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Tata Steel's Rs19,500-crore Bastar project gets villagers support
India's largest private sector steel maker Tata Steel's proposed mega steel project in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district received a major boost yesterday with most of the local residents supporting the project in a public hearing organised by the state government.
"Most of the villagers who attended the hearing gave their consent for the steel plant," Bastar district collector M S Paraste said.
"Tata Steel officials made a presentation at a public hearing on Monday for environmental clearance and committed to invest Rs2,000 crore on environment conservation, Paraste added.
The hearing was organised by the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) at Lohandiguda in Bastar, some 340 km south of Raipur.
Tata Steel has proposed to invest Rs19,500 crore in Bastar district to set up a 5.5-million-tonne per annum plant.
"The public hearing programme was successful. The locals people of Bastar should be congratulated as the proposed steel plant would change the life of tribal-predominated region," Paraste told reporters.
According to officials, the state government has so far acquired nearly 80 per cent of the total 2,044 hectares needed for the project across 10 villages in the Lohandiguda block from 1,707 account holders.
The hearing was attended by Varun Jha, vice-president of Tata Steel's Chhattisgarh project, and other senior company officials.
Tata Steel officials said the company would put its best resources in place to control pollution in the area.


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That claim is echoed by other
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by a December 2004 survey from
Fleishman-Hillard (FH)'s gay-focused practice, FH Out Front. It
asked more than 1,000 people what
they would do if they found out
that a company was going to promote its products or services to
gays and lesbians. Sixty-eight percent of respondents said they
would have no reaction.
Just 8 percent of respondents
said they would participate in a
boycott against a company that
promoted its service to gays. More
than twice as many people— 20
percent—said they would speak
out against the boycott and nearly
half said they would not be affected either way.
"These point-and-click boycotts
have no impact on the American
principle of equal opportunity for
all, which is a bedrock operating
principle for businesses," Herrschaft
says. "Companies will not stop this
forward progression unless they
stop wanting to make a buck."
If consumers and companies
don't care, why do these organizations continue to call for boycotts?
There always will be a few members
who steer clear of those companies,
but more than that, these organizations can count on a temporary
increase in donations, Evans says.
"Even though they're not serious
about a boycott, it gets journalists'
attention and helps get them
money," he says. "It's a strategy for
hatemonger fundraising."
Herrschaft agrees: "It is absolutely transparent that
they use this to drive membership. They are using
corporate America as a ping-pong ball and the message to corporate America is, when an extremist
group lobs a tennis ball over to your side, you don't
have to hit it back."
Refusing to play ball doesn't just help the bottom
line by allowing companies to recruit top talent and
attract GLBT consumers. Consistently promoting
equality in the workplace also has positive effects outside the companies' walls.
"One of the byproducts of these business decisions
corporations are making around GLBT employees is
broader cultural shifts," Herrschaft says. "All of the
employees, whether they're gay or not, hear a message
from leadership that gay people should be treated with
respect … Those employees take those values home to
their families and communities."
From gay-marriage threats to boycott threats, there has
been a lot of recent action related to GLBT workplace
rights. But, Lukenbill says, "the train has really left the
station on being anti-gay."
For example, when the HRC released its first
Corporate Equality Index report in 2002, about
690,000 people were employed by the 13 companies
that scored 100 percent. The 2005 edition, the most
recent, reported that 5. 6 million people worked at the
101 companies that scored 100 percent. Sixteen of the
Top 50 companies earned perfect scores.
Even when there are anti-gay campaigns, Herrschaft
says, "they are short-lived and don't ultimately impact
the success of the business. It's just important to stay
focused on the larger picture and not get drawn in."
And if that's impossible, companies need to defend
their policies. "Any company that decides to market
to this segment has to keep in mind there's always a
potential for these situations to arise," Ng warns.
"Once you make that decision, it's about sticking to
that path, not letting bumps in the road affect you."
Company leaders should be prepared to defend
their core values, Herrschaft says.
"The CEO and top levels of the organization need
to be armed with the words to explain their company's values on any issue that is a hot topic for debate
today," he says. "Policies are in place, but … the
potential debate that could arise requires a firm commitment verbally from the highest levels. Be prepared
to say it when it matters. They will find that is the
best prescription for avoiding getting into one of
these tennis matches." DI

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Thomas Brough, 57, of 255 Parkway Apt. 1209, faces a charge of corruption of minors. Magisterial District Judge James R. Ferrier bound over that charge for the county court after Brough waived his right to a hearing.
Schuylkill Haven borough police alleged that Brough showed the pornographic video between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Oct. 11 in his apartment in the borough high-rise building.
Police said they found the pornography when they examined Brough's computer.
The video was not child pornography, according to police.
Brough is free on $5,000 unsecured bail pending further court action.
Other defendants whose cases Ferrier considered on Monday, the charges against each one and the judge's dispositions of the matters included:
Jose F. Cabrera Jr., 22, last known address of 63 N. Lake Drive, Pottsville; theft of leased property; right to preliminary hearing waived, charge bound over for court.
Shane A. Hewes, 18, of 184 Sweet Arrow Lake Road, Pine Grove; theft and receiving stolen property; charges held for court after preliminary hearing.
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I don't have a studio. There are some available to me, but they are not conveniently located and the additional transportation and rental costs involved make using them an 'by-specific-need-only' proposition and not part of what I can normally offer. I am working on it though, thanks to great deals at Phottix and a spare space at home set stuff up in. Until then, the city is my studio.
So why not apply some of my favorite genre, street photography, to how I plan, compose, and photograph portraits?
Obviously, portraiture is to one degree or another staged. This means that you've already lost the primary element that defines street photography as a genre: it's candid nature. Let's focus on what elements that are common in the street genre can be used effectively in portraiture to give the images a street aesthetic.
Inclusion of the Environment
Generally in portraiture you do your best to isolate your subject from their surroundings, either by using a wide aperture or by eliminating the environment entirely using a backdrop or wall. In street photography the environment is crucial to the image and the actual subject isn't an individual(s) alone, but the interaction between that individual(s) and the environment. Obviously it is portraiture, so you want to make the person you are photographing stand out and not get 'lost' in their surroundings. This can be accomplished simply by ensuring that they take a prominent position within the composition.
You can also accomplish this in more creative ways, such as mixing motion.
Minimal Direction
Yes, it's portraiture so yes, it has to be staged at some level. Even so, you can still give your images a candid feel and maintain a level of spontaneity by giving your subject very simple direction. For example, position yourself at the bottom of an escalator and tell your subject "Go down the escalator. Don't look at me." There may be some initial awkwardness, but after a couple of attempts the "There's a camera on me so I should act like there's no camera on me" self-conciousness should give way and allow some more natural-looking images.
If you keep things faced-paced enough you can even get eye-contact images and maintain a somewhat casual, natural feel.
Keep an Eye Out for "Props"
No, I don't mean find a graffiti-filled wall and pose your model against it trying to look "urban". See the "Inclusion of the Environment" heading above. What I mean is, since portraiture gives you the opportunity to rearrange things and pose your subject as you see fit if you spot an object and are inspired to do something creative with it then do it, especially if it can be juxtaposed in some way with something your subject can do.
Selective Photo-chopping
Again, this is something that you would never do in straight street photography. If you have a paying client and can do something cool with what might ordinarily be an average or even a toss-away image, then do so. Experimentation is both fun and a learning experience and you won't know what you might end up with unless you try.
Like with straight street photography, keep it light and mobile. Keeping a fast pace and using a minimum of gear not only works toward giving your images the street 'feel' but helps you avoid any authorities who may want to prevent you from shooting in certain locations for 'security' reasons or demanding to see a permit. This doesn't mean that you can't use remote lighting setups, though. Just think 'portable'. I use a mini tripod (a Slik Mini-Pro III), a Phottix Strato II remote, and an old Nikon SB-28 with a large 9″ foldable diffuser) when I feel the need to move lighting away from my camera.
If you can think of any further ways to incorporate the street athstetic into portraiture, please leave them in the comments below so that they can be discussed. Thanks to Sina Behzadi for dealing with me & my camera and allowing me to use these images for the purposes of this article.


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Paris unexposedParis Hilton has had website ParisExposed.com closed down.
A Los Angeles judge granted a temporary court order on Friday (02.02.07) ordering the site - which allowed subscribers to view a selection of Paris' home videos, personal diaries and bank records for a fee of $39.97 - to be shut down.
Paris' lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said: "The judge issued the temporary shut down because the site violated my client's right to privacy and was a copyright infringement.
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Flora in North Africa is known by its richness (approximately 8,000 species), taxonomic diversity and high number of endemic species. Due to its geographical location, North Africa contains in fact floristic elements of both Euro-Siberian and tropical regions. Although poor in water resources, the region shows in fact a good representation of aquatic and wetlands habitat, very diverse in water quality, biological and hydrological aspects; this is why a relatively high diversity degree can be found here. A total of 645 species and sub-species of aquatic plants have been reviewed in the region. Among these, 521 aquatic plants belonging to 67 families have been assessed: of these 72% are perennial and 28% annual, with the most highly represented families being Cyperaceae (84 species), Poaceae (59 species) and Asteraceae (33). Out of these 521 species, only 509 have been classified according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (being 12 species non-indigenous and classified as Not Applicable for these purposes).
North Africa Freshwater Aquatic Plants
Freshwater habitats and biodiversity are recognized to be under serious threat at global level. Although poor in water resources, the North Africa region shows a good representation of aquatic and wetlands habitat and species richness is particularly high in the mountains and littoral areas on the Mediterranean side where wetland habitats concentrate. Monitoring freshwater basins is therefore important to prevent the loss of these ecosystems and freshwater aquatic plants have been identified as one of the priority taxa indicators for the overall conservation status of wetland ecosystems.
Conservation Status
Of the 509 species assessed, one is today Regionally Extinct; Laurembergia tetrandra, previously found in Algeria and now extinct due to water abstraction from the Black Lake (1990-1991). At regional level, a total of 122 species (24%) are threatened: 68 species (13.4%) are Vulnerable, 27 (5.3%) are Endangered and 27 (5.3%) Critically Endangered. Over half are not threatened, with 52.3% classified as Least Concern and 13.4% as Near Threatened. Finally, 52 species (10%) have been assigned to the Data Deficient category as insufficient information was available to properly assess them. Among the 75 species of aquatic plants endemic to the region, 33 (44%) have been assessed as threatened, with 16 classified as Vulnerable (21%), 7 as Endangered (9%), and 10 as Critically Endangered (13%). Among these endemics, 9 are today Data Deficient. Morocco is the country where most threatened endemic species occur (21 species; 29.3%).
Species richness
All species
The highest number of species is found in Morocco (388 species) and Algeria (331 species), with lower numbers in Tunisia (239), Egypt (226) and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (133). Species richness is particularly high in the mountains and littoral areas on the Mediterranean side (northern of the Maghreb and Lower Nile Valley) where wetland habitats concentrate, strongly decreasing towards the southern and more arid regions.
Endemic species
Endemic species follow the same pattern as above and are found mainly in the Mediterranean part of the Maghreb, mostly confined to the high mountains of Morocco and Algeria. They have also been found, to a lesser extent, in the littoral plains characterized by higher rainfall and in the Nile Delta.
Threatened species
Most threatened aquatic species are found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal zones, with higher levels of richness in temporary ponds, marshes, streams and lakes in Morocco and the east of the Maghreb. In these areas, main threats are directly linked to land use and water exploitation.
Major threats
Aquatic plants in North Africa are threatened mainly by habitat loss and degradation (95% of the species) primarily due to underground water extraction, the intensification of agriculture and infrastructure development. Agricultural activities use over 80% of the total water resources available for wetlands and fluvial ecosystems, also polluting waters and soils and affecting 52% of threatened species. As a result, approximately 28% of the wetlands in Tunisia have disappeared during the last 100 years. Drought is affecting 12 of the species assessed and, though some species show some resilience, the impact of more acute droughts due to climate change is not known yet. Leisure activities (such as picking plants) and tourism equally have an impact, affecting 39% of the threatened species. Invasive exotic plants are also a threat to many aquatic plants, especially in Egypt, where many invasive species from African tropical countries enter via the Nile. Moreover, intrinsic factors such as endemism, range limitation, low dispersal rate, and large population fluctuation can increase the risk of extinction, actually posing a threat to 48% of the species assessed as threatened in North Africa.
Regional biodiversity hotspots for aquatic plants
Based on total aquatic plants richness (>104) and endemic species richness (>10), three aquatic biodiversity hotspots have been identified in North Africa:
- the Betico-Rifan arc, stretching across northern Morocco and western Algeria;
- the Middle and High Atlas mountains;
- the Kablylias-Noumidia-Kroumiria complex, stretching from Algeria to Tunisia.
Another small area of endemic species richness is in the Atlantic plains of Morocco. Here the richness may be due to the abundance and diversity of wetlands, as well as to populations spreading from the two neighboring hotspots.
Conclusions and recommendations for conservation
- An integrated management of habitats and natural resources should be achieved by each country in order to reduce habitat loss and strengthen existing protection measures.
- Information is lacking for 10% of the aquatic flora, which highlights the need for more field investigations, in particular in Egypt and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, where there are no studies for any of the nine endemics recorded.
- Wetland conservation is crucial to the long-term conservation of aquatic plants in North Africa and all wetlands, not only hotspots, need better conservation. However, a deeper comprehension of the links between ecosystem functions and species demography is necessary for a sustainable management of habitats and species.


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Rockstar Game Tips: Red Dead Redemption Quick Tips
We've put together just a few handy tips and tricks - including a few things you may have missed even if you've spent your entire past week living in the vast open world of Red Dead Redemption. These are all basic quick tips. We will be providing more advanced tips in the coming weeks.
Fast Travel - Need to get to another town fast? In single player, approach a Stagecoach Taxi and ride shotgun or as a passenger. And when not in a town, settlement or gang hideout, set up camp whether you're on your horse or walking around on the ground by pressing Select and choosing Campsite (Basic or Improved) in your kit. Setting up camp will give you the option to travel to a waypoint or town within any previously visited area, as well as offering the option to save or change outfits. In multiplayer, make your way to the nearest town and look for the Transport post. Whether with the Stagecoach Taxi or the Transport, select your destination and you're on your way. Both the Stagecoach Taxi and Transport are shown with a wagon wheel icon on your radar and map.
Newspapers - Want to find out more about the goings-on with characters and the world around you in Red Dead Redemption? Buy a Blackwater Ledger newspaper. They're available at various places around the game world - for instance, from the gentleman on the steps right outside of the train depot at MacFarlane's Ranch. And be sure to keep reading newspapers even after you've completed the storyline.
Gesturing - Want to tip your hat or say hello to someone as they pass by John in single player? Only when near another person, tap the circle button on PlayStation 3 or the B button on Xbox 360.
Running - Getting Marston into a sprint is a snap. Hold A on Xbox 360 or X on PlayStation 3 to run. Tapping the same button will gain you a bit more speed and have your character sprint.
Moneymaking and Ammunition - Loot bodies and find chests for free ammunition and money. One example of where you can find chests is in Pike's Basin. Also check for ammunition in the chests and armoires in your Houses. These properties are on your map in the shape of a green house. You must complete a few missions before getting your first House in MacFarlane's Ranch.
Capturing Bounties Alive - Once you get the lasso (unlocked by completing missions for Bonnie MacFarlane), you can capture bounties alive and earn more money. Some people will put up a lot of resistance when you are trying to lasso them. Just give them a single non-fatal shot in the arm or leg to immobilize them.
Rattlesnakes - While one of the smallest animals in the game, rattlesnakes aren't too difficult to find as long as you listen closely when running around or riding on your horse.
Multiplayer Aiming - Not the type of person that favors aim-assistance? Once you reach level 15 in multiplayer, you will have the option of playing in the Hardcore version of the various multiplayer game types, where aim-assistance is stripped away. (Please note - for the extremely hardcore, we will have some particularly hard levels coming your way soon. Details to follow in a few days or so.)
Health Regeneration - Your health regenerates if you get injured, both in single player and multiplayer. If you find yourself in the heat of a battle and in danger of dying, use cover with R1 (PS3) or RB (Xbox 360). You can also use medicine to replenish health if you're in the midst of danger and can't get away to hide.
Storyline Completion - Keep in mind that the storyline is not completely over with until you see the end credits. Even after the credits, you can continue playing any challenges or stranger encounters you wish to finish. (Note: Posting storyline spoilers in the comments will not be tolerated. Please don't ruin other people's game experience. We may well do an Asked & Answered purely on the storyline in a few weeks, but we will ask for the questions nearer that time. Please don't post them here now.)
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- on July 17 2010, 2:43pmHi again.
I can see other folks but not players with name over they head or my friends, I tryed public and private.
Love singel player game but need the multiplayer game soo bad..
- on July 17 2010, 2:41pmHi again...whan I'm in the free roam, and I hold down the down button to see other players...nothing come up...I can only see my name, like I'm alone? I tryed public and private.
I can see other folks but with no name over they head or players name.
Whats wrong??
Ilove the singel player game, but I need multiplayer soo bad.
- on July 17 2010, 2:38pm@thomasfossum and others, thanks, to get some help with Red Dead issues, please contact support via one of the following channels:
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact: www.rockstargames.com/support
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rockstarsupport
- on July 17 2010, 2:35pmHi there, I need help...my friend can see all the players in the free raom, but i can't see anny one!! what's up and ofcourse I'm online on my PS3.
need help or is it the multiplayer that F..up.
- on July 17 2010, 5:16amWhat is the 'Show your Cards' section all about on the community page?? thanks
- on July 15 2010, 3:53amThis game is great i've had it for a month now and i'm still hooked!
...kicks mw2's ass
- on July 6 2010, 12:37pmthis game is awesome. it would be better if yalll would add the lasso in multiplayer and more xp in gang and free for all matches. when are yall gonna make more dlc's im done with the outlaws to the end dlc and its freaking awesome. thanks rockstar
- on June 22 2010, 11:21pmFree roam is little frustrating with the killing. i'd suggest making towns either safe havens OR establishing some type of "duel" system for players who want to have it out...you can even add an arena of some type
- on June 14 2010, 10:25amHallo, schöne Grüße aus "good old Germany" Deutschland. Das Spiel ist einfach überirdisch. Rockstar hat sich selbst übertroffen. Freue mich schon total auf die neuen Koop Missionen. Das Jahr ist zwar noch jung, aber Red Dead ist auf jeden Fall ein heisser Kanditat auf den Titel: "Spiel des Jahres 2010" PSN id: sk4781
- on June 13 2010, 3:57pmw8...did they take out ur comments of u supporting me and leave the one where it says u say im gay? no f**king way did they do tht...
- on June 12 2010, 5:38pmim 4 legendary level 31 and now not going into 5...i was going to but it will take me a triple the time to get 1 to 50 this time...unless you change the xp back of course i will pass into legend that last time
are you serious? the new update? no.......no........how do you expect me to level up now?! you dont want us to continually replay but its a part of the game and i cant level that way...try 5 days of gaming for 100k xp...amd i like to play free for all or gang matches once in a while when i get bored, and i like them...but theyre 10 minutes long and only get coup[le hundred xp...challenges arent good xp either...why did you torture us with this part of the update?!...im mad >:K
- on June 12 2010, 1:59pmim 4 legendary level 31 and now not going into 5...i was going to but it will take me a triple the time to get 1 to 50 this time...unless you change the xp back of course i will pass into legend that last time :)
- on June 12 2010, 1:52pm
minifat 14 hours ago at 8:42PM
are you serious? the new update? no.......no........how do you expect me to level up now?! you dont want us to continually replay but its a part of the game and i cant level that way...try 5 days of gaming for 100k xp...amd i like to play free for all or gang matches once in a while when i get bored, and i like them...but theyre 10 minutes long and only get coup[le hundred xp...challenges arent good xp either...why did you torture us with this part of the update?!...im mad >:K


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Quote Scope:Whilst like many I
can't fail but to be impressed with Omnisphere, I wouldn't say it was the last word for
film-score.It is too easy to be lazy & let a sound channel your composition.I used to hear tons of Reason sounds & we all know the "composer" hasn't created the
music, the sound designer for Reason has.I use Omni', but sparingly. Sure there are some immense ambient noises, good for creating atmosphere in a film.But these support my own score, typically pianos and string quartets.Be
original, its were the money is !
Quote Hewesy:I must be being
dense, how do you find the freebie?
Quote Scope:Is this a new trend
Are other plugins starting to sound more like Atmosphere/ Omnisphere ?
Alchemy is clearly one such plugin.
I notice alot of the included content in Logic
X is also very "omni-like", particularly the pads and atmospheres.
Has anyone
noticed any others?
Quote Marbury:The only thing I
will say is you get some audio clicks when a note is depressed.
Quote Marbury:Looking at
Alchemy, the ipad version sells the extra sounds for a mere £2.99 compared to the £39 PC
version. All I have to do is use my ipad in Reaper.
Quote ManFromGlass:I want to
like omnisphere, the sounds are very cool and inspirational but in my humble it has one
drawback. Most, not all, of the patches take up too much sonic space, too much of the
frequency spectrum. It's like they were designed to dominate, rather than support. I was
surprised by this because Eric Persing's sound design for Roland is some of my favorite
patches. They sit well in a mix and leave room for other instruments. This all being said
you should play with omnisphere somewhere because if it gets you inspired then you can't
put a price on that!cheersEric
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text: . . . and I don't think it has anything to do with my Brompton as it does the small 16" wheels. Most roads where I live are quite smooth running -- not perfect mind you. But we have a lot of newly resurfaced roads that are enough to turn my bike into a bone shaker. It would appear that they didn't roll over the new asphalt layer enough. The stones they add to the mix are sticking up way too high making it a very rough ride. Over the course of time, I'm sure the roadway will smooth out due to the volume of traffic, but what about the bike path? I hope this isn't going to be the trend for road repair. I'm sure that asking the local municipality to please have them roll over the surface a little more will be an exercise in futility. I should probably take my MB over the same surfaces and see if there is indeed a difference in ride, but I honestly feel that the smaller the wheel the rougher the ride. Has anybody else come across this problem where you live? I find this very frustrating to say the least. I guess its all about saving money by cutting corners. Typical!


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Hulkamania will be running wild in the UK once again following confirmation from WWE that Hulk Hogan will be making an appearance on the Wrestlemania Revenge tour.
The Hulkster is set to be a part of WWE SmackDown Live at London's O2 Arena on May 20 as WWE rolls into England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland as well as Ireland for an 11 date trip across the pond.
Superstars such as John Cena, Bray Wyatt, Sheamus and Kane are also billed on the card, set to be filmed for TV.
British and Irish stars were quick to tweet their excitement as the new broke late last night.
"Just heard the man himself Hulk Hogan coming to Smackdown TV on the UK tour," said Sheamus. "You excited brother? I am fella."
New WWE Divas champion Paige, born in Norwich, added: "So Hulk Hogan is gonna be hitting the UK during the May tour on Smackdown? That's cool, brother!"
Hall of Famer and former six time champion Hogan made his triumphant WWE return as host of Wrestlemania 30 after seven years away from the company.
He was joined in the ring by Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock for an electric opening segment that had fans in raptures for WWE's biggest show of the year.
Brits: The Immortal @HulkHogan has just been announced for @WWE #SmackDown live at the O2 arena in London on May 20th. Whatcha gonna do?!— Bad News Barrett (@WadeBarrett) April 10, 2014
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Originally published in May of 2010, WebProNews' piece about Google's updated SERP results page really hit home for a lot of users, so we've summarized it for you here.
Google's new SERP page first and foremost makes the search options tab much more prominent than in the past. Users will find it hard to ignore how many different options they now have when searching including language, location, and type of results shown. In this regard, Google's now not all that different from Yahoo or Bing.
So what does this mean for SEO hosting? Well, it's definitely going to impact how users experience search, mostly because now they're going to have the option to display many totally different sets of data – a craw in the cap for SEO. To prove this theory, Yahoo confirmed to WebProNews that when they added similar search options to their page a few months back, engagement increased dramatically.The trick for SEO now is going to be to figure out which result page they'd like to rank for then go after those particular results.
Social media is also going to become even more important in search since Google's new options are going to draw from "everything" on the web, including social media results. Once limited to news outlets, status updates are now providing some of the information searchers see, and SEOs are going to have to figure out how to include themselves in this social dialogue.
Social interactions are becoming more important, too, as now Google places a lot of emphasis on context and relationship between sites and social outlets. They've begun ranking Tweets and placing additional relevance on things like Facebook Likes.
Local is also going to grow with the implementation of these new options, mainly because the "nearby" option is more prominent. The idea to take away is that now it's more important than ever to rank in all of Google's sources, not just as a standalone site. That's just not going to cut it in today's informational search age.
Thanks to Heather Hendrick


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Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile reach AWS spectrum agreement
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless and T-Mobile jointly announced on June 25 an agreement for T-Mobile to buy a portion of the AWS (advanced wireless services) band that Verizon Wireless is buying from a group of cable companies. The spectrum acquisition will allow T-Mobile the spectrum in several markets that it needs to build out its LTE network. In addition, both companies are agreeing to a spectrum swap that would allow each greater contiguous spectrum in a number of markets.
The spectrum buy includes an undisclosed cash payment to Verizon by T-Mobile. The agreement is contingent on regulatory approval.
"The agreement with T-Mobile is further evidence of the importance of a secondary spectrum market to give companies the flexibility to exchange or acquire spectrum to meet customers' growing demands for wireless data services," said Dan Mead, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in a prepared statement. "The AWS licenses we'll acquire from T-Mobile and through SpectrumCo, Cox and Leap will be used to add capacity to our 4G LTE network."
According to a statement from T-Mobile, the added spectrum will allow the company to gain coverage for 60 million people, especially in Philadelphia, Washington, Detroit, Minneapolis, Seattle, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio along with a number of other cities. The swap with Verizon will allow that company to add coverage for 22 million people, according to the statement.
"This agreement will provide T-Mobile with critical AWS spectrum, enhancing both network capacity and performance and allowing us to meet the growing consumer demand for 4G mobile broadband," T-Mobile CEO and President Philipp Humm said in a prepared statement provided to the news media. "This is good for T-Mobile and good for consumers because it will enable T-Mobile to compete even more vigorously with other wireless carriers. We anticipate FCC approval later this summer, in time for us to incorporate this new spectrum into our network modernization and the rollout of LTE services next year."
Adding the AWS spectrum, and refarming the 1900 MHz frequencies will allow T-Mobile to deploy LTE system wide in 2013. The spectrum deal with Verizon Wireless is conditional on approval by the FCC, which is expected since it represents a significant divestiture of spectrum from the deal that Verizon Wireless has with the cable companies.
This agreement is a change from T-Mobile's recent opposition to the Verizon Wireless spectrum buy in which T-Mobile filed an objection with the FCC saying that the buy was contrary to the public interest. "Prior to these divestitures, we believed the transaction represented an unfair concentration of spectrum in the hands of the nation's largest wireless carrier," a T-Mobile spokesperson told FierceMobileIT. "The significant spectrum divestitures by Verizon announced today are good for competition and consumers."
The added spectrum will allow T-Mobile to continue its refarming at a greater pace than was possible previously, which will allow users with iPhones as well as international GSM users to have access to T-Mobile. It will also speed up the implementation to LTE as T-Mobile frees up its current use of AWS more quickly.
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When the person you love most in life dies, it doesn't hurt. The word "hurt" implies that you can feel something, but the truth is, all you really feel is numb.
I had a year and a half to prepare for the death of my father, starting with a phone call to my homeroom class. This was 1985, long before cell phones, and I was a senior in high school. Our classroom had a wall mounted rotary phone in it, but it could only be used for communicating between the classroom and the administration building. When it rang my teacher picked it up, listened intently, and then hung up. "You need to go up to the front office, there is a phone call for you", he said somberly.
When I arrived there and picked up the phone it was my mother on the line. She began to give me the "facts" in her WASPy style, a style of which I have much too often heard come out of my own mouth in the ensuing years. It's done in a measured concern type of tone that tries to convey the message, "yes, we have a situation here, but let's take it step by step and not get ahead of ourselves." I stuck with her until the part about a "brain tumor" came up. Everything after that was a blank.
During a presentation at his office, my father had frozen on a word. He could not get it out of his mouth. Then he had a seizure and fell to the floor. After being rushed to the hospital, he was given a cat scan where they found the source of the problem, one those pesky cancerous tumors had decided it would call his brain home. The next year and a half had many moments of sorrow and pain, and surprisingly, some of joy as well. But still, nothing in those eighteen months could prepare me enough for the day we lowered his casket into the ground.
In the twenty-five plus years since, I have thought about my father often. He was without a doubt the greatest person I have ever known. At the time of his death I loved him more than I had loved anyone else in my life, and only with the birth of my children have I loved someone more. I always say he was like me, but without the "asshole" part, because he had all my good traits and none of my flaws.
I had long since come to accept the fact that he would not be there with me for the important and special events in my life. Yet the only thing that I could never come to peace with was that he would never get to meet my children–or they him. Then I had something amazing happen to me, something I never would have expected, and something I never would have believed. I had a dream.
Once I was at a party, and there was a lady with a decent size group of people standing around her. As I listened in to the conversation, I figured out that she did dream interpretation. She was being peppered with all sorts of questions from enthusiastic and hopeful people, wanting to find out the hidden message in their dreams. Questions about unicorns, and rainbows, and swimming with dolphins. It was a regular new age conclave. I walked right in the middle of it and said to her with a straight face, "I had a dream I was in a pit of naked men, covered in honey. What do you think that means?"
Suffice to say, that is how I generally feel about dream interpretation. But this dream I had was such a powerful dream. A dream where you can hear, and smell, and feel the people in it. You know, like that dream you had about the girl who sat in front of you in social studies, but never gave you the time of day. A "sheet changing" dream.
In this dream I was at home with my wife. My daughter was playing in the yard. With her grandfather. My father. There he was, albeit somewhat older, doing his patented "I've got your nose" gag, and making her squeal with laughter. I watched from inside the house, as my wife went about making dinner. It did not strike me as unusual, that my father was alive and well, and playing with his two year-old granddaughter. I just felt a sense of calm, of peace, and of all things being right with the world. Then in an instant it changed.
My daughter suddenly turned and ran into the street. A sense of fear and dread that only a parent can understand ran through my core. I saw cars at the end of the street coming her way. I saw the joy of my life ending. I saw my reason for living gone. Almost instantly my father ran for her. I followed out from the house, but he had a head start and was closer. She ran down the street and though he tried, he could not catch up with her. I pushed my legs furiously, seeing that the cars were closing in and my time running out. I passed up my father, and came within a few feet of her. I made a mad lunge forward, stretching out as far as I could, and scooped her up into my arms, and to safety.
I awoke to a stillness in my room that clashed with the frenzy of my dream, and at first I was disoriented. Slowly I began the process of coming back to reality, where you remind yourself that "it was only" a dream. Then suddenly, something inside of me made me stop. Something made me want to not only hold that dream, but to make it real. For the first and only time in my life I chose the Orwellian concept of "doublethink", where you not only choose to believe something untrue is true, but forget your choice to do it, and it becomes reality. I chose to believe that my father had visited and played with my daughter because the feelings associated with it were as real and as valid as anything else I have felt in my life.
I also chose to understand that my father chasing after my daughter, and I passing him up and bringing her to safety was a metaphor. That the days where I would watch my father at his workbench, slowly and steadily bringing to life some project that my young mind couldn't conceive of, were, despite how much I longed for them linger, gone forever. I had gone from being the admirer to the admired, from the protected to the protector. A message telling me that I had passed from just being a son, and now was a father in my own right.
That dream helped me to understand that my children could "meet" my father every day, through me, from the parts of me that were from him. It is years later and I now have a two year old son. As I watch him play, and learn, and grow, I look forward to the day my father comes to visit him as well.


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Number of Reviews: 1179
Average Score: 66
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I picked Strand Girls as my next assignment because I saw it on the list and, to be honest, I had no idea what it was. I mean I had a pretty good idea it was an adult site, but as for the content on the site, I couldn't tell anything from the name.
What is a StrandGirl? Well, from what I figured out from having checked out the site, they are amateur British women of all ages (mostly older). And apparently - based on the vids and pics I saw - they are also extremely horny and up for pretty much any hardcore fun available to them (basically they are my kind girl).
The design of the site is very simple and so is the navigation. When you sign in you are taken right to the video section and all you need to do is scroll down the page and check out the thumbnails, clicking on the ones you want to download. Near the top of the page you will see a link to the photo section. And that is pretty much all there is.
At this point there are 224 videos and 55 sets of pics available and they are updating weekly. The videos are good in quality and you can download them in Windows Media files. It is disappointing that there is no streaming option or Zip downloads though. The pictures I happened to check out were high-res.
The variety of content, styles and performers is a plus, as is the fact that it is all exclusive. You have access to lots of mostly mature British women playing with themselves, other women and multiple guys.
The photos ranged from solo, softcore posing to hardcore sucking, fucking and facials. I love amateur ladies and appreciate women who look real. The majority are quite mature and some of them definitely have not been using their Oil of Olay.
Bonus content includes access to three more sites, including Lady Josephine and UK Girls Live. In the end, if you appreciate amateur mature women, then Strand Girls is a site that will satisfy your hardcore and horny desires, but the high-end monthly fee may make some of you reconsider.
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I am currently developing a maven project in eclipse. The m2eclipse plugin works beautifully. It even works out of the box with debugging.
But when I am debugging open source third party libarries. It seems maven could automatically pull the source code down, but the eclipse debugger cannot resolve the currently execution point to the correct source file location.
I am sure the source code is downloaded because I can look at it and set break point. And the break point works.
But eclipse shows the source code and the currently execution point in too different windows. An example would be "TransformerImpl.class" tab window shows the source code, but the current execution point in shown in another tab window with header "Transformer.transform(Source,boolean)Line:642". This windows shows no source code.
I am felling there is some simple configuration that I am missing that could make this work. Then it will be really beautiful.


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This is an RGB at around 0845 UT, with Europa just entering the limb. I have a few more decent sets but this will be among the best.
If you saw my last post, I have been debating the merits of Topaz denoise. I like what it does in the middle of the planet a lot but it smears the limbs and I can't find a setting that changes that. Short of that, I applied Topaz but very lightly.


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First do no harm
Life News | Researchers may have discovered a way around the embryonic stem-cell debate-and other life issues to watch
Mother lode
Scientists at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported on Jan. 7 a discovery that not only promises many of the same therapeutic benefits touted by advocates of embryonic stem-cell research, but the possibility of sidestepping that particular controversy altogether. University researchers announced that they had drawn stem cells from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women and turned them into several different tissue cell types, including liver, brain, and bone. While embryonic stem-cell research destroys developing embryos, the new procedure harmed neither mother nor fetus.
Harvard University stem-cell researcher George Daley said the finding may mean expectant parents could someday freeze amnio stem cells for use in generating replacement tissue in a sick child, without fear of tissue rejection. But Daley was also quick to assert that the discovery of amnio stem cells does not mean embryonic stem-cell research should end. "While they are fascinating subjects of study in their own right, they are not a substitute for human embryonic stem cells, which allow scientists to address a host of other interesting questions in early human development," said Daley, who began work last year to clone human embryos to produce stem cells.
On the chopping block?
With Democrats in control of Congress, what are the prospects for the United States' pro-life aid policies in the world? Grim, said the Population Research Institute's Steve Mosher. The "Mexico City Policy" first instituted by Ronald Reagan prevents U.S. aid money abroad from going to organizations that promote or perform abortions. In the 1990s Bill Clinton rescinded it, only to have a Republican-controlled Congress write it into law. Now Mosher expects Democrats to change the law to favor family-planning groups that have long gone without federal funding. Making changes, however, might involve adding line items to the budget to skirt presidential objections. "A lot of this is going to depend on the Blue Dog Democrats," Mosher said, and whether pro-life Democrats stick to their election-winning platforms.
Double indemnity
James Kopp is serving a sentence of 25 years to life for second-degree murder but now is standing trial again-for the same crime. In October 1998 Kopp stood in the woods behind the home of abortionist Barnett A. Slepian, took aim with a Russian-made assault rifle, and shot the doctor dead. Originally convicted in a state court, Kopp now faces two federal charges: one, that he used force against an abortionist, thus interfering with legal reproductive services; and two, that he used a firearm in the process. The new charges stem from the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances Act. If convicted, Kopp could be sentenced to life without parole. U.S. Attorney Terrance Flynn said the government considered Slepian's family when deciding whether to file federal charges. "It was and has been from the beginning, the position of the Department of Justice that we would seek this life-without-parole conviction by a jury and that Mrs. Slepian and her four sons will never be subject to going through a parole hearing in their life."
Edwards hires abortion activist
Democratic 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards announced on Jan. 9 that he had selected Kate Michelman, who served for almost 20 years as president of the National Abortion Rights Action League, as a senior campaign advisor conducting outreach to women voters. Though his party has worked to moderate its image on abortion since the Kerry-Edwards defeat of 2004, Edwards seems determined to stick to his pro-abortion guns. This despite recent polls showing that two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be more strictly limited or completely outlawed. National Right to Life Committee political director Karen Cross said Edwards' choice of Michelman "underscores not only his strong pro-abortion stance, but also his strong ties to the pro-abortion movement."
-with reporting by Priya Abraham


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May 25, 2016
Press Release: Leon County Sheriff's Office
Have you ever wondered what happens on an average work day within the Leon County Sheriff's Office? What are the daily tasks of each individual unit within the agency and how do they function?
You can find out this information by attending the Leon County Sheriff's Office Citizen's Academy and it is FREE! Participants meet one evening a week for ten weeks.
They learn about virtually every aspect of a deputy's job including administration, patrol operations, traffic enforcement, criminal law, SWAT and hostage negotiations, crime scene investigations, corrections and many other areas. And, the "CITIZEN'S ACADEMY' doesn't limit participants to classroom training.
Students are given the opportunity to:
• Ride with a deputy during a tour of duty
• Tour the Jail facilities and Courthouse
• Attend a SWAT demonstration at the Law Enforcement Academy and shoot some of the high powered weapons.
Community involvement is the most powerful force any law enforcement agency has in the fight against crime. Through the "CITIZEN'S ACADEMY", citizens become more involved in making Tallahassee and Leon County a better place to live. We are now accepting applications for the Citizen's Academy to begin August 2013.
HOW TO APPLY: If you live or work in the Tallahassee/Leon County area, you may come by the Sheriff's Office located at 2825 Municipal Way, or call us between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday at 922-3323.
You may also visit our website at http://lcso.leonfl.org/citizens.htm and download the application.
Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File
Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or email@example.com.


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President Preckwinkle Introduces Ordinance Requiring Lost Or Stolen Firearms Be Reported Within 48 Hours Or Face $1,000 Fine
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today introduced an ordinance that would require gun owners to report the loss, theft, destruction or transfer of firearms.
The ordinance will require individuals who lose, destroy, transfer or have their firearm stolen in the County, to report it to the Sheriff's Office within 48 hours. Individuals who fail to comply will be subject to a $1,000 fine for the first violation. Owners will be required to report the make, model and serial number of the firearm, along with the date and location of purchase.
"Far too often guns that were purchased legally wind up in the hands of criminals," President Preckwinkle said. "This ordinance will help law enforcement crackdown on individuals who repeatedly fail to file reports yet claim their guns were lost or stolen after they are recovered from a crime scene."
While the State of Illinois has enacted several laws to regulate the possession of firearms, it does not require owners to report them lost or stolen. By addressing this loophole, the Sheriff's Office will be empowered to work with local law enforcement to locate lost or stolen firearms and keep them out of the hands of criminals.
"As local law enforcement budgets continue to shrink, we need to be reasonable yet vigilant in our fight to ensure guns do not end up in the wrong hands and take illegal guns away from those who should not have them," Sheriff Tom Dart said. "This ordinance does not take a single gun out of a law abiding citizen's hands. It will allow law enforcement to go after individuals who are conducting straw purchases of guns for gangs and others who are obtaining guns illegally. I believe by passing this ordinance and working with local agencies we will be able to make our communities and streets safer places for our children and families."
President Preckwinkle noted that a majority of gun owners are responsible, but believes this ordinance is necessary to address actions of those who are negligent or engage in criminal behavior. A recent study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab revealed that 29 percent of the illegal guns used in crimes recovered by the Chicago Police Department originated in Cook County.
"We are facing an epidemic of gun violence and our community's need to mitigate this carnage has made public safety a central focus of my office," said Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-7th), who is the chief sponsor of the legislation. "Today, we took our efforts one step further by introducing an ordinance requiring individuals to report lost, stolen, destroyed, or transferred firearms. This is just one of many steps that will have to be taken to address gun violence on our streets."
The legislation is co-sponsored by Commissioners John Daley, Edwin Reyes and Larry Suffredin.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners also passed a resolution today urging the Illinois General Assembly to adopt gun control legislation that would ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines; require registration of existing firearms and require background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows — commonly referred to as the "gun show loophole."
"There needs to be a comprehensive effort from every level of government to keep military-style weapons designed for battlefields off our streets," President Preckwinkle said. "I urge our representatives in Springfield to tackle common sense gun control legislation in the upcoming session."
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So all the financial mess at Chicago is cleared up and now you have time for 'do nothing' laws?
WHY does Chicago politicians continue to try to get strict guns laws, when they ALREADY have some of the strictest in the nation…along with the HIGHEST MURDER RATES?!!?
When you suggest the National Guard help you & go to Twitter for suggestions on solving your crime problem, then it's time to at least TRY something else.
And EVERY state that has passed a must issue CC law has had it crime rate go down. FACT!!!
But WHY do you people continue to ignore the FACTS??? That's the part I don't get….
"There needs to be a comprehensive effort from every level of government to keep military-style weapons designed for battlefields off our streets," President Preckwinkle said.
Toni, "assault rifles" have been banned for decades! "Assault weapons" is a made up word for guns that LOOK LIKE assault rifles…BUT ARE NOT!
Semi-auto and double action guns have to have the trigger pulled for every bullet fired. These are NOT the fully auto weapons of war designed for the battlefield.
What you need to be doing is drawing up our court mandated Concealed Carry Law, and making sure there are no "Gun Free Zones" in it so that the nuts have a place to go to murder kids with no resistance.
I'd like to see the County board become more familiar with the NFA of 1934 and the GCA of 1968 then work within this framework to better enforce existing laws. The guns used in violent crime are not being transfered legally under current law so why create even more restrictions for legal gun owners instead of punishing criminals that are already breaking the law.
The Board needs to explain why law-abiding gun owners are being forced to report sales when they already live in incorporated areas, far less how long the sales data will be held. Repeating the common lie of "public safety" does a disservice to law enforcement, since the police already know criminals will not obey this law, while the law-abiding are arm-twisted into reporting the private sale of a lawful item. How much more privacy will gun owners be forced to give up?? I for one will never report the sale of a firearm to the county; I live in an incorporated municipality which does not require such reporting. The county has once again exceeded its statutory authority, and will soon be in court over this law.
I will give a clue to our elected politicians who really want to have a chance of passing anti violence measures and laws. Stop mixing common sense requirements (such as the requirement to report a lost or stolen firearms) with the pure political ones that will negatively affect and antagonize at least half of your constituents (the requirement to report a lawful transfer). In the first case, it is for the society's benefit to know that a potentially dangerous implement is at large , in the hands of an unknown entity under unpredictable circumstances and no paper trail exists in case the weapon is used in a crime. In the second case the data is of no benefit to society ; the weapon is willingly transferred in a controlled fashion, to a known entity thus it is not 'at large' and a paper trail does exist under the form of the transfer papers that gun owners are required to keep for 20 years. All this requirement does is (besides helping create a national gun registry, a totalitarian idea that gun owners are bound to reject) is clog the system with unnecessary reports that will stand in the way of processing the really useful ones. Way to go.


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Following up my post on pink slime, there's something you can do besides becoming a vegetarian — sign this petition. Read this important message from my friends at Change.org. Sign the petition and then pass it on!
Pink slime is gross. It's connective tissues of cow and other beef trimmings, heavily treated with ammonia to kill pathogens like salmonella and E coli.
Experts say it's "a high risk product" that lacks nutritional benefit. Even fast food giants like McDonald's and Taco Bell dropped it years ago.
But the USDA is about to buy 7 million tons of pink slime to put in school lunches.
Bettina Siegel, a lawyer and mother to two school-aged kids, started a petition to get the USDA to cancel its order ASAP, and it's gaining national attention.
If tens of thousands of people sign, the media and lawmakers will take notice and pressure the USDA to cancel the order.
Click here to sign Bettina's petition asking the USDA to keep pink slime out of school lunches.
Thanks for being a change-maker,
– Corinne and the Change.org team
Here's more information from Bettina:
"Pink slime" is the term used for a mixture of fatty meat scrap and connective tissue (formerly used only for pet food and rendering) that is treated with ammonia hydroxide to remove pathogens like salmonella and E coli. These so-called "Lean Beef Trimmings," are produced by Beef Products, Inc.
Two former government microbiologists claim that, for political reasons, pink slime was approved for human consumption by USDA over serious safety concerns.
Government and industry records obtained by The New York Times in 2009 showed that "in testing for the school lunch program, E. coli and salmonella pathogens have been found dozens of times in Beef Products meat, challenging claims by the company and the USDA about the effectiveness of the treatment. Since 2005, E. coli has been found 3 times and salmonella 48 times, including back-to-back incidents in August in which two 27,000-pound batches were found to be contaminated. The meat was caught before reaching lunch-rooms trays."
Even apart from safety concerns, it is simply wrong to feed our children connective tissues and beef scraps that were, in the past, destined for use in pet food and rendering and were not considered fit for human consumption.
Due to public outcry, fast food giants like McDonald's and Taco Bell have stopped using pink slime in their food. But the federal government continues to allow its use in school food and has just authorized the purchase of ground beef which collectively contains an additional 7 million pounds of pink slime for consumption by our nation's children.
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Yesterday a consumer posted a complaint about Debt Solutions Research Group – Royal Pacific Financial. You can see it here. I've seen enough complaints and shenanigans that not much stuff makes me downright boiling mad, but the way this consumer was treated sure did. And if you are in the debt relief industry, it should make you mad as hell ... Read More »
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It seems like the corner is turned, all of your coaches are succeeding. There were bumps in the road, but I firmly believe in you.
This is the biggest win not just for our fb program, but for the whole Athletic Department.
They all deserve it!
here, here!!!
(now bowl in the south endzone...)
agree....the fb recruiting this week....win in Lincoln.....let's carry it over to MBB and climb that mountain
Carrying the banner for ISU.
Couldn't agree more, perfect example of sticking with a vision.
Now all you nay-sayers get out of the way!!
You bet...after all we've been through the last few years-it's just SOOO nice to see success and have hard work pay off.
VERY proud to have Jamie Pollard and Coach Rhoads as Cyclones!
Don't forget volleyball!!!! They had a huge win too!
Seems like he did well with his mulligan.
epic win and it is soooo bittersweet. We started this season as a nobody, and have just done work week in and week out. Moments like these make me proud to be a clone.
P.S. Good Luck to Hawks Time to stop over looking iowa teams, UNI, U of I, ISU.
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Galway fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Joe Canning's injury isn't that bad
Galway hurling fans can breathe a little bit easier this morning after it was revealed that Joe Canning's shoulder injury isn't as bad as was initially feared.
While it would be stretching it to say that the Tribesman's hopes for this season rest entirely on the Portumna man's shoulders, they would certainly find it a lot harder to make an impact in the league and championship without their scoring machine in the forward line.
Canning, who had been in blistering form for Limerick IT in the Fitzgibbon Cup, damaged his shoulder in LIT's victory over GMIT on Tuesday and there had been fears that he could be sidelined for a lengthy period as a result.
The 23-year old is set to undergo a scan to determine the full extent of the injury, but according to the Irish Times, he is expected to be out for a maximum of four weeks and could even return within a fortnight.
"The exact timeline won't be available until after further scans but it is now a matter of working on recovery," Galway manager Anthony Cunningham is quoted as saying in the paper.
Canning will miss the National League opener against reigning champions Dublin this weekend and will be touch and go for the meeting with Tipperary in Semple Stadium in a fortnight's time.
The fact that he'll be back before too long is welcome news not just for Galway but for all neutral hurling supporters looking forward to more flashes of genius like this in the season ahead.


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March 11, 2013
Southcoast VNA featured speaker at End-of-Life conference in the Azores
FAIRHAVEN, Mass. — Southcoast™ Visiting Nurse Association, known in the community as Southcoast VNA, was recently part of an End-of-Life conference on Hospice & Palliative Care that took place in St. Michael, Azores.
Mandy Dunn, Hospice Consultant for Southcoast VNA, was a featured presenter at this first-time event. Dunn spoke about hospice and palliative care services offered in the United States. The entire program focused on finding better ways to support terminally ill patients and their families as they approach end of life. Other presenters discussed palliate care and mercy, special services for palliative care, and sickness, death and grieving.
More than 100 people attended the conference, which took place on October 25, including high-profile government officials, physicians, nurses and other medical professionals from across the Azores and Portugal's mainland.
"So many people in the Azores have relatives in Southeastern Massachusetts," Dunn said. "This was an excellent opportunity for Southcoast VNA to help educate the Azorean community on the type of hospice and palliative care services we offer to their relatives in the United States.
"In-home, visiting nurse services can come as a surprise to those who have not experienced such care in their own community or culture. That is why this conference was so critical. Education on these types of services will help Azoreans better understand the type of care they may come across in the United States when visiting a sick loved one."
The conference was highlighted on Radio Television Portugal (RTP) throughout the Azores and in the United States. A video clip of the conference can be viewed online at www.rtp.pt/play/p56/e96990/telejornal-acores.
For more information about Southcoast VNA call 800-698-6877 or visit www.southcoastvna.org.
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Part of Southcoast Health System, Southcoast VNA is one of the largest not-for-profit, community-based home health and hospice care agencies serving Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. For more than 100 years Southcoast VNA has provided high quality, comprehensive home health and hospice services, which foster improvement and maintenance of health, prevention of disease and disability and compassionate end-of life care.
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One of the events that Rey Mysterio is scheduled for during Wrestlemania week is a sit down interview. He is bringing along his real life best friend Konnan and former WWE writer Court Bauer. The two of them are not afraid to speak out about things taking place backstage, with the former being highly critical and controversial. The belief is that Mysterio might end up discussing his departure from the company and the ugly contract situation.
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Freaks and Shrieks
by R. L. Stine
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It was fun to read an R.L. Stine book again. It has been many years since I first read Monster Blood but Stine's style has stayed the same. Anything can happen, like chimps and boys switching brains, and I liked the "to be continuted" at the end of the story as this is part of a series. There were not a lot of multicultural characters in this book but I think it could have.
This book and its series could be used as part of a halloween program at a library, with ghosts and mad scientists.
Freaks and Shrieks is the 7th (and second to the last) book in the Mostly Ghostly series. Throughout the Series we follow Max (live boy), Tara (ghost girl) and Nicky (ghost boy)...Max is not your typical young man...he's got a brutish bully of a brother, a father who'd rather he was a jock and not so into learning and magic tricks, and oh yea...two ghosts living in his house. Nicky and Tara are supposed to be his friends, but who are constantly getting him into one big mess after another and this time out, things are no different. Thankfully, Colin (the brother) has one brief appearance in this story as I was getting quite tired of the overkill emphasis on the brotherly violence.
In Freaks and Shrieks Nicky and Tara are being stalked (yet again) by a strange man in black) and we join Max as he's preparing for an audition for his favorite magician, Ballantine (to hopefully become one of three students he's taking on). Nicky and Tara typically want to help make his audition better and you know what that means...naturally, they make it worse. Max also lucks out with an invitation from Tracy Wayne (the most popular and beautiful girl at school) to a party...but even that is in jeopardy as Nicky and Tara beg him to allow Dr. Smollet to transfer his brain to a chimp (the only living thing to have witnessed what Phears did to Nicky & Tara and their parents and perhaps the only way to find out how they really become ghosts). Will Max trade brains with a chimp? Will he impress Tracy at the party? And most importantly will he get to be one of Ballentines magical students? Things never go as planned when things are Mostly Ghostly...read and find out!
Overall, it's another three star book for the Mostly Ghostly series...the story had some interesting twists and Nicky and Tara come through for Max in the end...but I find myself mostly annoyed by the entire series and the way Stine chose to use broad caricatures in this book instead of developing them more fully and to really play up how difficult Max's life is and how horrible people are to him without any real reason...and with friends who are never there for him (ghost or otherwise). In the end, Freaks and Shrieks is really more of a morose comedy with horror elements than it is a straight up horror story. It should be interesting to see how Stine wraps this series up, since there is only one book left and this one really gave no indication of a series wrapping up the lose ends and starting to come to a place of resolution.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385746946, Hardcover)Max made a deal with Nicky and Tara, the two ghosts who live in his bedroom: If he helps them figure out how they turned into ghosts, they'll help Max prove to his dad that he isn't a worthless wimp.
Well, Max is about to make good on his promise. There's a witness who saw what happened to the kids. A witness who may know the secret to bringing them back to life. The problem is the witness is a chimpanzee! And Max is going to switch brains with him to learn the secret. Will Max find the secret– or will he go from a worthless wimp to a worthless chimp?
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When Max makes a deal with the two ghosts inhabiting his bedroom in order to find out how these friends became spirits, he must switch brains with the only witness to the event, a chimpanzee.
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