Infographics get Viral Easily and Boost your Promotional Campaign

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Exactly what does it entail to escalate or fuel your business over the internet? First one needs to consider that just having a website or online business doesn?t mean that you are having an e-commerce site. The implementation of websites to spawn leads, sales plus networking referrals, continues to escalate. No matter whether you are indulge in B2B or B2C selling, your online visibility can play crucial role in generating sales and leads. Almost a majority of users search products over the internet and most of them make online purchase based on the information they get at best possible time. Consumers nowadays have become more time minded than ever and they seek information in an understandable manner. That?s the reason why social media and other online portals are becoming increasingly packed with infographics.

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Considering why and how these info-graphics are being implemented for social media promotional campaigns is foremost step for a business looking for mastering online promotional campaign.

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A research carried out by trusted resource indicates that more than 65% of online users get attracted towards visual web contents. That fact is that 90% of data that the user grabs is in visual format. Considering these facts most of the marketing leaders have relied over the infographics to promote their brands and improve their ranking. The use of graphics and visual impressions in brand promotion engages users twice that a simple headline or text.

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Link building is one of the most essential factors to consider while running an unbeaten social media campaign. The more websites, which share or contribute to a link that can easily be tracked back to an organization?s website, the superior for ranking. This is the main reason that proved infographics helpful for delivering more links. Visually attractive graphics with crucial data or information are often shared as well as implemented over social networks that ensure more links to stimulate superior SEO results.

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To keep abreast of the continually varying dynamics of networking sites is one of the tough challenges for advertising management teams. Based on current data and researches, information graphics are a reasonable way to present illustrations and visuals that engage as well as attract consumers. Anyone who has any doubt on this new trend requires just reviewing the statistics that supports the constant use of visual facts for SEO-results. For instance, YouTube the social media giant boasts 100 million visitors and consumers every week. As videos are definitely a preferred visual medium for building SEO results, stimulating infographics contain a confirmed track record to get viral too that is the dream of every marketing manager.

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Surprising Number of Food and Drink Spots Open

Despite the havoc of last night?s storm, some food and drink places in Brooklyn managed to stay open 24 hours, and others stayed open late last night or opened early this morning. Above, a pic of Mocha Bagels at 202 Smith Street near Baltic in Cobble Hill, which remained open 24 hours, as per usual. (Get the multigrain, said our tipster.)?Plenty of bars were busy throughout the borough last night, including Franklin Park in Crown Heights?and Miles in Bushwick, where some friends of ours convened a hurricane party. Grub Street is reporting 11 restaurants and groceries open in Brooklyn today or later tonight, including fine dining at Buttermilk Channel, Colonie and Gran Electrica. A reader sent word that Boerum Hill artisinal deli Mile End is open and was packed with people this morning.?Last night, the big Pioneer Supermarket down the street from us on Broadway and Covert Street in Bushwick stayed open even after the subway shut down, and we couldn?t believe it when we looked out and saw all the lights lit up at the corner deli and the pizza and fried chicken place. At the same time, branches were falling on cars, and we couldn?t have walked down the street if we tried.
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Headbutt double knockout? Headbutt double knockout (VIDEO)

Double knockouts are already uncommon in MMA, but one happened in Poland over the weekend that is even more rare. Marcin Mencel and Mateusz Zawadzki headbutted each other, and their fight ended in a technical draw.

In case you weren't sure, that's why headbutts aren't allowed in MMA.

Thanks to MMA Fighting and MMANews.pl.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/headbutt-double-knockout-headbutt-double-knockout-video-142040035--mma.html

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Air strikes in Damascus wreck last day of Syria "truce"

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus on Monday in what residents said were the capital's fiercest air raids yet, underlining the collapse of a truce proposed by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.

"More than 100 buildings have been destroyed, some leveled to the ground," said opposition activist Moaz al-Shami, who said he had witnessed three air raids in the northeastern suburb of Harasta alone. "Whole neighborhoods are deserted."

Syrian state television said a "terrorist car bomb" had killed 10 people, including women and children, near a bakery in Jaramana - a southeastern district of Damascus controlled by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Each side blamed the other for breaking the four-day truce for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which swiftly broke down.

"I am deeply disappointed that the parties failed to respect the call to suspend fighting," U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in South Korea, where he received the Seoul Peace Prize.

"This crisis cannot be solved with more weapons and bloodshed ... the guns must fall silent," Ban said.

Brahimi, after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, voiced regret at the fate of the ceasefire, but said it would not deter him from pursuing peace efforts.

Although the Syrian military and several rebel groups accepted the plan to stop shooting over Eid al-Adha, which ends on Monday, it failed to stem the bloodshed in a 19-month-old conflict that has already cost at least 32,000 lives.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition watchdog, 420 people have been killed since Friday.

SCENES OF DEVASTATION

Damascus residents reported air raids on the suburbs of Qaboun, Zamalka and Irbin overnight and on Monday which they said were the heaviest since jets and helicopters first bombarded pro-opposition parts of the Syrian capital in August.

"Even electricity poles have been hit and they are lying among pools of water from burst pipes. There is no food, water, electricity or telephones," said Shami, the activist in Harasta.

"Army snipers surround Harasta National Hospital and no one can move from one street to another without risking being shot."

Shami said Free Syrian Army rebels still held most of the area, but their anti-aircraft guns could not hit the warplanes.

State media said insurgents never respected the truce.

"For the fourth consecutive day, the armed terrorist groups in Deir al-Zor continued violating the declaration on suspending military operations which the armed forces have committed to," state news said, later adding that rebels had also attacked government forces in Aleppo and the central city of Homs.

The Damascus air raids followed what residents said were failed attempts by troops to storm eastern parts of the city.

"Tanks are deployed around Harat al-Shwam (district) but they haven't been able to go in. They tried a week ago," said an activist who lives near the area and who asked not to be named.

Brahimi, who will visit Beijing after Moscow, said the renewed violence in Syria would not discourage him.

"We think this civil war must end ... and the new Syria has to be built by all its sons," he said. "The support of Russia and other members of the Security Council is indispensable."

Russia and China have vetoed three Western-backed U.N. draft resolutions condemning Assad's government for the violence.

Beijing, keen to show it does not take sides in Syria, has urged Damascus to talk to the opposition and meet demands for political change. It has advocated a transitional government.

Big-power rifts have paralyzed United Nations action over Syria, but Assad's political and armed opponents are also deeply divided, a problem which their Western allies say has complicated efforts to provide greater support.

Syrian opposition figures, including Free Syrian Army commanders, started three days of talks in Istanbul on Monday in the latest attempt to unite the disparate groups.

(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Thomas Grove in Moscow and Michael Martina in Beijing; Writing by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-air-force-bombs-cities-truce-practically-over-073419776.html

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'One for the record books': Sandy leaves death and destruction in wake

NEW YORK (AP) ? Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain.

The full extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane force, was unclear. Police and fire officials, some with their own departments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds.

"We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can," Gov. Chris Christie said. "The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we've ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point."

The death toll from Sandy in the U.S. climbed to 20, including seven in New York, four in Pennsylvania and three in New Jersey, with many of the victims killed by falling trees. Sandy also killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard.

At least 7.4 million people across the East were without electricity. Airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights.

Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing over its seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets.

Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather in more than a century.

A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues. Three people were injured.

A downtown hospital, New York University's Tisch, evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and on battery-powered respirators.

And a construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore.

With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation's largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm.

Joseph Lhota, chairman of the regional Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway.

The saltwater surge inundated subway signals, switches and electrified third rails and covered tracks with sludge. Workers began pumping the water out and will ultimately have to walk all of the hundreds of miles of track to inspect it.

Millions of more fortunate New Yorkers surveyed damage as dawn broke, their city brought to an extraordinary standstill.

"Oh, Jesus. Oh, no," Faye Schwartz said she looked over damage in neighborhood in Brooklyn, where cars were scattered like leaves.

Reggie Thomas, a maintenance supervisor at a prison near the overflowing Hudson River, emerged from an overnight shift there, a toothbrush in his front pocket, to find his Honda with its windows down and a foot of water inside. The windows automatically go down when the car is submerged to free drivers.

"It's totaled," Thomas said with a shrug. "You would have needed a boat last night."

Besides the subway and the stock exchange, most major tunnels and bridges in New York were closed, as were schools, Broadway theaters and the metropolitan area's three main airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark.

"This will be one for the record books," said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.

In New Jersey, a huge swell of water swept over the small town of Moonachie, near the Hackensack River, and authorities struggled to rescue about 800 people, some of them living in a trailer park.

And in neighboring Little Ferry, water suddenly started gushing out of storm drains overnight, submerging a road under 4 feet of water and swamping houses.

Police and fire officials used boats and trucks to reach the stranded.

"I looked out and the next thing you know, the water just came up through the grates. It came up so quickly you couldn't do anything about it. If you wanted to move your car to higher ground you didn't have enough time," said Little Ferry resident Leo Quigley, who with his wife was taken to higher ground by boat.

Jersey City was closed to cars because traffic lights were out, and Hoboken, just over the Hudson River from Manhattan, dealt with major flooding. In Atlantic City, most of the world-famous boardwalk was intact, but pieces washed away Monday night.

Remnants of the hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain, high wind ? and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.

In a measure of how big the storm was, high winds spinning off the edge of Sandy clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.

Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scared away several cruise ships.

Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature.

While the hurricane's 80 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed the lowest barometric pressure on record in the Northeast, giving it terrific energy to push water inland.

President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island. The storm brought the presidential campaign to a halt with a week to go before Election Day.

In New York, the construction crane atop a 1,000-foot, $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan dangled for a second day while authorities tried to figure out how to secure it. Thousands were ordered to leave nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.

Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel ? whose slogan is "Uptown, Not Uptight" ? when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave.

"They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we'll come back in two or three days," she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. "I hope so."

An explosion Monday night at a substation for Consolidated Edison, the main utility service New York City, knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan.

"It sounded like the Fourth of July," Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.

In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. A blizzard in western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked part of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain.

"It's like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here," said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.

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Hays reported from New York and Breed reported from Raleigh, N.C.; AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington. Associated Press writers David Dishneau in Delaware City, Del., Katie Zezima in Atlantic City, Emery P. Dalesio in Elizabeth City, N.C., and Erika Niedowski in Cranston, R.I., also contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sandy-leaves-death-damp-darkness-wake-092828043.html

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Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast

Erica Avegalio, center, and her brother Albert Avegalio, right, load up on water and food at the Times Supermarket after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Erica Avegalio, center, and her brother Albert Avegalio, right, load up on water and food at the Times Supermarket after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Mike Nakamoto of Honolulu prepare's his client's boat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor to take it to deep water after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Tad Kanski of Newport Beach, Calif unties his family's sailboat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Lyndon Fong of Honolulu fills up his gas tank after learning of a tsunami waring Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ? A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful temblor hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday at a depth of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) and was centered 96 miles (155 kilometers) south of Masset, British Columbia. It was felt across a wide area in British Columbia, both on its Pacific islands and on the mainland.

"It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level," said Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management said. "We're certainly grateful."

The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas of British Columbia, southern Alaska and Hawaii, but later canceled it for the first two and downgraded it to an advisory for Hawaii.

Gerard Fryer, a senior geologist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said the first waves hitting shore in Hawaii were smaller than expected.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said early Sunday that the Aloha State was lucky to avoid more severe surges after the powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Canada. Abercrombie said beaches and harbors are still closed statewide.

"We're very, very grateful that we can go home tonight counting our blessings," Abercrombie said.

The weather service also canceled a tsunami advisory for Oregon, leaving northern California as the only spot in North America still under a tsunami advisory.

Dennis Sinnott of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Science said a 69-centimeter (27 inch) wave was recorded off Langara Island on the northeast tip of Haida Gwaii, formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands. The islands are home to about 5,000 people, many of them members of the Haida aboriginal group. Another 55 centimeter (21 inch) wave hit Winter Harbour on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.

"It appears to be settling down," he said. "It does not mean we won't get another small wave coming through."

Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 was an 8.1 magnitude quake on August 22, 1949 off the coast of British Columbia, according to the Canadian government's Natural Resources website. It occurred on the Queen Charlotte Fault in what the department called Canada's equivalent of the San Andreas Fault ? the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates that runs underwater along the west coast of the Haida Gwaii.

In 1970 a 7.4 magnitude quake struck south of the Haida Gwaii.

The USGS said the temblor shook the waters around British Columbia and was followed by a 5.8 magnitude aftershock after several minutes. Several other aftershocks were reported.

The quake struck 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Sandspit, British Columbia, on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. People in coastal areas were advised to move to higher ground.

Urs Thomas, operator of the Golden Spruce hotel in Port Clements said there was no warning before everything began moving inside and outside the hotel. He said it lasted about three minutes.

"It was a pretty good shock," Thomas, 59, said. "I looked at my boat outside. It was rocking. Everything was moving. My truck was moving."

After the initial jolt, Thomas began to check the hotel.

"The fixtures and everything were still swinging," he said. "I had some picture frames coming down."

Lenore Lawrence, a resident of Queen Charlotte City on the Haida Gwaii, said the quake was "definitely scary," adding she wondered if "this could be the big one." She said the shaking lasted more than a minute. While several things fell off her mantle and broke, she said damage in her home was minimal.

Many on the B.C. mainland said the same.

"I was sitting at my desk on my computer and everything just started to move. It was maybe 20 seconds," said Joan Girbav, manager of Pacific Inn in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. "It's very scary. I've lived here all my life and I've never felt that."

Residents rushed out of their homes in Tofino, British Columbia on Vancouver Island when the tsunami sirens sounded, but they were allowed to return about two hours after the quake.

In Hawaii, the tsunami warning spurred residents to stock up on essentials at gas stations and grocery stores and sent tourists in beachside hotels to higher floors in their buildings. Bus service into Waikiki was cut off an hour before the first waves, and police in downtown Honolulu shut down a Halloween block party. In Kauai, three schools used as evacuation centers quickly filled to capacity.

Fryer said the largest wave in the first 45 minutes of the tsunami was measured in Maui at more than 5 feet (1.5 meters), about 2 feet (60 centimeters) higher than normal sea levels. No major damage was reported.

In Alaska, the wave or surge was recorded at 4 inches (10 centimeters), much smaller than forecast, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The quake was felt in Craig and other southeast Alaska communities, but Zidek said there were no immediate reports of damage.

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Associated Press writers Oskar Garcia in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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OCD and Homeschooling | Psych Central

After reading many of John Holt?s books in college and subsequently working with him in Boston, I became committed to the homeschooling movement. This was in the mid-?70s, way before homeschooling became an acceptable alternative to traditional schooling.

When my three children were young, we homeschooled off and on throughout the elementary school years. My son Dan, in particular, loved the freedom of being able to explore his interests as he pleased. He continued homeschooling throughout high school, and received his diploma from a nontraditional school that works with homeschoolers. Always bright and self-motivated, he was truly born to homeschool. He has since graduated college.

His diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder didn?t come until after he graduated high school, and while he had known something was wrong for ?a while,? his father and I didn?t have a clue. So the decision to homeschool, on our part, had nothing to do with the fact that Dan has OCD. From Dan?s point of view, it was how he learned best. He did give high school a try for a few months in ninth grade, but decided to leave so he could ?continue his education.? Whether his OCD played a part in that decision or not, I don?t really know. But I do know that Dan genuinely loves learning, and he and homeschooling were a great fit.

Over the years, I?ve noticed, mostly from talking with people and reading blogs, that a considerable number of children with OCD are homeschooling. This is a totally unscientific observation; I don?t have any statistics. But I do have a question: Why? No doubt everyone has their own reasons, but some possible explanations might include:

• OCD often is associated with above-average intelligence, as well as creativity, and these two attributes do not always mesh well with traditional schooling.
• The school is unable or unwilling to meet the child?s special needs (even though they are legally bound to do so).
• The child refuses to attend school. This might be directly related to the OCD (for example, he or she may believe the school is contaminated), or indirectly related (the child is being bullied because of his or her odd behaviors).
• The child is willing to attend school but parents feel it is advantageous (in reference to OCD) to keep the child home.
• The parents or child believe homeschooling is the best way for this particular child to learn (independent of any issues with OCD).

I believe in homeschooling. While I know it?s not for everyone, it can be a rewarding experience for parents and children who undertake it for the right reasons.

But if your child has left school or has never attended solely because he or she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, it may be a good idea to reevaluate the situation. It?s true that school might be a fervent breeding ground for OCD triggers, but is avoiding it the right thing to do?

To complicate matters more, for those also dealing with social anxiety and perfectionism, school can be torturous. I know it?s easy to say ?avoidance is never the answer,? but when you have a child who is terrified of going to school, what do you do? Sometimes, could it be that avoiding certain situations is the right thing to do?

As with everything related to OCD, there are no easy answers. Parents, therapists, teachers, and students all need to become as educated as possible about the disorder. If it?s decided the child will attend school, the appropriate support network should be put in place. Of course, a support system is also necessary if the child is homeschooling.

Either way, the child must receive proper treatment. Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy, the frontline treatment for OCD, is actually based on facing one?s fears, and is therefore the opposite of avoidance. So the actual location of the battleground (school or home) isn?t so important. What matters is that the war against OCD is faced head-on.

Janet Singer?s son Dan suffered from OCD so severe that he could not even eat. After navigating through a disorienting maze of treatments and programs, Dan made a triumphant recovery. Janet has become an advocate for OCD awareness and wants everyone to know that OCD, no matter how severe, is treatable. There is so much hope for those with this disorder.

Janet has been published on various mental health sites, and also has her own blog (www.ocdtalk.wordpress.com) where she shares Dan?s story and talks about anything related to OCD. She is married with three children and lives in southwest Florida.

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Singer, J. (2012). OCD and Homeschooling. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 28, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/ocd-and-homeschooling/

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Air France demonstrators scuffle with police

PARIS (AP) ? Several hundred striking Air France workers have clashed with police during a demonstration inside Paris' Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.

The protesters and police scuffled in one of the airport's departure halls Saturday, knocking over planters and surprising travelers waiting for flights. The terminal was crowded because it is the start of a nationwide two-week school vacation in France.

No injuries were reported.

The demonstrators are protesting a restructuring plan decided by Air France management that aims to cut 10 percent of the airline's workforce.

The strike, which is scheduled to last through the weekend, slightly delayed some flights Friday, but traffic was back to normal Saturday, with no flights canceled.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/air-france-demonstrators-scuffle-police-115243771--finance.html

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Trial in 1977 killing asks: Were suspects framed?

FILE - In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Terry Harrington, center, stands with his daughter Nicole Brown, left, his mother Josephine James, right, and family and friends outside the Clarinda Correctional Facility in Clarinda, Iowa, after Gov. Tom Vilsack signed his reprieve. Harrington and Curtis McGhee, wrongfully convicted in the 1977 murder of a retired Iowa police officer, hope to prove during a trial that starts Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, that officers coerced witnesses into fabricating testimony that framed them for killing John Schweer. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

FILE - In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Terry Harrington, center, stands with his daughter Nicole Brown, left, his mother Josephine James, right, and family and friends outside the Clarinda Correctional Facility in Clarinda, Iowa, after Gov. Tom Vilsack signed his reprieve. Harrington and Curtis McGhee, wrongfully convicted in the 1977 murder of a retired Iowa police officer, hope to prove during a trial that starts Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, that officers coerced witnesses into fabricating testimony that framed them for killing John Schweer. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ? Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them to prison for 25 years: that detectives framed them to solve a high-profile case.

During a civil trial that starts Wednesday in Des Moines, Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee will argue that Council Bluffs police officers coerced witnesses into fabricating testimony against them in the killing of John Schweer.

Schweer was found dead while working as the night watchman at a car dealership. Harrington and McGhee, then teenagers from neighboring Omaha, Neb., say detectives used threats against a group of young black car theft suspects to trump up evidence targeting them because of their race and pressure to solve the retired captain's killing.

Despite little physical evidence, Harrington and McGhee were convicted at 1978 trials and sentenced to long prison terms. They were freed in 2003, after the Iowa Supreme Court found that prosecutors committed misconduct in concealing reports about another man seen near the crime scene with a shotgun. The key witnesses had also recanted their testimony, saying they were pressured into implicating the men.

After winning their freedom, they filed lawsuits against prosecutors and officers they blamed for forcing them to spend their adult lives in the Fort Madison prison. Their case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 over the issue of whether suspects have the constitutional right not to be framed by prosecutors. Before justices ruled, Pottawatamie County agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims against two former prosecutors while not admitting wrongdoing.

The settlement did not resolve claims against Council Bluffs and former detectives Dan Larsen and Lyle Brown.

Harrington and McGhee claim Larsen and Brown coerced the group of black car theft suspects into fingering them in the death. Investigators took the star witness, a 16-year-old confessed liar with numerous aliases, to the crime scene, gave him details about the murder weapon, and had him repeatedly change his story until it was plausible, the lawsuit claims.

The witness, Kevin Hughes, was aggressively questioned in Schweer's death after he was pulled over several weeks later driving a vehicle stolen from a Nebraska dealership. He first implicated three other men who had alibis before eventually claiming Harrington pulled the trigger and McGhee drove the getaway car after they went to steal a car from the dealership Schweer was guarding. Hughes said later he lied to get reward money and avoid being charged himself. Other witnesses also recanted.

Jurors will be asked to decide at trial, scheduled to last through Nov. 16, whether detectives, who were both white, and the city violated Harrington and McGhee's civil rights and, if so, how much they should receive in damages.

"We have waited for a very long time to have this trial and we look forward to having an opportunity to present our case," said Stephen Davis, an attorney for McGhee, now married and living in a Midwestern community he does not want to disclosure.

Facing a possible verdict of millions, lawyers for the detectives and the city are making an aggressive defense. They plan to argue that Harrington and McGhee probably were the real killers ? and that even if they weren't, detectives did nothing wrong in focusing on them as suspects under the circumstances.

"There is going to be evidence that this civil jury will hear surrounding Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee's involvement in this crime and it's evidence that the juries in 1978 considered," said attorney Kristopher Madsen. "But importantly, we believe there's going to be lacking any credible evidence to indicate these two police detectives in any way fabricated evidence or coerced or threatened witnesses or violated any civil rights of Harrington and McGhee."

The stakes are high for the city because recent court rulings have concluded it will have little insurance coverage if liable.

Lawyers would not say how much compensation Harrington and McGhee would seek, but they plan to show jurors a mock prison cell to illustrate their lives behind bars. Harrington's daughter, born after he was imprisoned, is expected to testify about the former high school football player's long dream of freedom.

A key question will be why detectives stopped pursuing suspect Charles Gates. Police reports about Gates had been hidden from the defense and were uncovered in 1999 by a former prison barber who became convinced of Harrington's innocence and worked for years for his freedom.

They showed that witnesses reported seeing a man with a dog carrying a shotgun near the crime scene, where Schweer's bullet-riddled body was found surrounded by bloody dog prints. In the nights before his death, the police reports show Schweer reported having altercations with a white man carrying a shotgun and walking a dog ? something Gates was known to do.

Police questioned Gates, a 48-year-old loner, and he failed a lie-detector test. He had also been a suspect in an earlier unsolved murder. Investigators even consulted an astrologer about Gates, but ignored him after Hughes and other teens were stopped in the stolen car. Gates denied in a 2003 interview with police that he was involved in the slaying. Attempts to find Gates and reach him for comment were not successful.

"Larsen and Brown thought it was their lucky day. They could pin the murder on them, or use them to pin it on some 'ghetto dwellers'," plaintiffs' lawyers wrote, using a term detective Larsen once used to refer to Omaha residents. "Either way, Larsen and Brown would be putting blacks in front of a white Council Bluffs jury for the killing of a white Council Bluffs cop. That would mean case closed and they would be heroes."

Associated Press

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Real Estate Expert Jennifer Myers Helps Realtors Sell Homes More ...

Jennifer Myers, Broker and Owner of Dwell Residential Brokerage, DC?s most unique real estate brokerage, recently appeared on the ?Money For Lunch? radio show to explain how real estate agents can get their listings sold quickly during the holiday season.

Washington, D.C. ? October 26, 2012 ? Jennifer Myers, owner of Dwell Residential Brokerage, is an award-winning agent with more than 10 years of real estate experience in the Washington metro area.? Jennifer Myers recently joined Bert Martinez, Host of the ?Money For Lunch? radio show. Jennifer and Bert discussed why the holiday season is a great time for real estate agents to reach out to their clients.

Jennifer said that agents should urge their home sellers to list their properties during the holidays instead of the conventional wisdom of taking homes off the market during these times. ?This is a great opportunity to get in touch with your seller clients and let them know that now is a good time to be selling.? There are buyers out there!? remarked Myers. ?This is a great way for them to get their homes sold before the end of the year, have a tax benefit for the current year and avoid all of the Spring listing competition.?

Bert and Jennifer also spoke about Jennifer?s innovative philosophy about selling real estate. Jennifer places strong emphasis on selling a home?s ?story? and the lifestyle that accompanies a particular home, rather than just the typical real estate selling points such as features within the home.

?We ask our seller clients to tell the story of their house themselves ? why they picked it, what their life has been like, and why they are moving,? said Jennifer.

One of the ways the Dwell does this is by having the sellers create a video, giving potential buyers a personal tour of their home and neighborhood. ?At the end of the day, people buy a house because they believe there will be a certain life change when they live in that house. Who better to explain that than the person who has been living there??

The entire interview can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/moneyforlunch/2012/10/22/october-22-2012

Jennifer Myers created Dwell Residential Brokerage to be a completely different type of brokerage that not only caters to clients? needs and budgets but also to their hopes and dreams. Jennifer and her team are emphasizing the use of unique and updated marketing efforts to help homeowners showcase their home in the most effective way.? Instead of relying solely on traditional practices, Dwell is putting the cookie-cutters away and creating a unique marketing plan for each individual home.
To learn more about Dwell Residential Brokerage and owner Jennifer Myers, please visit http://www.wheredoyoudwell.com. Dwell?s media kit is available for download at http://www.WhereDoYouDwell.com/mediakit

About Jennifer Myers:

Jennifer Myers, owner of Dwell Residential, is an award-winning real estate agent with more than 10 years of experience in the D.C. metropolitan area. In 2010 she was named a ?Best Of? DC Real Estate Agent in the Washington City Paper. She has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Realtor Magazine, Washington City Paper, Urban Turf and seen on ABC, NBC, CBS & HGTV.? Jennifer was also part of an exciting collaboration with other industry experts in the Amazon.com best seller, Shift Happens: America?s Premier Experts? Reveal Their Biggest Secrets to Help You Thrive in the New Economy.? Jennifer?s chapter, ?First, Decide That Success is the Only Option. Then, Do Not Waiver,? highlights how her own passion and belief in putting clients first helped her create a thriving business that she loves.

She has been a top producer in Washington since her first year as an agent and has helped hundreds of clients buy and sell real estate, but at the same time making each one feel as though they were her only client.

Her energetic determination and knowledge of the local housing market keep her on the front lines of the DC real estate scene.? As a young homeowner herself, Myers knows firsthand the benefits of owning your own place but also understands the concerns that young buyers may have. She enjoys the excitement of working with first-time buyers and sellers and helping them realize their real estate dreams.

Myers lives in Washington, D.C., with her Yorkie, Cannoli. When not working with clients, she enjoys training for triathlons with the DC TriClub and checking out all of the new and wonderful restaurants around town.

You can reach Jennifer at 202-905-4335 or email her at Jennifer@WhereDoYouDwell.com.

About Dwell Residential Brokerage

Dwell Residential Brokerage is located in the trendsetting H Street Corridor of Washington, D.C., at 1108 H Street, N.E. The H Street location is centrally located so that agents can travel easily to meet with clients all over the city and the surrounding metro area. Dwell is excited to be joining other businesses in this growing, creative, and unique community.

The brokerage?s motto, ?Dwell in Possiblity,? highlights its belief that anyone can achieve their financial or personal dreams through real estate.

WhereDoYouDwell.com is an interactive porthole to Myers? message of the potential and possibility of real estate in changing lives for the better.? Visit WhereDoYouDwell.com to experience her exuberant and positive outlook and read more about Dwell?s Manifesto to all clients.

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Newsflash: 24h Comic

Dear Folks,

tomorrow there will be one more reason to strive by Gambit's bar, because I decided to transform everything posted into a comic, which will be published here in the following weeks (nowhere else, so no plagiarism). I'm taking part at a 24h Comic event in Hamburg, Germany from noon to noon (Western European Time Zone). You can follow me on twitter.com/LerkeLikblek to see how it is all going down and if you like, you can send me a full-body image of your character via pm so i can draw it in a more exact manner.

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Wexford Online University Names Tracy Daly Department Chair and ...

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ? Cementing its dedication to health, fitness and nutrition education, Wexford University recently named Tracy Daly professor and department chair for its Nutrition and Exercise program. A 100 percent online university, Wexford University offers a variety of associates through doctoral degrees in health, fitness, exercise and nutrition.

With a master?s degree in Nutrition Education from Chicago Medical School and a bachelor?s degree in Dietetics from Madonna University in Michigan, Daly has been a registered dietitian since 1999. She has also served as the sports dietitian for the San Diego State University (SDSU) Aztecs and high-risk dietitian for SDSU students for nearly a decade.

?Tracy truly believes in the power of nutrition in health and disease prevention as well as the ability to improve quality of life through eating fun and healthy foods and physical activity, an ideal match for the philosophy of Wexford?s online health, wellness and nutrition programs,? said Jack Bauerle, Chancellor of Wexford University. ?As our online university continues to offer more diverse courses and programs for students interested in nutrition and exercise, we are thrilled to add her expertise and passion to our staff.?

Daly also serves as adjunct professor at San Diego State University, Cal State San Marcos, San Diego Community College District and Trident University, and has provided guest lectures to the University of San Diego and the University of California, San Diego. Further, she has been involved in nutrition research at the University of California, San Diego and previously served as consultant sports dietitian for the University of San Diego Toreros. Daly is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the California Dietetic Association, San Diego Area Dietetic Association, Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group, and the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association.

Wexford University offers the following online degree programs for both U.S. and international students:

Associate of arts degree in Fitness Training
Bachelor of science degree in Health and Fitness
Master of science degree in Nutrition and Exercise
Master of arts degree in Applied Sports Psychology
Doctor of Applied Sports Psychology

About Wexford University

Wexford University is dedicated to providing world-class education through cutting-edge technology, offering direct application degree programs in an accelerated format with 100 percent online learning to save time and money. Programs include an associate of arts degree in Fitness Training, bachelor?s degree in Health and Fitness, master?s degree in Nutrition and Exercise as well as master?s degree and doctorate degree in Applied Sport Psychology. Wexford University is the higher education division of NESTA (National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association). For more information, please visit http://wexford.edu/.

Wexford University
Dr. John Spencer Ellis
30245 Tomas Suite A
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 USA
949-484-8454

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Gamertag: CyberKnight: Geezer Gamers Community Cast #95

EPISODE 95

Join CyberKnight and the Geezer Gamers as we talk about all things gaming. From the Xbox, PlayStation, and Wii, to upcoming consoles like the Wii U and Ouya, to announcements and rumors of the Durango and the Orbis. Put the kids to bed and be a part of the show!

Special thanks to Palette-Swap Ninja for the music!

?CyberKnight

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Hotels In Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park one of the most coveted destinations in London because it is one of the greenest and calmest places in London. The green of Hyde Park provides the much needed respite to Londoners who are caught in the fast urban life of the city. You can go to Hyde Park and relax in the lap of nature for as long as you want, soak in the sun and exercise to take out all the negative energy that is there in you because of daily living. This is the place where you can introspect or have a quiet walk alone or with someone.

There are many hotels in Hyde Park which provide accommodation to the people who come to stay in London; there are many hotels in the area because there are many people who want to stay in Hyde Park because of its location and benefits. People want to be in Hyde Park because they want to enjoy London and at the same time have a relaxation space which is nearby to their hotel.

Hence there are hotels galore and they belong to all kinds of budget ranges. There are budget hotels for the budget travellers which provide good and comfortable places to stay with a warm ambience that makes you feel welcome in London. These places are the best bet if you are travelling, alone or with family, and do not want to spend a lot of money in expensive hotels.

There are hostels for student travellers and backpackers which also provide a very warm and comfortable place to stay for the students. There is a dormitory set up and you are warm and clean beds and a safe place to keep your luggage in these hostels. It is advisable for students to stay here because they do not have to spend money on hotels where they would hardly stay, being busy exploring the city.

For travellers who do not want to stay in budget hotels or prefer other kinds of hotels with more facilities in their hotels then they should choose the mid-range hotels in Hyde Park which provide more services than just the basic ones as provided by the budget hotels. These are also inexpensive hotels, some of them slightly more expensive than the budget ones. Though on the higher end of this range lie the 4 star hotels which are just a little less expensive to the five star and luxury hotels.

You can find these hotels interspersed with each other and other kinds of accommodations in Hyde Park. You can choose your hotels on the basis of its location within Hyde Park and stay there to enjoy the place and the park. There are plenty of restaurants and places where you can eat and drink and have a great night or morning and where you can taste the London for yourself.
You can book these places on the internet as most of the hotels in Hyde Park have their presence online. You can check out the details on the website and on the basis of the service and facilities choose a hotel in Hyde Park where you want to stay.

Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Hotels-In-Hyde-Park--London-/4232400

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PSA: Windows 8 available to buy starting tonight

Microsoft's stunning new operating system is finally ready for public consumption, starting tonight. The new OS is launching globally in more than 140 markets and in over 37 languages and you'll be able grab either Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro (not to mention the Microsoft Surface), from 12.01am local time at participating US retailers including Amazon, Best Buy and Staples. Meanwhile, Microsoft will also be offering up its Windows 8 upgrade online. Anyone looking to upgrade their PC (and you'll be able to from XP to version 7) will need to stump up $40 -- just keep that source link below bookmarked for later. Better still, if you've bought a Windows 7 machine since June 2, you'll be able to download Redmond's latest OS for the discounted rate of $15, so make sure to pay a visit to our second source link below.

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Taylor Swift Dumped By Conor Kennedy Already!

Taylor Swift Dumped By Conor Kennedy Already!

Taylor Swift apparently came on a little too strong in her romance with Conor Kennedy and “freaked him out”. The 22-year-old singer began dating the [...]

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Russian opposition issues warning to Kremlin

MOSCOW (AP) ? Russian opposition leaders urged President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to stop clamping down on dissent and warned they would ask Western governments to freeze assets of Russian officials involved in a spiraling crackdown on the opposition.

Alexei Navalny and other opposition activists who were elected to the opposition's Coordinating Council in a weekend online ballot accused the Kremlin of unleashing a campaign of "direct and forceful pressure against its opponents in rude violation of Russian and international law."

They pointed at what they said was the abduction of opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev from neighboring Ukraine as an example of the repression of dissenters. The opposition leaders warned that government officials and law-enforcement officers will face "imminent punishment for their crimes against Russian citizens."

They said the opposition will hold a rally in Moscow in support of Razvozzhayev and other jailed opposition members this weekend.

"The Coordinating Council will demand the arrest of all foreign assets of the masterminds and perpetrators of the abduction, torture and illegal criminal repression against the opposition," the opposition leaders said in a statement.

Russia's top investigative agency formally charged Razvozzhayev on Tuesday with orchestrating riots. The agency said he had turned himself in, but Razvozzhayev and his supporters said he was kidnapped from Ukraine where he was seeking asylum, smuggled back into Russia and tortured into confessing that he organized riots.

Members of a Russian prisoners' rights watchdog, who spoke Wednesday after meeting with Razvozzhayev in jail, said unidentified abductors forced him to make "confessions" by threatening to kill him and his family.

Valery Borshchev and other members of the Public Observation Commission said the masked men who abducted Razvozzhayev kept him in handcuffs and leg chains in a basement for three days, denying him food, water, sleep and a toilet until he signed the confessions.

"They accompanied it all with threats, telling him that they know everything about his children and that his children and his wife will be dead," Borshchev said.

Borshchev's colleague, Lidiya Dubikova, said Razvozzhayev looked anemic and his speech was slow, as if he had been drugged. Razvozzhayev told rights defenders that he feared the men who forced him to make confessions would return.

Amnesty International said Wednesday that the claims about Razvozzhayev's abduction and torture "are extremely disturbing" and urged Russia to "ensure such allegations are promptly, effectively and independently investigated."

Charges against Razvozzhayev stemmed from hidden camera footage aired earlier this month by a Kremlin-friendly TV channel. The documentary claimed that leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov met with a Georgian lawmaker to raise money for organizing riots in Moscow and several other Russian cities. Udaltsov rejected the charges and said the footage was a sham.

Udaltsov already was questioned last week and he fears arrest. One of his aides was arrested last week.

Opposition and rights activists denounced the case against Udaltsov and other activists as a throwback to the times of Soviet-era repression. "The evidence of abduction and torture of Razvozzhayev is like a message from hell," gallery owner Marat Gelman wrote in his blog.

Putin has methodically raised the pressure on the opposition since he was sworn in for a third term in May. Protest leaders have faced interrogations, searches and criminal charges, and the Kremlin-controlled parliament churned out a series of repressive bills to discourage people from joining protests and to introduce new tough restrictions on non-government organizations.

On Tuesday, Russian lawmakers passed a new bill offering a new broad definition of treason, which rights activists say is so loose that it could allow officials to brand any dissenter a traitor. Earlier this month, Moscow declared an end to the U.S. Agency for International Development's two decades of work in Russia, saying the agency was using its money to influence elections ? a claim the U.S. denied.

And despite an international outrage against the two-year prison sentence given to members of the Pussy Riot punk band for an irreverent anti-Putin protest at Moscow's main cathedral, two of them were sent to remote prison colonies this week. The third one was released after a court suspended her sentence.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russian-opposition-issues-warning-kremlin-182831888.html

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Equestrian Symposium Draws Top Athletes, Judges to Maine | Press ...

For Immediate Release
October 24, 2012

Contact:
Jennifer Dillon
Pineland Farms, Inc.
207-657-6419
jdillon@pinelandfarms.org
www.pinelandfarms.org

Equestrian Symposium Draws Top Athletes, Judges to Maine

Pineland Farms to Host Prestigious Event Featuring Olympic Riders and Judges

New Gloucester, ME?The New England Dressage Association (NEDA) will be hosting its premier educational event, the annual Fall Symposium, at Pineland Farms this October 26th through 28th. Over 300 riding enthusiasts and competitors from across the Northeast will come to Maine to participate in two days of educational clinics and demonstration riding. This is the first time that the annual Symposium has come to Maine, highlighting the growing stature of the Pineland Farms Equestrian Center in the world of competitive riding.

In addition to the hundreds of riders coming to Maine, the Symposium will feature two guest clinicians with impressive Olympic resumes: three-time Canadian Olympic rider, Ashley Holzer and Olympic Judge and former British team member, Stephen Clarke. Both Clarke and Holzer are coming to Pineland after participating in the Summer Games in London. In addition, Michael Poulin, who hails from Fairfield, Maine and won a Bronze Medal in Barcelona, will be on hand for the event in his capacity as a Trainer for the Pineland team.

?Both Ashley and Stephen will be fresh off the London Games, and in addition to great teaching, we look forward to hearing the stories of their Olympic experiences,? says Jennifer Dillon, NEDA Fall Symposium Coordinator. ?It is an incredible opportunity for riders to come to Pineland Farms and learn from some of the best in the sport.?

The NEDA Fall Symposium will begin on the evening of Friday, October 26 with a free wine tasting at the Pineland Farms Market. Programming will begin at 8:00AM on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and Saturday night will feature a dinner and celebration with remarks by Ashley Holzer and Stephen Clarke.

Additional Information

Pineland Farms is a several thousand-acre working farm, business campus and educational and recreational venue in New Gloucester, Maine. Pineland Farms? mission is to provide productive and educational venues that enrich the community by demonstrating responsible farming techniques, offering educational opportunities and encouraging a healthy lifestyle through recreation.

For more information please visit the Pineland Farms website at www.pinelandfarms.org.

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Unaccountable-in-Chief: Obama to IA Paper ... - Riehl World View

Media outlets note this about Obama from time-to-time. Still, he gets far too wide a berth on it. They?mostly-give?Obama a pass on his significant lack of accountability.

President Obama, who has gone on the record for interviews about rapper Nikki Minaj and pop hit ?Call Me Maybe,??wouldn?t?allow a wide-ranging discussion with the Des?Moines Register to be on the record, the paper announces:

via??- By Katrina Trinko ? The Corner.

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OK to pay overtime to salaried supervisors? - Business Management ...

Q. Our company pays overtime to salaried supervisors for hours they work over 40 in a week. I have never heard of this compensation practice. Is it legal?

A. If the supervisors are nonexempt (which they might be even if salaried), then paying overtime is not only legal, it is required.

If they are exempt, however, paying overtime is risky because it suggests that they are not truly exempt. Exempt employees should be paid the same salary every week regardless of how many hours they work. Paying them overtime risks losing their exempt status.

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Carolina Forest girls golf team bringing ?A? game to course, classroom

MYRTLE BEACH -- Carolina Forest High girls golf coach Vil Caroso has one more tournament remaining this season to determine his team?s award winners.

He has to decide which players have earned the team MVP, most improved player award, and Panther award for spirit and leadership.

He?s grateful he doesn?t have to choose the team?s academic award winner, which school administrators select based on GPA.

That would be a tough one.

As impressive as the Panthers are on the golf course ? they finished fourth Monday in the Class AAAA Lower State tournament at Myrtle Beach National Golf Club?s Southcreek Course to qualify for the AAAA state tournament ? they?re much more impressive in the classroom.

And the starting five are more proud of their grade-point averages than their stroke averages. They represent the ideal of the student athlete.

?The school wants [players to have] a ?C? average, and I never have to worry about that,? Caroso said. ?When you see their laptop computers with them on the away matches, you know they?re hard workers. They?re very diligent.?

Lia Farrar is not only the lone senior on the team, she?s actually the only student enrolled at Carolina Forest High. The players? academic pursuits have taken them to five different schools.

Farrar is in the top 10 academically in a class of approximately 475 and plans to select a college major in the medical field. ?I love to play golf, but academics definitely come first,? Farrar said.

Samantha Schoener is a junior at Early College High School at Horry-Georgetown Technical College. She carries a 4.38 GPA, is on pace to graduate next year with the equivalent of a college associate?s degree and wants to major in sports medicine.

Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts is a sophomore at the Academy of Arts & Sciences and earned the team academic award last season with a GPA above 5.0.

Jamie Karl is a freshman at the Scholar Academy at Coastal Carolina and could complete high school classes and begin taking college classes by the second semester next school year.

Sami Spencer is a seventh-grader at Ocean Bay Middle School who is an A/B student and takes honors English and honors math classes.

?It?s a good thing to have a bunch of good scholarly kids,? said Farrar, who is in her fourth year on varsity and has been selected to participate in S.C.?s North-South All-Star Golf Matches in Chapin. ?No one ever has to sit out matches for grades, so it?s helpful. When you go to the awards banquet usually golf will have the best GPA score.?

The team score at Myrtle Beach National on Monday wasn?t bad, either. Carolina Forest?s 54-over-par 342 was its best total of the season, including extrapolating individual scores in nine-hole matches to 18-hole scores.

Farrar shot an 10-over 82, Schoener an 86, Snyder-Mounts a career-best 86 and Spencer an 88. The team score didn?t include Karl?s team-best 81 Monday that couldn?t be counted because she was disqualified for taking an improper drop from a water hazard. ?We brought our ?A? game today,? Karl said.

Lexington won the tournament by 12 strokes over Bluffton with a 12-over 300, and Lexington?s Sydney Legacy was the medalist by a stroke over South Aiken?s Taylor Dodson with a 4-under 68. Conway individuals Maggie Harper and Emily McClellan both shot 105.

The Panthers will compete in the AAAA state championship tournament next Monday and Tuesday in Lexington, and will stay overnight in a hotel, where their GPAs will still be as important if not more important than their opening-round scores. To a player, they?ll likely have their schoolwork with them.

?If I got behind I would die,? Snyder-Mounts said. ?My GPA is too important.?

The team hasn?t had a problem bonding despite the multitude of schools they attend. ?We?re like a family,? Snyder-Mounts said. ?We all love each other.?

Following the season they plan to organize golf rounds and movie nights together. ?We try to come together as a team on the golf course but also be a team outside of it,? Schoener said. ?We?re all here for each other.?

The teammates push each other to improve on the golf course and in the classroom, and sometimes exercise their brains as they?re practicing. ?I remember one day at practice we were talking about how bad our putting was, and we?re like, ?How do you say my putting is horrible in Spanish???? Snyder-Mounts said. ?We were on that for like 15 minutes.?

Their higher education choices will probably all be guided by academics and it?s possible none of the five will tee it up collegiately. ?Originally I was all gung-ho about playing golf in college, but I realized college is going to be very much an academic experience for me,? Schoener said. ?I?m always into knowing my grades and keeping up with my schoolwork, and that?s really who I am so I?m going to really focus on school.?

So who deserves to receive the team academic award? The players have a solution.

?I think we all deserve a piece of it,? said Karl, whose sister is a freshman at Wofford College. ?Keeping up straight ?A?s? while playing golf and having practice till like 6:30 every night, it?s hard but we all do it.?

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/10/22/3129508/carolina-forest-girls-golf-team.html

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