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An inmate who escaped near Asheville on Friday is back in jail.
Authorities say John Fullwood, 51, surrendered around 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Haywood County.
Fullwood walked away from his job Friday at the North Carolina Arboretum.
He was serving time for discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and was scheduled to be released in September 2016.
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The Guggenheim announced that it will remain open late on most Sundays and Mondays during the run of its upcoming “Picasso Black and White” exhibition, from Oct. 5, 2012, through Jan. 23. Thank you, Richard Armstrong. Thank you.
Instead of closing at 5:45 p.m. on those days, the museum’s doors will remain open until a very civil 8 p.m. (The change will not be in effect on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, and New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31.) The museum currently opens at 10 a.m. every day, is closed on Thursdays and stays open until 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays.
Here’s hoping that the Guggenheim will make this a permanent change, and that other museums will consider extending their hours, following the lead of many European museums. The Louvre, for instance, is open until 9:45 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays, besting even the Met, which is open until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
With the Met mulling a plan to stay open seven days a week, this could be a golden age in terms of the accessibility of New York museums. At the very least, it’s nice to know we’ll all get a bit more time to see the Guggenheim’s Picasso show, which, with more than 100 works, seems likely to be a blockbuster. | <urn:uuid:3211a129-fb23-431f-aa89-7eb44d47f53b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://observer.com/2012/09/guggenheim-will-offer-extended-hours-for-october-picasso-show/ | 2016-05-27T00:52:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276415.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00061-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963894 | 313 | [
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Accusations fast food giant Hungry Jack's is feeding consumers fears over added hormones
The decision by Hungry Jack's to reject beef patties grown with added hormones is hitting the mark with consumers.
A quick survey of diners in a food mall in Wollongong, New South Wales, reflects the fear consumers have of additives like hormones in beef.
"Yes, I do [worry] because of all the problems with children their intolerance to food, it could play on our immune systems and things," said one diner.
"I think I've heard things like cancer and things like that," said another.
"I don't know that's what it causes but I just know that [hormones in beef] is not good for people's health."
Their source was the internet and social media, like Facebook.
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Meat and Livestock Australia's figures showed 40 per cent of Australian cattle are raised with hormone growth promotants or HGPs and they have been used for 30 years.
MLA's website said there were more traces of hormones in eggs or soybean oil.
The debate has prompted a food marketing expert to tap into the social media site to understand consumers better, emerging worried about the mistrust of scientific evidence and of Australian food.
Joanne Bills, from Fresh Agenda, said the Facebook discussion about Lilydale chickens using genetically modified feed was not a place to have a scientific debate.
"What was really striking was a lot of people that have got very upset with Lilydale's revelation, was they're very ready to believe that GM and food production systems are very dangerous for consumers and that GM is a very dangerous technology," she said.
Brian Allen posted on Facebook Feb 20, 2016:
Fear stems from early deaths, cancer is high and in fact mental issues are soaring, over 70 per cent on anti-depressants... alarm bells
Joanne Bills responded:
And where is the EVIDENCE linking this to GM? Especially as it's still largely absent from the food supply here in Australia. Yet you still attribute that to a TECHNIQUE not an additive or particular chemical. Show me the proof and causation.
Joanne Bills, do u know what u can do with your evidence, anything synthetic attacks your immune system ,,, so move on little girl
Ms Bills said others told her it was not a place for debate, "which is right because it was just an echo chamber, where people could echo the same thoughts".
"But a lot of people didn't have evidence from those beliefs," she said.
"If you put evidence from the World Health Organisation or the Institute of Rice Research International, who use GM, among a whole lot of other breeding techniques to improve rice varieties in developing countries, none of that really matters or rates in these people's belief systems."
One shopper in the city food mall was sitting with her Coke Zero and said she did not trust hormones used in beef, nor sugar in soft drinks.
"There's lots of illnesses and things in the environment that seem to be occurring that didn't many years ago when [a] product was much more natural so it's got to be better than hormone injected," she said.
Fresh Agenda's Joanne Bills said food marketers have to find a way to communicate with consumers that can cut through misconceptions.
"It's ironic that we have a cohort of people in wealthy developed countries with a view of agriculture with bucolic rural scenes and individually petted hens, that lay friendly eggs," she said.
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But Lopez showed Tuesday night he can help offensively, too. He scored 18 points on eight-of-12 shooting and grabbed 13 rebounds during the Hornets’ 97-82 victory against the Charlotte Bobcats.
Hornets’ No. 1 draft pick Anthony Davis had a similar efficient performance, scoring 22 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Davis scored 15 points in the third quarter when the Hornets outscored the Bobcats 28-8.
Hornets Coach Monty Williams is hoping to see a similar performance from Lopez and Davis on Thursday night when they play the Bobcats again in Charleston, S.C.
Elsewhere around the league. . . .
Los Angeles Times: Instead of talking about their chances of winning a championship, the 34-year-old Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said he's unsure if would will continue playing beyond the 2013-14 season after his current contract expires. Bryant has won five championships.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: So far Cleveland Cavaliers guard Dion Waiters has not played like the No. 4 overall pick in this past June draft from Syracuse. Saying he lacked focus, former Hornets Coach Byron Scott benched Waiters fter just a minute into the fourth quarter. Waiters is struggling to learn the Scott's offense quickly.
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Memphis Grizzlies Coach Lionel Hollins is looking to see who will take over the backup guard duties. In Tuesday night's loss to the Chicago Bulls, newcomer Jerryd Bayless and Tony Wroten are competing for the job. But both struggled, combining for five assists and five turnovers. In all, the Grizzlies committed 23 turnovers.
Houston Chronicle: The Houston Rockets play the New Orleans Hornets on Friday at the Toyota Center, but Wednesday night they open their preseason against the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Rockets overhauled their roster highlighted by acquiring former New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin in free agency this summer. | <urn:uuid:8b0a1361-b06a-43c4-a381-86503d4a238e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2012/10/new_orleans_hornets_center_rob_4.html | 2016-05-29T15:49:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049281363.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002121-00221-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945577 | 384 | [
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I wrote this for Victoria Stillwell's forum and it has helped a lot of owners toilet train their dogs.
How to toilet train your pup or adult dog.
It is very important to us humans for our dogs not to toilet in our homes but teaching a dog not to seems to be causing a lot of problems. It doesn't matter how young or old your dog is, they can still be toilet trained but you have to be very consistent, slip up once, and it will set your dog back.
First make sure you have several days free to concentrate on toilet training your dog, you need this to get it established for yourself and your dog. Dogs learn by being repetitive, miss and your dog goes backwards.
1. Never try to teach your dog to toilet on paper or pads.
Many dogs taught this way never learn to toilet outside because they have been taught it is ok to toilet inside, dogs don't generalise and don't understand that they can't toilet inside when there is no paper or pads.
2. Keep all outside doors closed while you are toilet training no matter how hot it is.
If you have the outside doors open your dog doesn't know where the house stops and the garden begins, this really does confuse your dog so all doors must be closed.
3. Always take your dog outside, never put him out while training him.
If you put your dog outside you can't see when he goes, if you can't see him go you can't tell him that is what you want him to do by giving him lots and lots and lots and lots of praise, party, make him feel is the best thing since sliced bread. Many give dogs treats but I prefer to use praise.
Puppies do a double wee, they go outside, you praise and bring them in only for your puppy to go on your lovely, white carpet, this is normal, with pups once they have gone and you have had a party, take him for a walk round the garden/yard to give him the chance to do the double wee.
4. Take him outside as soon as he wakes up
Dogs normally want to toilet when they wake up so take him outside and give him the chance to. This is for afternoon snoozes or anytime your dog sleeps.
5. Take him outside before and after he is fed.
Some dogs prefer to go before being fed, some after and some like to go before and after they have been fed.
6. Take him outside after a training or play session.
Often after a play or training session the dog relaxes and needs to toilet so give your dog the chance to do this by taking him outside as soon as these are over.
7. Take him outside ever 30/45 minutes for pups, every hour for adult dogs.
Pups like human babies are not developed enough to hold when they need to go, they have to release it, we have nappies on our babies but expect pups to know they have to go outside, they don't. We have to give them the chance to toilet where we want them to by taking them there at times that will suit their needs not ours. If you go over this time to finish a job you are doing and your dog toilets in the house, that is your fault not your dog's so roll up a newspaper and hit yourself over the head with it saying "I must take my dog out to toilet when he should go".
8. If your dog does go inside, put him outside before you clean up.
With many dogs or pups it won't matter if you clean up in front of them but with a sensitive dog it does. No matter how much we try if a dog toilets inside our body language changes, dogs pick up on this and think they have done something wrong, they haven't, they have not yet learnt to toilet outside. By putting the dog outside before we clean up, the dog doesn't get the same chance to think he has done wrong. Dogs that think they have done something wrong are harder to train. They will sometimes try to hide it or do it behind the furniture which you don’t want.
9. What to clean up with.
Never use normal household cleaners, most have ammonia in which encourages a dog to toilet in that spot again. Even though we can't smell the wee, our dogs can because they have a much better smell than we do. You have to take the smell away for the dog as well as us.
You can clean up with white vinegar or biological washing liquid or buy something for the job from a pet shop. They will all take the smell away for your dog which is very important when you are training your dog.
Some breeds are easier to train than others, some dogs are more excitable than others, some dogs are slow to pick things up like this, no matter how quick or slow your dog is it is very important to be consistent, only by being consistent will you succeed in teaching your dog to toilet outside and not in.
With pups remember that their bodies are not mature, they may not be capable of holding so don't expect them to. It is normal for a pup to go through the night even though they are not mature enough to hold, this is because their bodies, like ours, slows down when we are asleep. With very young pups, they will be clean and dry quicker if you get up during the night to take them outside to toilet, by stopping them from toileting in the house completely by taking them out, they don't get mixed messages.
If you have an adult rescue dog that isn’t toilet training you don’t know what has been tried in the past so treat this dog as not having any training and start at the beginning. Many are still taught to toilet on pads or newspaper, this will make it more difficult but can be done especially as you don’t know how they have been taught. Some maybe toilet trained but their time in rescue may have stopped this, this happens a lot, and of course there is stress, often a stressed dog will toilet inside for many reasons.
It isn't difficult to toilet train a dog or pup but does take a lot of work but well worth the effort when they are clean.
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Access to Care
The Access to Care (A2C) initiative is a public-private partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund (SIF) and 14 private funders. A2C supports innovative, evidence-based, collaborative programs to connect thousands of low-income and marginalized individuals living with HIV to supportive services and health care. AIDS United’s support includes cash grants, technical assistance, evaluation, and networking opportunities that help to maximize the impact of each A2C program.
|Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama's unique and innovative telemedicine links people living with HIV in some of the most remote parts of the State with HIV-specializing providers in Montgomery.
Emphasis on hard-to-reach populations is integral in AIDS United’s A2C work, which seeks to: identify the systemic and/or individualized barriers to care people living with HIVmay experience; support the development of systems and interventions to alleviate those barriers and implement innovative approaches to ensuring access to and consistent engagement in care. A2C is designed to reach populations with the greatest barriers to care through refined outreach strategies and with appropriate resources that otherwise would not be available. All funded projects within the A2C portfolio have developed a team of collaborating organizations that are working together to reduce barriers to care, provide innovative solutions to long-standing access problems, and to change the way that systems operate in their community. AIDS United is committed to supporting projects that not only focus on individual level solutions to access to and retention in care, but also systemic change that will last long after AIDS United support is gone.
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On page 17 of its December 2013 report about the progress of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), ONAP spotlights AIDS United’s Access to Care (A2C) work as a public-private partnership that truly is helping to advance the goals of the National Strategy.
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This is part 2 in a series in which Dana McMahan, a former competitive powerlifter, prepares for a fitness photo shoot and shares exactly what it feels like to get the type of body you see in the “inspirational” photos in magazines and plastered across the internet.
I would rather eat than have a six-pack. I love food. I knew I loved it, but I didn’t grasp how important it is to me until I deprived myself for 17 days. I “depleted” myself–a nice technical term for cutting calories drastically and pulling out almost all carbs aside from vegetables–in preparation for a fitness photo shoot. I found myself daydreaming about food, longing for things I would never even normally eat. With my stomach rumbling and my body turning to glycogen for energy, my fuel-starved brain occupied itself thinking of the meals I’ve loved around the world and contemplating how sad existence would be without enjoyable food. And though every morning I woke up eager to see if my abs looked more carved than the day before, I also woke up counting the minutes until I could eat what I wanted again.
Halfway into the two and a half weeks of dieting I wanted to quit. I cried more days than not. I cried at the gym, where barbells loaded with two-thirds of my normal weight left me seeing stars. I cried after a visit to my hairdresser where I heard for two hours that I was too thin. I cried after people on the internet said I wasn’t strong, wasn’t an inspiration, and accused me of having an eating disorder. I’m usually stronger than that, but i turns out a hungry Dana is also a weepy Dana.
That said, when I commit to something, I don’t quit, and I wasn’t going to give up before I could see if I could do it. [It’s important to note that I did not starve myself: My weight was well within a healthy range. My BMI was over 19. I consumed far more vegetables a day than the average American, and I didn’t go any hungrier than any of the millions of people on a diet on any given day. Being that I’m not accustomed to dieting, the hunger just came as a shock–a very miserable one.]
“You are transforming your body through sheer will,” my trainer told me when I cried on his shoulder. “Not everyone has the fortitude to do that.” And while I still far prefer the challenge of getting stronger to that of getting leaner, his words helped me look at this experiment in a new way. I wanted to reveal the muscles I’ve worked so hard to build, and to do that I tapped my willpower to force my body to burn fat for fuel instead of carbs.
That’s not easy. “The body prefers to burn carbs–that’s easier for it, and your body will take the path of least resistance,” Mike Jett, an exercise physiology instructor, certified strength and conditioning coach, and the Fitness Evaluation Program Coordinator at the University of Louisville, explained to me. “To put it in scientific terms, your body freaks out when it has to shift to burning fat.” And some of the physical and mental reactions I’d experienced were a result of that freak-out.
“Glycogen is stored with water, so when you start burning glycogen, you lose water,” he told me. “Your cells start to shrivel up without that water. Think about your brain running on shriveled cells.” No wonder I was having trouble focusing and was so tired.
And my misery needs no scientific explanation; it came from not eating what I wanted. Every day I reflected anew; this is not worth it. It is not worth being so hungry and tired.
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From CBS Marketwatch comes this report: “Yes, investors were just wild about ‘Harry’ on Friday. But will their enthusiasm for good news about the lucrative ‘Harry Potter’ literary franchise carry over and give AOL Time Warner’s shares a bounce? An early indication might be ‘yes’ …”
The BBC has posted a Newsmakers profile on JK Rowling:
In a child’s world dominated by computer games and videos, the author has managed to appeal to both sexes and has raised the profile of children’s writing. What is more, kids find her books funny.
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Frank Wildman: GCFT. Ph.D.
Frank Wildman is an exceptionally stimulating, generous, and knowledgeable teacher. He has a unique way of clarifying the relationship of the Feldenkrais Method to contemporary intellectual and scientific trends.
— Yvan Joly, Feldenkrais Trainer & Psychologist
Frank Wildman GCFT. Ph.D.
Founder and educational director of The Feldenkrais® Movement Institute
Dr. Frank Wildman is one of the few teachers and clinicians in the world today with the capability to understand and work with the human condition through posture and movement. Dr. Wildman's life-long passions in the study of evolution, movement arts and somatic psychology and his exceptional talents as a practitioner have culminated in a rich and profound body of work.
A former professional dancer, Dr.Wildman holds degrees in physical education, biology and somatic psychology. In his lectures and teachings Dr. Wildman draws from his eclectic training to ingeniously demonstrate the complex fusion of mind, movement and emotion in human individuals.
Dr. Wildman studied for more than a decade with the creator of the Feldenkrais Method®, renowned physicist, engineer and Judo Master Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. Dr. Wildman conducted the first accredited Feldenkrais Practitioner Training after Dr. Feldenkrais' death in 1984. He is past president of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and formulated the Standards of Practice, which today serve as the defining guidelines for the Feldenkrais Method® internationally. Wildman brought the Feldenkrais Method® to Australia where, aided by the sponsorship of Sydney University, he created seminars and Professional Trainings for two decades.
Dr. Wildman is widely recognized for introducing the clinical applications of the Feldenkrais Method® to the medical community and other health professions. He has designed programs at the University of California to help alleviate back pain and aging-related ailments and continues to expand the scope of The Feldenkrais Method by presenting it to the medical community as an effective method of sensory-motor
education. He has also coached many of today's top Feldenkrais Practitioners on effective ways to bring the Method to thousands of Physical and Occupational Therapists throughout the world. Wildman is founder and director of the Feldenkrais Movement Institute. He consults and works privately with individuals in California, New York, and Australia.
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Kid-Friendly Vegetable LasagnaJennifer Savor the Thyme
When I think of comfort food or foods that are universally enjoyed, I often think of pasta and lasagna. I also think of increasing the nutritional content yet still having a thick and cheesy dish. I do this by incorporating a bunch of vegetables that are minced so that they are not visually obvious.
Trust me, I have a very particular son who is into throwing tantrums and he loves this. I enjoy telling him that he just ate spinach, mushrooms, zucchini and peppers. I also want to let you know that I used reduced fat ricotta and part skim mozzarella but trust me, you will not miss the fat and this does not come out rubbery.
In addition, I am one who does not enjoy meat in my lasagna but has a husband who does. My solution? Find out below.
Ingredients: Yield 8-12 servings
1 cup mushrooms, minced
1/2 sweet onion, minced
1 cup baby spinach, minced
1/2 zucchini, minced
1 carrots, shredded and minced
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1.5 jars of spaghetti sauce
16 oz. container light Ricotta cheese
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 cup shredded or grated part skim mozzarella cheese
1 package oven ready lasagna noodles
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine all of the vegetables, herbs, ricotta, parmesan and 1 cup of the spaghetti sauce into a large bowl and mix well.
Place 1-2 tablespoons of spaghetti sauce into a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish and spread it around. Place three noodles over the sauce, a few tablespoons of the vegetable cheese mixture and then top with some more spaghetti sauce. Repeat layers. Top with remaining sauce and mozzarella.
Cover with foil and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
This may be a bit of prep work but this easily feeds 8. Also, consider doubling the recipe and freezing one before baking.
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James Cameron's Avatar seems like an animal-cruelty watcher's dream come true. The CGI beasts are adorable, and movie-goers can enjoy
watching them gallop, swoop, and swing without worrying about the stress these stunts would impose on live-action animals. For these reasons, PETA praised the movie for
"beautifully illustrat[ing] how unnecessary it is to subject animals to the
stress of a film production."
But a fellow animal rights organization thinks Avatar illustrates anything but. Cameron may have revolutionized Hollywood, smashed records, and provoked bizarre sociological debates, but he did not avoid the use of live-action animals. While praising the sensitive treatment of horses used in filming, the Humane Society rebuts PETA's notion:
American Humane was, therefore, surprised to learn that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has recognized the film and its director for using computer-generated images (CGI) instead of live animals. ...PETA was apparently unaware that, even though the film was produced using CGI, live animals were used -- for motion capture.Movie Line's S.T. VanAirsdale jokingly predicts that the preparation of horses for motion capture--involving glue, shaving, and light-reflective balls--will cause PETA to retract its Avatar praise:
So... Velcro glued to bare skin? Tails wrapped in "sensor-laden material"? This changes everything. And you don't even want to be around when PETA hears how infrequently Cameron's crew cleaned the banshee cages. | <urn:uuid:37bb2ba9-90c5-48ff-b28d-6c0c6613f047> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2010/02/no-peta-avatar-did-use-animals/20242/ | 2016-05-27T08:25:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276564.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00081-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92119 | 323 | [
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I have just added a few features to the LAF project.
The first one allows to display a message anywhere on the window, so, close to a specific item if you want.
The message can be displayed in a colored frame, and it can also blink. The X and Y coordinate support special keywords to center the message on the window.
I have also added a method that permits to display a Scrolling Panel during a given time.
Because the update is minor, I decided not to change the version number, so that it remains 1.6.2.
All you have to do, is to download again the LAF_162.zip from the site ;-)
Here is a short demo of the new features - Enjoy ! | <urn:uuid:37ae2501-8a98-4b82-a44f-9bd8e820b8ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/article-oracle-forms-look-and-feel-project-58117118.html | 2016-05-29T22:59:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00241-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899547 | 153 | [
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Great wool blanket for camping, hunting, and home use. We sell a lot of these for our Idaho winters for the trunk of cars in case a person is stranded in a snow drift! measures a nice 82" x 63 Used but in very good shape!! Get them before they are gone! 70% Wool Blend, also very soft! | <urn:uuid:499c02b3-b60a-4c41-9c1f-5d8c32417f68> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/featured3/bulgarian-wool-blanket.html | 2016-05-29T23:05:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00241-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932053 | 73 | [
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The 2016 election is conservatives’ last, best chance to take back the country.
The answer, conservative columnist and analyst Ed Morrissey says, depends on seven battleground counties in swing states Republicans must win. Each county pulled for Obama in one or both of the last two elections, but after eight years of misadventures under the Obama administration, the door is open for Republicans to win them—and the presidency—once again, making a decisive mandate against progressivism for the generation to come. In Going Red, Morrissey takes readers inside the battlegrounds that will decide the election, weaving together data and the stories collected through over 100 interviews of people and leaders in these communities to answer the most pressing questions facing conservatives in 2016. Providing an unparalleled look into the campaign and the thinking of experts from both parties, Going Red is a field guide for taking back the White House and an essential book for anyone who cares about the fate of the Right. | <urn:uuid:2ec05dda-0095-4d1e-bddc-3d7d5d4fe0d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.goingredbook.com/ | 2016-05-29T22:57:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00241-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929356 | 191 | [
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Honolulu Ringer T-shirts are an Idakoos specialtiy! Idakoos has many things to offer. Whether you want to get a Honolulu Ringer T-shirt for a special occasion, give a Honolulu T-Shirt as a present or need to represent with a funny Honolulu Ringer Tee during Holidays or Family and Friends get-togethers, Idakoos is sure to have the right Honolulu Ringer T-shirt for you! Even if it turns out you can't find the right Honolulu Ringer Shirt with the perfect design for your mother, father or children (or friends!); Idakoos offers all of its men's women's and children's Honolulu Ringer T-shirts as Custom Honolulu T-Shirts. Personalize any Honolulu Ringer T-shirt the way you want to ensure the perfect gift. | <urn:uuid:a19a0945-324b-4018-8ee9-c333d50e75e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.idakoos.com/tshirt+ringer/honolulu | 2016-05-29T23:27:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00241-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938662 | 171 | [
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Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of 1940s boogie woogie act The Andrews Sisters, died of natural causes at her home in suburban Los Angeles yesterday. She was 94. Via Yahoo!:
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like “I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time” with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep.
The Andrews Sisters were best known for their hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” and had more than 50 singles hit the Top 40 between 1937 – 1951. | <urn:uuid:22afb696-cb70-4a8d-afc0-1a89c92713b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/rip-patty-andrews-last-surviving-andrews-sister-dies-94/ | 2016-05-29T22:59:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00241-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974728 | 153 | [
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(BLACKFORD CO) - Prosecutors Tuesday reached a plea agreement with a retired teacher and current Hartford City councilman charged with child molestation and sexual misconduct.
John Adams was set to go to trial this month, but instead will go before a judge in July to change his plea.
Adams originally pleaded not guilty when police arrested him last year for repeatedly molesting a boy over a number of years.
He retired as an art teacher at Blackford High School in 2005, but was still volunteering with the school's cheerleading squad.
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Sccrotary of War Garrison today
pave out tho following' dispatch from
G"tioial Kutiston at Brownsville, Tex.,
'Wo have ri'eclvrd the followliiR
leport fioni Major Anderson, Twelfth
Cm all. , ftom subdlstrlct Mercedes,
timed s p. in :
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Artlllcrv, swam across the lllo
C.rnnde while atrlpped In bnthlns; In
the rlvor at ProRieso about 3-30 p. m.
tudnj. Two weie made prisoners by
three Mexicans with rifles and taken
back Into Interior from river. Other
two men fiom battery swam back,
some two 01 three shots fired at them
' 'l.leut. .1. I... Mort, commanding hat
tei, with Lieutenants I'cyton and
V'rildron. with about fourteen men of
I'atlerj D and one man of the Twelfth
(' ilr, crossed river about threc-nuar-trr.'
of an houi Inter, went about thrce-
lunrtcra of a mile back Into the in
telor fiom river, seaichod two houses,
did not Unit comrades. They were fired
upon ten or twelve times by men In
brush. They remained on other side
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V) shots. None of our men killed or
" "The following men wero drowned
while swimming to the other side:
" "Sergt. On on Clements, Corporal Mi
chael F King, Prlvnto Harry A. Itohde.
Thcsp three men aro of Cattery U,
Fourth Field Artillery.
" 'Private Charles D. "Wilton-Best.
Troop A, Twelfth Cavaliy.
Bodies Not Recovered.
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swift, muddy luricnt, and not yet ro
coveied. ijeaich being made.
" "Tho following men still In hands of
.Mexicans on othei hide: I'rlvate Will
iam C. Wheeler. Private Ulggo Peterson,
Battery D, Fourth Field Artillery.'
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1 icuteii'ints Moit, Peyton ant. Waldron
to be placed in arrest, end Captain
McHroom, Twetitj-elghth ln'.antry, iuj
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ment, were under arrest In Progreso,
Tex . toda.v because they aic alleged to
hae led fouiteen of theit men into
Mexico to icscue two American soldiers
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were attested on oidors of Major Gen
ital Funston, who leltetated that he
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if tboe in'iit on having the knot tie I
In', i in t' e dnv
' 'I nuhi Mr. I'M r.iiii'1'l i for vou '
v r I mtoeieil the colonel' 'Von nov.
v i I'un l want to tna'ie anvoue di this
a mst hi- w ill "
I told In r lust ni -lit tii I d'lin't
tle liei dim nil-slon to ro this Ii e s1
i I that she had no i Isht to do It " sill
i voiniL- iiiiin as the " olon T noti-od
I on the doubled vva'c-s b- rti mi ic
li Pet. i-eveial tlms iic-oj.s t io Hi is
1 veil a man ei'ii ihinso his t' ind in
-i n m.itteit. " ic'iiarl-ed a metiib of
tin bin us the vuiiiiK man departed
1 1 oiii the ofllei
! THE WEATHER REPORT.
'I be fntei.isl for the DlMrii I of I'n.
1 i lliia iieiii't.lh i IiiiiiU anil i niitiniied
Mil imi'n'ii mil h'tlla, vvllh pioli-
" ia-.ion.il i ,uti Modi late mjiiiIi-
M ii land -I eiiPia Iv i loinlv nnd i on
t ni e.l waim tniiiKlii ami Fiidnv. with
li.anllv oi i asioniil lain. Moileiato
ii In i Iv vv inds
V liginia lieueiallv elninlv ninl i on-
ii.il w.nni tonight mid Kilda.v proli-
' ' Imal tain.-.. Moilerate southeily
VV 1 11. lb
li . b. Bureau l
K i ni
'I a in
1" a in
li a in
1 (i in
'I'll iK TAItl.i:.
Huh tide at l: I'l ii ni and 12 .".. p m.
1 'W tide ut ii 17 a tn and 7.17 p m.
SI'N T Mil. I''
i I i -e at 7 in Sun , t ,i -. 17
lb' a j IP li,. Uiuj.j ai o m i ni.
IAMILV PARTY ENDS
IN TRIPLE TRAGEDY
Insurance Man Crushes Skull of
Wife and Daughter, Jumps
From Hotel Window.
NKW YORK, Jan. 27.-Having killed
his wife and daughter by crushing their
skulls with a hatchet and ax, Nathan
Pullman, a former Insurance agent, end
ed his life here today by leaping from
tho third-story wlndoV of a Thlrd ave
nue hotel. Tho bodies of Mrs. Pullman
and Mrs. Gertrude Bazell, tho daughter,
were found In the latter's home several
hours after Pullman had told n relative
his wife was 111, and then disappeared.
The tragedy followed a family reunion,
which wr marked by exchanges of
presents, a theater party and other fes
tivities. Relatives and friends of tho
family could find no explanation for It.
It is believed, however, that Pullman
suddenly became Insane.
Pullman appeared at the hotel late
lesterday, about an hour after the tlmo
the murders arc believed to have been
committed. Though he registered aa
"Mr. Jones and wife." explulnlng that
his wife would arrive later, no woman
After plunging from the hotel window,
Pullman was hurried to the Flower
Hospital. He died within a few min
utes. Several Incoherent notes were
found In his pocket. Throe of them
contained the quotation: "The wages of
sin is death!
1 One note said:
"I wish they should not worrv over
I these two because the ones 1 am ad
dressing are better off without them.
In the hotel room the police found a
note reading: "Good-b.v Ta-ta cver -body.
I guess I'll make good I am
going awa on a long journej." Tho
note was not signed.
Wife Slnvpr tn Inin Parp.nts in
ronu niuu vvdiitb iu uivc
Ni:w VOKK .Ian 27 -Porter Charl
ton, the American who wa i pleased
from pilson In Italv last Novembci
ifler solving twentv-nine dn.vs foi kill
ing hl wife at Lake Como in r-'' le
ttirned from Naples on the Italian liner
Antetica. and will leave foi Sin Juan,
Point H co, net Satuidiv. to Join b's
lie was met at Quainntbie In .1. W.
Johnston, tteasurer of the Western
Fleet! ir Companv. of I'D Vst street,
who traveled on the 1'nlteil Sl.tIps iov-i-liiie
ruttPi from the liatt"iv to hoard
the if- iitir on a pass (torn the col
lector of the port made out In the name
of ox-.ludce John Paltnletl t was
pUted that Mr. Johnston had tlnanced
I'ortp- Charlton since he left pr'son In
N'ovpm 'Pr, : nil had made ni tainemcnts
for soiling the stoiy of his caieer to a
New York newsp'iper
In a hi ief talk with the repo'ters out
side his cabin on the Amer'ea Porter
sad he was feeling well and was look
ing forward to seeing his parents in
I have been through a greut deil of
ttotible," he said. and wlh now to
live it down Theie Is nothin,; I can
add that has not altpadv been prii. d
in the newspapets logardlng the trial
I have no complaint to mike about my
ticutment bv the Italian off clils "
(Continued from IIr-t Page )
some ntion to' aid them in -e'tlns th"
suit age amendment ihmugli Congtess
"It tnav be Indies that tnv mind
works Iowv" nnsweied the Pies'dent
"I have always felt that those things
wpre most solidlv built that vvpi-p built
piece bj piece, and I have felt tint the
L-enlus of ou'- polltlcTl development In
ibis couetiv lav in the numbers of our
Stntpa rii'i In the verv cleat iloHnlt'on
Vif the illffp eiue of spoe between the
Statu ..nil redetal ko einnients
Has Not Yet After.
h n I Inst sn w -nine of vou I
mom mmI I o-iUI take nlnifiii(. n j (.
fei'ing t'lls (luestion to in1 fr'ni's nnd
en'lrai ii' s 'n C"n'ess I oo-i'ess tht
' have nn d-ne lhl Thl is beceu.se
I have felt tnoi othei Itl't'e-s of lppls
la'lin e e of .such itnnor.anee Mint
Hin h'-milii tnWe iirecedenee I bplinvo
I was ii"it in tiiio h-pn't fTnettPii
the pirmlsp I m do t ti'-t Moie, hovv-ivet-
ml I i pi i nl- .bnll not"
Sp ei - of t'-e sviffr ; s Uipii at-'enin-efi
tn one 'Ion t'-e Piesldont fur
tb'" . o'lH he i 'thd en
Th' Chief I'vecutlve tiie( brie nt
. o'clre'i a'x' hi bus tins n the cam
"n'c" for de'ense ixja-i slnrth nfte-htenkf-'st.
He will delivei several
Order Condemnation for
Calvert Street Extension
Thp CommlS3lonPrs vestonlnv ordered
Ibat eondettiii'i tlon proceed. ni;s be In-
H'li'ed 'or the extension of Calvett
, ftreet between Connecticut avenue and
Cleveland h venue, of Cleveland aveinm
between Twentv -ninth tieot nnl
Thlrtv -first place, and nf Twentv -eighth
and Twentv -n nth .itieets n
their l-iter-O'-t 'on with the piopoed
eMetisl'in of Calvptt -tieet
The Impiov entents wete o'derPd on
i'i''inimci"'atloii of Smvejoi M C
'laen 'I'll cMonlons rfii In ,lc.
coidaiice i'h the biehwav plan.
Readings At .Church.
Pciilincs bv Mrs Maud Me ean Ker-
nison vieie the prlncinal features of
I c i potertam'-ient at Koundrv M V.
, Chi.ich hut nllit under.lhe aurnlces of
tho Ilavwood Sundav school c'ass.
To Throw Off Colds nnd Prevent Grip
Take LAXATIVE BR0M0 QUI
NINE. It destroys Kr-rms, acts as a
tonic and laxative, and helps to keen
the system in a henlthv condition.
Thr-n is onlv one "RR0M0 QUI
NIVF." V V.'. GROVE'S signature
on box. -de AdU.
Ellen Wilson Homes
Society Begins Work
Arrival of John Ihlder, Executive
Secretary, Followed By
TO BUILD MODEL HOUSES
Eftort Will Be Made to Take
Enterprise Out of Field of
With Hip arrival In Washlncton this
week of Juhn Ihlder. newlv elpcted
PNeeutlvi) secretary of the Kllen Wll
pon Homes Asioelatlon, the work of
lalslns? funds, settling upon a site,
and planning for the creetlon of a
block of model dwellings In hls city
Announcement has just bon made
of the offlceis of the association. In
eoiporated ly act of Cungreas. March
!, 1915. Mis.' Atchlbald. Hopkins Is
prpsldent and those who lvlll assist
her In carrying out the wotk are Mt
J. Potdon Ilanlmnn. fl'st vico-.prpsl-
ident, Surgeon Gen. William C. Out-
pus, U. H A., seeond vice tuesldent.
Coieoran Tho.n. treasuiet. Miss Clara
Fatrar-.Smlth, secrptaiv. Mlas bhlo
H. MeCanimon. asslftunt seotPtatj.
and Mr. Ihldet, pseeutlve seer'-tar.v
The plan foi the building of th
mode dwellings origlnallv designed
Flmplv as u momorlBl to tltP woiK of
the late Mrs. I-lien Wilson was stall
ed hv the District section, woman'.!
depattment. National Civic F dela
tion. Has Taken Wider Scope.
lth the development of the pioject
It has taken a ninth w idei scope, -ind
ll Is hoped to nuiKu it one of na
Mr. Ihldet, who was field societal v ot
the National Housing Association Iris
taken up the work with a view of mak
ing the Washington experiment a mode
for othei cities which aie looKing anou.
for a method of impioving Housing i M
ditlons. Two points aie emphasized . Mr
Ihlder In the pioject lor the bioeli ol
model homes beie The.v ate
'1 Tie social value ot good duellliiRs is
to be demonstrated The dwellings intirfi
not only bonc-ttt those who live In tin m.
out tnp must tit snow n to no a uene.u
to the "ity
I'hr invcstmint must pay a tali re
turn not a nlxh iineiest on a specula
tive srcurltv. but ii sin ill ictuin on a
sp'iihI and stable seeuutv.
Roth points aie designed to take tbp
build ng of good dvve lings foi the day
'aborer nnd smalt wiicp cainer out of
tlie fold of pbllimthiophv and put it
into the field of business In f'n8 upon
the tetuin to lie tm.d the pxutnp'es of
tlie ns.it-igton Smitni Impiov ement
Company and of the Washington Sunt
taiy llotidng i nmpan.v hnve bePn fol
lowed The Investois vvi'l be limited to
u tetiirn of 5 tier cent e
Wider Range of Investors.
I!v this pi ill ii vv Idei range of in
vestois is Tiund. Many of the model
dwel'iiig piojects which were not d"
i signed to piv fill thtough because the
Inlet est of the ph lanthroplsts lapsed,
and new projects of that sort weie de-
Criticises President and Bryan
Personally in Violent Speech;
In n violent atteek on the iltiilnlstn
tlot.'s Mele-iii oollcv President Wilson
and fotmei .-'er-tetaiv of .Sta'e Hii'in
weie persomllv ciltlclsed t-Mlav bv
( oncipssninn Humnhrpv of Waslilncton
The President run nletuted as "scholnr
tin, liner and theoilst" Brvan wis le
tetipn to as n "lent meacliet- of Cluni
tannoa twin1 a' most anv cish nilce"
'I he Adminlsti ntion s "ilisroiTafinc
mill linmilio'iii nnllcv in Mexico' was
iVi hired irso-nsible fnr the I cu.it mur
tl i ol A i-i i leans
(nu nollcv In Moxl-o h-,s emifd us
the loiitemnt of the woild nnl his
ct'iit'v Int'upncpd vvrilnu n-itlms of
Id i ope li theli oiesent attitude toward
us" said lliiinnhiev "The Pfeldeir's
pollcv Is chin Hctcrlzed hv weakneis mi -ceit.n.itv
vnt'lll.i'ldTi and uriontnll ible
deslie l" Intermeddle He has not th"
co'irnge to :o to Mexico, nor the cour
auo t sicv out
War Declared On Huerta.
Humph i .sa.U win was declaied by
the President on Hucita. but "th
trampling of out (las In Hie dust was
uch sn Ins gnltlcanl tiitle that It left
no impiesslon en the pjnderous intel
lect ol the gieat prtacltei of Chiulau
qua peato al almost any cash pi Ice '
"1 he flag-saluting episode was hut a
ni'e pretext, eagerly sotmht. to in- i
v.ide Mexico and drive out lluetta"
o.ilil Humphre.v. "Our Mexican tlasco.
I disciedilnic and hunuHnrn.; as it was.'
I taught us nothing, foi we still intei-j
1 mrd Med and Interfe-ed. i
' "Then tlie Admlnistintloii permitted,
, Criiiaii'a to M'l.d sold oit- and iiiiui.upi-
' tinu thi.iugl. Anifilcriii nirlo' to no
i ted ug.ilnM Villa. Thin a -Jon ' i.e-
I licved itai i nsilifl lui t ! leciiit
Curling Iron Kills Htfir;
New Method Improves It
f n i i f it m un InunM thn altLrv Huff i.
iilllll i r v luiiiin lu-im i it v. -) li it u (
and brilliant nppf aiani i of her hair
Ihioueh habitual use of thi hot i urlinp
lion Certainlv it (an do the hah no
Kiiod to dtv up Its natural oil, siu;o
the life out of it. niaklnK it lui i Mi,
btlttle and dull And there s no oxiuxo
for contlnulnK the uso of that destine
tlve iiiHtrument, now- that we know
what inn ho accomplished by applying
pli'ln liquid sllmerino
The use of this harmless produi t
really preserves the life, lustre and
bounty of The hair, and the curb and
vvrtv.v effect Is perfeitlv natural look
Ini; and most mptlvatliiK If .votivo
never tried It, bv all means proi ure a
few ounces, from vnur drugKist and uso
onoi'ph lo moisten vour hair fiom root
In il. piitilnR It on with a i lean lomli
litn-h The lluuld s'mi rine Is nnthrr
u iiiiu i- H runj v)Ut nunc fluastmt to
m jMgfc-i ,'sHMffk'tiSirW
T V' i
Above C0KC0R AN THOM.
DelowSl'RG. (JEN, WILLIAM C.
GORGAS, U. S. A.
pendent upon find.ng sottn one with
nu in j to sink ki ihii'e iiitiipilses
15.ll II the pi.M" t nf lie- 'Hen d-i-oii
Hntiii'S '"onninv is ti tried ()' t It
v ill seive at- an i ainpli bv v lurli
I oil I.i dwelling imiv in I'lovidi I in
vtiv i'II.v :inl 'oi'inn wild una
to IiipmI ninv bo a.tp(! to tike sii ,
in tin in with tin- h -Milan i- of a tad
i , I ed i "tut n
Tn Ihr list ol illH'i t"ii o j he i 'i
t"i prise h n b((n addid t i nam "f
Mis (iriiie iliiViieil The o b "
ii pilots art M.-- v illlain ciiniiiuii
Storv. Mis .losenu I iinar Stanton '
IV. Me (Jin W ' 5oigi- M'sh iMil
i htb-np Mm .1 Voi.i MC,-' M .
Il'i'h C Wal'ae-'. M-s P.K-h. rd a n
rlsht. Miss i-bii i run u Si.iith M -
i i , Vlis v,,n, ,,, -
in. II i Wllla-d. Mi Ali.il" SI-.ion
i i-aminc an I M' An-i.i' aid IiV-
tiao'dv whole i'pIi'c'ii meilcan weie
killed oni of H ' I'lii-I 'luel "1 I mi
IMOxok'l tividiis Hi it e et look !! n "
In that lui! o' I loo I and a i''Jli''
tton We tiiiike h demendous hlustei about
the 1.1'liin: of Vnieijiaii iiinn.s -i ..
.'e hlqh s"is and till the ar with the
iimuli of m'iv t'p"wilters Hut we
have looked with "itiinimtv mulls' in h
p'l while hundred" "' ,i"r-'i - he-
' "! put pot Iv foull.v murdeieil In
I be whole toii of the Pt -sidPnt
it-is neen inn- in iiii'i'i'niiK " " i ' '
lions of septet r '
a ipnts ippie.ionting the President per-
soiuiliv V .oi it i.eu i'1
the Caesais and the Idnperor of China
Pitiless puhllcitv ha- piven wav to nl-
vate peeret negotiations through pel - '
sunn I agpnts " (
FREE TO !
A New Home Cure That Anjone
Can Use Without Discomfort
or Loss of Tirtic. i
Up riaf a Now Me hoil that ti Ten -h nt
nnl w e wan! vou ui ir It at out ( nc
No ihiiMi r whe i i our is t, li i ,
an 1 nc ni ri cut ilt flopim nt w tit li. r it
1- pro-em ns o un-iniai - thronn. ." li'iia
vou ni oultl Mill r a Hit trial n i.ur
meitioM N niattri in whji ilniHie oij
11 r. no niu ;e? lnt uir ape nr ot
i pa tlon. If nu arr tiouli'r ! jth i. Inn i
ni r fiKMi'n.i ciii Id it I e.i- o imnnntb
prif lall w.ini tn t nt It tn no
i'lparHjic'v. utipe i h (j1, ' lnr all i-n m
of lnhalrr ilnurlf n ilnin p eptr.i Ion
ntu". p.itpn km or ' pi lia 'all I
V want to -hm t r one at otfr own
t pens' i tliat tils iipa tm thnr deslpne 1 4
rn-1 all rtltfli t li li-on'h'np, alt heezlnT nnl
all t oh ttrrlbk jiaitiw n h at fin t Hint o
ail 1 Hi"
'I Y1 h lre" offer i inn linpnr ant in n "1
slnK'p ilav Writ' row nml Mien ! n
tl e nutlinl at niu ' etnl n" m vie -'lintilv
mail nipon brln To It o)a X .1 t '
TREK A SI II M CCrPOX
PIt()NTIi:it VM'HM.V (O Itimiii U VI
Nlut,Rra sri'l MnJsuii hs II 1 1 1-! 1 N
fcfiui fin. tr.al ut juiii nittlio.l in
The Treatment of
Influenza or La Grippe
It la nulla refreahlna these llnVI to read
of a clearly defined trentment for Innu-
enza or La Grippe, In nn article In the
uincet-ljllnlc," i)r. James iien, oi new
York City, lays ho Is convinced that too
much medication Is both unnecesiary
When called to a cn of la Krtppe. the
patient Is usually seen whew the lever Is
present, as the chill which occasionally
ushers In the disease, bns practically
passed awav. Dr. Uoll then orders that
the bowels be opened freely with salts,
Actolds" or citrate of masnesja. For
the high fever, severe headache, pain
and general soreness, one antl-Jiamnla
tablet every three hours la quickly foi
lowed by complete relief. Ask for A-K
Tablets. They ore also unexoellod for
heaJache.neuralcla and all pains.
r. ir l iuuili mil of MUh ll-lcHi
" uiomohil iim nik ail O ..
-t rk,' r.rin.
' ' ' $'"
Alabaman Announces He Is
Against President's Plan and
May Lead Fight.
Henator I'nderwood, author of the
I'ndrnvood tariff hill, today announced
hla opposition to J'resldent Wilson's
plan for a tariff commission. Ho inti
mated his opposition would bo active.
Denying Jhat ho considered the Presi
dent's plot an attack on his revenue
measure, he said ha thought there was
plenty or 'Joveinment machinery now
to gather such Information as the Presi
dent has said he wants.
Honator I'nderwood said "circum
stances would dictate how determined
his opposition would be. it Is believed.
of line willow,
with wooden bot
tom and well
l- ir a ii it
Cocoa Door Mats
.J f 1 1 -.1
W '' 1IK
Usually $1 00
Sail Iron- . In
tot with hiiu
dU and Maud.
Nil K e I - plated,
K ii a I a u lied one
,v e.i i
li Initios hiRh
white enamel lub
ber tipped ends
I fV!0 - : - 0 - MI) - ; - - ; - C - r - rH - 0: - 0 - i - e - r - : - C
W FUHIB II .SUGA11 1
Viliri .it "tfjiiTiVi vviyumd
. i r ,. . .. -1 i - no
t)I7C Inch.'.. I iV iniIils tOU
f The Sunday Evening Times!
however, ho Is not prepared, like C'on
gicssman Kltchln .to smother his own
objections and allow the passage or the
hill without making a contest.
Youth Admits False
Swearing For License
Thomas N. Nuckols, Jr., eighteen,
pleaded guilty when arraigned before
Chief Justice Covington In Criminal
Court today on a charge of perjury.
Nuckols Is charged with having given
his age as twenty-two when applying to
Col. William A. Kroll. the marriage li
cense clerk for n license several days
ago. The probation officer of tho Dis
trict Supremo Court will Investigate the
case with i vlovv of recommending that
young Nuckols be placed on probation.
Engineers to Hear Talk
On Profession's History
The Hngineerlng Society at George
Washington University wdll he addressed
on "Tho History of Engineering." by
Prof. N. W. Dougherty, of the College
of Engineering. V cdnesday night at
the Sigma Nu fraternity house.
Basement Store Friday
Oil of Ceoar Outfit, 98c
I (III of Cedar Mop . ..
1 bottle of Oil of Cedar
1 hcmluillj-tteaU'd Duster
i omplele Outlit
"The l-'HVoiiti ni heavv tin. vvl'h
i-oiii t bottom nnd slaliomrv wood
I '1. a Ketll
Coflee Ml I 1
U la,s (f
Bt a v enanu I
Standard at 25c.
The Ci.ntuu ninl ' nit ii . Veil
lilatoi is li Ini hes lush, edjtist
able .. t i :" inihes wide usei'
lui bed, Hv inc. hntli and school
in inns, hi spit lis, hanks, and 1 C
etc Spi lllll
A. Lisner G&llth
- : - 0 rs?-r-ia i C 1 gi-i-0-i-v9-i-C-rs-r!-
IC - L Ja I.
. Jl 50
iJiiiiiiJ At JasJ-
H II r I'ain Iv si.r.
JL. It . iv ih 4 .-ii-el
JJ VS--' cultoi.s
"TIZ" FOR TIRED,
Instant relief for sore, aching,
tender, calloused feet
You're footslck! Your feet feel tired
puffed up, chafed, aching, sweaty, and
they need "Tlz."
"TIz" makes feet remarkably fresh
and sore-proof. "TIz" takes the pain
and burn right out of corns, callouses
nnd bunions. "Tlz" Is the grandest
foot'gladdcncr tho world has ever
Odt a 25-cent box of "Tlz" at any
drug store nnd end foot torture for a
whole year. Never have tired, aching,
sweaty, smelly feet; your shoes will fit
fine and you'll only wish you had tried
"Tlz" sooner. Accept no substitute.
$2.1)! Heavy galvanized iron, fits
anv size can or flj" QQ
TI e a v y calvanized
iron sheet iron top
CI Ina w I'h wood
i ver sMsbtl) soiled,
II e n v v
I n vv hit"
1 1 e j v al
v uiized Iron,
I ke Illustration
to ban on wall
all wood and well
Foldlns. with 6
n a i s , stronsly
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Caspersen, Nina (2008) Between Puppets and Independent Actors: Kin-state Involvement in the Conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia and Nagorno Karabakh. Ethnopolitics, 7 (4). pp. 357-372. ISSN 1744-9057Full text not available from this repository.
The conflicts and wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Nagorno Karabakh are commonly viewed as little more than the expression of kin-state involvement. The Serbian regime is usually assigned overwhelming influence over the local Serb leaders, and the formal division between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh is frequently argued to be a smokescreen. However, this article argues that the leaders in Belgrade and Yerevan were not always able to control the local leaders and dictate developments, and their influence varied considerably in different conflict phases. Even though kin-state involvement can play a very important role, and indeed be the decisive factor in a violent conflict, the potentially limited longevity of these ethnonational ties should be acknowledged; they can be weakened even in a situation of extreme insecurity and this impacts on the possibility for reaching a settlement.
|Journal or Publication Title:||Ethnopolitics|
|Subjects:||J Political Science > JA Political science (General)|
J Political Science > JZ International relations
|Departments:||Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01)|
|Deposited By:||Mrs Yaling Zhang|
|Deposited On:||02 Sep 2010 14:40|
|Last Modified:||03 May 2016 00:00|
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Unlike the Bradys and Bloombergs who advocate for regulation, limits, bans, and government controls over law-abiding citizens, I do not advocate government making any decision for any responsible individual. I do not advocate the arming of teachers or the arming of students, or the arming of anyone. Instead I defend the right of all responsible people to make their own choices. I do not assume that thoughtful, responsible people will lose control and become heartless killers or mindless idiots because a gun is present. I reject the notion that “the trigger pulls the finger,” as some of my opponents have gone so far to say. I trust responsible adult citizens to be responsible adults, and that trust has been proven consistently everywhere it has been given. I reject the idea that a sign on a wall or a policy in an employee handbook can, will, or ever has stopped someone intent on murder and mayhem from carrying out their criminal acts. To the contrary, I believe that such acts can and have been prevented and curtailed by responsible citizens who had the means and were willing to place themselves in harm’s way for the sake of others. I believe that it is wrong to disarm such people based on their job or where they happen to be.
I am the Gun Lobby. I am deeply rooted in the ideals and principles of this great nation. I am a true American and a true grass roots movement, not like the externally funded, Astroturf organizations that oppose me. Certainly there are honorable and committed individuals who truly believe that guns are the problem, that guns cause crime and that giving the State a monopoly on power is the key to establishing a peaceful and safe society. I believe that those people are misguided at best.
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Amid tight fiscal situation, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said he does not expect big freebies like cheap crop loans in the forthcoming Budget for 2013-14 which is likely to be "a tight budget".
"This budget will be a tight budget. I am little worried," Pawar said in an interview.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram in February-end will present UPA government's last full budget before general elections. The budget will be presented in the backdrop of slowing economic growth, rising subsidies, run-away fiscal deficit and moderation in revenues.
Pawar also said that he does not expect further reduction in interest rate on crop loans on those farmers who pay in time. At present, the interest rate on farm loan is 4 per cent for timely repayers.
However, Pawar wished the Finance Minister gave more funds for irrigation projects in the budget keeping in view the country's half of the farm land is not irrigated.
"My wish in fact is that the Finance Minister should provide maximum money for irrigation projects. We expect more financial support for various schemes implemented by various ministries for water conservation like drip irrigation," he said.
"There is too much wastage of water and we have to utilise water properly. This area should be given priority in the budget," he stressed.
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Dave Grohl was in energetic, enthusiastic form as his band Foo Fighters headlined the Pepsi Center on Sunday night. As Grohl skipped acrosss the stage to acknowledge those with the lackluster side-stage seats and later sprinted the length of the long catwalk that lead to a secondary stage near the soundboard, he grinned like a drugged hyena and headbanged like a possessed Muppet.
Grohl is a true rock ’n’ roll treasure, and even if his band has evolved into a mostly bland monolith of modern rock, he’s still one of the coolest figures in music.
Grohl is more than what he’s perhaps best known for – as Nirvana’s drummer. He’s a star in his own right, fronting his own band, writing his own FM staples, but he’s also one of the industry’s most avid and well-known fans of quality music. When he finds a new favorite band, he wears their T-shirts and talks about them in Rolling Stone and occasionally drums for them.
And there are few better forms of music marketing in 2011.
If only the Foo Fighters were as vibrant and important. As the band proved again on Sunday night, they’re heroes of modern arena rock – pumping out the same FM-friendly jams that made them all rich but also tarnished the legacy of their first two records.
The band opened its Sunday set in very timely fashion with “Bridge Burning” and “Rope” – the same songs that open the band’s latest album, “Wasting Light,” which came out in April. Fans of the record likely appreciated the tribute, but it wasn’t the most inspired opening. Things didn’t really get kicking until the third song of the night, the 2007 jam “The Pretender,” their best song since 1997’s “The Colour and the Shape.”
“Colour” was the band’s true breakthrough album, a sophomore release that built upon the band’s initial hits (“This is a Call,” “Big Me”) and grew its sound into a more focused brand of modern rock that was created for prime time. And the Foos played plenty of tribute to “Colour,” including an early-set “My Hero” that grew into one of the biggest, most participatory sing-alongs I’ve ever witnessed and a rejuvenated “Monkey Wrench” that was proof of the band’s more modest, down-to-Earth beginnings.
The Foos’ biggest hits represent much of what makes them uninteresting. “Learn to Fly” lacks any and all rock bite. “Times Like These” is empty nostalgia. And “My Hero” is paint-by-numbers rock music hand-crafted for the same masses who don’t admit to missing Bush’s “Everything Zen.”
The band almost makes up for it with the early genius of the understated “Everlong” and the feverish “Breakout,” but it’s not enough. You want Grohl’s originality to help define the band, but right now that’s just not the case.
And maybe that’s part of the problem. It’s so easy to appreciate Grohl’s spirit that you might want to expect more out of the Foo Fighters. Early on in the show, after a gutsy blast of loud-and-friendly rock, Grohl asked the crowd: “Do you guys have to work tomorrow?” The audience responded with an oddly enthusiastic, “Yeah!” Grohl responded the only way he knows how: “Well, that sucks!”
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UH's Jones pencils in April 15 spring game
The football coach plans to move Satele from guard to center
Hawaii football coach June Jones said he will reinstitute a spring football scrimmage after going without one last year ... maybe.
Jones -- not an advocate of full-contact practice in general -- said he won't make a decision until assessing the overall health of his team during spring practice, which begins March 21. But for now, the schedule says "spring game, April 15."
"It depends on injuries," said Jones. "If we do it, it will be the same format we've done in the past."
That means offense against defense, with big points for interceptions and sacks to make the scoring competitive, and the set-in-stone first-stringers playing just a few downs.
Spring practice dates are March 21-24 and -- following spring break -- April 3-8 and 10-13 and 15. The practices are generally from 7 to 9 a.m. at the UH grass practice fields and are open to the public at no charge.
Jones said he and his staff haven't determined goals for spring practice yet, other than the obvious ones of indoctrinating new players and beginning to fill positions for next season.
"We haven't set anything down yet," Jones said. "We still have to do our year-end player evaluations, which we'll be doing the next two weeks."
He has already talked about some position changes.
All-conference senior Samson Satele will shift from left guard to center.
Satele considered skipping his senior season and entering the 2006 NFL Draft, but informed Jones he will remain.
"Samson told me he's going to stay," Jones said. "He's probably one of the best, if not the best, offensive lineman we've had here."
Satele told Jones that graduating this December was one of the major considerations in not leaving for the pros early.
"He's close to getting his degree and wants to complete his education," Jones said.
Last June, the Kailua graduate said he would consider entering the draft early if projected as a high-round pick.
Satele, who received second-team All-WAC mention as a freshman and sophomore, will replace four-year starter and team MVP Derek Fa'avi at center.
Starting tackles Tala Esera and Dane Uperesa also return next season, along with quarterback Colt Brennan, who led the nation in passing yardage, and all four starting receivers.
Starting running back Nate Ilaoa also returns if the NCAA grants him an extra year because of injuries.
Veterans Marques Kaonohi, Hercules Satele and Larry Sauafea will get long looks at guard, as will promising freshman John Estes.
Freshman Adrian Thomas has arrived from Australia, and will enroll at UH this spring. He has the size to potentially play anywhere on the line at 6-foot-5 and 280 pounds.
Senior defensive tackle Reagan Mauia will continue at running back after playing there the last two games of the 2005 season. Mauia, who played at around 320 pounds last year, will need to lose some weight to vie for serious playing time in the offensive backfield, Jones said.
Sophomore slotback Davone Bess may get some reps in the defensive secondary, but Jones said no major shift is planned that would take away from the WAC Freshman of the Year's offensive productivity.
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January is really hit or miss in CO. You can almost guarantee it'll be colder than eskimo pussy, but as far as snow goes, it tends to be the driest month of the winter. But, then again, we've had some great Januaries too.
Yeah, I've been spending winters in CO for the past, oh... 25 years maybe, seen many of them. Jan is the winter break for my kid though so it's the only time she can get out with me. We'll see though. So far the only non-negotiable trips are Val and whistler because flights are already booked. | <urn:uuid:a04ec9dd-fd02-440a-82b9-c5a8eba2c79f> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.snowboardingforum.com/1785513-post3.html | 2016-05-25T08:27:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00206-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983417 | 130 | [
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Alberta Cancer Foundation’s Underwear Affair, June 2, 2012 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The Underwear Affair is a fund raising event. Participation in The Underwear Affair helps lift the taboo connected with cancers below the waist. Proceeds from the Alberta Cancer Foundation's Underwear Affair support the Tom Baker Cancer Centre here in Calgary and 16 other cancer centres throughout the province.
Three random tattoo ideas
Edicion Ban Estrada
She's fading away
Away from this world
Drifting like a feather
She's not like the other girls
She lives in the clouds
She talks to the birds
Hopeless little one
She's not like the other girls I know.
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How to Save Your Facebook Account from Getting Hacked?
Got Your Facebook Account Hacked? Blame YOURSELF.....Not Facebook. Simple Tips to Avoid Such Disaster in Future.
- Facebook Account Hacking - A Common But Big Problem
- Common Mistakes Causing Hacking Of Facebook Accounts
- Save Your Account from Getting Hacked With Following Precautions
Facebook Account Hacking - A Common But Big Problem
Every day we hear someone say my Facebook account was hacked and then this social networking site should increase its security measures to make it more secure for the users. This sounds absurdly surprising as Facebook is not to be blamed for this, but the users, themselves are the culprits. If your individual Facebook account is hacked, be sure of one thing that YOUR negligence has caused this with no fault of Facebook.
Common Mistakes Causing Hacking Of Facebook Accounts
* If you have kept your profile Public then you are letting the hackers see your email, which is usually the login email of your Facebook account. Through trial and error method coupled with the hacking expertise, a hacker can easily guess your password.
* With a basic password such as abc1234 or your name followed by !@#, it is no wonder that the account gets hacked.
Again, this is NOT because of Facebook, but YOU.
Save Your Account from Getting Hacked With Following Precautions
* Never click “Like” to each Facebook Application you come across.
* Delete the Apps you no longer use. For this Go to Account > privacy > Apps & settings > edit your settings.
* Make optimum use of Facebook Security Settings that includes various Account Settings & Privacy Settings.
* Create a password that is difficult to guess. Avoid using your name, spouse’s name birthday. An ideal password has to be a combination of letters and numbers. If you use lower and upper case, you are unlikely to face the hacking again.
* A periodic check of your privacy settings adds to security of your account.
Facebook is no different from any other social networking site where you have to take care of your privacy, security and safety. The sites offer all the possible measures and settings to keep their users intact. No site wants to lose its customers, however it is up to customers how much if they take pains to look at the site’s offerings and use it for their benefit.
Next time, when you suspect of being hacked ask a few questions to yourself and get the answer.
* Is your login email displayed in your info?
* What is your password? A basic one combined with your or your wife’s name or your birth date. Moreover, is this information visible to strangers too?
* Have you been using a new application recently?
The answers to these questions will bring forth the reason behind getting yourself hacked and you will no more blame the site for this. Whenever I log in to my account from a different IP address, the site makes me name it in order to confirm my identity. You can also be secured and be carefree with such steps. What do you think? | <urn:uuid:adb985ef-22eb-481f-8721-d841cc598c3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://guides.wikinut.com/How-to-Save-Your-Facebook-Account-from-Getting-Hacked/3ud.qfht/ | 2016-05-28T00:03:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277286.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00121-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921104 | 636 | [
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Thank You for the Struggle, our Second City music program show got canceled due to blizzard last Sunday. That means there are only two more chances to see it!
In the meantime it seems timely to look back at our growth over the year.
Level 1: An Accidental Cow
Level 2: Moondog & Starshine
Level 3: Accidental Cow: The Level 3 Show
Level 4: An Accidental Cow Strikes Back
Our level 5 show was never recorded, but you missed Snowflakes, Resumes, Tokens, Cake Pops and lots of other fun stuff!
From our last class in level 3, photo by Aaron Graham
Here's one of the previews for Thank You for the Struggle, featuring some cool stuff which ended up on the cutting room floor. Guess which one I wrote!
See you at Donny's Skybox, Sundays at 8pm for the next two weeks!
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[TxMt] LaTeX completion problem
nicholas.cole at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 14:25:59 UTC 2006
If I try using the "Generic word completion" of the Latex bundle, the error
/bin/bash: line 1: /Macros/LaTeXcomplete.pl: No such file or directory
is inserted into the text of my document.
I tried looking at the function in the Latex Bundle, but it seems to
be just a wondow with "No Macro Editor available" at the top and two
I'm using the latest build 906.
Could anyone explain what is wrong?
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Milwaukee area moms-Zoo get together?
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06-01-2012, 09:39 PM
Milwaukee Area, WI
Re: Milwaukee area moms-Zoo get together?
I haven't been to the Madison zoo. I am curious! Its not a bad drive at all either.
At what age do kids start to enjoy children's museums? That would be fun too but DS is only 12m.
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"No, I don't think it's wrong for that particular child to have an instagram. Her parents restrict and monitor everything like an awesome parent should."
"Your roots are terribly obvious and not stylish and they go perfectly with your Bitchin Camaro."
"He's just not that into you. Stop changing everything about yourself to make it happen."
"Your teen is a cyber slut. I unfriended her because it grossed me out."
"I think it's insulting to assume most people don't know how to stick washi tape to a toothpick."
"I think it's rude to be weirded out that some people don't know what washi tape is."
"Being a stay at home mom is not the same as being unemployed you pompous asshole."
"Handing your kid a book about feelings is NOT the same as actually having an open talk about her feelings."
"Waiting for your turn to talk is the exact opposite of being a good, supportive listener."
"I do think that gift made our extremely poor friend feel like you are a rude and showy asshole."
"Yes, it is selfish for "Santa" to get you a new tablet and your kid a pair of shoes from Payless."
If you think these are uncalled for you might be the offender. The holiday season is about kindness and love but sometimes being polite is really hard when you have jerks in your outer fringes of folks you are forced to interact with. The type you probably avoid during the year because you don't choose to align with the rudeness. But you can't shake them because of a friends-sibling clause or they married into your family or you married into theirs. Cheers to the forced niceties being over and to getting on to the New Years parties with the ones you really enjoy!!!
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April 29th-May 2nd, 2011
Theme: It’s Dangerous to go Alone! Take this!
Squid Squaresby 7Soul - Competition Entry
An young alien is decided to conquer a planet to show his father he is capable of doing so.
But this task is dangerous, so he takes a giant squid with him.
He will have to use the squid's ink spray to destroy the 12 defence stations of the planet and ultimately conquer it!
- Game by Henrique "7Soul" Lazarini
- Moon background image by Computerinkt @ computerinkt.deviantart.com
- My friends renato, Mat, Thommaz, X-wing9 and DragonSky for testing and overall support
How to play:
- Destroy clusters of blocks by clicking a block and adjacent blocks of the same color will explode.
- Some blocks will only destroy a block at one of it sides.
- Star blocks destroy any block on all sides.
- Dark blocks are undestructible
- Destroy all coloured (this includes stars) on a level to win
- Only a mouse is required
Making a screen transition twice (like clicking a button 2 times) may bug the game
Added the source download. To run it you will need Construct 0.99.97 or higher and these extensions: Wait, Function and Sprite Font
Downloads and Links
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Acronyms - Names of the Nation's Highway Agency - 1893 to the Present and Other Abbreviations & Acronyms Found in the Text
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Courtney Paris absorbed the double teams in the first half, content to let her Oklahoma teammates carry the scoring load.
That all changed as soon as Cal State Bakersfield made a run to cut the Sooners' lead to three early in the second half.
Paris scored 13 of her 17 points in the second half and added 12 rebounds to post her 101st straight double-double and help Oklahoma (No. 6 ESPN/USA Today, No. 5 AP) pull away for a 105-84 victory in the opening game of the Basketball By The Bay Classic on Friday night.
"When people are coming up on you, you know you have to take it to another level," Paris said. "These guys in the first half knocked down a lot of big shots. So in the second half, they couldn't double as hard. So it let me go to work. We play inside-out or outside-in, depending on how people guard us."
Paris took just two shots in the first half, before making six of seven in the opening 9 minutes of the second half when the Sooners (7-2) broke the game open. The undersized Roadrunners (4-5) had no strategy that could contain Paris when she decided to dominate inside.
"Hope she misses?" Christin Kepenikian said about the approach to playing Paris. "We had our hands up. She made some pretty hard shots. We were double-teaming her, but a couple of times she got it in too deep, which is too hard to guard."
Reserve Nyeshia Stevenson led the Sooners with 23 points, and Courtney's twin sister, Ashley, added 13 points and 11 rebounds. Danielle Robinson had nine points and 10 assists in a homecoming game for the San Jose native.
Amanda Thompson scored 13 for the Sooners, who shot 58.9 percent for the game.
"Obviously we tried to take away their inside game because they're so strong there," Roadrunners coach Tim La Kose said. "They did a nice job getting it to the open person. Stevenson took advantage of that in the first half. We tried to take away their top options and make their fourth or fifth people score. Unfortunately for us, they were able to do that."
Kepenikian led the Roadrunners with 22 points, giving her double figures in all nine games this season. Kelly Tarver scored 20 before going down with a right knee injury in the final minute.
Krista Arase added 17 and Nikki Leon had 15 for Cal State Bakersfield, which had never before played a team ranked in the top five. The Roadrunners are in their fourth year of a five-year transition into Division I.
Cal State Bakersfield has lost all three of its games against major conference teams this season, falling 104-57 to UCLA on Dec. 3 and 70-57 at Nebraska earlier this week.
The Sooners had a decided size advantage inside with the Paris twins and two other 6-footers in the starting lineup compared to just one starter taller than 6 feet for the Roadrunners.
But Cal State Bakersfield stayed in the game with their outside shooting, as 12 of its first 15 baskets came from long range. Arase hit back-to-back 3s early in the second half to start an 11-0 run that cut Oklahoma's lead to 56-53.
That's when Courtney Paris asserted herself, scoring 11 points during a 31-11 run that put the game away. The Roadrunners hit only one more 3-pointer the rest of the way.
"They played great. If you look at their stat line afterward and you would think they won the game," Sooners coach Sherri Coale said. "Yet you look at ours and it's really good too. I think the difference was our post play, our dominance in the paint and our transition game. But the big adjustment at halftime was limit their 3-point attempts."
It's been a successful trip home so far for the Paris twins, who were born in San Jose and went to high school in nearby Piedmont. They were honored Thursday night at halftime of a game at their alma mater, Piedmont High School, and won their first game this weekend against the Roadrunners.
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Neoliberal globalization and trade unionism: Toward radical political unionism
Upchurch, M. and Mathers, A. (2012) Neoliberal globalization and trade unionism: Toward radical political unionism. Critical Sociology, 38 (2). pp. 265-280. ISSN 0896-9205 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15606
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This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as survival strategies, it argues that such radicalism cannot be understood satisfactorily by the term social movement unionism (SMU). This is due to over-reliance on theories of the new social movements (NSMs), which produce a largely de-classed and de-politicized perspective. The article uses insights gained from theoretical work on protest and labour movement development to bring the state back into the analysis and applies this analysis to oppositional trade union practice in a variety of institutional contexts. It concludes by making a case for understanding contemporary forms of oppositional trade union strategy through the term radical political unionism which takes account of both its social and political determinants as well as the agency role played by political leaderships. | <urn:uuid:619762c8-3528-467c-90c2-55d33672bf4d> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15606/ | 2016-05-25T14:57:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00226-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908126 | 302 | [
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Class of 1963 holds reunion
The Washington High School Class of 1963 held their 50-year reunion July 26-28. Fifty of the remaining 104 classmates participated in the festivities. In the front row, left to right, are: Jana McConnell Nieman, Connie Nordyke Pence, Judy Marshall Driscoll, Cheryl Keating Nugent, Sharon Lowry Roe, Linda Chorpening Stephens, Jane McGaffey Davis, Marianne Jarvis Hanshaw, Ruth Ann Wulf Stacy, Mary Ann Kauffman Keeney, Pat Burham Bennett, Nancy Kuntz Baker, Bonnie Campbell Bradbury, Jean Ramsey Leeper, Judy Scranton Skubal, Joy Mills Bennett, Bev Janecek Robertson, and Pam Farrell Shelman.
Second row: Bill Allen Stewart, Mike Zager, Myron White, Rob McFarlane, Bill Koehler, Bob Shelman, Daryl Cave, Ed Lins, Brian Owen, Gene Zeck, Steve Talbot, Steve Davis.
Third row: Dick Gallagher, Doug Tindal, Ron Miles, Mike Leyden, Ed Weeks, Don Kos, Lloyd Munson, Dale Samuelson, Wayne Kaufman, Lyle Stacy, Ed Jones, Dan McClure, Ron Lenninger.
Attending but not in the picture were Ruth Earnest Heck, Doug Shalla, John McDaniel, Donnie Dickinson, Jerry Stalder, Dan Coon and Paul Gault. | <urn:uuid:39374704-1277-44ed-abbb-45ef850a3bed> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://washington-ia.villagesoup.com/p/class-of-1963-holds-reunion/1053111 | 2016-05-25T15:04:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00226-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.793524 | 294 | [
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Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 516283, 6 pages
Changes in the Equilibrium of Standing on One Leg at Various Life Stages
1Department of Neurorehabilitation, Graduate School of Health Science, Kio University, 4-2-2 Umaminaka, Koryo, Kitakatsuragigun, Nara 635-0832, Japan
2Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Science, Kio University, 4-2-2 Umaminaka, Koryo, Kitakatsuragigun, Nara 635-0832, Japan
3Department of Physical Therapy, Tosa Rehabilitation College, 2500-2 Otsu-otsu, Kochi 781-5103, Japan
Received 1 February 2012; Revised 4 June 2012; Accepted 20 June 2012
Academic Editor: Fulvio Lauretani
Copyright © 2012 Shu Morioka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The ability to maintain a one-leg standing position and the relation between plantar two-point discrimination and standing time on one leg were assessed. Participants were 1,241 apparently healthy people aged 2–92 years. Participants were asked to stand on one leg with eyes open (EO group) or closed (EC group) for up to 120 seconds. Coefficients of determination (COD) between subjects’ ages and results for both groups were calculated by quadratic and cubic functions. The slope of the tangent line drawn against the resultant curve was calculated by a differential formula. COD for the quadratic function were 0.65 (EO) and 0.33 (EC); age at maximum values in both groups was 37 years. COD for the cubic function were 0.77 (EO) and 0.52 (EC); maximum values were at ages 30 (EO) and 28 (EC) and minimum values at ages 88 (EO) and 77 (EC). The ability to remain standing on one leg with eyes closed appears to begin deteriorating in the late 20s. Age and plantar two-point discrimination distance had a significant positive correlation, and the two-point discrimination distance and standing time on one leg had a significant negative correlation. Decreased plantar sensation appears to be related to the decline in duration of one-leg standing.
Children will gain upright postural control equivalent to adults’ when they are aged 7–10 years [1–4] or 9–12 years according to various studies. The reason may be that children aged over 6 years can appropriately integrate the afferent sensory information required for posture control and acquire the same upright postural control strategy as do adults’ . Foudriat et al. revealed that upright postural control in children up to 3 years of age is vision-dominant, but from that age onward, control will be gradually shifted to somatosensory-dominant control. Somatosensory-dominant postural control equivalent to that of adults will be achieved at ages over 6 years, which indicates that the development of standing balance may be nearly completed in the early school years. Morioka has reported that the ability to maintain the one-leg standing position with eyes open will dramatically improve in children within the period from late preschool age to early school age, and the improvement will slow down during late school age. That study indicated that the development of standing balance is nonlinear and that it is accelerated beginning at a certain age.
On the other hand, the involutional process of standing balance has been reported to be opposite to the process of developing postural control strategies that change from vision-dominant control to somatosensory-dominant control [9–12]. Such changes include the increased dependence on vision that occurs in elderly people who have difficulty in maintaining standing balance under the condition that somatosensory information is extremely limited [13–16]. In such an involutional process, the postural balance strategy tends to return from a somatosensory-dominant to a vision-dominant strategy. A linear negative correlation between age and standing time on one leg has been reported , which indicates that involution of standing balance progresses with age . Additionally, tactile perception has been reported to greatly contribute to positional balance per se, which is slightly influenced by aging [19, 20]. Based on the above background, we supposed that standing balance might show nonlinear rapid development from preschool age to school age and linear involution from a certain age.
The first objective of this study is to determine whether development and involution of standing balance relevant to fall through life, represented by standing time on one leg, are linear or nonlinear, using functions, and to determine the border age of development and involution by calculation. During the developmental process, the strategy to control standing balance changes from vision-dominant to somatosensory-dominant, while in the involutional process, the strategy changes from somatosensory-dominant to vision-dominant. This suggests the possibility that functional changes of somatic sensation due to aging may affect standing time on one leg. The second objective is to clarify the relation between plantar sensation and standing time on one leg, representing somatic sensations by plantar two-point discrimination.
Subjects were 1,241 local residents aged 2 to 92 years who were without orthopedic and nervous disease or history of nervous system disease at the time of measurement and who agreed to participate or whose parents or guardians gave consent for them to participate in this study. In addition, preschool and school age participants were required to be apparently healthy with no past or present serious illnesses or disabilities and to be able to stand with legs together. Measurements of preschool children were done with the permission and cooperation of their kindergarten teachers. Participants were grouped as follows: preschool age (2–6 years), ; school age (7–12 years), ; adolescence (13–19 years), ; 20s, ; 30s, ; 40s, ; 50s, ; 60s, ; 70s, ; 80s, ; 90s, .
3. Measurement Methods
We used digital stopwatches to measure standing time on one leg. After the measurement with eyes open (hereinafter referred to as “open eyes”), we also measured standing time on one leg with eyes closed (hereinafter referred to as “closed eyes”). The maximum value for the measurement was 120 seconds. As we did not specify which should be weight-bearing leg, the weight-bearing leg was selected by each subject. Each measurement was performed after the measurement staff demonstrated the maneuver. Participants were asked to drop both upper extremities naturally to their sides and to stand on one leg as long as possible. The measurement was completed when any of the following occurred: (1) any change in position of the weight-bearing foot on the floor during the measurement, (2) any body part except the weight-bearing foot touched the floor, and (3) eyes opened during closed eye measurements. Measurements of preschool-age and school-age children as well as middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years were attended by an observer in addition to the measurement staff to prevent subjects from falling.
Subsequent measurements of plantar two-point discrimination were performed in 579 participants ranging from adolescence to 89 years. The two-point discrimination test was performed by measuring the shortest distinguishable distance between 2 points on the sole of the foot. For the measurement, a caliper was placed on the foot with its end at the center of the heel and facing the forefoot.
4. Methods of Analysis
We used regression analysis and calculated the Pearson correlation coefficient between age and between measurements with both open and closed eyes. We also determined the coefficients of determination to evaluate fittings of the following equations. Labeling the horizontal axis as age () and the vertical axis as time (), we estimated linear equations (), quadratic equations (), and cubic equations (). Calculations were performed to determine the points where slopes of tangential lines of the quadratic and cubic curves are zero, based on the theoretical standing time on one leg. In other words, we determined the maximum value of a quadratic curve and maximum and minimum values of a cubic curve. These were calculated by detecting the point where the polarity of the increment of changes, then determining the point where the increment of is zero, based on determined equations. As for precision of calculations, 7 significant figures were used.
Additionally, using mean values of open eyes and closed eyes by age, we calculated the linear equations of mean values () and ages () to determine the slopes. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient to evaluate the relation between two-point discrimination and open eyes and closed eyes, respectively. We used two-way ANOVA to compare two-point discrimination data among the age groups from the 10s to 80s.
In all evaluations, we used a significance level of less than 5%. For calculation of these functions, we used Excel 2003 (Microsoft Co., Ltd.) and Excel Statistics 2002 for Windows (Social Survey Research Information Co., Ltd.), an add-in software. For calculation of maximum values and minimum values, we used Sruler (Fuji Techno Enterprise, Inc.), a graph making software.
Coefficients of determination of linear functions for all subjects were 0.02 for open eyes and 0.03 for closed eyes (both, ). Coefficients of determination of quadratic functions were 0.65 for open eyes and 0.33 for closed eyes (both, ). Ages at the maximum values in quadratic curves were 39.0 years for open eyes and 37.5 years for closed eyes (Figure 1). Coefficients of determination of cubic functions were 0.77 for open eyes and 0.52 for closed eyes (both, ). Ages at the maximum values in cubic curves were 31.2 years for open eyes and 28.2 years for closed eyes, and ages at the minimum values were 88.1 years for open eyes and 77.3 years for closed eyes (Figure 2).
Figure 3 shows the means values for standing time for the various age groups. Mean values for standing time with open eyes formed a trapezoidal curve with peak values from adolescence to the 30s (Figure 3(a)). Thus, we divided the linear function for open eyes into 5 stages: (1) from preschool age to adolescence, (2) from adolescence to the 30s, (3) from the 30s to the 50s, (4) from the 50s to the 70s, and (5) from the 70s to the 90s and calculated the slopes with the following results: (1) 7.1; (2) −0.006; (3) −0.86; (4) −3.2; (5) −1.5. For closed eyes, the shape of the curve was triangular with the peak at adolescence (Figure 3(b)). In calculating the slopes, we divided the linear function into 2 stages, (1) from preschool age to adolescence and (2) from adolescence to 90s, with results showing the slope for (1) to be 6.7 and for (2) −1.4. In addition, standard deviations for open eyes were high in those of school age and in their 60s and low from adolescence to the 30s. For closed eyes, standard deviations were relatively high throughout until gradually lessening beginning with those in their 50s.
As shown in Figure 4, there were significant negative correlations between open eyes and two-point discrimination (, ) and between closed eyes and two-point discrimination (, ). Additionally, there was a significant positive correlation between age and two-point discrimination (, ) (Figure 5). A comparison of two-point discrimination distances among the age groups revealed that the distances increased significantly with aging (Table 1).
The first objective of this study was to characterize the process of change in standing time according to age. Coefficient of determination for linear function of age and standing time on one leg was low, indicating that such change was not linear.
Previous studies have shown that standing time on one leg decreases linearly beginning at a particular age [9, 21–24]. We estimated the age by determining the maximum value. Bohannon et al. reported that the ability to stand on one leg decreases after the age 60. Also, Choy et al. and Pasquier et al. measured posture stability in subjects aged 20 or older and found that stability decreased after the age of 60 years. On the other hand, we found the maximum value for standing time on one leg was shown at 31 years for open eyes and 28 years for closed eyes, which indicates that involution of standing balance begins at these younger ages. This is consistent with results of a previous study that showed that standing balance decreases almost constantly from the 20s to 65s [25, 26]. Anyway, we believe that our study could successfully estimate the time when the involution of standing balance begins by determining the maximum value through calculation. Furthermore, Figure 3 indicates that standing time with closed eyes begins to slowly decline from the 20s whereas the standing time with open eyes starts to drop rapidly from the 60s. These results may be peculiar to conditions of visual blocking in this study.
The second objective of our study was to characterize the relation between sensory function and standing time. Preceding studies have indicated that causes of involution of standing balance include problems in sensory integration of visual, vestibular, labyrinth, and somatic sensations [27, 28]. It has also been revealed that the decrease in standing time on one leg is more rapid under conditions of closed eyes than open eyes after the age 60 . This indicates that dependence on vision may increase with age [17, 18], and the postural balance strategy may change from somatosensory-dominant into vision-dominant. Based on the fact that somatic sensation around the feet is degraded in elderly people [27, 28], somatic sensation obviously influences standing balance.
We found a significant positive correlation between age and plantar two-point discrimination distance and a significant negative correlation between two-point discrimination distance and standing time on one leg, suggesting that degradation of plantar sensation caused by aging shortened the standing time on one leg. From the interage group comparison which disclosed age-dependent increases in plantar two-point discrimination distances, it was found that aging caused degradation of plantar sensation as well as standing time on one leg and that there was a correlation between plantar sensation and standing time on one leg.
The wide standard deviations observed for closed eyes in subjects of all ages and for open eyes in subjects in their 60s may be due to wide variations in individual motor function or exercise habits among these subjects. Furthermore, the maximum measurement time of this study was set at 120 seconds, and obtained values, in a sense, are not standard values of balance function itself. In other words, there is a possibility that other factors, including muscle force and muscular endurance, may be involved. In future studies, these issues must be clarified.
However, if we consider standing time on one leg as an inclusive value representing ability of standing balance, our results appear to be valuable in providing standard data on a healthy population based on analysis of extracted results from a considerable number of subjects. Our data can be considered basic data on standing balance function that can be used in health promotion exercises and may be useful in setting a target of standing time on one leg for a patient with impaired standing balance.
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Finding the tail on this coat
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I think conventional wisdom about coattail companies is sometimes too limited. Typically, investors think that coattail companies are simply direct suppliers or partners of a large, successful firm. But I think there may be even more opportunities hiding from investors, beyond direct connections with an industry leader like eBay.
For instance, a company can find great success by providing niche products or services that eBay doesn't. Alternately, a firm can use a similar online platform to sell products within the business-to-business space, as LoopNet (Nasdaq: LOOP ) does in the commercial real estate market. This is where Motley Fool CAPS can really help; the Fool's massive stock database has abundant tools for finding and researching stocks and stock pickers.
Tagging along with CAPS
With CAPS, investors can look through eBay's tag list for other companies sporting similar attributes. For instance, eBay has tags such as "Auction," "Catalog & Mail Order Houses," and "Voice Over Internet (VoIP)." Additionally, links to Motley Fool analyses, news releases, and discussion boards are at your fingertips.
CAPS also lets the 60,000-plus investor members comment on the companies they rate. Their opinions often contain peer analysis and recommendations for related companies. Sometimes, these resources turn up companies that have little or no direct connection to eBay, but contain similar qualities that could make them attractive investments.
Perusing the tags, comments, and blogs could lead an investor to interesting companies such as Chinese partner TOM Online (Nasdaq: TOMO ) . One of the leading Chinese Internet portals, its focus on value-added wireless services in a booming domestic mobile market makes it an attractive partner with eBay. Another interesting prospect is phone number clearing agent NeuStar (NYSE: NSR ) , which has a significant moat in its area of provisioning services for communications providers, consistently yielding net margins above 20% on revenue that is growing nearly 40% per year. Or how about coattail company Liquidity Services (Nasdaq: LQDT ) which provides an online marketplace for wholesale, surplus and salvage items often needed by industrial and government institutions. Insiders own more than 60% of the company and revenues have grown by 48.5% in the past 12 months, making many CAPS investors -- and a few Fools -- optimistic about its future.
Of course, plenty of coattail investments have proven to be shallow companies or copycats that ultimately flopped for investors. For this reason, CAPS is best used as a research tool and means to find investments, and not a device to pick stocks. Investors should always perform their own due diligence on companies rather than take a blanket recommendation. But you can't beat the information and resources for the price -- which, by the way, is free.
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Fool contributor Dave Mock has never worn a coat with tails, and prefers the waiter style. He owns no shares of companies mentioned here. Best Buy is an Stock Advisor recommendation. LoopNet is both a Motley Fool Hidden Gems and Rule Breakers pick. Dave is the author of The Qualcomm Equation. The Fool's disclosure policy is imitated but never duplicated. | <urn:uuid:9901f299-d580-470b-819b-1a49764ba2bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/07/20/another-path-to-profit-riding-ebays-coattails.aspx | 2016-05-28T08:14:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00141-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957407 | 1,017 | [
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Just in time for the Lunar New Year our Asian magnolias, rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias are putting on a spectacular display. The San Francisco Botanical Garden has a world-class collection of gorgeous flowering plants native to Asia that hit their flowering peak in February and March.
There's no better way to welcome spring and the Year of the Tiger than wandering through these blooms with the people you love best.
One of the most beautiful trees this time of year is our Campbell's magnolia. It's a massive deciduous magnolia from the Himalayas whose enormous basketball-sized blooms appear on the bare tree in earliest spring before it's leaves return.
It's a magical experience to stare up at the sky through the delicate latticework of the branches supporting the big cup–and-saucer shaped flowers.
This tree can take up to 20 years to flower and The SF Botanical Garden was the first in the US to display it in bloom to much public excitement in 1940. Magnolias are one of the first flowering plants and fossil records date them at 100 million years old.
There are more than a dozen other magnolia and magnolia relatives from Asia that flower in our garden at this time of year.
Rhoddies Run Wild
The rhododendrons get into the act now as well. Blooms can cover an entire six-foot tall plant. The colors are amazing and these plants shouldn't be missed. Purples, yellows, pinks, whites, bi-colors, they come in a huge variety of colors.
Rhododendrons have a more than 1,500-year history as prized garden plants in China. The earliest fossils are 50 million years old!
Rhododendrons love our cool climate. You only have to stroll through our rhododendron garden bursting with flowers in late February and March to quickly grasp this concept. To make the display even better, gardener Jason Martinez has added companion plants that you'd find in the rhoddies' native Asian mountain landscape.
This year looks especially promising for our large collection of camellias—just about every bush is packed with flower buds. Camellias are native to East Asia with many species clustered in southwestern China. This is another garden not to be missed. Our collection was recently expanded by 200 mature plants. It's a big group and when they're in bloom, you're walking through a flower wonderland.
There's a great diversity of size and flower in camellias. In China, camellias can grow for hundreds of years and can be 45 feet tall—that's as tall as a four story building. Black, red, green and white tea? They all come from the camellia.
This is the perfect time to plant camellias. They need shade or morning sun, very good drainage with lots of organic material—compost—in the soil. They'll need to be watered the first couple of years, but once established, your camellia will require little extra water.
There are many, many more Asian natives in bloom just in time to welcome in the Lunar New Year. Don't let the rain stop you, it's a sight not to be missed. Come by, we'd love to see you. | <urn:uuid:7cf3b9a3-2950-4322-a17f-31d2e2bd50e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/mailings/atg-10-02/plant-nut.html | 2016-05-28T07:54:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00141-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94044 | 685 | [
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Clickhappy From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 9823 posts, RR: 64
Reply 5, posted (14 years 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2145 times:
it was for sure missing the left winglet...when it flew over my lunch spot it was slow and low....I watched it from directly overhead to just about touch down...you could clearly see the right winglet, but the left wing was bare...
ALSF 2 From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 89 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (14 years 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2127 times:
It must have been something Boeing was doing... I find it very hard to believe that it can be deferred. This isn't just a small winglet.... It's a 6 - 8 Ft blended wing component that factors a lot into the fuel eff/ lifting design of these wings, not to mention the nav/strobes lights are all attached to it. But now a days almost everything is deferrable, so who knows!! | <urn:uuid:7f8df5d6-555e-478b-b734-44c2d3bad079> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/823259/ | 2016-05-31T00:49:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00056-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968251 | 218 | [
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The PIXMA MX392 Color All-in-One Inkjet Printer from Canon prints in black and white at 8.7 ipm, in color at 5.0 ipm, and can output a borderless 4.0 x 6.0" photo in 46 seconds. The 4800 x 1200 dpi color resolution lets you print borderless photos as large as 8.5 x 11.0" right at home. Its Full HD Movie Print feature lets you to take a frame from an HD movie recorded on a compatible EOS, PowerShot, or VIXIA camera or camcorder and print it as a photo. Additionally, the included My Image Garden software helps organize your photos and includes features such as facial recognition, Fun Filters, Calendar Organization, and Automatic Layout Suggestion. As part of the Chromalife100 system, the printer can output borderless photos that will last up to 100 years when printed with select Canon ink and paper and stored in an archival-quality photo album.
The MX392 features a scan resolution of up to 1200 x 2400 dpi optical. Scanning can be initiated from a computer or from the unit itself. The scanner automatically detects whether you are scanning a photo or document and applies the appropriate settings. Should the document or image need to be retouched, the MX392's Auto Document Fix and Auto Photo Fix II can correct issues such as faded text, over and under-exposure, and incorrect skin tones. The unit's 30-page auto document feeder lets you scan, copy, and fax multipage documents in a single step and can handle page sizes up to 8.5 x 14". Additionally, you can scan directly to Evernote on your computer.
Use the built-in copy function to duplicate documents and photos. The copier can enlarge or shrink images and documents anywhere between 25% and 400% of the original size. Other copy features include Gutter Shadow Correction, Borderless Copy, and Auto Document Fix.
The 33.6 Kbps modem can be used to send and receive both black and white and color faxes. The MX392 includes 19 speed dial locations and a 50-page memory so you can receive faxes even when the unit is out of paper. Other fax features include Group Dialing, Redial, Remote Reception, and Answering Machine Connectivity. | <urn:uuid:e75b26f2-c7d1-4a6d-83a1-a6c7bbde7849> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/914203-REG/canon_6987b002aa_pixma_mx392_wireless_office.html | 2016-05-31T00:41:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00056-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873185 | 481 | [
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Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett 2014 Endless Extra Edition (Hardcover)
by Andrew Kilpatrick. 2014 Endless Edition, Hardcover
This best-selling biography provides insights into the tactics and strategies of the “Oracle of Omaha.” Kilpatrick traces Buffett from childhood, and provides a unique, in-depth look into Buffett’s life and mind. This is the “Buffett Bible” - the definitive story, updated to include recent events. | <urn:uuid:d4ec32b1-9723-471e-8c4a-90bd49b3d7fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.bookwormomaha.com/product/permanent-value-story-warren-buffett | 2016-05-30T23:57:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00056-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.795404 | 98 | [
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The flash crowd that turned up to boo Najib’s event at Mansion House (the official residence of the City of London’s Mayor) was larger than yesterday’s outside Downing Street. They had been joined by Amnesty International, who have spoken out about the treatment of the Bersih demonstrators at the weekend. Amnesty commands considerable respect in the UK.
The Malaysian PM had come to court the City’s investors and it was embarrassing. Investors do not like countries with uncertain human rights records and an unhappy middle class.
Few non-Malaysians turned up in the end, but some of the investors who did went and chatted first to the crowd of protesters outside. One, who described himself as ‘working for a global investment company’, said that he was well aware of the human rights issues in Malaysia and confirmed that his company monitors the matter and that such issues are of concern.
Meanwhile, the main topic in the crowd was the news that Najib’s lunch with Cameron had been cancelled. Was it owing to the human rights issues or simply because the UK PM was too busy they wondered? Neither looked particularly good from the perspective of the Malaysia PM !
Once again this gathering went off peacefully and the policing was minimal and friendly. Malaysia secret service people were there of course, frantically taking photos of the crowd with the doubtless intention of finding out as much about the Malaysian nationals there and later making their lives as difficult as they could. So we photographed them too.
Najib swept in at the agreed time with a big convoy of Malaysian cars and hurried up the red carpet inside. He saw the crowd and gave them a cheery wave – as if they had come up to give him their support! But, he didn’t risk going over to give autographs!
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Wheel Man for SCOTT STEINER
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Re: WWE.com lists the TOP 30 ECW STARS
I don't usually say this...but good list. Only complaint I have is that Mike Awesome had a good run and should be there somewhere. Otherwise, have no real issues.
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Event::IO::Server - general listener class, spawns client connections
Class for new connection objects, should inherit from Event::IO::Linear.
IO::Socket handle for listener (should be ::INET or ::UNIX; it's a good idea to set ReuseAddr for INET clients).
Optional parameter, passed to child init_event.
Get/set data parameter to pass to init_event (can also set in new).
Called when we get a new client (select 'read' event).
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Oh no -- I've become unbalanced!
I recently discovered an interesting feature of the Linux kernel. It all started when I noticed that some new web servers at work were exhibiting a peculiar behavior -- the two CPU cores didn't seem to have balanced workloads. It seemed that usually the first core would have the majority of the load, while the second core would usually have much less (all witnessed via the mpstat -P ALL 10 command). Given that these servers were Apache web servers, I thought that they should typically be within a few percent of each other, but instead they were separated by anywhere from 5-25%.
After poking around a bit, I decided to try and tweak the server a bit to try and force the kernel to balance better. These servers each had two Ethernet interfaces, one to a 'front channel' across which the HTTP interaction with clients was performed, and one to a 'back channel' across which some database and other calls were made. One of the early thoughts that I had was to dedicate each of the two cores to one of the two Ethernet interfaces: this way, each core would always service the interrupts from the same interface. The default setup on the 2.6 kernel is to have all interrupts serviced by the first core, so I thought that perhaps the data load on the two interfaces was forcing the first core to run a bit hotter than the other.
It was easy enough to make the change. I first checked to find the interrupt numbers for the two interfaces (ifconfig), then forced the second one to always use the second processor core (echo "2" >/proc/irq/177/smp_affinity). This achieved the desired effect of rebalancing the interrupts, but it didn't solve my original problem: the cores were still unbalanced. In fact, the problem became even more interesting -- the two cores had almost flipped their loads, with the second core having the consistently higher usage.
At first I thought that perhaps the second interface might be transferring more data; that was wrong (ifconfig). Next I thought that, even with less total data transferred, perhaps the second interface was triggering more interrupts. That, too, was incorrect (cat /proc/interrupts). Finally, I checked to make sure that both interfaces were using the same driver, which they were (dmesg | grep eth). I had just about given up when I finally decided to put some logging into every web page (using PHP) to see what processor it used. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that nearly every web process started off on the lower-usage core, but then almost immediately migrated to the higher-usage core!
I had uncovered the superficial culprit: when a user requested a web page, one of the first things that the server would do is get a copy of their current session data from another server through the second interface. The moment that the second interface was used, the web process would flip over to the second core (or whatever core was assigned to service that interface's interrupts).
A little more research into the kernel code revealed it even further (caveat: I'm not a kernel hacker, so the details are still a bit fuzzy). When a network interface receives some data, Linux will find the process that is sleeping while waiting for that data and wake it up. When waking up the process, Linux will try to keep it on the same processor core that received the interrupt. I imagine that it does this in an effort to better utilize the core's memory cache, which should speed things up. However, it also appears to have a slight unbalancing effect on the other cores, which is exactly what I was seeing on my servers.
Of course, there are ways to fix this "problem". The easiest is to simply remove the flags in the kernel code that trigger this behavior (you'll find them in include/linux/topology.h; just remove any lines that say SD_WAKE_AFFINE), and then recompile the kernel. I've discovered, though, that this change doesn't seem to improve things like I thought it might. It did seem to balance out the load between the two cores, but the average load across the cores is actually slightly higher (1-2%, usually). This would make some sense; like I said before, the kernel is probably trying to make more efficient use of each core's cache, which apparently has a greater positive effect than having a more equal load distribution.
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|High School:||Everglades (FL)|
NOTABLESGreat communicator on the field with refined foot skills ... Expected to contribute in both the midfield and forward positions ... Makes the most of his minutes and plays hard.
2010 Saw action in eight games, starting three... Took five shots on the year, including a three shot effort against Eastern Nazarene on September 14
2009Logged minutes in 14 games on the year, getting the starting nod twice ... Scored in his first minutes of action of the season, registering a goal in UMass Boston's 4-0 victory over Eastern Nazarene on September 10 ... Notched a point for the second consecutive game with an assist vs. Babson College on September 12 ... Fired off nine total shots on the season, landing six on goal for a .667 shots on goal percentage.
2008 Saw time in 11 matches, including a starting assignment in his first collegiate season ... Made his college debut at Babson College on September 13 ... Attempted 13shots, including eight on net for a percentage of .615, which ranked third on the team.
Personal/High School Played soccer at Everglades High School ... Transferred from Broward Community College ... Grew up in Cali, Colombia ... Born December 2, 1987 ... Majoring in management. | <urn:uuid:88a88efc-249a-4f3c-8ab8-1d3a902e6627> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.beaconsathletics.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/delgado_jaime00.html | 2016-05-26T01:00:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00001-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949578 | 269 | [
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Baseball Pro Ordered to Pay More Child Support
(CN) - An Arizona woman is entitled to the level of child support she would receive if she had lived with the father, pro baseball player Gary Matthews Jr., an Arizona appeals court ruled.
The trial court ordered Matthews to pay Jamie Hunt $1,561 for the child they had in 2004. Matthews' salary is $10 million per year. He also had to pay for the child's medical, day care and private school expenses.
Hunt sought a higher amount on appeal, and Judge Hall agreed.
"The parents' basic child support obligation depends on the combined adjusted gross income of the parents," Hall wrote. "When the parents have a combined adjusted income of more than $20,000 per month, the court is to award more than the presumptive $1,561 per month if a higher amount is in the best interest of the child, taking into account the standard of living the child would have enjoyed if the parents and child were living together."
Hall remanded the case for a new determination of child support.
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Kroger gives both cash and in-kind support, including food to local food banks, in addition to matching customer donations collected at registers.
The Kroger Co. is committing $250,000 in cash and in-kind contributions to assist storm and flood relief efforts in communities across Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and other affected areas in the Southeast.
“We hope that providing food and water to local food banks and financial support to the Red Cross will help our associates and customers rebuild their communities in the aftermath of these devastating storms,” said Lynn Marmer, group vice president of corporate affairs for Kroger.
Of the $250,000 commitment, Kroger is providing $150,000 in both cash and in-kind support, prioritizing food contributions to local Feeding America food banks to assist residents as demand increases.
In addition, The Kroger Co. Foundation will provide the American Red Cross up to $100,000 in cash to match customer donations collected at the register in several hundred Kroger stores. Kroger stores in the impacted regions and the Cincinnati area are helping customers donate in different ways, including coin boxes and “rounding up” at registers. | <urn:uuid:df199067-4719-43a3-92cf-913c1ea4d620> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.cstoredecisions.com/2011/05/03/kroger-helps-flood-victims/ | 2016-05-26T00:49:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00001-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92255 | 248 | [
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Defending candidate's reputation
As I write this letter, the final results of the Woodinville City Council race are unknown, so this is neither a cry of victory, nor a wail of defeat.
Either way, I am compelled to defend the reputation of my wife, Barbara Solberg, who, in my opinion, was unfairly attacked during the campaign by her opponent and his sponsors, the "Friends of Woodinville."
A cornerstone of Walter Backstrom's campaign was the endorsement he received by an Eastside newspaper. The endorsement included two negative comments about Barbara: she was the spokesperson for the Woodinville NO Committee which fought the incorporation effort three-and-one-half years ago, and she was "disruptive" in the Woodinville community.
Incorporation passed by less than 51% of the vote; does that mean over 49% of those who voted against incorporation are unfit to run for City Council? If not, why does such a restriction apply to the spokesperson?
The rest of the negative endorsement also has no foundation; I challenge the Friends of Woodinville or anyone else to substantiate the remarks about Barbara being a disruptive influence in the Woodinville community.
Backstrom was also endorsed by Mayor DeYoung, who compared any questions about his residency claim with the "whisper campaign" Barbara conducted about her [DeYoung's] residency in the 1992 election.
The DeYoung residency controversy was public knowledge long before the 1992 election; the complete story was published in the Woodinville Weekly the week before the election. Is that a new definition of "whisper?"
Regarding Backstrom's residency, Barbara was advised in August that he voted in Bothell in November 1994. Barbara ignored this information prior to the Primary and General Election.
When the Backstrom residency question was disclosed, without her knowledge, in another newspaper, she made no comment or use of it in her campaign. Some whisper campaign!
Regarding Backstrom's published remarks about the voters rejecting "..the dirty tricks by our opponents:"
To start with, compare the positive campaign literature of Solberg, Engel, and Dixon with the negative accusations of their opponents.
In particular, look at the "Woodinville Free Press," distributed three days before the election by the Friends of Woodinville. I estimate at least 75% of that "paper" was negative advertising about Solberg, Engel, and Dixon. Then defend the assertion of "dirty tricks."
The comments by Backstrom are particularly galling to me because, during the campaign, Barbara received a variety of unsolicited negative information about Backstrom.
Barbara was committed to positive politics and chose not to investigate or use any of the allegations about Backstrom in her campaign. For her ethics, she was rewarded by being publicly accused of having conducted a campaign of "dirty tricks."
At this point, I feel strongly that anyone who wants to run for office in Woodinville, against the obvious existing political machine, should have their heads examined. Woodinville has potential, but the power base is strong, and in my view, it is not interested in the vision of most Woodinville citizens.
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Podcast: Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?: 2 Apr 2015
Q&A: The Relationship between Philosophy and Science: 21 Dec 2014, Question 1
Most people dismiss any ideal of moral perfection as beyond their reach. "I'm only human," they say. That view is a legacy of Christianity, which teaches that moral perfection is possible to God alone and that any attempt at moral perfection is the sin of pride. In sharp contrast, Ayn Rand argues that moral perfection is not only possible to ordinary people, but also necessary for anyone who wants to live a virtuous and happy life. Hence, pride, understood as moral ambitiousness, is one of her seven major virtues – as seen in the heroes of her novels The Fountainhead
and Atlas Shrugged
This talk explores Ayn Rand's views of moral perfection, ambition, and pride. What does she think that morality demands? How can people achieve that? How should people respond to their own moral wrongs and errors? Comparing Rand's answers to these questions to those of Aristotle, I show that despite some differences in each philosopher's conception of virtue, they share the compelling view that seeking moral perfection is crucially important to a person's life and happiness.
This lecture was given on 6 March 2012 at the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of the Philosophy Department's "Think!" series.
Tags: Ambition, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Character, Ethics, Evasion, Expertise, Free Will, Moral Perfection, Moral Responsibility, Moral Saints, Moral Wrongs, Objectivism, Perfection, Perfectionism, Pride, Rationality, Skills, Susan Wolf, Virtue
Podcast: The Cultivation of Character: 19 Nov 2014
Question: What is the proper relationship between philosophy and science? People commonly assert that science proves that the traditional claims of philosophy are wrong. For example, they'll say that quantum mechanics proves that objective reality and causality are just myths and that psychology experiments disprove free will. In contrast, other people claim that philosophy is so fundamental that if any claims of science contradict philosophical principles, then the science must be discarded as false. Hence, for example, they say that homosexuality cannot possibly be genetic, whatever science says, since philosophy tells us that people are born "tabula rasa," including without any knowledge of "male" versus "female." So what is the proper view of the relationship between philosophy and the sciences? Does either have a veto power over the other? Is science based on philosophy or vice versa?
Tags: Biology, Economics, Epistemology, Ethics, Free Will, Metaphysics, Perception, Personality, Philosophy, Physics, Physics, Psychology, Science
Chat: Responsibility & Luck, Chapter Two: 5 Jun 2014
Summary: In his Nicomachean Ethics
, Aristotle speaks of cultivating virtues by repeatedly doing certain actions in certain ways. However, he never clearly explains the relationship between a person's thoughts, emotions, actions, and character. So, we must ask: What is character? How is a person's character formed? And what is the role of character in a person's life? This lecture draws on my dissertation, now published as Responsibility & Luck: A Defense of Praise and Blame
, to answer these criticial practical questions of ethics. This lecture was originally given at SnowCon in March 2011, then re-recorded in April 2011.
Tags: Aristotle, Character, Emotions, Ethics, Free Will, Moral Habits, Rationality, Virtue
Q&A: Free Will and Moral Responsibility: 17 Nov 2013, Question 1
What are some of the common proposed solutions to the problem of moral luck? How and why do they fail? I answered these questions and more in this discussion of Chapter Two of my book, Responsibility & Luck: A Defense of Praise and Blame
Tags: Academia, Compatibilism, Crime, Determinism, Egalitarianism, Ethics, Free Will, John Rawls, Justice, Law, Luck, Moral Judgment, Moral Luck, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, Responsibility & Luck
Q&A: Innate Personality: 26 May 2013, Question 2
Question: What is the relationship between free will and moral responsibility? To me, the concept of free will found in debates about determinism seems different from the concept of free will relevant to questions of moral responsibility. The former is a metaphysical concept, and a person either has free will or not. The latter is a psychological concept, and it seems to be a matter of degree based on nature and nurture. However, psychological free will seems to presuppose metaphysical free will. Is that right? What is the relationship between free will and moral responsibility?
Tags: Ethics, Free Will, Moral Judgment, Moral Luck, Responsibility
Q&A: Free Will and Natural Law: 13 Jan 2013, Question 1
Question: Can personality be innate? In past shows, you've indicated that you think that some aspects of personality are innate, rather than acquired by experience. What does that mean? What is the evidence for that view? Moreover, wouldn't that be a form of determinism? Wouldn't that violate the principle that every person is born a "blank slate"?
Tags: Determinism, Free Will, Personality, Psychology, Tabula Rasa
Q&A: The Evidence for Free Will: 16 Oct 2011, Question 3
Question: Is free will merely an illusion? While I dislike the idea that we're just puppets of physics and natural law, I wonder whether our seemingly "free" decisions are actually determined by the combination of our biology and our environment. After all, if our brain is merely a physical and chemical system, how could any any decisions be made freely? Wouldn't that violate natural law? In essence, how can our knowledge that the physical universe is deterministic be reconciled with our subjective feeling that we choose our actions?
Tags: Causality, Free Will, Introspection, Materialism, Metaphysics, Science
Q&A: Genetic Influences on Thinking: 2 Oct 2011, Question 3
Question: Is there objective evidence for free will? After doing some research on free will and determinism, the existence of free will seems pretty unlikely to me – even though the thought of free will is comforting. An argument often used to refute determinism is that the determinist says that we should accept determinism, since on his view, he only advocates determinism because he's determined. That seems unsatisfying, however, since that doesn't prove the existence of free will. Also, even if each person can say of himself, "I have free will," how do you determine whether others have free will? How would you know whether a toddler, a teenager, a person with a brain tumor, or a person with dementia has free will or not?
Tags: Free Will, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science
Q&A: Desires and Determinism: 17 Apr 2011, Question 6
Question: Do our genes affect our reasoning? Evolution makes fruit taste sweet and burning human flesh smell awful. Presumably, evolution can hard wire pleasures and pains because interaction with that thing has caused our ancestors to live longer or die earlier. Wouldn't this same process make certain actions easier or more difficult, such as sacrificing yourself to save your child versus watching your child die? Couldn't evolution affect that decision by making focus more difficult, so that a person is easier impelled by his immediate emotions?
Tags: Evolution, Free Will, Psychology, Rationality, Science, Values
Q&A: Evolutionary Psychology: 20 Feb 2011, Question 2
Question: How do you validate free will? For example, if a man is hungry and he values his life, then wouldn't his eating be predetermined?
Tags: Emotions, Free Will, Introspection, Metaphysics, Philosophy
Q&A: Causality and Free Will: 30 Jan 2011, Question 5
Question: What is your opinion of evolutionary psychology? For example, a recent study claims that there is a gene for being a political liberal. Or another claim is that studies show that women are "hypergamous" in that they are "wired" to seek out the most "socially dominant" men that they can find in the "sexual market". What is your opinion on all this?
Tags: Evolution, Free Will, Psychology, Science, Sex
Podcast: Cultivating Concentration: 14 Oct 2009
Question: How are causality and free will compatible? If my mind is an effect of my brain, and my brain is a complex physical system which operates in a deterministic way, doesn't that mean that my thoughts and actions are ultimately determined, too? What is wrong with the popular notions of causality and free will that make them appear incompatible?
Tags: Causality, Determinism, Free Will, Metaphysics, Physics, Science
Summary: The power to concentrate is not a natural talent: it's a skill that people need to cultivate. Here, I discuss methods for cultivating your power to concentrate.
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In case you didn't know
I'm surfing a major wave of doubt. Not necessarily doubt in God or the existence of God...it's more about the parameters of faith, specifically MY faith. I'm coming from a fairly conservative background and currently in a pretty liberal setting, so there's a lot of input to sort.
In talking to, and reading from, others who, like me, have undergone radical shifts in their understanding of Christianity, I've found a common theme: doubting almost always comes with a sense that God is not near. When your faith is strong, you feel close to God. When you begin to falter, or question, or re-evaluate, God feels further off.
Faith is more than feeling
I won't heartily sing praises for every aspect of my faith upbringing, but there are some important foundational things that my family and my church got right. One of these is the understanding that God isn't the one who moves closer and grows distant. It is we who are moving. We shift, and so our perception of God shifts. But I was always taught that, no matter what, God is here, right here, and that we either live in that truth or fail to see it.
I remember sharing this with friends when they would lament about God's distance. I would read the Psalms wherein David was wailing about how God had left him, and I would hope that somewhere, at some point, David would have realized that what had changed wasn't God's distance, but David's ability to see God in his circumstances.
Back in 2006, I learned some lessons about God's faithfulness - big, huge, life-altering lessons that had an immediate and lasting impact on me. Though I can't say I never doubt the existence of God or the role of the Bible, I can't conceive of God without faithfulness. If there is a God, then he(/she/it) is faithful.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.
For years, and maybe since day 1, I've included a statement from St. Teresa of Avila somewhere in the layout of this blog. (For a while now it's hung out in the About Me section.) I don't remember where I first read this statement, but it has served as a comforting reminder for years now.
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On Thursday 19th May the Sixth Form were fortunate enough to have “SORTEDfood” come and give them all a lesson in how to cook a very simple recipe with limited ingredients! Read More
We have a lot of fixtures next week, so would like to highlight the following: Read More
The Sixth Form are proud to announce that this morning’s Krispy Kreme sale managed to raise around £380, bringing our total fundraising money up to almost £600. Read More
Mr. Holleran’s year 8 English class celebrated their success yesterday with a pizza party in the library. Read More
On Wednesday 4th May Hertfordshire County held the annual Boys’ Doubles tournament at Welwyn tennis club. Read More
Without question, participation in music benefits students. Not only does it require self-discipline and determination, but it encourages team work, social skills and can have a positive impact on academic work. At Chancellor’s, we recognise this and aim to provide all students with a rich and varied musical experience in and outside the classroom. In addition to their class music lessons, students are encouraged to participate in our varied extra-curricular programme. There are numerous choirs and ensembles which rehearse and perform regularly in a variety of musical genres. We have a limited number of places (10%) for students who demonstrate a particular aptitude for music. The application process is detailed below. The Musical Aptitude Test will take place on Saturday 3rd September 2016. Anyone wishing to apply under this criterion must complete and submit the online Supplementary Information Form which will be available on the website from Tuesday 3rd May to Friday 1st July 2016. To apply online email: [email protected]
Chancellor's School Annual Prizegiving Evening - 19:30
Opening Evening – Thursday 22nd September 2016 – 6pm to 9pm Open Mornings – Mon 26th September - Friday 30th September 2016 at 9am I would like to invite you to the School’s Open Evening on Thursday 22nd September, which starts at 6pm. As you may be aware, the school is oversubscribed with a well deserved reputation for high standards. The School is rightfully proud of its students and their excellent achievements. We offer extensive opportunities to participate and perform in extra-curricular activities such as sport, music and drama. The emphasis that we place on pastoral care ensures there are high standards of behaviour and our students feel safe and happy at school. The Open Evening and Open Mornings are opportunities for you to come and see this for yourself and I look forward to welcoming you to our school. In September, parents wishing to attend our Open Mornings should call the school office to book an appointment on 01707 650702. | <urn:uuid:797996ac-c6a2-40a1-b8b7-f275f58597d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.chancellors.herts.sch.uk/ | 2016-05-28T15:57:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00161-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954153 | 574 | [
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Wondering that too.
I would love to know how to import cars, weapons or any item from a game like saints row
or a need for speed game and then either edit it or just leave it as it is and then import it into gta 4 or eflc.
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Martes, Nueve de Septiembre
Protesting certainly has a culture...and we often marvel at the manifestations of such culture here in Cancun. Today marked the first series of marches to the perimeter fence: one march of students/black blockers/internationals and another of campesinos. We attended the first. It was filled with potential, and we are eager for tomorrow, but interactions seemed to hint at the age old conflict between the "non-violent" and the "radical".
Orange vested know-it-alls (aka peace police) were there in abundance. A Mayan ritual (attended by the one and only Starhawk!) took place in the center of the traffic circle. Young, masked, punks rushed the fence (breaking it in places)and waved flags from the top of statues.
We heard the campesino march was bigger and more focused--which didn't surprise us. Of all the groups in Cancun, they seem to know exactly why they are here and exactly what their intentions are.
As is often the case in cities, the number of protesters is difficult to calculate. To the South, a large encampment of campesinos and students. To the North, a convergence space and indymedia center. And all over town, various parks filled with campers, locals, music and presentations. There is no doubt that the city is filled with merrymaking-malcontents gearing up for the start of WTO meetings tomorrow.
We journied into the hotel zone today to check out security. There is an outer fence and a series of inner fences. The complicated part is that it is approximately 4 miles from primary fence to convention center--and the path is flanked on one side by the ocean and a lagoon filled with crocodiles on the other.
When protesters are present, the outer fence closes and hundreds of riot cops appear. When the protesters leave, the fence is openned and commerce continues as usual.
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In the immediate aftermath of last week’s attacks at the Boston Marathon, estimates calculated that about 170 people suffered injuries from the bombings. But according to the Boston Public Health Commission, that estimate should be revised to about 282 as more people are now coming forward to seek treatment in local hospitals.
Nick Martin, a spokesman for the health commission, explained to the Boston Globe that the injury count has sharply risen because many people initially delayed medical care. Although those people hoped their injuries would heal on their own, that hasn’t been the case, and they’re now checking themselves into one of the 27 hospitals in the area that are treating the bombing victims:
“One of the best examples is hearing issues,” Martin said. “People might have first thought their hearing problems would be temporary.” Instead, hearing loss or continuous ringing or buzzing in their ears remained. Others sought delayed care for minor shrapnel wounds. […]
The number of injuries could continue to climb if more people seek treatment. And health officials are monitoring whether there was any significant increase in heart attacks or strokes that could have resulted from Marathon Monday. Studies suggest that stress-related heart emergencies increase in the first few weeks after a traumatic event such as an earthquake or terrorist attack.
There’s little doubt, however, that more injured victims would have died had they not received optimal treatment, on the scene and at hospitals, for wounds that led to the loss of copious amounts of blood.
Thanks to Boston’s large hospital network and well-equipped first responder teams, the city’s medical professionals were able to save an impressive number of lives over the past week — partly because the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught doctors how to effectively stem the flow of blood that results from these type of lower-extremity wounds. Thankfully, all of the people who have been treated for injuries have survived.
But as the injury toll rises, so does the cost burden resulting from the bombings. Initial estimates projected that the medical costs resulting from the Boston bombings would likely top $9 million. With about 100 more injured people to treat, however, that figure may be an underestimation. Some of the victims who underwent amputations — which can be especially expensive to treat, requiring an initial surgery, a prosthetic, hours of rehabilitation therapy, and often home remodeling — are already online fundraising to help pay for their medical bills. Insurance companies and hospital administrators could also do their part to make sure that victims can afford the treatment they need by eliminating or reducing some of their hospital costs. | <urn:uuid:9b52bb94-65da-453e-bb9b-6f4490f73ac4> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/23/1906051/injury-toll-boston-rises/ | 2016-05-26T09:26:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00021-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976834 | 526 | [
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Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with at least three months of follow-up, assessing multidisciplinary treatments applied in a group setting for adult patients with chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain (such as back pain or fibromyalgia) were eligible for inclusion in the review. Multidisciplinary treatments had to include at least three of the following categories to be eligible for inclusion: psychotherapy, physiotherapy, relaxation techniques, medical treatment or patient education and vocational therapy. The study had to include at least two of the following domains to be eligible for inclusion: pain, emotional strain, quality of life, disability, coping, physical capacity, return to work, sick leave, use of medicaments, use of the health care system, pain behaviour or subjective overall success. The primary outcomes of interest were psychological strain, disability in everyday life, health-related quality of life, pain and more appropriate coping strategies. Secondary outcomes of interest were physical capacity, return to work rate, sick leave, use of the health care system, medication, pain behaviour, quality of sleep and other domains (such as subjective improvement).
Most included studies were of patients with chronic low back or back pain. Others included patients with fibromyalgia or mixed chronic pain patients. Most multidisciplinary treatments were delivered in an outpatient setting with a treatment duration ranging from 15 to 135 hours (median 31 hours) over four to 15 weeks. Inpatient treatments were more intensive (median 150 hours over three to eight weeks). Control groups included non-multidisciplinary treatment strategies and waiting list or treatment as usual controls. The most common type of therapy was cognitive-behavioural therapy. Most studies also included a physical component, such as aerobic exercise, muscle stretching or exercise therapy. Most studies included a patient education component. Further details of included studies were presented.
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Auction tonight: Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
IMPORTANT PAINTINGS & CONTEMPORARY ART
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How To Perform A Complete SEO Audit For Your Website
This is a guest post by Philip Petrescu, CEO and Co-Founder of Caphyon (full bio below)
Doing a complete SEO Audit is not an easy task. You need to approach this from different angles, have a defined structure of what you wish to accomplish and use the right tools to get the job done efficiently.
In the past, only a few experts were able to tackle such a big task. Nowadays, there is so much information on this topic and there are so many free tools available that it has become very practical for any of us to perform complete SEO audits for the sites we own.
Can you do it too? Of course. Just follow the three steps below:
- create a list of the most important factors that you wish to check
- use the appropriate tool to discover the issues you may have
- come up with a list of changes that need to be made in order to fix these problems
This article will focus on the first two steps: finding the important factors that affect your website’s performance and the tools that can help you discover these problems. Subscribe to this blog or come back later for a follow-up article that will focus on how you can actually fix these problems.
One of the most important things in an SEO Audit is not finding what is wrong with a website, but rather to find a list of things that need to be changed, that will make the site rank better in the search engines.
So, which are the most important factors that affect your website’s performance?
To make things easier for you, I have structured this article into different sections that you can browse independently. At the end of each section, you will find a list of tools that you can use to identify the issues discussed in that section.
- Technical Audit
- Semantic Audit
- Competition Audit
- Social Media Audit
If your website has a lot of technical problems, your will experience a poor performance and you will receive less traffic than you normally would receive. Performing a technical audit means searching for all the errors or technical problems that may negatively affect the performance of your website in the search engines.
The most important thing to begin with is to make sure that your content is accessible to the search engines. One mistake here and the search engines won’t be able to crawl your site, which means you will get no rankings at all.
There is a file stored on your web server, called robots.txt which is meant to tell the search engines which content of your website they are allowed to crawl and which not. The problem appears when you accidentally change this file and disallow the search engines to access the pages you wish to rank for. At this point you can say goodbye to any organic ranking for these pages.
However, this problem is very easy to identify and fix. To find out if you have blocked any important pages from being crawled you can use the Robots.txt Checker tool.
While robots.txt is very good at disallowing search engines access to different sections of your site, there is also a way to tell the search engines to ignore a single page from the HTML code of the page itself. This is done via the robots meta tag and you can check this using a meta tag analyzer.
HTTP Status Codes
When a crawler requests a page on your website, your web server returns an HTTP status code along with the response. It is very important to make sure that your server returns a status code with a value 200, which is the equivalent of saying that everything is OK.
If your web server returns a status code of 4xx or 5xx ,which usually means an error, this will prevent the search engines to access your page content.
The easiest way to check if you have pages that return errors when a search engine is trying to crawl them is to log in to your Google Webmaster Tools account and go to the Health – Crawl Errors report.
One scenario that happens most of the time is when a page no longer exists in its initial location because it was moved to a different location. A 301 redirect is the preferred way to handle this situation because the search engines will be able to handle this move correctly and transfer all the authority of the links pointing to the page that was moved to the new one.
Canonicalization, although hard to pronounce, is one of the basic principles of SEO and it’s essential to creating an optimized website.
One of the common mistakes that most website owners do is splitting the link authority of their website because they are not redirecting the non-www section of their website correctly.
should 301 redirect to:
If you don’t do this, you are essentially telling the search engines to keep two copies of your site in the index and split the link authority between them.
How can you make sure you don’t have this problem? It’s easy to find out. Just search in Google for:
If your search does not match any documents, then you should be fine. Otherwise use the htaccess redirect tool from the Tools section below.
Interlinking is very important to the SEO strategy of your site. It is one of the most powerful weapons that you can use to increase your search engine rankings.
Your website needs to have a good internal link structure and all your pages must be linked together for the search engines to be able to crawl through and reach every single page. If some of your pages remain isolated from the rest of the website, no crawler will ever be able to find out about their existence and index their content.
One of the best ways to find out whether your pages are linked together correctly is to use a crawler such as Xenu’s Link Sleuth. This free tool will scan your website just as a search engine would and find any holes that you may have in your internal linking structure.
Now that you have identified and fixed all the accessibility problems of your website, that doesn’t mean that all your problems are suddenly gone. It may very well happen that a search engine will only crawl a certain number of pages from your website and ignore the rest.
This is usually related to the importance that the search engine attributes to your website. More important sites have a higher number of pages crawled by a search engine.
The first thing you should check though is if your website is indexed at all. This can be easily accomplished by searching in Google for one of the following:
your brand name
You need to understand that the number of results that Google returns for these queries is not really accurate. In fact, it may change if you refresh the page or if you search Google in a different country.
A more accurate way to find out how many pages of your site are indexed is to visit your Google Webmaster Tools account and go to the Health – Index Status report.
Although this is probably the most accurate number that you will get from Google, there is a different number that I believe you should be focusing on here, which is the exact number of pages that have received at least one visit from a search engine. You can get this number from your Google Analytics reports or any other analytics tools that you may be using.
Nowadays, your site performance is more important than ever. A recent study showed that Amazon.com has achieved a 1% increase in revenue for every 100 milliseconds that were taken off from the load time of their pages.
One of the reasons this may happen is because these days people are browsing the web more and more with devices and mobile phones that connect to the Internet via slow wireless and 3G connections.
It does not matter if you have the most beautiful page if nobody sees it. It does not matter if your website is ranking in the first spot for a very high traffic keyword. If your site fails to display in less than 5 seconds, the people that clicked on your link will hit the back button and go to the next result. And the worst part of this is that you will never know what happened. Has the visitor actually seen your page or not?
Answering this question is not an easy task. But you could figure this out if you analyze your web server log files and compare the number of times your page was requested with the number of times your page has been visited in tools such as Google Analytics or similar.
That being said, it’s important to understand that not all the problems of poor performance happen in the back end.
Does your site have a performance problem too? You can easily find out by using a tool such as YSlow or Page Speed by Google. In most cases they don’t just tell you what the problem is, but also how you can solve it.
Useful tools for a technical audit
Robots.txt Checker – see if you have blocked any important pages from being crawled.
Meta Tag Analyzer – check if you have restricted search engines access to a certain page.
Google Webmaster Tools – check if you have pages that return an HTTP status code with error.
Htaccess Redirect Tool – use it to create a .htaccess file for Apache web servers.
Xenu’s Link Sleuth – use it to crawl your website and find problems in your internal linking structure.
YSlow – find out if your site has performance issues and how to solve them
Page Speed by Google – use it to discover any performance issues of your site
Your site’s content and information flow must ensure the best experience for any visitor of your website. The design, the site’s content and navigation should go hand in hand and serve a unique purpose: that of fascinating rather than alienating your visitors.
The most important thing to remember here is that you should write your content for humans, not for search engines. That being said, if you want to rank well in the search engines, you do need to make sure that the things that search engines do look for are there.
The title tag and the meta description are the most prominent features displayed on a search engine result page. Make sure you have these two right otherwise people will not click on your link, even if you are ranking first in the results.
- Keep it short (less than 70 characters) and test how it looks like in the search engine result page.
- Make sure that it is interesting and that it matches the visitor’s search intent.
- Include your highest-value keywords in the beginning.
- Add your brand name at the end of it when possible.
- Make sure you don’t duplicate titles across the pages of your site.
The Meta Description tag does not affect keyword rankings so do not try to stuff keywords in it. Instead, use it to describe the page content succinctly and accurately. Make it actionable and encourage users to click on your link and you will see a huge impact on the click-through rate.
If you were lucky enough to be included in the DMOZ or Yahoo directories, search engines will sometimes replace your meta description with the one listed in these directories. You can easily prevent this from happening by adding the following meta tags to your HTML header:
Most crawling tools such as Xenu’s Link Sleuth retrieve the text in the title and meta description tags for the crawled pages. You can also find Title tag and Meta Description information in your Google Webmaster Tools account in the Optimization – HTML Improvements report.
Most search engines ignore this tag so you have no benefits from using it. The only thing you can accomplish by adding your keywords to this tag is to allow your competitors a sneak peek over your targeted terms.
Although not as important as page titles from an SEO point of view, the headings (H1, H2, H3, etc.) still weigh enough and you should make sure they are not missing and are used correctly on each page. More than that, headings have a great impact over how content is perceived by the reader, improving the user experience and conversion on the page.
A picture is worth a thousand words but unfortunately only humans can see it. To make sure the search engines also understand what your pictures are about, you should include the important keywords that describe each of them in two places: in the file name and in the alt attribute.
Your pages need to have enough content to rank well in the search engines. Having less than 200 words on a page (not counting the HTML tags) is considered sub-optimal. What’s interesting is that pages with more than 2,000 words usually receive better rankings in the search engines.
One of the major issues that could affect your rankings in the search engines is duplicate content. Regardless if you have only one product or thousands of products on your site, it is important to make the content unique and target different keywords on each page.
There are two ways in which you can duplicate content:
- identical content on two different pagesThis usually happens when two URLs that have different parameters point to the same page. Detecting duplicate identical pages is easy. Just use a crawler such as Screaming Frog which computes a hash tag for each page. Combine this with the power of Excel and you will be able to create actionable reports for your pages.
- part of the content is duplicated on two different pagesThis one is harder to spot and a simple crawler won’t help. The main problem here is that starting with February 2011, (when Google has released the first Panda update) the impact of duplicate content has become a lot more severe.
In the past, duplicate content could only harm that content itself, by being filtered out by the search engine or sent to the supplemental index instead. Ever since the Panda update was released though, a duplicate content problem may impact your entire site, not just the pages that are duplicated. You can have good pages on your site (that are not duplicated) lose their rankings or even fall out of the index altogether.
To find out if you have content that exists in a similar form on another page or website you can use the Copyscape tool.
The pages of your website need to have a fluent content structure, with no cluttering, useless items. Otherwise your visitors will get lost and miss the essential message you wish to send. With a simple eye scan you can quickly evaluate if too many ads, sections on the page or call to actions are distracting the visitor from the intended purpose of the page.
There is no universal recipe for a website’s pages hierarchy but, it’s recommended to aim towards a flatter site architecture with a good interlinking between pages of the same level.
While a higher vertical depth of your website would ensure a more logical navigation flow through the website, a flatter site architecture might be more tempting as it would allow you to push forward your most important and powerful pages and make them more accessible to your visitors.
If you want to make sure that your most important pages are just a few clicks away, you can crawl your website with Screaming Frog and look at the depth of each page.
This part of the audit is crucial as it helps you find the answer to daunting questions such as:
- Are my pages linked together in a comprehensive way?
- Is anyone linking to my website? If so, which is the content that got most links?
- Am I getting any benefits for having these backlinks?
Internal links are links from one page of your site to a different page on your site. Although commonly used in main navigation, when done right, they should improve both rankings and usability.
Each page of your site has the potential, through its content, to link to other pages from your site. To use this potential, you should insert contextual links to other pages from your site that you would like to rank better. Just make sure you use the keywords that you would like the target pages to rank for when you link to them.
And remember that your visitors are more likely to click on a link in the text of a page, because it feels more natural.
To find information about your internal links go to your Google Webmaster Tools account and look at the Traffic – Internal Links report. To find any broken links you may have, see the Health – Crawl Errors report.
When you link from a page of your site to another page on a different site, you send a powerful vote, endorsing the target’s page quality. Therefore it is important to make sure your site links only to high quality sites, otherwise your site’s trustworthiness might be affected.
In case you must link to sites that you don’t trust, make sure you use the nofollow attribute.
Use the IIS SEO Toolkit from Microsoft to crawl your entire website and get more information about all your external links.
The most powerful links that you can get from another website are those that are within the text of a page and that are surrounded by content that is relevant to both your site and the link anchor text.
When it comes to the number of inbound links, the more the better. But it is more important to get these links from different websites (unique root domains). This means that having 1 link from 10 unique websites is a lot better than having 10 links from 1 website.
Also, some top-level domains (.edu and .gov) are considered special because only qualified institutions can register them. Therefore links from these domains are supposed to have a higher value than regular links.
But having a lot of inbound links is not enough. If you want your page to rank for a certain keyword, you need to have some of these inbound links contain that keyword in the anchor text.
It used to be that the more links you had with a certain keyword in the anchor text, the better you ranked. Nowadays though, search engines look at the distribution of your anchor text and will actually lower your rankings for that keyword if you have too many links that contain that keyword.
Recent studies have shown that sites with a small amount of exact match and partial match links but with a very high amount of brand links are ranking better than sites that have most of their links made of the targeted keywords.
To find out the number of inbound links to your site and the anchor text distribution you can use either Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO. Both these tools provide link metrics and detailed information that can help you audit your link profile.
Just keep in mind that these tools use their own link graph, i.e. they crawl the Internet independently and create their own index. This means that they can only tell you what’s in their own index, and not what’s in the Google’s or Bing’s index database.
Useful tools for a semantic audit
Copyscape – find out if you have content that exists in a similar form on another page or website
Screaming Frog – crawl your website and look at how many clicks away your main content is
IIS SEO Toolkit – use it to crawl your website and get more information about your external links
Open Site Explorer – find out the number of inbound links to your site
Majestic SEO – check your link profile and anchor text distribution
If one of your main goals is to achieve high rankings for your website in the search engines, then you need to first find out who are the other websites that already rank for the keywords you are targeting: your competition.
Analyzing your competitors will help you get a better understanding of their strength and whether you have a real chance of outranking them. Making a good decision when you enter a niche will save you many months or even years of work spent on trying to catch up with a competition that is too strong. You would be better off finding a local or smaller niche and tackle that instead for a start.
Usually the first thing you should look at when you analyze your competitors is their overall strength. You can use the Domain Authority and Page Authority metrics from Open Site Explorer for that. If they have a high DA and PA then these are good indicators why their page ranks higher in the search results.
Alternatively look at Citation Flow and Trust Flow from Majestic SEO. They will tell you how influential a site may be (Citation Flow) and how trustworthy it is (Trust Flow) based on their relative distance to other trustworthy sites.
But the question is how did they get those high numbers? Did they do something special? Maybe there is something that each of your competitors have and you don’t. That’s what competitive analysis really means. It’s a process of elimination in order to find out that thing that stands out and makes a difference.
One way to find this out is to discover the pages your competitors put their most effort into, the ones that got the most attention on social platforms and got the most links.
To find out the most shared or liked content of your competitors use Social Crawlytics. It can crawl the competitor site and display the number of social shares for every page.
The next question you should ask is where did they get the links from? Are these links significantly more valuable than yours? And do they deserve them?
If your competitor is writing good content that attracts a lot of natural links, then it’s time you start creating your own content that people will naturally link to. Because if you’re still trying to persuade people to link to you at this point, then you will never catch up.
Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO are great tools for finding out valuable information about the links of a website. And you can add the information that OSE provides into Link Detective and find out what types of links your competitor is attracting.
Another way to approach this is to look at the range of keywords that your competition is targeting and the content they use for driving their traffic. You can guide your own strategy based on the techniques that proved to be effective for them.
With a simple anchor text retrieval from Open Site Explorer you can get a good idea of the keywords they are targeting. In some cases this may not be enough, so you may use SEMRush instead, which is a tool that automatically retrieves all the keywords that a website is ranking for.
Useful tools for a competitive audit
Link Detective – find out where your competitors are getting links from
Open Site Explorer – get useful information about the links of a site
Majestic SEO – check link profile and anchor text distribution
SEMRush – get all keywords that a website is ranking for
Social Crawlitics – crawl your site and get the number of social shares for all your pages
Social media is one of the most effective methods to influence and engage with your customers. Your ability to engage socially and become popular on social platforms will also have a great impact on your website’s ability to achieve high rankings.
The first thing you should look at is to make sure you have your profiles set up and optimized for human interaction and to make sure that your logo and about/bio information are there so that your visitors recognize you.
There is no standard posting frequency that will guarantee success but a few posts per week are somehow mandatory for your profile to look alive. More important is to have a social media posting policy that your entire staff follows to maintain branding, tone and messaging consistency across all platforms.
Then you need to decide who will be your voice on social platforms. Will it be a person within your brand or will it be the voice of your brand itself. Although most brands post as the brand itself, it could be a more personal approach to post as a person that will speak for the brand instead. Raven Tools does a very good job with this posting as @RavenJon or @RavenCourtney although they do have an official brand voice too at @RavenTools.
Your social profiles need to be seen as an extension of your website into the social area. Therefore, just like you have branded your social profiles, you need to add social items on your website as well. Make sure that your social profiles are integrated on your website and on your blog, if you have one.
Just like with any other distribution channel, on social media you need to send the right message to get the best results. Therefore, you need to know if your content got any social reactions and which pages were able to engage better.
To find out how many shares and likes a page has you can use SharedCount. Alternatively, you can use Social Crawlytics to see this information for your entire website instead of just one page.
By looking at your website pages along with their shares and likes, you will be able to understand the overall level of social engagement and see which content was preferred by your audience.
Next, you need to pay close attention to the response you get from your social audience. What is the level of engagement you achieved? Was it just a “Like” or did it go further to sharing or leaving positive comments? The higher the engagement, the more likely it is to have a major impact over the growth of your social circles.
But instead of just looking at the number of likes, a better metric to look at would be your engagement rate with your fans. This is the number of likes, comments, retweets, etc. that you receive on each post. You can calculate an average for all your posts and divide this number by the number of fans you have and you’ll get a more accurate metric to see if your engagement with your fans is increasing or not. Do this for your competition too and see who is winning the social race.
Tools such as Facebook Insights and TweetReach give you important information about your market reach and the engagement generated by your content.
Useful tools for a social audit
TweetReach – measure the reach of your brand, marketing campaign or event on Twitter
SharedCount – track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more
Social Crawlytics – see how many shares and likes you have for each of your pages
Dedicated Tools for complete SEO Audits
There are many tools out there that can help you find the important factors that affect your website’s performance in the search engines. Most of the tools that I mentioned so far are very good at finding a particular problem and their main benefit is that they have a free version.
But if you are looking for a tool that can handle most of the problems described above, then you need a dedicated SEO audit tool. The advantage of such a tool is that it is complete and will save you lots of time spent checking different tools. The main disadvantage is that you will need to pay for it.
Web Based SEO Auditors
One of the oldest and more established tools for SEO Audits comes from SEOmoz and it is included in their paid SEOmoz Pro subscription:
Advantages: It crawls your website in the background and will give you alerts on the most common errors and warnings about your on-page optimization efforts. It also contains a powerful competitive link analysis tool that is based on their Mozscape link database.
Disadvantages: You can’t start the crawl on demand. It runs weekly and it has a limit of 10,000 pages per domain. Although the platform does have separate link and social analysis, they are not tied together to the auditor and it’s hard to see which of your pages get the most shares and links.
A new and interesting web based Site Auditor was recently released by Raven Tools. Although this tool is still in Beta, so lots of improvements and tweaks are yet to be made, it already handles most of the tasks that you will need to audit your website.
Advantages: You can schedule your crawls weekly and there are several reporting options available for the audits. It analyzes your content, internal links and images and even has an awesome report on page speed from YSlow that not only tells you where the problems are with your site speed but also tells you how to solve them.
Disadvantages:Â You can crawl up to 1,000 pages per website and up to 10,000 total pages per day. There is currently no option to crawl a specific path within your website. The crawl starts with the Index page and stops when it reaches 1000 pages. There is no social and no inbound links data integrated with the audit yet.
Desktop based SEO Auditors
Although this tool is recommended by many SEOs as a free tool, there are a lot of limitations so you will need the paid version to take advantage of all its features.
Advantages: It’s very fast and you can configure it to get more information about your site than you’ll ever need.
Disadvantages: It has a steeper learning curve and it requires some tweaks to harness its full powers. Also, being a pure crawler, there is no data collected on analytics, social mentions and inbound links to your website.
The SEO Auditor is one of the many research tools included in Advanced Web Ranking and the best part is that it is integrated with analytics, links and social data so you can also get a complete picture of which pages of your site perform better overall.
Advantages: Being a desktop tool means that you can start a crawl whenever you wish and as many times as you wish. It’s very configurable and it does not have the limitations that other web based tools have.
Disadvantages: Currently, you can only start the crawls manually and you are limited to 10,000 pages per crawl.
If you ever find yourself hungry for some more info on this topic, here are some very good articles that will teach you how to approach an SEO Audit:
The World’s Greatest SEO Audit – Steve Webb wrote an awesome article in which he shares his insanely thorough SEO audit process based on his research and experience.
Find Your Site’s Biggest Technical Flaws in 60 Minutes – Dave Sottimano gives you an insight on how the pros at Distilled approach a 60 minutes technical SEO Audit.
How To Perform A SEO Audit – Neil Patel shares the insights of a recent SEO Audit that he purchased for $5,000 for his website QuickSprout.
How to do a Mobile SEO Audit – Aleyda Solis wrote an awesome article recently on what you need to do to improve your mobile search visibility, traffic and conversions.
Large Scale Link Evaluation – Alan Bleiweiss reveals how you can become more efficient with your large scale technical audits without sacrificing quality.
What do you think?
Now it’s your turn. What are your biggest challenges when it comes to auditing a website and what is the most appropriate solution you found?
I would love to hear what you are doing differently when you audit a site. So why not comment below with your own story? It will help everyone make their own site audits better.
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The premiere destination for Canada’s scholarly community
The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is the premiere destination for Canada’s scholarly community. Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Congress brings together thousands of scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers in a different city each year to share ideas, discuss today’s complex issues and enrich their research. They gather under the aegis of more than 70 associations representing a rich spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. From theatre, literature and education to history, sociology and international development, Congress represents a unique showcase of scholarly excellence, creativity, and leadership.
Congress 2012 is being co-hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. The theme for this year’s Congress is Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World. Finally, CFHSS gratefully acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
New to Congress? Review Why Join Congress? A Guide for Scholarly Associations (PDF 755KB) and find out how your association can take part in this exciting conference.
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Important News About My Survivor And Amazing Race Recaps
Many of you know that I wear a lot of different hats. I work a full-time job, I work for a local University as their Athletics announcer, and I also work for our local affiliate of Rogers TV on-air for their broadcasts of Kitchener Rangers hockey games. Add in to that the responsibilities of being a dad to a 10-year-old son, and trying to be a good partner to my loving and supportive girlfriend, Devena...and there's not a lot of free time.
I do these recaps because they're fun for me, and because people enjoy reading them. From a tiny little side project, to something that garners between 10,000-15,000 hits/month, this site sure has grown and evolved to places I didn't really envision. I'm very, very thankful and grateful for that.
But I need a break.
Things are way to busy for me right now to be putting in the required effort for my recaps. Work is busy, home life is busy, and the Rangers playoffs are starting in 2 days, which will mean I have a show almost every other night for a seven-game playoff series. Plus, I was just on vacation and missed three recap nights (for Survivor and TAR), and after tonight, I was going to miss the next two episodes as well.
So, I'm sorry to say that I will be taking a temporary break from doing my recaps for Survivor and The Amazing Race. I watched last week's episode last night, and I really enjoyed just being able to sit and watch it...so that's what I'm going to do for the next little while.
I'm not sure how long...I may be back before the end of the season, but I will definitely be back at some point. Like I said, I just need a break.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Edison Investment Research, a leading international investment research firm, announces the initiation of full coverage of Derma Sciences (DSCI), a US medical device and pharmaceutical company developing and marketing products for advanced wound care.
Edison has published a comprehensive report examining the investment merits of Derma Sciences, focusing in particular on the growth prospects of its advance wound care unit and its lead wound healing product, DSC127, currently in two Phase III trials, STRIDE 1 and 2, which are expected to report top-line results in H115. Edison has valued Derma Sciences at $357.3m based on a risk-adjusted net present value model.
For the full report see: www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/research/company/derma-sciences
The launch of coverage on Derma Sciences is part of a programme of research initiations on healthcare companies. Edison provides research coverage on more than 130 healthcare companies in Europe, North America and Australia. Edison has pioneered a scientific, detail-oriented approach to analysing companies in the healthcare sector that is delivered in a concise and non-promotional manner. It aims to inform investors, while providing a realistic assessment of the competitive strengths and threats to key drug development programmes. All facts are carefully sourced and the analysis is underpinned by comprehensive and rigorous financial models. Edison's reports provide an overall company valuation without any specific stock recommendation.
All reports published by Edison are available to download free of charge from www.edisongroup.com.
About Edison Investment Research
Edison, the investment intelligence firm, is the future of investor interaction with corporates. Our team of over 100 analysts and investment professionals works with leading companies, fund managers and investment banks worldwide to support its capital markets activity. We provide services to more than 400 retained corporate and investor clients from our offices in London, New York, Berlin, Sydney and Wellington. Edison is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (www.fsa.gov.uk/register/firmBasicDetails.do?sid=181584).
Edison is not an adviser or broker-dealer and does not provide investment advice. Edison's reports are not solicitations to buy or sell any securities.
For more information please contact:
Jason Zhang, Ph.D. Edison Investment Research +1 646 653 7026
About Derma Sciences
Derma Sciences is a specialty medical device/pharmaceutical company. It focuses on developing and commercialising traditional and novel advanced wound care products, including MEDIHONEY and TCC-EZ, among other brands, and DSC127, a novel pharmaceutical agent for wound healing. It is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, US.
|SOURCE Edison Investment Research|
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The next time you’re reading your favorite Shelley or Verne novel, brighten up the room with this steampunk-inspired desk lamp! Boasting a finished wooden base, this grand lamp lights to way to futuristic possibilities with a classic 40-watt bulb and a clear glass cover, giving your abode a nod to steamtech style.
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“Three-Quarter Houses: The View from the Inside” is the first systematic and comprehensive study of Three-Quarter Housing in New York City. The problem of housing New York City’s most vulnerable individuals has given rise to a growing market of privately operated, for-profit residences known as Three-Quarter Houses. For all intents and purposes, these houses have become an informal extension of the City’s apparatus for keeping vulnerable men and women off of the streets. Yet they lack any formal regulation or oversight, rendering the houses invisible to most citizens and policymakers.
The report’s findings are based on 317 known addresses and first-hand accounts of 43 current or recent residents of the houses. The report paints a harrowing picture of the conditions in these dwellings. The residents tend to be in the midst of major life transitions; most are returning home from jail or prison, recovering from short-term hospital or residential substance abuse treatment, battling with street homelessness, and/or struggling with unemployment, family crises, or medical issues. The houses are over-crowded, lack basic fire safety and health provisions, and are exploitative of their residents. And thousands of New Yorkers rely on them, prefer them to shelters, and desperately do not want them closed. The findings of PRI’s research on Three-Quarter Houses are troubling indications of what occurs when the city’s poorest and most marginalized individuals are left with no affordable or accessible housing options and must instead fend for themselves in an unregulated, informal housing market.
The research was carried out by the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI) of John Jay College, in collaboration with MFY Legal Services, Inc., Neighbors Together, the Legal Action Center, and the Three-Quarter House Tenant Organizing Project, with technical assistance from the Furman Center of Real Estate and Public Policy.
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M3D launched its Micro 3D printer project on Kickstarter today, and has already surpassed its $50,000 goaland then some.
The numbers continue to tick up as more than 1,300 backers have already contributed almost $330,000 as of press time. And there are still 29 days to go.
Advertised as "the first truly consumer 3D printer," the Micro is certainly more affordable than any of its big-business counterparts. The lightweight, USB-compatible desktop device, which can be used with any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, has sold out of $200 and $250 bundles, which include the Micro at a "very limited special price" (shipping not included), as well as one filament spool.
The still-available $300, $600-plus, and $900-plus reward packages also earn you a first-batch printer on the cheap. Comparatively, Brooklyn-based MakerBot is now taking pre-orders for its compact Replicator Mini, with a price tag of $1,375.
"We've built The Micro with reliability, consistency, and accessibility in mind," the M3D team wrote on Kickstarter. Built for everyone from novice users to experts, the device include a sensor and feedback system for auto-leveling and calibration; you'll never have to adjust the printer, even after building an entire scale model of the Death Star.
"Bring your ideas to life, turn them into businesses, educate, learn, personalize products, make toys, make jewelry, start a curriculum, run a modern workshop, and unleash your creativity," the team said. "The power of creation is yours!"
The space-efficient, portable, quiet 3D printer comes in five colorssilver, black, blue, red/orange, and greenand promises the lowest power consumption of any 3D printer on the market. Already own a 3D printer, or just have spools of filament lying around? The Micro supports various materials, including ABS, PLA, and Nylon, among others. Likewise, M3D's filament is compatible with other printers.
"We're ready for production and really need your support to ramp up assembly to get printers to you as early as possible," the Kickstarter page said.
The Maryland-based team has been prepping for more than a year, and now, by pre-ordering the Micro printer, "you'll help us reach our last crucial milestone: purchasing the injection molds that will provide us with high-quality, high-volume 3D printer parts we need."
Unless otherwise noted, all Micro 3D Printer rewards come with the M3D software, instruction manual, USB cable, country-specific power adapter, and one Micro filament spool.
Still unclaimed, M3D's big-spender rewards include a signed sketch of the original design ($2,000+), a custom-colored printer ($5,000+), and a tour of the M3D offices and lunch with the team ($10,000+). The Kickstarter project closes on May 7.
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Jeremiah Paige of Rangeview sets big school record for 3-pointers
To say Jeremiah Paige was on fire Friday night is an understatement.
The Rangeview guard scored 52 points in a 99-52 win over Prairie View, setting the school record for most points in a game, breaking former star Reggie Evans’ 47. It is the 16th highest point output by a single player in state history, tying Salida’s Jonas Ginther who did it in 1989, according to the Colorado High School Activities Association’s boys basketball records.
It isn’t the highest point total for a single player this year. Akron’s Brady Baer had 55 earlier this season.
The state record is Manual’s Chuckie Sproling, who dropped 74 on Denver North in 1987.
Paige shot an incredible 19-of-25 from the field, including 13-of-18 from 3-point range. His 13 3-pointers is second-most all-time, but most for a big school, breaking Poudre’s Matt Clark’s record of 12 in 2000.
The state record is held by Ignacio’s Trae Seibel, who had 14 in 2010.
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An internal combustion engine uses oxygen just as fires require oxygen to keep aflame. There is no internal oxygen tank in a car for this purpose, as that wouldn’t be very efficient. Instead, 1990 GMC Jimmy vehicle manufacturers equip cars with intakes that bring air inside to the 1990 GMC Jimmy engine directly. 1990 GMC Jimmy Air intakes are designed to provide the least inhibited route possible for the air to reach from outside the 1990 GMC Jimmy car all the way to the engine, though stock versions aren’t always the most effective.
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Red Rover, Red Rover
Say cheese. This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet. Image Credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell
In Search for Life on Mars, Machines Can Boldly Go Where Humans Can’t
By Lawrence M. Krauss
(This article first appeared on January 6, 2004, in the New York Times.)
With dwindling hope, scientists with the European Space Agency have awaited a nine-note musical message, much like the sound I hear on my daughter's cellphone when it receives a call.
Hearing this tune, written by a British band, Blur, would signal that the British-built Beagle 2 spacecraft landed safely on Mars two weeks ago and could begin experiments to detect trace signatures of past or present microbial life.
Whether or not the tiny Beagle 2 survived its dangerous descent to the Martian surface, the Spirit, a robotic craft launched by NASA, landed safely on the planet over the weekend and began transmitting photographs of the surface within hours. A sister NASA rover, the Opportunity, will try to land this month.
The rovers are to travel several hundred feet a day in search of evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars.
Humanity has been fascinated by the possibility that life may have existed on Mars, our closest planetary neighbor, for as long as telescopes have allowed us to peer at its red surface. At the end of the 19th century, the American astronomer Percival Lowell detected what he was certain were "canals" on Mars that reflected an advanced industrial society.
While we now know that this was merely an optical illusion because of the limited resolution of the available observation instruments, Lowell's statements prompted generations of books and movies speculating on Martian invasions of Earth.
The fascination with the possibility that life once existed on Mars is not restricted to literature and the movies.
Scientists recognize that the climate of the barren planet was once quite different, with a denser, warmer atmosphere, as well as the possibility that liquid water may have flowed on its surface. Seven years ago, analysis of a Martian meteorite found in Antarctica set scientists abuzz with the claimed discovery of fossilized evidence of microscopic life forms.
Although most scientists now view that evidence as suspect, the idea that some ancient life may have existed on Mars remains plausible. Indeed, given that the Martian rock being analyzed was found on Earth makes it clear that material is regularly exchanged between the planets. For all we know, life on one planet may have "seeded" life on another at some time.
In spite of the tantalizing idea that life might be found on Mars, mounting a successful mission there to resolve this mystery is not so easy. Of the 11 attempted landings on Mars, only 4 have been successful up to now.
Space travel remains a difficult and expensive activity. But the excitement surrounding the current European and American landings makes it clear that the scientific questions that they may answer inspire a host of people. The activity also makes clear a fact that most scientists keep trying to underscore, that the best, most exciting and cheapest science involves unmanned spacecraft.
Even after only a 35 percent success rate thus far, the 11 missions to Mars have in total cost probably less than 1 percent of the projected cost of sending astronauts to Mars. Moreover, a lost robotic spacecraft is replaceable. An astronaut isn't.
As President Bush and NASA try to re-examine how to revitalize America's manned-space program, now is the time to face up to various truths about human space travel from scientific and human perspectives.
First, basically all that we learn from sending humans into space is how humans can survive in space. The International Space Station, orbiting several hundred miles above Earth, is not only boring, but it is also expensive.
Pretending that it has a scientific objective of any significance is an insult to those aspects of NASA, including the Great Observatory programs, and the new rover landings, that promise real science.
If we are going to send human beings into space, we must recognize that we are doing it primarily for adventure and to fulfill a human yearning to directly explore where "no one has gone before."
There is nothing wrong with adventure. At the very least, in inspires young people to think about the cosmos, much as the Apollo missions fascinated and excited my own interest in science 30 years ago. But to keep our space program vibrant, we need to ensure that we supplement expensive human space missions with important, and cheaper, scientific ones like the three current Mars missions.
Perhaps one day humans will visit, and even colonize, Mars. Perhaps this is our destiny. But for now, two — and maybe three — small robotic messengers are poised to help answer one of the most profound questions in science. Is there life, even primitive life, elsewhere in the universe?
I am rooting for one of the tiny spacecraft now lying alone on the inhospitable Martian soil, hopefully sending out messages to Earth, almost 100 million miles away, and I will not be disappointed if the first encounter with evidence of life elsewhere is made by a machine.
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Hi! Welcome to the Kimono’s Townhouse Behind–the–Scenes Tour. Here, I show all the things that go into making an episode of KT. It’s not as easy as it looks!
One of the questions I am asked most is whether I’m using multiple ponies to achieve the different poses and expressions with Kimono and Minty. The answer is yes, I have multiples of each. Unlike action figures, which are poseable, My Little Ponies, at most, can only turn their heads, so multiples are required to get any sort of “motion.”
Kimono and Minty are both Hasbro characters, and the company has created multiple sculpts for each. There are two Hasbro–issued Kimono variations and seven Hasbro–issued Minty variations. I don’t have two of the Minty variants, but they wouldn’t blend in with the other Mintys, anyway. The rest of the sculpts you see in KT are created by myself.
The current group consists of seven Kimonos and six Mintys, with more in production. There are also multiples of several side characters, such as Sunny Daze and Sparkleworks.
Creating the extra ponies presents a challenge because they must match the Hasbro–issued ponies exactly. Otherwise, the eye would pick up on the difference, and it would pull the reader out of the story. Customizing additional ponies is the most difficult part of production. A Minty in progress is shown to the left.
Making a new Minty is pretty straightforward. She has a common hair color and her symbol is easy to paint. Hasbro rarely issues green ponies, but when they do, they tend to be Minty green. This saves me a lot of time by not having to dye parts to match. And a good thing, too! I have been unable to match Minty’s color so far.
Kimono is more difficult, since she is an unusual shade of violet. Most of the customized Kimonos I create must be dyed to match, which can cause a lot of frustration. I find creative ways to let off steam when Kimono gets me down.
Kimono has an unusual hair color that Hasbro rarely uses. I’ve had difficulty finding hair for additional Kimonos. She also has a very intricate symbol, so replicating that is time–consuming, as well. I’ve been careful to choose versatile sculpts for Kimono, since so many resources go into making her.
While I can achieve a large range of motion with the different sculpts of each pony, I am still limited by them. They are all, in essence, stuck standing around. There are not yet any sculpts that allow Kimono and Minty to sit, lie down, or curl up in a ball laughing. Shots where the characters are in such positions require me to get a little more creative. Usually, these shots are achieved by using loose parts.
Gruesome, isn’t it? A combination of loose parts and a technique called forced perspective allow me to place the characters in unusual, dynamic poses. Currently, I’m working on loose parts for Minty, which will help me create more dynamic actions for her. She’s a hyperactive girl, after all.
Once a scene is set, production is a simple matter. Settings, characters, and props are combined under bright lights, captured with a digital camera, and brought to you, the reader.
Production begins by writing the story. The long–term plot of KT is planned out, but it’s told through shorter vignettes, which I usually write on the fly. I often consult with my husband, Kris, to come up with ideas. If it’s an important story arc or I’m unsure how an element works, I take the idea to my beta readers. And if I find myself with writer’s block, I go to my idea notebook. This often results in Dream Fairy or Cooking with Superman sequences. Usually, I have an idea in place several weeks in advance, but it’s not unusual for us to come up with an idea a couple hours before a comic is due.
Once an idea is in place, I start going through the prop collection. I began this collection when I was very young, about seven years old. In the decades since then, I have added props for almost any scenario imaginable. Sometimes, obsessive hoarding comes in handy!
The props are organized by category into many boxes, which are clearly labeled. If I need a cup, I pull out the box marked, “kitchen,” and if I need a phone, I consult the box marked, “electronics.” Special occasions, such as holiday episodes, require months of planning in advance so that I can get the props in time. I also spend a considerable amount of time building sets and environments. Photographic and hand–drawn comics each present their own challenges.
Once everything is chosen, I set up the scene and rig it with lights. Currently, I have four lamps equipped with GE Reveal lightbulbs. I have found the clamp lights used by mechanics to be especially useful. These get very hot very quickly, though, so I try to work in a cool area. I pay special attention to how the lights are angled, in order to avoid weird shadows and bright spots.
My lighting process has evolved over the years. The earliest episodes of KT were lit only with the flash on my camera, which made them dark and a little grainy. Eventually, I added a lamp to the lighting process, and then a second. I stopped using the flash, which greatly improved the color in the photos. Finally, in the second year of production, I added two more lights, thanks to generous donations from my readers. As you can see in the photo below, these lights make a big difference!
I take the photos with my camera and edit them in Photoshop. This process can take anywhere from an hour to a couple days, depending on how complex the layout is. Then I upload it, write commentary, and it’s ready to go!
And that’s it. It takes a lot of preparation and attention to detail, but I have a lot of fun doing it. I hope you enjoyed the tour! | <urn:uuid:afff5e09-bf8c-406f-96b5-8a9d7c6fd587> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.kimonostownhouse.com/fun/tour.html | 2016-05-31T23:39:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00116-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963284 | 1,327 | [
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Finding Aid to Notes on the Navajo Language MS.869
Finding aid prepared by Holly Rose Larson
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library2012 December 13
234 Museum Drive
Los Angeles, CA, 90065-5030
Title: Notes on the Navajo Language
Identifier/Call Number: MS.869
Contributing Institution: Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Abstract: This is a collection of a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "Notes on the Navajo Language" by Father Leopold Ostermann of St. Michael's, Arizona, 1905 and a three-page typed document entitled "Adjectives and Names of Colors," undated, possibly by the same author.
creator: Ostermann, Leopold
This is a collection of a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "Notes on the Navajo Language" by Father Leopold Ostermann of St. Michael's, Arizona, 1905 and a three-page typed document entitled "Adjectives and Names of Colors," undated, possibly by the same author.
Notes on the Navajo Language, 1905, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MS.869.
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December 13, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donated to the Library as part of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, 1910 April 7.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry National Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Autry Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry National Center as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Collection is open for research. Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit http://theautry.org/research/research-rules-and-application or contact library staff at [email protected].
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Break out your horns for the most satanically sexy Halloween party in the Bay!
Performances by your spooktacularly malevolent ghostess, Lil Miss Hot Mess, live creepy covers and monster mashes from Mammoth Life, and devil babe and boy go-go dancers from Red Hots Burlesque.
Two costume contests with cash prizes: Best Devil & Best Overall Costume!
Smile and show us some fang in the Monster Photo Booth by Shot in the City!
All vinyl sextacular girl groups, soul, garage and psych by DJs "Bloody" Brown Amy (Hard French) and Jackie "Sheer Terror" Sugarlumps (Web of Sound.)
Free glow-in-the-dark fangs while supplies last!
Sharpen your tail, shine your hooves and follow us down where it's the hottest…it'll be one hell of a night!
Saturday, Oct. 26th
10p.m.-Late, $5 w/costume $10 without
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Brian Boitano is just so entertaining to watch. We can just sit back and go along for the ride.
I love how he looks at us through the bottom of a glass bowl. I still laugh when I think about how he waved to us as he was stirring something on the stove. He’s so juvenile and fun and funny. The goofy voice-over guy only adds to the mood.
Today Brian is cooking for “roller girls”. Will he be cooking for large groups of women every week, I wonder? It looks like he put bacon in the bottom of a martini glass! Could that be?
I love that Brian got rid of his soul patch. He looks so much better clean shaven. He listens to a message (while wearing a GORGEOUS textured robe) from a gal about how she and her buddies had a great time with him the night before. Now we see a flashback to what happened BEFORE that message and it involved BACON, lots of bacon.
Brian and Gordy (I thought it was Gordo) went to a roller derby match. They were invited to the after party and after too many BACON martinis (I am sooo out of touch), Brian invited the entire team of 22 roller girls over for dinner the next night.
He decides to feature bacon in every dish.
Brian starts with bacon corn muffins. He sprays a mini muffin pan with Pam and then melts 3 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan. In a large bowl (the one he looked through) he mixes 3 /4 cup flour, ½ cup cornmeal, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar. Brian mixes one egg with 3/4 cup milk and 1 tablespoon of bacon fat and adds that to the dry ingredients. He chops up 6 crispy strips of bacon and folds that into the batter, saving some for garnish. He fills his prepared muffin cups three quarters full and bakes the muffins at 375°F 10 to 12 minutes.
Next Brian moves on to a savory cream cheese frosting. He mixes one eight ounce package of softened cream cheese with 1 tablespoon hot sauce (or more) and 2 tablespoons of honey. (He uses a honey bear. Oh well, you can’t have everything and I can always use my good honey.) He beats it until soft and adds some chopped chives, saving some for garnish.
Brian fills a pastry bag with the frosting. He’s using a plastic bag type. (Doesn’t he cook enough to warrant a real pastry bag?) And I wonder if the hole he made is big enough for the chives to go through easily. He pipes on a curl of icing and garnishes it with bacon and chives. THAT’S a nice recipe.
Next up is sweet potato hash in bacon cups.
The only trouble with this show is that I have no bacon handy and it’s making me MAD! Brian takes rounds of pancetta and pushes them into mini muffin cups. He’s getting a lot of use from muffin pans today. He presses another mini-muffin pan on top, so they hold their shape. Then he flips the tins and places them on a baking sheet and cooks them for 12 minutes at 400°F.
Brian goes on to dice sweet potatoes and cooks it in bacon grease, adding celery, onion, paprika, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. He cooks it all for 12 minutes.
Bri takes out the bacon cups. He adds 4 slices of crumbled bacon into the sweet potato hash. He says the cute little bacon cup reminds him of a roller derby helmet. He fills one with hash and garnishs it with parsley.
We see Brian dreaming of skating with the gals. (Shouldn’t that be the other way around?) He’s in red sequins while they’re in their usual uniform. Then he transforms hinself into their uniform. Gosh, he has HUGE thighs.
Next is the (yum) bourbon bacon apple tarts. Brian IS using commercial puff pastry, but it’s the good Dufour stuff. He thaws it in the fridge. He dusts his board and rolling pin with flour. He rolls the pastry sheet out a bit. He cuts out 24 little rounds and puts them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. He says “a day without puff pastry is like a day without sunshine”. Well, maybe.
Brian presses a baking rack on top of the pastry cut-outs (after he presses it onto his chest and says “nice rack” to stop them from puffing too much). He is so jejune…and I like it. He cooks the pastry at 400°F for 12 minutes.
Meanwhile, he's made candied bacon by spreading out bacon on a baking sheet and sprinkling each side with raw sugar. I’m guessing brown sugar would work just as well. He cooks it at 8 to 12 minutes a side. That will be a garnish for his apple tarts.
For the filling of his little tarts, he peels, cores and dices 3 granny smith apples. Brian tells us that his father used to peel apples in one single piece. We learned that that is NOT the way to do it in cooking school. You sacrifice precision and cut away more of the flesh than you need to.
He adds cinnamon and maple syrup and the juice of one lemon to the apples with ¼ cup bourbon, 3 tablespoons butter and ½ cup brown sugar. He adds the mixture to a sauté pan and puts it on a cold burner and cooks it for 10 to 12 minutes on medium heat. He starts it cold, so “the bourbon doesn’t flair up”.
For a flavored whipped cream, Brian whips together 1/2 cup heavy cream with 1 tablespoon powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon bourbon. He chops up 2 slices of bacon and mixes it into the apples.
He shows us the puff pastries, which look like mini hamburger buns. He takes out a small piece of the center and fills it with the cooked apple filling. Brian tops that with a spoonful of whipped cream and a bit of candied bacon.
The last dish is spicy fried chicken bites with derby bites. He cuts 1½ pounds of boneless chicken into bite size pieces and marinates it in buttermilk and hot sauce.
To dredge the chicken, Brian mixes flour with cayenne, paprika, garlic powder and salt and pepper. He marinates the chicken overnight (or a minimum of 2 hours, Brian says). He dredges the chicken in the flour and then BACK into the buttermilk. Wait! What? That looks a little gross. I have to look at that again. The chicken goes from the buttermilk into the flour and then back into the buttermilk and THEN back into the flour. Hmmm. That’s different. Interesting. They look really gungy.
For a dipping sauce, Brian mixes ¾ cup sour cream (for 22 people?) 1 tablespoonmayo and ¼ cup bleu cheese. (I can’t help but think if this were a Contessa recipe, she would quadruple the ingredients…for 4 people.) Brian crumbles up MORE bacon and adds it to the dip.
That chicken does look good. He drains it on paper towels. Remember my trick of layering newspapers under paper towels to save on paper towels.
He waits for the gals to arrive. He sets out outdoor cushions with the help of Anna (his help?) Chesty arrives first. She goes up to the roof deck and he keeps running up and down. Maybe Anna could have helped. He runs down to finish the food. He brings it all out. IT really does look good, but is there enough?
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Agreement b4 SEX
I_______________________, the undersigned female partner
(herein referred to as the "screwee"), about to enjoy sexual intercourse
with _______________ (hereafter referred to as the "screwer"), hereby declare as follows:
1. THAT I am above the lawful age of consent.
2. THAT I am not under the influence of any narcotic substance(s).
3. THAT the aforementioned screwer did not use any force, threats, coercion or promises to influence me.
4. THAT I, the screwee, am in no fear of him whatsoever.
5. THAT I do not expect or wish to marry him
6. THAT I do not know if he is married or not and I do not care.
7. THAT I am neither asleep nor drunk
8. THAT I am entering this relationship with him because I love it and want it as much as he does.
9. THAT in the event that I receive full and 'delicious' satisfaction, which I expect, declare in advance, the capacity and willingness for further participation as soon as time permits.
10. THAT I will not act as a witness against him nor will I file charges against him in the event that:
10.1 I contract a sexual disease
10.2 I fall pregnant
10.3. I feel that he is violating any legislation - moral, legal or otherwise.
SIGNED BEFORE JUMPING INTO BED THIS _______ DAY OF (MONTH)____________
(YEAR) ___________ AT ___________________
Signature of screwee : ______________
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Yes! So my mom loved her birthday present. :) That makes me so happy. I love making beautiful things for my mom. A few other birthday guests decided they wanted to commission me to make stuff for them!!! Yay! So, maybe this is the start of something good for me. I love it. I can't wait to make these designs! More pictures soon as I work on and complete these projects. Oh yeah, and there will be pics of a dog blanket jacket soon. | <urn:uuid:09f2624d-54e3-4084-a7d0-eb46b7388256> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://otherrandominterests.blogspot.com/2008/02/woot.html | 2017-06-22T11:56:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00391.warc.gz | en | 0.974042 | 106 | [
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|Rick||Coach; father of Curley|
|Mary||Wife of Rick/Coach; mother of Curley|
|Jan Hooks||Does not like dogs|
|Mo McHone||Pitcher, team leader, takes charge; loves dogs|
|Curley||Shortstop; redhead; loser type|
|Sally Hensley||Only girl on team; strong "I Can" type; loves all animals|
|Mack Terry||Twin; team player|
|Mick Terry||Twin; headstrong|
|Harry Justice||Fat, not very good; "Foil for All Eats"|
|Mickey Shuford||Third base; good with dogs|
|Butch Nun||First base; Oriental; loves all|
|Elwood Terry||Outfield; dumb country bumpkin; very brave|
|Vernon Long||Outfield; tall/glasses; dufus/loser type|
|Bill "Bad Breath" Baley||Dogsled racer; self-proclaimed best dog man in Alaska; wins the big race every year by hook or by crook.|
|George "Busher" Smith||Town mayor; amateur dogsled racer; enters big race but always finishes last if at all.|
|Big Al Cassel||Richest man in town; likeable/loveable buffoon; knows little of what is going on in town.|
|Amy Cassel||19-year-old daughter of Big Al; wants to run away with her boyfriend and get married; pretty but not smart; may be pregnant.|
The team is called "The Wolfgang Nine" from a story the coach has told his then four-year-old son, Curley, about being attacked by a gang of nine wolves and having to fend them off by himself while on a camping trip alone with Curley in Northern Alaska. None of the boys on the team believe this story and Curley cannot remember any of the details.
The Coach is a loser at most things, but a likeable sort and the boys love him even though they lose at everything they try together. The Coach and team lose at a series of misadventures.
The first ten minutes establishes the characters and the losing aspect of each. They lose the Big Game and the canoe race that follows (they overturn the canoe in addition to losing) and the tug-of-war at the team picnic. Billy Baley, son of Bill "Bad Breath" Baley, the town blowhard, wins at everything and is a stuck-up pain in the ass.
A week later, after the first big snow of the season, Sally Hensley finds a very large and very pregnant female half-wolf and half-Alaskan Malamute dog (140 lbs. of fur and loveable animal) in the woods near her house. The dog is alone with no owner and no one to look after her.
The Coach, son Curley, Sally, and the whole team, along with other town do-gooders take in the injured animal to save her from certain doom.
There are ten team members, and Snowball (her new name) soon delivers ten--count 'em--ten very large and very beautiful half wolf pups. The team/town/coach/neighbors/etc. nurse her and her brood through the winter and everyone chips in with food and other chores.
But summer does arrive and the by-now-very-large dogs need a home of their own and lots of love. All ten members of the team end up with a dog. The team loses everything again this summer, but they do have a little more respect because of their dogs.
Lots of heroic things are taking place in this little Alaska town. The twins are saved from drowning by their dogs. Sally gets rescued from a mountain lion by her dog, Klondyke. Curley gets rescued from a burning barn by his dog, Wolfie.
But the Wolfgang Nine still can't win for losing at everything and when they try to raise money for a new ball field, they lose out to Billy Baley and his high-powered father.
But, guess what?! There is a 200-mile dogsled race at the end of each yer in Alaska with a first prize of $50,000. The first prize money will be just enough to build the new ball field; third place is a year's supply of dog food. The team thinks they may be able to get third place.
There is one major problem and only ne person knows about it. The dogs entered in the race must be purebred animals and the Wolfgang Nine team is half wolf. Bill Baley knows about the rule and may use it against the team if they get lucky and beat him, but that is unlikely. The Nine don't know about the rule, and besides it applies only to the winners since they are the only team that is checked after the race. But no one believes they can win anyway and they are only trying to get third place.
After lots of trials and tribulations, the Wolfgang Nine team of ten dogs gets entered in the Big Race. After saving many small animals and helping everyone and everything along the way, the Nine is only one day away from winning the Big Race and the first place money.
But the team is faced with a lifetime decision. They encounter a couple of young just-married lovers along the way, stranded 30 miles from the nearest town, phone, hospital, and safety. The girl is pregnant and due any minute.
Does the team go ahead and win the race and the money? They can send help back in just a few hours.
Or do they take the girl across country to the hospital and safety? The girl turns out to be Amy Cassel, daughter of the richest man in town.
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