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ST. PAUL - Minnesota's new U.S. senator has received rave reviews from many in his nearly a month in Washington.
One of the most recent was a contributor to a prominent political blog.
"A Senate star is born" reads the headline on Doug Kendall's Huffington Post Web site contribution.
Kendall extensively quotes from a Sen. Al Franken speech of a few days ago supporting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Kendall praises the Minnesota Democrat for his criticism of the current court, populated in a large part by Republican presidential appointments.
"This is a court that is willing to reverse itself to limit the rights of individual Americans," Franken said. "This is a court that is more than willing to overturn Congress to achieve its own agenda of what is right."
After listening to the entire Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sotomayor, Kendall writes, "I can say with confidence that no one made these points as concisely and powerfully as Sen. Al Franken did."
During the hearing, Kendall said, Franken was both thoughtful and funny: "After shutting down his funny-gene for most of his campaign, Franken was laugh-out-loud funny at times in the hearings, stumping Judge Sotomayor with a question about a Perry Mason episode and grabbing an opportunity to briefly assume the chairman's chair in his first week in the Senate."
Start with jokes
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty rehearsed what could be his presidential campaign stump speech with the Republican National Committee, and like any good speaker he knew to start with jokes.
"If you are a Republican in Minnesota, it is like being a polar bear in Miami," Pawlenty said as he opened his San Diego speech Thursday.
The jokes got a more partisan as Pawlenty moved on: "Apparently President Obama is making great progress on climate change. He is changing the political climate of this country toward Republicans."
Earlier in the week, the potential presidential candidate took another step on the national stage when the Republican Governors' Association announced Pawlenty was elected vice chairman of the group.
Klobuchar for prez?
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza was pontificating in his The Fix blog about a lack of credible female politicians ready to run for president when many of his readers offered up a name: Amy Klobuchar.
A year ago, the Minnesota Democrat in her first term as U.S. senator was mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama. Now, several are thinking about her for the top spot in 2016, although one person responding to Cillizza suggested Vice President Joe Biden could be a one-termer, with Klobuchar becoming Obama's second-term running mate.
Klobuchar's name has come up before as potential presidential timber, but not nearly often as Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who the national media has taken to calling T-Paw.
"I think Klobuchar of Minnesota has the best chance of anyone currently in Washington," one person posted.
Added another: "Amy Klobuchar is a machine. She works on her job as a senator and her political profile literally day and night. If T-Paw can be considered a national candidate with two wins at 42 percent of the popular vote, then certainly a 57 percent vote winner in Purple MN can get on the national stage. No one -- literally no one -- will outwork her."
But some Cillizza readers noted a potential Klobuchar downfall.
"Very likeable and certainly competent, she has a goofiness that wouldn't work well on the presidential trail," one wrote.
"I actually like her a lot, but she might be a little too quirky to win a nationwide election," added another. "Kind of like Joe Biden, but without the ego."
Loans available
Minnesota businesses financially hurt when an employee is called to military service may obtain interest-free loans.
Loans of $5,000 to $20,000 are available to small businesses, the state Department of Employment and Economic Development announced.
"Small businesses can face economic hardships when valued employees are away from work, serving their country in the military," said DEED Commissioner Dan McElroy. "These loans are intended to help businesses keep operating until the employee returns from active military duty."
Information is available at www.deed.state.mn.us/bizdev/loan.htm.
Summit planned
Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller wants to gather 17 current and former governors, Senate majority leaders and House speakers for an economic summit, setting the stage for a budget-fixing 2010 legislative session.
"The underlying aim of the Minnesota Leadership Summit will be specific: to lay out a road map towards long-term balance in the state budget and sustainable growth in Minnesota's economy," Pogemiller said. "The summit would allow us an opportunity to look towards the future, build on the reform ideas brought forward from past and current lawmakers on both sides of aisle and lay the foundation for a productive 2010 session with a focus on repairing the state's once sterling economic reputation."
Pogemiller, a Minneapolis Democrat, got the idea from former Gov. Arne Carlson, a Republican who has not been the GOP's favorite. Carlson penned a column calling for a long-term budget-balancing strategy.
Those invited to the summit include Senate majority leaders Pogemiller, Dean Johnson, John Hottinger and Roger Moe; speakers Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Steve Sviggum, Phil Carruthers, Dee Long, Robert Vanasek, David Jennings, Harry Sieben Jr. and Martin Sabo; and governors Tim Pawlenty, Jesse Ventura, Carlson, Al Quie and Wendell Anderson.
An early-September date is being considered.
While Pawlenty this summer cut state programs to balance the budget, a new deficit that some say will be $6 billion faces lawmakers and a new governor in 2011. However, next year's Legislature could trim that deficit by making changes in the middle of the now-month-old two-year budget.
Dairy aid OK'd
A plan to increase dairy support prices in a time of historically low milk prices gained U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson's support.
The Detroit Lakes Democrat, who is U.S. House agriculture chairman, said his committee has heard from dairy farmers that the industry needs help.
"Increasing the prices they receive will bring greatly needed relief to dairy farmers who need it desperately right now," Peterson said.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the federal government will increase money for dairy products, which he said will increase how much money all dairy producers receive.
Jobs, jobs, jobs
With nearly all politicians preaching the need to increase jobs, the Minnesota House speaker has created a task force looking into how to do that.
The task force Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher established will focus on public works projects and state government policies in general that could create jobs. Next year's legislative session's major task is to pass a bill funding public works projects such as building and repairing state buildings.
Kelliher's panel will develop a jobs plan for the 2010 session, "with special emphasis on getting our construction industry working again," she said.
The speaker is considering running for governor.


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A scrappy tool must have is the Scotch ATG Pink Adhesive Applicator Gun. So, so, so many people SWORE that the Scotch ATG was their FAVORITE adhesive applicator. But it was big & red & a little heavy, so I stayed away. Well, when Scotch came out with their slightly less industrial PINK ATG and I found it at a bargain price, I figured I would see what all the fuss was about. THERE IS FUSS FOR GOOD REASON!!! This is THEE VERY BEST adhesive applicator I have ever used! As well as, THEE VERY BEST ADHESIVE I have ever used! 3 major reasons why I love the Scotch Pink ATG & Adhesive: #1: STICKY, STICKY, STICKY--my pages do not fall apart, like they have with other adhesive & the Scotch adhesive for the Pink ATG can adhere to MANY, MANY different surfaces, good for almost any type of sticking you need to do. #2: EASY TO USE APPLICATOR that does not break--to use, pull the trigger and press down & pull towards your body. Simple, right? #3: REFILLS THAT LAST A LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG TIME!! I think this is my favorite, the refills are reasonably priced, do not use a ton of plastic (environmentally friendly!) or take up a ton of space if you like to buy in bulk. AND even if you are an adhesive hog, like me (I have to have adhesive on the perimeter of every piece of everything I put on my pages), they still last a long time. The only complaint I have is that by the time I need to refill the applicator I have forgotten how to do it! Luckily, there are cool little picture diagrams on the inside of the applicator to remind you how to refill :)
I have wanted an ATG gun for a while now because everyone on the forums rave about it. My mom gave me a giftcard for xmas so I ordered one from j.com and it was only 14.99 with a coupon. Great deal! I was a little worried about loading the tape because some people have had issue with it. The hardest part for me was opening it. Once I got it open I just followed the instructions and bam it was in. Totally easy! I love this gun. The size makes you think it would be heavy but it is not. It makes it easy to see on a table full of paper and embellishments, cutting tools etc. It glides across the page way easier than my Glue Glider Pro does and the amount of tape you get greatly surpases that of the glue glider plus there is no big plastic attachment to throw in the trash when I have to change my tape roll which is great for the enviroment. The adhesive forms a permanent bond and has a great hold so I am not worried about my cards or pages falling apart. Another added benefit is the donation for breast cancer that comes from every purchase. So no matter how you look at it this is a great tool to add to your papercrafting arsenal....BUY THIS IS if you are in the market for a great adhesive machine....
First off, please don't use this review as purchase consideration if you are right-handed. I don't think this is quite as fabulous for the left-handed as it is for right-handers. I am extremely left-dominant, and can't do much of anything that requires fine coordination with my right hand. Because of the shape of the device, it is a lot harder to apply tape right on the edge and in a straight line. It's just very awkward to use with your left hand. On the other hand (pun intended), my right-handed housemate thinks the ATG is fabulous. I even made my lefty brother try this out, to be sure it just wasn't me. He could not understand why I bought it.
I am used to things not working as well for me because I am left-handed. That's just the way the cookie crumbles. What irritates me in general (and why I gave this 2 stars) is that far too many companies are not forthright in their product descriptions about something being shaped for right-handed use only, or optimized for use in the right hand. Bottom line: If you are a lefty, don't buy this until you have a chance to really try one out. Same advice if you are buying this for a lefty: make sure they really know that they can use it first.
Oh, and if anyone from 3M reads this review - I would gladly pay $100 with no discount for a left-handed version of this! I can see how it would be great to use in the right hand if that was possible for me.
This tape gun has made crafting so much less expensive for me. All I had to do was compare the price of refills with this gun getting two reels of tape for less than $10 (depending on acid free or not) for 72 YARDS total as compared to about 50 to 60 FEET from other manufacturers for comparable prices. That means the refills give me THREE times as much product.
Yes the gun costs something - I waited for a sale and actually got two, one for acid free tape and one for regular tape, so I wouldn't have to unload and reload one gun to switch tapes in the middle of the roll. I figure I made back the price of the gun within about 3 boxes of refills, and you know the gun will last a lot longer than that.
Loading the gun is really no problem. There is a video right here on scrapbook.com and there are directions with pictures that come in every box. After you do it once or twice, it's natural to you.
I would say the only drawback is its larger size to accomodate the larger reel of tape, but even that I got over very quickly. At least I don't lose my tape on my desk somewhere!
Very highly recommended
I got this when it was on sale for $20. I am so thankful for the sale; this is by far my favorite Adhesive. If I don't like something I give it away or throw it out if it is horrible--some things just aren't worth passing on. I found loading easy for me. I just followed the pictures on the enclosure and engraved on the ATG. The hardest part is getting the door open, as other reviews have commented.
The adhesive is excellent. I think it is the strongest so far. It does take some getting used to; at first I was stringing adhesive. Then I sort of went back just a bit and the stringing stopped. The adhesive lasts great. I tore my tape once and had to rethread it. It was nice to be able to do that. I never could get the Hermafix threaded and either gave it to a store owner or friend to do for me.
I haven't decided If I'll use it at workshops because of the size or not. It is perfect for home. The size makes it easy to find when I make a mess!

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BELMONT, N.C. (AP) — A southern North Carolina woman, who authorities say hit and killed a pedestrian while texting, has apologized.
Forty-five-year-old Belinda Strange Hudspeth apologized to the victim's family in court Monday in Belmont, outside Charlotte.
Seventy-five-year-old Lavon Ramsey died Saturday when she was struck by a SUV on a street in Belmont.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol says Hudspeth was texting while driving and was impaired by prescription medication when the wreck occurred.
Investigators say her SUV ran off the right side of the road and hit Ramsey outside her home.
Hudspeth faces charges of murder, reckless driving, failure to carry a valid driver's license, driving while intoxicated and a text/email violation. She was being held on a $1 million bond. It was not clear if she has a lawyer.


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Date: May 15th, 2012
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"I've always been a very sexually charged person, and I've always fantasized about doing something like this," said Lillian Tesh, a 51-year-old amateur from Detroit, Michigan who's now living in South Florida. "So when I found out there was a market out there for mature women, I was like, 'Okay.' And I came here and said, 'This is great!'" Lillian is great. She's super-sexy but in a very down-to-Earth, not in-your-face way. For example, in the opening photos, she's wearing a proper green sweater, a skirt that reaches about mid-thigh and heels that, while sexy, aren't exactly fuck-me pumps. This is the kind of outfit she might wear when she goes out on the prowl to pickup guys. Which she does a lot. "I know what I want and I go and get it," she said. "I'll go to a club and scour the room for someone who I'd like to get fucked by, then I make my moves as far as introducing myself." It doesn't take long. "I know it when I see it." And then, maybe, she'll take the stranger back to her SUV so they can suck and fuck. And about that SUV: Lillian doesn't have any kids, so she has that SUV for one reason.


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Arkansas Lady Titans: Welcome
Arkansas Lady Titans"Developing Today's Youth To Be Tomorrow's Leaders Since 2003"
The Arkansas Lady Titan Athletic Club is established for the purpose of allowing girls to improve their athletic skills, and play at a competitive level of sports. The club is open to anyone regardless of race, sex, or gender. Any and all decisions related to the operation of the club or the individual teams will be made, as appropriate, in the sole discretion of the club director, the coaches, and / or the executive board.
Our Goals and Objectives
1. Develop and maintain a club, which promotes the game of basketball for girls.
2. Offer a program that focuses on basketball skills development, team play, basketball education, and positive club activities, in addition to providing club members with an opportunity to have fun!
3. To be financially sound and provide affordable membership to all those who are willing and able to make a commitment to our club.
4. Provide assistance to economically disadvantaged members who are willing to make a commitment to our club.
5. To promote family member's involvement.
6. Provide coaching and use other resources that enhance player development.
7. Be an example of class and quality, conducting ourselves in an honorable and sportsmanlike manner.
8. Strive to seek out the strongest competition; strong competition helps the team/players improve and reveal our weaknesses.
9. To be a positive force in the local community by seeking out opportunities for community service.
10. To compete at the state and national level.
11. To find each athlete a college opportunity.
Our Future Plans
Our goal is to raise the competitive level of girls' basketball in Arkansas and expose our female athletes to the best women's basketball coaches and competition in the nation. We will raise the competitive level of basketball by:
· hosting quality tournaments in Arkansas
· hosting nationally competitive tournaments in Arkansas
· hosting exposure events for Arkansas
· being a leader in competitive girls basketball in Arkansas
· allowing players from any socioeconomic background to participate with our program
· participating in competitive tournaments and exposure events
· participating in intense skills camps
· hosting skills camps and instruction
· teaching/coaching with the best coaches possible Participation in girls' basketball national tournaments, camps and events gives our athletes invaluable experience, skills, friendships and scholarship opportunities they might never have dreamed possible.
Our hope is that their experiences with the Arkansas Lady Titan Girls Organization will continue to open doors for girls who wish to participate in women's basketball at the collegiate level and beyond. Not only are we interested in improving our athletes, but girls' basketball in Arkansas as well. By hosting basketball events we bring the participation level to a higher level in Arkansas. We hope that we can represent all backgrounds as a voice in girls' basketball across Arkansas.
Our FUTURE PLANS of the organization include:
· To have five girls' basketball teams by year 2010.
· To have a developmental league for elementary age athletes.
· To sponsor a competitive basketball instructional camp for all ages.
· To fund all teams and participants to attend tournaments and camps across the United States.
· To receive grants and sponsorship to help fund the organization and its activities.
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Oh my gosh: If you arrived at DVCon 2014 at 10:45 am on Tuesday this week, you'd have wondered if you'd wandered into the wrong conference. What happened to sedate, dignified DVCon? Standing at the registration desk on the first floor of the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, the volume of noise and conviviality sweeping down the staircase from the upstairs mezzanine was unprecedented. What was going on up there? The DVCon morning poster session, awash in company reps and their ideas, and engineers anxious to engage with both.
When I got to the top of the staircase, I took a moment before plunging into the crowd, amazed at the vitality and the numbers of people hobnobbing among the posters. It wasn't surprising to learn later in the day from DVCon General Chair Stan Krolikoski that over a thousand people – attendees and exhibitors combined – were at this year's conference. Clearly, DVCon is enjoying an extraordinary renaissance, so much so that DVCon Europe will be debuting this October in Munich, with DVCon India, DVCon China, and DVCon Japan now in the planning stages. Like I said, omg.


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ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano began consultations with political leaders on Wednesday to try to find a way of forming a government after the deadlocked election last month left no party with a majority in parliament.
Senate speaker Pietro Grasso said after meeting Napolitano the president was determined to reach an accord, saying there was "an absolute necessity to give the country a government" but the parties were deeply divided before talks opened.
Italy's political stalemate and the prospect of months of uncertainty has created alarm across Europe just as the standoff over bank deposits in Cyprus reawakened fears that the euro zone debt crisis could flare up again.
Center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, who won a majority in the lower house but not in the Senate, commands the largest bloc in parliament but cannot govern unless he has support from one of the other parties.
However, there has been no sign that an accord is possible with either former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right alliance, the second biggest force in parliament, or the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement led by ex-comic Beppe Grillo, which holds the balance of power.
Berlusconi said only a broad cross-party alliance was capable of addressing the problems facing Italy but has been rebuffed by Bersani.
"We have declared ourselves open to this but Bersani and his supporters keep stubbornly paying court to Grillo and the 'Grillini' even though they only keep getting rebuffed," he told his own Italia 1 television.
If no agreement can be struck, Italy faces the prospect of a brief period under a caretaker government followed by a return to the polls, possibly as early as June or after the summer holiday months, in September or October.
Napolitano also meets minor parties, including Prime Minister Mario Monti's centrist group on Wednesday before the main meetings on Thursday when he sees representatives from the 5-Star Movement, Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party and Bersani's Democratic Party (PD).
Bersani, 61, received a small boost at the weekend when his candidates were elected the speakers of the two houses of parliament, despite the center left's lack of a Senate majority.
Bersani is proposing to present a limited package of reforms aimed at fighting corruption and creating jobs that he hopes can be backed by the 5-Star Movement.
Given the fractious climate, the prospects of a minority government surviving more than a short time are slim but Bersani has little alternative.
"The PD is not changing our line, we'll go to the consultations with the proposals which were voted by the party leadership immediately after the election," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, can ill afford a prolonged political crisis after the turmoil which brought down Berlusconi's last government and dragged the single currency to the brink of disaster just 16 months ago.
Its economy is deep in recession, and unemployment is at record levels especially among the young. Its 2 trillion-euro ($2.6 trillion) public debt is dangerously vulnerable to bond market volatility and any sharp rise in interest rates.
"Clearly, given the situation we have in Italy right now, in my view, it is obvious that there is a significant risk to the world economy from a return to a situation of political uncertainty," Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said.
However, far from prompting the parties to cooperate as they did when Monti's technocrat government took over from Berlusconi in 2011, the crisis appears to have deepened hostility.
Grillo, who has pledged not to give a vote of confidence to a government led by any other party, warned followers against falling into a "trap" after a handful of rebels voted with the center left in the election of the Senate speaker on Saturday.
Berlusconi, fighting a tax fraud conviction and facing trial for paying for sex with a minor, has demanded that the center right be allowed to name the next president when Napolitano's term ends on May 15, offering his support to a Bersani-led government in exchange.
That offer was rejected as "indecent" by the PD, prompting Berlusconi to pledge street protests if parliament appointed a center-left head of state.
A rally organized by the PDL, called "All for Silvio!" is already planned for Saturday to protest against what his supporters say is a political campaign by magistrates against the 76-year-old billionaire.
(Additional reporting by Naomi O'Leary; Editing by Angus MacSwan)


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Police: Attacks started when victim was 6
KC teen charged in statutory rape, sodomy case
Police: Attacks started when victim was 6
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Randolph is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced that a Kansas City teenager has been charged with statutory rape and statutory sodomy.
Police said Edwin Randolph, 19, sexually abused a girl over a three-year period beginning in 2006. The girl was 6 years old at the time of the first incident, police said.
According to court documents, the abuse took places in two houses in Kansas City, one of which had been abandoned.
Police said the victim and her mother both knew Randolph.
Investigators said they first learned about the incidents after one of the girl's friends came forward with information that she said she'd been told to keep secret.
Randolph is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 or 10-inch springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Flour the sides of the pan with sifted matzo cake meal.
In a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment (or using a hand mixer), whip the egg whites until soft peaks form. Add 1/2 cup of the sugar and continue whipping just until stiff and glossy, about 30 seconds more.
In another bowl, whip the egg yolks with the remaining 1/4 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Fold in the egg whites. Gently fold in the ground almonds, chopped almonds, matzo meal, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until dry and spongy in the center, about 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool for 15 minutes in the pan, then remove the sides of the pan and let cool completely on a wire rack. The cake will fall somewhat.
Make the glaze: In a small bowl, stir the ingredients together until smooth, adding lemon juice as needed until the glaze is pour-able. Set the wire rack holding the cake on a sheet pan. Drizzle the glaze generously over the top of the cake, letting it trickle down the sides. Using a flexible spatula or pastry brush, gently spread the glaze over the sides of the cake, reusing any glaze that drips onto the baking sheet. Let set for at least 30 minutes before serving, or until the glaze is hardened. Transfer the cake to a serving platter, removing the pan bottom and parchment paper if desired.
In a medium saucepan, bring the jam and water to a boil, stirring to break up any lumps. Working quickly, add the strawberries all at once and fold together with a spatula until evenly coated. Pour into the sunken center of the cake and gently spread into a circle on the surface, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border all around. Let cool until set, about 30 minutes. Use a very sharp knife for slicing the cake.
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Sociology of the Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Community and Urban Sociology, Emotions, Organizations, Symbolic Interaction, Social Psychology, Qualitative Research Methods
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Dr. Milligan is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Sonoma State University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining SSU, she taught at UC Davis and Tulane University. She specializes in the sociology of the built environment. Her research focuses on space/place, place attachment, nostalgia, organizational change and death, the architectural design process, classroom space, historic preservation, and the New Urbanism. She is currently conducting a study on the experience of anticipated displacement in organizational settings. In addition, she is completing a book on the social psychology of historic preservation with an emphasis on pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans.
In addition, Dr. Milligan is active in several professional organizations, among them the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section (including past service on the City & Community Editorial Board), Pacific Sociological Association (including past service on the Sociological Perspectives Editorial Board), and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (including past service as Vice President).
Courses Offered:
- SOCI 250: Self and Society
- SOCI 326: Social Psychology
- SOCI 394: Shared Places, Contested Pasts: Historical Memory and Historic Preservation
- SOCI 425: Urban Sociology
- SOCI 498: Senior Seminar: Public Life and Public Space
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- Milligan, Melinda J. 2007. "Buildings as History: The Place of Collective Memory in the Study of Historic Preservation." Symbolic Interaction 30(1): 105-123.
- Elliott, James R., Kevin Fox Gotham, and Melinda J. Milligan. 2004. "Framing the Urban: Struggles over HOPE VI and New Urbanism in a Historic City." City & Community 3(4): 373-394.
- Milligan, Melinda J. and April Brayfield. 2004. "Museums and Childhood: Negotiating Cultural Lessons." Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research 11(3): 275-301.
- Milligan, Melinda J. 2003. "Displacement and Identity Discontinuity: The Role of Nostalgia in Establishing New Identity Categories." Symbolic Interaction 26(3): 381-403.
- Milligan, Melinda J. 2003. "Loss of Site: Organizational Moves as Organizational Deaths." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23(6/7): 115-152.
- Milligan, Melinda J. 1998. "Interactional Past and Potential: The Social Construction of Place Attachment." Symbolic Interaction 21(1):1-33


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GreenScilab: A toolbox simulating plant growth and architecture
By Paul‐Henry COURNEDE, INRIA Saclay – Île‐de‐France
GreenScilab is a Scilab(c) toolbox simulating plant growth and architecture based on the GreenLab model (De Reffye and Hu, 2003). This type of model combining the description of both plant functional growth and architectural development is receiving more and more attention for applications in agriculture, forestry, ecology or computer graphics (De Reffye et al., 2008). Most models are purely simulation-based and rely on very heavy computations: the morphogenesis and functioning of each organ is simulated. The simulation times are quickly prohibitive and make such models ill-adapted to calibration from experimental data or to solve optimization problems.
In this context, GreenLab's originality is its mathematical formulation as a discrete dynamic system based on the structural factorization of the growth grammar (Cournède et al., 2006), in order to take advantage of the numerous similarities and repetitions in plants. Scilab provides a free, efficient and easy-to-use environment to implement the dynamic equations of plant growth. GreenScilabis thus born, being the first open-source software that fulfills model simulation and calibration. It can simulate different botanical plant architectures, plant growth processes, the effects of climate conditions on plant growth, and calibrate the model from experimental data on real plants. A graphical user interface is developed using TCL/TK to facilitate model I/O. Some functions are written in C to speed up simulation.
- De Reffye P, Hu BG, 2003. Relevant qualitative and quantitative choices for building an efficient dynamic plant growth model: GreenLab case. In Hu BG, Jaeger M (Eds), Plant growth modelling and applications (PMA03), Proceedings of the 2003' International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Their ApplicationsTsinghua University Press, Springer; pp. 87-107.
- De Reffye P, Heuvelink E, Barthélémy D, Cournède PH, 2008. Plant growth models. In: Jorgensen S, Fath B (Eds.), Ecological Models, Vol. 4 of Encyclopedia of Ecology (5 volumes), Elsevier (Oxford), pp. 2824–2837.
- Cournède PH, Kang MZ, Mathieu A, Barzci JF, Yan HP, Hu BG, De Reffye P, 2006. Structural factorization of plants to compute their functional and architectural growth. /Simulation /82(7): 427-438.
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By Sharon Reich and Verna Gates
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. authorities stormed an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday, rescuing a 5-year-old boy held hostage for nearly a week and leaving his kidnapper dead.
After a standoff of more than six days, FBI agents entered the bunker when they feared the child was in "imminent danger" at the hands of his abductor, who had killed a school bus driver, said Steve Richardson, special agent in charge in Mobile, Alabama.
The kidnapper, identified as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, had previously allowed authorities to deliver medication, coloring books and toys to the kindergarten student, who is due to celebrate his birthday on Wednesday.
But negotiations deteriorated in the 24 hours before agents entered the bunker, Richardson told a news conference.
"Mr. Dykes was observed holding a gun," the FBI agent said.
Law enforcement officials would not confirm on Monday how Dykes died.
The standoff gripped a rural corner of southeast Alabama with dread, shuttering local schools and prompting prayers and vigils for the boy identified only as Ethan.
By all accounts, Dykes had taken him from the bus at random, reinforcing concerns that have been raised about U.S. school safety and gun violence since the December shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school.
"It just shows you how close it can come," one of Dykes' neighbors, 42-year-old Angie Adams, said of the violence, adding she now plans one day to home school her 2-year-old daughter.
"We waited 10 years to have her and we would be devastated" if something happened, Adams said.
The drama near Midland City began when Dykes, a retired trucker who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, boarded a school bus ferrying more than 20 children home last Tuesday and demanded that the driver let a student off the bus, according to authorities.
When driver Charles Albert Poland, 66, refused, Dykes shot him four times with a 9 mm handgun, local sheriff's department officials said.
"To Mr. Poland's family, we would like to express our condolences," Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said. "Also our appreciation to a hero who through his brave actions saved many lives."
Dykes fled with the child to a homemade bunker equipped with a television and electric heaters on the man's property off a dirt road. Authorities would not confirm news reports that said negotiators had remained in contact with Dykes by talking through a PVC pipe connected to the underground shelter.
The child was being treated at a local hospital but appeared physically unharmed, Richardson said. He is said to suffer from Asperger's Syndrome and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.
"He's laughing, joking, playing, eating," Richardson said. "He's very brave. He's very lucky."
A local law enforcement source said a stun or flash grenade was detonated as part of the operation to free the boy, but further details were not immediately released.
Late on Monday, bomb technicians were clearing the crime scene and looking for explosives, said FBI Special Agent Jason Pack. Authorities said the investigation could take days to complete.
Law enforcement officials offered few insights about Dykes and their negotiations with him before the rescue.
Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said the gunman had a "very complex" story to tell.
"Based on our discussion with Mr. Dykes, he feels like he has a story that's important to him, although it's very complex," Olson said, without elaborating.
According to neighbors, the reclusive Dykes moved into the Midland City area about two years ago and was often seen patrolling the property where he lived in a trailer with a gun and flashlight at night.
He had been due to appear for a trial before a judge last Wednesday after his recent arrest on a menacing charge involving one of his neighbors.
Another neighbor, who said he grew up with Dykes and also served in the Navy around the same time, suspected the court case might have sparked his unraveling.
"When he kidnapped those kids, he was afraid of losing his property, his rights, his freedom and going to jail," said Mel Adams, who owns a used car lot.
But, Adams added, "We had no idea on Earth he would turn into a monster like this."
(Additional reporting by Tom Brown; Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Cynthia Osterman and Xavier Briand)


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Bollywood No Longer Worrying About Piracy As Studios Keep Setting New Records At The Box Office
from the look-at-that dept
A few years ago, theatre releases were limited to tier-I and tier-II cities due to high costs of prints. It took between three months and a year for a film to be released elsewhere. Consequently, films reached television and home video only after six months of a theatrical release. Pirates gleefully filled that vacuum by bombarding consumers with cheap optical discs....There's an infographic that shows most movie releases in 2011 were shown on about double the number of movies screens as similar movies just the year before. That's a massive increase in availability for theater showings. As for the home market, while it still competes with pirated copies, quality seems to be winning:
Not anymore. The brightest stars of the Rs 100-crore constellation are theatres and prints.... Digital prints, which cost one-fifth of analog prints, have facilitated the swift reach of movies across the country.
According to Dwyer, the better-off who earlier paid to have high-quality cinema systems at home are no longer interested in poor quality (pirated) copies. "The quality of DVDs and Blu-ray discs is excellent with extra features and at a reasonable price."While the article still says that there's a lot of infringement going on, it's just fading into the background for the most part, especially given the record-setting revenue numbers.
For one, producers are happy with the current box-office fortunes. There is also no evidence to show big hits suffering from online piracy. On the contrary, data crawls suggest that the most downloaded films are nearly always the biggest hits, according to Lawrence Liang of Bangalore's Alternative Law Forum, one of the authors of the India chapter of the Media Piracy report.And, thus, the studios have finally realized that paying more attention to improving the authorized market is probably more important than "stomping out piracy."
What has really changed is the focus on piracy. As the case of AACT shows, the struggles against pirates are few and far between to make even news, leave alone act as a deterrent. "The tendency has been to focus always on the numbers we are capturing rather than looking at leaked markets," says Uday Singh, managing director, MPDA.Of course, the article is still full of dire warnings about how the studios need to stay vigilant or everything might fall apart, but that seems based on random hyperbole, rather than any actual evidence.
None of this should be even remotely surprising. For years we've been pointing out that if you make works available, make them convenient and reasonably priced, and stop treating your customers like criminals, people will pay. Sure, there will always be some piracy, but those people are unlikely to pay no matter what, for the most part, and you just need to stop worrying about them and focus on giving more fans more reasons to actually pay. It appears that India is an example of a place where that's actually happening.


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The epic labor struggle in the 'Decatur war zone'
As the 19th century prepared to turn into the 20th, a cataclysmic confrontation between labor and management occurred in the steelmaking town of Homestead, Pa., pitting the wealthy Carnegie Steel Co. against one of the strongest unions of the day. The workers lost, setting the stage for exploitation, miserable working conditions and depressed wages that would finally be broken in steel by the organizing campaigns of the 1930s.
And as the 20th century shambled toward the 21st, a similar confrontation occurred in Decatur, Ill. This time the combatants were the powerful, multinational corporation, London-based Tate & Lyle, owner of the then-A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. Waging a determined fight against the rotating, 12-hour shifts demanded by Tate & Lyle was Local 7838 of the United Paperworkers International Union.
One of three labor disputes in Decatur — Caterpillar Tractor Co. and the United Autoworkers were engaged in a multi-year dispute, as was the United Rubber Workers of America and Bridgestone/Firestone Tire Co. — the fight at Staley was not a strike. Tate & Lyle locked out the union workers.
While Ashby and Hawking, who were activists in support of the Staley workers during the lockout, understandably focus almost exclusively on that fight, it is important not to lose sight of the overall struggle which came to be known as the "Decatur War Zone."
For those needing a quick refresher, the details can be easily summarized. Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone (a Japanese firm), had determined to reduce the powers of the unions representing their respective workers whatever the cost. For its part, Tate & Lyle was equally determined to take back a series of gains won in previous decades by its union workers in such areas as safety and grievance procedures. A key issue at both Staley and Bridgestone/Firestone was the imposition of 12-hour, rotating shifts.
The educated middle classes of this nation, cocooned in good-paying jobs where the physical toll is not great and people are rarely killed on the job, may feel far removed from these decade-old struggles in Decatur — all ending in defeats for the three unions. However, the Ashby/Hawking book is an excellent corrective for complacency.
A particular strength of the book is its exposure of the human toll when a powerful multinational corporation focuses its powers on wiping out a small local union in a city of 84,000 already devastated by a transitional economy. Beginning with the tragedy of Jim Beals, a Staley worker and union activist killed on the job, perhaps due to company indifference to safety procedures, through the selfless efforts of an inner-city parish priest, Father Martin Mangan, to support the workers, the book enlivens detail with humanity.
Heroes and villains abound. Among the latter are the leaderships of both the United Paperworkers International Union and the AFL-CIO. The former essentially sold the local out and the latter gave lip service at best to the struggles in Decatur.
Ashby, now with the University of Illinois School of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Hawking, a United Methodist minister, conclude their book with, not only an analysis of the failure at Staley, but also the things the U.S. labor movement must do to deal with the Caterpillars, Tate & Lyles, and Bridgestone/Firestones that now stride about the global economy like giant robots bent on profit at all cost.
The future will tell whether Decatur, like Homestead, becomes symbolic of increasing disparities of wealth and status, depressed wages and opportunity, and a society that values profits more than people.
Bob Sampson earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois. He lives in Decatur where he is engaged in researching the life and works of Father Martin Mangan, a Springfield native, who worked publicly and behind the scenes for Decatur workers in the 1990s.


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& so for those of you who saw the game today, you probably noticed this throughout the game as the crowd kept ooing & awing after every dazzling team USA play, highlight after highlight.
TrueHoop reader Mac Lotze is an American living in Shanghai (maybe you remember his report from last pre-season), and sends the following thoughts about the mind of the typical Chinese basketball fan.
Style and scoring ability.
This is why Kobe Bryant is the greatest sports icon in China; not Yao Ming, not Yi Jianlian, not even groundbreaking hurdle-champion Liu Xiang.
This was the prevailing sentiment amongst those polled in the sold-out Qizhong Arena in Shanghai that was painted with 24s and 8s.
Perhaps it is part of the emerging young generation in China and their unquenchable thirst for all things foreign, but it is shocking how few fans list their fellow countrymen as their heroes. The fans in attendance were easily pleased, cheering even for referees calling fouls.
Witnessing the excitement for Kobe Bryant and this young Team USA, it is not unreasonable to expect there will be wavering allegiances among the locals when Team USA laces it up against an overmatched Chinese team this Sunday.
It is something that I have found the most fascinating in my two years over here in Shanghai. I am constantly asking Chinese friends, taxi drivers, and others I encounter if they like basketball, which players they like, and if they like Yao Ming.
The experience has left me convinced that I like Yao Ming a lot more than the vast majority of Shanghainese.
Few of them even say they like Yao Ming.
They like Tracy McGrady a heck of a lot better than Yao Ming, often expressing that Yao is lacking a quality that translates literally as "resolute heart," but means something like determination.
I came to Shanghai with the erroneous perception that basketball has become popular in China because of Yao Ming, but it appears that he is a small piece of the puzzle. The main reasons I see that Yao Ming is not as much of a national hero as he used to be and that common sense would dictate are:
* He has yet to win a playoff series.
* His size makes him very hard to relate to for 99% of the population. Chinese fans want to idolize a player that they can imitate or relate to from a size standpoint. This is one of the main reasons hurdler Liu Xiang is much hotter and more popular than Yao Ming these days. The Chinese respect and admire people that were not given as many god-given talents, but work their tails off to become great. They can relate to that, even dream about that. That's tougher in the case of Yao Ming.
* Yao Ming is boring compared to a lot of players. I have played quite a few pickup games in China and from the 5'4 point guards to the 7-footers are all they are all showcasing their And One skills. (Yes, there are quite a few tall Chinese players all around Shanghai. With the economic prosperity that China is enjoying currently, they are privy to the type of diet that was impossible before. Not to mention the one child policy allows parents to feed their children with food that was previously divided between many kids.) They are all about the flash, excitement, dribbling through the legs, behind the back passes. Yao Ming, while being one of the best centers in the NBA, just doesn't have that. That's why even if Houston were to win a title (and I think they can now with Artest) I suspect that in the U.S. and China alike you will find it boosting T-Mac's popularity more than Yao's.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese crowd will be divided on Sunday, the question is simply by how much. It is clear that if China had a better chance (maybe if Yao Ming was 100%) that the vast majority would be cheering unequivocally for China.
But because the true basketball fans realize that their chances are relatively slim, it is a harder question to answer. I asked several of the Chinese fans at the game last night about who they will be cheering for on Sunday and there was definite hesitation. After hesitating, the general consensus was that they want China to win, but that they will still be cheering for their favorite players, mostly Bryant, but for Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwight Howard too.
I relate it to the weird dynamic with fantasy sports when you have a star that is playing against your favorite team. On one hand you want your team to win, but some part of you wants to see your player shoot the lights out. If they could pick they would pick a Chinese victory, but they know that is slightly unrealistic so they will be cheering for great plays from their favorite players more than anything.
And after playing China, every game will be like a home game for Team USA. None of the non-Americans can garner the type of excitement and idolism that Kobe, Bron Bron, Melo, Howard, and Wade can deliver.
As the Chinese prospects keep maturing, it is certain that China will become increasingly relevant in the international basketball scene. It will be interesting to see how many great Chinese players it will take to start to swing popular sentiment strongly back towards China. It might just take some Iverson-type players to make that change (point guard Chen Jianghua, for instance). But my guess is it could take quite some time, and many exciting wing players, to truly change allegiances in China.
I didn't know Kobe was actually more popular than Yao himself though in China, that's definitely news to me.
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Pure acid 80
During the last years I have ridden the Acid 88 with Naish Session 5,8 as the biggest sail. I??m thinking about selling the board and buy the PA 80. I will also change the naish Session 5,8 for a Ezzy Wave SE 5,8. It??s a typical "power forward" sail and therefor I think it will funtion well with PA 80. Has anybody tried that combination?
With regards,
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|10th December 2006, 03:16 AM
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RE: Pure acid 80
I have no experience on Ezzys, but I wonder if you've sailed their latest offerings. They have a VERY deep profile, like a camber sails from the 80:s. So, a 5.8 Ezzy will probably produce a lot more power than the 5.8 Session. At least thats my guess. A freind of mine rides 07 Ezzys and are now getting along with them quite well. He typically rigs smaller than me though, despite being heavier.
Maybe someone else has more relevant experience on this topic.
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RE: Pure acid 80
I have the same experience with Ezzy sails 07 ...
I tried the 5.2 and i find it as a camber sail, deeper than the infinity 06 ...
so i prefere the 06 one specialy for it ability to be neutalizied when surfing.
Some friends tell me that the 07 must be rigged in a different way :
- less downhall and much more authall ( 6 or 7 cm positive )..
|14th December 2006, 09:59 PM
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RE: Pure acid 80
Thanks for the replies.
I have mailed to David Ezzy and he told me that I must use a bit less downhaul and more outhaul compared to the older sails. He also wrote that the sail has a better windrange than the 06. If You use too much downnhaul, the "forward power caracteristict" will be lost.
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John J
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RE: Pure acid 80
I must say that i use only Ezzy sails 06:
4.2, 4.7 and 5.2 Wave SE
6 and 7 Infinity
Wave SE are the best sails i ever had for wave riding and the 6 infinity can be very pleasant too in a no cam figure and small waves conditions.
The 2007 have a different feeling, but when correctly rigged ( thank's David) should be excellent too ....
I'm thinking to the PA 80 for medium wind : 18/25 Knts and good waves conditions ( i'm 73 kg), so let me know your experience with this board ...
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Washington D.C., June 11, 2013 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and an affiliate for various systemic breakdowns in their regulatory and compliance functions as a self-regulatory organization, including a failure to enforce or even fully comprehend rules to prevent abusive short selling.
CBOE agreed to pay a $6 million penalty and implement major remedial measures to settle the SEC's charges. The financial penalty is the first assessed against an exchange for violations related to its regulatory oversight. Previous financial penalties against exchanges involved misconduct on the business side of their operations.
Self-regulatory organizations (SROs) must enforce the federal securities laws as well as their own rules to regulate trading on their exchanges by their member firms. In doing so, they must sufficiently manage an inherent conflict that exists between self-regulatory obligations and the business interests of an SRO and its members. An SEC investigation found that CBOE failed to adequately police and control this conflict for a member firm that later becamethe subject of an SEC enforcement action. CBOE put the interests of the firm ahead of its regulatory obligations by failing to properly investigate the firm's compliance with Regulation SHO and then interfering with the SEC investigation of the firm.
According to the SEC's order instituting settled administrative proceedings, CBOE demonstrated an overall inability to enforce Reg. SHO with an ineffective surveillance program that failed to detect wrongdoing despite numerous red flags that its members were engaged in abusive short selling. CBOE also fell short in its regulatory and compliance responsibilities in several other areas during a four-year period.
"The proper regulation of the markets relies on SROs to aggressively police their member firms and enforce their rules as well as the securities laws," said Andrew J. Ceresney, Co-Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "When SROs fail to regulate responsibly the conduct of their member firms as CBOE did here, we will not hesitate to bring an enforcement action."
Daniel M. Hawke, chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Market Abuse Unit, added, "CBOE's failures in this case were disappointing. The public depends on SROs to provide a watchful eye on their exchanges and market activities occurring through them. They must have strong compliance cultures and adequate and dedicated compliance resources to ensure that they do not stray from their bedrock obligation to provide rigorous self-regulation."
According to the SEC's order, CBOE moved its surveillance and monitoring of Reg. SHO compliance from one department to another in 2008, and the transfer of responsibilities adversely affected its Reg. SHO enforcement program. After that transfer, CBOE did not take action against any firm for violations of Reg. SHO as a result of its surveillance or complaints from third parties. Reg. SHO requires the delivery of equity securities to a registered clearing agency when delivery is due, generally three days after the trade date (T+3). If no delivery is made by that time, the firm must purchase or borrow the securities to close out that failure-to-deliver position by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the next day (T+4). CBOE failed to adequately enforce Reg. SHO because its staff lacked a fundamental understanding of the rule. CBOE investigators responsible for Reg. SHO surveillance never received any formal training. CBOE never ensured that its investigators even read the rules. Therefore, they did not have a basic understanding of a failure to deliver.
According to the SEC's order, CBOE received a complaint in February 2009 about possible short sale violations involving a customer account at a member firm. CBOE began investigating whether the trading activity violated Rule 204T of Reg. SHO. However, CBOE staff assigned to the case did not know how to determine if a fail existed and were confused about whether Reg. SHO applied to a retail customer. CBOE closed its Reg. SHO investigation later that year.


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General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionMagazine
Developing a Firm Web site
Nearly one-half of all Americans use the Internet. With a statistic like that, it's time to consider building a Web site to establish your firm's presence in the online community.
Building and maintaining a professional Web site is combination of art, marketing savvy and technological know-how. To take some of the mystery out of the process, here are some details and tips on how to establish your firm on the World Wide Web.
The cost of your site's development is, in large part, driven by whether you do it yourself or hire a professional web developer. There are several "off-the-shelf" software packages, such as Microsoft's FrontPage 98 or Macromedia's Dreamweaver 2.0, to help you design and publish web pages to the Internet. Although the price of these packages is between $100 to $300, the learning curve can be rather steep. If a professional web developer is your answer, you can expect to pay several hundred to several thousand dollars for the design.
Perhaps the biggest difference between in-house or professional development is aesthetics of the site. Before setting your web development budget to a few hundred dollars, think about the image your firm wants to project. Cut costs and corners on your site's development, and you may end up with a site that looks like an elementary school student's art project.
To post your site to the World Wide Web and maintain it, you can expect to pay approximately $30 per month. If you reserve your own domain name, such as www.firmname.com, you will pay approximately $75 to $150 (depending on whether you do it yourself) and approximately $50 every two years, to renew your reservation.
Reserving your own domain name will be worth the cost. You can park your Web site on someone else's domain, but then your web address will look something like this — www.someoneelse'sdomainname.com/users/wedonot/haveourown/domainname/oursite.htm. Having your own domain, such as www.ourfirm.com, looks more professional, is easier to remember, and fits more easily on a letterhead or business card.
In many ways, your Web site will be similar in content to a firm brochure. There are, however, technological considerations. Thus, whether you do it yourself or hire a developer, remember the following:
• Browser types. Visitors to your site may use different software to view it, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape's Navigator. Browsers sometimes present web pages in different ways. Moreover, older versions may not support the latest advancements in multimedia, such as video or sound. To further complicate matters, the display of differs depending on whether the visitor is using a PC, a Macintosh, or a WebTV terminal. Thus, the design should work with a variety of browser types and user platforms.
• Speed. Although most visitors connect to the Internet using 28,800 baud modems or higher, there are still some who use slower connection speeds. In any case, if your web pages are loaded with graphics or enhancements and take many seconds to load, visitors will quickly click away rather than wait for yours to finish. Keep graphic file size to a minimum, and make sure each page takes only a few seconds to load.
• Navigation. Sections within the site should be easy to navigate. Additionally, navigation buttons, bars, menus, or text should be easy to understand and give an idea of the content of each section. For example, a button marked "Services" or "Practice Areas" clearly conveys that it will give the visitor information on areas of practice.
• Content. The site should give information about the firm, including its history, members, and services. However, to draw repeat visitors, don't stop there! Although the firm's history may be interesting the first time, it is not likely to be read many more times thereafter. Consider adding a newsletter section where information is posted on an updated basis. Unless you are licensed to practice in all 50 states, you need a disclaimer for your newsletter. Such as: These news articles were prepared by attorneys of Your Law Firm for information purposes only and are not intended to convey legal advice. Readers should not act upon information contained in these materials without first seeking advice from an attorney licensed to practice in their area.
Many assume that "if they build it, they will come." Although this technique worked for Kevin Costner, it will not work for your Web site. No matter how eye-catching and informative your site may be, it will not be effective if visitors cannot find it on the Internet. For example, unless visitors know the domain name of your site (i.e., www.yourfirmname. com), they must rely on search engines or lists to find your site.
Search engines and lists are specific sites on the Internet where a visitor can enter subjects and receive multiple listings of Web sites that match their search query. For a law firm's Web site, visitors will be searching for words such as lawyers, attorneys, law and legal. They may also be searching for areas of practice, using words like bankruptcy or divorce. Finally, they may search for local lawyers using geographic locations.
There are literally hundreds of engines and lists on the Internet. Some of the most popular include Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, HotBot, and Infoseek. To become part of these engines and lists, your site must be physically entered into their directories but listing your site may not be enough. For example, if a search query returns 2,000,000 listings, the visitor may not get to your listing. There are, however, several ways to enhance your ranking in various search engines. Specifically, your ranking is a function of the following:
• Domain Name: The most inclusive names are already taken ( www.lawyer.com, for instance ). But you may want to try a broader web name instead of your firm name.
• Page Titles: Each page within your Website can have its own title. Depending on the words you use to describe each page, the site's ranking may improve.
• Meta-tags: These are hidden codes within each page that can be read by many search engines. When you register a web page with an engine, it may send out a program, called a "spider," to "index" your web pages and any hidden codes in it. Two Meta-tags, "keywords" and "description," provide just what they say–the keywords or phrases that visitors may type into a search engine and the description of the site that is given by the search engine.
• Page Content: In addition to looking for Meta-tags, many search engines also index the first words or phrases at the beginning of any text on your pages.
In addition to promoting your Web site online, do not forget to add your web address to your firm letterhead, business cards or other promotional material.
If you develop your site with these concepts in mind, you should have a site that is aesthetically pleasing, informative, easy to navigate, and visible within search engines and lists. You may be surprised at how much you can enhance your firm's image within your community and how many new clients you can generate online. n
Stephan V. Futeral is a lawyer with the South Carolina law firm of Finkel & Altman, LLC, and is president of AfterMidnight Technologies, Inc., a Web site developer.


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Web game tracks, rewards savings prowessBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 10. 2012 9:18PM
When Debbie Newton saw a link for a new game on her credit union website, she was intrigued.
At first it looked like just another rewards program, but after a closer look, the Somersworth accountant noticed something different. The SaveUp game promoted by North East Credit Union would reward her for saving money rather than making purchases.
She's since become hooked, playing the game daily and staying on track toward saving for retirement.
"You get to see all of your financial activity in one place," she said. "You see when you're saving; you see when you're paying off loans. It's kind of cool, and it's fun because you get rewarded for paying off debt."
Newton's credit union was one of two in New Hampshire and 14 nationwide to participate in a study designed to test the impact of SaveUp on consumer behavior. St. Mary's Credit Union in Manchester was the other Granite State financial institution that joined in the six-month research project.
The study results, released in mid-October, showed that playing the game motived more than half the participants to save more money and pay down more debt than they might have otherwise.
Visitors to saveup.com register their financial accounts on the secure website, including credit cards, auto loans and bank accounts. The software tracks balances and rewards one credit for every dollar that is saved or used to pay down debt. Ten credits is the basic currency of the game.
With 10 credits, users can play one of three video games or enter a monthly drawing for a $2 million jackpot. Players also earn credits for taking financial literacy classes online or completing quizzes.
"There are three different games," Newton said. "I tend to play the same one every day. It's like a matching game kind of thing. You choose three blocks, and if they match you win and you can get money, gift cards, all sorts of prizes. You get three plays a day."
In addition to the monthly grand prize, there is a weekly $500 drawing and contests for electronics, cars and travel-related prizes.
The site has social media features, a blog with daily posts and constantly changing incentives pegged to real-time events. Last week, for example, there was a prize drawing for a $100 donation in the user's name to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy relief.
So far, Newton's biggest win was a $5 cash prize. Other New Hampshire credit union customers have cashed in as well. Janet Britton, a cardiac resident nurse in the Seacoast area, decided to give it a try and ended up winning an iPad.
The site makes its money from the financial institutions involved and through partnerships with the companies offering the rewards. There's no cost to the users.
New Hampshire consumers, through their participation in the credit union study, are helping to validate a new phenomenon - the "gamification" of the financial industry.
"People are now highly engaged with social games and social media," said Priya Haji, SaveUp cofounder and CEO, based in Palo Alto, Calif. "We are discovering how to bring personal finance into this new world in a way that truly benefits people and helps them to achieve their financial goals."
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Were you once a believer?
RE: Were you once a believer?
Growing up in the bible-belt I was always taught that God has the answer to everything, scientists are nut-jobs, etc. I had grown up being extremely judgmental and hated gays, people of different religions and all the normal stereotypical bible thumper stuff. When I turned 14 I started smoking and I really think that changed my attitude towards a lot of things, I started questioning what I thought I knew instead of assuming I was right and eventually came to the conclusion that I didn't believe God existed and that being a Christian had just made be an overall bad person.
RE: Were you once a believer?
I voted no, I've never believed. But I should add a caveat. I have not believed since reaching the age of reason.
When I was 10 years old I suddenly realized that I was mortal. I knew that everyone eventually dies but one day I realized that that rule applied to me. I told my father what was troubling me and he gave me the story about God, the Bible, Jesus and salvation, and I took great comfort in that.
Then one day in Sunday School when I was about 12 years old the teacher announced that next week's lesson would be "why we know that God exists." I was thrilled. I wanted to know. I spent the next week in anticipation.
When the great day came the teacher had all of us sit in a circle, then, starting with the kid on her left, she went around the circle and had each kid tell why he knew God exists. Each kid gave an answer I'd heard before. "Because the sunset is beautiful." "Because science does not have all the answers." By the time it was my turn I had realized that this was not a lesson, it was a test. So I came up with some bullsh*t answer, I don't remember what.
The rest of the day was one of the worst in my life. l was very depressed. For a week I had anticipated a great revelation. I got one.
I knew that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were not real, but God? That was the beginning of my doubts. By the time I graduated from high school my beliefs were pretty much the ones I hold today.
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(29-12-2010 11:52 PM)Observer Wrote: I wonder... Are most of the forum users "converted believers" or where they always atheist?.I first learned about god and religion at the age of 7. My mother left us with dad's mother so she didn't have to raise us. Grandmother was a strong catholic and showed us how to pray and believe. I later attended a xtian college (because of a girl) and lead bible groups and even went of missions to other countries. In my late 20's (I'm in my late 40's now) I started to question little things about the bible. I really didn't become a full blown atheist till about 4 years ago. (more like a deist before) I'm still trying to figure out how I ever believed in any of it. Many of my family and friends remain brainwashed...I mean... religious. I live dead in the middle of bible country! These poeple have lost it!
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Forgive this shy girl... but I'm going to jump in here, otherwise I won't say anything for a very long time *closes eyes and leaps* .
I believed as a kid, but when all your peers are believers you often go with the flow; when asking questions is discouraged with physical abuse you just don't ask them aloud-- you just close your eyes, shove down the doubts and believe with whatever scraps of faith you have left over. I was either home schooled, or sent to a small fun-gelical ACE school until 10th grade-- this sets up a weird sort of feed-back loop for the believers. Everything they see, everyone they talk to, everyone they're around, whatever they do all re-enforces their beliefs. Everything! My science education came from the library, NOVA, the Science Channel-- anything I could get my hands on; but I could feel my faith shattering with every fact I learned.
That's not to say I didn't want to believe. I really did! It seemed so easy, to comforting, to have that faith, that belief. I still have days when it'd be so much easier to just believe. Wouldn't it? I mean, just not having to ponder the mysteries of everything and *poof* suddenly getting all the answers, that'd be fantastic! Everyone seemed to be so happy, except that I knew everyone was depressed as hell!
Just knowing, and admitting aloud, that any prayer than I had had, that had been "answered" was because of something I had done was really the only truth that I needed. It just took me a little while to reprogramme myself after I figured out that it wasn't the denomination that was the problem, it was the whole god-thing.
I can still speak evangelical, though and am available for translation work as necessary. I also speak LDS and passable JW, and can understand most other religious dialects. I'm not sure if that skill is an asset, or if it's just something I can use to laugh at my missionary grandparents, behind their backs... yes, missionaries. But I'll talk about them another time.
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(08-03-2013 03:06 PM)RedHead Confetti Wrote: I can still speak evangelical, though and am available for translation work as necessary. I also speak LDS and passable JW, and can understand most other religious dialects.
ROFL I too speak evangelical Not very well though 'cos I can't stop myself from either making this face: or this one: It tends to put them serious buggers off their feed...
RE: Were you once a believer?
I wonder how many of the former believers were raised to believe and then wised up in their teens or young adulthood, and how many converted in teens or young adulthood. The latter for me, and I often feel like a complete dunce when I see all these young people figuring it out early on. Even the 'gelicals themselves know that once someone has hit adulthood, their chances of "accepting Christ" drop precipitously.
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(29-03-2013 06:39 PM)matthewwest Wrote: Even the 'gelicals themselves know that once someone has hit adulthood, their chances of "accepting Christ" drop precipitously.Indeed.
"Divines act very wisely in teaching men their religious principles before they are capable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, or their left hand from their right. It would be as difficult to instill into the mind of a man, forty years old, the extravagant notions that are given us of the divinity, as to eradicate them from the mind of him who had imbibed them from infancy."
-Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach, "Good Sense"
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I'm wondering how many agnostics are on here...
"You just go where your high-top sneakers sneak, and don't forget to use your head."
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I was raised to be a Mormon. I was taught the Joseph Smith story as absolute truth, and was given a rigorous all around education of my parent's religion. I had read the bible by the time I was 9 years old, and twice two years later. I believed everything I was told. I am now very much bothered by this, since I wasted a few short years in the pursuit of a dream. I often hear stories of people who never really believed, or always rebelled outright. Whenever I hear these stories, I am always embarrassed not to find myself among them. It is especially stupid to cling to a belief like Mormonism, that can be definitely proved false through historical documents and accounts available at the click of a mouse. It is fascinating to me now, watching my family do this, knowing full well that their hopes are founded on a system that has been proved false, beyond any doubt. Sometimes it is hurtful, but it passes.
The roots of my Atheism were planted at the age of 13, and grew to fruition around the age of 18. It was a gradual process, but fully worth it. I declared myself officially an Atheist on January 1 2013.
Religion, rather than acting as a symbol of truth or justice, merely acts as a symbol of human gullibility and stupidity. Surely no race of beings with any real intelligence would concoct such drivel.
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RE: Were you once a believer?
I grew up Southern Baptist; my parents still are fundamentalist. However, I never agreed with their views on a lot of things like homosexuality and politics. My then-fiance and I agreed on those things. However, when we were planning our wedding, he decided we needed to be better christians, since that was what we believed. So we started reading the bible, and discussing it. That led to our deconversion. I always find that a little strange, that reading the bible caused us to deconvert.
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