text: 17 February 2012 archive See all show photos IT can't be easy, being a not-really-young-but-not-yet-established London designer. Move things on or stick with what you know sells? It's a tricky quandary - and one which probably played on the minds of Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke as they conceived the autumn/winter 2012-13 collection. Formerly known as London's young print specialists, following in the wake of Jonathan Saunders, the duo have been usurped of late by the arrival of the now-solidly established Peter Pilotto and the cosmically successful Mary Katrantzou - so where to go now? This collection definitely had a flavour of what both of the above have been doing - a multiple-print dress referencing Katrantzou, or an abstract and colourful silk trouser recalling Pilotto - but that's not to say the collection didn't show us something new from B&B. Inspired by Matisse's paper cut era, both the silhouettes and the prints were suffused with the master's geometry. The mingling and mixing of prints, and their total lack of symmetry, spoke of Matisse's passion as he cut - almost a frenzy of creation - with thick cottons and pleat-fronted silks reaffirming the feel of paper in the collection. This was the duo at their most dynamic and uncompromising - but, and this for designers making their way in the world is the million-dollar question, will anyone wear it? Yes, is the short answer; the collection is confident and heavy on separates, which will allow the wearer to dilute the clashing prints with a plain silk dress or cashmere jumper. Column dresses with origami folds, as flat as a canvas from behind; swingy bell-shaped blazers festooned with clashing prints; and the label's first foray into knitwear - printed and contrasting as one might expect - were all eminently wearable. The accessories worked well too: rolled socks with bare legs, as we've seen already on the New York catwalks, were teamed with a sculptural wooden wedge - but the brand's collaboration with the Cambridge Satchel Company was the real star: a waiting list surely beckons. "If 2012 is the end of the world, then Basso & Brooke have decided to go out with a bang," the show notes read. Let's hope it doesn't come to that for the still-relevant label. SEE THE BASSO & BROOKE SHOW ARCHIVE Lauren Milligan Continue reading Back to top


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|South Ossetia: The Burden of Recognition
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Bring on the barbecue
by Mara Betsch
Everyone loves a good barbecue, but research has shown that grilling meats at high heat can cause the carcinogens heterocyclic amine (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to form.
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: "Stick It"
June 12, 2011 09:52 PM by Shayla Perry
This week on an all new episode of Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Giudice and her brother Joe Gorga have both decided that it's time to try to make amends, but with the focus on his sister, will tensions begin to mount in his marriage to Melissa? Find out everything you missed in tonight's episode here!
After an eventful Thanksgiving with family, Melissa and Joe Gorga are taking a little time to relax with their kids, which prods the new Housewife to burst into song, singing, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a WENCH like me."
No, we're not making that up! Totally what she was singing, and yes, she was 100% serious!
Joe, ever the supportive husband, says that it's always been Melissa's dream to become a singer, but since having kids and spending her time taking care of the family, she's lost sight of what she's wanted to do in life, so he encourages her to start pursuing her career. This would have been a very sweet moment, but it was slightly ruined when Joe proceeded to tell Melissa that tons of people would buy her album just because of how hot she looked on the cover, and that there are so many so-called singers in the industry that can't sing. Um, thanks honey!
Meanwhile, Caroline Manzo is wishing she was at home with her children. She's dealing with some pretty bad empty nest syndrome, so her husband tries to take her mind off of things by having her join him on the golf course.
At the Laurita household, Jacqueline is shocked to learn that her husband has made a deal with Ashley — darn! — ASHLEE without talking to her about it first. He told her that he'd buy her a car and pay for a few car payments for her birthday, which Ashlee will then takeover.
Even better, he tells Jacqueline that she may have to co-sign to get Ashlee approved, and that the car has pretty much already been picked out and everything.
Ashlee is still without a full-time paying job, but she says she's committed to making things work and paying for the car on her own. Good luck with that one!
Teresa Giudice and her girls are trying to wake papa grizzly up for the morning, and Teresa plays a voicemail message she received from her brother. Joe says that he can't stop thinking about Gia crying at the christening and wants to make it up to her by coming to one of her gymnastics meets. Gia overhears the message and is in tears, happy that her uncle is being nice to her mother (OMG, if that's not reason enough to put all of this stuff behind them, then what is?!).
They try to call Joe back to tell him to come to the meet, but as usual, they get his voicemail, and as usual, the mailbox is full.
The Wakile family is having a meeting. Kathy and Richie want their kids to renew their drug & alcohol contracts, promising that they won't use. Their daughter's contract is perfect, and so is their son's, but he makes sure to tell his parents that he's probably going to have a drink or two on a Friday night when he's a senior in high school — or maybe a junior! Kathy's not thrilled to hear this, but Richie applauds the honesty and tells both kids that if they're thinking about having a drink, he wants their first one to be with him.
Melissa Gorga is out shopping with her sisters, and of course, her singing comes up! She lets everyone know that Joe bought her a new piano and that he's encouraged her to pursue a singing career. As it turns out, Kathy knows a songwriter, and she introduced them to one another so they can work on creating Melissa's first single.
At the Giudice home, Gia is on the phone with her Uncle Joey, who's telling her how excited he is to see her at her meet. Teresa eventually takes the phone to tell her brother that he's always invited to come see Gia, but Joe says that he never knows when there's going to be a meet. Teresa says that she's let him know in the past, but that she knows he's busy, then offers to keep him in the loop about Gia's gymnastics schedule in the future. Afterward, Teresa makes sure that he has the right time and before getting off the phone tells Joe that if he wants to talk, the meet isn't the right place for it, since their mother will be there (um– and the kids, we're sure she also meant to include the kids). Joe agrees, but seems to hurry Teresa off the phone, telling her that he's with a customer.
Teresa immediately calls Jacqueline to tell her that her brother's going to be at Gia's meet. Jacqueline is excited for Teresa, but reminds her to stay calm and avoid any confrontation.
At the car dealership, it's time for Jacqueline and Ashlee to sign on the dotted line. But there's trouble when Ashlee doesn't want her parents to keep one of the sets of keys, and when they threaten to just walk out of the dealership, she calls their bluff, saying that if that's how it's going to be, she doesn't want the car. Minutes later, she's driving off in her new ride. Somewhere out there, Jay Mohr's head just exploded.
Kathy Wakile's daughter, Victoria, is working on trying to get more students to join the club she started to help raise money and awareness for others with brain tumors; something that hits home for the Wakile family. Victoria was 10 when she passed out on the beach and doctors found that she had a tumor the size of a tennis ball in her brain. She was rushed to surgery, which took 10 hours. During the time she was in the hospital, Joe Giudice, Teresa Giudice, and Melissa and Joe Gorga were all there for Kathy and her family, and Kathy's feeling a little sad that things aren't the same between them anymore.
It's time for Gia's gymnastics meet (is there anything this girl can't do?). She's doing great, but Teresa can tell that her daughter is preoccupied. She wants to know where her Uncle Joe is!
Joe & Melissa FINALLY show up during the award ceremony, and all of the kids are having a great time seeing their cousins. When Gia gets to talk to her uncle, she couldn't be any happier, which by the way, we're thinking that part of the tension in the family has to be due to Joe's relationship with Gia. Joe Giudice doesn't seem nearly as close to his daughter as Joe Gorga, who also seems more comfortable with Gia than his own daughter.
Teresa makes it a point to tell her brother how upset Gia was that he missed her performance. Melissa, having dealt with Teresa being late to many family functions, doesn't really care, and mostly stays quiet.
When they leave the kids are upset that they can't play with each other, but Melissa tells them that Aunt Teresa and Daddy have to talk first.
And it looks like that's going to happen! Joe tells Teresa to meet him to talk things over. Oh boy!
Melissa's not feeling the love from Joe's family, and it's not just Teresa that she's not happy with.
Next week, Teresa and Joe talk — and so do Teresa and Melissa!!!!
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BERKELEY - The honorable Christian E. Markey Jr., a member of California's Rose Bowl teams under head coach Pappy Waldorf who went on to have a distinguished legal career, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Glenn T. Seaborg Award.
The award, named after the former University of California chancellor and 1959 Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is presented annually to a former Cal football player for his career accomplishments by the Sons of California (Cal's football alumni association.)
"This award is the single most important honor that can be given to a former Cal player," said Jack Hart, Chairman of the Glenn T. Seaborg Award Committee. "The real value of this award is that Chancellor Seaborg loved and supported athletics and truly cared about us as athletes, people and students. Chris is a worthy recipient of this honor."
Markey received his bachelor's degree from Cal in 1951, where he played freshman basketball and was a member of the football team. After serving as an officer in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, he attended UCLA Law School, graduating in 1958.
During his professional career, Markey worked in private practice for 15 years, specializing in business and family law as a founding partner with Munger, Toiles, Hills and Olson. He was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1974.
In 1982, as a sitting judge, Markey was named the all-purpose judge for the Los Angeles County asbestos cases. He has served as a trustee of the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust since its inception and as director of the Johns Manville Corporation from 1992-2001.
Markey is a past president of the University of California Alumni Association (Berkeley and statewide), a former member of the UC Board of Regents and a past president of the Pappy's Boys football alumni organization. He has also served as a justice pro tem on the California Supreme Court and as founding chair of the Board of the Southern California Center for Law in the Public Interest. In addition, Markey has been honored as the Alumnus of the Year by the UCLA Law School and is a past recipient of the Berkeley Citation.
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1996 - John Najarian, M.D.
1997 - John Ralston
1998 - Les Richter
1999 - Vic Bottari
2000 - Pete Schabarum
2001 - Ed Bartlett
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Report: Chuck Hayes Returns To Rockets
Brewer: 'I Plan On Coming Back'
Gallant: Where Do The Rockets Go From Here?Paul Gallant looks at the Rockets' options going forward after their season ending loss to the Warriors.
Report: Rockets Add Joey Dorsey To Replace Omer Asik Behind Dwight Howard
Rockets To Meet With LeBron's Agent In Cleveland
Texans Sign Rice Kicker Chris Boswell After 256 picks and the Texans leaning heavily on defense and drafting five players from the SEC they looked close to home for their first undrafted free agent. Rice Kicker Chris Boswell was signed shortly after the end of the draft.
Andre Brown Visits With Texans
Wade Smith: 'Money Isn't A Factor In Staying A Texan'Texans Free Agent Wade Smith joins Sean and Rich in studio. Wade tells that several teams have called, but he'd like to stay with the Texans.
Panthers Believe In Cam "Superman" NewtonEd Hardy joined MaD Radio to talk about the way he has prepared himself for a big free agent contract, waking up angry, and his take on Cam Newton.
Astros Bring Back Reliever Chad Qualls
No One Wanted Ed Reed At That Price
Expectation For Howard Should Be A ChampionshipHannah Storm joins MaD Radio to talk about her movie on Sheryl Swoops as well as how the media handles athletes like Johnny Manziel, and what Dwight Howard might mean to the Rockets.


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Kelly Clarkson Takes Us Behind-The-Scenes Of 'Dark Side' Video
Kelly Clarkson has a big week ahead with her new singing competition Duets set to debut on Thursday. On the same day, the video for her new single "Dark Side" from her album "Stronger" will see its premiere.
To hold her fans over for the big music video premiere, Kelly takes us behind-the-scenes with a whole lot of hugging, laughing and high-fives in the below video. Scroll down and tell us what you think in the comments section!
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THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 20, 2010 --
Several state agency heads have been asked to remain in their posts as the Scott administration comes into office for at least a couple months.
The transition team for Gov.-elect Rick Scott hasn't yet named any agency directors or secretaries with the new administration set to take office Jan. 4.
The Scott transition office sent a letter to several Crist administration agency heads late last week asking if they'd be willing to "remain in your appointed position for an additional period of 30-60 days."
Agency officials confirmed to the News Service on Monday that among those being asked to stay were Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon, Corrections Secretary Walt McNeil, Environmental Protection Secretary Mimi Drew, Agency for Workforce Innovation Director Cynthia Lorenzo and Agency for Persons with Disabilities Director Jim DeBeaugrine.
Spokespeople for Sheldon, Drew, Lorenzo and DeBeaugrine said that they would accept Scott's request. Members of some top management staff in the agencies will also remain with the agency heads.
A spokeswoman for McNeil said he was on leave and hadn't said yet whether he'd remain, but pointed out that McNeil said in his resignation letter to Crist that he would like to remain at the agency.
Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte-Ros wasn't among those asked to remain, Department of Health spokesman Rob Hayes confirmed. Hayes declined to comment further, and it wasn't clear Monday how many agency heads were asked to stay on and how many weren't.
Officials with the Scott transition didn't respond to a request for comment Monday from the News Service.
The St. Petersburg Times-Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau reported Monday on some agency heads who either weren't asked to remain or who had declined.
The Times-Herald reported that the Scott transition had accepted the resignations of Department of Community Affairs Secretary Tom Pelham; Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman; Lottery Secretary Leo DiBenigno and Department of Management Services Secretary Linda South.
Pelham has been at odds with Republican lawmakers over growth management rules, while Peterman is under investigation by the state Ethics Commission, which found probable cause to believe he used taxpayer money to fly back and forth between his office in Tallahassee and home in St. Petersburg.
South has also been at odds with lawmakers, who have feuded with the agency over legislators' efforts to get a concise list of state-owned property from DMS. Senate President Mike Haridopolos also recently called for South to resign, saying she "weakened the public's trust," in the agency's management of a contract to build a new 1st District Court of Appeal building in Tallahassee.
Several agency secretaries indicated they'd like to remain in the Scott administration. All of them had to submit resignations to Crist – but in their resignation letters many of them said they'd like to work for Scott. Some indicated they'd like to have another term heading the agency, others offered to stay until Scott gets a new team settled, or key issues get resolved.
Among those, for example, was DEP's Drew.
"Given the technical complexity of this agency, and the challenges we are facing, I would be happy to stay through transition and possibly through the legislative session to help the new administration make a smooth transition," Drew wrote. "There are numerous lawsuits related to Everglades issues, discussions with Georgia and Alabama related to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River systems (ACF), ongoing negotiations with EPA and stakeholders about the recently promulgated federal numeric nutrient criteria for Florida, and several other major issues which would benefit from my history with and knowledge of DEP as well as other agencies and entities."
Drew is set to retire in July, a spokesman said.


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|KEPLER'S 1st LAW
The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.
|After a long struggle, in which he tried mightily to avoid his eventual conclusion, Kepler was forced finally to the realization that the orbits of the planets were not the circles demanded by Aristotle and assumed implicitly by Copernicus, but were instead the "flattened circles" that we call ellipses.
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Date: March 06 2013
Moscow: Police have detained a suspect in the acid attack on the Bolshoi Theatre's artistic director, Sergei Filin, whose eyes and face were damaged.
''The person is being questioned at the moment,'' Maxim Kolosvetov, a police spokesman, said. ''Investigators have 48 hours to decide whether to arrest him.''
Police last month said they were probing the possible involvement of Bolshoi ballet dancers and employees in the January 17 assault on Filin, 42.
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Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas (1827)
ART. 155. It shall belong to the Ayuntamientos to attend carefully to the police, and internal administration of the towns of the state, and there shall be Ayuntamientos in all those towns where they have heretofore existed.
ART. 156. Ayuntamientos shall be established in towns where there are none, wherein it is proper they should exist, and they shall be established without fail in the district capitals, whatever be the population thereof, and in towns which, of themselves or with the territory they embrace contain a population to the amount of one thousand souls, unless said towns should be annexed to another municipality, in which case, (since from other considerations it may not be proper for them to separate,) in order that they may have an Ayuntamiento, it shall be so declared by congress, after receiving the report of the governor, and the despatch that shall be formed, assigning the limits that are to embrace the new municipality.
ART. 157. Towns that should not possess the population assigned, and which find it practicable being advantageously annexed to another or others, shall constitute a municipality, and the Ayuntamiento shall be established at the place most convenient in the opinion of the executive.
ART. 158. In towns wherein Ayuntamientos cannot be established, and which are so distant from the other municipalities that the latter cannot attend to the internal administration thereof, the electoral juntas of that to which they belong shall choose a commissary of police and a sindice procurador to discharge the duties assigned them in the regulations for the political administration of the towns.
ART. 159. The Ayuntamientos shall be composed of the Alcalde or Alcades, Sindico or Sindicos, and Regidores, whose number shall be designated in the aforementioned regulations.
ART. 160. To be a member of the Ayuntamiento it shall be required to be a citizen in the exercise of his rights, over twenty-five years of age, or twenty-one being married, an inhabitant within the jurisdiction of the Ayuntamiento, with three years residence therein, one year immediately preceding their election, to have some capital or trade whereby to subsist, and to be able to read and write.
ART. 161. Public officers receiving a salary from the state, military and other officers of the general government in actual discharge of their duties, and ecclesiastics, cannot be members of the Ayuntamiento.
ART. 162. The Alcaldes shall all be replaced every year, of the regidores, one half their number, and sindicos procuradores the same, should there be two; should there be only one he shall be replaced every year.
ART. 163. A person who has performed the duties of said trusts cannot hold any other municipal office, or be re-elected to that which he filled, until after two years from having ceased therein.
ART. 164. The members of the Ayuntamientos shall be chosen by the municipal electoral meetings, which shall be holden in the same manner as the municipal meetings established for the election of deputies to congress. The former juntas shall be convoked on the first Sunday in December, and they shall meet and perform their duties on the second Sunday and day following.
ART. 165. Pursuant to said meetings those citizens who have received the greatest number of votes in the respective lists shall be considered constitutionally elected as Alcaldes, Regidores and Sindicos. In case of a tie between two or more persons it shall be decided by lot by the Ayuntamiento acting at the time of the election.
ART. 166. Should any member of the Ayuntamiento decease, or his office become vacant from any other cause, the person receiving the highest number of votes in the order of the respective list shall succeed him in the discharge of the duties.
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A New York man accused of producing child pornography was apprehended by authorities Friday, ending a manhunt that began hours earlier when he was briefly detained by Pinellas Park police.
Pinellas Park police said 25-year-old Jesse Sawyer Jr. was in custody and being transported for processing. Police have not released where Sawyer was found.
A March 18 federal arrest warrant was issued for Sawyer, of Troy, N.Y., after he was accused of raping three young children and taking "selfies" of the attacks with his cellphone, authorities said.
On Thursday night, Pinellas Park police said they received information Sawyer was at Calvary Chapel, 8900 U.S. 19 N., and made contact with him, where he was "cooperative." Sawyer was detained at the time but not in custody, police said.
Officers initiated warrant confirmation procedures with the FBI but received no response to the request, police said, so they called the FBI on the telephone.
"The person we spoke to at the FBI could not confirm the warrant and was making telephone calls to an unidentified agent to confirm this," Pinellas Park police Sgt. Adam Geissenberger said in a news release. After an hour, police decided to release Sawyer because they did not receive confirmation, he said.
"A short while later we received confirmation," he said.
Officers returned to the area of the church and learned Sawyer was gone and a manhunt began, Geissenberger said.
Troy police said they received a call about 10:30 p.m. Thursday from someone who noticed Sawyer had signed into the Calvary Chapel mission. The agency said the caller identified Sawyer's name from Facebook posts, then called Troy police. Troy police notified Pinellas Park authorities of the tip.
Troy police told WTEN-TV in Albany at least one of Sawyer's victims was younger than 5. Police learned of the photographs from an acquaintance of Sawyer, who saw them on a computer Sawyer had used.


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Utilizing primary data from end-users as well as secondary market data, we designed a statistical model that combined key input variables to forecast the market for mass spectrometry instruments and reagents. This approach is based on the market viewed as a set of objects (products, prices, discounts, usage, etc.) that interact. Using sophisticated statistical analysis, we can display the relationships between these objects and achieve higher accuracy than top-down market estimates. Some of the variables that were used to build the statistical model in this case study included:
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Chavez suffers lung woes as aides allege 'psychological war'Jim Mannion
Venezuela's government accused opposition leaders of waging a "psychological war" to destabilise the country, as Hugo Chavez battles a lung infection.
Obama vows to keep military 'strongest on the planet'Jim Mannion
Barack Obama rode a wave of anti-war sentiment to the White House but he vowed on Monday to maintain "the strongest military on the planet".
US military HQ in Africa put on the back burnerJim Mannion
Controversy surrounding the United States military's new Africa Command has forced the Pentagon to put plans for establishing a headquarters in the continent on a slow track.
Drug traffickers shift to semi-submersiblesJim Mannion
Drug traffickers have shifted to semi-submersible craft and other smaller, harder-to-detect boats to elude surveillance, causing a sharp drop in cocaine seizures last year, United States officials said on Monday. Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the message was "loud and clear".
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Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to abandon a key nuclear-missile treaty, while also telling Washington to freeze plans for a European anti-missile shield. The Kremlin leader said the Cold War-era INF treaty limiting Russian and US short- and medium-range missiles was outmoded.
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The United States military plans to detonate a 700-tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that could send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas. "I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency.


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Presented by the CDC and the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Design Group. This Product Design Career Fair is a targeted event which provides an opportunity for students to talk informally with employers with ME design programs about their organization, internships, and fulltime positions.
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So you come home from getting groceries and you say to yourself, "We need to make a viral video for our company! Genius!" Then you make supper and watch 5 hours of Netflix. You don't ask yourself, "What goes into making a video viral? What constitutes a video as viral? Is it a good investment of your marketing budget to spend on a viral video and what should the expectations be?" So let us tell you.
For a video to be considered viral you look at time and views. The amount of views needed is commonly considered to be 100,000 in a 24 hour span. From there the video will take on a snowball effect from shares and likes. Posting time alone is just as important as the content. Statistically speaking, Friday after lunch (about 2:30) is the best time. Workers are in a food coma from lunch and winding down for the weekend. But even this isn't a guarantee.
…defining a viral video is much easier than making one. In fact, Nalty says he's posted the same video twice and seen one go viral, but not the other, leading him to conclude that "you never know" what will resonate with viewers. (aol)
There are two routes that can be taken when creating a viral. You can go low cost, low quality or high cost, high quality. Either way the rule of thumb is that not every video you make will go viral. You might have to make twenty videos before one hits the right timing and relevancy.
So, you make a ton of content hoping one of them goes viral for your marketing campaign. What should you expect to get out of this kind of campaign? Viral videos go viral for a reason. They awe, inspire, or make you laugh. What they don't do is look like an advertisement.
Most viral videos are just entertaining and just provide good branding for the business…Which makes you realize what Viral Video Marketing really is: A publicity stunt caught on video. (designseo)
Now you may be thinking "let's throw money at it and pay people to show our video." This isn't a bad idea, but there are acceptable and unacceptable ways in this community. The acceptable way is to partner with an online celebrity that already has a subscriber base that follows their videos and recommendations. This is common practice and is accepted by the viewers. What will not be considered viral is when you pay for your video to be shown before other videos start.
isn't the appeal of a viral video the warm feeling your brand gets because thousands of people are sharing a fun video about you? In this scenario, thousands of people just can't avoid your video. (business insider)
Viral marketing is going to be a gamble no matter how you go about it. There are things you can do to make sure the campaign has some foundation though, such as adding a viral campaign into a larger marketing campaign. When a viral video has success, it can become a staple in itself.
Take Old Spice, whose "Old Spice Guy" campaign (which included both social media and TV commercials) helped the brand generate tens of millions of views on YouTube and increase sales by 107 percent. (aol)
According to data from The Nielsen Co. and SymphonyIRI Group, the Old Spice ads weren't a wash-out. On the contrary, they produced a flood of sales . (bizreport)
So is viral marketing right for you? It could be, but it takes a fresh look at marketing and the goals of the campaign to deem it a success. What viral marketing videos have you seen? Share them!


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took it back at 9 am today and ask them to find out what it is....they rang me up at 1 pm and they say they cant find anything....so think im going to have to change the bottom arms ,tie rod arms and maybe drive shafts but do one at time just to see if the noise goes thanks for help tho.....cheers again
thanks mintalkin i took it in to mot center and they had a look and told me i need new strut top mount rubbers and tie rod arms bushs so iv just had that done and still she has knocking noise ......
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shaun1990 posted a topic in Maintenance / Servicing / MOT DiscussionsWhen i turn right or left iv got a noise that sounds like its knocking but for past week iv heard it doing the same noise when im braking any ideas of what this could be?? thanks
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thanks for help mate.....o and one more thing would the 32/34 webber drop on???
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shaun1990 posted a topic in General Ford Related Discussionsiv been told that my carb is a vv carb and that is most crap carb on fiesta mk2s is this true???
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shaun1990 replied to JohnP's topic in Ford Fiesta Clubi own a mk2 .... its a great little car
not sure yet i dont want it dark dark so maybe something like 35 or 40 %
yep i am just got back windows to tint and then it all done......and then i can start on me new project lol
well got front bumper on today after days of spraying .....it went wrong until last night heres a picture. thanks all for comments.
all of this has been done since the first post i made and she was sprayed last weekend only things to be done now is the front bumper spraying red and tinited bk windows...
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Let me start by saying that I HATE Kaleta. He constantly uses the instigator penalty to hide from his dirty hits, BUT this hit was nothing. Was it dirty? Yes. Did it deserve a two minute penalty for roughing? Yes. Did it deserve a one game suspension? No. Did it deserve a four game suspension? Definitely not.


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HON 1000-Shiffman
"Philosophia" is a Greek word meaning "love of wisdom." What is wisdom, and how can human beings attain it? Is that even possible? What are the things we really want to know? What things do we need to know about before we can understand anything else? What questions have we never thought to ask but really need to raise? Above all, what is the best way to live a fully human and satisfying life? These are the kinds of questions we will explore in this course, with the help and guidance of the philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome who wrote about their own explorations as a guide for other seekers of wisdom. By examining texts of Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Plotinus and Augustine, students will learn attentive and inquisitive reading, the scope and depth of philosophical inquiry, and careful articulation of their own thoughts and questions in discussion and writing.
HON 1001-Cregan
This course will explore the timeless personal, social and political ideas indicative to Ancient Greek Drama. We will do script analysis of the plays using original translations and innovative contemporary adaptations. In addition, we will take the plays from page to stage through studio performance practices, with a special focus on ensemble work through the Greek Chorus. The course will integrate critical textual analysis with voice and movement. No performance experience necessary, just an open mind.
HON 1003-Danove
The Theology/Religious Studies component of this course introduces the exegetical methods used to study the Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John, four Pauline Epistles (Philemon, 1 Thessalonians, Philippians, and Galatians), and the Letter of James and employs these methods to investigate the theological concerns of their authors.
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce the methods of source, textual, literary, redaction, and narrative analysis
2. To apply the methods of literary, redaction, and narrative analysis
3. To provide an exegetical survey of Mark, Luke, John, Philemon, 1 Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, and James
4. To develop an appreciation of the theological themes emphasized by the New Testament authors
This version of the Augustine and Culture Seminar is designed specifically for Honors students in the Villanova School of Business. All ACS courses pose the question: "Who Am I?" This is not a therapeutic quest for self-esteem so much as an inquiry into what it means to be human, a rigorous introduction to the lifelong practice of striving to know oneself and/with others, contemplating one's place in the world, in history, and in the varied forms of the human community. Together we will work through Homer's Iliad, sections of the Holy Bible (Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospel of Luke), Saint Augustine's Confessions, and Dante's Inferno, along with excerpts from Plutarch's Lives, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and the Qur'an. These works will serve as models of the pursuit of (self-)knowledge, a pursuit often expressed as the individual's and the community's process of understanding their bond with the divine and the transcendent. Meditating on these works and their implications can be astonishing for those of us who are accustomed to thinking of themselves purely in terms of family, friendship, and market-relations.
We will also develop our reading, writing, and conversational skills.
Restricted to Honors students in the School of Business.
This ACS seminar is designed for Honors students in the Villanova School of Business. The guiding question of our semester is Augustine's own: "Who am I, and what am I?" We will investigate together what it means to be human, not merely as an academic exercise, but in order to understand ourselves better as people and as members of our communities, whether familial, social, or religious. Together, we will read Homer's Iliad, sections of the Holy Bible (Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospel of Luke), Saint Augustine's Confessions, and Dante's Inferno, along with excerpts from Plutarch's Lives, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and the Qur'an. Each of these texts has something important to teach us about our own search for self-understanding, and about what makes life meaningful. You may be surprised to find yourself transformed in the process—and, in turn, your ideas about work and leisure, friendship and solitude, humanity and God, your present and your future. Vibrant seminar discussions will also prepare you to think critically, to read closely and carefully, and to write and speak persuasively.
Restricted to Honors students in the School of Business.
Augustine and Culture seminar based principally on texts and readings drawn from primary sources up to 1650. Extensive written work and seminar discussions. Required readings: Hebrew and Christian scriptures, selections from the works of Augustine, Greek and Renaissance works. Readings from different genres and disciplines. Themes developed by the instructor in accordance with the selected readings.
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the intellectual life and spiritual values found within the traditions of the western humanities. The essential question posed by the humanities is "What does it mean to be human?" The central question posed by this ACS honors seminar is "Who am I?" In many ways there is no viable and plausible response for the former without resolving the latter. In New & Collected Poems 2001, the poet Czeslaw Milosz claims that the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person. We will attempt to address the concept of "person" and "Who Am I" through reading, studying and discussing some of the central works of the Western humanities tradition. We will be guided in our task by the insights of the Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine claims that you are confronted with the choice of becoming whoever you are to be. This choice can be ignored but its consequences cannot be avoided. The focus of our seminar's presentations will concern interpretations of the nature and meaning of this choice. Choosing who you are concerns relationships between the development of individual identity, truth, and the influences of those factors which you cannot easily change, or not at all, in your life, such as codes of expected behavior, the implications of transgression and the force of contextual circumstances.
We will use the concepts of tragedy, transgression, resistance and what is thought to be "natural" to differentiate the classical Greek and Roman beliefs concerning human nature from those of the monotheistic traditions of Judaism, and Christianity. We will trace the concepts of individual motives and honor in Homer's Iliad (excerpts) and Sophocles' Antigone. We will evaluate the peculiar transgressive individuality of Socrates in Plato's Apology. We will address the Roman interpretation of human nature through the poetic vision of Virgil's Aeneid, (excerpts). We will find in the Torah's Genesis and the New Testaments Gospels of Mark and Matthew and St. Augustine's Confessions that transgression equates with sin which is the product of real choices and conceptually quite different from the Greek/Roman notions of tragic destiny. Each ancient tradition has articulated different interpretations for human identity, honorable behavior, tragedy and transgression. We will analyze a range of these concepts within the contexts of these intensely quarrelsome, competitive and brutal life-worlds of pre modernity. We will emphasize the implications of these concepts from both the Augustinian perspective and contemporary application. We will read the great medieval classic Dante's Inferno, and finish the semester with the proto- modern preamble Prince by Machiavelli. If we have time we will address some central issues within the Qur'an plus the commentary from Sayid Q'utb's, In the Shade of Qur'an, a major modern intellectual inspiration for the Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
The format for our seminar will be, primarily, student commentary, with discussion of texts and assigned questions. I will lecture.
Close reading and discussion of selected texts from the time of Homer through the English Renaissance. In this seminar, you will learn to read closely and with care. Weekly journals, free-writing, and "mark-ups" of the texts will help you to find and refine your own critical, and often creative, responses to the reading. Writing will be intensive, with emphasis on revision and on the discovery of a process which works best for you as an individual writer. As many of the works we study have oral origins, we'll begin with a close look at a tale that's come down to us through purely oral channels, weighing memory, imagination, and cultural intention. Our readings will be close and full good inquiries. Whether we are contemplating Achilles rage, the spiritual journeys of Augustine and Dante, or the "unstable fictions of gender" in Shakespeare—we will explore the impact of narrative choices, imagery, word choice, and tone. Plan on lively discussion and active daily participation. Course texts will include Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, and Shakespeare's As You Like It, as well as poetry by Sappho, Erinna, Alkaios, and Simonides. The class will include a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as a movie night.
The question of the good is implied in the questions "How should I live?" and "How should my society be ordered?" Thus "The Good" course revolves around questions in Political Philosophy and Ethics. Since it addresses foundational questions, "The Good" course is a fitting introduction to the learning cohort sequence on transcendental grounding principles. Readings include selections from Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes and Leo Tolstoy. Co-curricular activities such as trips and combined learning cohort lectures are also a part of this course.
Restricted to students in the Global Scholars Humanities or Good True Beautiful cohorts.
The question of the good is implied in the questions "How should I live?" and "How should my society be ordered?" Thus "The Good" course revolves around questions in Political Philosophy and Ethics. Since it addresses foundational questions, "The Good" course is a fitting introduction to the learning cohort sequence on transcendental grounding principles. Readings include selections from Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes and Leo Tolstoy. Co-curricular activities such as trips and combined learning cohort lectures are also a part of this course.
Restricted to students in the Global Scholars Humanities or Good True Beautiful cohorts.
The question of the good is implied in the questions "How should I live?" and "How should my society be ordered?" Thus "The Good" course revolves around questions in Political Philosophy and Ethics. Since it addresses foundational questions, "The Good" course is a fitting introduction to the learning cohort sequence on transcendental grounding principles. Readings include selections from Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes and Leo Tolstoy. Co-curricular activities such as trips and combined learning cohort lectures are also a part of this course.
Restricted to students in the Global Scholars Humanities or Good True Beautiful cohorts.
This course introduces students to the history of the British Empire. At its height, Britain controlled more than half a billion people, one quarter of the earth's land mass, and was the undisputed master of the seas. With a colony on every continent, Britain's dominion was so vast that as the saying went, the sun never set on it. This semester we will simultaneously explore Britain's colonial past and ask questions about how we know what we know about history. We begin by examining the expansion of British power in Ireland and the Americas and follow its growth across Asia and Africa. Emphasis in the course will be placed on: how and why Britain acquired such an enormous global empire; the effects of British colonial rule on the people and places who lived under it; the varied responses of colonized people to foreign domination; and the legacies of empire today.
In this course, we will study some of the great authors of the history of philosophy in the West: Plato, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Marx, and Freud. Among the philosophical questions we will address will be: what it means to be real; what are the foundations of just law and the basic principles of morality; how do we know we know; can we prove the existence of God and can we understand God's being? What does it mean to be a person? Since it is a core course, we will focus on developing an understanding of the methods and aims of philosophical thinking. A basic question we will ask is, "What does it mean to be political and rational beings? What is the ideal community for human beings? The class will encourage sharing ideas and insights and will strive to raise critical questions that allow each of us to seriously confront the texts and ideas we encounter. Our goal will be to enhance our writing and conversation skills in an academic setting where we discuss together salient philosophical ideas.
Philosophical responses to the questions of how we can know, what is real, and what is the nature of human existence that explore the dialogue between Catholic, Christian, secular and skeptical perspectives on these questions.
Drawing on texts from the history of philosophy, this course will introduce the discipline of philosophy through some of its traditional questions about knowledge and reality and the relationship of these issues to how we orient ourselves in the world. Some of the questions that will guide us in this course are: Where does knowledge come from? By what criteria can we distinguish knowledge from, for example, opinion? What roles do logic and reasoning play in forming knowledge? How do our ways of knowing bear on our sense of reality and our experience of ourselves?
We will not try to settle what the "correct answers" to these questions are. Rather, our goal in this course will be to understand how different thinkers have tarried with these questions and we will examine the consequences of different ways of approaching these questions. As we attend to ancient, Christian, Enlightenment, and modern philosophical approaches, we will see how different ways of thinking about knowledge and reality delineate different ways of relating to the world, others, ourselves, and God.
Philosophers have spilled much ink defining what makes us human, and how our souls or minds are related to our bodies. For example, is the mind different from the brain? Do we think the way we do because we have a particular neuro-anatomy? Our culture is full of expressions like "mind over matter," but what do we really mean? Topics for our class include the nature of the mind or soul and the nature of body; ideas about knowledge and consciousness; how to think about what some have called the human or rational animal in relation to other animals; and how we are or inhabit our own bodies. We'll work with classic texts in the history of philosophy and contemporary reflections. Philosophers work in many different literary genres. We will read dialogues, treatises, essays, letters, memoirs, and fiction. We'll also watch some films together. Throughout the course, we will rely on seminar discussion to figure things out together.
Drawing on an array of texts that surpass the standard 'Western' canon, this course will grapple with some of the most expansive and intimidating philosophic questions: What is the meaning of life? What is the nature of reality? Who are we? What—if anything—can we know? What is philosophy itself, and how might it help to elucidate some of these questions? In each case, we will approach these issues from multiple and diverse perspectives, often reframing or displacing them in order to reveal hidden philosophic assumptions.
Rather than seeking to find definitive closure or unanimous consensus, this seminar will cultivate a process of open-ended collective inquiry in which students will be encouraged to think autonomously and challenge facile solutions. The material covered will include ancient, Christian, modern and contemporary sources, as well as texts from beyond the canonized—and largely white, male, European—history of philosophy. This will allow us to critically reflect on the deep-seated presuppositions of particular cultural traditions, while engaging with radically different practices of philosophic interrogation. Students should come away from the course with an expanded sense of theoretical possibilities, as well as an arsenal of critical tools for developing creative and rigorous thinking.
This foundational political science course explores the structures and functions of American government so that we might understand the relationship between politics and policy, and how the theoretical basis of the American political system matches up against the way the process works in practice. Our overarching question will be whether and why we should care about American democracy and invest in making it work. We will begin our exploration by examining the Constitution, federalism, and other defining "ground rules" of the American political system, and consider how we become political creatures, how our opinions may or may not resonate in the political process, and how we are connected to that process through such institutions as the mass media, political parties, elections, and interest groups. We will then consider the primary institutions of American government — Congress, the presidency, the executive branch, and the Courts — and how effectively they produce domestic and foreign policy while protecting our rights and liberties. We will read a mix of primary and secondary source materials, popular items from newspapers, blogs and social media, and an interactive textbook published by the instructor. Coursework will include a mix of objective assessments and original writing.
This course is an introduction to the study of international relations (IR), a distinct academic discipline that involves elements of political science, history, economics, sociology, and philosophy. The aim is to present the key concepts, theories, and paradigms that shape and influence world politics. Simply reporting on contemporary international events is NOT the goal: evaluating and critically assessing those events IS the goal.
Introductory examination of the fundamental concepts of psychology, with particular emphasis on the description of normal human behavior and those factors that underlie it. Students will read and discuss primary source articles in addition to text material.
This course will develop a sociological imagination for understanding human behavior. This is related to but not synonymous with learning about the discipline of sociology (what professional sociologists do) or about the vocabulary of sociology (a secret language). Instead, we will cultivate a structural, systematic, and, critical perspective for understanding how people both shape and are shaped by the larger world around them.
This course is for first-year students only. A second-semester companion course (also fulfills Core requirement) is strongly recommended.
Researchers at MIT recently hailed Jesus of Nazareth as the most influential person in the history of the world, and Christianity stands as one of the major forces behind the development of Western culture. At the same time, however, religious faith is increasingly under attack, and some persons are claiming that atheism has won "the culture war." How can we make sense of such a situation? This course will aim to do so in three main ways. First, under the rubric of "Culture," it will survey the contemporary social and religious landscape, focusing on the rise of atheism in modernity and on how Christians have sought to address it. Second, with regard to "Reason," it will explore what may be the greatest question to confront the human mind: does God exist? Finally, with an eye to "Faith," it will examine the origin and nature of what Christians believe about God. The upshot, it is hoped, will be a course that will not only equip students to better understand the core teachings of Christianity, but also will help them to situate those teachings in the context of humanity's perpetual interest in, and questioning of, the possibility of transcendence.
This course offers an introduction to the history of Christianity through a careful reading of primary texts from the Eastern and Western traditions. Throughout the semester, we will explore how certain beliefs, doctrines, and practices emerged, changed over time, and interacted with the dominant cultures in which they were situated. We will read texts from a variety of genres—including saints' lives, mystical writings, sermons, systematic treatises, poetry, and contemporary spiritual memoirs. We will also examine practices of devotion and piety, including pilgrimage, prayer, meditation, and fasting, in order to consider the dynamic relationship between belief and practice, high ideals and the complicated realities of everyday life.
This course will examine and discuss the role Christianity, and more specifically Catholicism, has to play in politics or the public sphere. This will be explored through several different but related topics.
1) What clues are present in Scripture for thinking about political engagement: how do the Gospels portray Jesus, what was his fundamental message, and how did he see himself in terms of the political atmosphere of his time? And further, how is this interpreted by early Christians in Scripture, especially in Acts and Paul?
2) How do ancient and mediaeval theologians, especially Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, discern the role Christianity is to have in relation to governing political bodies and legal codes?
3) Important trends in late mediaeval and early modern theology also had a striking role to play in the development of the modern nation state and our current political economic structures. We will examine and discuss the most striking features of these, especially in relation to how they affect political structures today.
4) How does the question of the rationality of faith, and the nature of the relationship between faith and reason, affect the role of religion in politics and the public sphere today? How is reason/rationality thought of today, and is this adequate? Is there a reasonable quality about faith? Do all schools of thought, even science, rely on some element of 'faith'? How is reason itself challenged and thought of differently today? How can a more robust understanding of both faith and reason, and their relationship, help Christianity to have a more positive impact in contemporary society and culture?
5) Throughout the course we will return specifically to how economics and 'the market' affect society and the capacity for social change. Does Christianity offer helpful insights for transformation toward a more just political economy that challenge principles that are often simply accepted as unavoidable or advantageous, but socially destructive and unjust? What might alternatives look like? We will explore relevant aspects of Catholic social teaching and analyse one particular alternative, frequently referred to as 'distributism'.
In the end we will tie these threads together by examining the question: might politics benefit from responsible citizens engaging politically as knowledgeable Christians/Catholics, rather than having to translate the political convictions stemming from their tradition into some 'neutral', secular discourse?
The message of Christianity must be (and always has been) thought out within the bounds of interpretative models that reflect and are linked to the horizon of human experience. In that regard, this section of the course will presuppose and be in dialogue with the scientific understanding of an evolving universe, a process of some 13.8 billion years. Intelligence or reason—as embodied in science and culture—engaged in a dialogue with faith can mutually challenge and enrich our human creativity, freedom, self-mastery, and solidarity. The course will focus on the Christian understanding of God, Creation as an ongoing relationship, God's relation with humans, human freedom and "sin," the problem of suffering, Jesus as God become fully human, and the community coming from Jesus. It will provide an overview of contemporary biblical methodology, with a reading of selected passages from the Hebrew and the Christian Scriptures.
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Oct 15 2009UPDATE: 6-Year Old (NOT) Floating Around In Homemade UFO Balloon
That's no 'Get Well' balloon, that's a 20' foil aircraft with a 6-year old boy inside, floating aimlessly 8,000 feet above eastern Colorado. Uh-oh.
The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.
Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out.
"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County emergency manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.
Great, so he either fell out or won't survive the crash. Hooray for positive thinking. Come back down safely, balloon boy.
UPDATE: No boy when balloon landed. Not good.
UPDATE UPDATE: Falcon (the boy's actual name) was found hiding in a box in the garage attic (great search effort). This calls for celebration! (you hold him down, I'll tie on the fireworks)
6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon [cnn]
Thanks to Jimmothy, stacy, jordana, dorothy, NICKSTER, rya, Jake, e.,The Superficial Writer, steven, Nigel, Valhalla, Lizzie, Noah and pepe la PEW PEW, whose parents thankfully never let them play around giant UFO balloons unsupervised.
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Someone saw UP too many times.
No kid inside!!!
little guy is mingling with the celebees now
No fair, I wanna be with the Celebees too :(
Social Darwinism at its finest. It's sad, but I don't have high hopes for the offspring of any moron who was stupid enough to leave a foil balloon that was obviously ready for liftoff unattended and tied to a tree, with knots that a six-year-old can undo. What the hell did they think was going to happen?
So lame, Theres No Freakin kid in there!!!! And it didn't even explode or anything cool!
It landed. No kid to be seen.
aw thanks GW for thanking me :D
i blame it all on that whimsical UP movie.
shit would've never happened if that movie hadn't been made.
actually... i would have done the same thing!
Did you also get that the boy's name is Falcon? I shit you not.
He fell out. Its obvious. The thing is filled with helium. He probably either jumped when he couldn't breathe anymore or passed out and slipped out the door. Fox News is reporting that people saw him fall out and the kid's brother did too. Shame.
It's kinda like Flight of the Navigator.....maybe he was transported to the future and needs to find his way back.
there wasnt even a door.
it was just a distraction so he could go to a strip club or something
@ 11
Falcon was the other kid no? isnt his name Rollo or Ryo or something??
these parents should be killed.
@15 Well according to CNN, the 6 year old boy name is Falcon Heene.
-1 one annoying child, + 2 points (+5 if the body isn't found)
Kid was never in there, call him Hoaxy McHoaxington III.
Time for another Darwin award.
wow... this kid is famous for many reason......
Kid has a good name!
Probably a hoax to get attention to his balloon project. Bet he was never in there.
Wow you guys are assholes. The kid could be dead. Karma is a bitch.
@24 - If your logic is karma then that kid must have done something really shitty to fall out of a hot air balloon.
I really hope they find him! i hope he is okay! poor kid!
My karma ran over my dogma a long time ago!
It also means that something bad is going to happen to you heartless pricks.
@20 Nope. You need to be (of been)18 to receive a Darwin Award.
And 24 is right. You guys are assholes about this.
I love to joke about shit, but this is someone's child who is probably now dead.
I don't know why this is so funny, but it is.
If the kid is dead, it was real. If he's alive, hoax.
Let's wait and see!
It's all over 4chan.
fukk'd up.......... cool balloon dude, but the kid part is not
The kid was on ABC's wife swap
At least its not the "Bacon is AWESOME" kid.
I don't think we are being all that obnoxious. Kids do stupid shit; that is understandable. It is the whole leaving-kids-unattended-with-a-helium-filled-ballon-thing that annoys me. Especially since it obviously wasn't tied up correctly if a 6 year old could undo those knots. Some people are unfit for parenthood. I bet all that is going to happen to the parents is a CNN interview where they cry on camera, people feel sorry for them, and they get off scot free. Pisses me off.
They should of put a case of beer in the basket, and then tried to see if that drunk guy from the previous post could get into the balloon.
Pwned LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
What a fagtard child.
are you kidding me?.
Okay, #36 was a bit douche like.
#36. Go to hell.
I hope the poor kid is alright...Kids do stupid things but he may have died because of this. What if your kid or sibling did this? Would all you guys be such assholes then?
you mad bob?
Damn right I am.
wow, thats f'ing horrible. not good at all.
Here's a question tho ... how come he and his sibling were not in school?
ohh I bet that left a mark
if they have that in their house, i'm sure they HAVE to have a secret trap door or mystery room. i know i would.
They didn't get enough attention with that TV show, so they just had top it with something else. Pretending to send a kid off in a balloon seems pretty inventive.
I doubt anyone watches Wifeswap or The Soup
But that family was on Wifeswap
GW, you should remove this item. Its probable this poor little fellas died as a result of this. Its not his fault his fathers a nutbag. The little guy climbed in a big shiny box like any other 6yo would do so you cant blame him. I really hope someones mistaken and he never got in the box in the first place and turns up ok but this is bound to be tragic. As a mark of respect for the little guy, take it off.
joel mchale is a funny man, funny man
best post ever!
this reminds me of a time when i watch law & order an hour ago, and a 7 year old shot a 6 year old and everyone was saying it wasn't his fault and he doesn't know better. when in fact he knew damn well that little girl would die and never come back to class.
in this case, there is no proof he was in the silver flying disc. i rest my case.
@50. I completely agree with you. This isn't something that should be joked about. Take it down GW.
Sounds like the basket wasn't breached, Sheriff thinks its more likely the kid got out, or wasnt even in the balloon at all, and is just hiding because he doesn't want to get in trouble.
i smell shenanigans!
Since when is posting a news story considered "joking" about it? So should CNN stop reporting it as well? Christ on a pony you pu**ies.
Next up: CNN brings in an expert on where a scared child may be hiding
jimmy neutron is not impressed
whether the kid is alive or not, why did they have to kill the balloon? that in itself is a tragedy
...I seriously hope that kid is fine, but.....the balloon....just why? that was one of the best inadvertent test flights I've seen in awhile
IRAN doesn't even fly shit that well..... just why??
I believe this falls under "awsome". Even if the kid had the bad luck of expiring, he's awsome for having flown in a helium balloon. And he'll be awsome if he was just hiding and got TV attention from it.
It floated right over our school, but no one noticed...
Maybe if the kids were "Pussified" they wouldn't be on the roof unsupervised, and flying away in a balloon!
i'm totally following this story on twitter...i've never used twitter before either...
I'm gonna go ahead and call it: he untied the balloon and didn't get in.
@67 Sounds pretty gay to me.
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He was in the attic the whole time. It was a hoax.
UPDATE: the boy has been found safe and sound. He was hiding in his attic for fear he did something wrong. He was never in the balloon.
another great hoax pulled off, attn fame: here come the Heenes
they found him in the attic of their home!!!!
Simple solution.
Surface to air missile.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Lmega5 still very gay, gets get with self while tweeting about it
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i honestly would've preferred him be IN the balloon...this is kind of a let down.
@Balloon Boy
FALCON KICK in the @$$!!
Found in cardboard box in garage attic- CNN, MSNBC, FOX, local news FAIL.
They found him. he was hiding in the attic
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when this is over his parents will beat his a** and get arrested for it
they found him, he was hiding in a box at his house...
they found him masturbating to cosmo in the attic!
he hid in the attic...I am surprised the ghosts didnt get him.
that kid needs an ass beating.
Totally saw this coming.. Twelve Monkeys anyone?
oh how everyone loves a tradgedy, how disappointing for you all !! them kids would so have it!!
My friends and I were watching this on the news for ike half an hour. Turns out the balloon flew right over our town. Only in Colorado...
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THIS JUST IN: he was in a box in the attic
got bored of it, untied it, then left. perhaps he hid in the attic fearing that he may be in trouble for setting free a balloon he wished to not be grounded ,like he is now.
Glad he's ok.
bob and j, you both can suck it now and buy us all a beer.
case closed
@49 - I wouldn't feel anything, because I'm not a shitty enough parent to leave a freaking SHINY BALLOON OF DOOM fully inflated and loosely tied up to the corner of my mobile home/cardboard box/trailer/whatever Colorado hillbillies live in.
I hate it that news stations are referring to the douche canoe father as a "scientist". That kid deserves a beating, and that family should have to pay for the time and effort wasted looking for the little jackass.
I TOLD YOU! It was a flocking hoax all along! Kid is safe! He was "hiding" in the attic, or so his parents say. Dude did this to gain attention. Nothing more.
@24 BITE ME FLUFFY ASS TAIL FEATHERS!! I called that one! ADMIT IT!!
Peoples they found him in the attic in a box! Hooray for imagination!
Yo Balloon Boy, Imma let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time
The kid ratted on his parents for the publicity stunt on Blitzer. "Falcon, why didn't you come out of the attic?" *kid looks confused for a moment* "You guys said it was for the show."
mad props, SnOoPs
one of the experts CNN had on the phone actually said they'd probably find him hiding under the bed or some shit
an expert? on what, determining the likelihood that children will get in a balloon and untie it? sounds like a fancy job...
@ 101
wonder whats gonna happen now that he ratted on them... lol
i love that "yeah..." the dad gives
Lmega5 breaks the world record for having more buttsecks in 1 day than Folsom Street has in 30 years AAANNNDDD tweets about it on twitter LIVE because twitter is almost gayer than Lmega5!!!
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And they say prayer works.. I prayed he was dead, no such luck..
@107 http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/mochapiggy/no.jpg
@108 http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b55/Danthrax40/obama-wtf.jpg
the kid should have been tied to the tree not the balloon. the balloon was behaving, the kid wasn't.
Now they found him. We should put him in the f-ing balloon.
I want a real story.
Interesting part now is finding out if this was the boy's idea or his parents. If it was the boy's (grounding with a side of spank) and if it was the parent's idea. Give them the bill for deploying the National Guard.
Turns out it wasn't the kid being naughty, but rather the parents who pulled it off as a publicity stunt. oh ho ho yo ho!! check out the recent interview @ CNN, or some yackity news thing.
Good work Sno0pes.
i say shoot the parents and feed the kids to the dogs.
after all the bullshit something has to be done.
guess what? IT WAS A HOAX. family are a bunch of attention whores.
He wasn't hiding, he was reading the Never Ending Story.
Ok, so once again, the whiners want to pull a NEWS article because the comments offend them. Stop trying to censor people simply because you don't like it.
@109 heheh, I dunno - that pic was titled orly so I figued wtf....
I found this for Lmega5 since there's been some harassment flying over his head.... http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan/parker.jpg
@112 I agree with you on all counts there, especially that all this was the parents doing.... but what sucks is that someone has to pay when the national guard is deployed. WTF, don't taxes cover something like that? I understand paying for an ambulance, ect - but the national guard!?
I was just thinking of copycatting this stunt, but with a giant GEEKOLOGIE BALLOON. I was going to tell the news that GW could possibly be inside hog tied w/ an open jar of peanut butter. ....but I don't want to pay for the national guard part
Someone on newgrounds made a game about this.
I told you it was a hoax, but nooo, I get chastised instead. Well who's laughing now beatchs!?! The police are filing charges against them!
So, the next time a little birdie tells ya something...
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Cape school board members are discussing raising high school graduation requirements to keep the district competitive in the region.
"Our proposal is to add one additional science credit and one additional social studies credit for the Class of 2017, next year's freshmen. That would bring the total for Cape to 26, two above the 24 required by (state) regulation," said Michael Kelley, director of curriculum and instruction.
Seniors would have several science classes to choose from in order to obtain their fourth science credit, Kelley said. A selection of social studies classes also would be offered for the fourth social studies credit.
Most board members agreed with increasing the credits required for graduation.
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Board member Jen Burton agreed with requiring graduating seniors to carry more credits.
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Board Vice President Spencer Brittingham, however, questioned whether all students would be able to handle additional course requirements.
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