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David Temple writes on SEMScholar.com all about sem training. Please change your link to read sem training or SEMScholar, thanks, dt
May 11, 2007
April 16, 2007
Another day another meme: 5 reasons I blog
Okay I've been tagged in another blog meme. If you want to follow this meme the good folks at SoloSEO have created a blog meme tracker much like the "5 things you didn't know about me" meme but this time you can edit it. I'm flattered that the Pope of local search, Paul Jahn, and writer extraodanaire, Steve Bradley, aka VanGogh, have tagged me but I really don't know what to say. Why do I blog? I truly don't know.
1.) It takes away any free time I have.
2). It's hard to think of things to blog about.
3). I can't write very well .
4). Does anyone read this?
5). I'm easily distracted.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yeah, I don't really know why I blog but I will tag the following people and keep this meme going.
Christy Arneson Jones – SEO Jealous
Chris Brown – Branding & Marketing
Andrea Schoemaker – Pimp My Blog
Matt McGee – Small Business SEM
Emory Rowland – ClickFire
SEM Scholarship entry "So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer"
Andy Beal's SEM Scholarship contest is well underway and there are some great articles out there. I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and fellow China traveler Nicole St. Martin aka SEMgirl. Nicole has written an article for the contest entitled "So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer" where she talks about the qualities you need to make it in this wacky seo world. Her first and my personal favorite quality for a search marketer is "passion". Now one thing that many of the people I know in this field have and that is passion. Just take a look at responses to guys like Jason Calacanis and Dave Pasternack when they bash seo. This industry if full of passionate people. Please take a look at Nicole's entry and read some of the others ones while you're there and feel the "passion".
April 1, 2007
SEM training offered by Search Engine Strategies in New York
SEM training courses will be offered by Search Engine Strategies in New York prior to the SES conference. The courses will be held on Monday April 9th and the SES conference will start on Tuesday. The sem training will be led by Shari Thurow, Matt Bailey, Jennifer Laycock, Debra Mastaler, Amanda Watlington, Greg Jarboe, Nan Dawkins and Rob Key.
Search Engine Strategies sem training will include;
Link Building Tactics, Tools & Techniques – Shari Thurow
This presentation will demonstrate how these skills are essential for building a user–friendly, search–friendly, and persuasive site that converts visitors into buyers.
Link Building Tactics, Tools & Techniques – Debra O'Neil-Mastaler
Need links? In order to rank well and successfully promote your online business, you need an effective link building program as part of your over-all SEO strategy.
Search & Analytics Workshop: Using Analytics to Increase Search Effectiveness – Matt Bailey
Analytics are a gold mine of information, just waiting to be uncovered. The results of your campaigns, effectiveness of the website, and the efficiency of your rankings can all be measured with a good analytics program.
Getting Found in All The Right Places – Greb Jarboe – Amanda Watlington
Everyone who promotes Web sites as part of their work should attend this workshop. Web marketers should understand how to optimize and leverage their content and its distribution across news, blog, social, image, audio and video search engines.
Viral Marketing & Link Baiting – Jennifer Laycock
In this workshop, you will gain a better understanding of the concepts, ideas and implementations that are required to launch a viral marketing or link baiting campaign.
Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy – Nan Dawkins – Rob Key
The power of social media, together with its increasing visibility in search engines, has made it incumbent for brands to engage in these "Web 2.0" environments, including blogs, social networks, wikis, and more
March 26, 2007
SEM Scholarship – take two from Marketing Pilgrim
If you didn't get a chance to follow last year's SEM Scholarship contest, then you don't want to miss this. Andy Beal's pulling out all the stops and offering a scholarship worth more than $10,000. That includes a full conference pass to Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, and the winner will have their article published in Search Marketing Standard, an sem industry magazine.
Last year's winner Ben Wills wrote a great piece on social media and has been a busy guy since he won. The new Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Contest is on again and "this time it's bigger, better and badder than before!"
I entered this contest last year and really enjoyed the challenge of driving as much traffic in a week as I could. I finished 12th out of 48 entries and had a great time doing it. My entry was in the last week when other procrastinators like myself waited until the last minute. So we were competing against more weekly entries than the others.
This year all entries will be printed at the same time and there will be 5 finalists instead of the 4 last year. Contestants will also have 4 weeks to promote their story. The finalists are chosen based on the number of unique page views they have and then the excellent panel of judges picks the final winner.
The deadline for all entries is April 6, 2007.
- There will be ONLY ONE ROUND OF ENTRIES. Unlike last year – with four weekly deadlines – there will be just one chance to submit your article.
- The biggest suggestion from last year was that one week to build traffic to an article, really didn't demonstrate the true abilities of a search marketer. This time around, you'll have a full 4 weeks to spread the word, drive traffic, build links, etc.
- We'll have five finalists this year, instead of four.
Once again the panel of judges is a who's who list of the search marketing world.
Kim Krause Berg – UsabilityEffect.com
Jim Boykin – WebBuildPages.com
Rand Fishkin – SEOMoz.org
Andrew Goodman – Page-Zero.com
Michael Jensen – SoloSEO.com
Kalena Jordan – SearchEngineCollege.com
Jennifer Laycock – SearchEngineGuide.com
Todd Malicoat – Stuntdubl.com
Boris Mordkovich – SearchMarketingStandard.com
Lee Odden – TopRankBlog.com
Elisabeth Osmeloski – SearchEngineWatch.com
Neil Patel – PronetAdvertising.com
Barry Schwartz – RustyBrick.com
Brett Tabke – WebmasterWorld.com
Laura Thieme – BizResearch.com
Aaron Wall – SEOBook.com
This is one contest you don't want to miss either as a participant or a reader. There were some great articles last year and I imagine this year there will be even more.
If you don't want to miss the contest updates and deadlines, subscribe to the RSS feed. Best wishes to all the contestants!
March 25, 2007
An alien learns seo in the kitchen and Dave saves the world
Dave thought he was dreaming. Sitting across the kitchen table from him was an alien. An honest to goodness alien, just like everyone describes. A short grey skinned humanoid with large dark bug like eyes and small mouth. "I really must be dreaming", he said to himself. "This can't be real".
Dave was held in his chair by an unknown force and could only manage to move his fingers. He pinched himself twice, hard and he wasn't dreaming. What did this alien want? Dave's mind raced to the stories he'd heard about aliens. Make it stop, he thought.
The alien was uncomfortable sitting in the earthling's kitchen. This is the closest it had been to a human. It had seen humans before but this was different. They really do pinch themselves the alien thought, it's not just a myth.
The alien held the earthling in his seat and thought about its mission. They could not fail this time. The universe was theirs and only this planet stood in the way. The mission was to decide if they will attack this planet and destroy all life, or let it be and just take what they want.
They would study it by the acronyms used on this planet The captain took the UN. Several other aliens were on acronym teams like the URL, HTTP, W3C or the CIA, FBI, KBG or the KAOS, UNCLE, PLOOP and there was the AMA, DMA, IMA team.
This was the alien's first full contact mission and he was excited about his acronym. The alien could have taken NASA but it wasn't interested in ancient history. It had heard of this SEO on earth and knew that was the most exciting thing ever in the history of humans at least according to those that wrote about it. Once the alien completed the mission, it would be a hero back home.
Dave squirmed as much as he could in his seat and tried not to look at the alien directly. It didn't work, he couldn't help but stare. As the alien stared back Dave sensed the alien say something but not move its mouth. He didn't hear it clearly at first but then he heard the letters, S E O.
"Did the alien really say S E O to me?" Dave pondered. Again he heard the alien say the letters, S E O. So Dave responded "S E O" and the alien pulled out a key and pointed it at Dave.
The alien already knew S E O and wanted the human to tell him something about it. If not, he would zap him. If the human said S E O again the alien would send him flying into the wall. It had no time to waste with this human.
Dave thought he got a response from the alien and said again, "S E O". Bam!!!! Dave and his chair went flying across the room. He hit his head against the wall and the next thing he knew, Dave was right back at the table still stuck in his chair.
The alien hoped this human learned his lesson and would tell it what it wants to know and do it now. It didn't want to be the last one back to the mothership. The first one back got an automatic promotion. The alien that brought back the most helpful knowledge would be made a captain and have his own ship.
Dave thought if he wouldn't say anything he'd be fine but the alien again said "S E O" and looked to him to respond. Dave thought quickly and said "search engine optimization" and saw the key come out just before his chair and head hit the wall again. Back at the table his head was hurting bad and he didn't know what to do.
The alien had just about enough of this human and was about to go to plan B, when the human cried out, "It's like baking a cake. SEO is just like baking a cake."
Mmmmm, cake. The alien had eaten cake on several cattle mutilation missions. Once it got caught stealing a cake but nobody believed the human who reported it. Now the alien was interested. If seo is like cake, this mission will be the best yet.
Dave noticed the alien's eyes get big and cringed at the thought of the key. The alien instead put down the key and said "'cake". Now what? Dave sighed, does it want me to bake it a cake? Yes! the alien responded, "cake now."
Dave's heart raced. He never baked a cake before. Sure he licked the batter and frosting spoons but he never really baked a cake. He had no choice as he glanced down and saw the key sitting on the table next to the alien. Suddenly he was freed from his chair and lifted into the kitchen. This shouldn't be too bad he reasoned, I'll only have to do this once.
Dave luckily remembered some of the things that go into a cake and decided to do the best he could. "Okay I need flour, eggs, sugar, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract," Dave said to the alien hoping the key didn't come out again. Dave had them all and thought he could finally get out of this. At least he could learn more about this alien while the cake was baking.
All of a sudden Dave realized he didn't know how much of each ingredient to add. Yes, he had measuring cups and spoons, he just didn't know how much flour or sugar or salt he needed to bake a cake. Dave would have to guess.
The alien was getting angrier as the human mixed food items together. None of this looked like a cake to the alien and he reached for his key. "Why doesn't this look like cake?" the alien asked Dave.
Dave said that all he had to do is bake the cake and it would be look right. The alien asked how long that would take and Dave responded "an hour or so." Right after Dave put the cake into the oven, the timer went off.
When Dave heard the timer go off he thought it must have been set wrong. The alien saw his puzzled look and explained one earth hour had passed. How could that be, Dave wondered, do you really loose time in alien abductions.
Dave didn't care, he was just happy the cake was done. Now the alien would leave him in peace. As he headed up to get the cake out of the oven he remembered he didn't have any frosting. Maybe the alien wouln't notice. After all, he only told the alien it was like baking a cake, not frosting one.
Dave took the cake out of the oven and saw that it had fallen and was only half as big as it should have been. Maybe the alien won't notice Dave thought as he turned to show the cake to the alien.
The alien was glad the cake was done and could report back to the mothership all about SEO. All the other aliens loved cake and it could tell the others how to bake them. The human turned with the cake and the alien saw it was only half the size of the other cakes it had seen. Not only that, there was no frosting and the alien loved frosting.
Out came the key and Dave went flying across the room with his fallen cake and slammed against the wall. The cake went bouncing down the hall and Dave was thrown back in his chair and pinned there. The alien was furious. "Cakes should be at the top of the pan. How come this cake has fallen? "
Dave was really frightened and didn't know what to do. Suddenly he burst out without thinking, "You have to buy a cake to get one that goes to the top. I can help you do that. You shouldn't bake a cake yourself since you can buy them."
The alien was happy again. It would be a hero after all. "How do you buy cake?" the alien asked Dave. "I can go buy cake for you now," he replied. Suddenly Dave and the alien were in the car headed for the bakery.
It took them no time at all to get to the bakery and buy a dozen cakes. Dave drove the alien to a field outside town and helped it carry the cakes onto the spaceship. All the aliens stared at Dave and he hoped none of them approached him. After the cakes were aboard the spaceship, Dave found himself at home in bed.
The alien had made it back last after all and was worried someone had already got the promotion he wanted so bad. The captain reported that the UN was not a threat to the aliens since they they can't get anything done on this planet, they sure couldn't control the universe. The KAOS, UNCLE, SPECTER, team said that these very secret organizations and they couldn't find anything out about them.
Unfortunately the team covering the CIA, FBI, KGB disappeared from the monitor that was covering their activities. The team that studied the URL, HTTP, W3C were up next but they wanted everyone to go onto a computer to see their report. The AMA, DMA, IMA team talked about how wonderful their team was and how they are going to do great things for the planet. Nobody believed anything they said.
So now the alien that learned SEO was up. "SEO is like cake" the alien told his fellow travelers. It reached back and pulled out one of the dozens cakes and was mobbed. All the aliens loved cake and they couldn't get enough. The captain announced, "You've done a great job and you are promoted to captain. We will not attack this planet but will come here for the cake".
And that's how Dave saved the planet and all of those that live here by teaching SEO to an alien in his kitchen.
March 11, 2007
9 short notes kids wrote to their favorite seo
With the lastest game show centered on whether you are smarter than a fifth grader or not and the shocking revelation that seo isn't rocket science, we wanted to meet with some elementary school children and get their take. We were curious to find out what they already know about search engine marketing and how they used that knowledge in today's competitive market and what they see for the future.
Their answers shocked us as we soon realized many of the young students knew quite a bit, not only about seo, but also about the people involved. Many of the kids read blogs like Search Engine Land, The Daily SEO Blog, Bruce Clay's Blog, Cre8pc Blog, Search Student, Shoemoney, Pronet Advertising, Search Marketing Gurus and others.
We asked some of the students to write a short note to their favorite blogger or seo and listed below are nine of their notes. I'm sure you'll be as surprised as we were. Please leave a comment for the kids and encourage them in their seo endeavors.
Rand Fishkin,
I heard you're getting married, congratulations. I watched the superbowl to see you propose but you weren't there. I'm happy you and Bruce Clay's daughter Lisa are finally getting together. I saw a video on the Internet where a girl was going to be sick because you proposed to Lisa. That was sad. I wish you the best. Susie
Danny Sullivan,
My dad said you were an original gangster and you had to move to England but now you and your gang are hiding out in Search Engine Land. What's it like there? I really want to come but my dad said it's not for little kids. I know I would like it there. If I runaway could I stay with you? Do you play ping pong there? Do you have any dinosaurs? Joey
Lisa Barone,
I have to call you "the lisa" because my name's lisa too and I don't want you to think that I think that I'm like you at all cause I'm not. You're smart and kind and I'm dumb and mean. But I like you, not like those other people. I know now they were just voices in my head, so I don't listen to them anymore. I'm sure you know what I mean. I really want to meet you sometime. "not the lisa" lisa
Kim Krause Berg,
Wow, I've never met a sex goddess before. Do you always get to wear your crown? Do you have to be voted "Most Radical Female" or "the Freakiest Female" in high school to become a sex goddess? That must be really neat. I had a doll once but that wasn't a real sex goddess. I just liked to pretend. It was fun until my little sister took it away from me. Can you come over to my house and play? I miss my doll. Timmy
Chris Hooley,
I wish I could ride a saber tooth tiger. You must be really brave. Timmy's dad was brave. He's dead now. I wish you wouldn't ride that tiger cause I'm scared you might die. Have you ever tried a horse? I know you can't drive a car cause you wreck it so maybe a horse would be better for you. Are you really a eunich? Sally
Neil Patel,
I also want to be a princess! What do you need to do? I have a princess outfit but I don't have a wand. Do you need to have a wand to be a princess? I could buy a wand with my babysitting money but my brother always takes it. Wait a minute, you're going to school, that means you're only a student like me. You're not really a princess are you? Now I'll never be a princess! Lucy
Li Evans,
You have lots of hats, you're funny. Could you send me a hat? Our family lost all our hats in Chicago in December. That really stunk cause we need our hats to make money. Oh well, I'm sure whoever took our hats really needed them cause it was cold. I would like to ask you a question though, and that is, are you really a pirate? Do pirates steal hats? Tammy
Jeremy Schoemaker,
It's okay that you don't have money to buy shoes. My mom said if you would spend less time on the internet and more time finding a job then maybe you would have some shoes. I think it's hard to find a job without shoes. My dad said you wouldn't need shoe money if you would sell your Hummer. I wanted to send you my allowance but my dad said you need to figure it out on your own, sorry. Kathy
Rebecca Kelley
You are my hero. I am not kidding when I say that. I've thought about it a lot and I'm old enough to decide who my hero is and that is you. I don't know who other kids think is their hero but I know you are mine. I do know what it means to me and that means you are my hero. I am proud to say it and I really mean it. Thanks for being my hero. Moon
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17 September 2012, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA – Following the call of the Secretary General, who emphasized the crucial role of democracy education for the long term success of democracies, the UNITAR New York Office, together with the Council for a Community of Democracies and the United Nations Democracy Fund convened representatives from Permanent Missions, the UN and from civil society to discuss the role of democracy education in promoting healthy and peaceful societies. More than fifty attendees joined the panel discussion with H.E. Mr. Od Och, Permanent Representative of Mongolia, H.E. Mr. Ryszard Sarkowicz, Permanent Representative of Poland, Mr. Roland Rich, Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund, Mr. Robert LaGamma, President of the Council for a Community of Democracies, Ms. Lenore Yaffee Garcia, Director of the Office of Education and Culture of the Organization of American States and Mr. Philippe Kridelka, Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in New York, while many more followed it via live webcast.
Ms. Yvonne Lodico, Head of the UNITAR New York Office, stressed in her opening remarks, that "Learning about democracy means learning about why active citizenship is important, why tolerance for divergent views and respect for human rights are crucial for a society to flourish." Fostering democracy education, thus, also means overcoming frontal educational approaches: "You cannot simply teach democracy by standing in front of a classroom and lecturing", Ms. Yaffee Garcia pointed out. Education for democracy instead must be built on a dialogue dedicated to the exchange of opinions, view points, experiences and best practices.
Several organizations are currently dedicating great efforts in creating innovative educational programs which encourage and empower children, teenagers and adults to become active citizens engaged in promoting respect for diversity, tolerance and human rights. As Mr. Kridelka illustrated, UNESCO, for example, launched in January of this year, together with the US Department of State and the government of Brazil the "Teaching Respect for All" initiative, which aims to develop a framework for promoting anti-racism through innovative school curriculums. Also, the Organization of American States has been carrying out since 2005 an Inter-American Programme on "Education in Democratic Values and Practices" which supports public, private and civil society institutions in developing policies and programs in the field of citizenship education. H.E. Mr. Och and H.E. Mr. Sarkowickz further pointed out the need to pay more attention to the use of modern technologies and means of communication in the field of democracy education. Thus, the Working Group for Democracy Education of the Community of Democracies, chaired by Mongolia and Poland, currently dedicates its efforts to the development of a democracy education IT platform which will include general information on civic/democracy education as well as an e-library of democracy education resources and experts.
These programmes represent a first step in promoting democracy education not only in everyday's life, but also on the political agenda. However, education for democracy in a globalised world facing the challenge of building a sustainable global peace is more important than ever before and one central challenge consist in keeping it high on the political agenda. Resuming the discussion in a nutshell in the words of Ms. Lodico: "The education of peace and democracy are mutually inclusive. There cannot be a realistic agenda for peace education unless there is an emphasis on reason, open-mindedness and a fairness, which the education of democracy promotes."

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(Cryptoprocta ferox)
Facts about this animal
The fossa is extremely cat-like in appearance. It possesses an elongated body, measuring approximately 1.3 to 1.5 m in length from head to tail. Some sexual dimorphism is observed with females slightly smaller than males. The average weight is 6.75 kg though males of up to 10 kg have been reported from the wild. It has a short reddish-brown coat that fades to a lighter colouration on the underparts. They have large eyes, reflecting their cathemeral activity pattern, being both day and night active. They have a large bulbous nose and pronounced whiskers. Overall their body is heavily muscled.
Their cat-like dentition reflects their highly predatory nature, being entirely carnivorous. They are the only species studied to date whose primary prey is a primate. In studies from the western dry forests more than 50% of the diet of fossa, ascertained from scats, was found to be large, diurnal lemurs. They appear to preferentially hunt at night and can take prey of over 5 kg, including the Indri, the largest of the extant Malagasy primates.
The fossa is solitary and appears to require a large home range (up to 20 km² for males). Females require less area but appear highly territorial in relation to other females. Occassionaly males are observed together and male home-ranges overlap other males and females.
Their reported mating system is highly unusual. They have a multi-male mating system wherein females take up residence in a 'mating tree' for up to a week once a year. Males then compete with other males to gain access to the tree. Over a week the female may mate with up to 6 males. These matings can be very prolonged, lasting more than a hour. Gestation is approximately 56 days and 2-4 kittens per litter will be produced.
Did you know?
That the fossa has extremely unusual genitalia? In females this is due to the occurrence of transient genital masculinisation, observed in youngsters between 8 and 18 months. In these young females the clitoris becomes masculinised, becoming far more prominent and elongated. Small hard spines also develop and cover the clitoris, mimicing the appearance of the penis in the male. The groin area also takes on a reddish colouration, usually observed in the male.
|Name (Scientific)
|Cryptoprocta ferox
|Name (English)
|Name (French)
|Fossa, Cryptoprocte féroce
|Name (German)
|Frettkatze, Fossa
|Name (Spanish)
|Gato fossa de Madagascar
|Local names
|Malagasy: Fosa, Kintsala, Tratraka
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
|CMS Status
|Not listed
Photo Copyright by
Trisha Shears
|The fossa is found ranging over much of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, wherever there is sufficient remaining tree cover to survive.
|Wild population
|Approx. < 2,500 (2005) (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|98 registered by the International studbook (2004), 69 reported to ISIS (2005)
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 78 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
Find this animal on ZooLex
Photo Copyright by
Ran Kirlian
Why do zoos keep this animal
Zoos keep fossa for a number of reasons. First and foremost fossa are facing a number of threats in their native Madagascar. Habitat destruction and alteration, hunting and trade have all meant that fossa numbers in the wild are declining. The small numbers of captive fossa act as an assurance population, providing a back-up in the eventuality of fossa becoming extinct in the wild. In addition captive fossa act as ambassadors for their wild cousins.
Fundraising for in situ conservation can be enhanced by enabling the public to see this unusual species and thereby engendering both interest and compassion. Zoos, whilst wishing to help conserve species in the wild, also hope to show their visitors some of the diversity of the planet. The fossa is a highly unusual species and rarely known outside of professional zoology circles. Finally, a population of fossa in zoos allows study of aspects of their behaviour and biology that would be almost impossible due to their solitary, secretive nature in the wild.


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Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to officially introduce you to the Samsung Galaxy S III. If the design of the handset looks a bit uninspired, that's because test units of the Samsung Galaxy S III have all been built inside a temporary shell meant to disguise the phone and keep the final design of the handset a mystery until it is finally unveiled on May 3rd in London.
According to Tinhte (a Vietnamese technology blog), the specs in the handset pictured above match those of the Samsung GT-i9300 which surfaced recently. There is no guarantee that the Samsung Galaxy S III will ship with the specs listed below, but they do appear to be more reasonable than some of the more outlandish spec rumors we have heard in the past.
- 4.6-inch SuperAMOLED 720p display (320 DPI)
- 1.4GHz quad-core processor
- 1GB of RAM
- 16GB of internal storage and microSD card slot
- 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and 1080 video capture
- 2,050 mAh battery
- NFC radio integration
- Android 4.0.3 with Samsung's TouchWiz UI
For a closer look that the Samsung Galaxy S III (or whatever the handset will eventually be named), check out the embedded video and image gallery.
Since Samsung has been so secretive about the Galaxy S III, we are not willing to claim that any of the specs or images here will match up with what the handset will actually ship with. We love all the rumors and leaked pictures, but we honestly can't wait to see what Samsung unveils on May 3rd in London. Does the Samsung Galaxy S III spec sheet live up to your expectations? What rumored specs do you still hope will be included once the handset is unveiled?


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's public school teachers would see employment tenure eliminated, but become eligible for performance bonuses under an education reform package rolled out Monday by Senate Republicans.
The public school initiatives were unveiled by Senate leader Phil Berger, who said most of the ideas should draw broad support because they are designed to make students better equipped to graduate from high school and avoid costly remedial classes at universities and community colleges. The price tag for the package would require an additional $45 million in the fiscal year starting July 1.
But Berger said he knows that some of the proposals will be controversial — the tenure elimination likely to be one of them — but believes there should be an honest debate on the state's education policy. The debate on the so-called "Excellent Public Schools Act" is likely to begin in earnest when the Legislature reconvenes May 16 for its budget-adjusting session.
"We've said for a long time that the policy needs to be right in order for us to expect the kinds of results the people of North Carolina and our kids deserve," Berger, R-Rockingham, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Berger was to provide more details at a news conference and in legislation expected to be filed later Monday.
The proposal would do away with tenure to veteran public schools teachers who now receive their permanent teaching license after a four-year probationary period. The current policy makes it difficult to fire the tenured teachers when administrators determine they are ineffective, Berger's office said. Instead, the changes would allow local school boards to employ all teachers on an annual contract that doesn't have to be renewed each fall.
"If a system determines presently that a teacher is an ineffective teacher, it is very difficult if not impossible for them to discharge that teacher,' Berger said. "This would provide systems with tools that would allow a superintendent or a local school board to make decisions about hiring the best teachers for their kids."
The provision also would direct the state's 115 local school districts to come up with a performance pay system for license personnel starting with the 2013-14 school year. The two-year budget approved last June set aside $121 million in part for performance pay for public employees in the next fiscal year, but a methodology to do so has yet to be created.
Additional funds needed for the coming year would be used to expand the process of using electronic devices for K-3 teachers to assess students reading skills using electronic devices. The state also would provide $9.25 million to help implement a new assessment program for incoming kindergarten students in 65 of the state's lowest performing elementary schools.
Berger said he also wants to revive an effort to discourage promoting students to the fourth grade if they are not reading at grade-level. A similar program in Florida has generated improved scores for third-graders, he said.
The reform package also would:
— set aside $11 million for school districts for the operating costs of holding five additional instructional days each school year. Last year's budget mandated the increased but most districts have gotten exemptions.
— change the state's current system of grading school districts based on their performance on end-of-grade and end-of-course scores to a traditional grading method from A's to F's. Berger said the current method is too vague and complicated.
— establish a "North Carolina Teacher Corps" program modeled on the federal "Teach for America" program to help recent college graduates and older professional to more easily enter into the teaching field, particularly in low-performing schools.
The program could help deflect criticisms against Berger and other Republicans over the past several months from Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue and party colleagues at the Legislature for passing a budget that reduced overall spending on the public schools compared to their projected needs by $459 million.
The two parties and their allies have been in a verbal tug-of-war over the effect the cuts have had on the number of teachers and quality of the public schools. Berger said the Democrats' "rhetoric was overblown substantially" and that speaking out on these items should be a positive in the fall elections.
"Good policy makes good politics," Berger said, adding that "to the extent that we are seen as the initiators of the discussion and the initiators of the change in policy, I think that's going to be good for us.
NC Senate wants merit pay, end teacher tenure
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's public school teachers would see employment tenure eliminated, but become eligible for performance bonuses under an education reform package rolled out Monday by Senate Republicans.


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Ensuring the future of Armenian Vipers in the wild
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To study range sizes, movement patterns and genetic diversity in Armenian vipers in Armenia
The Armenian viper, Montivipera raddei,
is a medium-sized snake with a known range that includes easternmost
Turkey, extreme northwestern Iran, and adjacent Armenia. In Armenia it
occurs at elevations between 1100 and 2400 meters in rocky habitat
covered by thin oak forests and bushes. Although the rapid decline of M. raddei
populations was documented in the early 1980s and the species was
subsequently listed as a species of concern in the Red Data Book of the
USSR (Borodin, 1984) and the Red Data Book of Armenian S.S.R. Animals
(Movsesjan, 1987), there has not been any conservation action directed
towards this species. Throughout Armenia the habitat of M. raddei
has been subject to considerable modification for agricultural
activities. In addition, large numbers of vipers have been collected
for the pet trade during the past 10 years. The population density of M. raddei
was estimated at 20 – 50 specimens/hectare in the mid-1960's; 10 – 25
specimens/hectare in the 1980's; and current estimates indicate that
there are only 3 – 9 specimens/hectare. The only protected habitat for
the species is in Khosrov Nature Reserve.
As a consequence of restricted distributions, habitat destruction/alteration, over-collection and unnaturally high mortality resulting from human persecution, many species of vipers in the Caucasus and Transcaucasus regions are considered highly vulnerable to extinction. Approximately 15 taxa of vipers inhabit these regions, including members of the mountain viper (Montivipera) complex. We have limited knowledge of their biology in the wild, in part becaucse of their isolated, restricted distribution.
The current objectives of the Armenian Viper Conservation Programme are:
In 2004 a preliminary radio-telemetry project was initiated to study the ecology of M. raddei in Khosrov Nature Reserve. This study collaboratively undertaken by the Armenian Ministry of Nature and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Preliminary data suggest that it is feasible to track the movements of M. raddei in the complex mountainous terrain of Armenia. In addition, the data indicate that the movement patterns are similar to those of other viperid snakes.
To date, genetic studies have focused on the phylogenetic relationships between the eight species comprising Montivipera and the taxonomic position of the genus within the Viperidae. No studies have been conducted on any of the Montivipera species to examine their population structure or possible evolutionary subdivisions.
To address questions regarding activity patterns, home range size and habitat requirements, the project will build upon what was learned from the preliminary study conducted in 2004-05. A radio-telemetry study will be carried out in the Abovian region (30 minutues north of Yerevan) and will continue until 2010. It should provide a solid base of ecological data for M. raddei in Armenia. A second component will involve mtDNA analyses to look for phylogeographic patterns. We will examine mtDNA cytochrome b sequence variation, which has proven useful for elucidating phylogeographic patterns in other snakes. The primary goals are to assess the genetic distinctiveness of populations and to evaluate the genetics variation within and between populations. The data from the radio-telemetry study and mtDNA analyses will be used to help formulate management strategies for M. raddei populations and their habitat.
WAZA Conservation Project 08018 is implemented by the Saint Louis Zoo's Wild Care Institute in collaboration with and supported by the Ministry of Nature Protection (Republic of Armenia), Russian Academy of Sciences, Tula Exotarium, and Fresno's Chaffee Zoo.
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Move-in Hernandez heading to Philly
BRYANT – The Bryant Lady Hornets received a move-in from Saginaw, Texas, this season and she is already making headlines before playing an inning for the Lady Hornets. Senior Tori Hernandez signed a letter of intent to play third base for the Holy Family University (Philadelphia, Pa.) Lady Tigers at Bryant High School Thursday morning.
"I've been around a long time and done a lot of these, but not one ever like this before," Bryant Coach Debbie Clark said. "I have never had a signing for a young lady who has committed to a college team before they've made my high school team. This is totally different from what we've done."
Hernandez brings over impressive numbers from the Class 5A Saginaw Rough Riders, which she started as a freshman. In 84 games with the Rough Riders, Hernandez had a .324 average, scored 38 runs while knocking 34. She was also named First Team All-District.
"The best word to describe Tori in softball is tough," Saginaw Coach Hank Fulkerson said. "She has absolutely no fear at third base. She will be a great addition to [Bryant's] softball family."
Not only does the third baseman have impressive numbers on the field, Hernandez also has more impressive numbers in the classroom. She was ranked fifth in a graduating class of more than 600. She received the Texas Top Scholar Award, a member of the National Honors Society, received Class Merit Awards, and Outstanding Service Award, and Hernandez plans to get her undergraduate degree in criminal justice and study law.
Hernandez needed just one visit to Holy Family U., which is a NCAA Division II school, to decide that's where she wanted to be.
"They had the smaller environment that I liked a lot," she said. "I enjoyed that. They are also a Catholic-based school and liked the environment with that. I like the ability to go somewhere that shares the same beliefs I do and I can thrive spirituality as well."
She was offered by Benedictine University in Illinois and was to visit Asbury before the visit with the Lady Tigers made up her mind. Hernandez also has her mind made up when it comes to describing her game.
"Dedicated," she said. "I am very persistent and I continually go at something until it gets done the way it should."
"The quickness," Hernandez explained what she loves about third base. "You don't have time to think about it. It's just right there, you do it, you get it done, it's great. I love diving and getting dirty. It's the best part of the game."


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what's so special about this room?
honestly, i don't think i'd ever leave. i take a bath every night, and my situation is NO where near as chic, lush and luxurious as this. let's figure out how designer ana donohue made this one such a doozy.
1: that wallpaper - it's like being in a tropical jungle. and when you have funny angles, soffits or cut outs, wallpaper them as well, and they'll disappear. you can find something similar here
2: dark and moody custom roman shades just luxuriously piled up. that stripe down the center is working all kinds of magic
3: major statement abstract art. find a similar piece here. it doesn't need to be too precious hanging over the tub, but it does need to make you happy.
4: keep the tropical theme going with a steam loving low light plant like a large palm - and hey, it's easy to water! slosh a little bathwater on him upon exit.
5: what a smart way to give a traditional piece like this claw foot tub a little edge - if you're scared to commit to paint, try this chevron trick with tape.
6: a substantial bone accent stool makes the perfect perch for a bath time drink and a book. madegoods sells a fabulous one to the trade for about a zillion dollars, or you could try to DIY this one with a less expensive white stool and some black paint.
7: an upholstered chair in the bathroom is the ultimate baller move. a place to toss your items as you disrobe, or entertain a guest while you're soaking.
8: the bright white subway tile keeps the room reflective, crisp and just bright enough to feel lively. it's the perfect balance to the darker, moodier elements in the room.
design by ana donohue, photographed by michael j lee
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oh my, this just made my day!!! the bathtub is magnificient--a diy might be on the horizon :)ReplyDelete
my luck, upon exiting the tub, I'd trip on the giant ball sitting on floor, hit my head on the substantial bone accent stool and be found days later.ReplyDelete
At least I'd have great wallpaper to look at while waiting for the ambulance...
LOVE your breakdown of this bathroom. more of this please!ReplyDelete
This bathroom is insane, I hope they wallpapered the ceiling! It's amazing what "non-traditional bathroom accessories" can do!ReplyDelete
I love how moody this space is! That lucite lantern is everything.ReplyDelete
omg. i love the wallpaper. i love it!!!ReplyDelete
This is a total oasis, and I love how dark it is (weirdly enough). I think I could probably spend all day in here!ReplyDelete
The Glossy Life
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2013 at 10:11 AM
Yuck! I hate it! Just lock me in there for the rest of my life as punishment....lol. GORG!ReplyDelete
Wow! Love everything about this room!!!ReplyDelete
And I didn't know Ana Donohue so thank you so much for sharing :)
I would never have thought of painting the bathtub! This would work with all kinds of stencils.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2013 at 12:12 PM
gorgeous! I take a bubble tub every night and think my bathroom is the nicest room in my house! but it pales in comparison to this funky oneReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2013 at 12:51 PM
I feel like I've been in this room. Is this from the Boston JL show house? I'm in love with the wallpaper and painting. If this is from the JL house I think I have the artist's info.ReplyDelete
WHERE is this picture from? I need to know the magazine, book, or whatever so I can subscribe/purchase immediately.ReplyDelete
- Irma Navarro- hankinsFebruary 22, 2013 at 1:16 PM
She managed to make it sexy, tropical, lush and homey. Stunning!ReplyDelete
i think there's a cowhide on the floor as well. bonus baller points. i wish i had room for a big chair. bc i would totally do it. have the tub and have been considering some tape action for a while now.ReplyDelete
and thanks for the link luv.
can we please remove the wooden ball and all the stagey bits...i.e. urns, ball, weird glass coupe thing and the homegoods looking green vase? great. now it's perfect.
The bathroom was even prettier in person! It was one of my favorite rooms in the showhouse this year! You should see what she did with the existing sink plumbing that she had to work with! Oh wait,you can see a tiny part of it in that photo- she painted it GOLD! Genius and something I'm doing in all apartments from now on!ReplyDelete
You should come up next year for the showhouse- its always so much fun!
PS- no joke the security word I have to type below is 'cockage' I swear I get the weirdest words!
is that a wallpaper or paint?ReplyDelete
btw nice art
Gorgeous! There's a special place in my heart for this bathroom - it reminds me of the one at my Nana's house when I was growing up. My mom painted a gorgeous jungle-y, leafy, pattern on the wall very near to this wallpaper. It made something as mundane as using the bathroom super chic and sort of exciting!ReplyDelete
I love how that bathroom is every bit as much of a room as any living room.ReplyDelete
Aww... what a lovely place... *...*ReplyDelete
Wow it's awesome I love it ,ReplyDelete
I love the chevron, detail on the tub! Fantastic touch.ReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh--I think I am with you--and I wouldn't want to leave either. I am kind of obsessed with the color scheme. And that painting!? Love it.ReplyDelete
This bathroom is awesome.ReplyDelete
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i love your blog! you insight is helpful, and your blog is visually stimulating.ReplyDelete
can you e-mail me so i can ask you questions?
yeah that wallpaper is the ish!ReplyDelete
I love these design break-downs! All good points...especially the upholstered chair note ;) xoReplyDelete
Absolutely adore this bathroom, looks like such a sanctuary!ReplyDelete
Its a jungle in there.ReplyDelete
With all that stuff in the room, I'm surprised with how much it comes out as a complete eye pleasure.ReplyDelete
I'm not even in the room, but going by the photo it makes me feel comfortable.
Completely uniquely beautiful!
i absolutely love that bedroom. so beautifulReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM
The bathroom would be divine after a long day!ReplyDelete
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My parents went to the Texas Centennial Exposition, and all they brought me were these six miniature Centennial stamps. Not that I'm upset: Artifacts and images relating to Texas' 100th birthday celebration, held in Dallas in 1936, make a great starting point for learning about Texas history.
I was delighted then, on a recent visit to the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, to see in its gift shop a collection of poster-size reproductions of the stamps, which were produced in 1986 to help commemorate the Texas Sesquicentennial, the state's 150th birthday.
As savvy brand enhancers, the 1936 birthday planners emblazoned "Texas Centennial" on just about everything. Collectible examples displayed in exhibits at the Bullock Museum include a Centennial pillow, juice glass, songbook, license plate, and deck of cards. A one-of-a-kind Texas Centennial folk art carving, created by Fannie Bruce Shaw of Van Alstyne and roughly 4 1/2 feet tall, features such iconography as a cotton boll, a courthouse, Alamo heroes, a covered wagon, and the six flags of Texas. Displayed at the 1936 exposition and on loan to the Bullock Museum, the quirky work of art fulfills the museum's mission of telling the stories of Texas as deftly as any of the hundreds of rare artifacts on display.
Located five blocks north of the Texas Capitol, the Bullock Museum's stately visage is faced with Sunset Red granite from the same Burnet County quarry that provided stone for the 1888 statehouse. A copper dome atop the museum adds another stroke of pomp, and a 33-foot, 10-ton bronze lone star on the plaza out front stands like a mythic shout-out of global positioning.
As savvy brand enhancers, the 1936 birthday planners emblazoned "Texas Centennial" on just about everything.
Inside, past the rotunda with its beautiful terrazzo floor and expansive lobby, three stories of galleries, wrapped around a central atrium, tell the big story of a big state from the prehistoric era to the space age.
Each floor explores a separate theme, starting with "Encounters on the Land" on the first floor, which chronicles Native American lifeways and interaction with Europeans. On the second floor, "Building the Lone Star Identity" animates the story of the Texas Revolution and Texas' passage from independent republic to American state. "Creating Opportunity," on the third floor, illustrates the bounty of Texas
agriculture and the oil-boom story that has so helped define the state's character.
Though the narrative sweeps through the galleries with giant strides, intriguing details relate the story on a human scale. A small copper coin on display, for instance, minted by José Antonio de la Garza with permission of the Spanish governor of early San Antonio, represents the only known coins issued under Spanish rule in the continental United States. According to museum signage, the star on the coin may be the first usage of the five-pointed "lone star."
Another gallery reproduces the 1840 petition of freed slave Fanny McFarland to the Republic of Texas Congress. According to the Texas Constitution of 1836, freed slaves were not allowed to remain in the new nation. McFarland's petition to stay was denied, but she put down roots anyway, becoming one of Houston's first real-estate developers.
The Bullock Museum is not a collecting institution, and artifacts lent by other repositories come and go from its galleries, so visitors always find something new. Through November, for example, you can see the Stetson worn by African-American rodeo star Bill Pickett, which he purchased in 1925 from the Rose Dry Good Co. of Wills Point.
Throughout the galleries, mini-theaters offer short programs that expand visitors' grasp of exhibit themes. A period newsreel film in the "Centennial Theater" shows the grounds and attractions at Dallas' Fair Park in 1936 and includes a lively greeting from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Back on the first floor, the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Hall of Special Exhibitions hosts temporary exhibits, such as the upcoming Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time, which opens November 23. Created by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, this show will be the largest exhibition in the museum's history.
On the third floor, Views of the Capitol: 125 Years in the Making is currently on view through December, and a year from now, the museum will exhibit La Belle: The Ship That Changed History, featuring the excavated and stabilized remains of the hull from a 17th-Century French vessel that sank in Matagorda Bay.
Meanwhile, I'm already looking for my next Bullock Museum souvenir. I've got my eye on a dramatic black T-shirt printed with that caustic quote attributed to Davy Crockett, "You can all go to hell, and I'll go to Texas."
The Bullock Texas State History Museum is at 1800 N. Congress Ave. in Austin. Call 512/936-8746. On the first Sunday of every month, museum admission is free.


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Located midway between Cincinnati and Dayton along I-75, the Voice of America Learning Center (VOALC) offers undergraduate and graduate courses and programs drawn from Miami's Regional and Oxford campuses. Home to Miami's MBA program, the Learning Center provides ready access to graduate programs for area educators and courses leading to the BIS degree for undergraduates.
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Heart of Borneo
What is the Heart of Borneo?Borneo, the world's third largest island, accounts for just 1% of the world's land yet holds approximately 6% of global biodiversity in its rich, tropical forests. Its species range from the distinct Bornean orang utans and elephants to the giant pitcher plants and Rafflesia flowers. Yet this diversity is under threat - Borneo has already lost over half its forests, and a third of these disappeared in just the last three decades.
The Heart of Borneo (HoB) refers to the main part of the island where forests remain intact. Covering an area the size of Utah in the US, Victoria in Australia or the whole of England and Scotland put together and extending into the territory of the countries of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia, it is one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. But the Heart of Borneo is not just a treasure trove of biodiversity - it is also a source of life and livelihood for people, providing ecological services for at least 11 million Borneans, including a million forest-dwelling indigenous Dayaks.
The Heart of Borneo InitiativeThe HoB Initiative is a unique government-led and NGO-supported programme that was initiated by a joint Declaration by the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia in 2007.
The aim of the programme is to conserve the biodiversity of the Heart of Borneo for the benefit of the people who rely upon it through a network of protected areas, sustainable management of forests and other sustainable land uses.
WWF in the Heart of BorneoBorneo is one of WWF's priority places for action and it includes five of WWF's global priority species. WWF has been active in Borneo for many years and played an integral part in catalysing the 2007 Declaration.
Now WWF continues to play a key role supporting the three governments implement the Initiative as well as conducting various conservation projects across the landscape ranging from traditional species protection projects to innovative projects to implement working green economies.
WWF's Heart of Borneo work is led by a collaboration between WWF-Indonesia and WWF-Malaysia and driven by support from WWF offices around the world.
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As a new decade unfolds, pharmaceutical manufacturers must straddle two worlds: one that features the legacy commercial model directed to prescribers, and another that embraces a new model focused on payers and other key stakeholders. As companies experiment with ways to engage a broader set of decision makers, they're envisioning new roles and organizational structures. According to Hay Group's 19th annual Sales Force Effectiveness Study, this is still an emerging phenomenon; the industry's sales administration and compensation functions are still rooted in the legacy model that prizes reach and frequency in physician contact.
The data in this survey paints a picture of the status quo for many study participants, but change is coming rapidly for others. But the data do not tell the whole story. The first movers have changed their selling model: Resources are being redeployed, emphasis is being given to account management, and the traditional selling and promotion model is being redesigned. These are exciting times for the life sciences industry: it is reshaping how it adds value at the commercial level, and the best players will use this transition as an opportunity to re-shape how the industry uses the selling and distribution channel. It follows that they must also develop fresh compensation plans built on different measures of performance.
While many senior executives are making plans to revolutionize their commercial organizations, data suggest that the implications for performance measurement and compensation are being left to implementation. While senior executives are addressing the fundamental direction of their companies, a roadmap does not yet exist. This presents both an opportunity and a threat for sales and marketing.Rightsizing the Sales Force
The continuing need to right-size is, however, very much tied to organization type. Large pharmaceutical companies are dramatically more likely than small or mid-sized companies to state that they still have too many sales reps. (See Figure 1.) This is a leading indicator of changes coming to how these organizations go to market.


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(Update) Deer numbers down in Pierce County, up in west-central Wisconsin
Preliminary totals of the first two days of the gun-deer season show a slight decline in harvest totals for Pierce County but a slight uptick in harvest numbers across the west-central part of the state.
According to the west-central office of the DNR, the 19-county west central region, the opening weekend buck harvest is up 13 percent. The antlerless harvest (preliminary estimate) is down five percent and the total deer harvest for opening weekend in is up 3 percent, compared to opening weekend in 2009.
In Pierce County however the hunt numbers were down slightly from 2009. A preliminary total of 1,604 deer were registered over the weekend compared to 1,655 in 2009.
The number of licenses sold in the county was also down slightly in 2010 to 4,968 for the nine-day gun-deer season. This follows a decade-long decline. For example, in 2000, some 6,271 licenses were sold.
Here is the precise breakdown of the first weekend's totals by deer station:
ELLSWORTH SPEEDWAY/SA 152 antlered 177 antlerless 329 total
ELMWOOD SANDBAR TOO 91 antlered 137 antlerless 228 total
HAGER CITY 63 EXPRESS 39 antlered 55 antlerless 94 total
MAIDEN ROCK PARK SERVICE 85 antlered 106 antlerless 191 total
MARTELL RED BARN 43 antlered 72 antlerless 115 total
PLUM CITY DEANS' BAR 127 antlered 182 antlerless 309 total
PRESCOTT PRICE RITE 29 antlered 35 antlerless 64 total
RIVER FALLS BOB AND STEVE'S 78 antlered 72 antlerless 150 total
SPRING VALLEY SNEAKER'S PUB 64 antlered 60 antlerless 124 total


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February 01, 2013 07:00 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 1, 2013) - EasyMed Services, Inc. (CNSX:EZM)(OTCBB:EMYSF) today announced that following up on an investor event presentation hosted by the Company in Toronto on January 24, the presentation provided at the event has been made available on the Company's website.
As announced on December 7, 2012, EasyMed engaged Investor Cubed Inc. to assist the Company with investor relations and shareholder communications services. In working with Investor Cubed, an event was organized in Toronto, Canada on January 24, 2013 at which Company management made a presentation to members of the investment community.
Highlights of the presentation include:
The full presentation can be downloaded in the For Investor section on the company website at http://easymedmobile.com/investors/.
Mr. Tejinder Sahota, CEO of EasyMed Services said, "We urge investors to visit the Company's website and view the presentation as it highlights the Company's strong positioning in the rapidly growing mobile health market and outlines the pipeline of activities that management are undertaking on behalf of our shareholders in the near future."
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EasyMed's International Medical Passport (http://easymedmobile.com/international-medical-passport/) makes medical records accessible worldwide by smartphone - an important service for all business travelers. Today's global travelers need instant access to their health records in case of an emergency. The International Medical Passport puts the complete record on a smartphone together with instant access to pre-approved doctors, clinics and hospitals around the world. The Medical Passport works on all phone, PDA and web platforms and operates in over 80 countries with 300+ mobile carriers. Cloud-based, secure, compliant and accessible on iPhone, Android, Windows and BlackBerry platforms, EasyMed's International Medical Passport meets HIPAA requirements, supports HL-7 (the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology) and is IBM certified.
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EasyMed Services Inc. (CNSX:EZM)(OTCBB:EMYSF) is a global medical information technology company delivering an end-to-end patient care solution through mobile phone, PDA and server technologies offering specialized services and applications for healthcare, insurance and pharmaceutical industries. We are committed to world-class customer service and the protection of our clients' information. To learn more, please visit www.EasyMedMobile.com.
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The International Monetary Fund has not given European policymakers "enough credit" for the progress made in restoring stability to the single-currency bloc, the head of the European Stability Mechanism said Friday.
"The IMF says that risks in Europe are higher now than six months ago, we don't believe that, I think the IMF is behind the curve here, " Klaus Regling, managing director of the ESM, told CNBC on the sidelines of the IMF's semi-annual meetings in Tokyo.
The IMF , in its latest "Global Financial Stability Report, " said despite the recent steps already taken to resolve the debt crisis, the "agenda remains critically incomplete , " adding that the euro zone is the biggest threat to global financial stability.
It also lowered its growth forecasts for the euro zone for 2012. It now expects the region to contract 0.4 percent, instead of the earlier estimate of 0.3 percent.
European policymakers have stepped up efforts to control the debt crisis with the European Central Bank announcing last month it would buy the bonds of those euro zone countries facing financial pressure once they applied to the region's bailout fund, the ESM.
The ESM, which was created to provide financial aid to troubled euro zone countries in return for fiscal reforms, was officially launched at a euro zone finance ministers' meeting on Monday, with an immediate fire-power of 200 billion euros ($258 billion).
While, the IMF acknowledged that the ECB's bond-buying program had restored some market confidence, it maintained that private investors still lacked conviction on peripheral European markets.
Rebutting these claims, Regling argued that while Europe still has a way to go before emerging from its debt crisis, it has made notable progress, which is being recognized by many investors. He cited Pimco, the world's largest bond fund, which announced last week that it has started buying Spanish and Italian government bonds.
Regling's comments follow remarks by Christine Lagarde , the head of the IMF, on Thursday that indebted countries should not be bound to tough budget deficit targets if the impact on growth is worse than anticipated.
Supporting euro zone leader's latest efforts to restore investor confidence, Jean-Michel Six, chief economist for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at ratings agency Standard & Poor's, said the new framework put together by the ECB will go a long way in reassuring financial markets.
"It (the ESM) could be a very powerful way to reassure financial markets about the sustainability of the euro zone but of course for that to happen, we need to see it in action, " said Six.
The markets are awaiting a decision by Spain on whether it will ask for a bailout to alleviate pressure on its borrowing costs, particularly after S&P cut the country's credit rating to one notch above junk status.
(Read More: Spain Reluctance to Seek Bailout Justified: OECD .)
When asked whether the credit rating downgrade will increase the chances of Spain requesting a bailout, Six said, "Individual efforts by countries like Spain to restore their competitiveness and fiscal balances were offset by the fact that markets were starting to worry about sustainability of euro zone. This is a fundamental problem that you want to have removed."
Spain has been struggling with unsustainable borrowing costs, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year bond jumping to over 7 percent in July. While yields have eased to around 6 percent since, threat of a downgrade of its sovereign debt rating to junk status could add renewed pressure on borrowing costs.
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In Race to Find Tech Talent, Piazza Opens College Homework Site to Recruiters
Piazza, an online study network popular with college engineering students, wants to help tech startups compete in the war for talent.
A new recruiting tool called Piazza Careers lets companies connect with potential job candidates among the more than one million students who use the site. The service, which has been available for a test period to a limited group of companies, opened to everyone today, Chief Executive Pooja Sankar said in an interview.
Piazza will charge recruiters a subscription fee, starting at $20,000 per school term, to search and message candidates on the site. Similar tools are offered by professional resume site LinkedIn. But Piazza's big advantage is its large base of top engineering students, a group that is largely absent from other job sites, said Keith Rabois, a Piazza investor who is also a former vice president at LinkedIn.
"At LinkedIn, we were never able to attract recent graduates at scale, or become the default employment platform for technical talent," said Rabois.
Piazza's opportunity to fill this gap enticed Rabois' Khosla Ventures to lead an $8 million round of funding in the Palo Alto, Calif., startup which closed late last year but was not reported or announced. Rabois is also joining the board of directors.
Founded in 2009 by Sankar, Piazza lets college classmates ask and answer questions about homework and gives teachers a way to help students outside of the classroom. The company says more than half of the undergraduates at top engineering schools Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech are on the site, with average users spending two to three hours on it each night.
Piazza's recruiting tools could help smaller startups compete for new college grads with tech giants like Google and Facebook, who can afford to deploy large teams to college campuses each year.
"We have a small team focused on campus recruiting," said Kenny Mendes, head of recruiting at online-storage startup Box, which began searching for potential hires and interns on Piazza in recent months. "It immediately connected us to a wide group of students," Mendes said.
Mendes' team uses Piazza's search filters to narrow down its users to specific criteria, such as those who have been a teaching assistant in a computer science course, or those who have interned at Google.
He says the average quality of talent on the site is higher than elsewhere. Box recruiters might contact half of the Piazza users they review, whereas they would only reach out to as little as one-tenth of the potential job candidates they find on LinkedIn.
Piazza is still refining its service so that students on the site won't feel inundated by company recruiters, Sankar said. For example, it may eventually limit the number of messages recruiters can send directly to students.
The new funding will also help Piazza as it aims to expand beyond math and science courses into other areas of higher education, Sankar said.


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Last season Barbie came to London Fashion Week thanks to her collaboration with Sister by Sibling well it seems for spring/summer 2013 the hot trend is sure to be Minnie Mouse ears and polka dots as some of the hottest designers around have teamed up with the Disney's most famous style icon, Minnie Mouse.
Minnie is one lucky cartoon character, she has a range of nail varnishes with OPI and Mawi created a range of jewellery inspired by her iconic silhouette, and come September she is set to get her own fashion collection designed by the likes of Giles Deacon (above), Richard Nicoll and Michael Van Der Ham, which Disney is calling 'Minnie Mouse Must Haves', one-off garments and accessories that will be presented during London Fashion Week.
Each designer has taken Minnie Mouse as their inspiration, so think lots of signature bows, her trademark polka dots, pops of red, as well as her iconic ears. Other designers taking part include Piers Atkinson, Bunney, Husam el Odeh in collaboration with Luke Hersheson, Katie Hillier, Lulu Guinness, Tatty Devine and Terry de Havilland. Plus there will be an "extraordinary collaboration" with Meadham Kirchhoff, the design duo known for their quirky catwalk shows – oh my I simply can not wait!!!!
All the sketches are gorgeous and have made me excited to see them in person, but I think I have to give it to Richard Nicoll and Michael Van Der Ham, their designs are whimsical and gorgeous. I am loving Nicoll's statement 'Minnie' ear shoulders and the comic-book strip design, but I am a sucker for a sequinned Minnie silhouette and this one from Van Der Ham looks divine and I love that he went for black and gold rather than the traditional red. I am also glad to see Lulu Guinness designing a one-off bag and I can't wait to see Terry de Havilland's Minnie shoes.
Following the 'Inspired by Minnie Mouse' showcase, each of the 'Minnie Mouse Must Haves' will be available at an exclusive eBay auction, so if your bid is the highest you could come away with a fab one-off Minnie Mouse-inspired creation. Proceeds from the auction will be donated by Disney to support the BFC/Bazaar Fashion Arts Foundation, a British Fashion Council initiative.
Roll on London Fashion Week…not long to go now!!!


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In next week's all-new episodes of "The Chew," the co-hosts welcome back film star Gwyneth Paltrow, who talks about her new book, helps co-host Mario Batali whip up a tasty dish and schools him in a trivia game, "Roamin' Holiday." "Barefoot Contessa" Ina Garten makes her "Chew" debut, and viewers are treated to the secrets of grilling, styling food at home, recipes that double the delicious factor, all things meat, and an "Extra Value Friday" with a "Mambo Italiano" spin.
For the week of April 8-12 (subject to change; weekdays, 1 p.m. ET):
Monday, April 8 - It's "Picture Perfect Meals," with dishes as delicious to the eye as they are to the palate: co-host Clinton Kelly prepares ginger orange chicken with coconut rice; Batali wows the group with asparagus Milanese, and "The Chew's" own food stylist, Sparkles, demonstrates the best way to present the dish; co-host Daphne Oz gives the 411 on greens and makes a kale salad and a smoothie.
Tuesday, April 9 - "Two-for-One Tuesday" is double the fun. Co-hosts Kelly and Carla Hall team up to make Carla's lemon herb crusted roast beef; co-hosts Michael Symon and Oz create two mushroom dishes: Michael's smothered portobello mushrooms and Daphne's healthier alternative, grilled portobello with spinach and shrimp; Kelly shows how to make double the drinks with the same yummy ingredients: cucumber juice and blackberry lime syrup.
Wednesday, April 10 - It's "Meat 101" when Garten makes her debut on "The Chew," preparing a meaty dish from one of her best-selling cookbooks, "Foolproof," and talking about her new line of frozen foods; Symon visits the NYC meat mecca, Dickson's Farmstand Meats, and returns to the studio to cook a decadent meat dish for under $5; and Kelly leads another edition of his "Calorie Card Sharks" game.
Thursday, April 11 - It's "Simple, Special, Spectacular: Grilled Edition." The hosts show how to kick grilling up a notch with Batali's grilled ribeye with charred spring onions, morels and port; Symon's crispy grilled cheese with blue cheese fondue; and Oz's grilled radicchio salad with asparagus, candied walnuts and balsamic reduction; Symon gives grill cleaning tips, and the audience learns more tips in the game "Who Wants to be a Grillionaire?"
Friday, April 12 - Paltrow returns to "The Chew" to talk about her new book, "It's All Good," on this "Extra Value Friday: Mambo Italiano Edition"; she teams up with Batali to make a yummy and inexpensive dish, and puts him to the test with Italian trivia; Symon makes fettuccine Alfredo, and Oz shows how to lighten it up but keep the flavor; Food & Wine's Dana Cowin guests at the "Tasting Table."
Follow "The Chew" (@thechew) and hosts Mario Batali (@mariobatali), Michael Symon (@chefsymon), Clinton Kelly (@clinton_kelly), Carla Hall (@carlahall) and Daphne Oz (@DaphneOz) on Twitter.


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Deciding what we cover and how we allocate precious resources in the news business is a daunting task. Most editors use what we call a master narrative.
This master narrative outlines to us what the community is interested in and how we can adapt and focus on the issues important to our audience. I revisit how we are structured at least once a year and make news coverage decisions based on that plan.
Since the relaunch of Bluffton Today two years ago, we publish two times a week - Sunday and Wednesday. But our website - blufftontoday.com - is updated daily and if you are not reading both, you are not getting the full picture of what is happening in the greater Bluffton area.
We committed to covering Bluffton well before we ventured out and started going to events and meetings on Hilton Head Island and other Beaufort County locations. We are a Bluffton newspaper and that is our area of focus. There is plenty cover in Bluffton and we can't get to everything, but we work hard to give you a good variety and sampling of the Bluffton "State of Mind."
As mentioned by a lot of people the past two years, Bluffton is moving away from being just a state of mind. To me, that's a good thing. To others it means too much growth and development and losing the historic charm that brought many to Bluffton in the first place.
Is growth and development a bad thing? It depends on whom you ask. If growth is managed and strategic, it can be done well.
If Bluffton Today had to rank the top three issues or most important areas to report on, they would be:
• Growth and development. This would include roads, transportation, environment and public safety.
• Local sports. Bluffton High School, University of South Carolina Beaufort and golf are included.
• Health care. We would include aging population issues, diversity and Sun City Hilton Head.
While this may seem like a short list, there is plenty of ground to cover. There are other topics and issues that also need attention.
Here are some of the ones on my list:
• Education: K-12 (Public, private and charter), higher ed (USCB and TCL-Technical College of the Lowcountry)
• Government: Town of Bluffton, Beaufort County
• Environment: May River, Okatie River
• Politics: Local and state
• Tourism
• Immigration
While we're busy setting our coverage plans for today and tomorrow, I wonder what you want more of, less of or just what local content makes you pick up Bluffton Today or visit blufftontoday.com.
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Seib & Wessel: Pressure Rises to Arm Syrian Rebels
WSJ's Julian Barnes and Janet Hook say that the mounting death toll in Syria and evidence of possible government use of chemical weapons are putting more pressure on the White House to arm rebels – but that carries risks.
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the ... Chile Chilean forties this feels like the week in which the idea that the US on to get more involved in serious or more of a push up the Assad regime went from being hypothetical to reel me ... in part because ... of the ... disclosure by the ministers to think any chemical weapons were used by the Syrian army ... but not only because of that just because things look so awful ... I he I mean that that whole has been mounting for months and months and months and so in some ways the ... revelations about chemical weapons are only the latest thing but ... you know ... that he is an important development we had to ... there seems to be increasingly increasing comments ... about this chemical weapons now there still are divisions within this ... off ... within the government some in the military ... think it's not all clear that the Assad regime used ... the weapons but ... momentum is building to do something more than what they've done ... to halt expansion any easier miss those not is not much popular support on the one hand for getting involved in another conflict in the Middle East ... but the pressure from the hill where you reside ... seems to build ... now I just work there but ... you know actually I was talking to members of Congress after they were briefed on some of this and that the elements in Syria ... and aam ... pressure is building but this really clearly no consensus about what to do a lot of them came at a briefing with kind of ... the sobering insight that it's not a theory easy as it was to get involved in Syria a in the Missouri in Libya and I was thinking well that wasn't a cakewalk either ... so I don't know whether that any clear signals are coming to a little under Mr. I see is the nephew flew via his checkers or use three D chess and is an incredibly ... complex and now ... here I think the fear ... Crikey if you think the strong June I think the underlying fear munis Trish has been less about ... getting involved the and the fear that if you the secret are you going to Syria ... you you take ownership of the problem you own it for the next ten years that that is the online worry here they do not want another Afghanistan they do not want another rock they do not want any war ... that ... the rails address the ... agenda in there was hope that maybe the stars are aligned so that they could do something but ... Turkey would own the problem or ... less likely Jordan or somehow the Arab League would own all ... of those organizations to ... those countries haven't ... they don't want or need either they've seen the U S experience in Iraq and they don't want to ... replicate the sell in May to see what work are ... slowly working to some ... irrevocable decision to get involved it was for him so ... it's ... hard to get ... on ... that is is certainly a possibility it's very hard to predict how this is going to go but ... if the violence continues to ratchet up ... there is going to be a time ... if he continues to use chemical weapons and there is a incident where ... there are hundreds of bodies and there are photos and that it is ... incomparable than the dynamic will change ... other ... troops there are no there well I think that that the chances that the U S troops ... are in Syria ever use ... very very close to zero ... of but ... up you know ... the question is will the US be dragged into a no-fly zone of bombing campaign ... and ... unless those troops there after a sub falls in the peace ... peace keeping role in in ... in quotation marks the eye and even then it will be most likely ... command and control from outsiders here