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It's a Saturday morning, and you're probably all doing something better right now. But before I go mail out the last prize in the Commenter Challenge, a few thoughts on last night's 11-3 disaster in Los Angeles of Anaheim near Where I was Rollin' Down Rodeo With a Shotgun:
-- Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis homered. These are positive things -- the kind of things one likes to mention before observing how terrifying it was to have Clay Buchholz on the mound after, oh, the first three hitters. He threw 37 pitches... in the first inning.
-- Manny homering: Good. Manny fielding? Bad. See the evidence yourself, which apparently put ESPN's Sportscenter anchors in stitches:
Huh. Looks like I'm not the only one Rollin' Down Rodeo, come to think of it.
On the bright side, David Ortiz has now homered two games in a row while making rehab starts in Pawtucket. Hey, it's something.


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These are not the protesters you speak of.
I definitely didn't expect it, but it would seem that Agence France-Presse has finally discovered the subtle difference between a "protest" and a riot. (Yes, it's a topic we've covered frequently over here.)
Palestinian rioters standing behind makeshift shields throw stones at Israeli police during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya on May 13, 2011 as Palestinians began marking the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" which befell them following Israel's establishment in 1948. AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Hey, what can I say? This is definitely a step in the right direction! Now all we need to do is get them to show the slightest hint of curiosity about what it was that caused this supposed "catastrophe" to happen.
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iHeart Radio Music Awards 2014
April 22, 2014
Get ready — music's most unique awards show, the first-ever iHeart Radio Music Awards, will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Los Angeles. NBC will air the event live from the historic Shrine Auditorium, but those already in the area–and those who plan to be in Los Angeles–will not want to miss the opportunity to be a part of the excitement, energy and history of this one-of-a-kind awards show.
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In this series, Mark and I have talked about hardening your AWS resources (both inside and outside of your instances) and preforming ongoing monitoring. The last two tips are around measuring your overall security so that you can understand your risks and measure your progress. It may be an old adage but it still rings true……Read More
Intego announces first-ever iPhone malware scanner – really? July 12, 2011 11:49 AM ET Gregg Keizer – COMPUTERWORLD http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218339/Mac_security_firm_ships_first_ever_iPhone_malware_scanner Follow up on my previous post on the new security flaw discovered in Apple's iPhone and iPad – see http://bringyourownit.com/2011/07/07/oops-there-is-a-bug-in-my-apple/ With impeccable timing, this morning Intego announded the availability of the "first-ever iPhone malware scanner". Sure…Read More
The new security hole found in iPhones and iPads reminds us that no platform is immune to security threats and that there is in fact a need for mobile security software for Apple products. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576431541102701136.html Here we go. As it turns out Apple mobile operating system is not so secure after all. While it is…Read More


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Ahhhh…search engine optimization (SEO) is a wonderful pain in the ass for businesses big and small. Done right, your website can be flooded with quality traffic. Do it wrong and nobody visits your site. From on-site work via site structure, content, images, keywords, etc., etc can be overwhelming. Add to that all the Google algo changes that have impacted how a site ranks from social media, to link building, SEO is a very complex world to be competitive in. Definitely not something to be dabbled in by someone or companies that don't understand all the variables that can positively or negatively affect search results for a business online.
My friend Jayson DeMers, wrote in Forbes Magazine, The Three Pillars of SEO In 2013: Content, Links And Social Media, he said:
In 2013, success in SEO hinges on businesses putting together a robust combination strategy that brings together an integrated web of great content, credible links, and social signals. Each of these pieces supports the other, providing tremendous value to readers, building your authority and brand value, and distributing your content across new channels. . . .
The world of SEO is definitely complex, and in 2013 a simplistic legacy approach is no longer enough. Effective SEO requires managing different elements, ranging from your content and keywords to your social media and link building activities. But with a focus on these three pillars, you can create a foundation and structure that will support a high ranking site for a long time to come.
Seeing that SEO requires a skill set beyond what a business owner has time for to master, but if you're willing to do the work on top of your work, it IS possible. But why do that when you can hire a quality search engine optimization person/company (hint hint ME) that can do that work on your behalf.
Eric Siu wrote an article in June 2013, A Look at Google's 200 Search Ranking Factors (Infographic) where Eric says:
Maintaining and improving your website's search engine optimization (SEO) can be exhausting. Every time search giant Google changes its algorithm, business owners and their webmasters are left with their heads spinning, trying to make adjustments so their sites don't fall in Google's search rankings.
Most recently, Google rolled out Penguin 2.0, a newer version of its previous Penguin algorithm update, which aims to cut down on web spam.
While trying to keep on all of Google's changes can be a hassle, there are a large number of SEO factors that are unlikely to change any time soon. To help make SEO just a little easier, digital marketing firms Backlinko and Single Grain have created the infographic below, collecting some 200 factors that Google considers when ranking sites in its search results. The information was compiled from hundreds of sources, including SEO blogs and from statements made by Google's head of web spam, Matt Cutts.
Eric goes on to talk briefly about content and targeted keywords. These need to be in your website's title tags because they help your business perform better than pages that don't have targeted words in the title tags. Next, he mentions backlinks. His simple advice is that the more links pointing to your site the better. And then our third item—Social. Google is paying attention to retweets, Facebook share and Google +.
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Following a series of astonishing revelations over recent weeks, which have further demolished common misperceptions regarding the structure of the global gold and silver markets, you don't have to carry a whistle or dab zinc on your nose to know that investors need to climb out of the unallocated gold pool.
Scores of investors attempt to procure gold and silver exposure through unallocated bullion holdings, often referred to as pooled accounts. Touting lower storage or administrative fees than allocated accounts, these unallocated holdings are generally presented as similarly secure, with the major difference being that investors stake claim merely to a given quantity of bullion, rather than specific numbered pieces (as in allocated accounts).
Check for water before you dive in
Here's where the storm clouds begin to appear. Back in 2008, around the same time that I was documenting a palpable shortage of physical supply in the marketplace, investor Harvey Organ's son, Lenny, noticed a huge discrepancy between spot prices for silver and the substantial premiums being charged for physical bullion at the time.
Concerned for his family's bullion holdings, and despite reassurance from his father that the metal had to be there, Lenny sought access to the main bullion vault of ScotiaMocatta, a division of Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS ) . On Sept. 3, 2008, Lenny and his bullion broker were reportedly granted entry into the only official bullion bank storage facility in Canada.
According to Lenny, the unallocated portion of the vault's holdings was minimal, permitting a simple visual inventory that suggests a present-day market value beneath $100 million. In an interview with King World News, Harvey and Lenny Organ last week revealed that this was why Harvey had been invited to testify at last month's landmark hearings in Washington, D.C., conducted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Empty vaults mean empty promises
Digging further into this breaking story, I spoke with Adrian Douglas, the GATA (Gold Antitrust Action Committee) board member who assisted Harvey Organ at the CFTC hearing. Douglas explained:
It highlights that unallocated isn't what most people think it is. I think most people would be shocked. They're buying this gold and silver expecting it to be a low-risk investment, when in fact it's a high-risk investment. It's an unsecured investment, backed only by the assets of the bank.
The stinging irony here, of course, is that investors seek out precious-metals exposure precisely to escape the sorts of shenanigans that have proven so very prevalent among other sorts of financial instruments over the past few years. Douglas continued:
This is not to say that all unallocated storage is like this, but investors need to do their due diligence and find out. Otherwise, investors are essentially making interest-free loans to the bank, with which they might buy gold and silver if they see fit. Actually, it's a negative interest rate, because you have to pay them so-called storage and insurance fees.
A troy ounce of context
The presumed sanctity of unallocated gold and silver holdings was called into serious question last month, when commodity consultant Jeffrey Christian insinuated that supply in the over-the-counter (OTC) metals market is leveraged 100-to-1 over the actual physical supply of underlying metal (see the first link above).
At the same hearing, GATA chairman Bill Murphy presented allegations of gold and silver price-suppression by bullion banks such as JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM ) and HSBC (NYSE: HBC ) . Revelations from London metals trader (turned whistleblower) Andrew Maguire heaped additional corroboration onto evidence that GATA has been building for more than a decade. As a result, I urged investors to give careful consideration to their choice of bullion investment vehicles, and pointed out that the custodians of popular proxies like the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD ) and the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV ) are the very same bullion banks alleged by GATA to maintain massive short positions on the COMEX.
Keep your head above water
If you hold unallocated gold or silver bullion certificates issued by one of the major bullion banks, I urge you to consider that this segment of the market may collectively lack an adequate physical supply of metal to satisfy claims, in the event that any significant proportion of investors tender their paper certificates for physical bullion.
If the alleged leverage pervading the over-the-counter (OTC) markets and the futures exchanges is ground to a halt by increasing physical demand, the scarcity of supply will become more pronounced still. Just as the banks essentially wagered that mortgage values would never decline, it seems that a similarly dangerous wager may yet be on the table: a bet that gold and silver investors will never call the bluff of a massive paper-based shell game.
If you're swimming in an unallocated bullion pool, I recommend climbing out before lightning strikes the water. For investors seeking bullion exposure through vehicles that do explicitly state the nature of their holdings, in ways that alleviate these sorts of concerns, I continue to suggest Central Fund of Canada (AMEX: CEF ) and the Sprott Physical Gold Trust ETV (NYSE: PHYS ) . If you have any concerns or questions relating to this developing story, please post them in the comments section below, or follow my Motley Fool CAPS blog for ongoing community discussion.


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Barack Obama Met With IRS union chief THE DAY BEFORE IRS Began Targeting The Tea Party
The American Spectator has managed to come up with quite the scoop. It seems that Barack Obama met with the IRS union THE DAY BEFORE the IRS started targeting the Tea Party.
Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?
The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.
March 31, 2010.
According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.
….The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department's Inspector General's Report, IRS employees – the same employees who belong to the NTEU – set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.
…Regular American all over the country are coming forward with their stories. Understanding the relationship between the Obama White House and the IRS union will be a must for congressional investigators.
President Obama is coming perilously closer to becoming the new Nixon. The next Bill Clinton.
And once again, as news of exactly what a president was doing in the Oval Office on a particular day and time goes public, yet again the old question becomes new.
What did the President know? And when did he know it?
Did Barack Obama tell Colleen Kelley to go after the Tea Party?
Even if Barack Obama did it, can it be proven? Well, it would be awfully tough. After all, there won't be any recording of the conversation and at least for the moment, Obama can do much more to help or hurt Colleen Kelley than Republicans in Congress can. That means she has every incentive right now to deny, stonewall and hope this all goes away.
That being said, it sure is an interesting coincidence, isn't it?
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Striped bass fishing at the end of the year can be a boom or bust proposition. Find diving birds and there may be no limit to what can be caught, but with few boats fishing it can be very difficult to find a concentration without such obvious signs.
There wasn't anything for Capt. Bobby Bogan to focus on as he ran to the north on Wednesday with his Gambler from Point Pleasant. He'd done well in that direction over the weekend, but there had been no reports since then.
Only a few birds were spotted all the way up to Sea Bright, and just two very small bass jigged on a drift over a few scatches on the fishfinder.
The gusty northwest wind made jigging very difficult, and it looked like a total bust as Bogan headed back to the south.
However, he passed right by Manasquan Inlet for a late try off Mantoloking. There were only some bait readings there, but anglers soon started hooking up.
Only a couple of fish were caught after that drift, though that was enough to account for a good shot of keepers along with shorts.
The two largest stripers were in the 18-to-20-pound class, and three or four blues were mixed in. Metal jigs were most effective.
The Gambler will continue seeking stripers daily when weather conditions permit. Earlier this year I had a very good striper trip aboard that boat in January, and Bogan hopes to duplicate that late fishery since water temperatures remain reasonably mild at 48 to 49 degrees.
Though some mackerel have been reported by gillnetters, that fishery hasn't developed for sportfishing so far. Capt. Jimmy Elliott is hoping to get started sometime next week with the Golden Eagle from Belmar, but the long range weather forecast isn't favorable at this time.
Top catches
The Jamaica from Brielle had limits of jumbo porgies on far offshore wrecks last weekend, along with a few few ling and some cod and pollock. Mike Encardone of Bound Brook boated a 32-pound pollock, and John O'Conner from Sea Girt hooked a 30-pounder.
Katie Murphy from had a 25-pound cod. Arthur Spatafura of Browns Mills added 12-and-15-pound cod to his scup limit. The Jamaica sails for that same mix at 11 p.m., Dec. 28, but the real attraction on those offshore wrecks are jumbo sea bass. That season is presently closed in federal waters, but the season will be reopened on Jan. 1. The Jamaica will then sail four days a week for 15-fish limits through January and February.
Capt. Willie Egerter was pleasantly surprised on Saturday when large porgies moved onto the wreck he was fishing with the Dauntless from Point Pleasant. Anglers who switched over from a pick of blackfish and ling caught 15 to 25 scup. Bluefish are still bothering bottom fishermen. Two to three dozen were caught Saturday. Some days they are only 2-to-3-pounders, but Thursday's were 8 to 10 pounds.
Capt. Stan Zagleski has been pleased with blackfishing from his Elaine B. II from Bahrs in Highlands. Thursday was good, as a couple of limits were taken and the pool went to a 7-pounder.
Surfcasting has been generally poor, but Joe Melillo of Castaways Tackle in Point Pleasant said several keepers were plugged Sunday from Spring Lake to Point Pleasant. Rich Erikson of Newark weighed a 15 1/2-pounder; Bob Matthews from Belmar had a 16-pound bass; and Gerald CeCe of Point Pleasant caught 14-and-15-pounders.
Brielle Tackle reports fly rod pro Bill Sistad of Brick beached bass of 14 and 18 pounds, and Glenn Benninger of Ocean Grove has been catching 20-to-30-inch bass from Shark River to Manasquan Inlet on Fin-S.
My surf results haven't been nearly as good, but I did hook a 21-incher Tuesday morning at Sea Girt on a Tsunami Slim Wave metal, and another the same size Thursday afternoon on a Tsunami Sand Eel. There hasn't been a sign of bait in the surf, but those bass had round bellies and were heavy for their length.
My computer crashed this week, but I'm trying to keep up with the blog. I'll try to get some last minute Christmas gift suggestions out along with daily fishing reports at nj.com/shore/blogs/fishing.
Tom Paglioroli's Rack&Fin radio show can now be heard on Sundays from noon to 1 p.m. on 1450 A.M. , as well as on Saturdays from 8 to 9 A.M. on 97.3 F.M.
Rich Johnson, of The Fishing Line, is offering a free ticket to the N.Y. Boat Show that runs from Jan. 3-6 at the Convention Center. Only one ticket will be available , and duplicate requests will not be honored. Send a stamped, self-addressed #10 business envelope to Boat Show Tix, 53 Vernon Ave., Atlantic Beach, NY 11509. For more info visit www.thefishingline.com.


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A Union City police officer has filed a lawsuit against his neighbor, the borough of Little Ferry, five of its police officers, and two borough officials, claiming a neighbor falsely accused him of sexual assault and the police mishandled the long-running feud between them, The Jersey Journal reports.
Police Officer Anthony Mastrofilippo says in his lawsuit that a dispute with his neighbor, Angela Orozco of Little Falls, reached the tipping point when she went to borough police and filed a complaint claiming Mastrofilippo groped her and sexually harassed her on June 22, 2011 - the same day the borough issued a violation notice related to her property.
Full Story from The Jersey Journal:
Union City cop files lawsuit against neighbor, Little Ferry, 5 of their cops and 2 borough officials


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A black American writer, J. Saunders Redding, describes the arrival of a ship in North America in the year 1619:
"Sails furled, flag drooping at her rounded stern, she rode the tide in from the sea. She was a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frightening ship, a ship of mystery. Whether she was trader, privateer, or man-of-war no one knows. Through her bulwarks black-mouthed cannon yawned. The flag she flew was Dutch; her crew a motley. Her port of call, an English settlement, Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. She came, she traded, and shortly afterwards was gone. Probably no ship in modern history has carried a more portentous freight. Her cargo? Twenty slaves."
The second chapter of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States tells the story of the U.S.A. from the perspective of black Americans, both enslaved and free. Zinn discusses the transatlantic slave trade to the U.S. & its distinction from slavery in other parts of the world; the distinct brutality of racism in the U.S.A.; the early interactions of (poor) whites & blacks; the institution of legal slavery & discrimination; slave revolts & rebellions; and general class warfare.


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389 - Aura -> Highlights -> order filters by precedence.
What is the enhancement in mind? How should it look and feel? Aura highlight filters could really use precedence options. This mock-up screen-shot best describes: In the above I have many border highlights for various debuffs: Disarms, Cyclone, Unstable Affliction. As well a couple buffs such as Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light. I want Unstable Affliction ("HL: UA") to have highlight precedence over all other filters. To do so I would click the mock-up "Up Arrow" at the right of "HL: UA" to bring the UA filter to the top. Currently when a magic debuff is put on the unit frame, the unit frame border highlights blue (the default color for magic debuffs). My UA filter is set to highlight red however. But because the magic debuff is at the top of the filter list, it has precedence over my UA filter. Instead of having to recreate the list, I'd be nice to have little Up Arrows that control the ordering for filter precedence. A small suggestion. ;-)
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Despite inconsistent play much of the season, Rick Cooper said Monday his West Texas A&M Buffaloes came very close to reaching their potential.
The Buffs finished the 2002-03 basketball season with a 21-10 record and won the Lone Star Conference tournament. Their season ended with a 75-73 loss to Washburn (Kan.) on Friday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II South Central Region tournament.
"We had a group of (seven) seniors that strengthened their weaknesses, learned to play together and played well at the right time of the year," Cooper said. "They came as close to maximizing their potential as any team I've been around in a long time."
Early in the season WT was a team that didn't rebound well, committed too many turnovers and didn't play tough defense consistently. The Buffs didn't become dominating in any of those areas, but they improved in all three.
They out-rebounded Central Oklahoma, Northeastern (Okla.) State and Tarleton State in LSC tournament games, and committed fewer turnovers than those three opponents. In the LSC semifinals and finals, the Buffs limited Northeastern and Tarleton to 36-percent field-goal shooting and an average of 59.5 points.
"Those seniors need to be applauded," Cooper said. "After we lost to Lubbock Christian in our second game back in November, we told our seniors that, whether they liked it or not, they would be remembered by how they gelled and developed. They decided how they wanted to be remembered and worked all season to get there."
It took a while, though. WT lost four consecutive games for the first time in 17 years and, at one point, lost four of six games at home. The Buffs were swept by Texas A&M-Kingsville, the last-place team in the LSC South.
But with the season on the line, the Buffs beat higher ranked teams from Central Oklahoma, Northeastern and Tarleton to win the LSC tournament and earn a regional berth. WT then had Washburn, another higher-ranked team, down 19 points in the regional quarterfinals before succumbing to foul trouble and losing the huge lead and their final game.
"A season and team is judged best with hindsight," said Cooper, 199-90 in 10 years at WT. "If you had written the story of this season three weeks ago, it would have been a completely different ending. Now, we can look back and say it was a very good year."
The LSC tournament championship was the Buffs' fifth, most of any team in the conference. It also atoned for last season when the Buffs failed to qualify for the LSC tournament for the only time in Cooper's tenure.
The Buffs lost seven seniors with Friday's final game - forwards Matt Madison, Chris Bracey and Arendijus Mejeras; posts Kyle Caldwell and Reggie Harris; and guards David Rhone and Kenny White.
Their departure left many holes to fill prior to next season. The Buffs will return one starter in junior guard Rod Prater, their leading scorer this season at 15.7 points per game. Junior guard Eduardo Caviglia, a 3-point specialist off the bench, improved his rebounding and became a better all-around player late in the season.
Sophomore post Carlos Silva, freshman forward Steve Jackson and freshman guard Matt Pierce played sparingly.
Cooper said he wants to recruit more freshmen to ease the heavy player turnover every other year. However, he must recruit some transfer interior players who can play immediately after the losses of Bracey, Caldwell and Harris.
"We're looking for some balance. We're looking for players who can help immediately and some who can help us in the future," Cooper said. "But even if we recruit some freshmen, that doesn't mean they can't make an immediate contribution to our team."
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I sometimes show my appreciation for something that's excellent in a weird way — I laugh.
If I'm listening to good music, I can groove to the tune, tap my foot, nod my head or turn it side to side to keep the beat, clap my hands, snap my fingers, smile, have an intense look on my face, become overwhelmed by or consumed by whatever it is I'm listening to.
But, if it's just so good that I couldn't find words to express just how good it is, I laugh, sometimes out loud.
This is fine when I'm by myself. Even driving a car, other drivers don't mind. They see other drivers all the time bopping to the music, singing along (of course, for all they know, those other drivers may be talking to themselves, but that's probably another story.)
It's when I'm surrounded by people that the laughter can attract attention.
At work, it's not such a big deal. I often laugh out loud at things that cross my desk, or things I hear on the police scanner, or an e-mail I've received.
I sometimes cry during certain songs. We call them "slit your wrists" songs, songs of incalculable sadness; John Prine's "Hello In There," about the loneliness of old people, and Michael Smith's "The Dutchman," about a love that triumph's over Alzheimer's Disease.
But as sad as those songs are, if they are done magnificently by a performer, I will undoubtedly laugh at some point.
I've always thought it funny that, in a concert audience, while people are clapping or boogying away to something, I sit there laughing out loud.
I do not know when this strange manifestation of appreciation started for me. I'm sure I didn't laugh at greatness when I was a teenager.
I have learned over the years that I sometimes laugh to mark some personal satisfaction. I can't begin to count the times in my news career when I have nailed a story or found a great source or cornered an exclusive and laughed out loud to mark the moment.
I do laugh a lot, so I suppose this really means not just that I find humor in much of life, but that I enjoy my life and think it's a pretty darned good life.
(I once laughed so hard, I collapsed. It only happened one time. They tell me it happens now and then — you laugh so hard, your central nervous system shuts down for just a second and, boom, you're on the floor. I was up a second later, wondering what the heck had happened. It wasn't until years later someone explained the connection.)
The other day, I was trying to use magnificent music, and thus laughter, to help ease a sinus headache I have had for what seems like many weeks. I found a rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5, specifically the incredible Adagietto portion.
My Closest Companion thinks this piece is inexorably sad, but it was written as a love song for Mahler's wife and I find great joy in its quiet nuances and swooping strings. It soothes me.
And I laugh out loud at its greatness.


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Belfair's Bud McKay and the "GEICO of Lakewood Presents West Sound Electric" hydroplane team started off the 2009 racing season by delivering 105 cell phones they collected in 2008 to Ron House, CEO of West Sound Electric in Bremerton, March 9.
West Sound Electric is an official drop-off location for unwanted cell phones for "Cell Phones for Soldiers." The program collects used and outdated cell phones and recycles them to earn prepaid calling cards donated to deployed military members and their families.
West Sound Electric is one of 3,000 collection sites across the country for "Cell Phones for Soldiers." The overall goal is to collect 50,000 each month nationwide. The nonprofit organization has raised nearly $2 million in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
McKay's racing team collects cell phones at races and displays throughout the year and will collect phones again during the 2009 season.
McKay plans to test the "GEICO of Lakewood Presents West Sound Electric" hydroplane April 14 at Lake Washington and then defend his win last year at Firebird Raceway April 25-26.
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Two years ago, when sock and hosiery manufacturer Gold Toe Brands embarked on a consumer study, CEO Jim Williams expected the research to confirm what he and his company already knew. After all, the company-formerly known as Great American Knitting-has been selling its trademark men's dress socks to Americans since 1929. In fact, its Gold Toe brand already represented more than one-half of all department store sales of men's dress socks in the United States. Gold Toe Brands, figured Williams, already knew all about who buys men's socks and how they go about making the purchase.
He was wrong. "For years and years, I was telling people 80 percent of socks are bought by women," says Williams, who has been the Burlington, N.C.-based company's CEO since 1985. "That's just not true; men shop for their own socks. I also thought that socks were bought with underwear. That's not true. The fact is men buy them to match their pants, their suits or their ties-not their underwear."
For Williams, and Gold Toe, the consumer research was a revelation. While no slouch in its category-the company already commanded a formidable 54 percent market share of department store sales of men's, women's and children's socks-Gold Toe needed growth, explains Williams. "Being number one is very scary," he says. "When you are by far the market leader, you're always the target. So, we not only had to identify our strengths and opportunities in our present marketplace, but also the opportunities of the markets that we're not in."
Sound familiar? It's an age-old challenge, but one made more complex today by a host of factors, from more demanding consumers and rapidly evolving consumer behaviors to declining brand loyalty and a technology-driven increase in innovation and speed to market. In an environment where consumers-and their expectations-are constantly changing, only those companies that can collect data, analyze it and react quickly to create new value propositions that address customer needs will succeed, according to CEOs gathered for a roundtable discussion jointly sponsored by Chief Executive and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
Who's Who
"Today's consumers are leading a revolution against business as usual," points out William Burgess, global consumer products industry executive at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's customer-driven transformation services division. "They are demanding that we recognize them as individuals and that we conduct business on their terms."
Consumers' buying criteria, explains Burgess, has become more sophisticated, shifting from product features and functions to product experience and from low price to best value at a consistent and fair price. "The new definition of value is content delivered in context. Prices that vary and are heavily featured create distrust because you've artificially created a situation that will come back to haunt the consumer when they have to pay the higher price. The value levers have become, in a nutshell, access, experience, product, price and service."
Meeting these heightened consumer expectations demands innovative approaches to markets, such as leveraging the expertise of other firms through joint ventures and working closely with vendors, peers and business customers to deliver greater value, Burgess adds. As an example, he cites a recent joint venture between Austin, Minn.-based Hormel Foods, a manufacturer and marketer of meat products, and beef and pork supplier Excel, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Cargill.
"They created a network to come out with a full line of case-ready prime meats under the Hormel Always Tender brand that [bypasses] the butcher in the local store," he says, noting that what might seem a natural line extension actually required orchestral-like synchronization. "With all of the variations and volatility in demands for cuts of meat, think about what that means in terms of connecting to your partners and retail store locations, and tracking information so that you can maintain the best-in-class fulfillment that Wal-Mart rewards Hormel and Excel foods for today. The need to be connected is not just B2C; it's B2B, so no consumer needs to know what goes on behind the curtain."
In many cases, the need to perform such logistical feats is customer-driven. As competition intensifies, leading companies demand more and more of their top suppliers, points out Jack Davis, CEO of City of Industry, Calif.-based Ventura Foods. "We used to think that a 97 percent [fulfillment rate] was really great, until we had Sysco tell us that the minimum they would accept is 99.7 percent," he says. "We thought, €˜Gosh, we'll never get there,' but we did. And then we were told by McDonald's that their expectation is 100 percent."
Whether B2B or B2C, virtually every firm faces similar logistical pressures today, says Kenneth Camp, president and CEO of Batesville, Ind.-based Batesville Casket. "For us it's an interesting challenge because no consumer wants to buy our product-they're forced into this by a change in their lives," he says. "So they're suddenly in an environment where they have to make funeral decisions and they want personalization-a funeral that matches the person-but they don't want to make 50 decisions."
To ease the process, Batesville Casket offers "clustered" options so that customers can "get personalization without having to go down the entire checklist of decisions," he explains. At the same time, there are time and cost pressures to consider. "Providing personalization in a cost-effective manner has been a challenge for us," says Camp. "We've had to create a distribution network that can move a bulky, somewhat fragile product from the point of manufacture to the point of use, in some cases halfway across the country within 24 hours."
A distribution network modeled after Federal Express'-a hub-and-spoke system capable of moving caskets across America overnight-proved the solution. "We've also learned to use manufacturing postponements, so that the style of casket is actually changed at the next to last point of distribution or, in some cases, in the funeral home," adds Camp. "Even in a business that has historically moved as slowly as funerals, information management has become absolutely essential to meeting consumer needs. Without it you just can't survive."
The need for speed
But while information technology has become an invaluable tool, it's also upped the get-to-market ante. The pace of change, points out Jeffery Mordos, COO of New York's BBDO ad agency, is forcing companies to skip risk-minimizing steps that have long been a part of the traditional production and marketing process. "The speed at which everything is changing is causing us to alter our strategies," he says. "New products in all categories are being introduced in a matter of days or weeks, where once it would take months or years. Test marketing is a thing of the past. There isn't enough time to do the due diligence that was once expected, because if you don't get to market fast, you don't get there at all."
"When I think about the challenges facing CEOs today, it really comes back to the speed issue and this ability to collaborate," agrees Hank Bonde, COO of Denver-based J.D. Edwards & Co. "How do businesses manage the cost structure associated with shorter product life cycles? And then, with contract manufacturing and third-party partner management, the collaboration piece of it-networking and sharing information. It's no longer enough to improve collaboration within your own company; you have to improve it across the whole supply chain from the customer to the end user."
Even as companies collaborate to deliver innovation and meet customer demands, collaboration itself brings a new set of challenges. Power purchasers such as Wal-Mart, Bonde points out, have been known to demand a change in packaging and expect delivery in 24 hours. Complying with such a request can send a supplier-and, in turn, its own suppliers-into a frenzy. To be able to deliver the product, a supplier might, for example, have to call upon the third-party supply company that packages their product, which might in turn need to purchase new shrink-wrap machinery from one of its own suppliers.
"The way the whole speed thing plays out, if you can't provide a €˜yes' or a solution to a problem, someone else will be ready and accessible [to take your place]," notes Mordos. "So you just have to be that much more nimble."
Accessibility, too, is a prerequisite. Established companies can no longer rely exclusively on their traditional selling and marketing channels, nor can tech-centric startups get by with Internet-only promotion and sales efforts. "We all have to rethink our go-to-market strategies," says Ed Kopko, CEO of Montvale, N.J.-based Butler International. "So that I as a consumer can learn about your product in a store or on the Web or anywhere I want to. We've got to make it easy so that at each step of the process in the purchasing cycle, the customer or prospective customer gets exactly the experience he or she wants."
Customers from different generations, for example, are likely to embrace different purchase methods. "This whole generation is different in terms of the way they think, operate and get their sources of information," asserts Bob Prieto, chairman of construction management company Parsons Brinckerhoff. "This weekend my son, who is heading back to college, mentioned that he has to buy a bed. So my wife suggested he go to a particular store that offers free delivery," he says. "He said, €˜No, I'll buy it on the Net, because I can find it easier and cheaper, and they'll deliver it.' My wife is very Internet savvy, yet that's not the way she would think to buy a bed."
But the benefits of developing the ability to reach out to customers through multiple channels must be balanced against the costs of developing and sustaining that capability. For example, not all retail operations are capable of running profitable online ventures, cautions Sy Syms, chairman of Syms. He points out that the challenges of handling delivery and product returns complicate the online retail equation. "The only ones who will be somewhat successful are those who already know how to do a catalog business, who have the inventory ready, who know how to process it and who can get it to you in 24 or 48 hours," says Syms.
Rather than attempt to debut an online retail arm, the Secaucus, N.J.-based discount retail chain opted for a more modest Internet program-using its site to advertise promotions and provide store locations. "We had to show that we're in the 21st century," explains Syms. "So we started out by offering a 10 percent e-mail discount card, which we advertised by saying, visit www.syms.com and you'll find a happy surprise. And we're still pulling in 2,000 to 3,000 coupons a week."
Turn Chefs into Salespeople
Jack Davis
"We're in two different channels. The first is the retail consumer business. The second, which is the largest segment of our business and the growing segment within the food industry, is the food service industry. And one of the biggest challenges we faced there was understanding who we were trying to sell.
We spent a lot of time trying to sell buyers who were purchasing for these various food service distributors or big chain restaurants, and we found we were constantly competing on specs and price. It was almost like bidding on a government contract, but on a smaller scale. Then we decided that buyers don't make the decisions about what chain restaurants consume and use. Those decisions are made by people who are in menu planning-the culinary chefs and teams of those people. So we had to restructure our entire sales organization. Now we send chefs in to work with the product development and culinary development people and we get our products specified for a particular flavor profile.
A chain like McDonald's might have a huge staff of people who are trying to develop products, but they need input from outside of that myopic view of their business. Our job is to go in there and say, "Hey, there's this new taste profile or new product offering that you need to put on your core product hamburger, not go out and create 32 different kinds of sandwiches, which is not part of your core business." And, once you get your product specified, then your competition is blocked.
So our challenge has been a little bit difficult for us to grasp-to get rid of all of our salespeople and hire a bunch of chefs. But fundamentally, that's the direction. Now if we can just teach those chefs how to price properly, we will have made the hurdle.
In our business there is also one absolute core value that no one may deviate from: You must perform at 100 percent all of the time on food safety. Because one small occurrence can sink your company.
A few years back, a company by the name of Hudson Industries put out some hamburger meat and five people on a barbecue cookout in Denver got a little ill. We still don't know whether the barbecue grill was contaminated or not. But two weeks later, Burger King said, €˜We're not going to buy any more hamburger from you.' And the company went out of business. Consumers are paranoid about the safety of their food, so safety is paramount in our business. You can't afford to make any mistakes."
The power of no
In the face of Internet hype, Syms managed to skirt temptation and take a realistic approach to the new channel. But other CEOs have been less fortunate in their decision-making. Operating in today's volatile and highly competitive environment often fosters a sense of innovation urgency that ultimately leads to detrimental decisions about risky ventures. "One of the easiest things to do as CEO is to say €˜yes,'" asserts Batesville Casket's Camp. "It's also one of the most dangerous. I think the real role of the CEO is to stay close to customers, collectively if not individually, and manage what I call the €˜Actions in Process.' So many people in your organization have ideas of what you should do or where your energy should go. But what you don't do is often more important than what you do, because not doing something allows you to focus on something that's more important."
"In the dot-com era a lot of CEOs lost their way, got enamored with lots of the wrong things and lost focus on their business models," agrees Stewart Krentzman, COO of Oki Data Americas, based in Mount Laurel, N.J. "We have an obligation to make sure we stay the course and don't lose sight of the business we're in. We need to have the discipline to make sure we don't take the company in a direction it really wasn't designed to go."
Owning the Customer
Jim Williams
We're a very old sock manufacturing company-80 years old. We've made four major decisions in the history of our company. The first one was to put the gold toe in the sock. The second one was to sell one retailer per store. The third decision we made was to sell to more than one retailer per city, which was a brilliant move. And, the fourth decision was to broaden our distribution a little bit, but to stay focused on our business. So that's 80 years of decisions in four strategic initiatives.
The No. 1 challenge we have is convincing the retailer that we are right in what we're saying about his consumer. And our No. 1 strategic objective is to be the category manager of the department. Now, a lot of people don't like to hear it, because it eliminates the merchandising people, the buying people, the consolidation of the whole thing, but it's a money-saving initiative. And the idea that we would put something in the store that we don't think is absolutely going to sell at a five-to-10 percent multiple or 15-percent sell through, is absurd. If it doesn't work, we'll get it out of there. But the store is a conduit from us to the consumer, and it's our job to adapt to the environment of that store and its strategic initiative.
We thought we knew everything about the consumer until we did more research identifying the shopping habits of the consumer. Today, what we're trying to do is produce a product [with a] proper price value that is actually the reward for the shopping experience. The thing we're struggling with is, where is that customer shopping and what are his buying habits?
Once we get a customer to buy our product, the consistency of re-buying our product is up around 90 percent. We don't lose a customer once we have that customer. And the more educated the customer is about our product, the more often they will wear our product. The thing I have done, and I feel it has been very successful, is I've surrounded myself with people who know what they're doing; the people who accentuate my strengths and build up my weaknesses-both. They're damn good people.
My job is to keep them focused. It's not how fast you're going; it's how fast you get to what your target is. So, it's just keeping them focused. My primary job is to protect the integrity of those brands that I'm responsible for in the bottom line.
I'll give you a story about setting the benchmark of performance. My team says, "Jim we can deliver 97 percent complete on time." Now, I looked at it and I thought for a few minutes and I said, "Well that's really good, but you know what's so interesting to me?" This was a year or so ago. I said, "Duke beat Carolina, 100 to 97." I said, "Who won? The one that delivered 100 percent won. They beat the other guy." And, the thing about it is, it's logical benchmarks that you can hold everybody accountable for. But you've got to always, as a CEO, keep everybody focused [on the fact] that perfection is the name of the game.


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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested a Lafitte man in connection with the threats that shut down two West Bank public schools Wednesday morning. Shane Kersey, 35, of 5388 Fisher St., was booked with two counts of terrorizing, according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
Authorities evacuated students from Marrero Academy Magnet School in Marrero and Fisher Middle-High School in Lafitte after each school received threats from an unidentified caller who said he planned to burn down the schools and harm children. The students returned to class after Sheriff's Office teams determined there was no danger at either school.
Using recordings of the threats left at the schools, detectives identified the telephone number used and called the number, Fortunato said. Kersey answered and identified himself. He admitted making calls to four schools Wednesday morning: two in Jefferson Parish and two in Plaquemines Parish.
During questioning, Kersey said he overheard students talking at a Lafitte school bus stop about a fight that was to occur later that day. The students also said they were bringing combustible materials, Kersey told police, Fortunato said. But instead of calling authorities, Kersey allegedly called and made the threats to the school.
When arrested, Kersey was wearing tin foil wrapped around his head underneath a baseball cap. He told detectives that the foil was there to prevent microwave signals from entering his head, Fortunato said.
Kersey was booked Wednesday afternoon at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. Fortunato said he was also booked as a fugitive from Plaquemines Parish on a simple burglary charge.
Kersey has convictions of DWI, hit and run and possession of marijuana, according to Jefferson Parish court records. He also has convictions for simple criminal damage to property for damaging three mailboxes and a fence.


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Victory! Global Captive Breeders Abusers Convicted
Update: Mitch Behm, the owner of Global Captive Breeders, LLC (GCB), and David Delgado, the facility's former manager, pleaded guilty to and were convicted of cruelty to animals in Riverside County Superior Court of California.
Behm pleaded guilty to a dozen counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals and was sentenced to five years of formal probation. He also must pay more than $190,000 in restitution to PETA and the City of Lake Elsinore for costs associated with the investigation and the rescue of more than 16,000 suffering animals from the facility. Behm is prohibited from entering into any business venture involving animals and from acquiring any animals.
Delgado pleaded guilty to a dozen felony counts of cruelty to animals and was sentenced to 180 days in the sheriff's custody and five years of formal probation. Delgado must also complete 250 hours of community service in a program that does not involve animals and is prohibited from acquiring animals.
While nothing can undo the horrific suffering that thousands of rats and reptiles endured at GCB, the provisions of Behm's and Delgado's sentencing will help ensure that no future victims will suffer at their hands.
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Riverside County, California, authorities have arrested Mitch Behm and David Delgado, the owner and former manager, respectively, of Global Captive Breeders, LLC (GCB), a rodent and reptile breeder and dealer. A two-month PETA undercover investigation of GCB led to the largest animal rescue in California history. Both men have been charged with 106 counts of felony cruelty to animals, each of which is punishable by up to $20,000 in fines and up to 36 months behind bars. Delgado also faces 11 more felony charges of torturing or killing rodents.
In December, acting on evidence gathered by PETA, officials discovered nearly 16,000 rats and mice and 600 reptiles languishing in waste-filled cages at GCB, many of them starving, injured, gravely ill, and/or with no access to water. The ensuing operation was the largest rescue of neglected rats in U.S. history.
PETA's investigation uncovered routine, severe neglect, including scores of rats who drowned because of a faulty watering system; rats who died of dehydration; mother rats who were confined to bins so cramped that they could not even sit upright, groom themselves, or properly nurse their young; reptiles who slowly wasted away over the course of weeks as a result of systemic deprivation; and more. PETA's investigator also recorded employees who killed rats by freezing them alive, shooting them with a BB gun, and slamming them against walls, shelves, and other hard surfaces.
In March, actor Jenna Dewan Tatum joined the more than 35,000 people who signed PETA's petition calling for charges to be filed. Tatum sent a letter urging the Riverside County district attorney to seek justice for the animals.
This is not PETA's first encounter with Behm. In the mid-1980s, when he was a college student, Behm videotaped himself throwing mice, rats, and rabbits into a tub with ferrets, who attacked and killed them. He admitted to conducting these unapproved "experiments" in part for his own "enjoyment," but the statute of limitations had expired by the time law-enforcement authorities discovered that video footage.
Please show this to anyone who is even tempted to buy a pet rat, a snake or any small or "exotic" animal to keep at home. We must not subsidize this wretchedly cruel trade. Ever.
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Thank you, PETA, for all that you do in the ongoing battle to protect innocent, voiceless, sentient beings. You have my respect.
Probation? These maggots should have gotten so much worse! This is an insult. I am glad this human trash was exposed. All those poor creatures that died at their hands, very sad.
Thank you PETA for all that you've done re the abuse of these sentient animals.
The problem is that they never serve jail term, they say CAN face jail term.But it never happens.Thats why they always walk away, and thats what I get angry about.When are we going to start seeing companys and people do JAIL TIME FOR THERE CRIME.
It is unimaginable that anyone can treat a living creature in these awful ways. These videos and people that partake in this type of cruelty make me sick to my stomach. How can anyone do this, especially day in and day out!!?? THANK YOU PETA for standing up for these animals that don't have the voices or ability to stand up for themselves!
Thank you for all that you are doing. I am so pleased that these people have been convicted
Thank God there are organisations like PETA.
Thanks to everyone who have the hearts to save these innocent lives
Hail Mary , full of grace , the Lord is with thee ; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb , Jesus . Holy Mary Mother of God , pray for us sinners , now and at the hour of our death . Amen .
Mother of God, I am calling on you to hear the prayers of those who wish to end suffering and to hear the silent desperation of the animals . Please please intercede for us to a just Maker , your Son , and continue the work of all agencies in hastening the closure of all abusive situations . Help people to recognize that how they treat animals is a measure of their own humanity .
Actually, Lorna, I never call individuals like this human. To me they are BLACKHEARTED, SOULLESS CREATURES.
Thank you so much!! My heart still bleeds for these poor little defenceless animals 🙁
Thank you Peta for all that you do for these beautiful creatures.
It's great that these cruel creatures – I refrain from using humans – they are anything but are going to be punished. Well done
Crying of happiness that these animals no longer have to suffer in the hands of these humans. Such a relief, but so many out there. One at a time…
Fantastic victory PETA, thank you.
this is a repeat offender,his punishment should have been more stronger. it has been said over and over any person that is cruel (torture) to animals wind up hurting and killing humans. punishment needs to be longer jail time and should happen to EVERY SINGLE person that is convicted of animal abuse!! then they need to be on an Animal Abuse Register in the whole United States and NEVER be allowed to own ANY kind of animal. these people have no conscience and not a kind bone in their body. it makes me sick that not enough punishment is done to these abusers!!!!!
Thanks to everyone involved with getting these abusers…
I don't know how people can be so horribly cruel to innocent animals. They must be sick! Any place or organization that abuses animals in any way should be shut down. No questions asked. It just needs to be done.
Thank you, PETA. Your actions make such a difference in this cruel world. Without you, there would be no hope for these precious animals.
Thankfully ,these evil individuals have been exposed. This is the TIP of the iceburg i'm sure. There will be many more needs for investigation and prosecution of these other MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So sorry that so many had to die in such pain. Great exposure video; give these people a lot of jail time just for being idiots!
Good job! How about the Zoo in Copenhagen?
There has to be something missing in people who cause suffering in any way to any living being. Keep up your great work, PETA.
Congratulations to Peta – great job!!
I am so happy to see that they are convicted and penalized…
Love you Peta!!!
Tears running down my face. Thank you PETA, keep it up <3
Thank you! Peta!
Great job PETA!!
God bless peta for trying to help these poor creatures. Why animal cruelty is a misdemeanor is beyond me. It should be a felony with mandatory prison time.
Here here!!
Thank you PETA
God Bless PETA
Thank God PETA is brave enough to expose these perpetrators of the Animal Holocaust. Poor creatures, so much suffering.
You hit the nail on the head! May these cruel individuals go to jail for as long as possible- they are sickos!!
So glad these people who charged for their inhumane actions. i wish some jail time was given as well. These type of people need to know this behavior will not be tolerated ever and if the do it then they will pay dearly for it. Thank you for your hard work and given these animals another chance at life. Keep fighting the good fight.
This was a horrific case of cruelty. I hope he is jailed and punished for all of the pain he has caused to all of these helpless creatures. I couldn't bear to watch the entire video. It was hurting my soul to see so much cruelty and pain.
Thank you for all that you all do to help stop and bring our relations to justice.
horrific. Give them a punishment. They should not be forgiven make them realize how they have tortured these animals.
Thank you once again PETA for shutting this disgusting place down! You are the best! I will always support and donate to your cause.
Humans making hell to the lives of these innocent animals. How sad!
Just Thank You, and never stop doing what you do so well. I discovered your organization in the 80's and have been with you and for you ever since. God speed.
Thank you again, PETA for doing what should be done.
THANK YOU PETA! Please continue with petitions for all to sign mandating legislation to protect animals. STIFF JAIL TERMS and FINES must be made so people have consequences for these acts of TORTURE! Otherwise, it will continue as we see every single days while poor innocent animals are TORTURED. THANK YOU PETA and for all who do their part in helping protect these animals who count on us to be their voice.
PETA, you guys are wonderful! What an amazing job you do to help animals.
Es una verguenza lo que hacemos con los animales en nombre de cualquier cosa, ya que son inocentes, desprotegidos, no pueden defenderse. Es una triste realidad. Ayudemos a los animales.
"THE GREATNESS OF A NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED." – Mahatma Gandhi "OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER." – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "IF WE DO NOT DO SOMETHING TO HELP THESE CREATURES, WE MAKE A MOCKERY OF THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE." – Dr. Jane Goodall "UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL, A PART OF ONE'S SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED." – Anatole France
This is so awful – i teared up a bit. Thank you PETA for trying to stop these cruel people!
Peta Thanks for all the effort, efforts to help and be the voice "of those who have no voice"! Together with you, we can save others unhappy by the sufferings inflicted by man.
awesome job people can be so sick
Thank you PETA, and to all of you that help to stop this cruelty… bless your heart
Thumbs up!


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Travel Updates
United States Department of Homeland Security issues warning of shoe-bomb attack on international airline flights
- From: News Limited Network
- February 20, 2014
THE UNITED States has issued a warning to all overseas airlines flying to the country of a terror attack involving explosives hidden in shoes.
The Department of Homeland Security issued the warning based on what it called "credible intelligence".
Airlines have been urged to pay extra attention to flights from overseas into the United States. Passengers can expect increased scrutiny in pat downs and full-body screening.
The bulletin also urges security screeners to use explosive trace detection swabs to check all shoes - even those in carry-on bags.
The officials say the threat information was not specific to any particular airline, country, or time.
"It's a reminder that we are under constant threat and an advisory to airlines be on their 'A' game," another official said to be familiar with the threat intelligence told NBC news.
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More than 5,000 square feet of space will be available to display the students' robots, which are able to throw basketballs and Frisbees. The public will be able to not only watch the robots in action but take a turn at controlling them.
The team also will exhibit its high-altitude flying capsules and other equipment.
Students on the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics team design and build robots for competitions. Grandville Public Schools has one of the largest FIRST Robotics programs in the world.
The high school team will be at RiverTown Crossing mall, located at 3700 Rivertown Pkwy., from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Oct. 5, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 6.


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KINGSTON There was a collective gasp from a half-dozen North Kitsap Fire & Rescue staff members and commissioners in their conference room around 8:15 p.m. May 17.
The Kitsap County Auditors office had just posted the first unofficial results of the agencys proposed tax levy increase ballot measure and they were positive 56.65 percent voted Yes and 43.35 percent voted No.
I can hardly talk, NKF&R spokesperson Michéle Laboda said to NKF&R Assistant Chief Dan Smith over the phone after learning the results.
The measures passage Tuesday means the district will collect a tax of $1.50 per $1,000 assessed property valuations starting in 2006. Currently, the district collects $1.25 per $1,000. After 2006, the levy rate will decrease as property values increase.
The lid lift will help support the first third of the agencys fiscal year, which is January to April. During this period, NKF&R relies on carryover funds until it receives property tax revenues at the end of April. If the proposed ballot measure had not been approved, the district would have run out of carryover funding by 2008 and cuts, including personnel, would have been made.
Since Initiative 747 passed in 2001, public agencies have been restricted in how much they can collect in property tax revenues. They are limited to collecting 100 percent of what was collected the year before, plus just 1 percent and new construction taxes. NKF&R receives no federal, state or county funding, so 90 percent of its budget is based on its property tax revenues.
The district had been finding ways to increase its income and decrease its costs and going to the voters was one of the last resorts.
Fire officials werent sure what the outcome would be, given that very few residents showed up at the districts public informational meetings held last month. They didnt know if people were already planning to vote yes for the issue or if they were confused and werent asking questions.
NKF&R Commission Chair Leon Thomas said Tuesday evening that he wasnt concerned about residents supporting the measure, especially those in his jurisdiction, Hansville.
My contact with people in the whole district has been confident, he said.
NKF&R Commissioner Gillian Gregory said while the staff is happy with the positive outcome, with 2,857 votes of approval, they are also taking note of the 2,186 voters who cast ballots against the proposition and are curious why they voted the way they did.
We see Nos, we want to hear from those folks, Gregory said. I think (we) owe it to them to dig deeper.
Smith said he was surprised at the margin.
I would have anticipated it to be a little closer because of the communication (from residents) we were getting in the past week or two, he said.
While response was minimal from the public at the first announcement of the proposed lid lift, more people started calling the fire district with questions after they received their ballots in the mail in late April.
People seemed to be confused by the ballot language, Smith said.
And this confusion was a big fear of the fire officials, in that people would not understand what the ballot was asking. Fire officials said they had little control over how the ballot language was written, as it is finalized by the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorneys office.
Those are areas we need to with the county on, Smith said. Fire stations as whole in the county need to work with the prosecuting attorneys office to make things a little more clearer.
And if the measure hadnt passed?
It would have been very difficult to deal with, which would have been cuts all the way around, Smith said. To have to lay people off in this day and age is a difficult situation.
Kitsap County Auditor Karen Flynn said most of the ballots for the NKF&R election have been counted and she expects the percentages to hold steady because there would need to be a significant number of No votes to change the outcome of the election.
A total of 11,595 ballots were sent to tax payers within the NKF&R district and approximately 5,600 were returned, which is about a 48 percent return rate. Flynn said she was expecting a 45 percent to 50 percent turnout, which is common for a special election. While 5,043 ballots had been counted by Tuesday night, there were still another 500 to tally as of Thursday afternoon and another 50 that were being challenged, meaning they didnt have signatures that matched or any signature at all and needed further investigation. The results are expected to be certified May 27.
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The NFL is the greatest show on earth for a reason. With touchdowns, big hits and heated rivalries, there is a full-scale drama occurring week-to-week from August to February.
The San Francisco 49ers (10-4-1) have had some major ups and real downs in the 2012-13 season. But overall, with a winning record and a playoff berth, it's hard to frown on this year's campaign if you're a Faithful.
This 49ers team has gone through some serious change this year, in its second under head coach Jim Harbaugh. But a lot of the time, change comes for the better. The Niners have been looking to build upon the foundation they laid in 2011.
For a second consecutive year under the Harbaugh regime, the 49ers have put together double-digit wins in a season.
The team will cap off this season with a match against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 17. The Niners have already locked up a postseason spot but can still claim a first-round bye. The season is not over, but it has already been defined.
In this piece, we'll take a look at San Francisco's season, reflecting on the moments that made it unique.


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Arizona Fall League, Week 3 (10.22–28)
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by Mike Feigen
Each week, we will recap the performances of the eight members of the Nationals organization participating in the Arizona Fall League, a "finishing school" for top prospects.
The eight Nationals players are members of the Mesa Solar Sox, which is comprised of young stars from the Nationals, Angels, Athletics, Cubs and Tigers farm systems. The Solar Sox will battle the Glendale Desert Dogs, Peoria Javelinas, Salt River Rafters, Scottsdale Scorpions and Surprise Saguaros during the six-week season, with each team made up of players from five MLB organizations.
Nationals Director of Player Development Doug Harris sat down with Curly W Live to discuss the progress of left-handers Matt Purke and Sammy Solis, two of the top hurlers in the Arizona Fall League. Purke, a 2011 third-round pick, and Solis, a 2010 second round selection, completed their regular seasons with the High-A Potomac Nationals. Here are the highlights from that Q&A:
Curly W Live: Where are Matt Purke and Sammy Solis in their overall development?
Doug Harris: Both finished their regular seasons really well. Even though their innings were limited, their volume was fairly significant because they were doing a lot of work on their arms prior to them actually getting into a game. They had a nice break after the playoff run with Potomac, which freshened them up, so now they're where they would be if they were coming down the home stretch of a regular season.
Matthew's command is a little more crisp than it was during the regular season, which enables him to utilize his secondary stuff. You're seeing some strikeouts and his walks are down. Sammy's stuff has been really good out there. He's gotten ahead of hitters very quickly, but he's walked a few because he's gone to his secondary stuff a little more than he's needed to.
CWL: Are they both fully back on track from previous setbacks?
Harris: First and foremost, they have health. Both are very talented young men and have worked very hard to get themselves back to this point. Matthew, in particular, battled some ups and downs early on. He had a little clean-up that has enabled him to not look back and be more of the pitcher that we saw (in college). Sammy was moving really well through the system, had the Tommy John surgery, and now he's right back on track.
CWL: They have put up excellent numbers in the Arizona Fall League. How much of an indicator are the statistics down there?
Harris: I think they're somewhat of an indicator, but I don't think they're the gospel. With the Arizona Fall League, you look at each hitter day-to-day and each pitcher outing-to-outing. It's somewhat of a scripted league, so you have to dissect things day-to-day a little more than you would in the regular season.
Matthew's good fastball command has enabled him to get to his secondary stuff, which is why you're seeing low hits-to-innings-pitched from him (three hits in 12 innings as of October 28).
CWL: What type of pitches are they throwing and how is their velocity?
Harris: Both have a very similar mix: a fastball, curveball and change. Sammy's fastball is a tick more firm than Matthew's at this point. Sammy, prior to Tommy John, was up to 96 and we've seen comparable velocity from him. During the regular season, Matthew was up to 94, but they both pitch in the 90-92 range. Both have good movement on their fastballs, and they're both still developing their breaking ball consistency. Sammy's change-up is ahead right now. Matthew is still learning how to throw it, when to throw it and developing trust in throwing it.
CWL: Do you have any goals for them for the rest of the Arizona Fall League season as they head into Spring Training?
Harris: The first thing is maintaining their health. They're taking the ball every fifth day and they have a five-inning cap. After an abbreviated season, they're increasing their volume, which will really allow us to expand their innings next year. That's a critical thing for us. They'll continue to work on fastball command and the quality of their secondary stuff. The most important thing is having them (arrive at Spring Training) healthy and ready to go into a strong 2014.
In addition to earning rave reviews from Harris, Purke is beginning to pick up accolades for his work on the mound. The left-hander earned Arizona Fall League Pitcher of the Week honors on Tuesday, following his five innings of scoreless, one-hit baseball against Scottsdale on October 23.
Purke will take the hill Tuesday evening in prime time, when the Mesa Solar Sox travel to Salt River to take on the Rafters.
Center field prospect Brian Goodwin will represent the Nationals in this Saturday's Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game, the league announced Monday. Goodwin, who will celebrate his 23rd birthday the day of the game, has compiled a .304 batting average with five runs scored and three RBI in 11 games with the Mesa Solar Sox this fall.
This will mark Goodwin's second consecutive appearance in the Fall Stars contest, formerly known as the Rising Stars Game. MLB Network will broadcast the exhibition live at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday from Surprise, Arizona.
Here is a look at how each of the Nationals participants in this year's Arizona Fall League performed during the season's third week (October 22-28):
Weekly Totals: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO
Season Totals: 6 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO, 4.50 ERA, 1.50 WHIP
Weekly Totals: .333/.353/.333, 1 RBI, 2 R, 1 BB in 17 PA
Season Totals: .304/.347/.348, 2 2B, 3 RBI, 5 R, 2 SB, 2 BB in 50 PA
Weekly Totals: (1 SV), 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO
Season Totals: (1 SV), 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO, 1.80 ERA, 0.60 WHIP
Weekly Totals: .286/.375/.286, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB in 8 PA
Season Totals: .300/.423/.350, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 3 R, 5 BB in 26 PA
Weekly Totals: (0-0), 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO
Season Totals: (2-0), 12 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 12 SO, 0.00 ERA, 0.50 WHIP
Weekly Totals: .000/.200/.000, 3 BB in 15 PA
Season Totals: .179/.410/.429, 2 HR, 1 2B, 5 RBI, 6 R in 39 PA
Weekly Totals: (0-1), 3.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO
Season Totals: (3-1), 15.2 IP, 18 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 5 BB, 16 SO, 2.87 ERA, 1.47 WHIP
Weekly Totals: .571/.571/.571, 3 SB in 7 plate appearances
Season Totals: .400/.520/.450, 1 2B, 5 RBI, 3 R, 9 SB, 5 BB in 25 PA
For more information on the Arizona Fall League, visit MLBFallBall.com.
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Doctors often get compared to detectives when diagnosing illnesses but Dan Shapiro is taking that comparison one step further.
The clinical psychologist and chair of the humanities at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey is one of the stars of "The Great American Manhunt," an eight-part, one-hour series debuting tonight on National Geographic Channel.
In the series, Shapiro, along with forensic anthropologist Natalie Shirley and former police Detective Bill Erfurth, are given clues about a person living in the United States and using them must attempt to discover his occupation, location and full name.
"They gave us these little bits of information and we had to try and figure out who these folks were," Shapiro said. "Because they weren't folks with a major pathology, it was fun and at times taxing but also a pretty compelling challenge."
In fact, when Shapiro first heard about the premise of the show, he didn't think it would work.
"When I was first asked to be involved with this I didn't see how it was possible," Shapiro said. "But it also struck me that it might be a vehicle for communicating to the public how powerful a tool scientifically-based psychological assessment can be."
For Shapiro, the clues tended to be related to IQ and personality testing data, though clothing and physical exams were used as well.
"I got reams and reams of data I could mine to say that a person is exceptionally verbal and could be a leader, or this is someone who likes to be alone," he said. "Working together we were able to pool our clues and learn from one another in a way that helped us narrow the field."
Sometimes those clues involved a bit of travel and Shapiro ended up visiting 11 or 12 states while taping the show.
"We had to go talk to people who did the things we were looking for," he said. "You'd get a weird clue like something on a person's clothing. Stuff that you could not find sitting playing around on the Internet."
This isn't the first time Shapiro has been involved in television. He serves as a consultant for the shows like "Gray's Anatomy" and "Private Practice."
"What I try to combine is knowledge of mental health and knowledge of story," he said. "My personal goal is to get public health messages on television, so that, for example, people don't always view the mentally ill as violent."
Shapiro said he's fortunate to work with smart and educated writers on these shows. "It's generally a pleasure to make these stories as strong as they can be while getting public health messages on television, he said."
And Shapiro hopes "Great American Manhunt" will help do the same.
"What's fun is people can play along as we try to figure out what kind of person it is," he said.
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Founded in the twelfth century, owes its name to the national patron of Spain, St. James the Greater, under whose banner the Christians of Galicia began in the ninth century to combat and drive back the Mussulmans of Spain. Compostela, in Galicia, the centre of devotion to this Apostle, is neither the cradle nor the principal seat of the order. Two cities contend for the honour of having given it birth, León in the kingdom of that name, and Uclés in Castile. At that time (1157-1230) the royal dynasty was divided into two rival branches, which rivalry tended to obscure the beginnings of the order. The Knights of Santiago had possessions in each of the kingdoms, but Ferdinand II of León and Alfonso VIII of Castile, in bestowing them, set the condition that the seat of the order should be in their respective states. Hence arose long disputes which only ended in 1230 when Ferdinand III, the Saint, united both crowns. Thenceforth, Uclés, in the Province of Cuenca, was regarded as the headquarters of the order; there the grand master habitually resided, aspirants passed their year of probation, and the rich archives of the order were preserved until united in 1869 with the "Archivo historico nacional" of Madrid. The order received its first rule in 1171 from Cardinal Jacinto (later Celestine III ), then legate in Spain of Alexander III. Unlike the contemporary orders of Calatrava and Alcántara, which followed the severe rule of the Benedictines of Cîteaux, Santiago adopted the milder rule of the Canons of St. Augustine. In fact at León they offered their services to the Canons Regular of St. Eloi in that town for the protection of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James and the hospices on the roads leading to Compostela. This explains the mixed character of their order, which is hospitaller and military, like that of St. John of Jerusalem. They were recognized as religious by Alexander III, whose Bull of 5 July, 1175, was subsequently confirmed by more than twenty of his successors. These pontifical acts, collected in the "Bullarium" of the order, secured them all the privileges and exemptions of other monastic orders. The order comprised several affiliated classes: canons, charged with the administration of the sacraments ; canonesses, occupied with the service of pilgrims ; religious knights living in community, and married knights. The right to marry, which other military orders only obtained at the end of the Middle Ages, was accorded them from the beginning under certain conditions, such as the authorization of the king, the obligation of observing continence during Advent, Lent, and on certain festivals of the year, which they spent at their monasteries in retreat.
The mildness of this rule furthered the rapid spread of the order, which eclipsed the older orders of Calatrava and Alcántara, and whose power was reputed abroad even before 1200. The first Bull of confirmation, that of Alexander III, already enumerated a large number of endowments. At its height Santiago alone had more possessions than Calatrava and Alcántara together. In Spain these possessions included 83 commanderies, of which 3 were reserved to the grand commanders, 2 cities, 178 boroughs and villages, 200 parishes, 5 hospitals, 5 convents, and 1 college at Salamanca. The number of knights was then 400 and they could muster more than 1000 lances. They had possessions in Portugal, France, Italy, Hungary, and even Palestine. Abrantes, their first commandery in Portugal, dates from the reign of Alfonso I in 1172, and soon became a distinct order which Nicholas IV in 1290 released from the jurisdiction of Uclés. Their military history is linked with that of the Spanish states. They assisted in driving out the Mussulmans, doing battle with them sometimes separately, sometimes with the royal armies. They also had a regrettable share in the fatal dissenssions which disturbed the Christians of Spain and brought about more than one schism in the order. Finally they took part in the maritime expeditions against the Mussulmans. Thus arose the obligation imposed upon aspirants to serve six months in the galleys, which obligation still existed in the eighteenth century, but from which exemption was easily purchased. Authority was exercised by a grand master assisted by a Council of Thirteen, which elected the grand master and had the right to depose him for due cause; they had supreme jurisdiction in all disputes between members of the order. The first grand master, Pedro Fernández de Fuente Encalato, died in 1184. He had had 39 successors, among them several Spanish Infantes, when, in 1499, Ferdinand the Catholic induced the pope to assign to him the administration of the order. Under Charles V, Adrian VI annexed to the crown of Spain the three great military orders (Alcántara, Calatrava, and Santiago) with hereditary transmission even in the female line (1522). Thenceforth the three orders were united under one government, though their titles and possessions remained separate. To discharge the detail of this administration, Charles V instituted a special ministry, the Council of Orders, composed of a president named by the king, whom he represented, and six knights, two delegates from each order. To this council belonged the presentation of knights to vacant commanderies and jurisdiction in all matters, civil or ecclesiastical, save the purely spiritual cases reserved for ecclesiatical dignitaries. Thus ended the autonomy of the orders (see CALATRAVA, MILITARY ORDER OF). Their symbol was a red cross terminating in a sword, which recalls their title de la Espada , and a shell ( la venera ), which they doubtless owed to their connection with the pilgrimage of St. James.
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