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Personalisation and localisation of content are considered key trends in the Middle East – but it goes so much further than just language...
Here are some of the key take-outs from the Content Strategy roundtables at Econsultancy's Digital Cream Dubai 2012, which I moderated.
- Arabic is the de facto language for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and even other GCC countries such as Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.
- UAE-based companies are experimenting with languages like Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Chinese and Russian – both on-site and in their social media – to cater to the diverse audiences living in, travelling to or doing business with the region.
- One tourism group employed a former waitress to run a foreign-language Twitter feed; she is so engaged with it that it has become their number one feed. The table agreed that you need someone who has a passion for social media and has a deep understanding of both your brand and the language and culture to create an engaging presence.
- But English is still considered the common language of the UAE. One attendee said: "There is too much cultural diversity across the GCC and the language barriers can be too much - English caters to the masses."
- That seems to be key with B2B sites, as opposed to consumer – particularly retail and tourism sites.
- Plain English tends to be best when catering to many users who speak English as a second language, but one attendee pointed out that smaller, local firms like N_K_D Pizza, Wild Peeta and Cobone still managed to bring personality and character to their brands with their tone, being fun, friendly and interactive.
- When catering to multiple languages, one UAE company found it better to bring the content, in all languages, into one central hub rather than their previous practice of developing "multiple personalities across multiple sites".
- Companies with a mix of B2B and consumer sites also need different voices and tones for different parts of the business.
- But… the same content does not necessarily work in different languages. The tables all agreed that you need different content in English and Arabic – "the smallest word, mis-translated, can change the whole meaning of a sentence", one participant said.
- Arabic-language content is important but hard to find - especially video.
- But then again - SEO opportunities are easier to come by in Arabic, as the user base is smaller.
'One size fits all' does not work in the Middle East, where content needs to be both niche and local. And that means understanding the best-fit languages for your site and tailoring content to suit different cultures in different languages. It is indeed a multi-tasking region when it comes to making content work.
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Thanks for that Suzanne - and thanks for moderating ;)
All I'd add (I moderated the search roundtable) is the following:
1. Arabic, whilst standardised in written form, is (I learned) very different in each country/region. So actually 'doing something in Arabic' isn't nearly as simple as it might sound to do properly.
2. As a result quite a few brands are relying on local affiliates to do some of this localisation/tweaking which is, perhaps, a sensible, low risk, low cost, short term approach.
3. Several people I talked said the smartest such affiliates were all based in Egypt.
We help create content in Arabic and English for the region and sometimes face the challenging decision of weather or not to translate the content to have it duplicated in both languages. It seems easiest to just create two different posts so that the themes sound original and not translated. We did this in a recent set of videos we made for a client. Although production costs were higher, in the end we had double the unique content to feed to two completely different audiences!
Great Comment by Ashley Friedlein - I totally agree!
Good post, it's worth mentioning that if you intend to sell within Israel then Hebrew is a useful language to include. There are many successful Internet companies that operate out of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel which has a wealthy middle class with an appetite for western products.
Any companies that want to test the potential of their website in the middle east should speak to my team at Web-Translations.


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It was one of those stand-up parties that always make me nervous.
Stand-up parties are the ones you see in the movies, where everybody stands up holding a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other and says deft and witty things.
It was one of those stand-up parties that always make me nervous.
Stand-up parties are the ones you see in the movies, where everybody stands up holding a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other and says deft and witty things.
I never have been able to throw a stand-up party myself. When I invite people over, they immediately sit down and say, ``Where`s the onion dip?`` or ``We gotta be home by `Saturday Night Live.` ``
When you are at a stand-up party, you are supposed to talk to whomever is standing next to you, even if that person is a total stranger. This is called small talk, and it terrifies me.
I can`t even make small talk with cabbies or barbers. Whatever a cabbie or barber tells me, I agree with.
``I think Ronnie Reagan should be made president for life,`` a cabbie will say. ``I think all left-handed people should be sent back to Belgium. I think Dolly Parton should be put on the Supreme Court.``
``Right, yes, absolutely,`` I say, trying to memorize the back of his neck in case I have to pick him out of a police line-up later. ``You couldn`t be more right.``
Barbers are even worse. A barber has sharp instruments in his hand and cannot be toyed with.
So I was at this stand-up party. It was in Our Nation`s Capital, where stand-up parties are almost a state religion. And much worse, it was a literary party.
There were genuine New York Times best-seller-list authors walking around looking for people to small-talk into the ground.
I stood next to the cheese tray and tried to look like a waiter. It didn`t work. A large man with a beard came up and started right in on me.
``I think William Kennedy is vastly overrated, don`t you?`` he said.
``Uh,`` I said, which is my usual opening line, ``I really liked him in
`Cool Hand Luke.` And I think he won an Oscar.``
``That was George Kennedy,`` the man said. ``I was speaking of William Kennedy, author of the Albany books.``
``Uh,`` I said again, ``are you sure they`re not the same guy?``
He went off shaking his head and I got my lines ready for the next encounter. I should have practiced them before I came. They have saved me at many a stand-up party.
I call them Gambit A and Gambit B. For Gambit A, no matter what the person says to you, you say: ``Well, La Rochefoucauld had something terribly amusing to say about that. But then, I`m sure you know it already.``
People at stand-up parties always say back: ``Oh, why, yes. Of course. To be sure.``
And don`t worry about how to pronounce La Rochefoucauld. Nobody has ever known how to pronounce La Rochefoucauld. Not even Mrs. La Rochefoucauld.
Gambit B is even simpler. Say a guy comes up to you and says: ``I think Jay McInerney is vastly overrated, don`t you?``
You say: ``Who the hell cares, you little wimp. I`m a coal miner
(steelworker, long-haul trucker, mud wrestler, etc.). Get me another brew or I`ll pound your sorry frame to jelly.``
This almost always works.
So why, when my supreme moment came at this party, did I not use Gambit A or Gambit B? Because I was too stunned, that`s why.
A woman came up to me and delivered a line that I just was not waiting for.
``Do you think oysters are alive when you eat them?`` she asked.
Honest, that`s what she said. I was floored. I had never thought about it.
``No,`` I said automatically. ``Of course not.``
``Think about it,`` she said. ``We`re speaking of the raw ones, of course. They are kept in tanks of water and are opened right in front of you and you eat them right away. Are you sure they`re not alive?``
I thought about it. ``You`re right,`` I said. ``They must be alive.`` And that is when I got into trouble. I tried to make small talk back.
``I guess there are a whole bunch of things we eat alive,`` I said.
``Name one,`` she replied, springing shut the trap.
``Uh,`` I said. ``Uh. Well, sushi.``
``Sushi?`` she sneered. ``Sushi isn`t alive; it`s raw.`` She turned to the room. ``Hey, everybody, this guy thinks sushi is alive. He thinks all food is alive.``
Everybody began laughing at me. A guy picked up the pretzel bowl and said: ``Quick, kill the pretzels so we can eat them!`` Then they all laughed again and pointed at me and began throwing little cheese balls at my head.
I ran from the house and hid in the bushes until daybreak.
I can never go back to Washington, of course. And I can never go to another party. But that is not what is bothering me.
Ever since that night, something has been gnawing away at me, something that will not let me rest. And I must--I must!--have an answer:
Are oysters really alive when you eat them?

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I just have to share these animal pictures made by my class just before half term.
The children are only five and six years old (Year 1) but I was amazed by how beautifully they created them.
Over a couple of lessons, they patiently drew the outline looking carefully at pictures of lions, tigers, giraffes and zebras, then cut the slits and wove coloured paper through.
Finally they used oil pastels to add some colour and bring the wild creatures to life.
If you knew the children you'd be able to see how a little bit of their personality shines through in each one.


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In northern Nigeria, the US Agency for International Development, USAID, is helping promote agriculture by improving varieties of cowpeas and sorghum, and with improved farmer training. It's also working to increase the amount farmers earn from their crops by adding value through additional processing. From Kano, Isiyaku Ahmed takes a look at the US-government sponsored effort.
Most Nigerians live in rural areas and grow food for the table or for local markets. But the crops are often not sold in large amounts regionally or internationally.
Part of the problem is a lack of information about potential markets and about training and financial services.
Today, a USAID program called Maximizing Agriculture Revenue and Key Enterprises for Target Sites, or MARKETS, is helping train local farmers to produce better rice, cowpeas, sorghum, and dairy products.
The five-year effort will cost 25 million US dollars.
Bello Yakasai is the North Office Manager for USAID MARKETS in Kano.
Today, as every day, he is attending to farmers in his office.
He says the project is expected to eventually train up to half a million farmers, about a quarter of them this year.
Yakasai says the MARKETS program is now teaching farmers how to improve their sorghum and cowpea yields. It's also helping increase demand by linking farmers with buyers from international and even local institutions.
For example, Yakasai says the project has brokered an agreement with a major beverage producer to create added demand for sorghum for up to 900 farmers in several northern states, including Kano, Kaduna, Plateau and Bauchi.
In the last growing season, farmers produced over 5,000 tons of improved varieties of sorghum worth about $1.5 million.
"We train the farmers to satisfy the demands of the buyer," he said, "For instance, if there is a new variety that is being developed by the buyer, you need to train the farmers on how to produce it. Take sorghum. Traditionally, we don't use fertilizer in sorghum because it doesn't usually need it. [However], the variety that we are encouraging our farmers to produce needs fertilization, so we have to train farmers on how to fertilize sorghum. Secondly, we need to train farmers to form themselves into groups that will take advantage of the bulk of the commodity."
The idea is to eventually help farmers become more mechanized and commercialized. For this, Yakasai teaches farmers how to obtain and manage loans from local financial institutions.
"We train farmers in managing their personal incomes," he said. "Largely, we have problems with farmers having seasonal [success but] off-season [difficulties] because they don't manage their resources well. So we train farmers to budget and plan. Last year we are able to get them some loans. We have trained them before taking them to the bank to satisfy the conditions of the bank."
The training is open to all farmers who can meet certain conditions.
He said, "First, they must have a farm. They must be active in farming themselves; they must be willing to change the ways of farming, meaning from subsistence to commercial basis. Fourthly, they must be willing to sell to a particular market that we have identified because if the sale is not done, then there is no business."
Ahmed Aminu is the manager Modern Universal Food and Beverages, Kano, and the leader of a group of 200 farmers being trained.
The arrangement, so far it is good in the sense that the middleman is somehow discouraged. Therefore, at the end of the day the farmers will benefit more because USAID is providing the seed and a good market with considerable prices for the farmers.
During the 2006 growing season, the MARKETS program showed results.
More than 7,500 rice, sorghum and cowpea farmers were trained and provided markets. Overall productivity has also increased by up to 150%. A total of over 3,000 tons of improved varieties of cowpeas worth about $960,000 was produced in Kano and Kaduna states.
To enhance value, three Kano-based investors established cowpea-processing plants to package flour for local consumption into sachet bags.
The MARKETS program is also courting the business of large institutions to purchase cowpeas, like schools, hospitals and prison services.
There's hope that the MARKETS solution to greater food production and income will not be limited to just one region of the country. Besides its presence in the north, it has promotional offices in Abuja and Lagos.
For VOA Africa, I am Isiyaku Ahmed reporting from Kano-Nigeria


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Top Dems' Lobbyists Giving Money to Clinton Team Have Ties to Russia – Reports
A number of top Democratic party lobbyists, who managed to amass large sums for Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign, personally represent or work at firms that have represented Russian interests, Washington Free Beacon news reported Monday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US legislation on the registration of foreign agents requires that persons acting in the interests of other states periodically submit information about their activities, including financial documentation, to the Department of Justice.
According to the Washington Free Beacon news site, which gathered such documentation, in the first quarter of 2016, Tony Podesta, brother of former chairman of Clinton's campaign John Podesta, received $20,000 from Russia's largest bank Sberbank to "clarify the scope of sanctions imposed by Executive Order 13660."
This order was signed by then US President Barack Obama in March 2014 to block "property of certain persons contributing to the situation in Ukraine." Podesta, who donated at least $260,000 to Clinton's campaign, was paid $170,000 by Sberbank for his services throughout 2016.
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With New Job, Katie Holmes Gives First Interview Since Her Divorce From Tom Cruise
The actress will earn an estimated $2 to $3 million as the face of Bobbi Brown cosmetics, owned by Estee Lauder. Who needs alimony?
Katie Holmes, 33, has signed on to be the first celebrity face of makeup maven Bobbi Brown's 21-year old cosmetics company.
According to execs from Estée Lauder Cos. Inc, the company who owns Brown's line, the actress/designer will be the brand's first muse and collaborator. She will appear in a new ad campaign launching next spring. Next fall, Holmes' name will appear on a capsule collection of cosmetics.
Holmes is certainly taking the fashion and beauty world by storm. She presented Carolina Herrera with Designer of the Year Award last night at the 9th Annual Style Awards in NYC. And her first formal Holmes and Yang presentation during New York Fashion Week takes place next Wednesday, right before Michael Kors' runway extravanganza.
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Holmes, Brown and Lauder execs have not released any details of Holmes' contract. WWD has estimated the actress is being paid between $2 million and $3 million for a multiyear deal.
Holmes and Brown are both dark haired midwestern mothers who prefer a natural look. Brown tells WWD: "We had tea in the afternoon and we bonded, And then it was, 'Oh, my God, you would be the perfect face for Bobbi.' We weren't looking for a celebrity, just a cool, amazing woman who would fit with our brand. And she's just ridiculously naturally beautiful."
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Brown will do the makeup for Holmes & Yang presentation next week.
However, it will not be a full-fledged fashion show, According to Holmes, "We felt a presentation was more appropriate for the clothes we sell. It's a little more our speed in the way we wanted to go about it, and more of a transition for us from meeting privately with buyers in a hotel room to going right to a big show."
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What now for TV ratings and TAM
MUMBAI: When the cabinet committee on economic affairs announced that it had approved the Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) recommendations on TV ratings guidelines in the first week of 2014 the first question that struck everyone was - what will TAM do now?
The fracas between angry broadcasters and TAM has been brewing for several years and finally came to its boiling point last year when seven TV networks announced that they were clicking on the TAM TV rating unsubscribe button. This put a big question mark over TAM?s very existence but it managed to get out of the corner it was in by hammering out a solution which was acceptable to most subscribers.
As far as the current threat to TAM?s continuance is concerned, the Cabinet?s go ahead to the proposed regulatory framework has now to be notified. When that will happen no one knows, though speculation is that it could be sooner than later. However, what is sure is that TAM will have 30 days from notification date to comply with its guidelines and then seek a licence from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB). From all angles it looks like a pressure cooker-like situation that the TV ratings provider has landed itself in.
Broadcasters seem to be the happiest of the lot. NDTV group CEO Vikram Chandra ? whose company sued TAM in a New York court two years ago - is cock-a-hoop with delight that the government has affirmed what industry has been voicing since nearly six to seven years: that TAM and the ratings process in India needs to be spruced up.
?The introduction of firm guidelines is a positive step as everything is clear now. It shows that we should never be hesitant to change something that isn?t right,? says Chandra.
Whether TAM will manage to find the capital to ramp up its peoplemeter sample to 20,000 within a month or two is something that is concerning industry. What is also a big question mark is how the MIB will view the WPP group?s 50 per cent equity in TAM (through Kantar Media Research 20 per cent, and Cavendish Square Holdings 30 per cent), as mentioned in the NDTV suit with the supreme court in New York.
?Kantar and Cavendish will have to exit since their parent is WPP. TAM has been worrisome and everyone has realised it. So now it has just two options, either shape up or ship out,? says a senior news broadcaster from the News Broadcasters Association (NBA).
However, a source from the IBF presents another option. ?We are a democratic country so the government cannot force things on anybody. TAM has the freedom to go to the court and appeal against the guidelines,? says the source.
If TAM decides to oppose the guidelines and go to court and gets a stay order, then we might see some delays in the roll out of the guidelines. This will allow it to continue to operate until a final decision is given by the court, thus buying it some time. Additionally, the industry-backed Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) will also get some time to get its act together with the minimum 20,000 meters.
Media agencies and advertisers aren?t too happy with the way the cabinet has thrust the deadline on TAM.
Says a senior media professional: ?In the beginning of cable and satellite TV in India in the nineties, we had TAM and INTAM. The latter could not sustain itself and TAM continued. Then we had TAM and aMap in the mid of the previous decade. aMap too found the going tough without full industry support and folded up. The fact is TAM has started from scratch and survived so many upheavals. It is a sad situation to be destroying something that has been existing and running for so long. ?
However, she is clutching on to a thin sliver of hope that TAM and BARC could co-exist for a while until things smooth out on the ratings front.
?The time given to follow and make all the changes as per the guidelines is impractical,? says Madison World chairman & MD Sam Balsara. ?It is obvious that TAM will not be able to handle it all at such a short notice.?
The Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) chairman Hemant Bakshi says that he is discussing the consequences of the cabinet?s clearance to the new ratings guidelines with major advertisers and other players to gauge the possible impact on their businesses.
One scenario that everyone is dreading is that TAM fails to comply with all the requirements within the time period it is given, and the courts dismiss its appeal, if it makes one. Will it then be forced to cease operations immediately and lead to a ratings-less period for the Indian television business? This is extremely alarming for all concerned.
IPG Mediabrands CEO Shashi Sinha who is also in the technical committee of BARC feels that the management of the new proposed ratings system needs to pull their socks up, and accelerate the rollout of people meters. But even then he says that ?we are hoping to be on our feet and start functioning only by September/October."
That seems a long, long time away, going by how things are moving. Madison?s Balsara is quite clear on the way forward. Says he: ?As an industry we need ratings, all the time! Therefore, till BARC comes up, we need an alternate. As an industry we should appeal to the ministry to relax the deadline for the implementation.?
Hence, it is imperative for all concerned - whether it is the MIB led by Manish Tewari, the government, TAM, the ISA, advertising agencies, broadcasters and BARC ? to choose their next steps wisely.


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This year's Cattlemen's College is a tremendous opportunity for all segments of the cattle industry to gain knowledge on the new ideas and technologies available to improve profitability. Sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health, this day-long event offers 20 sessions that cover all aspects of cattle production and marketing. To address today's challenging industry, the 2011 curriculum will focus on these three tracks:
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Emmy Rossum on Beautiful Creatures and Shameless Pranks
She wrote a fake scene for her co-star.
In the world of Beautiful Creatures, where witches (or Casters) are claimed for either the Light or the Dark when they turn 16, Emmy Rossum plays the ultimate bad girl, a dangerous, alluring Siren named Ridley. She can persuade any mortal to do whatever she wants, even if it means death, just by indulging in some sweets (lollipops, cookies, berries) — which she's constantly doing. (In one scene, she pays homage to one of her favorite films, The Witches of Eastwick.) Rossum chatted with Vulture about the goddess who inspired her, her best prank ever, and why she still has no sympathy for telemarketers.
I heard you became Twitter pals with the books' co-author Kami Garcia. How did that start?
I kind of talked to her secretly, because [director] Richard [LaGravenese] didn't really want the cast to read the books. I direct-messaged her, and I said, "Hi! Thanks for the great book! I'm going to be your Ridley, so maybe you can clue me in on some behind-the-scenes tips?" And I did secretly tweet her pictures from the set, so she could be a part of it, you know? I thought it was a very sophisticated take of what a Siren would look like, so she's like an old Hollywood movie star — Rita Hayworth, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe. So I kind of got Kami on my side, kind of picked her brain a little bit. We brainstormed about what Ridley's life had been like before her Claiming, who she was as a kid, the kind of things she did with [her cousin] Lena, magic in the sandbox — making other girls cut their braids off. Silly stuff.
Did you ask Kami what the Claiming itself should look like? Because that scene is not in the book.
No. I just tried to think about what an erotic seizure would look like, and that's what I played, I think. I spent a lot of time practicing it in the mirror, and I'm sure a couple of times in my hotel when the maid was cleaning up, she saw me Claiming myself in the bathroom, gasping and clawing. She was probably like, What's going on in there?! I was definitely going to the dark side. [Laughs.]
Ridley is a Siren, but you based your idea of her on the Norse goddess Freya, the goddess of sex and war? Not to be confused with Frigga, the goddess of love and destiny. They already have a Frigga [Rene Russo] in the Thor movies, but they don't have a Freya, so you could ...
... be in a Thor movie? I think I got to stick to one franchise at a time! [Laughs.] But I have never heard of Frigga! Frigga, that sounds like a curse word: "Oh, holy Frigga!" I'm going to use that next time I swear. I was definitely in the Freya camp. Sex and war. I do a lot of Googling when I'm researching, because you never know what you're going to stumble upon, and so I was looking up goddesses and female power, because I was searching for a way into her power.
Did you feel like the odd (wo)man out on set, since it was a bunch of kids and older distinguished actors? Less of a chance for pranking?
I was just in the middle, because there were all the 19-year-olds and then the Emma Thompsons. So I was like, [sad voice] "Where are my friends?" But it was good, because Ridley's kind of the outcast anyway. Plus, to really do pranking, you have to be together for a much longer time. We probably didn't really hard-core prank each other on Shameless until the second season. Although a good prank would have been to lock someone in the spinning room! We were all taking Dramamine to survive that scene. It was pretty intense. It's better that they do the shaking and spinning for real, and that you don't have CGI. It's kind of hard when you have to imagine things that aren't there, even if that is a fun challenge.
What are some of the more recent ones you've pulled on Shameless, since you were going back and forth to the two sets?
Okay, so you have to understand that this one was a retaliation for another one. Justin [Chatwin] had pulled a prank on one of our location advisers on a Chicago shoot day. He pretended that he didn't get the call sheet and he wasn't working that day. He said that he had taken the day to go out of state on a road trip with his local buddies instead. So our poor location adviser freaks out and calls the producer, sobbing and crying. So I said, "Let's get him back for making that poor girl cry." And this is where it got insanely elaborate. I called around, and I got them to write bogus pages and release them to the entire crew, where Justin's character would come out as gay to his dad. The whole scene was put on the schedule as if we were really going to shoot this, and Justin didn't know it was a joke! So when he got the pages under his door, he called everyone, frantic: "How am I going to play this scene?" And we were all in on it, the director, the producer, everyone, so I got him back really, really good. For twelve hours, he was asking everyone, "How should I deliver this line?" He had finally really embraced the whole idea of his character being gay! And we finally broke the news to him [that it was a prank] on-camera. It was amazing. The shock on his face. [Laughs.]
Fiona's had a lot of odd jobs on Shameless. Since the other employees won't join her on the no-blow-jobs-on-the-job strike at the grocery store, what's next?
Telemarketing! I think she's going to find some stability in this job. She's going to work at a company called Universal Cup, which makes disposable coffee and beverage cups. So there's a lot of "Hello! Thank you for working with Universal Cup!" I got to work on my telemarketer voice.
This give you more empathy for when telemarketers call you?
No. I'm still pissed. [Laughs.] "Rossum residence! No, she's not here."


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MSU professor reportedly suffered mental breakdown, stripped naked
Update, 6:20 p.m.: Mechanical engineering freshman Kyle Hillman said he was in the class of mathematics professor John McCarthy, who students say had what appeared to be a mental breakdown earlier this afternoon.
Hillman said McCarthy was explaining derivatives when he went off on a series of tangents Hillman did not fully understand. Such tangents ranged from McCarthy's thoughts on former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and computers to his coworkers at MSU being actors.
"Not really any of it made sense," Hillman said.
McCarthy left the classroom and pressed his body against the glass wall outside of the room, looking in at his students and yelling, Hillman said.
Hillman said the professor began to cry upon reentering the classroom seconds later and continued to interact with his students at the front of the class.
When McCarthy again left the classroom minutes later, yelling and swearing about God, Hillman got up and left the classroom as well, he said.
Cops and courts reporter Rebecca Ryan contributed to the report.
Update, 4:30 p.m.: Computer science senior Hayden Boroski said he overheard the professor screaming, "God … how can no one do anything right," in what seemed to be a mental breakdown Monday in the Engineering Building.
Boroski saw the incident through the large windows from his software engineering class a few doors down and the professor seemed to be "in his own little world," he said.
After the professor became irate, he stripped down just to his socks in front of his students, Boroski said, referring to what he overheard from fellow classmates.
Police arrived 15 minutes after Boroski placed a call to 911. The professor was handcuffed and escorted off the property after police attempts to calm him down.
Students took to social media during an incident where a professor began yelling and reportedly stripped naked Monday afternoon at the Engineering Building.
At 1:07 p.m., a call was received by the Ingham County Dispatch Center regarding a man screaming and yelling at the building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Police arrived on the scene shortly thereafter, took the man into protected custody and transported him to a local hospital. No students were harmed, and the man has not yet been charged for any crime.
The State News received several tips of the incident this afternoon on Twitter. Reddit, a popular social news website, now has a post on its site detailing the incident.
The cause of the man's bout remains unknown.
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Volunteer with who?
With us of course! Our volunteer programme is called 'GamesForce' and includes a bundle of offers from training opportunities to international events and our humble London wide events. You can do as much of as little as you like.
Why Volunteer?
Volunteering is about helping others, but there is so much you can get out of volunteering too! Everybody is different and there are so many different reasons to get involved. This is what some of our volunteers have said:
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Without volunteers, Europe's Largest Annual Youth sporting event could not happen!Volunteers form the back-bone of our workforce throughout the whole season at all our events. Volunteering at the games offers the opportunity make a difference to each of our 130,000+ participants!
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Powdery orange golf balls (or larger spheres) have been spotted on pine trees across Minnesota. What are these strange growths? They are galls, a woody tumor like growth that is part plant, part fungus. In this case the pine trees have been infected with one of two different gall forming rust fungi: pine-pine rust (Endocronartium harknessii) or pine-oak rust (Cronartium quercuum). The diseases get their names from the trees they infect. Pine-pine rust only infects 2-3 needled pine trees like Jack pine, Scots pine and Ponderosa pine. Pine-Oak rust lives half of its life in galls on pine trees and the other half on the leaves of oaks like northern pin oak or bur oak. The galls are present year round. In the spring, both fungi release powdery yellowish orange spores, drawing attention to otherwise discrete brown woody galls.


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Welcome To The Official COPS Web Page!
COPS is produced by Langley Productions and currently airs on The Paramount Newtwork. New episodes can be seen Mondays at 8/7 central on The Paramount Network.
Previously COPS was broadcast by Fox for its first 25 seasons (with repeats from earlier seasons syndicated to other networks, including truTV (formerly CourtTV) and G4.
One of the first (and only) true and UNSCRIPTED reality shows, it follows the activities of police officers by embedding camera crews with police units.
The show's formula follows the Cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact.
COPS is an American documentary television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities. It is one of the longest-running television programs in the United States and the second longest-running show on Fox. Created by John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, it premiered on Saturday, March 11, 1989.
COPS has followed officers in 140 different cities in the United States and also has been shot in Hong Kong, London, and the former Soviet Union. Each episode is approximately 22 minutes in length and typically consists of three segments, with each segment being one or two self-contained police incidents.
The show is well known for its theme song, "Bad Boys," performed by reggae group Inner Circle.
COPS won the American Television Award in 1993 and has earned four Emmy nominations.
Langley Productions is one of the U.S.'s premiere independent non-fiction production companies.
Originally founded in 1983 as Barbour-Langley Productions, the company produced the award-winning documentary feature COCAINE BLUES. The critical success of Cocaine Blues lead to a series of highly rated specials for network and first-run syndication, including the live Geraldo Rivera programs AMERICAN VICE, INNOCENCE LOST, SONS OF SCARFACE, DEVIL WORSHIP, MURDER: LIVE FROM DEATH ROW and MODERN LOVE and the AMERICAN EXPOSE series of specials with Jack Anderson, including WHO KILLED JFK? and TARGET USA, an inside look at terrorism.
In 1988, after years of rejection, Langley finally found a home for COPS on the newly launched Fox Broadcasting network. The long-running "reality" program was truly groundbreaking at the time and pioneered the often-emulated video verite technique. Other documentary-style projects soon followed including improv comedy series NIGHT PROWLERS and real-life rescue series CODE 3.


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The chalets are a touch of the rustic charm set on a rise in a unique setting surrounded by tall gums. Located on a 7.5 hectare (approximately 20 acres) property the chalets offer guests a quiet secluded getaway.
Getting There
The location in Stoneville is less than 1 hour's drive from Perth.
The chalets offer the choice of 1 or 2 bedrooms queen size and single beds. All chalets come equipped with colour TV, DVD/cd player, tea/coffee making facilities, cutlery and crockery for 4, microwave and large fridge for those extra long stays, all towels and linen provided. Some chalets also have a washing machine. Free wireless broadband internet access. There is also a complementary outside barbecue for use by guests.


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There is a member here that bought a Stage 3, not sure what program, but he needed a new turbo, clutch, pads, rotors and a TON of other goodies to make his car run right and pass emmisions here in Colorado, but that was the cost of getting his car and what he wanted.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Question: Derek, I understand you donate copies of your Tao Te Ching translation to prisoners, and I have a friend who is currently incarcerated. I believe he can benefit from your writing, but as much as I like your translation, I think he would be more receptive to your stories. Do you have a similar program of donation for your other book, The Tao of Daily Life?
Answer: Yes, I do indeed give away both Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained and The Tao of Daily Life. The terms are exactly the same for both in that there is absolutely no charge - I will pay for the books as well as the shipping costs. If you are interested, you can visit the following links for more information:
Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained - Free Books for Prisoners
The Tao of Daily Life - Free Books for Prisoners
Friday, March 14, 2008
Ancestor Worship
Quesiton: Derek, I have always been under the impression that Chinese people practice ancestor worship, but recently a friend from Asia tells me that "worship" isn't really the right word. Can you explain this to me? Also, what is the relationship, if any, between ancestor worship and the Tao?
Ancestor: Your friend is correct, in that what the Chinese people actually do is express gratitude and commemorate the past in a ritualistic way. The ancestors are not being worshipped in a religious sense, so the term "ancestor worship" can give the wrong impression.
The true essence of the Chinese practice is very much connected to the Tao. Someone who cultivates the Tao appreciates everything that has taken place in order for the present moment to be exactly what it is. This appreciation certainly includes our parents, grandparents, and ancestors, for without them we would not exist.
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The ionic charge of Copper-64 complexes conjugated to an engineered antibody effects biodistribution
The development of biomolecules as imaging probes requires radiolabeling methods that do not significantly influence their biodistribution. Sarcophagine (Sar) chelators form extremely stable complexes with copper, and are therefore a promising option for labeling proteins with ⁶⁴Cu. However, initial studies using the first-generation sarcophagine bifunctional chelator SarAr to label the engineered antibody fragment ch14.18-ΔC H2 (MW 120 kDa) with ⁶⁴Cu showed high tracer retention in the kidneys,(>38% injected dose per gram (ID/g) 48 h post-injection), presumably because the high local positive charge on the Cu II-SarAr moiety resulted in increased binding of the labeled protein to the negatively charged basal cells of the glomerulus. To test this hypothesis, ch14.18-ΔC H2 was conjugated with a series of Sar derivatives of decreasing positive charge and three commonly used macrocyclic polyaza polycarboxylate (PAC) BFCs. The immunoconjugates were labeled with ⁶⁴Cu and injected into mice, and PET/CT images were obtained at 24 and 48 h post injection (p.i.). At 48 h p.i., ex vivo biodistribution was carried out. In addition, to demonstrate the potential of metastasis detection using ⁶⁴Cu-labeled ch14.18-ΔC H2, a preclinical imaging study of intrahepatic neuroblastoma tumors was performed carried out. Reducing the positive charge on the Sar chelators decreased kidney uptakemore »
- Authors:
- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (United States); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (United States)
- The Antibody Society & Huston BioConsulting LLC, Boston, MA (United States)
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Journal ID: ISSN 1043-1802; R&D Project: KBCH139; 00600; KB0202011
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Bioconjugate Chemistry
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- Journal Volume: 26; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1043-1802
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Research Org:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; bifunctional chelator; ΔCH2; sarcophagine; radioimmunoimaging; NOTA; ⁶⁴Cu
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We highly suggest only joining a well-organized buying group. You'll need a good communication process to be successful. Buying groups can be helpful, but we've seen an increasing number of people get shut out due to disorganized efforts and lack of communication. Be wary of any groups that smell like beef and cheese! Once a Member ID is used in a registration session, it is locked for 15 minutes or until the session is closed. If your Member ID is used by someone in your group, you will not be able to use it if you are also selected for a registration session.
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What is Duca's
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Duca's Pizza brings to you this centuries-old technique that Neapolitan masters use to create a truly authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Neapolitan Tradition
In June of 1984, the Italian government established the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana which registers approved suppliers of "Vera Pizza Napoletana" — the 'true Neapolitan pizza.' The designation is only given to pizzerias that met strict requirements that respect the tradition of the art of Neapolitan pizza making.
VPN Americas is the American Delegation of the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, an international non-profit organization founded in the mid 1980's by a group of Neapolitan pizzaiolis (pizza makers) seeking to cultivate the culinary art of making Neapolitan pizza.
The Neapolitan pizza is cooked in firewood ovens with the temperature of 800°F required for a true Neapolitan pizza, uniformly cooked in 90 seconds.
Stefano Ferrara wood-fired ovens are built by hand, brick by brick, as in old Neapolitan tradition, without using prefabricated pieces.
The Neapolitan pizza has unique attributes that set it apart from the mainstream. The crust is made by hand, fresh every day with just flour, salt, water and wild yeast. The sauce is simply hand crushed tomatoes. Then all pies are topped with freshly sliced mozzarella and a drizzle of Italian olive oil. The completed pies are baked in a wood-burning oven and cook in approximately 90 seconds. Coming hot from the ovens, the crust is characteristically soft and chewy, and with a little bit of char from the intense heat. In Naples, pizza is always eaten with a knife and fork, but we're happy to slice it for you!
The History of Pizza
The original pizza was created in Naples, Italy around 1600AD by bakers needing to feed the masses in a tasty and cost-effective manner. Using simple, readily available ingredients such as dough and tomatoes, they were able to create a simple snack that was sold by street vendors. Later cheese was added and pizza as we know it was born.
In 1889, Queen Margherita (of the new established Savoy dynasty) visited Naples. Having heard of the city's famous peasant food, she was curious to taste it. The city's most famous cook, Don Raffaele, was invited to prepare the dish for the Queen.
Three pizzas were presented to show the typical choices of the time: one with cheese and basil; one with garlic, oil, and tomato; and one with mozzarella, basil, and tomato.
The queen, impressed by the colors of the last pizza, which resembled red, green and white of the national flag, named it Margherita Pizza. With royal approval secured, the Margherita Pizza became the established modern pizza, and to this day, the dish has never lost its status, becoming over the years a cultural and even international icon.


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Pulse Recruitment is a recruitment company, who since introducing the PPA assessment into their graduate recruitment program in 2014, have increased their number of successful graduate placements by 15%.
Pulse Recruitment is an Australian-owned and operated recruitment agency, established in 2004 by Daniel Hale, recruiting for a variety of roles within a range of industry sectors. In November 2014, Pulse Recruitment introduced Thomas International's PPA and e-Recruit tools into the business to support their sales graduate recruitment program. The behavioural profiling offered through the PPA was to be used to assist with the hiring of quality graduates seeking to enter the workforce.
Daniel Hale, CEO of Pulse, noticed there was a steady increase in companies hiring fresh graduates and saw an opportunity to develop a program that could minimise the risk that could sometimes be associated to hiring graduates.
Pulse Recruitment understood the value of hiring quality graduates who could make their mark in a sales environment. However, they also knew how important it was to an employer to hire graduates who fit their organisation. Pulse wanted to ensure they could provide enthusiastic, results driven candidates who would offer long term commitment, which they knew could prove more challenging with graduates.
Pulse had identified the kind of personality it takes for a candidate to make a successful sales graduate. Along with owning a strong set of innate sales skills, they need to be suitable for a role in a competitive KPI driven environment. They had found it a challenge to identify these personalities.
Gillian White, Pulse's recruitment consultant who works closely on the graduate scheme, explained that with graduates, understanding cultural fit was of the highest importance, something which cannot always be identifiable during the interview process. As a result, Pulse had a higher risk of potentially placing candidates in the wrong job role.
Gillian explains, "I personally like to walk through our client's office space and get a feel for their working culture. This helps us understand what sort of graduate would be best suited for our clients."
Pulse soon discovered that a lack of work experience or job references made the recruitment process even more challenging. Consequently, Pulse were basing a lot of crucial decisions on the personality of graduates, without having a robust tool to measure this. Getting these matches wrong would often result in the candidates leaving their positions after a short time.
Gillian continues, "our aim was to dramatically minimise the risk of this happening."
Pulse decided that they needed a tool that would help them to filter graduates with the behavioural styles suited to a cut-throat sales environment and take the 'guesswork' out of the process. This would ensure they were better suited to the role and the culture of the business which in turn, would increase job satisfaction and retention.
Daniel, being an experienced recruiter who knew sales was a very unique industry, where the personality of candidates played a large role apart from other aspects like experience and education, researched what tools may be available to help with this challenge. He came across Thomas International's PPA assessment and embedded it in the program to help measure the suitability of graduates against a sales profile. Since Introducing the PPA into the graduate recruitment process, it has given Pulse the opportunity to discover the professional working style of each individual candidate.
Thomas has allowed us to look deeper and assess the person on a more detailed level.
Daniel Hale
Thomas has allowed us to look deeper and assess the person on a more detailed level.
Daniel Hale
As well as ensuring all graduates complete a PPA, Pulse also use Thomas' e-Recruit system which enabled them to rapidly and efficiently process and filter high quality candidates. After filtering, the candidates were given a result of a 1 or 2-star rating and then allocated into the most appropriate role. This was yet another effective technique put in place by Pulse to ensure the positon better suited the graduate.
After introducing the PPA, Pulse began to recognise the capability of the tool and its positive impact on the different stages of recruitment. The PPA offers stability and clarity to the client and the recruiter as it uncovers information about candidate's professional work style. The graduate's PPA report contains information about their behavioural profile, such as whether they are influential, outgoing, driven and competitive, all of which are considered ideal qualities for a sales role. This information has been influential in improving the self-awareness and self-confidence of graduates.
Gillian explains "The client now trusts that the type of candidate they require in terms of personality is what they will be getting. The PPA gives evidence to our judgement and this creates a sense of trust between us and the client, resulting in a more credible relationship. We have had great feedback from all our clients who receive each candidate's PPA report which they find hugely beneficial. It has really streamlined the selection process."
We love Thomas assessments! Everyone in the office has completed their PPA. The results have made such an impact in just over a year doing the graduate program. We've have only had one candidate leave the program, an extremely low number, which highlights how good the fit has been.
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We love Thomas assessments! Everyone in the office has completed their PPA. The results have made such an impact in just over a year doing the graduate program. We've have only had one candidate leave the program, an extremely low number, which highlights how good the fit has been.
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In 2015, one year into working with Thomas International Australia and introducing the PPA assessment, Pulse have increased their number of successful placements by 15%, a figure which they hope to increase as they continue to embed the assessment into their processes.


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Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the one-year deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers at one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan--a remote 15-man outpost in the Korengal Valley, named "Restrepo" after a platoon medic who was killed in action. This is an entirely experiential film. There are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 94-minute deployment. The conclusions are up to you.


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Vintage brass cartoon owl charms. These fun little birds are just the right size for using on earrings, bracelets and necklaces.
Made from lovely quality brass in the USA, 1970s.
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When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne
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A week-long celebration (13th-18th of Golden Eagle) of the Ascension of Dranak, Zavonis, Illiana, and Landra. Originally a solemn affair, most of the Southern Kingdoms treat it with more revelry than reverence now.
This is, interestingly enough, especially true for most of the coastal communities, where the week is marked with parades, performances, and increasingly ribald and raucous parties near the end of the week. The general concensus among most Wildlanders is that Eastport holds the greatest Ascension Festival of any city.
Longest night (Dark Moons 33) is, as you can guess, the longest night of the year. Traditional celebration of Longest Night involves family gathering around the primary hearth or fireplace in the home and keeping a fire burning all night. They tell stories of the ancestors or the heroes of the area. Some areas have evolved this into an entire village or town gathering around a central bonfire and telling the history of the area, especially stories of heroes from that village/town.
Shaintar is the creation of Sean Patrick Fannon. Savage Worlds is the copyright of Pinnacle Entertainment. All art found on these pages is copyright of Savage Mojo, the development partners with Evil Beagle Games for Shaintar, or the individual artists (Aaron Acevedo, Alex Drummond, Alida Saxon,Carly Sorge, James Denton, Jason Engle, Susan Knowles, Tomek Tworek)


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The school works with MASH when there are concerns about a child and their care or well-being.
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Police and fire are responding to 87th Street and South Holland Road for an auto crash in which two adults and four children were hurt, fire officials said.
Two adults and four children were injured this morning when this car crashed into a traffic light pole at the intersection of South Holland Road and 87th Street in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
Two vehicles were involved, but the circumstances of the South Side crash were unclear, said Quention Curtis, a fire department spokesman.


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8 January 2015
The Muslim Council of Britain reiterated its condemnation of the barbarous murder of journalists at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The attack has been condemned by Muslims in France, in Europe and around the world. In France, the French Muslim Council (CFCM) has said: "This extremely grave barbaric action is also an attack against democracy and the freedom of the press."
Dr Shuja Shafi, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain said: "Nothing justifies the taking of life. Those who have killed in the name of our religion today claim to be avenging the insults made against Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace. But nothing is more immoral, offensive and insulting against our beloved Prophet than such a callous act of murder. Our thoughts, prayers and solidarity go to the families of the victims and the people of France.
Naturally, and unfortunately discussion will now fall on the right to intentionally publish hurtful material that denigrates religious figures and traditions. But however offended we may be, the ultimate denigration of our faith comes from these murderers who have unjustifiably taken life.
In the coming weeks Muslims will face the test of having to justify themselves and their place in Western society. As Muslims we are ever mindful of our Lord's injunction to convey our true faith with wisdom and beautiful words. Indeed in the noble Qur'an we are told: 'The true servants of the Merciful are those who walk humbly on the earth and when the ignorant address them they say: Peace.'
In addition, while Muslims must engage with fellow citizens in a spirit of dialogue and friendship, we must all come together to seek unity and defy the terrorists whose only aim is to divide us. The best defence against closed minds is for a truly open society, welcoming of all."
See also
- Muslim Council of Britain Express Solidarity With Jewish Community After Paris Kosher Supermarket Deaths
- Dr Shuja Shafi Signs Condolence Book Following Paris Attack
Notes to Editors:
1. The Muslim Council of Britain is the UK's largest Muslim umbrella body with over 500 affiliated national, regional and local organisations, mosques, charities and schools.
2. For previous MCB statements against Terrorism, go to: http://www.mcb.org.uk/tag/terrorism/
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