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National Cross-Media Engagement Study Finds Newspaper Media Have the Most Engaging Content and Advertising
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Orlando – Today, the Newspaper Association of America released the findings of a landmark study by Nielsen that compares the ability of major media, including television, radio and social media, to engage audiences. The study looks at consumer engagement with media content – and importantly, compares each medium's ability to engage consumers with advertising. This side-by-side advertisement scoring will aid marketers and agencies in assessing media by their ability to engage consumers who seek and respond to advertising not just by audience numbers alone.
The study, underwritten by NAA and released here during NAA mediaXchange 2013, surveyed 5,000 adults on 11 different metrics for engagement, including trust and ethics, how connected media make people feel, the value or inspiration they add to life, and the effectiveness of advertising.
"In this era of media fragmentation, advertisers want an environment in which their messages are noticed, sought and responded to," said Caroline Little, NAA president and CEO. "This first-of-its-kind national study by Nielsen clearly demonstrates that newspaper print ads get noticed more than all other media and drive the highest purchase intent. And, newspaper media also demonstrated the highest level of engagement."
Key findings from the study include that newspaper media – print and online – scored the highest of all media on overall engagement. Where newspapers and their websites stood out most was in the efficacy of advertising. On a scale of different metrics of advertising effectiveness – including "usually notice ads," "likely to purchase" and "best place for Black Friday shopping"— the average score among U.S. adult consumers for newspaper media consistently exceeded those of all other media. When looking, for example, at the aggregate advertising scores, newspapers and newspaper websites together delivered a 12 percent larger advertising-engaged audience than the overall average for all media, and 16 percent larger than that of social media.
This study also looked at consumers' engagement with content produced by these various media channels. The study found that Americans consume a wide range of media, but their feelings about the trustworthiness of what they consume, the extent to which it adds value to their life and whether they respond to advertising varies substantially by source. Newspaper media, while not accessed as often, scored higher on most of the metrics for engagement, including trust, public service and all four measures of advertising efficacy.


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'Hamister and Berman also are no dummies. During the bidding process, they subtracted emotion and added common sense. Ultimately, they were left with one final question: Can they keep the franchise viable, competitive – and let's not forget, profitable – for the unforeseen future? Ultimately, the answer was affirmative.'
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Can he covers receivers? Keith Butler says camps will show.
my car's out back
if you're ready to take that long walk
Story says he was taken out and replaced with a DB, not another LB... in other words, it could have been "scheme" that caused them to take him out, not his coverage ability. We'll find out in camp...
And especially with McClendon being more of a pass rush threat than Hampton ever was, the Steelers could occassionally use a 3-3 nickel package and replace a linebacker instead of replacing the NT.
For where he was selected, just making the team is an accomplishment, and as a rookie, he would primarily play special teams. If he can hit, like Butler said, he should be a nice fit there.


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It was Artest and Bender for McGrady, there were rumors of diff. players, but that's the one I think was true.
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It was Artest and Bender for McGrady, there were rumors of diff. players, but that's the one I think was true.
I believe it was Ronnie, Bender, and Al for TMac. And seeing as how Ron is out for the season, Bender has been out forever, and Al is now a Hawk...
I know...we would have OWNED with Tmac+JO...Can you say Dynasty?
This is some speculation from last June about McGrady coming here.
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"We could make it work, absolutely," Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh said Tuesday. "I have spoken to somebody in their organization, and I sensed there was interest there. What they're telling me is, there's a good chance he's going to be traded. So, yeah, a player like that out there, we're definitely going to be interested."
How to do it?
McGrady's salary cap number is around $14.5 million. The Pacers would have to send Orlando players whose combined salaries fall within 15 percent of that number. So it's like this: Start with Al Harrington ($6.3 million), who will get traded in the media no fewer than 50 times this summer. Then it's an issue of deciding who that second player might be.
Jonathan Bender ($6.5 million)? That would be my preference, but it might not be Orlando's choice.
Ron Artest ($6.2 million)? That would be hard to swallow, but for McGrady, it's a deal I'd make, however grudgingly.
It's a price worth paying to have the Shaq-and-Kobe of the East.
(And no, I don't think the Magic would happily take Austin Croshere and his big contract off Walsh's hands. If we're going to talk about trades, let's talk about ones that might work for both teams.)
"Once everybody agrees on the principals, our two guys for their one, you can make it work," Walsh said. "It wouldn't be that hard."
For his part, McGrady, who is friends with Jermaine O'Neal, has mentioned Indiana as one of the teams he'd be willing to join as part of a sign-and-trade deal. The only caveat for the Pacers: Making sure McGrady would be willing to sign a long-term deal to remain here. Indiana isn't going to mortgage its future for a one-year rental.
Now, keep in mind, you can throw just about anybody's name out there -- George Mikan, for instance -- and Walsh will say, "Sure, it's always worth following up with a phone call." And rumors, big ones, are born.
But this is not one of those.
The Pacers are interested in McGrady, and should be interested in McGrady. And Walsh made it clear Tuesday, he and Larry Bird are willing to move anybody except O'Neal if it means making a deal that catapults them past Detroit.
"Is anybody untouchable?" Walsh was asked.
"No," he said. "No one. Except Jermaine. He's our franchise player."
Not Artest?
"No," Walsh said.
Not Bender?
Hey! What're you kicking me for? You want me to ask? All right, I'll ask! Ma'am, where do the high school girls hang out in this town?
Orlando reportedly wanted Tinsley.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Given the way things have gone in Houston, Tmac might wish he'd looked a little deeper at Indiana.(Given the way things have gone, I wish he would have also)
Yeah, Walsh was supposedly ok with the 2-for-1, but they wanted a PG in return. No dice. I doubt the Magic are crying about it, though. Although getting Grant Hill back sure didn't hurt them any.
Ron + Jon worked, $$ wise.
Al + Ron or Al + Jon required additional Pacers, rumored to be F. Jones. As said above, we know for sure the combination of Ron + Jon was officially offered. Based on speculation at the time, Orlando never counter-offered because McGrady had hand-picked Houston. There was also speculation of a Ron + Jon + Al for T-Mac and Howard... I don't remember if that really worked or not.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
NO ONE WANTS HOWARD! every team he is on..THEY SUCK! It's a curse...I wouldn't have done that deal if howard was involved..lol
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you


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Fresh fruit is eaten as a snack more often than any sweet or salty alternative beyond the produce aisle, according to a study by The NPD Group. That pegs it the top snack choice of U.S. consumers.
According to the "Snacking in America" report from the group's Rosemont, Ill.-based food and beverage division, fresh fruit is eaten 55 times annually per capita as a snack. Chocolate is second at 45; potato chips third at 30; nuts, 27; and cookies, 22. Crackers, yogurt, ice cream and others accounted for 17 each.
The two-year study ended in March. Excerpts are online.
The findings came as no surprise to Tony Freytag, director of marketing at Wenatchee, Wash.-based Crunch Pak.
"It reinforces the direction we've been heading in and what data we've been able to gather," he said. "If you look at our item list today versus three years ago, we introduced Dipperz and (Apple) Snackers. We'll add more items in those categories throughout the coming years. It is continuing to grow for us rapidly."
Crunch Pak's Disney-themed Foodles line also rides the trend, he said.
Elizabeth Pivonka, president of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, welcomed the report.
"To hear real evidence to substantiate this is exceptional," she said. "When you consider both the growing wellness trend and the growing snacking trend, it makes sense that fruit would be a fast-growing snack food segment."
The NPD Group study found snacks account for 20% of all eating occasions.
"Those of us already following the healthiest diets are snacking twice as often as those of us with the least healthy diet," the report says. "Increased consumption of fruits, yogurts and other better-for-you products is contributing to this health dynamic."
For grapes, the snacking trend is contributing to an anticipated new record for shipping volumes to be announced at the end of January, according to the California Table Grape Commission.
California table grapes growers have been promoting their fruit as the "Original Super Snack" this season.
"This is good news for Americans and the California table grape industry," said Kathleen Nave, commission president, said of the NPD study in a news release.
The commission is touting five snack recipes on its website aimed at snackers. One is grapes in a canoe — peanut butter-filled celery sticks topped with grapes.
The study scores consumers' snack choices on multiple criteria, among them health and weight concerns; satisfying hunger; convenience; satisfying a craving; and habit.
It distinguishes snacking from grazing. Snacking is more of a social occasion than grazing, it says, and is less likely to include a beverage. Only one in four snacks is now consumed with a beverage. High-calorie, sugary fruit drinks and carbonated soft drinks have seen the largest declines in consumption, according to the report.


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text: Show Hide image World 7 July 2011 Afghanistan: fault lines in the sand The Taliban are just one faction in a long civil war which, thanks to international intervention, se Sign up for our weekly email * One of the best lessons I ever had in Afghan politics was a conversation overheard on a bus. Two decades ago, in the chaos following the collapse of the communist regime, I had to travel from the mountains of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan back to the capital, Kabul. To do this, I had to cross the fault lines of ethnicity, language and religion and the front lines between the armed factions. Siahkhak, straddling government and opposition territory, was the last post controlled by Hezb-e-Wahdat, the main Shia party in Afghanistan, which draws its support from the ethnic Hazara minority. The local commander arranged a meeting with his Sunni-Pashtun counterpart in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's faction of Hezb-e-Islami, and handed me over for escort to the town of Maidan Shahr. The two parties had recently formed an opposition alliance in the power struggle that followed the fall of the communist government. As we raced through the lush apple orchards of the Maidan valley, my escorts were preoccupied with avoiding the other local Pashtun faction, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Ittehad-e-Islami, which had sided with another alliance that was in control of central Kabul. I struggled to keep up with the ethno-political geography. In Maidan Shahr, I was able to pick up a bus and continue unescorted to the front lines of west Kabul. The old man seated in front of me on the bus asked his companion: "Why has Hekmatyar taken these infernal Hazaras into his lap? They are more murderous than the Soviets." The companion reassured him: "Do not worry, brother, I am sure it is a stratagem. It will not last." The journey reminded me that the conflict in the early 1990s was a civil war - and a complex one at that. Almost 20 years later, many of the fault lines remain. In early June this year, I talked to a Hazara friend about the prospects for the latest political alliance. The most prominent figures from the days of the resistance struggle against the Taliban were again poised to position themselves as the main constitutional opposition. As ever, we speculated on who would join and who would sit on the fence. While we talked, my friend received several phone calls from Bamiyan, the largest town in the region of Hazarajat. Pashtun Taliban had thrown up checkpoints on an alternative route between Hazarajat and Kabul, which I had used on occasion in the 1990s. Now gunmen were checking the identity of travellers, ostensibly looking for those linked to the government. They had just stopped the car of the chairman of Bamiyan Provincial Council, Jawad Zahhak, a Hazara, and my friend and I feared that his prospects were bleak. His decapitated body was found dumped a few days later. The Taliban are careful to market their military campaign as anything but a civil war. A wild commander in the south of the country recently remarked how thankful he was for the presence of US troops. His reasoning was that, as long as the Americans were there, the Taliban could focus on fighting them and win support for resisting the infidel. If the Americans and British left, the Taliban would be obliged to restart their war against the Northern Alliance, which had formed in opposition to their rule in the late 1990s. This would involve Muslims killing Muslims and both sides would become munafiq, religious hypocrites. It was only partly a joke. The Taliban like to portray themselves as a religious national liberation movement. Their government up to 2001 was called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Officials today claim to work for the same entity, even though it has no capital and little firm hold on any territory, and the same title still appears on the letterhead used by Taliban commanders. The idea of the Islamic Emirate allows fighters to claim legitimacy. Taliban supporters imagine it as the embodiment of Islamic virtue and justice, a stark contrast to the perception of the Kabul regime. Dozens of recently composed Pashto-language ballads in praise of the Taliban tell of hillsides white with the bones of previous conquerors and assert the historical inevitability of their lashkar (militia) triumphing over the infidel occupiers. There is no doubt that many Taliban fighters believe they are doing God's work: "I am tired of this world, I desire martyrdom," they say. But the movement is engaged in a power struggle with fellow Afghans, seeking to define the identity of the Afghan state and redress perceived power imbalances within it. I suspect the clichés of historical inevitability in the ballads have little resonance in the north of the country. Even when targeting foreigners, the propaganda is in effect mobilising for the civil war. As a political officer for the UN, I was part of the team charged with implementing the Bonn Agreement, a plan for Afghanistan that was drawn up following the west's invasion in 2001. As Taliban power crumbled, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN secretary general's special representative, shepherded leaders of the main armed alliance and an array of émigré politicians towards agreeing a framework for government. In the early stages of the process, there seemed to be viable hope that this international intervention might offer Afghans an opportunity to escape from their civil war. But fundamental mistakes were made. First, the organisers felt compelled to sign over control of the army, police and intelligence services to the Northern Alliance, to ensure its support for the agreement; now, backed by the US, it had just occupied Kabul in breach of a promise to stay out. Second, the Taliban were left out of the process altogether. At that moment, the Taliban stood defeated militarily, but the people they had mobilised - networks of traditional Pashtun clerics - had played an important role in the conflict since the coup in 1978 and were likely to do so in future. Nothing in the Bonn Process gave them a stake in the new system. I recall, the day after the agreement was signed, asking an old arbab, one of the low-level brokers of Afghan politics, what he thought. He said it was the happiest day of his life, just as if one of his children had got married. I asked him what he thought. He told me how, that morning, he had witnessed an armed man whipping street traders on the pretext of keeping order. The arbab and the armed man had both concluded that the Bonn Agreement was an international endorsement of the victory of one side in the Afghan civil war. The mistakes were made worse. The coalition troops deployed to Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban immersed themselves in a new preoccupation: the "war on terror". Meanwhile, a motley assortment of Afghan commanders were recognised as local administrators and police chiefs. In the Pashtun areas, they started taking revenge on the Taliban by denouncing them as terrorists to the newly arrived American forces. There were multiple cases during 2002 where senior Taliban figures attempted to pledge loyalty to the new order, but were hunted down. The US sent to Guantanamo Bay many people who could have been far more useful if they had been given a chance to participate. Perhaps most unforgivably, Hamid Karzai, appointed as chairman of the interim administration, neglected to conclude a proper surrender agreement with the Taliban. Arrogance had become carelessness. The Taliban leader Mullah Omar sent a delegation to Karzai at the gates of Kandahar, the Taliban's last remaining stronghold, with authority to hand over the city and agree terms. They parted with little more than vague assurances. No one engaged in the politics necessary to bring the Taliban into the new order. Barely noticed, the former commanders and officials who had evaded arrest slipped across the border to Pakistan. In 2002, Karzai announced that he was moving decisively against the criminal commanders in the administration. When I checked the list of people sacked in the province for which I was responsible, they turned out to be the more effective and amenable officials. It was a warning of the approach that Karzai would take to the electoral process. The presidential election of 2004, postponed twice, eventually passed without major controversy. By the time of the parliamentary election the following year, however, the process was visibly worse. I witnessed the aftermath of voting in the Pashtun province of Paktika, which had been shambolic. Fraudulent votes outnumbered genuine ballots and the final outcome was more to do with someone picking deserving winners than counting ballots. Yet there was no appetite for a rerun, in either the Karzai government or the UN. The problem reached a climax in the much-publicised elections of 2009 and 2010, when there was widespread rigging, including cheating on behalf of the president. The tragedy is that the elections offered perhaps the best opportunity for moving beyond civil war. Because Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtun people, comprise roughly 40 per cent of the population, it is not enough for those seeking a majority to mobilise a single ethnic group; they have to build an alliance. But politics has failed to deliver such pluralism and, consequently, the withdrawal of US troops risks opening the way for a return to outright civil war. Aside from the military disasters, the international community has other lessons to learn. We should have pre-empted a new round of fighting by dealing with the Taliban politically at the start of the Bonn Process. We needed to be more effective in our support of the mechanics of the electoral process. We needed a more serious strategy to cope with the vagaries of the Afghan government. Now, as concerned Afghan friends call me for advice, I try to reassure them that there will be some level of ongoing international engagement even after the US soldiers leave. But they sound unconvinced. They are preparing to survive a further, intensified round of civil war that, if we had been cleverer at the start, we might have prevented. Michael Semple was a political officer for the UN mission from 2001-2002 and deputy to the EU's special representative for Afghanistan from 2004-2008. He is currently a fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 04 July 2011 issue of the New Statesman, Afghanistan More


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So today the search giant decided to throw the search world in to a bit of a [spin with a controversial new approach to delivering a search experience with [URL="http://www.google.com/instant/"]Google Instant](http://www.google.com/logos/2010/buckyball10-hp.gif).
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElubRNRIUg4
I was almost tempted to describe this as a radical change, but there have been a number of recent tweaks to the way Google (and even [Yahoo!/[URL="http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_searchv1&querytype=keyword&query=tseggusotua"]Bing) tried to [URL="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-i-do-suggest/21185/"]predictively](http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/basics/basics-27.html) or smartly speed up the search process, with Instant being hinted at as recently as a week ago.
In today's product launch, Google VP Marissa Mayer stated that their latest initiative will save 350 million hours of wasted search time with Google Instant. In describing the product she stated:
Our search-as-you-type demos were thought-provoking - fun, fast and interactive - but fundamentally flawed. Why? Because you don't really want search-as-you-type (no one wants search results for [bike h] in the process of searching for [bike helmets]). You really want search-before-you-type - that is, you want results for the most likely search given what you have already typed.
Already the search community is divided ([change seems to have that affect), with some declaring the [URL="http://www.steverubel.com/google-instant-makes-seo-irrelevant"]death of SEO, while [URL="http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6545-google-instant-and-seo"]others are taking a more [URL="http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/seo-is-dead-andor-irrelevant-with-google-instant/"]pragmatic [URL="http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6545-google-instant-and-seo"]approach. Googler [URL="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/thoughts-on-google-instant/"]Matt Cutts also chimed in with his thoughts. What a lot of people are not stepping back and observing, is as [URL="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/09/08/does-google-instant-mark-the-end-of-seo"]Chris Chrum states](http://mashable.com/2010/08/30/users-revolt-against-new-digg/):
Google clearly said that ranking stays the same with Google Instant, but it will change the way people search. It will affect their search behavior, and that is what search marketers are going to have to think about more than ever.
So this really isn't about SEO, or SEM (although it will most likely impact both) - it's about user experience and delivering that in the best way possible. What this probably will impact more, is the expectations that consumers will have when it comes to search in general. Websites that have a search box, will be implicitly expected by consumers to behave the way they do on Google/Bing/Yahoo.
More reading: http://searchengineland.com/google-instant-complete-users-guide-50136
Not a bad thing, sometimes it can enhance what you're looking for, and find specific terms. Maybe it wouldn't be too good if people were too reliant on it.
No, the curiosity issue is when you start out searching for one thing, but because you get half-*ssed results as you go, you get distracted by something unrelated to your search and you end up spending hours "encyclopedia surfing" before remembering you were supposed to look up something.
As you go through an encyclodpedia or dictionary, you see lots of other interesting words while you try to spell-search your term. The result is you never quite get to your search term.
the curiosity factor that poes mentions is not really a bad thing
I do see a potential problem with Instant Google, and this problem lies anywhere beyond the first page. People would prefer simply typing something new and seeing Google do it's magic that possibly going to the 2nd and 3rd pages to see if they can find what they want. To be honest I rarely go beyond page 1. Only if I am super-desperate.
I'm probably one of the not-so-few people that suffer from the total inability of finding anything worthwhile with google, mostly because I can't pick the right words for what I want.
It's called google-fu.
Seems so, though they rolled out that retarded left-hand sidebar domain by domain, so it's probably slowly cycling over to the other domains as we speak.
Google instant is great for people who can't type very good, but for me looking for things on google it just drives me insane. I spent a lot of time trying to target keywords people would think about, but now with google instant people will type something and they will get a list of other options which will take away from some of my potential traffic.
Google.us still does not work, but the up side is that I can finally get ve0h to work. Thanks
for easy accss to us google just install hotspotshield it will give u a us ip.
It's not disputable?? Uh, if actual user testing data shows this to be untrue, then it's certainly disputable.
All this is going to do is discourage people even further from looking beyond the first page of results.
Instant may make this behaviour worse, but currently everyone in my office who I've asked only looks at the first page currently anyway. Without Instant. It may reinforce behaviour, but it's not the cause.
In the Netherlands I used to be able to type in google.us and get the US site. Lately they've reinforced their geo-location crap and now even google.us is redirected to google.nl (which has inferior results for HTML/CSS/Javascript searches). Now I have to choose the "search google in English" link, which you likely don't have.Strangely enough, I can type in google.co.uk and get that one without redirection.
I suggest if google is always redirecting you, to get some anti-redirect software (there are some plugins out there in the security section that can block and selectively allow redirects for geo, tinyURL and forums. (Sitepoint's redirect when I log in is blocked by NoScript, but it doesn't block the internal Google one... but I've seen other plugins, and likely Opera can stop redirects itself)).
Yup. Users are lazy. There's already a How-To discussion on the orca mailing list on how to turn off Instant until they can figure out how to make it usable for orca users. If it were no problem, there wouldn't have to be how-to's.
BTW if anyone else is thinking of posting more screenshots, pls do it as cheesedude did and scale it down a bit. I can deal with scrollbars but grabbing it to read individual lines in someone's post is annoying... try to keep them as small as reasonably possible.Clean up with a sharpen tool in your image editor if necessary.
I kind of have to agree. People don't normally go out of their way to turn something on or off. But I don't agree with you stating that it tries to steer Google to it's own properties.
I types in sitepoint, and on each character types it returned inbiased results based on what people want. For instance 's' came with 'skype', 'si' came with 'sign in', which returns live.com - Microsoft's, and it goes on.
I don't think Google is trying to encourage it's own results first. You have to understand Google is huge, so naturally it will be high up in the search engines.
Having said that, I honestly feel that Google did not pervert this feature, and I am fairly adamant that if another search engine incorporated this feature they would feel the need to sell their products.
Hey, nice example. You typed in 6 of 9 letters in "Sitepoint" and it returned Sitepoint in the first result. Good job. :goof:
Let's look at what happens as you type in the word "sitepoint":
Even before you can type the "p" in "Sitepoint" Google is trying to steer people to one of its own properties!
As you can clearly see in this case, Google "instant" is of absolutely no benefit. Most people who search for "sitepoint" are not going to be interested in anything about the "Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service".
Not only that, but of the 5 results visible in my browser window, 2 of the 5 (40%) are trying to steer me to Google's own properties.
If this doesn't prove how stupid and useless Google instant is, well, there is no convincing you.
As it is on by default, most people will not turn it off. Not any more than people would turn it on if it was off by default. That is why it is on by default!
I have Google UK and it works fine for me. You have to be registered though to Google and have a Google Account, and your instant will work automatically.
Whilst in the UK and struggle to access the Google US site, so I am not sure how you gained access to the US site, but if you know please let me know. It's something I have been trying to do for ages. It seems to redirect me to the UK version from the .com version, and even from the .us version.
Except for the fact that all of the results don't appear in the browser window and the searcher may actually find what he's looking on page 2, but will no longer find it at all because Google has supplanted his natural search with suggestions of their own.
That much is true. If you don't know what you are looking for, it can be beneficial. Otherwise, it is just steering people away from what they were looking for.
No, it is not.
100% agreed. Everyone has their own style of searching. The suggestions for search phrases and certainly "google instant" (which is crap) are going to supplant individual searches leaving less unique search phrases and thus less traffic for everyone except the currently highly ranked sites. This is not disputable.
Factor in Google Caffeine killing traffic for long tail phrases (such as I was relying on for a site) and it is going to be the death knell for many sites.
Before it was type your search phrase, hit enter, then view and evaluate the results. All this is going to do is discourage people even further from looking beyond the first page of results. Some people will erroneously believe there is no reason to look beyond the first page. Others will be distracted by the constantly updating results with every letter typed (only the top 4 show in with my monitor resolution setting).
On one site before that stupid "google instant" started I was getting about 200 visitors per day from Google. Now I am averaging about 35 visitors.
All I have to say is I hope you Google lovers out there who believe Google can do no wrong see your traffic crash to next to nothing. You deserve it.
A wide range of opinions here on Google Instant. It will certainly take some getting use to.
My searching feels a lot faster. thanks guys!
Thanks to seriocomic for sharing this valuable information.Reilly Google instant will helps in searching.Its a great idea of helping people to get the results quicker.
I guess it is to soon to tell but ... for the moment, the impact is nill
Google Instant seems to be interfering with the Orca screen reader for Gnome/Linux : (
I wonder if changing Firefox' user agent string to "Opera" would help : )
Will people change their keyword phrase because Google instant suggests a similar phrase as soon as you typed in the first few words? If more people do that, popular keyword phrase will become more popular, which means the decreasing importance of 'long tail' keywords. This will make life more difficult for small websites.


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WELLAND capped off another successful season with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by playing at Villa Park.
Manager Dave Oakley put Welland's name forward to Barclays for their Thank You Day, which enabled clubs to taste the Premiership match-day feeling at Aston Villa's home.
Grassroots football was disrupted in the winter with many sides having endless matches cancelled or finding 3G facilities to play games.
Welland's Spitalfield home was out of action for five months due to the wet weather, costing the club hundreds of pounds to rent Dyson Perrins Academy's 3G surface.
More costs are yet to be counted for pitch maintenance and drainage work.
Welland, who finished third in Cheltenham Association League Division Three and runners-up in the Junior Charity Cup, won their big match 4-1 against Premier Utd from Birmingham. They went ahead on 20 minutes when man-of-the-match Ben Pearson crossed for 34-goal Omar Elmougy to head home.
Premier had few chances, while Mark Taylor had a shot well saved at the other end and Stuart Wilkes headed against the bar.
With Welland failing to put their opportunities away, Premier capitalised on sloppy defending to level just before half-time.
But Welland continued to dominate after the interval and James Lush drove home to put them back ahead.
Bryan Craven, Paul Edwards and Craig Tommey went close before Mark Holbrow headed in following Lee Manion's knock-down.
Welland defended well and capped a superb display with 10 minutes left when Lush rounded the keeper and rolled the ball into the net.


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New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane got in a little food fight with Ariel Kaminer, the Ethicist columnist for the paper's Sunday Magazine, over Kaminer's much-hyped essay contest in which readers were invited to defend the unenlightened, outdated, just plain bizarre practice of...meat-eating?
Populist impatience with his paper's righteous liberal fussiness seeped out of Brisbane's copy: "The case for eating meat, as presented in The Times, is a pretty narrow one. If you can crawl through the eye of the needle with your in vitro burger in hand, you may feel free to chow down in good conscience." Proving his point, the winner of the popular vote was an essay from the founder of PETA, a vegetarian.
Count on The New York Times to take a basic topic and vault it into the stratosphere of esoteric, philosophic discussion. Food, for instance.
Other daily newspapers and Web sites tell you about restaurants, recipes and diet. The Times does that, of course. But it also tells you about the ethics of eating. Whether you like it or not.
In the Sunday magazine today, The Times completes an essay-writing contest initiated a few weeks back by Ariel Kaminer, who writes the column "The Ethicist." Today's column announces the winner from among 3,000 essayists who responded to Ms. Kaminer's request to "tell us why it's ethical to eat meat."
The contest stirred a fuss even before it was over, as bloggers, commenters and e-mailers lodged objections on every conceivable side of the question, while others jumped in as participants. In addition to the 3,000 people who took the time to write an essay of up to 600 words, almost 17,000 people submitted votes for their favorite essay among the six finalists selected by a panel of judges.
It was fun, unless you were a meat-eater who just wanted to dine in peace. The setup of the contest virtually ensured that no unapologetic ode to meat would win. That's because the six judges were, in Ms. Kaminer's words, "some of the most influential thinkers to question or condemn the eating of meat."
The winning entry, as selected by the panel, argued that eating meat was ethical only under certain conditions -- so many conditions that I am just going to have to refer you to the essay in the magazine, because it's awfully complicated.
There was a different winner in the popular vote by readers. That essay, written by Ingrid Newkirk, a founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, argued that the only meat that can be ethically consumed is in vitro meat.
According to Ms. Newkirk, this form of laboratory-grown meat will be available later this year and is "real meat, grown from real cow, chicken, pig and fish cells, all grown in culture without the mess and misery."
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Tender, Beautiful GlowYears ago, when I worked for a huge accounting firm, a female colleague/friend always looked exceptionally fresh. I scrutinized her face and, after much time, realized that it was her barely-there blush which gave her such an alluring glow. We went to a department store during lunch one day and she picked up Clinique's "Soft-Pressed Powder Blusher" in "Lucky Clover." Aha! That WAS her secret. ...read more I didn't try it then but I use it now. It has the most tender coverage, completely natural. I use it in "Pink Clover" ("Lucky Clover" is gone), and it gives me equal radiance, unusual for a powder blush. — 4 years, 4 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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Walmart this week named Daniel Trujillo to the newly created position of SVP and chief compliance officer for its international division, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on an internal company memo.
The appointment comes amid a lengthy, ongoing and costly federal investigation into allegations of bribery at Walmart's Mexican susbsidiary. Trujillo, 42, is currently deputy general counsel and director of compliance at the oil field services company Schlumberger.
"Walmart is committed to having strong and effective compliance programs around the world," according to a comment the Journal attributed to Walmart spokesman David Tovar. "Over the past 18 months, we have made improvements to our global compliance programs and have taken a number of specific, concrete actions with respect to our processes, procedures and people. Today's announcement is consistent with our ongoing efforts."
The new position reflects an effort to centralize compliance controls which previously were organized on a regional level, according to the Journal report. Trujillo is a native of Argentina who is said to speak five languages and has worked in Schlumberger's legal department since 1997 and prior to that as an internal legal counsel at Cargill.


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Heat, Low Oxygen Cause Fish Kills On Texas Coast
HOUSTON — State biologists are asking coastal anglers, boaters and homeowners to report fish kills occurring on the upper and central Texas coast caused by summer heat, low water flow and resulting low dissolved oxygen in the water.
"The summer doldrums, hot, dry and still weather, has settled on the coast during recent weeks," said David Buzan, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department coastal conservation biologist. "These conditions can create potentially lethal effects on fish and other aquatic animals inhabiting Texas coastal waters."
Buzan explained that water salinities (salt content) rise as rainfall is reduced and human water use increases and these factors in combination reduce freshwater inflows to coastal estuaries where rivers meet the sea. High temperatures and salinities reduce the amount of oxygen water can hold. Smaller tidal changes and the absence of typical strong winds further reduce the amount of oxygen normally added to water by wave action and physical mixing. Natural physical mixing of the water is even more reduced in man-made residential boat canals, where some kills have been reported this month.
Recent fish kills this month in Chocolate Bayou, the old mouth of the Colorado River and several small incidents in the Corpus Christi area typify these low oxygen fish kills.
Biologists are closely watching the situation in the Colorado River near its mouth. This is an area where 60 million small fish died in a similar low dissolved oxygen incident in 1995. Early this month, fish kill numbers here were in the thousands, but biologists are concerned that the situation could get worse.
Fishermen and beachgoers often observe low oxygen conditions early in the morning when they see fish swimming slowly at the surface of the water.
"Fish can appear to be 'gasping' for air as they try to get oxygen in the surface of the water," Buzan said. "During severe low oxygen conditions, the fish 'gasping' behavior can be seen throughout the day.
The types of fish usually killed in high numbers by these incidents include menhaden, a forage species that provides food for larger fish. Menhaden are also commercially harvested for pet food, so they are important ecologically and commercially.
Buzan said Menhaden can die in high numbers, but they are the type of fish that tends to reproduce in the millions, so their population can bounce back in a year. Other types of fish are also affected, but biologists rarely see large kills of highly mobile game fish such as red drum, speckled trout and flounder because these fish are less likely to be trapped in areas of low oxygen.
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Brent crude oil rose on Thursday, tracing gains in U.S. equities in late-session trading after U.S. data showed stronger-than-expected retail sales and a fall in jobless claims.
The positive data bolstered early gains in Brent crude and helped push U.S. crude into positive territory, before a late session rally led by gasoline futures sent prices higher.
U.S. retail sales increased 0.6 percent in May after edging up 0.1 percent in April. A separate report showed the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, nearing its lowest level in five years.
U.S. stocks climbed steadily throughout the session, with the Dow back above 15,000 and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 up 1 percent, after the stronger-than-expected economic data.
Front month July Brent crude, which expired on settlement on Thursday, rose 76 cents to settle at $104.25 a barrel, after falling as low as $102.75. The far more actively traded August contract settled up $1.39 at $104.95.
U.S. gasoline futures led gains across the oil complex, rising nearly 2 percent. Heating oil futures rose by over 1 percent throughout most of the day.
July U.S. oil rose 81 cents to settle at $96.69 a barrel. U.S. crude has posted gains in six of the last nine trading sessions. This steady push upwards has helped it break through a medium-term trendline that has been pressuring the market, traders said, noting $96.25-$96.35 had been a key area of resistance.
"The market finally broke out from that level, and then there was some follow-through," said Michael Korn, president of Skokie Energy in Princeton, New Jersey.
The market was also watching news that Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP shut its 307,000 barrel per day Trans Mountain pipeline, which carries crude, refined and semi-refined products from Edmonton, Alberta to the port of Vancouver and Puget Sound, after a spill of around 12 barrels of oil was detected during routine maintenance work.
The company did not have a timeframe for restart of the line.
Early in the session, oil fell on reports indicating weak demand, including a lowered forecast for global economic growth this year by the World Bank.
"The demand picture is still very subdued at the moment," said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at Commerzbank.
On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency said modest economic growth was limiting oil demand worldwide, and some developed economies would see absolute declines in oil consumption in 2013.
Oil prices drew support from disruption to flows, although McGillian pointed out that with current stockpiles of oil, the market could "take a wait and see approach."
Libya is struggling to hold output stable, while supply of North Sea crude, which underpins Brent, is expected to drop more sharply than usual due to maintenance this summer.
Sudan said rebels based in South Sudan had attacked a pipeline in its Diffra oil field on Wednesday, causing an explosion and fire that lasted for several hours. An Army spokesman said the pipeline was being restored. (Additional reporting by Manash Goswami and Alex Lawler; Editing by Bernadette Baum, David Gregorio and Marguerita Choy)


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Proud Of His Asteroid Movie: Despite reports that Michael Bay is apologizing for 1998's asteroid blockbuster "Armageddon," the director has clarified his previously comments telling Access Hollywood at the premiere of "Pain & Gain" that the initial report of an apology for making the movie was "just BS." "What I said specially was, if I could have a moment, a few more weeks to edit the third act, there were some things I wanted to change in the third act," he told Access on Monday. "People twist words and they make stories and it's just crap! 'Armageddon' is played so much on cable there is nothing to apologize for!" The Miami Herald reported that the director said, "I will apologize for 'Armageddon,' because we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks… It was a massive undertaking. That was not fair to the movie. I would redo the entire third act if I could."
WATCH: Mark Wahlberg Bulks Up For Pain & Gain
New Music From Beyonce?: Is Beyonce working on a new album? According to Digital Spy, Gwyneth Paltrow claims to have heard new tracks from her pop star bestie. "I've heard a lot, lot, lot of many songs," the actress reportedly said. "I don't know which ones have ended up on the album, but I've heard a lot as it's gone on." And when might this music drop? "Yes, it's coming," she reportedly added. "She's almost done but she's got a lot on her plate."
Kristen Stewart Reunited With Rupert Sanders? Or A Case Of Mistaken Identity?: "Twilight Saga" diehards might want to sit down and breathe deeply. Rumors are swirling about a reported reunion between Kristen Stewart and "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders (See the photos in question!) But, according to Hollywood Life, the man who many thought was the director she cheated on Robert Pattinson with was simply just her driver. Everyone still breathing?
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Stop, Mjolnir Time!: Ready for more Norse god action? Thor is back and the first trailer for "Thor: The Dark World" has been released. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Idris Elba, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins and more return for an epic romp across Thor's home of Asgard. From the footage released, it looks as though Portman's Jane Foster might be in a fight for her life! Will Thor save her? Will Loki betray Thor again? Find out on November 8, 2013!
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The Voice of Sports
Jim Nantz began his dream job as a sports commentator right out of college, and to this day is thrilled by The Masters, March Madness and his NFL broadcasts
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He knew the night before the final round—with Woods leading the tournament at 12 under par—that he was witnessing history: the first African-American to potentially win at the once racially restricted golf club, with what could be a record low score (Woods' –18 was a tournament low, as was his 12-stroke margin over his closest competitor, Tom Kite) and he was the youngest person ever to win the Masters. So Nantz made a point of being ready with exactly the right line when Woods approached the 18th green.
"I knew, as that final putt was holed, that this clip would be played back in 10 years, 25 years, 50 years," Nantz says. "So I needed a line that was succinct to sum it up. The night before, we were going over notes and choreographing shots for the next day. And we knew this would be the clip that everyone would always go back to.
"I don't normally script my closing lines. On the other hand, if you were dispatched to the Masters by The New York Times or Sports Illustrated, I guarantee that, the night before the final round, you were already thinking about what your lead was going to be on your story the next day. So I knew I would not be prepared if I didn't think of the scene at the end.
"That moment, with the outcome never in doubt, felt as if the voices of my youth were peering over my shoulder. In fact, when I thought about it, I realized they'd actually be listening to me. It was a transcendent point in my career. So I wanted something that was worthy of their level of prose. And what I said was, 'A win for the ages.' "
Nothing, on the other hand, could prepare Nantz for the most memorable—and shocking—finale to an NCAA basketball championship he ever called: the final seconds of the 1993 NCAA final game between North Carolina and Michigan at the Louisiana Superdome, with Michigan's so-called "Fab Five," a team whose games Nantz had called more than a dozen times.
Trailing and desperate, Michigan was bringing the ball up court when its star, Chris Webber, was trapped with the ball by the North Carolina defense. In desperation, he called a time-out—but Michigan had already used all of its time-outs, resulting in a technical foul and free throws that sealed the game for UNC.
"I had just said, 'Michigan has no time-outs left' when he called that time-out," Nantz says. "When they lost because of that, it was a moment with such an air of disbelief and disappointment—to see someone make a mistake that big. Everybody was surprised. It's one thing for the game to end on a missed shot, as it did last year in the Butler-Duke final. But to have it end with something that caused total disbelief—there was so much gloom in the Superdome about that finish."
He's seen it all in the past 25 years, because Jim Nantz is the voice of CBS Sports. He is the network's most prominent and well-known sports commentator. Nantz has been broadcasting for the network since his mid-20s (CBS is the only network he ever wanted to work for) and he shows no signs of slowing down.
On this day, sitting in the lounge of a Manhattan recording studio, where he's been doing voice-over work for a Rolex commercial, he's just days away from the start of March Madness, the annual NCAA tournament that turns college basketball into a national mania (and gambling on tournament brackets into an obsession) for a few weeks. In a couple of days, Nantz will go on the air with his trademark greeting, "Hello friends," doing play-by-play at the Big Ten tournament, then broadcasting the selection show when the tournament's teams are announced.
From there, it's on to the tournament itself: 18 games in 30 days, beginning with four games in a single day and ending with both semifinal games of the Final Four and the NCAA championship game itself.
Which, for most broadcasters, would be plenty. But not the indefatigable Nantz: Within hours of crowning a new NCAA champion in Houston, he'll land in Augusta, Georgia, to anchor CBS's coverage of the Masters—his 26th time broadcasting from Augusta National.
Nantz has one of the most demanding and most prestigious jobs in all of sports broadcasting. Few commentators lead the coverage of two premiere events in two different sports on back-to-back weekends. That's not to mention doing play-by-play for CBS's coverage of the NFL, including play-off games and (in years when CBS carries it) the Super Bowl.
On this day, his back has been acting up—a bulging disc pressing on a nerve will be the eventual diagnosis—but Nantz, who turns 52 this May, has no time for infirmity. Because, bad back and all, Nantz couldn't be happier.
"I love what I do," he says, lowering his 6-foot-2 frame gingerly to a couch. He's less concerned about back pain than the ever-present threat of cold and flu bugs: "The ones that concern me are the ones that involve my throat. That's the most important thing going into this coming stretch: my voice. That's why I'm a compulsive hand-washer.
"I used to battle laryngitis every year around Augusta. The pollen is so thick that week that you need your windshield wipers to clear it after your car has been sitting there for a while. And I always react to it. When Tiger won his first Masters in 1997, I ended up getting some sort of steroid shot in my fanny and by Sunday, I had my whole voice back. I had to call the whole tournament from Butler Cabin, so I wasn't out in the air and the pollen.
"So this back problem is a nonstory. I've had times where I've been so sick that I had to call a golf tournament lying on my back on the floor of the booth while watching a monitor."
To demonstrate, he lays his head on the armrest of a couch, mimicking lying on a pillow on the floor while flu-struck: "I'd lift my head to say, 'Let's go to 18…Tom Watson for birdie…Back to 15.' I was watching this tiny little monitor. The audience at home never knew."
His love for his work keeps him charging forward—and the skill he brings to each assignment keeps him in demand, beginning with a voice that is at once warm, welcoming and authoritative.
"There's something about his voice that is resonant in a way that is captivating and electric," says Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots. "It draws people in. It's calm and it's classy."
Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports, says of his star, "You've got to have a certain ability with the right word off the top of your head. You've got to have the presence of mind to say the right thing. You have to recognize the big moments and know how to step up. Every time the pressure has been the most intense, every time Jim has been asked to step up, he's done that. He's not No. 1 just because he's a good guy or an attractive man."
And it doesn't matter which sport he's talking about: Nantz knows what to say, when to talk and when to shut up. That ability has served him well while covering some of the biggest moments in sports in the past 25 years. Still, some events are easier than others.
Nantz recalls calling the final round of the 1996 Masters, when Greg Norman appeared on the verge of winning for the first time at Augusta. Norman came into the final round with a six-shot lead, only to have his game collapse as he lost to Nick Faldo (now Nantz's on-air partner for golf broadcasts).
"That was uncomfortable to watch. All of a sudden Faldo overtook him and defeated him," Nantz says. "For four hours, it was like watching a train wreck. All you can do is tell people what you're seeing."
Nantz has called several Super Bowls and felt a particular kinship to the New Orleans Saints team that won in 2010 because "my father took me to see the very first game the Saints ever played, and on the very first play of that very first game, Jim Gilliam ran the kickoff back for a touchdown." But the most memorable NFL game he has ever called, he says, was the 2007 AFC championship with the New England Patriots playing the Indianapolis Colts in Indiana.
"Indianapolis had never quite been able to get past their nemesis in New England—and at one point in that game, they were down by 18 points," Nantz recalls. "But Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy engineered the largest comeback in NFL history.
They were down 21-3 but won it 38-34. It was a shocking comeback on a Bill Belichick–coached team. The Super Bowl that year was technically Indianapolis over Chicago— but the game that defined Peyton Manning's Super Bowl title, and his remarkable career, was that 18-point comeback. It turned into this wild shoot-out with so much at stake."
Phil Simms, who does analysis to Nantz's play-by-play on NFL games, says, "He looks at a game faster than anybody I know. He's on top of everything and brings out what's important. When people hear his voice on TV, they know it's a special sporting event. Something good is coming on."
The key to on-air success, Nantz says, is attention to detail, preparation—and having a memory that could challenge the IBM Watson computer that won on "Jeopardy."
"That first weekend of the NCAA, I've got to get to know eight different teams. That's 96 players," he says. "So I'm a fanatic about reading; I'm compulsive. I read everything that's written about them—their school papers, their hometown papers—every feature story about them I can get my hands on. I have this ability to recall these things—it's a blessing. When you're live on the air, there's no time to thumb through a stack of clippings."
"He's got total recall," says Ken Venturi, Nantz's former on-air golf broadcasting partner. "You mention a tournament and he'll give you the date and the golf course."
Adds Lance Barrow, coordinating producer for golf and football for CBS Sports, "The thing that's always amazing to me is his retention. He can retain information from years past; there's nobody who studies and prepares the way he does."
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University basketball coach and a longtime friend of Nantz, says, "Jim's preparation is exquisite. When you listen to him during the tournament, you'd think he lived and died college basketball every day of the year."
Whether it's March Madness or a weekly NFL game, Nantz is always studying, talking to players and coaches, gathering material. He files it away in his mental data bank, looking for just the right moment to pull it out during a broadcast.
Says Simms, "He does his homework and tucks away stories he hears. It might take a year for a story to get out or just a few weeks. Ben Roethlisberger might tell us something before a game and it will be three games later that Jim brings it up."
Nantz is quick to point out that his preparation has nothing to do with memorizing statistics: "Statistics don't tell the story," he says.
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LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers left-hander Ted Lilly looked good in his return from the disabled list on Saturday, a positive sign for a rotation that has been ravaged by injuries.
Lilly allowed just two hits and two runs (one earned) in 5 1/3 innings against the Cardinals, the team with the best record in the National League (31-17). The veteran left the game with the Dodgers ahead, 3-1, but settled for a no-decision in his first start since April 29.
"I haven't logged too many innings, so I'm still trying to feel my way through," Lilly said.
While Lilly gave the Dodgers exactly what they wanted, he still sees room for improvement.
"I think my timing was a little in and out," Lilly said. "I wasn't all over the place, but my command wasn't as good I would like it to be. I still have a ways to go, as far as sharpness. I missed out over the plate quite a bit. Fortunately, I got away with it. But with that said, I think it's best I've thrown the ball in a long time, too."
Lilly allowed an unearned run in the first inning and loaded the bases with two outs before settling in and retiring 14 Cardinals in a row.
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does anyone know if the ayurvedic herbal smokes close to crown chakra?, rendering phowa ineffective..
I can't give you a definitive answer on whether it affects the crown chakra, but bottom line, it is not good for you and you shouldn't be under the impression that it is, regardless of what decision you choose to make. Any smoke that you inhale can have negative long term effects on your body. For example, smoking marijuana, though it doesn't have the negative chemicals of cigarettes, can still cause negative health consequences long term because you are inhaling burnt matter into your lungs. The same applies to ayurvedic herbal smokes. There is actually some recent research that suggests that even lighting medicinal incense can be bad for you if done regularly, and it's best to at least have some good ventilation if you do. So yes it's somewhat bad for you, but maybe not your crown chakra.


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A Union Pacific train plowed into a parade float Nov. 16 at a rail crossing in Midland, Texas, killing four wounded veterans and injuring 16 others.
Federal investigators said it was not speeding.
On board recording devices clocked the lead locomotive at 62 mph, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said. Investigators say that stretch of track, through the town of Midland, has a 70 mph limit.
The full-length train had about 80 cars that carried shipping containers, according to several news reports.
A witness told ABC News that sirens from the police cars in the parade may have drowned out the sound of the approaching train.
The veterans were on their way to a banquet in their honor at the time of the crash.
The train speed limit at the crossing was raised from 40 miles an hour in 2006, according to ABC News, who cited a Union Pacific official. NTSB investigators are checking to see if the gate was updated at that time, ABC reported.
Veterans and their wives were sitting in chairs on a flatbed semi-trailer. As the truck rolled slowly across the tracks, the crossing gates came down on the trailer, witnesses said. People jumped from the float. Two men pushed their wives off the trailer and were killed. Some veterans were disabled and could not get off the truck in time, according to news wire reports.
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MULBERRY, Fla. — East Coast Brokers and Packers Inc., one of Florida's largest tomato grower-shippers, has stopped growing and shipping Florida tomatoes, owing creditors millions.
Court records show East Coast's owners owe more than $15 million in liens and judgments to state and federal governments and crop production services. There also is a $5.6 million lien from Chicago wholesaler Anthony Marano Co.
Batista Madonia Jr., East Coast's vice president of sales and operations, declined to comment.
A woman answering East Coast's telephone on Nov. 14 said the company remains in operation but wasn't shipping tomatoes.
In early October, Madonia told The Packer the company was preparing for Florida fall production but said he couldn't go into specifics.
"We are in negotiations," he said Oct. 4. "I can't say we're definitely not out of the tomato business. Our last harvesting was the spring. We didn't go to Virginia this year. We took a season off to try to look at things. I will say the news of my demise is being greatly over-exaggerated."
Two other Florida tomato growers have also stopped production.
Last spring, Immokalee-based Nobles-Collier Inc., stopped producing tomatoes and Palmetto-based Woody's Tomato Corp., ceased operations.
Leading Florida tomato grower-shippers say East Coast didn't plant any tomatoes for the season after exiting the summer Eastern Shore deal in Virginia.
"No one's working there, they're gone," said Chuck Weisinger, president and chief executive officer of Weis-Buy Farms Inc., Fort Myers. "They haven't had a box of tomatoes (this season). They left part of their spring crop in the field. At one point, they were the largest player here."
East Coast previously planted 1,500 Florida acres.
Batista Madonia Sr., president and chief executive officer, and his wife Evelyn Madonia, founded the company in 1956.
Batista Madonia Jr. said the family wanted to take a step back and take care of family issues after his sister Laurie's death in April. She was a pharmaceutical and hospital executive.
Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, said it isn't surprising some companies left the business.
"It's obvious the deal has been rather tough for a couple of seasons," he said. "That's certainly manifesting itself by those long-term companies that appear to be exiting the business.
"It's not just one bad year," Brown said. "The year before last was not that great either. There has been a series of years here to where the deal has been less than ideal."
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Memory of friends lost to colon cancer inspires first-time marathoner
Logan Square resident Craig Schwartz doesn't like to run. Yet he's signed up for the Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday.
"Some runners say they get this natural high. I'm still looking for that high," he said with a laugh Wednesday in Lloyd Hall before a last training run along Kelly Drive. Schwartz, 41, like many others, runs to stay fit. He says the time he spends running is a big stress reliever, time when he isn't thinking about his responsibilities at home or at work.
As he's been putting in the long hours over six months for this weekend's marathon, he has been thinking of two Jims he knew who both died of colon cancer. The effect that the loss of these men had on their families and on himself inspired Schwartz to use his run to raise funds and awareness for an illness that affects one in 19.
"I'm just fighting for 26.2 miles. That's nothing compared to what some of these people have to go through," said Schwartz, who has raised more than $5,000 for the Colon Cancer Alliance through a website he created.
Schwartz, a first-time marathon runner, is nervous about the big day because he strained his knee in the past month.
"If it wasn't for all the people supporting me, I might back off and just do another marathon," he said. He says that, although some might find it sappy or cliche, that the Jims are his motivation.
Andrew Spiegel, CEO of the Colon Cancer Alliance, says that many participate in their Undy 5000 walk that takes place in more than 20 cities around the country. There are some who even run a 5K race or climb a mountain but Schwartz is their first marathon runner.
When Schwartz first contacted the CCA, Spiegel thought, "Boy, what a great thing he's doing, considering he doesn't like running and he's never run a marathon."
Any funds donated to the alliance go to patients in need, advocacy in Washington, scientific research and raising awareness. Spiegel says raising awareness is key when it comes to colon cancer. With regular screenings, colon cancer can be prevented or cured. Still, colon cancers deaths are second only to smoking-related lung cancer.
"A lot of people stick their head in the sand, maybe they're embarrassed," Schwartz said.
He hopes he can inspire people to get screening encourage their loved ones to do the same. He says he's amazed at what he, as an individual, is able to contribute.
More than 50 people, many strangers, have donated to the cause through his site. He hopes to continue the effort in his friends' memories. In 10 years, he aims to have a hundred runners and raise more than $100,000.
"He's not the kind of guy who runs in a race and forgets about it," said Spiegel. "He takes on a cause and truly runs with it."
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