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Enjoyed my summer immensely, Mr. Scully....... and you?A toast in rememberance of Dovey, and her several contradictory versions of the status of alleged Crump alibi witness, Vivian. While we are at it, add a toast to those whoMyth makes better reading than, well....... your turn, Jim. I wish Mr. Janney the best for the rest of his life, though. Hope he sells a lot of books by his publisher Skyhorse. He first went to Trine Day, but...... well.......
believe resident Trump is donating his time and effort to "save" our formerly great nation!
....Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
Peter, I am constrained by what I read. There are four different versions of this key component. It is not my fault, it is Dovey Roundtree's fault and it is disqualifying
The contradictions make it impossible for a reasonable person to go where you are firm in positioning yourself, IMO.
..........Peter Janney confirms in his new book "Mary's Mosaic" that indeed Dovey Roundtree was able to locate and even talk to Crump's girlfriend Vivian. Roundtree told about Vivian during her 1992 interview with Leo Damore. (Mary's Mosaic, p. 95.)
Although Peter Janney, Leo Damore, Nina Burleigh and Katie McCabe (author of Roundtree's autobiography) have been frequently in contact with each other related to their Mary Meyer research, none of them seemed to have the need to address this inconsistency regarding Vivian. That's really weird, for the interests are clearly there: Vivian's information is crucial for the analysis of Crump's whereabouts on the towpath that day.
Peter Janney simply ignores the fact that Roundtree told Burleigh that she was never able to locate Vivian.
There is a pattern of this kind of spinning around Crump's activities on the towpath, in which lawyer Dovey Roundtree is definately involved. On page 94 of "Mary's Mosaic" Peter Janney states that Roundtree told Damore in 1990 that Crump knew about the location at the edge of the Potomac where Vivian and he went to. After falling into the river, Crump tried to "find his way out of the dang place." Next comes this quote:
Quote: He wasn't familar with that area at all. And he sort of roamed around. And then he heard something like an explosion.
That's quite a contradiction by Roundtree: was or wasn't Crump familiar with the area? According to most sources he was, for he went sometimes fishing there.
Furthermore, Roundtree entirely avoids the issue of Crump's jacket and cap which were found in the river later on. Much more come on those items, for they are pivotal in Janney's murder scenario; why would Crump have thrown his jacket and cap in the river when he tried to get out of the area?
However, much more suspicious is Roundtree's claim during her 1990 interview with Leo Damore that Crump actually heard "something like an explosion." "Like the backfire of a car," said Crump, according to Roundtree.
This statement has one direct consequence for Crump's whereabouts on the towpath: he was already awake well before the shots were fired! This statement by Roundtree implies that the 2 shots [if any...] didn't wake up Crump:
Crump was already roaming around in the area to find a way out before the shots were fired...
Once again, Peter Janney basically ignores this fact. That's suspicious to say the least, for this "roaming around in the area" by Crump turns out to be crucial within the scenario "Mitchell shot Mary", promoted by Janney himself. See the coming posts.
And now back to Dovey Roundtree, her 2009 autobiography "Justice Older Than The Law," page 192:.......
Mark, I hope you are enjoying your summer, stay well!


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Travail and The Rookery: The Tour
In the animal kingdom, a rookery is a sort of informal colony, a place where gregarious animals -- usually birds -- come together to nest and breed. It aptly describes the nature of the seemingly chaotic open kitchen at the Rookery restaurant in Robbinsdale, which is like an intellectual salon for food nerds, a place for them to come together and breed new ideas. The chalkboard menus here list each item starkly: marrow, sunchoke, garden, hamachi. There's no telling what form any of those ingredients will take or with what other components underneath or on top of them: a tiny square of medium-rare lamb, perfectly seasoned and served with golden layered potato pave and a pungent chimichurri; the brandade perfected with a chunky and creamy salt cod inside a crispy fritter; tangy hearts of palm in a bowl of delicate shrimp bisque; a lollipop of liver mousse inside a chocolate-fruit coating that was like a bite of decadent meat cheesecake; sinfully salty French fries saddled up alongside a dollop of creme fraiche and Osetra caviar; leeks made three ways and served with teardrops of leek oil encapsulated in isomalt, which won't melt in water, but dissolves as soon as it hits your tongue; and finally, speaking of tongue, the tender beef tongue slider, with discs of crispy radish. There is so much to take in, so much detail and ephemera and visual brilliance, it practically leaves you breathless, which is absolutely the goal here. PHOTOS BY ALMA GUZMAN
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Google Shopping ads, known as Product Listing Ads (PLAs), have become an essential advertising channel for ecommerce retailers over the years.
Showing your products at the very top of Google's search engine results allows retailers to insert themselves early on in the buyer's journey for broad product keywords and drive conversions directly from the Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
However, the landscape has become more competitive over the years, so it's vital to get strategic about the way you run your Google Shopping ads to stay ahead of the curve and in front of your target audience.
If you're wondering, "How does Google Adwords work?" but can't seem to find a good Google Adwords tutorial, read on as we highlight our own Google Shopping best practices for 2019 and beyond.
As consumers continue to use Google on desktop and mobile for product discovery and shopping decisions, leveraging a sophisticated Google Shopping strategy is a must for digital retailers in 2019.
-Josh Brisco, Senior Retail Search Manager at CPC Strategy
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1. What Are Google Shopping Ads?
2. Optimize Your Product Feed
3. Segment Your Campaign Structure
4. Use Google Adwords Bid Strategies
5. Improve Your Audience Targeting
6. Use Showcase Shopping For Mobile
7. Get Competitive With Auction Insights
8. Include Merchant Promotions
9. Reviews, Prices, and Shipping Options
1. What Are Google Shopping Ads?
Google Shopping Ads are product listing ads (PLAs) that are featured across Google's Search and Shopping results.
These product-based ads are important for retailers because they:
1. Feature products at the top of Google's search engine results page, even before organic listings for some keywords.
2. Include visuals of the product.
3. Can include additional information that boosts engagement, such as prices, reviews, and special promotions.
4. Can support upper funnel awareness initiatives as well as drive lower funnel conversions.
Unlike keyword-based Search ads, Shopping ads are bid on at a product level and based on product feeds that are uploaded in Google Merchant Center.
Increased Competition Demands Shopping Campaign Optimization
While Google Shopping ads have become a powerful advertising medium for retailers, they have also become increasingly competitive over the years.
Average cost per clicks (CPCs) and spend on the channel continue to rise year-over-year, making acquiring new customers through Google Shopping ads more difficult which leaves many users wondering how to use Google Adwords in 2019.
The good news is that with the right strategies, you can improve your performance and gain an edge on the competition.
Improving your performance marketing on Shopping depends on three key areas:
- Product Feed Optimization
- Bidding Strategies
- Campaign Structure
Below are some strategies that marketers can use to improve on each core area of their Shopping campaigns.
2. Optimize Your Google Shopping Feed
Your product feed is how you communicate your inventory to Google's product advertising channel.
Google Shopping cross-references your feed data with shopper search queries and your bids to determine ad visibility.
The more you optimize that data, the more likely your content will surface for relevant queries.
Nine times out of ten, the quality of your product feed can have the greatest impact on the performance of your Shopping campaigns.
You can optimize your product feed for Google's Shopping algorithm by:
1. Organizing your feed content according to Google's specifications
2. Optimizing product titles so they are search engine friendly
3. Using keywords in titles and descriptions
4. Leveraging product extensions and merchant promotions
5. Making sure images are high quality
…and more.
"You want titles and descriptions in your product feed that accurately describe your product that are also relevant to broad search queries."
-Stephen Kerner, Senior Manager of Retail Search at CPC Strategy
We've built an entire list of Google Shopping Product Feed Optimizations here.
3. Segment Shopping Campaigns With Negative Keywords & Priority Settings
What most retail brands want to do is maximize their product's exposure for top-converting search queries while decreasing exposure for unprofitable ones.
At CPC, we use our ISO™ strategy to ensure our client's products stay competitive.
ISO campaigns™ use priority settings and negative keywords to isolate and push aggressive bids and budget to high-value searches.
Dividing campaigns and using product groupings will give you greater control over your listings, bids, and priorities.
ISO Shopping campaigns leverage priority settings and negative keywords to isolate and allocate more aggressive bids and budget to certain high-value searches to get max impression share.
Although we can't target keywords directly, we can leverage negative keyword lists in an alternative campaign and then utilize the priority settings so that searches funnel into the right campaign.
Campaign segmentation gives advertisers using Google Shopping ads more control over which search queries their products show up for. It also allows them to isolate and dedicate budget to search queries that historically convert well.
If you want to learn how to create ISO campaigns using Campaign priority and negative keywords, check out our ISO campaign guide here.
Segmenting your Shopping campaigns allows you to target every part of the Google Shopping Funnel.
4. Make Use Of Smart & Rule-based Bidding Strategies
Automated Bidding
Automated bidding can be useful when managing many campaigns at the same time, allowing Google's machine learning to test and learn from previous performance to set optimal bids based on your marketing objectives.
Automated bidding allows you to focus on long-term goals while Google's algorithms take care of bids based on data gathered over time, responding in real time to changes in trends and your ultimate goals.
"Automated bidding strategies have become much more sophisticated, more powerful over the years," says Josh Brisco, Senior Retail Search Manager at CPC Strategy.
There are several different bidding options for Google Shopping, here's a quick look at each, according to Google's official automated bidding support page:
- Maximize clicks
- Automatically sets bids to try to get you as many clicks as possible within a target spend amount that you choose.
- Increase clicks on low-traffic products while keeping within a certain spend.
- Enhanced CPC
- Automatically adjusts your manual bid up or down based on each click's likelihood to result in a conversion.
- Increase conversions while staying in control of your bids.
- Target ROAS
- Automatically sets your bids to maximize your conversion value, while reaching an average return on ad spend that you choose.
- Get the most conversions or conversion value while meeting a Target return on ad spend (ROAS).
Rule-based Bidding
Keep in mind, under no circumstances should businesses hand over 100 percent of their campaign management to automated solutions.
We believe in the hybrid approach of using advanced automated bidding tools in combination with a human element (the practitioner).
CPC Strategy's Google Shopping Rule-Based Bidding Strategies include:
- Pulling Back on Wasted Ad Spend
- Bid Increase Rule(s)
- Bump Products With Zero impressions
- Reduce Bid on Bleeders
- Click here to learn more about each of these bid rules
One of the main benefits of leveraging rule-based bidding is the ability to set thresholds.
Threshold bidding is just one example of how retailers can set customized rules based on conversions, impressions, ROI, and trends, allowing them to make product-level changes to the account at scale.
Another benefit is transparency. This allows advertisers to identify which rules are working and which ones are not and make adjustments as needed. Unfortunately, most black box solutions do not allow for transparency and customization.
If you would like to learn more about rule-based bidding and granular management for Google Shopping, check out Programmatic Bidding for Google Shopping Advertisers.
5. Optimize Your Shopping Campaign Audience Targeting
Target New Visitors With Similar Audiences
Remarketing is an extremely valuable strategy that allows retailers to reach people who have already visited their site and connect with an audience that's already interested in their products or services. You can do this with the help of Google Shopping insights.
You can use Similar Audiences to attract new visitors to your site by finding people who have similar search behavior to your existing remarketing list members.
"Similar audiences are great for finding other audiences similar to your best-performing users. This helps hone that broader audience down to users who match our past buyers' online personas."
-Adam Harms, Sr. Retail Search Manager at CPC Strategy
Similar audiences allow advertisers to use their own data to reach the right customer with the right message.
What are the Benefits of Similar Audiences for Shopping?
By adding "Similar audiences" to your campaign or ad group targeting, you can show your ads to people whose search behavior is similar to those of your site visitors. These people are more likely to be potential customers.
Simplified audience targeting – Similar audiences targeting takes the guesswork out of discovering new audiences by automatically finding potential customers who are similar to people in your existing remarketing lists for search ads.
Getting new potential customers – With similar audiences, you can boost the reach of existing remarketing campaigns, and drive to your site new, more qualified users who have an increased likelihood of performing actions that are important to you.
Even if these new visitors don't immediately purchase from your site, if you've added the remarketing tag to your site, they'll be added to your remarketing list.
Leverage Customer Match Data
Customer Match allows advertisers to upload their customer and promotional email address lists into Google Ads.
From these email lists, retailers can build campaigns/ads specifically designed to use targeted advertising to reach their audience.
Benefits of Customer Match
- Up-selling and cross-selling based on past purchases and
buying habits
- Promoting repeat purchases from previous customers
- Increasing brand loyalty with previous customers
- Targetin gcart abandonments via ads and Google Shopping
- Re-engaging already loyal customers as they're using Google Shopping
- Re-marketing strategies in general
Customer Match is great at letting advertisers hone in on their highest-value audiences with the most potential.
On the Google Shopping platform, advertisers can even use Customer Match to adjust bids and tailor products/messaging for different segments of previous customers.
Although Google Customer Match is designed to help retailers reach their "highest-value customers" by strengthening connections with your known customer base on Google Search, it also helps retailers forge new relationships across other channels including YouTube TrueView & Gmail Native Ads.
Click here to learn more about the expanded Customer Match program for phone numbers and addresses.
Layer in Remarketing With RLSA Campaigns
Remarketing Lists (RLSAs) allow you to target people that have previously been to your site, past purchasers, or audiences that have interacted with your business in one form or another is a powerful opportunity for driving lower funnel conversions and repeat purchases.
When potential customers leave a site, remarketing lists help retailers connect with those shoppers while they continue to search for what they need on Google.
Conversion rates are substantially higher for audiences that are familiar with your brand or have been to your site when compared to normal users. If you want to focus on the users behind the searches and not just the keywords themselves — that's where RLSA becomes valuable.
-Nick Manessis, Lead Retail Search Manager at CPC Strategy
Make sure you have global sitewide tagging installed on your website.
To make full use of data collected for your remarketing initiatives, you'll want to ensure that you are correctly tracking all sitewide behavior and conversions with Google's new sitewide tag.
This is especially important for gathering conversion data from Apple Safari users that can no longer be tracked due to Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0 and it's 2019 2.1 update which monitors third and first-party cookies on sites visited through Safari on iOS.
This can make things difficult for marketers and vendors alike, but most data can still be collected to make a viable plan supplemented by geo-targeting modifiers.
What are Geo-targeting Modifiers?
We also recommend getting more aggressive with geo-targeting modifiers.
Geography-based bid changes or modifiers is a feature which allows advertisers to change bid percentages based on locations.
Keep the following things in mind when setting up Geo bid modifiers for Google Shopping Campaigns:
- Decide what regions you want to target based on your site, audience and performance goals.
- Consider segmenting for online and brick and mortar locations.
- Note customer intent based on location (remember location and targeting intent can be combined).
- Utilize mobile ads for customers close to stores which can be redeemed in-store.
- Delve into Analytics data, and AdWords dimensions reports (Geographic report, location report, custom columns to reflect visitor data).
- Avoid setting location to the entire US to limit click spend.
- Remove unwanted locations. Exclude areas which don't improve ROI and increase click-through.
Pro-Tip: Depending on your situation, you might want to get even more granular by drilling down to the city/zip code level if you haven't already.
6. Get In Front Of Mobile Shoppers With Showcase Shopping Campaigns
Google Showcase Shopping ads are shoppable ads that appear at the top of the Google Search when a user searches for broad, non-branded keywords on mobile devices.
Clicking on the featured image expands the ad into a scrollable catalog of a brand's products related to the search query.
This is important when you consider that more than 40% of shopping-related searches on Google are for broad terms like "women's athletic clothing" or "living room furniture."
These mobile-optimized ad units enable customers to explore and discover what they want to buy by swiping through brand collections for a broad category or search term.
"Any retailers with intentions of growing should be running Showcase shopping, as the format is increasingly important for upper funnel visibility."
"We continue to see increased volume here and search term coverage, and expect this trend to continue through 2019," says Brisco.
"Many of our accounts saw a large uptick in impressions for Showcase Shopping campaigns beginning in the summer with the trend escalating into 2019."
7. Get Competitive With Auction Insights
With more advertisers putting more spend into Shopping than ever before, it's important to know exactly when impression shares begin to rise.
Our experts leverage Google AdWords Auction Insights to compare their performance with other advertisers who are participating in the same auctions as them. The Auction insights report is available for both Search and Shopping campaigns.
This type of information can help retailers make strategic decisions about bidding and budgeting choices by showing specifically where they are succeeding and where they may be missing opportunities for improved performance.
The Auction insights report is available for both Search and Shopping campaigns. With this report, you can compare their performance with other advertisers who are participating in the same auctions as you.
These reports are vital because you can see the impression share for some of your competitors & what the overlap rate is.
The results will help you boost your top of page and position above rate.
Use the impression share data of your top competitors and overlap rate to review when your competition has started ramping up bids in Shopping by seeing when impression share starts to jump.
8. Include Merchant Promotions
Merchant promotions can make a big impact on your Shopping campaign performance.
Merchant Promotions – also known as special offers – give retailers an opportunity to highlight their products and better their chances of click-through rate and conversion.
Online advertisers can feature coupons or promotions right in the search alongside their product or store information on Google's PLA grid.
Benefits of using Merchant Promotions include:
- Acquisition – Retailers can boost their click-through-rate by highlighting listings.
- Conversion – Increase conversions by giving shoppers a reason to buy now.
- Cost – No extra charge for including promotions with Product Listing Ads.
Top 5 Google Product Listing Ad Merchant Promotions:
- Free Shipping
- Lowering the Free Shipping threshold
- Buy One, Get One or Buy One, Get One 50% Off
- Tiered percentage discounts (Example: 5% Off Orders of $50, 10% Off Orders of $100 or more)
- Brand specific rebates (Example: One for each brand, sponsored by the manufacturer)
Retailers can create merchant promotions on Google shopping ads for the entire year, with a new promo set for every quarter, allowing for better-executed promotion in the long term. Having regular promotions will not only attract new customers but encourage repeat business from existing ones as well.
If it's for specific products, they must make sure to add all four promo IDs to the respective SKUs in their feed. They can also use an actual promotion feed to accomplish this as well.
To learn more about Merchant Promotions, go check out 5 Online Shopping Discounts to Enhance Google Product Listing Ads.
9. Improve Reviews, Prices, and Shipping Options
It's not easy to compete with big box retailers on the SERP – especially if you're an unknown brand.
In our 2019 Amazon Consumer Survey, we found that 36% of Amazon shoppers still price check Amazon against search engine results and 33% check through retailer websites found through search engines.
That's great news for most big manufacturers who can compete with low prices and have the operations to compete on shipping.
But if you're an unknown seller in a competitive product category, you'll need to rely more on:
- Seller Reviews
- Low Prices
- Free Shipping
Even if you're an unknown brand, it helps to have great reviews or a lower price to differentiate yourself on the SERP.
Just make sure you don't focus too hard on just getting a click. If a shopper enters your site and finds out your shipping policy is terrible, you'll have wasted money on clicks because they'll likely bounce.
Google Shopping Actions & Google Express
In 2018 Google phased out the former Purchases on Google program and replaced it with Google Shopping Actions, a new feature that allows shoppers to browse and purchase items seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and even Google voice search.
This means that you can display your products across all of Google's ecosystem: Search, Express, Express Mobile app, and Google's voice-powered Assistant on both mobile and Google Home devices.
Express and its accompanying mobile app draw customers from multiple platforms like Pinterest and Instagram, directing them to a streamlined shopping experience.
If you want to display your products on more platforms like Google Express and Assistant, you'll need to fill out an interest form for Google Actions.
We learned later in 2019 that Google is merging Google Express into Google Shopping: an all-new personalized shopping hub for consumers and businesses.
"Google announced a new Google Shopping homepage, giving users a personalized hub to search and discover products. This new Shopping experience will also allow users to checkout directly on Google through a universal cart, essentially merging the Express / Actions capabilities into the experience."
-Evan Kirkpatrick, VP of Shopping & Feed at Tinuiti
Shopping will act as a central hub for consumers where they can browse, compare products, and instantly checkout with a Google-backed guarantee of 2-day shipping and hassle-free returns anywhere users see the blue shopping cart icon — an apparent riposte to marketplace features loved by Amazon shoppers.
Want to learn more?
Showcase Shopping Ads: Setup & Optimization Guide
8 Google Shopping Product Feed Optimizations You Should Make Now
Google Shopping | How to Target Every Part of the Funnel
Programmatic Bidding for Google Shopping Advertisers
7 Advanced AdWords RLSA Tactics You Should Be Using
Product Feed Optimization 101 Guide


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The largest of the six actions announced today involves about 215,000 of the Saturn SUVs from model year 2002 through 2004. The VUEs are being recalled because the ignition key can be removed when the vehicle is on, Detroit-based GM said today in an e-mailed statement.
The company said it is aware of two crashes and one injury potentially related to the issue.
The biggest U.S. automaker is stepping up the pace of recalls as it faces multiple investigations for its slowness in calling back 2.59 million small cars with ignition flaws linked to at least 13 deaths. Congress and the U.S. Justice Department are investigating why it took GM more than a decade to recall the vehicles. Since that action began in February, the company has recalled other cars for similar issues and to address a wide range of problems.
Before today, the automaker had already surpassed the record for U.S. safety fixes by an automaker in a calendar year. GM's recall tally was 25.5 million for the U.S. and 28.8 million for North America. That eclipses Ford Motor Co.'s single-year record of 23.3 million in 2001.
Smaller Recalls
Today's recalls also include 72,826 Cadillac ATS sedans, Chevy Trax SUVs and Buick Encore SUVs from the 2013 model year to fix front lap belt pretensioners. GM said it's not aware of any crashes or injuries related to the issue. The vehicles were placed on a stop sale for unsold models at dealerships until the repairs are made, GM said in the statement.
About 15,000 Chevy Impalas from model year 2014 and 2015 were called back to fix latches on a front console storage compartment that may not remain closed during a collision. GM said it isn't aware of any crashes or injuries because it.
GM also recalled about 2,000 Chevrolet Aveos from model year 2009-2010 and Chevrolet Optra from 2007 and Pontiac G3 cars from 2009 for reduced break performance. About 3,000 2014 Chevy Sparks were recalled for lower control arms with bolts that may not be tightened to specifications. About 3,600 Cadillac ATS exports from model years 2013 and 2014 were also recalled for front exterior lighting.
Repair Costs
On July 24, GM said it would set aside at least $400 million to pay victims of the 2.59 million small cars. While the amount may rise to $600 million, Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer managing the program, will ultimately decide the cost, said Chuck Stevens, GM's chief financial officer. Feinberg managed similar funds for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the BP Plc oil spill.
"There is no cap on the program," Stevens told reporters at the company's headquarters.
So far 125 claims have been filed, involving 63 fatalities, the Detroit Free Press reported today.
GM's profit for the first six months tumbled 81 percent to $491 million from a year earlier as the company addresses the issue. In the second quarter, it spent $1.2 billion on recall- related costs and took $1.3 billion of one-time charges. Those costs were in addition to the $1.3 billion GM spent in the first quarter to address the problems.
Mary Barra, chief executive officer, told analysts on July 24 that she believes the company's heightened effort to review past safety issues, including looking at vehicles going back to the 1990s, was "substantially complete." Still, the company will act if it finds other problems, she said.
"We have now addressed some major outstanding issues," Barra said on a conference call. "But if we see new data, we will address it."
GM rose 1.3 percent to $33.53 at the close in New York. The shares have fallen 18 percent this year.
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Dear all, please stop calling Cabin in the Woods a game changer
Friday April 13th 2012
With a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Cabin in the Woods is among the best-reviewed American horror movies of the 21st Century, second only to Drag Me To Hell. It opens worldwide today and thanks to astonishingly good word-of-mouth from both audiences and critics — even Chris Tookey thinks it's the film of the year — it should do reasonably well at the box office. I think I've made my own feelings on the film pretty clear: we had a preview screening at Ultra Culture Cinema last week and it's currently top of my Best of 2012 list. But through no fault of its own, the film is starting to irritate me. And here's why:
(See also: Deadspin, DC Film Girl, Slackerwood, The Shiznit, The Daily Rotation, This Is Horror, Spill, Buzzine, Cinema Assassin, The 1st Five and most of Twitter)
Avatar was a game changer; Inception was a game changer; even John Carter was a game changer. Cabin in the Woods, while undoubtedly a better movie than any of those examples, is not a game changer. It won't affect modern horror filmmaking any more than The Lorax will.
There are various reasons why the film won't have any kind of impact on contemporary horror movies, but the main one is this: it's not about them. The most successful horror franchises of the last ten years are Paranormal Activity and Saw (both game changers, incidentally). Neither one has anything to fear from Cabin in the Woods, primarily because they don't subscribe to any of the tropes and clichés that the movie parodies — conventions only really found in the long-comatose slasher genre.
That's perhaps the oddest thing about Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's 'groundbreaking' horror comedy: it does what Scream did for 90s horror movies … for 90s horror movies. Granted, it does so with far more finesse than Craven's film (hardly surprising — Cabin in the Woods had twice the budget and much better writers) but to call it innovative seems a little disingenuous. Scream was a game changer in 1996 because the type of film it took to task was still very much in the public consciousness. Cabin in the Woods's closest contemporary parallels are all nostalgic remakes of 80s classics like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween.
Then again, if recent years are anything to go by, 2012 should be yet another year in which the slasher genre fails to light up the box office, so who's to say that Cabin in the Woods hasn't changed the game? In fact, it's changed it so well that the change came into effect seven or eight years before its release. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.


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Community Action Toolkit: Introduction
If you are visiting the Community Toolkit page, there's likely been a recent youth suicide in your community. Perhaps you are connected to the family or friends of a young person who took their own life.
If you are a survivor, grief experts suggest that you wait at least six months before you take on prevention work, to allow enough time for processing your loss.
All who are touched by suicide experience a wide range of different emotions, yet all ask the same question: WHY? Could anything have been done to prevent this? What can we do to help other young people who may be at risk?
We do know that there are warning signs we can watch for, and steps we can take to help prevent a youth suicide from occurring. If more people know the facts, it could make a big difference in preventing youth suicide.
This is where you come in. Your experience can be transformed into a positive force — the motivation to do what you can to prevent it from happening again.
Community groups — networks, task forces, and grassroots organizations — are an essential part of suicide prevention. The U.S. Surgeon General and other agencies promote community efforts as a key factor in suicide prevention. It's time to act.
At YSPP, we applaud you for taking the time to address the issue in your own backyard. This Toolkit offers practical tips and hands-on worksheets to make it easier to get involved and stay active. We are available if you need further assistance.
Download the full Introduction to the Toolkit (pdf, 238k), including a table of contents.
*The Toolkit contains 4 chapters:
- Get Organized. (pdf, 354k)
- Get Educated. (pdf, 795k)
- Get Active. (pdf, 1mb)
- Stay Active. (pdf, 332k)
Washington State citizen groups or task forces may request a printed copy from YSPP.
Out-of-state residents or groups may purchase a copy from YSPP.
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The Dallas Cowboys' fan base has been getting fed up with the team for a good while, but as of last week, one fan took their frustration to another level--namely, the White House.
Kind of, anyway.
On the White House's official website, there is a section where citizens can create online petitions. In the day after Dallas' Thanksgiving Day loss to the Washington Redskins, one particular citizen/Cowboys fan called Steven M of Ft. Benning, Georgia, decided to use the platform to call for the removal of Jerry Jones as owner and general manager Jerry Jones.
Here's what Steven M says in his complaint:
"We, the Citizens of the Great State of Texas, and Dallas Cowboys fans worldwide, have been oppressed by an over controlling, delusional, oppressive dictator for way too long. Request the Executive Branch's immediate assistance in removal of owner and GM, Jerry Jones. His incompetence and ego have not only been an extreme disappointment for way too long, but moreover, it has caused extreme mental and emotional duress."
We love the idea here, one made all the funnier by the fact that Jerry is referred to as a "dictator." After all, the White House has other, real dictators to worry about, none of whom earned that moniker by refusing to fire themselves as general manager of an NFL team. Anyway, we'd be more than a little shocked if anything ever came of this, but as of Tuesday afternoon, the petition had more than 2,000 signatures. So there's that.
If you'd like to add your name, you can do so here.
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It seems as if summer just begun yet the new school year is fast approaching. In fact, a few schools have already started, so I'm a little late with this post…I think I'm in denial of summer ending!
All children, and parents alike, have questions about the new year and have feelings of excitement and trepidation. Here are some tips to ease the transition for both you and your child.
1. Make it Fun: Allow your child to go back-to-school shopping with you. Make it special parent-child time. Encourage them to talk about their thoughts and feelings and allow them to choose some of their supplies to build their enthusiasm.
2. Get acclimated: Especially if this is your child's first time at school or if they are starting a new school, make sure to take advantage of any open houses or orientations. This allows them to get a lay of the land in terms of where their classroom will be, meet their teacher, etc. Any preparation like this can greatly diminish first day anxiety.
3. Bedtime: Your child will not be able to wake for school at 6am if they are accustomed to waking at 9am. So try to alter their sleep schedule at least one week, if not more, in advance.
4. Routine: Try to have a routine in place from day one. This includes homework time, dinner time, play time and bed time. Your children may not have lots of homework on the first day but you can use that time for an activity such as reading together. It's much harder to alter a routine than it is to set one up from the beginning.
5. Relax: Make sure you have plenty of free time the weekend before school begins and during the first week of school. You'll want time to pick up those last minute school supplies that you didn't even know were needed. You'll want time to sit down, talk and listen to your child. You'll also want time to just take a moment for yourself and relax. So, don't worry about dinner, order delivery and just focus on family time.
I'm wishing everyone a good start to the school year!


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Compact and handsome in richly textured Water Buffalo leather, our latest double billfold contains a full complement of hand-aligned credit card pockets, each one finished with hand-turned edges for extra durability.
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Huntingdon Fusion Techniques (HFT®), the world leader in gas weld purging procedures, has launched its tailor-made Argon Gas Feed Hose, designed to help keep welding zones purged of oxygen (O2).
In order to achieve a clean, oxide free and zero colour weld, the welding zone needs to be completely expelled of O2 when welding metals such as stainless steel, titanium and zirconium – so HFT have devised the Argon Gas Feed Hose to combat this.
The UK-based company have designed a selection of leak tight end fittings, provided for attaching an argon (Ar) gas regulator at one end of the hose, and a 12mm to 12mm quick connect fitting as standard at the other end. The quick connect fitting is designed to join up with all HFT Argweld® Weld Purging Systems.
Conforming to the British BS EWN 599 Quality Standard, the hoses each have a temperature range from -30oC up to 80oC, and a safety factor of three times working pressure - 20 bar or 300 pounds per square inch (psi).
The hoses can be supplied to all other gas tungsten arc welders (GTAW) and tungsten inert gas welders (TIG), with individual special fittings as required. The hoses are available off the shelf in standard lengths ranging from 5m-30m, but precise lengths can also be made to order with HFT's new pressure end fitting compression tooling.
Luke Keane, Distributor Support for HFT, said, "These special, high quality Argon Gas Feed Hoses, which can also be used for transporting nitrogen (N2), come complete with end fittings, providing welders with a guaranteed leak tight method of feeding non contaminated argon gas to their weld zone."


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Responsibility and food safety to limit our impact on global environment
Genuine Coconut packages each coconut in a micro-perforated, anti- steam high-tech film made by polyolefin, material that is fully recyclable.
Why we are wrapping our organic coconuts in a film?
Our young coconuts are in an immature stage, full of sweet water and with a jelly-like meat. At this stage the shell is very porous and the coconut continues breathing through them. The film replicates the protective effect of the green flesh reducing its breathing rate and preventing the sweet water becoming sour in a few days.
The film protects our coconuts from handling and exterior contamination. It prevents the growth of molds on the coconut shell and avoids the use of awful chemicals commonly used in the white husked fresh coconuts produced in the countries of origin. The film also helps to decrease the evaporation effect of the coconut water and extend the shelf life and freshness of the coconut reducing a significant global concern – FOOD WASTE.
This film uses a 92% less plastic than a PET bottle commonly used for natural juices.
Our ring pulls are made using 40 % of coconut husk coming from our de-husking process and mixed with a resin which is fully recyclable. With our patented easy opening system we avoid the use of dangerous tools to open the coconuts such as knifes and machetes.
We use a cardboard ring to protect the weak spots in the bottom of the coconut from impacts and handling since it is the most sensitive part of the coconut. Also the cardboard ring facilitates its consumption by giving stability to the coconut and allows us to include information such as nutritional values, expiration date, certifications …. The cardboard ring is made of recyclable materials and is recyclable.
Due to the nature of our product it is necessary to use a straw to access the water inside the coconut. We are using a polypropylene straw that is recyclable. We are in a project to replace this straw by a 100% compostable straw that hopefully will be available on the next few months.
The Genuine Coconut team is committed to continue working hard towards achieving a 100 % biodegradable packaging.


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The heading of this talk addresses itself broadly to the psychic life of black freedom struggle in the political culture and cultural politics of the post‐emancipation United States. The myriad figures of racial blackness at work across the spectrum of practical‐theoretical activity ‐ from claims to emergent mixed race identities to calls for progressive multiracial coalition to "pro‐life" pronouncements of the Christian Right ‐ raise questions about the material symbolic persistence of modern slavery in and as the discourse of terror in the contemporary milieu. This persistence is obscure in a profound sense and its obscurity is inflected by but not accounted for in the recent ascendance of neoliberalism and its attendant pieties of racial justice under capital. It involves, rather, a more fundamental misrecognition of the political ontology enabling modern slavery, requiring of us at once a more thorough analysis of structural conditions and a deeper historical sense commensurate with the longue durée.
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Professor Jared Sexton is visiting York this fall as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturing Chair. He comes to us from the University of California, Irvine, where he is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in African American Studies and teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Ph.D. programs in Visual Studies and Culture and Theory. He also holds affiliations at UCI with the Critical Theory Institute and the Center for Law, Culture and Society. Professor Sexton's research examines the political culture and cultural politics of the post‐civil rights era United States, focusing on matters of race and sexuality, policing and prisons, multiracial coalition, and contemporary film. While in residence at York, Professor Sexton is teaching an undergraduate course on black feminist thought for the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and continues work on the manuscript for his next book, The Shadow of a Color Line: Racial Politics beyond Coalition.
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THIS IS...an episode about Sparta! (and there are no 300 references in here too. Well, one, but it's about facial hair!) People just looove Sparta. Tough guys and gals who don't let anyone stand in their way! Grr! Kick a diplomat down a well!
Oh but let's just go ahead and ignore the whole brutally enslave your Greek brothers and sisters thing. Wouldn't want that to spoil our rosy image of them, eh?
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The criminal defense attorneys at Brown & Kelly provide counsel to individuals charged with a variety of felonies and misdemeanors, as well as any civil litigation or professional licensing issues which may arise out of said charges. We defend adults and juveniles at the federal, state, local and appellate level. Contact former Assistant District Attorney, Kristen B. Degnan, for information on representation in any of the following matters:
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This week's drill:
UNDERHANDED BALL TOSS DRILL: Toss balls underhanded from different locations to learn the trajectory that is required to fly and land the ball to produce the correct amount of roll needed on each shot.
See previous posts in the Short Game Drill Series by clicking the links below.
Short Game Drills – Post 5
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Next week's tips are a competition tip and green side bunker pitching drill.


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It's here! Summer has officially begun and I am starting to look forward to our imminent summer plans, I know I need to dust my bikini off and need to get myself in gear to have the body to match. I thought I'd create a little series of posts this week as to what I'm doing to get myself summer ready. I feel like this year I'm more determined than ever to be looking good and feeling great because I'm turning 21 this year and when I look back I don't want to think 'you shoulda laid off the Krispy Kremes.'
Diet and Exercise
I can hear the groans through your screens, I know, I know. I'm a vegetarian, but I'm aiming to cut out a lot of dairy and gluten heavy products in the upcoming weeks to shed a pound or two whilst giving my skin a chance to stay clear. I'm also currently doing the Debbie Siebers 'Slim in 6' workout which is great for me as it is a whole body workout and I go on holiday in 6 weeks (Debbie - work your magic!) I'm also hitting the gym fairly regularly to get in some cardio as well a few targeted Blogilates videos too so I can be all lean and toned come the time my holibobs rolls around!
Teeth Whitening
I often get complimented on the whiteness of my teeth - truth is I didn't get there all on my own! Although I'm not a smoker, I drink a lot of tea and coffee and don't want stained teeth! Once a year I use Crest White Strips (I use 10 packets as a full course) which are easy to use, and don't cost an arm and a leg - I'll link the eBay seller I use here. I'm thinking of documenting the use of these - so stay tuned for an in depth review!
Prepping For The Sun
There will be more specifics on this in my post all about legs - but I am getting my body and beauty stash sun ready. SPF is a no brainer and an absolute essential - this year I've opted for La-Roche Posay's SPF 50+ oil offering, which so far is working wonders! I'm also switching out my heavier creams for lighter formulations because as the weather gets hotter and stickier, ain't nobody got time for that!
Stay tuned throughout the week for my posts on hair, legs and face and what I'm doing to get them ready for (in my humble opinion) the best season of the year!
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A+A 2003 in Düsseldorf will serve up news and trends on the full palette of personal safety equipment and occupational safety between 27 and 30 October 2003. The clear layout and new, cutting-edge themes will once again reconfirm the global No. 1 position of the international trade fair for Occupational Safety and Health at Work + Congress. The common goal of all products and procedures on display is to ensure uninterrupted operations in the workplace.
The focal themes explored at the trade fair are occupational safety, health at work, preventive measures in high-risk situations, corporate environmental protection, avoiding property damage and quality problems as well as measurement technology to prevent disruptions.
The field of "corporate environmental protection" will receive more extensive coverage than in previous years and address new aspects of renewable energy and energy supply. New offerings in instrumentation and control technology for the prevention of failures also aim to put the spotlight on these aspects of occupational safety.
The A+A 2003 international congress will concentrate on the theme "Initiative for New Working Quality - Ergonomics and Efficiency". Through technical papers, panel discussions and the latest scientific findings, it aims to reconcile the social interests of employees with the commercial interests of employers.


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Barnes & Noble Launches the 'Nook' E-Reader
The Nook, which will sell for $259, manages to offer the same functionality as the Kindle 2, a huge library of titles and a wireless downloads. It also pushes e-reader design forward, with a color, touch-sensitive display for navigation and wireless downloads via AT&T's 3G network or Wi-Fi.
The 11.2-ounce Nook (7.7 x 4.9 x .5 inches) has 2 Gbytes of internal memory, enough for about 1,500 titles. It also has a MicroSD slot that can dramatically increase capacity. A 16-Gbyte card can hold an additional 17,500 e-books. The device runs a variation of the Android operating system, but currently doesn't support any third party apps. Perhaps most notably, the Nook supports a variety of e-book formats, including FictionWise, PDF, and ePub.
The screen itself is the 16-level grey scale E-Ink display found on the Kindle 2, but I wasn't able to get much hands-on time with it. Anyway, few e-readers distinguish themselves with their display. What makes the Nook interesting is its library of content. For example, like Sony's latest readers and the upcoming iREX reader, the device supports ePub, the open e-book format that will let you move titles among machines.
Clearly, the company is betting on ePub as the format of the future. "Our customers want any book, anytime, anyplace," said William Lynch, president of Barnes & Noble.com. "And ePub is the most portable format." The Kindle, of course, does not support ePub.
Nook owners will also be able to lend books to other users of the Barnes & Noble Bookstore, whether they own a Nook, iPhone, Blackberry, or are just reading books on their PC. The loans last for up to two weeks. "Friends can do what they have always done, which is lend each other books," Lynch said.
Perhaps the biggest advantage the Nook will have in the e-reader market is its retail support. With more than 700 stores, 40,000 retail representatives, and a site that is one of the top 20 on the Web, the company is in a great position to reach readers. Bring a Nook into a Barnes & Noble and you will be able to access customized content via Wi-Fi. You will also have access to the complete text of every book in the firm's eBook store albeit only while you are in the store.
"The bookstore is the most critical space for demand generation," says Lynch. "As the world's largest bookstore we have a huge advantage." Users won't actually download the books, but stream them using a technology that Lynch declined to discuss.
Barnes & Noble also showed off fashionable Nook cases from designers like Kate Spade, Jack Spade, and Jonathan Adler. The company is accepting preorders for the device at nook.com.
This is a big move for Barnes &Noble, but as chief executive Officer Steve Riggio pointed out, the company has been in this space for a long time."We were the first to sell eBooks." said Riggio. "We were the first to sell an eBook reader, with the RockBook Reader."
That effort, of course, underwhelmed. Now the company will try again with the Nook.


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Supporting Teaching and Learning in Home-Based Early Childhood Education
Project description
This project will support educator practice to enhance children's learning via three practitioner-partner and research-informed professional learning modules to three networks of home-based educators (HBEs). Each module focuses on one aspect of developing competencies related to success in beginning schooling (specifically oral language and approaches to learning). Each network will engage as a learning community with each professional learning module. We will evaluate initial impacts of each learning module and their combined benefits for educators' practices and children's skills. Then we will follow HBEs and children to evaluate whether practice benefits are sustained and assess children's learning in beginning primary school.
We aim to support educators' practice and enhance children's learning through research-informed three professional learning modules. This will initially by trialled in three home-based educator (HBE) networks.
Our specific objectives are:
- To provide professional learning around children's developing competencies during the preschool period related to a successful start to primary school (oral language, approaches to learning).
- To foster professional learning communities within HBE networks. To this end, networks of HBEs, together with their visiting teachers, will engage with three professional learning modules over the project period.
- To develop and evaluate HBEs resources in each learning module that support in situ developmental scaffolding in developmentally appropriate interactions with children.
Our research questions ask whether:
- HBEs perceive project activities to be useful
- HBEs incorporate project strategies into practice, with project support
- Areas of professional learning and practice are associated with extending children's developing competencies in these areas.
- HBEs continue to use project activities, even when they are not specifically supported
- Areas of professional learning and practice are associated with children's developing competencies in the first year of primary school
Why is this important?
Children's competencies in oral language and approach to learning contribute to educational opportunities and outcomes. These competencies for educational success develop during EC, scaffolded through rich, responsive adult-child interactions and developmentally appropriate activities that provide children with exposure to concepts and opportunities to practice developing skills. EC educators' professional preparation varies in how to effectively foster children's development within domains. Traditional in-service professional development efforts are limited in increasing busy, EC professionals' capacity to translate professional learning in practice. Practice-based research that considers how to enhance consolidation of professional learning, support translation to practice and benefit children is urgently needed.
What we plan to do
- Over the project, we will provide three professional learning modules to HBEs in three networks, varying presentation order across networks. Each module focuses on fostering developmental competencies in one area (i.e., meaning and sound aspects of oral language, children's approaches to learning) through developmentally appropriate early childhood activities for one term.
- To evaluate initial impacts of supported learning modules on educators' practices and children's skills, we will collect information on HBE practice and children's skills before and after each learning module.
- We will gather information on HBE practice and children's skills following participation to evaluate whether practices are sustained and assess children's learning in beginning primary school.
- Qualitative examination of HBEs' subjective experience and perceived benefits for children.
- Within-case comparisons of HBE practice and children's development over time across conditions using visual and statistical analytic techniques as appropriate.
- If participant numbers allow, between-network comparisons exploring possible order effects.
Our partners:
Our Team is comprised equally of university researchers and experienced practitioners. Pioneers has an established relationship with the University of Otago. Pioneers Home Visiting Teachers, whose responsibilities include mentorship of HBEs, serve as Project Faculty. To inform project activities and enhance fit with the practice context, we also include a Pioneers Quality Assurance Group comprised of the Pioneers Director, HBE representative, and a previous participant and ECE practitioner. Practice partners combine with an advisory group of New Zealand and international scholars, and developmental, educational, and clinical researchers to bring complementary sets of expertise to our project.
Our team presenting at the Early Childhood Research Hui 2016
Front row (from left): Amanda Clifford (Research Student), Sarah Rouse, (Research Student), Jan Johnson (Visiting Teacher, Project Faculty), Elizabeth Schaughency (Co-Principal Investigator), Jane Carroll (Associate Investigator)
Back row (from left): Penel Pask (Pioneers Director, Quality Assurance Group), Angel Gosling (Home-Based Educator, Pilot Participant), Heather Fagan (Visiting Teacher, Project Faculty), Elaine Reese (Co-Principal Investigator), Dione Healey (Associate Investigator), Rachael Burrows (Visiting Teacher, Project Faculty), Tracy Cross (Visiting Teacher Team Leader, Project Faculty)
Contact details:
Elizabeth Schaughency
Department of Psychology, University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Ph: 643 479 5864


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Dec. 9, 2016
9:54 a.m. Code enforcement officer responded to 1007 S 14th St. concerning a code violation. A notification order was left at the residence and a recheck scheduled.
10:51 a.m. An officer was advised of a theft that occurred in the 1100 blk of S Main St. The subjects involved were trespassed from the property and charges were not pressed in the matter.
10:55 a.m. Code enforcement observed a dog running at large in the 100 block of N 11th St. The dog was confined back into its kennel at 109 N 11th St. and a door tag left at the residence.
11:59 a.m. Raven Sandoval was contacted in the 500 blk W Maple St. Sandoval was taken into custody for an active warrant & possession of a schedule II substance. Sandoval held on an $8,000 and $6,000 bond.
12:10 p.m. Code enforcement officer responded to the 300 block of N 8th St. concerning a report of two dogs running at large. The dogs had vacated the area and were not located.
1:17 p.m. Code enforcement officers observed two dogs running at large in the 500 blk of W Maple St. The owner of the dogs was contacted & issued a citation for running at large second offense.
2:51 p.m. Code enforcement officer responded to 205 Pine St. concerning a puppy running at large. The dog was confined back into its pen at 205 Pine and a door tag left at the residence.
7:50 p.m. Officers contacted Elvis Deleon (22) of Lamar in the 600 blk of N 6th St. Deleon was found to have an active misdemeanor warrant and is being held on a $1,500.00 bond.
9:16 p.m. Officers were dispatched to the 1100 block of South 12th St. for a hit and run accident. Officers are currently investigating the incident.
10:44 p.m. Officer responded to the 2400 blk of S. Main St. on an agency assist. One party was issued a summons for MIP.
Dec. 7, 2016
12:40 a.m. Officers served Michael Ocana (58) of Lamar with an active warrant out of Prowers County in the 100 block of East Oak Street. Ocana is being held at Prowers County Jail with no bond.
8:08 a.m. Code enforcement responded to 508 W Maple St. concerning a citizen that wanted to surrender two dogs. The call was unfounded and the dogs were returned to the rightful owner.
8:24 a.m. Officers responded to the 500 block West Maple Street for a civil matter. Officers observed no criminal activity.
8:26 a.m. Code enforcement officer responded to 108 S 10th St. concerning a welfare check on a shepherd dog. A door tag was left at the residence advising the dog pen needed cleaned. The dog was in good condition.
8:50 a.m. Officers contacted a Seton Wollert in the 1200 blk of S 12th St. Wollert was found to have two active warrants and was arrested and held at the Prowers County Jail on $0 bond.
12:27 p.m. Shelter manager adopted dog # 4188. The adoption fee was collected and all necessary paperwork was completed.
12:56 p.m. Officers responded to the 600 block West Walnut for a hit and run accident. The approximate amount of damage is $1,000.00. This incident is documented.
2:33 p.m. Officers were informed of a felon with a weapon. This case is under investigation.
4:44 p.m. Janelle Neil-Oppliger was contacted in the 400 blk of N. Main St and was arrested for DUI and resisting arrest. Neil-Oppliger is being held on a $10,000 bond.
5:18 p.m. Voluntary contact.
6:28 p.m. Brittney Mondragon (23) of Lamar was contacted in the 400 blk of N 12th St. Mondragon was found to have an active warrant and was arrested and being held on a $5,000 bond.
11:05 p.m. Officers contacted Jeffrey Medina, 40 of Pueblo, on a traffic stop at N 13th St & W Washington St. Medina was arrested on a felony warrant out of the DOC along with numerous other charges.


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DAVIE—The Dolphins got right to it with Lawrence Timmons. As soon as he came off suspension, he was thrust into the starting lineup and played every snap of last week's game against the Saints.
He's an 11th-year veteran, but it's not the easiest thing for a 31-year-old to go from not playing to lining up every snap his first week back.
"You've gotta do whatever for your team, and I've gotta be out there and be my best self out there for them," he said today.
Timmons admitted he wasn't at his best, but felt good overall and expects to continue progressing.
While he missed two games, his actual suspension only kept him away from the team for a week. He was not on the practice field leading up to Miami's Sept. 24 visit to the Jets. He spent his time away doing everything he could to stay in playing shape.
"Working out extra, running extra and lifting hard—things like that," Timmons said. "Running and lifting, football things. I was doing sprints and everything. It's a little bit of everything."
[Adam Gase's wake-up call to Jay Cutler: You're not 25 anymore]
[A complicated cornerback situation with Byron Maxwell, Cordrea Tankersley and Xavien Howard]
[Column: Dolphins coach Adam Gase sounds lost as offense sputters]
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I want to go back a few months to ISNA 2013. I was slacking on the blogging then, but I met some pretty cool people and had a nice time supporting Ridwan Adhami. I didn't get a lot of time to take my own photos because we were running a photo booth at the event, and things were HECTIC. I have to say that we had one of the most popular booths in town. Anyway, I'm going to be doing a few flashback posts in the next week or so, just so I can feel caught up with myself. Life gets busy, blogs get forgotten, but PinkGingerale is FOREVER.
|Our RidzDesign booth ruled the world. #TeamRidzDesign
Photographing Mohamed Issa, founder of NoorVitamins, a halal certified vitamin brand.
|I loved meeting Ibtihaj Muhammad, Olympic Fencer who visited our booth. Her and her sister Faiza were the SWEETEST. It's so great to see young Muslim women standing out internationally for their work. RESPECT!
|Winnie Detwa, lifestyle blogger, was another one of my favorites. She had an awesome booth with super cute Turban Nation t-shirts. I had to snag one for my sister. She is one that you should all definitely look out for!
|the perks of being on #TeamRidzDesign … you get to pick the posted photo 🙂 my default look
If you'd like to see the collection of photos from ISNA by Ridwan, you can browse the album here. I'm always really impressed to see huge companies and nonprofits run by Muslims because I didn't see a lot of that growing up, despite living outside of the nation's capital where we have an incredibly large Muslim community. We met filmmakers, authors, singers, bloggers, athletes, poets, actors, photographers, painters, fashion designers, and a lot of hooligans, too 😉 It's always exciting driving up to the convention and seeing thousands of people who share the same faith as you. As a minority in the states, it's pretty rare that I come across this. So, when I do.. it's that much more magical.


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CONSTABLE produced his first collection almost 15 years ago after graduating from Central Saint Martins – and that offering was immediately snapped up by Liberty. Last season, more than a decade on, Constable returned to London after various stints in Paris and was welcomed in to the bosom of his first supplier: Liberty.
It was appropriate, then, that he presented his spring/summer 2010 collection in a room on the first floor of the iconic department store – surrounded by the buyers who returned him to London under his own name.
There is, as ever, an Edwardian feel to Constable's clothes, with a not oppressive Scandinavian starkness provided by the styling. Inspired by line drawings and 19th Century men's tailoring, the collection has a buccaneer feel in jackets and waistcoats with folded collars and tails, and chiffon dresses with pin tucks and folds of transparent fabric overlaying striped jersey.
Sheer chiffon and crumpled cotton sit alongside starched linen in stiff napkin folds, placed like origami creations on shoulders, hips and necklines. The stark blue-grey and monochrome palette brought a sobriety to shapes that could feel frivolous in colour – and messy hair and mannish brogues provided just enough of an edge.
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Adding a natural element is almost always the last thing I'll do when decorating a space. I've hung frames, stacked books, placed objets, whatever—and something feels off. Usually it feels too sterile, or too careful, too "look at this considered vignette." What it needs is something organic and imperfectly perfect, to break up all the man-made right angles and loosen up the look. And it's always a piece of nature.
Over the years, I've amassed a collection of foraged flora and fauna bits. They remind me of vacations, walks, seasons past. But also they're utterly unique (and free) ways to infuse my home with the sort of cosy-minimal-casual-sophisticated vibe I'm going after.
Branches are a good place to start if you're just now dipping your toe into the "decorating with nature" waters. Whether you live in the city or the country, whether it's summer or winter, there are bound to be branches nearby. They're a great way to fill a space in a way that still feels airy and not cluttered. A few corners in my home have tall vases filled with three to four sculptural, bare branches. I've also walked out to my backyard, and cut a leafy branch of nothing-special to use as filler in a bouquet or centerpiece.
A little more of a weight and space commitment than branches, larger pieces of driftwood can lend a comforting heft when layered behind mirrors, on mantels, or shelves. The one pictured above brings some warmth to our black bedroom, and keeps our mirror from disappearing totally into the wall color.
I also like balancing a single, smaller piece on top of a framed print, as below—the organic twistiness plays nicely off of cleaner, more graphic images, like these stamps. I've also been amassing a collection of long, rounded driftwood pieces to make a mobile with one day.
The nest below was found on a recent walk, and given a new home in our den (after making sure it was abandoned, of course). Tucking it into a little corner makes it feel like it might have been built there. It's grouped with a rose from our garden, and a single feather.
I went back-and-forth on whether or not to include the feather—I'm always careful not to have too many elements from any one creature or environment, or else the whole thing starts feeling heavy-handed.
I have no idea how to properly press flowers or leaves; I'm sure there are countless tutorials available online. But there's really nothing to lose if you already have a frame laying around. These four ferns from my parents' home in northern Michigan were tucked in between book pages for a few weeks, then framed.
Our house is filled with gold and yellow accents, so I love that they've oxidized into their current shade. I could see this working well with flowers or leaves - especially something large, like an elephant ear leaf, or a grid of similar small specimens. It reminds me of those old scientifical botanical prints, but the charming irregularities and wonky spacing give it a little more personality (...is what I tell myself).
Since I live in North Carolina, most of my finds come from the many nearby forests. I imagine if I lived closer to the coast (or a desert, etc.), the vibe would be slightly different. Whenever I travel, I look for natural souvenirs from these other corners of the country: a sun-bleached seashell, a smooth stone, even small animal bones. When I take walks through the neighborhood, I keep an open eye for twisted branches, or weird seed pods. And I continue to feather my nest.
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Turtle Neck - Mossimo
Sweater - Guess
Jeans - Guess
Jacket - Guess
Shoes - Nine West
In my outfit, I really like the coat. I highly recommend to anyone to spend some money on a good coat. My wife has a similar coat in white, but she really likes my black one. I would like it if I owned both. Since I don't I am happy with the black one. It is a very slimming color, which is good for those that are rather broad shouldered, like myself. I also like the turtle neck top, in black, because it too helps to slim down my neck, which is kind of odd, as it adds bulk.
Today I wore this to the movies. Jules and I went and saw The Hobbit. I really had heard next to nothing about the movie before seeing it, which is the way I prefer it generally. Overall I liked the movie, but was quite disappointed to find out that it is the first in a series. I am kind of tired of all of the series movies. Come on Hollywood, give me some originality!
I just love these little booties and had to show them off better.
Love Ya!


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Saint Ronan's achieved our best result in recent years at the Thomas Trophy on Friday, finishing third overall in both girls' and boys' events. This was due, not just to the fact that we fielded scoring teams (six-to-score) in every age-group, but also because every single child tried hard and ran a good race.
Packing tightly is key in cross country races; the further up the field, the better. Each child must focus on his or her team mate in front, striving to reach them, but also pacing themselves, and finishing strongly. Cross Country running is a tough sport!
Daisy A was our highest place finisher in the girls' squad, crossing the line in an excellent eighth place in the U9 girls' race. Mischa W (22) and Lucienne SD (25) both made superb debuts for the school, with Jemima W (36), Molly Z (54) and Athena M (55) bringing the team score to 200.
The U11 girls were spread across the field, Sydney W revealing the benefits of her Triathlon training with a great run to finish twenty-fifth. Again, every girl counted in the race; they all ran well to achieve a combined score of 270: Lottie H (29), Millie DH (34), Lottie B (39), JoJo CM (62) and Clara S (81).
Hope R (14), Bea W (17) and Jemima S (27) were our first three scorers in the U13 girls' race, Lettice A (39), Lottie C (45) and Chloë L (60) bringing the team score to 202.
All the girls deserve to be proud of their performances; with every runner 'counting' for the team, there was no room for faint-heartedness and they all competed with determination, finishing strongly and keeping their emotions under control! Despite not 'placing' in any individual team races, the combined girls' scores resulted in third overall with 676 points behind Hazelwood (528) and Derwent Lodge (413). A great afternoon of running, with plenty on which to focus!


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Sophomore first baseman Brent Mikionis (Powhatan, Va.) finished 2-for-4, but was one of the only bright spots for Virginia Commonwealth University in an 8-1 loss to Bethune-Cookman Sunday at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
VCU, which lost to the Wildcats, 10-6 on Saturday, went 0-for-3 on the weekend to fall to 9-6 overall. Bethune-Cookman is 8-9.
Mikionis was 8-of-13 in three games over the weekend, including Sunday's two hits. He is now hitting .432 this season with nine RBI.
The Rams struggled to get their offense going against Wildcat starter Rayan Gonzalez (2-2), who threw 4 2/3 perfect innings before Mikionis rapped a single to left center. Gonzalez allowed just one hit and two walks in seven innings of work. He struck out seven.
Prior to Sunday, VCU had collected at least 12 hits in six straight games. The Rams managed three against Bethune-Cookman, two by Mikionis, as well as a pinch-hit single by junior Michael Cheatham (Chesterfield, Va.) in the eighth.
VCU's lone run actually came without the benefit of a hit. Mikionis reached on a three-base error to lead off the top of the eighth and scored on a groundout by freshman Paul Nice (Powhatan, Va.).
Black and Gold starter Seth Cutler-Voltz (Richmond, Va.) allowed eight runs, five earned, over seven innings of work and took his first loss of the year. He is 2-1.
Bethune-Cookman jumped on Cutler-Voltz for two runs in the second inning on a Jeremy Davis single, a followed by a Brandon Turner double and a Justin Hoyte single. The Wildcats would add four runs in the third and two more in the fourth to grab an 8-0 lead.
VCU returns to action on Tuesday, March 16, when it hosts Norfolk State at The Diamond in Richmond, Va. for a non-conference affair. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.


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By Andrew Liszewski
If you live in one of those fancy-schmancy homes with an indoor swimming pool, hot tub or even toilets then you might appreciate this new universal remote from Remote Technologies Inc. While there are other waterproof remotes on the market they're usually pretty basic in design and don't give you all the bells and whistles you might need to control your entertainment center while relaxing in the sauna or bathtub.
So in addition to being completely waterproof the U2 remote as it's known (I won't hold that against them) also has all the buttons necessary for accessing your electronics and even an LCD display that can be used for programming custom commands or macros. The remote also uses RF instead of IR with a 100 foot range which basically means you don't actually need to have a line of sight to your equipment in order to operate it.
The downside though is the U2 remote's expected pricepoint of around $500. For that kind of money I would just seal up a Philips Pronto remote in a couple of ziploc bags. Now that's classy!
[ RTI Intros Smokin' LCD Waterproof Remote Control ] VIA [ Newlaunches ]


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