text: November 6, 2008 Kasia Kay November 21, 2008 Claudia Hart: Digital Baroque (Main Gallery)Gallery Artists: Winter Group Show (Project Room)November 21 – December 27, 2008Opening Reception November 21, 2008, 6 – 9PMCHICAGO, IL: kasia kay art projects gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new photography by Claudia Hart and the annual Winter Group Show featuring gallery artists Kristin Anderson, Kathryn P. Almanas, Sandra Bermudez, Kim Curtis, Kim Dorland, Qin Fengling, S.J. Hart, Maleonn, David A. Parker and Jaye Rhee.Instrumentalizing Baroque emotional expression to counteract the sterility of technological culture, Claudia Hart's PhotoMortifications series continues the artist's interest in creating unexpected relationships between the long-assumed opposition between women and the natural world and men and technological innovation. This series integrates computer models of digital sculptures that are also output as figurines from a Rapid Prototype 3D printer. The realistic computer models of a female nude are digitally manipulated - even mutilated - creating irregular yet seemingly organic deformations. These figures, which evoke a rotting or decay, are juxtaposed with their very creation: the so-called rational permutations of computer-generated imagery. Hart proposes, then, a digital Baroque, contrasting the emotionality of the figures with the anonymity of digital culture.After graduating from New York University with a BA cum laude in art history in 1978, Claudia Hart studied architecture at Columbia University and received a MS in 1984. She then practiced as an art and architecture critic, later becoming Reviews Editor at Artforum and an Associate Editor at ID. In 1988 Hart began to shift from criticism to artistic practice, and after receiving an NEA fellowship, the artist moved to Europe where she lived for ten years. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum, NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Hart has also studied at NYU's Center for Advanced Digital Applications in computer animation, and is currently a digital artist and a professor of animation and special effects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


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Erie is a proactive and business friendly community that values its businesses and works diligently to support their growth.
As Mayor, I created a new support program designed to help businesses thrive and achieve long term success in Erie. It is called the Erie Economic Development Resource Committee. The committee includes the Town's Economic Development Coordinator, the Erie Chamber of Commerce, Erie Economic Development Council, local business leaders, small business service representatives, and other Colorado economic entities. Together we brainstormed and sought feedback from Erie businesses. We listened to the challenges new businesses face, and we asked what on-going support would be beneficial.
This new online Business Resource Guide is a result of our dialogue with you – the business community. It has been created to provide new, existing and prospective business owners information on the Town's business-oriented services and regulations. This guide is intended to serve as a resource to assist owners through the process of owning, operating and starting a business in Erie.
Sincerely, Mayor Tina Harris
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By Nancy Thorner,
ComEd is in the process of installing 4,000,000 "Smart Meters" across the state of Illinois. Traditional analog electric meters are being replaced. Featured in Part 1 was a CUBFacts informational sheet on which CUB's misleading statements were followed each time by an expert's explanation.
The health effects and safety violations continue to be reported in the U.S. and in other nations. After reading this article, even the most skeptical individuals might come to a realization that Smart Meters are definitely NOT the innocent devices that the public has been told to accept.


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One of my favorite pass times is gaming... good mods make that even better.
dead or abandoned gta mods...
Why do single man mod developers try to take on a game such as GTA IV or GTA San Andreas for mod purposes without doing proper research, or making proper preparations for work on said mod?
All this results in is mod development hell, or abandonment, which is always depressing to see, as there are so many mods that come and go, a ton full of potential. A prime example of unfinished mods are the many attempts at making a proper zombie conversion, or an I Am Legend mod since around 2006 on San Andreas. These attempts at zombie mods often end up in CLEO mods that hardly work right, or don't work at all, or end up abandoned, or half way finished and up for someone else to finish.
My two cents; don't start a mod you know you cant finish on your own. Here are the basic steps you MUST take if making a substantial modification for GTA, or any game for that matter:
1.5. Be Ready to Spend A LOT of Time on Your Mod
Plus, it will help you in the long run anyways, because with a visual representation of possible characters, you open up a whole new window of potential. Of course, this may be a little more limiting if you need to commission someone to do artwork for you, but if you can simply write an outline of ideas for potential character appearances down on paper, heck, if you can write any sort of simple description of what a few characters might look like: you should be set.
A) Another mod (or even a retail game) similar in concept maybe looks better. This is always mind boggling to me because often times, these mods (or games) end up being much different from each other.
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So yesterday's Sonic party has made me change my mind about DJing. I want to do it more. So I will once Toss up more once Perfect Chaos is complete with its rebuild (or if we have a temp place before then.) These parties will be held in a M and/or R region so music will not be censored. More info to come as it comes closer to being held. @everyone


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Finalize our Nagios Server configuration and do 5 server hardening
I need a logo designed. 3D cookie cutter based in the California Desert.
I am looking for SNMP Monitoring via Nagios as i already have an environment setted up. I am looking to monitor infrastructure which consists of F5, Netapp, VMware ESXi.
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Durham University is seeking to recruit postgraduate scholars for the 2018/19 academic year for Water Polo.
The successful candidates will become part of Britain's largest and most established International Postgraduate Scholar programme and will compete for Britain's Number One Team Sport University alongside studying at a world top 75 university.
Both Men's and Women's Water Polo squads will be looking to win National Championship titles in 2018/19. Expressions of interest from all positions are encouraged.
*British University Sport eligibility regulations allow the successful candidates to play for the University team regardless of the number of years played in the NCAA.
Masters qualifications are completed in one year in Britain - over 150 world class MA and MSc programmes are available.The successful candidates will receive the following package:
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City takes on spring cleaning
But the problem is that the city could be hit by another snowstorm. So while the city wants to clear the sand as soon as possible, it doesn't want to do the job twice.
"If we get a major snowstorm now, and it can happen in April, what we'll do is use straight salt, as best we can, on the streets we already cleaned," said Public Works Director
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Workers in the Park Maintenance department and the
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"It's all part of the spring cleanup," Buckley said.
Workers are now putting clay down on city baseball fields where the clay settled or washed away during the winter. Other workers cleared branches from trees at Rogers Park to make way for the proposed sprayscape scheduled to open in time for Memorial Day.
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And you thought your 401K took a beating. Gov. Rick Perry's blind trust had a capital loss of more than $500,000 last year.
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Other recent income tax returns from Gov. Rick Perry
2007 Perry's major capital gain in 2007 came from the sale of land he owned at Horseshoe Bay that he bought from a friend. Earlier this year, there was a report on how Perry got his property taxes lowered while he owned this property.
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Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She previously served as the director of the Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic. She is also a professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Denckla graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1962, where she trained with Dr. Norman Geschwind in behavioral neurology. Dr. Denckla served residencies at Beth Israel Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital, both in Boston, as well as Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC. After positions in neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and Harvard Medical School, she served as the director of the learning disabilities clinic at the Children's Hospital. She came to the Maryland area in 1982 to serve as chief of the section on autism and related disorders at the developmental neurology branch of the Neurological Disorders Program at the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NIH). She came to Johns Hopkins and Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1987. Dr. Denckla served as the director of the Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute, and held the Batza Family Endowed Chair at at the Institute.
Dr. Denckla is a past president of both the International Neuropsychology Society, and also of the Behavioral Neurology Society. Dr. Denckla has been awarded the Lucy G. Moses Prize in Clinical Neurology at Columbia University, the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lectureship at Orton Society, the Rita G. Rudel Memorial Lectureship at Columbia University, the Herbert Birch Memorial Lectureship at the International Neuropsychology Society, the Soriano Guest Lectureship of the American Neurological Association and the Bernard Sachs Lectureship of Child Neurological Society. She was the American Academy of Mental Retardation Research Center awardee.
The overarching goal of this Research Center is to examine the reading disabilities (RDs) present in children grades 3-8, including classification, identification, treatment, prevalence, neurocognitive characteristics, as well as the influence of comorbidities (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ADHD) on reading. While much is known about early reading development and disorders, there has been much less examination of reading and RDs past the early elementary grades. Therefore, there is a critical gap in knowledge about what it takes for a reader to be able to effectively glean information - or learn - from text, even though this is arguably the most important skill needed to achieve academic success after the 3rd grade. Our Research Center seeks to fill this critical gap in knowledge by bringing together a diverse and talented set of researchers and institutions (Kennedy Krieger Institute, Haskins Laboratories, Educational Testing Services (ETS), and University of Maryland) to conduct inter-related projects, the findings from which will allow us to gain a deep understanding of the neurobiological and behavioral processes that influence reading achievement past the early elementary grades. Our overarching hypothesis is that RDs past the early elementary years are heterogeneous in nature, caused by both "bottom up" and "top down" processes. Within this context, we propose projects that I) examine the neurobiological and behavioral development of word-level efficiency, the relationship between word-level and text-level fluency and comprehension, and the influence of different textual demands upon comprehension; II) examine the validity of RTI as a way of identifying children with RDs, and to determine if there are neurocognitive indicators that predict intervention responsiveness; III) determine how the cognitive aspects of ADHD (processing speed, working memory) influence reading comprehension; and IV) to determine the prevalence of different subtypes of RDs by building upon the knowledge gained from Projects I, II, and III, as well as analyses of extant datasets. Thus, within the framework of Project IV, the projects of the Research Center converge in an endeavor that will have significant public health value. Knowing the common subtypes of RDs at what age, as well as the influence of ADHD, will help reveal what the instructional emphasis(es) should be for the older children in our nation, including what risk factors teachers should be looking for.
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Arsenal have sent Gedion Zelalem on a season-long loan to Rangers, reports the Daily Record.
The 18-year-old is highly-rated at the Emirates Stadium, but is unlikely to get any first team action as Arsene Wenger attempts to challenge for the Premier League title. As a result, several Championship sides had been interested in the youngster's signature, but he has chosen to go to Ibrox instead in a major coup for the Teddy Bears.
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Arsenal ready to pay club record £48m fee to land long-term target
Arsenal to UNVEIL Karim Benzema before Liverpool clash: Medical set for Monday morning
The midfielder will watch his new team in action on Sunday, as they go up against rivals Hibernian in the Scottish Championship. Manager Mark Warburton seems particularly excited about the arrival of the American Under 20s international.
"He's an extremely talented ball player who sees a pass, is very creative and one of the young gems at Arsenal," said the former Brentford boss, "He's a No.8 or a 10, slight in frame but very clever."
Zelalem has only made two appearances for the Gunners over the last two seasons, but he is still seen as one of their most promising youngsters by many fans. Should he be successful north of the border, then it is possible that the next campaign will be when he lives up to his potential at the Emirates Stadium.


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Friday January 23,
Tags #flu, #germs, #fly through air, #sneezed, #tissue, #sick, #ill, #contagious, #office illness, #medical
An unnamed flunky says, "Don't worry about my flu, Alice. Germs don't fly through the air." He sneezes so hard his tissue is blown out of his hand. Aachooo! He looks at Alice and says, "Remember, germs don't fly through the air." ALice's hair is pushed back as if in the middle of a wind storm. She pushes up her sleeves, preparing to punch the guy and says, "Yours are gonna."
Saturday October 24,
New Office Layout Will Improve Efficiency
Tags #layout, #office, #desk, #work environment, #efficiency, #catch-22, #loophole, #laziness, #excuse
Wally: Do you really believe that your plan to change the office layout will boost efficiency? Boss: Of course it will. The physical environment makes a huge difference. Wally: Good. I missed all of my deadlines because of our current office layout is bad.
Saturday April 29,
Cublices Or Open Office Plan
Tags #office, #concept, #cubicle, #floorplan, #laziness, #hiding
Dilbert: Do you prefer the privacy of a cubicle or the collaborative atmosphere of an open office plan? Wally: Cubicles poison my soul. But in an open office plan, I would not get any work done. Dilbert: So... which do you prefer? Wally: The one with no work. I thought that was obvious.
Monday June 26,
Open Office Plan Failed
Tags #office, #office workers, #cubicle, #change, #mistake, #admission, #hubris
Dilbert: Our transition to an open office plan has been a huge failure. Too many distractions. How can we change back to cubicles and private offices without looking like idiots? Are you listening to me? Boss: Is someone nursing a baby over there?
Tuesday June 27,
Boss Wants Private Office
Tags #cubicle, #office, #office workers, #privacy, #open office
Boss: The employees are complaining because our new open office plan has too many distractions. CEO: You want to go back to cubicles? Boss: No, I just need a private so I can't hear them complaining.
Tuesday March 22,
Tags #managers & supervisors, #secretaries (office), #work ethic, #filling in for boss, #workstation vacation, #being in charge, #pverarted, #martini glass, #drinking, #umbrella in drink, #secretary, #business
Alice says, "I'm filling in for your boss this week, and I need twenty copies." Carol says, "That's not how it works. When he's out of the office I take a workstation vacation." Alice says, "I don't like being in charge." Carol says, "I hear it's overrated."
Thursday February 17,
Tags #office buildings, #work ethic, #new cubicles, #death eater gray, #soul sponge, #absorb happiness, #fear of the unknown
Office relocation Tina says, "Your new cubicles will be a color called 'death eater gray.'" Tina says, "The fabric is a soul sponge that will absorb your happiness if you stand hear it." The Boss says, "How'd the meeting go?" Tina says, "Well, you know, fear of the unknown." Office Relocation
Saturday May 20,
Tags #compliment, #office workers, #reaction
Dilbert sits in his chair and Dogbert stands on the hassock. Dilbert says, "Alice brought her new baby to the office today." Dilbert asks, "What are you supposed to say when somebody shows you a baby?" Dogbert replies, "'Precious' usually works." Dilbert says, "Judging from the reaction, 'bug-ugly' wasn't what she was looking for."
Monday June 06,
Tags #choke on donut, #psychic powers, #bob in office
Dilbert: Is Bob in his office? Carol: Since Bob's office is all of twenty feet away, I'll have to use my psychic powers to determine the answer. Dilbert: I could go look. Carol: Bob hates you, He secretly wishes you'd choke on a donut.
Monday June 20,
Tags #behead, #corporate head hunter, #employee, #new employees, #staffing problem, #you'd be flexible, #go postal, #post office employee
"We've never needed a corporate headhunter before, but now it's the only way to solve our staffing problem." "Are you aware that headhunters find new employees? We don't behead the ones you already have." "I don't suppose you'd be flexible..." "I could find a disgruntled ex-post office employee for you."


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In Aleppo, the devastated Syrian city and former rebel stronghold that has now been retaken by Syrian government forces, there was a glimmer of hope even as the bombs were falling. Amid the ruins, learning endured, as 15 young Syrians prepared for their university exams. Read More


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What does 'best-before' actually mean?
They seem fairly straightforward, but there may be a hidden surprise behind the expiry dates you see in the supermarket.
Dates aren't necessarily the holy grail of healthy sweet cooking
They might be natural but dates are still pretty high in sugar
Different eye movements show love or lust
Wondering whether a date is interested in a relationship or a one-night stand? Their eye movements could provide some clues.


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Armored Vehicles Marauder in 2011, recognized as the most durable in the world. He has successfully passed all the ordeals that his team subjected the famous Top Gear program.
The strongest today the car was assembled by Paramount (South Africa). It is a well-known global manufacturer of the most technologically advanced and protected armored vehicles.
Initially, the car created to accompany the convoys and transport infantry units. Now he can buy one, because most countries in Africa are living with criminalized society, armored vehicle used by people who want to kill or undermine at every corner.
Mass production is in Jordan, and development in South Africa. This is done in order to reduce the cost of the car and maintenance. For example, in the Paramount Marauder used a diesel engine and axles MAN company's production company, power 224 "horses" and 801 Nm.


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Bettendorf homes burglarized during daytime hours
Police say they're getting reports of home burglaries happening during daytime hours in Bettendorf neighborhoods.
Bettendorf Police said they took two reports of residential burglaries that both happened between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
Both homes were in outlying residential neighborhoods.
If you see a suspicious person or vehicle in your area, police said you should call 911 and be prepared to give description information about what you see.
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You can teach your children about exotic places without ever leaving your home. Start with these 25 fascinating facts about Egypt:
1. The people in Ancient Egypt worshiped many animals, but the most special animal was the cat. Anyone who killed a cat, even by accident, was sentenced to death.
2. Ancient Egyptians believed that having a pet cat in the home brought a family good luck. Because of this, most families had cats.
3. Wealthy families in Ancient Egypt loved their cats so much in fact that they would shave off their eyebrows when a cat died to mourn the loss of the cat. The family continued mourning until their eyebrows grew back.
4. In Ancient Egypt both men and women wore eye makeup, as makeup was thought to give magical powers to anyone who wore it. The most common colors of eye makeup were green and black.
5. Historians believe that Egyptians started using a form of toothpaste over 7,000 years ago, long before the toothbrush was invented. Having a healthy smile, white teeth, and fresh breath has been important for thousands of years!
6. The Egyptians believed that after death, a person would make a journey to another life in a new world. Mummies were created so that the dead person could have access to their body in the new world.
7. The process of becoming a mummy took a very long time. From beginning to end, mummification took more than two months.
8. Only rich people became mummies, as the process of becoming a mummy was very expensive. Poor people were buried in the sand.
9. Each mummy was buried inside a tomb. The walls of the tomb were painted to show scenes from the person's life on Earth. Family members placed belongings like furniture, games, jewelry, makeup, dishes, and even food inside the tomb. These items were thought to be needed in the person's next life.
10. The kings of Ancient Egypt were called pharaohs. Pharaohs and their family members were often buried inside special tombs. The famous pyramids seen in Egypt today are these special tombs.
11. Over 130 pyramids have been found in Egypt. The largest pyramid ever built is The Great Pyramid in Giza. The pyramid is 481 feet tall. This means the tallest pyramid is almost as tall as the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
12. The Great Pyramid was the tomb built for Pharaoh Khufu. This pyramid is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
13. Sphinx statues were built to guard some of the Egyptian tombs. A sphinx was a mythological creature that possessed the head of a human and the body of a lion.
14. King Tut (the Pharoah Tutankhamun) was only 8 or 9 years old when he became the ruler of Egypt. He only served as king for 10 years as he died in his late teens.
15. One of the most successful kings of Ancient Egypt was actually a woman known as Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
16. Cleopatra was one of Egypt's famous rulers, but her family was actually from Greece. Historians believe that Cleopatra could speak at least seven languages including Egyptian and Greek.
17. The Nile River in Egypt is the longest river in the world.
18. Over 83 million people currently live in Egypt. Most of these people speak Arabic and many also speak English and French.
19. Many animals live in Egypt today, including cobras, crocodiles, hyenas, and cheetahs.
20. As mentioned here, Egyptian money used today has both English and Arabic writings on it. Instead of using the dollar like we use in the U.S., the Egyptians use the Egyptian pound.
21. The most popular sport in Egypt is soccer. Egypt was the first nation from Africa to participate in the World Cup.
22. In 2011, a father in Egypt named his daughter Facebook.
23. In most families, girls help with indoor chores like laundry and cleaning. Boys help with outdoor chores, including shopping trips.
24. Many children in Egypt never attend school and never learn to read or write. Children who do attend school do not start until age six or seven and only attend school for six years. Other Egyptian children are highly educated and attend private schools.
25. In the cities in Egypt, many children live in the same apartment building as their aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Continue to explore the wonders of Egypt by researching whatever your child shows interest in. A magical journey awaits!
Check out more ways to teach your kids about Egypt, here!
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Whitney Hollingshead is an optimist, a dreamer, and a professional writer. She loves learning and sharing tips, tricks, and fun facts with others. In her spare time she thrives on coming up with fun and creative solutions for everyday opportunities, especially when the solutions enable her to spend more time with family and friends.


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Jarrett Walker: Transit is a continuum between ridership and coverage that involves tradeoffs
On Thursday, Jarrett Walker, renowned transit consultant and author of the book "Human Transit", presented to the Palm Tran Service Board and the public on the broad theme of how transit works and why it is important.
One of the first slides was a graphic of the amount of space taken up by different modes: Car, bus, and bicycle. At its most elemental, transit is a better way to use space to transport people. Said another way, single occupancy vehicles are a terribly inefficient way to move people and cities inevitably choke from growth if single occupancy vehicles are the only way to get around.
Palm Tran Director Clinton Forbes introducing Jarrett Walker of @humantransit. #palmtran pic.twitter.com/xtbWSkr0vD
— WalkableWPB (@WalkableWPB) March 24, 2016
Those lines with the most frequent service tend to have the highest ridership. In fact, the additional cost from the operations is more than offset from the additional riders/fares collected.
Frequent network makes your system productivity per unit of input go up. #palmtran
— WalkableWPB (@WalkableWPB) March 24, 2016
Ridership goals and coverage goals involve tradeoffs on a spectrum. Mr. Walker demonstrated how a shift toward a ridership goal has led to success in other cities. By shifting the ridership goal from, say, 50% priority to 80% priority, cities have seen their systems become more useful and ridership increase. By focusing more on ridership goals, I believe Palm Tran can see impressive gains in ridership and have a system that is much more effective for its users.
There are tradeoffs between these two things. #transit #palmtran pic.twitter.com/sngUljvPkV
— WalkableWPB (@WalkableWPB) March 24, 2016
Palm Tran buses are nice, clean, and comfortable, in my experience. However, the perception of Palm Tran is harmed by the ambulance chaser advertisements that wrap Palm Tran buses. It sends a message that the only people who ride buses are those in a lower socioeconomic strata and that buses aren't for everyone. Mr. Walker rightfully criticizes this choice and says it should be reconsidered. At the very least, the bus windows need to be more transparent so that people can see into the buses before getting on board; as it stands, the windows are opaque from the outside due to the personal injury attorney wraps. No one likes to enter an unfamiliar space without having any idea what is behind the entryway, and it's the same for buses.
The ambulance chaser wraps on the buses put off people. Can't see inside the bus – buses should be transparent sort of like storefronts
— WalkableWPB (@WalkableWPB) March 24, 2016
I'd like to commend the Palm Tran Service Board, the Palm Tran management team including Executive Director Clinton Forbes and Assistant Director Charles Frazier, and the public officials who attended, including Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie, County Commissioner Stephen Abrams, and County Commissioner Paulette Burdick. This was a courageous first step taken to move Palm Tran in a more productive direction.
I believe Palm Tran can become an integral part of our transportation mix in the county. Indeed, with the inevitable growth coming, it must, if we are to continue to grow while avoiding the fate of Broward County. Land use policy must also be looked at together with our transportation planning, but that's a topic for another time.


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"We just have to pinch ourselves to believe how happy they are"
To really capture the essence of Sunningdale it is essential to come and visit the school and meet the Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster who will show you around. Please call the admissions department to arrange a visit, explore the grounds, meet the pupils and get a feel for school.
A parent may register their son at Sunningdale from birth. We have, on average, 22 places available each year. If all 22 places are taken for the year you require, your son will be placed on a waiting list. You will be kept informed as to the likelihood of him being offered a guaranteed place. We will also keep in touch by sending you our termly newsletter and inviting you to various school events. Please feel free to come and visit the school whenever you like.
During the year before he is due to join the school your son will be required to attend an 'assessment day'. This is not a 'selection test', the purpose of the day is to allow us to place boys in the right form and to enable us to offer scholarships. The day will consist of a series of workshops in Music, Art and Sport, followed by short papers in Mathematics, English and Verbal Reasoning. We will also request a report from your son's current school. In very rare circumstances we may suggest that Sunningdale is not the right school for your son. We will try and give you as much notice as possible.
Owing to the high demand for places in this age group, we have introduced an assessment for boys wishing to join the school. The boys will need to attend an assessment day in January during which they will sit Cognitive Ability Tests. A report will be requested from their previous school. Both academic and extra-curricular strengths will be taken into account when places are offered.
An acceptance form will be sent out for you to sign and we will ask for a £500 deposit. Once we receive the form and deposit your son's place will be confirmed. The deposit will be deducted from the final bill.
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Some Americans are finding themselves in a difficult position, caught between tight lending standards and rising rents, a report indicates.
Mortgage lenders have grown cautious in recent years since the recession, and many expect they will remain so for some time, according to Reuters. They are still trying to determine how to strike a balance between minimizing their own risks and remaining competitive, a task which is complicated by ongoing government efforts to revise and update regulations.
At the same time, low vacancies have led owners and rental managers to raise rents, in some cases pushing to record highs. More Americans want to rent housing, whether single-family homes or apartments, than in the years leading up to the economic downturn. Some are facing difficulties now that rents are so high, however, the news source notes.
Job creation is fairly slow and incomes are rising at a similar pace. The result is that rent growth is at risk of outpacing what tenants can afford. While some have responded to this situation by courting higher-income renters, there are only so many of those available.
Low- and middle-income tenants are feeling the pressure in some markets, and rental owners and managers may need to evaluate their tenants' financial situations before deciding on any further rent increases. Otherwise, they may price residents out of renewing leases.


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Air Force band performs tunes for troops
OKLAHOMA CITY—Music is good for the soul and the Air Force Academy Band made a special visit to bring a little healing to some of our state's veterans.
The members of "Steel Blue" are on a tour of the Sooner State.
Saturday, the group performed a concert for some Oklahoma veterans at the VA Medical Center.
The five piece band played classic rock tunes, everything from Aerosmith to Alicia Keys.
The band travels across the United States to provide a bit of musical relief to veterans.
TSgt. Julia Bradley, USAF Academy Band, said, "They are our heroes. We want to make sure they realize how much we appreciate them. We stand on their shoulders and we want to thank them."
SRA Colin Trousedell, USAF Academy Band, said, "We appreciate what they've done for laying the ground for us and then we get to come in and play for them and they really appreciate it."
"Blue Steel" will perform the National Anthem at this weekend's PBR events.
They will also be playing at the UCO Jazz Lab Monday night.


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Since Doraemon is part of my childhood , of course i wont miss this expo. I have read the comics and watch the tv show. I always hope i have Doraemon to help me if im in trouble.
You need ticket to enter the expo. RM25 for adult and RM15 for children
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So, I am cleaning out my house. Closet by closet, every drawer, every cabinet, cubby hole, nook and cranny. Luckily, I have the help of 2 friends who have an "organizing" business. I am by no means a "collector", but I am amazed at the amount of STUFF that has accumulated over 25 years in that house.
As excited as I am about lightening my load, I feel myself strangely unmoored in the process. Getting rid of vestiges of the past is surprisingly unsettling and more difficult than I had imagined. Everything I see or touch has connections to me, my children, ex-husbands, dogs, cats—most of whom are ghosts long gone. The pantry where Leslie and Sara played, the now useless Walt Disney VHS Movies, the children's books that I read to my girls, school uniforms, class pictures, soccer socks, dress-up clothes, the doll house in the attic…….each of these relics tugs at my heart and begs to be saved from destruction. What will happen when they are gone? Will that piece of my life disappear, will I lose the memories without the physical touchstones they provide? What will fill the void?
And speaking of voids, I can't help but think of our teens during this process. Many show up with only a trash bag of belongings. No past relics to remind them of who they are, no photos, no connection to their former lives. I can't imagine how unmoored they must feel, how disconnected. Luckily for them, we can be the touchstone they need to build good memories, to build a positive past, present, and future, and to come home to.
I'm surprised at my reaction to cleaning out my house, but keeping the most important relics will help me get through it. I hope that is what we help our teens do…..ferret out and keep the most important relics from their pasts to guide their present and future—whether they be physical items, memories, hopes, or dreams. If we accomplish that, we will surely have filled that void of disconnectedness that all of our teens struggle with.
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Although I love a beautiful garden, I have always considered my own thumb to be somewhat less than green. While others coaxed luxuriant blooms and vegetables from the soil, my own results were always modest. So when dowser Marty Cain introduced me to L-rods at a sustainable building conference last spring, I was intrigued by her assertion that dowsing can be used as tool for creating a successful garden. Following her advice, I enrolled in a one-day course for beginning dowsers with the Living Waters Chapter of the American Society of Dowsers (ASD) in southern New Hampshire.
While my fellow beginners and I learned to use the various dowsing tools to detect water sources—the traditional and best-known application of this ancient art—our instructor also encouraged us to use dowsing to answer gardening questions. Returning home, I decided to let the tools help me site the replacements for two dead, deer-ravaged azaleas. Holding L-rods in my hands, I mentally defined my search: The azaleas needed a shady spot with well-drained soil, out of the path of any creature who might want to eat them. Assuming the proper posture, rods pointed forward, I began trudging through the shaded sections of the landscape, visualizing my new azaleas as the healthy, blooming specimens I wanted them to become. The L-rods finally crossed at a point near some stone steps not far from the back door of my house.
I made my plantings there, and after an entire cold season the shrubs are still healthy, full of buds, and untouched by the local herbivores—my first garden dowsing success. This year, I plan to use dowsing to site some beds for annuals and vegetables, as well as take the rods to the local nursery to help me choose the best and healthiest specimens for planting.
How dowsing works
Although dowsers have different preferences in tools—some like L-rods, others pendulums, still others the traditional, forked, green branch—dowsing equipment has no inherent power to access information.
Dowsers assume that the world and its contents all pulsate with energy. They also assume the human capacity to detect and differentiate various energies in their surroundings. The living human body acts as the detecting antenna for specific energies—an underground stream or, in the case of gardening, a hospitable site for azaleas—and the dowsing equipment serves as a reader for what we discover. The rods, pendulum, or wand simply make the answers received in the search more apparent.
Dowsing instructor Dave Royer, who taught the course I attended, acknowledges, "Before the modern era and the invention of tools, humans had the capacity to use their bodies in ways we would now consider ultrasensitive." Without the use of a compass, the ancients could find their way over long distances. They could sense the presence of animal or human predators. They learned the difference between beneficial and harmful plants. Dowsing can put us in touch with this ancient capacity to acquire knowledge through the redevelopment of our body's sensitivity to its environment.
Garden dowsing
Acquiring specific knowledge about gardening—or anything else—through dowsing requires the use of very specific questions. Thus, in choosing or placing plants, the dowser asks questions that account for as many variables as possible.
For example, in selecting seeds with a dowsing tool, one asks for:
In looking for an appropriate spot for the garden patch, one can use the rods to point out the dimensions or shape of a garden. The dowser can ask, "Show me the perimeter of this garden." To further define the correct space, one asks questions intended to locate:
"The better your questions, the more accurate the results of your dowsing will become," says Royer, a twenty-year member of ASD who has been dowsing since he was nine years old. He notes that dowsers who make a living by finding water sources use many questions to find the best place for a well, starting with the need for the water to be drinkable and for the well to produce at a minimum desired volume.
In addition to answering questions about which plants and seeds to use in the garden, where to put various beds and plantings, which seeds are viable, which should be kept, and the timing of planting and harvest, dowsing can also be used to find specific energies in the landscape. These may affect not only the health and growth of plantings, but also make certain spots appropriate for spirit-enhancing seating areas, meditation spots, or water features that humans will be drawn to.
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MANATEE -- A plan will be considered today to reimburse Manatee County Commissioner Larry Bustle $11,485.50 for legal expenses he incurred last year dealing with an ethics complaint.
The Florida Election Commission cleared Bustle of wrongdoing after allegations were investigated over the course of more than 11 months, according to an opinion written by County Attorney Mickey Palmer.
The complaint dealt with a press conference Bustle held Aug. 28, 2012 at McKechnie Field to announce plans to build new Little League baseball fields at Blackstone Park, the opinion said.
It contended that Bustle unlawfully used the services of county employees during working hours to further his re-election campaign.
Corie Holmes, a Democrat who last year lost to incumbent Republican Bustle in a commission race, showed reporters documents that listed as complainants Perselphone E. Johnson, and Kelmie Bigelow.
Neither could be reached for comment late Monday.
Bustle hired local attorney Alan Prather to handle the matter, at an hourly rate of $310.
"It is the opinion of the county attorney that Commissioner Bustle's actions relative to the press conference constituted the performance of official duties and that the activities served a public purpose," according to Palmer.
He recommended commissioners approve payment of Bustle's attorney's fees.
Holmes, who is now running for a different county commission seat, objected to the arrangement.
"It's just sad the county's going to pay $11,000 in legal fees, all because people don't understand Sunshine laws and violations," he said.
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Whether a brand new blogger or a seasoned writer, WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile content management systems (CMS) available.
You can set up a quick, good-looking, fully-hosted blog using one of its many templates, or you can get into the world of self-hosting and coding to build your own professional site from scratch.
Last year I wrote a complete guide to setting up and running your own WordPress site along with an SEO for WordPress best practice guide. That latter SEO guide has become somewhat out of date now, so this is a revised and updated version of that previously published post.
What is SEO?
Very simply, it's an umbrella term for all the methods, tactics and processes by which you can increase the likelihood of your website appearing, and possibly ranking highly, in the organic (non-paid for) search engine results pages (SERPs).
There are black-hat (bad) and white-hat (good) practices, and it's easy to think of SEO as a manipulative exercise in artificially raising the profile of your site.
In actual fact, good SEO requires a level of attention to detail that will only improve the functionality and usability of your website. If it's easy to access and navigate then it'll be all the more appealing to your visitors. Appearing higher in the SERPs is a positive by-product of this 'best practice'.
However don't think that because you're 'just running a blog' that traffic from higher SERP rankings is a fanciful notion.
With a regular routine of internal linking to other relevant articles on the site, writing quality content, optimising headlines, permalinks and images, it didn't take long for my own music and film site to appear in the first couple of SERPs under certain search terms.
There are some bad practices too, such as artificial link-building and keyword stuffing, just bear in mind that Google is quite good at catching you in the act, and is not only quick but severe in its punishment.
As a WordPress user you will be ably assisted by various SEO related plugins, the most useful and popular of which is WordPress SEO by Yoast, however that doesn't mean that all your work is done for you though.
There are still manual things you will need to do to improve your SEO.
Let's take a look at the most important practices...
If you're not producing good, relevant, entertaining, helpful content at a regular rate, then all of the added SEO tricks won't help you one little bit.
How does Google know whether you're producing good, relevant, entertaining, helpful content?
It is of course a complicated and ever-changing algorithim that's impossible to second-guess or predict. All you can guarantee is that no matter what Google and the other search engines are looking for in terms of 'site health', the quality of your content will always be the top priority.
Good quality content gets recognition. That recognition will come in repeat traffic, social shares and links within other websites. This will drive traffic to your site and improve your chances of being found not just within organic listings but also through social media and peer recommendations.
The most important point here is this: write for human readers not search engines.
If your content reads like a robot wrote it, nobody will stay on your site, nobody will revisit and nobody will share it. Search engines will see this lack of interest and high bounce rate and rank you in the toilet-end of SERPS accordingly.
Producing content, regularly and as often as you can is also a must for appearing in the SERPs. When it comes to my own blog, I have a policy of publishing at least one article a day during the week. I take the weekend off.
Blogging is a time-consuming art but does benefit from taking a day or two off to refresh the creative juices. Plus there are cats to feed and social circles to remind that you still exist.
Write as regularly as you can, and you'll soon see that within a few months you'll start to appear in SERPs and therefore pick up some organic traffic. If you don't update regularly, search engines will view your site as irrelevant over time and rank you lower.
Don't be overly concerned with the wordcount.
If you remember padding out university dissertations with overly rambling sentences just to achieve the 15,000 allotted word-count, do not worry about achieving a similar thing here.
Whether you've been recommended that a post should be at least 300 words long, or 500-1,000 words if your blog is new, try to resist padding it out with waffle.
Be as concise as possible. A reader would rather read a shorter article that gets to the point then a long-winded epic.
That being said, if you've written a 1,000 word masterpiece stuffed with fascinating, completely relevant and helpful content, where you've been as tightly controlled and clear with your text as possible, search engines will prefer this to one that's half the length on the same subject.
The likelihood of you being penalized for writing a 290 word post instead of keeping to the often recommended 300 word optimal length is very low.
However if you're struggling to fill a 300 word post, perhaps the subject you're writing about isn't quite suitable for you, or may require some more research.
Keep them as concise as possible, although not to the point of making them too obscure or meaningless. According to Moz, if you keep your titles under 55 characters, you can expect at least 95% of your titles to display properly in Google.
"A beginner's guide to SEO best practice for new WordPress bloggers" is descriptive and accurate. However, to benefit your readers and because search engines tend to give keywords at the beginning of a headline the most attention it might be best to rework it.
"SEO best practice: a beginner's guide" may be better as the most important words are at the front. 'Beginner's guide' remains as it's an accurate decription of the content, but then you also don't want to limit your audience.
I've excised 'WordPress' and 'bloggers' as these tips are universal in regards to most blogging platforms and content management systems. I've also removed 'new' as it duplicates the meaning of 'beginner's'.
It's quite a dry headline though. It doesn't have an emotive pull. By all means try the technique of mixing SEO with more emotionally responsive language...
"10 electrifying SEO tips that will charge your blog with awesome".
That's a terrible example, but hopefully you get the idea. However do be careful about following headline trends...
The standard Upworthy template 'When you watch this video of a man dancing with a camel you won't believe what happens next' or Uproxx's 'This woman from Mexico will change the way you think about drinking tequila' are very endemic of their respective publications.
They're also technically rubbish for SEO, but they're not designed to be found on search, the articles aren't meant to live forever, waiting to be discovered years from now. They're designed to be shared on social media. Each headline is very emotive, descriptive and long, but not too long so it won't fit in a tweet.
Which brings me to the next point...
Evergreen content
On the Econsultancy blog we are huge believers in evergreen content, as our editor often states "this has been a major factor in this blog's growth".
Evergreen content is that which is still interesting and relevant weeks, months or even years after its initial publish date. Unlike the examples I gave earlier.
It doesn't date like news can, it can deliver value in terms of traffic, leads, social shares and can occupy valuable search positions for a prolonged period of time.
Here is our editor Graham Charlton's article on 14 examples of evergreen content formats that work wonders.
Internal links
Linking to content within your own site is a great indicator to search engines that your site has value. Two or three good quality internal links to relevant content, using accurate anchor text, spread throughout the article is considered best practice.
These are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts. This is the link that you'll share when you wish to direct people towards that particular page.
You'll notice that when you write a headline in the 'Add New Post' section of your dashboard, a permalink will be automatically created underneath it.
This will automatically copy exactly what's written in the headline.
There are a couple of things you need to be mindful of here.
Make sure you have the Permalinks setting switched to 'Post name' in Settings>Permalinks. This will ensure a post's permalink automatically copies the text from the headline.
Do be careful as WordPress will automatically save what's written in the headline field as soon as you click anywhere else on the screen, whether you've finished writing the headline or not. Also WordPress won't automatically update the permalink if you change your mind on the headline.
Thankfully the permalink can be edited at any time. Just make sure you check it's correct before clicking publish.
It's not necessarily best practice to copy exactly what's in the headline directly to the permalink, even though this is done automatically.
Google has stated that it's best just to use three to four key words in your permalink, and that you should put the most important keywords first.
"10 electrifying SEO tips that will charge your blog with awesome" would benefit from a permalink that reads "SEO blog tips".
It's best to remove any numbers that form part of your headline from the permalink itself as these are considered valueless by search engines.
It's also good to remove 'stopwords' such as 'a', 'and' and 'the'.
Meta description
The meta description is the snippet of descriptive text that appears beneath the URL in SERPs, and will often be used when sharing the link on social media platforms such as Facebook.
Always remember to fill this section in. Depending on your theme, it will normally be found just below the main text entry box in 'Add new/edit post'.
You want this to be less than 156 characters long, with your keywords as near to the front as possible, but still make sense as a readable sentence.
Search engines will not raise you higher in the rankings because of the quality of the excerpt, but it will increase the likelihood that someone will click-through to your article based on how interesting, relevant or entertaining the excerpt is.
An important part of SEO is how you name and tag your images. With accurate tagging, you will increase the likelihood of your post being found through image searches.
Simply uploading an image and leaving the complicated file name as it is just isn't good enough.
The Title section gives the name of the image. This is for your benefit when searching your media library, so you'll want to use clear accurate keywords.
Alt Tags are necessary to describe the image's content. This is important for visitors with accessibility problems, and will also to help search engines index your content accurately. After all search engines cannot actually 'see' your images. Alt tags are used as a ranking factor by Google, so be as accurate as possible.
The Description section is where you want to describe your image in a slightly longer, more detailed way. This text can be displayed on the attachment page when a visitor clicks on the image.
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Categories and tags
Once you've finished writing your article, add it to a relevant category. Try to keep the category title as broad as possible.
Then comb through the post to pick out all the relevant keywords to add to the Tags section. These should be more detailed than the category.
Much like the excerpt, tags don't improve your chances of ranking higher in the SERPs. In fact if you overstuff your post with tags, whether they are related to the content or not, search engines may see this as manipulation and you may be penalised. Google and other search engines have stopped recognising keyword tags all together.
Categories and tags however make it easier for your visitors to navigate your site, and therefore improve its usability, tying together relevant content.
Approach tagging with caution. Be short, relevant and sparing just to be on the safe side.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
As I mentioned earlier, one plugin that will definitely help is Yoast's WordPress SEO.
Here you are reminded to set your focus keyword and meta description. As you can see it's telling me my headline is a little long.
Then it will give you a breakdown of what you've done correctly and what can be improved.
Again, installing this plugin doesn't mean your SEO efforts are all solved, but it will certainly give you a headstart.
Further reading for beginners
Comments (15)
Great post. I've found Wordpress one of the better platforms when it comes to SEO. Some of the plugins available are great too.
Great tips! I had been using Wordpress for quite a while now and love doing SEO. The SEO plugins make it much easier to manage the content, images and Meta tags.
Lots of great tips here. I just wish I could find time to update my blog once a day. I've set a goal of doing it once a week for the next 3 months and then I'm going to reevaluate to see if I can realistically increase that without taking time away from my clients. Figuring out what to write about is the hardest part.
On another note, as it has been mentioned previously, the plugin, YOAST SEO has been a godsend for me. It informs me of what I can do to improve a page/post. The Green, Yellow, Orange, Red color system was built for the average Joe Blow, but it has helped me improve my SEO techniquies. I love that plugin.
A great post. Informative and good read from start to finish. Really enjoyed reading it and I picked up some great tips. Thanks!
Some good tips I always feel people under value the use of images for seo , I'm finding a lot of traffic now comes from image searches
nice and informative post thanks for sharing and keep it up :)
Agree with you @ Christopher
With ever changing Google Algorithm its tough to manipulate the ranking, But as always creating evergreen content and internal linking is a great method to rank well. One of the method which I prefer is building social authority via social media sharing.
Wordpress is a beauty of simplicity, until its starts getting hacked. However it is a powerful CMS and probably had more money behind it than anything other CMS Globally.
A great informative post, very useful . Producing relevant and helpful content at a regular rate is a great method to improve search engine ranking. Thanks
Good One!
I use Yoast SEO as well. Love it. You mention internal links, I agree. I also use external links if they add value to the content.
Really its helpful for my word press website .Thanks to described in detail how to optimize word press blog with screen short images.some best plugin for wordpress SEO yoast ,all in one SEO wp filemanager ,wp smash etc... http://goo.gl/aBLiHR
Its Really helpful post Thanks for sharing i have been visting so many blog and reading so many things but this post is awesome also running this blog
WordPress is good for blogging. But extremely uncomfortable in use with e-commerce.
I was a WP fan and recommended it to anyone who asked me about good CMS for blogging but when it comes to sites like http://ratedwriting.com/ for example, I faced some difficulties and the best decision was to stop using WP and create admin panel with developer. Sure, it has awesome SEO plugins and settings.
I don't want to say that WP is awful. No, WP is surely good as a website platform with easy SEO opportunities but it depends on which type of site are you going to place here.
Great post there, I totally agree that plugins make it really easier to automate things. we at www.dilate.com.au also use social syndication plugin called SNAP http://www.nextscripts.com/social-networks-auto-poster-for-wordpress/
Its pretty good plugin for content syndication across the social networks. Also I'd recommend to use https://onlywire.com/ it makes sure that you post your content to 35+ social networks with just one click , how cool is that :)


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The Greystone Preparatory Academy is a college-level, academy preparatory program. If you are serious about re-application to a military service academy and searching for a college-level program where you can earn up to 38 college credits and is designed to meet your individual academic needs, look no further than Greystone.
Students should complete the undergraduate application, but should select "Greystone" as the student type on the very first question of the application. This will customize all questions to be Greystone-specific. Students will need to submit official transcripts and official ACT/SAT scores along with a resume and essay. Letters of recommendation are not required but encouraged. All materials can be sent to the Schreiner University Office of Admission. Once all documents are received, the Greystone Admission Committee will review and make an admission decision into the program.
Greystone students are only eligible for the Greystone Scholarship upon admission. Because Greystone students are not seeking a degree, they are not eligible for federal student aid (FAFSA) or VA benefits according to the federal government. We will be happy to assist families in payment plans options and private loan options. Students are also encouraged to look for outside scholarships.
The Greystone Scholarship is tuition specific.
The Greystone Scholarship for 2016-2017 is $6,474. Students who receive academy sponsorship will receive an additional $500. Academy sponsorship must be pursued and obtained by the student and their family.


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twentysomethings. But they haven't come to drink, or to watch the flat screen TV. The draw is Revolution Ministries, a church service."
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Bakker tells his followers to read their Bibles, not just to believe what a pastor tells them. "It's the greatest story never told," he jokes.
"The bar stays open during the service," reports Crowder, "and though the bartender is playing dominoes and taking phone calls, the worshippers don't seem to notice. A few non-worshipping regular customers drink in respectful silence.
Attendee Christie Lee, a 29-year-old social worker, says the whole point is "being in the presence of the Lord."
"The service's popularity," reports Crowder, "is an indicator of a growing trend in evangelical Christian worship: hipsters in bohemian fashions worshiping at clubs or bars, proudly breaking with their parents' traditional practices."
Pastor Bill Jenkins preaches at 9:30 a.m. every Sunday at the Loft Bar and Bistro in downtown San Jose, California. He told Brittany Smith at the Christian Post that he wants to create "a safe environment for a dangerous message."
The British native preaches at a bar, he says, because 92 percent of the local population is unchurched and a majority have rejected traditional forms of church. But they will attend his, which bills itself as "a community of faith with no religious rites, rituals or man-made rules to trip you up." His hour-long service doesn't follow much of an order of worship, reports Smith. "It's simple, with Jenkins preaching a short message and then breaking the 20 or so attendees into small groups to talk, and later return as a large group to discuss what they talked about.
"After the service, people stick around and have a drink at the bar. Jenkins said this is where the real ministry takes place. People want to talk about their faith and their doubts. He likens it to his experiences with local pubs back in England and says he wants to create an atmosphere like it in San Jose. The local pub is 'the hub of the community, where people feel comfortable.'"
Jenkins is an ordained Baptist pastor who later was ordained at one of San Jose's conservative, locally autonomous Christian churches. He says he doesn't want his congregation to become "another Christian country club."
"Across the country, faith is becoming bar talk," notes USA Today's Moloney. "The trend combines the traditional religious charge to go where the people are with the reality that a lot of them are in bars.
"Organizers include those from mainline churches, those building churches and bar owners and brewers. Some are trying to push the model nationally, taking an ageless yearning for meaning and purpose to places where people often go to try to wash their worries away.
In Glenpool, Oklahoma, "It is good to bring the Word to wherever God is, and God is everywhere, and people are everywhere, too," Joe Beene, owner of the Drunk Monkey Tavern told Moloney. Last year, Beene began live streaming Sunday morning services from nearby Tulsa's Celebration Church into his bar. "The people who come in here on Sunday mornings are people who want to hear the Word but won't go to church."
He got his idea, he says, from Jenkins in San Jose.
"Beene says six to eight people regularly listen and accept his free Sunday brunch, and he is talking to other bar owners to see if they'll stream the broadcast.
"I see a lot of people that come in here with issues, and they are trying to solve those issues or kill the pain with alcohol, which certainly works short term but not so much long term," Beene told Moloney. "I feel they need to hear what I have been hearing in this church."
"What is more important than where a church service is held is what message is being delivered?" asks Braun. "Are the people attending hearing the pure Gospel or a watered-down version? Is the entire Gospel of repentance, forgiveness of sins, and a call to pursue holiness and righteousness being taught?
"Or are we just telling people that Jesus accepts them right where they are at, with no need to repent and turn away from sin? What is preached is more important than where it is preached, in my opinion.
"When we seek compromise with secular culture, we lose, as our values are compromised. Reaching in to a culture that hates or ignores God is our calling as Christians, in hopes of reaching the lost. Finding the proper biblical balance of reaching out to the culture without compromising with it is the difficult challenge we face as the Body of Christ. Not an easy thing to do, but then Jesus never said it would be easy to follow Him."


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A total solution to help individual job seekers advance their careers
Feb 07, 2013, 05:20 EST
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ThinkOptimal announced today the launch of MyOptimalCareer, the industry's most comprehensive suite of tools to help individual job seekers market themselves and manage all phases of the modern job search. MyOptimalCareer delivers everything job seekers need in one package. It includes an InterviewCoach™ with webcam-based interview practice for more than 1,000 interview questions, advanced tools for building online portfolios, video resumes, and professional websites, an award-winning Resume Builder with industry-specific resume samples, and a Cover Letter Builder with sample letters for the most challenging job search situations.
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"In today's job market, candidates need more than great resumes and cover letters. All too often, they fail to realize that a resume is meant to get you an interview, not the job. Interviewing is where you make or break the deal, and the interview process has evolved into a multi-hurdle obstacle course with phone screenings, online interviews, and live, face-to-face meetings," noted Mark McNasby, ThinkOptimal's CEO. "This is where MyOptimalCareer gives the job candidate an edge. While our product creates quality resumes and cover letters quickly and easily, we go further. We prepare you for the crucial, all-decisive interview phase of the job search process. Our InterviewCoach™ is a powerful tool that allows job seekers to practice, record, review, and refine their interview skills. Our goal is not just to help you get your foot in the door. We want to help you land the job."
MyOptimalCareer's InterviewCoach™ comes with four interviewer personas, flexible controls to adjust the length and format of each interview, and the ability to select from a broad range of customizable interview scenarios. It provides four different recording formats including voice and video recording. You can self-critique or share the output with a friend or trusted advisor for more objective feedback. "Developed in collaboration with professional career coaches with decades of experience, InterviewCoach™ makes it easy to rehearse for job interviews in the privacy of your own home and interview with confidence when the time comes," explained Dave McNasby, ThinkOptimal's Chief Innovation Officer. "Every question is accompanied by expert coaching to help you formulate an appropriate response that reflects who you are and your unique story."
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ThinkOptimal is nationally recognized as a leading provider of online career services. Its flagship product, OptimalResume delivers innovative tools to leading educational institutions to assist them in preparing their students or career advancement. Selected as a Top Career Tool in the U.S. Department of Labor's Tools for America's Job Seekers Challenge, OptimalResume is installed at over 500 institutions and used by 1.5 million individuals. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, ThinkOptimal has quickly established itself as the leader in productivity applications for job seekers in the United States and Canada. For more information about MyOptimalCareer, please contact Dave McNasby at (877) 998-7654, or visit the company's website at MyOptimalCareer.
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Say what? Subway riders asked to give up seats for women in high heels
People riding South Korean subways are accustomed to seeing the priority seats reserved for seniors, children, pregnant women, and the disabled. However, a rider recently read the small print and noticed that even women wearing high heels are also allowed to use the priority seats.
When the above photo was posted online, the reaction was negative in general. Although it can be painful to wear high heels, especially after a long day, it doesn't seem to match the intent of the priority seats. Furthermore, it's been observed that a high percentage of South Korean women wear high heels. What's a man to do? Always give up his seat? A netizen commented that maybe men wearing high heels should be allowed priority seating too, to be fair and to avoid a battle of the sexes.
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The priority seats are seats specifically designated for senior citizens, young children, pregnant women, and the disabled or injured. South Korean riders in general do not sit in those seats. Many riders will also courteously give up their seats when they see someone from aforementioned categories not having a seat in a crowded train.
What do you think? Do you think it's fair to include high-heeled women in the priority seating categories? Comment below.


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Top 100 Libraries on Twitter (Video)
Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has been named to the list of "Top 100 Libraries to Follow on Twitter," along with other notable libraries and library systems in the U.S. and abroad.
MCPL is ranked in 48th place on the list that is topped by The Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. The highest ranked Maryland library system is the Enoch Pratt Free Library System in Baltimore City in fourth place. The other Maryland libraries on the list are the NIH Library in Bethesda (13th) and the Cecil County Public Library system (66th).
The listing was compiled by Matt Anderson, an academic librarian, library lover and currently a product manager at a major library software company.
Anderson explained that the list reflects "…active libraries that provide great content on Twitter. They are quick to respond to people's comments and questions, and their presence is felt around the Twitter library world. If you are trying to learn about what leading libraries are doing, check out the 100 Twitter handles."
See the list of 100 Libraries to Follow on Twitter.
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The Week of Champions will go on.
The organization, which provides a week of free sports clinics for area youth run with the help of former professional athletes, faced a winter of change after the 34th Week of Champions in June.
The yearly event, which has put thousands of local youths in contact with former professional athletes that teach, not only the game, but faith in God, has long been run solely on the backs of volunteers.
But longtime volunteers Gary and Wanda Weatherington, as well as Greg and Connie Brezina, stepped down last summer, leaving a leadership void and questions about the future of the organization.
Cary Corbitt, chairman of the Week of Champions board of directors, announced Tuesday that the organization had agreed to partner with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to continue providing area athletes the opportunity to grow athletically and spiritually.
"We've now structured Week of Champions so that it can move forward," Corbitt said. "I think this is the opportunity that makes the Week of Champions absolutely have a future, and a bright future. The individuals involved with FCA and with the Week of Champions board, we've all embraced this with open hearts and open arms."
Corbitt, who said he originally broached the idea with some organizers a year or so ago, did a lot of praying and meeting with others in search of a solution.
"It just seemed to be a natural fit," Corbitt said. "For so long, Gary and Wanda were running Week of Champions almost single-handedly."
Corbitt said organizers wouldn't consider continuing the program unless there was a mechanism to continue ministering to the youth. FCA was a logical choice since they also have programs that continue throughout the year.
The FCA has hired Chuck Workman as a part-time staff member. In addition to leading its local camp ministries, Workman, a registered nurse and the youth director at First Baptist Church Hilton Head Island, will be the director for Week of Champions.
"The goal of FCA is to see the world impacted by Jesus Christ and that's what we'll continue to structure (Week of Champions) around," Workman said. "It's been a tremendous honor to get to know Gary and Wanda Weatherington. Just to be a part of the ministry they created 34 years ago will be a fantastic experience."
Corbitt has no doubts Workman is the right guy for the job.
"I spent 45 minutes with him and I was convinced that this was an opportunity for the Week of Champions to positively move forward in a wonderful, wonderful direction."
Corbitt and Workman both said there will be restructuring within the Week of Champions, but it will be a process over time and neither is sure exactly what the change will be.
But Corbitt, who has already spoken with all of the athletes who took part last year, knows one thing that will stay the same.
"We will offer camps that are free of charge to the kids," Corbitt said. "That is paramount to what we want to do. That won't change."
Workman and his wife, Tara, have been spending time with the Weatheringtons, soaking up all they can as they move forward. Corbitt said the Weatheringtons will be "as involved as they want," though he feels it will likely be on the periphery.
"Week of Champions would not be where it was if not for them," Corbitt said.
Workman realizes the hard work it has taken to keep the Week of Champions running for 34 years.
"It's truly a relational success, not just with Jesus Christ, but with friends, outreaching across the United States," Workman said. "Athletes have already started emailing their support. It's because of the relationships that Gary and Wanda had and because we're serving who we do."
This year's Week of Champions will be held June 17-21.


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In 2003, the White Sox and U.S. Cellular forged a partnership, allowing for dramatic renovations to the stadium in the next several years. Several renovations, including a new video board in center field and a "fan deck," were made prior to the 2003 season. Formerly known as Comiskey Park, U.S. Cellular Field opened April 18, 1991, and was the first new sports facility built in Chicago since Chicago Stadium in 1929. The ballpark features a 53-foot-wide, by 28-foot-tall video screen. The park has been used in many commercials and several movies, including "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Major League II." The playing field is composed of bluegrass sod, with three different blends of grass. The infield consists of dirt transported from the original park.
The Cell may play second fiddle to that ballpark on the North Side of town, but it's got a lot going for it. There're some pretty good eats, the famous exploding scoreboard and a hearty and underappreciated fan base. The team took eight rows off the much-criticized upper deck, but it's still too steep and high. For more on the U.S. Cellular Field experience, including a game-day itinerary, visit Wise Guides.
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