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The Aim of This Study is to Determine the Effectiveness of a Motivational Enhancement Intervention in Reducing Risk Behaviors (Drug and Alcohol Use, Sexual Risk Behavior, Poor Adherence to Medications) Among HIV+ Youth. - 1
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The purpose of this study is to conduct a pilot study of Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), an empirically validated behavioral change strategy, with young adults who are HIV +. The aim is to determine if MET is effective in increasing general health promotion behaviors, adherence to HIV+ specific medical treatment over and above taking medication, and decreasing risky behaviors in young adults who are HIV positive. The longer-term objective is to identify and way to decrease HIV transmission rates, disease progression, illness episodes, and hospitalizations in this high-risk population.
Hypotheses: 1)Youth receiving the motivational intervention plus referrals will report greater reductions in risky behaviors than youth in the control group receiving standard care plus referrals at 3-months post-baseline. This hypothesis will first be tested in the whole sample using an overall risk index. Then, the hypothesis will be tested with each behavior (reduced drug and alcohol use, condom use, taking medications,) within the subgroups reporting problem levels of that behavior; 2)Youth in the intervention group will demonstrate improved viral loads, will report greater improvement in perceived health status, depression, general psychological distress, disclosure to sexual partners, and will demonstrate greater attendance of medical and support service appointments than youth in the control group at 3 months post-baseline; 3)Youth in the intervention group will report greater reductions in temptation to engage in risky behaviors, increased self-efficacy, and improvements in readiness to change their behavior than youth in the control group at 3 months post-baseline; 4)The differences between the intervention and control group from pre- to post- intervention will be maintained at 6, 9, 12, and 15 months post-baseline (3, 6, 9, and 12 months after intervention completion).
|Condition or disease
|Adherence HIV Risk Behaviors Alcohol & Drug Use Health Behaviors Sexual Risk Behaviors
|Behavioral: Motivational interviewing
|Phase 2
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|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
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|None (Open Label)
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|Motivational Enhancement Therapy to Reduce Risk Behaviors in HIV Infected Youth
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|Study Completion Date :
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- Reduction of Risk Behaviors (Sexual, Drug, & Health), Viral Burden & CD4+ T Cell Count
- SES, health beliefs, physical and mental status, self-efficacy, stages of change, service utilization, HIV stigma
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- A sample of 60 HIV+youth, ages 16-24, will be recruited from the four health care sites in the Michigan Title IV Project.
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- In order to increase the likelihood that the current intervention will be easily transportable to real world settings, exclusion criteria are kept to a minimum. No exclusions will be made due to co-morbid mental health problems ( i.e. ADHD, conduct disorder, depression, anxiety disorder), with the exception of thought disorder (i.e. schizophrenia, autism). It is assumed that severe psychosis in conjunction with HIV may require management strategies beyond the scope of the MET interventions (i.e. residential placement). As resources are not available in the current grant to hire and train therapists who are bilingual or translate study questionnaires/measures, subjects will required to speak English fluently. Hispanic or Arabic families who meet this criterion will be included in the study. Currently, all clients at the clinic sites meet this last criterion.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00227825
|Contact: Phebe K Lam, M.A.
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|Detroit Medical Center-CHM and UHC
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
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|Sylvie Naar-King, Ph.D.
|Wayne State University
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|September 28, 2005 Key Record Dates
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|January 11, 2017
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Last night we talked about a family in which the son controlled the father. Now let's look at another family:
A six-year-old named David was asked by his mother to pick up orange peelings he'd left on the carpet. He wouldn't do it and as a result received a slap on his behind. This led to a temper tantrum. David's father then appropriately applied a paddle, saw to it that David picked up and disposed of the orange peelings, and sent him to bed (it was already past his bedtime). After a few minutes the father went to David's room and explained that God had instructed all parents who truly love their children to properly discipline them and that since they loved David, they would not permit such defiant behavior.
The next morning, David presented his mother with a stack of ten pennies and a letter that said in part, "Dear Mom and Dad, here is 10 Cints for Pattelling me when I really needed. Love yur son David."
David intuitively understood the truth available to all of us in Scripture: "The corrections of discipline are the way to life" (Proverbs 6:23). He knew that his father had applied just the right measure of loving discipline. When we parents properly balance love and correction, we'll stimulate the same respect and tender affection in our own families.
How do you usually respond to a situation like the one with David?
Are you doing a good job of balancing love and correction?
If you handled this better, how might it change your family?
Dear God, we want a home filled with joy, tenderness, and mutual respect. Give us grace to find the holy combination of love and discipline that You desire for our family. Amen.
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I have a question about "imputed righteousness." Someone pointed out to me that the Greek term Paul uses for "imputed" is better translated "reckoned." The Bible Lexicon Dictionary says: "This word deals with reality. If I reckon (logizomai) that my bank book has $25 in it, it has $25 in it. Otherwise I am deceiving myself. This word refers more to fact than supposition or opinion." So if that is what the Greek term means, why is it wrong to interpret Romans 4:3,5 as something along the lines of "faith itself is reckoned as a righteous action"?
Your question has two parts, which I'll answer in order.
1) As used in theological discourse, "impute" is synonymous with verbs like "account," "count," "reckon," "credit," "accredit," all of which are used more or less interchangeably. A difference in meaning should not be sought between "impute" and "reckon."
As to the comment, "This word deals with reality, etc.," that is true, but only in a legal sense as it concerns justification (God's just judgment that someone is righteous), not in the sense that someone's personal disposition and conduct is righteous. Remember, the statement about imputation/reckoning (Gen. 15:6) is quoted precisely as Abraham is contemplated as "ungodly," not righteous in his action (Rom. 4:5).
God's justifying judgment about a person is true, that is it "deals with reality" because of Christ, specifically because, by God's design, Christ is that person's representative and substitute so that when united to Christ by faith, Christ's righteousness is reckoned or imputed to that person, even though that person remains unrighteous (sinful) in disposition and conduct. This is at the heart of the gospel. Justified sinners, inseparably from their being justified, are also being sanctified; that is, alive in Christ, they are being renewed in righteousness and holiness in their thoughts and actions. But their sanctification (neither their faith nor the obedience that flows from faith) does not come into consideration for their justification (see the statement from the Westminster Confession of Faith below).
2) To understand Romans 4:3, 5 (see also Gal. 3:6) and how it is the "faith is reckoned (or imputed) for righteousness" it is essential to understand the nature of saving faith. According to Scripture, faith has nothing, no efficacy, in and of itself. Its essence is extraspective as it has been put; it looks away from itself. That is, true faith, faith that saves, does not look at itself and find its confidence in itself but rather it looks away from itself and instead focuses on its object, which it believes and in which it trusts and finds its confidence. Specifically, saving faith trusts in Christ and rests in his righteousness. So, to say, "faith is reckoned for righteousness" is an abbreviated way of saying that Christ's righteousness, the ground of my justification, is reckoned (or imputed) to me for (justifying) righteousness.
A striking instance of this essentially object-bound and object-focused character of faith is Galatians 3:23, 25, where Paul says that with the coming of Christ (see verse 19), "faith has come," even though he has just spoken of Abraham's faith. So tied is faith for its validity to its object, that until the appearance of that object in history (the coming of Christ "in the fullness of time," Galatians 4:4), it is as if faith did not exist prior to that coming. Abraham's faith (the faith of all Old Testament believers) justified because it was focused on the promise that would be fulfilled in the future in the once-for-all work of Christ (his obedience). The faith of New Testament believers justifies as it is focused on the fulfillment of that promise that has already taken place. But apart from that fulfillment (Christ's work) neither is justified and the faith of both is meaningless (see, e.g., 1 Cor. 15:14, 17).
On this issue of faith being imputed for righteousness I would strongly encourage you, if at all possible, especially to read the discussion of John Murray in his commentary on Romans (Eerdmans, 1959), pp. 353-39.
The formulation of the Westminster Confession of Faith in section 1 of its chapter 11 on justification captures well the teaching of Scripture (my emphasis added):
Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness, by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
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Kicking off a super-sized edition of this week's This Week in Posters is the newest batch of Dark Knight Rises posters. Yes, more Dark Knight Rises posters. It seems like there are six of them every day. At this point, I think you could make a flip-book out of these longer than the actual movie.
"Fight? Why fight? What I really want to do is… DAAANCE!"
(*thunderous chorus of finger snaps*)
Looks like Bane stole Batman's car. This time, it's personal.
Between Bane leading a mob of pissed off 99 percenters, and the possible allegories of Mitt Romney's Bane Capital vs. Barack "The Dark Knight" Obama, I'm already pre-dreading the inevitable tortured metaphors and forced allegories. Mark my words, this will be a Slate article. Just watch.
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I think Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter looks amazingly stupid, but the internet seems to be in love. That's why I chose it in our Fantasy Summer Box Office game. But realizing it doesn't have a single star in it, I'm having regrets. The main dude looks like he's a celebrity impersonator, but you can't quite tell which celebrity.
Here's a couple new stills from The Amazing Spider-Man. Is anyone sad the lizard didn't create a perfectly lizard-shaped hole, like in a cartoon? That would be boss.
Here's Rhys Ifans after a disastrous experiment starts to make him even more wiry. Yes, that was a Replacements reference. Am I the only one who watches that every time it comes on cable?
And here's your money shot of The Lizard. Am I the only one who thinks he looks a little too much like the Enzyte guy? Perhaps the experiment made his dick bigger. That would be scary. "Run for your lives, it's a maniacal, fully tumescent reptile!"
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Here's the first of a big batch of posters from Cannes, courtesy of Vulture. I notice this Spring Breakers movie is a paparazzi favorite (for obvious reasons – SELENA GOMEZ AND ASHLEY HUDGENS BOOBS IN BIKINIS UPSKIRT GOOGLE!). Meanwhile, I don't know if people realize the full implication of "a Harmony Korine film starring James Franco."
Harmony Korine made Gummo and Trashhumpers, and filmed James Franco fight a BMX gang of naked gangster chicks. And now he's suddenly he's making a teenybopper flick full of Disney princesses? Friends, we are being dicknosed, I guarantee it. I wouldn't be surprised if one of those girls ends up blowing Vincent Gallo at the premiere.
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Chinese Korean knockoffs. (Sorry, I should've looked at the names on the bottom more closely).
Call this ironic juxtaposition.
That's right, "American Hangover," starring Joey Fatone (which is short for "The Fat One from NSync") and Winnie Cooper. Now's probably a good time to point out that a lot of films go to Cannes looking for buyers and many times don't find one.
OH HELL YES. I love movies about dogs going to heaven, especially if Gary Busey is around to consult the production designers on what heaven looks like.
Well that's certainly a strange combo. I don't care what anyone says, Tom Felton has a weird shaped skull and it creeps me out.
Whoa, Minnie Driver? Has she been hibernating for the last five years?
If you think the poster for Hitler Goes Kaput looks good, you should see the trailer I posted a while back. (And by 'a while back,' I mean four years ago).
It's easy to see why Russians are so often praised for their subtle comedy.
You know, I did NOT expect there to be the White House in the background of a movie called Juan of the Dead. That was a twist.
"The ultimate form of war is one on one."
False. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's not even considered "war." You must be thinking of basketball. The ultimate form of basketball is one on one. See? Much better.
This has Robert DeNiro and John Travolta, and yet we've never heard of it. I guessing that's not because it's super good.
What our movie preSUPPOSEs is, what if two historical adversaries were brought together by Eiffel Towering some chick?
WHAT?!?!?! Is someone trying to pre-empt Channing Tatum's White House Down? NOT ON MY WATCH! (*drives to Gerard Butler's house with sternly-worded letter*)
I'm not sure what's worse, that there are TWO movies with that plot, or that they made Gerard Butler look so much like Shia LaBeouf.
Unfortunate juxtaposition, part 2.
[Check out the rest of the Cannes posters at Vulture]
"Once I believe I die" …what? I learn to use commas? Don't leave me hanging here, The Apparition! I need to find out what happens once I believe I die!
Here's a couple stills from 42, a biopic of Jackie Robinson, the first baseball player to wear his pants pulled up really high. He influenced an entire generation.
Ever wondered how they shoot those big crowd scenes? Neat, huh?
"Hey, can I do that take over? I have this feeling like I had a really stupid look on my face the whole time."
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Ugh, okay FINE, I'll look it up.
A seedy bar owner hires a mysterious Croatian to commit murder, but a planned double-crossing backfires when a young waitress is taken hostage. A suspenseful, yet darkly humorous chain of events builds to a bloodcurdling climax.[IMDB]
Yeah, but are there boobs? No one ever tells me what I want to know.
Someone on Tumblr made a gif of how this poster was created, which I thought was fun:
Now THAT'S a cool poster. Plus it has Matthew Gray Gubler in it, and everyone knows that dude is TNT.
Is this a documentary about one of those performing arts high schools that teaches all the wood nymphs to be more coddled and pretentious while ignoring math, science, and basic general knowledge? That's what I'm getting from this. I hear the last 20 minutes is all waitressing.
Tom Arnold AND Jason Biggs? Should I buy tickets online? I don't want this to sell out.
Poor Lauren Ambrose. She should be way more famous.
Hmm, I wonder what this is about.
I don't know what would be more scandalous, this movie being narrated by FDR's cripple-screwing mistress, or if it had been narrated by his cousin-screwing wife.
This movie is so good, they don't even need to put Steve Guttenberg on the cover. Danger Guerrero and me are seeing this opening day.
Oh shut up.
Not only is that a stylish-ass poster, you know they're confident in the movie when they don't even put Brad Pitt's face on the poster when he's the star of the movie.
Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick, the most talked-about Lifetime Original movie in the history of Lifetime Original movies.
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: All horror movies involve haunted house, creepy little kid, or demonic possession.
Remember what I said about all horror movies? By the way, if you describe your demonic possession movie as "BASED ON A TRUE STORY", I want to punch your face.
Red 2! Remember Red? …Kinda? The most obscure sequel since Hoodwinked Too!
[via Movieweb]
Thank God someone finally matched up the names to the correct faces, or else this would be really weird.
A new adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles? FINALLY. It feels like I've been waiting my whole life for this moment.
I get the sense other people would know who this person is. Ahh, she's a country music star and gay rights activist. Hence the flag. NOW it makes sense…
I believe she guest-starred in the Toby Keith track, "Beer for my Lesbians."
Dude, this is going to have so many turgid discussions about categorical imperatives.


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text: Nokia is continuing its trail of breadcrumbs to the official Lumia 928 launch, with today's drop including this rendering of the phone in white and a video meant to show off its optical image stabilization chops. The phone pulls off some high quality video recording attached to a remote control helicopter flying through the forest, as it attempts to keep blur to a minimum. It also shows off a flash that, to our eyes, looks like the xenon bulb featured in the 808 PureView. There's no comparison to other devices this time around, so you'll just have to imagine what other phones could capture in similar circumstances (or, do the test yourself and send us the video -- whatever works). Check out the demo after the break to see the results yourself, or hit the source link to sign up for more info.


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If the user doesn't make it through registration successfully, they unfortunately will not use the valuable content behind the gate. A registration form must carefully address factors of friction, anxiety, motivation, usability and transparency.
Registration form competitive analysis data (Excel)
Insights from competitive analysis data:
- Number of fields ranged from 4-13
- Microsoft and Google have the highest number of fields in their registration forms
- Twitter has the least number of fields in their registration form
- The submit button is used as agreement to the terms and conditions on almost all of the reviewed sites (except Google)
- Almost all of the reviewed sites (except Facebook & Twitter) refer to authentication as sign in
- Facebook and Twitter refer to authentication as Log in
- Only Facebook, Google & Microsoft provide value propositions on their registration form pages
- Facebook's value proposition airs the most on the side of brevity
- Microsoft provides a longer value proposition but not as impactful
- Google provides the most detailed value proposition with visualizations and supporting content
- Vertical arrangement of fields is the most common layout
- Many sites combine vertical with horizontal when contextually relevant
- Many sites transitioned from field labels beside inputs in 2013 to field labels above inputs or ghosted inside in 2015
- Displaying the active field in 2013 was most commonly achieved by showing the cursor, in 2015 many more sites began displaying a distinct outline around the active field
- First name and last name are requested as separate fields on most of the sites reviewed (except Amazon & Twitter)
- Many sites have begun shifting towards a single password field in 2015 (Facebook, Ebay, Twitter, Yahoo)


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The debate as to video games are art is tired. Either you think they are or that they're not. Turns out the controllers used to engage with games can become sublime, too.
Who knew decades-old wired video game controllers could be so beautiful? The lines of insulated copper and aluminum—is that what they were made of?—that connected the Nintendo Entertainment System for the most part are a fond memory for most people. But artist Erika Iris Simmons made them into something extraordinary.
Simmons focuses on taking found objects and reconfiguring them into hypnotic images of people and things. I say hypnotic because I can't stop staring at the artwork she's made of NES gamepad wires. My eyes follow along the contortions that Simmons shapes into images of Mario, Link and Pac-Man. These constructions belong to a series of works called "Ghost in the Machine," where Simmons does stuff like unspooling old cassette and VHS tapes into details like Jules' jheri curl from Pulp Fiction or forming a portrait of late comedian Bill Hicks from old amusement park ride tickets.
If you're really into the NES wire art above, Simmons has those pieces up for sale at her website. Might make a great birthday/Christmas present for a special someone.


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I recently went through my running list of possible names for our second child – to be born in September – with my husband. I'm sad to report it didn't go very well – although I was not surprised. He didn't really like most of them. So we're kind of back to to square one.
For some – especially within the Latino population, naming their child might not be a very difficult task for they have no problem choosing the name of someone in the family, their father or mother, or another relative whom they want to honor or as a kind of tradition passed on from generation to generation. Like my husband, for example. He carries his father's name as so does his son from his first marriage. I respect this decision, but I don't agree with it. Even though I absolutely L-O-V-E my name (I'm not named after anybody and no one else in my family has my name), I just can't fathom having two Roxanas in the house. Not only is it confusing, but I feel like it kind of robs the new member of the family a bit of their own identity.
Then, there's the matter of how much I want the name to reflect our culture or how ethnic the name should be. I remember when I was pregnant with Vanessa and while I was visiting my family in Perú, my cousin showed me her little book of baby names and as I was going through it, I found several different ones in Quechua – the language spoken by the indigenous people of my country and other South American countries. Knowing it would annoy my mother – who prefers more Spaniard names – I chose one and I couldn't contain my laughter when I announced it: URPI, which means dove in Quechua! ¿Qué cosa? asked my mother in desbelief. ¡Estás loca!
I was just kidding, of course, but it got me thinking about the other dilemma I have in choosing a name for my child. Although I know I'd like to find a a name that reflects our heritage – a Latino name – more than anything else it has to be one that can be easily pronounced by English-speaking people. In other words, I would hate to choose the kind of name that would be so difficult for English-only speakers that it would end up being butchered.
Coincidentally, at one of my recent prenatal appointments, I met an American doctor married to a Peruvian man from Cuzco who had named her daughter Quilla, Quechua for Moon. I immediately asked her if others here in the States were able to pronounce her name and she laughed knowingly.
As I was dwelling on my possible list of names recently, I came across the top 10 Hispanic names of the last five years according to the Social Security Administration. Some didn't surprise me, others I hadn't even thought about.
Check out the names for niñas:
1. María (my mom, her sisters and my sister's middle names)
2. Sofía (my brother's daughter's name)
3. Isabel (my aunt's and sister-in-law's daughter's name)
4. Adriana
5. Daniela
6 .Valeria
7. Ángela
8. Mariana
9. Juliana
10. Liliana
I like Daniela, Valeria and Ángela (they pretty much sound the same both in English and Spanish), but I truly like Juliana. My husband doesn't like any of them. And, what's worse, everyone in my family hates Juliana because it reminds them of some song that goes something like: "Juliana qué mala eres, qué mala eres Juliana." Go figure.
Here are the top ten names for niños:
1. José
2. Ángel
3. Juan
4. Diego
5. Carlos
6. Jesús
7. Xavier
8. Antonio
9. Miguel
10. Alejandro
I was cracking up when I saw this list. The first two names, José Angel, are my husband's and his father's names. I like Diego, but it kind of bothers me that it is now so easily associated with Nickelodeon's Dora the explorer. I like Miguel – my father's name – but I know it'll be shortened to Mike or mispronounced. The u is silent (that's the best way I can explain it), but most English-only speakers don't understand that, so they actually pronounce it. This was a non-issue in Miami, but now that we live in Denver, things are totally different. A lot of people don't really care if their name is mispronounced, but then, why even have a name. This is one of my pet peeves. What can I say?
In case you're wondering what some of the rejected names were, here's a sample: Katalina, Stella and Carolina for a girl and Ignacio, Javier and Gianmarco for a boy. Good thing I wasn't really in love with any of them, but the best part is that we will actually find out later on today what we're having in September. So choosing should get just a tiny bit easier! I'll keep you posted…


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1/2 lb bulk sausage, hot or mild
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Add rice. Stir, while heating, approximately 2 min.
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Amputation Hazard
Heads up! Britax stroller users need to check this recall out because of serious finger injury potential.
Product description: This recall focuses on the Britax B-Agile, B-Agile Double or BOB Motion strollers that were manufactured between March 2011 and June 2013. These single and double strollers came in a variety of colors, including black, red, kiwi, sandstone, navy and orange.
The recalled strollers have the following model numbers that can be found on a label located on the inside of the stroller's metal frame near the right rear wheel:
- B-Agile strollers: U341763, U341764, U341782 and U341783
- B-Agile Double strollers; U361818 or U361819
- BOB Motion strollers: U391820, U391821 and U391822
Where/when it was sold:These recalled strollers were sold at a variety of retailers as well as online at Amazon.com, albeebaby.com, buybuybaby.com, diapers.com, ToysRUs.com and other online retailers from May 2011 through June 2013 for between $250 and $450.
Reason for the recall: The folding mechanism hinge can partially amputate, break or severely lacerate consumers' fingers. Eight reports have been received by Britax, which include one partial fingertip amputation, one broken finger and several severe lacerations.
What you need to do: Consumers should stop using these recalled strollers immediately and contact Britax for a free repair kit.
Company information: You can contact Britax; toll-free at (866) 204-1665 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday. You can also visit the company's websites at www.britaxusa.com or www.bobgear.com and click on "Safety Notice" at the top right corner or on "Learn More" at the bottom center of the page. Additionally, you can e-mail email@example.com for more information.
More recalls
Recall: Combi Coccoro, Zeus Turn and Zeus 360 car seats
Recall: Joovy Zoom car seat stroller adapter
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This detailed map of Hawaii was published in April 1976 as part of the "Close-up: U.S.A" series. Half of a two-map set, this map features national and state parks, volcanoes, and points of interest in addition to information on a variety of tourist activities and events.
Coverage Area: Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Niihau, Kahoolawe


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- To last as long as possible, please store in individual sealed bags and do not expose to water, humidity, perfume, hairspray lotions and other skin products as these can tarnish the jewelry over time.
Our Stone and Strand pieces are our own pride and joy, handmade and smartly designed in-house, just the way we'd want them to be — all the way down to the details.
Style comes first - but just because we've got expensive taste doesn't mean we have to make expensive jewelry. We produce our in-house fine jewelry offering at the same places the premium brands do, but crazy mark-ups aren't really our thing.
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Career Development
Opportunities for students to gain technical knowledge and career experience by working in community organizations and businesses.
This list includes Work Study programs in which the school participates.
Students can gain hands-on work experience in high school through work study programs. These programs complement and strengthen students' academic learning.
Work Based Learning Opportunities for High School Students (National Research Center for Career and Technical Education)
Perceived Benefits of Work-Based Learning: Differences between High School and Postsecondary Students with Disabilities (Journal of Inclusive Education)
School-to-Work Programs Effectiveness (Online Journal of Workforce Education and Development)


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Each day, we here at "Piers Morgan Tonight" put together the news you need to know – from what happened last night to what will happen today.
For March 1, 2012 – Well-known conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dead at 43, U.N. resolution slams Syria and urges aid and Maryland governor to sign same-sex marriage bill...
• Andrew Breitbart, well-known conservative blogger, dead at 43: "Andrew Breitbart, a well-known conservative blogger, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Breitbart was also known as a taking head on conservative television shows as well as the right-hand man to Matt Drudge of Drudge Report."
• U.N. resolution slams Syria, urges aid: "The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Thursday condemning Syria's 'widespread and systematic violations of human rights' and called on the regime to permit aid groups in to distribute relief. Thirty-seven of the nations meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, voted for the resolution, including the United States and several Arab countries."
• Maryland governor to sign same-sex marriage bill: "Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign into law Thursday a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. 'All children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed and stable home, protected equally under the law,' O'Malley said in a statement after last week's vote."
• Federal judge blocks anti-smoking images required on tobacco products: " A federal mandate requiring tobacco companies to place graphic images on their products warning of the dangers of smoking was tossed out Wednesday by a judge in Washington, with the judge saying the requirements were a violation of free speech."
• The Monkees' Davy Jones dead at 66: "Davy Jones, whose charming grin and British accent won the hearts of millions of fans on the 1960s television series "The Monkees," died Wednesday, according to the Martin County, Florida, sheriff's office. He was 66."
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Does anyone proofread to change the word 'taking head' to 'talking head', or was it intentional?
• Andrew Breitbart, well-known conservative blogger, dead at 43: "Andrew Breitbart, a well-known conservative blogger, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Breitbart was also known as a taking head on conservative television shows as well as the right-hand man to Matt Drudge of Drudge Report."
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TORONTO – Soccer fans and supporters who have awaiting patiently the long-anticipated arrival of the world's most famous soccer club had their resolve tested even more on Thursday.
Inclement weather in Chicago grounded Manchester United, delaying the team's arrival in Toronto ahead of its Friday night friendly against Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC at Rogers Centre, the first of a five-game North American tour.
The delay forced the cancellation of a planned 8:30 p.m. news conference at the team hotel in the city's tony Yorkville area, denying event organizers MLS and Creative Artists Agency one last opportunity to promote the match. When the club finally arrived, they weren't received by the customary media horde as, according to Reuters, only a handful of reporters, two photographers and two television cameras attended a delayed media briefing featuring only one player, Darren Fletcher.
While the club will be without its World Cup players, it will have stars Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Dimitar Berbatov, Edwin van der Sar and Nani for its first visit to Toronto since the club began its North American tours in 2003.
With just a day in the city before flying out Saturday morning to Philadelphia, the club's stay will be short with no public appearances or training sessions. Even a planned family reunion of sorts for club manager Sir Alex Ferguson was in question.
Much has been made in the local media about Ferguson's ties to the city as he nearly emigrated to Canada before a revival of his playing career in England. Ferguson also has a number of relatives on his father's side that reside in the Greater Toronto Area, including nine direct cousins, 40 second cousins and an aunt.
Despite the quick in-and-out appearance, a crowd of more than 40,000 is expected for the game on real grass installed Thursday over the stadium's concrete floor.
Meanwhile, Celtic have been in Toronto since losing 1-0 to the Union in Philadelphia on Wednesday and the players and manager Neil Lennon took time out Thursday at a downtown pub to meet with Scottish race car driver Dario Franchitti, a big Celtic fan, who's in the city this weekend to compete in the annual Indy Racing League's Honda Toronto Indy race.
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July 16: Manchester United vs. Celtic F.C. (7 p.m. ET, Rogers Centre)
July 21: Manchester United vs. Philadelphia Union (7:30 p.m. ET, Lincoln Financial Field)
July 25: Manchester United vs. Kansas City Wizards (6 p.m. ET, Arrowhead Stadium)
July 28: Manchester United vs. MLS All-Stars (8:30 p.m. ET, Reliant Stadium)
July 30: Manchester United vs. Chivas Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico)


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Using Text Structure
One assumption that many teachers make is that a student who is a proficient reader of literature will, in turn, be a proficient reader of expository texts. That is not necessarily so.
The trouble that many good readers of literature tend to have with expository texts has to do, in part, with text structure. Text structure refers to how the text is organized. For example, a text might present a main idea and then details, a cause and then its effects, an effect and the causes, two different views of a topic, etc.
While most pieces of fiction follow the same or similar general organizational patterns, different expository texts can have very different text structures. Therefore, it is important to teach students to recognize common text structures found in expository texts.
Teaching students to recognize common text structures found in expository texts can help students monitor their comprehension. Attempting to identify the text structure early on in the reading of a new text encourages the reader to question how subsequent sections of the text fit into the identified text structure.
If a subsequent section does not seem to fit into that text structure, the reader is faced with one of two possibilities. Either the reader needs to reevaluate the choice of text structure, or he or she needs to reevaluate his or her understanding of the text. Either way, the process of identifying the text structure will encourage the reader to monitor his or her comprehension of the text.
How to Teach Readers to Use Text Structure
- Introduce the idea that expository texts have a text structure. Explain to students that expository texts (such as the text in their science and social studies textbooks) have different organizational patterns. These organizational patters are called text structures.
- Introduce the following common text structures. Explain that text structures can often be identified by certain signal words.
Text Structure
Description/List Structure
This structure resembles an outline. Each section opens with its main idea, then elaborates on it, sometimes dividing the elaboration into subsections.
EXAMPLE: A book may tell all about whales or describe what the geography is like in a particular region.
For example, for instance, specifically, in particular, in addition Cause and Effect Structure In texts that follow this structure, the reader is told the result of an event or occurrence and the reasons it happened.
EXAMPLE: Weather patterns could be described that explain why a big snowstorm occurred.
Consequently, therefore, as a result, thereby, leads to Comparison/
Contrast Structure
Texts that follow this structure tell about the differences and similarities of two or more objects, places, events or ideas by grouping their traits for comparison.
EXAMPLE: A book about ancient Greece may explain how the Spartan women were different from the Athenian women.
However, unlike, like, by contrast, yet, in comparison, although, whereas, similar to, different from Order/Sequence Structure Texts that follow this structure tell the order in which steps in a process or series of events occur.
EXAMPLE: A book about the American revolution might list the events leading to the war. In another book, steps involved in harvesting blue crabs might be told.
Next, first, last, second, another, then, additionally
- Show examples of paragraphs that correspond to each text structure.
- Examine topic sentences that clue the reader to a specific structure. Look for the signal words that are associated with each text structure.
- Model the writing of a paragraph that uses a specific text structure.
- Have students try writing paragraphs on their own that follow a specific text structure. Writing paragraphs that follow certain text structures will help students recognize these text structures when they are reading.
- For students who are proficient with paragraph organization, do steps 3 –6 with longer chunks of text or entire chapters and articles.
- For more information see: Simonsen, S. (1996). Identifying and Teaching Text Structures in Content Area Classrooms. In D. Lapp, J. Flood, & N. Farnan (Eds.), Content Area reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.


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Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
The company's "customers, partners and developers are working in increasingly heterogeneous environments," so participation in projects such as the census is relevant to the "ecosystem" in which Microsoft operates, said Sam Ramji, Microsoft' senior director of platform strategy, in a prepared statement.
It is the latest gesture by the Redmond software giant toward the open-source community, which has long regarded it as a bogeyman due to actions like its claim last year that open-source software violated more than 200 of its patents.
Ramji, who could not be reached for comment, is seen as a major driver behind Microsoft's gradually warming attitude -- at least publicly -- toward open source and interoperability.
It is important to balance open-mindedness with skepticism when thinking about Microsoft's open-source strategy, according to one observer.
"I've met with Sam and there's no question those guys are smart with what they're doing with open source," said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group. "They definitely have changed. Is it genuine? Some of it is and some of it may be less so."
Microsoft's involvement could help the census gain interest from larger enterprises, Lyman noted. But at the same time, it may also draw ire from Microsoft's many critics, he added.
In addition to Microsoft, ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab and OSAlalt.com have also joined the effort, which provides a tool, from vendor OpenLogic, which a company can use to scan computers and spot installed open-source code. The scan data can then be pushed in anonymous form to the OSC's database.
Contributors can get reports that summarize their own use, as well as comparative data based on similar companies' results. Aggregated data untraceable to any company is available publicly.
More than 220,000 open-source packages or installations have been found during the two months since the effort launched, according to the site. But as of June 12, only about 1,300 machines had been scanned.
Lyman's firm is watching the census' progress closely to see whether it turns up enough data to provide a useful representative sample. "The theme from all accounts is that open-source usage is wildly underestimated," he said. "Maybe we'll get a better sense of that."


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Making your site look good is worth the effort, says online company founder.
Stepping over teenage kids in sleeping bags to get to her desk, Barb Anderson knew her web design business had outgrown the home office.
It wasn't just negotiating the remnants of a teenager's party that pushed her to look for a new workplace.
Corporate clients seemed to question sending couriers to a residential address and her three children didn't think she even had a job.
"To them Dad had a job and Mum had a hobby," says Anderson.
She moved her fledgling company, bka Interactive (the bka stands for "be kick arse", says Anderson, as well as being her initials) into the offices of a friend, architect Dave Strachan.
Anderson jokes that her innate laziness and willingness to delegate saw her bring on more staff.
In reality, the company's growth was down to Anderson recognising that to be world leading and design "s***-hot, beautiful and well-built" websites, she needed to employ people who had the skills she didn't.
One of the first people she hired was creative director Maak Bow, who is still with her today.
"After the creative director came on board I also realised things were moving away from pretty websites to doing functional, grunty business operational websites, so I knew we had to get developers on board."
She quickly filled the space in Strachan's offices and moved again, leaving with a piece of advice from Strachan that still resonates: you are only as good as your last work.
"It didn't matter if we had a $5000 client or a $20,000 client, we resolved we would never stop ... if it's not beautiful, it's not finished."
Aesthetics are important for a website, she says, because a well-designed site garners more respect from users.
And Anderson says a gorgeous website is not out of reach of small companies with tiny budgets.
The beautiful work it produces recently gained bka Interactive international attention in a design award run by Umbraco, a provider of open source content management software.
Beating more than 80 global entries, bka won the "best integration" award for its work on the Giltrap Group website and was runner-up in the design category for a website designed for New Zealand band Six60.
Fellow New Zealand web designers Terrabyte were also runner-up in the design and technical solution awards.
Anderson says she was thrilled to get the accolade, and believes the fact that two New Zealand web design companies featured highly points to the talent in this country.
Anderson's introduction to online design came during an art and design degree she completed in the mid-1990s.
Originally a teacher, she headed back to university after the birth of her last child.
With only a limited knowledge of html - the basic code for building websites - Anderson joined the brand new digital team at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, working on the first Telecom website, followed by a stint in online design at a medical publisher.
"It's hard to make a living out of being an artist and I really like the idea of online. I'd done a lot of work in the digital space when I was at art school and I thought it was a really cool way of combining a love of maths and logic with things creative."
In 2001 she struck out on her own and started bka.
Although she could have stayed in a salaried job, Anderson says she wanted the fun and challenge of running her own business, and at 40 didn't want to be checking in for permission to go and watch her son play rugby.
"I just wanted that flexibility. I certainly didn't see it as major money potential. I just saw it as a really cool lifestyle really."
Over time the company's aesthetic emphasis has appealed to clients in the arts sector, including Auckland Theatre Company, the Comedy Festival and auction house Art+Object, and the sporting arena.
That dovetails nicely with Anderson's own interests; as well as having an arts background, she is a sports nut who still plays netball at a competitive level.
The business of being "all things digital - anything online that makes businesses boom" has seen bka Interactive add an app development team.
Anderson sees huge opportunities in creating mobile applications. Until now, she says, many apps have been created by developers who have done a great job technically but haven't understood usability and beauty.


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Doi Suthep: Exploring Chiang Mai's Spiritual SideAnne Merritt
A 40 Baht songtaew from the city centre takes you up the winding mountain road where Doi Suthep lies 1676 metres above Chiang Mai. The last dozen or so must be trekked on foot, up the 306-step staircase with carved dragon handrails and cool forests on either side. Of course, lazy sightseers can always opt for the 20baht cable car. While the base of the steps is swimming with chatty local vendors peddling paintings, carvings, fruit and Fanta, the temple itself is big enough to allow even the largest crowd of tourists some breathing space.The history of the temple is a tale of monks, kings, elephants and relics. According to legend, a 14th century monk from Sukhothai found a relic from Buddha, and the Lanna King Keu Naone offered to enshrine the piece. The relic was placed on the back of a white elephant, a sacred symbol. He carried the relic up the mountain, stopped on the site where the temple stands today, and died. The temple was constructed in 1383, with a statue honouring the white elephant inside the front gate.
Your ticket (30 Baht) allows free roam of the temple grounds, though tour guides are plentiful and very helpful. Amidst Buddhist statues, jackfruit trees, and rows of metal bells (rung constantly by curious children, despite the signs warning visitors not to push the bells), the outer area is cool and spaceous, with plenty of gilded doors and ornamental carving to admire.
The bookshop and cafes allow visitors a chance to rest their feet (and cameras). It's also a chance to take in the views of the evergreen hills and exotic birds which make up the 260 square kilometres of Doi Suthep National Park. On the other side of the entrance gate, a lookout point offers an impressive view of sprawling Chiang Mai and the distant Ping river.
The middle of the temple is the more sacred cloister area, and visitors can remove their shoes and admire the golden Lanna-style Chedi, standing 79 feet high and housing the famous relic of Buddha. Ornametal umbrellas and Buddha statues, all gold, stand around the chedi. The surrounding walls are painted with murals depicting the life of Buddha. If you have the fortune of witnessing this sight on a clear sunny day, it's easy to get lost in a trance with this shining gold scene. This area is considered to be one of the holiest in Thailand, and makes the trip up the mountain well worthwhile.
Those in search of a spiritual stay in Chiang Mai can book into Doi Suthep's International Buddhism Centre and stay in the temple itself, finding meditative peace in the natural and spiritual beauty in the temple and its surroundings. The website provides further information at http://www.fivethousandyears.org/
Anne Merritt is Canadian and has an English Literature degree. She has worked as a journalist for a university newspaper. She is currently living in Ayutthaya as an ESL teacher and is sharing her experience of Thailand with KhaoSanRoad.com.


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Lancaster Colony Corporation (LANC), which manufactures and markets food products, pays a regular quarterly dividend and has a history of increasing its dividend annually for the last 50 years. Solid fiscal first-quarter results, a dividend yield of 2.1% and a debt-free balance sheet make this Zacks #2 Rank (Buy) a good pick for investors looking for both growth and income.
Driving Catalysts
Lancaster Colony recently hiked its quarterly dividend by 5.56% to 38 cents from 36 cents. Apart from the regular cash dividend, the company will also pay a special cash dividend of $5.00 per share to shareholders on December 28, 2012.
On October 25, the company reported solid fiscal first-quarter earnings per share of 98 cents, up 25.6% year over year and 4.3% above the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Net sales jumped 6.0% year over year to $291 million. Segment-wise, Specialty Foods net sales nudged up 5%, driven by increases in both retail and foodservice sales, while Glassware and Candles sales increased 12% on volume growth.
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The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2013 rose 2.0% to $4.04 per share in the last 30 days, based on upward revisions from 2 of 3 estimates. This outlook implies year-over-year growth of 15.2%.
For fiscal 2014, the Zacks Consensus Estimate is up 4.3% to $4.35 per share, suggesting year-over-year growth of 7.6%.
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Though the stock of Lancaster Colony is not cheap by most valuation metrics, it looks reasonable on a P/E basis. The stock currently trades at a forward P/E of 18.13x, a slight discount to the peer group average of 18.39x. The stock also looks attractive given a trailing 12-month ROE of 18.1%, which is higher than the peer group average of 9.2%.
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Lenny Kravitz sits down with Piers Morgan this evening to talk about love, life and music. Kravitz talks to Piers about his days as a heavy marijuana user. "I would just smoke weed all day and all night," says Kravitz. "I would wake up, yawn, and light the joint."
He reveals that he once hired someone to fill a very interesting job. "Even at one point, I had a guy on staff whose job was to roll joints," says Kravitz. Tune in tonight at 9pm ET/PT to find out who he says is the love of his life, what inspires him and his plans for his music.
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Just watching your interview with Lenny Kravits – which was so great – BUT please man lower your chair! Don't try to tower over your guests, you look like a pratt!
IThis is a direct example how a drug can consume a person's life. It is important to seek out substance abuse treatment to engage in and fulfill a drug free lifestyle.
Villa: Why would anyone want to do that?
JUST WATCHED RERUN AND Piers basically told Tom Brokaw that he knows more about NEWS than him......... the Donald welcome anytime!!!!! does CNN read these blogs!!!!!!!
Too bad he didn't answer the question on how this affected his craft and view on the world.
It's supposed to be weird. You just realize HOW weird it is when you build a cloud of fuzzyness around you for a considerable amount of time. In a way it not much different as sitting in a cave for years before coming down from the mountain. There is this stigma around the use of conciousness expanding substances because it's a loaded gun pointed at the head of western society and capitalism. What we are left with is the socially accepted drugs (Alcohol, coffee, tabacco). It's not for everyone though. Your brain structure should conform to that of a Shamen's, Sufi or what have you. Drugs and stupidity don't mix.
WOW Lenny, you sure know what's up man...I was in the same boat as you (aside from the joint-rolling staff member LMAO) and I just recently quit tha ganja...I'm still in that psychadelic real-life stage right now, but you totally described exactly what I'm feeling!! It's way cool to know that one of my favorite artists went through the same thing and recovered from it. Gives me courage and the strength to keep living this sober lifestyle!!
Pierce, Why does CNN always minimize the controversy with the Obama Administration and Catholic Employers to one item (CONTRACEPTION), It also inclides sterilization and abortive drugs (Morning after Pill). QUIT BELLITILLING THE ISSUE!!!!!!
This is the 21st Century no need for a bunch of Priests and MEN to get involved!!!
I LOVE Lenny Kravitz! I also think Black and White America is amazing and terpty funky. I love it!Lenny rocks. I will see him in concert in November
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Substance dependence, commonly called drug addiction, is a compulsive need to use drugs in order to function normally. When such substances are unobtainable, the user suffers from withdrawal. A drug user may not be aware that their behavior is out of control and causing problems for themselves and others. ..;*'
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After announcing its 4G LTE mobile network at CES two years ago and its FiOS fiber-based home broadband offering here in 2004, Verizon used a keynote address on Tuesday to pitch its progress on those and other projects.
Verizon Wireless will finish building out its LTE network by the middle of this year, six months ahead of schedule, said Lowell McAdam, a former chief of the wireless subsidiary who is now chairman and CEO of parent company Verizon Communications. Today, that network reaches more than 273 million U.S. residents -- 89 percent of the population, he said.
Meanwhile, the company has a platform in place to increase the speed of FiOS to 1G bps to homes, McAdam said. The company has more than 5 million FiOS customers now. A version of the service with 300M bps speed came out last year. Not to leave out enterprises, McAdam said Verizon would offer 100G bps speeds, which already connect most major U.S. cities, in its metro Ethernet networks to boost the speed companies can get.
McAdam highlighted notable uses of Verizon's networks and its cloud infrastructure, such as cellular connectivity for Golden-i, a headset that firefighters can use for augmented reality. Among other things, Golden-i can let them see through smoke with an infrared camera and view floor plans as they walk through a burning building, according to a video shown during the keynote.
But Golden-i was demonstrated at last year's CES. McAdam made it clear Verizon is looking for new ideas: He announced the Powerful Answers Award program, which will give a total of US$10 million in awards to whoever develops the best innovations for taking advantage of the company's mobile, video and cloud technologies.
The contest is intended to come up with promising new developments in health care, education and sustainability, which Verizon will help the winners bring to fruition, McAdam said. The top award will be $1 million and Verizon will start accepting submissions later this year.
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This guest post is by Blog Lady.
There comes a time in your career as a blogger or website owner that you find yourself with a niche blog or site that isn't meeting your expectations money-wise. That's nothing to feel bad about. It happens to everybody, and if some say it's never happened to them, they must be insanely lucky or they just haven't been in the business long enough.
But what do you do when it finally happens to you?
Give it more time
It could be that the only thing your niche blog needs is more time to "prove" itself. All sites take time to build authority and gain steady traffic. If you've been running your site for a month or two and you get only a dozen or so visits a day, don't be surprised if your earnings are, or are very close to, nil.
If anything, you shouldn't worry about making money from such a young site. Instead, focus on producing quality content and establishing good relationships with your readers and fellow bloggers/webmasters. I've found that it's best to give a niche blog eight to 12 months before I start to make conclusions about it.
I almost gave up on one of my niche blogs several months ago. It was doing quite poorly in comparison to my other sites. But then it suddenly took off, for reasons unknown. Today it is my biggest money earner. So don't give up too quickly on what seems like a failed project.
Examine your target keywords
Niches aren't equally profitable, and even keywords within the same niche do not have the same earning potential. You want to optimize your blog for keywords that can generate the most income. If you've been targeting and ranking for low-value keywords, the payoff may be small even with a high conversion rate.
On the other hand, if you target high-value keywords but convert rarely, you may be targeting an audience that has a low click-through/conversion rate. (In other words, the type of visitor that isn't motivated to click ads or buy a product.)
Find keywords that have the best combination of ad value, traffic volume, advertiser competition, and conversion rate.
To give an example, one of my oldest sites targets a small niche in the New Age market. I knew what kind of information that competitor sites weren't providing, and was sure I could deliver it. And I did. Yet what I didn't think of was the low commercial value of the specific keywords I'd chosen. I got the traffic, all right, but not the dough. So I researched my niche for higher-value keywords with better conversion rates, and applied them to several new and existing posts. Sure enough, these keywords bumped up my AdSense and Amazon affiliate income.
As for which keyword tools to use, I'm happy with the free Google AdWords Keyword Tool. You might try commercial tools such as Market Samurai, if you can afford them.
(Note: this is no reason to delete low-earning articles by the way. If your readers enjoy them, keep them and make some more—it serves your visitors well, earns you their trust and hopefully, backlinks.)
Explore different ad placement and ad types
Sometimes, the issue might not be your choice of keywords at all, but what you sell, how you sell it, and where you sell it. Check the advertisements that show up your blog. Look over the affiliate products you sell. Are they appropriate? Are people likely to click or buy them?
If you get few clicks, try moving your ads to different places on your blog. Experiment with affiliate widgets, buttons, and text links to see which get the most attention.
When you change your ads this way, wait several days to a week before you change them again. Personally, I'd wait for as long as it takes for me to get 500-1,000 impressions. (That's less than 24 hours for a high-traffic blog, but the average site would need more time.) Monitor your conversion rates via your advertiser's or affiliate partner's account.
Now don't go to desperate means to get clicks on your ads. That means, don't try to "mask" your ads and don't put them where they will disturb visitors' experience of your blog. The few extra dollars you make this way aren't worth the contempt and loss of trust it would incur.
Modify your strategy
Are you wholly dependent on a specific type of traffic, such as search traffic? If so, you need to modify your strategy to be less reliant on that traffic source. If you rely on Google for the majority of your traffic, you'd be seriously hurt if an algorithm update were to drop your site's ranking.
Learn to diversify. Besides search traffic, look to social traffic, word of mouth, advertising and other means. We all need to do this, whether or not our sites make money, if we are to survive in the post-Panda era.
Know when to let go
I said earlier that you should give your niche site a chance. However there is such a thing as trying too hard. If you've tried all ethical means to boost your site's income and still nothing happens, face the music. Leave it alone and try something else.
To invest all your time and resources in a lost cause is foolish. And don't feel bad doing this. You're learning. Every niche blog you make teaches you a lesson. With every success and failure, you discover what works and what doesn't, what your viewers want and what you are capable of delivering. So even a failed site—if it is that—is not a complete waste of time. Learn from your mistakes, vow to do better and move on.
Blog Lady. A former freelance website content writer and now full-time niche blogger. Visit my blog for more articles on niche marketing, blogging and social media. Website: Blog Lady RSS Feed: Blog Lady RSS Feed.


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Emmy-winning American counterterrorism thriller "Homeland" has been renewed for a fourth, 12-episode season after its audience has grown by more than a quarter in its current third season, U.S. premium television network Showtime said on Tuesday.
"Homeland" has averaged 6.5 million viewers through the first three episodes of its third season, while the second season drew an average of 5.1 million viewers over the same time frame, Showtime said.
While the series' audience has grown since its lauded first season, the second season faltered with critics for what was viewed as outlandish plot twists. Last month, "Homeland" failed to repeat its Emmy for best drama, losing to "Breaking Bad."
"Homeland," which stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, also sits at a crossroads as Lewis' popular Brody character has slid out of the spotlight, not appearing in the first two episodes of the current season. Lewis has hinted that the character could be killed off.
The series, which won the trifecta of top Emmy awards – best drama series, and best actor and actress in a drama – in its first season, also takes over as CBS Corp-owned <CBS.N> Showtime's top drama after cult hit "Dexter" concluded in September.
Showtime added that it renewed drama "Masters of Sex," about the William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson research team that pioneered the field of human sexual response in the 1960s, for a second season.
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What will we do post growth, post cheap energy, post resource abundance and post climate change? The Post Carbon Institute (PCI) convened its first meeting of Fellows this weekend in Berkeley to address these concerns. Many there and elsewhere have argued that these transformational changes are already becoming evident.
PCI Fellow Bill Rees, the co-originator of the Ecological Footprint, captured the mood of the group best when he said, "We have to adapt to the change rather then repress the change."
The Institute's Fellows were gathered by PCI from a wide variety of fields: energy, transportation, population, food/ agriculture, building and development, economics, social justice, education, urban issues, health, climate, biodiversity and water. The event marked a maiden face-to-face (and virtual) voyage to examine the brave new waters of the 21st century. About 25 of PCI's 29 Fellows participated.
PCI Fellows Retreat, David Brower Center, Berkeley (Post Carbon Institute photo)
Asher Miller, PCI's executive director set the table for the three-day event. "Facing such daunting issues, we can either: 1) pack up and go home; 2) be a witness to history; 3) save what we can, which I call the Noah's Ark approach; or 4) work as hard as we can, and go as big as can go. Collectively we can come up with one thing, or do lots of things–we don't know which one will bring the best results."
The group of Fellows up until this point has been focused on producing a book (cover pictured above) of essays and case studies that will be released by University of California Press with Watershed Media in July, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises.
The Berkeley retreat focused on developing connective tissue among Fellows through facilitated exercises, planning and presentations. Some highlights–or lowlights–as many of the participants (myself included) could be accused of being bearers of bad news:
Richard Heinberg, the Senior Fellow whose extensive work (The Party's Over, Blackout, Peak Everything) has provided a nexus for PCI while helping define "Peak Oil" thinking, has spoken to world leaders from Congress to European Parliament.
"I have nothing to show for all my presentation to political leaders," Heinberg said. "Anyone who questions the concept of growth is shunted off."
Erika Allen, Chicago manager for Growing Power, a national land trust that provides access to healthy local food in disadvantaged communities, explored a scenario where food supplies are cut off because of an energy supply disruption or other crisis. "We've been preparing around the principles of providing seven days of food for Chicago–what systems are in place to respond? We need to be able to grow food on concrete and on the tops of buildings."
The issue of sustainable agriculture, both urban and rural, was an overall emergent issue of the weekend, with talismanic Wes Jackson, founder and director of The Land Institute, providing an urgent view into a survival system that has been taken for granted.
"In the long run, soil is more important than oil," Jackson said, citing research that soil carbon concentrations in US have been halved since non-indigenous settlement, from 6 percent to 3 percent, because of poor conservation and industrial practices.
Grave consequences for climate-change influenced mass migrations were forecast by Brian Schwartz, a Johns Hopkins professor in public health. "Moving populations (because of climate change) will be very bad for society, the environment and health in every aspect."
Chris Martenson's The Crash Course presentation examined unsustainable levels of US debt, uncovering shocking new snapshots on the historic level of government and personal debt after a decade with zero job growth.
Martenson, a former corporate executive, later confessed that there are emerging opportunities in certain investments, job sectors and geographic areas. He was also optimistic about the can-do nature of Americans: "Give people something to do, and they'll put it together with joy and creativity, such as the Burning Man village."
Similarly, Rob Hopkins, the originator of the Transition Town movement, reported from the UK via Skype video (he gave up flying three years ago) that the effort to form locally organized community resilience around food, energy, construction and culture is rapidly multiplying in global locations. "It's spreading very, very fast, with new Transition Towns in Chile, Sweden, Canada, Italy and Australia."
"With resilience, we see an opportunity to take a shock and then make a step by the community in the right direction so it can advance itself," Hopkins said of the 300-plus transition initiatives. "Our role isn't to manage a lot of projects, but to support projects as they emerge."
Other Fellows presenting included author Bill McKibben (The End of Nature and 350.org), Zenobia Barlow, executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, and Rees, a professor at the University of British Columbia. Joe Brewer, founder and director of communications strategy consultancy Cognitive Policy Works, also led sessions on communications and messaging.
The results of the event included a forthcoming mission statement that was co-authored by nine different groups. My group on cities also consisted of Johns Hopkins professor Schwartz, City University of New York professor (and former New York City green building standard originator) Hillary Brown, and transportation expert Anthony Perl, author of Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil.
We contributed concepts around "bioregionally grounded human communities" based on non-automotive transportation options, human-scaled neighborhoods and regionally produced sustainable food and energy.
Groups also prepared proposals for collaboration and post-event project action, including a Resiliency Preparedness Kit; a communications strategy and roll-out plan; a regional sustainable agriculture investment model for production, processing and urban distribution; and a PCI-informed community development prototype approach for both domestic (Oberlin, Ohio) and international (most likely India or China) communities.
"We need to foster experimentation, re-localization,and differentiation in our redundancies and behavior," said PCI executive director Miller. "Simple living can make us happier and can tap into the long history of humans as a species."
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