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Bangor, Maine Officer Rob Angelo dove in to save troubled woman, who jumped from 40 feet
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BANGOR, Maine — Officer Rob Angelo didn't have time to think about the temperature of the water before he shed his Kevlar vest and utility belt and waded into the Penobscot River early Monday evening.
Moments earlier, a woman had jumped from the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge, which looms 40 feet above. She was in the middle of the river, flailing, asking for help.
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Norfolk where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. Hilary (c.1110-1169) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester,.
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How To Quickly Install LigHTTPD, MySQL and PHP5 On Ubuntu
There is nothing better for web development that having your own local web server to test your web pages on before uploading them to a live server. As a Linux user, I have many choices including Apache2 and Lighttpd. I chose to use the latter of the two, because it is more lightweight and I do not need any of the fancy features offered by Apache2. Of course, a good web server is not the only application a web developer needs. a MySQL database and PHP5 support are almost always required. This whole setup is usually referred to as LLMP (Linux, Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP) and there is already an excellent tutorial that guides one through installation on Ubuntu. However it includes too much detail, and many people (including me) that already know what they need, and just want to know the commands to install everything. So I decided to compress the tutorial into one short blog post.
Execute the following commands as root (access can be gained through sudo /bin/bash)
aptitude install lighttpd mysql-client mysql-server php5-mysql php5-cgi phpmyadmin
lighty-enable-mod fastcgi userdir
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
/etc/init.d/mysql start
That is it, you now have a fully functional web development environment (well, not including the editor) right on your Ubuntu installation. You can access your webpage through http://localhost or http://localhost/~user for contents of user's public_html file. Also phpMyAdmin, a great web based manger for MySQL databases is accessible through http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Another useful thing is to enable access to your web server only from your own computer. To do this, open the /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file using the following command:
sudo gedit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
And uncomment the line that says:
server.bind = "localhost"
You uncomment the line by removing the # symbol that is at the beginning of it. After you are done, the line should look like above. Make sure to restart the lighttpd server for the changes to take effect using the following command:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
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jorel314 / Oct 8 2009
Thanks! Installation was painless using your instructions.
Reader1 / May 12 2010
Dude! Your blog is infected with some kind of fake-antivirus script.. Please fix it. And thanks for the tutorial 😉
rewrite / Jun 24 2010
Right. That was quick and easy. I already had lighttpd, php and mysql installed. But I have to give it to you, this is the best and fastest tutorial I've seen. Most children nowadays have you toying with php's .ini files and lighttpd .conf files, and don't know what they're doing, other than making things complicated and slow. But after I saw this, you should go around posting this everywhere. Good job.
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To get mine working (ubuntu 10.04), I had to edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and add
"/phpmyadmin/" => "/usr/share/phpmyadmin/"
to alias.url at the bottom of the config file, then "sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload" and restart the server "sudo service lighttpd restart"


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CIDCO officials arrested for accepting Rs 50K bribe
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) yesterday arrested two CIDCO officials while they were accepting bribe of Rs 50,000 from a lawyer.
According to an ACB official, advocate Vandana Jadhav was trying to procure conveyance deed for her clients' building — Sri Ganesh Society in Ghansoli — since the past 18 months.
However, CIDCO Estate Officer Sanjeev Dhole (45), and Office Assistant Sunanda Gaikwad (51), demanded Rs 1 lakh from her to issue the same. After much negotiation, a deal was struck for Rs 50,000. "We had set a trap and nabbed them red-handed," said Ujwal Vaidya, police inspector, ACB, Thane.


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From KNBC of December 12, 2007
Woman Who Shot Intruder 3 Times Talks To KNBC
A female homeowner who shot a male intruder in her back yard in October 2006 spoke to KNBC's Laurel Erickson on Wednesday, one day after a jury found the man guilty of all charges.
Nadine Teter shot Michael Lugo twice in the stomach and once in the leg after he broke into her Canyon Country home.
Lugo broke the lock on Teter's door and barged in. She fled to the back yard with her gun, according to police.
"He was coming at me. He was yelling. I shot him to stop him," Teter said. "He went down. He got back up. Came back at me. I shot him again. I shot him again, and he turned around and jumped back over the fence. (He) disappeared."
Teter testified against Lugo and his mother, Cynthia Brandon, who drove the getaway car during the Oct. 18, 2006, attack. Both were convicted Tuesday.
While Teter talked to law enforcement that night, Brandon flagged down a deputy heading to Teter. She told him her son was bleeding to death.
"It was terrifying, absolutely terrifying," Teter said.
"Did you have any second thoughts about testifying against him out of fear for yourself?" Erickson asked.
"A little bit, but I knew I had to do it. We needed to get him locked up, put away," Teter said.
Teter said she thinks that every woman should carry a gun.
"Never in a million years, did I think I would use (the gun) — never. And whatever higher power, whatever gave me the strength to pull that trigger … You're looking at him or me. My life or his life. I was not going to get raped. I was not going to get murdered. There was no way — and I didn't," Teter said.
Teter said she was grateful to all the people who helped convict Lugo.
"You know, for something as horrible as this to happen, it could not have ended up any better," Teter said.
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"Gulliver's Travels", first published in 1726, was read "from Cabinet-council to the Nursery". Written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) it was and still is one of the greatest satires written on human nature. Captain Lemuel Gulliver takes voyages that end up at four fantastic places. The Lilliputians are only six inches tall. The land of Brobdingnag is populated with beings over sixty feet tall. He also visits a series of lands peopled by the most impractical groups. Lastly he visits a land ruled by horses where men are the laboring brutes.
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The University of Michigan-Dearborn is a metropolitan university dedicated to extending and strengthening its impact and becoming a more effective partner in the rebirth of southeast Michigan through educational, research and engagement activities.
A great region needs a great university that is committed to its progress. The creation of approximately 2000 talented new graduates annually, the retention of approximately 80 percent of our alumni in the region, and the large number of UM-Dearborn alumni leaders in industry, non-profit, and government organizations are testaments to the impact of a UM-Dearborn education.
UM-Dearborn achieves metropolitan impact by its commitment to making a Michigan degree accessible to students of varying means, strengthening student-learning experiences through research and internship opportunities in our region, and aligning teaching models and programs with community and industry needs. This commitment is carried out in a racially and ethnically diverse setting, reflective of today's work and living environments. The university nurtures a wide range of collaborations with effective community-based organizations throughout the region and encourages active involvement in solving the problems of the region by students, faculty and staff.
For UM-Dearborn to continue to realize its mission the following university priorities have been established:
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- UM-Dearborn is ranked as the sixth best public regional university in the Midwest according to U.S. News and World Report
- The College of Business and the College of Engineering and Computer Science rank highly in many national publications
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Graduating well-prepared, career-ready students is the number one focus of the university. The university's six-year graduation rate currently stands at 53% percent. This is the official IPEDS graduation rate number that is reported to the federal government. This number only tells part of the story, however. It takes into account only traditional students who begin at UM-Dearborn immediately after high school and who graduate from the campus. However, this rate increases to 86 percent when including students who have transferred into UM-Dearborn from a community college or other university and students who have left UM-Dearborn to graduate from another institution or are still enrolled in a university.
The following student retention and success initiatives have been created:
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Co-chaired by the Office of the Provost and Enrollment Management and Student Life, the Student Success Alliance serves as a monitoring body for all student success initiatives. This group works toward improving areas across campus related to student success and identifying new opportunities to best support students.
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The campus's undergraduate student population includes 26% students of color. Undergraduate students hail from 31 different birth countries.
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Who's at risk? Network Security Awareness On Jan 25th the Christian Science Monitor reported that Exxon Mobile, Marathon Oil, and ConocoPhillips were attacked in 3 separate instances in 2008. The stolen data included e-mail passwords, messages, and other information tied to executives with access to proprietary exploration and discovery information. The cyber attacks may have originated in China and experts highlight a new level of sophistication in the growing global war of Internet espionage.
Source: csmonitor.com Most Common Reason Behind Corporate Hacking Greed and financial gain
Activists motivated by ideological dissent (Anonymous, LulzSec)
Retribution (disgruntled employees)
Spying and espionage (Flame virus) Who is the target? The biggest misconception is that large corporations or organizations are the only cyber criminal's target and not individuals.
Unaware, employees are the organizations greatest weakness as people make common mistakes such as clicking on malicious links or using an infected USB stick.
As a result of these unintended actions you have become the primary target. You are the target! Your computer and your information contains valuable information to a cybercriminal. It can also be used as a tool for hacking. Data theft – Cyber criminals can obtain confidential company information stored on your computer or use your credentials to steal it.
Identity theft – Cyber criminals can use employee identity's to access company credit card accounts.
Attacking others – Cybercriminals can use your computer to attack other individuals or organizations. Cyber crime is not limited from 9-5 Most individuals are unaware that they can be targeted any where at any time.You can be targeted at an;
Also at home Always assume that you are at risk.
Our identity and access has great value to cyber criminals even if we do not think it does.
If something seems or feels suspicious, it most likely is. Remember these core principles: Recognizing And Avoiding The Risks Only download or install programs that come from trusted sources. If a window pops up telling you your system is infected, that you need a program to make your system run faster, or anything that wants you to install it without you having purposely started a download, close the window without clicking on yes, no, or other.
Pay attention to the URL of a website. Malicious websites may look identical to a legitimate site, but the URL may use a variation in spelling or a different domain (e.g., .com vs. .net).
If a website seems suspicious, it most likely is. Browsing the Internet If you don't know the sender and/or don't know what it is they are sending you, simply delete the e-mail. If it was important, they will send it again with a more descriptive 'Subject:' or 'Body.'
A common e-mail attacking method is called 'phishing.' Phishing is used to bait e-mail recipients to follow certain links used by scammers to pages that mock the look of popular sites such as Paypal, Hotmail, and online back accounts.
If it seems suspicious, it most likely is! E-mail USB Drives or Thumb Drives If you find a USB drive in the parking lot, NEVER use it on your computer without having someone from IT check it first.
Be weary of "promotional" USB drives.
If you receive a warning from Symantec when using a USB drive, contact the Service Desk immediately. Social Engineering Be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls, visits, or email messages from individuals asking about employees or other internal information. If an unknown individual claims to be from a legitimate organization, try to verify his or her identity directly with the company.
Do not give sensitive information to anyone unless you are sure that they are indeed who they claim to be and that they should have access to the information.
If you believe you might have revealed sensitive information about your organization, report it to the appropriate people within the organization, including network administrators. They can be alert for any suspicious or unusual activity. Takeaways Assume you're always at risk
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Even against some of the best defensive backs in the nation, Prater made tough catches appear effortless and ran much faster than someone his height and weight (a solid 210-215 pounds) should be able to run. That's why
Prater has narrowed his choices to Alabama, Illinois, Oklahoma, Tennessee and USC, and he plans to enroll in January and take part in spring practice before his freshman season. Because of that, he'd like to wrap up his recruitment sooner rather than later. "If things go accordingly, I would try to get it done early," Prater said. "But if things have to get pushed back, they have to."
Prater plans to take an unofficial visit to Tennessee on Aug. 1, proving that first-year Volunteers coach
Laid back? Informed that he might be the first person to use that adjective to describe Orgeron, Prater laughed and said he has yet to meet the fiery Louisiana native in person. Prater said he also wants to take an unofficial visit to Alabama, and he plans to take official visits to Oklahoma and USC.
All five schools on Prater's list would love a receiver who can out-leap any corner and hold his own with many in a footrace. Saturday, in a preliminary-round upset of the Southeast team that won the tournament, Prater kept his eye on a pass tipped by Florida-bound safety
Prater's fellow recruits have tried hard to sway him. Downer's Grove, Ill., quarterback
Florida held its Friday Night Lights camp on Friday, and though some of the nation's best players attended, the buzz in Gainesville was about the player who
Florida's sports information department released a statement that said Glenn was asked to leave because of safety issues. In other words, coaches worried prospects committed to Florida and Miami might end up fighting. Glenn told
"I was in shock; I was thinking how they wanted me to come down here to their camp," Glenn told
Glenn probably should have had the good sense to keep his hands down during the camp, but Florida coaches are equally at fault for overreacting. They knew several campers had committed to rival schools. They shouldn't have been shocked when those players acknowledged the school they plan to attend.
And why would those players attend? Simple. They know Rivals.com and Scout.com writers will be in the stands, and they want to grab more stars and increase their recruiting rankings. Glenn's fellow Miami commit, Raines defensive tackle
Notre Dame commitment
Martin's reason for the cross-country move should make Notre Dame coaches smile. He wants to spend a year at a boarding school to ensure he's prepared to handle college life. "It's more of a lifestyle change," Martin said. "I feel like I'm immature in a lot of ways as far as carrying myself, responsibility, time management. It's time to step outside of my comfort zone."
That statement proves Martin is more mature than he thinks. Martin said
Prior to his trip to Florida for Gridiron Kings, Martin began plowing through Hun's summer reading list. He just read
Martin said he's nervous about the challenging workload, but he hopes to emerge from his New Jersey odyssey a more well-rounded person. So the west coast guy will head east for a little more seasoning, and then he'll try to become a college football star in the Midwest. "The only place I haven't been yet is the South," Martin said with a smile.


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text: Okay....*breathes deeply to calm herself down* Since my class was canceled for tomorrow, I'm going to go do some shopping in Charlotte after my one class today! I have decided I need an Hermes treat to calm my need for more deliciously scented leather, and my sweet bf is funding the trip, so I can pick up something small and useful to me (I'm just not sure what yet! Maybe the card case, or that small agenda/notebook holder I saw in framboise or maybe a change purse and a pocket square, ahhh I'm so excited!! ) I want to start knocking some of the smaller items that I want off my list, since the bag won't be bought until July/August, and I'm not getting the wallet until my birthday in October Anyhoo, I decided I need to be brave and do what I've been meaning to do for a while: see if I can try on three bag designs (Kelly, Bolide, and Birkin) and figure out which one is best for me I think that this is the only way that I'll finally be able to settle my scrambled lil brain, so that I'll finally know *which* bag I actually want to get in Rose Shocking! I'm so excited!!! And nervous, lol :shame: I have no idea which bag will look right on me! Or if there will even be a Birkin I can try out to see how it looks (they usually have Kellys and Bolides, I wish I'd tried a Kelly before now!) I'm still up in the air as to what I do if the Kelly or Birkin looks better on me than the Bolide, because I want the bag in RS...and I have yet to see either of those bags in that color! Wish me luck! And of course I'll share all goodies/news once I return!!!


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Today is another repost of an oldie {October 2010} but a goodie from my series, "The Top Ten Mistakes I Made in Marriage." Enjoy!
I grew up in a family that didn't really know how to resolve conflicts in a healthy way. Often my parents played opposite positions in times of conflict, but neither position brought resolution to the problem, nor did it bring them together as a couple.
They were living examples of the extremes in communication. My mother would aggressively confront my dad regarding a problem and my dad would passively run the other way.
In marriage, we tend to follow the example of how our parents related and problem-solved. That's what I ended up doing. In the early years of my relationship with my husband, I adopted my father's approach—passively withdrawing from any conflict we had.
Our conversation would go something like this …
My hubby would notice that I was being unusually quiet and avoiding him.
He would then say, "Is something wrong, Beth?"
I would say, "No, I'm fine." (Often said in a curt way)
He would then say, "I can tell that something's wrong! Tell me the truth, Beth!"
I would say, "No, really, I'm fine!" (Though, still not convincing him!)
At that point, he usually pulled out all the stops to figuratively drag me out of my place of hiding (although it felt as controlling and harsh as being physically dragged out of my hiding place!).
You might have guessed that this approach didn't work. (Go figure!?)
Instead, it only made matters worse!
My husband and I were making the same opposite-ended mistake that my parents made in their times of conflict. I withdrew from him in steely, cold silence, which felt very much like abandonment or at least harsh rejection to my husband. And as my husband advanced forward, pursuing me with great voracity and indignation, it seemed to me that he had turned from simply desiring openness to an all out attack!
Since we were operating at the conflict resolution extremes, we remained deadlocked whenever conflicts arose. Ah-hem, Correction! There actually isn't conflict "resolution" when it's at the extremes.
[Tweet "Everyone must find the middle ground when trying to resolve conflict."]
Can you relate to this problem?
Are you still struggling to find that middle ground in times of conflict?
What fears or hesitations get in the way of dealing directly with your spouse when a conflict arises?
I will be returning from my sabbatical the week of August 17th. And boy, do I have a lot of things planned! I'm currently preparing my ebook on the forgiveness series I did this past year that I'll be sharing with all of my lovely subscribers when I return! I can't wait to give you all that and much, much more!
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In 2013, at the request of editor-in-chief May-Britt Mobach I conducted a major restyling which was very well received at the headquarters in Paris. Besides working for the magazine's monthly publishment, I also worked with a lot of love at the concept and implementation of the catwalk edition and style guide published twice a year.
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Hi everyone! I am SO excited to share this post with you today – rain boots, a floral dress, and the most beautiful landscape of tulip fields – what more can a girl ask for?
Every year in April, the Skagit tulip fields in northern Washington open to the public. It's about 1.5 hours north of Seattle and it sometimes takes longer to get there since it's such a huge attraction. Rachel Parcell from Pink Peonies even road tripped all the way from Utah over this last weekend just to see this sight! It's definitely a bucket list item and I'm so lucky these tulip fields are right around the corner.
This was actually my first time ever visiting the Skagit tulip fields and I was so happy to do it with Chooka Boots and Western Chief.
They took 15 bloggers and their plus ones in the most awesome charter bus (comfy leather seats included) and gifted us a pair of rain boots of our choice. Once we got to the fields, we had a couple of hours to explore the dreamy tulip fields and take our photos.
We were then driven to a quaint winery where we enjoyed an intimate lunch and previewed Chooka Boots and Western Chief's upcoming collection. It was such a fun filled day and something that I'll never forget!
The day before our field trip, this floral dress from Chicwish just came in the mail (in size XS) along with my Western Chief red rain boots.
I initially didn't know what I was going to wear, but when these items arrived, the concept and idea immediately clicked. I love the thought of twirling around in this beautiful floral dress amongst an ethereal field of colorful tulips. The juxtaposition of the red rain boots made the concept even better. I love how the photos turned out and I hope you do too!
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If you ever get the chance to visit Washington in April, here are some tips for visiting the Skagit tulip fields:
1) Arrive early – Traffic and the entrance lines get ridiculously long so you want to beat the crowd. Otherwise, you could be stuck in an extra 30-45 minutes of traffic each way.
2) Bring a camera – Everyone goes to the Skagit tulip fields for an epic photo opportunity. Bring a nice camera if you can and pack extra batteries and memory card just in case!
3) Wear rain boots – The tulip fields can be very muddy and dusty. We went during a dry weekend (and the week before was dry as well) but there were still muddy puddles and dirt all around. Wear rain boots and avoid heels at all cost.
4) Pack sunglasses – The day we went, it was extra bright and sunny. Pack sunglasses to avoid squinting eyes in photos. Or like me, look down 🙂


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I've been two days in anti-hunger conferences in DC: Saturday at the National Hunger Free Communities Summit sponsored by the Alliance to End Hunger, and Sunday at the FRAC/Feeding America National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference.
I love coming to these things, not just because they're engergizing and educational, but also because they generate connections, many of which turn into steadfast friendships. The discussion is stimulating, informed and passionate. It's the kind of interaction that should be occuring among the issue's most serious advocates every single day. You know, there's technology now that allows that kind of thing.
Three years ago, all full of (perhaps naive) enthusiasm for the community-building potential of social media tools, I posed the question in this blog post, "Where's the online discussion about hunger," generally assuming that somewhere people were carrying on these discussions in online communities. At the time I was personally connected to online communities talking about about PR, social media, even guitar collecting (a personal hobby). So I assumed as smart and talkative as this hunger bunch was, they'd be gathering online somewhere. They weren't. And that's a shame.
Because this is a tremendous community. We should be connected. And I'm glad to say that in the past year or so, there have been some great strides made. Lots of passionate hunger fighters like Tim Cipriano from New Haven, Lisa Sherrill from the Bay Area, ConAgra's Steff Childs, and the folks Share Our Strength (just to name a few) are connected with each other. Retweeting. Commenting. Sharing Content. Supporting the COMMUNITY, not just using the channels to push spam messages out.
I attended the social media session at the Hunger Policy Conference and was it was really cool to see that there's a real interest in knowing how to use these online tools. Many out there already in the game, just looking for ways to do it better.
Can I make one suggestion: Let's support each other. I may not be able to use my bandwidth to talk about your foodbank's Saturday night event or things that basically have local interest. But if you have a story to tell; if you want to editorialize on one of the big issues; if you have a best practice that might be of interest to you peers around the country; by all means email me, @ me or send me a Facebook message. I'll do my best to use the channels I have to get you heard.
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Can I ask you a question: How to conduct survey research
My first visit to Syracuse University in the cold and wet spring of 2012, I was stopped on my way into the bookstore by a young woman with a clipboard and pen. As I inwardly groaned about being interrupted on my way to buy t-shirts for my family members (I was determined to deck them out in orange as I had just been accepted into the graduate program), I begrudgingly agreed to take her short survey. I did this because I have rule. Whenever I'm stopped in the shopping malls or called at home to take a survey, I try to always oblige. I have this rule because after conducting research myself, experiencing the disappointing response rates infamous with surveys, and knowing the frustrations a researcher faces in obtaining a reliable sample size, I understand how important surveys can be for planning in Public Relations. These research tools provide the best method for making descriptive analysis of your larger target audience, and, like the old saying goes, "knowing your audience" is vital to a successful campaign.
How to develop your own survey research
To get at the heart of your target audiences' information, you will need to get three things right:
1. The right sample size
2. The right questions
3. The right delivery medium
Sample Size
The quality of a sample is judged by how representative it is of the entire population it's drawn from. For the best results, a census, or giving every person in your universe an opportunity to respond, is ideal. As censuses are, unfortunately, often unrealistic, the next best thing is to concentrate on gathering a sample size that can guarantee the industry standard of a 95 percent accuracy rate. As PR research guru Dr. Don W. Stacks puts it, "… when we set a 95% confidence interval, we are saying that no more than five units (people or messages) will be missampled …" To reach this confidence level, there are calculators and graphs available, but as a rule of thumb, an actual-responding sample size of 384 will garner a 95 percent confidence interval with a population size of 500,000 or more. (I highly recommend checking out Dr. Stacks' "Primer of Public Relations Research" for a more in-depth look into drawing a sample.)
Types of samples
There are two basic types of samples, probability and nonprobability. Probability, or scientific, samples are those that are randomly selected so that each person or unit in the population has an equal chance to participate. These include:
–Simple random
-Stratified random where the population is divided into distinct groups where a random sample is selected from each group
–Systematic random where the population is segmented into elements and each element has an equally random chance of being selected but combinations of elements have different probabilities of being chosen
–Random cluster where the population is divided into similar groups where a cluster is randomly selected
–Stratified cluster where the population is divided into similar groups and clusters of matching groups are made into separate strata where one cluster from each strata is randomly chosen
Nonprobability, or convenience, samples are those that participants are not randomly selected, and, therefore, each person in a population does not have an equal chance of participating. These include:
–Convenient/Accidental where a sample is drawn from whatever is first available
–Quota where the population is divided into subgroups and then a participant is selected by convenience from each subgroup
–Judgment where the researcher selects participants he thinks are most representative of the population
–Snowball where a current participant is asked to identify other potential participants like himself
How you ask and where you place questions in your survey's questionnaire can affect your response rate. To receive the most accurate information that paints the landscape of your audience's perceptions, it's vital that you're asking the right questions that get at the heart of the matter.
Types of questions
There are five types of questions that can be used in a questionnaire:
–Open-ended questions are those that allow the respondent to answer freely without constraints.
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-Multiple-choice questions give several answer options, and be sure to always give the respondent an "other" selection.
What would you most like to see on the Aubia Communications Blog?
A. Posts about Public Relations in other countries
B. Posts about media relations
C. Posts about employee communications
D. Other _______________
-Yes or no questions serve a specific need for your research.
Would you recommend the Aubia Communications Blog to your colleagues?
-Ranking answers allows you to gauge what is most important to your audience.
Please rank in order from 1 being most important to 4 being least important what you would find useful on the Aubia Communications Blog.
___ Coverage of current events in Public Relations
___ In-depth how-to articles for Public Relations techniques
___ Review of academic Public Relations literature
___ Roundup of Public Relations resources
-Number scale questions, typically found in a Likert Scale, can be used to judge your audience's values, and be sure to offer the respondent a neutral choice.
With 1 being Strongly Agree, 3 being No Opinion and 5 being Strongly Disagree, please rate the statements below.
___ The Aubia Communications Blog is a useful Public Relations resource
___ The Aubia Communications Blog provides valuable information
___ The Aubia Communications Blog has well-written posts
___ I would recommend the Aubia Communications Blog to colleagues
These five types of questions can be used in four categories:
–Non-threatening questions are those that are simple and easy for the respondent to answer. Specific questions asked in a more structured format, such as yes-or-no or multiple choice, should be placed at the beginning of the questionnaire.
-Threatening questions are those that can make the respondent uneasy about completely the questionnaire. These are personal questions that are best saved until the end of the questionnaire after some trust and comfort has been built into prior questions. It is best to keep these deeper questions in open-ended format, creating a safe environment for the respondent to answer in his own words.
-Knowledge questions test the understanding of a subject among your audience. Make sure your questions are clear to your intended audience and fall in between an easy and difficult range.
-Attitude and opinion questions are used to gauge the intensity of how your audience feels about a certain subject. Be sure to keep these questions separated so as not to cause a double-barrel effect, and do not use inflammatory language. This category is best asked with a number scale format.
Mediums for survey research
How you distribute your survey can have a lasting effect. It is most important to make sure your survey is reaching your intended audience where they are most conveniently located.
Telephone, Mail, Person-to-Person and Internet-Based (such as email) are the four mediums for survey research. Below are the advantages and disadvantages of each provided by the Universal Accreditation Board's Accredited in Public Relations Study Guide.
|-Speed of administration
-Ability to clarify, probe
-No geographic limitations
-No sampling limitations
-Accepted as industry standard
|-Requires professional phone bank
-Limited in length and scope
-Not good for rankings, paired
comparisons, evaluation of messages
|-Can be internally administered
-No cost differences based on geography
-Can use rankings, comparisons
-Can do message evaluations
-Can be included in existing
|-Slow to completion
-Considerable time/labor commitment for
data entry
-Limited control over who completes
-Little ability to clarify question
wording, meanings
-Limited ability to use filter questions
-Sample limitations
-Cost can be high if response rates
are low
-Often yields very low response
|Person-to-Person (Intercept)
|-Ability to target a geographic location or demographic group
-Ability to clarify, probe
-Can use supporting materials
|-Limited in length and scope
|-Speed of data collection
-Lower cost of administration
-Excellent tool for known populations with access to technology
-Can combine data collection methods and gain advantages over telephone and mail methods
-Can disaggregate results easily for analysis
|-Best with known populations
-Requires access to technologies
-May be difficult to generalize
to larger groups or populations
-Requires disciplined administration
and ability to randomly sample from
within universe to qualify as formal
research; most often is informal
When you have your sample size set, your questions in order, and have chosen your medium, be sure to pretest the survey with a small select group. Take any feedback from that group and make any adjustments needed before releasing the full-scale survey.
Surveys are valuable research tools that help you generalize your larger target audience so you can figure out what they want. Have you conducted your own survey? What were the results?
Feel free to answer the italicized mock questions above in the comments. I always love to hear the opinions of readers.
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TRUJILLO -- It used to be thought that agriculture in the New World started in the dry areas of Mexico with the cultivation of corn or maize. More recent studies in the Amazon basin and its tributaries have revealed that the cultivation of rain forest root crops dates back to at least 5,000 B.C.
Honduras was the frontier between Mesoamerican corn, bean and squash growers like the Mayas and South American root crop growers. The ethnic groups here that have predominated cultivated root crops are the Garifunas, Pech, Tawahkas and to some extent the Miskitos. This is probably due to the influence of South American Arawak Indians, who used to live on the Bay Islands and other Caribbean islands such as Jamaica, Gran Cayman, and Grenada. Bay Island traditional food is also heavily influenced by root crops.
The principal root crops consumed in Honduras are manioc (yuca in Spanish), taro or malanga, white yams or name, red grow or nigger yams, called nam pan in Spanish, sweet potato and yams, both called camote in Spanish, red and white arrowroot, called yuquilla here and badu.
By far and away the most commonly found root crop in Honduras markets is yuca. Ethnic groups like the Pech and the Tawahkas grow around 14 varieties, notes ethnobotanist Paul House, including yuca dulce and the poisonous yuca amarga or bitter manioc. The only things made with bitter yuca are breads like sasal among the Tawahkas, Pech and Miskitos, and cassava bread with all of its derivations among the Garifunas. The Bay Islanders make a thicker bread, called bamy in Bay Islands English, somewhat similar to marrote of the Garifunas.
After squeezing the liquid out of the yuca to make bread, a fine layer of pure starch settles to the bottom. This starch is used to make a porridge, atol de yuca, among the Miskitos. This starch is what Americans use to make tapioca pudding. In Honduras, yuca starch, when mixed with lemon, is considered good medicine against diarrhea, notes the book "Common Medicinal Plants of Honduras." Feeding starch to babies is supposed to help them get fat and sleep through the night.
Grated yuca is also used to make the sweet pot cake pan de yuca by the Garifunas and Bay Islanders. It is mixed with a little flour, coconut cream, rapadura or raw cane sugar, and cinnamon, then cooked. Bay Islanders used to cook pot cakes by digging a hole in the ground, preparing hot coals, and then burying the cakes, a style of oven known as fire hearth, says Arnold Auld of Roatan. This custom is no longer practices, but pan de yuca is sold by Garifunas on the beach.
Camotes are also easily obtained in markets. There are two kinds -- a red skinned one and a longer yellowish yam. These sweet potatoes and yams are used to make porridge with coconut milk (atol de camote), pot cakes (pan de camote), fries, eaten boiled, in soups, and in tamales (tamalitos de camote). Candied yams (camote en miel) are known in Honduras, but the most popular way to eat these and other root crops is in a Garifuna, Bay Islander, or Miskito stew known as tapado.
Yams, green bananas, and malanga (white coco in Bay Islands English) are cooked in a coconut cream broth with natural spices, garlic and onions. As the coconut cream boils, a layer of coconut oil rises to the top. This is skimmed off and used to cook the fried fish that is served with this dish. Tapado is available at Garifuna and Bay Island food restaurants. It is considered a "strong" food by the Bay Islanders, says Roatan native James Thomas.
Name and badu are large root crops that can weigh up to 25 pounds each. They are mostly prepared like mashed potatoes. Garifunas also make dumplings (bondiga) of the names to put in coconut soup. Migo is a Garifuna dish where mashed name, nam pan, malanga are mixed with coconut cream and nutmeg, notes Garifuna Sebastian Marin.
Nam pan is called red grow or nigger yams in the Bay Islands. While name is probably of New World origins, nam pan is probably from Africa. Garifunas and Bay Islanders cook nam pan is soups. Bay Islanders also eat them just boiled. Neither names nor nam pan are available in Honduran markets, so it was surprising to see them is U.S. markets in Atlanta.
Nam pan is hard to find anywhere. Along with Bay Islands red arrowroot, maybe it should go on the list of endangered domesticated crops.
Arrowroot is called yuquilla. Arrow root porridge used to be traditional in the Bay Islands, but the plant has either become locally extinct or endangered on the Islands since most Islanders have lost their farm land. The porridge is made from the starch of the plant, which is considered very good for children. The white arrowroot is medicinal and its starch is sometimes sold in Honduran pharmacies.
Malanga or coco was used in Bay Islands soup like conch coup, says Auld. Malanga can be eaten just peeled and boiled. There is a pot cake made of malanga, pan de malanga. In spite of its importance, if we wanted to have a Bay Islands food festival, we would wipe out the existence of the plant on the Islands, since Ladinos do not usually plant it. It is amazing that Honduras is exporting malanga to U.S. markets, but it is not shipped to the Bay Islands, even though boats travel frequently between the Mosquitia and the Islands. Lack of access to ingredients is one reason why Bay Islands traditional food are more endangered than black coral.


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Stewart Alsop's sausagefest
No one quite understood why venture capitalist Stewart Alsop was handing out salamis at Alsop Louie Partners' annual party at Tres Agaves Tuesday night. Power investors in the crowd: Ann Winblad and Ron Conway. The boring business gossip: Sequoia's funereal presentation to entrepreneurs on the coming financial apocalypse. The more interesting personal gossip: Alsop is dating Robin Wolaner, the founder of Parenting magazine — see, everyone's a founder of something in the Valley! — and the author of CEO confessional Naked in the Boardroom. (Since I first wrote this post, Wolaner emailed me to mention that she's also, much more recently, the founder of TeeBeeDee, a social networking website.)Alsop hastened to clarify to partygoers that Wolaner is his "no. 1 girlfriend." Why the enumeration? He still has a habit of picking up other women. I mean that literally. I saw him pick a blonde girl off the floor and give her a full-body hug at the party. That's leverage, of some kind or another. I took one of Stewart's sausages to give to the host at my next party.


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* Loans limited to 4 times income on 500,000 stg+ properties
* Bank estimates move will affect 8 pct of lending in London
* Lloyds says still supports UK's mortgage guarantee scheme (Adds comments from mortgages director)
By Matt Scuffham
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group, Britain's biggest retail bank, has tightened its lending criteria to help tackle rising prices in London's housing market.
The bank, which is 25 percent owned by the government, said on Tuesday it would limit mortgages to a maximum of four times a borrower's annual earnings when it is lending more than 500,000 pounds ($842,400) on a property.
House prices are soaring in London as the economic recovery and record-low interest rates tempt purchasers back into one of the world's most expensive property markets. London house prices were almost 30 percent above the peak seen in 2007, Lloyds said.
Lloyds said the new policy, which will affect about 8 percent of its lending in London, was a "targeted response to an issue largely in the upper tiers of the London housing market".
"This is largely driven by issues of supply which are particularly acute in London and this is having an impact on income multiples which are failing to keep pace with asset growth," said Stephen Noakes, group director of mortgages.
Noakes said Lloyds still supported the government's Help to Buy mortgage-guarantee scheme, which helps people buy property with deposits as low as 5 percent of the property price.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned on Sunday that the housing market posed the biggest domestic risk to the financial stability of Britain's $2.5 trillion economy.
"This is a commercial decision for the firm," a spokeswoman for the BoE said on Tuesday.
$1 = 0.5935 British Pounds Reporting by Matt Scuffham; Editing by Steve Slater


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Hilton Garden Inn Brand Debuts in Southeast Asia with the Opening of the 86-room Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam and MCLEAN, Va., April 5, 2013?-Hilton Worldwide?today announced the opening of?Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi, the award-winning, focused service brand's first property in Southeast Asia. Located in Hanoi, Vietnam, the 11-storey hotel with 86 rooms and well-equipped facilities lies right in the heart of Hanoi, and is the second Hilton Worldwide property in Vietnam.
[quote]"Today's announcement not only celebrates the first Hilton Garden Inn property in Southeast Asia but also the expansion of our footprint in Vietnam," said Martin Rinck, president, Asia Pacific, Hilton Worldwide. "Backed by our strong owner, Hoan Kiem Tourism & Trading Company Limited, and our 93 years of international hospitality experience, we are confident that Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi will be a preferred choice for local and international travelers looking for quality yet affordable accommodation in Hanoi."
"We are excited to have Hilton Garden Inn break into a new Southeast Asian city, especially one as vibrant as Hanoi. Our focused service brand is tailored towards providing the signature features and services that meet the demands of value conscious travelers who are always on the move," said Adrian Kurre, global head, Hilton Garden Inn.[/quote]
Located near the intersection of Phan Chu Trinh and Tran Hung Dao streets, Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi occupies a premium location in the business, cultural, and leisure center of the city. It is within a short distance of Hoan Kiem Lake, the Ministry of Finance, numerous embassies, government organizations and institutions, museums, shopping centers, and is only 40 kilometers from Noi Bai International Airport.
The hotel is equipped to ensure that each and every guest can sleep deep, stay fit, eat well, work smart and treat themselves while on the road. Each Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi room is furnished with the brand's signature Garden Sleep System? bed (Serta bed) – a revolutionary bed that's designed to provide ultimate comfort for a deep sleep. Each room also features an ergonomic Mirra? desk chair by Herman Miller which is good for the back with an ergonomic design offering 11 points to guarantee comfort and improve posture.
The Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi Business Center is open 24 hours and guests will have access to the Internet, computer(s) and a printer, and a photocopy machine featuring Print Spots remote printing – allowing for wireless printing from any laptop or PDA. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access in guestrooms and public spaces will help guests stay productive anywhere in the hotel. Guests can choose to relax at the Lounge with a cocktail or burn some calories to stay fit at the hotel's fully equipped fitness center.
Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi's Garden Grill restaurant satisfies guests from a healthy nutritious breakfast to dinner. Guests can choose from different European and Asian cuisines at the restaurant or order room service. The Pavilion Pantry, a 24-hour on-site retail store, provides guests with a selection of microwaveable packaged, refrigerated and frozen food items, an assortment of beverages, snacks and sundries.
The Hilton Garden Inn brand was founded in 1990. This award-winning, focused service hotel brand continually strives to ensure today's busy travelers have everything they need to be productive on the road. The brand now has approximately 560 hotels in operation all over the world-Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, South America and the Middle East, with another 160 hotels in the development pipeline. In 2012, to strongly affirm the brand's quality service, Hilton Garden Inn launched its satisfaction promise that guarantees "We promise to do whatever it takes to ensure you're satisfied, or you don't pay. You can count on us. GUARANTEEDTM"
[box type="tick"]About Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi
Hilton Garden Inn (HGI) Hanoi is funded by Hoan Kiem Tourism & Trading Company Limited and belongs to the Hilton Garden Inn hotel chain, which is a brand of Hilton Worldwide. Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi is considered a focused service hotel designed for both domestic and international business and leisure travelers. HGI Hanoi is located at 20 Phan Chu Trinh, Hanoi – the economic and leisure center of the city, and is within a short distance of Hoan Kiem lake, the Ministry of Finance, numerous embassies, government organizations and institutions, museums, shopping centers. It is only 40 kilometers from NoiBai International Airport.
About Hilton Worldwide
Hilton Worldwide is a leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and mid-priced hotels. For 93 years, Hilton Worldwide has offered business and leisure travelers the finest in accommodations, service, amenities and value. The company is dedicated to continuing its tradition of providing exceptional guest experiences across its global brands. Its brands are comprised of more than 3,900 hotels and timeshare properties, with 650,000 rooms in 90 countries and territories and include Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree by Hilton, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Hotels, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton and Hilton Grand Vacations. The company also manages the world-class guest reward program Hilton HHonors?.
About Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Garden Inn is the award-winning, upscale, yet affordable hotel brand that continually strives to ensure today?s busy travelers have everything they need to be most productive on the road ? from our oh-so-comfortable Garden Sleep System? bed to complimentary wired and Wi-Fi Internet access in all guestrooms. So whether on the road for personal or business reasons, Hilton Garden Inn offers the amenities and services for travelers to sleep deep, stay fit, eat well and work smart while away from home. [/box]


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Who Is The Heavyweight King: Anthony Joshua or Deont...
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6 Ways To Stay Young
You've heard the saying that the brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised. Well new research is showing us there are specific activities we can do keep a…
25 Responses to "6 Ways To Stay Young"
you should learn Japanese! It's really interesting (in my opinion) and
would be something totally different (like opposite end of the language
spectrum) going from English to a very complex East Asian language.
Learn German
Alice Cooper makes a lot more sense now if singing keeps you young…I mean
seriously the guy hasn't aged past fifty he looks phenomenal! (and no, he
doesn't do Botox he has crows feet like you wouldn't believe.)
My grandfather lived healthy in body & mind until about 84, he is still
alive but now has dementia & his body is also deteriorating parallel to his
mind. He was like 60 at 80 & he did Sudoku, crosswords & walked. He also
did a lot of traveling though so he was constantly learning history and new
languages but it didn't last forever. The one thing that's definite for all
of us is that we will die, so we should get used to the idea before then.
Arabic? I dare you
(and by Arabic I mean the formal original Arabic, not the heavily modified
accents/variations we speak now)
or if you want to overload your brain with weird grammatical constructs …
try German
wasnt trying to be rude by the way, keep in mind you cant read tone of
voice in comments. But i think the way i worded it would be read as rude by
most people even though if i spoke it people wouldnt interpret it as rude
because my tone of voice wouldnt be
Your brain produces 2k neurons every day. If you don't use them you lose
them. So, if you learn a new skill or accomplish a difficult new task those
become incorporated into the brain. That's why it's great to learn
something new as you age because it puts those new neurons to work for you!
I wonder what the scope is for these studies when it comes to testing for
cognition. If one wanted to become better at analytic-logical reasoning,
would that require an extra activity? These questions are important
considering how the United States among other nations has many individuals
above 60 involved in complex socio-economic-legal issues (almost all
requiring logical deductions). Any thoughts on tasks to increase or enforce
this sort of learning/thinking?
german and spanish seems the most usefull language to learn, also if you're
into business you should add Chinese… And if you're working in the
criminal worlds, russia and Japanese as well XD
Or, more succinctly, for as long as you are able, don't stop learning new
things. And if you sing a jaunty tune while you're at it, so much the
Trouble is, it's easier in concept than application. Work, life, those damn
kids, wear-and-tear, illnesses and conditions, capricious externals like
governments and markets…they all conspire to block your path toward
life/qol extension. You'll need to carve out some time and work for it.
But, after a handful of decades or more, it's not so easy for many to do.
Still, if you have the time, resources, and interest, yes — learn. Engage
your mind. It may help, but if not, you at least had a nice diversion for a
while, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I would love to learn a diffrent language, I already sing in other
languages. But I'm not sure which language I want to learn. Should I try
mandarin, japanese, or spanish?
I am dutch, and i know a lot of languages, (of course) dutch and english,
and i can also speak french and german a little bit
Now and then I like to learn the basics of a language. I've done so for
Spanish, Esperanto and Russian and planning to do so for Mandarin and
Learn Danish not because it's useful, but because a lot different from
what you normally would hear, and you will be abel to speak a language no
one els can. Soo yeah, not useful at all, but i'll give you a bowl of
Rødgrød med fløde, if you can pronounce it!
Does playing video games keep your brain active?
Never… ever… try to learn Japanese, I thought it would be fun to take
it as a collage course… NO! NO! no it is not fun! there language is
easily the hardest language to learn out of any other language they have
multiple alphabets and there children speak another version of the language
made for kids cause the real one is to hard! kids dont learn ways to refer
to themselves in anything other than the third person until they are young
teens, and ontop of that there are so many little rules cause the Japanese
language is like there culture, extremely neat and tidy, there are deferent
ways to say hello based on class, age, how well you know the person,
weather or not they are a superior and a whole crap load of rules and if
you so much as say good morning to someone in there own home or classroom
you have offended them cause you have stripped them of there right to be
polite, so if any of you think "It might be fun to learn Japanese" stop
right there! besides its completely useless as most people in japan learn
enough English to communicate and they find nothing funnier than a stupid
westerner coming in and trying to impress them with there mad Japanese
skills and sounding like a idiot.
@spinsaw Arabic is not the "greatest" or oldest written language. There is
no greatest language; all languages have special meanings for different
peoples. Lastly, Sumerian cuneiform is the oldest written language.
How fitting that my religion teaches me that Torah study is "our life and
the length of our days." It brings my teachers and students to study works
written in Hebrew, Aramaic, classical Arabic and Judeo-Spanish. In our
ancient way of life, in the Commandments we fulfill, we continually sharpen
our minds in legal argument, and through synthesizing our traditions with
the discoveries of modern science. We sing together every Sabbath, and
dance at the many joyous occasions we celebrate. In light of the
discoveries cited in this video, with respect to other peoples in the world
and their traditions, I am so grateful to be an observant Jew.
Hey, DNews! Could you do a video on genetic engineering, future of genetic
engineering, etc., etc….because I'm pretty sure viewers would freak if
there was some possible way to make unicorns, pegasi, and all that good
stuff thankyaa
It's definitely true that the brain needs to be challenged. Most people
stop really thinking and challenging themselves when they finish high
school, IF they even finish it. They become very slow after the age of 50
and it's a challenge to teach them, well, anything. Whereas you have people
of 80 who are eager to learn, keep up with the world around them and are
sharp as a whip.
Learn portuguese! It's a beautiful language and it's a lot of fun, plus the
benefit of being able to talk to the girls in Brazil is an added bonus.
Search up Duolingo, it's a free online rosetta stone, it's got a great
interface. Highly recommend to everyone. Upvote so people who want to learn
a new language can
I like German would be among (if not the easiest) language to learn for a
native English speaker. English was a Germanic language way back in the day
when it was Old English. *Real* Old English, btw. What many people think is
Old English is actually Middle English. Of course, I work for a German
company and I can barely figure out how to say the few words I know. I took
Spanish in high school and with both proper pronunciation is the hardest
part. And they aren't even as different as, say the Chinese languages that
have 4-9 different tone as well as different sounds that English speakers
won't be familiar with. I think I'll stick with German before tackling
something like that.
Smoke cannabis. Its great for your joints and gives you lots of energy. It
makes exercise or anything for that matter FUN! It helps you to control
your food intake and increases your desire to eat healthy. Since it
enhances all of your senses it gives you an incredible sense of well being
and increased overall quality of life. Smoke with friends and enjoy great
conversation and the best thing is NO hangover.
So that's why gays live long and happy lives; they sing all those musicals.
Trace, why, oh why, would you ever wear that shirt in a video. My eyeballs
have significantly dried out from forcing myself not to blink.


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Another set of nightly closures are slated to hit Highway 91 in Corona starting Monday, Oct. 17.
The eastbound 91 will close at Maple Street from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. for three consecutive nights starting late Monday, a Riverside County Transportation Commission news release states. Crews will be placing support structures along the soon-to-be-widened Lincoln Avenue Bridge.
A posted detour will lead drivers onto the Maple Street off-ramp, east on Sixth Street, left on Lincoln Avenue and right on Second Street, where they can re-enter the eastbound 91.
The work is part of a $1.4 billion highway expansion project to add six lanes in an 11-mile stretch of the 91. Officials say the project is 85 percent complete and should be finished by mid-2017.
Drivers are reminded to allow extra travel time during the closure. For more information on planned closures, go to sr91project.info, or call the project helpline at 877-770-9191.
Contact the writer: 951-368-9644, email@example.com, @PE_PatrickO


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I was wondering if anyone that is using Evita's in Ochi for their reception has heard from Eva in the past month. I have emailed her a couple times with no response in a month or so. She has always been very responsive (usually within an hour of my email), so this is not like her. Maybe she went on a long vacation? Anyone know?
Has anyone heard from Eva of EVITA'S lately?
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