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So 3 days ago I started to follow everyone to gain followers, and in 3 days I've been followed by 950 people wich means I can reach 10k followers pretty easy.I look good in my profile picture and all people like my bio, people is like @......... I love yor bio.
Let's say when I have 10k followers and I unfollow everyone, how many of them do you think will unfollow me back?
Probably most of them. There are programs that check if any followers have left and then automatically unfollows them. You are kind of gaming the system, which isn't really a good idea on social media. Unless you are offering something valuable and people are following you because they are really interested, your follower count will appear fake and won't be taken seriously. A lot of the time you see a big follower count it isn't very impressive, as you know that they have just followed everything that moves to get followed back.
My 2c, anyway.
If you're collecting followers on the basis of a gimmick and not what you actually post about it's totally irrelevant if some, most, or all unfollow you as none have relevancy. Your follower count is not a meaningful metric if it's not composed of people who actually (a) use twitter and (b) care what you have to say.
Of course to ralph's point, people who followed you on a mutual exchange basis are probably use to this game and while I don't get the point for you or them, they'll quickly catch on.
I think the follower count in that kind of scenario is used as some sort of a bait that would make some people think that this person is worth following because he or she has a lot of followers. One thing that I look at is the ratio of the people a person follows and the people who follow the said person. Along with that, I also look at the Tweets that they actually post. Taking those into consideration could help you find out if the person's genuine or not. Okay, I know it's kinda off topic, but you get my drift.
On to your question. If you're going to unfollow those people that you've previously followed, there's a chance that some of them might un-follow you. There's also this chance that they could have looked at those factors I've mentioned before they actually add you. The latter means that the person you followed didn't follow you back because he or she saw that you're not really someone who uses Twitter genuinely.
A few years ago I worked my twitter account to 20k followers in a few months. Still have the acct and use it daily. The trick is to only follow around 200 every day, and then at the end of every week u use an automated program (there are several, I think huiter is 1) to un follow those that do not follow you back. DO NOT unfollow ppl who are following u, u will lose them as followers, as long as u delete all that don't follow u back every week u will always have more followers then ppl u follow.
I don't want to misunderstand you here but are you suggesting that the right people to follow are only those who follow you? And what does this tactic accomplish?
Well in the context of kvnwpts post
"3 days ago I started to follow everyone to gain followers, and in 3 days I've been followed by 950 people wich means I can reach 10k followers pretty easy"
If he is following people for the sole purpose of gaining followers then it is smart to un follow anyone that does not follow you back. However, I have learned from several years on twitter that its not about building as many followers as possible its about connecting with people and having something to say that people are interested in hearing.
If you can accomplish that then twitter can be a useful tool for your business. If you just build a huge following of people and don't interact with anyone or provide useful content then they will just ignore you.
Most of them will unfollow you. You just follow those people who follow you back and you can check who is not following your via online, There are so many sites like manageflitter.com suggest you who is not following you so just check them and then share your experience.
lol it is not like that you have some limits on twitter you can't follow more than 2000 people initially
That is exactly why I suggested him to unfollow those that do not follow him back on the way up. That way one will always be following less then are following you and the 2k restriction is lifted.
A whole lot of people are just following you coz u r also following them, and when you un-follow them at least 35% of them will also unfollow you too, as everyone is here for their own interest and most of them really don't like it that way, and won't hesitate to unfollow you as soon as you unfollow them, so now it is up to you that what are you willing to do next.
Thanks guys for the answers, I actually unfollowed 2700 people and about 70 of them has unfollowed me yet. It was about 3 days ago I did it.
But my twitter account is going pretty well. I have gained 3800 in about one week.
And what are these I-follow-you ... you-follow-me people doing for your business?
This is not about my buisness at all. I just think It's fun to have a message that reach out to many people. That's it.
Wow! 3800 Followers in just a week is something big man! Why don't you start it as a part time business? I am sure you are going to do very well in that, and can make good amount of $$ through it too! :)..
This is really amazing to have 6358 followers with just 52 tweets. You opted for a bad technique but it worked in your case. As there are many accounts which have been banned by Twitter for following too many people. But you seem to be a lucky champ.
Having 6,000 or 600,000 followers is not the point. It's the attention, response and impact of those people... And bigger "follower" counts does not necessarily equate to any of that.
This is the bad idea. And i think who are really active on Twitter they un-follow you. and other are just ignore. if you unfollow then no one even know that you are un-following all. This is just a time pass. Pls think some good that really help your profile, business and give some benefit of time. this is wastage of your time.
Not many of the will unfollow right away, but it time your followers number will drop, but in this time you may use other methods of exchanging followers, therefore gaining followers rather then loosing them, all this without following to much people in the end.
That line of thought would make you think of the celebrities who may have just created a Twitter account. If WWE's HHH would have made a Twitter account right now, I think he'll have at least a million followers, even if he wouldn't be able to Tweet that much.


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Right-wing media have marked the 40th Anniversary of Title IX by attacking equal opportunity efforts for women in the "STEM" fields of science, technology, engineering, or math. The historic civil rights law prohibits discrimination in federally-funded education programs or activities on the basis of sex.
Conservative media has not only argued that such affirmative action is unconstitutional, but has gone farther and argued that the law does not apply beyond scholastic sports and requires quotas. They also insist that women simply do not want to study or work in science-or math-related fields. The first three claims are demonstrably incorrect; the fourth assertion contradicts numerous studies and cannot satisfactorily explain the disproportionate under-representation of women in these educational fields.
On the July 25 edition of Fox & Friends, Gretchen Carlson hosted a segment that touched on all of these discredited arguments in an interview with Hans Bader, Counsel for Special Projects for the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bader concluded the interview by asserting that women are heavily underrepresented in the STEM fields because they naturally choose "organic subjects like people, plants, animals, biology, psychology." Carlson then ended the interview, noting that there "could be" a counter argument to this last claim.
Bader's Fox and Friends appearance is only the most recent example of conservative attacks on the Obama Administration's efforts to utilize Title IX for the promotion of equal opportunity in science and math education.
For example, Sabrina Schaeffer and Carrie Lukas of the conservative Independent Women's Forum did the same on June 18 and June 22 in the Huffington Post and U.S. News, respectively, Fox News Political Analyst Kirsten Powers took aim at sex-based affirmative action on July 17 in USA Today, and New York Post columnist Kyle Smith used the front page to launch a July 14 op-ed that was particularly reliant on sex stereotypes.
These conservative commentators repeated Bader's false claims: that Title IX's scope is limited to athletics, the Obama administration is proposing quotas, equal opportunity efforts disregard women's aversion to science and math, and affirmative action on the basis of sex is unconstitutional.
All of these conservative critiques are incorrect or unsubstantiated.
Title IX Is Not Just For Athletics
The text of Title IX makes clear that the law applies to education generally, and not just scholastic sports. In his July 15 New York Post column Kyle Smith claimed that Title IX was "previously an instrument for punishing male athletes for liking sports more than women," an argument about the alleged "broadening [of] Title IX" mirrored by Burke in a July 16 Foundry post. But the actual text of the statute makes clear that these claims are backwards and STEM education is clearly at the core of Title IX's reach:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. [20 USC § 1681, et seq.]
Title IX Does Not Require Quotas
There are three separate ways to demonstrate compliance with Title IX, none of which involve quotas. As explained in a National Women's Law Center factsheet in reference to athletics:
A school can meet the requirement of providing equal opportunities to play if it can demonstrate any one of the following:
Prong 1: The percentages of male and female athletes are substantially proportionate to the percentages of male and female students enrolled; or
Prong 2: It has a history and continuing practice of expanding athletic opportunities for the underrepresented sex; or
Prong 3: Its athletics program fully and effectively accommodates the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex. [National Women's Law Center, 1/30/12]
This is well-settled, but the right-wing media continues to recycle this false charge. In her June 22 U.S. News column, IWF's Lukas is only the latest to claim the law's "dark legacy" is an "intrusive quota system."
But Title IX specifically disavows a quota system. As the Department of Justice pointed out:
Some critics claimed that the legislation was intended to try to maintain a certain quota or ratio of male to female students. Senator Bayh reiterated many times during the debate that "the amendment is not designed to require specific quotas. The thrust of the amendment is to do away with every quota." 117 Cong. Rec. 30,409 (1971). The Senator went on to state that, "The language of my amendment does not require reverse discrimination. It only requires that each individual be judged on merit, without regard to sex." Id.
In the end, the House attached a floor amendment to the bill specifying that the legislation would not require quotas. [Department of Justice, Title IX Legal Manual]
Claims That Women Aren't Interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math Contradict Evidence
There are multiple national studies and surveys that show the relative lack of women in science and math education is because "[s]tereotypes and institutional obstacles exist that depress the number of women in STEM fields, including the following: [g]ender barriers and lack of encouragement... [d]iscrimination, including "stereotype threat"... [and] [f]ewer role models and mentors."
In response, the right wing-media often relies on old sex stereotypes such as those trotted out by Smith in his July 14 column:
Imagine (I know, this is a stretch) a Stanford advanced electrical-engineering class that consists entirely of men. How are you going to get women to turn up at and remain there? Handcuffs? Harvard would turn into "50 Shades of Crimson." [New York Post, 7/14/12]
Even without the use of such gross stereotypes, others in the conservative media, such as Powers, continue to insist there are no barriers to women and it is choice, not a lack of opportunity, that explains their under-representation in science and math education:
The National Women's Law Center complains that women need to be better represented in the STEM fields that are more lucrative. This condescendingly assumes that women don't already consider these things when choosing a career.
If women don't want to be computer scientists, it's not Uncle (or Auntie) Sam's job to push them into it. [USA Today, 7/17/12]
Title IX Is Constitutional
Finally, nine separate federal courts of appeal have rejected constitutional challenges to Title IX. Nevertheless, the myth of Title IX's unconstitutionality appears to have reappeared thanks to the frequently-quoted Bader:
Moreover, notes Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, several federal courts have ruled that applying Title IX to education rather than sports is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. [New York Post, 7/14/12]
Bader explains in detail this position in a July 10 posting on the CEI website. However, as Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women's Law Center noted via email to Media Matters:
[Bader] conflates a range of different issues, none of which relate to a focus by the administration in addressing the underrepresentation of women and girls in the STEM fields. Nothing proposed by the Administration would constitute "quotas" or "gender balancing." He also misstates Title IX's requirement that schools provide equal opportunities to participate in athletics - again, there is no "quota" or "gender balancing" there. Finally, I'm entirely unsure how there is a leap to the constitutionality of Title IX, a law that has been around for 40 years and had the benefit of many Supreme Court interpretations that have found otherwise.
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Call it a lesson in heavy lifting and philanthropy.
Last week, Winnipeg Harvest revealed students from 69 Manitoba schools helped raise more than 26,000 pounds of food as part of its 14th annual Operation Donation School Food Drive earlier this month.
"It feels good," said Cameron Tramley, a Grade 6 student at École Varennes in St. Vital, which contributed about 500 pounds to the total.
The food was collected from Feb. 25 to March 1, and included food donated from the Manitoba Teacher's Society and Manitoba Public Insurance. Peak of the Market and Canada Safeway matched the weight of donations from all the groups, pushing the campaign total to 117,800 pounds.
But it's only a drop in the bucket for the food bank, located at 1085 Winnipeg Ave. The amount is about one-ninth of the more than one million pounds of food Harvest moves each month to 5,500 city households, 40 low-income daycares and 26 schools, spokesman Duncan Stokes said.
"It fills a lot of need for a lot of different people," he said.
"It doesn't mean we don't need more. We always need more."
Operation Donation began as a food drive between six schools in the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, and has netted more than a million pounds for Harvest.
Grade 5 École Varennes student Kateesha Wai said she brought food in each day during this year's campaign, from canned meat to crackers to noodles and pasta sauces.
"It makes you really thankful for everything you have," said Wai, who has helped volunteer at Harvest and the local food bank Harvest operates at St. Mary's Road United Church as part of her school curriculum.
Varennes Principal Jeff Anderson said the school's knitting club is also supporting Harvest by selling homemade knitted scarves for $15. The school has so far raised more than $1,000, he said.
"We want to develop the citizenship skills of our students," said Anderson.
"We want them to recognize they're part of a wider community and to help out."
Stokes said youth like Cramley and Wai play a pivotal role in Harvest's future.
"We need more young adults who . . . have a sense of philanthropy and community, and will lead that fight against hunger in the future."
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BSU and Boston Strong: One Year Later
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Tuesday marks the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, an event that deeply touched the region and the BSU community.
The Tsarnaev brothers allegedly set off two bombs targeting spectators of the city's annual marathon race on April 15, 2013. The bombs, detonated near the finish line on Boylston Street, killed 3 people and injured an estimated 264 others. In the aftermath, an MIT police officer was killed, as well.
Five athletic training students and their professor, Kimberly Wise, spent the day working triage inside a tent just beyond the finish line. The students were: Jordan DaSilva, Tom Doucete, Joe Sanford and Jordan Leonard, all class of 2014; and Bethany Forshaw, G'13. The members of the group were helping runners recover from the 26.2-mile race. Once the first bomb went off, Professor Wise saw her students running toward the wreckage. Knowing it was impossible to stop the students, she said to herself, "We're going in."
The members of the group were hailed several weeks later during commencement by President Dana Mohler-Faria. He told graduates to follow their brave example.
Another member of the BSU community played an integral part in the aftermath of the bombings. When the suspects were on the run three nights later, they ended up in Watertown. There, Sgt. John MacLellan, '88, was the patrol supervisor that night. He was second on the scene as the Tsarnaev brothers were stopped on Laurel Street. Shortly after he arrived at the scene, of what was then just a traffic stop, to assist Patrolman Joe Reynolds, bullets and homemade bombs started flying.
After a tenacious gunfight lasting several minutes, the older suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ran up Laurel Street heading directly for Sgt. MacLellan. The veteran officer was out of bullets and believed he was finished. Tsarnaev was, fortunately, also out of bullets. MacLellan and another officer subdued the suspect and were trying to handcuff him as he lay struggling beneath them on the ground. Now the concern was of some sort of explosives the suspect might attempt to detonate.
Sgt. MacLellan's life again flashed before his eyes. "I thought to myself, 'I just hope it's quick,'" he said. "I really thought this was it. There's no way this kid came up here unarmed."
The rest is, as they say, history. Tamerlan Tsarnaev had no explosives on him. He was arrested but died on Laurel Street, due to wounds suffered in the gunfight and after being run over by his younger brother. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got away that night, but was apprehended about 20 hours later during the Watertown lockdown.
For his actions on the night of the Laurel Street shootout, Sgt. MacLellan will receive the Presidential Medal of Valor later this month. (Story by Caitlin Seddon, University News)


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In Quest of Theta Magic
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Dean Williams is in need of a wife and not just any old wife will do; she must be versed in the ancient Theta crafts and help him with his quest. Elana Bailey takes matters into her own hands and plans to somehow spare her beautiful but frail sister from having to marry the ugly, brutish man named Dean. One of the first things that struck me about this story was how human and likable the characters were despite the fantasy elements. It is always a pleasure to pick up a book that grabs a reader's attention immediately. The characters were very unique and with Dean in particular, I was taken aback when I realized how much I liked him. Throughout the story there are contrasts of good & evil, beauty & the beast and it had the requisite simmering romance that makes one blush with the explicit sensuality. So many times I've found that erotic stories are big on "skin" and leave a lot to be desired when it comes to plot and story development. You can imagine my delight as I read this story and I enjoyed every single page! I have to commend Enid Wilson on creating this distinctive storybook world and thank her for keeping me thoroughly entertained. I look forward to reading more books by this author and I very highly recommend that you pick up a copy of In Quest of Theta Magic for yourself or a friend!!
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Danica Patrick made history last week by being the first female to earn a Cup Series pole at Daytona. As historic as that achievement was for the young NASCAR driver, many still questioned how she would fare once she got into racing competition.
Those questions were answered as the NASCAR Rookie of the Year contender ran in the top 10 most of the day and finished the Daytona 500 in eighth position.
"She's going to make a lot of history all year long," said second place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. about Patrick's racing skills. "I think she's done her best work in the Cup car. I think for whatever reason, she seems to get a lot more out of that car."
Running at the front of the pack all day earned Patrick respect from many of NASCAR's elite, which should add confidence to her as the year progresses.
"I agree with everything that Dale said," added third place finisher Mark Martin on Patrick's performance. "She did an incredible job today, as well as an incredible job a number of times last year. There will be more of that to come."
Patrick was appreciative of the kind comments from her competitors but, as usual, diverted the credit to her team rather than basking in the limelight.
"This is a unique track," said Patrick on her impressive finish. "It's a lot about the car. I mean, you have to be smart enough to do the right thing at the right time but, it's very much about the car."
Patrick not only started the event from the Pole but also led a total of five laps which was another first for a female driver. However, instead of focusing on her gender achievements, Patrick was more excited about another accomplishment.
"I think a stat that I found more interesting is only 13 people, including me now, have led Indy and Daytona," continued Patrick on her record breaking Speedweeks. "I thought that was a much cooler stat for me."
Despite the doors that Patrick is opening for female drivers, she is more focused on being respected as a race car driver.
"I'm honored," said Patrick on her historic accomplishments. "But, again, these are things that just happen along the way. I'm on the quest to be the best driver, run up front, and get to Victory Lane. These things happen and I'm proud, but they're not the ultimate goal."
With her Daytona success behind her now, Patrick now focuses on the rest of the season. Her goal, of course, is to win the Rookie of the Year title but, on-track goals are still in development.
"I feel like I'm still sticking to, let's see how these first five races go," said an excited Patrick. "We go to a bunch of different kinds of tracks, let's see where we settle in, and then start to establish goals from there on out."
Patrick's respect from her fellow drivers will come over time but no one can deny that she certainly made an impression during Speedweeks. I think Mark Martin put it best when he said, "It's just going to be a lot of fun having her in the series."
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in the septum, which separates the upper right and left heart chambers. This hole is called a patent foramen ovale. The clot is pumped out of the heart and toward the brain, where it can cause a stroke.
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She has tackled marriage, divorce, love, lust, betrayal, sex, feminism, men's rights, anorexia, fat, happiness and misery, and she co-wrote the pilot for the TV series Upstairs Downstairs, so it seems natural that Fay Weldon's latest saga is a romp through aristocratic life in the 19th century.
''If you liked Downton Abbey, you'll love this,'' a sticker on the cover promises.
Habits of the House is a cracker, albeit an acquired one: Weldon writes differently, as if in a hot-air balloon floating above the action, dropping in the odd caustic comment or two. It's the first of her Love and Inheritance trilogy and, like the best TV series, there's a cliffhanger(ish) ending.
The time is 6.55am on October 24, 1899, and nervy Jewish financier Eric Baum is standing at the door of the Earl of Dilberne's house in Belgrave Square, London, about to deliver bad news. The servants ignore him - he should have gone to the tradesman's entrance - but finally his lordship lets him in, saying ''urgent news is seldom of permanent interest'' with the polite charm of an old Etonian delivering an insult, but one only his kind will recognise.
And there you have it. Weldon drops her first lob into the mire that distinguishes the upper from lower classes. Below stairs, an army of servants toils for the benefit of their masters, who have nothing better to do than loll around and receive. There's the earl and his wife Countess Isabel, their son, Arthur, and their feminist daughter, Rosina.
Hearing the news that their South African goldmine is sabotaged by the Boers and they are bankrupt, their reaction is, so what? Isabel continues planning a lavish dinner for the Prince of Wales, her husband says he's off to the House of Lords, her son thinks only of Flora, his mistress housed in a salubrious home in Half Moon Street. And Rosina carries on defending the poor and needy.
Enter American heiress Minnie with her vulgar mother, hot-footing around London in search of a title to marry in return for dosh made by her butcher father in Chicago. The plot is familiar and god knows it's been milked enough in films, television and other books before Weldon's.
But only she has the irony and wit to make the narrative a page-turner of the highest order. It's useless to pretend this isn't a couple of months in which everything goes to hell. It does. Whoever heard of the sexual/social mores of any class being examined without a hitch?
When Arthur springs Flora in flagrante with his old Eton fag, who invites him to join in a threesome, his reaction is not shock (in fact, he is tempted). It is fury that the house he rents for Flora is available free to someone else.
When Isabel discovers her husband also enjoyed Flora's talents, the letter she writes to removalists is steamed open by the servants. They are sickened, not at the break-up of their masters, but the appalling thought of cancelling the Prince of Wales's dinner.
That the story relies heavily on whether the countess, to save the family's reputation, will give Eric Baum's wife an invitation to her house (morning tea will do), says a lot about the importance of society in Victorian days.
As a way of punishment for blackmailing the aristocracy by a Jewish money-lender it is particularly cruel (yet satisfying). When bestowed and in a grander way than ever dreamt of, it is as if the gates to heaven have opened, yet also somehow deflating.
Two more books to come. Can't wait.
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I was drinking champagne at a party, when someone came over and spilled a raisin into my almost full 20 ounce glass. It was shaped like a regular glass, though much larger. Two friends, who always quarreled, came up. The first one said that the raisin will sink, while the second said that the raisin will float. Who was right? The glass is still upright, and is flat on a table. It is also level.
AnswerWhen you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will continually rise and sink. So, both and neither of them were correct.
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Dan Wilcox narrowly defeated incumbent Mayor Bob Lewis
Voters in Carolina Beach sent a clear message to town government in Tuesday election, ousting two incumbent town council members and the mayor in favor of new faces.
Dan Wilcox, a construction consultant, contractor and former town council member, defeated incumbent Mayor Bob Lewis by 7 votes votes, according to unofficial results from the town's two precincts.
Including early and absentee ballots, Lewis received 738 votes, while Wilcox garnered 745.
"I expected it to be close," Wilcox said shortly after receiving the final numbers. "I didn't expect it to be quite this close."
Voters also shook up the Carolina Beach Town Council, electing newcomer LeAnn Pierce and former councilman Gary Doetsch to the seats currently occupied by incumbents Jody Smith and Tom Bridges.
Pierce, the election's decisive winner, received 873 votes. Doetsch was second with 672, followed by Bridges with 617 and Smith with 506. Challenger Mike Worley received 220 votes, according to unofficial tallies.
Pierce, a hotel owner and former vice chairwoman of the town's planning and zoning commission, said she began to feel confident about her chances after greeting voters at the polls.
"I knew when so many people came today (Tuesday) and I knew them by name," she said. "I've been here 23 years and I've made a lot of good friends. But I didn't know. You never know in Carolina Beach."
Sixteen provisional ballots will be counted at the final canvass Nov. 12, potentially enough to swing the result of the mayor's race. Either candidate could also request a recount of those results.
"Anything could change down there," said Marvin McFadyen, elections director for New Hanover County.
But Wilcox, the presumptive winner, said he would remain calm either way.
"I've run the best race I can run. I've kept things factual," he said. "If I win, I win. If I don't, I don't. But I feel good about the race."
Wrightsville Beach
Voters in Wrightsville Beach added two new members to the board of aldermen and elected a new mayor Tuesday.
Lisa Weeks, a hospital acute care representative and former alderwoman, and Hank Miller III, president of M&N Equipment Rentals and senior vice president of Cape Fear Commercial, were elected to the board of aldermen, ousting incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Bill Sisson.
Sisson and candidate Andy Hall, a radiologist, finished third and fourth, respectively. The second open seat was held by Alderman Susan Collins, who did not seek re-election.
Bill Blair, winner of the mayoral race, ran unopposed.
Kure Beach
Kure Beach Mayor Dean Lambeth, running unopposed, retained his position Tuesday. The Kure Beach Town Council race was similarly undramatic, as both commissioners – incumbent Steve Pagley and newly elected Craig Bloszinsky – also ran unopposed.
All results are unofficial until the final canvass Nov. 12.


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Wolfgang's WorksTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Ben and Lucy were listening to some of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ben said, "This is the Divertimento Number 10. Mozart composed this when he was 38."
Lucy thought about what Ben said and she replied, "I don't know much about Mozart's compositions, but I know that you are lying."
How did she know?
AnswerWolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of 35, yet he was able to leave behind about 600 works. Before anyone asks, Mozart composed the Divertimento Number 10 at the age of 16.
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Letter Juggle 5Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Pain - Nil
2. War - Zoned
3. Routing - Tip
4. Shot - Teaming
5. Right - Blight
Hint1. Spike
2. Region
3. Journey
4. Temperature
5. Shining
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2. Ward - Zone
3. Outing - Trip
4. Hot - Steaming
5. Bright - Light
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The two most adorable girls in daytime television -- SOPHIA GRACE & ROSIE are back! They've performed with music's biggest stars and have interviewed celebrities on the red carpet of some of Hollywood's biggest events. Don't miss this incredible performance!
Then, he's one of the funniest men in Hollywood and someone Ellen adores -- VINCE VAUGHN is here! Whether he's playing a hilarious game or doing yoga on the floor with Ellen and his mother, Vince and Ellen have a special connection, and this visit is one to remember!
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Chris Adler Makes SPIN Magazine's 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music
Meinl artist and Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler is already considered one of metal's modern day legends, and for a very good reason; he is his own drummer and no other out there today sounds like him. He approaches his drumming with a sense of orchestration that helps define each LOG song, making it so that without his signature parts, the song would cease to sound like it was supposed to (think Jimmy Chamberlain or Neil Peart). Not many other drummers can lay claim to that.
Chris made the #84 spot and here's what the magazine had to say about him:
In the middle of any number of Lamb of God's groove-metal wakeup calls, drummer Chris Adler tends to provide his own alarms. Whether it's the rattle, akin to a tree branch trashing a washboard, in 2004's "Now You've Got Something to Die For" or the gun-shot double-bass drum in 2006's "Redneck," he puts his own unique fingerprint on each song. And his inventiveness has helped him out of many a jam over the years. When he first got serious about playing the double bass, he found that his feet kept slipping off the pedals. So he taught himself a technique he's described as a "whipping motion" where he tap-dances between his heel and toe to give Lamb of God ragers like 2003's "Ruin" a machine-gun clatter like he's metal's Fred Astaire.
Most Booming Moment: When Adler plays the stop-on-a-dime jackhammer pulses and snare cracks of "Laid to Rest," off 2004's Ashes of the Wake, his grooves have a military precision that would appease General Patton at his grumpiest.


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UF baseball edged by unbeaten Miami
Published: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 10:22 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 10:22 p.m.
Miami's baseball team did something it hasn't done in awhile. For Florida, it was more of the same in a rough start to the season.
Saturday's game
Miami at Florida, 7:30 p.m., Sun Sports, 103.7 FM
The visiting Hurricanes broke an 11-game losing streak against Florida with a 3-2 win Friday night. And once again, it was Florida's inability to get the clutch hit that helped do in the Gators, who have lost six in a row.
"We're not coming up with the big hit," said Florida outfielder Justin Shafer, who had three hits for Florida in the game. "We can do it. It's just not happening for us right now."
Florida falls to 3-7 on the season while Miami is unbeaten in 10 games. The two teams play again tonight at 7:30.
The loss was the fifth of the season for UF in one-run games while Miami improved to 5-0 in one-run games.
Even with a huge break in the eighth inning, the Gators couldn't take advantage. David Thompson's RBI single in the top of the ninth was the game-winner for Miami. And it came after Florida had been handed the tying run in the bottom of the eighth.
Alex San Juan hit the first homer of his career, a two-run shot on a hanging curveball, to give Miami the lead in the fourth inning. And it looked like it would be enough as Florida continued to struggle to get clutch hits.
But in the eighth, Florida finally scored when Vickash Ramjit singled home Zack Powers. Pinch-hitter Christian Dicks hit a pop-up for what appeared to be the final out of the inning, but it was dropped by shortstop Brandon Lopez, his third error of the chilly night. Ramjit scored to tie the game at two.
"I thought for sure when that happened we were going to win," Shafer said.
In the ninth, reliever Jay Carmichael was cruising. He had retired eight straight Miami batters and struck out five of them. But with two out, Chantz Mack singled and stole second despite Florida calling for a pitch-out.
"You have to throw him out on a pitch-out," said Florida coach Kevin O'Sullivan.
Thompson's single up the middle easily scored Mack.
Florida starter Jonathon Crawford battled his way out of trouble in four of the six innings he pitched. Crawford threw a career-high 103 pitches in the game.
Miami had two on in the first, loaded the bases in the second, had two on in the fifth and a runner on in the sixth. But Crawford, who only had two strikeouts, was able to work out of those jams.
The fourth was another story. One batter after Brad Fieger's leadoff double, San Juan homered to left field. Two more Hurricanes reached before Crawford escaped the inning.
Florida had 12 base runners in seven innings against Miami starter Chris Diaz (2-0). The Gators had eight hits, two walks and had two runners reach on errors against the lefty. But they had nothing to show for it.
Diaz, who threw 101 pitches in seven innings, didn't have a 1-2-3 inning in the game.
In the first inning, Florida loaded the bases but Ramjit flew out to end the inning.
"We have the bases loaded and a 2-0 count and we take (a pitch)," O'Sullivan said. "We've been dying for a big hit. I'm cutting it loose there."
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IT IS interesting to imagine what would have happened if Lenin had missed the train from Stockholm and never arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station on April 3, 1917. The Bolsheviks might have gone ahead and started the revolution without him (indeed, it was already well under way), but history could have turned out differently as far as the Russian nobility was concerned. There might still be one.
Alas, Vladimir Ilych caught his train. Amid the subsequent revolution, the assassination of Tsar Nicholas and his family, civil war and its protracted aftermath, the story of the vanishing nobility remains a terrible and almost unbelievable catalogue of oppression, persecution and systemic violence, incarceration and murder.
The members of Russia's nobility were hardly representative of the huddled masses (countless millions of their compatriots were to disappear as well) but they were, in their own right, a significant proportion of the population. They might not have been rendered entirely extinct (many fled, for example to Europe and the US), but their standing and numbers within the country were appallingly and irrevocably diminished. In effect, between 1917 and World War II, an entire class system was destroyed. If Lenin and Stalin and their respective revolution and great terror hadn't wreaked enough damage to the nobility, the war finished them off.
Incredibly, it has taken almost a century before someone has been able to tackle the subject in anything other than superficial detail. This is not so much a matter of scholarly neglect as plain denial and wilful concealment on the part of the former Soviet Union, whose grey-faced masters declared the fate of the nobility a ''belye piatna'', or black spot.
As Douglas Smith writes in his introduction, this forgotten history was concealed for generations until the cultural thaw in the Gorbachev years. Even those born of the old nobility in the 1930s and '40s were ignorant of their past, as if no life had existed before 1917, and taught to believe that silence was better than an active mind. As recently as 2006, when Smith asked a librarian at the Moscow State Library why there was no reference to the nobility in the card index to the revolution, he was rebuffed: '' … the revolution had nothing to do with the nobles, and they had nothing to do with the revolution''.
But they did. Before the revolution, for almost 1000 years, the nobility was more than the top of the system: it supplied Russia with the political, military, artistic and cultural energy that made the nation what it was. What was known as ''belaya kost'' - ''white bone'', or the equivalent of ''blue blood'' - was as efficiently indispensable to the system as corpuscles are to a functioning bloodstream.
The problem for Smith, in attempting to form an unknown history of such vastness and complexity into a comprehensible narrative, was how best to represent the lives and fates of an estimated 2 million people who suffered or perished. His answer - and what makes Former People so engrossing - was to concentrate on two of the grandest, most venerable families: the aristocratic Sheremetevs and the princely Golitsyns. Fortunately, because the Golitsyns were such a large and diverse family, the line survives in Russia to this day. Unfortunately, that of the Sheremetevs, a smaller and therefore more vulnerable family, did not.
What they both had, however, was extraordinary optimism. This was embodied in the two patriarchs, Count Sergei Sheremetev (1844-1918) and Vladimir Golitsyn (''the mayor'', 1847-1932). These men, utterly different in character and philosophy, were united in keeping hope alive in the face of appalling odds and the steadily diminishing family ranks.
The mayor, fortunately (for us), lived long, kept diaries and indeed wrote his memoirs, which he called his ''departure into the past''. Through these, one is able to comprehend what the revolution meant to those most susceptible to it.
Certainly, Golitsyn was not afraid to hold the mirror up to his own class and the feudal system: ''June 20, 1918. Who is to blame that the Russian people, the peasant and the proletarian, proved to be barbarians. Who, if not all of us?''
Barbarism, though, certainly had its part to play. Not only directly, by marauders and murderers, but insidiously, too. Former People is not merely a catchy title for a book; it was the actual name given to an operation conducted in the early 1930s, during Stalin's reign of terror. It was a top-secret Soviet plan, designed to rid Leningrad of five groups of enemies, the two largest of which consisted of families of ''former big landowners'' and ''former aristocrats''. Operation Former People - the horror of that past tense! - had a four-week deadline.
Who were some of those arrested? Former Prince D.B. Cherkassky, an accounts assistant at the Aurora sweets factory; former Baroness V.V. Knoring-Formen, a sanitation worker at Cafeteria No.89; and Count A.S. Lanskoy, a labourer at an electrical factory. Former people, formerly important, now no longer important. But still persecuted because of their past.
The twilight of the Russian empire, when princes, princesses, counts and countesses were present rather than former, is beautifully documented through period images in Twilight of the Romanovs. Especially fine are the many three-colour photographs by the pioneering Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, who was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas to document the outlying regions of empire. It took him 10 years, and he used a specially outfitted railway car.
One of Prokudin-Gorsky's finest photographs, from 1909, is of three north-western farm girls staring straight into the lens, unsmiling, carrying bowls of berries. Several pages earlier is a photograph of two girls and a woman standing in the shallows of the Gulf of Finland; all are smiling. The girls are Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Olga with the Tsarina's lady-in-waiting, Anna Vyrubova. It is 1914. Three years later, the duchesses and their family would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg. Vyrubova lived until 1964. Such was the wretched indiscriminate nature of the times.


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Mojito Glasses Gift Set
This Mojito glasses line was designed by Daniel Justin Chase who has traveled the world as a touring musician. Upon returning from the road, Daniel is known to share his adventures while behind the bar, where he mixes and serves his favorite acquired recipes. Upon returning home from one of these such journeys, he created this cigar influenced line of Mojito glasses capturing the unique sense of style and origin of this especially tantalizing drink. Included in this handsome gift set are 4 Mojito glasses, a collection of recipes, and a cardboard carrying case designed to look like an oversized cigar box which makes a fantastic gift presentation box.


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The 2012 Met Gala Red Carpet
Sharni Vinson, with boyfriend Kellan Lutz, wears a dress by Single.
Style Network star Jeannie Mai wears a Cache dress, Adrienne Millinery hat, and Lia Sophia jewelry.
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Lisa Larson-Walker from New York City wears a Rodebjer dress, and Heidi Lee hat.
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The new make-up collection by tattoo artist Kat Von D was introduced at Sephora earlier this week. Kat Von D's style is like no other. She's glamorous and edgy. Her new products are only at Sephora for a limited time, so act quickly! Some products include intricately tattooed brush sets, smoky eyeshadow palettes, deep red lipsticks, and shimmery liquid eyeliners.


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The Cape Town International Convention Centre website features a 360-degree virtual tour of the facilities.
Located on Cape Town's beautiful northern foreshore, the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) offers world-class facilities in one of the most breathtaking settings in South Africa with Table Mountain as its backdrop.
Its innovative design, meticulous attention to detail, impressive services, five-star accommodation facilities and dedicated staff enables the CTICC to consistently delivers unforgettable experiences.
The CTICC can cater for up to 10 000 delegates theatre-style in its exhibition centre.
Among its many facilities are two auditoriums with superb acoustics, top-of-the-range technology and ergonomically designed seats with writing tablets. These are ideal venues for large formal gatherings, lectures, awards evenings and even theatre productions.
The auditoriums have seating capacities for 1 500 and 620 guests, respectively, complete with stages and screens, six translation booths and a projection rooms.
There is 11 399 m² of dedicated, column-free exhibition and trade show space. The exhibition halls are sub divisible and can be configured into separate venues for smaller exhibitions, banquets or conferences, with access to power, water and data connections.
The Grand Ballroom offers majestic views over the city to Table Mountain. Its 2 000m² of space has capacity for 1 300 banquet style or 1 020 buffet style.
The Roof Terrace Room also offers an open, flexible space.
Meeting rooms of varying sizes, each accommodating up to 300 delegates, can be set up to suit a variety of functions or presentations.
Thirteen distinguished Meeting Suites, varying in size, overlook the exhibition halls and are equipped to comfortably accommodate up to 24 guests each.
A diverse number of equally stylish conservatories and landings complement any event. Two multi-functional dining areas, the Strelitzia and Jasminum, are both accessible from the different venues and exhibition halls.
The Registration Foyer has been designed to facilitate efficient registration of delegates.
The CTICC boasts one of the most advanced kitchen facilities in the Western Cape with internationally-trained personnel serving up thousands of high-quality meals daily.
State-of-the-art audio visual equipment together with a solid sound and information technology infrastructure means the CTICC can offer packages of fully integrated technology solutions.
The CTICC's commitment to becoming a leading environmentally sustainable convention centre has seen it take environmental responsibility in all facets of its operations and it has introduced innovative sustainable strategies to achieve its green goals.
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Cisco announced this morning that it would be discontinuing the popular Flip Camcorder lineup and laying off 550 employees to boot. While I've been a Flip fan since the beginning, you can't help but notice the upswing in smartphone use to capture on-the-go videos. But if you don't want to rely solely on your iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry device to record your life, check out these handy pocket camcorders that will do the trick and fit nicely in the smallest of handbags.
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Andrew Fifita's forgettable 2014 season is over, after the Cronulla prop broke both bones in his left arm in the Sharks' gutsy 16-12 loss to the Warriors in Auckland on Sunday.
After his breakout year of 2013 resulted in selection for NSW and Australia, Fifita's wretched season started slowly when he was sidelined for the opening rounds of the NRL premiership with an ankle injury.
Then came the spectacular collapse of his multi-million dollar deal with Canterbury before he re-signed with the Sharks for the next four seasons.
Fifita's form and injuries saw him overlooked for State of Origin selection for the Blues and a mid-season wrist injury further hampered his attempts to recapture his game-breaking efforts of last season.
Fifita admitted his contract dramas had affected his form but over the last month he had returned to his barnstorming best in a bid to help the Sharks avoid the dreaded wooden spoon.
But any chance the 25-year-old had of a recall to the Australian side for the end of season Four Nations tournament has likely been snuffed out by the arm injury.
"Devastated I snapped both bones in my arm. Can't wait till 2015. But still the boys have a job to do first." Fifita tweeted on Sunday after the Sharks round 22 defeat.
The injury continues a cursed run for the last-placed Sharks who had 10 seniors players sidelined with injury for the trip to Mount Smart Stadium, not including skipper Paul Gallen who failed in his bid to overcome a biceps injury.
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High School ReunionLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
It's your 15-year class reunion at Bancroft High. You bump into five of your former classmates. You're trying to keep everyone straight. Fortunately, nobody has changed their names since school.
You remember that Ian broke his arm twice during junior year and that Sarah was captain of the girl's polo team.
Sydney and the electrical engineer reminisced with Mr. Petit (who just celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary), Ms. Sutter and the one who vacationed in Italy last week about what each of them had once wanted to be when they grew up.
No one has the same first name (Ian, Patrick, Rebecca, Sarah & Sydney), last name (Leander, Mills, Newsom, Petit & Sutter), dream job (Ballerina, Baseball Player, Nurse, Olympic Gymnast & Train Engineer), actual job (Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Electrical Engineer, Warehouse Manager, Physical Education (PE) Teacher & Stockbroker) or recent travel location (Lake Superior, United States; Lima, Peru; Nairobi, Kenya; Rome, Italy; & Sydney, Australia) as anyone else in the group.
Patrick's dream job would have involved keeping tight schedules and running (very) large machines to transport supplies over long distances; his actual position also involves managing tight schedules, running large machines and transporting warehoused supplies.
Rebecca was not surprised that her classmate who had once planned on being a nurse had recently volunteered as a humanitarian aid worker in Africa.
The stockbroker has never married because of his anxiety-ridden work. But it occurs to you that his former dream job, which is played outdoors in front of thousands of sports fans, would have been a stress inducing choice too.
The conversation moved on to recent travel locations. The CFO just traveled on business to the namesake city of the former Olympic gymnast aspirant. Ms. Mills was able to spend all summer with her children at the lake, because those in her career routinely get summers off work.
Uh oh, you got distracted there for a moment when Sydney remarked that this is the first time she has returned to Bancroft High since she left for college. But you did catch that if the former ballerina wannabe just returned from Italy, then the one named Newsom is the PE teacher, otherwise the one surnamed Leander is either Patrick or Sarah.
Phew, you kept everyone straight. Now you're ready to meet the rest of your classmates!
HintDream Jobs:
-Baseball Player - Baseball is a sport that is played outdoors in front of as many as 45,000 stadium fans.
-Train Engineer - Responsible for keeping to tight schedules and running trains, which are very large mobile machines that transport supplies over long distances.
-PE Teacher - This is the only field in the list that routinely has the summer off work.
-Warehouse Manager - Schedule many workers and keep forklifts, which are large mobile machines, running smoothly. Incoming and outgoing supplies are transported as needed.
AnswerFirst / Last / Dream / Career / Travel
Ian / Newsom / Baseball Player / Stock Broker / Rome, Italy, Europe.
Patrick / Petit / Train Engineer / Operations Manager / Lima, Peru, South America.
Rebecca / Sutter / Ballerina / CFO / Sydney, Australia.
Sarah / Leander / Nurse / Electrical Engineer / Nairobi, Kenya, Africa.
Sydney / Mills / Olympic Gymnast / PE Teacher / Lake Superior, USA, North America.
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The Gallery was originally a lumber yard in the early 1900's.
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This article was published 28/10/2013 (1393 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As a crusading newspaper columnist, I am occasionally required to leave the safety of my house and speak directly with members of the general public.
On most of these journalistic adventures, however, I am not expected to take my dogs along for the ride.
But that changed last week when the nice folks at PetSmart invited me to bring my hounds -- a miniature dachshund named Zoe and a Maltese-bichon frise mix I've dubbed Mr. X -- to their Regent Avenue West store to try on the latest in Halloween costumes for pets.
If you have never attempted to stuff nervous dogs into snug costumes and then persuade them to remain motionless long enough for a professional photographer to take their pictures, you have never experienced the full joy of pet ownership.
On the ride to the store, with my daughter Kayleigh riding shotgun, the dogs whimpered like wounded woodland creatures, because they were convinced we were heading to the veterinarian's office for vaccinations, or the dog groomer for hardcore haircuts.
Their moods improved somewhat at the pet store, because the staff were generous when it came to handing out doggie treats.
Jason Paterson, manager of PetSmart's big-box outlet -- two more stores are planned to open in 2014 -- says more and more pet owners are buying into the Halloween costume trend.
"People go crazy; they go gaga over this," Paterson explains as we root through racks of brightly coloured outfits for dogs. "I would say the number of people coming in and buying seasonal apparel for their pets has tripled (in recent years).
"It's a hot trend. As we get closer to Halloween, that customer traffic gets even more steady."
These days, he says, passionate owners view their animals as furry family members, not just pets. That means pets play a bigger role in their family's seasonal celebrations.
"It doesn't matter what kind of pet you have, they're becoming more and more involved in the events their owners are involved in," Paterson says. "So when parents take their kids out trick-or-treating, they're taking the dogs out, too."
Even small animals are getting into the act. This year, for the first time, PetSmart stocked tiny costumes -- a duck, a pumpkin face and a devil -- for rabbits and guinea pigs. Lizards might get their chance next year.
"They were the first to go," Paterson says, laughing. "We're sold out of our small-animal costumes. It was the first year, an experiment, and it was very well received. It's giving pet parents what they want, what they're asking for."
Paterson's store offers more than 30 different Halloween ensembles for dogs, whereas cat costumes are limited to amusing headgear like a witch's hat, a cowboy hat, or a devil hat with horns.
"People tend to take their dogs out for a walk on Halloween as opposed to their cats, so you see more full-body costumes for dogs," he points out.
There's no single favourite costume for well-dressed mutts this Halloween, but lines from Disney and Martha Stewart are flying off the shelves. The prices range from about $10 to around $30.
This year's offerings include Winnie-the-Pooh, Mickey Mouse, dinosaurs, assorted monsters, frogs, a paramedic-firefighter, a police officer, a doctor or nurse, a French maid, a skeleton, a pirate and Woody from Toy Story, as well as harnesses festooned with angel wings or spider legs.
Shortly after arriving at the store, Zoe the wiener dog was puttering around dressed like a canine Snow White. Chirped my daughter Kayleigh: "It's so cute! (To Zoe) Look how pretty you are! Do you feel pretty?"
In contrast, Mr. X (a.k.a. "Bogey") did a good impression of the star of Jaws with a menacing shark fin strapped to his furry white body. "He looks pretty tough," my daughter said. "I like that on him. It's funny. (To Mr. X) Are you a ferocious beast?"
Aided by a remarkably patient Paterson, Zoe was also transformed into Mickey Mouse, a red polka-dot dinosaur with blue metallic scales -- "I like it; she looks ridiculous," my daughter squealed -- a pink, horned monster and a witch with a pointed hat and stringy black hair.
Mr. X was, in turn, a bug-eyed black cat -- "It's his true nature," Kayleigh remarked -- a yellow cyclops monster and a hound with a plush "Acme rocket" spewing flames strapped to his back.
I wouldn't say the dogs enjoyed getting dressed up, but they didn't hate it either, and, according to my daughter, they looked "super cute." It's a lot like taking your kids to have their photos taken with Santa Claus.
If you're in the market for canine costumes this Halloween, PetSmart welcomes your best friend to visit and try some on for size. "When you're trying to figure out what size costume your pet needs or what looks good, it makes sense to have them come in and try some on," Paterson advises. "It saves having to bring five costumes home and then bring four back. Our staff will help you try them on."
As for cynics who find the dress-up trend just a bit odd, Paterson says, "For people who think it's crazy, they should just think about what those pets mean to their families and ask themselves what lengths they'd go to to make someone happy, and it might make a bit more sense."
For the record, on the ride home, the only sound from the back seat was my pets' gently snoring. Because a few hours of trick-or-treating can leave anyone dog tired.


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Their first true test on the gridiron was what the Grant County High School football team expected.
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TWO ex-members of the RAF have been reunited after 55 years after one of them placed an article in the Mercury.
Brian Giles, of East Sussex, is back in contact with old friend George Mills, of North Petherton, after seeking him out through the paper.
The pair became close friends when they were stationed at RAF Westonzoyland from 1954 to 1957.
Brian, 77, said they were both in 542 476 Squadron Bomber Command in the trade of servicing recorder in the rank of S.A.C (plus). When planes came in, any faults would be listed and it was their job to make sure they had been seen to.
He said: "He was 18 and I was 20. I've been trying to track him down for several years, and decided to go caravanning at Othery and went to Bridgwater to ask if he was on any of the town's records.
"I knew he must have been there because he married a Bridgwater woman and stayed in Sedgemoor.
"We were transferred to Westonzoyland as the start of a task force for bomb tests on Christmas Island.
"I've found it hard to track people down because a lot of information is classified."
Brian received a call from Ursula Martin, of the Family History Research Service, Bridgwater Gene Pool.
After seeing the article she found George's details and contacted Brian.
She said: "As a professional researcher I felt I could help them find each other and I'm glad I did!
"I'm happy to announce that George has been reconnected with Brian after more than 50 years and they're going to have a reunion."
George, 75, said: "It's great to speak to him again. We've been talking about old times.
"I remember the first time I tried cider and got very drunk. He put a crash helmet on my head so I wouldn't hurt myself.
"We were the best of friends."
The reunion on Saturday, August 4, will take place at 2pm at the Castle Club, former Royal British Legion Club, in Bridgwater. Since the article, the pair have found two other RAF friends.