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Frequently, fibroids can be managed by procedures designed to treat the symptoms uterine fibroids cause. There are many medications that can treat symptoms, but sometimes, surgery is indicated.
If abnormal bleeding is your primary concern, you may undergo a procedure called a dilation and curettage (D&C). The cervix is dilated wide enough to introduce a curved blade that scrapes out the lining of the uterus.
The two main reasons for this procedure are:
Uterine fibroid embolization is designed to cut off the blood flow to fibroids and kill them by cutting their lifeline.
During this procedure, a radiologist will thread a catheter into an artery in your groin and guide it into the uterus. The catheter will be threaded with the aid of dye and x-rays . The radiologist will then inject small particles to block the blood supply feeding the fibroids.
Myolysis is a procedure that shrinks the fibroids, using a directed heat source. Several devices can be used that have high frequency electrical current or lasers that cauterize (burn) the blood supply to the fibroids. The devices are usually inserted through very small incisions and guided by a laparoscope. As an alternative, cryohemolysis uses liquid nitrogen to freeze the fibroids.
The fibroids remain in place and are not surgically removed. Without a blood supply, the fibroids shrink. Myolysis and cryohemolysis are done on fibroids of certain sizes near the surface of the uterus.
In this procedure, you will be inside an MRI scan machine, which will allow your uterus and the rest of the abdominal area to be viewed. Focused sound waves will be used to destroy the fibroids, while leaving your uterus intact.
Myomectomy is the surgical removal of fibroids without removing the uterus. Unlike a hysterectomy, a myomectomy can preserve fertility. There are a variety of ways a myomectomy can be performed depending on where the fibroids are located and how large they are. Examples are:
A hysterectomy is removal of the uterus. There are different types of this procedure, such as:
A supracervical hysterectomy is surgery to remove the uterus only. This is not done as often because the cervix can still cause problems. However, a woman may choose this option if she wants to keep her cervix or if the removal of the cervix may make the surgery more difficult.
A total hysterectomy is done either through the abdomen or, if the uterus is small enough, through the vagina. A vaginal approach may be combined with a repair of weakened and stretched tissues in the vaginal walls.
Pregnancy is impossible after a hysterectomy.
Contact your doctor if any of the following occur after your procedure:
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Fibromyalgia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116339/Fibromyalgia. Updated September 18, 2016. Accessed October 4, 2016.
Uterine fibroids. Focused Ultrasound Foundation website. Available at: http://www.fusfoundation.org/Uterine-Fibroids/uterine-fibroids. Accessed January 7, 2014.
Uterine leiomyoma. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/. Updated November 7, 2013. Accessed January 7, 2014.
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Hello,I like to put some sort of validation on my contact forms, I have used recaptcha and a math question in the past with no problems.I am now building a site for which the client's service is helping people with literacy and learning difficulties. While its most likely its their carers that will be visiting the site, I would like to make my form as easy to use as possible, while still having the form validation on there.Any suggestions? I like the idea of the switch you have to toggle before sending the form but I'm not sure how effective that is.Thanks
What you could do is just have a hidden field (a "honeypot") which causes the form to be aborted if filled in. If you set it to display: none, I gather most screen readers won't see it. In any case, you can include a message not to fill in the form if you wish, or a simple instruction like enter "4" here ... but most people are never going to see the field anyway.
This way, you don't trouble legitimate users but trip up the spam bots. The only fish through the net will be individual spammers, but they are relatively few.
Thanks Ralph, I have never heard of doing that before. I'll give it a go because it definitely sounds like what I need.
Ralph, don't you find that most (perhaps all, I'm not sure) of the ATs that have form modes ignore display none when in that mode, so that all form elements get announced? NVDA and, I think, Orca did that when I tried them.
I'll defer to your judgement and experience on that. I heard a long time ago that screen readers etc. tend to ignore elements set to display: none, but I have a sneaking sense that may not be the case for form elements, but I'm ignorant, I'm afraid! I used to have a label for the hidden input that said "don't fill in this field!" or similar, but changed to giving a simple instruction, like "type 4 here" ... and the form aborts if the field is not empty and does not contain either "4" or "four". (If someone types "for", I'm happy for the form to abort. :lol: )
Yeah, I've just dug out a note that I wrote for myself ages ago and, although my list is far from complete, I got as far as checking Orca, NVDA, and VO (the free ones, funnily enough!). Orca and NVDA read out form inputs with display none, while VO continued as normal and ignored them. The 1st two also handled visibility hidden in the same way, I think.
Anyway, about the main question. I often use a text-based question, among a series of measures (mostly unobtrusive server-side things and absolutely no horrible image-based tests). A question might be "type the last three letters of orange". It should be fairly understandable for most users and has only two possible answers.... Whatever you ask, always make it as clear as you can and always allow some latitude in the processing. The other measures can include things like unique tokens (if you run a database), a time check to prevent very rapid form submission, and similar tricks that the PHP gurus could tell you much more about.
"type the last three letters of orange"
Okay. "ornch"So last three letters are "nch". Your form validation should accept that. You should see the spelling on the Orca mailing list. People who learned to read while sighted spell pretty well, but esp those who learned English after going blind or born blind, the spelling is awful, even though the ability to go through a word letter by letter to see how it's spelt is possible. Either ask how to spell very basic, obvious words, or better yet, do simple math. That gets you out of the language hole.
"How much do I have if I add 3 and 2?"accept 5, 05, five...
I'm not sure if you're saying it will or should be set to because, at least in php, you can limit it to an exact match.
Arithmetic questions wouldn't always be possible, though. For instance, if you have to work with a module that can accept only one answer (with case variations allowed), a word is a safer choice than a number. Far from ideal, I know, but real-world restrictions abound.
Thanks for mentioning the spelling issue, though, because I didn't know that. Never seen it come up anywhere.
Stomme poes, I've been thinking of alternatives to word-based answers that would work in the situation that I mentioned above. Would something like "Enter the number thirtysix using digits" be more accessible? Or should it be simpler still?
I don't know that you'd need to visibility hide it, just shift the absolute position of the honeypot item off top. Same basic effect I'd think. Unless there's some scripted spam bot issue with this I'm unaware of since I've never tried using it to stop them before.
Mat30: I just mean it shouldn't require thinking to answer. Esp if it's like most other forms, the good ones ask for the usual stuff and we know all users get stupid just magically by sitting behind a computer and filling out a form.
Mike Cherim had a (visible) honeypot that asked "is fire hot or cold?" and accepted "hot" as the answer. It did not accept misspellings of "hot" but I believe it was case insensitive. I think he also had Askimet there too.
Fronteers.nl has signup or comment forms with a field that is hidden with Javascript, so I believe Javascript automatically fills in the answer ("nee"). Without Javascript, as I usually am, I see the field which asks something like "Are you a spammer?" and the hint on the other side of the field says "fill in no" (this is all in Dutch of course). First time I saw that I thought the hint said "don't fill in" so I left it blank and didn't get through
I had a client getting gobbledygook bots going through filling everything in with lskdfkjshgkjhads and I added an invisible field that the back-end script would filter out if it was filled in, while the label said "leave this field blank, spam question". Not sure how good of an idea that was, since people are trained to fill in things, but it stopped all the gobblespam.
The reason I tend to hide them is, the fewer humans who see that field, the less likely I'll get someone screwing it up. Since if I'm using CSS to hide it, I've limited the users who might see it to text-browser users and screen readers, mostly. And bots of course. Then I have the label to tell those humans left how to deal with the form.
So the real solution a honeypot offers is, bots don't read. People read, and so do Mechanical Turks and human spammers, but bots generally don't. It's just that, as a confusing question, I'd prefer fewer humans see it if I can hide it.
I do prefer CSS solutions to Javascript ones, unless like the Fronteers example above, they have a good fall-back. You certainly don't want people with script blockers getting kicked out as bots, and with a good honeypot there's no reason to.
I was actually just suggesting adjusting the absolute position(so it doesn't effect the browser screen) to a point off of the screen instead of using visibility and was wondering if the bots in question are set up to ignore that too. Here's some sample code for that type of thing in-line CSS style(not that it should or need be, this is just the example I have readily available from usage on a wiki):

I was actually just suggesting adjusting the absolute position(so it doesn't effect the browser screen) to a point off of the screen instead of using visibility and was wondering if the bots in question are set up to ignore that too.
When I asked (on Accessify or somewhere) why display: none and visibility: hidden elements were ignored by (most) screen readers, the answer I got was something like "the browser doesn't add those elements to its rendering layer and so the screen reader software considers those elements not on the screen, therefore not copying them to the virtual buffer" or something.
However, absolutely-positioned-offscreen elements are treated like non-positioned onscreen elements (read out).
Though there have been bugs (like older Window-Eyes versions used to announce abso-po'd elements who were brought "above" the page with top: -9999px, then announce those things again when it got to where the element was in source), in general screen readers ignore CSS*. However, they are interacting with the web page through a browser, and a browser loads and renders CSS, and a browser loads and runs scripts. A screen reader gets information actually via the browser (through an accessibility layer).
Bots on the other hand are usually wholly separate user agents, like wget, who don't load (or at least don't parse and render) the CSS or scripts. They just read the HTML and react to that. You can absolutely-position the whole page offscreen if you want. Won't stop a bot.
I've heard there are bots out there who do load and run Javascript, just very few in number.


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- "When everything you believe in is shown to be shit, you make strange choices, I guess."
- ―Darko Brevic
Darko Brevic is a central character and the tertiary antagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV. He is one of three survivors of the Fifteen Man Squad, the others being Niko Bellic and Florian Cravic.
Darko was a fellow soldier alongside Niko Bellic and Florian Cravic during the Yugoslav wars, and eventually sold out his squad to enemy forces for $1,000 to help pay for his heroin addiction.
Niko would spend the next decade hunting down Florian and Darko to discover who betrayed the squad, and to exact revenge.
Niko moves to Liberty City to find Florian, who in the intervening years changed his name to Bernie Crane. Niko discovers, however, that Florian is innocent, and begins to look for Darko.
Events of GTA IV
One of Niko's contacts at the United Liberty Paper organization eventually arranges Darko's kidnapping, and leaves him on the tarmac of Francis International Airport, at Niko's mercy; Niko arrives at the airport with Roman, and interrogates Darko.
Darko reminds Niko that their squad were no angels themselves, stating that Goran (another member of their squad) was responsible for the deaths of some of Darko's own friends and neighbours, and tells Niko the reason he betrayed the group. Niko is horrified that he and his friends were sold out over such a paltry sum of money; in response, Darko asks how much Niko has charged for all the murders he has committed. Darko also calls him a hypocrite; he falls to his knees and says that Niko would be doing him a favor by killing him. He breaks down in tears, and Roman attempts to coax Niko away, observing that Darko "doesn't look like he enjoys life too much."
The player can then decide whether or not to kill Darko. If Darko is allowed to live, Niko will feel a little better, knowing that the greater punishment is leaving Darko alive to suffer from his drug addiction. As Niko walks away, Darko runs away screaming, never to be seen again in the game. It is then unknown what happens to him after this. Roman, Florian and the United Liberty Paper Contact congratulate Niko on finally letting go of his desire for revenge. Should the player choose to kill Darko, Niko will shoot him twelve times, one shot for each of his lost friends. Darko thanks Niko as he dies, and Niko walks away feeling, as he later says to Roman, "empty."
Darko betrayed his comrades in arms, motivated by money, and/or the fact that members of his squad had killed his neighbors. After the betrayal, his life on the run has taken its toll on him, transforming him into a miserable drug addict. He is very pessimistic as he reminds Niko that killing him would do him a great favour.
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- That Special Someone (Can be killed)
- If Niko kicks Darko in the groin numerous times, Darko's hands will quickly show then will stay tied behind his back.
- If the player executes Darko with a Combat Pistol, which only holds 9 bullets, Niko will still fire 12 shots without reloading.
- If the player lets Darko live, he runs away. If followed, he runs about the airport forever without running out of breath or stopping. Crashing into or shooting him will immediately change the conversation between Niko and Roman to the conversation used when Niko kills Darko, as seen in this video.
- If the player hits Darko, Roman will beat him up and even kill him, as seen in this video. The game then acts as if Niko killed Darko.
- If the player lets Darko live but Darko is accidentally killed while at the airport by way of an airplane running over him or being hit by a car, Niko and Roman's conversation will immediately change, even though Niko did not kill him and should not know about his death.
- If the player chooses to execute Darko, once he is fully dead his hands and arms will separate as if his hands were never cuffed. It is possible that Niko shot through the cuffs during the execution.
- If Darko runs into a body of water, his arms will become free allowing him to swim, however, once he returns to land, he will once again be handcuffed.
- He is one of three characters that can be spared that will not appear again; the other two being Unnamed Jewish Mobster and Unnamed Russian Goon.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
You have a great new CRM system. It provides solutions to all – or most – of the challenges that your sales team is currently working through.
So why aren't they using it?
Selling your sales team on a new CRM system might be one of the hardest sales you have to make. Sales teams can be stubborn in their ways and slow to accept change. But chances are your problem isn't really with the sales team. The problem is with how you're selling them.
Look Beyond the Sales Team
Sure, a CRM system is most likely to be used by a sales team. However, if you work in a small company, then you know perfectly well that the sales team doesn't account for all the users of CRM software. Upper management and the marketing department are just two of the groups that might dabble in the CRM system from time to time.
With that in mind, focus on selling to the senior management of your company before selling to the sales team. When senior management is using it, your sales team is going to be more likely to want to use it, too.
Also, give special attention to the new hires at your target company. New hires are less set in their ways and more open to change.
Present a Need and Drive Pain Points
In B2B sales, pain points are everything. It turns out that pain points go a long way in getting your employees to buy in, too. If you're struggling to sell your CRM system, it might be because you aren't demonstrating the need to your sales team very effectively.
Present the sales team with real problems in the company and ask how they're currently addressing those issues. Then, outline for them how the new CRM system would help them more effectively address those issues. For example:
"How do you remember the lead channels through which your major, long-time accounts were secured?"
"We've integrated our lead tracking software with the new CRM system so that our clients' lead information is automatically attached to their profiles in the CRM system. No more forgetfulness!"
Offer a Solution
The bottom line: your CRM system should offer solutions to specific problems that aren't currently being addressed. Even if the sales team you're pitching to is change-resistant, you will have a breakthrough when you offer a truly innovative solution.
When you offer solutions, get specific. If you know that your sales team has a propensity for losing valuable information, demonstrate how your CRM system can capture and retain that information. Show how effortless and easy it is. Then, attach dollar figures to what your solution means for each salesperson in gained commissions.
If you try these tips to motivate your sales team to buy into your CRM system, it may not be a hard sell after all.
John Buelow is Executive Vice President of Program Design and Delivery at Shapiro Negotiations Institute, a global provider of negotiation training and sales optimization.


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We had a fairly simple, but good meal this evening. I tried this a while back (posted by Mr ScreamingChicken), but marinaded the chops for only a couple of hours. This time, I started a little earlier. I mixed up some crushed fennel seed, EVOO, and some pressed garlic. I hit the pork chops with the jaccard. I then put the pork chops in a Foodsaver bag with the marinade and let sit for 24 hours. I fixed some green beans in EVOO and garlic along with a salad. Here is a pic of the chops on the grill:
Sorry about no plating pics, we were too hungry to wait. The pork chops were very moist and very tasty. There was a nice crust on the chops and the fennel seed added a really nice flavor. I'm going to have to fix these again


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I have a recipe for an excellent side, I DO NOT SHARE THIS RECIPE...but I will with you today. This is an old family recipe that I feel I have perfected. I have written it down very detailed for you, and if you follow it to the T you will get superb product that will have your friends, and family begging for more. There are some specialty ingredients, in this dish, but you should be able to find them. If not shoot me an email and I will tell you how to whip up your own. I serve this recipe with Smoked spanish style picnic ham... if your nice ill give you the recipe for that as well ..... Well all that, and I didnt even tell you what the dish is .. without further addo I give you Chipstealers Spanish Rice.
Prep 30 mins - Cook time 30 mins
6 cups Extra Long Grain Rice ( do not rinse, no uncle bens ! )
1/2 of a 7oz jar of Olives & Cappers
1 can Gondules ( may be labled as pigeon peas, try to get the brown ones, if not green are fine)
1 bottle Olive Oil ( use a spanish variety, I use goya ! )
4-6 packets Sazoon goya w/ annato
2 lbs pork ( use chops, or steaks )
1 green pepper ( small dice )
1 white, or spanish onion (small dice )
1 bunch fresh cilantro ( ruff chop remove 90% steams )
4 - 6 garlic cloves ( drizzle with olive oil, and salt and mince )
Spices : Adbo, garlic powder, cumin, smokey spanish paprika, salt & pepper Just keep on counter you will layer these spices througout cooking process to taste.
To begin chop all veggies and place on paper plates for use later.
Cube pork, and place in bowl season with some of the spices, and add a pinch of the green pepper, onion, and cilanto . drizzle with some olive oil.
Over medium high heat, in a wide high side pot add enough olive oil to cover bottom. ( we call it a rice pot, I will post a link to a picture of one as it is very important in how the dish cooks)
Fry pork mixture till well done ( some cremains on the bottom of the pot are a plus! ) Remove pork and set aside. ( there should now be O/O, and pork fat in the bottom of the pot, if not add some more O/O)
Add remaining Onions, and Green pepper to pot. Fry for 2-3 mins keeping them moving. ( try to scrape up some cremains at this point ) Now add your minced garlic and fry for 1 - 3 more minutes.
Add drained Gondules (pigeon peas) , Olives & Cappers, 1/2 the Cilantro, and 1/2 the sazzon. Fry for a couple more minutes till all the cremains are off the bottom. ( It should now have a dark Red / Golden color but the onions , peppers, and garlic should not be burnt. )
Add Pork, Rice, remaning Cilantro, and Sazzon to the pot. ( You may need to drizzle with more O/O )
Fry rice with all ingredients for several minutes. When you start to get a nutty smell its time to add the water, or chicken stock. ( correct me if im wrong but the nutty smell is the starch beging to break down. )
Add water / chicken stock to the pot I use about 8 - 10 cups ( do not use water to rice ratio for regular white rice, there is water in the beans, olive, onions, and grn pepper that make up for the diffrence. If your rice comes out gummy you have used to much water. )
Add more spices to taste. stir in taste broth for flavor ( your rice will taste like the broth) Bring to a rolling boil stir to make sure rice isnt sticking on bottom. Cover and lower the temeperture to LOW. Put timer on for 15 minutes. ( DO NOT LIFT LID... AT ALL ) When 15 minutes are up flip Rice Re - Cover pot, and cook for 15 more minutes on low ( again do not lift lid )
Your rice is done when 15 minutes are up. Should be fluffy, and Almost look as if its individual grains. And have a Nice Yellow - Red color. If its to gummy next time use less water... If its crunchy then you didnt, add enough.....
Enjoy ... the flavor is awesome and serves well with any smoked meat.. do to the Cumin, and paprika in the dish.
I know this is long, but I wanted the recipe to be as detailed as possible for you. This Recipe is 100% orignal to my family, and people have been known to call, or knock on my door to BUY a pot for there family get togethers. If you have succes with it they will do the same for you.. Just tell them You got the Recipe from me !


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The Malibu Club is a nightclub in Vice Point, Vice City in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. It is entirely inspired by The Babylon Club from the 1983 film Scarface.
The Malibu Club is the place to be in Vice City. As of 1986, an entourage of what appears to be the Village People (a very famous disco band in the late '70s who dressed in police, construction, military uniforms, etc. as costumes) performing on stage. Everyone from wealthy, trendy women to Cuban gang members are in attendance. Kent Paul frequents the club in 1986.
The Malibu Club appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (set in 1984), although it cannot be entered by the player. There are no signs on the building depicting the name of the club, but it is referred to as the Malibu by Reni Wassulmaier during the mission So Long Schlong and also by DJ Luke on Fresh FM.
The club can be purchased by protagonist Tommy Vercetti for $120,000 after the mission Shakedown, which then triggers off a series of missions. After completing the missions, the club generates up to $10,000 in revenue a day. The Vercetti Gang does not appear either inside or outside the Malibu Club. Tommy Vercetti's changes include replacing the former bartender with a stripper (who is the sister of the stripper from the Pole Position Club). Although there is a full bar on the ground floor, Ken Rosenberg has a minibar installed in the upstairs manager office. There is also a small scale model of Colonel Cortez's ship in the upstairs office.
If the player decides to shoot anyone before buying the club, the female bartender tries to kill you with a Stubby Shotgun (which she will also do if you try to go past the bar towards the office upstairs). Every dancer will fight back; regardless of the fact if they'll run away from Tommy outside the club. Shooting everyone will bring your wanted level up to 3-4 stars. The SWAT team will come after you from outside (although only regular VCPD officers come into the club). After the player buys the club, Tommy's choice of bartender is unarmed and topless with nipple tape and the bodyguards will not fight back if Tommy punches them. However, the guards outside will fight back when punched, regardless of ownership. It should also be noted that the guards outside do not wear sunglasses but the guards inside do. Also, the guards outside are unarmed while the guards inside are equipped with brass knuckles.
- GTA Vice City
- GTA Vice City Stories
Malibu Club missions
No Escape?
Tommy Vercetti, planning a bank robbery, is informed by Ken Rosenberg of a good safecracker called Cam Jones. Tommy breaks him out of the Vice City Police Department jail, and takes him back to his home.
The Shootist
Tommy Vercetti needs someone who can handle a gun, and Cam Jones tells him about a local gun-runner Phil Cassidy. Tommy defeats Phil at Ammu-Nation in a shooting range competition, after which Phil agrees to join Tommy in the bank robbery.
The Driver
Tommy Vercetti needs a getaway driver, and Phil tells him about a man called Hilary King. After Tommy defeats Hilary in a street race, Hilary joins the team as a driver.
The Job
The group goes to El Banco Corrupto Grande and Tommy, Phil and Cam enter the bank and Hilary circles the block. After the safe is cracked by Cam, the alarm sounds and the police storm the building. The trio kill several police as they exit the building. When Hilary arrives and gets out of the car to provide cover, he gets shot dead. Tommy and Phil escape (Cam can also escape, although depending on the players choice, Cam can die), and split the money.
Purchasing the Malibu Club and completing the four asset missions is required for 100% completion.
Kent Paul's Missions
Death Row
Paul calls Vercetti to come into the club because he's got news for him. After arriving to the club, Paul tells Vercetti that Lance Vance tried to jump Diaz but failed and was taken to a Junkyard to get in Little Havana. Tommy goes in the junkyard, he fight his way to all of Diaz's, rescues Lance and takes him to the hospital.
Ken Rosenberg's Missions
Back Alley Brawl
Tommy tells Rosenberg that they need a lead from the streets, Ken tells Tommy that there's a guy who goes by the name of Kent Paul who's got his nose up in Vice City and that if anybody knows the whereabouts of 20k's is him. Tommy then goes visit Paul at the Malibu Club, where he usually hangs out, there he finds him talking to a girl and ask him about the deal at first he refuses to talk, but Tommy forces him to, Paul tells him that there's a cook that has been above himself lately in Ocean Drive. Tommy goes to visit the chef and kills him, while being there, a stranger comes and tells Tommy that they should watch each other's back and takes Tommy to get heated up
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the following songs can be heard playing inside the club:
- Pointer Sisters - "Automatic" (featured on Fever 105)
- Go West - "Call Me" (featured Flash FM)
- Wang Chung - "Dance Hall Days" (featured on Flash FM)
The following songs can only be heard playing in the background during certain mission cutscenes that take place inside the club:
- Human League - "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" (featured on Wave 103) during "Back Alley Brawl"
- Mary Jane Girls - "All Night Long" (featured on Fever 105) during "Death Row"
- Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" (featured on Flash FM) during "Spilling The Beans"
- Hashim - "Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)" (featured on Wildstyle) during "No Escape?"
- Nena - "99 Luftballons" (featured on Wave 103) during "The Shootist"
- Big Country - "In a Big Country" (not featured on any in-game radio stations) during "The Driver" (original PS2 version only)
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message" (featured on Wildstyle) during "The Driver" (most versions)
- Whodini - "The Freaks Come Out at Night" (not featured on any in-game radio stations) during "The Job"
In addition to the music played inside the club, Fresh FM broadcasts from the Malibu Club in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
- The Malibu Club is somewhat unique in that its asset missions have absolutely nothing to do with furthering the club itself, unlike those for every other asset property.
- The club and the final asset mission may be a homage to the 1995 film Heat. For instance, the name Malibu Club could be a reference to Malibu Investments, the shell company for money laundering whose bearer bonds are targeted by Robert De Niro's gang. During this first heist, the robbers wear hockey masks. Also, during the bank robbery, De Niro and two other men hold up the place and go after the bank manager for the keys to the vault, while there is also a getaway driver.
- In a deleted phone dialogue, Tommy's motivation for the bank job was a tip-off from Kent Paul that Vice City's S.W.A.T had a safety deposit box which they kept bribes which had accumulated over the years.
- The Malibu Club serves as a front to the Vercetti Gang's armed robbery business.
- Possibly due to a glitch, the Malibu Club may sometimes appear to be completely empty and void of any NPCs. This appears to only happen on mobile versions.
- On the PS2 version of Vice City, the club has neon light on the walls, but they are absent on the PC version. This can be fixed however by changing the resolution to 640x480 and back to your initial resolution, or using a modded file (tested on PC).
- After the release of Cunning Stunts DLC for Grand Theft Auto V, A racing jacket is seen that has the Malibu Club name and logo.


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Righty allows five runs (four earned) in three innings vs. Nationals
WASHINGTON -- The series was billed as a potential World Series preview. For the Tigers, it ended up looking a little bit like a World Series replay.
Save for another hit-by-pitch, it looked nothing like the way Doug Fister has pitched for most of the season. The Tigers came within a few feet of overcoming that. Like last October, they couldn't get the go-ahead or game-tying hit they needed.
"We dug ourselves a hole early on and we had to work to come back, and we almost did it," manager Jim Leyland said after Thursday's 5-4 loss to the Nationals completed the two-game sweep.
It was a brief midweek series in May, delayed by rain, and the two clubs will have two more games at the end of July at Comerica Park. Still, the Nationals -- a World Series favorite heading into last postseason, and a strong candidate so far this year -- could argue that they made an early statement against the defending American League champions. With two close games dictated by strong starting pitching, Washington held down a Tigers lineup that came to town rolling from four games in Houston.
The Tigers led for all of a half-inning in the series, that being the third inning of the series opener. Yet they had the tying or go-ahead run at the plate in 10 out of the final 14 innings after that.
"They have a good team," catcher Alex Avila said. "They're built for the playoffs, just like we are. I thought the last two games were really good games. It'll be interesting to see how the rest of the season goes for the both of us."
The Tigers can attest to how easily late-season momentum can render an early-season series meaningless, having overcome early-season doldrums in 2011 and 2012. When asked if he felt like they could meet again in October, Avila's response was uncharacteristically short.
"If we both win," he said.
The response was similar on the other side.
"Winning two games is better than losing two games," Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman said. "That's a really good team over there. I don't think anyone would be surprised if they were coming out of that league or if they're in there until the end. That's one of the better teams you're going to see."
At the same time, the Tigers said that the Nationals have a lot more pitching to give them a chance than just Stephen Strasburg, whom they did not face this week.
Not until Matt Tuiasosopo's pinch-hit three-run home run in the sixth inning did Detroit show signs of life against Nats starter Dan Haren, who had scattered seven singles and an Austin Jackson double before that. Until then, the only Tigers runs for the series came home on RBI singles through the middle by Miguel Cabrera on Wednesday and then Fister in the second inning Thursday.
"It's scary," Haren said of the Tigers' lineup. "That lineup is ridiculous. I was able to kind of handle the top end, but [Omar] Infante has always been a really tough out for me. I made one kind of bad mistake to Tuiasosopo."
Fister's second career RBI, and his first with the Tigers, started to get him back in the game after the Nationals' three-run first inning, the first opening-inning runs against Fister this season. By the time the Tigers came back to bat, two more RBI singles in the bottom of the second from Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche expanded Washington's lead to 5-1.
In the AL, Fister might have had a chance to pitch through that. In the National League with that deficit, he was only going to last until his spot in the lineup came around.
The result was the second-shortest start of Fister's Tigers tenure, three innings with five runs on eight hits. He struck out four, almost exclusively on fastballs, but he paid dearly for control with two batters he put in 0-2 holes in the second, hitting Denard Span with an 0-2 pitch with one out before losing Roger Bernadina.
"Today, I didn't execute," he said. "No reasons, no excuses, it's just lack of execution."
From there on, every time the pitcher's spot came around, the Tigers took their shot at a game-changing hit. Victor Martinez hit for Fister with two on and two out in the fourth inning and went down swinging. Tuiasosopo was next up after Infante's two-out bunt single extended the sixth.
Tuiasosopo's drive to left, the first Tigers pinch-hit homer since Avila hit one on Sept. 14, 2011, brought the surprisingly large and vocal contingent of Tigers fans to life and powered Detroit back into the game.
"We were looking for a quick strike and we got it," Leyland said, "so we were pretty fortunate. That's to [Tuiasosopo's] credit. That's why we took the shot with him. Normally, that's the way you get back in those games, is if somebody hits a two- or three-run homer, and that's what happened."
Ryan Mattheus and Drew Storen took care of keeping the Tigers in check after that, pitching scoreless innings in the seventh and eighth. The Tigers had a chance in the latter after Avila's one-out single put the tying run on. Up came Don Kelly, whose fly ball off Storen took Bryce Harper into the right-field corner before he corralled the catch.
Eight of the Tigers' 12 hits on the day came from the bottom half of the order. Still, Detroit's two big bats had one more shot in the ninth. Cabrera hit a two-out single off closer Rafael Soriano to bring up the potential go-ahead run in Prince Fielder. His drive to left-center took Span to the shadow of the wall before catching it.
It was that kind of series, which might have felt familiar to that other series last October.
"We got back in it," Leyland said. "We just couldn't get all the way back."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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There are many ways to make sure that the highway network caters well for cycling; physical infrastructure and how traffic is managed make one of the most obvious differences.
Whether a feature's there for all users (e.g. a roundabout, signalised junction etc), or implemented especially for cyclists (e.g. two-way cycling in one-way streets, advanced stop line, off-road cycle path, segregated cycle track etc), its planning, design and construction needs to be of a high standard, appropriate for the local circumstances and useable by cyclists and would-be cyclists of all ages and abilities.
This in turn means ensuring that planners and engineers have the guidance, training, procedures and, crucially, the understanding of how best to make good provision for cycling.
It is equally important to ensure that roads and off-road routes are properly inspected and maintained, so that potholes, defects, obstructions and other hazards do not put cyclists at risk.
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From 2000-2008, CTC's Benchmarking project brought local authorities together to exchange experience and, as a result, a library of best practice case studies and images was published. These have been preserved in their original form by the British Library's Web Archive and remain a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in providing well for cycling.
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I really do hate missing out on a beauty event. But, you all know I've been sick. I was so heart broken to miss the Bubbles & Bites party over at Benefit Cosmetic's Santa Monica location.
It was sponsored by Gilt City LA and HPNOTIQ Harmonie. I "heard" the lucky guests were pampered with mini makeovers as they sipped on delicious HPNOTIQ inspired cocktails and indulged in tasty sweet treats from the HPNOTIQ candy bar.
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I was lucky enough to get my hands on the ultra-exclusive swag bag. It was filled with some of Benefit's newest products, including their oh so popular BADgal Lash Ultra Mascara! I can't wait to use it. I hear nothing but great things about Benefit.
Gilt City, is the newest site from Gilt that offers you the biggest deals in your city. Get going! Start shopping Gilt City while sipping on a HARMONIE Blush cocktail (only if you're 21+ over of course). They are yummy! I've had one before.
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WILTSHIRE batsman Jayden Levitt reckons the county side's new-found strength-in-depth played a huge part in their nine-wicket Unicorns Championship win over Berkshire this week.
The county side's stunning season showed no signs of subsiding as they notched their tenth victory of the summer, carving out a 14-point lead at the top of the Western Division.
After Joe King had starred with the ball, captain Mike Coles and number nine Tahir Afridi sparked a sea-change midway through Wiltshire's first innings as their runs pushed the county towards an emphatic comeback.
"The opponents are getting tougher as the season goes on but we haven't just got the same guys performing every week," said Levitt.
"If players at the top of the order aren't performing, then the tail-enders step up, which is what Tahir, who hit a game-saving 70, and Jake Roberts did.
"We've added players with maturity this year and I just think there's a good vibe in the squad and we've built up some good momentum."
Richard Morris (104) and Stuart Davison (70) were among the runs for Berkshire, but a fine six-wicket haul from Wiltshire's King saw the hosts skittled for 282.
Wiltshire were 118-5 at the close but Afridi, Coles (58), Adam Miles (32) bit back as they reached 314 on day two.
Afridi (3-26) and Ed Young (3-9) then destroyed Berkshire's second innings for just 106, leaving Henry Langford (34 not out) and Levitt (33) to help steer Wiltshire home with ease.
Wiltshire have named their squad for Sunday's Knockout Trophy semi final against Oxfordshire at Bicester and North Oxford CC (11am).
Wiltshire team to play Oxfordshire: Michael Coles (Corsham, captain), Tahir Afridi (Henley), Joe Breet (Lechlade), Neil Clark (Potterne), Tom Foley (Corsham), Henry Langford (Brockhampton), Jayden Levitt (Bromsgrove), Adam Miles (Cardiff, wicketkeeper), Ashur Morrison (Corsham), Tom Morton (South Wilts), Jake Roberts (Potterne), Ed Young (Potterne).
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After helping the U.S. Under-21 Women's National Team win the 2004 Nordic Cup in dominating fashion, coming off the bench in all four matches as the team rolled over all four opponents by 3-0 scores, including a victory over Sweden in the championship game, forward Manya Makoski checks in with her final installment of Manya's Musings. Today Manya muses about the why the team doctor went to medical school instead of a career in professional soccer, why you don't want to sit next to Julianne Sitch on a bumpy plane ride and has some final thoughts for her Nordic Cup champ teammates.
The Shooting Game Ends
The 2004 finale of the Shooting Game, in which the team was divided into East and West teams according to hometowns, saw the East come out victorious over the West. Yes, I was finally on the winning team. This game might have to come with an asterix though as the staff was included this time, which definitely had a big effect on the outcome, unfortunately. The East had assistant coach Karen Ferguson (who I think might have had a few caps for the Women's National Team in the late 1970s) [editor's note: she had two from 1992-93], Bri (our Icelandic translator), Keith (our massage therapist) and Alex (our team administrator). The West had our Doc Kathy, our goalkeeper coach "Big" Bill Irwin, and Amanda (our equipment coordinator). However, there were some positives in the staff joining in, but it was mostly for comic relief. We all got a kick out of Doc totally whiffing on her shot on the first ball of the game. She is so cute. Carli Lloyd tried to give Doc some pointers, telling her to keep her toe pointed up when she kicked the ball. She was a good teacher, but I don't know which is more hilarious, Doc whiffing or Doc hitting the ball over the goal. My team did get mad at Bri though because his net total of points dropped to a negative five at one point. (This is a serious competition folks, international diplomacy goes right out the window). However, he did have the winning save as the 'keeper, so Bri, you deserve some points added onto Iceland's total score for that. We'll give a solid fifty points for Iceland. Overall score for the trip: Tied at Iceland 101 -- U.S. 101.
The 'Ship
We defeated Germany 3-0 in our last first round game, which gave us a berth into the champion'Ship. After a few struggles in front of Sweden's goal, Lori Chalupny was able to put the ball in the back of the net after a scramble in the box during the first half. The second goal came from Kelly Wilson (also know as "Stud Forward" Kelly Wilson), flicking the ball to herself over a defender and then putting it around the keeper on a breakaway in the second half. While the substitutes were warming up, we were able to watch from a distance as the third and final goal came from Carli ripping a shot that the 'keeper could not save from going into the goal after getting a hand on it. Even though Sweden had strong and big players, we were able to combine around them. I got in the game with about twenty minutes left to play. When my buddy Julianne Sitch came in, she sent a cross to me at the near post. I stuck my leg out past my defender and redirected the ball, but unfortunately the 'keeper just tipped it past the post, giving us a corner. It was the best chance I had to score, but since all of our other games ended 3-0, I guess I decided to keep that 3-0 streak alive, you know, to add some sort of Zen/Feng Shui-type balance to the whole thing. We had a ceremony following the game, in which we received our gold medals and a trophy. Getting a gold medal around your neck is always fun, no matter if there are 50,000 people in the stands, or 20.
Turbulence in Iceland
We finally left on Friday. Keeley Dowling (like she always does) kept a running time of our travel. It was definitely a long day. It started off with Amanda running through the halls with a soccer ball and shin guards (with the full on ankle protectors) over her khaki pants. Don't ask me why. I guess we were all excited to get home. On the bumpy plane ride from the small airport in northern Iceland to Reykjavik to catch our flight back to the USA, some people had trouble with motion sickness. As the ride got bumpier, Tasha Kai, Lu, and Hayley Hunt started feeling woozy. Chris, who was sitting next to Lu, pulled out a "Yak Bag" for her, telling her everything will be okay. I guess Lu, who was turning paler by the second, didn't feel that confidant in Chris' support. Giving a big heave, she threw up what was left of breakfast. I am not kidding this time. Lu lost it. Good thing I wasn't next to her. Minus ten points for Lu for having to carry a doggy bag of vomit off the plane. (I had to get her back for revealing my blond moment earlier in the tournament).
Home Sweet Home
Well, I am finally home after another six-hour flight. The life of an international soccer player is definitely a tiring one, but it's worth every minute on an airplane, on the bus and everywhere else in between. I have to say that competing in my first Nordic Cup in Iceland was a memorable experience. We were definitely a talented group of young players who came together to dominate a very competitive tournament. We created magic on the field and had a great time off of it. After being together for seven months, we've bonded, played jokes on each other, but most importantly, I have seen how special each player is. Here is a thought on each one of my great teammates. I'll see some of you on the field this college season, and maybe some with the national team again, but always remember that you were the best in the world for your age in 2004!
Forward Julianne "Lu" Sitch (Depaul): You always knew what I was thinking. Going on the Internet now won't ever be the same.
Kati Jo "KJ" Spisak (Texas A&M): The best roomie ever! Now I will have to watch 24 by myself. Thanks for the electrolytes. Thanks for not making fun of short people too much.
Nicole "Barnie" Barnhart (Stanford): A.k.a. "The Wall". You are my hero. Keep on giggling.
Jenny Farenbaugh (Stanford): Your encouragement motivated me so much. I loved playing on the right side with you. We?ll see ya in the Pac-10, baby.
Hayley Hunt (Stanford): You are the toughest girl I know. Roomies in China!
Keeley Dowling (Tennessee): The girl who can probably jump over me (now I'm making fun of short people). Kankles Klub forever!
Jill Oakes (UCLA): My shopping buddy! What would you do if you became inflexible?!
Linsdey Huie (Portland): You made everyone laugh with your stories, and you rocked at outside back.
Joanna "Jo" Lohman (Penn State): Our Captain, who led the team to victory. I've never seen anyone who is fitter.
Sarah "Huffy" Huffman (Virginia): Your grit and hard work always pays off. Roomies in Brasil!
Lori "Chalupa" Chalupny (UNC):You never cease to amaze me with your skills. Thanks for letting me use your laptop.
Nikki Thaden (Texas): I never knew they played soccer in Iowa. Do you play 1vs1 with your cow? You are the funniest girl I know.
Kacey White (UNC):You've got great style on and off the field. I hope you like the bag I picked out for you.
Kelly Wilson (Texas): Willy, I admire your unselfishness on the field. Don't forget to subtract two hours when you get home.
Tasha Kai (Hawaii): There is no one like you. Shoots brah! The Forward Handshake lives on.
Carli Lloyd (Rutgers): Don't ever lose the Jersey Attitude. You have the wickedest shot ever.
Esmeralda Negron (Princeton): Your laugh is so funny. Don't forget to use your right foot once in a while.
Chris Petrucelli, the assistant coaches and staff: We couldn't have had a better group of leaders. You all did so great in the Shooting Game (Not).


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The northwestern region of Cerilia is known as Rjurik. Its regions and provinces were part of the Anuirean Empire, but have been independent for almost five hundred years. Its human population are Rjurik.
The Taelshore Edit
The most civilized area of Rjurik, it was the first to be settled by the human people known as Rjuven. All of the realms are populated by Rjurik humans. This region is also the site of the greatest changes going in the Rjurik culture, as it includes traditional nomads, settled farmers, and urban Rjurik. How these people get along and how they define what it means to be Rjurik will have great influence on the direction of the Rjurik people.
The Northlands Edit
The home of the people most like the traditional Rjurik, there is still tension between the settled and nomadic Rjurik. Just as cities are a force of change on the Taelshore, settlement is changing the Northlands. Even so, this region is far more wild, and includes three vast, empty realms, and a humanoid realm.
The Wild Lands Edit
These isolated realms include the realms east of the estabished Rjurik domains and west of the Krakennauricht. Mostly non-human realms, they do include new Rjurik realms as well.
Other Rjurik Realms Edit
The Rjurik are voyagers, and people not content to remain in the safety and comforts of the Rjurik homeland, such as they are, have founded realms.
- Introduction
- Hoekstraad in Thaele
- Tjarvaald in Thaele
- Rjalford in Thaele
- Hjorig in Brechtür, across the Krakennauricht
The Tribes Edit
The nomadic Rjurik continue to organize themselves as tribes, governed by chiefs. This is not an exhaustive list, as other tribes exist as well.
- Fjrlaaf in Rjuvik and Stjordvik
- Rjkar in Stjordvik and the Blood Skull Barony
- Loddi in Stjordvik and elsewhere
- Thajarr in Svinik
- Aegilsgaard in Hogunmark
- Gautrakka in Hogunmark
- Halskorrik in Hogunmark and the Realm of the White Witch
- Jarnkasspel in Hogunmark
- Olthrugaard in Jankaping
- Fryggvaal in Jankaping
- Trygvaar in the Realm of the White Witch
- Kjarhoelle in The Giantdowns
- Helskaar in Hjolvar
- Ingallan in Kvigmar
- Firbolg in Halskapa


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Every day has its day.
After spending several valuable minutes researching this topic on the Internet, I can safely report it is all but impossible to find a single day on the calendar that has NOT been set aside to celebrate or commemorate some inane theme, concept, historical event, mindless activity, product, service or Hallmark card-style sentiment.
For instance, off the top of your head, do you know what is special about today, July 26, other than the fact it is the 207th day of the year (208 in leap years) and the anniversary of the moment in 1533 when Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, died by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors, marking the end of 300 years of Inca civilization?
Well, do you? (I'll play the Jeopardy theme while you think: "Do do do do do do do ... do do do do doot do do do do do!") Give up? Of course you do. Well, along with being Friday, today is also National All or Nothing Day.
You are probably wondering why today is National All or Nothing Day. The truth is, no one has a (bad word) clue how this day got started, which is pretty much the story for most of the oddball special days on the calendar.
What should you do today? The website Punchbowl says: "All or Nothing Day is a time to take risks and live on the edge. Live like today is your last day on Earth and let your inner daredevil shine. Be sure to make peace with your enemies, spend time with your loved ones, and do something you've always wanted to do. Try something new, seek adventure, and give this day all you've got."
In other words, go for broke. After all, what's the worst that could happen? Well, for starters, you could end up as flat as a pancake after your parachute fails to open, or get slapped in your risk-taking face when you confess your love for someone who finds you as appealing as milk that is way past its best-before date.
So, all things considered, this idea doesn't deserve its own day. If you don't want to take your life in your own quivering hands, you could safely celebrate the fact today is also National Coffee Milkshake Day, National Aunt and Uncle Day and (this is a particular favourite) National System Administrator Appreciation Day.
The point I am making is that nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- is so lame or trivial that it does not merit its own slot on the calendar, which it likely will share with other equally stupid special days.
Not that there aren't a few days worth marking, such as July 14 (National Nude Day, wherein people no one would ever want to see naked exercise their right to do things without their clothes on); July 15 (National Cow Appreciation Day, wherein cow owners share their feelings with their bovine companions); July 23 (National Hotdog Day, on which we tip our caps to the world's most totally tubular food); and July 28 (National Lasagna Day, which needs no explanation).
The calendar is jam-packed with these wacky days, most of which I recommend you forget, especially July 2, which (go ahead and look this up) is National I Forgot Day, definitely not a day to remember.
So what I am proposing today -- which is also the birthday of Bert, the short-fused, straightlaced, pigeon-and-bottle-cap-loving roommate of Ernie on Sesame Street -- is that we put our heads together and create our very own special Winnipeg-centric day.
Which is why I'm announcing Doug's Make Up A Day and Win a Swell Prize Contest, in which you, the readers, get a chance to win prizes in exchange for suggesting a day on which Winnipeggers can pay homage to themselves, something like:
1) It's A Dry Cold Day -- A day to honour the most traditional of all Winnipeg greetings;
2) Mosquito Appreciation Day -- When we pay tribute to what might as well be our provincial bird;
3) We Don't Pay Retail Day -- A wholesale celebration of the legendary fiscal spirit of the Winnipeg consumer;
4) At Least We're Not Toronto Day -- Ditto Regina.
5) Wait Until Next Year Day -- A day for local sports fans to reassure each other the Bombers and the Jets have a legitimate shot at the Cup... next year.
I think you get the idea, so (along with your contact information) email me (a) the name of your special day; and (b) what Winnipeg thing or quality it will celebrate. I'll pick the three I like best and award the winners prizes such as concert tickets (I have two for Paul McCartney to give away) and Free Press books.
Whatever you come up with, it will be a great day, unless it's held on July 2, in which case, I've forgotten it already.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Whose brand are your clients in a long-term relationship with, your firm's or your salesperson's? This is a question that many enterprise sales organizations face and, at times, struggle with. Why the struggle? Unfortunately there is no clear-cut answer. If your enterprise relies on relationship marketing – that is, you emphasize retention and upselling over the purely transactional in your communications – you need to mesh the enterprise brand and the sales professional's personal brand.
But don't fear, the two brands can come together successfully if your marketing department empowers your salespeople in a controlled way, offers them engaging communications and measures what works.
The Power of Controlled Empowerment
In relationship-based industries such as wealth management and banking, successful sales professionals can create personal brands that resonate as powerfully with their clients as the corporate brand. But how can enterprise marketers benefit from that without interfering in the very personal dynamic of the salesperson? The answer: through personalization. Marketers should give salespeople the freedom and resources to personalize the enterprise brand without abandoning it.
In "Relationships Matter: What Sales Really Needs to Build Brand and Grow Business," HNW's recent nationwide survey of high-touch sales professionals, half of the respondents indicated that they currently have the means to personalize their sales and marketing materials and consider it important to their sales effectiveness. A quarter lack that option but say they would value it.
So how can you create the best possible conditions for activating your brand locally? Here are a few suggestions:
The Importance of Creating Engaging Communications
Long sales cycles can be a challenge, yet they are often typical for firms that value relationship marketing. Marketers can create regular and meaningful reasons for clients to engage with the salesperson and can do this effectively if they understand that:
Engagement begins at home.When the sales force is engaged, marketing has a much better chance of stimulating the kinds of frontline conversations that build business. In short, if the sales force doesn't buy it, you can't sell it.
Marketing is more than promotions and content is more than publishing.Relationships and trust are built one conversation at a time. Unless content supports those conversations and leads to engagement, marketing just isn't effective. To this end, enterprise marketers must keep these three key principles in mind:
Segmentation: How clients and prospects are grouped must balance data with sales force discretion. Giving salespeople the ability to characterize a client – and in turn, determine which content the client will experience – respects the salesperson's insight into the client's needs, and is more likely to create a positive experience for the client.
Needs-based content: This is essential for salespeople and clients. Few people think in terms of products; they think in terms of what they're trying to achieve. Approach clients and prospects in the way they think about your offerings.
Multi-channel communication: Because so much of the dialogue between salespeople and clients occurs in person, marketers need to monitor several contact points during the sales cycle to understand which messages and vectors of delivery resonate.
Measuring Message Effectiveness & Program Success
Measuring marketing effectiveness and frontline implementation is challenging. But by bringing technology into the conversation – literally – enterprises can measure success like never before.
In HNW's survey, salespeople said the chief benefits of technology included significant efficiency gains and the ability to connect with clients more frequently.
Technologies that facilitate efficient distributed communications provide more branded opportunities to engage the client while using metrics built in to the platform. To be successful, however, such technology must: 1) Work in conjunction with a firm's content management system and CRM program to enable measurement of sales and marketing effectiveness and 2) Yield quantifiable insights into both sales force and client engagement.
What should you measure? It depends on what communications you select. For example, email requires you to review open rates at the very least. Better still, include trackable links in the email so you can determine what actions readers took after opening the email. Did they visit the salesperson's website or just open and disengage?
Build the Relationship for Long-Term Success
No one is better positioned to promote the enterprise brand than the frontline sales force. With the right relationship marketing strategies, enterprise marketers can empower sales professionals to develop their own personal brand while simultaneously reinforcing the enterprise brand. By providing your sales force with engaging, meaningful ways to connect with clients, marketers can drive measurable results, increase ROI and facilitate and support the development of long-term client relationships.
Carol Eversen is managing director of client services for HNW, an enterprise relationship marketing and technology firm that serves organizations with a distributed sales force.


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Posts Tagged Print
The Centerfold and the Creep
This post is about Booklet printing using InDesign. InDesign automatically imposes your document, and creates the printer spreads. These can be sent to a printing device or an Adobe PDF Printer to create a PDF.
The number of pages in a booklet should always be a multiple of 4. If not, then blank pages are added to your output.
The original document is not modified while creating a booklet, neither is a copy created with pages moved around. The source files remain intact and InDesign does the heavy lifting and outputs the booklet to the print stream: which you can capture on a printer ,or PDF via the Adobe PDF Printer.
You can preview the spreads, and once you're satisfied, you can send it on to the printer.
There are a few terms the "Pro's" use when it comes to booklets. Some that you'll encounter are:
- Printer Spreads – in printer spreads, pages are positioned such that when the two pages are printed on the same sheet, folded, and collated, the pages end up in proper sequence.
- Imposition – The process of creating printer spreads from layout spreads.
- Cover – is the outermost printer spread. In the above example, pages 1 and 8 form the Cover.
- Centerfold – In the print world, the innermost printer spread, such as pages 4 and 5 in the above example. Also refers to a picture — or even the person, whose picture is on the centerfold.
- Sheet – The term sheet represents two printer spreads: the front of the sheet and the back of the sheet.
- Creep – Creep is the distance pages need to move from the spine to accommodate paper thickness and folding.
- For a negative creep values, the outermost sheet is not adjusted, but the pages on the inner sheets move towards the spine.
- For a positive creep value, the innermost sheet is not adjusted, but the pages on the outer sheets move away from the spine.
Remember: Centerfolds require a positive creep.
See Printing Booklets in the InDesign help for exact procedures.
You can also have a look at some videos on YouTube . One for example is at Print Booklet to PDF.


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Okay, something has to give on this. It seems that whenever someone makes an edit to the character infoboxes using the visual editor, the name field is deleted. I don't know why this happens. We tried to kill the problem by killing the visual editor, but Wikia stubbornly refuses to do it, even though other wikis have been allowed to disable this annoying feature. I'm going to try examining the coding and see if I can find some other way to defeat this problem because it's annoying to have to fix it each time the field gets deleted when someone who isn't aware of the problem makes an edit, and I get the feeling some may be slipping through. There must be some way to fix this. I think I might also post it at Community Central and see if anyone has any tips... ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:50, October 23, 2012 (UTC)
- Apparently this is going to mean going into every page where this could be an issue and adding the code __NOWYSIWYG__. This could be a massive project. Would anyone like to help? ProfessorTofty (talk) 18:09, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, a bot. Good idea. Completely forgot you could do that. Yes, I would like you to do it if the problem can't be fixed at the source, but yes, by all means, if you could investigate it and fix it at the source if possible, that would be much appreciated. ProfessorTofty (talk) 18:50, October 24, 2012 (UTC)


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Using ASP.NET and VB, how can I write a webpage to a file as well as send it to a browser? In the example below, a file is created but it only contains the word "True" instead of the content of the page.
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" %>
Response.BufferOutput = true
Dim outputData as String
IO.File.WriteAllText(Server.MapPath("output.txt"), buffer.ToString())
I think I would create the webpage content in a StringBuilder and then display the page and output it to the text file as well. Does that make any sense?
What is your end goal? Are you trying to create a cache? Why do you need to write the output to a file?
If for caching, just enable Page Caching
If you are trying to generate static HTML files, then a stringbuilder approach "would" work, but it is ugly, and will give you a terrible code behind. A better approach in my opinion is to write another utility that invokes a WebRequest (pass the URL of the page you want to save), and write the Response to a file.
This requires two applications, one that handles the saving of the page to file and the application that generates the file output you want to save, but it is much cleaner and leans more towards SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
cpradio, thank you for your thoughtful response. I want to do more than just caching. I want to use REGEX to modify the content of the page, as demonstrated in my code below.
Because I want to modify the HTML with REGEX, enabling Page Caching will not do the trick. A stringbuilder approach might be ugly but it is what I need.
This would be very easy to do with PHP:$outputData = ob_get_contents();
Is there any way at all to do this with ASP.NET / VB?
Thanks for the help.
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" %>
Response.BufferOutput = true
Dim outputData as String
outputData = buffer.ToString() ' THIS LINE DOES NOT WORK! IT IS THE LINE THAT NEEDS FIXING!!!!!!!!!!!
outputData = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(outputData.Trim(), "(?=\\s\\s)\\s*?(\
)\\s*|(\\s)\\s+", "$1$2")
IO.File.WriteAllText(Server.MapPath("output.txt"), outputData)
Why are you trying to modify the content with a regex? There are almost certainly better approaches here.
If you really need to do it that way, you should look at using the UrlRewriter -- it has the capability to modify output in responses in some ways.
If you really need to do it internally, you will need to capture the output stream very late in the rendering cycle. Note that by pulling the whole string out to use a regex you will murder performance dead.
Still, is there any way to do this?
I agree with @wwb_99 ;
It looks like your regular expression is looking for newlines and spaces and trying to trim them down. There are far better approaches indeed, such as, performing that step in the code behind, or the original data that is driving those oddities.
However, to answer your question, it does not work because you are capturing the output in the wrong event (you are in the Render event). You really need to capture it in the Page.Unload event (most likely, but that may be too late, as the Response gets cleared in this event)
I strongly encourage that you read about the page life cycle of .NET so you get a better understanding of how it operates.
Could it be done? Yes. Is it completely pointless? Yes. Is it potentially harmful to your app's performance? Yes. ASP.NET webforms does lots of tricks under the hood to stream the content down the wire very, very fast. Stopping that process to capture the results will get pretty ugly pretty fast.
The only reason I can think of this mattering for is for compression. If so there are better solutions, like gzip which is baked into IIS and is merely a checkbox to turn on. If you really feel the need to do this see this article -- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9521/Removing-White-Chars-from-ASP-NET-Output-using-Res ; the short version is you want to use a response filter. This is not a problem for the Page instance to even be aware of.


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Three parents from Wilmington charter school Cape Fear Center for Inquiry filed the suit against the board.
A new lawsuit alleges that the New Hanover County Board of Education and school boards across the state have violated charter school students' constitutional rights.
The class action lawsuit, filed Friday in New Hanover County Superior Court by Shipman and Wright, alleges that school districts in counties across the state have been underfunding charter schools for at least the past 10 years. By doing so, the suit alleges that districts have violated students' rights to due process and equal protection under the state constitution.
Three parents with children who attend Wilmington charter school Cape Fear Center for Inquiry filed the suit against the New Hanover County Board of Education to recover the funding, according to court documents. The suit alleges that school boards and school funding agencies across the state had used the same incorrect funding formula, making the suit applicable to all charter school students in North Carolina.
Local school districts are required to send a portion of their funding to charter schools each year, according to state law. That funding total should equal the district's per pupil allocation, or the average amount a district spends to educate one student.
Per pupil allocation is calculated by taking local, state and federal funding and money from the district's fund balance – like its savings account – and dividing it by the number of students enrolled in the district. A charter school receives per pupil allocation for each of its students who would normally attend a local school district.
The suit alleges that school boards haven't correctly calculated that formula since charter schools opened in North Carolina in 1996 and notes that a 2002 N.C. Court of Appeals decision made that clear. But school boards "continued their erroneous financing" of charter schools through 2010, the suit alleges.
Area charter schools have filed similar lawsuits over funding problems in the past. Charter Day School in Leland filed a suit against school boards in five counties, including New Hanover, Pender and Brunswick, in 2011, saying that the boards had not transferred the correct amount of money to the charter school from 2008 to 2010.
The suit filed Friday says that the New Hanover County Board of Education did not send Cape Fear Center for Inquiry the correct per-pupil funding from 2003 to 2010. The suit uses the funding formula from the 2009-10 school year as an example, saying that each New Hanover County traditional public school student got $3,046.38, while each Cape Fear Center for Inquiry student only got $2,530. With 315 New Hanover County students attending Cape Fear Center for Inquiry that year, the suit alleges that the school board underfunded the charter school by $162,658.97 that year.
The suit alleges that school boards withheld the information about the incorrect funding from charter schools and their students. That "deprived charter school students of educational funding" without giving the students a chance to correct the problem, the suit states. The suit also alleges that by underfunding charter school students, but not traditional public school students, the school boards improperly treated students differently.
By definition, charter schools are public schools that have fewer regulations than traditional schools. New Hanover County currently has two charter schools – Cape Fear Center for Inquiry and Wilmington Preparatory Academy, both in Wilmington – while Brunswick County has one – Charter Day School in Leland. Two more charter schools are planned to open in New Hanover County in August 2013: Douglass Academy in Wilmington and Island Montessori in Carolina Beach.
In the 2011-12 school year, 521 New Hanover County students – or 2 percent of the district's public school population – attended a charter school. In Brunswick County, 688 students, or 5 percent of the population, attended one, while only 34 students in Pender County – less than 1 percent of the population – attended a charter school.
Calls to Wayne Bullard, New Hanover County Board of Education's attorney, were not immediately returned. Lori Roy, Cape Fear Center for Inquiry's director, was out of town and unavailable for comment.
Valita Quattlebaum, spokeswoman for New Hanvoer County Schools, said the district had not received a copy of the lawsuit by Monday. She said the district wouldn't comment on the suit until officials had received and reviewed the documents.
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The Order of the Stick
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|The Order of the Stick
|Rich Burlew
|Fantasy, comedy, speech bubbles.
|Launch date
|Be damned if I know.
|Update schedule
|Inversely proportional to how much Rich earns from this webcomic.
|Art style
|Don't mention that, either.
The Order of the Stick (OOTS), written and illustrated by Rich Burlew, is a fantasy stick figure webcomic. To go more in-depth; 'fantasy' means it features magic, 'stick figure' means the art is blatantly lazy, and 'webcomic' means the whole work is a foul, deprived attempt at replicating real literature.
While the comic is primarily distributed online, it has been published in several book collections; mostly to sate Rich's ravenous greed.[1] For some reason, people actually purchase these books, regardless of the fact that they can read them for free online. This is a baffling conundrum that has never failed to stump critics.
edit Background
Imagine a place where your worst nightmares mix with your wildest dreams. Where your deepest lusts fuse with your primal fears. A place where tobacco is the primary source of food.
I have no idea what you are imagining right now, and I have absolutely no clue what it's got to do with anything. Let's get back on topic.
The OOTS story takes place in a world run by D&D rules, and follows the tale of a band of incompetent heroes as they attempt to stop an evil-lich-king-sorcerer from taking over the world. The adventurers are: Roy; the sane one, Durkon; the boring one, Belkar; the evil one, Elan; the stupid one, Varsuvius; the verbose androgynous one, and Haley; the girl. And in case you need clarification, yes - Rich has the creativity of a decomposing goldfish.
Luckily (or not so luckily), Rich makes up his lack of imagination with his wordiness. It has been said that he could scrap the comic format altogether and just draw speech bubbles, because it wouldn't make much of a difference.
To put it simply: there are a shit-ton of speech bubbles. White speech bubbles, red speech bubbles and even some black-with-purple-outline speech bubbles, all filled with the intoxicating stench of deep internal monologues and long-winded moral debates. Trying to read one page takes about twenty minutes, just because of the overwhelming mountains of text that explain every single detail even slightly relevant to the dragging plot - they block characters and overflow off the page, slowly suffocating you under the staggering weight of unwanted information, driving out every last particle of goodness from each and every pore of your body and filling it with dead, dark hatred that ranks of pure malice distilled in the fires of the Devil himself.
What was I talking about again?
Granted, Rich has made some improvements over the years, mostly to his 'art'. Developing the highly-sophisticated feature of straight panel lines, for instance. And having character's hands actually hold their weapon, instead of just hanging about nearby as the sword levitates like some unexplained magical crap. He still has to fix up those eyes, though. Uneven as hell.
edit Characters
edit Protagonists
- Roy Greenhilt: The leader and primary meat-shield of the Order. His last name is 'Greenhilt' due to the fact that his armor is blue. Definitely not because his sword has a green hilt. That would be silly.
- Haley Starshine: The greedy rogue, Haley left the Thieves Guild to become an adventurer. The Guild declared her a kill-on-sight enemy, so naturally she decided to return there in Book 4. Hilarity and hijinks ensued.
- Vaarsuvius: The gender-ambiguous high elf mage of the Order. Varsuvius cast a mass-murder spell, and months later, cried when he/she realised it had made him/her a mass-murderer. He/she also got a haircut somewhere along the way.
edit Other Characters
- Xykon: Xykon the Sorcerer is the main antagonist of the comic. He is skeletal in appearance, probably because he is a skeleton. A dead skeleton. (He is also the main antagonist.)
- Redcloak: Redcloak is Xykon's right-hand goblin. He has often referred to as one of the most tragic characters in the comic, since the time he accidently deleted all the backups on his Mac. Redcloak is named 'Redcloak' due to the fact that he has black armor. Definitely not because he wears a red cloak. That would be silly.
- Tarquin: Tarquin is Elan's father and one of the primary villains. No matter what, Tarquin is always correct, always the coolest and can never be beaten, as Rich never ceases to remind us. It's a universal constant, like gravity. Or all those speech bubbles.
- Tsukiko: A Mystic Theurge necrophiliac who was in love with Xykon. She died in comic 830, when she made the mistake of having a group hug with some wights.
- Nale: The leader of the Linear Guild (the Order's mirror counterparts), Nale is Elan's identical twin. He has often impersonated his brother to use his credit card, and write embarrassing posts using his Facebook account. Once or twice he even tried to murder him. Tarquin stabbed him after he killed his vampire homie.
- Blackwing: Vaarsuvius's raven familiar. His name is 'Blackwing' due to the fact that Rich Burlew has the creativity of a festering mongoose. Also, because his wings are black.
- Miko Miyazaki: A crazy paladin girl who murdered Lord Shojo and decided to blow up Azure City Castle.
edit Art Style
What art style? Oh, you mean the stick figures.
Moving right along.
edit Update Schedule
Rich Burlew currently updates the comic at such a depressingly slow speed that some have likened its appearance schedule to that of Halley's Comet. Most agree that that is a gross understatement, however.
My grandpa says that he saw the comic update once back when he was a kid. But, then again, grandpa drank. Heavily.
A new OOTS page is so rare, it makes a blue moon look ordinary gray.
Rich takes more time to draw one page of his stick figure comic then most writers take to write a whole book, or even a whole book series. Some say it's a sick attempt at torturing his readers, others argue pure incompetence. It is certain, however, that Rich updates so rarely it is probable that you will never witness an update within your lifetime. Long-time readers still look back fondly at the days when the comic updated more than once a decade; now, however, it has slowed to an anaemic five hundred squillion years for each update (when Rich is in a good mood). And that's when it's not on indefinite hiatus.
edit Forums
The OOTS forums are hosted on the same website as the comic. Here, hoards of geeky users discuss and post about anything they want. Just as long as they don't talk about the abysmal update schedule, of course. Or mention real-world religion. Or politics. Or say the word 'dick'. Or post slightly off-topic. Or spell a word wrong. Or post without the exactly correct character count.
But other than that, they are free to discuss whatever they want.
Despite their good-enforcing Nazi admins, thousands of posters on the forums still manage to discuss roleplaying games, webcomics, movies, books, fan art, personal problems, play-by-post games, and kick-the-can. Sometimes, they even get around to talking about OOTS!
edit Notes
- ↑ Partly so he can feed himself, too.


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In the 2012-2013 academic year, NFTE Bay Area partnered with SAP to develop and implement our inaugural Technology Challenge. The goal of the challenge was to incentivize NFTE students to create businesses that utilized technology, such as ecommerce websites and mobile apps. All NFTE Bay Area students were encouraged to submit a video pitch of their idea, and the best pitches were chosen to participate in the Technology Challenge. SAP provided mentors and workshops to help our students complete their technology deliverable, which they presented along with their business plan. Throughout the school year, we provided students with technology workshops and both in-person and online-based coaching to support the new skill set they were learning.
In our successful inaugural SAP Tech Challenge, we had nearly 50 NFTE students enter and participate. The ten Technology Challenge Finalists competed at the Semi- Final Competition, and Jenny Wu from Galileo High School in San Francisco and Veronica Hernandez from Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland won best website and best mobile app, respectively, and each took home a first place prize of $1,000 from SAP.
Our goal for the 2013-2014 SAP Tech Challenge is to involve more students, to engage more volunteers, and to have greater programmatic impact. We are also creating a template for the Challenge so that other program offices can replicate the model.
To help kick off our SAP Technology Challenge, we invited high school students from all over the Bay Area to spend a day turning their idea for a mobile app into a reality with the help of engineers and designers from some of the top technology companies in the region. We partnered with PilotSF to host our inaugural High School Hackathon on October 12th at SAP's Palo Alto campus. Over the course of one day, students designed, created, and pitched their app for the chance to win prizes, including $1,500 for first place. We had nearly 100 students participate from 28 different Bay Area high schools.
This spring we will be training our teachers to use online-based website creation tools, so that they can make ecommerce websites a part of their curriculum. And like last year, we will incentivize students to make a mobile app for their business by providing them with workshops and mentorship throughout the spring.


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