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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) The last time the Minnesota Vikings won a game at Chicago, some rookie rushed for 224 yards and three touchdowns.
His name was Adrian Peterson, and he'd love to do that against the Bears again.
``It's a sound defense, but I feel like we can run the ball on them. We just have to be patient and keep pounding the rock and be balanced offensively,'' Peterson said Friday after practice.
That's about what they did on Oct. 14, 2007, the breakout performance of Peterson's nearly unparalleled career. He was no secret to the NFL as the seventh pick in that year's draft, but the Vikings were still using Chester Taylor heavily and listing Peterson on the depth chart as a backup until that afternoon. He followed three weeks later with an NFL-record 296 yards against San Diego.
``You knew the unique skill set that you saw scouting him,'' general manager Rick Spielman said recently, reflecting on the easy decision to draft Peterson when he slipped down the top of the board due to concerns about a broken collarbone he suffered his last season at Oklahoma. Spielman added: ``The drive to be successful, the drive to be the best, the drive to win a championship: all those things came out when we interviewed him.''
Five years later, Peterson has already put a devastating knee injury in his past with this post-surgical season. He entered this week with 1,128 yards rushing, by far the most in the league.
``No one ever envisioned that, but that's what makes Adrian so unique and so special,'' Spielman said. ``He put in his mind that he was going to not only come back but be better than he was before the injury.''
Peterson said Friday he doesn't remember many details from that breakout performance in 2007, except for his pants nearly coming down during a kickoff return and, of course, the fact that the Vikings were victorious.
``It was a big win for us. It was a way for me to get out there and make a name for myself somewhat. But that was what, five years ago? It's a totally different team,'' Peterson said.
He's more focused on the present and the turnover-forcing terror the Bears' defense has become. They have an NFL-leading 30 takeaways. This veteran group doesn't have to be reminded about the fumbling problem Peterson had earlier in his career.
``They've got guys out there trying to reach and get the ball out. It depends on what type of guy you're playing. It can lead to a big play,'' Peterson said.
Quarterback Christian Ponder will have to be careful, too. But not too careful.
``They're very opportunistic, but I don't think we're going to do anything different. We can't play scared. We need to go out and be aggressive and be smart,'' Ponder said.
Coach Leslie Frazier said he sees the turnover-causing success as contagious.
``If one guy punches a ball out, then you see other guys raking and stripping,'' Frazier said, adding: ``One or two guys get it started and it's kind of grown throughout their defense. It's definitely been a turning point for their team.''
The Vikings have a tough task with consecutive road games against Chicago and Green Bay, the NFC North co-leaders. But the schedule as such also gives them the immediate opportunity to win the next two weeks and take control of this difficult division. This is clearly their turning point.
``It has so many ramifications, this game, for our football team and what we want to get accomplished in 2012. That's what makes it so important,'' Frazier said.
NOTES: Peterson spoke to reporters for the first time since his resisting-arrest charges, stemming from a summer incident in Houston, were dropped. He said he was disappointed he had to testify in front of a grand jury, which kept the details private. ``But it's a blessing to have it out of the way and I can go forward,'' he said.
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Survey: 82% of Banking Customers Log In to Mobile Every Week
Mobile is so important to customers' everyday lives that only the internet and personal hygiene were rated as more important by consumers surveyed in the newly released Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report. Mobile was rated as "very important" to everyday life by 91% of the 1300 consumers surveyed, tied with a car and deodorant for the most important item, and ahead of television (76%) and coffee (60%).
Younger consumers rated their smartphone as even more important to their everyday lives, with 96% calling it "very important," ahead of their deodorant and toothbrush. (Yikes.)
That importance is reflected in consumers' banking lives, the survey found. Almost one-third of the consumers surveyed said that they log in to mobile banking everyday, and 82% said they log in at least once a week.
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Even as more transactions move to digital channels, the branch still has a place in the banking lives of most consumers, according to the survey. While only 23% of the respondents said they complete most of their transactions at a branch, 84% said they have visited a branch in the last six months. Younger customers were just as likely to visit a branch, with 83% of those surveyed between the ages of 18-34 saying they've visited a branch in the last six months.
Consumers also showed some level of comfort with new biometric security measures that are taking hold in mobile banking, according to the survey. More than half (60%) of those surveyed said they would be comfortable with a fingerprint scan for accessing their mobile banking app, while 32% said they would be comfortable with a retina scan and 33% for voice recognition authentication.
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Tigger_the_Wing wrote:ET, oh dear! Tara sounds like hard work! How is she getting on with the feline population?
Tara and the cats mostly ignore each other. Both groups (the cats and the dog) tend to sleep about 20 out of 24 hours, so there's not much opportunity for shenanigans. As for the work - I'd say that Tara is about the same amount of work as 24 cats. Feels like more, because it never lets up with the two-hour interval between walkies.


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By jcoyne on July 9, 2012
Jim and Tom sit down with Rahul to discuss uncertainty. From the streets of India to Erie, PA, Rahul tells of those who have made it, those who tried and failed, and those who just do not know where they are or where they are going.
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As model toy cars collected dust and the plastic pages of an auto-album stuck together over the years, Bill Stoltenberg continues to enjoy his hobby.
Stoltenberg has never called himself a car collector, but he has owned around 80 in his lifetime.
"I got in the habit that I liked to try different cars, and so about every six months I would trade cars, and back then the prices of cars were so cheap," he said.
Stoltenberg, 76, has owned English sports cars, different Oldsmobiles and Chevrolet models, and a mess of brands that were cut from circulation. He even built some of his own with different fiberglass bodies.
The only Cadillac he ever owned was a 1941 convertible.
"That was in '54, way back when I was still in high school," he said, laughing. "It looked like a cool car to me, cruise around with the girls. I could get a whole bunch of them in there."
He bought his first car, a 1936 Chevy, at 15.
"You could buy a car for $50 when I was that age," he said. "Cars now, you can't even look at one for $50.
"My wife thought I was kind of crazy when I told her my hobby was fixing up cars and selling them, because I really couldn't afford to keep them."
So Stoltenberg only kept two or three cars at a time. He also bought and flew airplanes, and even raced for a year in 1959.
"Racing's an expensive business, because you wear out your car real fast, and you wear out your tires real fast."
To this day, he keeps a 1953 Chevy in his garage that he bought from a cousin last year. The radio, heater, and windshield wipers do not work, but fixing it is what makes it fun.
"I really enjoyed the hobby over the years. It always gives you something to do," he said. "You don't have to look for things to do, because you know you got something to work on out there."


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President Obama promoted Obamacare with a relentlessly repeated set of misrepresentations regarding that 2,700-page bill: "If you've got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you." He set some kind of an indoor record for falsity per word with these whoppers. Even so, the American people caught on to the game before long.
The misrepresentation and misdirection continue in the administrations's campaign against Catholic institutions in public statements concerning the "preventive services" regulation compelling the provision of contraception, abortifacients and sterilization. The infringement of religious liberty in the name of Obamacare is an amazing story, but it is of course not the only one.
Now comes the Obama administration's Medicare swindle. Jeffrey Anderson explains in the new issue of the Weekly Standard:
Under the implementation schedule stipulated in Obamacare, many seniors would either lose their [Medicare Advantage] plans, or learn that they are going to lose them, before the election that will likely decide Obamacare's—and Obama's—fate.
Anticipating a senior revolt, the administration took action. It ran millions of dollars' worth of taxpayer-funded TV ads featuring Andy Griffith saying things like, "That new health care law sure sounds good for all of us on Medicare!" It mailed out full-color, taxpayer-funded propaganda brochures singing the same tune. It repeatedly claimed (and continues to claim) that money taken out of Medicare to fund Obamacare would—magically—also stay in Medicare and be used to extend its solvency.
But the administration didn't stop there. Instead, it launched an $8.35 billion "demonstration project" to postpone the vast majority of Obamacare's Medicare Advantage cuts until after what Obama likes to call his "last election." In truth, this isn't really a demonstration project at all. It's something closer to the opposite: an attempt to keep Obamacare's effects from being demonstrated until it's too late for voters to respond.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified this "demonstration project" as a sham….
This is a story of brazen administration action of dubious legality undertaken with transparently corrupt purposes. Yet it has received amazingly little coverage. You might almost think we lacked a free press or something.


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Where to Get Veterinary Oncology Care
Do I have to go to a specialty center like the University of PA to get treatment for my dog's cancer or is that something all vets do?
Lili Duda, VMD, MBE, DACVR Veterinary Radiation Oncologist- University of Pennsylvania, responds:
The best place to start with your pet is your primary care veterinarian. They know your pet best, and can do many of the initial tests needed to diagnose and evaluate the stage of cancer. Once a diagnosis of cancer is suspected or confirmed, consultation with a board-certified veterinary specialist is recommended. For simple cases, your primary care veterinarian may be able to obtain consultations via phone or e-mail. For more complicated cases, an in-office consultation may be needed. There are specialists in medical oncology (chemotherapy), radiation oncology, surgery, and dentistry/oral surgery. There are many on-line resources to locate a specialist in your area.
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Monday, 28 May 2012
Spinach, strawberries, and the Society of Authors Children's Literacy Campaign
"Reading for pleasure" is a phrase we hear a lot. It's become a bit of a cliché and the real problem with clichés is that we stop thinking about their meaning. They lose their power.
The other problem with the phrase is that "pleasure" often implies less importance or worth. It implies that perhaps we shouldn't do too much of it, that we should make sure we've done the "work" parts of our reading before we deserve the "pleasure" parts. Reading for pleasure seems somehow more frivolous, epicurean, than reading for benefit, information, work.
It is not; and we fall into some dangerous traps if we think so. Reading for pleasure should come first. It is essential to reading at all. Let me explain.
Once, each of us had to learn to read. We were very young when we had to learn this activity which is difficult, unnatural, and for which we are not, in fact, evolutionarily programmed. There is no part of the brain which is "for" reading, though there are parts which are involved in the separate skills which reading requires. (See Maryanne Woolf's fascinating Proust and the Squid for details about the evolutionary aspects of reading in our brains.)
You cannot get small children to do something just because it's good for them. It has to be pleasurable. We need many hours practice to learn something so complex, and we simply will not get children to put in the hours if they don't enjoy it. Many children enjoy reading immediately because they find it easy immediately. Those children will sail through learning to read because they don't even notice they are learning: they are having too much pleasure. (Including the pleasure they derive from the act of succeeding itself.)
Other children, with differently wired brains - and remember that since our brains are not wired for reading we all have to "borrow" brain cells and connections from certain brain parts in order to find ways to reading success - will find it harder. They will experience early failure. Show me an adult, let alone a child, who finds pleasure in failure.
For these children, being told they must read this text because it's good for them, because it's part of schoolwork, because they need to skills to succeed in life, will go no way towards them ever enjoying, and therefore ever adequately practising, the act of reading. They are being offered medicine, instead of food. Hard work instead of enjoyment.
By the time these children are around eight years old, they have seen their friends learn to read easily and wondered why they can't. They have discovered that they "can't", or at least can't easily or well. They now enjoy it even less and probably not at all. They switch off, find other ways to shine, and sometimes the way to shine is to become the naughty child, the disruptive one, the one that the other children love to watch getting into trouble. Or they hide. They retreat into a shell inside which every effort goes into avoiding reading.
Initiatives by schools and governments to get them reading will have absolutely no positive effect if the focus isn't reading for pleasure. You can thrust the exercises and worksheets at them, you can drag them to a reading session for ten minutes every lunchtime, you can even fill the library with books and make them sit in it, but if reading for pleasure is not the whole focus - the WHOLE focus - you might as well chuck the money and the effort and the books into the sea. Because they will not practise for the required number of hours. It's that simple.
This is why I talk about spinach and strawberries. Both are good for us. When we eat spinach, even if we also like it (as I do), we still eat it with a sense of "This is good for me. Its health benefits are more obvious than the pleasure of its taste." When we eat strawberries (or any other fruit you happen to love better), we don't do so thinking about the health benefits, merely about the fact that we enjoy the taste.
That's what reading should be like. Reading is fantastically "good" for us but we shouldn't be thinking about that when we do it. And, most crucially, we should NOT, please, please, please, offer reading to children as some kind of medicinal or healthy activity, even if, like spinach, it is. We should offer it purely as enjoyable. And our whole aim should be to find a book that a child will enjoy reading.
Because otherwise, why would he do it?
That's why I support, with all my heart and with the loudest voice I have, the children's literacy campaign by the Society of Authors.
That's why I recently agreed, proudly, to be one of the new Ambassadors for Dyslexia Scotland, at the invitation of Sir Jackie Stewart, who knows all too well what it is like to go through school feeling a failure because of failure to learn one thing: how print works.
That is why I write for young people.
And that is why I'm proud to write not books but strawberries. Because I know strawberries are good for you but I only want you to think of the taste.
I will be talking more about this in Glasgow on June 16th, where I'm doing the keynote speech for a conference aimed at parents who want to know more about reading and how to encourage it. Do come!
17 comments:
- JO said...
This is a great post - have you been talking to Michael Rosen (he has a great blog, and often talks about helping children read)?
And - it can also help if children see parents reading for pleasure. If being around reading is something that happens at home. If stories and words and pictures are part of early playing. Brain-wiring plays a huge part, but so does playing with words in the pre-reading days.
- 28 May 2012 at 07:40
- Elen C said...
This is a subject very close to me. Members of my close family find reading very challenging (inc adults), if not impossible.
I worry most about a 12 year old and am thinking of paying him to read. e.g. 5 books a year at £20 each. I'd offer a choice of books that I think he'd love (want to get my hands on Anne Rooney's vampire series to check those). But, I worry that while the carrot is there in terms of cash, it might make reading feel like a job. But I think that feeling like a job is better than feeling like torture... Good luck with your work on this!
- 28 May 2012 at 08:45
- Rosemary Gemmell said...
Fantastic initiative - hope hundreds more young people find the magic in reading a good book.
- 28 May 2012 at 10:23
- Katherine Langrish said...
Couldn't agree more, Nicola!
- 28 May 2012 at 10:55
- Cat Anderson said...
Amen to that Nicola, it's what I tried to instill in teachers and parents for years as a speech & language therapist and what I still do as a children's bookseller. My first strategy is always to calm the anxious adult, get them to back off and stop trying so hard. Tough stuff though when they are so worried about their child.But you explain it so well, I will be referring people to this post a lot.
Ellen: have you left the following authors' books lying around (note the "lying around" not thrust insistently in hand)for this 12 year old: Robert Muchamore, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Craig Simpson. They never let me down, especially Robert's first book, The Recruit.
- 28 May 2012 at 11:17
- Catherine Czerkawska said...
Great post - and how right you are. Elen - I don't think paying will help much. It'll still be a chore. Our son (who loved to listen to stories, but didn't much like reading novels himself) was tempted to read by, of all things, the Radio Times. OK, so he wanted to know what was on the TV, but by the time he had read it in detail every week, he was doing a lot of general reading too. He went from there to masses of non-fiction. I had to buy books about shipwrecks and video game magazines - this was his passion and he's now a grown-up video game designer so it didn't do him any harm. I think boys often come to fiction later than girls. Sadly, you always meet the parents whose son has just read War and Peace at the age of ten, but I think that's the exception rather than the rule. I soon realised that just about any reading was good reading, so long as he was getting pleasure from it. Lots of strawberries, Nicola's right!
- 28 May 2012 at 11:18
As a parent volunteer at my children's school, I've often been tasked with the job of reading with the children. Thanks to both my love of books and of writing, it's not an onerous task.
This post struck SUCH a chord, because so many of the kids came to me with books they weren't enjoying; I particularly remember the 10yr old lad who was struggling - with a book about someone's dog dying. And the 9yr old who had to read a book about a bridesmaid's dress, simply because it was the right level for him.
A lot of the problem seems to lie in having to categorise readers into levels - there often isn't enough flexibility or choice offered to the very children we need to encourage to read. They are actually prevented from reading the books they are interested in.
And whatever happened to storytime in schools? Those last few minutes of the day when you listened to a story and heard your teacher do all the silly voices and always, always stopped at the exciting bit! That's one of the best ways of getting a reluctant reader involved...and maybe, just maybe, they'll want to pick a book up for themselves afterwards.
I've also found that to get a child interested in a book, you have to know all about it!'I've read that one - it's all about...really exciting/scary...had dragons in it...made me cry' goes a long way to sparking their curiosity.
So, yes, I'd go for strawberries every time over spinach!
- 28 May 2012 at 14:51
- womagwriter said...
Great post, and I whole-heartedly agree! Teaching a child to read ane enjoy reading is one of the Must-Do's for parents (along with, in my book, teaching them to swim and ride a bike).
My older son was bright and loved books but was lazy when it came to practicing reading (when he was aged 6-8). He didn't instantly get it and found it a struggle. I knew he'd love reading once he got going, so with the feeling that the end justified the means, I bribed him. I put all his books in order of difficulty and paid him a pound per book he read. At the end of the shelf was the 4th Harry Potter book - the first big thick one - and he was desperate to hear that (it was before the films were out) and I was refusing to read it out loud to him. I knew once he'd read all the others at £1 each he'd be able to tackle the big one. He got a fiver for that, and has never had his nose out of a book since. I don't pay him to read any more, of course, but my strategy worked! Hurray!
- 28 May 2012 at 17:37
- Sue Purkiss said...
All you say is very obviously true - but what I think you didn't address was actually how to get kids who find reading really difficult to enjoy it - of course you want them to, but how to get them to that stage? That's the Holy Grail! But perhaps that's what you're going to talk about at Glasgow?
- 28 May 2012 at 18:33
- Nicola Morgan said...
Sue, there are whole books written about that! I could probably write one but there's no way I have time to address it on this blog, which is supposed to be about writing! On the other hand, see the end of this comment...
Elen and Womag, I think it's a case of "if it works, fine", but it wouldn't work for all children and I'd hesitate to recommend it! I do think that worrying about a child's reading reluctance at all can be counter-productive, though I understand it's hard not to. I am by nature an interfering mother but I think the thing I am most proud of is that I didn't worry about my younger daughter, who wasn't a very keen reader and who turned out to have a form of processing deficit, an aspect of dyslexia. Now aged 22, she's very keen to read really stimulating books and she does. I'm proud of her reading and very proud that she asks me for ideas. And I absolutely know that if I'd put even a tiny bit of pressure on her at the age when she was finding some things hard at school I'd have turned her away from reading. As it was, she just had to come to it on her own, with me behind to catch her if she fell. I have many faults as a parent, but that's the thing I did well.
What did I do? I made sure books were there, that they didn't threaten her, that they were there for her if she wanted them. I let her know that if she started a book and didn't like it, she should stop, as I would. We read to her and her sister long past the time they could read for themselves. We just valued reading but did not value it more than music, or sport, or cookery. It was optional and a pleasure.
And that probably answers Sue's question!
- 28 May 2012 at 19:06
- Sue Purkiss said...
Well, up to a point, Lord Copper! all those things are fine for children who can read but don't seem to want to. But you do talk in your post about children with differently wired brains who find it extremely hard to learn to read; they need something more than having the right kind of books left lying artlessly about, etc. I used to work with such children, and never found any easy answers (or even not-easy answers!) and just wondered if you had!
- 28 May 2012 at 19:50
- Nicola Morgan said...
Sue, sorry, I'm totally snowed under. Such a big topic and really all I wanted to do was highlight the Soc of A campaign with something that's so close to my heart. But the question is so huge - rather like the question in an email I just received: "Can you give me some advice about getting published?" I just don't have time!
- 28 May 2012 at 19:52
- Sue Purkiss said...
Of course, Nicola. Didn't mean to be a pest - but it's an issue that's close to my heart, too. I never found answers, and I just get all excited when it sounds as if someone has!
- 28 May 2012 at 20:19
- Carol Christie said...
At my kids' school, their reading books no longer come home. They are asked instead to record what they are reading at home - and it's up to them what they choose. If it's the Clone Wars Character Directory (yawn) that floats their boat, then that's fine. They are encouraged to read what they like outside school, although they do still read "reading books" at school. Unlike in my day, however, at a very early stage these books are no longer part of a reading scheme, but real live books that you can buy in real live bookshops. My own reluctant reader is slowly realising that reading can be fun - often I'm in the tricky position of having to tell him off for putting his light back on after bed time to read, while actually wanting to punch the air!
- 28 May 2012 at 20:49
- Cameron Writes said...
A long time ago, when I was teaching infants, the favourite part of the day was the last half hour. It was story time when I read aloud to them, showed the pictures, asked the children to guess what was going to happen, recognise a word or a name; it was huge fun for all of us.
Years later, with a dyslexic husband, I did the same thing but with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books. He "came around" and started to read for pleasure.
Reading aloud even to other adults is an art that we seem to have lost although it is hard-wired into our race memories of sitting around the cave fires listening to tales.
This is a fantastic post and I couldn't agree more.
- 29 May 2012 at 07:27
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- 29 May 2012 at 07:27
I suspect a lot of reluctant boy readers DON'T actually want the Muchamores and Ryans (sorry Cat!). But in public they have to be seen with them. What some boys need is something less plot-driven and more focused on character, description, imagination ... even (gasp) something with a female heroine. I doubt they're offered that. My son's always read in that way, but there are definitely some books he'd only read at home!
- 29 May 2012 at 09:37


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This page lists articles from Search Engine Watch and around the web about how search engines have advertised or promoted themselves to the public.
NOTE: Article links often change, especially the older an article is. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and search for the headline. Also, some very old articles flagged "no longer online" might indeed be online — but the former URL no longer resolves, and it's not worth the time investment for me to try and personally track down these down versus spending time producing new content.
Yahoo Advertising on Google
MarketingVox, June 7, 2004
Yahoo's running ads on Google to drive traffic to its shopping area. It's not the first time a search engine has advertised on another one. Indeed, Yahoo's currently running a major campaign in Europe on Google and Espotting to promote some of its portal features.
Shopping.com kicks off a TV ad campaign
InternetRetailer.com, Nov. 17, 2003
Shopping.com has launched a TV campaign to promote its shopping search engine.
Google, Amazon in a war of search words
News.com, Sept. 26, 2003
Google keyed an employment ad to appear on its web site anytime someone searched for the name of the president of Amazon's new ecommerce search unit.
New Ask Jeeves Campaign Sidelines Butler
InternetNews.com, Aug. 11, 2003
Ask Jeeves has begin its new print campaign to reawaken users to its site as a search resource — and the famous butler is sitting this campaign out.
Searching Google Where's Jeeves?
Forbes, July 24, 2003
Ask Jeeves is dropping its butler mascot in an effort to get consumers to understand the site has changed.
Ad Efforts Blossom in Search Engine Arena
AdWeek, June 6, 2003
It's a new era of search engine advertising — that is, advertising by the search engines themselves. Ask Jeeves, Overture and HotBot are all making moves to get the word out about themselves. Note the statement that Google "hardly advertises at all." True, in terms of search consumers. But Google does indeed spend on advertising and marketing itself to potential advertisers, just as Overture does.
Yahoo Kicks Off Wide-Ranging Search Campaign
InternetNews.com, May 19, 2003
Northern Light, now defunct, was the last search engine to run search-specific television ads back in 2000. Now search returns to TV as part of a new advertising campaign to be run by Yahoo. Ads are coming to billboards and the internet, also.
Ask Jeeves Plans New Marketing Push
April 21, 2003
Following on its redesign, Ask Jeeves is now pondering an advertising campaign to attract users. Such campaigns have never seemed to have built long-term usage in the past, but what the heck, the money is apparently flowing. At least the idea of expensive television advertising appears to have been ruled out while online is being strongly considered. That's probably a good move. The one search engine I always felt did a good job in building users was Overture, back when it was originally the GoTo.com destination site. Shortly after its launch, GoTo banners were everywhere — and traffic did rise.
Ask Jeeves Launches Outdoor Ad Campaign
InternetNews.com, Nov. 15, 2002
Miss the "good old days," when some search engines spent absurd amounts of money advertising themselves? Well, you might think they've returned, now that Ask Jeeves has decided to run ads to promote its site. But wait — we have a plan, says Ask Jeeves. It's not expensive TV ads but instead billboards, signage and other types of promotion targeted specifically in LA and New York. Overview of where and how advertising is being done.
Lycos Asia Spends US$2.2m On Campaign For Enhanced Search Engine
Asia.Internet.com, May 18, 2001
Lycos is spreading the word in Asia that its sites there now all feature locally-compiled directories, Asia-wide directory information and crawler-based results from FAST.
The Actor Did It, Ask Jeeves
New York Daily News, Aug. 22, 2000
Earlier this year, when talking to people at conference near an exhibitor booth, one of the people over my shoulder seemed eerily familiar. Who was this guy? Why did I know him so well? Finally, it hit me — I was in front of the Ask Jeeves booth, and the guy was Jeeves himself! This article provides a closer look at one of the 50 different people to portray Jeeves at technology events.
Spock drafted in to flog Dotcom
The Register, July 14, 2000
RealNames competitor Netword picks up Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy to pitch its service.
Portals Overspend on Advertising
NUA, May 26, 2000
Another older article but with interesting statistics showing how much portals spend on advertising in relation to the advertising revenue they receive. At the top of the list, MSN was estimated to spend US $1.62 for every $1 earned. In contrast, Yahoo and some other portals spent only 10 cents per dollar earned. E-commerce and other revenues were not taken into account, only pure advertising revenue.
Northern Light is not search lite
Ad Age, April 17, 2000
Northern Light has launched its second television ad campaign, in hopes of raising awareness of the service. The first campaign last fall failed to bring the service anywhere close to the traffic levels of its competitors, as this article details.
Greybeard AltaVista aims to burnish image
Ad Age, March 2000
How AltaVista is trying to build its traffic with its first ever marketing campaign.
Licensing deal validates Ask Jeeves's approach
News.com, Oct. 29, 1999
I've always thought the little Ask Jeeves guy was pretty hokey, but now he's being backed by one of Hollywood's biggest agents. Look out, Pokemon!
Internet icons on parade?
Salon, Sept. 24, 1999
Ask Jeeves will be in the next Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and Salon pictures it as the start of a net-related character rush in future years.
AltaVista, Northern Light to launch multimillion-dollar TV ad campaigns
Wall St. Journal, Aug. 2, 1999
Both AltaVista and Northern Light are planning television campaigns. All the search engines that have done this in the past have enjoyed real gains, so it's a wise move for both companies. In fact, AltaVista already enjoys such heavy grassroots traffic that an TV campaign could push it into seriously rivaling Excite, Go or Lycos for traffic. As for Northern Light, this will probably be what finally puts it on the radar screen before the general public.
How the Portals Build Their Brands
Industry Standard, June 7, 1999
At-a-glance look at the TV campaigns being waged by the major portal sites.
Lycos's loop has users reconsider rivals
News.com, April 2, 1999
I've been meaning to mention this change at Lycos that happened some months ago, in the context of the Company Names Test that I run from time-to-time. Basically, Lycos is popping up special pages if you enter "Yahoo" or "Excite." The pages are a bit heavy-handed — they make a pitch for sticking with Lycos, instead of going to the competing site. But they do provide a link at the bottom to the service that users are after — which is more helpful than what some search engines were providing, the last time I ran the test. But do a search for "Infoseek" at Lycos, and you'll see what would really benefit users more — a big link that says "Infoseek's home page" at the top of the results.
Here Come The Search Engine TV Ads
The Search Engine Report, Jan. 5, 1999
Details on new and planned campaigns from Excite, Netscape and Go.
Netscape takes its message to the masses
Wired, Dec. 17, 1998
The second story on this page provides a few details about Netscape ads.
Net search engines find TV ads
San Francisco Business Times, Oct. 12, 1998
A nice summary of the current round of search engine television ads that are underway.
NBC Bolsters Snap
Wired, July 20, 1998
Details on NBC's plans to begin promoting Snap on television. Past television ads by other search services have helped increase traffic, at least temporarily.
Infoseek looks for visibility
San Jose Mercury News, July 21, 1997
Infoseek looks for an ad agency to help prepare its first print and television ads.
Search engines weigh impact of TV campaigns
Ad Age, June 1997
— no longer online —
Examines moves by search engines to reach out to consumers and potential advertisers via television.
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Google never confirmed its existence, but many SEOs believe that Google Sandbox exists. So, does it exist in 2019? If yes, how to avoid getting affected?
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While Google is an obvious "horse to bet on," ubiquity, UX and utility will dominate the voice-search innovation race in 2020 and beyond.
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In 1913, Roy Chapman Andrews set off for Alaska on board the Adventuress in search of a bowhead whale. In this podcast, Tom Baione, Boeschenstein Director of the Museum's Library, recounts the tale of this adventure and the maiden voyage of the ship, which repeatedly averted disaster and inadvertently contributed to bowhead whale conservation.
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NHL Game Night: 2-28-12 Canadiens at Lightning
Opportunistic Lightning beat Habs, flu virus.
Mathieu Garon was stellar in stopping 23 of 24 for the victory.
First Period
TB Stamkos (44), (Purcell, St. Louis), 8:42
MTL Desharnais (13), (unassisted), 16:02
Second Period
TB Hall (2), (Malone, Wyman), 0:28
Third Period
Garon, Adam Hall, and Eric Brewer were the game's three stars.
Granted, Montreal's abysmal right now, but with all the new pieces and the wholesale call-ups because half the team had the flu, this game could've very easily gotten out of hand the other way. Games are played on ice, not on paper, though, and the Lightning continue to tease us enough to hold our interest. The team moved to within 5 points of 8th place, which is now held by Washington as the Caps hopped Winnipeg with a win tonight. There's still a lot of head-to-head games against teams directly in front of the Lightning. Hope springs.
Trevor Smith had 1 blocked shot in 14:41.
J.T. Wyman had an assist and was +1 with 1 shot and 2 blocked shots in 16:19.
Evan Oberg had 3 shots and 1 hit in 16:44.
Mike Angelidis had 1 shot in 5:19.
Pierre-Cedric Labrie had a fight and 2 hits in 4:37.
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Patriots' Gronkowski to require back surgery
Foxboro, MA – New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will undergo yet another surgery this offseason, this time for his ailing back.
According to NFL.com, Gronkowski is tentatively scheduled for back surgery in mid-June, which will prevent the stud tight end from beginning training camp with the rest of his teammates.
It is not immediately known how much time he will miss.
The Patriots were aware that this was a possibility for Gronkowski, a two-time Pro Bowler and New England's top touchdown target in all three of his NFL seasons, but were holding out hope it could be avoided.
The 24-year-old recently underwent his fourth surgery since November to clear out an infection in his previously broken left forearm, which he originally suffered back in Week 11 against the Indianapolis Colts.
Gronkowski had 11 touchdown catches last season among his 55 receptions for 790 yards. He has appeared in 43 games since being drafted by the Patriots in 2010, and has totaled 187 receptions for 2,663 yards and 38 touchdowns.


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Well, yes, and indeed the modification of u8g_Delay() is more a workaround (or hack) instead of a good solution. To excause the current situation a little bit: I never read in the Arduino documentation that some of the procedures are not valid to be called during constructor time. And on the ATMEGA it was never a problem to call digitalWrite() or delay() in the constructor.
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There's a common misconception that young people simply do not care about Social Security. But research by pollster Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners shows precisely the opposite.
"The younger you are, the more opposed you are to raising the age of retirement," Lake said, speaking at an Economic Policy Institute forum on Engaging Younger Generations in the Social Security Debates. Also at the forum was Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci of the New School, and EPI Researcher Kathryn Edwards.
Lake surmises that younger people's opposition to raising the retirement age could be because Generation Y – her terminology for anyone under 30 – has much higher rates of volunteerism than Generation X and do not view life as a "zero sum game."
The general finding of numerous surveys conducted by Lake Research Partners discovered voters under 30 are considerably more likely to oppose raising the retirement age than other age groups. When asked whether they favored or opposed increasing the retirement age to 69, an astounding 70 percent of Americans under the age of 30 said they opposed. 61 percent of Americans age 50-64 said they would oppose such a measure and only 46 percent of citizens over 65 said they opposed raising the retirement age.
According to Lake, the remedy to ensure Social Security is around for the younger generations who want it is to remove a little known tax rate cap which only taxes the first $160,000 of a person's annual income. "Nobody real makes 160,000." Teresa Ghilarducci provided statistical proof that the elderly are not cannibalizing America's youth. Wages will increase 35 percent from 2003 to 2030 yet spending on retirement security will only increase 13 percent. "If you spend money on pensions (Social Security), you won't take away from spending on the youth."
The possibilities of raising the retirement age, a scare that may become reality after the Obama administration appeared to have finally caved on the topic, leaves the elderly with two scenarios. The first is that they retire sooner and thus, with less than the full amount they had initially anticipated. This will result with a lower material standard of living as the three largest costs for seniors: energy; food; and health care are all rising in cost above inflation. Their other option is to continue working but this has shown to be negative on their health. They also lose much prized leisure time which is linked to a happier and a healthier lifestyle and they would have to fight for a job in the worst economy since the Great Depression.
The belief that people are living longer is skewed because according to Ghilarducci those that are living longer are in the top 2 percent of wealthy Americans. They have better access to health care and can afford to retire or work at their own pace.
Kathryn Edwards, EPI Researcher and author of "A Young Person's Guide to Social Security" concluded the day with a brief presentation on how to convince young people to care about Social Security. To her the answer is simply just showing them the facts. She praised the Social Security system as it continued to achieve its goal by lowering the poverty rate among seniors even during its hardest test ever in 2007-2009.
She framed the need to protect Social Security in perspective for a recent college graduate. Assuming a person retired when they were eligible 45 years after having graduated college and entered the workforce, they would have lived through: seven recessions; oil shocks; oil embargoes; three bailouts; the dot-com bust; several government shut downs; and too many wars. That is why Americans, young and old, need a system of guaranteed retirement that is paid for by them and their employers.
People in the sixties, fifties, or even forties are unlikely to feel the burn of changes to Social Security according to Edwards but she believes young people are the ones at risk, "it's yours to lose."
Finally, Edwards succinctly encapsulates the argument for those on the left who want to save Social Security and their frustration at the current climate of axing benefits and raising the retirement age. "If you're young the only reason why Social Security won't be there is because we politically came to the conclusion that we cannot afford it."


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SCMC/TCUSA Winterfest - Virginia International Raceway - February 17-18, 2018
******Due to the weather this will be a SUNDAY ONLY EVENT******
This is the first "official" SCMC/TCUSA event for 2018. The event will be an HPDE with no car show or dyno, just plain ole wide open, full throttle, full course VIR for two days. Here is the information you will need for this event.
Where: Virginia International Raceway, Danville VA
When: February 18, 2018
Cost: $450.00 for two days or $250.00 for one day. If you preregister on or before January 17, 2018 you will receive a $55.00 discount for a two day purchase only!!
Discount: You must be a member of either SCMC or TCUSA, in order to participate in our on track events. To join one of these clubs, go to www.svtcobraclub.com if you own an SVT Mustang or the new Boss 302 --- or go to www.trackclubusa.com to join if you do not own an SVT Mustang or Boss 302.
Registration Opens: January 1, 2018
Cancellation Policy: We have a special cancellation policy for this event and this event only. You may cancel up to 72 hours prior to the event and get a full refund.
On-line payment available: No, only checks will be accepted. Your check will be mailed back to you or will be shredded if you decide to cancel going to the event.
Special Weather Insurance: If it is raining or snowing or if the temperature is below 48 degrees, this event may be cancelled and a full refund will be returned to the registrants. We will also shred the check if you agree to it. Precipitation will cancel the event but temperature gives either the track or the club the right to cancel and issue participants a full refund! The temperature clause is a guideline where we used the average temperature in Alton, VA for the month of February as the decision point. The average temperature was researched from weather.com. This does not mean we will cancel due to cold weather but it gives us the right to cancel if either party deems it necessary.
Host Hotel: The Lodge at VIR or the Villas at VIR. We are asking ALL participants to lodge at the track.
Please stay at the track for this event. We want to be sure to patronize the track by staying at their on site hotels.
Event Update:
The bottom line on this event is that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain since you will get a full refund if you cancel up to 72 hours before the event. We have a weather clause so if it is bad weather, we will cancel the event, and you will get your check back. No checks will be endorsed prior to February 15, 2018. That means we will hold your check till we know that the weather is going to be good and only then will we deposit your fee. There will be no on line payment for this event since we do not want to pay processing fees and will be able to give you a full refund should the weather be bad.
You can use a credit for this event.
Insurance for this event will be available from Lockton Affinity
Be sure to download the required forms attached below.
Dinner Friday and Saturday Nights: (Tentative)
Dinner Location: Aunt Millie's - this was fun in November Main Street Milton, NC
Time: 6:30 pm till close
Location: Just outside the track on main street
Cost: See restaurant menu
Phone: 336-234-0240
Dinner Location: Saturday February 17, 2018
Time: 6:30-8:30
Location: Danville - Just do the best you can.
Cost: TBD
Menu: TBD
Saturday's dinner depends on who wants to eat there and how long you have to wait. Other restaurants are available for you to gather at as a group.
You also have the option of staying at the track and eating at the Tavern. No need to go to town if you just don't want to go.
Please download the registration form below and mail it in with your check. Be sure to check back for event documents and confirmation of your registration fee.
Event Organizers:
1. Tony Sorrentino - Registration
2. Harry Labar - Registration
3. Daniel Brooks - Tech Inspection
4. Don Labar - Tech Inspection
5. David Melhado - Event Photography
Classroom Instructors:
1. Bill Foster - Hyperdrive/Lead Instructor
Event Instructors: (White Group)
1. David Hartman - 1999 Black Corvette Coupe
2. Norbert Watts - 2016 Black Corvette Coupe
3. Richard Bagby - 1990 Burgundy Mustang GT Hatchback
4. Ben Dawson - 1990 White Mazda Miata Coupe (Sunday Only)
5. Robert Anderson - 2001 White Chevrolet Monte Carlo Coupe
6. Mike Sharrett - Some kind of black BMW??
7. Bryan Davis - 1994 White Honda Civic Coupe
8. David Black - 1992 White Honda Civic Coupe
Super Advanced: (Red - no point by necessary)
1. John Salmon - 2016 Red Shelby GT350R Coupe
2. Ed Bull - 2009 Yellow FR500C Mustang Coupe
Advanced Group (Blue group)
1. Nick Diacoloukas - 2013 Grabber Blue Shelby GT500 Coupe
2. Shaun Todd - 2006 Blue Nissan 350Z Coupe
3. Mike Chambers - 2016 White Ford Focus RS Coupe
4. Charles Chambers - 2014 Black Shelby GT500 Coupe
5. David Beyersdorf - 2016 Blue BMW M2 Coupe
Intermediate Group (Blue group)
1. Brian Coleman - 1995 White Chvrolet Caprice Sedan - Mike Sharrett
2. Barry Brooks - 2004 Silver Nissan 350 Z Coupe - Bryan Davis
3. Dennis Rohde - 2018 Magnetic Mustang GT Coupe - Ben Dawson
4. Patrick Williams - 2009 Blue BMW M3 Coupe
5. Brad Williams - 1999 Black Corvette Coupe
6. Kevin Bush - 2012 Competition Orange Boss 302 Coupe
Novice Group (Green/Orange):
1. Jesse Reiherzer - 2015 White Alfa Romeo LC Coupe - Norbert Watts
2. Paul Thomas Cornelio - 2012 Black Mustang GT Coupe - Robert Anderson
3. Ali Nabavi - 2009 Yellow Mini Cooper S Coupe - Richard Bagby
4. Jessica Bass - 1992 White Honda Civic Coupe - David Black
Hyperdrives: ($60.00 for one session in your car with an instructor)
1. Cody Wilson - 1997 Rio Red SVT Mustang Cobra Coupe - Jason Tower
Parade Laps Attendees:
*****This schedule may be modified due to weather****
Friday Schedule:
Registration at North Paddock - 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Tech at Tech Shed - 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner at Aunt Millie's Pizza - Milton, NC - Just outside of track on Main street.
Sunday Schedule:
7:30 am - 7:50 am - (Instructor Meeting - Upstairs)
7:30 am - 8:20am - Driver's Meeting (North Paddock)
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 am - Red/White Group (Classroom for Green/Hyperdrive Group 8:45 am to 9:15 am)
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Orange Group
9:30 am - 10:00 am - Blue Group
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Green Group
10:30 am - 11:00 am - Red/White Group
11:00 am - 12:00 pm - Lunch and Parade laps
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm - Orange Group
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm - Blue Group
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Green Group
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Red/White Group
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Orange Group
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Blue Group
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Green Group
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Red/White Group
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Orange Group
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Blue Group
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Green Group
****** SCMC/TCUSA reserves the right to change this schedule at any time during the weekend. ******
The SCMC/TCUSA will be offering Hyperdrives over the course of the weekend. A Hyperdrive is one 30 minute session in your car with an in car instructor. You still have to fill out all of the forms, have a helmet, be at the driver's meeting and your car must pass a tech inspection.
Dinner - TBD
These are the required forms. Please make sure you fill these out, print them, sign them, and bring them with you to registration.
Helmet Form: http://www.svtcobraclub.com/ontrackhelmetform.html
Technical Form: http://www.svtcobraclub.com/ontracktechnicalform.html
Medical Forms will now be switched to a "medical card" that must be filled out at the event and kept with you at all times while on track. The club is no longer responsible for safe keeping your medical information, you must keep the card with you at all times till the event is concluded.
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Jake Owen Readies for 'Amazing' Tour With Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw
The past 12 months of Jake Owen's career have been quite impressive for the 30-year-old singer. Owen just experienced his first chart-topping single, 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night,' and has his latest hit, 'Alone With You,' well on its way to becoming the next in line. In 2012, things will only get better, as he will hit the road with Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney on their Brothers of the Sun Tour — something that Owen still feels the need to pinch himself about on an hourly basis.
"There are just a lot of things that are happening right now that are really blowing my mind," Owen tells Taste of Country. "The first concert that I ever really saw outside of county fairs or some really small theater [was] Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw at the Coral Sky Amphitheater in Florida. I was in high school … about 16 or 17-years-old. I went with my girlfriend at the time. She and I went with a few of our friends, and I'll never forget it. I can tell you exactly what that tour was like. I remember it like it was yesterday."
"That is what I think about when I heard about this tour," he continues. "It just blew my mind because I was a kid at this amphitheater on the lawn, not even knowing this is what I would be doing at that time. I was just a fan of music and a fan of them. I still am. Just to think that I'm going to be out there — still as that person, but doing my thing — I wish there was an easy way to explain what I feel like, but I really can't. You can just see the smile on my face every night when I'm out there. It's going to be amazing."
As for his own live performance, Owen says, "I just do what I do. I go out there and try to entertain people as much as I can. I've heard Kenny talk about before how he goes up to the highest point in the stadium and looks down and wonders how he can connect with that person sitting there. I'll think of that as well from the stage. Whether it's the person in the pit down there or the person way up high in the stadium … they already know a lot about Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw. They know what they're getting when they come for that. I still have that little bit of wonder with people, like, 'Who is this guy?' I want to make them leave feeling how I left when I left that Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw thing at Coral Sky Amphitheater, which was 'Those guys are amazing!'"
The new tour won't be the first time Owen has shared the stage with the likes of Chesney. Back in 2006, Owen and Dierks Bentley opened the superstar's Flip Flops Summer Tour, and the two struck up a "really cool relationship" with Chesney.
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Owen looks forward to building a relationship with McGraw, too, especially after meeting the star at the 2011 CMA Awards last month.
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Review
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Two years ago, Techland and Ubisoft released Call of Juarez, a first person shooter set in the Wild West that focused on revenge and a search for a mythical cursed treasure. The thing that really stood out with the game was a memorable anti-hero in the form of Reverend Ray, a brimstone and hellfire preacher who wielded the bible and a six shooter with equal ease in battle. Clearly, there was much more to his personal story than gold and retribution. To capitalize on this, TechLand and Ubisoft reteamed for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, an origin story of Reverend Ray, his brothers and their quest for gold. More action packed than the first game, Bound in Blood is a solid title that's held back by technical issues and some repetitive gameplay sequences.
Bound in Blood is a rather complex tale that once again raises the specter of revenge and cursed treasure, amongst a backdrop of the western frontier; I'll try to summarize the story without providing any spoilers of any kind. Players are introduced to Ray and Thomas McCall, two brothers in the Confederate army that desert their posts to save their family home from Union soldiers. Seeing the destruction of their land and swearing that they'll rebuild their property one day, the McCalls head west to seek fortune and glory. However, going AWOL infuriates their former commander, who declares that he'll hunt them down to the ends of the earth for their abandonment of the Confederate cause. Fleeing both the Confederate troops on their heels and various lawmen from some of their illegal activities throughout the country, the McCalls eventually connect with the Mexican bandit leader Juan and his concubine Marisa, who has information regarding the treasure of Cortez. The McCalls will also have to deal with the Apache, whose connection with the gold could potentially threaten the entire West.
Want to dance with the devil in the pale candlelight?It may sound convoluted, but the story is told rather well and all ties together in the end, providing a solid background for the events of the prior Call of Juarez game. Much of this is thanks to William, the youngest McCall, who narrates the story in between each chapter and fills the player in on the actions of his two siblings. Like the previous title, you'll play as either Ray or Thomas, and you'll have the option to choose which brother you'd like to play as for most of the game. As far as fighting is concerned, the two McCalls have completely different gunslinging styles. As the eldest brother, Ray is the tank of the duo, absorbing much more damage before falling in combat thanks to the piece of armor that he wears. He's also packs a heavier punch than his younger brother with shotguns in the midst of battle and the dynamite that he uses to blast through obstacles. Thanks to his strength, Ray can also pick up heavy items or smash through doors. Thomas, on the other hand, is a stealthier character as well, and can use knives, bows and arrows to eliminate his enemies. Thomas is also much more agile than Ray, and can easily climb structures or use a lasso to get to higher ground to pick off enemies. He's also a better shot, so he can use more precise aiming with rifles to eliminate targets.
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Someone needs to call Bob Vila.However, if you were expecting a lot of platforming elements within the game, you're going to be somewhat disappointed – the primary focus of the title is on fast paced battle sequences between the McCalls and a large number of enemies. In fact, each opponent that you gun down provides you with either ammunition for your guns, different weapons that you can pick up to replace your own firearms, or cash that can be pocketed to buy supplies and a more powerful arsenal. Even more important is that every enemy you kill adds to your concentration meter, which will allow Thomas and Ray to trigger a bullet time-like effect to quickly dispatch their targets. Each one feels rather in keeping with the style of the brothers, as you'll find Ray painting multiple targets and unleashing a hail of gunfire, while Thomas will perform a quick shot of anyone that's within his line of sight. Thomas' also requires faster reflexes, as you'll need to move the right analog stick (or the mouse) to cock the hammer and fire the weapon for each shot. While you can store these powerful moments, you only have a minute to trigger the ability before you lose it and have to start collecting kills all over again. This limitation is a wise decision because it doesn't allow characters to run rampant through the game, shredding enemies with stored concentration attacks.


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BEDFORD, N.Y. -- Cara Lynn Kernan, 47, of Hillsdale, formerly of Bedford Village, passed away at home on Friday, Feb. 17.
She was born on Oct. 12, 1969, in Mount Kisco to Joseph and Rita (Brust) Iantorno Jr.
Kernan worked in several offices for Columbia County Department of Social Services in Hudson and was a member of the Hillsdale Fire Company and ladies auxiliary.
In addition to her parents, survivors include her children, Nicole R. Kernan, Marissa E. Kernan and Justin R. Kernan; an Aunt Patricia and Uncle Mike Iantorno; several cousins and former husband, Justin P. Kernan.
She had a very special relationship with her paternal grandmother Antionette Iantorno.
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The Federal Highway Administration is upping its snow-removal game.
The Federal Highway Administration wants to develop smart snowplows equipped with GPS, radar, sensors used in attack helicopters and virtual reality and synthetic vision systems.
FHWA said it plans to run a competition for a prototype "high-accuracy, visual guidance system" for snowplow operators based on these and other advanced technologies, such as heads-up displays used in military aircraft so pilots don't have to look down at a screen.
"To successfully complete this project, expertise will be required in diverse fields, including digital imaging, digital multidimensional mapping, global positioning systems, radar/LiDAR/forward-looking infrared-based sensing, and related emerging/existing technologies," FHWA said.
"Experience will also be needed in advanced digital imaging and displays, including augmented reality, virtual reality, synthetic vision, and advanced user displays such as heads-up displays, visors and other wearable technology."
Cities around the country including Chicago, Washington and New York use GPS to track snowplows, with their locations displayed on websites accessible to the public, but none use systems envisioned by FHWA to aid plow drivers.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research developed a system last year called Pikalert™ Enhanced Maintenance Decision Support System, which equips plows with sensors that monitor road and snow conditions and then report them along with GPS-derived location information to a central database via a mobile phone connection.
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My 1st opera viewing (Even though it's in a cinema). I never knew a opera could be this fascinating and breathtaking! #ROHturandot
— スミタ_EN (@sumita_en) September 18, 2013
As well as loving the opera prod and singers really enjoyed the introductions and backstage bits for cinema #ROHturandot @RoyalOperaHouse — Anne Salter (@Anne_WithAn_E) September 17, 2013
#ROHTurandot cinema broadcast had too many close-ups. Don't need to see every detail of singer's make-up nor to look down singer's throats.
— David Reeks (@ImpGardener) September 18, 2013
Just home from #ROHTurandot. OMG gave me chills! Spectacular. Calaf and Turandot forever. #loveconquersall — Fiona Strachan (@FionaStrachan) September 17, 2013
I am proud that I am Japanese because of Eri Nakamura. Amazing experience in Finland, thank you! #ROHturandot
— jun murakoshi / 村越 淳 (@jun_murakoshi) September 17, 2013
#ROHturandot Blown away by the sense of nobility and power of the beautifully poised Turandot @liselindstrom . An amazing Ice Princess. — Charlotte Hoather (@CHoatherSings) September 17, 2013
#ROHturandot great sharing the emotion and the beauty around the world. Performance, singing, scenes.. So beautiful. Cheers from Rome.
— lucia alosi (@lugemini) September 17, 2013
So many things totally wrong with opera, made worse by cinema close ups & subtitles but fabulous music and still loved it! #ROHturandot
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Been to see my first ever opera live via satellite thanks to #ROHturandot loved it!! — Kelly Rhodes (@kellythered78) September 17, 2013
#ROHturandot Terrible production. Songs are depressing enough without the overbearing, claustrophobic sets. Badly miscast, too.
— Graham Tully (@realGrahamTully) September 17, 2013
@RoyalOperaHouse Lindstrom and Nakamura offered spectacular performances last night! Both brought down the house. #ROHturandot — Christopher Howell (@magichristopher) September 18, 2013
Fantastic opera's night and perfect Liu's performance, thanks from barcelona #ROHturandot
— noelia fernandez (@nea_trouble) September 17, 2013
The live screening of Turandot marked the start of the Live Cinema Season 2013/14, which will see ten Royal Opera House productions screened live in cinemas across the world. Find out more about the launch of the new season.
Turandot will be followed by the live screening of Carlos Acosta's new production of Don Quixote on 16 October. View the full list of cinema screenings this Season.
What did you think of Turandot in cinemas? Share your thoughts below.
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A commemorative coin, die-struck in brass and gold-plating will soon be available for purchase to serve as a reminder for the upcoming 100th birthday of Port St. Joe.
A commemorative coin, die-struck in brass and gold-plating will soon be available for purchase to serve as a reminder for the upcoming 100th birthday of Port St. Joe.
To honor the July 1 birthday, a week-long celebration full of activities and events will be held across the town.
In October, Mayor Mel Magidson appointed several committees to brainstorm and coordinate the events.
He sought out people whose families were steeped in the history, background and culture of the town.
�They�re all hard workers and familiar with the area,� Magidson said.
One of the committees, headed by City Auditor and Clerk, Charlotte Pierce was asked to come up with the perfect memento that locals could buy and pass down through future generations to remember the birthday.
Other coins have been donated to the city which served as inspiration for the centennial token.
One historic coin celebrated 100 years since the signing of the Florida Constitution, marked 1838 to 1938. Another commemorated Florida�s sesquicentennial of 75 years in 1988.
Pierce noticed that both historic designs featured the Constitution Monument seen in the Constitution Convention Museum State Park and decided to keep with tradition.
Bids were taken from designers and ultimately The Pin Center was awarded the project.
Seven ideas were sent over for the committee to review and they were whittled down until just one remained.
�The colors went well together and complimented one another,� said Pierce of the final design.
The two-inch gold coin highlighted with blue, features the constitution landmark on one side and the state of Florida on the reverse. A star marks the location of Port St. Joe.
Magidson explained that the purpose of the coin was two-fold. It would help raise funds for the upcoming centennial celebration and would serve as a memento to commemorate the important event.
�Port St. Joe has been around for a long time,� said Magidson. �This coin lets us commemorate history and our significance within the state.�
The coin supply is limited to 1,500. Each will cost $15 and come with a velvet storage bag. Those who wish to purchase a coin and support the centennial celebration can visit City Hall.
Local merchants will also have them in stock soon.
Pierce and Magidson have been hard at work planning the celebration and hope that the town will enjoy the activities they�ve worked hard to coordinate.
�We�re looking forward to the events. It�s going to be an awesome week and we thank everyone for their support,� said Pierce.
The Port St. Joe Centennial Celebration will take place June 28 through July 4.


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