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Jame's Guide Writing Guide
Many guides get submited on wow-pro everyday, but very few are actually good enough to be published. Here are a few guidelines you should follow before you write a guide, I've tried to keep it as short as possible.
Table of Contents
- Choosing a Topic - Step 1
- Choosing a Topic - Step 2
- Creating your Guide
- Spellchecking
- Text Formatting
- Images
- Seperate your Guide into Parts
- Wowhead Tooltips
- Creating a Table of Content
1. Choose the topic of your guide very carefully, ask yourself these questions:
a) Do I have superior knowledge about this topic?
For example, do you think it's a good idea to write a mage guide if you've only played a mage up to level 42 or something?
b) Will my information be helpful to other players?
Don't state the obvious. For example, don't make a 5-liner guide stating "If you want to make gold, go kill mobs and sell what you find. Try to sell things at the AH at the highest possible price". Seriously, who needs such a guide?
In short, try to write a guide about something most people don't already know.
2. Once you've chosen the topic of your guide, don't start writing yet, check the following things first:
a) Did someone already write a guide on this topic? Browse the Guides library to find out.
b) Is someone currently working on a similar project? Check the Needed Guides list to find out.
c) If someone already wrote a guide on this topic, ask yourself this question:
- Will my guide be better than this one? Significantly better? If yes, then go to the next paragraph
- If not, then go back to paragraph 1. and choose a different topic for your guide
3. Create your guide, put it in the right category and start working on it:
You don't have to write and publish your guide in one day, nobody actually cares for an unfinished guide. So if your guide is not finished, don't publish it, choose the "Work in Progress" option before you submit it.
Only you and the admins will be able to see your guide then, until you decide to publish it. Your draft will be easily accessible on the right side of the page. This is how it looks for me:
As you can see, I have a lot of projects going on at the same time and I'm not publishing any of them until they are finished.
Once you're done writing your guide, there are still things you should do to make it worth being published. Please read on.
Run your whole guide through a spell checker. It's easy, just copy the whole text into a word document or in your e-mail program and use the "Check Spelling" option, correct everything and then put the corrected text back in your guide.
==Note== Please do an effort with this. Use proper capitalization, spell the words entirely, nobody likes to read guides full of "ur" "u" "kthx", etc. It doesn't take that much time to write "you", "your" or "you're", and your guide will be of much higher quality if you do this effort.
This is the most important part. Nobody likes to read a big wall of text. You need to add paragraphs, colors, titles, bold text, italic.
For that, you need to use BBcode. It's actually very easy and quick, thanks to a nice little tool I use. It's a Firefox addon called "Text Formatting Toolbar". Here is the link to download it:
If you don't have Firefox, I suggest you download it and install it anyway. It's free and it's better than Internet Explorer. You can still use Internet Explorer as your main browser, even after you install Firefox. Just type "Firefox" in Google, it will be the first search result.
Once you have installed it, you'll have the following toolbar on top of your browser:
As you can see, I'm using it right now as I'm writing this guide. It's extremely easy to use, just like a normal text editing program, you just have to select the text you want to format and then click on the icon.
Now tell me, would you rather have this version of my guide:
Or the one you're currently reading?
I think the answer is clear and it shows how much of an improvement a little bit of text formatting can bring to a guide.
Images are also a nice addition to any guide. Of course, you must not add images for the sake of adding images. They must have a purpose, they must illustrate your content and if possible, make it easier to understand your guide.
Simply go to "File Attachments" and attach the image of your choice:
Once the image is uploaded, copy the link to it:
Then paste the link in your guide, add the following BBCode tags around it:
- [ img ] your.link.here [ / img ] (without the spaces of course)
You can also add the img tag with one click thanks to the text formatting toolbar:
And there you go.
If you are STILL having troubles to upload images, please check this short guide: Nilz' Image Uploading Guide .
==Note== Images must be saved in .JPEG format before you upload them on wow-pro and they must not be too big. The max width of an image should not exceed 600 pixels and if possible, you should try to keep them below 400 pixels. Try to keep the images as small as possible. Images that are too big take a long time to load, take too much space and actually make your guide harder to follow and to print.
7. Seperate your guide into parts
It's quite easy, simply enter the following code and it will add an horizontal ruler. It's great to split your guide into different parts. Here's the code:
- [ hr ] (without the spaces)
First, find the item on wowhead. Copy the URL.
Then simply write down the name of the item in your guide (it doesn't even have to be the name of the item, it can be anything really).
Select that text and click on the "Add code to format text as link" button on the text formatting toolbar (assuming that you have it).
Then simply paste the wowhead URL in the window that pops up.
If you don't have the text formatting toolbar, the code is:
[url = http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39769] Super Cool Weapon [ /url ]
(without the spaces of course)
9. Creating a Table of Content
Jiyambi wrote a very nice guide on how to create a Table of Content. You can't go wrong with it (I used it for this guide ). Here is the link:
Creating a Table of Contents
And that's it!
Once you feel that your guide is ready to be published, change the Guide Status to "Finished"!
I've covered this topic in details in one of my blog articles as well, I encourage you to read it if you want to know why it is important to follow these guidelines.
If you have any other questions or suggestions regarding guide writing, please read our FAQ. If you don't find an answer there, please leave a comment here and I'm sure someone will answer you quickly.
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Installing the Toolbar issues on Firefox
Submitted by Marveleen on Fri, 2013-11-15 17:00.
Hello James,
Tried to install the toolbar you linked above but I couldn't because it said it was incompatible with Firefox 25.0.
Any suggestions?
Jame's post is rather old, I
Submitted by Emmaleah on Mon, 2013-11-25 22:02.
Jame's post is rather old, I expect somewhere there is a new toolbar that does the same thing, but in the mean time, sorry you had challenges and it looks like we need to update content here.
Emmaleah == bravely leading the way since ... um a long time ago...
Submitted by daxinator on Sun, 2010-03-28 20:43.
this answers my question on how write a successful guide like urs
Answered in message, so
Submitted by Jiyambi on Sat, 2010-01-16 03:07.
Answered in message, so other peeps don't answer here.
Also, this should probably be added to the guide itself. Let me know if you have more questions, Cookie
Guide DONE!!
Submitted by yourmama493 on Sun, 2009-05-10 21:02.
I have just finished a guide for the topic
Raid Healing Guide for Beginners
I'm regretful to say that
Submitted by Arkaen on Sun, 2009-04-12 18:33.
I'm regretful to say that Mozilla Firefox is broken on my computer, and so the guide writing bar is not available to me anymore
I STILL don't understand
Submitted by Werepyre on Thu, 2009-03-05 09:19.
I STILL don't understand where do i upload the guide and where to download the toolbar from.Can you help?
The place to download the
Submitted by Jiyambi on Thu, 2009-03-05 10:36.
The place to download the toolbar is linked above, in the section talking about it.
For your other question, can you please be a little more clear? Are you wanting to post a text guide you wrote, or are you talking about Jame's addon guide? I'll try to answer once I get a little more info
Submitted by Werepyre on Thu, 2009-03-05 16:02.
Iwant to post a guide for for druids
In the menu on the right
Submitted by Jahwo on Sat, 2009-03-07 12:50.
In the menu on the right side you should see a link called "Create Content". Click it, and on the next page choose the option "Guide". Everything else is explained in Jame's Guied above.
To install the toolbar
Submitted by Lycander on Tue, 2009-04-07 01:09.
To install the toolbar, you need to be running Firefox. Click the link, and it should try to install the toolbar.
Submitted by Nilz on Sat, 2009-02-21 03:53.
As I was looking through the comments and I noticed a lot of questions about images so i just wanted to clarify that when you are uploading a picture, after you have copied the link into the body and hit preview all you will see is the link, you must first submit the guide then go back to the draft and hit preview and your image should be viewable without having to click a link, also make sure that your picture has no funny characters in it's saved name (e.g. ', #, %, etc. because this will make the link void, and don't put any spaces in the name either.
Go Horde ...Alliance
Submitted by Brune on Tue, 2009-01-20 06:54.
With images, although this site has its own image hosting, if I want to use something from another website (say, WoWWiki) but I don't want to chew up their bandwidth without giving them traffic, I can't recommend the Imageshack toolbar, which automatically hosts piccies from other websites onto imageshack, too much. plus nothing will happen to you if they change your image to something... less suitable xD
It's great for quick, guilt free hotlinking =D
EDIT: Oh, firefox only.
The image hosting from
Submitted by Brune on Thu, 2009-01-22 01:24.
The image hosting from WoW-Pro is great for uploading screenshots from WoW, but if I wanted a picture of say the Brother from the Winter Veil achievement on the Zeppellin from a guide, I could go to Wowwiki and get his picture, as opposed to trekking up to Northrend, killing myself, ghosting, then rezzing on the ship. Now, I could of course link directly to Wowwiki's image of him, but that's considered bad form, because I'm using their bandwidth and not giving them any traffic. Also, the picture may eventually become changed or removed completely, leaving an ugly red cross on the guide.
With the Imageshack toolbar, I simply right click on say, your account image and upload it to image shack instantly, as opposed to saving it on my computer and then uploading it onto Wow-pro from there.
BTW, what software do you guys use for editing your piccies?
Hmm, I hadn't heard about
Submitted by Brune on Thu, 2009-01-22 02:28.
Hmm, I hadn't heard about that bandwidth limit, and I've never encountered it. I'll have another look at it, though.
Each to their own, I suppose.
No chance of an instant wow-pro host, for obvious reasons, though
I'm all for grabbing free new technology off the internet, and I'm all for open source, so I think I'll continue to use it, since it's great, fast and easy.
Do you know what the bandwidth limit is, btw?
I can understand you being adverse to this, since presumably there's a bit of time and cost gone into allowing image hosting on here and all the users appreciate it, but I'd recommend giving it a little go and seeing if you're not converted to some of its uses, at least.
I don't really support
Submitted by Manovan on Thu, 2009-01-22 01:28.
I don't really support linking to pictures from wowhead or thottbot or whatever because there are other people who have taken the pictures and they should be aware of when they are being used, especially in public content like a guide (even if it is only a picture from a computer game). Try to have your own pictures as much as you can. If you can't get the picture by yourself, ask someone else or at least write the name/alias of the person who has snapped the shot.
I said Wowwiki for a reason
Submitted by Brune on Thu, 2009-01-22 02:07.
I said Wowwiki for a reason
Mmm, opensaucey!
If someone is posting an image onto Wowwiki, they're accepting it's use for the betterment of humankind, in a completely uncontrollable way. IMO. But I'll read wowwiki's small print and check.
Plus, when I use it for other things, it has an instant take-a-screenshot-and-post-to-imageshack option.
Personally, I think you should get it for other options even if you don't use it for Wow-pro.
I just mentioned since I have it, and find it useful.
EDIT: oh, you can also drag a photo into text. Seriously, I click on Jame's picture (nearest one) drag it in, format image tags and hey presto.
Instant imagery.
While I agree with Manovan's
Submitted by Jiyambi on Sat, 2009-02-21 04:08.
While I agree with Manovan's sentiment, all screenshots are actually property of Blizzard and no website can "own" them. For pretty generic pics or models, I have no qualms of stealing them (such as map backgrounds). For stuff people obviously put work into or is somehow special, I think it's polite to ask or at least acknowledge them in your guide. No it's not the law, it's just common courtesy.
Good I recall thinking I'd
Submitted by Brune on Sat, 2009-02-21 07:02.
I recall thinking I'd read that somewhere, but I could never find out where. You may want to make a post in Manovan's Grand Theft Photo thread, too, about this
Rep colours
Submitted by Brune on Mon, 2009-01-19 02:54.
I'm just doing the text formatting for my bloodsail guide, but I can't seem to find out the hex values of wowwiki's colours. Anyone know how?
Hmm, alright. Just got it.
Submitted by Brune on Mon, 2009-01-19 06:34.
Hmm, alright.
Just got it. I wish I'd done that before the (excessive) linkage I'd done on the guide. Better late than never.
Pictures in Guides
Submitted by Tenebrosity on Sat, 2009-01-03 02:33.
Hey Jame,
This guide is great. I am writing a guide of all the locations of the Elders for the Lunar Festival at the moment, and this guide has helped a lot. I am trying to add images to my guide, and I am following the instructions on how to add images from your guide. Whenever I use the Text Formatting Toolbar to add the code to insert an image, it creates a link that leads to the picture. Is there a way for me to put the picture right in the guide as you have done in your leveling guides? Thanks for any help.
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Never Mind...
Submitted by Tenebrosity on Sat, 2009-01-03 07:42.
So, I am either an idiot or the Text Formatting Toolbar hates me. I went to insert two other maps into my guide, and they showed up right in my guide. So, I went back to the link I had trouble with and re-did it. It worked...so either I did the link wrong the first time, or Text Formatting Toolbar had a little glitch. Either way, it worked out.
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Hey, a veery little
Submitted by Jahwo on Fri, 2008-12-19 21:06.
a veery little improvement for your awesome guide: you could use the [notag] [/notag] tags for the tags you use. So you don't have to write them with the spaces
Image in guide
Submitted by Shadowy on Thu, 2008-12-18 15:34.
Hey Jame, I'm experimenting with a priest guide (because there isn't one atm ) and when I tried to upload an image and preview it, it doesn't show. Is this normal?
Yes, this is perfectly
Submitted by Shikamaru on Thu, 2008-12-18 16:58.
Yes, this is perfectly normal. You can't see images when you click on the 'preview' button, it will only show the code .
Firefox only (Explorer?)
Submitted by Maw on Mon, 2009-01-05 23:26.
Might wanna add that this is a problem that only occurs when using Mozilla Firefox (Internet Explorer aswell?). If you want to be able to preview your images, you can use the internet browser Opera when adding these.
Submitted by whatsever on Wed, 2008-12-17 21:04.
Thanks! I have downloaded Firefox my browser is faster then ever!!!
Thanks Jame and other people who gave me info !!!
Whastever you said i will keep it in mind = )
Submitted by whatsever on Mon, 2008-12-15 22:05.
Hi love this guide!
But i wanted to write a guide , I have multiple questions to ask you ...
What if you can't install firefox?
Could i still make the guide?
Is it a safe explorer to download?
Please could you help me ?
Please could you get back to me i would really appreciate it thanks...
From W H A T S E V E R
Whastever you said i will keep it in mind = )
Firefox (with the noScript
Submitted by Puli on Tue, 2008-12-16 16:57.
Firefox (with the noScript addon) is one of the safest browsers there is. Without the addon it is still safer than IE.
Forgetting the wonderful
Submitted by Maw on Mon, 2009-01-05 23:28.
Forgetting the wonderful Opera?
What about Google Chrome?
Submitted by xate on Thu, 2009-01-08 19:29.
What about Google Chrome?
Submitted by Skumball on Tue, 2008-12-16 01:34.
Firefox is probably the best browser available, it's available to download here. And it's 100% free
You can make a guide without using Firefox, or even if you have Firefox, without the toolbar addon for it. You can do this very easily. It's just that getting Firefox and this addon will enable you to do this to a more effective level... Plain old text vs. Jame's and the rest of the gang's amazing looking guides... Which is the more attractive version? You can also do this anyway without Firefox or the toolbar if you have some knowledge of BBCode, though with this addon it automatically generates the required code for you upon a click of teh button and you get to see exactly what code does what, thus enabling you to learn it yourself
Hope this provides some answer to your question
- Skumball
Thank you! And, typo...
Submitted by puxohe on Sun, 2008-12-07 03:44.
Thank you for the guide Jame!
I'm not a good speller so I feel sort of hypocritical, but I found a typo.
In section five, formatting is spelled with 1 "t" a few times.
Thanks again!
Also I found a web page that hepled me use a lot of rich colors with BBcode. Hexadecimal Color Values, go there and find a color you like, and then to the right grab the code and use these tags: [ color=#(code) ][ /color ] (No spaces, of course.)
Example- [ color=#FF7F50 ]This one is called "coral".[ /color ] = This one is called "coral".
Nice, I like it myself.
Submitted by Arkaen on Thu, 2008-12-18 06:36.
Nice, I like it myself. Will use this in the future!
What tags do you use for
Submitted by Frell on Wed, 2008-12-03 18:47.
What tags do you use for your headers?
Dutch guides
Submitted by Rebecca Wicked ... on Wed, 2008-12-03 12:05.
Heya Jame,
I've been using your guides as of lately and enjoyed them a lot. Thought of contributing by translating some of the newest 70 - 80 guides in Dutch (eitherway while waiting for the servers to get back up on wednesdays and the kids being to school anyways }:)). I looked into your translated guides section and there were really poor guides in em - poor Dutch language, typo's, only half translated.
Maybe it would be better to delete those (f.e. Profession gids voor beginners) as it doesn't do your great name and self written amazing guides any good.
I'm pretty good at writing myself if I may say so and I'll give the new guides a shot. You'll hear from me soon Thank you for all your hard work!
The Wicked Warlock of the West
The Wicked Warlock of the West
Hey Jame, great guide! I'm
Submitted by Arkaen on Wed, 2008-12-03 01:38.
Hey Jame, great guide! I'm probably going to use the information to actually "Create a guide," whatever that means. The Text-Formatting Toolbar is awesome, so I'm glad you linked it to us.
Thanks for the information, Jame
Submitted by Belirahc on Mon, 2008-12-01 17:04.
I know I am late in saying thanks, but better late than never. I did not know about the text formatting toolbar either, and that will make it much easier with the BBC code. I've finished a large part of my draft by typing in the code by hand before I checked out your guide. Kind of wish I had done that first now. >.<.
Anyway, thanks again. ^_^
Awesome as always
Submitted by Jiyambi on Wed, 2008-11-05 01:41.
This is an awesoem guide (as yours always are Jame), I never knew about the Firefox add-on, I will get that ASAP!
You might want to add a note about wiki pages for group projects or the option of using wiki formatting (though it seems like some of the wiki formatting I am used to from WoWWiki is not available here).
Maybe not about the
Submitted by Jiyambi on Wed, 2008-11-05 04:29.
Maybe not about the formatting, now that I think of it. But I think it would be cool to let people know that they can make group projects if they want to (like Shikamaru and I are). So just a blurb at the top when you are talking about them choosing a topic etc - maybe say if the topic is a large or complex one they may want to make it a wiki so others can add to the guide. Or not, its not particularly important either way
Submitted by Benhir on Thu, 2008-10-09 18:56.
Thanks for this guide, Jame. Hope that most of guides writers read this and hurry to change their works in order to make them better.


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Let Bashar be your guide: A day in Ramallah, Palestine
You promise to meet at the Palestine bank at four but chances are you will late and at the wrong bank. Start looking at the one in the main manara square and then move downwards to downtown.
Once you find the right bank of Palestine, get in the car that is waiting.
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Described in Tagalog and Bicolano folklore as a small bald-headed goblin with small horns, sharp teeth, pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, and disproportionate legs (the left leg is shorter while the right one in unusually longer), the tiyanak disguises itself as a baby abandoned in the forest or in the field. It wails loudly to attract a passerby and when picked up it sheds its disguise like a snake shedding its old skin, revealing its true form, and kills the victim by biting and mauling.
Various speculations on how the tiyanak came to be range from babies born dead in the forest to the Catholic-influenced unbaptized stillborn infants, and later extended to vengeful murdered infants and aborted fetuses.
Belief in the tiyanak may have originated from the patianak of the Mandaya tribe in Mindanao, when Islam started to spread north before the arrival of the Spanish. The ancient natives in the south revered the patianak as a lesser nature spirit associated with the soil and rice fields similar to the nuno sa punso of the Tagalogs. With its name meaning "lord child", offerings during planting and harvesting seasons were made in rice fields in honor of the patianak to ensure the health of the crops and a bountiful harvest. Those who passed by an area believed to be inhabited by the creature whispered excuses for safe passage or risk being assaulted by its diminutive inhabitant.
The image of the tiyanak gradually changed in Luzon. From a semi-benevolent being, the northern version – also known as patianak in some parts of Bicol and Pampanga – was portrayed in most tales as a fiendish blood-sucker and man-eater in the forest. With the arrival of Catholicism, the creature became a demon and tormentor of those who refused the Catholic faith. Later, the tiyanak was believed to be a demon child or the monstrous offspring of a demon and a woman, referred to as impakto or impaktito.
Interestingly, it could also be possible that belief in the tiyanak might have been influenced if not introduced by Spanish missionaries, especially those from Mexico, who were intent on converting the natives into Catholics. The Aztecs of Mexico believed in a small creature called chaneque (sounds familiar, right?). According to stories the chaneque looked like small, wrinkly old men and women who lurked in the jungle. These creatures, both feared and revered, were notorious for stealing the souls of those who strayed into their domain. The only way to recover the soul is for the victim to undergo a specific ritual, otherwise he will fall ill and die. The chaneque were also known to lead people astray, making the victims wander mindless around the jungle for days. When the conquistador Hernan Cortez finally subdued the Aztecs, the belief in the chaneque was modified by the friars to sway the natives into Catholic faith. They speculated that a chaneque was the result of the devil possessing an unbaptized stillborn child, causing it to return as a child demon that preyed on those who wandered into the jungle – a speculation shared by Filipino belief. Later it was believed that in order to escape the chaneque one must wear his shirt inside-out – a practice also popular in Philippine folklore.
With the exception of the tiyanak's ability to disguise itself as a baby, some striking similarities with the chaneque suggest a possible link between the two creatures.
Related creatures
Aside from the patianak, there are other similar creatures in southern Philippine folklore associated with the tiyanak. The muntianak of the Bagobos, whose name means "small child" is the spirit of a child who died while still in the womb during childbirth. After coming back to life as a hideous little creature, it makes the forest its home and harasses or kills those who pass by.
The Tagakalao tribe of Davao believe in the mantianak, a bearded incarnation of an infant who, together with its mother, died during childbirth in the forest. It makes the forest its home and wails mournfully from time to time. Pregnant women who hear its wails suffer miscarriage. In some parts of Mindanao the mantianak is believed to be the vengeful spirit of a woman who died during the late period of her pregnancy. This wraith retains its female form but has a hole or slit in her belly where her unborn child is tucked in. Blaming men for her untimely demise, she exacts revenge by attacking any man at night, mauling him and ripping off the victim's penis or testicles. This particular belief probably came from the south in Malaysia where the mantianak is believed to be an avenging ghost of a woman who died while giving birth.
A creature almost similar to the later version of the mantianak is the viscera-eating pontianak of Indonesian folklore. A pontianak is described as the vampiric ghost of a woman who died while pregnant. She disguises herself as a beautiful woman only to kill, mutilate, and even devour the men who approached her. High-pitched cries of a baby along with a fragrance followed by an awful stench indicate her presence.
Demetrio, Francisco. The Flood Motif and the Symbolism of Rebirth in Filipino Mythology. In Dundes, Alan (ed.) The Flood Myth, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1988.
Kintanar, Thelma B. & Associates. U.P. Cultural Dictionary for
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Ramos, Maximo D. The Creatures of Midnight. Phoenix Publishing, 1990


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Number of the Week: The Economics of Obesity
29.5% — Percentage of population 20 and over who are obese
America's spare tire keeps growing. This year, 29.5% of the U.S. population over 20 was obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from 21.8% in 2000. That's creating not just a big health problem for the country, but a big economics one.
Economists John Cawley at Cornell University and Chad Meyerhoefer at the Lehigh University have estimated that annual cost of treating obesity in the U.S. accounts for as 16.5% of national spending on health care.
Higher health costs are just the start. Research at Shell Oil Co., for example, found that obese employees missed 3.7 days of work compared to normal-weight coworkers. Shanjun Li of Cornell, Yanyan Liu of the World Bank and Junjie Zhang the University of California San Diego found that higher obesity rates increase people's predilection for bigger, less fuel efficient cars, increasing the country's energy tab.
If current trends continue, nearly half of the U.S. adults will be obese by 2020, calculate Harvard University economists David Cutler and Susan Stewart with University of Michigan medical researcher Allison Rosen. That would overrun the positive health effects of the continued decline in smoking.
But even though obesity is a growing problem, it doesn't seem to be registering with many Americans. In a Gallup poll conducted in November, 29% of respondents said they weighed more than 200 pounds. That compared to 15% in a similar poll from 1990. But the share of people who considered themselves very overweight or somewhat overweight fell from 48% in 1990 to 39% this year.


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Dear visitor.Welcome to the new internet pages of the town of Baumholder and thank you for your interest.
The garrison town of Baumholder offers its 4,300 residents an attractive environment in which to reside, work and live. Baumholder is the largest town and the administrative seat of the like-named district with a total of 14 towns. The city´s image has been and continues to be greatly influenced by the adjacent German Military Training Area with their facilities as well as the US military forces and their families.
Discover on these internet pages what the town has to offer for its own citizens. Learn about the day-to-day life with the military and the American citizens around the military training area; find out about the long-term partnership between Baumholder and its French partner city, Warcq, in the Ardennes Forest.
Just last year, Baumholder established a partnership with the sister city of Delaware, Ohio.
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Kinxct Ray - A Kinect for Windows v2 X-Ray
Today's project is from Friend of the Gallery, Tango Chen, who's now turning his eye toward the Kinect for Windows v2 with this inspirational post
Kinxct Ray – Turn the New Kinect v2 Sensor Into an X-Ray Machine
This is my first Kinect 2.0 project.
I downloaded a free 3D model on the web.
It's all done in 2 days by using Unity3D.
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Although commonly known as 'King David's hapr', the bèguèna is not actually a member of the harp family: it is in fact an oversized lyre with ten stirngs, either plucked or strummed with a plectrum. It is probably the oldest instrument played in Ethiopia. Alèmu Aga, an undisputed master of the bèguèna, sings religious songs as well as traditional fables, folk tales and his own poems. Meditative, devotional or uplifting for some, simply "mind-blowing" for others, bèguèna music is without doub(t and otherwordly experience for Western ears.
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Tanya Kostynuk is one of those teachers who just radiates fun and happiness, which is also how she defines her stamping style. She has three objectives when teaching classes: (1) that her students have the most fun they will have all day, (2) that they have plenty of time to finish their projects, and (3) that there is plenty of coffee available. She feels that depending on the day, number 3 is usually the key to number 1 and number 2.
Tanya attended college on an art scholarship but then became a business major and earned her MBA. She was introduced to stamping by a friend in 2004 through a home-based company and was hooked! Later that year, she opened her own store and operated it until 2017 when the lease was up.
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Shell makes FID for Vito development in Gulf of Mexico
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has made the final investment decision for Vito, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with a forward-looking, break-even price estimated to be less than $35 per barrel.
This decision sets in motion the construction and fabrication of a new, simplified host design and subsea infrastructure, Shell said in a statement on Tuesday.
Located over four blocks in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico, the Vito development will consist of eight subsea wells with deep (18,000 feet) in-well gas lift.
According to the company, Vito is expected to reach peak production of approximately 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day. The development currently has an estimated, recoverable resource of 300 million boe.
"With a lower-cost developmental approach, the Vito project is a very competitive and attractive opportunity industry-wide," said Andy Brown, Shell Upstream Director.
In 2015, Shell began to redesign the Vito project, reducing cost estimates by more than 70% from the original concept. Shell explained that Vito's cost savings are due to the simplified design, in addition to working collaboratively with vendors in a variety of areas including well design and completions, subsea, contracting, and topsides design.
The Vito development is owned by Shell Offshore (63.11% operator) and Statoil USA E&P Inc. (36.89%); the field is located beneath more than 4,000 feet of water, approximately 150-miles southeast of New Orleans.
Vito will be Shell's 11th deep-water host in the Gulf of Mexico and is currently scheduled to begin producing oil in 2021.


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Central Valley Showdown Volume II Results
The Central Valley Showdown - Volume II, took place on Friday, March 1st, 2013 in the Regency Room at the International Catering Company on 4277 N. West Avenue in Fresno. Live professional boxing showcase boxers hungry to put their skills to the test and entertain fight fans around The Valley.
Dale Morris, promoter of One World Boxing, promised an evening of excitement and he delivered.
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The traditional TV advertising model is well established. Many still consider it completely separate from the fast-moving world of digital media buying. But new technologies, as well as changes in how people interact with TV content, have started to bring these worlds together. Programmatic TV ad buying is becoming a new standard in TV advertising.
New Technology and Viewing Habits Paved the Way
Most people used to watch TV via cable or satellite set top boxes. Now, more and more (especially millenials and younger audiences) are switching to digital TVs like Apple TV. They're also watching programs across multiple platforms and devices. This creates a huge opportunity for media buyers. There's a direct digital "pipe" to viewers providing a large set of audience data. This pipe is expanding in size and complexity every day. Advertisers can use this wealth of data—viewer location, income levels, viewing habits, and more—to serve targeted ads via automated systems. With programmatic TV ad buying, instead of buying ads based on rough assumptions about which people will watch certain programs, advertisers can buy the audience most likely to respond.
TV and Programmatic Buying Right Now
Buying TV ads programmatically isn't just speculation. It's already here. Did you know that a Super Bowl spot was bought programmatically this year? Mondelez, the parent company of Oreo cookies, used programmatic technology to purchase a 15-second spot that aired in Pennsylvania. Mondelez saw the writing on the wall. Buying TV ads based on show ratings and hoping the right viewers tune in might've worked well enough in the past, but it's becoming an unsustainable business model thanks to ever-growing competition from digital channels (like online video) and new ad-buying methodologies (like programmatic).
Although there's still much to be refined, plenty of advertisers are already reaping the benefits of buying TV spots via automated systems instead of manual negotiations with sales reps.
The Advantages of Buying TV Ads Programmatically
Programmatic buying empowers advertisers to buy TV spots based on projected and/or historical view audience data. This is truly a paradigm shift. Instead of relying on a content-only approach, advertisers can buy access to the specific group of viewers most likely to respond to their ads. Thanks to automated platforms, it's also much easier to find the audience and/or content you'd like to target. It's like using an online search engine instead of flipping through pages in the Yellowbook.
Once you place and run programmatic TV ads, they generate a lot of valuable data. You get detailed audience data for validation purposes and true verifications that your ad spots ran. Buying TV ads programmatically also offers real-time reporting and optimization. Instead of waiting weeks for performance metrics, you can find out right away how your campaign is doing and use automated algorithms to improve campaign performance.
Finally, prices of programmatic TV ads are competitive: equivalent to ads bought via manual negotiations. They'll decrease going forward as market forces take over. More major players will follow ESPN, Cox Media, and TubeMogul's decisions to make inventory available for programmatic buys.
Looking Ahead
Ad prices will decrease as more inventory becomes available for programmatic TV buys. Increased transparency of supply-side data will refine buyers' abilities to target viewers and make the most of lower prices. The audience-buying paradigm creates valuable opportunities for buyers. Imagine a single TV spot running different ads in different households or TV sets based on viewing habits and demo data—or even running different ads to different devices within the same household. This granular targeting isn't just possible. It's inevitable.
Currently, programmatic TV ads are bought for future ad spots. But this will change, and soon ad slots will be available for almost real-time placement and tracking. You'll be able to split-test different versions of ads and receive an almost immediate data response.
A New Skill-Set for Success
Buying programmatically will connect you with the right people no matter which TV programs they watch or which device they use to do it. You'll be able to do this much more efficiently than negotiating with sellers manually. In just a few years, the skills needed for successful media placements in the TV world will mirror what it takes to succeed in the paid search or display advertising world now. Marketers with a focus on audience-based buying, making data-driven decisions, and a commitment to real-time optimization will win the day. There's no better time than now to get on board.


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See an NHS GP by Video with LIVI
Patients registered at St David's can now see an NHS GP by video using the LIVI app. See an NHS GP by video for medical advice, prescriptions or referrals.
Get the LIVI app in the app store or visit www.livi.co.uk
Appointments are available from:
Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm
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It is now even easier for people to make an appointment with a GP, thanks to a new national 'extended access' initiative, which will improve access to primary care services in North West Surrey.This means, in addition to being able to book GP appointments at your local practice, you will also have access to additional appointments during the evenings and at weekends at four locations across the local area.
The extra appointments are being provided by the GP federation that brings together all 40 GP practices in the local area and is known as North West Surrey Integrated Care Services.
By working together in a new and different way local GP practices will be improving access to primary care appointments, making it even easier for local people to get the care and advice they need, at a time that's convenient to them.These additional appointments will be available from 6-9pm on weekday evenings (including bank holidays) and from 9am to midday at weekends. Patients can book these appointments through their local GP practice.As these extra appointments are provided from three GP surgeries in the area and The Bedser Hub in Woking, the GP or clinician will have access to your medical record, with your consent, giving them access to all the information they would need to provide the best possible care.
The additional appointments will be provided at the following locations – and patients in North West Surrey can book appointments at any of these sites:
The Red Practice – Walton Health Centre (Rodney Road, Walton-on-Thames, KT12 3LB)
Studholme Medical Centre (50 Church Road, Ashford, TW15 2TU)
Sunbury Health Centre (Green Street, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 6RH)
The Bedser Hub, Woking Community Hospital (Heathside Road, Woking, GU22 7HS)
Initially, these extra appointments will be provided by local GPs but from October there are plans to extend this service to also include nurse-led clinics, blood tests, physiotherapy assessments and digital consultations (which includes online face to face consultations via a patient smartphone).
For more information about this new service and the North West Surrey Integrated Care Services federation see https://www.nicsfed.co.uk/
The practice complies with data protection and access to medical records legislation. Identifiable information about you will be shared with others in the following circumstances:
If you do not wish anonymous information about you to be used in such a way, please let us know.
Reception and administration staff require access to your medical records in order to do their jobs. These members of staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the medical staff.
Information about the General Practitioners and the practice required for disclosure under this act can be made available to the public. All requests for such information should be made to the practice manager.
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and Access to Health Records Act, individuals have the right to access their personal data. Individuals can make a subject access request verbally or in writing, such requests should be made at reception. We cannot charge a fee to deal with a request in most circumstances. We have one month to respond to a request.
We make every effort to give the best service possible to everyone who attends our practice.
However, we are aware that things can go wrong resulting in a patient feeling that they have a genuine cause for complaint. If this is so, we would wish for the matter to be settled as quickly, and as amicably, as possible.
To pursue a complaint please contact the practice manager who will deal with your concerns appropriately. Further written information is available regarding the complaints procedure from reception.
The NHS operate a zero tolerance policy with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons. Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse which leads to fear for a person's safety. In this situation we will notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patient's medical records the fact of the removal and the circumstances leading to it.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Carly Telford to launch world-first Women's Glove
Media are invited to speak to England and Notts County goalkeeper Carly Telford at the launch of the first-ever women's goalkeeping glove, designed specifically for women.
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Cassper Nyovest – Check On You ft. Davido. In the wake of advancing a few singles off the 2017 collection Thuto, Cassper Nyovest has discharged another potential tune of the year close by Nigerian whiz Davido in a tune entitled Check On You, delivered by Nigerian maker Fresh.
The tune was recorded in South Africa and Nigeria over the previous weeks and signs the finish of the Thuto period, a collection whose accomplishments have stayed disputable.
Davido is the most sizzling music property in his nation and any reasonable person would agree Cass is likewise the most smoking in Mzansi. Keep an eye on You is the thing that the two signed in the stall.
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Ever since Apple graced its devices with third-party extensions and released the larger-sized iPhone 6 Plus, Android diehards have had less weapons to wield in the great war of why we should all join their favorite platform. Going by Apple's track record, one weapon that Android fans will get to wield for a long time is the ability to load just about anything on their device, including software of questionable legality like emulators. For Apple fans that don't travel the jailbroken route, getting an emulator on an iPhone requires lying in wait, keeping an ever watchful eye on the App Store. This holiday season, those looking to play ROMs on an iPhone got a chance.
Floppy Cloud, a new NES and SNES emulator, made its way to the iOS App Store, but what sets it apart is the timeframe in which it was released. It's well-known in the mobile tech world that the App Store review team takes a holiday vacation, and iTunes essentially freezes until that vacation ends. Normally, an emulator gets pulled from the App Store almost immediately after it has been discovered, but the Christmas vacation usually extends that shelf time. Floppy Cloud didn't get a few days, but it did get a full day — longer than most sneaky emulators get to bask in the glow of the App Store.
The emulator pretends to be a file management app, and technically it is — it just comes with the ability to "manage" ROMs in such a way where you can play them. Floppy Cloud connects to Dropbox, which just so happens to be where you can store .nes and .smc files, and it turns out Floppy Cloud can run them.
Clever ruse, but it was discovered and Apple pulled it a couple of hours ago. It might've lasted throughout the vacation, but the news quickly spread today due to the slow holiday news cycle, and that likely alerted Apple to its existence.


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We have family coming to visit in the next couple of days from out-of-state and I've cleaned up the devastation caused from the tornado (3 teenage boys) that hit over the summer. I'm pleased to report that I've actually been rather happy with the progress of restoring the house back to its former glory. In the
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I met Natalia & Jeff two days before their destination wedding, at their engagement session at Old San Juan. They surprised me when they told me they've never been to Puerto Rico before, even while planning their wedding. So I did a very special morning tour for them. We certainly had fun and it was just the perfect ice breaker for their wedding day.
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Garrett Harris names five favorite roles
Garrett Harris 12:30 p.m., Feb. 14
Kevin Koch: Drums | Mark Hunter: Bass guitar | Tommy Aros: Percussion | Evan Marks: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric) | Allan Philips: Keyboards
Genre: Jazz
RIYL: Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, the Yellowjackets, Neon
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Inception: San Diego, 1984
Ex-Band Members: Hollis Gentry, Saxophone Carl Evans, Keyboards Steve Laury, Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric)
Influences: Larry Carlton, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Fusion Orchestra, the Yellowjackets, Larry Coryell, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barry White, Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderly, Dave Valentin, Clark Terry, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Luis Miguel
Hollis Gentry had a formidable rep as a sax player during his high school years at Crawford High, where his classmates included bassist Gunnar Biggs and drummer Hartwell "Skipper" Raggsdale, the undertaker's son who wore a different suit and tie to class every day of the week. For their jazz band, Nathan East (he would eventually join the bands of both Eric Clapton and Phil Collins) also played bass, and a young Carl Evans joined on piano.
In 1969, Gentry helped found the local funk band Power -- alongside Nathan East, Carl Evans, Jr., and Skipper Ragsdale -- going on to tour with Barry White, Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, Joe Sample, David Benoit, and Larry Carlton, among others.
Fattburger was founded in 1984 by Hollis Gentry and Carl Evans, Jr., along with bassist Mark Hunter, guitarist Steve Laury, and drummer Kevin Koch. Gentry was replaced in 1986 by Tommy Aros (the Luis Miguel band), while Laury was replaced in 1990 by Evan Marks.
Although Gentry's full-time role with the group was relatively short, the connection remained strong. He appears on nearly all of the first fourteen band albums, including the 2004 release Work to Do.
It's a testament to the band's affection for Gentry that even though he had long ceased to be a full-time band member, his picture still appeared on the bio page of the band website. By the end of the decade, he was helming his own band, Neon, which would release a self-titled album on the Nova label in 1989, as well as touring as a hired gun behind Al Jarreau, Larry Carlton, Stanley Clarke, Joe Sample, and more.
Hollis Gentry died in the fall of 2006. After Evans died in April 2008 from complications related to diabetes, he was replaced by keyboardist Allan Philips, who made his live debut with Fattburger in late June, 2009.


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Reducing outdoor water use has become a top priority in communities across North America. Whether driven by drought, population growth or crumbling infrastructure, many water providers are struggling to balance static supplies against increasing demand. At the same time, as much as half of water used for landscape irrigation is lost or wasted due to improper irrigation system design, installation and maintenance.
As part of its efforts to promote outdoor irrigation efficiency and water conservation, Smart Water Application Technologies partners with water purveyors to introduce SWAT, and promote a consistent "brand" and creative approach to educate the public.
A variety of customizable flyers have been developed to help agencies launch their own "smart" water initiatives. Rather than investing time and resources in creating these materials from scratch, water purveyors can focus their attention on developing the rebates and other incentives that are critical to ensure market acceptance.
Before launching your "smart" irrigation initiative, maximize your success with these three steps:
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Senior Living in 17532 (Holtwood, PA)
Surrounding zip codes: 17565, 17518, 17560, 17516, 17584, 17302, 17314, 17566, 17563, 17309
The SeniorScore™ is calculated based on over 100 variables, some of which are shown below. The final score is curved based on a linear curving method. For More info visit senioradvice.com/seniorscore.
SeniorScore™ Overview
- 17532 scores the same as the Holtwood, PA average of 68.
- 17532 scores lower than the Pennsylvania average of 75.
- 17532 scores lower than the national average of 72.
Health & Safety
- There is a very low number of Medicare registered physicians within close range.
- There are no hospitals nearby.
- There are 20 senior living facilities in the area, including Country View Manor, Willow View Home, and Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community.
- There are 2 home healthcare providers operating in the area.
- There are 11 fire stations in close proximity.
- The average life expectancy is 78.5, compared to the national average of 78.6.
- There are 20 pharmacies within short driving distance.
Recreation & Leisure
- The area has an average percent of seniors (23% of the total population).
- There are 45 golf courses nearby, including Tanglewood Manor Golf Club, Pilgrim\'s Oak Golf Course, and Crossgates Golf Course.
- There are 2 parks nearby (Susquehannock State Park and Yogi Bear\'s Jellystone Park™ Camp-Resort Quarryville, PA).
- There are 38 churches nearby, including Mount Nebo United Methodist, New Providence Church of God, and New Providence Mennonite Chr.
- The area has a low number of malls and/or shopping centers.
- The area has an average number of grocery stores and/or markets.
- The area has an average number of movie theatres.
- The area has a high number of health clubs / fitness studios.
- The property taxes average 4.01% of total income, which is very high compared to the national median.
- The property taxes average 1.43% of total property value, which is high compared to the national median.
- The sales tax rate is 7.00%, which is medium compared to the national median.
- Pennsylvania has a low average state income tax rate of 3.07%.
- The area has an average household income of $69,492, which is in the top 29% of all incomes in the US.
- The area has a median household income of $60,694, which is in the top 25% of all incomes in the US.
- The area has a per capita income of $24,357, which is in the top 44% of all per capita incomes in the US.
- Assisted living costs average $56,700 per year, which are very high compared to national figures.
- Nursing home costs average $128,936 per year, which are very high compared to national costs.
- Adult daycare costs average $15,860 per year, which are low compared to national numbers.
- Home healthcare costs average $49,192 annually, which are high compared to national costs.
- The unemployment rate is about 3.87%, which is very low compared to national statistics.
- The overall cost of living is high compared to national averages.
- 0% of the senior population are financially responsible for at least one grandchild.
General Quality of Life
- This area receives average levels of rainfall each year.
- This area has average mean temperatures, with average winters and pleasant summers.
- This area has very poor air quality.
- 17532 has a sparse population density of 159.5 people per square mile.
- Residents have a very long daily commute time.
- The area has a very low public transportation ridership.
- The area has an average public school quality ranking.
- The area has a very low public school safety ranking.
- This area has a low education attainment of 78.06%.


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Celebrating our 500th blog post – a quick look over the journey and a big thank you for all your support
Today I am celebrating the publication of our 500th blog post and reflecting on my journey to answer some of risk management's toughest questions. In 2012, I started Wilmes, LLC to assist public agencies in their risk management endeavors. I wanted to create a place that risk managers, safety professionals, work comp professionals, and human resource professionals could come to answer their questions on risk. A place where answers were easy to find and available when you needed the most – before the office hours, on weekends, holidays and any other time.And I wanted it to be free.
Free blogs are great, but they require a lot more time and dedication than I ever anticipated. When I published my first post, I waited in anticipation for comments and responses. None came. So, I wrote a few more. Still nothing. Was anyone reading what I had spent hours writing? Nope. A few more I thought. After I published by 100th blog post, many of you were tagging along and encouraging me to keep going. Just the encouragement I needed. Now, we have more than 475 dedicated followers reading our posts and newsletter every month.
Why I do this
But, I am not doing this for the numbers. For those of you who know me or have been following along for sometime now, you know that I love to share good things. I also love to help people. And I absolutely can't stand what most of industry does – give you a cryptic answer (i.e. a new federal law – what darn law are you taking about?). So, I set out on a mission to give you real answers, with real citations and real solutions. Solutions that work. Solutions that you, a one person department, can actually implement.
What 500 means
500 is by no means an astronomical number. But it is significant especially when you understand that there are 500 articles available at your disposal that help you answer your toughest challenges. I sought to answer the most common questions in public agency risk. Questions our clients kept coming to us for help with. Questions that pop up when new laws are created or some regulatory agency enacts a new procedure that doesn't make sense. And that means that if you have a questions, we have most likely already answered it. All you have to do is search for it.
How to search our blog
It's very easy to search our blog for an answer to your question. Just use the search page or click on the hamburger menu button in the upper right and the flyout search bar will appear on the left. Type in your keywords and wa la, answers abound.
Please share
I thank you for all your support, encouragement, questions and challenges. They have truly made this blog what it is today. I also ask that if you find something useful or one of your colleagues needs some help answering a risk management question, please share our blog with them.
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Satic Incorporated main headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Missoula, Montana. The company prides itself on purchasing its components from American suppliers that sell American electrical components.
As a UL listed manufacturer, Satic adheres to strict manufacturing protocols that meet UL standards. Quality energy management products made from quality UL approved components.
The initial design, development and production of Satic's energy management product line is All American. The company supports U.S. job creation and the employment of local people in the community.
Satic is committed to the design, development and manufacturing of energy saving products designed to be inexpensive, easy to use and truly effective. We are absolutely committed to getting our products to the masses and create the change our world and economy needs. In doing so, we help everyone effectively "Go Green," saving money and the planet. Research has shown that most people truly want to do something that will help our planet but don't feel they have the extra time or money they fear the change will take. Our products address that, allowing the consumer to feel good about quickly and inexpensively creating real measurable change while quickly earning back their investment through significant savings on their monthly electric bills. Everyone will be able to make a difference by using less electricity and conserving natural resources while lowering bills.
To learn more about Satic, watch the short company overview produced by University of Montana Journalism Students called "Made in Montana".


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Exclaimer: Add disclaimers and signatures to outgoing Exchange Server e-mail
A common gripe about Exchange Server is that it doesn't provide an easy way to add disclaimers or footers to outgoing e-mail. The best way to handle this is through a third-party tool like Exclaimer.
A common gripe about Exchange Server is that it doesn't provide an easy way to add disclaimers or footers to outgoing e-mail messages. Most companies like to append a footer of some kind to mail sent by their users, whether it's just a legal disclaimer or something more sophisticated.
The best approach for doing this sort of thing has been through third-party products, and Exclaimer appears to be one of the best.
Exclaimer is actually a package of tools that includes archiving, antispam technology, an auto-responder module, mail blocking and redirection -- but the disclaimer function is most intriguing.
Exclaimer can add different types of disclaimers depending on whether a given piece of e-mail has been sent to the outside world or to an internal user. It also supports all manner of e-mail content, including RTF, HTML, digitally signed and encrypted e-mail, and so on.
In addition, the program lets you use any field from Active Directory as a merge field, so you can have a user's name, telephone number and other contact information added "live" from AD without user intervention.
Disclaimers can be appended or removed based on predefined rules or matches against e-mail content, which allows (among other things) the same disclaimer to not be appended several times to the same message if it's replied to and shuttlecocked back and forth.
Exclaimer costs $175 per server for Small Business Server 2003 users (antispam and support cost extra per-year fees), and at a starting cost of $245 for 25 users on a conventional Exchange server. A 30-day trial version, with all features enabled, is available from the Exclaimer site as a download.
One minor gripe I have is that it's not possible to only purchase the disclaimer functionality to the exclusion of everything else; but the antispam function is sold separately, since it may eclipse tools already in use on your Exchange server.
About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter.
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The American Association of Lutheran Churches began the process of establishing a seminary at its First General Convention on October 29, 1988 when it passed a resolution to establish the Lutheran House of Studies.
The Lutheran House of Studies (LHS) was a supervised network of students at various seminaries who seek pastoral ministry in The AALC. The purpose of this oversight was to ensure that these seminarians meet the requirements of The AALC. These requirements included training in the Scriptures, the Lutheran confessions, church history, Lutheran doctrine, Christian service as it applies to pastors and all Christians, and in the policies and procedures of The AALC. This program has produced twenty graduates who are serving The AALC.
At the Second General Convention of The AALC held in June, 1989, Dr. Norman J. Lund was elected Seminary President and given the responsibility both for coordinating the LHS program and for developing a residential seminary program. By the Fourth General Convention in June, 1991, Dr. Lund was elected Seminary President and was given the mandate to begin a residential seminary for The AALC in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) by the fall of 1993. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church was chosen as the start-up site. Dr. Fred Hall was elected to the Seminary Faculty at the June, 1993 General Convention. The American Lutheran Theological Seminary got under way in the fall with an M.Div. degree program and ten students.
Faculty changes took place in the ensuing years. After Dr. Lund departed, the June, 1997 General Convention elected Dr. Hall seminary President and elected Dr. Harald Schoubye to the Seminary Faculty.
After Dr. Hall's departure, the 2002 General Convention elected Dr. Schoubye Seminary President and an Assistant to the President was named. In the following year, the Seminary added a Director for Pastoral Formation Programs, a Library Director, and several more adjunct professors.
In January 2003, the Seminary moved to its own building in Minneapolis, providing more space to accommodate growth. In 2004, major steps were taken to accredit the Seminary.
Upon Dr. Schobye's departure in October 2004, the Reverend Franklin Hays was appointed President Pro Tempore, and Dr. Gordon Bynum was appointed Academic Dean.
Rev. Hays was subsequently elected to a full term as Seminary President at the 2005 General Convention of The AALC. The Convention also voted to accept the invitation of Concordia Theological Seminary, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to relocate ALTS to Fort Wayne. This move allowed an expansion of course offerings to ALTS students.
At the 2007 General Convention of The AALC, Rev. Hays was elected Presiding Pastor of The AALC. Pastor Hays subsequently appointed the Rev. Richard P. Shields to succeed him as Seminary President (pro tempore).
Rev. Shields was elected at the 2008 General Convention of The AALC, and was subsequently reelected in 2012 and 2016. He was charged to explore and establish an online seminary program that would expand the training of pastoral candidates for The AALC. The first online class was taught in 2010 with one student. In late 2015 Dr. Leins and Rev. Shields set the goal to have 50 students enrolled by 2018-2019 school year. Since 2010, 36 students had begun online studies with ALTS. Some have graduated and some have left the program. However, ALTS is currently about half way to the goal of 50 students through ALTS online program.
In the last few years ALTS has received international interest for students to receive an online seminary education. Men from the following countries have contacted the seminary: Uganda, Chana, Norway, Great Britain, and Japan. Rev. Shields continues to explore the potential for such pastoral training.
A third area of exploration involves a lay academy to help pastors provide advanced lay training in several areas. This certificate program would not replace the pastor's leadership in the congregation but would enhance what the local pastor provides. Currently the goal is to begin offering these courses in 2018.


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Seperation Anxiety
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October 4, 2006 at 10:38 pm #205
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My dog becomes very upset when I leave home and tears things up. What should I do? Very social animals, dogs prefer to be with others. When left alone, some companion canines become very distressed, suffering from an attachment disorder known as separation anxiety. Dogs who suffer from separation anxiety just can't learn to cope with being alone, and they express their anxiety by barking, howling, whining, chewing, soiling, and/or attempting to escape. Usually, you can diagnose separation anxiety if the dog becomes anxious and worried or severely depressed as you prepare to leave, and acts as though you've been gone for years when you return!
Separation anxiety is often triggered by a traumatic event or disruption in the dog's lifestyle, such as a change in the family's work schedule, an adjustment in the family composition, the death of another pet, a move to a new home, or being boarded or hospitalized for a period of time. Purebreds are more likely to suffer from separation anxiety than mixed breeds, and adult dogs who have been re-homed are especially at risk.
The most effective treatment for a dog with separation anxiety is to accustom the dog to very short periods of time alone. While at the same time, you must pair the experience of being alone with something wonderful, such as his favorite treats. For this exercise, you'll need some hollow toys into which you will stuff tasty treats; these are readily available at pet supply stores. Just before you walk out the door, scatter a selection of toys around the room. Step out the door and wait for no more than 30 seconds to one minute. Come back in. If your dog is still working on the toys, excellent! Remove the toys so the dog learns that he only has access to them when he's alone. Repeat several times each day, gradually increasing the time you are outside the home. Periodically revert back to shorter times so that the dog is forever hopeful that you'll be right back. Take things slowly! You should initially increase the time you're away by only seconds, and then work up to minutes. When you hit 30 minutes, begin to take jumps of five minutes. When you achieve two hours, take jumps of 15 minutes. When you can be out of the home for four hours and your dog stays relaxed, you can probably be gone for a full eight-hour day. Continue to leave food toys that will occupy the dog for at least 20-30 minutes.
You will greatly increase the chances of successful treatment if you make arrangements for your dog to be with someone whenever you have to be away from home for longer than your dog is prepared to handle. For instance, take the dog to doggy daycare, hire a sitter to stay with him, or take him with you.
If your dog isn't interested in the food toys, just ignore him and retrieve the toys. Wait 20 minutes or so and try again. If your dog won't eat from the toys when he's alone—even after you've skipped feeding him one meal, and you're confident he's hungry and likes the food you've left him—then your dog has a more serious case of separation anxiety and you will need to seek the help of a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, Veterinary Behaviorist, or Certified Professional Dog Trainer. Your dog may need drug therapy in addition to behavior modification to help him.
Placing your dog in a crate when you go out may prevent destructive behavior or stop him from escaping. However, he will still feel anxious and may howl, bark, and soil in the crate. Some dogs will even panic and injure themselves trying to escape from the crate. If your dog is accustomed to a crate and treats it as a "safe haven," then it would probably help to use a crate. Place the dog in the crate and go through the steps as outlined above.
– Whenever you are getting ready to leave the house, make your routine less predictive and obvious. You can ignore the dog, practice obedience behaviors, such as "Sit" and "Down Stay," or distract the dog with a chew bone or toy.
– Keep your departures and arrivals low key so the dog doesn't associate comings and goings with arousal and stress.
– Practice short absences and gradually build up the time you are gone.
– Use reward-based training, practice out-of-sight "Sit" and "Down Stays" around the house so you can be in one room and the dog in another.
– When not training the dog and, until you have the problem resolved, arrange for someone to be with the dog at all times when you are away.
– Teach the dog mannerly ways to gain your attention, such as "Sit," "Down," and "Bring a toy." If your dog has learned to gain your attention when you're home by barking, pawing, and mouthing, then it should come as no surprise that your dog has temper tantrums when you're away.
– Give your dog plenty of physical exercise before leaving your dog for lengthy periods of time, especially if you leave first thing in the morning.
– Do not confuse your dog's anxiety with revenge, spite, or dominance. Your dog is genuinely upset and distressed and needs your help. Punishment will only exacerbate the dog's anxiety.
– Do not continue to confine your dog to a crate or room if the dog is injuring himself trying to escape.
– Do not attempt to reduce your dog's attachment to you by constantly ignoring him. Some experts believe that "breaking the bond" will fix separation anxiety. This can actually make the dog become even more desperate for your affections. If done repeatedly, this approach can even be inhumane—because canines so need social contact.April 11, 2009 at 6:39 pm #552
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I have adopted a dog that has severe seperation anxiety and found that these practices do work well. However Sam's case is extremely severe and it has taken 6 months to have him adjust. He still can become nervous but he isn't destroying his crate or eating our walls anymore.
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- Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law
- Opponent of racial profiling
David Harris is a law professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, and the Soros Senior Justice Fellow at the Center for Crime, Communities, & Culture in New York. In 2002 he published the book Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work. A strong opponent of racial profiling, Harris contends that "pre-textual [traffic] stops will be used against African-Americans and Hispanics in percentages wildly out of proportion to their numbers in the driving population."
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Lakeside Hammers season tickets now available
PUBLISHED: 13:00 12 December 2017
Rob Newell/TGSPHOTO c/o 27 Plaiters Way, Braintree, Essex, CM7 3LR - Editorial Use ONLY - FA Premier League and Football League
Lakeside Hammers fans can grab the perfect Christmas present - a full season of Championship speedway.
The club is on their way back to professional racing after securing promotion from the National League after just one season and have assembled an exciting team for the 2018 Championship league campaign.
Season tickets are now available and existing holders have until January 15, 2018 to enjoy a discount price as a thank you for their continued backing of the club.
Hammers promoter Jon Cook said: "The buzz around the club is palatable and it's not been like this since perhaps as long ago as 2008.
"We have a new committee in place helping behind the scenes to add more pizazz into our promotion, a team that has everyone talking and we are in a league that many Hammers fans have told me feels like the clubs home.
"Team building wise it hasn't all been plain sailing and having early targets made ineligible was a challenge but we've benefited too with BSPA (British Speedway Promoters' Association) confirmation that Ben and Zach are on their actual 2016 tier two figures and to have riders of the absolute quality of Nick (Morris) and Richard (Lawson) to lead us and all seven riders taking little or no persuasion to become Hammers has made my job rather easy.
"This league will be a new challenge for Stuart (Douglas) and I and looking at the absolute quality of riders and the massive city clubs it's an experience we are looking forward to just as much as any other Hammers fans.
"Off track we've already had a very fruitful first meeting with the Raceway sites new owners and I think it's hard to see how we could be better placed at this stage of the close season, the task now is to carry this feel-good factor into March."
Season Tickets:
Number of standard meetings: 14
Adults £230
Adult Renewals £215 (by January 15, 2018)
Concessions £200
Concessions Renewals £185 (by January 15, 2018)
Price includes admission to all meetings (including any semi-finals, or finals) one programme and parking inside the Arena complex
Kids season ticket (8-15 years old): £10 (does not include programme)
To download the Season Ticket Application form head to the club website lakesidehammers.co
General Meeting Admission:
Adult £17
Concessions £14
Students 16 years up £8
Kids (8-15) £1
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Tax Return Due Dates - Tax Deadlines for Accountants
It seems like the fifteenth day of every month is a tax deadline. For many practitioners, it can be hard to keep up with the constant deadlines. This page provides the guidance and tools to help you comply with tax return and payment due dates to maximize workflow productivity.
Featured Resources
Federal Tax Return Due Dates Chart
Keep this on hand as a quick reference chart of common federal tax return due dates.
State Tax Guide for Businesses
Provides information (such as due dates) for preparing business state income and franchise tax returns. Exclusive resource for Tax Section members.
State Tax Guide for Individuals
Provides information (such as due dates) for preparing individual state tax returns. Exclusive resource for Tax Section members.
IRS Resources
- IRS Publication 509, Tax Calendars: 13-page IRS publication that provides all IRS due dates for filing tax forms and paying taxes.
- IRS Tax Calendar for Businesses and Self-Employed: Set up calendar reminders or subscribe to RSS feeds or to the IRS's calendar system to help you manage due dates.
Related Resources
- Casualty Loss and Disaster Relief: The IRS may extend a tax return deadline for taxpayers impacted by a disaster.
- IRS First-Time Penalty Abatement: If a client misses a filing/payment deadline and incurs failure-to-file, failure-to-pay or failure-to-deposit penalties, consider requesting penalty abatement using the IRS's first-time abate procedures.
- Tax Technology Resource Center: This resource center contains information and tools you need to embrace technology trends and the exciting progression of the tax profession.
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