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June 18, 2012
Sonic Announces Timeline to Eliminate Suppliers' Pig Crates
The HSUS applauds chain's efforts against cruel crates
Sonic Corp. (NASDAQ: SONC), the nation's largest chain of drive-in restaurants, announced plans to phase in a pork supply chain free of gestation crates.
These controversial cages, used to confine breeding pigs, have come under fire in recent years due to animal welfare concerns.
"Sonic is actively working to eliminate gestation crates from its pork supply chain, and intends to reach that goal no later than 2022, although is working toward 2017, the timeframe several large pork producers have set to be fully-transitioned to group housing," states Sonic on the company's website.
"Sonic will continue to favor suppliers that raise hogs in a gestation crate-free environment in addition to suppliers that can provide audit and tracking reports for sourcing crate-free pork."
The Humane Society of the United States supports Sonic's progress.
"Sonic has consistently shown that it takes animal welfare seriously," said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The HSUS. "We look forward to working with the company to bring about a gestation crate-free future for its products."
In the pork industry, the vast majority of breeding pigs are confined day and night during their four-month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals' bodies, preventing them from even turning around. They are then placed into another crate to give birth, are re-impregnated, and put back into a gestation crate. This happens pregnancy after pregnancy for their entire lives, adding up to years of virtual immobilization.
- Since February, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Cracker Barrel, and Denny's have announced that they will eliminate gestation crates from their supply chains, as have Kroger and Safeway, the nation's top two supermarket chains, and Compass Group, the world's largest food service company.
- Leading pork producers Smithfield and Hormel have pledged to end the use of gestation crates at their company-owned facilities by 2017, and Cargill is already 50 percent crate-free.
- Eight U.S. states have passed laws to ban the practice and Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have bills pending that would do the same.
- Renowned animal welfare scientist and advisor to the pork industry Dr. Temple Grandin is clear on this issue: "Confining an animal for most of its life in a box in which it is not able to turn around does not provide a decent life." Grandin further states, "We've got to treat animals right, and the gestation stalls have got to go."
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RAHWAY — Rahway High School student Eva Jean was this year's winner of the Pedro J. Rodriquez High School scholarship, a $1,500 award sponsored by the NJ Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and NJ Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL/NJBE). This award is given to the author of the best essay written by a high school senior in the state by an English Language Learner who has been enrolled in a New Jersey English as a Second Language (ESL) program.
Jean took ESL classes for her first three years at the high school and is now in a mainstream English class. She was recognized at the NJTESOL/NJBE Annual Spring Conference award ceremony at the Hyatt Hotel, New Brunswick. Her Rahway ESL teacher, Diana Lagattuta, who is extremely elated to have had a student win this prize, was thrilled to accompany her and her family to this event.
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NZ0737 : Wolsingham Methodist Church, Front Street
taken 7 years ago, near to Wolsingham, County Durham, Great Britain
Wolsingham is a small market town in County Durham situated where the Waskerley Beck joins the River Wear. It styles itself as the 'Gateway to Weardale'. It is an interesting and friendly place, bustling with life, but with many old and interesting buildings. It now serves a predominantly agricultural community but once had a thriving and important steel works.
My descriptions have been aided by the local book: Wolsingham: Gateway to Weardale by Elaine Ridley, Margaret Shepheard and Vivien Welsh (ISBN 0 953074 97 B)
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Methodism in Weardale :: NY9038
Weardale is noted for almost 400 years of Christian religious dissent or nonconformity.
The 'Old Dissent' of the mid-C17th which saw the rise of Baptists Link and Quakers or Society of Friends Link had little lasting influence on upper Weardale.
The 'New Dissent' of the mid-C18th though had a huge following. John Wesley, who remained an Anglican clergyman, and his followers, preached widely in the dale after 1740 and set up a strong Methodist movement among the working people. Large Wesleyan Chapels were built in many centres along the valley. Those in authority largely stayed with the Anglican Church but noted the peaceful and crime-free nature of the religious people.
In the early 1800s Primitive Methodists, popularly known as 'Ranters', revitalised the movement among the working class. Preaching was often in the open air but large chapels were also built, often co-existing in the villages with the existing Wesleyan Chapels, which had more of a genteel following.
By the end of the C19th, both strands of Methodism were in decline, along with the end of the lead industry and population movement out of Weardale. The two groups re-united in 1932 usually agreeing to keep just one of the two chapels in each village.
Taken from The Archaeology and Architecture of Weardale by Caroline Hardie and Niall Hammond. The Weardale Society (2007).
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Valparaiso at Bowling Green - Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 1 p.m. CST
The Matchup: Valparaiso (15-14) takes one last breather from Horizon League action on Saturday as the Crusaders travel to the east to face off against Bowling Green State University (13-12). Valpo, which has won nine of its last 12 games, would secure at least a .500 overall mark for the season with a victory.
Last Time Out: Freshman guard Matt Kenney scored a career-best 27 points off the bench Wednesday, leading a 52-point night from Valparaiso's reserves as the Crusaders led by as many as 20 in an 84-73 win over Loyola at the ARC. With the win, the Crusaders secured a first-round home game in the Horizon League Championship. Kenney, who had previously set his career high in points last time out at Youngstown State with 15, rolled right past that mark with over 14 minutes to play en route to his 27 points. The freshman connected on 9-of-13 shots from the field, including 3-of-5 from behind the arc, and hit 6-of-7 from the foul line on the night. Kenney was just one of three reserves for Valpo who finished the night in double figures, however, as junior Howard Little scored 15 points and freshman Ryan Broekhoff added ten of his own.
Series History: The Crusaders and Falcons have met just seven times in program history, with BGSU owning victories in all seven previous meetings. However, the two squads have not faced off in over three decades, with the last meeting a 60-59 Bowling Green win in Valparaiso at Hilltop Gym on Dec. 17, 1979.
Following the Crusaders: As always, Saturday's game can be heard live on the Valpo Sports Radio Network (WAKE, 1500 AM, Valparaiso; WEFM, 95.9 FM, Michigan City; WLPR, 89.1 FM, Lowell). Veteran broadcaster Todd Ickow returns for his 19th season on play-by-play for the Crusaders, while the voice of Valpo basketball on Lakeshore Public Television, Dick Harlan, fills in on color commentary. Links for the VSRN audio and live statistics can be found at www.valpoathletics.com.
Crusaders In the BracketBuster Pool: This year marks Valparaiso's sixth as part of the ESPN BracketBusters event pool. Valpo has been selected to participate in the actual BracketBusters event just once (2008 vs. Miami [Ohio]) and is 3-2 overall in games arranged from the BracketBuster pool and 2-3 in the following return games.
2/19/05 at Butler - L 72-69 (11/29/06 - L 60-47)
2/18/06 Niagara - W 88-82 (11/18/06 - W 70-58)
2/17/07 at Western Michigan - L 89-80 [ot] ( 11/28/07 - W 77-65)
2/23/08 Miami [Ohio] - W 99-94 [2ot] {ESPN Classic} (12/13/08 - L 62-50)
2/21/09 Akron - W 74-66 (12/27/09 - L 77-57)
The HL Race: While Saturday is a step away from league play, the jockeying for position in the Horizon League standings is still forefront on everyone's mind. Wednesday's win secured no worse than a fifth-place tie for the Crusaders and locked up a home game in the first round of the HL Championship on Tuesday, March 2. While Valpo still can finish tied for second, it cannot earn the two seed and are guaranteed to earn a seed between third and sixth. The Crusaders, whose ten league wins are their highest total since joining the Horizon prior to the 2007-08 season, will enter the final week of league play just one-half game out of third place.
Dramatic Endings: Valpo has consistently given its fans their money's worth this year with 40 exciting minutes of basketball. In league play, 13 of the Crusaders' 17 games have been decided by single digits. And of the 13 single-digit games the Crusaders have contested in league play, nine of those games have been within one possession in the final 15 seconds, including six of Valpo's last eight games.
Offense Produces: The Crusader offense has continued to be the key to the team's resurgence in the win/loss column these past few weeks. Valpo, which boasts the top scoring offense in the Horizon League at 73.2 PPG, has now scored 70 or more points in each of its last nine games and 11 of the last 12 outings after failing to reach the plateau in its first five league games.
Individual Scoring Performances: Matt Kenney scored 27 points Wednesday against Loyola, becoming the fifth different Crusader to put up at least 20 in a game this season. Valpo has combined for 24 individual 20+ scoring performances, led by 11 from Brandon Wood. Cory Johnson has reached 20 points on seven occasions, while Brandon McPherson has dropped 20 or more four times and Ryan Broekhoff added one game of 20 points.
What a Difference a Year Makes: Just one year ago, the Crusaders closed the year at 9-22 overall and 5-13 in HL play. This year, however, Valpo has turned things around. The Crusaders already own 15 wins this year, including ten league victories. With a win Saturday, Valpo would clinch at least a .500 record this year.
Tough Start...: With the Crusaders above the .500 mark , it's worth noting the struggles Valpo faced early on this season. The Crusaders took on four teams ranked in the nation's top-25, all on the road, within the first nine games of the season, part of a stretch that saw Valpo play 10 of its first 13 games away from home. In addition, Valpo came into the year with the second-least experienced team in the league (based on Ken Pomeroy's Experience statistic) and features three freshmen and two sophomores within the regular rotation.
...Turns Into Solid Season: After starting the season just 3-6 and then 6-11, Valpo has already recovered to above .500 at 15-14. Likewise, the Crusaders started the Horizon League slate 1-4 and now sit at 10-7 in league action. The Crusaders averaged just 70.5 PPG in the opening 6-11 stretch, but are up to 77.0 PPG in the last 12 games. Over this most recent stretch, Valpo is holding its opponents to lower efficiency from the floor (42.5% FG; 46.7% over first 17 games), is getting to the foul line nearly as often (1.9 fewer FTA/game; 6.7 fewer/game over first 17 games) and has owned the boards (+1.2 rebounding margin; -2.0 over first 17 games).
Kenney On a Roll: Freshman guard Matt Kenney has had easily the two best games of his Crusader career the last two times out. At Youngstown St. last Saturday, Kenney registered 15 points, including six straight in the final minute to put Valpo in the lead, eight rebounds and five steals off the bench, while also handing out five assists and committing just one turnover. Then last time out against Loyola, he one-upped himself, smashing his career high with 27 points on 9-of-13 shooting. He also chipped in six rebounds, three assists and two steals.
McPherson Back on Track: Fifth-year senior guard Brandon McPherson became the 29th player in Crusader basketball history to reach the 1,000 point milestone with a leaner from the baseline midway through the first half in the victory over Cleveland State Jan. 16. After failing to reach double figures in the seven-game stretch from Concordia through Wright State, McPherson hit double figures in each of the next ten games before failing to reach the mark at Youngstown State and against Loyola. But he still has helped lead the Crusader offense, handing out eight assists without a turnover against the Penguins and six assists most recently in the win over the Ramblers.
One of Valpo's Best: McPherson is also moving up a number of the Crusader career charts. Heading into the Bowling Green game, he is just one game shy of matching and two away from passing Raitis Grafs for the Valpo career games played record. McPherson is also seventh all-time in 3-point percentage (41.9%), eighth in 3-pointers made (157) and 11th in assists (303). At 1,139 points, he is also just 43 points shy of Valpo's all-time top 20 in points scored.
Wood Leads the Way: Redshirt sophomore guard Brandon Wood has proven to be among the most prolific scorers the Crusaders have seen in their D-I history, scoring 30 or more points twice already to join Bryce Drew and Dan Oppland as the only players in the last 15 years to score 30 multiple times in a career, including a Valpo D-I record 39 at Georgia Southern earlier this year. Wood, who currently paces the Horizon League with 18.2 points/game and also ranks among the league's best in all three shooting categories, also has reached at least 20 points on nine other occasions. Most recently, he put up double figures for the 12th straight game, scoring all ten of his points in the second half in Wednesday's win over Loyola.
Johnson Showcases His Versatility: Redshirt junior forward Cory Johnson has made himself known as one of the league's premier post threats, one of just two league players that rank in the top-ten in both scoring and rebounding. But Johnson has stepped out behind the arc over the last month and showcased his shooting ability, as after going 0-of-4 over the season's first 15 games from downtown, he is 16-of-27 from deep over the last 14 contests. None of his triples were bigger than his third one on Jan. 31 at Green Bay, which gave Valpo the lead for good in the win and capped a 20-point day. Johnson, who averages 15.1 PPG, scored 11 last time out in the win over Loyola, his 25th double-digit performance of the year.
Quickly: Junior Howard Little matched his season high against Loyola with 15 points, his second straight double-digit performance and ninth of the season ... freshman Ryan Broekhoff reached double figures for the seventh time this year with ten points on Wednesday ... Valpo, which leads the league at 47.3% from the field this year, hit 50% against Loyola, its 13th time this year hitting at least half its shots from the floor ... the Crusader bench combined for 52 points Wednesday, it's highest total since putting up 55 against IU-South Bend on Nov. 28, 2005.


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Monday, 5 September 2016
Marriage - When It's Not A Fairytale
I feel lied to.
Lied to by glossy magazines that talk about this, 'Newly Wedded Bliss' and smug married folk that post Facebook statuses about how perfect being married is - whilst doing that arm wraparound thing with champagne flutes and sporting horrendously cheesy smiles that make your insides want to die a little bit.
When I was a child, I desperately wanted a fairytale wedding. I would play dress up with my bespoke, 'bath towel' gown and whisper my vows to Quackers (My first true, soft toy love.)
Fast forward 20 years and the 'fairytale' wedding has been and gone, and I say fairytale in inverted commas because whilst yes, it was a dream-come-true wedding, it was also stressful as hell and I wanted to punch my new husband in the face when he ditched me at the top table to go and speak to his mates.
Anyway, all I heard in the run up to and after the wedding was how wonderful it is to be a newlywed.
"Enjoy the honeymoon period while it lasts!"
Apparently we were living some of the best moments of our relationship. We'd spend any hours that we weren't in the bedroom, staring lovingly into each other's eyes and wondering what life was ever like before we said the big, "I do."
In reality, I'm still losing my mind over the 368596 pairs of shoes that are left in the hallway every day and we've bickered about eating grapes.
There have been moments where the thought of spending an eternity with my husband has driven me to gulp down a large
bottle of wine and pray that I didn't make a huge mistake. Granted, these are few and far between, but I'd be lying if I said that these moments hadn't happened.
So, on our very first wedding anniversary, I wanted to say that marriage isn't a fairytale. Signing on the dotted line doesn't guarantee you any additional happiness nor fix any existing problems that you may have in your relationship. There will probably be days where you can barely stand to look at one another, let alone get jiggy with it, and you'll worry that one day you'll lose the spark.
I love my husband - in far more ways than I ever thought was possible, but I knew that before I decided to marry him. I don't know why I thought that being married would change things, or why I ever felt that it needed to? We were happy before we married and we're just as happy, if not more afterwards, so the fact that I let myself get tangled up in how un-magical our marriage was is ridiculous.
The first year of our marriage hasn't been perfect. It's been moving across continents, extending our family by one small Shih Tzu and arguing over hanging a piece of artwork. It's been dealing with loss and concerns with work, but most importantly, it's been about being in all of these things together. I know this is the biggest of all cliches, (you may want to grab that bucket) but my husband is, above all else, my best friend. I've never been looking for perfect, perfect is boring. I just hope that we keep on loving each other through every unmemorable year and every dull married moment to come.
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UCSD Surgeon Uses Unique 3-D Tools During Brain Surgery
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
A medical specialist at UC San Diego is a pioneer in using a groundbreaking collection of 3-D imaging technology to guide his tools during brain surgery.
Brain surgery is a team sport.
And for this operation at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, Dr. Clark Chen has 10 people on his side.
But one of the most crucial players isn't a doctor, nurse or technician — it's the MRI machine.
Chen will rely on this machine and some special software to guide him every step of the way through this delicate procedure.
In the weeks leading up to the surgery, Chen used state-of-the-art imaging tools to help devise his plan of attack on the brain tumor.
Now it's show time.
The patient, 52-year-old Michelle Carpinelli, has been put under anesthesia and a small hole has been drilled in her skull. Special instruments are mounted on her head to make sure Chen stays on the right path.
"This is exactly where we made the incision," Chen said, pointing to the computer monitor. "And in fact what we can also see, is to see this in three dimensions, looking at the MRIs superimposed onto the tumor."
With conventional surgery, the neurosurgeon calculates where he's supposed to be in the brain, and the equipment guides him there, but he doesn't know precisely where he is.
In contrast, the 3-D brain scans help Chen get to the right spot with sub-millimeter accuracy.
"With real-time MRI, you could actually see the needle physically in the tumor, which is not something that is doable with conventional surgery," Chen pointed out.
Chen inserts the biopsy needle into Carpinelli's brain.
Scans show he's right on target. Chen extracts a couple of samples from the tumor.
"Send that to path, please. Take one more for permanent."
"We're getting two specimens, and we sent them now for pathology analysis," Chen explained. "And now we're getting the scan to make sure at the site of the biopsy, that no harm is done."
A few minutes later, the pathologist calls. He tells Chen the first sample was inconclusive for cancer.
"But you may want to consider getting us a second piece for permanent," the pathologist said.
"Well, we're smack in the center of it, based on the MRI," Chen replied. "So take a look at the second one and see."
"OK," the pathologist replies. "We'll let you know."
The second sample also comes back as inconclusive. So Chen goes back in the operating room and extracts other pieces of the tumor for the pathologist.
These samples eventually confirm what Chen suspected all along: The tumor is malignant.
Now it's time to destroy it.
But first, Chen tests a flexible laser probe to make sure it's working properly.
Then he slowly inserts it into Carpinelli's brain.
"I feel now a very firm area," Chen said. "I know that's the tumor. And I'm now inserting the probe into the tumor."
This is a critical moment. Chen and his team do another brain scan to confirm that the laser is in exactly the right spot.
It's all systems go.
From the control room, Chen fires up the laser with a foot pedal.
Using what's called MRI thermography, Chen monitors the temperature within the tumor.
Chen carefully controls the laser, to make sure it's not heating up other parts of the brain adjacent to the tumor.
After about five minutes, Chen gives the word.
"OK," he said, smiling. "I think we're good."
A final scan tells the tale.
"So at the end of the surgery, we were able to visualize whether there's any harm related to the surgery, which there isn't," Chen explained, outside of the operating room. "And we're also able to visualize that we've destroyed the entire tumor."
The team wheels Carpinelli out of the operating room, and begins to wake her up.
"Can you wiggle your toes, dear? Good," a nurse said.
"Michelle, you're awesome. Good job!" another nurse chimed in.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about the surgery, is Carpinelli will get to go home the next day.
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Beach & Pool Promotional ItemsFamilies will enjoy summertime activities more with classic beach and pool toys like pail and shove sets, snorkel masks and protective gear to keep belongings safe in or near the water.
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It took place on October 16th, 1992, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, commemorating Dylan's 30 years in the music business. The date has no known significance, and in fact it was almost Dylan's 31st anniversary by the time the concert took place.
Dylan was signed to Columbia Records on September 29th, 1961. His first record was made in November of '61 and released in March 1962. In October of 1962, Dylan was in the process of making his second record, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
It is unclear whether the tribute was Dylan's own idea or a creation of Columbia Records. In any event, an all-star lineup of classic rock and country performers was assembled, as well as a crack backing band consisting of Steve Cropper and G.E. Smith (who was briefly Dylan's lead guitarist before becoming the musical director on Saturday Night Live.) on guitars, Duck Dunn on bass, Booker T. on keyboards, and Jim Keltner on drums.
The performances on-record are a mixed bag. Neil Young, Lou Reed, Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson, Richie Havens and Ron Wood all delivered impassioned performances. Tom Petty, with the Heartbreakers, at least seemed to be having fun. Eric Clapton and especially John Mellencamp delivered listless performances, and unfortunately, Mellencamp opened the show with a downright butchering of "Like A Rolling Stone". Dylan himself performed several songs, alone on acoustic guitar, and joined in on the two closing tracks, an excellent version of "My Back Pages" done with two of the Wilburys, Petty and George Harrison along with Young, Clapton, and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, which was followed by "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", performed by everyone.
The most interesting moment of the concert (nicknamed "Bobfest" by Neil Young) was the performance of Sinead O'Connor, which was edited out of the released CD. O'Connor had only two weeks before made her infamous appearance on Saturday Night Live, where she had ripped up a picture of the Pope. Apparently Dylan's fans are not as liberal-minded about social protest as one might think, because O'Connor was greeted with a forceful chorus of boos. At which point she abandoned her intended song and gave an a capella recitation of Bob Marley's "War", before departing the stage to an even greater chorus of boos. In my own opinion, O'Connor's performance was a welcome breath of fresh air from the bloated, self-congratulatory atmosphere at Bobfest, but I understand myself to be in the minority on this one.
The video was originally done as a pay-per-view simulcast, but was available on PBS within a few days of the concert, where it seemed to play about once a week for the next two years.
Understand, this is hardly a Bob Dylan record at all. It is an uneven collection of covers from artists far further past their prime than Dylan.
The playlist:
1. Like A Rolling Stone--John Mellencamp
2. Leopardskin Pillbox Hat--John Mellencamp
3. Blowin' in the Wind--Stevie Wonder
4. Boots of Spanish Leather--Nanci Griffith and Carolyn Hester--not on official release
5. Gotta Serve Somebody--Booker T. and the MG's--not on official release
6. Foot of Pride--Lou Reed
7. Masters of War--Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready (of Pearl Jam)
8. The Times They Are A-Changin'--Tracy Chapman
9. It Ain't Me Babe--Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
10. What Was It You Wanted--Willie Nelson
11. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight--Kris Kristofferson
12. Highway 61 Revisited--Johnny Winter
13. Seven Days--Ron Wood
14. Just Like A Woman--Richie Havens
15. When The Ship Comes In--The Clancy Brothers
16. War--Sinead O'Connor--not on official release
17. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues--Neil Young
18. All Along The Watchtower--Neil Young
19. I Shall Be Released--Chrissie Hynde (of The Pretenders)
20. Love Minus Zero/No Limit--Eric Clapton--not on official release
21. Don't Think Twice It's All Right--Eric Clapton
22. Emotionally Yours--The O'Jays
23. When I Paint My Masterpiece--The Band
24. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere--Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Roseanne Cash, and Shawn Colvin
25. Absolutely Sweet Marie--George Harrison
26. License To Kill--Tom Petty
27. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35--Tom Petty
28. Mr. Tambourine Man--Roger McGuinn (of The Byrds)
29. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)--Bob Dylan
30. My Back Pages--Dylan, Young, Clapton, McGuinn, Petty, and Harrison
31. Knockin' on Heaven's Door--Everyone
32. Girl of the North Country--Bob Dylan
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--Dylan also performed "Song To Woody", and John Hammond Jr. performed "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", but neither appears on the legal and semi-legal copies I have of this performance, so I cannot place them accurately on the set list.
--Al Kooper appears on the John Mellencamp songs. He played the organ part on the original 1965 version of "Like A Rolling Stone".
--Dylan had a brief career as a session harmonica player before signing with Columbia. One of the records he played on was by Carolyn Hester. Another was Harry Belafonte.
--For best results, start the video or CD on Lou Reed's "Foot of Pride" and take it from there.
--Kris Kristofferson was the studio janitor during the recording of Blonde On Blonde in Nashville in 1966.
--The Band had only three original members at this point, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm.
--Van Morrison and Elvis Costello were supposed to show up but didn't.
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We are looking to make our own "custom" Christmas card this year. It should depict a living room environment as illustrated in the attachment. Please use the attachment as the layout and include all elements from the example. I drew the example myself and would like to have it make more beautiful, professional and digital. Please include all the elements which have been drawn in the picture but feel free to correct dimensions, and create a more detailed bathroom, kitchen etc. Colors to be used are: as base color please use blue RGB 0,68,168. Green RGB 0,192,0, should be the second most used color and then light grey RGB 106,106,106 and dark grey RGB 32,32,32 for accents etc. Of course white as background. Please use the green and blue the most.
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|This article is about a/an dub voice actor in the Power Rangers franchise.
Kōji Yusa (遊佐 浩二 Yusa Kōji) is a Japanese voice actor born in Osaka Prefecture and raised in Kyoto Prefecture.
He is best known for his roles as Gin Ichimaru (Bleach) and Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic series).
In the Kamen Rider Series, he is best known for voicing Urataros in Kamen Rider Den-O, a role which he reprised in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen. He has also had several roles in the Japanese dubs of Power Rangers series.
Super Sentai roles
Power Rangers dubbing roles
- Power Rangers Turbo - Elgar, Phantom Ranger
- Power Rangers in Space - Elgar, Phantom Ranger, Psycho Blue, Crocotoxes
- Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy - Chameliac, Psycho Blue
- Power Rangers S.P.D. - Katana
- Power Rangers Samurai - Jayden Shiba[1]
External Links
For his work other than in Tokusatsu, you can visit one of these websites:
- Kōji Yusa at Wikipedia.
- Kōji Yusa at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Kōji Yusa at the Kamen Rider Wiki


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The Ghosts of the Orphanage
Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn't make it out alive.
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Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn't make it out alive.
Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.
"If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word."
The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican's 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.
The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.
Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.
A profile of Pope Francis.
An interview with Pope Francis.
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?
John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom Deluise. He likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and allegedly treats them to trips in the Florida Keys. He was, until recently, part owner of a company that makes "all natural" boner-inducing beverages. He's also the Archbishop Emeritus of Miami.
An investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Philadelphia.
"He truly is the Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world. He did more psychological and physical damage to children than anyone else. And what makes it worse is that the Jesuits knew about it, and did nothing."
An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.


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Lawson Hang Out With Katherine Jenkins And Conor Maynard At V Festival 2012
21 August 2012, 11:57 | Updated: 21 August 2012, 12:27
The 'Taking Over Me' four-piece were spotted celebrating the event in style over the weekend.
Lawson were pictured hanging out with the likes of Katherine Jenkins and Conor Maynard during the weekend's V Festival 2012.
The 'When She Was Mine' stars performed across the two day event, held across Chelmsford and Weston Park, and were pictured celebrating their debut at the festival with opera singer Katherine and 'Can't Say No' star Conor.
"Hope everyone enjoyed V Festival this wknd!" Singer Andy Brown tweeted after the weekend. "Defo one of the best weekends I've had in a while! Thanks to everyone who came to watch our set!"
Check out a picture of Lawson hanging out with Katherine Jenkins at V Festival 2012 below (Credit: Getty):
Bassist Ryan Fletcher also posted a picture of him and guitarist Joel Peat getting to meet up with 19 year-old pop singer Conor Maynard, who is currently promoting his debut solo album 'Contrast'.
"Conor Maynard is now the meat in a Jyan sandwich," Ryan posted. "What a legend love this guy!"
View a picture of Lawson's Ryan Fletcher and Joel Peat with 'Contrast' star Conor Maynard below (Credit: Twitter):
Earlier today singer Andy posted a tweet hinting that the band will announced big news about their upcoming debut album tomorrow (22nd August), simply writing: "Details about the album coming soon. So excited. #LawsonAlbumReveal."
Lawson are set to embark on a brand new UK tour this autumn, called 'The Hometowns Tour', across each of their hometowns before wrapping with a show in London.
Lawson's first tour date is at the O2 Academy in Liverpool on 31st October.


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Terps freshman cornerback Will Likely has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Co-Rookie of the Week.
Likely returned a punt 63 yards for a touchdown in Saturday's 27-24 overtime win at Virginia Tech. It was Maryland's first punt return for a score since Tony Logan returned one 84 yards for a score against Duke on Oct. 2, 2010.
Likely finished the game with 179 all-purpose yards (106 on punt returns and 73 on kickoff return yards). Defensively, he made three tackles and also broke up a pass.
He shares this week's rookie honors with North Carolina freshman Ryan Switzer,, who returned two punts for touchdowns in the Tar Heels' 34-27 win at Pitt.
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Philly Ciclismo brought their squad, and their coach, Colin Sandberg from Cadence Cycling, to the Lost River Barn for some good old fashion miles (to be perhaps modernly plugged in and analyzed), as well as some team building drills and planning sessions.
The timing was good. While MABRA was running the Jefferson Cup the PA calendar was quiet and the boys had Battenkill on their minds. Dirt was specified and I knew where to find it.
Day one was a teaser but no joke. A late afternoon arrival gave them enough time to do an around the mountain loop with two big climbs including the steep hard pack ascent back to the barn.
I skipped this one. I had lumber to haul, gravel to shovel and wood to chop. For real. Not just some macho move even though it is, but these things had to happen. A stack of fresh live random width rough cut pine had been dropped in front of the barn that morning. 3000 board feet soon to be walls and floors in the upper section.


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Facebook is teaming up with Nielsen to track what type of TV shows you watch.
Nielsen and Facebook will work together to get an idea of people's TV watching habits on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Names won't be associated with the TV tracking, which is set to start this Fall when new seasons and shows begin airing, reports Digital Trends.
The data being collected by Facebook and Nielsen will give the latter a good idea of what is being watched on mobile devices. The social media giant is helping with the collection of data, but because it's all going to be anonymous, it won't know specific users taste in TV shows. This mean that ad targeting won't be affected by the data, Digital Trends notes.
"The world is shifting radically, and so we had to evolve our measurement so that we could capture all of this fragmented viewing," Cheryl Idell, an executive vice president at Nielsen, told The Los Angeles Times.


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"Modern Love" Is a Vampire and It Needs a Stake Driven Through the Place Where Its Heart Would Be
The "Modern Love" column in the Sunday New York Times is a moral sewer. It is a place where people who otherwise have nothing to write about are encouraged to turn their most private business (or, just as often, other people's most private business) into a cheap first-person diversion.
, though, sinks lower than the usual selling out of an ex or airing of secret family tensions. It starts off like any other one in the Stella Getting Her Groove Back subgenre, the middle-aged writer lady telling about how she found hot sex with a younger man (a
in "Modern Love"): writer Leah Hanes is checking out "mostly male twentysomethings from Brooklyn" at an Obama event. Hanes had been depressed, she writes. And then—
It was all too much; I felt I'd lost everything. The shock of my only child's sudden death 19 months earlier at age 6 had worn off, the distractions I'd used to keep the full horror at bay finally gone. And while the losses that followed — my 17-year marriage, our "dream house," my job, several friends — were comparatively minor, collectively it was devastating. Our two cats must have agreed, as they both died, too.
Some things can be turned into framing boilerplate. The death of one's child is not one of those things. Hanes deserves absolution for this; one thing I have learned since becoming a parent is that the very idea of losing a child is unimaginably horrifying. It is the worst thing that can happen, and it is unfair to judge someone else for writing about it one way or another.
The editor, on the other hand—the editor who gets a writer to bury her child in a subordinate clause, who treats it as a piece of stage business to be gotten out of the way en route to a story of "rolling around half-naked on his building's roof," of feeling like "the lioness returning victorious from the hunt"—the editor is a monster.


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After the Massacre, Norway Reexamines Its Values and Fears
Not long ago, I received a letter from Norway's minister of education. She told me to be calm, honest, and to "listen to my child's thoughts." The letter was sent by way of the preschool where my 1-year-old daughter is about to start. In gentle tones, the minister advised me on "how to talk with the smallest ones" about what recently befell us.
Throughout my life, calamity in Norway has been weather-related. An oil rig tipped over in the '80s; a ferry sank in the '90s; rivers flooded valleys; tempests hurled people into the sea.
On the eve of July 22, we were cautioned to clean our drains and gutters—heavy rain was expected, and so, dutifully, we cleared our eaves of leaves and pine needles. But what we thought was the clap of thunder was instead a Volkswagen van exploding in downtown Oslo, outside the entrance to the prime minister's office.
"So it has finally come to us," we told each other. After all, we have troops in Afghanistan; we've dropped bombs over Libya, and we've printed the so-called Muhammad cartoons. But this wasn't Al Qaeda or Al-Shabab. This was a homegrown monster—a blond young man from a privileged background who, I realized, had lived a few blocks away. We shopped in the same streets, belonged to the same gym, and shared the same parish church.
High on drugs and dressed as a policeman, Anders Behring Breivik drove west from the ruins of downtown Oslo, arriving at the island of Utøya, where the youth wing of the Labor Party had gathered for its annual summer camp. The Youth League had fought for more liberal policies on immigration, and Breivik considered them among "The Traitors." His final goal was to cleanse Europe of Islam; Muslims, he believed, should convert, be deported, or face death.
Once on the island, he began assassinating the young politicians in cold blood, shouting "Hurray!" "Bull's-eye!" or "Got you!" as he slew his victims, most of them teenagers. Breivik hoped that his actions would inspire others. In a 1,500-page manifesto that was later discovered, he claimed that The War must start by targeting The Traitors. "When a pipe in your bathroom springs a leak and the water is flooding, what do you do? You go to the source, you don't mop up until you have fixed the actual leak. Our regime is the leak, the Muslims the water."
The attacks, which cost the lives of 77 people, sent shock waves through Norway. The beloved King Harald V cried openly on TV, telling an audience, "Freedom will conquer fear." But for weeks, there was room only for mourning. A national poem, oft-recited during this time, summed it up. "We are so few in this country/Every fallen is a brother or friend."
"The attack was a wake-up call," Karoline Bank, a political-science student who was among the survivors, told me after the massacre. "It's like, wow, we actually have to defend our democracy. Someone wants to destroy it. We took it for granted, never thought it was something we had to fight for. Friends of mine who were never interested in politics suddenly want to participate."
The attack came as political parties were preparing for local elections, which are scheduled for Sept. 12. But rather than feed into overheated barnstorming rhetoric or prompt electoral grandstanding among the candidates, political campaigning was instead suspended, with parties carefully considering the tone of their election material. The Youth League of the Conservative Party, for example, withdrew its "Better Dead Than Red" election flier.
Clearly, Norwegians headed for the polls are going to ask themselves, what kind of society do they want to live in? For some, the attack may have changed their answer. But both sides of the political spectrum believe that an important battle for Norway's soul has just begun. "I want these elections to have a record-high attendance," says Bank, who lost 26 friends in the attack. "This is not the time for indifference."
Siv Jensen, leader of the anti-immigrant Progressive Party, for one, was clearly annoyed by the wave of sympathy floating leftward. When I went to see her at her parliamentary office, neither her tan, sun-bleached hair nor her bright violet dress could hide her irritation. "Everything was there for the Labor Party to have a tough time in this election—then this massacre happened," she said, bemoaning that Breivik, a member of her party until 2006, has been such a spoiler. (Breivik posted more than a hundred comments on the website for the Progressive Party's youth chapter, and several of the party's leading figures remembered him from social and political events.)
Immigration, integration, and Islamization were Breivik's three evils. But not his alone. A poll earlier this year showed that one in two Norwegians wanted to halt all immigration—a sentiment that has fueled the political fortunes of the Progressive Party, which currently holds 41 of 169 seats in Parliament. More than half of those polled expressed belief that the integration had failed, and more than eight out of 10 believed immigrants themselves were to blame.
What has given rise to Norway's increasing xenophobia is somewhat of a puzzle. There has been no Islamic terror in Norway—a picture that also fits the rest of increasingly immigrant-skeptic Europe. Europol, the European organization for police cooperation, recently presented its yearly report on terrorism. The findings? Of 249 terror acts committed within the European Union's boundaries last year, only three attacks could be attributed to Islamist groups.
In sheer numbers, Norway has few immigrants—and less than 4 percent of the population identify themselves as Muslim. Still, certain areas have become dominated by nonnative Norwegians, and the media has focused on the fact that there is a higher instance of violence and crime committed by immigrants. According to Norwegian police, all rapes committed on the streets of Oslo last year were committed by immigrants, and there are more immigrants than Norwegians among the prison population.
"Covert, creeping Islamization" an expression coined by Jensen, has been at the center of the debate for the last two years. But the powerful party boss now worries that Breivik's massacre will lead to political correctness in Norway. "I fear that the debate will be less open, that opinions will be repressed," she says. Paradoxically, she was the only politician to shut down her party's website after the attacks—"a pause in the debate," she called it. Her critics, though, pointed out the venomous nature of the comments posted: "Let's hope the victims are pro-immigrant socialists" was one comment posted before it was closed down.
Marte Michelet, a leading newspaper columnist for the Dagbladet daily, lives in a central Oslo neighborhood known as Grønland, where shop signs in Urdu and Arabic proliferate and ethnic Norwegian children are a minority in the primary school. Michelet, who is seven months pregnant, now and again reaches out for her fiancé's hand, as if to convince herself—yet again—that he's actually there. On July 22, her Iranian-born fiancé, Ali Esbati, who works for the left-wing think tank Manifest, was giving a lecture at Utøya on the extreme political right in Scandinavia; he was well into his speech when the heart of Oslo was struck by Breivik's bomb. For hours afterward, she didn't know Esbati's whereabouts as his phone went dead in the waters off the island. At some point during Breivik's killing spree, Esbati came face to face with the killer. Esbati turned and ran into the water, expecting to feel the pain of being shot in the back. But the bullets missed him. When he turned, he saw the corpse of the girl who had been standing beside him. "Finally, people realize that Islamophobia exists," says Esbati on this afternoon. "There is a hope that we now see the contours of a new we—not just us and them."
Michelet herself has received several threats over the years. She's been called a traitor and told that her "hour of reckoning" will soon arrive. The threats frightened her, but until the July attack, she didn't really think they were real. Now she is acutely aware of those in "the Islamophobic subculture" who express a desire for a violent confrontation. "The anti-immigration discourse has hardened over the last 10 years," she says. "This is not just a Norwegian phenomenon, but is happening all over Europe ... And now we also have Breivik, our first contra-jihadist terrorist."
One of the last pieces that Michelet wrote before the attack was titled "When It All Becomes Personal" and described her concern about the xenophobic society her first child would be born into. But she has since become more hopeful and senses a new feeling of togetherness. "Many have experienced the reaction to the terror as one huge 'group hug.' Members of ethnic minorities have felt a new kind of safety and sense of belonging," she says. "Seeing the prime minister surrounded by Somali men lowering a coffin into the ground sends a strong signal: these Norwegians might not hate us after all."
On the other side of town, in a quiet brasserie near the Royal Garden, the thought of some collective "group hug" inspires revulsion in Hans Rustad, the founder of the rightwing site, document.no. Breivik, who came to the group's meetings, often posted comments on the site.
"I remember him well," says Rustad, who is all dressed in white. "He was a talker, he spoke long and loudly—mainly bluster." Other attendees describe Breivik as "a focused note taker."
Rustad, for his part, is dismayed by official Norway's reaction to the attacks. "Meeting terror with roses and love ..." he says, bitingly. "Crown Prince Haakon announced that the streets of Oslo were filled with love. What is this? Woodstock? Flower Power? Feel my pain! We go through the same pile of victims' stories over and over again. How many memorial ceremonies can we handle?" He knocks his glass of water onto the table, when I mention the debate over what has been described as covert Islamization. "It is not even covert! There are demands for prayer calls, no pork in kindergartens, nurses in veils, halal meals in prisons, and Muslims in elderly homes demanding to be ritually washed five times a day. It's all in the open!"
Like Breivik, he is concerned about Norway losing its Christian identity. "The deputy police chief of Oslo called Breivik a Christian fundamentalist. That policeman is pissing on his own God," Rustad says, hotly. "A witch hunt against dissenting opinions has started. Hatred is bound to explode if people can't speak out against this utopia of multiculturalism." On whether he somehow helped create Breivik's mindset, he adds without prompting: "No, I don't want to play the game of mea culpa."
A few days later, in a house near the brasserie, a father clears the dining table while his wife and son continue their conversation. The father empties the dishwasher, carefully placing clean dishes in appropriate cupboards, and then covers the remains of the meal with cling wrap. "Just leave the rest to me," his wife says, amicably, as she gets up. Her husband is the prime minister of Norway. In the days after the attack that destroyed his regular office, his staff—some still wearing bloodied clothes and bandages—convened here at his private residence, turning it into emergency government headquarters, covering coffee tables with laptops, files, and phones.
"We will meet this attack with more democracy, more openness, more humanity," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in the hours after the attack, signaling that he wasn't interested in revenge and wouldn't allow the massacre to be used to settle scores—real or perceived.
Stoltenberg knew several of the victims personally. He had met them at party meetings and enjoyed following the budding politicians. On the evening of July 22, Stoltenberg went to the place where the unharmed, the wounded, and the dead were brought over from the island. Some parents were reunited with their children, others not. "I was with parents whose child did not come on the first bus, not on the second, nor the ones after," he says, taking a breath. "Then there were no more buses. Everybody gathered around the next hope—the lists that came in from the hospitals." He still remembers the expression of relief in the faces of parents when they heard "Your child is severely injured" because it meant that at least they weren't dead. "Late at night, a couple I know well was still waiting for their 14-year-old daughter. In the end, only one unconscious patient remained unidentified at a small, local hospital ... When a scar on her neck was described, my friend's wife knew it was their daughter. I embraced her and said, 'That's great.' As I pronounced the words, I looked into the eyes of a mother right next to me. Her last hope was gone. Those eyes. It was the antechamber of Hell."
Until 2008, Stoltenberg and his wife, Ingrid, lived, like others in their position before them, in their regular home. Jens, as he is known among the Norwegians, commuted to Parliament by bike or tram and was without security on weekends and holidays. The gray van carrying the bomb could drive right up to the entrance of the government offices, as they are never cordoned off from the public. When I ask him what may change as a result of the attacks in terms of police security, Stoltenberg allows that new security measures may be unveiled. Already, police budgets have been increased. "But let us not forget, we are still among the safest countries in the world," he says, adding that people should recall that, although much attention has been dedicated to the threat of terror done in the name of Islam, "all political violence in Norway so far has been executed by far-right groups and loonies."
So what awaits Norway in the coming years? What kind of society will Norwegians live in? The prime minister is, true to form, hopeful. "Something good can grow from the experience of evil, a desire to show compassion. Community and friendship get a deeper meaning. The understanding of multiculturalism has been strengthened; the faith in Norway's values has been strengthened," he says. "I think more young people will commit themselves—not just by carrying roses in the street, but at the voting booths. Oppressing opinions is dangerous; we need to accept that there are extreme views out there, too. They cannot be silenced to death, but debated to death."


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FRANKLIN, TN - Nissan North America Inc. announced U.S. pricing for the 2011 Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, which becomes available for purchase or lease at Nissan dealers in select markets in December and nationwide in 2011.
Nissan will begin taking consumer reservations for the Nissan LEAF April 20. Since the Leaf will be fully eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit, the consumer's after-tax net value of the vehicle will be $25,280, Nissan said.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the 2011 all-electric, zero-emission Nissan Leaf is $32,780, which includes three years of roadside assistance. Additionally, there is an array of state and local incentives that may further defray the costs -- such as a $5,000 statewide tax rebate in California, a $5,000 tax credit in Georgia, a $1,500 tax credit in Oregon.
Nissan will also offer a monthly lease payment beginning at $349, not including state or local incentives, which could further reduce the net cost of the Nissan Leaf.
"Imagine the possibility of never needing to go to a gas station again. Or of paying less than $3 for 100 miles behind the wheel. Or of creating zero emissions while driving," said Brian Carolin, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Nissan North America.
The vehicle at the SV trim level has a variety of standard features, including an advanced navigation system and Internet/smart phone connectivity to the vehicle, enabling pre-heat/pre-cool and charging control.
The Nissan Leaf is equipped with energy-efficient LED headlights and makes extensive use of recycled and recyclable materials, such as seat fabric, instrument panel materials, and front- and rear-bumper fascias, Nissan said. Other standard amenities include Bluetooth connectivity, intelligent-key with push button start, Sirius/XM satellite radio capabilities and roadside assistance.
Safety features include vehicle dynamic control (stability control), traction control and six airbags. The SL trim level, available for an additional $940 (MSRP), adds features including rearview monitor, solar panel spoiler, fog lights and automatic headlights.
Nissan begins accepting reservations on April 20 -- first from people who have signed up on NissanUSA.com and, after a brief introductory period, to all interested consumers.
Consumers will be required to pay a $99 reservation fee, which is fully refundable. Reserving a Nissan Leaf ensures consumers a place in line when Nissan begins taking firm orders in August, as well as access to upcoming Nissan Leaf events. Rollout to select markets begins in December, with nationwide availability in 2011.
In tandem with the purchase process, Nissan will offer personal charging docks, which operate on a 220-volt supply, as well as their installation. The home-charging stations will be built and installed by AeroVironment. The average cost for the charging dock plus installation will be $2,200.
The charging dock and installation are eligible for a 50-percent federal tax credit up to $2,000. Using current national electricity averages, the Leaf will cost less than $3 to fill up.
Nissan Leaf also will be the sole vehicle available as part of the EV Project, which is led by EV infrastructure provider eTec, a division of ECOtality, and will provide free home-charging stations and installation for up to 4,700 Nissan Leaf owners in those markets.


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As the marketing power of social media grows, it no longer makes sense to treat it by observing from the sidelines. In less than a decade, social media, in many ways, seems to have "taken over the world." This statement is not exaggerated. As one of the largest social networking sites in the social media universe, Facebook boasted more than 750 million people actively using its service. After all, if Facebook users constituted a country, it would be the world's third largest and will soon grow twice as large as the population of the United States. We know that both B2C and B2B businesses use social media as part of their marketing strategy. Companies certainly know what social media is and its ability to amplify word-of-mouth effects.
Yet the vast majority of executives have no idea how to harness social media's power. Companies diligently establish Twitter feeds and branded Facebook pages, but few have a deep understanding of exactly how social media interacts with consumers to expand product and brand recognition, drive sales and profitability, and engender loyalty.
Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. Pinterest. Myspace. Google Plus. LinkedIn. YouTube. Vine. Foursquare. Tumblr. and much more. There are more than 400 unique social networking sites currently active across the globe, hosting trillions of conversations and billions of gigabytes of data. Over the past few years, small businesses have begun to harness the power of these networks to talk about their brand, engage customers, drive leads and even ramp up sales. But there are a few hard-and-fast rules that business owners should adhere to if they want to avoid going from social hero to hapless zero.
Social media is here to stay when it comes to marketing. Most businesses use it for brand exposure and increasing website traffic. Often overlooked is the power of social media for lead generation. Some businesses get it and others don't.
What you need to know to make it work for you.
The key word describing the difference between Social Media and conventional communications is
engagement. The premise of Social Media is a dynamic, interactive conversation between you, and your customers. This interactivity is at the core of both the benefits and the risks of Social Media. There is no 'one-size fits all' solution to implementing a successful Social Media strategy. As such, this article focuses on providing executives with ideas, challenges, and guidelines on how to use Social Media to advance the mission of their organization. No matter what industry your business is in, social media can enhance your sales, marketing and public relations efforts.
- The 5 Levels of Social Media Engagement
Level 1: Observing – watching the conversation from a far & simply "lurking" to decide if it's interesting/valuable enough to join.
Level 2: Following – following the brand in some way, i.e. following on Twitter or Liking on Facebook.
Level 4: Endorsing – actively sharing your content with others, i.e. retweeting, sharing via Facebook, etc.
Level 3: Engaging – interacting in a limited fashion, such as clicking through to read your content, viewing a video, or Liking a wall post.
Level 5: Contributing – actively participating in the conversation and interacting with your brand, i.e. tweeting to your brand, posting on your Facebook wall, or commenting on a blog post.
What social media engagement represents is a two-way dialogue between brands and customers. The primary rule of engagement is: If you want to increase engagement, be engaged. Like most people, social media users don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. Start by giving before you expect to receive.
The rapid evolution of digital, mobile and social technologies has propelled the financial industry into an era of transformative agility and adaptability.
Consumers expect highly personalized products and services, delivered in real time. Instant gratification means no more waiting in long lines, no more trudging through shopping malls, no more cash purchases. Even tangible goods are fading into services delivered thru social platforms.
Peter Drucker was right when he said, "The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer". This is the goal of every business: to create and keep customers. This principle survives Digital. Digital helps you keep this focus by giving you more ways to know your customer better.
Digital is second nature to Millennials and plays a significant part in their lives. They believe new technology makes life easier and brings people closer together. Millennials are mobile. They are hyper-connected and always on. Based on their love of all things Digital, Millennials are introducing a whole new value system to the marketplace.


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About Anthony Chung
Tell me about your journey to real estate.
I started my journey into real estate in 2007 learning the in and outs of the business in a small brokerage in the East Bay, and became a licensed agent in 2009. Since then, I have had the opportunity to represent numerous buyers, sellers, investors, and have successfully completed multiple renovation projects throughout the Bay Area.
What are three words your clients would use to describe you?
Honesty – I am up front and paint the picture for clients early in the process. I treat each transaction as if I am selling a home to a family member. This is not a business about selling the most homes, it's about putting the right families into the right homes at the right times, and building strong relationships.
Responsive – I respond to calls/texts/emails, 7 days a week from the early morning hours and into the late night hours.
Detailed – I do my research and provide my clients with all current information. If I do not have the answer, I will get the answers in a timely manner.
What most excites you about your work?
The opportunity to be my own boss and to have the entire San Francisco Bay Area as my playground. Most importantly, the ability to make a dream come true for my clients, whether it is the opportunity of home ownership or maximizing the sale of their property.
Where can we find you when you're not working?
You can find me in local volunteer activities or community events. Such as, homeless shelters: St. Vincent de Paul, St. Vincent, Glide. Lately, I have started to switch gears, focusing more on helping our youth. I have gotten more involved with Elementary and Middle Schools and helping to grow the Sequoia Foundation.
What would be impossible for you to give up?
My integrity and ethical obligations as a Realtor. Honest purchase and sales has been my goal since I became a licensed Realtor. It's not about the money or the numbers sold. It about connecting the dreams and building lasting relationships.
What is your favorite hobby?
Ever since I was a child, I've been really hands-on. I've always enjoyed building sheds and bonding with my father over working on our house.
What is your dream vacation?
My dream vacation is to tour Asia, because the furthest I've ever been out of San Francisco is New York, and I would like the opportunity to leave the country.
What magical power would you want to have?
The ability to fly--there is nothing more freeing!
What is the strangest activity on your bucket list?
I want to try exotic food such as insects and bugs.
Anthony is a very patient person. As a first time home buyer, I had a ton of questions. He responded to requests and inquiries within minutes and always with clarity. He asked all the right questions to help us decide if the house we were looking at was right for us. It took us almost a year to decide on what to buy, but Anthony was there to assist us the entire time. I highly recommend him in your search for a home!
Peter S., Buyer
Having worked with multiple real estate agents, I could say that Anthony is the best real estate agent I've ever worked with. He's quick to respond, easy to work with, and makes the entire process very smooth. He was able to offer realistic purchase prices. I was ready to offer more money than was necessary for certain properties and Anthony told me what was reasonable and what was not. Anthony was able to get us a house under the appraisal value and under what I was initially planning to offer. I'll be recommending Anthony to all my friends, and will continue to work with Anthony if I need to buy or sell a property.
Peter C., Buyer
Anthony is a very good communicator, knowledgeable, and honest. Anthony came to the house on his own time to help resolve some issues that the buyers had to clear the contingencies. Anthony helped prep the home and did some housework to help with the sale of the home.
Michael L., Seller
I really appreciate it that I have had my agents Anthony Chung and Khurel Bud. They negotiated the best value of my San Francisco place and sealed the deal in two weeks, after I took the place back from the market since my previous agent couldn't sell it at a much lower price for three months. It's the highest sold home of the same size in the high-rise. They also upgraded and staged the place without having me involved at all, and they helped me moving after the closing. I really appreciate their wonderful skills and thoughtful service, and I would certainly recommend them to anyone who's looking for selling or buying a home.
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MAYBE, just maybe, if Carrie Bradshaw, the dynamo at the center of the phenomenally successful television series "Sex and the City," were still in her 20s and just starting her ascent into New York life in 2008, maybe, just maybe, she would be like Julia Allison, who this evening is sitting leggily astride a leather ottoman in Houston's, a bar in the Flatiron District.
Ms. Allison is chattering animatedly about her popular relationship blog and about the consequences of sharing the details of one's intimate life on the Web.
More on this later, but in summary: It can really stink.
Ms. Allison, who is 27, came to New York soon out of Georgetown University four years ago. Along with many of her peers, she was drawn in part by HBO's comic but near-anthropological chronicle of the living and mating habits of a certain set of New York's single women.
Ms. Allison knows the adventures and misadventures of Carrie & Company by heart, and she uses them as something of a road map for her own life.
She frequents sleek and buzzworthy bars with her girlfriends. She has danced at Bungalow 8, the celebrity-rich club in West Chelsea. She has devoured cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery, and she can sprint in five-inch heels. And, of course, she has written publicly about relationships, both for Time Out New York and on a blog of her own, among other places, with all that entails.Continue reading the main story
Ms. Allison has taken her devotion to "Sex and the City" further than most. She dated a onetime boyfriend of Candace Bushnell, whose column in The New York Observer inspired the television series. For the British version of the magazine Marie Claire, Ms. Allison analyzed how her life compares to the lives lived in the series.
"If Carrie Bradshaw were coming to New York today," Ms. Allison says with no hint of self-consciousness, "she would be me."
Ms. Allison may be extreme. But she is hardly alone.
It has been a decade since "Sex and the City" arrived on television, yet the adventures of Carrie and her pals continue to enthrall. This spring, even as Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of the series, turns 43, the "Sex and the City" movie will make it to the big screen. Although the film won't officially arrive in theaters until May 30, Carrie fever is running so high that the publicity campaign began almost the moment plans for the movie were announced.
Yet young women coming to New York these days in search of Mr. Big, or at least the perfect Cosmopolitan, are finding that money and technology have altered the urban paradise that Carrie inhabited.
The city has become such an expensive playground that much of what Carrie and her friends took for granted — a Manhattan apartment, taxis for any trip longer than a half-dozen blocks, dinner at the newest four-star restaurants — is no longer easily in reach of a young woman on a budget, much less a young woman on a writer's budget.
Apartment prices in the stratosphere, for example, never really made it to television. Carrie's apartment, a one-bedroom rent-controlled walk-up in an Upper East Side brownstone, was hardly palatial, but these days it would be a Holy Grail in the world of singles real estate. According to the Real Estate Board of New York, the average rental for a one-bedroom apartment in a nondoorman building on the Upper East Side has jumped to $2,448 this year from $1,542 in 1998. It's no wonder the singles scene has long since decamped to Brooklyn, a borough that even Miranda, who was compelled to move there in the series' final season four years ago, found beneath her.
Perhaps even more significant has been the transforming role of the Internet, a phenomenon that barely registered with the "Sex and the City" women.
The women on the show had cellphones, but they were mostly decorative. Except for the time Carrie Googled her Russian, verbs like texting, blogging and Googling — activities at the heart of many love lives these days —never crossed their lips.
In one episode, Carrie does debate whether it is proper etiquette to contact an old boyfriend by e-mail; on another occasion, a boyfriend dumps her by leaving a Post-it on her computer. Ms. Allison, by contrast, may be best known for her online breakup earlier this year with a boyfriend with whom she once shared a blog, jakobandjulia.com, where they would tell readers details of their life together. Hundreds commented, both on their blog and elsewhere, as the relationship dissolved through a series of nasty posts. Soon afterward, her ex appeared, seminaked, on the blog of a woman they both knew.
Asked how it feels to end a relationship in public like that, Ms. Allison nods her lovely head and gazes into the distance. "People were preying on my pain," she says, her voice not quite cracking. "It was hell."
HBO promoted Carrie Bradshaw as a modern, even revolutionary character. And in many ways the mid-30s women in the series were what modern young women could aspire to be: professionally successful, sexy and supported by a stable of close friends.
Still, it was certain familiar and vulnerable qualities that made her so accessible and helped her attract a devoted audience.
She was a variation on a timeless literary character, the young female making her way in the big city, on her own financially and forced to rely her wits. She hungered for a piece of the extravagance that is New York at its most luxurious and arrogant: access to A-list parties, designer dresses, shoes adorned with feathers, restaurants so trendy that the maître d' is allowed to be rude. And she was attracted to men who could help her achieve this life.
Almost a century earlier, Edith Wharton mined much of the same material in her 1905 novel "The House of Mirth" through the misadventures of her doomed protagonist, Lily Bart. Lily, who is born to the margins of New York society, tries to leverage her great beauty to acquire a rich husband, but a series of errors in judgment keep her from sealing the deal.
In one memorable scene, Lily appears in a tableau vivant of a famous Joshua Reynolds portrait. The event represents a victory for Lily, but it backfires because her figure can be glimpsed though the gauzy gown she wears, and she is ostracized socially after arousing the interest of the husband of a woman on whose patronage she relies.
Being slapped back while reaching for the gold ring occurred over and over in "Sex and the City"; think of the episode in which Carrie agrees to be a celebrity model for a fashion show and ends up tripping and falling face down to become, as her friend Stanford puts it, "fashion roadkill."
Ms. Bushnell, who has cited Wharton as an inspiration, is aware of the parallels. New York, she points out, has always been a destination for strivers and survivors. Even in the 1970s and early '80s, when rents were cheap and it cost her $100 a month to share a two-bedroom on East 49th Street with four other people, paying her bills was always a struggle.
And the elbowing for social position was just as acute.
"A lot of young women want to be a member of a certain tribe," Ms. Bushnell said in a recent interview. "Young women really do believe that if they have the right shoes, handbag and hairstyle, it is going to fix your life."
Still, Ms. Bushnell is struck by how every little misstep has been magnified by the pervasiveness of the Internet. "It was acceptable then to be quirky and outrageous," she said. "Now one has the feeling that everyone wants to be a little like everyone else. And if you are different, you will be attacked on a blog."
Alyssa Shelasky, another New Yorker who tried to follow in Carrie's footsteps, discovered just how fast one's fortunes could rise and fall on the Web two summers ago, when she was asked by Glamour magazine to write a blog about finding love again after a particularly heart-rending breakup.
The blog made it tougher.
"Men were freaked out by it," Ms. Shelasky said the other day over coffee and a brownie at City Bakery on 18th Street.
With long, soft brown hair framing her open face, Ms. Shelasky has a down-to-earth, girl-next-door quality. But it is hard to be the girl next door when you've also been the girl about town on the Internet.
"Within five minutes on the computer," she said, "men could find out everything I had done the night before and the night before, and that this guy did this and it really turned me on."
In many respects, Ms. Shelasky is Carrie rewritten for the Internet age. "If I didn't like a guy or never called him back," she recalled, "a few childish men in particular would use the blog to retaliate.
"They would be like, 'This is Sneakers Guy, we made out, and she was like this,' " she said. "And I was like, 'Wait, this is my blog, and I get to decide how much of me we discuss.' "
These days, the Sneakers Guys get equal time, which is partly why last summer Ms. Shelasky took a job writing for People magazine. She says she revels in being a more anonymous figure, and she thinks that even Carrie Bradshaw might be stunned by this brave new world.
"There was something so pure, feminine and old-fashioned about her being a single, emotional woman writing her words down," Ms. Shelasky said of the Sarah Jessica Parker character. "She had friends and life and shopping, and the column was just a part of her life. When you become a dating blogger, it is like signing up for this whole new universe."
As the author of both a blog and articles for Time Out New York, Ms. Allison may be among the best-known sex columnists of her generation, yet unlike Carrie, she has trouble earning her living that way. Her basic income, which she says is in the six figures, comes largely from her job as an editor-at-large for the gossip tabloid The Star, for which her prime activity is not editing or writing but appearing as an expert on celebrities on cable television shows.
Ms. Allison lives alone in a small studio in Hell's Kitchen "the size of my toenail," as she puts it. Most of her peers, especially those without roommates or help from parents, have long since left for Brooklyn and Queens.
Pink drinks and dinner at four-star restaurants are still attainable; attractive New York women still figure out ways to get their names on lists for high-profile events and to get men to pay for such things. But paying the rent and also buying Manolos, now $600 a pair, is out of the question, says Ms. Allison, who totters around in far less pricey Steve Maddens.
As for the Web, Ms. Allison has aggressively promoted herself online, once posing in her underwear for the media gossip site Gawker.com, among other publicity stunts. (Apparently that slinky dress Carrie wore when she posed for the poster on the side of the bus advertising her column wouldn't quite go far enough.)
But technology frequently bites back.
Carrie once searched the apartment of a man she slept with, after he had gone to work. In Ms. Allison's world, pretty much everyone is a compulsive Googler. And if, like her, you are a frequent subject of celebrity-obsessed blogs like Gawker, that might be a problem, because Gawker, while willing to obsess over high-profile figures like Ms. Allison, can't help adding snarky and even vicious commentary.
She realized this recently after three promising first dates abruptly called it quits. In an e-mail message, Ms. Allison acknowledged that her chosen profession may have permanently ruined her social life. "With Google," she wrote, "what's done is done. And archived. And indexed."
As a result, Ms. Allison said a few days ago, she is on a hiatus from blogging, and when she returns she hopes to address a broader range of issues, which she describes as "personal growth." Her model, she adds, is Oprah Winfrey rather than Carrie Bradshaw.
Still, she soldiers on.
In February she gave herself a 27th-birthday party, an intricately orchestrated affair at Paris Commune Red, a basement bar in the West Village, complete with rose petals and candles on the stairway. The women wore outfits that would make any "Sex and the City" costume designer proud. As each entered the room, she wiggled for a camera held by a reporter for Gawker who was covering the event, and named the designer of her outfit. It was a re-creation of the red carpet, writ small. Really small.
Ms. Allison sees such efforts as evidence of her commitment to keep reaching for the gold ring, no matter how many times she is slapped back.
"It is sad that people think you have to choose between being intelligent, serious and thoughtful, or you get to be shallow and frivolous and enjoy beauty and fashion," she says. "I think you should be able to make a living doing something that really appeals to you without being judged."Continue reading the main story


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Milwaukee reported 92 homicides in 2012 compared to 87 in 2011, a 6% increase. 1 For the 5th straight year, there were fewer than 100 homicides in the City of Milwaukee. The 2012 total represents a 43% decline in homicides compared to 1990, a 31% decrease since 2000, a 12% decrease in the past decade, and an 11% decrease since 2007.
"The data shows that what we're doing to address violence has had a positive impact, but the slow-motion mass-murders playing out on the streets of cities across America must be part of the larger conversation on reducing gun violence," said Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn.
Many cities with comparable demographics and poverty to Milwaukee saw significant increases in homicide in 2012. Despite being the fourth poorest city among these comparables, Milwaukee's homicide rate is less than half that of Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Detroit and Newark, and is lower than that of Cleveland, Memphis, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Cincinnati.
"Although important to offer context when discussing homicide, we must remember that each number represents a human life lost," said Chief Flynn. "The men and women of the Milwaukee Police Department are committed to reducing violence in our community and helping to create neighborhoods capable of sustaining civic life."
The attached data sheets provided by the Milwaukee Police Department Office of Management, Analysis and Planning, offer greater detail and analysis of homicide data from Milwaukee and comparable cities.
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1 Homicide as defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) standards. http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/handbook/ucrhandbook04.pdf