen. 2) infotainment systems. The update will land next year and will be offered both preinstalled on new models and as an update to existing models.
I. Ford Looks to Forge Greatness from Criticism
MyFord Touch has had a rocky road. The initial launch actually seemed to
regress in the voice recognition department
from Ford's
first generation SYNC infotainment system
series of updates
has improved that situation, as our testing showed in September. But the system we tested was still suffering from stability issues,
rebooting several times
That said, Ford still is the leader in this category. In early testing Toyota Motor Comp.'s (
) Entune system was
far behind Ford's system
in terms of capabilities and featured a touch screen (which we were told would be the production model) which required you to literally jab it with your fingers in order to get it to respond. In short, Ford may have stumbled with the original MFT, but the competition is still struggling to take advantage of that.
With MFT 2.0 (SYNC Gen. 3) (this isn't an official title as far as we know, but it seems an appropriate designation as it's the third major release of SYNC and second of MFT), Ford is looking to ensure that the competition doesn't get a shot at stealing its infotainment crown.
While the proof is in the testing, the paper release of MFT 2.0 looks very impressive. The improvements are across the board in the following categories:
Improved GUI for less distraction
Faster and more responsive
Improved system stability
New functionality
Further improved voice recognition
Gary Jablonski the manager of the SYNC platform at Ford says the new look is the result of extensive customer feedback. He comments, "The keys to continuous improvement are simple: Listen, learn and respond. That's how we're going to keep our customers happy. Evolving the software with meaningful enhanced features was part of our plan from the very beginning. It's no different than the experience with our smartphones and laptop computers – except now, it's your car that gets better."
At its four customer clinics Ford not only helped
show customers how to use the new MyFord Touch
(and MyLincoln Touch) platforms, it also was carefully noting their experiences. It reports interviewing "hundreds of customers" to get the input used in the design of the new system.
II. Better Voice Control, Better Visual Layout, New Options
Much of the improvements come in terms of the user interface.
In order to
reduce distraction
, Ford has totally overhauled the graphics on the center touch panel. It's removed non-critical information. It's also made the fonts 40 percent bigger, wider, and bolded, reducing the time it takes to read options. The menus have also been revamped to share the same pattern. In total 1,000+ menus have been redesigned.
This is a big deal as consistency is something other companies are struggling with. A source at GM reports their upcoming infotainment system, code-named Next-Generation Infotainment (NGI) has dozens of disparate visual elements, all for the same functionality. This is creating a bewildering mess of a system, which GM's engineers are trying desperately to untangle.
Other improvements to the interface come on the voice control side. One annoyance in SYNC (even with the solid Gen. 1) has always been the lag between pressing the button on the steering wheel and the system being ready to process voice input. With the new system, Ford promises to most eliminate that lag, offering the near-instant response a first-time user would expect.
Voice commands will also recognize shorter commands. For example "North Main Street" now can be simply referred to as "Main Street" and songs can now be verbally selected without additional parantheses-bounded information like the album titles.
And there's even a handful of new commands to boot, like a "Tune to the <VARIABLE> game", where the variable is your favorite sports team.
III. New Features
The complete and utter overhaul of the user interface, Ford also is adding some new features to the table. One popular request was improved support for audio books, so Ford has added touch-screen commands for audiobooks from Amazon.com Inc. (
online store Audible.com
Ford has also partnered with Sony Corp. (
) to add support for the Gracenote album art database. Gracenote is used by Apple, Inc.'s (
) iTunes (and Apple's devices) and online services Pandora, Google Music, Spotify, and AmazonMP3.
The navigation system has also received improvements courtesy of NAVTEQ (a Nokia Oyj. (
) subsidiary). The system will feature smarter routing via historic traffic patterns, photorealistic images of highway junctions, and improved 3D maps with more landmarks.
Mobile device support has also been improved in several ways. First, USB support for tablets has finally been added. Ford's press release mentioned the Apple iPad. We're checking to see if popular Android tablets (like Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (
) Galaxy Tab) are supported.
Additionally, handsets with firmware support can now automatically discover and sync to SYNC, removing the need to connect them by hand. And when calling on a connected headset, Ford's audio system now exercises improved noise-cancellation to remove road noise and other background sounds from your phone call.
IV. Availability and Final Words
The new system will be available next year, starting with the 2013 model year Ford Escape, Flex, and Taurus. An update is also coming to the MyLincoln Touch system in the 2013 2012 Lincoln MKX. For existing MFT owners, you will receive the update in a USB stick mailed to your home address (that's pretty easy). Just plug in the stick and the update will install and you'll be transported to the world of MFT 2.0.
Ford has been quite lucky thus far. According to reviewers -- including us -- Ford dropped the ball a bit with MyFord Touch, but its competitors kindly did not capitalize, failing to make a better system. Arguably this has illustrated that implementing the kind of voice control system that Batman or Jean Luc Picard used for decades in science fiction shows and movies is a bit harder than one might think -- even with our amazing current technology.
With the MFT 2.0 Ford definitely sounds like its headed in the right direction. It has less than a year to bake the release version, so the pressure is now on for the company to deliver on its big promises. We had our share of criticism for MFT 1.0, between its voice control issues, and later the rebooting mess. But we're very eager to test this new system. If Ford can deliver on its promises, this could be a home run for the company.
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As a result, the demand by companies trying to reach female customers has opened up money-making opportunities for moms with blogs.
Sara Patterson of Baytown started blogging about the products she used and places her family would go on her blog Momma Findings. It soon caught the eye of a educational book company.
"They sent me a whole stack of workbooks and I thought they are going to send me free stuff just so I can talk about it on my blog," said Patterson. "Suddenly, I thought this is something more than a family blog where I talk about my kids."
She tried the books and wrote reviews, which she said opened the floodgates. Soon, other companies were sending her products to try.
For Crystal Reagan, it started with laundry detergent. The detergent begain arriving two years ago, and now Reagan's blog Simply Being Mommy receives hundreds of thousands of hits.
In fact, there are local mommy blogs that have anywhere from 150,000 to 350,000 unique visitors every month. Those website can earn between $3,500 to $4,500 for their writers in the same time period.
"I would work with anybody, but now it's not their rules, it is my rules. I get to decide who I work with and I get to decide who gets space on my blog," said Reagan.
Patterson and Reagan are just two members of an emerging industry of power mom bloggers.
"Moms have been giving toother moms recommendations of this is what I used and I didn't like, and now companies are tapping into moms online to get that same message out but about their own product," said Patterson.
They are women with contact lists some PR companies would envy. Patterson told KPRC Local 2 she has numbers for H-E-B, Whirpool and Disney employees in her iPhone.
"My contact list is pretty impressive. I am way past workbooks, I just started working with Whirpool so they sent me a brand new Duet washer and dryer," said Patterson.
The mommy bloggers jet across the country to red carpet premieres and visit the headquarters of major brands.
"Disney is huge. Whirpool, Nissan, Ford, Lexus are some I have been to recently. I have taken about ten to 12 brand trips in the last year," said Reagan.
Amy Gross, another mommy blogger, said brand name companies are seeing a shortcut to their prime demographic through the moms on the net.
"I think that the brands are recognizing the power of the mom and it is not just the power of the mom in her family but women are looking for advice and the bloggers are trusted and they can share that advice," said Amy Gross, writer and creators of Mom Travel Tales, Mom's Toolbox and Vine Sleuth.
That mentality has companies like H-E-B exploring connections with the women behind the most popular blogs.
"I wouldn't say this is major piece of what we do, but it is becoming an important source to reach a certain demographic that are into finding value on the internet," said Scott McClelland, president H-E-B Houston. "So, I think instead of focusing on just TV and print, this becomes one more medium we look at. It is not major, I would say it is emerging."
The Houston area grocery store has ten beauty bloggers in the community who receive products to test, to write reviews of and to use as prizes for their readers. Last August, H-E-B hosted a contest where mom bloggers were paid to write recipes and send readers to the store website.
"At the same time we were running a promotion that provides feature pricing on the items they were using in their recipes, so it really works in a 360 degree wheel," said McClelland.
Blogger Jessica Benton told KPRC Local 2 mom bloggers are not just writing about diapers and detergents. She changed her money saving family blog into That Tech Chick and became a star in the mom world of gadgets. Each year she is invited to the CES conference, where tech insiders get a glimpse of what is coming out the following year.
"When you are the blogging community, companies see you as an influencer," said Benton.
"If a company contacts me and I don't have to write about whatever they are pitching, I will let them know, 'Hey, you can buy an ad and my readers can still see you,'" said Patterson.
Ads are the obvious money, but bloggers also make money from sponsored posts.
"Say they want me to include a product -- so I will tell a story about something I would normally write anyway, but include how we use that product in my story," said Reagan. "That is a sponsored website and they pay us for it, the mention."
Bloggers are also required by the Federal Trade Commission to mention that fact somewhere I the post.
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Another money-maker is an affiliate link. Readers can make a purchase and the blog owner receives a cut of the sales. Benton told KPRC Local 2 she did this with a tech gadget and was able to go back to the company and show them how many were sold because of her story.
The mom bloggers admit while the money is nice, having people pay attention is a greater reward.
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There's more than meets the eye with narwhals. One might picture the "unicorn of the sea:" a tusked porpoise related to the dolphins. But now, another narwhal rears its head – one that also occupies the darkness of the sea, stirring the water beneath, while the surface appears calm: President Obama's 'Project Narwhal.'
Project Narwhal describes the Obama team's efforts to connect previously separate databases so that information on potential voters becomes accessible to the various branches of Obama's campaign. In other words, Narwhal surfaces as a gigantic voter profile information system for the Obama team as a whole.
Last election, several different information reservoirs existed; however, each was separate from another. VoteBuilder diagnosed voters' beliefs based on political activities, Blue State Digital held records on e-mail and text message registrations, one database listed donors, and yet another file held volunteers' information.
The voter profile sharing permits campaign workers to target voters with specific issues. Instead of sending general "safe" messages, Obama's canvassers and data researchers research a voter to deliver a tailored message. A single woman might receive a message on abortion, whereas an environmentalist would obtain a message on Obama's energy policies.
Author Sasha Issenberg calls Narwhal the blending of "multiple identities of the engaged citizen—the online activist, the offline voter, the donor, the volunteer—into a single, unified political profile." Obama's project means citizens registered as Obama volunteers won't find an unnecessary canvasser at their door, states Issenberg. When a donor reaches the contribution limit of $2,500, he or she will be persuaded to volunteer rather than donate more.
Obama 2012 Campaign Manager Jim Messina hints at an even larger plan in Chicago, "Our efforts on the ground and on technology will make 2008 look prehistoric." Messina employs an in-house design crew, gear team, and tech developers to craft a "top-secret application" to "track every conversation that every single Obama volunteer has…every action they take."
Personalization conceals the team's actions for a potential desecration of voter privacy. Michael Slaby, Obama's integration and innovation officer, believes his program promotes "treating people like people." His new invention, 'a "microlistening" and computer modeling program,' will uncover "online and off-line behavior patterns for voter information" in order to "personalize every interaction we have with the campaign: fundraising, volunteering, persuasion, mobilization."
Another Narwhal project concept involves a type of social network. Volunteers log in with their Facebook account for granted admission to "any tool…in a field office." Slaby advertises, "You can have that at home, on your computer, in real time, in a way that connects to what your friends are doing and what the people around you are doing." In the process, the campaign obtains access to the volunteers' Facebook networks, as well as information volunteers submit on voters.
The system will be so precise that, according to The Daily Beast, Obama's team "won't send its backers a video and say, 'Share this with everyone you know'; it will say, 'Share this with your four Facebook friends in Pennsylvania's crucial Lehigh Valley swing district who are worried about the president's tax policies.'"
Jim Messina denies the secret project to claim, "some people think we have a magic formula to win this campaign - what we really have is you." He elaborates that Obama's campaign opponents lack Obama's grassroots network. He forgets to explan that grassroots is their magic formula: to know all through few – the potential voters through the volunteers.
President Obama is a smart guy with a brilliant strategy worth studying. He and Messina focus on the "you" – the power of each individual, or "you," to contribute to the campaign while persuading others to join. Voters flock towards this: a campaign that appears to believe in them and their potential as a unique person. This campaign recognizes the difference one person can make in persuading a family member or friend to vote for Obama.
The peril approaches when Obama's campaign grapples over the line of personal privacy versus personal targeting. Researching every person in order to manipulate a variety of messages telling voters exactly what they want to hear treads upon dangerous waters.
George Orwell in 1984, warns of a 'Big Brother' government, "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment… You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
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