Sabrina Bryan Reacts to Dancing with the Stars Shocker

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/10/sabrina-bryan-reacts-to-dancing-with-the-stars-shocker/

national championship calipari national archives brock lesnar kentucky jayhawks wwe wrestlemania

Data Termination Technology (naumankhan) | Computers ...

';

function load() {
geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
//directionsDisplay = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer();
var newyork = new google.maps.LatLng(28.635157471966515, 77.22770690917969);
// var newyork = new google.maps.LatLng(40.69847032728747, -73.9514422416687);
var myOptions = {
zoom: 14,
center: newyork,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
mapTypeControlOptions: {
style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU
}
}
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), myOptions);
//directionsDisplay.setMap(map);
}


function codeAddress() {
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address }, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
map.setCenter();

var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
icon: redFlag,
shadow: shadow,
//title: title,
animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP,
position: results[0].geometry.location
});

var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
maxWidth: 270,
content: contentString,
disableAutoPan: false
});

infowindow.open(map, marker);

google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
infowindow.open(map,marker);
});

} else {
(function($) {
$('#map').append('

Sorry, the address could not be found.

'); return false; })(jQuery); } }); } function showAddress(fromAddress, toAddress) { calcRoute(); calcRoute1(); } function calcRoute() { var start = document.getElementById("fromAdd").value; var end = document.getElementById("toAdd").value; var request = { origin: start, destination: end, travelMode: google.maps.DirectionsTravelMode.DRIVING }; directionsService.route(request, function(response, status) { if (status == google.maps.DirectionsStatus.OK) { directionsDisplay.setDirections(response); } }); } //]]>

Source: http://www.twarak.com/ad/chandigarh/computers/hardware/137837/data-termination-technology-naumankhan.html

Olympics 2012 Schedule Kenneth Branagh Lupe Ontiveros London 2012 China muhammad ali Opening ceremony London 2012 Google Fiber

Julie Klam's 5 BEST EVERS | Chick Lit Is Not Dead

Today?s guest: Julie Klam

Why we love her: We first fell for her when we read her hilarious and lovable memoir (with the cutest dog you?ve ever seen on the cover!), You Had Me At Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secret of Happiness and we?ve devoured everything she?s written since.

Her latest: Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate and Can?t Live Without

The scoop on it: With her inimitable wit and disarming warmth, Julie Klam shares with us her experiences, advice, and insight in Friendkeeping, a candid, hilarious look at some of the most meaningful and enjoyable relationships in our lives: our friendships.

After her bestselling You Had Me at Woof, about relationships with dogs, Klam now turns her attention to human relationships to great effect. She examines everything?from the curious world of online friendship to the intersection of friendship and motherhood. She even explores how to hang on to our friendships in the toughest circumstances: when schadenfreude rears its ugly head or when we don?t like our friend?s mate.

Klam relays a mix of brand-new and time-tested wisdom?she finds that longtime friends really can grow up without growing apart; that communication is key; that friendship is one of life?s great, free sources of happiness; that you?re not a friend, just a doormat, if you don?t get back what you give?and her discoveries range from amusing to deeply important.

Our thoughts: As BFF?s for over 25 years, this laugh-out-loud funny and heartwarming book.

Giveaway: FIVE COPIES. Just leave a comment & be entered to win. We?ll select the winners at 3pm on Sunday, October 28th.

Fun fact: Remember VH1?s Pop-up Video? Julie not only wrote for that show, but earned an Emmy nomination.

Where you can read more about Julie: Twitter, Facebook and her website.

CHICK LIT IS NOT DEAD PRESENTS?JULIE KLAM?S 5 BEST EVERS

1. song- Baker Street by Gerry Raferty. I was looking at my itunes the other day and thinking I?ve probably bought that song a million times. It reminds me of being on the floor of my brother Matt?s room in our house in Katonah and we were just groovin on our coolness ? I was 11 and he was 13 so all of the coolness was invisible

2. book ? I?ve answered this question a lot lately ? it?s Fraud by the great David Rakoff. There just is no voice like his, he is the funniest writer ever. The first time I met him I gushed about it and he was so genuinely touched and moved and I thought ?wow, this must not happen to him a lot.? And then I learned half the world told him that.

3. movie- Close Encounters of the Third Kind ? I loved it when I was a kid and then it was the first movie I bought as an adult. I?d just watch it over and over and over and over. I used to see Richard Dreyfuss in our diner and I felt like he was an old buddy. I once saw him eating with Richard Masur. I don?t know if he had friends that weren?t named Richard.

4. piece of advice ? If someone is paying you to do something then it?s a job and you have to do it the way they want it and on time. I think my pet peeve is people who get all artiste-y about their work. People pay you and people need your product to make money. And they count on you. Don?t be a jerk. I think when I first started freelancing my aunt told me, no one wants to hear you bellyache.

5. life moment -First time I held my daughter - I had given birth c-section and had pre-eclampsia and she was a premie. So she was born and they whipped into the NICU and I was sent to a recovery room. It was 22 hours before I got to see her and hold her. I was ready to rip out my cords Hulk style and go get her but someone took pity on me. I couldn?t believe her existence and how much I desperately loved her.

Thanks, Julie!
xoxo,

Liz & Lisa

Photo credit: Sarah Shatz

Tagged as: Best memoirs of 2012, chick lit blog, Chick Lit is Not Dead, Friendkeeping, Julie Klam, Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

Source: http://chicklitisnotdead.com/2012/10/julie-klams-5-best-evers/

mirror mirror robyn texas relays meniscus the colony kids choice awards ncaa final four 2012

US Air Force Plans Final Hypersonic X-51A Test Launch

{ttle}

{cptn}","template_name":"ss_thmb_play_ttle","i18n":{"end_of_gallery_header":"End of Gallery","end_of_gallery_next":"View Again"},"metadata":{"pagination":"{firstVisible} - {lastVisible} of {numItems}","ult":{"spaceid":"13697051","sec":""}}},{"id": "hcm-carousel-934614260", "dataManager": C.dmgr, "mediator": C.mdtr, "group_name":"hcm-carousel-934614260", "track_item_selected":1,"tracking":{ "spaceid" : "13697051", "events" : { "click" : { "any" : { "yui-carousel-prev" : { "node" : "a", "data" : {"sec":"HCMOL on article right rail","slk":"prev","itc":"1" }, "bubbles" : true, "test": function(params){ var carousel = params.obj.getCarousel(); var pages = carousel._pages; // if same page, don't beacon if(("_ult_current_page" in carousel) && carousel._ult_current_page==pages.cur) return false; // keep track of current position within this closure carousel._ult_current_page = pages.cur; return true; } }, "yui-carousel-next" : { "node" : "a", "data" : {"sec":"HCMOL on article right rail","slk":"next","itc":"1" }, "bubbles" : true, "test": function(params){ var carousel = params.obj.getCarousel(); var pages = carousel._pages; // no more pages, don't beacon again // if same page, don't beacon if(("_ult_current_page" in carousel) && carousel._ult_current_page==pages.cur) return false; // keep track of current position within this closure carousel._ult_current_page = pages.cur; return true; } } } } } } })); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {(function() { try{ if (Math.floor(Math.random()*10) == 1) { var loc = window.location, decoded = decodeURI(loc.pathname), encoded = encodeURI(decoded), uri = loc.protocol + "//" + loc.host + encoded + ((loc.search.length > 0) ? loc.search + '&' : '?') + "_cacheable=1", xmlhttp; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); else xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); xmlhttp.open("GET",uri,true); xmlhttp.send(); } }catch(e){} })(); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {Y.namespace("Media").ywaSettings = '"projectId": "10001256862979", "documentName": "", "documentGroup": "", "ywaColo" : "vscale3", "spaceId" : "13697051" ,"customFields" : { "12" : "classic", "13" : "story" }'; Y.Media.YWA.init(Y.namespace("Media").ywaSettings); }); Y.later(10, this, function() {if(document.onclick===YAHOO.Media.PreventDefaultHandler.newClick){document.onclick=YAHOO.Media.PreventDefaultHandler.oldClick;} }); }); });

Not-so-permanent permafrost: 850 billion tons of carbon stored in frozen Arctic ground could be released

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? As much as 44 billion tons of nitrogen and 850 billion tons of carbon stored in arctic permafrost, or frozen ground, could be released into the environment as the region begins to thaw over the next century as a result of a warmer planet, according to a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey. This nitrogen and carbon are likely to impact ecosystems, the atmosphere, and water resources including rivers and lakes. For context, this is roughly the amount of carbon stored in the atmosphere today.

The release of carbon and nitrogen in permafrost could exacerbate the warming phenomenon and will impact water systems on land and offshore according to USGS scientists and their domestic and international collaborators. The previously unpublished nitrogen figure is useful for scientists who are making climate predictions with computer climate models, while the carbon estimate is consistent and gives more credence to other scientific studies with similar carbon estimates.

"This study quantifies the impact on Earth's two most important chemical cycles, carbon and nitrogen, from thawing of permafrost under future climate warming scenarios," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "While the permafrost of the polar latitudes may seem distant and disconnected from the daily activities of most of us, its potential to alter the planet's habitability when destabilized is very real."

To generate the estimates, scientists studied how permafrost-affected soils, known as Gelisols, thaw under various climate scenarios. They found that all Gelisols are not alike: some Gelisols have soil materials that are very peaty, with lots of decaying organic matter that burns easily -- these will impart newly thawed nitrogen into the ecosystem and atmosphere. Other Gelisols have materials that are very nutrient rich -- these will impart a lot of nitrogen into the ecosystem. All Gelisols will contribute carbon dioxide and likely some methane into the atmosphere as a result of decomposition once the permafrost thaws -- and these gases will contribute to warming. What was frozen for thousands of years will enter our ecosystems and atmosphere as a new contributor.

"The scientific community researching this phenomena has made these international data available for the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As permafrost receives more attention, we are sharing our data and our insights to guide those models as they portray how the land, atmosphere, and ocean interact," said study lead Jennifer Harden, USGS Research Soil Scientist.

The article "Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing" was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by U.S. Geological Survey.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal Reference:

1. Jennifer W. Harden, Charles D. Koven, Chien-Lu Ping, Gustaf Hugelius, A. David McGuire, Phillip Camill, Torre Jorgenson, Peter Kuhry, Gary J. Michaelson, Jonathan A. O'Donnell, Edward A. G. Schuur, Charles Tarnocai, Kristopher Johnson, Guido Grosse. Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing. Geophysical Research Letters, 2012; 39 (15) DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051958

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/GN2sxOF79r0/121025145436.htm

indy 500 angelina jolie leg daytona jeff gordon artie lange nascar daytona 2012 kasey kahne

Where will it land? East Coast braces for monster 'Frankenstorm'

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The pre-Halloween hybrid weather monster that federal forecasters call "Frankenstorm" is looking more ominous by the hour for the East Coast, and utilities and local governments are getting ready.

Meteorologists expect a natural horror show of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow to the west beginning early Sunday, peaking with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday and lingering past Halloween on Wednesday.

With a rare mix of three big merging weather systems over a densely populated region, experts predict at least $1 billion in damage.

The stage is set as Hurricane Sandy, having blown through Haiti and Cuba, continues to barrel north. A wintry storm is chugging across the country from the west. And frigid air is streaming south from Canada.

And if they meet Tuesday morning around New York or New Jersey, as forecasters predict, they could create a big, wet mess that settles over the nation's most heavily populated corridor and reaches as far west as Ohio.

Utilities are lining up out-of-state work crews and canceling employees' days off to deal with expected power outages. From county disaster chiefs to the federal government, emergency officials are warning the public to be prepared. And President Barack Obama was briefed aboard Air Force One.

"It's looking like a very serious storm that could be historic," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the forecasting service Weather Underground. "Mother Nature is not saying, 'Trick or treat.' It's just going to give tricks."

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco, who coined the nickname Frankenstorm, said: "We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting."

Government forecasters said there is a 90 percent chance ? up from 60 percent two days earlier ? that the East will get pounded.

Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, but the storm is expected to vent the worst of its fury on New Jersey and the New York City area, which could see around 5 inches of rain and gale-force winds close to 40 mph. Eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania and western Virginia could get snow.

?

And the storm will take its time leaving. The weather may not start clearing in the mid-Atlantic until the day after Halloween and Nov. 2 in the upper Northeast, Cisco said.

"It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," he said from a NOAA forecast center in College Park, Md. "It's going to be a widespread, serious storm."

It is likely to hit during a full moon, when tides are near their highest, increasing the risk of coastal flooding. And because many trees still have their leaves, they are more likely to topple in the event of wind and snow, meaning there could be widespread power outages lasting to Election Day.

Eastern states that saw outages that lasted for days after last year's freak Halloween snowstorm and Hurricane Irene in late August 2011 are already pressuring power companies to be more ready this time.

Asked if he expected utilities to be more prepared, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick responded: "They'd better be."

Jersey Central Power & Light, which was criticized for its response to Irene, notified employees to be ready for extended shifts. In Pennsylvania, PPL Corp. spokesman Michael Wood said, "We're in a much better place this year."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday said the city was striking a tone of calm preparedness.

"What we are doing is we are taking the kind of precautions you should expect us to do, and I don't think anyone should panic," Bloomberg said. The city has opened an emergency situation room and activated its coastal storm plan.

Some have compared the tempest to the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the coast of New England in 1991, but that one hit a less populated area. Nor is this one like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early snowfall.

"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a billion" this time, Masters said. "Yeah, it will be worse."

As it made its way across the Caribbean, Sandy was blamed for more than 20 deaths. The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season hit the Bahamas after cutting across Cuba, where it tore roofs off homes and damaged fragile coffee and tomato crops.

Norje Pupo, a 66-year-old retiree in Holguin, was helping his son clean up early Thursday after an enormous tree toppled in his garden.

"The hurricane really hit us hard," he said. "As you can see, we were very affected. The houses are not poorly made here, but some may have been damaged."

___

Associated Press writers Tony Winton in Miami, Fernando Gonzalez in Cuba, Ken Thomas on Air Force One, Michael Rubinkam in Harrisburg, Pa., and Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.

___

Seth Borenstein can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/east-coast-braces-monster-frankenstorm-115029932.html

joe the plumber lra lra eric johnson eric johnson big east tournament ashley olsen

MODERN FAMILY: Open House of Horrors Recap | NiceGirlsTV.com

MODERN FAMILY: Open House of Horrors Recap

It is that time of year for Halloween episodes and I love it! I love dressing up and the Modern Family Halloween episodes never disappoint. The Dunphys decided to tone down the Halloween decorations this year because last year apparently they were too scary for kids (and one adult). Claire was pretty proud of herself until Phil told her she wasn?t that scary.

Lily wants to dress like a princess for Halloween again this year and Mitch admits that he accidentally told Lily her mother was a princess in a far away land. In his defense he was really tired and thought she would forget. Now he has to tell Cam why she is obsessed with Princesses and he isn?t looking forward to it.

Claire dresses up like Little Bo Peep and waits for kids to come trick or treating but they are avoiding her house. She tries to go outside and pass out candy but she hooks a little girl with her cane and she screams. Now the neighbors are really afraid to go to their house.

After accidentally pulling the fire alarm with his umbrella at school, Manny went to the principal?s office. Gloria was furious with the principal when she found out and threatened to go to his house. Manny told her to calm down because the pregnancy is making her a ?hot head.? That didn?t go over well. Later two older kids (not wearing costumes) tried to trick or treat at her house and she took their candy after they told her she was too old to be having a baby. They egged her house and she ran screaming after them ?You put egg on my house, I kill what you love!? Spoken like a true hot head.

Phil is at his open house and there aren?t too many people stopping by. Claire decides since they have been shunned by the neighborhood she would go show Phil just how scary she can be. Phil knew she was in the house but couldn?t find her before a couple came to look at the house. Phil was afraid to show the house because he didn?t know what Claire was up to. After the couple left, the lights went out and the TV turned on by itself and leaves were rustling outside. Phil thought it was Claire until she called him and told him she was at home with the kids. Now Phil is really freaked out and went upstairs where Alex grabbed his leg from under the bed, Luke jumped out of the closet and Claire popped up from the bed and he screamed! Hilarious! They got him good!

Mitch and Cam had a Halloween party and Cam wants to show off his new body (since he lost about 30 pounds) but after a costume mix up and someone else showing up to the party who lost 100 pounds, Cam is not happy about the lack of recognition. Lily is talking to a woman who was dressed like a Princess and tells her that her mom is a princess too. Cam overheard and Mitch had some explaining to do. He confessed that he told Lily her Mom was a princess and they decided to tell her the truth about how they became a loving family. Lily took it well and decided to ditch the princess costume and dress up like her daddy for Halloween. It was so cute! ?Jay told Cam he looked great and he could tell he lost weight and that made Cam?s night. The party ended up being a success after all!

Another great Halloween with Modern Family. Have a fun and safe Halloween everyone!

Modern Family airs Wednesday nights at 9/8c on ABC.

Lisa lives in Atlanta and is our connection to all things Hollywood South. She is an Actor & Social Butterfly who loves to read, dance and have a good time with friends. Her favorite shows include True Blood, Modern Family, The Vampire Diaries, Revenge, Dallas, Drop Dead Diva, The Walking Dead, Nurse Jackie, Being Human (USA version), Switched at Birth, Game of Thrones, and Veronica Mars.?Email her at lisa@nicegirlstv.com and follow her on Twitter @Lisa_NGTV

Source: http://nicegirlstv.com/2012/10/25/modern-family-open-house-of-horrors-recap/

miss america 2012 hgtv dream home patriots vs broncos contraband denver vs new england denver broncos vs new england patriots cruise ship sinking

Ascott Park Place Dubai | Overseas Travel and Leisure - OTAL.com

Situated at the most valuable real estate and business district centre of Dubai, close to the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, DIFC and Business Bay. Shopping areas, beaches and?Dubai World Trade Centre Metro Station are just on a short distance.

Park Place offers spacious and luxurious apartments within the 60-storey Park Palace Tower. It features apartments with a spacious living and dining area, luxury bathrooms and a fully-equipped kitchen. Additional amenities include LCD televisions, iPod docking stations and internet access. Free WiFi is available in public areas and is free of charge, but WiFi is available in the hotel rooms and charges are applicable. Sauna, Fitness centre, Massage, Library, Turkish bath/steam bath, Outdoor swimming pool (all year) are the most interesting and valuable activities they are offering.

You can find here all you need like a very nice restaurant, 24-hour front desk, Newspapers, Garden, Non-smoking rooms, Family rooms, Lift/elevator, Express check-in/check-out, Safety deposit box, Heating, Luggage storage, All public and private spaces non-smoking, Designated smoking area.

Many more luxurious and prestigious facilities they are offering such as Business centre, Laundry, Dry cleaning, Barber/beauty shop, VIP room facilities, Currency exchange, Car hire, Fax/photocopying, ATM/cash machine on site.

Ascott Park Place Dubai
Park Place Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, PO Box 117452
Check in: From 14:00 hours
Check out: Until 12:00 hours

Related posts:

1. Traders Hotel Dubai
2. Largest indoor family park in Dubai, now open to visitors
3. Jumeirah Lake Towers is a free zone
4. InterContinental Dubai
5. Avari Dubai Hotel

Source: http://www.otal.com/middle-east-travel-and-leisure/dubai-travel-and-leisure/ascott-park-place-dubai

st louis university mario manningham mario manningham williams syndrome hoya casa de mi padre corned beef and cabbage

Cruise files $50M suit against magazine publisher

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An attorney for Tom Cruise said he filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against the publishers of Life & Style magazine for articles that said the actor has abandoned his 6-year-old daughter, Suri.

Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields said to falsely claim the actor deserted his daughter is a "vicious lie."

"Tom is a caring father who dearly loves Suri. She's a vital part of his life and always will be," Fields said. "To say it in lurid headlines with a tearful picture of Suri is reprehensible."

The lawsuit was filed in a Los Angeles federal court.

An email message left for a spokeswoman for Bauer Publishing, which produces Life & Style, was not immediately returned.

Cruise and Suri's mother, Katie Holmes, were divorced earlier this year. They had been married for six years. The breakup has been tabloid fodder, and Suri often appears in entertainment magazines.

Cruise doesn't like to file lawsuits but felt it was appropriate because "sleaze peddlers" are trying to make money about the actor's relationship with his daughter, Fields said.

"These serial defamers are foreign-owned companies with their global headquarters in Hamburg," Fields said. "They take money from unsuspecting Americans by selling their malicious garbage. Having to pay a libel judgment may slow them down."

If Cruise prevails, Fields said his client would give the money to charity.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2012-10-24-People-Tom%20Cruise/id-68663890171248f99277ec18bc556b6c

Heptathlon London 2012 shot put London 2012 Track And Field Jordyn Wieber michael phelps Kerri Strug Ledecky

Georgia store offers gun raffle tickets to voters

ATLANTA (AP) ? Want a chance to win a rifle or handgun? Go vote. That's the message from an Atlanta-area sporting goods store.

The promotion caught the attention of the secretary of state's office last week and drew a complaint from a state senator who said it may break the law.

Georgia law prohibits anyone from giving or receiving money or gifts in exchange for voting, and felony charges could be brought if the law were broken, Secretary of State Brian Kemp said in a statement.

Eight billboards for Adventure Outdoors urge people to bring in their "I voted" sticker to enter a raffle for a Glock handgun or Browning rifle. The secretary of state's office warned the store owner that offering the raffle only to people who voted may be violating the law.

Store owner Jay Wallace said the raffle was open to anyone, even those who don't vote.

"Getting people involved is what it's all about," Wallace said Wednesday. "I would encourage other businesses to do the same thing."

No action will be taken as long as Wallace allows anyone to enter the contest, said Jared Thomas, a spokesman for the secretary of state's office.

"Should they violate what they told our office they would do, then that will be taken into account and actions will be taken accordingly," Thomas said.

Democratic State Sen. Vincent Fort of Atlanta filed a complaint Tuesday, saying businesses are not even allowed under the law to offer free food or drinks to voters.

"Now that that they've expanded it and allow all customers to participate, I think it's a legal raffle," Fort said. "I don't have any objections to it if it complies with the law."

Reaction to the raffle has been "almost 100 percent positive," Wallace said.

"We received some almost slanderous emails," he added. "I would say they're on the side of not liking guns, to put it mildly."

At the store in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna, reaction was mixed among customers.

"I think people should go vote because they're interested in the topics of what's being voted for, whether it's the president or your local judge," said Ernest Susco. "To promote giving a gun away for someone to go to vote, I'm not crazy about that idea."

John Keels, another customer, said it was a "pretty good idea."

"Well, since this is probably the most important election in my lifetime, anything that gets the public out to vote is good as long as it doesn't break the law," Keels said.

___

Associated Press writer Johnny Clark in Smyrna, Ga., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-store-offers-gun-raffle-tickets-voters-182410392.html

alicia sacramone Don Grady ann curry obamacare Nexus 7 euro 2012 dominion power

Microsoft's Windows gets major makeover

Over the years, Keith McCarthy has become used to a certain way of doing things on his personal computers, which, like most others on the planet, have long run on Microsoft?s Windows software.

But last week, when he got his hands on a laptop running the newest version of Windows for the first time, McCarthy was flummoxed.

The Start button for getting to programs and the drop-down menus that list their functions is gone.

It took McCarthy several minutes just to figure out how to compose an email message in Windows 8, which has a stripped-down look and on-screen buttons that at times resemble the runic assembly instructions for Ikea furniture.

?It made me feel like the biggest amateur computer user ever,? said McCarthy, 59, a copywriter in New York.

Windows, which has more than 1 billion users around the world, is getting a radical makeover, a rare move for a product with such vast reach. The new design is likely to cause some head-scratching for those who buy the latest machines when Windows 8 goes on sale Friday.

To Microsoft and early fans of Windows 8, the software is a fresh, bold reinvention of the operating system for an era of touch-screen devices like the iPad, which are reshaping computing. Microsoft needs the software to succeed so it can restore some of its fading relevance after years of watching the likes of Apple and Google outflank it in the mobile market.

To its detractors, though, Windows 8 is a renovation gone wrong, one that will needlessly force people to relearn how they use a device every bit as common as a microwave oven.

?I don?t think any user was asking for that,? said John Ludwig, a former Microsoft executive who worked on Windows and is now a venture capitalist in the Seattle area. ?They just want the current user interface, but better.?

Ludwig said Microsoft?s strategy was risky, but it had to do something to improve its chances in the mobile business: ?Doing nothing was a strategy that was sure to fail.?

Little about the new Windows will look familiar to those who have used older versions. The Start screen, a kind of main menu, is dominated by a colorful grid of rectangles and squares that users can tap with a finger or click with a mouse to start applications. Many of these live tiles constantly flicker with new information piped in from the Internet, like news headlines, email subject lines and Facebook photos.

What is harder to find are many of the conventions that have been a part of PCs since most people began using them, like the strip of icons at the bottom of the screen for jumping between applications. The mail and calendar programs are starkly minimalist. It is as if an automaker hid the speedometer, turn signals and gear shift in its cars, and told drivers to tap their dashboards to reveal those functions. There is a more conventional ?desktop? mode for running Microsoft Office and older programs, though there is no way to permanently switch to it.

Microsoft knew in summer 2009 that it wanted to shake up Windows. It held focus groups and showed people prototypes of the tile interface and its live updates.

?We would get this delightful reaction of people who would say, ?This is so great, and it has Office too,? ? said Jensen Harris, Microsoft?s director of program management for the Windows user experience.

As work on Windows 8 proceeded, the company let the wider public test it. Sixteen million people have been using early versions, providing feedback either automatically or in discussion forums.

The boldness of the changes has delighted some early users, who say they believe that for the first time, the company is taking greater creative risks than its more celebrated rival, Apple.

To help it gain traction in the mobile market, Microsoft made Windows 8 a one-size-fits-all operating system for touch-screen tablets, conventional computers with keyboards and mice, and newer devices that combine elements of both. (Confusingly, Microsoft is also introducing a separate but similar operating system, Windows RT, that cannot run older programs.) The company?s latest software for phones has the same tile-based aesthetic.

Apple took the opposite approach with the Mac and mobile devices like the iPad, which have distinct interfaces, albeit with some shared underlying technologies. Timothy D. Cook, Apple?s chief executive, has been dismissive of Microsoft?s strategy. ?You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user,? he said this year.

Jakob Nielsen, a user interface expert at the Nielsen Norman Group, conducted tests with four people who used a traditional computer running Windows 8 and found that they had ?a lot of struggles? with the new design. Nielsen said the users appeared to become especially confused when shifting back and forth between the modern Windows 8 mode and the desktop mode.

Nielsen said that Windows 8 was more suitable for tablet computers with their smaller touch-sensing displays, but that it was not helpful for workers who need to have lots of applications visible at once, sometimes on multiple screens.

?I just think when it comes to the traditional customer base, the office computer user, they?re essentially being thrown under the bus,? Nielsen said. ?It?s not very suitable for any situation where you have to manage complex data.?

Microsoft disputes this idea. Harris said most test users did not have trouble juggling the two modes ? and regardless, workers were more likely to operate in desktop mode if they wanted to see many applications simultaneously. He said that even people who did not use the software?s new interface much would enjoy the way it sped up their computers.

Microsoft is convinced that most people will quickly become accustomed to Windows 8. But to help ease the transition, the software offers tutorials when it is first started up. And Microsoft is spending more than $500 million on a marketing campaign that is partly intended to familiarize people with the new design.

Harris said the company needed to modernize Windows for the way people use computers today: ?We?re not surprised people have a strong reaction to it.?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IdahostatesmancomBusiness/~3/Jc8c5_jUnFg/windows-gets-major-makeover.html

ifl indoor football league newt gingrich wife callista rick perry travis barker get back on board

Florida Gators passing on throwing

Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel (6) throws a touchdown pass as South Carolina defender Jadeveon Clowney (7) tries to swat it in Florida's 44-11 win last Saturday. Driskel had four TD passes but fewer than 100 passing yards.

The Florida Gators enter this week's game against Georgia hoping for a successful afternoon of rushing and passing the football.

Well, the passing part might be optional.

The same program that once boasted the Fun 'N' Gun offense couldn't be further from it, as Florida ranks last in the Southeastern Conference and 114th nationally with 131.7 passing yards a game. The 7-0 and third-ranked Gators have gone three consecutive games without throwing for 100 yards, yet they've found other ways to dispatch LSU (14-6) and Vanderbilt (31-17) and decisively dispatch South Carolina (44-11).

"It doesn't matter to me that we haven't been throwing the ball more," sophomore quarterback Jeff Driskel said. "We're undefeated with some great wins on the road, so it doesn't matter to me at all."

Florida second-year coach Will Muschamp said after opening wins over Bowling Green and Texas A&M that his team would be sorely lacking in pizzazz. Senior tailback Mike Gillislee already had been labeled the identity of the team when he pounded out 146 yards and two touchdowns on 34 carries against LSU, and then Driskel rushed for 177 yards and three scores at Vanderbilt.

Gillislee and Driskel were held to a combined 32 yards on 28 carries this past Saturday against the Gamecocks, but the Gators turned to their defense and special teams for the convincing win. Where Muschamp and first-year offensive coordinator Brent Pease haven't turned is to a passing game that produced Frankie Hammond's 75-yard touchdown at Tennessee but little else of significance.

"I think a large part of it is going with what is getting you yardage," Muschamp said, referring to a ground game netting 212.7 yards a contest. "We have been moving people really well at times, and when we play defenses that stunt, we eventually hit them on some things, but we feel much more comfortable with our passing game than what you're seeing."

Said Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham: "I think that's a credit to them and their mentality. We will have to be ready to match their physicalness and match their play, because it's obviously an important game."

Driskel has completed 85 of 127 passes (66.9 percent) for 929 yards in seven games, with eight touchdowns and only one interception.

The Gators have gone consecutive games without 100 passing yards for the first time since 1989, the year before Steve Spurrier's arrival as coach. Florida's lowest passing average under Spurrier was 263.8 yards per game in 1999, and the Gators averaged 405.2 aerial yards in 2001, his final season.

Pease was offensive coordinator last season at Boise State, which averaged 313.1 passing yards a game.

"If Jeff Driskel can carry the ball 70 yards and outrun everybody, he is getting the ball," Pease said. "If Mike Gillislee can get the ball and outrun everybody, he is getting the ball. I'm not going to be stubborn as far as playing off the numbers every week."

Which is a big reason Muschamp hired him after last year's offensive coordinator, Charlie Weis, accepted the head-coaching job at Kansas.

"We've identified who we are, and Brent's done a fantastic job," Muschamp said. "Most of these offensive guys are stats guys, but he cares about doing what we need to do to win football games. He played to his strengths at Boise, which was Kellen Moore, and he's playing to our strengths of good defense, good special teams and running the ball.

"He's also creating some opportunities down the field in the passing game, and that's just a matter of time. I think we will do it when it happens. It's just a matter of the opportunities presenting themselves."

Odds and ends

Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray was the SEC offensive player of the week for his 427-yard, four-touchdown performance at Kentucky. Murray also is among 16 semifinalists for the Davey O'Brien Award. ... CBS has used a six-day option for Nov. 3, but the Bulldogs will host Ole Miss either at noon or 3:30. ... Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones, one of the 12 semifinalists for the Butkus Award, was not listed on the injury report following Monday's 60-minute workout.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.

about David Paschall...

David Paschall is a sports writer for the Times Free Press. He started at the Chattanooga Free Press in 1990 and was part of the Times Free Press when the paper started in 1999. David covers University of Georgia football, as well as SEC football recruiting, SEC basketball, Chattanooga Lookouts baseball and other sports stories. He is a Chattanooga native and graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received numerous honors for ...

Source: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/oct/23/chattanooga-gators-passing-on-throwing/

bear grylls us news law school rankings gael glen rice jr bars lindzi cox bachelor finale

High quality or poor value: When do consumers make different conclusions about the same product?

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? Depending on which naive theory consumers use, a low price can indicate either good value or low quality, whereas a high price may imply either poor value or high quality, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

"Consumers rarely have complete information and use various strategies to fill the gaps in their knowledge as they consider and choose products. One of these strategies involves using naive theories: informal, common sense, explanations that consumers use to make sense of their environment. For example, consumers may believe that popular products are high in quality while also believing that scarce products are high in quality," write authors H?l?ne Deval (Dalhousie University), Susan P. Mantel (Ball State University), Frank R. Kardes (University of Cincinnati), and Steven S. Posavac (Vanderbilt University).

In one study, consumers were shown an ad for a bottle of wine with either a high or low price. When subtly reminded of quality, consumers evaluated the expensive wine more favorably than the cheap wine. However, when subtly reminded of value, they rated the cheap wine more favorably.

Sales promotions succeed when consumers perceive that they are getting a good deal, but they can also backfire if consumers perceive that lower prices indicate poor quality. Or, as J.C. Penney recently discovered, a company may implement an everyday low-pricing strategy that manages to reduce brand value and alienate consumers if many of them believe that low prices equal low quality. Over the years, J.C. Penney customers had become so used to sales that they no longer believed they were getting a good deal.

"Using subtle tactics, companies can bring a pre-existing naive theory to the consumer's mind in order to guide favorable interpretation of their message. Yet, these tactics can backfire dramatically if they design a strategy by assuming that a certain naive theory is going to drive consumer evaluation and choice when, in fact, several naive theories are available to the consumer," the authors conclude.

Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:

Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Journal of Consumer Research, Inc..

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal Reference:

1. H?l?ne Deval, Susan P. Mantel, Frank R. Kardes, and Steven S. Posavac. How Naive Theories Drive Opposing Inferences from the Same Information. Journal of Consumer Research, April 2013

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/consumer_behavior/~3/VlLDeAusPkc/121022121908.htm

outback chaka khan taylor swift safe and sound delilah nevis 2012 sports illustrated swimsuit same day flower delivery

Dell begins accepting orders for its XPS 10 tablet running Windows RT, prices start at $499 (updated)

Surface isn't the only Windows RT tablet going on sale this week: Dell's XPS 10 ships on Friday, though it's actually for purchase now on Dell's site. (It won't ship until mid-December, so don't get too excited.) The tablet starts at $500 for the 32GB tablet by itself, which is right in line with Microsoft's Surface pricing. The 64GB model is priced at $600. Interested in that optional keyboard dock? (Of course you are!) Dell is selling two bundles: one with the 32GB tablet for $680, and another with the 64GB one for $780. Though the keyboard comes at a premium, especially compared to Microsoft's Touch Covers, it offers some things Microsoft doesn't -- namely, a USB port, HDMI output and a built-in battery. Whichever model you choose, the XPS 10 has a 10.1-inch screen with 1,366 x 768 resolution and a dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor clocked at 1.5GHz. And, unlike some other Windows RT tablets, this one supports both finger and pen input. Hit up the source link for more info, and check out our fresh round of hands-on shots below.

Update: As some of you have pointed out, that $499 starting price includes a one-year service plan, valued at $100. You can opt out of this plan and get the standalone tablet for $399.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/dell-xps-10-pricing-availability/

ford recalls robert kardashian chicago weather forecast narcolepsy narcolepsy weather st louis faceoff

Earth-size Alpha Centauri B planet detected by telltale star wobble

HARPS, as the instrument is called, successfully detected a rocky planet around one of Earth?s closest neighboring stars when other tools missed it.

By Rachel Kaufman,?TechNewsDaily Contributor / October 18, 2012

This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012.

L. Calcada/N. Risinger/ESO/Reuters

Enlarge

The instrument astronomers used to discover the small rocky planet circling the star Alpha Centauri B that was announced this week was not a glitzy new high-tech space telescope, but rather a decade-old workhorse attached to a ground observatory in Chile.

Skip to next paragraph

' + google_ads[0].line2 + '
' + google_ads[0].line3 + '

'; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { ad_unit += ''; } } document.getElementById("ad_unit").innerHTML += ad_unit; google_adnum += google_ads.length; return; } var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-6743622525202572"; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_feedback = "on"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_adtest = "on"; google_image_size = '230x105'; google_skip = '0'; // -->

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of
The Christian Science Monitor
Weekly Digital Edition

HARPS, as the instrument is called, successfully?detected a rocky planet?around one of Earth?s closest neighboring stars when other tools missed it because astronomers have had plenty of time to learn what it is capable of, planet hunter Xavier Dumusque of Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and the Center for Astrophysics at the University of Porto, Portugal, said.

After 10 years of working with HARPS, "we understand much better how the instrument works now," he added.

"And we have used a new strategy to observe the star, which allows us to average the perturbing signals" to eliminate noise.

[App Provides Up-Close Look at Far-Out Exoplanets]

Alpha Centauri Bb, as the new planet is known, has a mass about the same as Earth and is likely rocky. However, unlike Earth, it's likely roasting at 2,200 degrees F (1,204 degrees C) due to how close it is to its parent star.

HARPS, a spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory?s 3.6 meter telescope in La Silla, Chile, works by looking for telltale "wobbles" in a star, caused by an orbiting planet gravitationally tugging on the star. That means that it's much easier to find heavy, Jupiter-like planets than tiny low-mass planets.

"This technique depends on two things," Dumusque said. "The mass of the planet ? the more mass, the easier it is to detect ? and also the distance to the star. In this case, it is a small-mass planet, but it is still very close," which is what made the detection possible.

Even still, the researchers had to deal with interfering signals ? from the star itself.

[Gallery: Nearby Alien Planet Alpha Centauri Bb]

Alpha Centauri B?is one star in a two-star system, but eliminating the noise from the second star was easy, Dumusque said. But the surface activity of Alpha Centauri B itself was enough to throw off instruments. "The surface of the star is not solid. It's very high temperature. It's ... boiling, so you have some bubbles that come up to the surface. These bubbles are [an interfering] signal." Even sunspots ? tangled knots of magnetic activity found on the surface of stars, including our own sun ? can affect HARPS, since the instrument relies on Doppler effects to determine a star's wobbles. A sunspot appearing in view of HARPS can affect the star's perceived redshift and thus trick the instrument into thinking it saw a wobble.

That led to the discovery of the planet, which is "for sure" accompanied by others that scientists haven't yet found, he added. "Statistics show that if you have a very small mass planet in one system, you have other planets in the same system. With this case, with Alpha Centauri B ... we don't have the precision to find them, but for sure there are other planets in the system."

Alpha Cen Bb's gravitational effect on the star causes it to move by just 19.6 inches (50 centimeters) per second. In comparison, if alien observers wanted to discover Earth using the same method, they'd need an instrument that could detect wobbles of 3.9 inches (10 cm) per second. The Espresso instrument, scheduled to go online in 2016, will be able to observe with that precision. "With this instrument, it should be possible to discover Earth's twin," Dumusque said.

Follow TechNewsDaily on Twitter @TechNewsDaily. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/TqBss5wV6lQ/Earth-size-Alpha-Centauri-B-planet-detected-by-telltale-star-wobble

asexual jim carrey san francisco chronicle kourtney kardashian pregnant kourtney kardashian pregnant chip kelly billy cundiff

Zac Efron John John Ad: Heart and Drag Racing!

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/10/zac-efron-john-john-ad-heart-and-drag-racing/

roland martin whitney houston dead at 48 whitney houston dead 2012 whitney houston passed away heartbreak hotel don cornelius whitney houston i will always love you

Stop! Before You Take On Home Improvement Projects, Read This ...

When you are replacing your siding with veneer some positive things to keep in mind about that material are the functional advantages to other sidings. The veneers can protect your home quite well from damages, they are very easy to install, and require little to almost no maintenance which is very important.

If you are remodeling your kitchen, it is important that you add modern appliances. This is especially important if you plan on selling your house, as buyers do not want to use outdated appliances. Stainless steel appliances are the most popular nowadays and can easily be purchased in many stores.

If you would like to move but can?t thanks to the economy, view it as an opportunity to create a home you love through renovations and updates. Not only will many upgrades add value to your home when you are ready to sell, but you will be happier surrounded by the colors, patterns, and other design components you love.

If the snow on your roof melts very quickly, double check the insulation in your attic. Snow shouldn?t melt at all on a roof as long as the attic is keeping the heat in your house and the cold outside. Replacing the insulation will also decrease your heating bills as your heat is no longer being used to warm up the attic as well.

A great way to increase the value of a home is to clean out the grout in ceramic tile. This will instantly make old tile look newer, which, consequently, increases the value of your home. This is a quick fix that could mean a few extra dollars in the long run.

If your backyard is on a slope, consider building a deck to extend your living area. A sloped backyard in itself is not an ideal space for any type of activity. However, if you add a deck, you can furnish it with deck furniture and make an outdoor retreat where you can relax or entertain friends.

Consider starting a compost bin for your leftover produce scraps. There are several simple methods available and you will be helping the environment. At the same time, you are creating fabulous nutrient rich fertilizer. Compost fertilizer can be used for your flowers and shrubs in addition to being the perfect choice for your new fruits and vegetables.

You can give your kitchen an old fashioned look by shopping for old tins. Flea markets and thrift shops are full of vintage coffee, tea and candy tins that make great little storage spaces for your items. Use them to hide your utensils, cookies, flour or sugar. Attach little handmade labels to the top labeling what each one contains.

If you are short on cash and trying to figure out a way to create an unique backsplash for your kitchen, you can buy some nice patterned wallpaper. Meanwhile this may not be a permanent solution; you can switch out your designs often or keep it until you are able to afford tiling. You can even go as far as purchasing different patterned wallpapers and cutting them into small shapes to design your own wall mosaic as a backsplash.

Treat your wall to a dolly! No, not to a child?s toy but to a specially made anchor and toggle bolt! The shank of a dolly expands when you screw it tight. It can be used to hold a picture or other light object in place on the surface of a hollow wall where there is no underlying stud to nail to.

When renovating your home, make sure that you do it with the local area in mind. There is little point in building a large, outdoor deck area if it is constantly windy or putting up a pool in an area where it is constantly cold. These additions will not add value to the property and are, therefore, wasted money.

Paint a room. If you are looking for a home improvement project that takes a bit of time and effort, then painting may be for you. Make sure you have all the proper equipment to do the project, and go for it. A freshly painted room can do wonders for any home.

When hiring a licensed contractor to perform a home improvement project on your property, never agree to a repair or home improvement contract that requires full payment before satisfactory completion of all contracted work. If you have already made full payment, it is unlikely that problems with the work quality will be fixed without additional payment or legal action.

Face it ? not everyone needs ten cabinets for their dishes. If your small kitchen is in need of some extra space, consider removing the top row of cabinets. This frees up the wall space for artwork or decorative wall covering and gives you more room to be creative with your cooking surfaces.

Improving your home is important, and even on a tight budget, it can be done! In this article we have discussed some of the tips most often recommended for updating your home. Take a weekend and give a few of these tips a try! You?ll be pleasantly surprised by what you?re capable of doing on a budget.

Clay Pysher shares knowledge about roof cleaning cary

Source: http://cannabismrsacure.letstalkaboutpot.com/stop-before-you-take-on-home-improvement-projects-read-this-2/

miracle on 34th street santa tracker monkey bread letter from santa sweet potato pie sweet potato pie twas the night before christmas

Extraordinary Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement ...

Next ?Prev ? Image Detail
Publised: October 22nd, 2012 Category: Kitchen
Tags: small Kitchen Accessories, Small Bathroom Decor, small Kitchen Decor
Author: Trendeco
Image Format: jpg/jpeg
Image Width: 1024 Pixel
Image Height: 768 Pixel
Image Size: 213.25 KB (218370 bytes)
Source

Extraordinary Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement

Impressive, the design above is trendy result of good Kitchen trend, this Extraordinary Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement is similar with small Kitchen Cabinets that we have write a while ago. Vibrant Kitchen ideas attach a huge amount of trend in these innovative space and improved with touch of straight style. This stylish small Kitchen Furniture with smart concept that inspired us an inspiration to upgrade our home Kitchen style. Extraordinary Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement is one of awesome ideas, simple placement and simple decor makes this Kitchen featuring a pretty design. Character of Kitchen design append some of style in these inspiring room and look better with touch of stylish decoration.

Need more inspiring ideas? look at the another Impressive Kitchen trend linked with Extraordinary Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement in small Kitchen Furniture topic. If you like this Kitchen style we are suggest you to look at the Awesome Kitchen below.

Retro Small Kitchen Remodeling Ideas Home Improvement

Fancy Small Efficient Kitchen Ideas

Exclusive Modish Purple Soft Dining Room Design Idea

Antique Looking The Small Bedroom

Extraordinary Spacious Kitchen Design

Source: http://www.trendecoration.com/extraordinary-small-kitchen-remodeling-ideas-home-improvement.html

mega ball lottery winner lottery numbers mega millions lottery jackpot winning numbers mega millions megamillions drawing

Google Web OS Why Write Articles to Publicize your Business ...

Why Write Articles to Publicize your Business? Judy Cullins c.

Why Write Articles to Publicize your Business? Judy Cullins c. 2003 All Rights Reserved.

Reach 10,000 to 500,000 targeted buyers every day Online. That's the best reason I know. Get exposure for contacts, customers or clients. The second best reason is that it's free. You subscribe to ezines, then submit your short Online articles to your audience. The third reason is that it takes little time to accomplish, maybe 9 hours a week. If you don't want to do it yourself, you can delegate it to your computer assistant.

Six More Reasons to Write an Article

1. Writing articles bring free publicity. When you submit to 10 opt-in ezine publishers and 10-20 Web sites that want your articles, you expose yourself to thousands, even millions if you get your information on the right site. Submitting them is free, free, free.

2. Submitting articles is 7 times as effective as any other promotion because when you submit many articles, you become known as an expert. These articles with their proper signature box at the bottom bring 10-50 new subscribers each time for you own ezine. This box also attracts people to your Web site, where, if you have proper copywriting with marketing pizzazz, you will sell many products and services.

Start writing two or so, keep them until you have ten to submit. Then write one a week. When you have submitted 20 or so, you will become a household name. Ezine subscribers and sites will publish them People who visit the site or read the ezine will also ask you if it's OK they use your article. Of course it is!

They will send your articles to their business associates, who, if they produce an ezine or have a Web site, will also publish your article. Make your articles 250-800 words long. Or, write tips under 500 words.

Author's Tip: Be sure to send a thank you each time someone emails you saying they want to publish your article. Respond to each one first, thanking them, then asking for permission to add their email to your ePublishers email list. Offer the benefit that it's straight to their email door. Ask for a return email with "Yes, ePub" in the signature line. Add their name to your growing list. I know have 150. To these I send out a new article once or twice a week. That's what is called viral marketing.

3. You receive global attention when other Web masters feature your articles. Because you have to list key words and an introduction for each article for the Web sites, your rank goes way up in the search engines. You book coach's is # 2 on Google, Yahoo and 35 others. Her URL is listed on 900 other sites in a hyperlink bringing hundreds of new visitors.

4. The more exposure your articles get, the more you are perceived as the expert in your field, and when potential clients visit your site, they are more likely to read your sales message on your service or products--and eventually buy!

5. Your articles could attract authors in your field who need free material for their book. Debbie Allen, shameless promoter, took three of mine for her latest Internet marketing book. She is a great promoter, so I know my articles will bring me new business eventually through word of mouth.

6. Remember, people go the net to get free information. If you give that freely, they are more apt to become clients. Remember also, that because other Web site owners and ezine publishers don't write only their own articles, they are constantly looking for your how-to articles. You can be published in hundreds of them!

Article writing and submitting is my best publicity and promotion effort so far. I now have 110 articles and 50 tips circulating the net and now offer them in categories by autoresponder, so people can get exactly what they want instantly. The categories include: writing/publishing, Online promotion, Web site Marketing and Copywriting, and now tips under 300 words. What are your categories?

Start writing short articles now, and see how this great exposure to eager Online ezine readers and surfers will bring your business success.

About the author: Judy Cullins: 20-year author, speaker, book coach Helps entrepreneurs manifest their book and web dreams eBk: "Ten Non-techie Ways to Market Online" http://www.bookcoaching.com/teleclasses.shtml To receive FREE "The Book Coach Says..." go to http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml Judy@bookcoaching.com Ph:619/466/0622

Author: Judy Cullins

Source: http://googlewebos.com/857475-Why-Write-Articles-to-Publicize-your-Business.html

At&t Wireless apple apple 9/11 Jerry Lawler andy murray godaddy

Source: http://hamptonlarry129.typepad.com/blog/2012/10/google-web-os-why-write-articles-to-publicize-your-business.html

2012 oscar nominations kyle williams florida debate rand paul mark kirk florida gop debate freddie mac

Translationista: On Publishers Boycotting Translation Prizes

Back when I first started my graduate work at Princeton, the town had a coffee shop problem. We desperately needed one, and coffee shops kept opening up and then going right out of business a few months later. They tended to be all the wrong kind - a bit too elegant for the university crowd, trying to appeal to townies as well as students, and, well, they all quickly went under. Meanwhile we seemed to be the only town in the nation without a Starbucks. Then one day in late 1993 a different sort of coffee shop opened up. It was low-key and had a great vibe. It was big enough that you could usually find a table, but only barely, and it was a great place to study and write as well as drink coffee. The coffee was excellent, too, and soon the place was packed round the clock. And just a few weeks after it became clear that this new coffee shop was not going to go bankrupt, Starbucks moved to town and opened up a franchise a quarter of a block closer to campus. And I vowed never to set foot in the place: I saw this Starbucks as not only d?class? and corporate but repulsively opportunistic if not predatory. Enough people agreed with me that Princeton's own local coffee shop, Small World, continues to thrive.

Just the same way as I will still patronize a Starbucks only if there really is no other alternative for blocks around, I will buy a book from Amazon only if I am unable to?procure it locally. Amazon has transformed the book industry in ways that are bad for readers and publishers alike. It has driven much of its competition out of business. I was never a big fan of Borders, but still?was?sad to see it fold, along with who-knows-how-many actually independent bookstores across the country that have bit the dust since the advent of the behemoth. Basically Amazon has done what any big corporation does: its mission is to make money at all costs, sometimes pushing existing laws to the breaking point in the process. I've read highly plausible accounts of Amazon bullying publishers into giving them a larger discount than the industry standard given across the board to other booksellers - sometimes with the extra rebate dressed up as "advertising fees." I've also heard that Amazon sometimes sells books below cost as part of its grand project of cornering the market. They can undersell pretty much anyone. When some day there's no competition left at all, they'll be able to charge anything they like for a book. Just one more reason to practice solidarity with a brick-and-mortar bookstore near you, or to patronize the IndieBound website.

Like most other big corporations, Amazon has a corporate giving wing, and some of the giving they've been doing over the past few years has been in support of literary translation. On the list of beneficiaries are many organizations I know and love.?No doubt part of the idea behind this artfully curated patronage is to "clean up" Amazon's image in the book world. That's fine, but just keep in mind that Amazon is like any other large corporate entity with a charitable-giving wing. Philanthropic giving is part of what corporations do,?if only for tax reasons. Of course, giving to underdoggy parts of an industry that has suffered as a result of?Amazon's?corporate practices is a brilliant public-relations move. But these are two separate transactions: harming the industry and helping it. I'd really really like to see all the corporations in this country better regulated (not just Amazon), but that's a failure of our government, which is a direct result of the failure of our campaign finance law, which is why we Occupy, and also why you should all be donating to Common Cause?and/or Move to Amend right now. Meanwhile, it makes sense that Amazon and all the other big profit machines around us will continue to do what they were designed to do: turn a profit, a big one.

Two years ago when it was announced that Amazon would be underwriting the Best Translated Book Award (giving $5000 each for the author and translator of each winning book), the indie press Melville House, which publishes a lot of translations, announced that it would stop submitting its books for the award. ?The reasons were clear: Melville House had long been feuding with Amazon about the discounts Amazon was demanding from publishers (see a follow-up post on the Melville House blog here). I completely understand and agree with Melville House's position on Amazon's business practices. On the other hand, by pulling out of the prize, Melville House hurt the translators who work for Melville, probably for not much pay, depriving them of the chance to take home a $5000 bonus if they won the prize, but also of the career boost it would mean for some of them if they wound up shortlisted. As far as I know, Melville House still does not submit its books for the prize (if I'm wrong about that, someone let me know and I'll add a correction), and I think that is a damn shame.?Just for the record, by the way, I have never heard anything even remotely suggesting that Amazon has ever attempted to influence the BTBA jury's decisions in any way.

A few days ago, BTBA founder Chad Post noted on his blog, Three Percent, that an additional publisher specializing in translations has now pulled out of the prize. What he writes is relatively discreet, but based on contextual clues, I am going to hazard a guess that the press in question is Dalkey Archive. (If I'm wrong, someone let me know and I'll add a correction.) Assuming my guess is right, I am disgusted and horrified, considering that the vast majority of the books published by Dalkey are works in translation, many of which are heavily subsidized by cultural agencies such as, for example, Pro Helvetia, which is underwriting the entire series of Swiss books that Dalkey has been publishing over the last couple of years. I am particularly displeased that the reason given for pulling out of the award is that it supposedly?costs the press too much to submit copies of the books for the jury. Don't publishing houses routinely send around dozens of copies of each book they publish as part of a normal marketing campaign? If they don't, the books don't get reviewed and no one knows they exist, which means publishing a book into a vacuum. I wouldn't want my books to be published like that. And I also wouldn't want a publisher I translated my heart out?for?(probably for not much money) to refuse to help get me a chance to receive recognition and proper remuneration for my work.

The press-I-think-must-be-Dalkey also mentions, as additional justification for pulling out of the award, that they "haven't won yet." Neither have I. But at least I, unlike the poor souls translating for the two presses discussed above, still have a chance to.

Source: http://translationista.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-publishers-boycotting-translation.html

ncaa final game miranda lambert reba mcentire acm awards luke bryan april fools global payments

A Dose of Gardening as the New Social Medicine ? goodfood world

(The images included here are from several different USAID urban gardens in Ethiopia.
Please click on any image to see a larger version.)

When Meaza Birhanu, 39, learned she was HIV positive seven years ago, she was already bed ridden surviving on food donations from the World Food Program. The death of her husband prompted her to get tested and she was convinced that her death was next.

?I had no vision. I was in bed for a long period of time. My extended family living in the countryside wouldn?t receive my visits, as if my HIV status would jump out of my body and grab them,? she told me one evening in Bahir Dar, a city located in Northern Ethiopia. ?I cried constantly because they wouldn?t even let me sleep at their house.?

In 2009, Meaza joined an organization for HIV positive people that helped her gain easy access to life saving medication and convinced her to get out of bed and do something. As a group, Meaza and colleagues had more power and thus more possibilities of finding a livelihood.

One year later, the group of 55 members?all living with HIV?partnered with USAID Urban Gardens Program for Women and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (USAID UGP) and began breaking land on a garden near the banks of the Nile River. Meaza had never before been a farmer or a gardener but she vividly remembered watching her father plow a small tract of land in the Ethiopian countryside.

By mid-2010, Maeza took up her new vocation as an urban farmer, and her outlook changed dramatically. In May, the group?known as Kalehiwot?planted corn. The rains came, the crop grew, and bushels of corn were sold on the market.

?Suddenly in the garden, I felt no pain. They gave me a job, something to look forward to in the morning and I earned money. Once I started gardening, I really woke up,? she explained.

By the end of 2010, the Kalehiwot group garden integrated their vegetable garden with animal husbandry, dairy farming, molasses production and bee keeping. Starting with nothing, today they are the ultimate portrait of urban agriculturalists.

Social Gardening

Gardens have long been portrayed as havens of tranquility in art and literature. Francis Bacon called gardening ?the purest of human pleasures? and gardens inspired Monet to cover his canvases with flowers and plants. So what is it about the garden plot that breathes serenity? Can we really credit a vegetable garden with improving Meaza?s life? And most importantly, is there evidence that gardening can offer social benefits for more people, especially for the sick and underprivileged such as people living with HIV/AIDS?

USAID Urban Gardens Program has been operational in Ethiopia since 2008. The development project?funded by the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)?aims to improve the health of women and children affected by HIV through the consumption of nutritious vegetables, which complement antiretroviral medicines with high contents of much needed energy, vitamins, dietary fiber and minerals.

USAID UGP?in its fourth year?has created over 330 group and school gardens in 23 cities throughout Ethiopia. Thanks to the program?s reputation and deftly garnered relationships with kebele leaders, the program trained more than 20,000 gardeners in 2011 alone.

Gardeners include people living with HIV, former commercial sex workers, child brides, war veterans, disabled men and women and multitudes of poor children who otherwise have no access to land, water and simple training in gardening.

Urban gardens are a valuable tool in improving food security thus alleviating poverty in Ethiopia, and successful gardeners have the potential to position themselves to improve their income, but the project goes beyond nutrition and income generation. And few people have stopped to consider the social benefits associated with gardening. And if urban agriculturists have suspected this third benefit, no one has every substantiated the notion with data.

To this end, USAID UGP has carried out an in-depth study examining the benefits of urban agriculture in the program?s gardens throughout Ethiopia. The study ?Understanding the Social Impacts of Urban Gardening in Ethiopia? takes a look at 15 group and school gardens in 4 cities, and was completed in partnership with Tufts University.

?Given the focus of the project monitoring data on ?hard? financial and production indicators, there was a need to explore the specific nature of social benefits and understand their relative importance,? says Ritu Schroff, the study?s lead researcher.

The conclusions are rooted in interviews, scoring and photographs taken by 150 participants, many of whom are living with HIV/AIDS. Thus, while the study also looks at the traditional indicators of financial gain and vegetable consumption, cutting edge participatory methods show researchers perceived social benefits in two categories:? 1. Social acceptance in the community and 2. Self-esteem, hope and confidence.

Coffee Ceremony

In Ethiopian culture spending vast amounts of time with neighbors and family is a weekly, or sometimes a daily occurrence. Families gather around the traditional coffee ceremony and share stories, gossip and banter while one person roasts, grinds, and brews the beans in a clay pot over a charcoal cooker.

The inability to participate in the coffee ceremony or lack of invitation thereto is often a big blow to a family?s status as well as to a person?s self esteem.

A 13-year old male school? gardener from the northern Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar told researchers: ?We were so poor that people used to isolate us. They wouldn?t come when we invited them for coffee. After we got some wealth, working hard, all of them started to invite us for coffee. Now we drink coffee with seven people.?

Participants in USAID UGP gardens are often targets for stigma and discrimination due to their HIV/AIDS status. Much like Meaza from Bahir Dar, the community and even their own families frequently isolate and ignore family members. But stigma reduction is only the beginning, social benefits derived from gardening are endless.

Becoming a productive member of a group garden, growing vegetables from scratch and involving themselves in sales and marketing ?prove to the public that these gardeners have the capacity to do the same amount of work, if not more, than those people who are not living with HIV/AIDS. As a result, positive people move from being viewed as infected carriers of certain death to simply seen as urban farmers able to overcome the obstacles of living with HIV.

Many social benefits are intrinsically linked to other improvements, especially economic strengthening factors. For example, one school gardener mentioned how his family?s social status has improved due to a higher household income and the ability to buy kitchen utensils and even a TV.

?We are relieved of being despised by our neighbors [whom] we used to visit to watch TV,? he said.

For many, the group garden is more than just a worksite. Both gardening and the chance to sell vegetables to neighbors or shoppers in a market create opportunities for socially and economically disadvantaged people to interact with the rest of society.

One woman from Adama, the capital of the Oromo region in Central Ethiopia, said ?cabbage helped me go out and meet with people. I have known many people because of cabbage.?

?From results like these, we see that cabbage, a simple, leafy vegetable high in vitamin C has done more than just nourish a body. Cabbage has actually enlarged her circle of friends and thus given her a chance to have a normal social life,? says Tsige Teferi, the program?s director. ?The gardeners who can liberate themselves from domestic confinement feel empowered to play a larger role in their families, neighborhoods and communities. That?s the power of a garden.?

In addition to the freedom to leave their homes and be in the garden, many program participants now feel like they are associated with a job and consider their garden plots their office and more often than not, their favorite place to be.? Where many were previously unemployed, something as simple as a garden plot made an important difference by providing a purpose.

A 50 year old gardener told researchers: ?In the past, I would never leave my home. I would not even go to other people?s homes. Now I have started going out and spending time in the garden.?

In the same vein, family leaders have reestablished their role as breadwinners for their families. According to the participants interviewed, gardening fosters feelings of self-reliance and allows mothers and fathers to provide for their families.

?I managed to raise my children from the benefit that I got from the garden. I feel happy in getting organized with other people in the garden and being able to raise my eight children all by myself because my husband is not living with me,? says a mother from a garden in Bahir Dar.

Social Is Number One

When participants were asked to score the benefits from urban gardening and decide which is of most importance, social benefits outweigh both economic and health benefits. Social status is of tremendous importance both among families and communities.

When asked why, some gardeners said:

?I value social relations most. Love exists if you live with a community.?

?I value my social life most. Social life brings education. I get knowledge and living methods from meeting people. Living with people is useful.?

Other gardeners deemed self-esteem and mental peace as the fundamental keys to success and told researchers that confidence and peace are the top benefits of gardening.

?I value self-confidence most. If you do not have confidence in yourself, you won?t be successful. If you are confident in yourself, you will be successful.?

People living with HIV are prone to many more health issues than those who are not. Worrying, depression and anxiety are common. Many of the project?s participants reported that when these feelings of despair appear, they resort to the garden to forget about their problems.

A 30 year old gardener from Adama told researchers: ?When I feel angry, I just go to the garden and spend my time there. I feel happy when I do my garden activities. When I go there and work, my mind gets rehabilitation.?

Sustainable Gardens

The study?s participants started gardening in 2009 under the tutelage of USAID UGP technical staff and were interviewed in mid-2011. The question of sustainability remains the underlying issue associated with the study. It is the perceived benefits that keep people gardening, and social issues are tied into long term success.

In 2009, when the Urban Gardens Program began, over 5000 people were enrolled and began gardening. By mid-2011, the majority of these participants were still gardening to varying degrees. As long as gardeners continue to feel hopeful and an integrated part of their communities, there is no reason to abandon their plots.

About USAID Urban Garden Program

This article was written by Nicholas Parkinson, Communications Officer, USAID UGP.

Started in 2008 with funding from the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), USAID Urban Gardens Program (USAID UGP) is implemented by DAI and designed to improve the nutrition and income of women and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS through urban and peri-urban agriculture, which includes gardening and raising livestock.

The Gardeners participating in USAID UGP often do not have the means to purchase and consume nutritionally adequate, safe and quality foods such as vegetables. Providing nutritional support to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is critical for making ARV?s more effective. In addition, excess production from urban gardens can provide income for PLWHA to address other needs.

Between September 2008 and September 2011, the USAID Urban Gardens Program reached 34,200 households and over 118,000 direct and indirect orphan and vulnerable children beneficiaries through micro, household, school and community gardens in Ethiopia. In addition, the program has provided agriculture-related education and training, tools and input. In Ethiopia, USAID UGP has created over 330 group and school gardens operating in 23 cities with the aim of improving both the income and nutrition of its Gardeners.

Learn more about the Urban Gardens Program and Urban Agriculture in Ethiopia here.

Photos: Nicholas Parkinson

Source: http://www.goodfoodworld.com/2012/10/a-dose-of-gardening-as-the-new-social-medicine/

gone tyler perry good deeds pretty in pink nba all star game shark tank john wall gordon hayward