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Yes, you read the title right. QUANTITY beats quality in social media hands down… at least for the short term.
Before you crack your knuckles and get ready to go onto a brawl with me, telling me how wrong I am. Read on.
We have all heard the phrase "Social Media is About Quality, Not Quantity."
I know that it's better to have 1000 crazy fans who adore YOU rather than 10,000 followers who don't give a crap about YOU.
But let's see, what do the two groups of people have in common with each other?
They both have YOU in it.
From OUR own perspective, quality beats quantity. We don't even have to think twice about that. It's TRUE.
It's what we want. It's what we work towards.
Social media managers often try to create quality content because they understand that quality content keeps your audience coming back for more.
Quality is also the preferred method of sending out campaigns and advertisements, instead of going all-out spamming your fans' walls.
Once quality is established and controlled, you will find that your fans are now a community that strongly believes in what you or your brand does.
However coming from OTHER perspectives, quantity beats quality and the reasons are simple:
Social Proof
Generally, not many people will give a crap about the 1,000 fans who adore you. People don't know about the crazy number of fans who loves you.
And people generally don't care….
Especially if they are only glancing through your page and do not spend much time digesting your quality content.
They see the smaller picture, which in this case is the bigger number.
Have you heard people talking about quality of followers on TV? No, they talk about the Gabillion (Gazillion? Bajillion?) number of fans and likes. Not the number of quality engagement or the number of likes you get on a Facebook comment post.
In the first place, people in general define your social success based on the numbers of Twitter fans you have, the number of likes, RSS subscribers, and YES, they look at your Klout score as well.
Sadly, we're in a society where people judge the bottom line. It's how humans are.
It's human nature.
People would rather eat in a partially full restaurant rather than eat in an empty restaurant. I know I do, so do my friends and family.
The same theory applies in social media as well. Whether you like it or not, the NUMBERS sell.
Personal story
Here is a personal story, last year, I attended a couple of conferences and on one occasion, half way through the conversation, the topic about Klout came up and they were asking others about their klout scores.
As it turned out I have the highest score among them! One of them didn't believe me and he even checked to verify it.
….Because of that they paid more attention to get to know me and what I had to say.
Reddit's Story:
You may already be aware of this, but Reddit grew their site using FAKE users to populate the sites and make it seem as though it was popular.
Again, nobody wants to be in a site where they are the only one. So Reddit founders submitted their own stories, as they wanted to set the tone so that others would share interesting stories and contents too.
That made the site seemed more alive and not like a ghost town like Google+
Here is the video about it:
In the short term, social proof can get you to places and open many doors.
It can get people to pay attention to you; it can get people to be curious about your work and want to get to know you.
In the long run, quality still matters and you can't keep those numbers for long if you can't add substance in your work or if you don't know what you're doing.
At the end of the day, its best to have both worlds.
Photo credit: by Michael Cory


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South Africa: Earth Summit Plan of Action Adopted
JOHANNESBURG -- Negotiators for 191 countries attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development have agreed upon a Plan of Action to alleviate poverty and conserve the Earth's natural resources. Summit delegates are expected to adopt the action plan, with a political declaration, at the conclusion of the summit on Wednesday.
For months leading up to the summit, it appeared as if agreement could not be reached, with developed and developing countries at odds over trade and over financing for clean water, clean energy, and climate change. But late Monday, delegates resolved a final sticking point - agreeing to drop targets and timetables for the installation of renewable energy.
The compromise is a loss for the European Union and a win for the United States and petroleum producing countries. The European Union had been pushing for a target of 15 percent of global energy coming from renewable sources by 2015. The United States opposed the setting of targets, judging them unrealistic and arbitrary.
The summit's plan of implementation is a 71 page document that is intended to set the world's environmental agenda for the next 10 years, and is expected to be a model for future international agreements.
Addressing heads of state and government at the summit Monday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the world must face an "uncomfortable truth" and resolve to make positive changes.
"The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for the few, but flawed for the many," he said. "A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone."
Summit Secretary-General Nitin Desai said most of the summit's objectives have been met, including affirmation by the international community of the United Nations 'Millennium Development Goals', and reaffirmation of its support for implementing Agenda 21 - the blueprint for sustainable development outlined at the Rio Earth Summit 10 years ago.
The issue of a target for renewable energy was a worthwhile goal," Desai said, "but the reality is that with sustained action, we can build up the renewable energy industries to the point where they have the critical mass to compete with fossil fuel generated energy. We have a commitment to make it happen, and now we need the follow through."
To promote cleaner energy, the United Nations Environment Programme used the summit to launch a global network of 10 sustainable energy centers. The new Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development, will help promote the research, transfer and take-up of green and cleaner energy technologies to the developing world.
"The summit was also intended to accelerate implementation of sustainable development, and from the announcements of significant new resources and partnerships, that has happened," Desai said. "We sought to put sustainable development back on the international agenda and in the global consciousness, and without question, that too has happened."
Christie Whitman, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a delegate at the summit, told reporters today that the focus on these issues would not have been the same "if there had not been a world summit - if you hadn't gotten world leaders, if you hadn't gotten delegates from around the world here to hammer out" an agreement.
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change is assured of entry into force, even without the participation of the United States. At the summit, Canada, Russia and China have all announced that they will ratify the international agreement to limit the emission of six greenhouse gases.
The Kyoto Protocol will not take effect until it is ratified by 55 percent of the nations responsible for at least 55 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990. Ratification by Russia, the last major industrial signatory, is vital, because pushes the numbers beyond 55 percent.
"Russia has signed the Kyoto Protocol and now we are preparing for its ratification. This ratification we hope will occur in the very near future," Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said at the summit today.
On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said the Canadian Parliament would be asked to vote on ratification of the protocol "before the end of this year."
In his address of fellow heads of government and state, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said China deposited its instrument of ratification with the United Nations on August 30.
The protocol covers 37 industrialized nations, setting targets and a timetable for limits on the emission of six greenhouse gases linked to global warming. The next round of negotiations is expected to set targets and timetables for limiting the emissions of developing nations such as Brazil, India and China.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday that his government is doing its utmost to see that the document is universally ratified. Japan ratified the protocol earlier this year. World leaders have used the summit as a platform to announce their commitments to conserve and protect the Earth.
Brazil and the World Bank signed an agreement in Johannesburg Tuesday on the summit sidelines to triple the area of the Amazon rainforest that is protected. "Saving the forest is crucial for sustainable development," the theme of the summit, said Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
With the new agreement in place, the protected area of the over-exploited Amazon rose to 50 million hectares, an area equal to 3.6 percent of the world's tropical forests.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Turner said the United States has announced partnership packages that include about $10 billion in pledges to alleviate poverty, fight hunger, increase housing for the poor, increase access to fresh water and clean energy, and promote health care and education.
In his speech to summit delegates, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres suggested the planting of a billion trees in the Middle East region over the next 10 years to help ease the effects of climate change. Peres suggested building a canal to bring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea and the establishment of a "regional water bank" to "facilitate planning and technological application processes for water production, water recycling, water transportation and water usage conservation."
Costa Rica announced a moratorium on offshore oil exploration.
Canada is committed to the establishment of five new National Marine Conservation Areas in the next three to five years, Prime Minister Chretien announced.
The United Kingdom announced it will raise its commitment to development aid to Africa to 1 billion a year by 2006 and its overall levels of assistance to all countries by 50 percent, Prime Minister Tony Blair told the summit plenary session.
Blair stressed that the increase in aid is not charity, but "an investment in our collective future." In a joint statement on Monday, the UK Department for International Development and the South African government's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, announced the extension of a comprehensive water and forestry development program worth 19.8 million or approximately $US33 million, financed by the British agency.
Stressing the need for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by all nations, Blair said that "the consequences of inaction on these issues are not unknown, they are calculable. Poverty and environmental degradation, if unchecked, spell catastrophe for our world, that is clear."
Summit spokeswoman Susan Markham said that the United Nations so far has received submissions from 17 biodiversity partnerships between governments, non-governmental organizations and international groups with almost $100 million in financial resources to support actions throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The summit ministers also agreed to reaffirm the so-called "Rio Principles," including the precautionary principle which asks people to take action before the effects are seen, as in the case of ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere.
On Monday, former South African Prime Minister Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor of Jordan jointly announced the 2003 World Congress on Protected Areas will be held in Durban, South Africa, next September 8 to 17 under the auspices of the IUCN-World Conservation Union. The two dignitaries will share patronage of the Congress entitled, "Protected Areas: Benefits
Beyond Boundaries."
Mandela expressed "particular pleasure and pride in the new international partnerships between neighboring states to create transboundary protected areas and peace parks." Some environmental groups were disappointed in the summit outcome, saying that the Plan of Action leaves out many important safeguards for the Earth and its poorest inhabitants.
Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd Leipold said, "Many heads of states have made fine speeches saying that climate change
was the number one challenge facing our planet. What has this summit done about it? Absolutely nothing. By its own standards, the WSSD has failed."
"Our challenge now is to shine a spotlight so that everyone can see the forces that are responsible for that failure. And that's the unholy alliances between big business and governments that allow our planet's future and the poverty of humanity to take a back seat to the corporate bottom line."
The IUCN's Achim Steiner said that environmental conditions have degraded over the past 10 years, and the official discussions really re-negotiated what had been agreed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. He argued that the UN Millennium Development Goals are being short-changed by agreements on trade. Far from the conference venue, Steiner said, the real spirit of Rio is alive at the social events, meetings and announcements going on in civil society venues.
"The test," of the Johannesburg Action Plan said Summit Secretary-General Desai, "is whether governments, along with civil society and the private sector, can pursue the commitments that are in the document, and take actions that achieve measurable results."
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A New Jersey girl who launched an Easy Bake battle on her little brother's behalf has garnered enough support to get the attentions of celebrity chefs, and the company targeted in her online petition.
McKenna Pope, 13, was concerned when her little brother Gavin wanted his own Easy Bake over. The 4 year old loves to cook, but his family said all the Easy Bake ovens they saw seemed to be marketed to girls.
Read: Easy Bake Ovens, sexist?
"I found it pretty appalling that they did not feature males of any sort in any of their packaging and promotional materials or anything," she said.
Picking Up Support
She launched her online petition for a gender-neutral model on Change. org, where it has rounded up about 40,000 signatures. Celebrities like "Top Chef" judge Hugh Acheson and Joshua Whigham, a former "Chopped" contestant and Los Angeles chef, have taken to social media to comment on the cause.
Whigham suggests asking the folks at Hasbro for something like stainless steel or black might help neutralize the toy. Even if it goes back to its former red, black and yellow colors, perhaps then baking won't just be viewed as a game for girls, as many of industry members recall from their childhood.
Hasbro Meeting in the Works
Now, Hasbro, the company that makes the iconic child's oven, has announced it will invite McKenna Pope to their offices to discuss how to make a gender-neutral design a reality.


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"The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damn whether the refugees live or die."
- Ralph Garroway, UNRWA, 1958
President Bush is putting increased pressure on Arafat to crack down on Palestinian terror groups in the territories.
On November 9, Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, sharply criticized Arafat by saying he could not simultaneously be part of the anti-terror coalition while embracing Hamas. Rice said:
There are responsibilities that come with being the representative of the Palestinian people. And that means to make certain that you do everything that you can to lower the level of violence, everything that you can to root out terrorists, to arrest them, to make sure that the security situation in the Palestinian territories -- Area A, for instance -- is one from which terror cannot spring.
These are responsibilities that we have asked Chairman Arafat to take, and to take seriously. We still don't think that there has been enough in this regard. But just like with any leadership, it is extremely important to separate yourself from international terrorists. You cannot help us with al-Qaida and hug Hizbullah. That's not acceptable. Or Hamas. The president continues to make that clear to Mr. Arafat, and [therefore] there are no plans to meet with Mr. Arafat in New York.
The same day, Palestinian Cabinet Minister Nabil Shaath acknowledged that the PA has not always arrested the Palestinian militants it has claimed to have arrested. In speaking at the Brookings Institute, Shaath said:
The Israelis say that the Palestinians are not arresting the people they say they arrested. And they cite some examples. And some examples probably are true.
PA failure to stop terrorists means that Israel has no choice but to do the job itself. In defending Israel's policy of "interception," Shimon Peres recounted the case of Atef Abayat, a Tanzim leader in the Bethlehem area wanted for several murders. Peres said he had received repeated assurances from Arafat and West Bank Preventive Security Service chief Jibril Rajoub that Abayat had been detained. However, he was recently killed by an Israeli missile while riding freely in a jeep.
On November 14, Islamic Jihad leader Mahmoud Tawalbi, who tops Israel's most wanted list, was arrested by Palestinian police, then immediately released due to "street pressure." About 3,000 Palestinians protested the arrest by surrounding the Palestinian police offices in Jenin, firing rifles and throwing grenades at the compound, and burning cars in the city.
The U.S. recently added the anti-Israeli terrorist groups Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to a presidential executive order that instructs foreign banks and financial institutions to freeze terrorists' accounts or face American sanctions.
Produced in 1992, this one-hour documentary is a shocking look at the terrorist threat on American soil. See "Jihad in America" at:
Atallah Abu Al-Subh, a columnist for the Hamas weekly Al-Risala based in Gaza, called for putting anthrax in the U.S. water supply. The Gaza publication declared:
Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of boastfulness! Your gentle touch has made the US's life rough and pointless... You have entered the most fortified of places; [you have entered] the White House and they left it like horrified mice... The Pentagon was a monster before you entered its corridors... And behold, it now transpires that its men are of paper and its commanders are of cardboard, and they hasten to flee as soon as they see - only see - chalk dust!
May you continue to advance, to permeate, and to spread. If I may give you a word of advice, enter the air... the water faucets from which they drink, and the pens with which they draft their traps and conspiracies against the wretched peoples.
(translation by memri.org)
The official website of the Palestinian Press Center features a photo of Adolph Hitler that morphs into Ariel Sharon. Point this out to your congressman and local newspaper editor as a classic example of PA-sponsored incitement.


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Protein Skimmers can help you maintain a healthy, thriving salt water reef tank free of disease and other harmful compounds that may endanger the lives of your fish. Organic waste and other harmful compounds can be expected to thrive in your reef tanks and by using a protein skimmer, you will be able to help get rid of this waste before it starts to decompose and harm your fish.
Protein skimmers work by injecting bubbles into the water, which attract proteins and other amino acids found in decomposing organic matter. Once attached to the bubbles these proteins will be easier to remove and flow over into the skimmer cup. This process is an important part of your aquarium's biological filter.
At BRS we recommend using the tank size recommendation only as a guideline. There is no way these suggestions can accurately judge your particular tank because everyone has different livestock, feeding habits and maintenance schedules. A quality protein skimmer is a critical piece of equipment and can easily be the difference between a single year or a lifetime of success with your reef tank. This is the rule we suggest when choosing a skimmer. Choose the best possible skimmer that fits inside your budget and the space you have available. In the long run this will save you a fortune because you won't feel the need to constantly upgrade your equipment.


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Bellone asked to look at nursing home options
The presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature said he has asked County Executive Steve Bellone to explore a variety of options to keep open the county nursing home in Yaphank following recent setbacks to a proposed $23 million sale to a private operator.
"I don't want to close the place," Legis. William Lindsay (D-Holbrook) said Friday. "If there is any way to still operate it as a nursing home, that is my position."
Lindsay said he has called Bellone to reopen discussions on a broader range of options beyond the current sale proposal or a shutdown because the county can only afford to subsidize the home until April. The county has agreed to sell the 264-bed John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility to private operators Israel and Samuel Sherman.
"I think we have to move very quickly -- the unions have to be involved and we have to look at different management groups or one of the hospitals -- because we're are going to run out of money," Lindsay said.
Lindsay also said he was "shocked" by a unanimous vote against the sale by a key state health committee on Thursday. The committee of the Public Health and Planning Council is scheduled to vote again on the sale next month, according to a state Health Department spokesman, and the full council has put off its vote until April.
County lawmakers say the Bellone administration has assured them that the state generally is encouraging counties to sell their nursing homes. "We were told that the state wants us out of the nursing home business but their vote was to keep us in," Lindsay said.
Deputy County Executive Jon Schneider said the Bellone administration feels "the sale option is still a very live possibility. What happened on Thursday was a deferral, not a denial. We're optimistic a sale will be approved at the next meeting."The administration can discuss only short-term options with the buyers until a sale is approved, Schneider said.
The Brookhaven Town zoning board also has denied a permit that would have allowed the buyers to operate the complex as a private nursing home.Arthur Levin, a member of the state health panel, said it is unusual for the full council not to accept the recommendations of its advisory committee, but the council voted to defer the decision because members decided they needed more information.
"The council felt rushed," said Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, a Manhattan-based nonprofit that provides information about the safety and efficacy of medical treatments. "This was an emergency application."
Levin said a council lawyer had advised panel members that under the law, they had to limit their review to four criteria: "character of the applicant, competency, financial viability and need in the community."
During the meeting, witnesses testified about the effect of a sale on indigent patients. Opponents to the sale also say Foley provides care for long-term patients that most nursing home operators do not want to serve because of the cost.
Michael Balboni, executive director of the Greater New York Health Care Facilities Association, said, "What happens with the residents is really not in the purview of this panel," though he said the Shermans would try to address that concern.
Legis. Kate Browning (WFP-Shirley), who opposes the sale, called the council's decision to put off a vote "political. After the committee voted 10-0 and [then to] see the full council change, I question that."
Dan Farrell, president of the Association of Municipal Employees, which represents nursing home workers, said he was encouraged by Lindsay's move.
"All along, we've tried to work together with them but haven't gotten much cooperation," said Farrell, whose union opposes the sale. "If they are willing to sit down, maybe we can work things out."


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- Yield
- Serves 6
- 1 1- to 1 1/4-pound eggplant, unpeeled, quartered lengthwise
- 4 large plum tomatoes, quartered lengthwise
- 1 large onion, cut into 8 wedges
- 1/2 large green bell pepper, quartered, seeded
- 4 large garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 cups (or more) water
- 1 1/4 cups dried brown lentils
- 4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Arrange first 5 ingredients on large nonstick baking sheet. Drizzle with oil. Roast vegetables 20 minutes. Turn vegetables over and roast until tender and brown around edges, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes longer. Cool slightly (do not clean baking sheet).
- Scoop eggplant pulp from peel into processor; discard peel. Add onion and garlic to processor; purée until smooth. Transfer eggplant mixture to large saucepan. Coarsely chop tomatoes and bell pepper; combine in small bowl.
- Add 1 cup water to baking sheet; stir to scrape up any browned bits. Add to saucepan with eggplant mixture. Add 4 cups water, lentils and cumin and bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until lentils are almost tender, about 30 minutes. Mix in all but 1/4 cup tomato and bell pepper mixture. Simmer uncovered until lentils are very tender, thinning with more water if soup is too thick, about 10 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper.
- Ladle soup into bowls. Drizzle large spoonful of yogurt over each. Top with remaining 1/4 cup tomato and bell pepper mixture and serve.
Per serving: calories, 234; total fat, 6 g; saturated fat, 1 g; cholesterol, 0.


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Let the festivites commence with beer! Brian & Mr Humphries call in to help celebrate. Dominic Neagle says you cannot 'pinch and zoom' with your face… Meanwhile, rants about public transport starts.
Channel 4's Dispatches programme looked in to delivery firms, and had shocking footage from UKMail and TNT services. The episode is called "Secrets of Your Missing Mail". Dispatches says: 'With shoppers increasingly relying on private parcel companies to deliver online purchases, Dispatches goes undercover to find out why couriers sometimes fail to deliver' – and is well worth a watch.
Leigh reviews again, with jealous envious eyes, how lovely Uncle Pete's living in the west country. He also takes time to review how the show has changed over the past 3yrs and 600 odd episodes.
Woman fakes cancer, uses donated funds for heroin. Mother forced daughter, 14, to become pregnant, British court reveals. Swedes told to bury 'freeze-dried' dead. Reginald Cruz Allegedly Told Boy Scout Lies In Foot Fetish Scheme.


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Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel took shots at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm's Emmy losing streak, among others, during his four-minute opening monologue. Here are some of his best jokes.
- "'Downton Abbey' is an amazing show ... It really gives you a sense of what it must have been like to grow up in Mitt Romney's house."
- "Being a Republican in Hollywood is like being a Chick-fil-A sandwich on the snack table at 'Glee.'"
- "Television is an American institution, yet one out of every five actors here tonight is British. I guess we're supposed to award them because they went to Royal Shakespeare Academy and ours were discovered at the mall."
- "Does it bother anybody else that President Obama said his favorite show is 'Homeland?' I don't think the president should be watching 'Homeland' for the same reason Charlie Sheen shouldn't be watching 'Breaking Bad.' "
- "If you're going to the HBO [Emmy] after-party, don't eat the sliders," he said after referencing horse racing drama "Luck," which was cancelled after horses died on the set.
- "Jon Hamm, you gave a tremendous performance this year, and I, for one, am shocked you didn't win tonight ... Too soon?"
- "None of the four major networks were nominated in the drama category. The Academy is sending a pretty clear message and that message is: Show us your boobs."
- "Tonight you'll be asked to perform your most challenging role yet, that of an actor who's happy for the success of another actor."
Kimmel opened the Emmys with a pre-recorded skit in which host Jimmy Kimmel was so nervous he hid in the women's bathroom, where "Girls" creator-star Lena Dunham was found nude on the toilet eating cake.
Kimmel told Mindy Kaling, Zooey Deschanel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kathy Bates, Connie Britton, Christina Hendricks and other actresses that he couldn't host the show.
"I got a little botox," he said, then asked about his puffy face, "Is it bad?"
They told him no, but then beat his face back to normal. Finally, past Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres then saved Kimmel by giving him her pants.


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This site has been very helpful in helping me to prepare for my AS English Literature course.
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September 21, 2011
LA JOLLA, CA—Axel Nimmerjahn, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and holder of the Richard Allan Barry Developmental Chair in Biophotonics has been awarded a highly selective grant from the Whitehall Foundation. He will receive $223,000.00 over three years to study the contribution of astrocytes to normal brain function.
Astrocytes, named for their characteristic "star shape", have been traditionally considered members of the support crew, known as glia, which nourishes and protects neurons in the brain. More recently, they have emerged as sophisticated cellular players that are actively involved in regulating neural circuit development and function.
"This grant will help support research to determine whether and how astrocytes in awake animals regulate neural dynamics and perhaps behavior," said Nimmerjahn. "Resolving this question is of significant importance that will increase our comprehension of the complex cellular processes underlying normal brain function and behavior."
A better understanding of astrocytes' role in the brain could lead to the development of new treatments for neurological disorders, many of which may result from, or areexacerbated by, defective or disordered glial function such as epilepsy or migraine."Revising our understanding of glial cell function will change our approach to treating or even preventing disease," said Nimmerjahn.
Nimmerjahn has created and continues to develop tools that allow researchers to directly visualize and manipulate glia in the intact healthy and diseased brain. This has led to key insights in glial cell biology, with broad implications for our view of brain function, which may eventually lead to novel treatments for neurodegenerative brain disease.
Prior to joining the Salk Institute, Nimmerjahn earned a doctorate in Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research/University of Heidelberg in Germany and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Biology and Applied Physics at Stanford University in California.
"Axel's achievement of the Whitehall Foundation's grant is a testament to his scientific accomplishments," said Salk Institute President William R. Brody. "His innovative research will have a profound impact on advancing our knowledge in developmental neurobiology and help give rise to new treatments for neurodegenerative brain diseases.
About the Whitehall Foundation:
The Whitehall Foundation is a non-profit corporation focused exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States. The grant awards are extremely competitive and target projects concerned with neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. It supports scientific studies with an overall goal to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.


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Days after a South Dakota news anchor became the Internet's latest star, she tells Trending Now that she has no regrets about her off-the-cuff on-air rant.
KSFY anchor Nancy Naeve's rise to YouTube celebrity began on Sunday night. Her co-worker at the ABC affiliate in Sioux Falls, meteorologist Shawn Cable, broke in to regularly scheduled programming to report a confirmed tornado in the area. The tornado touched down in Hospers, Iowa, which is about 70 miles from Sioux Falls.
Viewers, however, were outraged and took to the phone and Facebook to complain about Cable interrupting the season finale of "Once Upon A Time."
On Monday morning on the air, Cable showed footage of the tornado and then apologized for interrupting a TV show the night before. Next to him was Naeve, who fiercely rose to his defense.
"No show is as important as someone's life," Naeve states. "But I tell you what. If it was your home and your neighbors, you would feel differently. So please don't do that. That's not nice."


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Scripture Union Scotland is registered in Scotland as a charity (no.SC011222) and as a company limited by guarantee (no.SC54297). Registered office: 70 Milton Street, Glasgow, G4 0HR. Telephone: 0141 332 1162. Scripture Union Scotland is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under registration reference ZA356097.
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Google Unveils Chrome Web App Store
Though the marketplace bears the branding of Google's own web browser Chrome, its offerings "can be used by anyone using a modern browser that supports [standard] web technologies," according to the company. However, using the Web Store with Chrome will allow users to create "convenient shortcuts for easily accessing [installed] apps."
Among the initial offerings will be PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies and LucasArts' LEGO Star Wars, with LucasArts telling Joystiq that the LEGO Star Wars title will be Three Melons' existing Unity-powered effort LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2.
Google claims that the marketplace will offer "a broad range of amazing web apps" and that "developers will be able to reach millions of new users" through it. Developers will be invited submit their various applications to the marketplace sometime before it formally launches, with Google offering some preliminary details to help them get ready.
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No power tools will be necessary, thank you. The Rev. Ryan Shoaff already has received his Christmas gift: A kidney from a colleague in the cloth, the Rev. Doug Modlin.
No power tools will be necessary, thank you. The Rev. Ryan Shoaff already has received his Christmas gift: A kidney from a colleague in the cloth, the Rev. Doug Modlin. A youth pastor at Perry Christian Church at 139 Perry Dr. NW, Shoaff, 31, is recovering from the transplant, which was performed in August. He and Modlin, a children's pastor, met three years ago when Shoaff joined the staff at Perry Christian. "You don't think you're worthy that someone is willing to possibly shorten their life to save yours," Shoaff said. "I feel lucky and blessed." Some years prior, Shoaff was diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy, or Berger's disease, the result of a virus which attacked his kidneys' filtering agents. "Mine (disease) stayed dormant for 14 years, but it came back with a vengeance, and fast," he said. By October 2006, he was facing the likelihood of dialysis. Good Match "I thought about getting tested," Modlin said, "But I heard his father and brother were getting tested, so I just let it drop." But Shoaff's father and younger brother were unable to donate a kidney. In May, tests revealed that Modlin, 37, was a good match. Both have O-positive blood. "I talked to my wife and told her that I just felt God put in my heart that I need to get tested," said Modlin, whose wife, Sarah, is a preschool administrator at Perry Christian. "She said she was fine with it." Modlin, who teases Shoaff about being his "clone," is convinced it was destiny. In the months leading up to the transplant, he lost 60 pounds. "I just wanted to get healthier," Modlin explained. "There's no way I would have qualified, had I not lost that weight. ... God put me in the spot. He prepared me for it. He just does it. Don't ask me how." The surgery took place in Akron City Hospital on Aug. 21. The quick-witted Modlin confesses, "I have a morbid sense of humor. I told him, 'If I die on the table, you can have both.' My wife didn't think that was very funny." Though Modlin recovered quickly, Shoaff has hit some detours. He contracted peritonitis and pneumonia, and still suffers from a condition which causes a rapid heartbeat. "I lost 45 pounds of muscle," he said. "From Aug. 24 to Oct. 6 or 7, I don't remember anything. I'm healing, finally." Shoaff, who returned to full-time ministry two weeks ago, credits his wife, Shelley, and his faith. He also cites his wife for keeping their family together. The couple has three children younger than 5. "I can think of two or three times when I'd just had enough," he said. "I would have not been able to get through it, had I not been a Christian; had we not had our faith." A 'God Thing' Both Modlin and Shoaff say the church has offered unqualified support. "The congregation really put its best foot forward," Modlin said. "When he was in the hospital, the congregation tried to do whatever they could to make it easier for Shelley. They sent us cards and made us food. Those little things are 'uplifters.'" Shoaff said ultrasounds show there's no blood flow to the kidney, so doctors can't confirm that it's functioning. "They say that sometimes, it takes a few weeks or months for the kidney to 'wake up.' To me, it's totally a 'God thing,'" he said. "The doctors can't prove it's working, but I'm getting healthier." Shoaff urges others to consider organ donation, saying, "You have no idea how many lives you could affect." "If I had three kidneys," Modlin said, "I'd pull that one out, too." Canton Repository


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Ring's return brings new life for Mo. homeless man
A homeless man's decision to return a woman's engagement ring after she accidentally dropped it in his cup is about to pay big dividends.
Billy Ray Harris, who frequently panhandles on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, discovered the ring after Sarah Darling dumped spare change from her coin purse into his cup earlier this month. Earlier that day, she had taken off her ring and put it with the coins.
Television station KCTV reports that after realizing what she'd done, the Missouri woman returned to Harris and asked if he had the ring. He said yes and gave it back to her.
Now, the woman's fiance has set up a website seeking donations for Harris. On Monday, people from around the world had donated more than $145,000.


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We're worried about James McAvoy.
The classy, cordial Scottish actor, once known for playing relatively decent sorts in "The Chronicles of Narnia," "Atonement," "The Last Station," "X-Men: First Class" and even "Wanted" and "The Last King of Scotland," has gone alarmingly dark recently.
He got up to some terrible criminal and sexual shenanigans in "Trance" last year. In the new "X-Men: Days of Future Past," his once nurturing and forthright Charles Xavier has let both himself and his school for young mutants fall apart while he shoots up drugs and gives up his psychic powers.
Those were just prologues, however, to how McAvoy misbehaves in the appropriately titled "Filth." Adapted from a novel by "Trainspotting's" Irvine Welsh, the film introduces us to Edinburgh P.D.'s Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson.
Thanks, Edinburgh, but you can keep him. The guy's a contempt-spewing, power-abusing, controlled substance-shoveling, manipulative monster. His key goal in life is to sabotage his colleagues for a promotion that he believes will help him win his ice queen ex-wife back — and that's the noblest thing about him.
"He's incredibly smart, funny and kind of evil," notes McAvoy, a 35-year-old married father of a young child. "I was enjoying all that when I started reading the script, but I needed more, needed it to go somewhere else. Then I turned a few pages, and I got given something more.
"I started to realize that all was not well with Bruce," he says of director Jon S. Baird's screenplay adaptation. "He's spiteful and hateful and full of bile, but these are all symptoms of his mental sickness. He's bipolar and he's exacerbated that with massive drug and alcohol abuse. He's paranoid, delusional; he's not a well man. I'm not saying that when I read that, I forgave him, but it definitely gave me empathy and a deeper interest in what he was about."
Though a fan of Welsh's books about self-destructive Scots, McAvoy had not read the "Filth" novel before signing on to the movie, and avoided it while shooting, too.
"The director asked me not to," he explains. "The book doesn't have a through-line the way the script does, which is basically Bruce's mental falling apart."
McAvoy acknowledges that's a stab toward audience empathy, something the movie otherwise eschews. Even McAvoy, who's been grooving on this hard stuff lately, had trouble playing one of the detective's meanest scenes.
"The only time I ever had qualms was the first day of the shoot, when Bruce blackmails a 15-year-old girl into giving him oral sex," he reveals. "I just felt really, really bad about being in that scene. Even though the girl playing that part was in her 20s, it was a really dark feeling to be victimizing somebody like that.
"Other than that, I was actually quite happy to go for it full-on," he admits.
The feeling was 180 degrees different on McAvoy's first day shooting "Days of Future Past." He got to act with Patrick Stewart, the man who played the same character in the first three X-Men movies.
"I've got one scene with Patrick in the film," he happily says. "It was my first day, which happened to be his last day. I was lucky enough to get a kind of face-to-face, nose-to-nose Charles Xavier-off thing going, which I never thought I'd get in a million years when I started on 'First Class.' I never thought we'd be in the same movie together, let alone the same scene. It was quite interesting to do my Charles at him and him to do his Charles at my face. It was good."
McAvoy's sweet nature, fine manners and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama-trained smarts convince most who meet him that he comes from a genteel background. Not the case. He was raised by his grandparents on the wrong side of the River Clyde.
"I grew up in a very rough part of Glasgow, but I was not a bad kid," McAvoy says. "I didn't get into too many run-ins with the police — certainly nobody as f—in' terrifying as Bruce Robertson. I suppose it's because I've played a lot of posh English people that informs people's opinions of me. But yeah, I come from an area of Glasgow that's on a par with the parts of Edinburgh that Irvine Welsh writes about."
McAvoy's professional descent into hell has been quite refreshing for him, and he hopes adventurous filmgoers will appreciate the effort.
"I don't go chasing scripts, I wait for the movies to come to me and that's just the way it's worked out," he explains. "I feel really lucky to have worked with people who are doing films that are bold and risky because they challenge audiences and don't just make it easy for them. It's just so rare that movies are even allowed to do that; filmmakers and actors are usually preoccupied with being safe and walking a middle road that doesn't alienate audiences too much.
"But I like that, though it's difficult for an audience to go with, hopefully it's a more revelatory journey for them as well. It's also what pushes you on as an actor and allows you to learn more about, not just what you're doing, but storytelling."


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So another minor complain on 3dmax's UI. Its sort of very minor, and in essence is just a tiny thing, but still I personally think it could, and I think should be improved. So it's about camera (not exactly camera, just viewport) position when you are modeling. So I guess many of us, max users are using "zoom to selected" viewport tool. I use it a lot, and especially when modeling. So the situation is this. One is modeling something, and selects a couple of vertexes, which happen to be in same position. Now we can't really see anything cos now we look at whole model. so we hit zoom to selected, and bam most likely we see.. nothing. Or just some part of our object, which has suddenly lost its shape. Its viewport clipping I guess. The zoom tool zoomed so close to selected vertexes, that max decided it's too close and just clipped the model. Or that's what I think that happened. Look at the pictures, or try it yourself. Not sure if it is exactly what happens, but it sure looks so. Why does max do this?
(usually this happens when we model say a character, or whatever, and we work only on one half of the model. Other half we minor, and later on we want to weld vertexes which duplicate in the original and mirrored object.. at least that is one of situation where this occurs..)
So what do we do? just scroll back a bit, bam, the model is back, and we are close to our selected elements to work with. But, if you are unexperienced, u might go … Ouch, what happened??? or just scroll back, like you did 1 million times. But can't we make a tweak in viewport camera positioning and zoom to selected tool's code, so it doesn't go to such extremes where model gets clipped? Anyone? So it's just another small complain. Yes, I know there is million other things that are more important to improve. And this is just a tiny annoyance.. but if it would be just a couple of lines of code, might be it would be worth while writing them down? sins I suppose it should be quite straight forward thing, it's not like one has to write Lagoa for max or anything like that… (Yes Lagoa would be cooler to get… :) Am I right? am I wrong?
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From humble beginnings as a teaching tennis professional at Mid-Town Athletic Club in Rochester, NY, Doug Cash is now responsible for 42 TCA clubs around the country. Cash tells Club Industry about the changes he has seen in his more than 25-year career — the blending of tennis and fitness and the importance of training and offering a career track for staff.
Ci: There was no real racquet sports presence at the Club Industry show last month. I think that there's a miss there because it seems there's a resurgence in the racquet sports segment.
What we have seen is a resurgence in the tennis play and programming, especially in activities that people can do as families or do together. Last Thanksgiving, I was in Hilton Head on vacation. It was the busiest Thanksgiving I'd seen on Hilton Head with people playing tennis. Our tennis revenues and profit have gone up in the past year and I think people are spending dollars closer to home and doing things as families.
Ci: It can also boost ancillary revenues because it seems that centers that have pro shops with racquet and tennis gear do much better business than straight fitness pro shops.
Tennis people buy clothes. The women like to look good, and we have gone into our pro shops with more outer wear that they can wear outside the club that have done nicely too.
Ci: Is that something that you've seen change or grow over the years? Being able to boost revenue from additional outlets, like pro shops, juice bars and nutrition?
Certainly. Seventy-five percent of our revenue comes from dues. Everything else takes up a smaller share, but everything adds up to nickels and dimes. Today, you need the nickels and dimes along with the dollars. We have a national pro shop manager who does nothing but buy and makes sure our pro shops are run correctly and with the right profit margin, the right goods, and the right amount of goods on the floor. We spend a lot of time on it.
Ci: I think that's a problem a lot of the clubs have, especially the smaller clubs. They see it as a time-intrusive opportunity that may not equal the profits.
In the small clubs it's more difficult because of the traffic. And, you're right with your comment on the fitness. If it's pure fitness they just don't buy as much.
Ci: How has TCA found a balance of fitness and tennis?
One of the things we've done is to incorporate programs of fitness on the tennis court so that we get people out there and you don't have to know how to play tennis. We have classes called "rise and shine" in Rochester, NY. In these classes they fill up eight courts from six til eight in the morning. They play loud music, which is anti-tennis etiquette. Since people hit with ball machines or pros their ability level doesn't make any difference. They have a ball and it's their fitness regimen three days a week, and the nice thing about it is that they have a lot more fun. I try to work out as much as I can, but I'd much rather be in that environment with a bunch of people running around than running on a treadmill. They laugh and giggle and just have a great time. They also develop relationships with other people in the group to sit down and have a cup of coffee afterward.
Ci: Is that social aspect, in looking at member retention and recruitment, even more important than it has been in the past?
We've coined a phrase at TCA that we try to be the third place in somebody's life. The first two being home and work, and it depends on which order people put them. We want to be number three, so you have to make sure that you can greet them by name so that when they come in the front door their friend is waiting in the lobby, not just a club employee.
Ci: As far as that greeting at the front door, staff training seems to be of high importance for TCA. It is especially interesting seeing as you who have grown through the ranks, which hasn't always been the case in the fitness industry. Can you talk about what TCA does in that area?
I worked the front desk as one of my first jobs. The key is to have the right person who's got the right attitude, and they're going to love what you do. I don't care what you do if it's not a lot of fun you won't do a good job. You've got to find out in the interview process if the candidate is the right person. Stick 'em at the front desk, see what they do, how they react to people they don't know, and see if they are outgoing. Do they like to greet people? Are they smiling at people? These are important things. The rest you can train. The information they have to know is easy to train, the attitude and the personality are more difficult so you want to put them in that situation and see how they do. One of my rules is that if you don't have fun you're not going to do it for long and you're not going to do it well. So you've got to smile and laugh at the same time as you work hard.
Ci: That would eliminate some turnover of staff, which is a big one because it's kind of tough to make people feel at home if every time they come in there's different trainers, different instructors, different front desk personnel.
Sure. Something that we've done in the past in tennis is a program called "season court time" where you have the same court every week. We took pictures of the participants on the season court and put them in a scrapbook and when a new desk person started to work, they could look at the scrapbook and the pictures with the names underneath and know who's going to come in at six o'clock. It's unusual to greet someone by name you've never seen before, and that impresses people. But it's really easy [to impress] because the same people come in every Monday night at six o'clock, and the front desk staff gets to learn that. With a fitness component to our clubs it is a little tough to do, but the tennis makes it a little easier.
Ci: The fitness facility and club industry grew out of tennis in a large part. How big of a part does fitness play vs. tennis for TCA? Is it a help to have that tennis aspect or is it something that a pure fitness facility might try to compete against, saying that they're a tennis club that just does fitness?
We were a tennis club that did fitness. We went from a situation where 100 percent of revenue was from tennis to the point now where about 30 percent is from it. So today we are a fitness club that does tennis. It is nice for our members to have the ability to cross-train and have fun whether it is taking a class, lifting weights or playing tennis. There is a nice interchange between fitness and tennis.
Ci: How do you structure the dues at your clubs? Is it a bundle or is tennis an extra profit center?
There is a regular membership fee for the club and then members pay court fees. One of the things we do every year is a program called Tennis in No Time, during which we try to get a lot of our fitness members involved. We try to put about 500 to 600 fitness members into this program where they can learn to play tennis. This way we develop tennis players from our membership base. One of the reasons that our tennis business has stayed so strong is that we've been developing players for 20 years rather than waiting for them to walk in the door.
Ci: How important is the corporate fitness management portion of your business and do you see it growing?
It is an integral part of our company that accounts for about 15 percent of our business. We do major corporate centers such as McDonald's, Kraft and Traveler's. We also have a project with General Motors in Detroit that will hopefully expand to a second site. What they provide is another advantage for us with minimal costs. We have long-term clients that keep renewing, so I think that speaks to the job we do for them. It'll be interesting to see how companies pick and choose where they cut their dollars in these tough times. Only time will tell what kind of importance the health and wellness of employees is for them.
Ci: What types of growth training and career track does TCA provide?
We have a desire to provide a career path for somebody. Of all the upper management here, almost all of us were lower-level employees of TCA at one point. That helps to let staff feel that "it happened to them it can happen to me" mentality. There are a couple of reasons why people stay at a company. Number one is that they are being treated fairly, and number two they feel they are provided an education and a chance to improve their knowledge and their chance for growth. Of course, you have to pay them, but that isn't always the most important factor for staying at a job for the long haul. That is why it is important to constantly train and educate people to not only do their current job but to grow into new responsibilities. Not everybody wants to grow into more responsibilities but if they do we provide the tools for growth. One way we do this is through a professional development account. Each person in the company has the ability to apply up to 6 percent of annual income toward education, be it classes or conventions and we pay two-thirds of the costs. We also have TCA University, which we started about eight years ago, that provides a core curriculum from budgeting to hiring to sales to fitness and tennis-specific courses all at no cost to the employee. If a person does well at their current position and wants more responsibility we help them develop the skills to do well at the new position.
We are lucky that we are in the position to do this. It is hard to provide a growth track for employees unless you have a number of clubs where you can put them to work. When I started here 28 ½ years ago with only two clubs and working at the front desk I never thought of a career track.
Ci: What are some of the biggest changes in the industry looking back to those early days and what do you see happening in the next few years?
The competition is far greater, as is the amount of money it takes to open and run a club. Part of that is because the sizes of the clubs have grown. People are building clubs that are more than 100,000 square feet and that just wasn't done 10 years ago. There are also fewer indoor tennis courts being built — we built eight last year. There is a statistic that says that there were more golf courses built than indoor tennis courts. Tennis was overbuilt 10 to 15 years ago and has dwindled as clubs converted space to pools, racquetball, what have you. Looking to the future, I think clubs will become more of that third place in your life, kind of like the way the mall has become. Now you go to a mall and there is dry cleaning, places to get your nails done, go to the movies — more than just go shopping. Clubs will do that too. There will be many of those elements, maybe a Starbucks and even a car wash — it will be a real destination. Hopefully, the health insurance world will take a more aggressive role in rewarding people for being healthy by being fit by helping to pick up costs of memberships and reducing insurance costs. Also, I think certification will take on greater importance. Right now there are about 275 certifications for fitness. Some aren't anything more than sending $39.95 and taking a test online. I think it is important for them to get more professional so there are only five or 10 good certifying bodies. There are two that do tennis but the need isn't as great as it is with fitness where there is so much more to know and so many more potential problems. Lastly, we are at about 11.5 percent of people that belong to a club. If we could take that to 20 percent, just think of the number of fit people we could have in our fitness and tennis clubs.
Ci: Where do you see tennis going in the next few years?
There are a couple of things. The U.S. Open finals this summer had great ratings success, so people are watching it. Alan Schwartz, CEO of TCA, will take over as president of the USTA in January and will have some influence on the tennis industry. I think you will see tennis surge as Alan looks at the USTA with a business eye coming from the club background. I think you'll see the Tennis Channel on cable and satellite. The pros could be more outgoing and give back a little more but the USTA has done a good job of building and marketing the game. The U.S. Open makes about $110 million and they will pour a lot of that back into the game.
Ci: You spoke about the costs of opening and running a club. How vital of a role will the financial community play in the continued growth of the industry?
There will always be mom-and-pops in the industry. If people have a passion and are on a mission to be successful — they will prosper. Whether it is tennis or fitness they are people that love the activity and want to own their own business. What I see from the financial community is the tightening of money. Three or four years ago it was pretty easy to get. Today, that is not the case. The banks are having too many loans go bad so they are more stringent. That will hurt the small companies, but the larger ones will be hurt as well. You used to see a lot of clubs bought out, but you haven't seen that nearly as much these days. That is because the money is tighter and is keeping smaller clubs in business longer. Out of 14,000 or so clubs there are few that are actually parts of chains.
Ci: Does that fragmentation of the industry hurt when it comes to influencing the insurance companies, government, Wall Street, etc.?
We are a young industry without a lot of clout because we don't have that kind of volume. IHRSA has lobbyists but not the 100 that companies like GM has. It is important as we try to level the playing field with non-profits, which is a major battle for large chains and mom-and-pops. Nobody is against competition as long as the playing field is level. When a non-profit puts a commercial club out of business it is different than when one club puts another out of business because they are doing a better job of playing on a level field.


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The amount available in an account. Simply put, the account balance is the net of all credits less all debits. A positive account balance indicates the account holder has funds available to him/her, while a negative balance indicates the holder owes money. Account balances are important in banking because they determine whether or not an account holder has money for living expenses and in margin accounts because they show whether the holder can conduct more margin transactions.
The amount of the original loan remaining to be paid.
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Before she was hanging with fashion's royalty, Victoria Beckham was a pop star with a propensity for tight dresses and an orange glow. But the former Spice Girl turned fashion designer is happy to to admit that's all in the past.
She recently told Hello!, "I don't wear fake tan anymore. Sometimes I've been turned orange but that's definitely a look from my past. Being overly tanned is very aging and, dare I say it, a bit footballer's wife. Embrace your natural color!"
We're certainly glad Beckham ditched the self-tanner in favor of her natural skin tone. Now if she could only give us a smile…
Click through the gallery to see how Beckham's style has evolved from Posh Spice to just plain posh.


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Eat for Flavor – September is Fruit & Vegetable Month
By Lexington Medical Center's Susan Wilkerson, RD LD
Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in calories and provide healthy nutrients and dietary fiber. They may also play a role in preventing a variety of chronic diseases.
But what is the best reason to eat fruits and vegetables? Because they TASTE so good! Fruits and vegetables are colorful, sweet, pungent, crispy, soft and/or juicy with flavors that play with our palates. Select fruits and vegetable when they are in season because they offer the best flavor when they are at their ripest. Buy from the farmer's market or local farmers to ensure that they are at their ripest. If you buy them at the supermarket on sale, check where they are grown- the closer the better.
Melons are in season now. Melons are large, so how do you use them before they are past their prime?
Here's an idea:
Cut cantaloupe into bite size pieces. Or use a melon ball scoop to make the pieces look nice. Add some fresh blueberries and chopped mint. I like chocolate mint from my garden. Add low fat vanilla yogurt to coat. And you have a fresh side dish, quick after school snack for the kids or a very flavorful breakfast treat.


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Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery - Earl M. Maltz
The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. When the Court decided otherwise, the ruling sent shock waves through the nation and helped lead to the Civil War.
Earl M. Maltz discusses his book Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery and argues that the case revealed a political climate that had grown so threatening to the South that overturning the Missouri Compromise was considered essential.
Maltz is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University – Camden.
Legal Landmarks is co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library, the Truman Library Institute, and the Federal Court Historical Society. The series is funded by grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Legacy Fund with additional support provided by Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP and co-sponsored by the University Press of Kansas and the University of Kansas School of Law.


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Symantec kept up its run of strong quarterly results after market close on Wednesday, thanks to sales of its security and backup products.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (TheStreet -- Symantec(:SYMC) continued its run of strong quarterly results after market close on Wednesday, thanks to sales of its security and storage backup products.
The software maker reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $1.715 billion, an increase of 7% compared to the prior year's quarter, edging past analysts' estimate of $1.71 billion. Excluding items, Symantec earned 42 cents a share in the December-ended period, up from 35 cents in the year-ago quarter, and above Wall Street's forecast of 41 cents a share. Symantec reported strong third-quarter results on Wednesday.
"Through consistent execution of our strategy, we met or exceeded revenue and earnings for the sixth consecutive quarter," said Enrique Salem, the Symantec CEO, in a statement. "With unprecedented information growth and the increasingly toxic threat landscape, customers understand the value of our portfolio and we continue to see good demand for our products and services across all geographies."
Symantec, which competes with McAfee, now part of Intel(:INTC), cited particularly strong demand for its data loss prevention, authentication, managed security services and backup offerings.
For its fiscal fourth quarter ending in March, Symantec expects revenue between $1.72 billion and $1.73 billion and earnings between 41 and 42 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters currently expect revenue of $1.75 billion and earnings of 43 cents a share. Salem, however, told TheStreet that, when adjusted for the effects of currency, the company's guidance is in line with consensus.
Symantec's board also authorized a $1 billion share repurchase program after market close on Wednesday.
Shares of Symantec crept up 9 cents, or 0.53%, to $17.15 in extended trading.
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What happens during an MRI scan?
During an MRI scan, you lie on a flat bed that's moved into the scanner.
Depending on the part of your body being scanned, you'll be moved into the scanner either head first or feet first.
The MRI scanner is operated by a radiographer, who is trained in carrying out imaging investigations.
They control the scanner using a computer, which is in a different room, to keep it away from the magnetic field generated by the scanner.
You'll be able to talk to the radiographer through an intercom and they'll be able to see you on a television monitor throughout the scan.
At certain times during the scan, the scanner will make loud tapping noises. This is the electric current in the scanner coils being turned on and off.
You'll be given earplugs or headphones to wear.
It's very important to keep as still as possible during your MRI scan.
The scan lasts 15 to 90 minutes, depending on the size of the area being scanned and how many images are taken.
Read more about how an MRI scan is performed.
How does an MRI scan work?
Most of the human body is made up of water molecules, which consist of hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
At the centre of each hydrogen atom is an even smaller particle called a proton. Protons are like tiny magnets and are very sensitive to magnetic fields.
When you lie under the powerful scanner magnets, the protons in your body line up in the same direction, in the same way that a magnet can pull the needle of a compass.
Short bursts of radio waves are then sent to certain areas of the body, knocking the protons out of alignment.
When the radio waves are turned off, the protons realign. This sends out radio signals, which are picked up by receivers.
These signals provide information about the exact location of the protons in the body.
They also help to distinguish between the various types of tissue in the body, because the protons in different types of tissue realign at different speeds and produce distinct signals.
In the same way that millions of pixels on a computer screen can create complex pictures, the signals from the millions of protons in the body are combined to create a detailed image of the inside of the body.
An MRI scan is a painless and safe procedure. You may find it uncomfortable if you have claustrophobia, but most people are able to manage it with support from the radiographer.
Going into the scanner feet first may be easier, although this isn't always possible.
Extensive research has been carried out into whether the magnetic fields and radio waves used during MRI scans could pose a risk to the human body.
No evidence has been found to suggest there's a risk, which means MRI scans are one of the safest medical procedures available.
But MRI scans may not be recommended in certain situations. For example, if you have a metal implant fitted, such as a pacemaker or artificial joint, you may not be able to have an MRI scan.
They're also not usually recommended during pregnancy.
Read more about who can and can't have an MRI scan.


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Of September 11, 2001
In the aftermath of September 11th, American Muslim Intelligentsia are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome without even knowing what it is. This is a term in Psychiatry in which the disease manifests when the victim, for example a captive sympathizes with his captors and takes up the cause of the captors or oppressors as his own cause in order to get special privileges. The syndrome was first described after World War II during the trial of war criminals in which captives of war criminals identified themselves and sympathized with their captors and even cooperated with them during concentration camps. Thus, they themselves became the tools of the oppressors, acting on their behalf in order to gain their sympathy and be in their "good book". In more recent days, the syndrome was best manifested by the behavior of Patty Hearst who was kidnapped by SLA and then participated in the theft and violence by SLA while being their captive.
The response of most of the American Muslim Intelligentsia to the tragedy of September 11th is in two extremes, both suffering from the same syndrome. At one extreme is the group most visible on the internet, still working on the conspiracy theory, that is this evil act was done by the work of Mossad, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Militia or the remote control devices blowing up the World Trade Center, completely denying the possibility that it could have been the evil act and plot by Muslim Terrorists. This group did not say enough to the fellow Americans that this act was an attack on humanity and not just on America, an attack on innocent civilians and even on the peaceful religion of Islam. Thus, suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, this group became a manifestation of the disease, identifying themselves with those terrorists who might have done it and even justifying their actions.
On the other extreme is the group of Muslim intelligentsia, who after recovering from the shock of September 11th, suffered from unwarranted guilt complex and became apologetic. After visits by the FBI, they realized that they must make a politically correct statement now in order to save American Islam and their own leadership. Otherwise, they may not get invited again to the White House parties. They had to change their external outlook, tone of speech and writing, and even retracted and regretted their statements given before September 11th against the "super power". Now, some of them are telling the same American Muslim audience, whom they incited before against America that "if you do not like the West, go back to your own country". Another prominent writer wrote, " the Muslims are hypocrites of grand scale, in opposing the oppression by Israel, Serbia and Hindu but when the same acts are done by Al Qaeeda and other Muslim terrorist groups they look the other way". True, but apples and oranges can not be compared. Two wrongs do not make one right and there is no trade off, i.e. we must choose between two types of terrorists, two groups of oppressors and accept state terrorism over the group or individual terrorists. Another group of Muslim intellectuals find someone else to blame rather than accept responsibility. Not too long ago, I was on a public forum at a Town Hall meeting. My other counterpart speaker was an Afghan origin Professor who put all the blame of the recent trouble with the Taliban on Pakistan in creating, training and sponsoring Taliban terrorism. Those who are true students of Taliban history know this is not true fact. Talibans were created and strengthened with the help of CIA and the American government. This Afghan Professor never acknowledged the help given to mujahideens by Pakistan in fighting Russian aggression on Afghanistan. He did not realize that if there was no Pakistan, Russian's would have won their "great game" in very little time and conquered Afghanistan. It was Pakistan who gave sanctuary to mujahideens and helped them with everything that they had to re-arm and regroup themselves to go back to Afghanistan and fight. Again, the psychology of this Professor's mind is nothing but Stockholm Syndrome in order for him to say something to please his captors.
The American media and the Jewish organizations, never a fan of Muslim intelligentsia in the past, are now out to discredit them even more, saying something like his to the State Department policy makers and American people. " Do not believe these American Muslim leaders. Look at what they wrote in the past and said in the National convention of Muslims 2 years ago. Look at what they have actually done themselves to fight terrorism. Look at what they said against the killing of Israeli's like the Cabinet Minister Zeevi or Christian worshipers in a Pakistani church. Do not listen to what they are saying now under the pressure, against Bin Laden or AL-Qaeeda".
Thus, while our leadership is in disarray suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, the average middle class, Mosque going Muslims who run grocery stores, are office workers or students, are totally confused at what they should do or say. Should they side with the Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere or with the super power who is bombing the innocent civilians in hospitals and houses there in order to free the whole world of these terrorists. How can we present Islam to those who stereotype, profile and even attack us? On record are close to 1,000 cases of such hate crimes since September 11th. Is the FBI our friend or our foe? Will our children ever get admission to schools of flight training, biomedical research and nuclear physics or will we ever feel comfortable flying as a passenger in an airplane? Will our women in hijab be able to go shopping without any fear? The joy of being a Muslim in America is gone, at least for now. All the progress we have made in the last 30 years is being reversed. We have to start all over again. How can we live our faith while we work with those who defame it? We American Muslims are going through the most difficult time in our history in this country. These are difficult questions and I have no simple solution to offer. My advise is to the mainstream ordinary American Muslims and not to the intelligentsia and leadership. I hope and pray the latter get healed from Stockholm Syndrome and instill in us our stolen and bruised self esteem. Even if they heal, I'm not sure if they will not relapse again. Many of these leaders, especially those from overseas, tend to live in the past and not in the present. While their bodies are here, their hearts and minds were left behind somewhere else.
I suggest to myself and all ordinary American Muslims to wake up and take charge of our religion as we have to take charge of our families, our health and our lives. We should learn Islam for ourselves as a religion of love, peace and tolerance and prove it by our individual actions. If we want to be counted as American Muslims, we must take all the concerns of Americans, whether terrorism, Anthrax, drugs, violence or even pollution as our own concerns. We must show Islam by their actions, not by speeches, video tapes and pamphlets. We must denounce all those who use religion for their political gain and denounce political powers who wish to abase religion of Islam. Thus, we as ambassadors of Islam, must be careful in what we say and to whom we lend our ears and even our money. We must reclaim our faith from the terrorists who hijacked it and also from the leadership who apologize for them. We did not do anything wrong so we should not have low esteem. Allah has chosen Islam for us and we are thankful for it. As for the question being asked "are you with us or with the terrorists?", we say "we are neither with the terrorists nor with those intent to terrorize us. We are here to stay, vote and participate in the American process and we are neither going back no can we be interned. Make no mistake!"


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Wireless access at the Library is high-speed and free. You can access the Internet throughout both Bloomington and Ellettsville public service areas with a laptop or any other wireless device.
Checklist of What You Need
- A wireless-enabled laptop or other device campatable with WiFi 802-11 wireless standard.
- Built-in networking or an add-on wireless card.
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), usually the automatic--or default--protocol for joining a wireless network.
- Computer configured to operate as a client in a wireless network using a station identifier (SSID) of "MCPL_Wireless".
Configuring Wireless Network Settings
The Library's network is compliant with WiFi standard (IEEE 802.11g or n). Your wireless software should automatically detect the Library's network.
Please note any settings that are already configured in your TCP/IP settings before you change them as you will need the original settings to connect to the Internet when you are away from the Library. The Library is not able to provide technical assistance to you, and there is no guarantee that you will be able to make a wireless connection. If you need assistance, contact the manufacturer of your laptop or device. The Library is not responsible for any changes you make to your computer settings.
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There are several settings that could prevent the laptop from connecting but the computer's proxy setting is the most common reason we usually see when a Patron cannot connect.
To check the proxy settings, open Internet Explorer and click on the gear icon in the top right corner. In that menu select Internet Options.
In the Internet Options menu select the Connections tab at the top and click on the button that says LAN settings.
In the LAN Settings menu make sure automatically detect settings is checked and nothing else like below.
Windows XP
- From Control Panel select "Network and Internet Connections."
- Click "Network and Internet Connections."
- Click "Network Connections."
- Right-click "Wireless Network Connection" and open the Properties for the wireless adaptor.
- Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and elect the Properties button.
- On the General Tab page select "Obtain an IP Address automatically" and "Obtain DNS server address automatically.
- Click OK on the Internet Protocol Properties window and then click OK on the Wireless Network Connection Properties window.
Windows 2000
- Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network and Dial-up Connections.
- Right -click on "Wireless Network Connection" or "Local Area Connection" and select Properties.
- Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click the Properties button. If more than one TCP/IP protocol is listed look for the one associated with your wireless adaptor.
- Select "Obtain an IP address automatically" and "Obtain DNS server address automatically."
- Click OK to close the Properties window and then click OK.
Mac OS X
- Navigate to the Network Panel in System Preferences and choose Wi-Fi. If "Status: Off" displays, click the "Turn Wi-Fi On" buttion. You may then want to quit InternetConnect to close the AirPort dialog box.
- The Location pull-down option should be set to "Automatic".
- In the Network Name pull-down option, choose "MCPL_Wireless".
- Click the "Advanced" button and choose the TCP/IP tab and verify that "Using DHCP" is selected next to "Configure IPv4."
- Click OK to close the Avanced popup, and then click Apply, if needed, and close System Preferences.
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Please read the library's Internet and Computer Use Policy. Wireless use at the library is subject to the same terms and restrictions as use of the library's wired computers.
Wireless networking is insecure. What you send and receive can be intercepted and scrutinized by someone else using a similar device. The Monroe County Public Library assumes no responsibility for the configurations, security, or files on your laptop or other wireless device resulting from connection to the library's network. Information sent to or from your laptop or wireless device can be captured by anyone else with a wireless device and appropriate software.
The Library's wireless network does not use security encoding. This encoding has been demonstrated to be insecure, and it adds complexity to setting up wireless clients.
Some Basic Precautions:
- Use secure websites for transactions.
- Install anti-virus software.
- Log out of a wireless network.
Wireless is not as reliable as wired networks. Wireless networks are subject to interference resulting in loss of transmission
Users of Monroe County Public Library's wireless networking service should be aware that it is possible for other devices to intercept their Internet communications.


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As a marketing professional, you know the importance of branding a product or company. By applying this same strategy, you can use your resume to build your own brand to differentiate yourself from the competition (other job seekers), convey your value (how you benefit employers) and generate results (interviews). Follow these tips.
Use Your Resume as a Marketing Tool
"Marketing professionals must bear in mind that their resume is the most important marketing document they're ever going to write," says Terri Robinson, president of Recruit2Hire.com, a recruiting company specializing in marketing and sales professionals. "By using the same principles of creating a great marketing campaign, they can create a winning resume to stand out from the crowd.
Start with Your Value Statement
Your resume objective should serve as your value statement. Use this section to summarize the key strengths and main value you bring to an employer. "Tell me the highlights of what your career encompasses, and communicate the really significant accomplishments you've delivered for your employers here, and you'll have my attention," Robinson says.
Here's an example of a value-driven summary that incorporates a marketing candidate's top accomplishments:
Fortune 500-experienced marketing manager with an eight-year track record of strategizing and executing sales-driving marketing communications campaigns that have:
Emphasize Benefits, Not Features
"Marketing professionals have a big advantage when it comes to career writing," says Deborah Wile Dib, president of Advantage Resumes of NY. "You know how to market products. You can use the same techniques -- showing benefits, not features -- to market yourself on paper.
Robert Boroff, a recruiter and the managing director of executive recruiter Reaction Search, calls this "selling the sizzle," adding, "When you see fajitas being taken to a table, it's not the steak people are drawn to -- it's the sizzle. Sizzle points create spark and interest from hiring managers.
In Dib's 17-year resume-writing practice, she has found that many marketing job seekers struggle with proving their impact on and value to a business, because they are not in sales. "Yet their efforts drive the success of the sales team or sales process," she points out.
Dib suggests a fundamental shift in the way marketing professionals think about their work. "Today's marketers need to closely track that symbiosis [between their efforts and sales results] and show their quantifiable impact on the business," she says.
Prove Your Value by Quantifying Results
Robinson, Boroff and Dib all agree the most effective way to focus your resume on benefits, prove your value to employers and differentiate yourself from the competition is to use bulleted accomplishment statements showing quantified outcomes. These experts say failure to quantify results on a resume is a common mistake marketing pros make.
"Provide four or five bulleted points under each employer in the experience section of your resume to show what you have achieved for each employer as far as measurable results," says Robinson, who asserts that any marketer -- from entry-level to senior executive -- looking for resume help can use this strategy.
Dib suggests recent marketing graduates use their education and internships to make a case for their potential to perform, while mid- and senior-level marketing job seekers can list on their resumes their marketing and leadership skills, how they've used them and the impact they've had.
Using numbers to quantify your accomplishments will help you avoid succumbing to what Dib calls "the responsibilities trap," where job duties are described in detail, but there is little evidence of specific outcomes provided.
Robinson agrees. You must include specific accomplishments on your resume -- not just 'responsible for…' statements, she says. Spell out the end results you delivered. Did you increase market share by a certain percent? Did you cause revenue to go up by a certain percent? Did you launch an Internet marketing campaign that increased leads to the sales department? Use hard numbers and percentages wherever possible to back up your claims.


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You can bet there will be a host of litigation spawned because of this accident: the death of a Mother, who was survived by her minor children and an adult daughter. But it might not be the lawsuits you're thinking.
Let me explain.
Mom was a passenger in a car. After she died, her oldest daughter made a claim against the driver's insurance company, and the insurance company settled without the daughter even filing suit. She told the insurance company that she was the sole heir of her mother's, and on that basis, the insurance company paid her.
Apparrently someone didn't look too close at Mom's family tree - also known as a Table of Consanguinity. Mom had five other children through a different father. It may be that the oldest daughter didn't know about the other FIVE children, but stranger things have happened. She may also have truly been Mom's only heir - if the other children were written out of the will. It will likely take some time to sort this out.
As you can expect from what I've told you so far and your keen sense of observation (since you know that the insurance company settled only with the oldest daughter), the FIVE children sued the driver, too. What a surprise.
So, when the FIVE children sued, the insurance company said, "Oh no you don't. We already paid the sole heir, and we're not paying you anything." Well, the insurance company didn't say exactly that, but something probably quite a bit like that. The insurance company denied the FIVE children's claim, citing to the One Action Rule. No money was paid to the FIVE children.
Now, if you know anything about the law, you may know about the one-action rule. That rule does provide the insurance company with a solid defense against any further payments to Mom's heirs. But, unfortunately for the insurance company, there are a couple of other elements to the One Action Rule. One of those elements requires the oldest daughter to have sued the insurance company, and then a settlement.
As you know from your keen sense of observation, the oldest daugther did not sue. In fact, the insurance company settled voluntarily.
Those last two facts doomed the insurance company's denial of the FIVE childrens' claim for wrongful death against the driver of the car, and ultimately his insurance company, who will now have to pay the FIVE children.
You can read more about the case (and the One Action Rule) here in the case of Moody, a Minor, etc., et al, v. Bedford, et al, Cal. Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Five, No. B226074 (January 9).
Now about that other litigation.
Yup. You got that right. You can bet the insurance company will be suing the oldest daughter for a refund - assuming she hasn't spent all the settlement money yet.
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Claire Pettibone has blessed us with yet another exquisite bridal collection. Her 2015 "Gothic Angel" collection is filled with gorgeous laces and delicate beadwork. A few unusual choices, like pale blue linings and billowing sleeves, stand out in this collection. My favourite gowns feature Pettibone's signature backless designs, especially the aqua gown with the amazing sheer beaded back panel. She is a master with lace and applique work. These gowns are the stuff that bridal dreams are made of.
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Do you enjoy stalking your friends and family via Apple's Find My Friends app? If you're a regular user of the "Notify Me" feature, which allows you to receive push alerts when a friend arrives or leaves a location of your choosing, you now have more flexibility to decide on the geographic area you wish to be notified about. In other words, you can now set custom-sized geofences for your most stalkable friends.
The change comes via an update to Find My Friends, published late Thursday to the App Store. The main (and only highlighted) feature is a new UI for location-based notifications, which were first introduced to the app in September of 2012. At that time, we pointed out how the Notify Me feature might make a mockery of the word "privacy," as friends can not only see where you are at any given time, but can set notifications—without your knowledge—so they're alerted whenever you enter or exit a certain location. "If you're mad that a friend appears to be at your favorite bar and didn't invite you along, you can set a notification so that you're alerted anytime that friend arrives at that bar in the future so you can brood about it some more."
Now, Apple allows you to take that a step further by customizing the geofence around the location you're trying to monitor. Now, when you tap on the Notify Me button, you can tap on your friend's current location and pinch/zoom in order to expand or contract the geographic area in question. When you do so, a dotted line shows how far you've expanded the bubble.
Another modification to the UI changes the way you search for locations—instead of simply relying on where your stalkee is right now, you can search for other places (such as the airport, or another friend's house) so you receive notifications for that location instead. So go have fun setting up notifications for all your friends—before they all catch on and start blocking you, that is.


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Cumberwell Park Golf Club captain Martin Cooper continued his year of fundraising with a cycling challenge incorporating his love of golf.
Mr Cooper, 61, of Trowbridge set off from Cumberwell on Monday and cycled around nine Wiltshire golf courses, playing one hole at each, before returning to his club to play nine holes.
He was joined by three other riders and cycled 40 miles to raise money for the Cancer Care Campaign at the RUH in Bath and Breast Cancer Campaign, after his wife Sue was diagnosed with cancer.
He said: "It was a great day and there was a terrific reception when we got back. It was great fun changing our shoes, playing a hole at each golf course then changing to cycling shoes."
He is half-way through his year of fundraising and has reached just under £9,000.
To donate, visit http:// uk.virginmoneygiving.com/minicoops61
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