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The mission of the Owasso Taxpayer Alliance is to keep the citizens of the Owasso area informed on issues taking place within the city of Owasso - and beyond - in all areas of government that will affect their taxes and quality of life without party-partisan bias. The Owasso Taxpayer Alliance is a political watchdog group for all of the people within the Owasso area (Owasso Taxpayer Alliance is a registered trademark with the Oklahoma Secretary of State).
This morning, July 29, 2013 Tulsa County Presiding District Judge William C. Kellough issued an order authorizing that a grand jury be impaneled pending the collection of the proper amount of signatures from Tulsa County registered voters. According to state statutes the signatures must be obtained within 45 days from the judges order. ANY Tulsa County registered voter can sign. Pages should be mailed to Owasso Taxpayer Alliance, PO Box 2143, Owasso, OK 74055
Click here for a copy of the petition signature page
Click here for a copy of the petition as submitted to the Tulsa County District Court
Click here for a copy of the judge's order
Following an investigation by the Owasso Taxpayer Alliance we learned that the city of Owasso had an outstanding invoice for $220,475 owed to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) from over 10 years ago. Once we obtained documented proof we notified Councilor Patrick Ross. Councilor Ross submitted an open records request to ODOT only to discover there were three unpaid invoices totaling $300,109. Councilor Ross has requested that this issue be placed on the council agenda for Tuesday, February 19, 2013 for open discussion.
You can view the three invoices by clicking on the "File Cabinet" link in the upper left corner of this page then scroll down the "City Bills and Debt".
CITY COUNCIL ELECTION MARCH 5th
Show up at the polls and exercise your right to vote.
City Hall proposing taxpayers pay $500,000 over Fair Market Value for 50 year old building
Read about this at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/owassotaxpayer/HvDF3O64y9M
Channel 2 News Report on the proposed 2012-13 Owasso Budget
May 8, 2012
Owasso residents to pay more for utilities if proposed budget is approved. There has already been two increases in the past eighteen month. The proposed budget can be view by clicking this link: http://www.cityofowasso.com/budget_1213/index.html
A public hearing on the 2012-13 proposed budget will occur on June 5, 2012 during the regularly scheduled council meeting. Meetings are held in the council chambers located at 109 N. Birch and begin at 6:30 pm.
Owasso Taxpayer Alliance raises over $2,600 for Owasso Police Officers
February 21, 2012
Thank you to State Senator Rick Brinkley, Owasso Chick fil a, and members of the Owasso Police Department for helping to make tonights kickoff campaign a great success. Over $2,600 was raised to purchase tasers for our police officers. This is a proven tool that can save lives by allowing officers to use non-deadly force when dealing with a variety of situations.
KJHR Channel 2 was live on site this evening and covered the event.
Anyone can continue to donate to the taser fund by going to any Bank of Oklahoma branch (96th & Garnett in Owasso) and donate to "Citizens for Public Safety", Acct. No 308643329
Council Candidate Jeri Moberly Promoting the $25 Million Dollar Property Tax
The Owasso Taxpayer Alliance is beginning a movement to collect funds to purchase tasers for officers of the Owasso Police Department. Leaders of the OTA have met with Police Chief Dan Yancey to begin the process of identifing the type of taser the police department is looking for. With a tight city budget leaders of the OTA felt the need to step up and work with other community organizations and citizens to collect $50,000 so the officers of our police department can have access to some of the latest and most effective equipment available today.
A kick off campagin will begin on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Owasso Chick fil a restaurant located at 12015 E. 96th Street. The event will begin at 5:00 pm. The Owasso Chick fil a restaurant will be donating a portion of the proceeds from the evenings sales to go towards the purchase of the tasers.
On Thursday, February 9, 2012 the Owasso Taxpayer Alliance endorsed Dan FIKE (Ward 2) and Tim BARNES (Ward 1) for Owasso city council. This endorsement came following interviews with all candidates. The OTA feels that FIKE and BARNES will best represent the citizens of Owasso by working hard to complete road widening projects promised in 2003, dealing with the massive losses at the Bailey Golf Course and reducing the city's debt (which has increased 38% in four years).
Candidates speaking schedule:
Monday, February 13th: Rita Peter (Ward 2)
Monday, February 20th: Tim Barnes (Ward 1)
Monday, February 27th: Dan Fike (Ward 2)
Chris Kelley (Ward 2) has turned down our offer to speak and Jeri Moberly (Ward 1) has not responded with her answer.
Our Monday evening meetings begin at 6:30 pm and are held at Legends BBQ, 11226 N. Garnett.
The Owasso Taxpayer Alliance is holding weekly meetings on Monday evenings through the end of February. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm and are at Legends Bar-B-Q located at 11226 N. Garnett. City council candidates will be invited to speak at the meetings. Sign up for our email alerts at http://groups.google.com/group/owassotaxpayer/boxsubscribe
Proposition 1 (Youth Sports fields)
Yes 679 14.04%
No 4,158 85.96%
Proposition 2 (Road Improvements)
Yes 1,092 22.54%
No 3,753 77.46%
Proposition 3 (Water Park)
Yes 783 16.25%
No 4,036 83.75%
(Official results as reported by the Tulsa County Election Board)
Vote NO on all 3 on October 11th
Owasso Public School District = 72 square miles
Proposed property tax increase = 6 square miles (commercial/residential property owners inside city limits)
Does this sound fair?
The Pat Campbell Show on September 15th talking about the $25 million dollar tax increase
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The Pat Campbell Show on October 4th interview with Councilor Charlie Brown (starts half way through the segiment)
Ordinances defining use of $25 million dollar property taxes
What is written on the ballot is not the legal use of the funds should this tax pass. Below are the actual ordinances that govern the use of these funds.
$25 Million Dollar Property Tax Increase: How will this impact you?
On August 9, 2011 the Owasso city council voted 3-2 to hold a public vote on a proposed $25 million dollar property tax increase. This public vote will occur on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. The pro-higher tax group will be sending out all kinds of "feel good" information about all the great facilities this money will build. We would like to make you aware of the following items they will not share with you:
· Our nation is in the worst financial shape since the great depression. Now is not the time to demand more money from the people. Many people in the Owasso community are unemployed, underemployed, retired living on a fixed income, living on disability and one parent families working multiple jobs. Most people just can't afford to pay more taxes.
· Councilor Charlie Brown has presented financial documentation to all councilors about the proposed excess sales tax and other revenues projected in the coming years. $24 million dollars is possible in the next five years with up to $52 million dollars in the next nine years. With these projected excess revenues why do we need higher property taxes? Other sources of funding have not been considered by city hall or city council.
· The $5 million dollars proposed for street improvements is for East 76th Street between Hwy. 169 and North 129th East Ave. and for Garnett Road between East 96th Street and East 116th Street. In order to complete even part of these projects the city is relying on a federal grant to come through for the 76th Street project yet they have not received confirmation that the city will receive this money. $5 million dollars will only complete about one mile of road widening and that does not count purchasing right of way, engineering design cost or utility relocation work.
· City council members have not been presented with engineer estimates or conceptual drawings on any of these projects. They don't even know where most of these proposed projects will be located.
· The Owasso school district consist of 72 square miles. The proposed tax increase will be imposed on property owners in a 6 square mile area (only 8% of the school district area) yet everyone else will be using these facilities.
Higher property taxes will affect everyone. Homeowners will be forced to pay higher home taxes, renters will pay higher monthly rent fees as the higher taxes will be passed onto the renter and retail prices on food, gas and medicine will go up.
In order to vote against this tax increase you must be a registered voter by September 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm. You can register to vote at any tag agency in Tulsa County. The Owasso locations are:
Owasso Tag Agency AJ Tag Agency
Corner Stone Shopping Center German Corner
12418 E. 86th Street 11330 N. Garnett
Register to vote and attend the public meeting to learn what you can do to help stop this tax increase. If you don't get involved it will pass.
According to the city of Owasso, homes will be impacted by the following amounts:
HOME VALUES - Commercial property rates will be affected at the same rate of increase
(Yearly amounts are based on a 10-12 millage rate increase)
$100,000 $110-120
$150,000 $165-186
$200,000 $220-252
$250,000 $275-318
If you are considering how much to donate please consider how much you will be paying EVERY YEAR for the next twenty years if this tax passes. We are asking for you to consider donating one year's proposed tax increase to help fight this. Funds will be used for yard signs, citywide mailers and large truck/trailer signs.
If you were not able to attend the August 9th city council meeting you can watch the council debate here by clicking the link below.
City Council members phone numbers. Call them to voice your opinion on the $25 Million dollar tax increase.
Doug Bonebrake, Mayor 918-274-7188
Bryan Stovall, Vice Mayor 918-272-0467
Stephen Cataudella 918-274-6823
Patrick Ross 918-272-5075
Charlie Brown 918-274-4286
Councilor Charlie Brown has proposed looking at our future sales tax increases since city hall has announced two large retailers plan
to open by the end of 2012. With the proposed retail sales numbers, and the amount of debt we will be retiring in the next 9-10 years, Owasso could see a $52 million increase in available tax dollars. The proposed bond vote states it is for twenty years. Why twenty years when we could have $52 million in 9-10 years. Let's look at all possible funding options. This has not been considered.
Contact all city councilors and tell them they need to look at other funding sources before they come to us for a tax increase!!
CITY COUNCIL TO HEAR BOND COMMENTS AUGUST 9th
Posted: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:37 pm | Updated: 8:09 am, Mon Aug 1, 2011.
The Owasso City Council is scheduled to hear comments from residents during its Aug. 9 meeting regarding whether a bond-issue election should be called for October 11, city government announced Friday, July 29.
The meeting during which comments on the bond-issue proposal will be heard is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, in the Old Central Building, 109 North Birch St.
If an October election is to be held, the council must take action in the form of a resolution and deliver the resolution to the Tulsa County Election Board no later than August 11, according to city government.
In accordance with city council meeting rules and procedures, residents wishing to speak on the agenda item should sign in prior to the meeting, according to the city. The sign-up sheet will be placed at the entrance of the meeting, and individual residents may sign in to speak for three minutes. A group of of five residents may choose a representative and the designated speaker will receive 10 minutes of speaking time.
(Update: Possible vote is October 11, 2011)
Higher taxes and larger debt was the cause of politicians getting voted out of office over the past year across our county, state and nation. Apparently some of our locally elected officials did not get this message following the November 2010 national elections and the city of Owasso council elections in March 2011.
At tonight's Owasso city council meeting (July 5, 2011) Owasso Public School board member Frosty Turpen and Owasso homemaker Aimee Sacco presented their case for a $25 MILLION dollar property tax increase to fund numerous sports projects, water parks, a farmers market facility and other feel good projects.
In order to pay for these projects Mr. Turpen was up front about what it would take to fund these projects...higher property taxes.
Even though Mr. Turpen stated these item were not taken from the "Quality of Life Initiative " list they sure match up with the vision city hall has been painting getting people ready for this property tax increase idea.
Owasso city councilor Charlie Brown stated he has concerns about a property tax as the burden of paying for all of this would fall on the residential and commercial property owners inside the Owasso city limits yet folks who live in the fence line (outside the city limits) would bear no financial responsibility.
Higher taxes and larger debt is not the answer to Owasso's future. This path not only takes more money out of your pocket by raising your property taxes but also raises your food and gas cost as higher taxes are always passed onto the consumer by the retailer who also has to pay these higher taxes.
Many people who live in Owasso are retired, live on a very limited income, on disability, are single parents, are unemployed or under employed. They don't get more money each month just because of higher taxes. These people would have to give up things like groceries or medicine in order for others to have ballfields, water parks and walking trails.
The future for Owasso lies in lower taxes and lower debt which translates into more people having more money to spend in our local economy and for people to pay for the basic needs in their lives.
Just since 2008 Owasso has seen a 61% increase in our debt, two years of new property tax increases, higher utility rates and larger city government.
Owasso city government is just like any other government agency. They are addicted to money...your money and they don't know how to stop spending until the citizens put a stop to it.
Mr. Turpen stated they would like to see a vote of the people on this issue in October 2011 and it was appearent that city hall staff was in favor of this timeline.
If you are tired of higher taxes and larger debt now is the time to get involved. There will be a meeting forth coming of citizens who are willing to help put a stop to this tax and debt madness in Owasso.
Please start making your Owasso family members and neighbors aware of this upcoming property tax vote. We will continue to keep you informed as information becomes available.
With the recent defeat of two incumbant city councilors and the current condition of our state and national finances you would think that city hall would be paying attention. Seems they didn't get the message. The proposed 2011-2012 Owasso City Budget reflects increases in property taxes and utility fees without the reduction of city government.
Over the past three years city taxpayers have paid $1,158,611 to keep the Baily Golf Course out of the red. Many of our citizens are retired, single parent households or unemployed due to the national economy. Yet city hall is asking these folks to dig deeper into their pockets (or borrow money in some cases) in order to keep city government the same size as it is without cutting excess.
This budget also includes an increase in the ad valorem (property tax) amount property owners will be paying this coming year. High ad valorem taxes are passed along to renters and customers who purchase goods and services in Owasso. This means higher retail prices and higher rent.
Click the link below to review the proposed budget.


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Yet another reason for parents to feel guilty: Children who spend time in day care are more likely to be disruptive in school. [NY Times]
Parents' excessive worrying may be screwing up their kids as well. [WSJ]
Your Diet Coke addiction is screwing up your diet. [USA Today]
Bill Maher rants against purity balls during Friday's Real Time With Bill Maher. Plus, an adorable and mildly-horrified John Legend. [Feministing]
Two women in today's NY Times obituary section: Journalist Catherine Seipp, 49; dancer (and sister of Buddy) Vilma Ebsen, 96. [NY Times]

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The programme and topics are based upon what clinical leads have told us they need - and which are not readily available within their own trusts or networks. Each of the five modules brings together paediatricians in similar roles to foster peer support, facilitated by expert topic presentations and sharing of practice examples.
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In the dead of winter, we occasionally have to pick up dead wasps around our house. The wasps are often found on the carpet in the basement. But not always. Sometimes a dead wasp is on the windowsill, other times in a light fixture. To be sure, dying wasps can also be observed crawling around lethargically or even attempting to fly.
Most people know these insects as paper wasps. This is because the wasps use chewed wood mixed with saliva to produce a paper-like product known as "carton." Paper wasps use carton as building material to fashion the structure of their nests. The same material is also used in the honeycomb-like structures where the wasps raise their young. These wasps are sometimes called vespids because they are classified in the genus Vespula.
So why do we find paper wasps in the house in winter? Here is the story. Like a lot of social insects, paper wasps survive subfreezing winter temperatures by hibernating as adults. But not just any adults. The hibernating adult wasps are mated females. All other wasps in the nest die when winter sets in.
Many other species of social Hymenoptera, including bumble bees, bald-faced hornets and yellow jackets also spend the winter as mated queens. In general the system works this way: In late spring, a mated queen comes out of hibernation as temperatures begin to warm. Such a queen is known as a "foundress," the individual that starts a nest.
After emerging from her long winter's nap, the foundress begins to fly around, looking for a nest site. A bumble bee or yellow jacket foundress will look for an underground site, such as an abandoned rodent burrow. Some bumble bee queens will start a nest between hay bales stacked in a barn. A bald-faced hornet foundress will look for a limb on a tree as a place to attach a nest. Paper wasps generally establish a nest in a protected location, such as under the eves of a house or barn.
Once a wasp or bee foundress finds a nest location, she has a lot of work to do. She must start constructing the nest, and in the case of paper wasps, that means chewing up wood to produce the carton building material. Like the little red hen of children's book fame, she has to do all the work by herself. This is because a startup nest has no workers in the beginning. So the foundress starts building a nest, fashions a few cells in the comb, lays an egg in each cell, and begins collecting food for her larvae once they hatch. The food for paper wasp larvae is chewed up insects.
Once the larvae in the paper wasp nest complete their development, they transform into the pupal stage before emerging as adult insects. These new wasps, called workers, take over the job of collecting materials to expand the nest. They also gather food and feed their developing siblings. The workers become the protectors of their home, and almost anyone who has deliberately or accidently disturbed a paper wasp nest can attest to this fact.
As the seasons progress, more and more wasps are produced and the size of the nest structure grows. As the fall season approaches, the wasp colony shifts from producing workers to producing male and queen wasps. Once these wasps become adults, the females mate and fly away from the home nest in search of a protected place to spend the upcoming winter months.
This brings us back to the paper wasps wandering around my basement during the winter months. These are likely female wasps that decided to spend the winter in a fireplace chimney of our house. We didn't use that fireplace this winter, but the winter sun often warms the interior of the chimney to springlike temperatures. Over time, a consistently warm chimney environment will send a false signal to the hibernating wasps that summer is on the way. The wasps break out of hibernation and make their way down the chimney and through the fireplace into the house.
The house temperature was warm enough to keep the wasps alive, but there was no food available, and they ended up starving to death. I guess that is a good thing. For sure I would not be a happy camper if a queen paper wasp started building a nest inside the house.
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Ever get just close enough to success to taste it, only to have it evaporate like a cruel mirage? That's been happening in spades in high tech lately. Some companies with such high-profile apps as Hipster and Oink, which made a viable splash, have just sold themselves off to bigger businesses that wanted the engineering talent, or otherwise admitted that what they've been doing wasn't quite enough to survive. There are lessons here for any business, high tech or not.
Mobile app success has, in practice, boiled down a number of steps that have become rote—steps the companies that recently acquiesced to reality were well along:
- Work the PR angle hard.
- Get lots of review love from the major tech sites.
- Become the darling of the digerati.
- Move mainstream and make big bucks.
Only, sometimes things stall out early. That happened with Hipster and Oink, electronic postcard and "recommendations for everything" apps, respectively. The companies responsible for them were acquired for their technical talent: Hipster by AOL and Milk Inc, the company co-founded by Digg's Kevin Rose that was behind Oink, by Google.
That's hardly disaster, and presumably the investors recouped at least some their money. Hipster had $1 million in funding and Milk, $1.7 million. But what the businesses got for an acquisition of talent would be far less than had they seen wide commercial success.
They aren't the only ones. Skype bought group chat company GroupMe. Foursquare, which boasts 15 million members, is still largely the plaything of early adopters. Color Labs, with $41 million in funding, has largely gone nowhere with its social photo app called Color.
So why don't well-funded and connected ventures succeed? As CBS Interactive CTO Peter Yared explains, that's just not enough anymore:
The reality is that even if you're a proven entrepreneur, any consumer-facing product is hard—be it Web sites, movies, books, music, or toys. Consumers are fickle and have a ton of entertainment options; predicting what they want is incredibly challenging.
Having a storied pedigree doesn't matter to consumers. Neither does the amount of money you have. If it did, Disney's recent $200 million flop, John Carter, which reportedly had a $100 million marketing budget, might have fared better. (Think it's easy to make Waterworld look like a smart investment by comparison?)
So what did the app companies miss? Some basics in creating products and services for consumers:
- Learn what people want. Maybe you have an idea that is popular among your immediate set of friends and family. That doesn't matter, because you aren't representative of the population as a whole.
- Be sure there's a big enough crowd. There have to be enough people who want what you have to make a business. With as many people in the country as there are, that might seem an easy step. But you have to get their attention and market to them. Having a website and hoping that prospects stumble across you isn't enough.
- If people won't pay, you've got a challenge. One of the problems with the app industry is that people have become accustomed to free or cheap. That means having to sell and resell a line of products successfully. The less tie-in you have for repeat purchases, the more you have to charge to create a viable revenue stream.
- Know the half-life of your product. As Yared mentioned, according to analytics firm Flurry, user retention on an app is only 28 percent after one month. By six months, it's down to 16 percent. If people don't want to keep using your product or service for an extended period, you've either got something that is naturally short-lived in nature (unplugging a clogged drain, for example) or you're doing something wrong.
Cover the basics, and your company has a much better chance of succeeding in the long run.


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Athletes invited to apply for financial support
The United States Olympic Committee is accepting grant applications, via an online system, for the William E. Simon Olympic Endowment for the Support of Athletes. For information about the grant's focus and application process, and for instructions on how to access the online application, click here.
Past USOC President William E. Simon, Sr., established the endowment in 1998. Grants are intended to provide partial support for training and competition expenses, and are awarded to athletes showing financial need.
Two deadlines: [1] The deadline to request a password to the online system is 5 p.m. MT, Sept. 27, 2013. You must have a password by this time to be able to apply for the grant. [2] The application process deadline is 5 p.m. MT, Oct. 1, 2013.


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West Chester park has big plans, needs big bucks
Millions more needed to fulfill plan
There are big plans for a 435-acre park in a northern Cincinnati suburb. But they require big money.
The Voice of America MetroPark in West Chester Township has begun work on a $3 million first phase of expansion that will bring 22 new natural-turf multipurpose fields. Park officials expect them to be regional drawing cards for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, cricket tournaments. There are also plans for tournament-ready baseball and softball fields.
The Butler County Visitors Bureau has put in $1 million, with the rest from the park system that has taxpayer funding from a 2010 levy. Millions more are needed to add fields and a fieldhouse with concession stand and bathrooms, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Park officials also envision an amphitheater for concerts, and would like to use artificial turf for some fields to handle heavy tournament use. Turf estimates are $5 million. The sports tournaments will also require new parking lot.
Any park development grants are scarce, so private support will be needed.
"It's largely driven by our ability to interest partners and sponsors in this," said Jon Granville, MetroParks executive director. "Our plans are not to go back to our local taxpayers and ask them for more money every time we come up with a good idea."
Officials have approached some fund prospects, and there have been discussions of selling naming rights for the sport complex and amphitheater. It's estimated that when up and running and bringing tournament players and their families to the area hotels, restaurants and retailers, the complex within five years would have a $26 million annual economic impact.
"It will bring more people into West Chester. I'm sure of that, and the economy needs that," said Barb Wykoff, a resident who was using a walking trail around the fishing lake recently.
Granville said park planners will balance the expansion with the needs of regular park visitors who come there to walk, fish, and use other facilities. Local teams will be able to reserve fields during the week, while tournaments will be played on weekends.
The park is named for the Voice of America relay station here that sent shortwave radio programming around the globe starting in World War II. There is a museum on land fronting the park along Tylersville Road near Interstate 75.


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Screening kids for sleeping problems and discussing sleep strategies with parents could help youngsters settle into school with better nighttime routines, suggests new research from Australia.
Researchers found that when they had sleep-related consultations with parents, kids tended to have fewer sleep problems and better bedtime habits than children whose parents didn't get counseled.
The study was small and didn't demonstrate that the sleep improvements led to changes in kids' academic achievements later in the year.
Still, the findings show that "sleep problems are common in young school children and are treatable using ... a brief behavior-based intervention," study author Jon Quach, from the University of Melbourne, told Reuters Health in an email.
"Parents should seek advice for their child's sleep if they are concerned," he added.
In five- and six-year-olds, most sleep problems are related to kids' behavior, researchers say.
"Some of them still have poor sleep habits where they are going to bed too late, they don't have a bedtime routine, and many of them are still having parents stay with them when they go to sleep at night," said pediatric sleep specialist Jodi Mindell, from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study.
"You also get in this age group some night-time fears," she said, and anxiety might increase as those kids start school.
The current study focused on that back-to-school time frame and included kids who were headed into their first year of elementary school. That's an important window for addressing sleep problems, Quach said, because kids who don't sleep well might have more trouble making the transition to school, which sets them up for worse academic performance and poorer relationships later on.
Quach and his colleagues surveyed about 1,500 parents of kids starting at 22 different elementary schools in Melbourne. Of these parents, 161 said their child had a moderate or severe sleeping problem and 108 were recruited for the study. Kids with more serious sleep-related breathing problems, for instance, were excluded.
Half of the participating parents had a private consultation at school, followed by a telephone call two weeks later, to discuss behavioral sleep strategies based on their kid's specific issues. The other half weren't offered any extra help.
Over the next year, the researchers surveyed parents again about their kids' shut-eye. Six months after the initial consultation, they also gave all kids a learning assessment.
Sleep issues tended to resolve in both groups, the researchers reported in Pediatrics. Still, kids whose parents had sleep-related counseling generally did better.
After six months, 26 percent of kids in the consultation group and 47 percent in the no-consultation group still had moderate or severe sleep problems. By one year, however, there was no difference and about one-third of kids in both groups had sleep problems.
Kids in the consultation group had less resistance at bedtime and took less time to go to bed, according to their parents' reports. But there was no difference in how well they did on academic tests designed to measure reading, math and spelling skills.
Quach and colleagues noted that the study was small and that a follow-up including more kids will be needed -- including one that tracks students' progress for more than a year. It may be that sleep improvements would take a while to translate into better academic skills, they explained.
Mindell said "there's no question" that this sort of program could work in U.S. schools, with school counselors or nurses doing the sleep consultations. "I think this is a wake-up call to teachers and school psychologists that they need to always be looking for sleep problems," she told Reuters Health.
For now, she pointed to a few key tips for parents of young kids who have sleeping trouble.
The "really simple changes," she said, include: "Making sure your child goes to bed before nine -- we know that that's the tipping point; including reading as part of that bedtime routine -- it helps calm children down, it gives them a focus, it helps with literacy, it's all good; then encouraging children to fall asleep on their own."
Finally, make sure there are no distracting electronics in kids' bedrooms, she said. "Get rid of the Game Boys, get rid of the computers, get rid of the cell phones."
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UPDATE: Liberty University Offers Scholarship to N.C. High School Student Arrested for Accidentally Leaving Gun in His Truck
Editor's note: See update below regarding Withrow's initially reported expulsion.
David "Cole" Withrow was a senior ready to graduate with honors from Princeton High School in Johnston, N.C. He is an Eagle Scout, did his senior class project on gun safety and was even looking forward to college in the fall.
This is why when he realized he forgot his shotgun in the back of his truck after going skeet shooting over the weekend, he debated between driving back home and being counted as tardy and calling his mom from school to collect the gun.
David "Cole" Withrow has to attend an alternative schooling option and received a felony charge for accidentally leaving his shotgun in his truck at school and calling his mother to come pick it up when he realized the mistake. (Photo via "Free Cole"/Facebook)
Deciding to call his mother from the school's front office to come get the gun, the 18-year-old's conversation was overheard, according to Todd Starnes.
"He was overheard in a private conversation with his mother explaining what happened," Kimberly Boykin, a friend of the Withrow family told Starnes. "He could have told a story, but he told the truth."
"I think it's an injustice for this young man," she said. "He's a good guy. He's loved by his classmates and his teachers. You don't become an Eagle Scout by being a bad seed."
Photo via "Free Cole"/Facebook
As punishment, Withrow was reported to have been expelled for a year and would not be able to graduate with his class, which could have potentially off-set his plans for college. An attorney for the school has since said Withrow was not expelled and special provisions have been made for him to finish school in order to receive his diploma (see the update to this story below).
He was also charged with a felony.
WTVD reported that Withrow had been admitted to Campbell University and East Carolina University and had been awarded a scholarship, but it is currently unclear if his felony charge would impact his attendance in the fall.
The community is outraged not only because Withrow tried to do the right thing and is being severely punished, but also because school administrators within the district have been caught in similar situations in the past and received less severe retribution.
WTVD reported that two school officials had brought guns onto school property in the past. One, a teacher at another high school within the district, was cited and resigned. The other is actually the assistant principal at Princeton High School where Cole spent the last four years. That person was suspended for three days and still works at the school. Neither case saw criminal charges like those Cole faces.
"I think it's wrong, if an assistant principal can bring a loaded handgun and doesn't get punished? No, unacceptable," parent Nancy Terry told WTVD.
According to the station, the Johnston County Sheriff's Office confirmed that it's only a misdemeanor charge if an administrator brings a gun on school property, but for students it's an automatic felony.
WRAL has a statement from the school:
Johnston County schools spokeswoman Tracey Peedin Jones said the school system has to follow state law regarding weapons on campus.
"Please know that with student and personnel issues, we carefully balance all factors to arrive at a fair and just outcome," she said in a statement Wednesday. "Certain items are mandated and we have no choice but to follow the law."
Watch WTVD's report:
A movement called "Free Cole" has begun to spread on Facebook and Twitter:
Students from Princeton High School have rallied around their classmate, petitioning the school board to at least let Withrow graduate.
"Everyone makes a mistake, he tried to do the right thing by it and it's upsetting," student Tyler Pope told WTVD.
Update: WRAL reported Jimmy Lawrence, the attorney for the Johnston County Schools Board of Education, saying Winthrow was not expelled, but that "provisions" have been made for him to continue education through the end of the year in order to receive his diploma.
WTVD elaborated that Winthrow will have the opportunity to attend an alternative school. It also noted Lawrence saying that according to North Carolina law and the Federal Gun Free Schools Act, Withrow's violation would merit a 365-day suspension, but this wasn't brought up by the Johnston County School Board.
(H/T: Townhall)


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The 59-year-old comedian was detained at Heathrow Airport as he flew into Britain ahead of an anticipated appearance on Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother show.
He will now no longer be taking part and programme chiefs are believed to be rejigging the line-up at the last moment.
He was arrested at around midday by detectives from Operation Yewtree, the investigation set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile child sex revelations. The allegations are not directly linked to Savile, the Metropolitan Police said.
In a statement, Davidson's solicitor Henri Brandman said: "Two women have made allegations in respect of Jim that date back approximately 25 years.
"The complainants were then in their mid 20s.
"Jim vigorously denies the allegations.
"He answered police questions as fully as he was able after this passage of time.
"He has not been charged with any offence.
"Neither he nor I will be making any further comment."
Scotland Yard said that both men had been released on bail until March pending further inquiries.
On Wednesday afternoon a uniformed police officer entered Mr Davidson's detached home in Stockbridge, Hampshire as three other people, believed to be plain clothes detectives also went inside.
One of the men answered the door at the cream coloured property and said "we cannot comment" before closing it again.
Four men and a woman, believed to be police officers left the property carrying documents and a large red box at around 7pm turning all the lights off and locking up as they did so.
The arrest came several hours after a 53-year-old man from Hampshire was also arrested as part of the same investigation.
It is understood the man, who was questioned locally, was also an entertainer, who had worked with Mr Davidson in the past.
They are the ninth and tenth people to be arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, which is investigating allegations of abuse involving Savile and others.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the arrests were not connected to allegations involving Savile.
The spokesman said: "Officers working on Operation Yewtree have today arrested two men on suspicion of sexual offences.
"A 53-year-old man was arrested at approximately 8am at an address in Hampshire and taken into custody locally.
"A 59-year-old man was arrested at approximately midday in west London and taken into custody at a London police station."
Other high profile names who have been arrested as part of the wide ranging investigation include the entertainer and comedian Freddie Starr, the former pop star Gary Glitter and the publicist Max Clifford.


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Allianz launched on Wednesday an interactive website to help investors who are between five and 10 years away from retirement. The website focuses on the "4 C's" of retirement, four concepts that form a process that can help pre-retirees in the transition to retirement: clarity, comfort, cost of living and certainty.
"Retirement objectives change over time. A person may spend 30 years accumulating assets but then may not know how to convert those assets during the transition period into a stream of long-term guaranteed income," Gary Bhojwani, chairman of Allianz Life and author of a white paper on the four C's, said in a statement.
The four C's process takes its inspiration from the diamond industry, where consumers were "trained" to think about diamonds in the context of clarity, color, cut and carat. The white paper notes that this method is so successful because it helps break down a complex subject (and no one can argue that retirement planning isn't complex) into simpler and easy-to-remember pieces.
"This simple, descriptive and memorable concept identifies the critical retirement questions that must be answered to begin the pivoting process from accumulation to income," Bhojwani added.
In the Clarity phase, pre-retirees address basic questions about their future, such as how much they expect to spend in retirement compared with their current spending level.
The Comfort phase asks pre-retirees to identify what kind of lifestyle they'd like to live in a retirement that could last for decades.
In the Cost Of Living phase, pre-retirees evaluate how inflation will affect their retirement.
The last phase, Certainty, is when pre-retirees build solutions based on what they've learned and proven data.
The website features a quiz that walks pre-retirees through the four phases of the process. It also directs users to retirement research, including the white paper and earlier studies from Allianz on retirement.


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CCS adapting to COVID-19 realities to support Canadians during and after the pandemic
Lung metastases
Lung metastasis is cancer that started in another part of the body and spread to the lungs. It's sometimes called secondary lung cancer or metastatic lung tumours. Lung metastasis is not the same as cancer that starts in the lung (called primary lung cancer).
Some kinds of cancer are more likely to spread to the lung than others. The most common cancers that spread to the lung are:
- breast
- colorectal
- kidney
- head and neck (such as laryngeal)
- testicular
- bone (such as osteosarcoma)
- soft tissue sarcoma
- melanoma
- thyroid
Cancer can spread to anywhere in the lungs. Sometimes there is only a single tumour in one lung. Sometimes there are many metastases in one or both lungs. Most lung metastases develop near the edges of the lungs and in the lower lobes. Cancer can also spread to areas outside of the lung, such as the pleura and mediastinum.
Lung metastases may not cause any symptoms at first. The symptoms of lung metastases vary depending on the number of tumours and where they are in the lungs. Other health conditions can cause the same symptoms as lung metastases.
See your doctor if you have these symptoms:
- a cough that doesn't go away
- shortness of breath
- frequent chest infections
- coughing up blood
- pain or discomfort in the chest
- weight loss
The following tests may be used to diagnose lung metastases. Many of the same tests can help your healthcare team plan treatment and monitor lung metastases.
Health history and physical exam
Your health history is a record of your symptoms, risk factors and all the medical events and problems you have had in the past. In taking a health history, your doctor will ask questions about a personal history of symptoms that suggest lung metastases.
A physical exam allows your doctor to look for any signs of lung metastases. During a physical exam, your doctor may listen to your lungs.
Find out more about physical exam.
Blood tests
A complete blood count (CBC) and electrolyte panel may be done to check your general health and find out how well certain organs are working. The level of oxygen in your blood, or oxygen saturation, may also be measured to check if your lungs are bringing enough oxygen into your body.
Sometimes tumour marker tests are done if you have had cancer before. These tests measure the amount of a specific protein in the body. An increase in the level of tumour markers in the blood may mean that the primary cancer has come back and spread to the lungs. Examples of tumour markers that may be measured include:
- carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) if you had colorectal cancer
- alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG or b-HCG) if you had testicular cancer
Find out more about a complete blood count (CBC), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG or b-HCG).
Imaging tests
Imaging tests are an important part of diagnosing lung metastases. It is common for people to have one or more imaging tests when the doctor thinks that cancer may have spread to the lungs. These tests include the following.
Chest x-ray is usually the first test done to try to find out what is causing symptoms like a cough and shortness of breath. Doctors use chest x-ray to look for any lung tumours.
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest is a common test used to check for lung metastases. It provides more detailed images of lung tumours than a chest x-ray, including the size and location of the tumours. It can also be used to check for cancer in nearby lymph nodes.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan of the lungs or the whole body may be done. It may be used to check if lung tumours are cancerous or not.
Find out more about an x-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan, positron emission tomography (PET) scan.
A bronchoscopy is a test used to look inside the trachea (windpipe), bronchi (large airways of the lungs) and lungs using an endoscope. It is often done to find out why a person is coughing up blood. A biopsy can be taken during a bronchoscopy.
Find out more about bronchoscopy.
A biopsy is the removal of cells or tissues so they can be examined under a microscope. It is sometimes done when the doctor finds lung tumours with imaging tests. If you have had cancer, doctors may be able to diagnose lung metastasis with imaging tests alone. If you haven't had cancer, doctors may do a biopsy to find out if the cancer started in the lung or spread to the lung.
Doctors usually use an imaging test like a CT scan to help locate the specific area to biopsy. The types of biopsies used to diagnose lung metastasis include:
- needle biopsy through the chest wall (called transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy)
- endoscopic biopsy during bronchoscopy (called transbronchial biopsy)
- surgical biopsy
Find out more about biopsy.
Other tests
If lung metastases are found before the primary cancer is diagnosed, the doctor may order tests to find out where the cancer started. Other tests may also be used to check for metastatic cancer in other parts of the body. These tests may include:
- mammography to check for breast cancer
- CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis to check for colorectal cancer and liver metastases
- mediastinoscopy to check lymph nodes in the middle of the chest
- ultrasound to check for testicular cancer
Treatments and supportive therapies
If you have lung metastases, your healthcare team will create a treatment plan just for you. It will be based on your needs and usually includes a combination of different treatments. Treatments can control and slow the growth of lung metastases, but the metastases usually don't go away completely. They can also manage or prevent problems caused by lung metastases. These are sometimes called supportive therapies.
When deciding which treatments and supportive therapies to offer for lung metastases, your healthcare team will consider:
- where the cancer started
- your symptoms
- the size, number and location of metastases in the lungs
- if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body
- cancer treatments you've already received
- the general health of your lungs
- your personal preferences
You may be offered the following treatments and supportive therapies for lung metastases.
Chemotherapy is the most common treatment for lung metastases. It is used to help shrink and control the growth of cancer. Chemotherapy is sometimes used along with other treatments such as surgery and targeted therapy.
Chemotherapy uses drugs that circulate throughout the body to destroy cancer cells. The drugs are usually given intravenously (through a needle into a vein) or orally (as a pill by mouth).
The type of chemotherapy drug or combination of drugs used depends on where the cancer started and if you've had chemotherapy before. The drugs, dose and schedule will vary for each person.
Side effects of chemotherapy will depend mainly on the type of drug, the dose and how it's given. Common side effects of many chemotherapy drugs are low blood cell counts (called bone marrow suppression), nausea and vomiting, mouth problems and bowel problems.
Find out more about chemotherapy and side effects of chemotherapy.
Hormonal therapy
Hormonal therapy may be used to control the growth of cancer and help relieve symptoms. It is given for some types of cancer that have spread to the lungs, such as breast and thyroid cancers.
Hormonal therapy is a treatment that adds, blocks or removes certain hormones to slow or stop the growth of cancer cells that need hormones to grow. Drugs, surgery or radiation therapy can be used as hormonal therapy.
Side effects will depend mainly on the type of hormonal therapy. Common side effects of many types of hormonal therapy are hot flashes and weight gain.
Find out more about hormonal therapy and side effects of hormonal therapy.
Targeted therapy
Targeted therapy uses drugs that find and attach to specific substances (such as proteins) on the surface of or inside cancer cells. These substances help send signals that tell cells to grow or divide. The targeted therapy drugs block the substances to stop or slow the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Targeted therapy is most often used along with chemotherapy. It may be used to control the growth of lung metastases for some types of cancer, including:
- bevacizumab (Avastin) or cetuximab (Erbitux) is used for colorectal cancer
- trastuzumab (Herceptin) is used for HER2-positive breast cancer
- ipilimumab (Yervoy) is used for melanoma
- sunitinib (Sutent) is used for kidney cancer
- pazopanib (Votrient) is used for soft tissue sarcoma
Targeted therapy is given intravenously (through a needle into a vein) or orally (as a pill by mouth).
Side effects depend mainly on the type and dose of the drug. Common side effects of many targeted therapy drugs are skin problems, flu-like symptoms and fatigue. Most side effects go away on their own or can be treated. Tell your healthcare team if you have these side effects or others you think might be from targeted therapy.
Find out more about targeted therapy.
Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy that uses the immune system to help destroy cancer cells. It may be used to treat some cancers that have spread to the lungs, such as melanoma.
Immunotherapy is usually given intravenously (through a needle into a vein). Examples of immunotherapy that may be used to treat lung metastases include:
- interleukin-2 (Aldesleukin, Proleukin)
- interferon-alfa-2b (Intron A)
Side effects of immunotherapy depend mainly on the type and dose of the drug. Common side effects of many immunotherapy drugs are flu-like symptoms and fatigue.
Find out more about immunotherapy.
Surgery is most often used for colorectal cancer, bone cancer or soft tissue sarcoma that has spread to the lungs. Lung resection may be used to treat lung metastases when cancer is only in one small part of the lung (called isolated, or limited, metastases). This surgery removes part (usually a wedge-shaped piece) of a lung. The goal of a lung resection is to completely remove the metastases so that there are no cancer cells in the healthy tissue removed along with the tumour (called negative surgical margins). Only part of the lung is removed so that the lungs will still work as normally as possible after surgery.
A lung resection is done by a surgeon who specializes in lung surgery (called a thoracic surgeon). It is usually done by making a cut, or incision, in the chest (called open lung resection). Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) or video-assisted thoracoscopy may be done in some cases. These techniques can be used when there are only a few small tumours.
Not everyone with lung metastases can have surgery. Doctors will decide if surgery is an option based on the size, number and location of tumours, how well the primary cancer is controlled, your overall health and other factors.
Side effects of surgery will depend mainly on the type of surgery done, the amount of lung removed and your overall health. Some side effects of a lung resection are pain, bleeding, wound infection and lung infection.
Find out more about surgery and side effects of surgery.
Ablation therapy
Ablation therapy is a procedure that removes or destroys cells or tissues with heat, chemicals or other techniques. Different types of ablation therapy may be used to treat lung metastases. They are usually used to treat small tumours and control symptoms when surgery can't be done because it's not safe or possible.
Ablation therapies for lung metastases are done by surgeons with specialized experience. They may not be available at all treatment centres.
The following ablation therapies may be used to treat lung metastases. Side effects will depend mainly on the type of procedure done and how much of the lungs are treated.
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) uses electrical currents to create heat that destroys cancer cells. A needle is placed directly into a lung tumour. The surgeon will use an imaging test, such as ultrasound or CT scan, to guide the needle into the tumour. Electrical currents are passed through the needle. These currents heat and destroy the tumour.
Laser therapy, or laser surgery, uses a laser (a high-intensity beam of light) to make bloodless cuts in tissue. The doctor uses thoracoscopy to locate the tumour and direct the laser beam at it. The laser beam heats and destroys the cancer cells. Laser therapy is usually used when cancer is blocking the windpipe (called the trachea) or a large airway (called a bronchus).
Find out more about radiofrequency ablation and laser therapy.
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is not used very often to treat lung metastases. In some cases, external beam radiation therapy may be used to relieve symptoms like difficulty breathing, coughing and bleeding.
During external beam radiation therapy, a machine directs a beam of radiation through the skin to the lungs. How long external beam radiation is used depends on the goal of treatment, the number of tumours, how many areas of the lungs are affected by cancer and other factors. A short course of radiation therapy is usually given for lung metastases. Radiation therapy is given once a day for 5 days. Sometimes only a single treatment may be given.
Stereotactic body radiation therapy, or stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, delivers a high dose of radiation in a very targeted way. The radiation goes directly to the tumour so that it doesn't affect healthy lung tissue around the tumour. How many sessions of stereotactic radiation therapy are used depends on the size, location and number of metastases being treated, as well as other factors.
Side effects will depend mainly on the type of radiation therapy, the amount of the lungs being treated and the length of treatment.
Find out more about radiation therapy and side effects of radiation therapy.
Thoracentesis may be used to treat an abnormal buildup of fluid in the space between the lungs and chest wall (called pleural effusion).
During thoracentesis, the doctor inserts a hollow needle through the skin and into the space between the lungs and the chest wall (called pleural cavity). The doctor uses the needle to drain extra fluid from the chest cavity. After the extra fluid is drained, the doctor may put a substance into the pleural cavity to help stop the fluid from building up again. This procedure is called pleurodesis.
Find out more about thoracentesis and pleural effusion.
Oxygen therapy
Oxygen therapy gives you extra oxygen through a mask over your mouth or through tubes in your nostrils. It makes sure you get enough oxygen if you have trouble breathing.
Stent placement
Lung metastases can grow inside and block the airways in the lungs. They can also put pressure on structures outside the airway and make it narrow. The doctor may place a stent, or small tube, inside an airway to hold it open. It is inserted into the airway using bronchoscopy. The stent can usually stay in the airway permanently.
Living with lung metastases
Adjusting to life with lung metastases can take time. A person with lung metastases may have concerns about the following.
Difficulty breathing
Difficulty breathing (also called shortness of breath, or dyspnea) is a common problem in people with lung metastases. It can be caused by:
- a tumour blocking or narrowing an airway
- cancer causing pressure on structures outside of an airway
- pleural effusion
- low levels of oxygen in the blood (called hypoxemia)
- an infection in one or both lungs (called pneumonia)
- low red blood cell count (called anemia)
- anxiety and stress
How difficulty breathing is managed depends on the cause. Treatments for difficulty breathing may include:
- oxygen therapy
- medicines that open your airways
- anti-anxiety medicines
- stent placement
- thoracentesis when there is pleural effusion
- relaxation and breathing exercises
Find out more about difficulty breathing.
A diagnosis of advanced cancer can lead to questions about survival. There is no way of knowing exactly how long someone will live with lung metastases. It depends on many factors, including the type of cancer, the number of lung metastases and if surgery can be done. Survival with lung metastases is sometimes measured in months. But some people can survive for many years, especially if surgery is done to remove the metastases. Some people may live much longer than expected, while others may die sooner than expected.
The best person to talk to about survival is the doctor. The doctor may be able to estimate survival based on what they know about a person and the type of cancer, but it's not an exact science.
Find out more about living with advanced cancer.
A part or section of an organ that is separated by a boundary such as a membrane or ligament.
Examples include the lobes of the liver, lungs or brain.
The thin layer of tissue that covers the lungs and lines the chest cavity. It protects and cushions the lungs and produces a fluid that acts like a lubricant so the lungs can move smoothly in the chest cavity.
The space in the chest between the lungs, breastbone and spine that contains the heart, great blood vessels, thymus, trachea (windpipe), esophagus and lymph nodes.
A procedure that uses an endoscope (a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and lens) to examine or treat organs or structures in the body.
Cells or tissue may be removed for examination under a microscope. Doctors may also use endoscopy to control bleeding or remove tumours and foreign bodies.
Specialized endoscopies are named for the organ or structure they examine or treat.
A procedure that uses an endoscope (a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and lens) to examine or treat the organs in the mediastinum (the space between the lungs) and nearby lymph nodes.
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Most successful businesses found online typically share certain characteristics insofar as the strategies they use. Their basic philosophy is built around the attitude of taking action when and where needed with minimal hesitation. However marketing an online business also involves the use of a good deal of strategic thinking so that the actions taken proved to be as productive as possible! The bottom line is marketing success on the internet calls for the need to think fast and move even faster.
Here are 5 basic strategies commonly used when marketing an online business that seem to yield successful results for many time and again!
Apply Initiative
Avoid duplicating the 'cookie cutter' approach when possibly if the opportunity to customize a something is available to you! Do not select any approaches or strategies based upon how simple they may be to apply when marketing an online business. In most cases there are always ways to tweak or improve that which is already in existence. By doing so you are already distancing yourself from the crowd!
Keyword Selection
Most suggest or are proponents of selecting keywords for their business that are NOT highly searched upon since they are deemed to be too competitive. Well keyword use is for the sake of generating traffic, right? It would seem that those words and phrases that reflect the greatest search results would also bring you the most traffic and therefore more marketing success as well! Using these words and phrases for traffic generation would seem fine, just avoid trying to rank a website or blog using them since these results may take longer!
Watch the Crowd, Go in the Opposite Direction
Although success does leave footprints, use the accomplishments of others as a source for developing new ideas and/or concepts! The key to marketing an online business successfully is to have something that stands out from the pack. You can still be different while employing the same principles others have used in the past that gave then great results! It would only stand to reason that if 'everybody' is doing the same thing it will be harder for you to compete!
Forget the Small Stuff
Avoid the temptation of getting too hung up in small and insignificant details! It is absolutely vital to move beyond the planning stages if marketing success is to be yours and this requires taking action! Planning is great and obviously needed however unless active measures are taken to implement your plan nothing will never happen, period!
Fear Not Failure
Do not ever allow a fear of failure keep you from taking action since you will NEVER learn anything new nor will you succeed at most anything. Just about everything you do or have done in life initially presented some type of learning curve which meant the chance you may not get it right the first time! By allowing this fear to hold you back you are cheating yourself out of new experiences, accomplishments and of course the opportunity to learn something new! Failing is learning so get that straight and fear it no more!
Most successful businesses realize the need for taking a more individualized approach in order to set themselves apart from their competitors. This approach encompasses not only those strategies used for marketing an online business but also personal philosophies and attitudes as well. By keeping a focus on their primary goals and avoiding becoming entangled in details and personal fears marketing success becomes easier to achieve! The 5 simple strategies offered above serve to show how practicing a little initiative and not sweating the small stuff when marketing an online business makes you more productive! In the end it all depends upon your ability to shed your inhibitions allowing you to be more decisive when taking action in order to grow your business successfully!


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Icahn Sets the Earth Trembling Under Netflix
Nov 1, 2012 1:14 PM PT
Billionaire investor and activist shareholder Carl Icahn has acquired a 10 percent stake in Netflix, according to a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The value of the 5.5 million shares is about US$169 million.
Icahn Capital believes that Netflix is undervalued and positioned for expansion both in the U.S. and overseas, according to the filing.
Up-and-Down History
It is easy to see why Icahn would say Netflix is undervalued; if ever there were a company whose fortunes have fluctuated wildly, it is Netflix.
For its third quarter earnings it posted US$8 million in net income, compared with $62 million in the third quarter a year earlier. It grew to 25.1 million domestic streaming members in the quarter, on a guidance range of 24.9-25.7 million. Its figures for Q2, however, were downright dismal, with a 91 percent drop year over year to a paltry $6.16 million in net income. For Q4, Netflix's guidance is for its U.S. membership base to increase to 26.4-27.1 million.
Although it made marginal improvements in its operations for Q3, Netflix is still struggling to overcome the missteps it made in 2011 -- namely its substantial price hikes. Furious customers bolted in droves.
The company profusely apologized for the way it introduced the changes and since then has been working to right its ship, even though it kept the higher rates in place.
Possible Breakup
With Carl Icahn involved, Netflix's future path may well include a breakup or sale. Indeed, the filing points to that.
"Netflix may hold significant strategic value for a variety of significantly larger companies that are engaging in more direct competition with one another due to the evolution of the Internet, mobile and traditional industry," it says.
Icahn Capital is considering ways to maximize shareholder value but has reached no conclusion, the filing also notes.
Netflix did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
The Market Reaction
Wall Street is more than OK with such a prospect, it would appear. The company's stock price went up following the announcement by as much as 22 percent, closing at $79.24.
Icahn will push to unload the company, predicted Andreas Scherer, managing partner at Salto Partners.
"He didn't acquire a 5.5 million-share stake in Netflix to build the business," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Icahn will do what he tried to do with Clorox and what he successfully did at Motorola, where he pushed to have the company split off its hardware business, which was eventually acquired by Google for $12.5 billion."
Right now, Netflix is operating at close to breakeven, Scherer said.
Whether or not the company agrees, "it's a good time for a little energy boost. Icahn's move might be the best thing that happened to Netflix investors lately," he said.
Before the Sale
More than likely, though, Icahn won't move to break up or sell off Netflix right away, speculated Peter Cohan of Peter S. Cohan & Associates.
"He will want to boost the value of the company first, so it is at least 50 percent above the value at which he bought in," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Icahn might arrange a merger or try to get a seat on the board or try to push out the CEO, Cohan said -- all moves he has tried before with other companies, oftentimes achieving great success.
"I don't think he has figured out a novel way to make money off of movie streaming," Cohan continued. "What he knows how to do is add value to a company to drive its stock price up. He is very good at that."


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Opinion: Affirmative Action Lives, For Now
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the Supreme Court's decision to vacate Fisher v. University of Texas and to grant certiorari on Noel Canning v. NLRB.
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... America's eyes are on the Supreme Court today hoping for some clarity on racial preferences in university admissions but ... we didn't get it editorial page editor Paul GBO is here to discuss so all ... the case was Fisher of the University of Texas ... the Supreme Court voted seven to one descended back down to the Lord for another one which Abigail Fisher ... had said she was denied admission to receive Texas because that is discriminated ... based on race uses a one one ... AM though are the court said that to we didn't we ... trunk or did decide that they decided to send it back to the lower court decided said ... the pre the court and you receive taxes have not met their strict scrutiny standard for when they use racial race innovation so what is the awe last the obvious question what is strict scrutiny was not clear ... it's is very strict ... but that's part of problem ... in general here because of the court says you really gotta ... make shore the traces of the defining factor when one of many factors ... but I think schools in court to that a very difficult time interpreted ... an impact is what's happened is that the ... of the university's just use race as they see fit ... as long as urbane or plan number two at the end you get for reading if you're black or ... up to confuse zero if you're white ... as long as they don't do it that blatantly schools of found ways to use race ... out and ... out with a quarter saying here is that x a week Texas ... in his latest iteration has done it ... either find another way the piece is the final word or words as this idea classes now and this is the implications for other cases before the court why think this continues the general post bought the ... model of ... some of the Supreme Court racial preferences in admissions that's a famous nineteen seventy the case may be so I think seventy eight case for Justice Powell basically for said that ... operational ... the race could be a factor ... in admissions ... and ever since Emma quarter's been trying to find what that define what that means that the changes here and there ... so I don't think this ends the discussion there is another case that the Supreme Court took the pill here next year ... in which he is and whether or not the Michigan the state of Michigan having it whether it's unconstitutional for Michigan ... to do as it did in a referendum Dana ... Corporation preferences ... across the border Laura court said it was unconstitutional I think the court will reverse that ... and that's one of the reason they took this back case I think is because they didn't get to the kind of definitive judgment some of the Minder preferred in Fisher politics I calamities cases way on a single justices it isn't good for the country have something like racial preferences ... determined and it is awful for I ... wanted the ... thing is awful for the country more in my view ... the best thing the court could do is send a clear breadline principle ... is called the fourteenth amendment which is that it is illegal to discriminate ... on race class that may be one of the good ... opinion and this and this decision Fisher When concurrence by Justice Thomas ... he says the cost issue does not pander to faddish theories about whether race mixing is in the public interest ... and he won over Apple work on the ground a ruling which ... allowed racial preferences in Michigan ... emissions ... and you go back to the fourteenth and ... my guess is the chief justice and self centered way to stop discriminating by races to stop discriminating by race but there is not a five judge majority ... on the Supreme Court of for the position therefore ... cannot find in the mind of Tony Kennedy ... rate now rules all with the ... race and racial credit so that's a one one man Tony Kennedy I wanna turn to another decision that for me today ... and that was too except the case ... that challenges President Obama is ... on recess ... recess appointments now for viewers who don't know ... I what an on recess recess point is can you can just give this a ... short summer will recess appointment is when Congress is not in session the president appoint somebody to fill a vacancy on them but he cannot do that when the ... Congress is in session ... and the dispute comes down to whether or not to do that when the ... one that the Congress as one session to be right and that's why they call it non recess recent Obama has extended the law that extended the reach of the second of this beyond what any recent president is gone ... that's been challenged in court and the new the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ... I declare what he did unconstitutional ... and now the Supreme Court is going to ... hear the appeal of that decision by the Obama administration which means we might have a landmark case next year ... on executive power and the recess authority of the president this doesn't just affect this particular case doesn't because you had going on recess recess appointments to ... the important ... was the head of national Appalachians or even the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... so Paul literally hundreds and hundreds of rulings by the National Labor Relations Board would be ... automatically invalid ... if the court agrees that the high court agrees with the DC Circuit because ... they have been acting in that ... in that case ... on constitutionally in pursuing the rules cousin haven't had a quarrel ... cousin haven't had the number of necessary appointees ... if you don't have a quorum ... you can't make a ruling ... and yet the National Labor Relations Board has been acting as if ... you well and I and the DC Circuit who cares adjusted just more Court in all we're not going to change anything were doing until the Supreme Court will swell I'm glad the Supreme Court took the case ... but this is lawlessness on the part of the administration they are to take a look at what the DC Circuit said Assemblyman ... Dave said what we've done is on cost two to at least on a stop issuing new rule this silly caught a model and one and hopefully clarity in another well in seaweed Diddley Scott and well you will be her okay editorial content ... she


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Episode 61 — Delightfully Gruesome
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Thats Gross! By Crispin Boyer (National Geographic, 2012)
This is the ultimate book of icky facts. There are eight chapters, each covering a different topic of gross things, such as Nasty Nature, Everyday Grossness, and Disgusting Fun! Thats just a few chapter titles to whet your appetite. Along with the gross facts, there are plenty of vivid photographs that let kids see what theyre reading about. This book is perfect for the kid in your life that thrives on starting conversations with Did you know ?
Animal Grossapedia by Melissa Stewart (Scholastic, 2012)
Hagfish squirt mucus when theyre touched. Vampire finches drink blood from larger birds. And mother pandas eat their babys poop. These are just a few of the facts from this animal book that promises to gross out even the strongest stomach. Kids will delight in learning gruesome facts about well-known animals and discovering lesser known animals and their disgusting habits. There are plenty of photographs mixed in with the text, which makes this an appropriate nonfiction selection for elementary kids.
Rotten Pumpkin: A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices by David M. Schwartz; photos by Dwight Kuhn (Creston Books, 2013)
With Halloween quickly approaching, there will soon be jack-o-lanterns on porches and in windows. But what happens to the jack-o-lanterns once the festivities die down? Read this book to find out. David Schwartz takes kids through the process of the pumpkin's decomposition, the various animals that feast on the pumpkin, and the fungus and bacteria that grow and multiply on the pumpkin. The photographs have a gross factor that kids will love and the writing a scientific message that grown-ups will appreciate!
Nathan Hales Hazardous Tales Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale (Amulet Books, 2013)
In this graphic novel Nathan Hale tells the grisly story of the woefully fated Donner Party. Like many pioneers of that time, the Donners, along with several other families, wanted to try their luck out west. James Reed, the patriarch of one of the families, convinces everyone that they should take Lansford Hastings shortcut. Unfortunately, shortcuts arent always better. These tough pioneers faced near impossible cliffs to pass, thick vegetation to hack through, and a dry desert with no water. But worst of all was the cannibalism that kept the survivors alive. When the wagon train couldnt make it out of the Sierra Nevadas in time becuse of the snow, the feasting began as, one by one, members of the wagon train succumbed to sickness, malnutrition, or the harsh elements. Comic, gruesome, and full of interesting historical facts, this books will keep kids oohing and ughing all the way through, and all while learning about some of Americas most interesting pioneer history!
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg; illustrated by Kevin OMalley (Walker & Company, 2011)
When you open the book flap the author warns: If you dont have the guts for gore do not read this book. And shes right. This book is fantastically disgusting. Even though youll be cringing, you just wont be able to turn away. In fact, youll keep turning pages. Georgia Bragg, in a fun tongue-in-cheek style, reveals the details about the deaths of famous people like Marie Antoinette, Charles Dickens, and Christopher Columbus. Each chapter tells the story of a famous person, and her chapters are ordered in chronological order. Youll learn interesting things like it was germs and not the gunshot that killed James Garfield. George Washington cannot tell a lie: it was his bad teeth that caused the infection that killed him. And Edgar Allen Poe might have died of rabies?! You will definitely be glad that you live in a time of antibiotics rather than a time of poultices and bloodletting.
Expert Chat
Listen in as Emily chats with Georgia Bragg, the author of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. Georgia talks about which story grossed her out the most as well as how her carpool experience inspired her to write this book.


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What did we learn from the Akron Invitational at Quicken Loans Arena, which rolled to a familiar conclusion Saturday night? We learned this: When it's crunch time, when it's winning time, don't tread lightly. Treadwell. Akron did exactly that in an unexpectedly easy 65-46 demolition of Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference championship game. This was familiar turf for the Zips. It was their seventh consecutive trip to the MAC championship game, and it's the third time in the last five years they have won it. They won this one behind their window-wiping, jumping jack 6-foot-7 forward from Euclid, Demetrius Treadwell, who was voted the MVP of the tournament. Treadwell spent most of the tournament above the rim, but returned to the court long enough to accept his award following the game. In Akron's three-point win over Kent State in the semifinals, and then in the 19-point win over Ohio in the championship game, Treadwell put on a clinic in lunch-pail basketball, selflessness and good old-fashioned want-to. He had a double-double in both games. Does that count as a quadruple-double? Talk about consistency. Against Kent Treadwell had 14 points and 12 rebounds in 35 minutes. Against Ohio: 13 points and 10 rebounds in 35 minutes. Coaches value nothing out of their players more than consistency, and "Tree" is a double-double machine. "Defensively he's multi-dimensional," said Akron coach Keith Dambrot. "He can guard any position on the floor, he's as strong as an ox, and his will to win is second to none." Dambrot has so much confidence in Treadwell's defensive versatility that he had no qualms about using a switching man-to-man defense to stifle Ohio, even if meant Treadwell had to occasionally switch onto D.J. Cooper, Ohio's slippery, masterful point guard and the MAC Player of the Year. Did the strategy work? Cooper was 0-for-8 from the field, 0-for-6 from behind the arc, and Ohio overall shot just 33 percent from the field and 5 percent -- that's right five -- on 3-point attempts, 1-for-20. "We must have missed seven layups and six open 3s," said Ohio coach Jim Christian. "Sometimes you just can't explain it." Sometimes you can. Saturday Akron's back-line combo of Treadwell and 7-footer Zeke Marshall hurried, harassed and hampered the Ohio offensive sets from start to finish. Over the last 27 minutes of the game Ohio shot 19 percent from the field (7-for-37). "Defensively we are very good," said Dambrot. Especially with the frenetic Treadwell able to guard anybody on the floor -- sometimes, it seems, all at the same time. Playing defense isn't fun, but playing defense wins games -- and it sometimes wins tournament MVP awards. "The MVP award doesn't mean anything to me," said Treadwell. "I'm just happy we won the game and are going to the NCAA tournament." Treadwell's work ethic in the paint is a big reason why the Zips will be gathered around the TV late Sunday afternoon to see where and whom they will play in the first round of the Big Dance. Treadwell is an impactful rebounder because he's a quick jumper who gets off the floor faster than anyone else. Sometimes it looks like an optical illusion, like he can jump twice before anyone else jumps once. He's big, strong, physical and he plays hard all the time. It almost seems like Treadwell and the Zips have turned it up a notch since the loss of starting point guard Alex Abreu, who was suspended indefinitely following his arrest on drug charges. Akron wobbled slightly at the end of the season, but in the MAC tournament looked like the kind of team any potential first-round opponent in the NCAA tournament would not care to see. For that, Dambrot deserves some credit. "We lost the guy who ran our offense all year (Abreu)," said Marshall. "I don't know of any coach in the country who could fix that in one week." Dambrot did so by inserting freshman Carmelo Betancourt into the lineup in place of Abreu. Point guard is the hardest position on the court to play for a freshman, but Betancourt has done a decent job of both running the offense and staying out of the way. It worked in the MAC tournament, and now it's on to the NCAAs. For Treadwell, the MAC tournament may have been his coming-out party. He's been very good for the Zips all season, but he was really good in the MAC tournament. His offensive game is somewhat limited -- shooting foul shots? Don't ask -- but you'd be surprised at how many points you can score just on sheer effort. His effort was sheer and sure throughout the tournament. Tread lightly? Not Treadwell.
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