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text: Slidell police say a local man is in jail after breaking into a pet store and stealing a cash register -- and three reptiles. A reports of burglary brought police to Delta Pets at 1370 Corporate Square. The owner reported finding the back door pried open. Inside, he discovered a cash register was missing. Also missing were three piece of inventory: a ball python valued at $600 and two boas. Upon canvassing the area, officers noticed other businesses with pry marks on the doors, and an open door on a vacant building. Inside they found a makeshift bed and three snakes, along with a jail identification bearing the name Donald Laigast, Jr. Laigast had recently been in jail on burglary charges. Police say when they caught up with Laigast, he admitted to stealing the snakes as a Christmas present for his son. Laigast was booked on one count of simple burglary. Police say more charges are expected. (photo from Slidell PD)


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Founder's Week 2012 September 23 – 29Be Vincentian: Faith-filled Citizens"Pray always that God will unite hearts." – St. Vincent de Paul
As Americans we are challenged to enter into this "political season" as persons of faith. As followers of St. Vincent de Paul, we seek the common good for all and especially for persons who live in poverty or under oppression. For St. Vincent, a man of great faith and "father of the poor", faith provided a truth: that every person is endowed with human dignity and every person and institution has the responsibility to create the conditions in society that allow human dignity to flourish. St. Vincent's efforts offer a practical approach to living the truth about human dignity. May we be inspired and strengthened by Founder's Week 2012 theme "Be Vincentian: Faith-filled Citizens" and exercise civic responsibilities and practice the virtues of faith and solidarity.
ParisThursday, September 20 8 p.m.Special Midnight Run Service Event Sunday, September 23Special Mass at Miraculous MedalMonday, September 24Tour of St. Vincent de Paul Chapel Paintings in Tribune and Relic RoomThursday, September 27Feast of St. Vincent de PaulSaturday, September 29University Service DayRomeThursday, September 20 8 p.m.Special Midnight Run Service EventSunday, September 23 8 p.m.Special Mass at the LeonianoThursday, September 27Feast of St. Vincent de PaulSaturday, September 29University Service DaySevilleThursday, September 27Feast of St. Vincent de PaulFaculty, student and administrators luncheon. Viewing of "Vincent de Paul: Charity's Saint" (2010) Documentary.Saturday, September 29University Service DayThursday, October 4Special service reflection day for faculty and students. Massimiliano Tomassini Assistant Vice President Europe Programs St. John's University Rome Campus Via Marcantonio Colonna, 21 A 00192 Rome - Italy Tel: +39 06 393842 Fax: +39 06 39384201 www.stjohns.edu/rome


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Eschler merges with Schoeller Textil
5th June 2012, Bühler & Sevelen, Switzerland
Two of the strongest and most innovative textile and technology companies in the stretch knits and wovens sectors are joining forces. Swiss companies Schoeller Textil AG from Sevelen (St. Gallen) and the Eschler Group from Bühler (Appenzell Ausserrhoden) are to unite under the banner of Swiss quality, global presence and wide ranging know-how.
The companies said in a statement today that the cooperation of the two traditional Swiss companies under the management of Schoeller Textil AG will make it possible to place the product range on an even broader footing in the market. The synergy of woven and knitted fabrics will be exploited to create a range that is thought to be the only one of its kind in the textile sector.
The range of innovative Schoeller textiles and technologies will be complemented by high quality and highly functional Eschler knitted fabrics in order to meet the future requirements of joint customers even more precisely, more individually and more creatively.
Franz Albers, President of the Board of Administration of Schoeller Textil AG, comments:
"I am particularly pleased about this collaboration. It is the coming together of two companies, each of which is among the world-wide market leaders in its own segment and ideally complements one another."
Hansjörg Rettenmund, President of the Board of Administration of the Eschler group, expresses similar delight.
"This cooperation of two strong partners at this particular point in time is a far-sighted business move which will secure the future and which represents a logical consequence in terms of market positioning," says Rettenmund.
Long-standing partnership
Eschler and Schoeller have in fact been cooperating in production for many years. Peter Eschler says of the partnership:
"Another common feature of Eschler and Schoeller is that both these traditional companies are in family ownership and foster comparable values and cultures. The Eschler family is proud to be represented in this merger, both at the operative level and as shareholders."
In November 2011, Eschler announced that an innovation centre was to be built in Bühler in the course of restructuring measures. This plan will now be implemented in Schoeller's research and development department in Sevelen and in the Schoeller laboratory for chemical analysis and microbiological studies in Gams.
"The power of this concentrated expertise opens up entirely new dimensions for further exciting developments," declares Hans-Jürgen Hübner, Administration Board Member of Schoeller Textil AG.
All from one source
Schoeller Textil AG will take over Eschler Textil GmbH in Balingen, Germany and the sales organization for commercial and professional sportswear which will remain in Bühler employing 45 people.
Former Managing Director, Matthias Eschler, will remain in charge of the plant in Germany and will further expand the Technical Textiles segment. In addition to technical textiles, the production plant in Balingen will also manufacture the high-tech knit fabrics for commercial and professional sportswear for Schoeller.
Within the new association with Schoeller, the well-known Eschler brand will retain its independence.
Schoeller will soon be commissioning a new and highly modern automated washing system for stretch woven and knits at the Sevelen site. This will give maximum consideration to the highest environmental standards and economical use of resources. Production will continue to comply with bluesign – the stringent ecological standard for textiles.
Interesting future perspectives
Siegfried Winkelbeiner, CEO Schoeller Textil AG, views this merger as an investment in a joint future.
"We are convinced that there will always be a global market for premium Swiss textile products. With the combined innovative power of these two companies, entirely new perspectives are opening up for the cooperation with our joint customers."
Schoeller Textil
Schoeller Textil AG specializes in the development and manufacturing of functional fabrics and smart textile technologies for the areas of active sports, workwear and lifestyle.
The company has been in family ownership since 1868 and in order to secure its long-term future, Schoeller invests heavily in innovation and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Swiss Technology Award for its iLoad technology in November 2011.
Through the acquisition of a laboratory with high-quality research and analysis equipment in September 2011 Schoeller continues to expand its research and development and is setting out on completely new paths with the establishment of Schoeller Medical AG. The company says the expansion into the area of knits 'rounds off the range in a unique way'.
Christian Eschler
The Eschler Group which has its headquarters in Bühler in the Ausserrhodisch region has been dedicated to knitted fabrics for 85 years. The traditional family company which currently operates two production sites is among the world's leading manufacturers of functional knitted textiles for sport, workwear, technical textiles and lingerie.
Eschler is famous around the world for its 'aerodynamic' fabrics for high-performance Alpine sports but the company has also always made a name for itself with pioneering work in the areas of embroidery fabrics, clothing physiology (sweat management) and textile functionality.
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Navarre Beach came alive with tales of lost souls, spooky walks, Dr. Spookfish dissections and costume-wearing children on Oct. 26 at the annaul Spooktacular event held at the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station.
Spooks and fun can still be found tonight, Oct. 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station. Children can come dressed as their favorite character for the costume contest.


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Q&A: CIO Ross Philo On 'Post Office' In Your Home
The scope of the U.S. Postal Service is vast--203 billion pieces of mail delivered last year, 618,000 employees, 221,000 vehicles, 36,000 post offices--and its challenges are in proportion to its scale. The amount of mail handled by the Postal Service declined last year, while revenue, at $75 billion, was flat.
The Postal Service is looking to right itself through consolidation of offices, downsizing its workforce, and offering new services. Just a few days ago, it announced new capabilities for smartphones, including Track & Confirm, Post Office locator, and Zip Code lookup.
CIO and senior VP Ross Philo oversees the Postal Services' IT operations and reports to Postmaster General and CEO Jack Potter. Philo is included among InformationWeek's Government CIO 50, a group of the most influential technology executives in government.
Prior to joining USPS in February 2008, Philo worked for Cisco, startup Visean, Halliburton (as CIO), and Schlumberger. InformationWeek talked to Philo about how IT is being applied within the Postal Service to manage costs, improve operations, and deliver new services.
InformationWeek: The Postmaster General recently said that these are challenging times for the Postal Service. What are you doing in IT to help the Postal Service manage through this tough business environment?
Philo: We see two elements of how we're trying to help the Postal Service address the business challenges. The first is to introduce greater automation, bringing new levels of service to the postal operations, while also delivering innovations that may open up new business opportunities. It's those two things combined that we believe will bring further improvements to efficiencies, new ways for mailers to track the mail and get visibility of the mail, as well as potential new business opportunities.
InformationWeek: In what ways does your experience in the private sector help with this?
Philo: Most of my assignments have reflected an ability to help drive change, and that's obviously what the Postal Service requires looking forward in terms of how to be relevant and provide the sort of services that the American public are going to require for the next century in the same way that we've been relevant for the last 240 years. We have to change; we have to be allowed to change.
InformationWeek: You mention new levels of automation and other innovations. What are some examples?
Philo: The most critical one is the Intelligent Mail program, which has gone into full service. Intelligent Mail is based around an innovative new bar code, which replaces many of the previously existing bar codes that were put onto pieces. But that's just a small part. What Intelligent Mail allows us to do is track a single piece of mail from its origin to its destination in much the same way that you might think that our competitors would track packages, but here you're talking about a completely different scope and scale, where you're dealing with billions of pieces of mail each year. And the Intelligent Mail Full-Service program allows mailers to get complete visibility of their mail pieces from origin through to destination. That's going to completely transform that the way the mail can be used by these large mailers.
InformationWeek: What's the status of the Intelligent Mail program?
Philo: We had an amazingly aggressive timeline to deploy Full-Service, and we managed to meet that target. We had a May 2009 deadline to release the first instance of Full-Service to the mailers, with a nine month development cycle. It involved something like 60,000 man days of efforts, 400 FTEs [full-time employees[ that we ramped up to very quickly. The May 11 date is like having a Y2K incident every year, because that's when the prices are adjusted for the mailing community. We had an absolute deadline that we had to make. Not only did we make that target, but we're also on schedule for the second release of capabilities which are due out toward the end of November and that will provide a measure of discount to big mailers who satisfy the criteria for full service mailings. We went through an absolutely challenging development cycle to get this out. There were a huge amount of resources dedicated to it, as well as a very big effort on the mailers' side because their systems had to be adapted to provide the necessary functionality to take advantage of what we're doing with Full-Service.
InformationWeek: What are some of your other top IT initiatives?
Philo: One of the areas that we recognized really does need further enhancement is our Web presence. It's clear that we need to embrace the internet in all of its aspects as an alternative channel. We want to give consumers the ability of having a 'post office' in their home or in their hand by providing Web-based functionality, so that they can do just about every transaction that's required from a home PC or through a smartphone. As the first step in that, we've just released an upgrade to USPS.com mobile, which allows people to track packages, to locate a post office, to go through a number of typical activities they need to make use of postal services from a smart phone.


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Today marks my five year anniversary with the FreeBSD project. All I can say is, it's been a pleasure (most of the time). Although sometimes it's very hard to find the motivation to do some work, seeing the cool stuff everyone else within the project is working on gets one going again pretty quickly.
Thanks to everyone I had the opportunity to work with so far, especially my doc mentor Ceri Davies and my src mentor Robert Watson. It was the operating system that brought me to FreeBSD, but it's my fellow developers and the community that keep me here (that said, there will be a strong FreeBSD presence at FOSDEM this year, hope to see lots of people in the joined BSD+PostgreSQL developer room).
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Air conditioner, coffee, and beerThe memory of that February in 2010 is still vivid; as vivid as the color blue of the dress that figure skating star Kim Yu-na wore for her Vancouver Olympic conquest. I was skiing on the slopes of PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, but I hurried down to watch Kim's freestyle program. She was beautiful and flawless, and one could almost feel the stars in the universe aligning to allow her the Olympic gold. She triumphed, setting a new world record and also becoming the first skater ever to achieve the sport's grand slam ― winning titles at the World Grand Prix Final, Four Continents Championships, World Championships and Winter Olympics. One could feel that it was the crystallization of the sweat and blood the then-19-year-old poured in. She must have felt it too, bursting into inexplicable tears after that golden performance. The country and the world fell in love with her, as fans usually do with stellar athletes. And they felt thankful for the adrenalin rush, an excellence that star athletes usually bring. Two years plus, Kim has largely stayed away from competitive events except for the 2011 International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships in Russia. People have seen more of her on commercials for a variety of products, ranging from air conditioners, coffee and footwear to beer. It was a playful, fun-loving side to the athlete that had shown grit, steel and composure on the ice. Thus, it was refreshing to see her perform at the "E1 All That Skate Spring 2012" that took place at a specially-made rink at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul. She showed the essence of a figure skating star that she is, skillfully, charismatically and gracefully gliding on stage to Michael Buble's "All of Me" for which she dressed as a man, and Adele's "Someone Like You," after which she once again seemed to tear up. Her presence on the ice is commanding; her appearances on television ads are fun and alluring. For fans, in particular Korean fans, this dichotomy presents a dilemma. The Olympian, now 21, hasn't said anything definitive about competing again or about retiring. Home fans appear willing to let Kim decide and enjoy the fruits of Olympic triumph through various other sports. She has often spoken of the hardships of training saying that if she ever had a daughter, she would not let her take up figure skating, if possible. Yet there is that strong underlying hope that she would compete again at the Olympics, something she must surely feel. Like any sports star of any nation, the mountain of expectation and anticipation heaped on her is great. It's almost like a big one-sided love. So when she began promoting Hite, one of the best-selling local beers, it was immediately followed by mixed responses. Numerous Korean stars have promoted alcoholic beverages before but rarely have young star athletes done so. In the beer ad, she is a fun, playful young lady, singing and dancing and waving the beer. The Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (KAAP) released a statement May 6, raising concerns over top athletes appearing in advertisements for alcoholic beverages and the effect they could have on youngsters. The KAAP called for a government regulation to prevent athletes appearing in commercials for alcoholic beverages, like in the United States. A number of commentators have expressed concern about her beer commercial because of her ability to influence the public. Yet there are also those that ask why sports stars shouldn't endorse alcoholic beverages without guilt when other celebrities do. It is a natural question in a society where a person who has achieved outstanding stature in his or her field tends to grow into a celebrity whether a politician, professor or athlete. Against that general trend, the lines between celebrity status and one's true profession can blur and be confusing. Perhaps the KAAP's statement is a good reminder against the trend. |


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Government today promised urgent steps to overturn the Supreme Court ruling declaring homosexuality as illegal amid indications that it could file a curative petition in the apex court.
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Soaking in the spirit and sharing some of the joy is the Spastics Society of Karnataka (SSK) and its annual Winter Carnival that will be held on December 14 at its Indiranagar campus.
An unique and innovative pediatric liver transplant procedure performed by liver transplant surgeons at Global Hospitals here helped a mother save her ten-year-old son.
The announcement on the takeover of the Cochin Medical College from the control of CAPE will open up new avenues in healthcare and medical education.
The use of the word 'Golf Club' instead of 'Golf Course' in the government order has created confusion as to what exactly the government intends to hand over.
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This article is a guide to posting.
"But MDK, I already know how to post!"
I know. This is a walk-through for more advanced posting techniques -- things like how to post pictures, how to post spoilers, how to post links properly, how to post bullet-points without your B) turning into a smiley-face wearing sunglasses.
"But MDK, I already know how to do all that!"
Then leave, this article isn't for you.
- Basic Principles of Advanced Posting
- Images
- Quote Boxes
- Links
- Spoiler buttons
- Style modifications
- Miscellaneous Options
Let's start with the shoe on the right foot -- basics of formatting. There are two schools of thought when it comes to fancy forum shit. One says, go into the full-on Advanced Reply option, click a bunch of buttons, and make the computer figure it all out. The other says, format manually as you go -- I'm going to tell you the latter, because that's how I do things, and because that will give you an understanding of what the computer is doing -- and why your formatting isn't working properly!
The basic unit of BB Code is the bracket. The forum has been trained to recognize certain bracketed words or letters, and to automatically display them as special formatting. It begins with a bracketed [word], the "opening bracket," and ends with a bracketed [/word], which I call "closing bracket." The answer to any formatting question is to properly manage your opening- and closing-brackets.
For instance, let's say I wanted to display my text as a pink unicorn. BB Code for this command is [pink unicorn]. Watch what happens when I accidentally leave off the closing bracket:
[pink unicorn]This text is a pink unicorn![pink unicorn]
As you can see, that text is not a pink unicorn. When reading my post, the forum saw an open bracket, but not a closing one -- so it never modified my text to properly display it the way I wanted to. Now, watch again while I close-bracket the text correctly:
See? It's that easy! Every formatting code works on this exact same principle. Some have special tricks that you can use to make your formatting even cooler. Others are vanilla and boring. But everything works the same way -- open bracket, close bracket. It's that simple.
As this guide continues, you will see a "Code" box under each header. The code boxes will display BB Code Brackets with extra spaces before and after the code itself -- I'm intentionally inputting the code wrong so that you can easily see the code at work. In all cases, you'll have to type the bracket WITHOUT the extra spaces, thus: [thus][/thus].
Last note: Always close your brackets in order of which bracket was opened most recently. There's method to this madness, which I'll discuss at the very end... for now, just keep that note in mind. Most-recent to least-recent, always!
Image brackets are easy to do. Image hosting is easy to do. Unfortunately wires sometimes get crossed, and your pink unicorn image may end up looking more like this:Code:[ img ]http://image.url.com[ /img ]
There's the easy way to fix this, and the wrong way. The wrong way is to find any old image you like on the internet, right-click it and select "Copy Image URL." Then, you might simply click on the "Insert Image" button on the Advanced Reply box, you know, the yellow one with the mountains on it like this , paste the URL, click OK, and call it a day.
That's wrong for a good reason -- it's called "hotlinking," and it eats up bandwidth for the host site. Which is a victimless crime, until they block hotlinking and your pink unicorn looks like a crippled webpage again.
The EASY way to fix all these problems is to save any photos of pink unicorns you wish to use to a free-and-simple Photobucket account. Photobucket is free, and it's simple to use, and best of all it gives you unlimited storage space. When you find that perfect pink unicorn picture, right-click it and choose "Save to my computer." Don't worry -- you can delete it before your mom finds out you've got a whole ten gigs of pink unicorn pictures on her hard drive. Now, go to Photobucket and log in to your free account, and click on the "Upload Now" button. Upload your image, save it, THEN hotlink it. Photobucket is designed to let you use your pink unicorns wherever you like. When you link a photo from your photobucket account, instead of this
You'll always get this
Now that image is hosted online. You don't have to keep it on your hard drive -- the data is elsewhere, on Photobucket's ample web server, and the image is being pulled from there instead of poor Mom & Pop's Unicorn Shop . com. This is the proper way to go about posting images! Unless you're posting in a thread about ducks, there's probably no good reason NOT to host your own images. It's quick, easy, and free.... just do it!
Code:[ quote ] I Think Pink Unicorns Are Awesome! [ /quote ]Quotes are great. Longwinded internet debates about which pink unicorns are superior, just wouldn't be the same without them. There are a couple of tricks to the mystical quote-box that can help you make your formating look impeccable. I'm going to start with the stuff you can type into a quick-reply box, and work my way up.I Think Pink Unicorns Are Awesome!
The first trick you should learn is how to credit a quote TO somebody. It's easy to do, but it requires you to add a "Modifier" to your opening bracket. You'll see more of these modifiers later in other advanced techniques -- this one's really easy. If you want to attach a name to your quote, all you have to do is add an equals-sign, and the intended name, thus:
Code:[ quote=MDK ] I Think Pink Unicorns Are Awesome! [ /quote ]Now, it's possible to make it even prettier, and the easiest way is to explore the buttons. At the bottom of every post, you'll see a few buttons that look like this:Originally Posted by MDK
Clicking on the "Quote" button will reference that post's assigned number and pull info from the big scary forum database. When you quote a person this way, it'll add things like when the post in question was made, by whom, the date, etc. The +" button does the same thing, but you can click it on several different posts and throw them all into the same reply. When you get done picking the quotes you wish to use, simply click "Add Reply," and the site will automatically parse all your Open- and Close-Brackets. Unfortunately it's hard to simulate that, but if you're curious, quote this post and check out the first line! I call this Auto-Quoting, because, well, it's automatic.
Some things to consider when using quote boxes: There's a polite way to quote people, and the definition of "polite" changes based on the situation. In some cases, it's perfectly acceptable to quote a whole entire post and type a short reply afterwards; other times, like in a debate, you might be expected to break apart the opponent's post into little individual points and address each one individually. Sometimes you may wish to quote a single line from a big post. In all cases, editing a quoted section is acceptable -- changing what is said, is not. Feel free to clip it down to a main point, just don't quote somebody and twist the context or change the words -- that's pretty rude!
Another pitfall to avoid is the quote pyramid, which looks like this -- only bigger:
This typically happens when you auto-quote someone, who auto-quoted someone, who auto-quoted someone, etc. It looks like a ziggurat viewed from the sky... It's wrong for two reasons. One, it's annoying. Two, it will actually reach a point somewhere where the forum can't handle the formatting anymore -- it can't draw the proper lines, or it's just fed up with your crap; either way, it freaks out and spits out an error message at you. Don't get into that situation.... there's almost never a time where you need to include three-deep quotes.AwesomeAreUnicornsPink
This Is My Pink Unicorn!Code:[url = 'http :// www . pink unicorns . com] This Is My Pink Unicorn! [ /url ]
Links are a great way to share information without having to do any real work -- but if you play your cards right, you can share links in some pretty clever ways. Thanks to amazing technological advances, you don't actually have to do any work whatsoever to post a link -- simply copy the address bar for the web page in question, paste it into your post, and the website will turn it into a link. It'll even give it a snazzy title from the target site's code, so your readers aren't just looking at a bunch of random letters and numbers. I'm going to copy-paste a forum thread for example:
With no work whatsoever, I've just posted something totally legible. The site added [ url ] [ /url ] brackets. But I can do so much better! By throwing in a bracket modifier, I can change the displayed text to whatever I want. The code will look like this:
[ url = http :// roleplayerguild . com/f54/status-update-52616/ ] The One And Only Status Update Thread! [ /url ]
The product of all that looks like this:
The One And Only Status Update Thread!
What I've done is, I've modified the bracket with the "=" sign and told the website to change the special formatting. Instead of "Make the enclosed text into a link," it now reads the bracket as "Make the enclosed text into a link TO THIS LOCATION." That gives me freedom to enclose whatever I want -- funny jokes, facetious titles, or even images. Almost anything can be made into a link -- just click on my unicorn!
Experiment with anything you can think of.
Code:[ hider=True Story ] An invisible unicorn lives here [ /hider ]
Hiders, also known as Spoilers, are great sig devices. They "hide" a whoooole lot of stuff, without "spoiling" the forum experience for a passer-by. Use spoilers whenever you need to compress a bunch of info, or if you think you might spill the beans on something important that someone else might not want to know just yet (like if you know Snape kills Dumbledore, that might be spoiler/hider material!).
You'll notice I started right out with a modifier. Yep -- you need to include a title for your Hider Button. If you don't, the forum won't know how to draw the button, and it won't hide anything -- it'll just leave your text out in the open like this:
[hider]A visible unicorn lives here[/hider]
See how, even though the brackets were opened and closed properly, it didn't work? That's because this is advanced-level posting. Your spoiler isn't formatted properly until you modify your bracket with a nice "=Title". Once you add that, you can hide anything you like -- hide a list of quotes containing links in the form of pictures!
Not sure how I did all that at once? Auto-quote this post and find out! The key is to close your brackets in the order of Most-Recent to Oldest.
Style ModificationsThis is the perfect chance to see why it's important to close your brackets in the proper order -- most recent bracket first! Style mods can be used to add flavor, emphasis, to change color and identify different speakers, to align text to one side or the other (or the middle) and all sorts of other cool things. They're useful brackets! They're easy to learn, and easy to mess up.Code:[ b ] [ i ] [ s ] [ u ] [ center ] [ right ] [ left ] and more
For the most part, style mods are self-explanatory. [ b ] makes text bold, [ i ] makes text italic, [ u ] underlines, [ s ] does the strikeout command. Alignment is easy, too.
[ left ][ center ][ right ]
You can change fonts and colors as well -- generally the easiest way to do that is to use the Advanced Reply option, highlight the text you wish to change, and select a new font/color from the dropdown menu -- however, the dropdowns don't include every color or font at your disposal. If you know "color codes," you can use those too -- [ color = 8888888 ] would give you Color 8888888. You can learn those through image editing, or settle for the ample options offered here.
Now, easy ways to mess up Style Modifications: First and foremost, since these are pretty easy to type out on the fly, the biggest mistake here is the typo. Maybe you open a [ b] but close with [ /i ] accidentally, or close with an additional [ b ] -- not a big deal to figure out what went wrong on those. The other easy way to mess up is to close your brackets out of order, and this is the perfect chance to show you why it's important to get that right! I'm going to type out "I Love Unicorns!" I want it to be bold, underlined, italicized, centered, large pink Century Gothic font. Since I'm doing it by hand, I'm going to 'accidentally' close everything in the wrong order. Watch what happens....
I love Unicorns!
...well, that was anticlimatic, wasn't it? THESE forums in particular are smart, and they sort through the closing brackets well -- which I honestly didn't expect when I started this guide, because with most forums you'll encounter the wide web over, you'll be left with a bold set of open-brackets and no other formating. Which, I realize now, is tough to demonstrate here on these smart forums. But, build a good habit pattern! If you close things in the reverse order like I said, you'll never leave one open by accident and you'll never encounter a dumber forum that can't handle your style. An easier way to keep this straight is to highlight the text in question and pick out your mods from the Advanced Reply menu -- it'll automatically bracket everything for you, and it'll use the bracket order we've been teaching all along.
Some keys to remember: Style Modifications are useful as long as you don't overdo it. Some colors are painful to read on this site -- always, always, ALWAYS "Preview Post" to make sure your formating is (a) working properly, and (b) legible! In RolePlay sections especially, you need to check your post AS IT'S GOING TO BE READ, not as it was written. If you're posting from the quick-reply box, when you finish your text click "Go Advanced." It will take you to the preview-post screen and the Advanced Post menu. "Preview" before you "Post!" It's not the law, but it ought to be.
Miscellaneous Options
If you're using the quick-reply box, you don't get any miscellaneous options until you click "Go Advanced." Once there, if you look below your text window, you'll see first a few post icons -- these are almost never necessary, especially in RP settings. Below that is an extra window labeled "Additional Options." Here you'll find a few extra things you can play with to change the way your post shows up.
Option one is a checkbox labelled "Show your signature." Typically this is checked by default -- if you have a large sig and you're trying to RP, it's courteous to others to uncheck the box. Nobody in your RP cares what your signature looks like -- it's just dead space getting in the way of the RP. Uncheck it if you can remember to -- you can also change a personal setting to make the box unchecked by default.
After that comes "Automatically parse links in text." That's the magic box that makes linking easy. It takes any word beginning with HTTP : // and turns it into a link to the address that follows. However, if you want to display a URL without making it a link, uncheck that box. You can still post links using the [ url ] brackets, but the automatic option won't go anymore.
The following box is related -- "Automatically retrieve titles from external links." That's the one that turns Pink Unicorns Home Page - Hand Crafted Wearable Textile Creations by Harriett Moore-Boyd into Pink Unicorn Supercenter all by itself. Typically, it's a good idea to leave these two boxes checked -- if you want to display a URL without making it a link, just surround it in quotation marks like this: "http://www.pinkunicorns.com"
The last box is "Disable smilies in text." The forum is trained to recognize smiley faces and transform them into graphics. A side effect of that is that occasionally, a list or a colon or something you didn't MEAN to be a smiley, turns into a smiley. If you check the box, you can type A), B), C) at will, or TL:DR without faces popping out and embarrassing you. If you're using the Preview button like you should, you'll catch these accidents -- fix them by checking that box.
After the "Miscellaneous Options," there's an attachment window. My advice? Don't bother with it! Attachments take up space on the forum and presumably make it run slower. Instead, upload everything you need to Photobucket, and link it in the old-fashioned way. Attachments are convenient... but also, lazy and bulkier. It's much easier/better to simply use the off-site hosting.
Last is "Thread Subscription." Use this to receive notifications of people posting in one of your RP threads! Most GMs like you to "Subscribe," so that you don't accidentally miss another person's post and slow down the game. "But MDK, do I really need to subscribe? I don't like getting emails!" If you're online frequently enough, you probably don't need to subscribe -- but it's polite to do so, especially if your GM asks you to. The site won't send you spam!
Now you know how to post like a champion. Now you get those jokes where people say something like "Yeah, that's a great idea! [/sarcasm]"
If you have any questions, or if you think of something that wasn't addressed here, just ask. I'll update as necessary. Hope you learned something and enjoyed the thread. Since I didn't end up needing it anywhere else, here's the Pink Unicorn of Closing!


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November 29, 2013
Brian Gregory continues to win key in-state recruiting battles for Georgia Tech.
November 29, 2013
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Newt Gingrich on Friday urged Mitt Romney to go after President Barack Obama in next month's debates with a gusto the former House speaker knows well.
"When he walks in to debate Obama, he's got to be as tough with Obama as he was with me in Florida," Gingrich said in an interview on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
After all, Gingrich said, Romney "is not in a competition to be likeable."
At two debates in Florida last January amidst their bitter struggle for the GOP presidential nomination, Romney lit into Gingrich.
The two entered the Florida primary locked up in the polls. But after some heavy stumping - and arguably some debate thumping - Romney emerged on top in the vote count, beating Gingrich by 14 points and claiming the state's delegate haul.
With Romney trailing Obama in favorability, Gingrich encouraged Romney to play aggressively on the debate stage. The most recent CNN/ORC International Poll of likely voters, conducted earlier this month after the conclusion of both conventions, showed Obama with a 9 point advantage over Romney in their respective favorability ratings.
"He's in a competition to be capable," Gingrich said. "We need somebody who can turn America around. We need him to convince us that a Romney recovery is better than an Obama stagnation. Unless he can do that, I don't care how much effort they spend trying to make him likeable - it won't work.
Appearing separately on the program, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley argued that Obama has produced more than stagnation.
"I think the polls show overwhelmingly that most of us understand that the wrecking of our economy was the result of policies that were inflicted upon us during the Bush years," he said. "We've now had 30 months in a row of positive private sector job growth. Foreclosures are now lower than they were before President Obama took office. And while we still have a lot of work to do, we are headed in a much better direction than we were the day he took that oath."
In the interview, Gingrich also responded an apparent contrast between Romney's comments that he had not - and would be disqualified from the presidency if - he paid more in his taxes than he owed, and his campaign's acknowledgement that he could have paid less had he reported all of his charitable giving.
"I don't pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due, I don't think I'd be qualified to become president," Romney said in a July interview. "I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires."
But documents released Friday showed the Republican presidential nominee reported on his 2011 tax return that approximately 16% of his income went to charity, while his campaign said the actual amount was 30%.
Gingrich initially laughed and took a swipe at Vice President Joe Biden, charging that the vice president ought to then "resign this evening because he has said enough different goofy things over time that you couldn't possibly remain vice president."
Then, Gingrich described Romney's charitable giving as a credit to the GOP candidate.
"I think it is a good thing for Romney," Gingrich said. "Apparently he's done this his whole life, to have a very substantial donation process for charities, for his church, and for things he wants to do voluntarily as a citizen. That's also a kind of self-tax to keep civilized society moving."


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SNAP is the official Safety Notification Alert Process for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). SNAP alerts users to on-campus emergencies and college closings or delays for all 16 KCTCS colleges and the System office.
Effective February 15, 2013, your preferred phone numbers or e-mail addresses entered into the KCTCS Self-Service Student or Employee Information Center will also be used for SNAP messages during an emergency at the college where you are enrolled or employed. The same contact information that is used to inform you of academic/employment questions or concerns will now also be used to notify you if there is a weather emergency, safety threat or campus closing/delay.
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Are you a parent, board member or community member interested in receiving SNAP emergency messages from a KCTCS college? Sign up to receive notifications here.
Need help signing up? View the demo and step-by-step instructions here (PDF).
Beginning February 15, 2013 if you are a current KCTCS student or employee, your kctcs.edu e-mail and the preferred and mobile phone numbers listed in your college records are automatically registered to receive SNAP messages.
The same contact information that is used to inform you of academic/employment questions or concerns will now also be used to notify you if there is a weather emergency, safety threat or campus closing/delay.
If you would like to add a cell phone to receive text messages, you can add a mobile phone number in the Student/Employee Self-Service Center and SNAP messages will automatically be sent to you by text message OR you can create a new account here and add a cell phone to receive text notifications.
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Please note: All contact information entered into a user created account will remain in the system and continue to receive messages until the account is deactivated or the contact information is edited.
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Using your registered e-mail and password, login to your account here. If you want to close the account under "My Account" click "Permanently close my account". To make changes to your account click "Contact Info". Under "Notification Preferences" delete the phone number or e-mail account you no longer want subscribed to SNAP messaging. If you forgot your password you can reset your password here.
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"Cities are now home to a majority of the world's population and are on the front line in the battle against climate change. While action at the federal level in the U.S. has been painfully slow, cities in the U.S. are starting to lead by example at a local level. Cities must take an active role in helping their constituents (starting with themselves of course) to mitigate their impact on climate change as well as begin investing in appropriateclimate change adaptation solutions.
I felt that it was time to do some analysis on U.S. Cities which are positioning themselves to be leaders in climate capitalism. I have used proxies and a methodology for ranking the largest cities in the U.S. based on a range of factors including political commitment (as measured by number of commitments the city has made with the U.S. Mayors, Carbon War Room Cities Challenge, Clinton 40, and ICLEI membership), green buildings (LEED buildings per capita), university leadership (AASHE membership/capita), transit access and use (range of metrics on heavy and light rail usage per capita), clean tech investment (venture funds based in city with clean tech investments in 2010) and energy and GHG emissions (from a range of sources)*."
Top 10 Climate-Ready Cities in the U.S. via Boyd Cohen – CO2 Impact / Triple Pundit


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Coldcut & DK in the studio tonight with a guest mix from Hot Sugar and an interview with Slugabed, plus a competition to win the new Slugabed album Time Team.
Ninja Tune will release the new EP from Hot Sugar, Moon Money, on 14 May.
Hot Sugar was recently interviewed for The Creator's Project, click below to read the extensive interview.
We were going to tell everyone how excited we were to have signed Hot Sugar's forthcoming EP this week, but it seems he's as prolific a video maker as he is a musician, and he's done it for us.


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Encontros / Madison Square Park (Out front of Shake Shack)
kingofbrickcityHá 8 meses - Presença confirmada
I'll Be There!
lexisplayhouseHá 8 meses - Presença confirmada
Hope it's awesome
gurrrl-interruptedHá 7 meses - Organizador
gurrrl-interruptedHá 7 meses - Organizador
If some of yal don't know anything about me, I set up the meet up as I am in NYC for this whole month and know zero people in the city. I wanted to meet some cool azz people to hang out with do movies/food/shopping/ whatever when I'm here! I arrived a few hours ago today after leaving Scotland last night at 11pm!!! The subway and so on was holy overwhelming and theres a 93% chance I'm gonna get lost before the meet up tomorrow but I will be there at 2.30 no doubt! Ps kinda starting to freak out about it, I NEVER organise things!!! see yal tomoz
gurrrl-interruptedHá 7 meses - Organizador
oh man! if no one turns up to this i'll be sitting in shake shack drowning my sorrows in milkshake alone!
himlen-av-vansinneHá 7 meses - Presença confirmada
I'm hard to miss, I have red and blond hair haha
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Update on where you go because I'm going to be late
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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) When Esther Liverani retired at 60 years old and moved from New York to Florida in the summer of 2011, she expected the orange state's lower tax rate to apply to her income tax return immediately. Instead, she had to wait until year-end 2012 to take full advantage, because she had worked the first six months in New York State in 2011.
"The lower tax status of one state only becomes effective after the taxpayer moves and stops working in the previous state," said Paul J. Davidian, a CPA in Woodland Hills, Calif. "Where you earn the money is where you pay the tax. So, if you worked in one state in 2013 but moved in 2014, you would still pay higher taxes for the year 2013."
Moving from a high-tax state to a low-tax state could save taxpayers thousands, even millions of dollars over a lifetime. By contrast, moving in the opposite direction could prove very expensive.
For example, if Mitt Romney moved from Utah to New Hampshire, he would have an additional $872 a year in spendable income compared to a loss of $5,009 in spendable income each year if Barack Obama moved from Illinois to Hawaii.
"Anytime you move from one state to another and you pay taxes in one state, you can get a credit in the new state," Davidian said. "Very seldom would you pay taxes in two states."
States such as Texas, Florida, Nevada and Alaska have no income tax, which means capital gains and dividends, pensions and social security as primary income are not taxed. Pennsylvania is another state that doesn't tax capital gains and dividends.
"The tax impact is much greater at higher incomes," said Pamela Villarreal, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). "High income taxpayers have a lot to gain by fleeing high-tax states. When they leave, the average taxpayer gets stuck with the higher tax burden."
The NCPA offers a free, first-of-its-kind state calculator to help tax payers determine just what's at stake by computing the difference in the amount of federal and state income taxes, property taxes and sales taxes you could expect to pay over the rest of your life when you move from one state to another.
Developed by NCPA Senior Fellow Laurence Kotlikoff, the online tool automatically makes saving and investment decisions for the household, including IRA deposits and withdrawals, in order to maximize personal consumption and smooth it out over a lifetime.
"Moving to tax-friendly states can make a major difference to your lifetime living standard," said Kotlikoff. "This unique tool considers your income, housing costs and the three big taxes that matter most to your move income, sales and property taxes."


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Microsoft Documents ODF Implementation in Office 2007
With the "Implementation Notes", Microsoft has published documents recording the integration of Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 into its Office 2007 package.
Giving ODF the lead, the software giant will be publishing implementation notes for its own Office Open XML (OOXML) in a few weeks. The implementation is coordinated to enable the simultaneous integration of both formats into Service Pack 2 of Office 2007. According to a Microsoft announcement, the SP2 is still in the Beta phase.
The implementation notes can be found on the Document Interoperability Initiative website. Sandra Schaefer, in charge of Microsoft's interoperability strategy in Germany, says, "These notes will help promote interoperability by providing details that others can use as reference points for their own applications."
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KBS Internships |
KBS internships provide work-related experience under the guidance of knowledgable mentors in various academic and career fields. Unlike our REU and URA positions, they are not research-focused opportunities. Each internship advertisement below includes a separate link to an online application. While applying, please be prepared to answer questions about why you would like to participate and to upload a pdf file of your resume. If you would like to apply for several positions, you must fill out each appropriate application. Internships will be posted in January and applications are due by March 1st or shortly thereafter; please refer to position descriptions for details. Questions? Email firstname.lastname@example.com Updated internship posting, still accepting applications:Kellogg Bird Sanctuary: Environmental Education Internship - Summer 2013
Environmental Education Internship Description (pdf) Apply today! Click on the link below to complete application and upload your resume: Environmental Education Intern Application due May 3rd, 2013 No Longer Accepting Applications for Internships listed below, Summer 2014 information will be posted when available:KBS Communications Office: Application deadline, Friday, April 19, 2013. A Media & Marketing Internship (part-time) is available to a current student or recent graduate studying graphic design, advertising, marketing, public relations, communications, journalism, etc. Interns will work under the supervision of the KBS Communications Coordinator to market KBS academics, research and outreach programs & events. Get hands-on experience with us! Knowing how to 'sell' your organization, its mission and its activities to the public is among the most sought-after skills by employers in today's nonprofit world. Learn what makes nonprofit marketing tick and how to apply your own unique talents to effectively communicate (y)our passions – environment and education - using various media. Starting in July 2013, upto 22 week experience.
Science Education Internship: Curriculum Enhancement for Alternative High Biology This is a paid internship to work with a multi-disciplinary team of educators and scientists to create hands-on science modules to enhance on-line curriculum used for biology and environmental science in a High School Alternative Education program. Intern will spend time in the classroom interacting with students and teachers in the Alternative Ed. Program at Gull Lake Community Schools (GLCS) and gaining experience with the format and content of on-line courses. Then will work with a High School teacher and KBS graduate student to develop instructional modules to enhance curriculum that meets the Next Generation Science Standards based on research done at the Kellogg Biological Station. The intern is encouraged to enroll in a summer course at KBS that will enrich their skills and experience in science: http://www.kbs.msu.edu/education/summer-courses. Scholarships are available for tuition, room & board if enrolled in a KBS summer course: http://www.kbs.msu.edu/education/scholarships
W.K. Kellogg Farm: Kellogg Farm's Pasture Dairy Center features the nation's first LEED-certified agricultural facility and supports a spectrum of agricultural and ecological research. A Pasture Dairy Management & Outreach Internship (full-time) offers hands-on experience assisting with the daily operations of KBS's pasture-based dairy facility. An Agriculture & Climate Change Communications Internship (part-time) focuses on communicating climate change science to professional audiences and can be completed along with a KBS summer course.
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Conference Center: We are sorry, due to a change in staffing we will not be offering this position for summer 2013. W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary: The Sanctuary offers four, full-time internships each year. Three Avian Care Internship positions are offered spring (January-May), summer (May-July), fall (July-December) to those studying wildlife biology, ecology, biology, zoology, animal science, natural sciences or veterinary sciences. The summer Avian Care internship is only open to current MSU students. One full-time Interpretation/Education Internship is available each summer (June-August) to MSU students studying wildlife biology, ecology, biology, zoology, education, natural sciences, environmental science or a related field. The fall Avian Care Intern is supported by the Joe Johnson Endowment for Wildlife Conservation. Read more about Sanctuary internships here.
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94 Meetup Groups match "Singles 30's-50's" near Washington, DC
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This group is for singles 40 and over looking to get together over dinner and good conversation in the Annapolis area. Let's get together and form a good group of quality singles looking for friendship, goodtimes and great food.
For Super Singles only.. If you are single and you are looking for the special one.. this group will guarantee one for sure.. On every event you attend, you would leave with at least 3 numbers of people to contact and meet. We will throw parties, pool parties, pajama parties you name it, Happy hours in the coolest place of DC, MD and VA, Beach trips, dinner, match making, Mini Dates.. Single Games Only, We will do everything to bring you closer to the special someone.. Every party, Happy hour, y …
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SINGLES - CALLING ALL BALTIMORE AREA SINGLES - If you are single and looking to meet the RIGHT person to date - this is the Meetup group for you!!! Come go on 2 years worth of first dates in 1 night!!! Our Meetup group is designed for you to meet with a bunch of singles in 1 night for fun "mini-dates." This gives you a chance to meet one-on-one with a lot of different people in a fun, low-pressure, environment. You select who you liked and want to see again for second dates! We have events fo …
The group is for active Washingtonians in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s who like to travel. Since we, as Gen X Washingtonians in our older/wiser age, tend to be more selective about where and how we travel, this group's focus is on non-touristy, responsible travel (to local, domestic and international destinations). Non-touristy just means high-quality trips to cool, distinctive destinations with lots of character, as opposed to the cheapest vacations to the same old touristy spots. Respons …
We are a Christ-centered, Bible-based ministry to Christian singles in the Baltimore-Washington area. Our purpose is to provide a spiritual environment where Christian singles may praise and worship the Lord, hear and practice the Word through Christian ministry, and fellowship with one another (through our service and activities). Our Sunday service generally includes a time of worship, followed by a speaker or DVD on a topic relevant to growing in our Christian walk. Occasionally we have Chr …
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Singles, singles, singles - if you are looking to meet the RIGHT person to date - this is the group for you!!! How would you like to go on 2 years worth of first dates in 1 night??? With this you can quickly see who you click with and want to see again for quality second dates! Our Meetup group is designed for you to meet one-on-one with other singles in a fun, organized setting so you can find dates with people you like!! You will meet new singles at every event - unlike other groups where y …
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Meeting singles can be a daunting task--add the added expense of paid memberships and events and the entire process can be frustrating. Let's design a space where singles can get together--for free! That's what we're all about. Speed dating and singles events that you won't have to pay for.
The purpose of this group is to provide opportunities for single Christian men and women to have fun and share enjoyable experiences with each other. It is a place where you can meet and connect with others who have common interests and shared values. The focus of this meetup group is on social events that will provide an environment where single Christian men and women can connect socially and form friendships and lasting relationships. The age range of members in this group is from late 30's …
Hi there... This meetup is for 30 and 40 something guys and gals to hang out, get to know each other and just make some good friendships along the way. Just a couple of things: This is a SINGLES group for singles who want to mingle, meet new friends and possibly find romance! Regards - Manan Singh Katohora (please join/add us on facebook)
This group is for professional Christian singles, ages 35-55, who are accomplished and educated, united by their belief in Christ and their curiosity about the arts and world around them. Our activities will run from simple to sophisticated but will always have the same goals: to create opportunities for men and women to experience fun and find fellowship.
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Christian singles let's SING!!!!! SING is a group of single Christians (men and women between the ages of 35 and 60) that get together for local community outings, dinners, dancing, festivals, community service/outreach events and perhaps a few trips. In addition, we will meet to have discussions on being single as a Christian today in our age group. This is not a dating service. But a chance to get out, have some fun, talk with others in our age range that are like minded, and meet other Chris …
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This group is open to single professional men and women between 35 – 55, who want to make new friends in small group settings, explore the DC metro area with a few buddies, or simply go out for a drink after work. Activity ideas include: Dining out, attending events/ festivals, potlucks, wine tasting, exploring museums.
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Are you between the ages of 30-45? Then this is the group for you! We are a group of young professionals from the area of Silver Spring, Rockville, and Bethesda with one goal and one goal only: to have a good time. We strive to create a diverse, accepting, easy going, and non-cliquish environment where people can meet others with similar interests. The group is open to both singles and couples and events include happy hours, social dancing, movies, hiking, dining, and any other events members ma …
Are you SINGLE and between the ages of 30-45? Then this is the group for you! We are a group of young professionals from the area of Alexandria and Arlington with one goal and one goal only: to have a good time and meet likeminded people. We strive to create a diverse, accepting, easy going, and non-cliquish environment where people can meet others with similar interests. So if you are interested in meeting new people and having a good time, please join us. Regards - Manan Singh Katohora' (Plea …
The St John Singles for Christ is a Ministry dedicated to fulfilling the various needs of single people. We are one of several ministries and groups at the St John Baptist Church at 9055 Tamar Dr., Columbia, Md. Our Ministry hosts monthly educational programs which include, but are not limited to, how to meet good Christian mates, how to conduct oneself when dating, how to fulfill the needs of single parents, how to be content with being single, and how to recover from divorce and widowhood. Our …
Speed Dating events are a great way for time starved single professionals to meet a lot of people in a fun, no pressure atmosphere. The events we'll list will be throughout Baltimore, Harford, and Cecil counties and will include Delaware. We'll set them up in age ranges and meet at fun locations suggested by you and our sponsors. The RSVP's from our group are also joined up with other singles groups through many marketing efforts. Reserve your spot as soon as you see an event posted. The number …
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Lock and Key Singles Events are the new, hot, exciting, interactive, and a FUN way for singles to socialize. Join us for our next Lock and Key Party. Meet other singles near you in a fun, non-intimidating atmosphere. Includes 1 FREE Drink, free appetizers and a tons of singles 25+! Register early! We raffle off great prizes too that everyone had a legitimate chance of winning! Check us out at http://www.LockandKeyevents.com/BMD for more information! Lock and Key Singles Events have proven to b …
Welcome to the meetup site for the Catholic Singles of Greater Washington, DC (CSGW), a social club for single Catholic professionals in the greater DC metro area. CSGW is a real club, in existence for over 50 years. It organizes numerous events every month to bring together single professional Catholics; events ranging from dances to picnics, from sporting activities to theater, from book discussions to rosaries. Although many of these activities are open to the public, many are also held in …
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Looking to play social golf? Looking to meet other singles? Want to improve your game? Welcome Single Golfers! You've found the right place to make friends and to meet-up with social golfers in the DC Metropolitan area, Maryland and Northern Virginia. We are the DC Chapter of the American Singles Golf Association (ASGA). We are a spirited, all-volunteer group that is very active all year long. Beginners and accomplished golfers are welcome to join the fun! We host golf outings at courses …
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Tired of not seeing many meet-ups for active people in their 40s and 50s? Well here is your opportunity to get active and have some fun. I know I'm not the only one in the area that would love to meet other people that are OUR age appropriate and interested in making new friends, creating new activities and having fun in the DC, Virginia, and surrounding area. Our activities will vary depending on the group's ideas and involvement. I envision activities like: • wine/champagne-tasting and Happy …
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This group is open to all singles (Maryland-DC). We created this group to establish a large group of friends who enjoy getting together for happy hours, BBQs, lounges, clubs, trips to the park, museums, going out to dinner, etc. Members should be 21+.
This group is only for Single ladies and gentlemen in the DC metro area who want to mingle and have fun. Please note there is a $2 fee to join this group. Singles who like partying, indoor and outdoor activities, events, social gatherings, and dining out... this group is for you! Singles in this group can also post events, ideas, and activities for other members to participate in, and are welcome to share events with their other groups!
We get together for networking and social happy hours, visiting museums, art galleries, hiking, theater, art films, dinners, charity events and more. Events are meant to provide a venue for a broad purpose of making new friends, networking and socializing with other professional singles in DMV area. Events are hosted mainly in DC but also in VA and MD. *********************************************************** To join, you should be (1) Friendly & fun (2) answer the profile questions, and (3 …
This is a group for single folks who love food. If you're a foodie who loves to attend the many exciting culinary events in town, suggest the perfect restaurant for friends, or get creative in the kitchen, then join us! We'll check out new restaurants, attend food related events, host recipe swaps, and embark on other culinary adventures. Some dinners may be age specific and gender balanced but most events will be open to all.
This is a group for single professional in Washington, D.C. interested in socializing, growing, partying, and becoming the best we can become. If you are single and interested in meeting people trying to become the best they can be, the is the group for you. We will meet for happy hours, work outs, meditation and other activities and learn and grow together.
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DMV Speed Dating for Black Singles is unique in that we try not to leave anyone out of the fun. We believe that there's a special someone for everyone, and since we don't all have the same tastes, why have one type of speed dating event? We strive to host events for different types of Black singles, so you'll be able to pick and choose which events you attend based on your interests. DMV Speed Dating for Black Singles is dedicated to hosting speed dating meet ups for All Singles, Marriage-Minded …
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Hi all,
I've been asked to look into whether it would be a "good idea" to provide PayPal as a payment method on our transactional websites. I think a "good idea" adds up to:
1) Will it increase conversion rates? I.e. will people who wouldn't buy from us before, now buy from us because we offer their prefered payment method?
2) Will it cost us more? I.e. will everyone stop using debit and credit cards and start using PayPal (which I believe has higher per transaction charges)?
Any advice please on how we might answer these questions? Has anyone been through this process already and have some insights?
Grateful for any thoughts...
Depending on how payments are taken currently, using an off-site payment processor may reduce the scope of your cardholder data, and thus reduce PCI DSS compliance costs. People can pay using debit and credit cards at PayPal too.
While you are at it, another "good idea" to compare might be Checkout by Amazon.
Hi Gareth,
I'm afraid I don't have any stats I can share, but thoughts as follows:
1) yes it will increase conversion rates, there is a %age of population who would rather pay by paypal - by giving them the choice they're more likely to convert.
And so long as the integration is doen properly you won't see a drop off
2) I'd suggest working out the fees from each and seeing how big the difference is.
Also, as Colin's suggested, if your'e going down the 3rd Party payment solution route - also worth looking at Google Checkout.
Hope that's helpful
This is only anecdotal but I like it when stores offer the Paypal option. The benefits for me can be two fold.
1. If i've sold something on ebay and have cash in my paypal account I can use it up that way.
2. Having my paypal account linked to my bank account I can pay with pp and the money gets taken straight from the a/c, that way I don't have to hunt around for my card and remember my verified by visa password to make a purchase.
I suppose as a retailer you may pay slightly higher charges on a paypal transaction but if it means you get an extra sale is that not worth it? Slightly higher charge or no sale?
Yes the 3D Secure (e.g. Verified by Visa), is often poorly implemented from a usability perspective, and Paypal offers some alternative options for people more concerned about the protection of their payments and accounts:
- card security key ($5)
- mobile phone security key (SMS charges only)
For a longer term plan, have a glance at the ways mobile payments might be integrated with websites:
Hi Gareth,
I have been to these kind of exercises in the past and no doubt, it's tough to create a business case if, you don't have vertical specific data. Since, you have not mentioned about which industry vertical you belong to and what is your target audience and their persona, it's tough to suggest a relevant solution in this regards.
Based on the last few projects I did in the Apparel, Sporting Goods and Home Decor vertical, I saw a revenue contribution from Paypal fluctuate between 7-12 % while, Google checkout between 3-6%. Credit Cards still contributing over 75% of online revenue. Again, the stats can vary from industry to industry and your target audience.
Let me know if you want to discuss more on this offline?
Hi Gareth
Would need to know more about your target market, vertical, countries your customers are based in to give a better answer. Broadly speaking I think PayPal works well for more 'consumer' purchases (eBay own PayPal, of course, and are pushing it currently to eBay users) and also in countries where credit (and therefore credit cards) are less common (e.g. India).
We added PayPal to our checkout quite recently and we are seeing transactions coming through (probably only 2% are PayPal) but it's not clear whether these are incremental transactions or whether the PayPal buyer would have bought with a credit card anyway if PayPal hadn't been an option. On the small sample we've asked they all said they would have paid by card if PayPal hadn't been there - so little evidence of additional incremental sales/conversions yet.