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Product Update: Pause & Play is here!
- 1.Product Update: Pause & Play is here!
- 2.Develop Reading Skills with Flocabulary's New Feature, Read & Respond
- 3.Flocabulary's Lyric Lab: A Springboard to Student Creativity
- 4.Flocabulary Recap: An Overview on Our Newest Features & Content
We're excited to announce a new teaching tool, Pause & Play, which launched with our April 15 Week in Rap video last Friday.
What is Pause & Play?
With Pause & Play, prompts and questions appear at specific points during the video to facilitate further discussion and exploration of the content. Challenge your students to dive deeper and think critically with this new feature.
Orange markers along the playback bar indicate where prompts will appear. When the video hits a Pause & Play prompts, it will appear like magic and the video will—you guessed it!—automatically pause.
Watch what happens when we reach a Pause & Play question in this gif. Pretty cool, right?
By default, Pause & Play is switched to "off." To enable it, simply click the Pause & Play toggle underneath the video:
How do I use Pause & Play in the classroom?
- Whole class discussions
- Small group discussions
- Turn and talk activities
- Writing prompts
Our recommended approach is to watch the video, and then re-watch with Pause & Play enabled. (The mode can be toggled during playback, too.)
Which Flocabulary units have Pause & Play enabled?
Pause & Play will be available on all future Week in Rap videos, and we'll gradually add the mode to additional units every week. Here's the most up-to-date list, and check back here for updates!
As always, we value your feedback and want to know what you think about updates to Flocab. Please consider taking our Pause & Play survey, which is also accessible right from the unit page.


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Dinosaur Camouflage - Buddy and Tiny meet a shy dinosaur, Leslie Lesothosaurus, who is very good at hiding. The kids end up persuading Leslie to stop hiding, and come out to play with them. Scavenger Hunt - The Pteranodon family travels to the Big Pond for a Scavenger Hunt. Using clues and rhymes, the kids solve word puzzles and finally glimpse a bug-eating plant they thought was mere make-believe.
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Northern Region AGM
the NORTHERN REGION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING On Saturday 30th March 2019 at Natland Village Hall, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 7QQ
Followed by "Further Adventures in Lewis" An account of the trip to see AR sites on the Isle of Lewis in May 2018 introduced by Ann Farr
Directions to Natland Village Hall, The Green, Natland LA9 7QQ; The Village Hall is just off the Green at right angles and to the left of the Church and behind the Old School House. Limited parking outside or park around the Green.
From Kendal At the south end of Kendal at the Romney Bridge roundabout follow the signs to Natland taking the road adjacent to the river. Follow the road for about 2 miles until the lane narrows then take a left turn past the Post Office and the hall is on the left. From the south via the M6 Leave the motorway at Junction 36 and take the A65 towards Kirkby Lonsdale and then left at the first roundabout signposted to Endmoor/Crooklands. In about 4 miles, after crossing the railway bridge, take the left turning for Natland (Helm Lane) and travel down a narrow lane to the Village Green. From the north, Leave the motorway at Junction 37 and travel towards Kendal on the A684. After about 4 miles turn left into Hayclose Lane (signposted Oxenholme). Then turn right at the T junction, Station Inn, down to Oxenholme Station car park but turn left and through Oxenholme Village. At the next T junction turn right towards Kendal and left, signposted Natland, down Oxenholme Lane, past the school to the Green. The Hall is on the right.


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The cons and cons of YouTube
Elizabeth explains the drama-soaked world of YouTube and the false promise of the American dream through the lens of the debacle known as Tanacon. Part 1 of 2, with a special guest appearance by Kyle Marshall.
Here are links to things we referred to:
- VidCon, the YouTube conference
- Our guest Kyle Marshall's YouTube channel
- Kyle also owns Media Lab YYC, and has three podcasts in the Alberta Podcast Network: Assumptions, Putting It Together and Creative Block
- Hank Green's vlogbrothers, Crash Course and SciShow
- Tana Mongeau's YouTube channel
- "Why I Won't Be Attending VidCon 2018: A Rant"
- The only thing you see if you visit tanacon.com
- Shane Dawson's The Truth about Tanacon
- Tana's apology video: Tanacon: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- New York Magazine: A Mouth to Hell Opened This Weekend at Tanacon, a Fyre Festival for the YouTube Set
- In case you forgot about Fyre Festival
- PodCon, a much better convention that we were lucky enough to attend last year.
Stick around beyond the end for more baritone goodness from Kyle.
This episode was brought to you by LitFest, Canada's original nonfiction festival, which runs in Edmonton from Oct. 11 to 21. Use the offer code APNROCKS to get $5 off your ticket purchase.
This episode is also brought to you by Back to School Again, a new affiliated podcast of the Alberta Podcast Network, featuring stories of people returning to post-secondary studies in midlife.
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Thor will be headed back to the big screen in 2013!
The super-sized hit, starring hunky Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, is slated to be released on July 26, 2013, Deadline reports.
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It seems inevitable when Congress returns that there will be new energy legislation. Understandable. Civilizations cannot survive much less thrive without abundant, reliable energy supplies. The bellwether energy commodity, oil, is at prices at or near record levels, and turmoil continues in the Middle East, from which the world gets over one-third of its petroleum.
But having Congress patch together sweeping legislation from the cacophony of demands to fuel the national economy in this environment is like going grocery shopping when you're hungry.
Worse yet, you could say, with all due respect, it's more like sending a pack of hungry 10-year-old kids with fistfuls of money to the grocery store. You know what they'll bring back. I'm not criticizing any specific proposals, but to coin the phrase made popular by HBO's The Sopranos, "I'm just sayin'."
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The reality is that governments, corporations and individuals necessarily make bets, invest time and political and fiscal capital in energy solutions. Like everything else, this domain divides pretty nicely into two parts--demand and supply. Most of the discussion, from cocktail parties to Congressional caucuses, centers on supply.
But "demand" is the horse that comes before the "supply" cart. There wasn't an electric utility industry before Edison started manufacturing light bulbs and electric motors, nor an oil industry before
There are plenty of studies and books out there that purport to unravel the character of energy supply and demand, when in fact most of what's out there focuses on the supply issues. Last month, the Department of Energy released "Facing the Hard Truths about Energy," a study commissioned by the National Petroleum Council. The fruit of a year-plus of the labors of 350 experts convened in special panels yielded 422 pages, which certainly passes the heft test, but hardly clarified the matter nor, unsurprisingly, provided any dramatic insights. It is chock full of graphs and facts, and predictably has been roundly criticized by political opponents.
The last time the nation was in a similar geopolitical and domestic stew over energy was when Jimmy Carter was president. Those who know me know I'm not necessarily one to quote President Carter, much less from his infamous energy speech of the Summer of 1979, known as his "moral equivalent of war," or MEW (as opposed to, "roar") speech. But President Carter did have a point when he asked, early in his remarks that last summer of oil discontent: "Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?"
Good question. Maybe because, aside from the politicization of subjects one might otherwise think are unavoidable realities, we've avoided starting from a common recognition of the fundamentals of energy demand.
Herein then, a summary (highly compressed) of the seven basic principals of energy demand--recognition and understanding of which are necessary for effective investment.
Principle No. 1: It's about technology, not fuel. It's never really about the raw resources, whether tons, barrels, fields of corn, hours of sunlight or ridgelines of wind. People drive cars, take vacations, turn on computers, factories mold, weld and stitch, buildings are cooled and illuminated--all of these activities are performed with various technologies that serve a purpose. It is of course those purposes that people seek, and it is the use of technologies and tools wherein those purposes are sated.
And it is an a priori reality that all technologies consume energy, but importantly, this is a consequential not an intentional outcome of the pursuit of food, light, information, comfort and entertainment. For millennia, humans have created and innovated to provide technologies to meet human needs and desires. That won't stop. In fact it's now accelerating.
Principle No. 2: Demand always rises. It is implicit, if not explicit, in much punditry that, somehow, overall energy demand can be reined in. There has been no period in history, outside of pandemics and total wars, or the equivalent in totalitarian societies, when energy demand has not risen. Technology progress (see Principal #1) brings economic and social progress. Rising energy consumption is just a surrogate measure of rising affluence and well-being. Thus in the parlance of investors; there will never be a shortage of demand for the product inartfully called "energy."
Principle No. 3: Improving efficiency increases demand. I'm quite aware of this ostensible heresy in the face of a remarkable bipartisan policy consensus to slake the nation's energy appetite with more efficiency. Actually, the opposite will happen. The U.S. economy is twice as energy efficient today compared with 50 years ago, and our energy use is up 250%. Over the next 50 years, likely we'll triple efficiency and double energy use.
It is seductive, but uninformative, to note that replacing a specific device with a more efficient one decreases that specific energy use in that application. In the real world, not only do many more new uses emerge for that same or similar device, but many new devices and technologies appear. At the most basic level of economic reality, lowering price stimulates demand. Improving efficiency is simply one very good way to reduce costs. Markets love efficiency of course, for all its benefits (see Principal No. 1, again), and so should legislators--but we shouldn't kid ourselves about the outcome.
Principle No. 4: Electric technologies drive economic growth. Today 60% of the U.S. gross domestic product depends directly on using some kind of electric technology--the share was just 40% in 1973. The economy's increased dependence on electricity--95% of which is created without oil--is a major reason for the muted impact of high oil prices.
Liquid-fuel technologies will continue to be needed, where there use is dominantly in the transportation and agricultural domains--domains which are essential, to eat and move … obviously, but for which revolutions spurring economic growth are long-ago history. (There is another quasi-revolution in transportation brewing, by the way, entirely relating to electric technologies.)
The linkage between demand for electric technology and GDP growth is reduced, by the Energy Information Administration, to a basic forecasting tool: Every 1% point of GDP growth drives a 0.6% to 1% point of kWh growth.
Principle No. 5: The digital economy increases energy demand. By various estimates, including that of the Federal Reserve, information technology (IT) in all its forms is responsible for somewhere between one-fifth to two-thirds of America's economic growth. Quite a range to be sure, though the higher end makes sense when you include not just PCs and data centers, but the addition of microprocessors to everything from electric motors and cars to light bulbs and cook tops.
Digital technologies make us more efficient, more productive, wealthier--which, overall, indirectly but inexorably increases demand (see Principal No. 1). It also directly increases energy use from the ever-expanding constellation of exclusively electricity-consuming silicon-based technologies that didn't exist two decades ago; hundreds of millions of digital devices from desktop to palmtop, used in homes and offices, on factory floors and shipping docks, and thousands of mega-watt industrial-scale digital enterprises from microprocessor factories to massive data centers.
The past two-decade 60% rise in electric use cannot be attributed to more lights, air conditioners, motors and pool pumps, as it was during the post World War II industrial boom. In fact, that class of mid-20th century electric technology is now astoundingly more efficient; so much so that electric demand should have stayed flat or declined.
The new ways to consume electricity, i.e., digital technologies, drove the doubling of the GDP since 1979. Today's $14 trillion GDP quickly becomes tomorrow's digital-tech-electric-centric $20 trillion economy--with the attendant impact on energy demand.
Principle No. 6: Not all BTUs are equally useful. Markets chase productive technologies--visible in economic, not energy, metrics. But the energy analyst's unit of choice for counting the demand (and supply) impact of energy-consuming technologies is the archaic BTU; British Thermal Unit.
One BTU looks like any other when toted up in the government's energy accounts. This is as useful as comparing the demand for a ton of gold with a ton of wheat. You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser. All yield (or demand) BTUs, which provides nothing informative about the different productive impacts, or reasons economies employ a technology. The relevant measure is money, not BTUs.
We pay $2 for a barrel's worth of BTUs from a wood stove; $60 for a barrel-equivalent of heat from wood alcohol powering an engine; $10,000 for a BTU-barrel equivalent of electrons feeding Pentiums; and $200,000 for a barrel's worth of laser photons.
The market, needless to say, recognizes and willingly pays for, indeed prefers the latter BTUs because they are higher quality, can do more and produce more valuable things. The energy technologies that create, manage and deliver the most expensive BTUs are the most valuable.
And, because the economic value is high, markets want more and consequently drive energy demand in large measure without regard to primary fuel cost--the cost of energy fades in to the twilight. This latter point means of course that raw energy price is a weak tool for controlling demand. (Conversely, since high-economic-value technologies are so important, this dynamic provides a lot of tolerance for high raw fuel prices--put another way, a lot of opportunity for producers to invest in new supply and expect a return on investment.)
Principle No. 7: In the end, it's always about the money. Economies are, over time, largely logical, preferring the most productive and economically valuable technologies--which generally means those with the most expensive embodied BTUs.
At the same time, there is conflicting pressure to keep a lid on raw primary energy costs, in part because economies always seek to minimize commodity costs (where one places all primary energy resources). And there is the understandable social and political reality; both lower-income citizens and countries are disproportionately hurt by a wealthy economy's tolerance for high commodity prices.
The political challenge then is at root, a tug between the stratospheric demand for highly productive technology and collateral tolerance for high-priced energy, and the gravitational pull for low-cost energy commodities. This is not really a new phenomenon--it's just hypertrophied in our modern economy. To be fair to our politicians, it is a hyper-difficult juggling act. One can only wish them well in the Kabuki dance around these realities.
Written by Mark P. Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund. Mills is also the co-author of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005). Mills may hold positions in companies discussed in this column, and may provide technology assessment services for firms that have interests in the companies. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Regional airline, Fly Blue Crane, has appointed BidAir Cargo to provide its cargo management services.
Flying since September 2015, Fly Blue Crane links Bloemfontein and Kimberley with Johannesburg and Cape Town. It will in the coming months also introduce services to Mthatha, Maputo, and Windhoek.
"The airline saw an opportunity to put its cargo capacity at the disposal of couriers and their customers who need to move urgent items between these cities," says Theunis Potgieter, Chief Commercial Officer. The Embraer Regional Jet 145 (ERJ 145) can accommodate a significant amount of cargo, ideal for consignments such as equipment, spare parts, medication, retail and other urgent parcels.
"As we need to turn our aircraft around quickly to adhere to the schedule, we approached BidAir Cargo because of their special skills in airport-to-airport line-haul," says Potgieter. "Their system is geared to loading and off-loading cargo in less time than it takes to de-plane and board passengers. Working with them also plugs our destinations into their extensive national distribution network."
BidAir Cargo Chief Commercial Officer, Roy Solomons, welcomed the agreement. "Adding these new destinations to our network underscores our positioning as the one-stop-shop for couriers and express freight operators looking for comprehensive coverage."


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The East Orange YMCA is a branch of the largest YMCA Association in the State of New Jersey. The Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges is a powerful Association of members, volunteers and staff who are joined together by a shared passion to strengthen the foundation of the communities we serve. The YMCA is dedicated to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility which, ensures that every individual has access to the essentials needed to learn, grow and thrive. Serving more than 181,000 members and program participants, the Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges has the long-standing relationships and physical presence not just to promise, but to deliver, lasting personal and social change.
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Standards of Conduct – Treating Customers Fairly Statement
Our regulator, Ofgem, has asked all energy suppliers to comply with a new licence condition called Standards of Conduct. This states that suppliers should treat their customers fairly and behave in an honest and transparent way.
We believe that iSupply Energy does operate its business in a fair, honest, transparent, appropriate and professional way.
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- 5 Japanese eggplants (thinner and longer
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- Boiled in water for 30 minutes then
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- 2 heads garlic -- cleaned and pressed
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- 1 hot pepper -- chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1/2 cup sea salt
- 4 cups water
- Cut each eggplant lengthwise into two halves. Mix garlic with hot pepper and salt. Fill each eggplant half with some of the garlic mixture. Pinch the eggplant slightly to keep the filling inside. You can use a string, parsley stems, or other media to tie them. Arrange the stuffed eggplants in a pickling jar. Combine the vinegar, sea salt and water. Boil for 5 minutes, then cool to room temperature. Pour the liquid on the eggplant to cover by at least 3 inches. Seal jar and set to pickle for 2-3 weeks.


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On May 22, 2017, new DOL Secretary Alexander Acosta published an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (found here; a subscription to the Journal is required to access the piece), confirming that, as we previously suspected, the DOL will allow the fiduciary standard for retirement advice to take effect on June 9. (Our previous blog post discussing the delay to June 9 is here.)
In his piece, Acosta sounds, at best, skeptical about the Rule. He writes, "the Fiduciary Rule as written may not align with President Trump's deregulatory goals. This administration presumes that Americans can be trusted to decide for themselves what is best for them." However, Acosta concedes that the DOL has "found no principled legal basis to change the June 9 [applicability] date while we seek public input."
Acosta advises that the DOL will seek additional public input on the entire Fiduciary Duty Rule and on "how to revise this rule." Acosta explicitly hopes that the SEC will be a "full participant" in revising the Rule as the SEC has "critical expertise in this area." (Our previous blog post discussing the interplay between the DOL and the SEC in considering a fiduciary standard is here.)
So, that means on June 9, the Fiduciary Duty Rule will go into partial effect. Persons who make recommendations to retirement investors will be considered fiduciaries. Full implementation is currently scheduled for January 1, 2018, but, given Acosta's comments, it seems clear that further (and probably significant) changes will be made before then.
The DOL also issued new Conflict of Interest FAQS last week, further explaining what firms and advisers must do during the transition period from June 9, 2017 to January 1, 2018. (The FAQs can be found here.)
- Firms and advisers advising retirement investors must comply with an exemption (such as the BICE or PTE 84-24) after June 9 if they receive compensation for investment advice that varies based upon the transaction or product sold.
- The BICE will be less onerous during the transition period. To rely on the BICE during the transition period, firms and advisers need only comply with the "Impartial Conduct Standards," which are: (i) give advice that is in the "best interest" of the retirement investor (meaning advice that is prudent and loyal); (ii) charge no more than reasonable compensation; and (iii) make no misleading statements about investment transactions, compensation, and conflicts of interest. The other BICE conditions, including the requirement to execute a contract with the customer containing certain enforceable promises, making certain specified disclosures, and implementing certain policies and procedures, will not be required during the transition period.
- Also, during the transition period, firms and advisers may continue to rely on PTE 84-24 for all annuity contracts, except that they must also comply with the Impartial Conduct Standards.
- The DOL again cautioned that it "expects financial institutions to adopt such policies and procedures as they reasonably conclude are necessary to ensure that advisers comply with the Impartial Conduct Standards." However, the DOL specified that it "does not require firms and advisers to give their customers a warranty regarding their adoption of specific best interest policies and procedures, nor does it insist that they adhere to all of the specific provisions of [the BICE]." FAQs at p. 5.
The FAQs reaffirm that, during the transition period, "even if a fiduciary adviser recommends proprietary products or investments that generate commissions or other payments that vary with the investment recommended, the adviser can meet the impartial conduct standards by ensuring that the recommendations are prudent; the investment advice is based upon the customer's financial interests, rather than the adviser's competing financial interests in the transaction; the communications are free from material misrepresentations; and the associated fees and charges are reasonable." FAQs at p. 5.
Consistent with Acosta's Op-Ed piece, the FAQs state that the DOL intends to issue a Request for Information soon for additional public input on the Rule and its exemptions, including whether an additional delay to the full implementation date is prudent.
Finally, the DOL attempts to reassure firms and advisers that it will work together with them "to help them come into compliance with the Fiduciary Rule" and that its focus will be "marked by an emphasis on compliance assistance (rather than citing violations and imposing penalties)." FAQs at p. 10. The DOL states that it is issuing "a new temporary enforcement policy for the transition period, under which the Department will not pursue claims against fiduciaries who are working diligently and in good faith to comply with the fiduciary duty rule and exemptions." FAQs at pp. 10-11.
Some insiders in the financial markets are taking comfort from the DOL's assurances that it will work with firms and advisers to assist in achieving compliance rather than to punish good faith efforts that may nevertheless fall short. Others, however, have said that they are reminded of President Reagan's famous quote that "the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"


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'Run Rabbit Run' was an exclusive evening held at Süd Restaurant celebrating rabbit. The 5 course menu was designed by renowned Melbourne Chef Mark Taylor with matching Italian wines. Our design and naming strategy referenced classic children's books to create a sense of fun and mystery.
'Ducks on the pond' is another of Süd Restaurants famous, one-off degustation dining events. The menu features duck with matching Italian Pinot Noir. Our inspiration was the the retro image of three ducks on the wall frequently found adorning the walls of homes in the 50's. This image combined with Pinot Noir – what else could you do but create your own label to bring the two together?


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So was this a good tie or a bad tie?
Of course, it depends on the team. For North Dakota, the 4-4 tie with the Gophers was a bad tie. They were up 4-2 with six minutes to play. Someone once told me that a two-goal lead is the most dangerous you can have in hockey. Never believed that.
But in this case, UND lost the lead and hit two posts in the overtime. It was a bad tie for the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux. Even wearing their more menacing black jerseys didn't help.
For the Gophers, who won 5-1 on Friday, it was a good tie. Nick Bjugstad, picked to be the WCHA's player of the year in the preseason polls, scored his 13th goal to bring the U within 4-3 with 8:50 left and then Nate Condon, the Gophers' hottest players, with six goals in the past seven games, tied the score with 2:58 left.
Condon has been playing center lately with Erik Haula injured for three games and moved to winger the past two games.
This was the second stirring comeback in two weekends. Going back one series, the Gophers scored two goals in the last nine minutes to beat Alaska Anchorage 4-3. That was a little easier, though, because both late goals came on power plays. Bjugstad had the first, defenseman Ben Marshall the second with 2:58 left.
Assorted observations on Saturday's game:
* There were big hits, but most of them were clean. Penalties were few. UND was 0-for-1 with zero shots on the power play, the Gophers 0-for-3 with three shots.
* The Gophers did a good job limiting UND two hottest players, the K & K boys, Danny Kristo and Corban Knight. Kristo had one goal and five shots in the second game but was a minus-2. Knight extended his points streak to 19 games with a goal but that was his only shot and he was a minus-1.
Redshirt freshman Rocco Grimaldi did have a good game with one goal, one assist and six shots. He was a plus-1.
* Defenseman Nate Schmidt led the Gophers with seven shots and was a plus-2. Condon had a goal and an assists, two shots and was a plus-1.
* Named the three stars of the game were Condon, Grimaldi and UND defenseman Jordan Schmaltz.
* Sophomore winger Sam Warning of the Gophers scored his fifth goal on Saturday. He has five goals on 16 shots, so he scores almost once every three times he shoots. That's the best percentage on the team.
* The Gophers outshot North Dakota 13-3 in the opening period, but then UND matched the Gophers shot for shot. Both had eight shots in the second period, 13 in the third. And in the five-minute overtime, the Gophers had one shot and UND zero, but the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux hit two posts. Oh, so close.
* Erik Haula, who had an assist on Bjugey's goal, has a 16-game points streak.
* St. Cloud State beat Denver 5-1 on Saturday to pick up two points, and with the Gophers tie for one point, the two share the WCHA lead with 22 points apiece.
* Last season, the Gophers and UND played six times. The U had a 3-1 edge in the regular season. UND beat the Gophers 6-3 in the Final Five, but the Gophers won 5-2 in the West Region final.
The Gophers and North Dakota appear to be the two best teams in the WCHA at this point. If they do finish 1-2 in the league, they would both have byes in the Final Five quarterfinals. And, if that is the case, a win in the semifinals by both would produce a rematch in the championship game. How sweet would that be?
UND has won the Final Five the past three years.
A rematch, of course, could also happen in the NCAA tournament. After Saturday's games, the Gophers are No. 2 in the PairWise ratings, North Dakota is tied for No. 6.
Those ratings mimic how the NCAA fills out its 16-team field. Five conference tournament champions advance, plus the nine highest PairWise teams, excluding the five automatic entries.
So the Gophers would be one of four No. 1 seeds, and the team formerly known as the Sioux a No. seed. If place in the same region, they could meet in the region final in that scenario like they did last year. Or, if they are in different regions, they would each have to win a regional title to advance the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. That would be swell, too.
I kept it close, but Joe Van Thomme, aka Joe the Lawyer in my blog, edged me 9-3 to 8-4 this weekend in correctly forecasting games involving WCHA teams (ties count as 1/2 point if we picked a win or a loss. I picked one tie but didn't hit on it. There were three in other series).
Joe was 2-0 on the UMD-Colorado College series (a split). I was 2-0 on the Miami-Wisconsin series (a split). Should have picked more ties, darn. Hitting on a tie is a 1 in my scorekeeping system.


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Romney came up enough to average out at a close race. There is still enough Obama lead in the majority of swing states. I'll be curious to the stats after tomorrow night's VP debate:
COLORADO (American Research Group): Romney 50, Obama 46
CONNECTICUT (Rasmussen): Obama 51, Romney 45, Others 1
INDIANA (McLaughlin and Associates for the Mourdock campaign–R): Romney 55, Obama 39
LOUISIANA (Magellan Research–R): Romney 59, Obama 36
MASSACHUSETTS (MassINC for WBUR): Obama 52, Romney 36, Others 2
MASSACHUSETTS (YouGov for Univ. of Massachusetts): Obama 55, Romney 34, Others 2 (LV); Obama 55, Romney 30, Others 3 (RV)
MINNESOTA (PPP): Obama 53, Romney 43
NEVADA (Rasmussen): Obama 47, Romney 47, Others 3
NEW HAMPSHIRE (Univ. of New Hampshire): Obama 47, Romney 41
NORTH CAROLINA (Gravis–R): Romney 50, Obama 41
OHIO (American Research Group): Romney 48, Obama 47, Others 1
OHIO (CNN/ORC): Obama 51, Romney 47 (LV); Obama 53, Romney 43 (RV)
OHIO (SurveyUSA–link updated): Obama 45, Romney 44, Others 3
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- Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Is Obama's brutal poll day a blip, or a permanent re-calibration? (dailykos.com)
- New Colorado poll more evidence of Romney's post-debate bounce (blogs.denverpost.com)
- Obama starts coming back in the swing states… (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com)
- Romney takes slight lead in new Gallup poll (cbsnews.com)
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.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien: Lori Drew decided to humiliate a child. November 28, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in cybercrime, Hacking, myspace, stalking.
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ABC Jury Convicts Mom of Lesser Charges in Online Hoax, 27 November 2008
"Lori Drew decided to humiliate a child. The only way she could harm this pretty little girl was with a computer. She chose to use a computer to hurt a little girl, and for four weeks she enjoyed it." U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien, chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, during closing arguments.
Teenager Abraham K. Biggs Commits Suicide on Live Webcam November 22, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in 4chan.org, Anonymous, cybercrime, stalking.
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He said he would do it. And he did. Abraham K. Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida bodybuilder, took some sleeping pills on live webcam, lay down and went to sleep. Just like he said he would.
But the teenager never intended to wake up. And he didn't.
While others watched. And others turned away. And still others encouraged and taunted him.
Abraham K. Biggs, known online as "CandyJunkie" and "Mr. Biggs," told fellow users in an online bodybuilding forum on Justin.tv – a lifecasting website, where users share via webcam their everyday lives – that he would be committing suicide and invited them to tune in.
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Testimony in the Meier case began Wednesday (November 19) in Los Angeles, although the suicide took place in Missouri. The alleged bullying took place on MySpace, where 49-year-old Lori Drew created the MySpace account of "Josh Evans" to allegedly ridicule and harass teenager Megan Meier. MySpace's corporate offices are located in Los Angeles.
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David Kernell, the 20-year-old University of Tennessee student who accessed Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account, insists that what he did should not be considered "hacking".
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Apparently, the only thing that Kernell did was correctly guess Palin's security questions by using Google searches to guide him.
All Kernell needed was Palin's date of birth, ZIP code, and the knowledge of where she met her husband—information that's available online for anyone to view.
After resetting Palin's password to "popcorn", Kernell posted the Alaskan governor's e-mail and password on the 4chan forums—a large Internet discussion board that ranges in topics from Japanese culture to video games and sports.
Kernell's lawyer is arguing that hacking usually involves some sort of advanced computer skills to get past security codes and that guessing a password shouldn't be counted as such.
Los Angeles Court: Restraining Order For Member Of Anonymous October 27, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in Anonymous, cybercrime, stalking.
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Best Syndication, 27 October 2008
LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Friday issued a restraining order against Donald Myers, a member of a cyber-terrorist group known as Anonymous. The order requires Myers to stay at least 50 yards away from a female Scientologist he stalked and harassed. The order also requires Myers to stay away from the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition at the Church of Scientology International building in Hollywood where the victim works, and stay 50 yards away from the woman's home. The restraining order lasts for 3 years unless renewed.
Myers was found to have engaged in acts of harassment against the young woman, after video evidence was submitted to the court showing Myers stalking her, taunting her with sexual slurs, and refusing repeated requests to leave her alone. Myers was also ordered by the court to turn over any firearms in his possession to the police.
This is the second restraining order issued against a member of Anonymous this week. On October 21, a Boston Court ordered self-styled Anonymous leader Gregg Housh to stay 100 yards away from the Boston Church of Scientology. Housh was placed on probation for one year with the threat from the Court that if he violates the restraining order or any other law, he faces a year in prison.
Anonymous has been implicated in numerous criminal acts, including bomb threats, death threats, vandalism and computer crimes which are being investigated by law enforcement.
On October 17, The U.S. Department of Justice filed federal criminal charges against New Jersey Anonymous member Dmitriy Guzner related to the January 2008 attempted destruction of websites owned by the Church of Scientology. Guzner has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges that could send him to prison for ten years.
In November 2007, Anonymous member Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed seven students, a nurse and a teacher at Jokela High School in Finland before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. Prior to these acts Auvinen stated on a website used by Anonymous that he would do this all "in the name of Anonymous." He was immediately encouraged to carry out his threats by other members of the group, who afterwards called him a "hero."
"Law enforcement and the courts are seeing through the false image that the cyber-terrorist group Anonymous tries to portray to the media and are sending a clear message to everyone – if Anonymous breaks the law, Anonymous will suffer the legal consequences" said Karin Pouw of the Church of Scientology International. She also said that "the Church will never be intimidated by the criminal acts committed by Anonymous members and will continue to work with law enforcement to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice for the protection of the Church and all groups targeted by these terrorists."
"Battling Scientology" Follow-Up October 25, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in 4chan.org, Anonymous, cybercrime, Hacking.
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Depending on whom you ask, Massachusetts-based protest organizer Gregg Housh had a major victory – or a significant loss – in Boston Municipal Court this Wednesday. As reported in The Phoenix this past week in the feature "Battling Scientology," Housh faced charges of harassment, disturbing the peace, and disturbing religious worship for his involvement with the picket group Anonymous and his actions against the Boston Church of Scientology.
According to an Anonymous press statement that circulated earlier this afternoon: "On October 22nd Boston Municipal Court dismissed the charge of criminal harassment against 'Anonymous' anti-Scientology activist Gregg Housh, pending an order for the two parties to not approach each other."
Boston Church of Scientology attorney Marc LaCasse was quick to comment that Housh did not get off so easily. "Gregg Housh – under oath – admitted that the [evidence presented against him] was true. The document he signed is called 'admission to sufficient facts.' If it doesn't get any clearer than that…"
Legally speaking, charges against Housh were not technically dismissed. Instead he agreed to a Continuance without a Finding (CWOF), which the Massachusetts Criminal Defense Resource Page explains as: "Under Massachusetts Criminal Laws, agreeing to a Continuance without a Finding is not the same as pleading guilty. Technically, it is an admission that "there are sufficient facts to find you guilty" of the charges. Pleading to a CWOF will happen at a pre-trial conference as part of a plea agreement, if your attorney can get the prosecutor to agree." (For more about the legal side see this article from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly).
The good news is that all parties seem to be happy with the outcome. At least for now, it appears that Housh – who was placed on one year probation and who faces one year in prison if he enters within 100 yards of the Boston Church of Scientology on Beacon Street – avoided what promised to be a lengthy trial. On the other side, LaCasse says the outcome works for him: "My client simply wanted to be left alone."
SCIENTOLOGY PROTESTER'S CASE CONTINUED WITHOUT FINDING October 23, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in 4chan.org, Anonymous, cybercrime, Hacking.
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Suffolk District Attorney, 22 Oct 2008
A Boston Municipal Court judge today continued for one year the case against a Woburn man alleged to have disturbed proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year, and will dismiss the case if the defendant abides by certain conditions during that time.
Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year continuance without a finding in the case against GREGG HOUSH (D.O.B. 10/17/76), who had been charged with disturbing an assembly of worship and disturbing the peace. If Housh stays away from the Back Bay headquarters of the Church of Scientology and its expected new headquarters in Boston's South End, and if he does not re-offend in any other manner, those charges will be dismissed. If he does not abide by those terms, Housh's case could be put back on track for trial.
Also in today's proceedings, Suffolk prosecutors affirmatively moved to dismiss an additional charge of criminal harassment against Housh. After a review of the evidence, prosecutors determined they could not meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt on this charge and could not in good faith move forward with it. Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have introduced evidence and testimony to show that Housh and others entered the Church of Scientology's Beacon Street building in a boisterous manner during a March 1 protest, disturbing the proceedings and alarming those inside. Attorney Michael Dlott represented Housh.
Teen admits to Scientology attack October 23, 2008Posted by cyberpatrol in 4chan.org, Anonymous, cybercrime, Hacking.
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A teenager hacker has admitted carrying out a cyber attack that crashed Church of Scientology Web sites as part of a campaign by a mysterious underground group.
According to a report on the News24 site, Dmitriy Guzner, of New Jersey, will plead guilty to computer hacking for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack against Scientology sites earlier this year, the Justice Department said. According to information filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles, Guzner described himself as a member of a shadowy Internet-based group known as 'Anonymous' that has carried out a series of protests against Scientology.


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What to do in your garden in October
Add herbs. Sunset climate zones 10-13: Set out transplants ofchamomile, chives, lavender, Mexican tarragon, oregano, rosemary,salad burnet, and thyme. Sow seeds of cilantro, dill, andparsley.
Plant a living screen. Create privacy or hide an unsightlyview by planting a row of tall-growing shrubs. Zones 1a-3b: TryCanada hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), curl-leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius), or Leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii). Zones 10 and 11: PlantArizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica), Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum), or pyracantha. Zones 12 and 13:Choose desert mahonia (M. fremontii), hop bush (Dodonaea viscosa), myrtle (Myrtus communis), or Texas mountain laurel (Sophora secundiflora). Water plants regularly to get themestablished, then slowly taper off to less frequent deepsoakings.
Set out permanent plants. Perennials planted in the falldevelop strong roots that support vigorous new growth in spring andsummer. Some good choices are Baja fairy duster, blackfoot daisy,Chihuahuan sage, deer grass, desert Christmas cactus, desert spoon,globe mallow, jojoba, Mexican grass tree, Mount Lemmon marigold,and Santa Rita prickly pear. Zones 12-13: October is the singlebest planting month for most trees. For beauty and shade, considerArizona mesquite ( Prosopis velutina), which has an umbrella-like structure.The multibranched tree looks equally at home on a rustic ranch oroutside a contemporary desert house. Or choose desert ironwood forits silvery evergreen canopy. For a distinctive Sonoran desertlook, plant 'Desert Museum' palo verde; its multiple green trunksand yellow spring flowers can brighten any landscape. Look fortrees at nurseries that sell native plants.
Sow a field of poppies. Most poppies grow easily from seedsown now, although some may lie dormant through cool winter months,then germinate when temperatures reach the mid-50s. For bestresults, mix the tiny seeds with sand before scattering onwell-tilled soil, then rake them in or cover with a lightsprinkling of soil. Keep moist until the seeds germinate. Goodperformers to look for are California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Iceland poppy (Papaver nudicaule), and Shirley poppy (P. rhoeas).
Sow wildflowers. Zones 10-13: Plants wildflowers in fullsun. Cultivate soil lightly, broadcast seeds, then cover them witha thin layer of sand or soil. Keep the area moist until seedsgerminate. Choose reliable performers such as Arizona lupine (Lupinus arizonicus), prairie mallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea), showy Penstemon spectabilis, or white wild snapdragon (Penstemon cobaea), available from Plants of theSouthwest (800/788-7333). Other wildflower choices include arroyolupine, California desert bluebells, desert marigold, Mexican goldpoppies, owl's-clover, and Parry's penstemon.
Bulb to try: spider lilies. Zones 12-13: In fall, theseunusual bulbs produce 11/2- to 2-foot-tall leafless stems topped bystunning clusters of spiderlike blooms. Strappy green leaves appearafter flowers die down. Lycoris radiata has coral red flowers withprominent spiderlike stamens; golden spider lily (L. aurea) hasbright yellow flowers with shorter stamens. Plant in the ground orin pots early in the month. Choose a site that receives winter sunand summer shade (such as under the canopy of a deciduous tree).Zones 1a-3b, 10-11: Grow in pots, outdoors in summer and indoors inwinter. Look for spider lilies at Plants for the Southwest inTucson (520/628-8773). Start cool-season crops. Zones 10-13: Sow seeds of arugula,beets, bok choy, carrots, fennel, kohlrabi, lettuce, peas,radishes, spinach, Swiss chard, and turnips. Set out transplants ofbroccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale. Plantgarlic cloves and onion and shallot sets.
Transplant cool-season bloomers. Set out transplants ofbachelor's button, calendula, chrysanthemum, dianthus, floweringcabbage, foxglove, larkspur, pansy, sweet alyssum, and viola. Zones10-13: For fragrant color in February and March, plant sweet peasearly in the month. Start from seed while the weather is mild forthe best germination and strongest plants. Two very fragrantheirloom varieties are 'America' (crimson with ivory stripes;introduced in 1896) and 'Cupani' (maroon and purple; from1699).
Spread mulch. Apply a 4-inch-thick layer of mulch aroundplants to conserve moisture, insulate roots from cold, anddiscourage weeds. To estimate how much you'll need, first determinehow many square feet you want to cover by multiplying the area'slength by its width. To cover a 100-square-foot area 4 inches deep,for example, it takes about 1 1/3 cubic yards of mulch. For largeareas, buy in bulk to economize.
Install a directional sprinkler. Garden beds that areirregularly shaped or long and narrow are difficult to irrigatewithout wasting water, especially when working with hose-endsprinklers. But the Noodlehead sprinklerwas designed for just such a purpose. Composed of 12 minisprinklers on short lengths of flexible tubing, the head allows youto put water exactly where you want it when attached to a hose orsprinkler riser. You can even point each mini sprinkler directly atthe root zone of a particular plant, to help it get established.($17; 541/549-8909).


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16 people have emerged as candidates for election to the UCD Students' Union sabbatical officer positions. This year sees a sizable increase in applicants putting their names forward, with the 16 candidates eclipsing the eight who sought election last year.
The candidates for each position are near evenly distributed throughout – all positions will be contested by at least three candidates.
Adding to the overall increasing trend in numbers of candidates, this year sees a significant rise in female applicants across the board, with no less than eight applicants.
Current Students' Union Campaigns and Communications Vice-President, Pat de Brún, is the only existing Students' Union officer standing for election for the second year running. De Brún will be looking to step up to the Presidential role of the Students' Union and will be joined by fellow candidates Brendan Lannoye and Lorcan Gray seeking election.
Three candidates have emerged to fill the role vacated by outgoing Campaigns and Communications Vice-President de Brún. Students' Union Sports Officer, Brendan Lacey, will contend with Business Programme Officer Emma Fortune and Suzanne Lee.
All except one of the positions (President) will have a female contender and the all-female race for the Welfare Vice-President position guarantees that there will be a female sabbatical officer elected provided nominations are not reopened.
Women's Officer Regina Brady, Rachel Breslin (Residencies) and Lorna Danaher will be running for Welfare VP, which should offset the male dominance for which UCDSU has come under criticism in recent years. The last female Students' Union sabbatical officer was Ciara Brennan, who fulfilled the now-defunct Deputy President VP role during the 2007/08 academic year.
Education Vice-President also sees three candidates seeking election to the position. Jennifer Anne Fox, Sam Geoghegan and Students' Union Chair of Council Aine Gilhooly have all put their names forward.
Entertainments Vice-President looks set to be the most contested position, with four applicants; Stephen Darcy, Darragh Kinsella, Robert Manning and Arts Programme Officer Edel Ní Churraoin vying for the position.
This year's elections will take place on Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st of March.


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St Georges Road
The Divide – film screening
When: 7pm, Thursday 29 September
Where: St George's Church, St George's Road, Kemptown, Brighton.
Tickets: Free
About the film
The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK – where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%.
By plotting these tales together, the film uncovers how every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor. This isn't based on real life. This is real life.
Wall Street psychologist Alden wants to make it to the top 1%; Glaswegian rapper Darren just wants to stay sober; Newcastle carer Rochelle wishes her job wasn't looked down on so much; Jen in Sacramento, California, doesn't even talk to the neighbours in her upscale gated community – they've made it clear to her she isn't "their kind". It becomes clear that a higher income doesn't ensure happiness and inequality hurts us all – rich and poor.
By weaving these stories with news archive from 1979 to the present day, The Divide creates a lyrical, psychological and tragi-comic picture of how economic division creates social division. The film features high profile commentators including former economic adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Sir Alan Budd, historian Sir Max Hastings, economist Ha-Joon Chang, Noam Chomsky and epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot.
The Divide serves as both a call to arms, and a powerful warning.
The film is inspired by the critically acclaimed, best-selling book "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
The film will be followed by a discussion led by Criminologist Carlie Goldsmith and Professor of Sociology Anastasia Christou.
Bookings are closed for this event.


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Buoyed by stellar ratings this season, CBS today announced early renewals for 16 primetime series, which join hit comedies How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, both already signed to multi-year deals.
The renewed shows are 2 Broke Girls, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, Blue Bloods, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, The Good Wife, Hawaii Five-O, The Mentalist, Mike & Molly, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, Survivor and Undercover Boss.
The network has begun preliminary discussions with Warner Bros. Television about the future of Two and a Half Men, while the jury is still out on the comedies Rob and Rules of Engagement, and the dramas A Gifted Man, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and Unforgettable.
"This large-scale renewal is testimony to the strength, stability and success of a deep and diverse roster of top-rated programming," Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, said in a statement. "It positions us for continued success next season and certainly creates an environment that will give our new shows the best possible chance to succeed."
CBS has been first in viewers this season, averaging 12.1 million each week.


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With House Republican leadership under fire for installing 19 white men as committee chairmen, Speaker John A. Boehner said on Friday that he had named Representative Candice S. Miller of Michigan to head the Committee on House Administration in the 113th Congress.
The current chairman of the committee, Representative Daniel E. Lungren of California, was defeated in his campaign for re-election this month.
Ms. Miller said in a statement that she was "both humbled and honored by the confidence Speaker Boehner has shown in me" to take on the chairmanship of the committee, which oversees federal elections as well as the day-to-day operations of the House, including its cafeterias, personnel services and technology. Ms. Miller currently does not even sit on the committee.
"Most importantly," she said, "this committee has jurisdiction over the federal election process, and I am absolutely committed to making certain that we enact rules to ensure this nation continues to have open, free and fair elections."
While most committee chairmen are chosen by the House Republican Steering Committee, Mr. Boehner has personal discretion over four committees: House Administration, Intelligence, Rules and ethics. Only the last of these is still unfilled, and it is possible the speaker will seek a woman for that slot, as well.
"In her new post," Mr. Boehner said in a statement, "Candice will provide the leadership needed to keep operating costs down, save taxpayer dollars and help lawmakers use new technology to better engage with their constituents. And her experience as Michigan secretary of state will be invaluable given the committee's oversight of campaign finance and election laws."
In 2004, Ms. Miller received a rare admonishment from the House ethics committee, along with former Representative Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, then the majority leader, relating to political favors in exchange for a member's vote on a difficult Medicare prescription drug bill.


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So a recent client had a question about adding video to their web site. Specifically, they needed to add video to ONLY their site. The video was for education and they needed to be able to put the video behind a registration and payment process.
Quickstart Your Gravity Forms – 3 Steps For a Solid Notification Email
The more you use a product, the better you get with it. The same holds true for Gravity Forms which is my preferred contact form plugin for WordPress. One of the most important emails that is sent when a form is submitted is the confirmation email. Try these three steps when you setup your next form and you'll be on your way to getting the most out of your forms.
5 Reasons I LOVE the Genesis Framework from StudioPress
The first premium theme I purchased as a WordPress guy was the Revolution theme by Brian Gardner. This was over six years ago and I haven't stopped being impressed with the products coming from Brian and his team at StudioPress. The Genesis framework was developed a couple of years ago and is the foundation of every theme I build today. I thought I'd take a moment and share WHY I love it so much.
How to Upload Your Photos to Your WordPress Web Site from Lightroom
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- Convoy shipment reference ID
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From Your Local Lung Association
Partners for Change
What a great year it's been for our partnerships and creating change. We couldn't have done it without our sponsors! Highlighting a few are:
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has been a presenting partner each year for the past three years toward our LUNG FORCE campaign and we are extremely honored and grateful to have them as partners in our life saving mission. Rutgers is the only Cancer Center in New Jersey with NCI designation, meaning they have national recognition as a comprehensive multi-disciplinary institute. Their status and recognition have assisted in taking our LUNG FORCE campaign to new heights.
Our partnership continues and is growing strong with Penn Medicine, the Presenting Sponsor of the Radnor Run in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Penn Medicine started as Presenting Sponsor in 2004.
Last, but not least, the American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic would like to thank Ames Charitable Foundation for their generous donations to the American Lung Association in Pennsylvania to help fight lung cancer!
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