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Professional Master's Degree in Geoscience to be offered in Fall 2014University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Professor, Geology and Geophysics, SOEST
Marcie Grabowski, (808) 956-3151
Outreach Coordinator, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Students may pursue a Professional Master's Degree in Geoscience (MGeo) within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa starting in Fall 2014. Providing Master's-level training and practical experience in applied geoscience, the MGeo is intended to prepare students to pursue a career in a variety of fields including geological and environmental consulting, geotechnical engineering, hydrology, natural hazard mitigation, climate change adaption, natural resource exploration and renewable energy development.
The program was designed in collaboration with professionals already working in geosciences fields in Hawaiʻi. The emphasis is on applied geoscience coursework, with key courses scheduled in the evenings or remotely accessible, facilitating studies for working professionals with full-time jobs. To put knowledge into practice, a student will complete a final work-related project with a local company or agency.
"Whereas our M.S. (Master's of Science) degree is our research degree track, the MGeo is a new option for individuals who wish to pursue, or who are already in, careers in applied geoscience," said Dr. Garrett Ito, Professor in the UHM Department of Geology and Geophysics. "MGeo students will take courses that emphasize applications and gain real work experience as part of their capstone project."
This streamlined, professional graduate degree is envisioned to elevate the capacity of the local workforce. "Because enrollment is not limited by the availability of extramural funds like our M.S. program, the MGeo provides opportunities for advanced training to a larger number of students," stated Ito.
For more information, including admission requirements, visit http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/academics/gg_mgeo.html or contact the Department of Geology and Geophysics Graduate Admissions at (808) 956-6105 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Im so new that I just wrote my first hello world script using PERL, I did the same thing in PHP but 3 months later i created a pretty impressive web applications.
I'm Using activeperl Win32 on Windows 7, have Dual boot with ubuntu 10.04.1 As Well, Switch between depending on if I want to play a game or not
I'm brand new to Perl but have been programming for about 4 years on and off with PHP and MySQL, the days before CSS were horrible. Also in process of learning Visual Basic 2008. I'm impressed in the powerful functionality of Visual Basic code, but Mainly I'm simply Mainly Interested in the Simple but Complex GUI Building capabilities of the Studio Editor and the Ease of which it makes GUI Creation Possible as most are.
But I want to know, and I will be focusing my 100's of threads in the future here (apart from asking stupid newbie questions about perl) on is it possible and if so simple to implement or integreate or incorporate (tell me the differnece if one of those is correct, because I dont know them apart) PERL if I become a guru at the language and it's accompanying languages as the ONLY language with tids of Visual Basic to tie it together, possibly with some PHP into the beautiful GUI Builder of Visual Sudio 2008 to create Cross Platform GUI , Beautiful, Amazingly Functional, User Friendly GUI Applications - or is there another better way to create Graphic(ical?) User Interface Applications using/for PERL that's as amazing and as the GUI that can be created by Visual Studio and VisuaL Basic.
I'm So Passionate about becoming a Master at PERL and Creating Cross Platform GUI User Friendly, Extremly "In Demand Applications". Sorry to ramble but I will most likely be posting 100's of threads within the 4 or 5 months of learning before I go into the Navy and hopefully become a System Weapons Designer to make MISSles HITTles (because missles tend to miss alot, get it) or System Admin Security Counter Hacker, Applications developer - Something important, wont join if I'm not programming with computers...
I'd just like to say thank you and You have a Wonderful Community and Forum here and I'd like to thank you all and ask for some Advice, Answers and as much info as you can give me about the Subject, and the best way to learn PERL.
If you Continue to Read On, You'll understand WHy I ask this and need to know if my question is answered to my delight, because I've set a Goal - and the only way to learn a programming language in my opinion is to plan a program - learn as much as you can, and start writing the program using reference guides, tutorials, forums, bibles, and 100's of red bulls and sleepless nights.
If PERL could be used with Visual Studio's Beautiful and Simple GUI Editor or Another GUI Editor made Specifically for making PERL GUI, I Would make a Email Client (or something simple, until I'm a master at perl) My main goal and project I Hope to create before I Die is to create my own Personal All About Me or (You if I ever complete it and release it) that is designed to look great with images cutting edge, beautiful themes addibs with Tabs and Buttons that lead to the most interesting things that that a Person could want in his own "Opereating System inside a Operating System (BUT NOWHERE NEAR as large, maybe 20 functions or less maybe more??) like "Click here to Access your Bank Statement, or click the newsgroups tab to add the newsgroup URLS and watch Live Newsgroup feeds scrolling, Tweet or post on your favorite Social Netowkring Site in a whole new way, maybe a NEW one, A Simple area that reads you have "This Amount of new EMails" with the top 5 newest floating in a bubble that let syou click the link and it opens the email client, ETC...Even if I come up with a more Realistic Program Goal, That's Smaller, SImpler - I will make sure that it's something that the LINUX and WIndoze Community has been asking for.
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Wapakoneta to bring back summer school for all levels
For the first time in years, Wapakoneta City Schools will be offering a free summer school program for students at the elementary and middle school levels who are looking to improve their math and reading skills.
The district has previously offered summer school for high school students who need to make up classes or pass a state assessment like the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT), but a recent redistribution of funds has allowed the program to extend to all grade levels, beginning with kindergarten up through 12th grade.
Wapakoneta City Schools Superintendent Keith Horner said certain students have been invited to attend the program based on their test scores and performance in the classroom, and he encourages parents to allow their kids to take advantage of the opportunity to catch up, or simply improve their skills.
"We're inviting kids to come who might need a little extra help or a little boost that may do them good," Horner said. "It's like anything in that if you want to get good at something, you have to put in the time. Hopefully our parents are supportive of that and will take advantage of these free services."
For the full story, see the Tuesday, May 13 edition of the Wapakoneta Daily News.


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quote:Originally posted by dragonman97: 2. Not sure if you're aware of this, but /liquid/ Benadryl (labelled as Children's Benadryl) is your best bet for allergic reactions as it acts faster (the full dose is absorbed faster than a pill, I think). At least that's what an allergist told me. (I /used/ to be allergic to bee stings.)
quote:Originally posted by MacManKrisK: Dragonman: I only work part-time so I don't get insruance. I am feeling much better now, thank you. The ironic part of this is that Benadryl contains... red 40!
quote:Originally posted by Stibbons: * It always confuses me that the US persist in using brand named drugs when generics exist for a much lower price. But then, that's another issue with the US healthcare system...
quote:Originally posted by fs:I don't think that's actually the case. We often refer to it by its brand name, but what's actually sitting on the medicine cabinet shelf could just as likely be something with "the same active ingredients as Benedryl."
quote:Originally posted by Zwilnik:There's a minor downside to everyone getting emergency care as a right. People have a horrible habit of calling 999 or rushing to Casualty when it's not an emergency. So a degree of triage can end up going on (don't expect to see a doctor in the next couple of hours if you've just cut your finger and the waiting room is full).
quote:Originally posted by Stibbons:[By doing this, everyone wins. The hospital and more ambulances are available for appropriately sick people, the patient's aren't put at the same risk of hospital acquired infections, and road users aren't put at risk by 3-4 tonne vans hurtling around. [/QB]


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The 20th annual conference of the Yale Chapter of International Society of Tropical Foresters concluded Saturday with an inspiring message from a Honduran community leader: Even in a land of drugs, violence, and deforestation, sustainable forests and livelihoods are possible.
The Fundacion Madera Verde of Honduras and the Greenwood "green broker network" won the first ever ISTF innovation prize, sponsored by the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Accepting the prize, Yadira Molina de Cruz spoke of the troubles in her home country, but also of the hope that she finds in the work of their project, which connects forest dwelling communities with value added wood processing and buyer markets. Judge panel coordinator Peter Pinchot, grandson of the founder of the Yale School of…


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The steel industry is revving up to meet the technological challenges needed on the drive toward a leaner, meaner and cleaner North American automotive industry, evidenced at an industry event this spring.
The Automotive Applications Council of the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI) held its eighth annual Great Designs in Steel (GDIS) seminar in Livonia, Mich., providing the more than 1,000 attendees a dramatic demonstration of the advances being made in steel vehicle applications.
GDIS offered first-hand demonstrations highlighting steel solutions ranging from product research to major original equipment manufacturer applications. High-quality discussions addressing key issues included technical presentations on the environment and energy challenges impacting vehicle design.
The purpose of GDIS is to demonstrate how new advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) technologies provide cost-effective solutions to help automakers increase fuel economy, curb emissions and improve safety.
During the day-long event, more than 25 technical presentations were given by North American automotive and steel industry experts on such topics as applications of AHSS in the 2009 Acura TL and 2009 Honda Pilot; the future of steel in the 21st Century; optimized steel solutions for roof strength using AHSS; automotive lightweighting; upcoming energy climate policy opportunities; and future steel vehicles, advanced powertrains and the influence of material selection.
One highlight of the seminar was a live extrication demonstration of an imaginary passenger in a crashed car manufactured with ultra-HSS product. Firefighters from McKinney, Texas, and Livonia showed how new rescue equipment has been developed to help first responders free trapped passengers from new HSS vehicles.
Among the vehicles displayed was a 2009 Ford F-150 Super Cab cut-away exhibit that showed off the innovative use of new steel, materials and processes. The F-150 Super Cab uses a combination of AHSS and tube hydroforming to achieve the new roof-strength standards recently implemented by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration. According to Ford Motor Co., the roof strength of the F-150 has increased by nearly 75 percent compared with the 2008 model.
SMDI, part of the American Iron and Steel Institute, also presented the GDIS Automotive Excellence Award to the BMW X6 Research and Development team, selected for its cost-effective use of ultra-HSS products that meet new market demands for safety, fuel efficiency and emissions standards. The award recognizes individuals or teams from automakers, suppliers or the academic community who embrace innovation and make significant contributions to the advancement of steel in the automotive marketplace.
BMW used unique processing technologies and several complex, ultra-HSS grades in its X6 design. The vehicle features a steel structure and steel side frames, panels, rear and B-pillar reinforcements and a longitudinal rear member. These parts improve performance, reduce costs and weight and meet Insurance Institute for Highway Safety side-impact crash test requirements.
GDIS provided a dramatic snapshot for seminar participants this year of how the steel industry is positioning itself through advanced technologies for the evolving North American automobile sector.
Ronald P. Krupitzer is vice president of automotive applications at the Steel Market Development Institute, a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Created in 1961 as the ministerial delegation for armament, the DGA is an organization belonging to the French Ministry of Defense. Its main purpose is to ensure the competitiveness, quality and safety of French defense equipment.
DGA's responsibilities include:
- Equipping the French armed forces
- Leading defense programs encompassing procurement, testing and evaluation
- DGA manages 78 defense programs in the phases of design and manufacturing
- In 2005, the DGA placed $10 billion worth of industry orders
- preparing the future by forecasting possible future scenarios and guaranteeing that required technologies and expertise will be available
- promoting defense equipment exports
The research, design, manufacturing and support of defense programs involve the daily exchange of a wide range of information amongst the members of the defense community. In addition to the French Armaments Procurement Agency (DGA), members include the armed forces, industrial suppliers, integrated support structures, and government financial departments.
With this in mind, the dga set out to create a collaboration platform to offer these players a rational, unique and advanced communications solution for all their exchanges of technical, contractual and financial data. Key requirements for the platform included:
- an easy to use collaboration platform (portal)
- an easy to configure secured communities
- an easy to configure process engine
- a wide range of integrations for connecting external information systems
- a high level of security (strong authentication with smart cards X509 v3 client certificates)
- a private network (european network eXchange)
After a long evaluation and benchmarking process administered by the DGA, Liferay was chosen by Ippon Technologies (www.ippon.fr) to serve as the de-facto portal infrastructure for DGA's collaboration platform. Designed and developed by Ippon, the collaboration platform (EPNG) also employed BEA Weblogic integration for its workflow engine and EAI with IPDiva for its secure reverse proxy.
By leveraging Liferay Portal's capabilities, Ippon technologies was able to implement:
- strong authentification / authorization with LDAP and certificates
- a detailed and secure community architecture
- strong integration with Weblogic
Currently, there are 20 portlets in production on top of Liferay Portal, including:
- private mailing systems
- per collectivity forums and enterprise chat
- per collectivity document library
- usage statistics
- digital signature and notarizing
- workflow administration with access to Weblogic integration configuration
- external applications access (connection through IPDiva's mediation server)
Moreover, unique customization possibilities from Liferay Portal (engine tuning) allowed EPNG to scale easily and support wide adoption from the extensive defense community.
Eleven months into production, almost 500 users had been registered, including all major defense suppliers (ie., Thales, Dassault, EADS, DCN). Twenty external applications are also now connected like online part stocks for aircrafts allowing military forces to access and order parts direct from the suppliers.
EPNG is now connected to the ministry of defense intranet allowing 100,000+ users to access its services.
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I bought your license MFHS v1.5.
It's been more than two years since I started working with versions of apache 2.4 and php 5.6.
On my site with the MFHS script installed, everything works, except for the admin part.
Error in the logs:
PHP Fatal error: The file /home/site_com/data/www/site.com/admin/index.php was encoded by the ionCube Encoder for PHP 4 and can not run under PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6. \ N Please ask the provider of the script to provide a version encoded with the ionCube Encoder for either PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4 or PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6. in Unknown on line 0
Now is the version of ionCube PHP Loader v10.0.2.
Earlier ionCube versions 5.x or 6.x were also installed - nothing worked with them either.
Give me please the /admin/index.php file packed in ionCube for php 5.6 or php 5.5 versions.


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New York City is widely known as the fashion capital of the world and it is home to some of the biggest and best shopping stores. At the forefront of fashion, glamour and innovation, New York City is where everything in fashion is happening. It's here that fashion ideas take root and trends are defined.
Ireland is a large tourism market, and according to NYC & Company there were 225,000 Irish visitors to NYC in 2010. There is a huge difference in the shopping stores between Ireland and NYC. There is far more available in New York shopping wise for Irish tourists.
The spring 2013 season is soon approaching and for all the Irish tourists that may be travelling to the exciting city, here are some of the top five stores for in NYC for you to visit.
1. Bergdorf Goodman – Fifth Avenue
The legendary eight floors of designer heaven have made it one of the most recognizable department stores in New York City. In store designer boutiques from some of the world's most coveted designers are complete with fitting rooms overlooking Central Park. When you want to take a break from shopping make sure to check out the in-store restaurants and cafes, which are highly decorated.
2. Bloomingdales – 59th Street and Lexington Avenue
Bloomingdale's is synonymous with New York City. Known for their great customer service Bloomingdales offers a plethora of brands from mid-range to luxury. Bloomingdale's is also very "men friendly" and offers great in-store boutiques for men from popular noteworthy sportswear labels like Armani and John Varvatos along with great mens accessories collections from Michael Kors and Kenneth Cole.
3. Macy's – 34th Street, Herald Square
Macy's Flagship store at Herald Square is a very popular shopping destination for visitors to New York City. Macy's Herald Square is well known for its Thanksgiving Day Parade, Holiday Window Displays, and Visits with Santa. If you're looking for cutting edge fashion, head elsewhere. This is the spot for essentials from all the big brands, everyone from Guess and Esprit to Ralph, Donna and Calvin, and at all prices in between.
4. Sephora – Times Square
Explore the largest and most diverse selection of beauty products from Sephora. Buy makeup, cosmetics, skincare and other products from beauty brands like Two Faced and Urban Decay. There are many stores around New York from Times Square to SoHo.
5. Century 21 – Broadway
Fight the crowds at this discount designer mecca and you could score a Calvin Klein dress for far less than its retail price. Be sure to hit up the shoe department as there are 100,000 pairs for trying on! You'll also find clothes, accessories, cosmetics, and lingerie from your favourite designers marked down 35 to 65 percent.


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For most students, prom is a rite of passage, an end to their time in high school.
For most students, prom is a rite of passage, an end to their time in high school.
For other students, the dance is even more — a milestone their parents never thought they could attend.
Thanks to Pocono Mountain West High School seniors Emily Rosado and Victoria Costello, both 17, two special-needs students have had a night they'll never forget.
"This experience was the best night of my life so far, taking them to prom and seeing their faces light up, especially when they heard their favorite songs," Rosado said Sunday, a day after the PMWHS prom, which was held at the Hilton in Parsippany, N.J.
"I think it was so great for the boys to go, and I think it's important that all teenagers get to have the prom experience," Costello said.
The two girls have been pursuing an independent study course with PMWHS special education teacher Melissa Owens since February.
Similar to an internship, the class allows Costello and Rosado to work with the special-needs students in Owens' classroom so they can decide if they want to pursue a career in special education one day.
"(Costello and Rosado) were the ones who asked me about prom. To me, I never really considered it, but they wanted to bring two of my students who have autism to the prom," Owens said.
The high school seniors took Marcus Scott, 19, and another boy from the class.
The girls describe Scott as a popular student, known for his exuberant personality and the enthusiastic high-fives he gives to friends in the hallway between classes.
"Marcus knew the words to literally every song, and they had more fun than anyone there," Costello said.
Special-needs students are allowed to attend school dances, but such events can be difficult for kids with autism. Those students are more sensitive to loud music, flashing lights and big crowds, Owens said.
For those students, events like the prom can be too overwhelming. Students with autism also communicate in different ways.
"Students with autism usually require step-by-step instructions and clues on how to do things. They don't have the social skills other people do, and sometimes they can be awkward in social situations," Owens said.
The experience was emotional for the boys' parents, Owens said. They both cried as they saw them off to the prom.
"I was really proud because I never thought he would be able to go to his prom. It was really emotional, just like sending my kids off to school for the first time," said Marcus' mom, Tina Scott.
Owens hopes more students in her special-needs class will have the opportunity to attend prom in the future.
"They have come so far to be included in the school itself. Not just the kids who volunteer, but the school as a whole has been very open to my students," Owens said.
"Autism isn't a disability, it's just the way they live," Rosado said. "They are amazing kids, no matter what."


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EVERY year, film crews roll into national parks. They set up actors and products beneath towering redwoods or sandstone buttes and use the scenery to sell cars, beer or a blockbuster movie.
Hollywood makes millions of dollars from these images, ad agencies get rich and actors get paid. With no costly sets, nature provides a dirt-cheap stage for motion pictures, TV shows, commercials and documentaries.
In exchange, the National Park Service gets nearly nothing.
Although cash-hungry parks struggle to keep restrooms open and trails tended, so far they have been unable to tap into the wealth of commercial film production occurring within their gates.
Film producers pay minimal fees to rent the nation's natural treasures because the National Park Service charges rates below market value and less than fees assessed on other public lands.
The result, Park Service officials acknowledge, is that their agency could be losing out on at least $1 million in annual revenue. The agency's annual budget is $2.6 billion.
Conservationists and even the motion picture industry acknowledge a need for reform, but their voices have not prevailed.
"Nobody cares enough to push this through," said Ron Tipton, senior vice president for programs at the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Assn. "I'm not suggesting that they're being nefarious or dishonest. It's just a matter of priorities."
But Congress once cared. It adopted a law five years ago authorizing the Interior and Agriculture departments to charge daily fees for film shoots. But since then, nothing has changed. The Park Service blames bureaucratic inertia for the delay.
Now the Government Accountability Office wants to know what went wrong. Congress' nonpartisan watchdog is investigating and expects to release its findings next month.
"We are all extremely frustrated that this has taken this long," said Lee Dickinson, who oversees commercial filming permits and other special park uses for the National Park Service. "And since I'm the point person, I'm beyond frustrated."
Meanwhile, the federal government has developed new ways to generate revenue from public lands. It charges recreational users for hikes, bird watching or picnics.
In November, President Bush signed the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, extending authority to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service to charge people visiting public lands improved with toilets, picnic tables and trash cans.
Although the Park Service charges for filming applications, cleanup and site restoration, as well as the use of rangers and others to monitor filming, it does not assess fees for each day that film crews work. Other agencies typically charge daily fees of $100 to $600 or more.
Across California and the West last year, Ford filmed in Joshua Tree National Park, Nissan worked at Olympic National Park, and Chrysler, Mercedes and Lexus, among others, filmed at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. At Death Valley National Park, business manager Dave Rhinehart estimates companies do 20 to 30 car shoots each year.
The Congressional Budget Office's Deborah Reis reported in 1999 that the Forest Service processed 1,500 to 2,000 permits annually for up to $600 in daily fees, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management processed 300 to 400 applications annually for up to $750 daily.
The National Park Service could earn from $1 million annually but probably no more than "a few million dollars a year," by charging daily fees on its 900 film permits per year, the office reported.
Production crews have enjoyed cut-rate fees since 1948, when Congress forbade the National Park Service from assessing daily fees on commercial shoots.
But five years ago Congress passed a bill that gave the Agriculture and Interior departments authority to collect daily filming fees. The bill's author, Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), said it was wrong for production companies to profit at taxpayer expense.
The Motion Picture Assn. of America endorsed the bill as a method to establish uniform fees and engender goodwill with park superintendents.
Since then, the federal government has not implemented the law. Dickinson said the Park Service awaits guidance from the Justice Department, which has concerns that the regulations might infringe on the 1st Amendment by giving government officials too much control over filmmakers. The Justice Department did not return several phone calls seeking comment.
Environmentalists question the need to make money off filming in the national parks.
Sierra Club legislative director Debbie Sease says the filming controversy illustrates a wider problem.
"What we really need to do is get a secure source of funds for the Park Service so they're not put in a position to rely on funds from these other sources," she said.
"Why should we even be filming in parks?" asked Scott Silver, executive director of the Oregon-based advocacy group Wild Wilderness, a critic of private enterprise on public land. "I think it's within the federal government's rights to say we don't allow advertisements in parks at all."
Yet advocates of filming in the parks say companies and the Interior Department benefit from picture shoots. They say revenues from companies reduce the burden on taxpayers and give corporations a chance to show they're good citizens while exposure in mass media increases public support for the parks.
At Film Permits Unlimited Inc. in Woodland Hills, which pulls 1,200 permits per month for production companies nationwide, office manager John Wheeler said daily film fees in national parks would probably not deter the 10 to 15 park shoots the company arranges each month.
"It's not that big a deal," he says.
But Jay Kuhnie, director of Chrysler-Jeep communications at the Chrysler Group, warned "we're in the business to find the most efficient way to do things .If the parks became more expensive than other locations, then we would stay away from the parks."


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Opinion: It's Not About Race, Mr. President
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Chris249 wrote:Xplora wrote:Which in common pub language is "soft/weak/gutless"
Sure, it's all legal stuff, and that's fair enough, but you don't go public with all this stuff if you don't have the ability to actually put your money where your mouth is.....the legal process occurs in the public space, and if you cannot bring all the evidence into the public space with you when you make an accusation against a famous figure (using weasel words like cases pending etc) then you should keep that accusation to yourself. Resolve your cases, then .....not very nice bit removed (be nice)....
Using pub language about this sort of stuff is a bit like the pub language that says all cyclists are lycra hoons who should be paying rego. It can simply be shorthand for not knowing what is going on, for not having done research, and not giving people the respect one expects for oneself.
People could probably complain about your profession or trade with pub language too, but that may just be because they don't know how it works. I bet I don't know everything about what you do for a living so why should you or I know exactly how USADA should operate and why they work like that?
My degree is in this area, I did a thesis on the laws applying to sporting bodies and I have worked as a regulator and investigator for years and yet it would take me ages to work out whether USADA was really operating correctly, so with respect I can't see how it can be so easy for someone from the outside to waltz into a pub and say "I'm an expert on US administrative law and I know incontrovertibly that USADA are crap." Anyone who could do that would be earning a fortune at the bar.
Running a regulatory body and an investigation is a complex exercise in which many conflicting factors have to be balanced. You have to encourage people to give evidence, but also give people the chance to rebut it. You have to be able to dig deep into lives without destroying them. This is NOT easy and to be honest it gets a bit frustrating when people who have never done it show such contempt for those who do. As in any job, there are problems that people on the outside do not know about and there are reasons why things are done the way they are, although as in any job human factors do come into play and there are mistakes - which is why there are avenues such as arbitration which Lance has decided not to take.
Many legal matters are not fought out in the public space. NDAs etc are very common. Even when an regulator releases a decision or a court comes to a decision they do not release every bit of evidence to the public. I have seen pics of bodies doing things, or bits of bodies, that were used as evidence that you would not want on the front page of your paper, believe me.
"Case pending" is not a weazel word, it is a statement of the fact that a case is coming up. What is the alternative to ASADA saying things like "case pending"?
Exactly what do you want a body such as ASADA to say when they are preparing a case and the press asks for info, if they do not use such "weazel words"?
Do you want them to say "we refuse to confirm or deny that we are contemplating a case" or something similar? Surely that is more "weazelly" than "case pending". Or do you want them to lie to the public? These things do tend to get a lot more public in America, but that seems to go both ways.
Armstrong's side has made many attacks on witnesses, as any quick Google shows, and therefore USADA's claim that they are protecting witnesses doesn't seem to be unreasonable.
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Austin City Limits "Monsters of Folk" The five musical monsters - each a songwriter and each an acclaimed musician in his own right - pack the set with Americana-infused folk ballads and raucous Southern rock romps. Much of it is from the collaborative songs of their debut self-titled release.G
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Live From Lincoln Center "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" The Richard Tucker Music Foundation features its 2012 award winner, soprano Ailyn Perez, joined by baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Gerald Finley, mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, tenors Stephen Costello and Marcello Giordani, bass Ildar Abdrazakov, bass-baritone Erwin Schrott and others onstage in a program of favorite arias and ensembles, including selections by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Mascagni, Handel and Wagner. Maestro Patrick Summers, artistic and music director of Houston Grand Opera, leads the lineup of luminaries, supported by members of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Choral Society. The broadcast will include a feature on Perez, as well as backstage interviews with the artists. D


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Cuisine Culture "Thomas Henkelmann, Connecticut" World-renowned Chef Thomas Henkelmann and his wife Theresa open up their hearts and home as we experience the magic and delights at his namesake restaurant nestled in charming Greenwich, CT. On the menu is seafood from the local fish market, where we learn how to choose the best catch of the day. On the menu: Black Truffle Royale with Lobster Bisque, Napoleon of Atlantic Halibut filled with Onion Compote & Marinated Salmon as well as Sauteed Langoustines and a Vegetable Flower with Sauce Mousseline. D
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Pati's Mexican Table "Naturally Vegetarian Mexican" Forget soy and tofu; these are authentic Mexican recipes where produce, fruits and vegetables are naturally the stars. Zucchini Soup with Tortilla Crisps; Cactus Paddle Tostadas; Fluffy Plantain and Pecan Bread. D
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The Woodwright's Shop "Offset Turning" For hardwood handles and padfoot legs, it's easy to turn ovals and offsets by measuring once and turning twice. D
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "What's Cooking In Switzerland" Burt takes viewers on a gastronomic tour of Western Switzerland. The most mountainous region in Switzerland is called the Valais and it is the home of Switzerland's most famous mountain ---the Matterhorn and that is where our gastronomic tour begins. We'll learn about a chocolate bar shaped like the Matterhorn. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Crepes and Croissants" Host Christopher Kimball takes a trip to Paris in search of the best croissants. Next, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make foolproof Croissants right at home. And finally, test cook Becky Hays reveals the secrets to flawless Crepes. D
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Coastal Crab Festival" Crabs from East to West. Tom Douglas, master chef of the Pacific Northwest, will share the secrets of Dungeness Crabs. Recipes also include Miss Shirley's Eastern Shore Crab cakes and Jo-Jo's Curried Crab Dip. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Food Memories" Joanne remembers her trips to Italy and with her student Di shows us a classic pizza strata and a dessert inspired by limoncello. Recipes: Green Salad with Garlic croutons and Balsamic Red Wine Dressing, Pizza Strata, and Lemon Sorbet and Vanilla Ice Cream with Limoncello. Student: Di Harris, Retired Nanny. D
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Industrial bronchitis is swelling (inflammation) of the large airways of the lungs that occurs in some people who work around certain dusts, fumes, smoke, or other substances.
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Alternative Names
Occupational bronchitis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Exposure to dusts, fumes, strong acids, and other chemicals in the air causes this type of
You may be at risk if you are exposed to dusts that contain:
- Asbestos
- Coal
- Cotton
- Flax
- Latex
- Metals
- Silica
- Talc
- Toluene diisocyanate
- Western red cedar
Coughthat brings up mucus (sputum) Shortness of breath
- Wheezing
Signs and tests
The health care provider will listen to your lungs using a stethoscope.
Tests include:
Chest CT scan Chest x-ray Pulmonary function tests
The purpose of treatment is to reduce the irritation.
Getting more air into the workplace or wearing masks to filter out the offending dust particles may help. Some people may need to be taken out of the workplace.
Some cases of industrial bronchitis go away without treatment. Other times, a person may need inhaled anti-inflammatory medications. If you are at risk or have experienced this problem and you smoke, stop smoking.
Helpful measures include:
- Breathing humidified air
- Increasing fluid intake
- Resting
Expectations (prognosis)
The outcome may be good as long as you can stop being exposed to the irritant.
Continued exposure to irritating gases, fumes, or other substances can lead to permanent lung damage.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you are regularly exposed to dusts, fumes, strong acids, or other chemicals that can affect the lungs and you develop symptoms of bronchitis.
Control dust in industrial settings by wearing face masks and protective clothing, and treating textiles. Stop smoking if you are at risk.
Get early screening by a doctor if you are exposed to chemicals that can cause this condition.
Chan-Yeung M, Malo JL. Asthma in the workplace and occupational asthma. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus VC, Martin TR, et al, eds. Murray and Nadels Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 64.
Samet JM. Occupational pulmonary disorders. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders; 2007:chap 93.
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2011 Ford Super Duty
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- Early models of the 2011 Ford Super Duty are being proven out in the swamps of Florida, the mesas of Wyoming and the construction sites and ranches of Texas. Initial results to be posted at www.fordvehicles.com/2011superduty under Field Work
- Equipped with the all-new Ford-designed and built 6.7-liter Power Stroke® V-8 turbocharged diesel engine and the 6R140 heavy-duty TorqShift® six-speed automatic transmission, the trucks are undergoing rigorous field work by commercial customers months before they go on sale
- Super Duty continues to dominate the heavy-duty pickup segment with more than 45 percent market share in 2009, up more than 2 percentage points from the previous year. The 2010 model maintains best-in-class towing with a maximum capacity of more than 24,600 pounds of trailer weight
- The all-new 2011 Super Duty goes on sale this spring
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 10, 2010 – In an unprecedented customer field work evaluation program, Ford gave commercial businesses around the country preproduction models of the all-new 2011 Ford Super Duty months before the truck goes on sale. The initial results will be posted this week on www.fordvehicles.com/2011superduty under "Field Work."
To test the trucks in extreme real-world conditions, select customers put the new 2011 Super Duty F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 to work immediately in the humid swamps of Florida, in the subzero wintry conditions of Wyoming and in the dusty, dry areas of Texas construction sites and ranches.
"As soon as we got this truck, we slapped a 22,000-pound trailer on it and headed for the field," says a Wyoming-based Well Cementing supervisor in one of the webisodes. "Ford asked us to work this truck hard, and we're working this truck hard."
The evaluation trucks are all equipped with the new 6.7-liter Power Stroke V-8 turbocharged diesel engine and the 6R140 heavy-duty TorqShift six-speed automatic transmission.
Ford engineers are using advanced telematics technology to retrieve daily performance data from each truck for further analysis. These data are being posted and continually updated online, allowing the public unprecedented access to the performance of the next generation of the best-selling truck in America for 33 years.
Here's a sample of what the customers had to say:
"The truck sat in negative weather for several hours, then started right up with no issues."
"A group of us were standing around the truck, maybe 10 feet away. A guy told me I left my lights on, and I said the truck is still running. He couldn't believe how quiet it was."
"I was towing a trailer 311 miles and had to keep checking in the mirror to see if the trailer was still there."
Chris Brewer, chief engineer of the 2011 Super Duty, said early feedback from these extreme customers confirms the importance of the testing regimen his team has been conducting.
"We've tested this truck in every situation imaginable throughout the development process, but nothing can replace these real-world scenarios," said Brewer. "The initial feedback we're getting is very encouraging – especially on fuel economy."
"We've never undertaken something this ambitious in the testing of one of our trucks. Sharing preproduction units with customers that do the toughest jobs and showing their unfiltered results underscores the confidence we have in this truck," said Doug Scott, Ford Truck marketing manager. "We want everyone to see what goes into the development of the 2011 Ford Super Duty."
The 2011 Super Duty goes on sale this spring. Meanwhile, the 2010 Super Duty – the segment leader in towing with over 24,000-pound capability – continues to dominate the heavy-duty pickup market with 45 percent of the segment in 2009, up more than 2 percentage points over the previous year.
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It's been over one hundred years since my paternal grandmother's brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. It seemed to me that Grandma bore his death with pain right up until her own death in 1991. She was already acting as home-maker to her widowed father and perhaps she thought he should have been staying home on the farm.
Perth newspaper accounts were quite limited, but brought the war home.
My father, who died in 2002, was given the first name of his late uncle (Thomas).
Any memories of Grandma talking about him are filtered through the eyes of the child that I was when these stories were told – less interested than I am nowadays. How I would love to hear them again. I can only imagine he went off to war because. at the very least, it was the thing to do at the time.
Though I'm sure there was at least an official telegram this is how Tom's death was reported in the Perth Courier:
My sister has a formal portrait of Uncle Tom, in his handsome uniform (different from the one in the press clipping), taken in Perth before his deployment, as well as a cloth belt which was sent home completely covered with various regimental pins from across Canada.
The newspaper clippings come from Veterans Affairs Canada, as do these copies of Uncle Tom's 'attestation papers'. (Looking at his signature, I can see an amazing resemblance to my grandmother's penmanship, as well as my Dad's!)
Only tonight, watching the first part of "The Great War", a film on CBC-TV by Brian McKenna, did I learn that "Complexion: Fresh" was racist code used to distinguish non-white soldiers, gladly accepted when county-by-county quotas were low, from their 'fresh-faced' comrades.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) web site provides these stark 'Casualty Details' (I have added links):
Name: BUTLER
Initials: T
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Unit Text: 75th Bn.
Date of Death: 01/03/1917
Service No: 787151
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. D. 17.
Cemetery: VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS
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Pianist Gould foresaw tech role in music
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who gave his last performance for an audience in 1964 in Los Angeles, foresaw that listeners would be able to use technology to manipulate recorded music in various ways.
By Michael Hiltzik
Forty-five years ago this month, the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould stepped off the stage of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and became the prophet of a new technology.
Gould's act was an act of omission, not commission. That April 10, 1964, recital in the Los Angeles hall was the last concert he ever gave – a forsaking of the tradition of public performance that was unprecedented for such a young (31) and eminent interpreter of Bach and Beethoven.
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SANFORD — John Tuttle is the new state senator of Maine's District 3.
Voters across the district decisively chose Tuttle, a Democrat, over his Republican opponent, Bradford Littlefield. On Wednesday afternoon, the Bangor Daily News reported that Tuttle had scored 8,608 votes, or 64 percent of the tally, and Littlefield had brought in 4,847, or 36 percent.
Both Tuttle and Littlefield are Sanford-Springvale residents; in fact, they're both graduates of Sanford High School's Class of 1970.
Maine Senate District 3 encompasses Sanford, Alfred, Limington, Waterboro and Lyman.
In their hometown, Tuttle won 6,148 votes, or 68 percent of the Sanford tally, and Littlefield garnered 2,915 votes, or 32 percent, according to unofficial results provided by Town Clerk Sue Cote on Wednesday morning.
Tuttle will succeed Jonathan Courtney, of Springvale, who chose not to seek reelection for a fifth term as a Republican state senator, so that instead he could challenge Democrat Congresswoman Chellie Pingree for Maine's 1st District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday night, voters reelected Pingree.
Tuttle is an emergency medical technician and currently represents District 143 in the Maine House of Representatives. He has been a Maine legislator, in either the state Senate or House, since 1978. He is the ranking minority (Democrat) member on the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development. Tuttle was a Sanford selectman from 1980 to 1990 and he earned a master's degree in public administration from the University of Maine in 1992.
Littlefield is a town councilor in Sanford. In January, however, he will become a city councilor when Sanford's new charter, which voters approved on Tuesday night, is officially enacted. (See related story on page one.)
Tuttle takes Maine Senate seat
SANFORD — John Tuttle is the new state senator of Maine's District 3.


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There have been enough questions and marketing about the use of in-furrow insecticides, and specifically Capture LFR, in corn and soybeans to justify some comments (granted a little late for comments about corn).
Capture LFR contains bifenthrin which is the same active ingredient as found in Brigade, Fanfare, Sniper or Tundra. However, it contains 1.5 Lb of active ingredient per gallon of product (not 2 Lb/gallon as found in Brigade and the other bifenthrin products).
Keep in mind that bifenthrin has no systemic activity in the plant. Capture LFR is specifically formulated to mix with starter fertilizers ("LFR" stands for liquid fertilizer ready). This does not necessarily mean that other bifenthrin products will not mix with starter fertilizers.
Most of the questions have revolved around corn, and for those using a "pop-up" fertilizer, this is an easy option to overcome some weaknesses of insecticide seed treatments in corn.
Done right, this treatment can provide protection against cutworms.
Data from my counterparts at Mississippi State University (Angus Catchot) and North Carolina State University (Dominic Reisig) also show this treatment provides some protection against sugarcane beetles, and you might expect the same against some other corn pests such as billbugs and white grubs.
I would strongly consider using an in-furrow bifenthrin treatment in high risk scenarios such as where new ground is going into production or where sugarcane beetles have been a chronic problem.
What does "done right" mean?
Most entomologist agree you should band this application across the open seed furrow so that some product is being deposited on the shoulders of the seed trench. A 2-inch band is typically suggested. A strictly in-furrow application may not provide protection against cutworm or other surface feeding pests.
How much product would I use?
The standard use rate of Capture LFR is 3.4 – 4 Oz of product per acre (0.2 - 0.24 Oz/1000 row feet). This is also the same range that would be used in soybean. You can also use equivalent rates of other bifenthrin products such as Brigade 2E (0.15 — 0.18 Oz/1,000 row feet).
Cheaper treatment
If not mixing with a starter, it would be cheaper and just as effective to use the 2 lb formulations of bifenthrin. If using a starter fertilizer and not using Capture LFR, be sure to check the compatibility of your mix before filling up the tank.
What are the alternatives in corn?
First let me mention that several other pyrethroid insecticides, other than bifenthrin, are labeled for in-furrow use in corn. However, bifenthrin is somewhat unique among the pyrethroids in having a relatively long soil residual.
I would stick with bifenthrin for in-furrow sprays.
Another alternative is increasing the rate of insecticide seed treatments to Poncho 500, Poncho 1250, or Cruiser 500. This would shore up some weaknesses of 250 use rates, but it would not be adequate for cutworms.
And higher rates of seed treatments are not a miracle cure for sugarcane beetles. Another option is to use granular in-furrow insecticides.
What about in soybeans?
Using an in-furrow spray in narrow-row beans isn't a viable option, which eliminates the vast majority of soybean acres in Tennessee.
Despite the marketing push, I am aware of very little independent data showing value to an in-furrow bifenthrin application in soybeans. This doesn't mean there isn't any.
However, soil insect pests and cutworms are a less consistent problem in soybeans than in corn, partly because beans can tolerate and compensate for stand loss better than corn.
Seed treatments such as Cruiser, Gaucho and NipsIt provide good control of most soil insects and systemic benefits against above ground pests.
My gut instinct is that an in-furrow insecticide spray in soybeans would have little value except in unusual circumstances, and insecticide seed treatments are a better and easier investment.
Note:Capture LFR is the only bifenthrin product labeled for use in soybeans. We will be collecting data for corn and soybeans this year, but it will take some time to draw hard conclusions on what value in-furrow sprays might bring to the table.
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Undergraduates Gain Competitive Advantage Through the International Leadership Semester (ILS) in Rome
Fr. Nathaniel Haslam LC highlights the value of a faith-based approach
Contact: Imal Wagner, 301-840-5999 (USA);
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ROME, Italy, March 22, 2012 /
Christian Newswire
/ -- College graduates need more than a degree to compete for today's jobs. Many students are turning to specialized programs and study abroad options to give themselves that much-needed advantage with prospective employers. While there are many study abroad options available, the
International Leadership Semester (ILS)
program founded by
Fr. Nathaniel Haslam LC
at the Swiss School of Management, European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma), stands out because it offers excellence in international leadership education combined with a solid foundation in Christian principles. The program offers a holistic approach to Leadership, one of the largest-growing fields of study today – based in historic Rome.
The Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange
, reported an increase of 300% in U.S. study abroad by students enrolled in U.S. higher education over the past two decades with Italy ranked second for American students, following the UK.
While many schools are trying to catch up to the demand for leadership programs, the ILS program already has a two-fold program in place. Students learn global leadership principles that are essential in today's world and work outside of the classroom with a community service project that puts theory into practice.
"Leadership programs in the past were typically reserved for executives and didn't always take personal growth into account, said Fr. Nathaniel "The ILS improves leadership development by using student assessments, leadership mentors, corporate visits, community service leadership projects as well as creating and monitoring a personal development plan that they can take back to their universities."
A key area of distinction in the ILS program is the "Service Leadership" component. Students form teams to create, organize, plan, and execute a community service project which provides direct experience, thus helping students realize their full leadership potential.
Society is adrift and without points of reference," said Fr Nathaniel. "This is why we see rampant abuse of human liberties, the marginalization of those suffering material hardship as well as the intolerance toward religious expression in the public square. In this situation, the world yearns for new leadership. Our program helps develop young leaders based on Christian principles such as dignity of the human person, the common good, human rights, and solidarity.
The ILS program has three study abroad options for students to choose from: an 89-day semester program in the Fall or Spring, a six-week dual city Rome-Oxford Summer program, and a Pre-University semester or year-long program. Students take three core leadership classes, including one that tours Rome to learn about leaders in Roman history, and two electives.
The mission of the school is to provide the highest quality international educational experience for students through one-on-one leadership coaching, personal development plans, innovative educational tools, and a one-of-a-kind cultural experience that helps students learn to distinguish themselves as leaders. For more information, please visit
About the Swiss School of Management, European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma)
The Swiss School of Management was founded in the last century under the law of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The English-speaking, higher learning institute is based in Rome, Italy. It aims to provide students with the highest quality international educational experience through one-on-one leadership coaching, personal development plans, and innovative educational tools to help students develop qualities that will distinguish them as leaders. Ultimately its mission is to provide students with the global business competencies required for leadership and success in demanding careers in the global economy. For more information visit
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SEO content marketing roundup, week ending March 14th
The spring equinox is just around the corner – have you noticed its telltale manic weather in your locale? Perhaps reflecting the March madness is this week's latest and greatest Web writing news, as it defies any coherent, unifying thread!
Content marketers are all over the map with talk about blogging, e-mail design and more, while SEO and search folks run the gamut from detailed how-to's to overarching thought pieces, and social media marketers discuss everything from YouTube to authority to social link graphs…name it, it's being chatted up…So hang onto your hat and enjoy an early spring blast of news & links!
Content Marketing
Lee Odden discusses how to increase your blog traffic, readership and community at Top Rank.
Chris Tynski posts 35+ tips and tools for mastering blogger outreach at BlueGlass.
So are the content needs of your audience caught in your blind spot? A sharp read by Mark Burgess at Blue Focus Marketing.
Here's a bright thought: using data to find those most likely to "click" is posted by Gabe Donnini at Marketing Land.
Wayne English posts a how-to on using "sound" reputation management as a way to respond to negative feedback at Content Marketing Institute.
Julie Perry answers three common questions about creating web videos for online marketing at Target Marketing Magazine.
Jeff Bullas lists nine "awesome" reasons for using infographics in your content marketing at his blog.
One fish, two fish… What Dr. Seuss can teach you about copywriting is artfully penned by Heather Lloyd-Martin at SEO Copywriting.
Marketing Sherpa's Research Chart of the week features the rising financial expectations among CMOs for their email marketing programs.
In a related email marketing post, Marketing Sherpa features a how-to on email design with five insights to improve open and clickthrough rates.
Stacey Acevero posts a great infographic on the evolution of a PR pro at PR Web.
Christine Dunne posts that mobile app content standards are paralleling smartphone adoption at Content Marketing Institute.
Greg Sterling delves deeper into the prevailing headlines/thought about consumers' supposed preference for the mobile web to app's at Search Engine Land.
Four "hot" analytic trends to make your digital marketing strategy both effective and profitable are featured by Neil Patel at KISSmetrics.
Cheryl Burgess takes on the ROI of business blogs with "Do the Math to Calculate the ROI of Business Blogs" at Blue Focus Marketing.
- Adobe's Digital Marketing Summit is scheduled for March 20th thru the 23rd in Salt Lake City, UT.
- BlogHer Entrepreneurs12 is on for March 23rd in Santa Clara, CA.
- iMedia's Video Summit is scheduled for March 25th thru the 28th in San Antonio, TX.
- Vertical Measures announces a full-day online marketing workshop, sponsored by the Online Marketing Institute, for March 29th in Phoenix, AZ.
SEO & Search
Hope for the keyword data challenged (aren't we all): Ben Goodsell posts "Recovering (Not-Provided) Keyword Data" at Search Engine Watch.
So are you using the right keywords on your site? Stoney G. DeGeyter posts a simple 3-rule test at Search Engine Journal.
Dr. Pete posts an open letter to new SEO's at SEOmoz.
Also for new SEO's: Jenny Halasz posts tips for growing your keyword "seeds" with Excel formulas at Search Engine Land.
In an opinion piece, Andy Baio discusses the whole Yahoo-suing-Facebook-over-patent-infringement bruhaha at Wired (Epicenter).
Brian Massey ("The Conversions Scientist") posts an astute how-to on designing your website for profit (rather than your ego) at Search Engine Land.
Jill Whalen posts how giving has its own SEO rewards at her own site (High Rankings Advisor) and again at SitePro News.
C.C. Chapman (co-author of Content Rules) shares his take on SEO, Google's Search Plus, and more via an interview posted at SEO Copywriting.
Ian Lurie posts how marketing "hubris" (remember anything from college humanities?) will get you killed (especially in search) at Conversation Marketing.
An exceptional read by Aaron Wall on Google's big-brand bias (and much more), "Branding & the Cycle," is posted at SEObook.
Rand Fishkin discusses SEO nomenclature with "The Brand of SEO and the Trend of Inbound Marketing" at SEOmoz.
Bill Slawski sleuths out a missing piece of the Google search puzzle with "How Google Data Centers may be Split between Regional and Global Data" at SEO by the Sea.
Citing Google's latest Webmaster tools update, Vanessa Fox questions whether its revamp of its crawl errors is for the better at Search Engine Land.
Avinash Kaushik posts " A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action" with his usual acumen at Occam's Razor.
Eric Ward posts "4 reasons the social link graph will have to improve" (from a search perspective) at Search Engine Land.
Will Critchlow shares the link-building tools used at Distilled (many of them free) with his guest post at SEOmoz.
Greg Finn posts how "Google Meets Miss Manners" by encouraging searchers to thank those who +1'ed content directly in search results – no kidding – at Search Engine Land.
- SES Conference & Expo New York 2012 is only 5 days away, from March 19th through the 23rd.
- Distilled's LinkLove is scheduled for April 2nd in Boston (LinkLove Atlantic).
Social Media Marketing
New YouTube changes headline Social Media Examiner's weekly news.
Kerry Dean shares his mission for finding the perfect social-sharing badge implementation with "The Internet: It's Like Real Life, Only With Buttons," at Search Engine Land.
Danny Goodwin posts a quick look at the latest reports showing how social is influencing advertising with "Social Ads Work For Google (+), Facebook," at Search Engine Watch.
Eric Enge interviews Bing's Paul Yiu on "Author Authority and Social Media" at Stone Temple (Consulting).
Erez Barak discusses "3 Social Marketing Communication Methods" and when and how to apply each at Search Engine Watch.
Matt McGee reports that Twitter has bought Posterous (and will "keep it alive, for now") at Marketing Land.
How to optimize Twitter, from being real to using hashtags and more, is posted by Lisa Buyer at Search Engine Watch.
Mack Collier posts a how-to on writing blog posts that both Google and Twitter will love.
Brian Solis discusses how "Enterprise Social Networking is More Than Facebook Behind a Firewall."
Level 343 talks social privacy (or the illusion therof) with "The Right to Demand Your Social Passwords?"
Stephanie Sammons shares four tips for creating a LinkedIn company page at Social Media Examiner.
- MarketingProfs' SocialTech 2012 Seattle (B2B Social Media Marketing Distilled) is scheduled for March 30th, with a Workshop day on March 29th.
- SocialTech 2012 Online If you can't make it to the live event, MarketingProfs will be streaming its B2B Social Media Distilled (Seattle, above) on demand.
- Social Media Success Summit 2012 – Social Media Examiner's Online Conference begins May 1st and runs for four weeks.
Trying to get your copywriting business up and running? Check out SuccessWorks' new training program, the Turn Content Into Cash Copywriting Business Bootcamp. The next 6-week program starts on March 19th, but space is limited – register now to reserve your spot!
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If you've ever flicked on The Voice, then you've seen the dynamic duo in the act. No, I'm not talking about Christina Aguilera's massive kahunas, I'm talking about her co-judges -- Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. The Voice frontmen have developed a serious bromance on the set of the hit NBC show and are talking alllll about it inside the new issue of People. Seems that Levine's a little defensive about calling their bond a bromance -- saying, "Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!"
As far as guylationships go in Hollywood, you've got to admit -- Adam and Blake are a pretty handsome couple. However, these two have nothing on some of the red carpet's other besties. You know, like Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Check out these 5 other hunky celebrity BFFLs, here:
Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong: These two pals love to share in a good workout, and joked with People a few years ago about their sexuality. FYI: No, they're not gay -- they actually grew close after they both got out of serious relationships.
Tom Cruise and David Beckham: Beckham once told Us Weekly that Tom is one of the most handsome men he's ever met. Can you say crushable?
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon: These hunks, who played in little league together back in the day, have been through hell and Good Will Hunting together.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney: The handsome duo have shared three Oceans movies and some serious good times. George adores Brad so much, he even jokingly gave Brad's name instead of his own to the Secret Service after getting arrested in Washington D.C. at the Sudanese Embassy last week. Sorry, but you've got to be BESTIES to go down like that. Double sorry, I'm pretty sure they know who you are, George.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson: These guys have acted in at least a bazillion films together, no? Their humor blends so perfectly together, it's clear they're serious lovebirds.
What duo of hunky male celebs do you like best? Do you watch Adam and Blake on The Voice?
Image via People


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Hahn gets glimpse of White Sox future in Arizona
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The players White Sox general manager Rick Hahn watched during Monday afternoon's instructional league contest playing against a team from the Korea Baseball Organization won't help the big league squad for at least another two to three years.
Many of those 45-or-so Minor Leaguers suiting up in Arizona since mid-September and playing on a back field at Camelback Ranch won't even make it to the Majors.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The players White Sox general manager Rick Hahn watched during Monday afternoon's instructional league contest playing against a team from the Korea Baseball Organization won't help the big league squad for at least another two to three years.
Many of those 45-or-so Minor Leaguers suiting up in Arizona since mid-September and playing on a back field at Camelback Ranch won't even make it to the Majors.
Yet, these handful or two of future standouts sit at the core of Hahn's rebuilding or reshaping process coming off of a dreadful 99-loss campaign in 2013.
"This is going to be the key to our long-term success," Hahn told MLB.com, sitting in a golf cart and studying the action. "Obviously given our nature and the market we play in, when the opportunity to win is there, we are going to very likely be augmenting through free agency.
"Long-term success is based on your ability to draft and develop premium talent, which is what we are doing here," Hahn said.
Hahn declined to talk about offseason plans, including potential free-agent targets, and also avoided providing any sort of update on filling the hitting-coach opening produced by Jeff Manto's dismissal. In dissecting even this one aforementioned comment from the White Sox general manager, though, a basic idea can be formed as to the team's immediate outlook.
If a free agent or two are pursued, it would have to be a player who does more than simply help the White Sox become a contender for the short term. He needs to augment the core that Hahn hopes will help the White Sox fight for a World Series title year in and year out.
Sparking fan interest for 2014 by purchasing pieces to jump from 63 wins to 85 wins, as an example, does not become as important as keeping that interest steady through a consistent run of success.
While the White Sox have too much pitching and too much pride to simply pass over the upcoming '14 season and call it a pure rebuild, they could dial it back a bit as these younger players continue to develop or until they see what happens in-season. That core will be assisted by potentially $15 million to spend between the First-Year Player Draft bonus pool and international spending- -- one of the few positive spinoffs coming from this forgettable past season.
"Trust me, I'd much prefer to be at a [White Sox] playoff game right now," Hahn said. "But one of the nice things about coming down here for instructional league and the Arizona Fall League is to get a little glimpse of the future.
"It helps you turn the page a little bit on what has happened and it's hard not to watch this group and feel a level of optimism about where we are going. At the same time, there's a lot of meetings and plannings going on.
"We have a hitting-coach search going on as well," Hahn said. "So, daily business doesn't fall behind. But this does give you an opportunity to see a glimpse of the future."
Near the top of this instructional league mix sits outfielder Micker Adolfo Zapata, who made his professional debut after turning 17 on Sept. 11. The White Sox were high enough on MLB.com's No. 2 ranked International Prospect to sign him for $1.6 million, which represents a franchise record for an international signee.
Their enthusiasm for Zapata has only grown since he started working out with Bristol of the Appalachian League this past summer. He's still learning and falls a ways away from the Majors.
Developing that base with Zapata, shortstop Tim Anderson (ranked No. 3 in Chicago's system by MLB.com) and outfielder Courtney Hawkins (No. 1), to name a few from the instructional league, as well as players such as Micah Johnson (No. 15) and Marcus Semien (No. 8) in the AFL, is worth the wait. Having them all together for this month-long time frame gives the White Sox a chance to stress the little things for players so important to the big picture.
"Each guy has a specific thing to work on," White Sox Minor League field coordinator Kirk Champion said. "It's just to add four more weeks to their season to work on some specific things with some guys and for some guys just to continue to have a chance for another month of baseball."
"Probably the most important element is for the guys who are recently drafted or signed internationally to all be in one place and be with our rovers and our coaches to hear precisely how we want certain things done," Hahn said. "Reiterate what they heard out at their affiliates, but at that time, they are mixed in with more veteran players. Here's a chance for them to focus on fundamentals and drills and playing the game the way we want it played."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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Based in London, England, The VoiceOver Group provides voice-over audio for all types of media, including:
* Narration
* Commercials
* Tutorials
* Documentaries
* Telephone On Hold
* Animation
* Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
* Multimedia applications
* Games
* Website
* Audio Books
* Powerpoint Presentations
Our voice artists are hand-picked from 1,000's around the world, and our client list includes some of the largest, most prestigious companies across the globe.
We provide finished audio, fully edited and optimised. We also have a full localisation and translation service providing voice artists in over 40 different languages.
Our website is http://www.thevoiceovergroup.co.uk, and although we aim to keep the text/audio content, functionality and some cartoon illustration, we are not wedded to any of the current design ideas, colours or style.
The end clients are all sorts of companies, multi-national and local, industrial and artistic, manufacturing and service - all areas, and some of the biggest names in their fields.
Our own clients however, the ones who commission the work for these end clients, are often graphic designers, film-makers, copywriters, photographers, advertising agencies, communications and marketing departments.
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We need a new logo which will form the starting point of our website re-design and can be used in all correspondence and branding.
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