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Brandeis joins consortium to offer online learning
Agreement aimed at broadening course offerings and flexibility
Brandeis and nine other leading universities are planning to launch an innovative online education program next fall.
The new program, Semester Online, will be the first to offer undergraduate students rigorous, online courses for credit from a consortium of universities. The program is delivered through a virtual classroom environment and interactive platform developed by 2U, a private online education company based in Landover, Maryland.
"This is an exciting step forward, not just for Brandeis but for higher education generally," Provost Steve A.N. Goldstein '78 said in announcing the plan. "This consortium will expand opportunities for students everywhere and will help us all gain experience and understanding of the broad potential of distance learning. We're looking forward to this exploration of the online world."
Joining Brandeis as founding members of the consortium are Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St. Louis. The consortium anticipates adding a small number of institutions prior to the launch.
Beginning in the fall of 2013, Semester Online will be available to academically qualified students attending consortium schools and other schools across the country. Information about Semester Online courses and the application process will be available in early 2013.
[Below, a film clip of an online graduate course from the University of North Carolina]
Initial Semester Online courses will feature primarily the same faculty and curricula as their brick-and-mortar counterparts, with additional courses designed for the online format to be included in the future. Through a state-of-the-art virtual classroom, students will participate in discussions and exercises, attend lectures and collaborate with peers while guided by renowned professors—as close to the on-campus class experience as is currently possible online.
Semester Online will offer students unprecedented opportunities for curricular enhancement, according to the organizers. They will have the chance to take advantage of unique course offerings from some of the most prestigious institutions in the country, courses they would not otherwise have access to. They will be able to work, travel, participate in off-campus research programs or manage personal commitments that in the past would have meant putting their studies on hold.
Semester Online also provides new opportunities to consortium faculty members. Participating professors will have the chance to take part in a first-class online learning experience and engage with talented students across the country.
"There isn't any question that online education is an important and impactful extension of our academic offering," said Ed Macias, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs of Washington University, who was the catalyst for organizing the consortium. "The challenge has been developing a web-based program that mirrors the richness and robustness of the in-classroom experience and applies credit toward earning a degree. Semester Online does just that. The program will be a significant step forward."
Duke Provost Peter Lange said that "this is another way to test, learn from and benefit from the opportunities and challenges the online and digital worlds provide for us. We're doing this to offer our students even better options to enrich their education."
Earl Lewis, the provost of Emory, said that as a result of the new program "no matter where they are in the world, students will have the opportunity to engage in internships and work experiences, travel or manage personal commitments while continuing their collegiate academic journey."
The consortium is partnering with 2U, formerly known as 2tor, a leader in creating online academic experiences universities. Semester Online will feature many of the same elements that 2U offers its master's degree program partners, including live class sessions that connect students and professors; compelling, richly produced, self-paced course materials; and a strong social network that allows students to connect and build relationships with peers online.
"By making for-credit online undergraduate coursework a reality for these top schools, Semester Online represents an important milestone for undergraduate education, one that will influence the wider adoption of for-credit online learning across all of higher education," said Chip Paucek, co-founder and CEO of 2U. "Semester Online demonstrates 2U's mission to help great schools go online and provide high-quality learning experiences for credit, empowering students to continue their education as they follow their ambitions, anywhere."
"All of us will be working with our respective faculty, staff and students to operationalize the program and develop guidelines for our students prior to launch next fall," said Macias. "There are further issues to resolve, however it is tremendously exciting that this group of leading institutions has come together and is committed to moving forward the concept of Semester Online."
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To the Editor:
Excellent editorial regarding the new gun laws that were rammed through. The Governor is first and foremost a politician with his sights on The White House (as if the current President isn't liberal enough). These laws are nothing more than a publicity stunt and will not accomplish the stated goal of reducing gun violence. After all, DWI, Rape, Theft, etc. are all illegal and that doesn't seem to matter to those intent on breaking the law. Kudos to Dan Stec and Betty Little for voting against this.
John Kearney, Lake George

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As a kid growing up near the ocean, one of my fave summer pastimes was hanging out at the beach. And now, as a mom of two little boys, I spend most of my summer weekends at the beach with them—not relaxing and reading a book (surely that day will come again… right?)—but building sand castles, being buried in the sand, and lifting pint-size creatures above the waves. All of which means, that we're all coated in sand at the end of the day, no matter how much rinsing or toweling-off we do on our way to the car.
Plus: Tips for Bringing Baby to the Beach
Fortunately, I was just introduced to the magic of Sand-Off, a powder-filled mitt that helps to break the bond between sand and skin, leaving my kids and me virtually sand-free after a super quick wipe-down with it. Not only did my kids not mind my using it on them, but my 4-year-old now insists on doing it himself. It's re-usable and can last up to a season at the beach—now only if I could get it to fit between their tiny little toes…
Plus: 10 Tips for an Awesome Beach Vacay
Available at select Walgreens and Bed, Bath & Beyond stores and on amazon.com, $7.99


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"It's true... I'm a rageaholic! I just can't live without rageahol!" -- Homer Simpson
by shill March 25, 2005
Someone who feeds on expressing rage. Like the alcholic, the rageaholic is addicted to blowing up. This is usually caused by the rageaholic stuffing back real feelings and emotions until it builds up the point that the rageholic snaps and goes crazy. Stress of any kind can be a trigger. It is a cry for love, but a fear to accept it.
Greg is a recovering rageaholic, be nice to him.
by Korinne Wilson October 29, 2003
A person who is addicted to raging, partying, or any other substance induced shenanigans.
(Steve) Hello my name is Steve and I am a rageaholic
(Group) Hi Steve
(Group) Hi Steve
by Hemosean November 14, 2010
THE NIGGA'S A RAGEAHOLIC!! We both gonna die!
by dualscreenman March 18, 2010
1. "It's true! I'm a rageaholic! I can't live without rageahol!" -Homer Simpson
by Rageaholicism January 30, 2010
Someone who actually tries to fix their own problems instead of fatalistically cowering in supplication. In other words, a man.
Ted got mad and called me an overbearing control-freak today. It was devastating! I just wanted him to spend more time with me - I mean, he wanted to go out with his friends again, when he just did that, like, last month! We barely spend any time together as it is after I finish telling him about my day, and doing chores together, going shopping with him. He's so cruel and selfish. My therapist says he's a rageaholic.
by Fnordgasm August 02, 2007


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Fudgy & Decadent: 10 Favorite Chocolate Dessert Recipes
Chocolate is mandatory this time of year. The weather is bleak; we could all use a little nibble of chocolate to sweeten things up. And then of course chocolate goes hand-in-hand with Valentine's Day; it's pretty clichéd to talk about them together. But why shake it up? We all love chocolate, and we don't need to get too fancy with it: Here are 10 of our favorite chocolate desserts from the archives. Chewy cookies, fudgy brownies, and a root beer cake. This is homey chocolate at its best.
• 1 Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil and Sea Salt - Silky and sumptuous. Also, dead easy.
• 2 Nutty Chocolate Tart - Something nutty and fancy for your love.
• 3 Dark Chocolate Walnut Cookies - Pamper yourself and snuggle up on the couch with a plate of these.
• 4 One Bowl Mascarpone Brownies - Fudgy to the max!!
• 5 The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too) - No fat and amazingly chewy. My favorite chocolate cookie, by a mile.
• 6 Hershey's Ultimate Chocolate Brownies - When you just want a brownie, this classic is the way to go.
• 7 Chocolate Whiskey Pots de Crème - Pudding fancied up with a little shot of booze.
• 8 Surprisingly Quick Root Beer Chocolate Bundt Cake - A sweet cake for company.
• 9 Double Chocolate Butterscotch Breakfast Muffins - Breakfast? OK, twist our arm.
• 10 Gluten-Free Chocolate Whoopie Pies & Marshmallow Cream - Gluten-free, but anyone can appreciate them.
Are you making something chocolate this week?
Related: Dark, Milk & Cocoa: 7 Recipes for Chocolate Ice Cream
(Images: See linked recipes for full image credits)


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The easiest way to find L.J. Schooner�s Dockside Restaurant in Bluewater Bay is to turn onto Bay Drive off State Road 20 and continue until you reach the marina.
BLUEWATER BAY � The easiest way to find L.J. Schooner�s Dockside Restaurant in Bluewater Bay is to turn onto Bay Drive off State Road 20 and continue until you reach the marina.
The restaurant is inside the building that also contains the marina store.
The food
Arriving early for dinner, Schooner�s begins serving dinner at 5 p.m., we opted to sit and enjoy the sunset and a bowl of L.J. Schooner�s rich, delicious seafood gumbo.
Schooner�s has a nice variety of seafood and non-seafood appetizers, but the gumbo was a wonderful choice on a windy, cold evening.
In addition to the gumbo, they also offer a soup of the day by the cup or bowl. The evening of our visit, it was broccoli cheese.
If your taste runs more toward raw or steamed oysters or steamed shrimp, these items are available from the oyster bar during Oyster Bar hours.
At Schooner�s, salads, fried baskets and sandwiches are offered at both lunch and dinner. Chicken pasta and vegetable primavera with marinara or Alfredo sauce are also offered with a more extensive menu of build-your-own pasta available after 5 p.m.
Salads include a southwest, seafood, Greek, chicken and a tropical salad served with chicken, shrimp or crawfish.
Fried baskets include shrimp; grouper; oysters; crawfish; scallops; chicken strips or, if you�re really hungry, the Captain Bones Basket, which includes shrimp, scallops, oysters and grouper.
Baskets are served with fries, coleslaw and hush puppies.
Sandwiches include grilled cheese, seafood, chicken, turkey and hamburgers. Both the grouper and chicken sandwiches may be ordered fried, grilled or blackened.
Sandwiches are served with your choice of seasoned or sweet potato fries, coleslaw, onion straws, chips or hushpuppies.
Dinner specials are served with a dinner salad, vegetables and rice or mashed red potatoes.
After we finished our gumbo, the waitress brought us a basket of hot yeast rolls and butter.
Our dinner salads soon followed and were comprised of spring greens, red cabbage, carrots and grape tomatoes.
Dressings include the standard offerings plus Chef Wayne�s Famous Sesame Orange Vinaigrette.
Dinner specialties include seafood, chicken and beef items as well as combinations.
My guest chose the Schooners Platter of fried grouper, shrimp, oysters and scallops with a side of rice pilaf.
All the fried items were coated in a light batter that complimented the taste of the food.
The grouper was tender and moist and perfectly cooked as were all the items.
My entr�e choice was the delicious crab stuffed shrimp, which I enjoyed with tartar sauce rather than the accompanying remoulade which is a personal preference.
I ordered the mashed red potatoes which were very flavorful.
The vegetable served with our entrees was a seasonal medley of squash, zucchini, cauliflower, onion and red pepper.
Dessert is a must.
Our choice was the white chocolate macadamia nut cheesecake. Add a cup of coffee and you have a delicious ending to any meal.
Other dessert choices include pie, ice cream and tiramisu.
The service
Arriving early for dinner, Erica, our waitress, was very accommodating. She brought us our gumbo, and kept our drinks filled until dinner service began.
The atmosphere
Large windows overlook the water, and almost every table in the restaurant offers a view of the water.
Go early and watch the beautiful sunset.
The d�cor is casual with nautical charts adorning the table tops.
A final taste
L.J. Schooner�s is a little out of the way, but well worth finding.
L.J. Schooner�s Dockside Restaurant & Oyster Bar
Bluewater Bay Marina
290 Yacht Club Drive
Niceville 897-6400
11 a.m. � 9 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday
9 a.m. � 9 p.m. Sunday, Brunch 9 a.m. � 1 p.m.
Not necessary
Handicap accessibility
Children's menu
Price range
Appetizers $4.95 � $11.95
Soup $3 - $5.95
Salads $8.95 - $9.95
Entrees $5.95 - $32.95
Dessert $1.95 - $3.50
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WidgetBucks Updates & Referral Earnings
WidgetBucks was the one of the main circulation of news a couple weeks ago, especially once Shoemoney made a post on how he does not agree with their network terms. Andy Beard then came out with a post saying "Widget Bucks is Now Safe to Use". It's also a funny issue how WidgetBuck's main web site isn't listed in Google. Search for "widgetbucks", and my blog is numbers #7, with my "WidgetBucks Top Performer" post.
Aside from all of the publicity (good and bad), let's take a look at how WidgetBucks is actually performing on an earning standpoint. As you know from my last updates on the program, I am running a few of their banner rotations on general traffic content sites, so I was not expecting any great numbers. Here is the run down for October's earnings:
As you can see from the stats above, the impressions were high (approx: 1,463,371), while earnings ended up at $123.55. This comes out to an .083 cpm, which isn't horribly bad considering the location of the ads and non-targeted traffic going through the site. I did multiple ad testing to see which categories did the best. MP3 Players pulled the best Earnings Per Click, but they also had the lowest Click Through Rate. Game Consoles had the most impressions, but with such a low click through rate, it didn't do too well. As expected, the Movies categories pulled the best Click Through Rates, but with an average earnings per click of .07, it was still low.
We can now take a further look into WidgetBucks performance by examining stats so far for November. Once again I had switched up a few categories and removed the less performing ones. For November I have only been running Jewely, MP3 Players and Game Consoles banners. The stats for November are shown below.
In a quick comparison from October vs. November, you will see both Jewelry and MP3 Players have lower click through rates, while Game Consoles stayed the same. Jewelry earnings per click increased .13, MP3 Players decreased by .07 and Game Consoles also decreased by .05 per click. Average cpm for November is .065.
Something new I noticed today when I logged in to check my stats, was that they are now showing earnings from referrals to the network. I don't expect to make any decent money off referrals to the network, but this is definitely an area I was waiting for, and one that AuctionAds was never able to implement/update.
I still think WidgetBucks is a great solution for sites that have content targeted to the ads being displayed. Unfortunately for the time being, I am testing this program with general traffic. I might setup some niche sites so I can test how much the program would earn if I was sending relevant content.
Thwart the Thieves: How to Protect Your Company Data from Hackers
Running an online business where you are dealing with customer data and private information can be scary. It doesn't matter if you are a sole affiliate marketer or a huge 500+ person company, a data hack or leak can happen at any time. Even scarier than the initial leak itself, is that if hackers find a way to access private company data, they may be able to bring down your business. If you're worried about this potential threat, you might want to learn how you can protect yourself.
Luckily, there are specific tactics you can put into place to shield your company data from hackers.
Keep reading and you'll learn what it takes to keep your data safe. When you're done, you'll understand how you can lower the odds of a hacker stealing precious company data.
Let's begin!
Enable 2-Factor Authentication
2-Factor authentication means that a password is not the only thing a person needs to access a certain 'account.'
This is helpful because if someone accidentally exposes their password, their data is still going to be safe.
Most of the time, 2-factor authentication means you need an authentication code whenever you want to login to a specific account. Or, you'll need to login to an app, that is constantly generating new authentication codes.
When you sign up to something like this, you're also given some 'backup codes.' These codes are 'hard-copy' codes you can use should you lose your phone. You can write down these codes on a piece of paper and put that paper somewhere safe. You'll then have a way to login to your account even if you don't have your phone nearby.
There's also the option of using a 'key.'
This method is growing in popularity because it's a lot more secure than using a message sent to your phone. With this option, you buy a special USB key. You then need to insert the key into your computer before you can log in to your account.
If you want to keep things as secure as possible, security keys can be the best option. Just make sure you buy your keys from a reputable source.
Be sure to enable 2-factor authentication for all your digital business systems.
Teach Employees How to Keep Data Safe
Data breaches often happen due to human error. If you can train your staff on potential scenarios that might lead to a data breach, you can reduce the odds of an issue related to human error.
One thing you need to teach employees is the importance of verifying URLs before they enter information.
For instance, there are a lot of hackers that will use a method which involves creating a duplicate web page. When people reach this duplicate webpage, they'll think it's the original version. Following this, they'll enter in their login information. The hacker will then have this login information and they can then use it to access your data.
It's worth noting that using methods like 2-factor authentication can help reduce the odds of this becoming an issue. After all, even if someone has access to the password, they'll still need the authentication code/security key to gain access to your systems.
Another thing you should teach employees is to be wary of how they carry/transport data.
You should also let them know that they're not allowed to store data on their USB sticks. USB sticks are convenient, but they're also an easy way to lose company data.
The alternative is to store everything on a cloud server. This will help prevent a scenario, wherein an employee accidentally leaves their USB lying around and someone then steals You should also tell employees that they should always make sure there is a password on their computer.
Make Use of Business Specific Cloud Services
If you're using a cloud service, use one that's designed specifically for business. Such a service can often provide a lot more security, than a normal cloud offering.
You'll find certain options provide you with a lot of insight into who has access to certain files and folders. Using the administrator login, you can control who has access.
This is especially helpful if someone loses their laptop.
You can just log in to the dashboard and make it so that the computer in question no longer has access to the files. If someone steals the laptop, they'll be unable to access the data and exploit it. If you'd like to know how access rights work, check out this post for more info.
Such services also provide you with logs.
This can be helpful if you're trying to spot unusual data access patterns. If you notice a login from an unusual location, it could be the sign of someone trying to hack your system. You can shut down this login as soon as you're aware of it.
Hire People to Check Your Systems
There's also the option of hiring people known as 'white hat' hackers. Such individuals will look for ways to hack your systems and gain access to your data. These people can let you know what vulnerabilities exist in your system and how you should fix such issues.
According to HeimdalSecurity, the following cyber attacks and threats are the biggest risks to data companies of all sizes:
- Getting their info compromised in massive data leaks
- Smartphones shipping with malware and malicious apps
- Ransomware attacks on cloud services
- Cryptojacking that affects their hardware
- Financial losses and data compromise due to cryptocurrency trading
- Scams with advanced social engineering tactics
- IoT devices like smart locks or smart assistants being hacked
This preemptive approach gives you the chance to address issues before they're exploited in a way that can damage your business. Good white hat hackers can be expensive. But you need to compare this cost to what you might expect you lose if someone hacks your company data.
Do You Know How to Protect Company Data?
There's really no way to escape the fact that your company will have sensitive data stored on electronic devices. This can be a problem because people who are looking to exploit your data can hack these devices.
In this post, we've reviewed how you can protect your company data from hackers. You need to focus on training your employees so that the odds of human error are low. You also want to make use of things like 2-factor authentication.
If you want to keep your data really secure, consider hiring some white hat hackers. They'll be able to take a look at your setup and can provide qualified advice on how you can make things better.
No matter what type of business or brand you are running online, it's extremely important to protect your own, and your customer data. This is also true for any bloggers and affiliate marketers that might want to further protect their ad campaigns, company marketing plans, and business models.
Best Strategies to Get More Likes on Your Instagram Photos
Instagram has faced significant growth in terms of popularity in recent years. With so many ways to promote a business, it's no surprise that it gained so much love and attention by hundreds of millions of users around the world.
For businesses and brands on the social platform, interacting with your customers is much easier, and you can also attract them through stories and make them think you're a fun business. However, it's not as simple as just creating an Instagram profile and going live with whatever random photos you like. There is a wide range of top strategies and working methods to choose from, when it comes to Instagram growth, reach, and success.
One of the biggest concerns for businesses and brands on Instagram is how to get more likes on your most recent photos and image upload. At the same time, it's also important to have a social media and outreach strategy in place, and knowing how to get more followers on Instagram.
To help with all of this, here are some ideas and strategies to boost that like count.
Post Consistently
It's no surprise that people like consistency and habits. If they don't know when you're going to post, they will get tired of waiting and distance themselves. Therefore, decide on how much you're going to post weekly, or even daily. For instance, you could post 3 pictures each week, and keep it like that. However, don't post less than once a week because people will forget about you.
Use Hashtags
This goes two ways: you can use local hashtags as well as popular ones. Local hashtags can help you find customers that are near you. You can look for popular accounts and see what hashtags they are using to get followers.
On the other hand, popular hashtags are helpful when looking to attract a larger group of followers. They help your photos get more attention and thus more likes.
Post Good Quality Pictures
Although you don't need to have the most professional looking photos ever, you can't have anything that's blurry and makes it hard to see what's there. It's essential to make sure that you have good lighting and everything is focused.
Post Videos
Some people find videos more engaging compared to pictures and are more likely to be interested in them. Posting videos of an upcoming new product or just product information can be more exciting compared to a picture.
Tip: Ensure your video doesn't rely on audio. Usually, people watch videos when browsing their feed, and the audio is muted.
Post at High Traffic Times
This one requires a bit of time, as you need to find out more about your audience. If your followers are in other time zones, you should post more content during the right times, so they will see your pictures or videos.
Interact with Your Audience
It's important to have a good relationship with your clients so they will love your page even more. Moreover, other people will notice that and become potential customers when they see you value your audience.
Instagram Bot
An Instagram bot could increase your followers. It comes with auto likes, follows and posts and earns you organic followers.
However, as with all bots, you will want to be careful with how fast you follow and unfollow other users. Triggering any spam or automated alerts to Instagram could quickly have you finding your account was closed as a result of it.
Use Stories
Instagram stories are really fun and they let you post content that will be available for 24 hours. You can post more goofy content, and your clients will appreciate your sense of humor and the fact that you are relatable.
In conclusion, gaining Instagram likes is not so hard if you know how to do it. You only need some time to apply everything in this guide, and you're on your way to increase your audience.
Meet the Entrepreneurs and Experts of Affiliate Summit West 17
Thousands of internet marketers, entrepreneurs, content creators and brands will ascend upon Las Vegas this weekend for Affiliate Summit West 2017. Not only has Affiliate Summit become one of the largest affiliate and internet marketing conferences in the world today, it's also one I've been closely associated with ever since the beginning. From it's first conference in a small room in New York City with just a couple hundred people to now having more than 5,000+ attendees and conferences twice per year, it's always been great to attend as both an attendee and speaker.
At the same time, it would be a huge mistake to discount Affiliate Summit as just another networking of marketing conference. The relationships, businesses and life experiences that are a result of the event is second to none — which I why I always recommend everyone to attend, no matter their current level of expertise.
By the way… if you are attending, don't miss the awesome "How to Become a Millionaire Blogger" panel with myself, John Chow, John Rampton, and Syed Balkhi. It's almost always standing room only, and rated as one of the highest attended and most valued sessions of Affiliate Summit.
Over the years I've literally met thousands of people through the conference and built many powerful relationships and business opportunities as well. With each new year, new speakers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers will take the next step in becoming financially independent, starting a side business or simply changing the world in some way or another.
To help you not only get inspired for this year's Affiliate Summit West conference but also get inspired with just a glimpse of the talent at this event, I wanted to highlight some of my previous podcast guests, who will also be speaking at #ASW17. Enjoy, and I hope to see you there!
Inspiring Stories and Marketing Tips from Affiliate Summit Speakers
Below you will find a list of speakers currently on the agenda for ASW 17. However, through my podcast I've interviewed more than 80 different industry experts… many of which who will be also attending the event in one way or another. Be sure to check out the full list of interviews here.
Shawn Collins and the Affiliate Summit Empire
Shawn Collins the co-founder of Affiliate Summit, which has become the largest affiliate marketing conference in the world today.
I've been good friends with Shawn for a while now and we've both been able to experience the affiliate marketing industry completely transition and develop over the past 15+ years. We were both in attendance at the Affiliate Force cruise, which was one of the first attempts at an affiliate marketing conference, but knew it could be done better. At that point Shawn and Missy decided they could do it better and the rest is history!
John Chow, the Master of Blog Monetization
John Chow is one of the most well-known and successful bloggers in the world. If you've ever Google'd "how to make money online" or "how to make money blogging", you've probably come across his name and site several times.
The amazing thing about John Chow was that he was never supposed to make money with his blog in the first place. What was originally just going to be a blog on his personal life and what he ate for lunch, soon became a "money making case study". As John learned new and exciting ways to monetize his blog content and audience, the money just kept rolling in.
Jump forward several years later and his blog is now generating over six-figures per month, and most of it recurring and automated through his amazing sales funnel system — all of which John talks about in this episode.
Rachel Honoway, From Intern to CEO
Rachel Honoway is the CEO of For Me To Coupon. However it's not her current position that we are focusing on, instead it's the great journey that's led her to where she is today.
The start of Rachel's journey in the world of online marketing is nearly 20 years in the making. Rachel's first job was at an internet marketing company called Kowabunga, where she first came in as an intern. As the company continued to grow in size, so did Rachel's daily tasks and her job title. The company was soon acquired and Rachel was then managing more of the company than ever before. Once leaving Kowabunga, Rachel had a wide range of opportunities over the years before ending up at For Me To Coupon, where she is the CEO today — which is all discussed in this latest episode.
Syed Balkhi, the Wizard of WordPress
Syed Balkhi is not only a master at WordPress, but he is also an awesome entrepreneur.
Since an early age Syed has always had a passion for business and building success. This could be seen from the early years of his life when he was just a kid in Pakistan and selling greeting cards. Then later in life while in high school, Syed started developing sites of his own while quickly discovering what the internet had to offer.
Today Syed runs some of the most powerful and heavily trafficked sites in the world… and yes, they are all powered with WordPress!
Stephan Spencer and the Science of SEO
Stephan Spencer is an SEO expert. He's also the author of Google Power Search and co-author of The Art of SEO… so it's safe to say he knows his stuff when it comes to SEO and ranking sites in the search results.
How sites rank in the search results can go all the way back to before 2000, which is when Stephan and his NetConcepts company started getting heavy into SEO services. The thing about SEO is that it's always changing, so to be one of the best SEO experts in the industry, Stephan is continually at the forefront of the industry and connecting with some of the most successful experts, businesses, and brands in the world.
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In the world of the internet, being an expert is key. Geno has mastered the art of affiliate marketing and affiliate program management and through this expertise has been able to grow his personal brand and business at the same time. As the author of many best-selling books on affiliate marketing, and also haven spoke at 50+ different conferences on such topics, Geno is the voice many people turn to when looking for answers to their affiliate marketing questions.
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Years later and over $20 million dollars in funding to date, the company continues to grow and scale in size while also helping sites of all sizes make money with their content while also connecting them with some of the largest brands and advertisers in the world.
Russell Brunson and How to Create Killer Sales Funnels
Russell Brunson is an entrepreneur and the founder of DotComSecrets and ClickFunnels.
While finishing up his last year in College, Russell wanted to figure out a way to make enough money so he could continue with his passion for wrestling and to take care of himself and his girlfriend. After dabbling in the online marketing space and going through various failed projects, Russell discovered that one of the most successful ways to make money online was through the use of ebooks, guides and selling information. While messing around with some friends, Russell wanted to create a potato gun and went to the internet to find out how to create one. Once he found that there was nothing out there, he quickly threw one together and made a little course of his own on how to do the same.
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I first met John Rampton several years back when he came up to me and asked for an interview while at Affiliate Summit. Since then we just seemed to click and started working on various projects together. In addition to being the Managing Editor of Search Engine Journal, John's writing can also be found on Forbes, HuffingtonPost, Entrepreneur and many other top media outlets and news sources.
One of the major reasons for John's success in the world of online marketing can be attributed to his outgoing attitude, willingness to help others and talking with just about everyone he meets. Each of these are all required skills for making it in the world of business and forming new partnerships. With all of this in mind, it only made sense for him to leave his home state of Utah and make the big move to Silicon Valley, CA — the central economic focal point for everything internet!
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Co-worker Jamie Schuh took the photo while the two were on a work related trip. The picture showed Stone making an obscene gesture at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The photo went viral and created a firestorm on Facebook, with many calling for Stone's firing on a "Fire Lindsey Stone" Facebook page.
The Hyannis company released the following statement Wednesday on its Facebook page, Life Inc.:
We wish to announce that the two employees recently involved in the Arlington Cemetery incident are no longer employees of LIFE. Again, we deeply regret any disrespect to members of the military and their families. The incident and publicity has been very upsetting to the learning disabled population we serve. To protect our residents, any comments, however well-intentioned, will be deleted. We appreciate your concern and understanding as we focus on the care of our community.
The Company now says they were fired….
Anyone is free to criticize the military or debate Washington foreign policy. But if there is anything in this world which I hope every American citizen could agree on, it's that those men and women buried at Arlington – are beyond reproach. There is no criticism of the Honored Dead.
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She'll spit up, the diaper will leak, and don't forget all that drool… Changing the bed is breeze with this super fast crib sheet system. All you have to do is plop the mattress in its zipper base and then zip the top layer on and off. ($36.99, cloudsandstars.com)
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Triple duty
Why buy a sheet, waterproof pad and mattress pad when you can get all three (and save on laundry!) in the Ultimate Crib Sheet? Just snap it in place at each corner of the crib and you're good to go. ($26.99, amazon.com)
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The gentle vibrating feature in this mattress turns off after 15 minutes—just enough time to jiggle your darling to dreamland. It's also made with non-allergenic and stain-resistant materials and will fit a toddler frame when he's ready to move to a big-boy bed. ($159.99, target.com)
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Your sweet pea will easily drift off to sleep in this adorable classic. It's fully loaded with a detachable mobile, classical tunes, soothing vibrations, wheels with locks and a large storage basket underneath. ($109.99, babiesrus.com)
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The beautiful curvy look of the Stokke Sleepi is sure to please the most design-conscious moms. Add in the wheels (for moving room to room), the ability to go from bassinet to a larger crib, and the fab oval shape (baby can't get 'stuck in a corner') and you've got yourself a winner. ($799, allmodernbaby.com)
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The Serenity crib, modeled after a 19th French sleigh bed, gives you years of use as it converts to both a toddler and full-size bed. It's made of durable, solid wood (not particle board) and comes in seven different stains. ($369, babysdream.com)
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Just in time to brighten up your Spring wardrobe, these fresh, high-waisted pants are a good fit for many sizes.
Due to the wide shape of the pant leg, they are easy on the curves, incredibly comfortable to wear and the high waist makes your legs look like they go on forever!
If you don't like the pleats on either side, just sew them closed or remove them altogether. Enjoy!
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Mar 28, 2012, 10.33 AMby heather147
I just wish they weren't shown in such a beautifully slim model, she looks great, but would I look ok in them? sometimes give a bit, and be more real
Mar 24, 2012, 10.14 AMby keron
This is nice and it is really good on her. Nice job.
Mar 23, 2012, 10.31 PMby Petitemess
I love them! I made them last year for my sister but I think I have to try them again, this time for me. I love the fabric choice.
Mar 23, 2012, 08.00 PMby nouvellegamine
man, these are all kinds of cute! for me personally, i think i would stitch the pockets pleats all the way down.
and the model is so pretty! she looks like a painting.
Mar 23, 2012, 05.34 PMby Stitcher75
We used to wear these 20 years ago. They're surprisingly forgiving at the waist. We tapered the legs to the point we could barerly fit our foot through…bad idea. But what was worn on the Cosby Show was what we wore. I love the higher waists and can't wait until the "muffin tops" are just a bad memory!
Dec 31, 2011, 07.17 PMby Wendy Bond
Hrm, does anyone that made these pants know if they "emphasize" the crotch? I really hate that, and it kind of looks like they do in the fourth photo.
May 16, 2010, 09.13 PMby mariposa21
haha very clownish!
Mar 15, 2010, 11.58 PMby birdgehrl28
oh so cute!
Mar 10, 2010, 12.07 AMby amaturana
hey there, I want to saw these bella pants but it turned out that my printed pattern measures 11 cm in the supposedly 10 cm square, what am i supposed to do?? I don't know, any ideas? print it again smaller? take out some?
Sep 8, 2008, 12.23 PMby barkcloth
Bella is not an easy fit. I like a high waist and wide legs, but the pockets are not very flattering when you have a small tummy, like I do. I'm altering Bella now, without the pleats in the pockets, but that is not that easy as Burdastyle likes you to think. I will keep you all informed about the results….
Apr 16, 2008, 03.46 AMby clairelovestosew
Wow, I really want to make these, but possibly with two button lines on each hip in line with the pockets so they look like sailor pants. I love how wide they are! Burdastyle keeps bringing it….
Apr 6, 2008, 07.07 PMby cheekie
these are adorable!!! and don't fear the high waist, even if you aren't a size 2…I'm not , and I have a couple of pairs of the higher waist stuff, and they are really flattering (especially with a fitted top with short 'poof' sleeves) they make your waist look teeny and the wider leg is really slimming!
can't wait to buy this and make them for spring!!! what fabric to choose hmmmm…
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Dec 31, 2011, 07.13 PMby Wendy Bond
Thank you for this. As a gal with a "fuller" tummy, lol, I was afraid of the high waist. I love the style, but figured it wouldn't be flattering on me. Now I have a little more confidence for pulling them off! Thanks again. xD
Apr 4, 2008, 10.47 AMby jaie
I'm thinking I might try these and do a corset lacing instead of those buttons.
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Mar 23, 2012, 05.15 PMby Stitcher75
ooooh! what a great idea! please post a pic when they're done!
Apr 3, 2008, 07.43 AMby nikkiclare68
Just got my fabric and buttons…getting to work on these right now!
Apr 2, 2008, 03.43 PMby nikkiclare68
Just got my fabric…starting tonight. Think I'm going to try these exactly the way they are?
Apr 2, 2008, 12.52 PMby pinkhibiscus
Very stylish and cute!
Apr 2, 2008, 10.27 AMby shirliza
They look very nice, but I won´t get used to high-waisted jeans. I do still love hipsters and think high-waisted trousers are not comfy.
Apr 2, 2008, 10.08 AMby calatrava92
to grafixconcepts:they are fantastic, sadly and speaking from previous experience i can't wear this, it's not for the shapely.warning!!! but it's perfect for someone that would like to look shapelier, it will make them look like they have quite a booty.
Apr 2, 2008, 07.06 AMby abucketfulofheather
I'm not keen on the legs, I'm stumpy enough as it is, but they'd make a cracking pair of shorts.
Apr 2, 2008, 06.56 AMby benedikta
I am so happy to hear that you all seem to like them. Here a few tips… For pear shapes. Key is to measure well on your widest part of the body. Then choose a size that is closest to your measurements and either let it out at the bigger parts or take it in on smaller body parts. Make sure to have enough room in the hips, otherwise they loose the flattering shape. The pleats also tend to then stretch open and that does not look good. If you are worried about them, either sew them closed to keep the look, or eliminate them. The waistband creates a great shape of your body and is really comfortable. Since I am pretty short, the pantlegs are a little too wide for me, but you can easily adjust that to a more narrow leg. Please post any further questions you may have in regards to the pants. Best B
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Mar 10, 2010, 01.22 AMby amaturana
hi, i'm about to try to saw these, but the proof square measures 11 cm and not 10 in my print. what shall I do? and according to this post, I should measure my hips and find the size that matches my hips more than my waist? thanks, i'm not too experienced.
Apr 2, 2008, 06.51 AMby lilo
i'm ok with the pleats and the width, but there is something else not really my taste … i don't like the buttons and i think i would put that hipline not halfway between the waist and crotch but higher, at 1/3 from the waist or so.
Apr 2, 2008, 06.36 AMby peaudane
They look beautiful on the model! The curve in the back is lovely. I think that style would require being tall and having a defined waist.
Apr 2, 2008, 05.01 AMby photinx
I like these, I am a big fan of wide leg pants, but I don't think those pleats in the front just where the hips turn into thighs would flatter me.
Apr 2, 2008, 04.16 AMby squirrellypoo
ooh I love those pocket pleats! What a fantastic detail!!
Apr 1, 2008, 09.19 PMby grafixconcepts
SO CUTE! Would they look OK on those of us in the "pear-shaped" category?? Opinions? Anyone?
Apr 1, 2008, 09.18 PMby kristybiscuit
I think it has realy potential, especially since the high waist is fitted like the bodice on a dress to flatter, rather than as they were back in the day… still not sure whether I could pull them off though. Maybe in the summer once I've gotten back into a little better shape. I love the shape of the pockets though, along with the bodice in the back they look really stylish.
Apr 1, 2008, 06.30 PMby yoshimi
I need to get them. love them. love those pleats. I think there is a good potential in it for making it either pretty or chic, or both!
Apr 1, 2008, 04.28 PMby jinxychan
I was loathing the high-waisted movement until just now. Amazing. I have to make these right after I finish Liz.
Apr 1, 2008, 04.10 PMby mmmrphs
Wow, these pants are really cool. I'd be keen to try them with a normal waistline but keeping the pleats. Hmm, first I need to put a dent in my fabric stash so that I can justify going fabric shopping again…That may take a while.
Apr 1, 2008, 03.57 PMby marcy harriell | oonaballoona
wow… awesome… i must make the sabrina so i can buy another pattern! (wee little rule i've made for myself)
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The Spring 2013 Student Art Exhibition, featuring some of the best work of Lone Star College-CyFair's talented students, will be on display April 23 – May 2.
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Come to enjoy the exhibition and stay to meet the student artists in person at the opening reception and awards ceremony set from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25.
The Bosque Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts building on the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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The Coker Men's Basketball will not be spending the Thanksgiving holiday eat loads turkey and stuffing, but rather playing basketball against some tough Division I opponents this year. The Cobras travel to Lynchburg, Va., on Thursday, to play in the 2008 Liberty University Thanksgiving Classic.
The two day tournament features three Division I schools; Liberty, South Carolina State and William and Mary, and one Division II school Coker.
The tournament starts Friday, November 28 and goes until Saturday, November 29. Coker and Liberty get things started in game one on Friday night at 6:00 p.m., followed by William and Mary versus SC State at 8:00 p.m. On Saturday night, the losers of the two games will play at 6:00 p.m., with the winners playing at 8:00 p.m.
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Many locals are traveling to other places as they flee the crush of visitors who have come to enjoy our paradise this summer. Some are enjoying the getaways as pleasure trips and some are traveling for business.
Cassie and Caitie Cox are traveling to Santiago, Chile, where they will meet with the winemaker and marketer for Vinel Siegel Winery, before flying to Mendoza, Argentina. They are on a buying trip for Wine World.
Beverly Johnson and Candy Miller are visiting Napa.
Michael Dobson and Demetrius Fuller just returned from there.
Jacque Castle visited New York City.
Ray and Vickie Dollar visited Camden, Maine.
Stephen Marlette and Harriet Crommelin visited Highland Park, N.C.
Fred and Ampy Cox just returned from a health retreat led by radio show host Gary Null in Mineola, Texas.
I am back home after six days in central New York state where I attended my son Brett's wedding, along with his sisters Ashley and Summer.
Claire Bannerman and John Czapleski are back from New Orleans, where John beat out five others to win a Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest at Maison as part of El Pobre de Mi And Running of the Bulls New Orleans festival.
Others who have reason to celebrate:
Congratulations to Jami Ray, chief communicator for her public relations firm, Outright Social, who recently won the designation of Communicator of the Year in the For-Profit category.
Ruth�s Chris Steak House in Destin announced it has received a TripAdvisor� Certificate of Excellence award.
Sandestin Wine Fest has been recognized on Yahoo Finance as an event that donates more than $50,000 to local charities.
The Academy of General Dentistry announced that Dr. Amber E. Wiebe, D.M.D., of Santa Rosa Beach Dental received the association�s Fellowship Award during the AGD 2013 Annual Meeting & Exhibits held from June 27 - 30 in Nashville.
Sandy Weiner ran 5.189 charity miles to help Stand Up To Cancer fund collaborative groundbreaking cancer research.
Jeb and DuRee Stewart celebrated their 25th anniversary last week.
Ben and Cynthia Kennedy celebrated 13 years together last week.
DeLene Sholes is hosting friends from her Woodlawn High School class of '54 who have been meeting at her house every summer for six years.
Grayt Grounds at Monet Monet hosted 41 members of the Women's Art Network last week for its monthly meeting. Donnelle Clark, Joan Vienot, Donna Vann, Barbara May, Susan Alfieri, Carol Wenrick, Peggy Jones, Robin Wiesneth, Linda Buehler, Dorothy Starbuck, Carol Dickson, Mara Viksnins, Joy Fine, Betty Cork, Judi Bludworth are some who attended.
In celebration of the 4th of July, Sharon Thompson and Michelle Fillingim placed flags at every house in Gulf Place subdivision for the holiday.
Bill and Cheryl Freeze placed flags and bunting at Gulf Cemetery for the holiday.
Condolences are expressed to Karen Des Jardins and the Koerner family on the death of Jane Koerner, one of the earliest homeowners in Gulf Place subdivision.
Wish a "happy birthday" today to Harry Millsaps, Jayne Ragsdale, and Judith Proctor.
Sunday to Louise Goodson.
Monday to Blue Mountain Liquors' Christy Haynes, and Kris Wheeler.
Tuesday to Ed Jenkins.
Wednesday to racing man Tom Fillingim.
Thursday to Vicki Gatliff, The Red Bar's Olivier Petit, Jane Soloman, photographer Colleen Duffley, Donna Johns, and Realtor Tom Rymer.
And Friday to event man Adam Shiland, Josh Foreman, Alison Porter, Bob Doty, and Frank Day.
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Bridgewater State University is home to an assortment of fraternities and sororities that specialize in raising funds for their own designated charities.
Bridgewater State University is home to an assortment of fraternities and sororities that specialize in raising funds for their own designated charities. Among them is Phi Kappa Theta, the fraternity that fostered the late president, John F. Kennedy. The fraternity donates to both The Children's Miracle Network as well as Relay for Life.
Phi Kappa Theta seeks to follow the trend in charitable excellence by donating to Relay for Life, to help fight the war against cancer. Throughout the year, the fraternity hosts a variety of events and fund raisers to raise money to help contribute. So far, this year, they have raised a total of $1,200, hoping to raise at least a thousand more before the crescendo of relay events on campus – the Relay for Life All-Nighter. Last semester the team had raised over 5000.
The year-long campaign for donations reaches its climax April 8th with an all-night Relay event located at the Tinsley Gymnasium from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. It is open to the public with an admission fee of $20 and will be a platform for a variety of fun events that encourage participation and donations. Amongst them will be a head-shave drive, where a patron who donates will be able to shave the head of a participating fraternity member. Other activities include bean bag tosses, "Pin the Cap on the Phi Kap," and the dedicating of a "luminaria," to someone who has lost, conquered, or is still battling cancer. Among the members of Phi Kappa Theta, the event will be occupied by other fraternities, sororities, cancer victims, survivors, and supporters. Participants can expect to share stories, commemorate victories and loses, and to promote a sense of community and love.
The most popular and entertaining event is the Ms. Relay pageant (a reverse Ms. America) where select fraternity men will dress up as women and answer beauty pageant questions in front of an entire audience.
The easiest way to donate to Phi Kappa Theta's Relay page is to visit Relayforlife.com and search Phi Kappa Theta's relay captain Kyle Ford under "participants." Of the list, he will be the only participant listed from Bridgewater State University and from Phi Kappa Theta. After clicking on him, a "donate" option will be center screen. Any and all donations and amount are appreciated.
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Among several persistently wrongheaded beliefs about the 2012 election, none beats the claim, heard even in the campaign's closing weeks, that President Obama faced a desperately bad situation and had a high probability of losing.
That zombie idea kept walking even after multiple attempts by political science experts to kill it.
Republican operatives had the most straightforward excuse to keep it alive — no one wants to give potential donors, volunteers and voters a message of pessimism; candidates usually inflate their chances of success.
Many other people got a false impression of a close contest because of badly done surveys by some prominent polling organizations, most notably Gallup. Misunderstanding of the economy blinded many political writers and talking heads, who routinely seemed to mistake a slow-growing economy for a recessionary one.
A highly visible example came in November 2011, when Nate Silver, the explicator of polls and political forecasts for the
Silver also noted that the odds would strongly favor Obama with even modest economic growth. But the magazine's editors provocatively splashed on their cover the forecast favoring the challenger. Wails of despair from gullible liberals nearly drowned out the fact that zero growth was highly unlikely. Indeed, economic growth hit 4% that quarter.
As Jonathan Alter writes in his new book on the 2012 campaign, "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies," the president's campaign manager, Jim Messina, vowed Obama would win and that he would get the president to sign a copy of that magazine cover and then would frame it and hang it as a campaign trophy. In November, he achieved both goals.
Alter's book abounds in such peeks inside the competing campaigns. But for all his excellent reporting, he cannot provide what the campaign itself lacked — actual suspense.
Yes, he reports that
Writing a book about an intensively covered campaign that ended pretty much the way it began challenges any author. The absence of a surprise ending to explain robs insider accounts of most of their power. To fill that void, Alter seeks to impose a different kind of thematic unity on his book's disparate chapters, one reflected in his book's title.
The "center" in Alter's portrayal is the administration itself, which he depicts as besieged by a radical right-wing cabal determined to repeal not just
That analysis frames the contest largely the way Obama and his aides saw it — no surprise, since Alter admires the president, whose first year in office formed the subject of his previous book, "The Promise." Indeed, Alter, a former Newsweek reporter raised in Chicago, played a role in Obama's rapid rise, having written a 2004 cover story for the magazine which helped bring then-state Sen. Obama to national attention.
The 2012 election, he declares, formed nothing less than "a hinge of history."
Perhaps so. Copious evidence shows that the GOP has moved rightward. That has allowed space for Obama, a fairly conventional liberal, to control the political center. Romney, whether "severely conservative" or a "Massachusetts moderate," would have faced huge demands for change from a newly empowered Republican Congress.
But a book that truly sought to mine the election's historical context would need to get beyond the campaign. Above all, it would have to examine the phenomenon of heightened partisanship that since Clinton's tenure has come to define the nation's politics.
That's not the book Alter set out to report or write. Instead, in the tradition of Theodore White, whose "The Making of the President" books gave birth to a genre that nonstop campaign coverage has nearly killed, Alter has focused on "detailing the backstory of the big events of 2011 and 2012." Unfortunately, most of those events appeared small even at the time — polling blips whipped into a soufflé of pseudo-significance to fill cable news airtime.
Alter proves that point in a nicely detailed chapter on Obama's terrible first debate. In the 48 hours after that event, the Obama campaign's separate polling efforts surveyed thousands of voters. The campaign's analytics branch increased the size of a short daily survey it ran to 12,000 voters a night, an astounding number, while campaign pollster Joel Benenson conducted more detailed surveys in battleground states.
The surveys all reinforced one another's conclusions: Obama had lost ground among Republicans and independents who had flirted with him after a videotape came to light in which Romney disparaged 47% of Americans as "takers." But the debate and the videotape mostly just canceled each other out, the polls found. Nothing fundamental had changed.
To defeat a president who seeks reelection, a challenger needs circumstances far larger than a blown debate performance.
Despite the grumblings on the right that Romney lost a campaign he "should have won," he had no such advantages.
Obama won for the simplest of reasons: In
Lauter is The Times' Washington bureau chief.
The Center Holds
Obama and His Enemies
Jonathan Alter
Simon & Schuster: 448 pp., $40


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Increased course access at UH Mānoa NursingUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene is the 16th member of the Nursing Education Xchange (NEXus), which is good news for both UH Mānoa Nursing students pursuing doctoral degrees and for the people of Hawai'i.
NEXus began as a partnership among select Western universities offering doctoral programs in nursing (PhD and DNP) desiring to increase the range of specialty courses. Because doctoral programs are small in size, it is challenging for any one institution to offer a large number of courses. The concept of a regional educational collaborative is one approach to both increase access for students and fill empty seats in courses. The aim of NEXus, administered by the Western Institute of Nursing, is to expand the educational capacity of nursing doctoral programs in the U.S. through cooperative efforts. Doctoral nursing students at each NEXus partner academic institution can take courses at other schools of nursing (www.winnexus.org).
"By maximizing the use of online distance teaching, the 70 UH doctoral nursing students can take specialty courses that could not be offered at UH but which may be relevant to the student's interest area. At the same time, students at a member university can enroll for courses offered at UH as long we have space available in the course," said UH Mānoa Nursing Dean Mary G. Boland, DrPH, RN, FAAN. "This greater access will enable our students to more easily meet degree requirements, improve on-time graduation rates, and keep our future nurse leaders in Hawai'i."
NEXus consists of sixteen institutions that provide distance-accessible courses for nursing doctoral students. In addition to UH Mānoa, they are Arizona State University, Idaho State University, Loma Linda University, Oregon Health and Science University, University of Texas at Tyler, University of Buffalo, University of Colorado, University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Northern Colorado, University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Washington State University.
Said UH Mānoa Nursing PHD student Elizabeth Freitas, APRN (Advance Practice Registered Nurse), "The NEXus Partnership is an exciting opportunity, providing us with more elective courses and the ability to experience learning from professors and other students outside of UH. NEXus will allow for a streamlined process to enroll in these courses, and we're also looking forward to them being offered in a cost-efficient manner."
The NEXus Memorandum of Agreement for partnership was approved on July 15, 2013, by the UH Office of the President, through the Offices of the UH Mānoa Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Graduate Education.
For more information about the NEXus program at UH Mānoa Nursing visit www.nursing.hawaii.edu/nexus.
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A reputed lieutenant and longtime friend of recently captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman indicated in a U.S. courtroom Wednesday that he will change his plea to guilty in a $1 billion trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors say was masterminded by his infamous boss.
The decision by Alfredo Vasquez Hernandez, who stood in the courtroom with his legs shackled and listening to an interpreter though a headset, comes days after Guzman was arrested in Mexico following a more than decadelong manhunt.
Guzman's capture did not influence the 58-year-old's change of heart, defense attorney Paul Brayman told reporters outside court. And neither attorneys nor Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo mentioned Guzman during the 10-minute hearing.
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago indicted Guzman, Hernandez and eight others in 2009, accusing them of using speed boats, submarines and even a cargo plane in the mid-2000s to transport drugs from South America to Mexico, then to the U.S.
Hernandez, extradited from Mexico to Chicago in 2012, was described in court documents as a talented Sinaloa cartel logistics chief who arranged multiton shipments of cocaine by train from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Chicago; the illicit cargo would be listed as furniture.
Hernandez, who went by the nickname "Alfredo Compadre," allegedly boasted to cooperating witnesses about sending 747-cargo planes full of clothes on supposed humanitarian missions to South America. They'd return to Mexico with up to 13 tons of cocaine.
Hernandez is set to change his plea to guilty at a March 7 hearing, which would mean he won't go to trial May 12 as scheduled. His plea is not a part of any deal with the government, so prosecutors made him no promises in advance.
He was charged with multiple counts, including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. A conviction on all counts carries a maximum life prison sentence.
U.S. authorities have said Guzman made Chicago a primary distribution hub for his Sinaloa cartel, relying on the city's extensive train, airport and highway systems to transport narcotics to points in the Midwest and farther around the U.S.
Among the others accused in the trafficking conspiracy is a still-at-large leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael Zambada, and his Sinaloa lieutenant son, admitted Vicente Zambada.
The son, Vicente, was arrested in Mexico City in 2009 and extradited to Chicago in 2010 under the same indictment. He is waiting for his trial to begin.
Among the allegations levied by prosecutors in Chicago was that Guzman and several of his cohorts discussed staging attacks on U.S. or Mexican facilities in Mexico to express outrage at the extradition of cartel members to the United States.
Chicago is among seven U.S. cities where Guzman has been indicted, and federal officials in the city had said — long before Guzman's capture — that they wanted him to face trial in Chicago one day.
Mexican officials, however, formally charged Guzman after his capture, signaling they want first crack at prosecuting him.
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HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Wladimir Klitschko retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, unanimously outpointing Poland's Mariusz Wach on Saturday night.
The 6-foot-7 1/2 Wach was the tallest opponent Klitschko has faced in his 16-year professional career, but offered little threat against the faster Ukrainian.
The judges scored it 120-107, 120-107 and 119-109 for Klitschko, who was troubled only at the end of the fifth round, when Wach surprised him with a right hook before a flurry of punches.
"He caught me in the fifth, but then I slipped," said Klitschko, who was left with a small cut under his left eye.
Klitschko left the 32-year-old Wach wobbling in the seventh with a devastating right followed by a series of combinations. Wach displayed incredible stamina to continue.
"That was the hardest fight of my career," Wach said after his first loss. "I want to apologize to everyone for not living up to expectations. I really wanted to win. Thank you so much to my family."
The 36-year-old Klitschko improved to 59-3 (51 KOs), and Wach dropped to 27-1 (15 KOs).
Klitschko said Wach "boxed brilliantly."
Klitschko was fighting for the first time since the death of his longtime trainer and friend Emanuel Steward.
"I want to remember one man, who can't be here today unfortunately. Emanuel Steward, we miss you, we're thinking of you," Klitschko said.
Fans also paid tribute to the late American before the bout when the bell was rung 10 times in his memory. Steward, who was in Klitschko's corner for nine years, died at the age of 68 on Oct. 25.
"It was hard for (Wladimir), very hard," said Vitali Klitschko, referring to his younger brother's preparations following Steward's death.
The older Klitschko, who holds the WBC belt, said the fight "was unbelievably brutal. (Wach) just didn't want to fall. He somehow kept standing."
Sylvester Stallone greeted fans beforehand as part of the promotional campaign for the Rocky musical which opens in Hamburg on Nov. 18.


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This is a fascinating story, and a great picture.
WASHINGTON – A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him before he was assassinated in 1865.
If it is indeed Lincoln, it would be the only known photo of the 16th president in front of the executive mansion and a rare find, as only about 130 photos of him are known to exist. A copy of the image was provided to The Associated Press.
Grant's 38-year-old great-great-grandson, Ulysses S. Grant VI, had seen the picture before, but didn't examine it closely until late January. A tall figure in the distance caught his eye, although the man's facial features are obscured.
He called Keya Morgan, a New York-based photography collector and Lincoln aficionado, who helped identify it as Lincoln.
"I was like, 'I don't know who this is, Keya,'" said Grant, a Springfield, Mo., construction business owner.
Although authenticating the 2 1/2-by-3 1/2-inch photo beyond a shadow of a doubt could be difficult, several historians who looked at it said the evidence supporting Morgan's claim is compelling and believable.
Morgan talked Grant into taking the photo out of the album and examining it for clues, such as the identity of the photographer.
"Not knowing who the photographer is is like not knowing who your mother or father is," Morgan told Grant.
Grant carefully removed it and was shocked to see the handwritten inscription on the back: "Lincoln in front of the White House." Grant believes his great-grandfather, Jesse Grant, the general's youngest son, wrote the inscription.
Also included was the date 1865, the seal of photographer Henry F. Warren, and a government tax stamp that was issued for such photos to help the Civil War effort between 1864 and 1866.
Morgan recalled the well-documented story of Warren's trip to Washington to photograph Lincoln after his second inauguration in March 1865. Lincoln was killed in April, so the photo could be the last one taken of him.
Warren, a commercial photographer from Massachusetts, enticed Lincoln into his frame shortly after the inauguration by taking pictures of young Tad Lincoln and asking the boy to bring his father along for a pose, according to the book, "Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose," by Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf.
"This is the first act of paparazzi ever toward a president," Morgan said. "Lincoln is not too happy at all."
Historians say it has been decades since a newfound Lincoln image was fully authenticated. And in the Grant photo, it's not obvious to the naked eye who is standing in front of the executive mansion.
You can see the White House, a short gate that once lined the building, and, on the lawn, a Thomas Jefferson statue that was later replaced with a fountain. Five people can be seen standing in front of the building. The tall man's face is obscured, but zooming in on the image with a computer reveals a telling beard.
"Once you scan it and blow it up, you can see the whole scenario — there's a giant standing near the White House," Morgan said.
At 6-foot-4, Lincoln was the tallest U.S. president.
Morgan, who has sold photographs of Lincoln and other historical figures to the Smithsonian Institution, the White House and others, said he purchased the image from Grant for $50,000 in February. It will be added to Morgan's $25 million collection of Lincoln artifacts and original images.
Several historians say Morgan has a good case.
Will Stapp, who was the founding curator of the National Portrait Gallery's photographs department and who now appraises fine art and photographs, said he's usually cynical about such claims. But he said he was "very satisfied that it's Lincoln" in the picture.
"It looks to me like Lincoln's physique," he said. "I can see his hairline. I can see the shadow of his beard."
White House curator William Allman said the photo appears to include Lincoln. "I guess there's always an element of doubt," he said. "It feels pretty likely, though."
Even if it's not Lincoln, it would be among the oldest photographs of the White House.
Lincoln artifacts have recently been hot commodities leading up to the 200th anniversary of his birth, and President Barack Obama has evoked his memory several times for his work to unify the nation.
The significance of the photo is difficult to judge, Stapp said. It does show the relative freedom Lincoln had compared with presidents today, and offers a unique view of the White House from the 1860s, he said.
"We don't so much think of (Lincoln) as living at the White House," Stapp said. "In that respect, I think it's an important find."
This detail of a March 6, 1865 photo by Henry F. Warren, provided by the Collection Keya Morgan/LincolnImages.com, shows the White House with several figures standing in front of it. Photography collector Keya Morgan says the photo is the only known photograph of Lincoln standing in front of the White House, and the first photo ever to have been taken of a President in front of the White House. Morgan added the 6'4 to reference which figure he believes in Abraham Lincoln.


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Google launches Android app for Google Offers
Google has been hard at work getting their daily deal service, Google Offers, up and running over the previous couple months. For those of you who haven't heard of daily deals sites (seriously, who hasn't by now?), these sites offer local goods and services at a steep discount, usually at least 50% off. ... Read More »


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Having recently released their full album 'Breaking Free' in early April, Blind Ambitions have been rapidly expanding their fan base around the world. Although classing themselves as "heavy melodic hardcore", BA's influences span many genres with song content ranging from raw, pissed off aggression to the more ambient and heartfelt.
For their first music video, Blind Ambitions decided to interpret the song "Headlines" into a bizarre world of media hypnotized animals. There's a metaphor hidden in there somewhere, but mostly BA wanted to have fun in animal suits and for you to have fun watching them.
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There are only a couple of fabric mills that produce the nylon fabric that was so popular over 30 years ago. Technology has changed the yarns and the market demand has shifted back and forth, so we don't have a lot of control over the size of the yarns. 98% of the customers are satisfied with the fabric, but the ones that have worn these gowns for many years may remember a slightly heavier fabric.
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Two Books Based on the Film Unconditional
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Unconditional, a novel by Eva Marie Everson
Firebird, a children's book by Brent McCorkle and Amy Parker
Along with the release of the movie with the same name, two books have been released, Unconditional, and a child's book Firebird. Unconditional tells the story of a young woman who had the storybook life, happily married, living on a beautiful ranch, and a career she loved, writing and illustrating popular children's books. That all came to a crashing halt one wet night, when her electrician husband responds to a service call in the poorer end of town, and is shot to death by an unknown assailant. The story picks up a year later, when Samantha's life is still crashed around her, and she's considering ending it all. Her trip takes her down to the same spot where her husband died and then life changes when a child is struck by a car in front of her, and she chooses to do what's right. Through that choice, she ends up reconnecting with "Papa Joe," a childhood friend, who is now working to change the lives of children in the projects. And as Papa Joe later tells her, "it's not a dead end if it takes you somewhere you needed to go."
It can't be easy to write a book based on a movie that's based on true events, because you have only the movie to draw from. Because of that, the setting of the book lacks the depth of description that would usually be a part of a novel, and the characters are revealed more quickly in dialog and reactions than in a slower story process that allows you to know them each on a deeper level. With those limitations, however, Unconditional tells a moving story of hope, and the novel conveys that story more than adequately. Firebird is the book that Samantha is finally able to finish when she realizes that God was there even when she didn't see Him and its theme mirrors Samantha's new understanding.
I'm usually a person who prefers a book to a movie, and I enjoyed Unconditional, the novel. Because it tells such an inspirational story of a man and his ministry, I would be inclined to make this a movie I'll watch. Firebird is unquestionably a very attractive children's book to accompany the set, with beautiful illustrations by former Disney artists.
(I received free copies of these books in exchange for my fair and honest review.)
Christian Fiction, Copyright September 2012, ISBN 978-1-4336-7946-9
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on 02.24.14 Shannon commented
I watched this movie this last weekend it is the best movie I have ever watched, its so amazing. It kept me not daring or even wanting to miss one second. I'm a movie buff and this is now my favorite #1 movie. I can only imagine how awesome the book is. Knowing that Flybird is a real book as well simply wow. I already recommended this movie to several people already and I will continue to do so. I want to read the book so bad so that I can and will recommend the book as well.
on 10.13.16 Paula commented
I can't think of just one word to sum up this movie! Unconditional is such an inspiring story that wants me make myself a better person. I was in awe when I learned that it was based on true events and I'm now determined to never whine or complain about any situation I may find myself in at the moment. I think I will start with a two dollar bill.


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Milk Music, products of the deep-rooted Olympia, Washington DIY underground scene, are jumping out of the incubator on their new album, signing with Fat Possum. (They will, however, self-release the vinyl edition.) The new LP has the GN'R-riffing title Cruise Your Illusion, and lead single "I've Got A Wild Feeling" is a wooly, feedback-drenched thing that never sacrifices ferocity for expansiveness or vice versa. Download it and check the album's tracklist below.
Milk Music – "I've Got a Wild Feeling"
01 "Caged Dogs Run Wild"
02 "Illegal And Free"
03 "New Lease On Love"
04 "Cruising With God"
05 "Crosstown Wanderer"
06 "No, Nothing, My Shelter"
07 "Coyote Road"
08 "I've Got A Wild Feeling"
09 "Dogchild"
10 "Lacey's Secret"
11 "Runaway"
12 "The Final Scene"
Cruise Your Illusion is out 4/2 on Fat Possum.