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For those of you who know me, you know that when I want to learn something, I do everything I can to find the leading expert on the subject to interview.
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She didn't even tell me who she really was.
As the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. Little did I know that our paths would cross again, and that my teacher was someone who I thought I already knew through a friend. I actually thought she was just a web programmer.
Come to find out, I was wrong. Very wrong.
"Introducing The Leading Underground
Social Media Web 2.0 Expert, That
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Although you'll learn of her name after you purchase my special offer today, I am under strict instructions not to make her name public here.
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An extensive IT and Tech background
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She's a Microsoft Certified Professional
She's an Active data tester for MS, Adobe, and other leading softwares
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And much more
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My first contact with her was through the referral of a friend. I gave her a short article that took me just a few minutes to put together. The next thing I knew I had more than 20,000 brand new visitors to my website.
I didn't know it at the time, but it was all because of Social Media and what this genius did that made my website traffic explode beyond belief.
So when I sent an email out to my friends letting them know that I was seeking the leading expert on Social Media Marketing, I was blown away when I was yet again referred to this Miss W.
And to be honest with you, being blown away is an understatement when trying to explain how my interview with Miss W. went. Social Media Marketing is huge.
And you don't have to take my word for it. Here's a snippet of something that Miss W. said to me:
Realize that there really is a new trend. This is not a fad. This is not something that is going to go away. It's here, it's here to stay, and it's getting even better. Any businesses right now that jump on this and participate in this web 2.0 social media world are going to benefit immensely from it. Social web is all about conversations with people, and you can have no better advocate than your customers."
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She held nothing back.
She shared more information then I could have ever asked for.
She has taken Hypnotic Marketing to a whole new level.
Here's what you'll learn in what I'm now calling, "The New Fourth Step To The Hypnotic Marketing Formula":
"Here's Just A Small Taste Of What You'll
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Chapter 2: How to Hypnotize the Masses with "PO" Ideas
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Chapter 32: The Secret Nobody Wants You to Know About Making Money Online
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"Hypnotic Marketing Formula Break-Down"
1. E-DR Publicity: Traditional publicity is ego-driven. You get your name in the paper or mentioned on television. So what?
It rarely leads to sales. My E-DR Publicity is "direct response" publicity - it gets people to do something. Almost no one alive today knows how to create this form of publicity. I do.
However, in this training I talk about one man who got laid off and with no money started a new business that got national attention -- and is now making him rich. You can do this, too. And you can implement E-DR Publicity for as little as a hundred bucks -- and sometimes for no cost at all.
2. Response Websites: There are two kinds of websites that work: Information driven and direct sales driven. In Hypnotic Marketing 2.0, I reveal websites that make money, and show you how to create your own based on little-known principles. It's actually easy... once you know the secrets.
3. Hypnotic E-mail: Legendary marketer Jay Abraham and I once talked about email being the great undiscovered and truly underused marketing tool of this new century.
I've sent out emails that pulled in $21,500 in a few days. In this section, you'll see the actual emails I sent, as well as those from others who have made big bucks using email. As long as you have an email account, you can do this. The cost is nothing. The return can be staggering.
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As I've mentioned, only a tiny percentage of marketers are using Hypnotic Marketing methods in their Social Media marketing.
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Facebook entered a partnership Tuesday with the Russian search engine Yandex that will allow Yandex to index public Facebook data in the countries it serves and use them as search results. In exchange, Yandex will deliver traffic to Facebook.
While Facebook and Google dominate their respective categories in the US, Russia has its own favorite social network (VKontakte) and search engine (Yandex). According to Quartz, VKontakte has over 100 million active users, more than Facebook has in the country, though Russians on Facebook tend to be more affluent and urban. Yandex, like Google, is not only a search engine but an array of services and is similarly integral to the way Russians use the Internet.
Starting Tuesday, Yandex will start using Facebook's data in two ways. First, it will take "public" posts and comments from users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, other CIS countries, and Turkey and display them as search results for relevant queries. Second, on the back end, Yandex will take data from Facebook, like posts that have "resonance," and use that to augment its search result rankings.
No money is changing hands, meaning that Facebook expects to benefit from Yandex's use of its data in the form of more traffic to the site. Yandex's use of this type of information as search results is not new; per the company's blog post, it already uses tweets, posts from LiveJournal, and info from VKontakte in a similar way.
Russian Facebook users who were not expecting to have their posts turned into search results will be able to opt out, as Yandex assures that private posts and information will remain off limits. It's difficult to retroactively change or delete Facebook posts, though. The usage is somewhat reminiscent of Google starting to include user ratings and reviews in its sponsored search results, but without the advertising relationship.

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An easily forgotten staple in 90s R&B, All-4-One is back and readying an album for the year '09. You probably remember this group for their hit smash "I Swear" as well as "I Can Love You Like That" and "(She's Got) Skillz." Click above to hear a track from the new project No Regrets. Its entitled "My Child" and has a very soulful sound. This is grown folks music. Album slated for Sept. 15th. Shout to 90sToInfinty.
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North Carolina
An Act to Revise and Consolidate the Various Acts Relating to the Collection and Return of Taxes for the Support of the Indigent Insane
[Raleigh, N.C.]: [The Dept. of State], 1867.
Items summarized here:
The mid-nineteenth century in North Carolina marked a time of great change in the methods of caring for the mentally ill. The North Carolina Experience collection features several texts which document these changes. Publications by Dorothea L. Dix (in 1848) and Kenneth Rayner (in 1849) appeal to North Carolina's government agencies for the establishment of asylums. A set of 1856 reports issued by the Insane Asylum of North Carolina details the workings and costs of running the newly established asylum, and an 1867 Act passed by the North Carolina General Assembly seeks to streamline the collection of taxes to maintain the relatively new asylums. Finally, an 1891 report demonstrates the accomplishments, failures, and challenges surrounding the fledgling State asylums.
As noted by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, North Carolina relied on "families as caregivers and ad hoc charitable and community-based efforts" to deal with the mentally ill until the mid 1800s (p. v). Despite the push by other states to develop and build asylums, North Carolina hesitated "primarily because the cost of constructing an asylum was considered too high." North Carolina was thus the second-to-last of the original 13 colonies to pass legislation allowing for the construction of a state hospital (p. vi). The efforts of Dorothea L. Dix were of paramount importance in swaying legislators to consider the cost savings (and fundamental humanity) of treating the insane. Dix began as a teacher in New England but upon discovering the plight of the insane while teaching in a prison in Boston, she began a life-long crusade to change the care of the mentally ill.
Dix addresses the North Carolina General Assembly in her 1848 Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane. As the North Carolina Division of Mental Health notes in their online biography of Dix, this address was not unique: she traveled from state to state to "try to convince those in authority of the need of improvement in the care of the mentally ill (North Carolina Division of Mental Health)." Speaking as an "advocate of those who cannot plead their own causes," Dix speaks for "hundreds of wailing, suffering creatures, hidden in your private dwellings, and in pens and cabins—shut out, cut off from all healing influences" (p. 3). Chiding North Carolina for being the last state of the original thirteen colonies, "save the small territory of Delaware, to make provisions for the care and cure of her insane citizens," Dix appeals to "liberal and humane hearts" to establish care for the mentally ill (p. 4).
Dix notes that at the time, North Carolina offered "four methods of disposing of her more than one thousand insane, epileptic, and idiot citizens . . . . In the cells and dungeons of the County jails, in comfortless rooms and cages in the county poor-houses, in the dwellings of private families, and by sending the patients to distant hospitals, more seasonably established in sister States" (p. 4). Much of her 48-page Memorial focuses on discussing the inadequacy of each of these methods. Using county prisons to house the ill is "subverting the uses for which these prisons are constructed" and "placing the innocent on a level with the guilty making misfortune and crime, disease and health go hand in hand" (p. 6). Unlike the felon who can look forward to completing his sentence, the mentally ill patient "anticipates no season of liberty" (p. 6). Dix then lists the prisons in North Carolina, noting the conditions and the number of mentally ill persons held there.
Dix argues that North Carolina's poor-houses provide an even worse shelter for the mentally ill, for while a jail might be "well built" and kept in "good order," "[t]he reverse exists" for many poor-houses (p. 13). Dix points out that even the "County poor-house" located "a few miles from Statesville" which stands as a "model of neatness, comfort, and good order" is "no fit place for the insane" (p. 17). Both jails and poor-houses, faced with the challenges of the mentally ill, usually resort to restraint and neglect, which degrades both the human being and the institution.
Like jails and poor-houses, families also struggle with the treatment and care of the insane, as they are "thrown in to sorrow and trouble unequaled through the affliction and sore perplexities arising out of care over the demented, the epileptic, and the maniac" (p. 26). The only remaining option, Dix notes, is removing the ill to other states, making North Carolina "dependent upon other States for her afflicted children, while in possession of ample means to succor and heal their maladies within her own borders" (p. 29). Dix provides several charts displaying specific out-of-state asylums' cure and improvement rates, comparisons of the cost of treating the mentally ill after sustained illnesses versus treating them at the first sign of disease, and the profits from an out-of-state asylum's working farm. Dix aims to show the cost effectiveness of building proper asylums in North Carolina, asylums which can treat—and potentially cure—the mentally ill. She proposes guidelines for proper care, including exercise, proper nursing, and "moderation in all things" (p. 43). Finally, Dix calls upon the legislators to use their "God-like influence" wisely to benefit "the present and future destiny of hundreds, nay of thousands, who pine in want and misery, under privations and sufferings" (p. 48). The decision to establish care, Dix concludes, is the only appropriate response to the demands of "justice," "humanity" and "unquestionable civil obligation" (p. 48).
Like Dix, North Carolina General Assembly Representative Kenneth Rayner believed in the importance of proper care for the mentally ill. Addressing the North Carolina House of Commons in 1848 (the speech was published the following year), Rayner argues that "the Representative of a confiding and generous people can perform no more welcome task, that that of providing for a mitigation of one of the most awful calamities visited upon our race" (p. 3). Stating that "inductive experience" and "statistical data" prove that "in most cases, insanity proceeds from physical disease," Rayner calls for the proper care of the ill (pp. 4-5). Since proper care usually involves "paternal and domestic" aid, along with "[g]enial air, cheerful prospects, and healthful exercise," and because such care is "beyond the reach of private enterprise," Rayner advocates government-supported facilities (p. 5). Such facilities would benefit the ill and the sane, according to Rayner: "Government owes it not only to the destitute maniac, to provide for his sufferings, but it owes it to the more fortunate, to protect them, from the horrifying spectacle of an aberration of intellect in their fellow beings" (p. 6).
Rayner urges members of the House to heed the requests for aid of Dorothea Dix, "who comes among us as the friend of the unfortunate" and "who is an ornament, not only to her sex, but to human nature itself" (p. 9). Like Dix, Rayner sees a failure to act as a blemish upon the state of North Carolina, although Rayner employs a more dramatic approach, arguing that "[t]heir dismal cries and awful groans will haunt us in our slumbers, and their ghastly visages will freeze our hearts with terror, even to our dying day," should North Carolina fail to act (p. 9). Arguing that the counties in the state already pay for the indigent mentally ill through the cost of prisons, poor-houses, or familial loss, Rayner sees a small tax as not "bear[ing] more heavily on people than the charge already existing" (p. 11). Rayner sees no other option than the construction of an institution "to which our posterity can point with pride, whenever they mention our names" (p. 16).
North Carolina finally did begin constructing an asylum in Raleigh around 1854. The Reports of the Board of Directors and Superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane of North-Carolina, written in 1856 and published in 1857, details the establishment and early management of the asylum. The Reports open with a brief statement from the four directors. They note their appointment of Dr. Edward C. Fisher to the position of superintendent of the institution; they also request the modification of several sections of the act that allowed for the construction and management of the asylum, including those that limited the number of persons from each North Carolina county and those that classified who could be admitted to the facility. The directors also "beg leave to tender their resignation" after having "discharged the very onerous and responsible duties confided to them in connection with the asylum" (p. 2).
The superintendent's report dominates much of the remainder of the document. Noting the folly of an 1854 report in which "the conjecture was hazarded that a space of twelve months would be sufficiently long for the completion of so much of the remainder as to justify the directors in putting the institution into operation, Fisher acknowledges that, by 1856, "sufficient progress has been made" (p. 3).
At the time of the Report, the Asylum had been open "eight months and nine days" and the Asylum had admitted "fifty-one males and thirty-nine females," who had been "laboring under insanity for periods varying from one to thirty years" (p. 6). Fisher notes problems in the Asylum, including an outbreak of dysentery and the death of two inmates, including one by suicidal "abstinence from food" and another from epilepsy (p. 7). But Fisher also stresses the positive developments from the Asylum's first year, including patients who had "learned to appreciate the privileges of companionship" and those who "gladly embrace the opportunity afforded them of performing manual labor" (p. 8). One of the greatest challenges faced by the Asylum is the filling of the "offices of attendants upon the patients; a position, which, though of inferior grade to others, is hardly second to any position in the asylum in its importance and responsibility" (p. 8). Fisher recognizes that other institutions have faced similar problems in finding suitable staff, a problem exacerbated by the "strictly agricultural" location of the North Carolina Asylum (p. 8).
Fisher also discusses problems arising from insufficient funding, including a well that fails to provide adequate water for the Asylum. He contends that the only viable solution requires machinery to pump water from a nearby stream, a set-up that would cost approximately four thousand dollars. Fisher also regrets that "it has been found impracticable, from the want of funds, to go on with the construction of the gas works," which forces the Asylum to less reliable lighting alternatives (p. 13). Fisher expresses similar frustrations with missing buildings, insufficient gardening grounds, and the lack of an enclosed grounds to allow free patient movement. After thanking those who assisted the Asylum in its foundational years, Fisher ends the Report with several tables, detailing various elements related to the Asylum, including suspected causes of insanity ("Religious excitement, Blow on the head, Masturbation, Pecuniary embarrassment" and other causes), the counties from which the residents have come, and the funds received and spent by the Asylum (p. 20).
The law titled An Act to Revise and Consolidate the Various Acts Relating to the Collection and Return of Taxes for the Support of the Indigent Insane, passed in 1867, sought to streamline the intake and distribution of funds for the Asylum. Drafted by the North Carolina General Assembly, the Act suggests changes such as allowing the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum to submit a "list showing the amounts due by each County in this State, for the support of the indigent patients in the Insane Asylum" (p. 1). The Act also proposes methods for dispensing the lists to the counties, for levying county taxes in response to the list, and for taking appropriate actions should a county default on its payments. The end of the document is partially missing due to a tear in the document.
Interested scholars should note that only two other insane asylums were approved and built before the turn of the twentieth century in North Carolina: Broughton Hospital in Morganton and Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro. Cherry Hospital, which opened in 1880, was designated the "Asylum for the Colored Insane" and remained the only mental hospital available to African Americans in North Carolina "[u]ntil the implementation of the Civil Rights Act 85 years later" ("Reforming Mental Health Reform," p. vi).
The final document summarized here, Dr. Isaac M. Taylor's An Appeal for State Care for All the Insane from an Economic Standpoint. The Report of the Chairman of the Section on State Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence Made to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, May 28th, 1891, notes the difficulties still faced by the relatively new asylums. Taylor was an Assistant Physician for the State Hospital in Morganton, North Carolina. His report, addressed to the "President and Gentlemen of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina," examines "the growth of our lunacy laws and their apparent inconsistencies" (p. 1). Acknowledging that the "laws of our State show an appreciation by our legislatures of the needs of the insane, and a determination on the part of our people to care for all who had been deprived," Taylor nonetheless finds that the current state of the asylums fails to live up to expectations (p. 1).
From the time of their creation until 1866, says Taylor, North Carolina's asylums served the state well, but as the need for space increased, the asylums did not expand to meet that need. While the Civil War understandably "stopped all such philanthropic work" and diverted state funds elsewhere, both during and after the conflict, the war also forced many families into debt and made them thus unable to sustain the "burden of their insane relatives from their private means" (pp. 1, 2).
With an increase in patients and a decrease in funding, North Carolina attempted to care for its insane "from the public Treasury" by filling the Asylum to capacity and "generously" supporting others "at their homes" (p. 2). Such a plan was quickly recognized as an "opening for wholesale fraud" and "the next Legislature repealed" the law (p. 2). Taylor notes that the State then took the right steps in the "building of additional asylums," but due to "false statistics," the new locations "afforded only a modicum of the relief needed" (p. 3). And yet, Taylor alleges, "Here beneficent legislation stopped" (p. 3). Assuming the existing facilities could somehow complete their mission despite their insufficient size and funding, "our legislators . . . . have been contented with a system which is an outrage on humanity" (p. 3).
Taylor thus explores what the state can do to care for its insane more responsibly. Using the 1880 census, he determines the "ratio of increase in population" and the subsequent expected number of insane persons (p. 4). Taylor projects that there are approximately 1,400 uncared-for psychiatric patients in North Carolina. And while the "estimated cost for the hospitals or the insane in the United States shows an average of about $1,000 for each patient," Taylor argues that that number reflects "elaborate and needless architectural ornamentation and fittings and a good sum spent in political jobbery" (p. 5). Instead, in North Carolina, where "land, materials and labor are cheap," Taylors suggests that "provision could be made for all at a per capita cost not to exceed $300, provided, of course, that such extension is made in connection with the hospitals already established" (p. 5). Such expansion would cost the state $420,000 (p. 5). Taylor suggests paying for the expansions slowly through the sale of "an issue at bonds at 6 per cent," which would allow for the changes without "increasing the public debt or oppressing the tax-payers" (p. 5).
Maintenance of the hospitals and the patients, however, necessitates a tax increase of "about four and a half cents on each hundred dollars worth of taxable property" (p. 6). Such expansions and changes would allow for the care of all patients, ending the trend of "classing one portion as harmless and incurable, and for that reason denying them a chance for recovery" in the name of space and funding (p. 6). It would also offer "protection from the sane in the community" who can be cruel and "wicked" (p. 7). Taylor notes that this protection is especially pertinent to the "female element" who are "easily the victims of the most vicious of the community" (p. 7). Expansion and care would allow the insane to "no longer be brought in contact with paupers and criminals" while providing "suitable employment to each one" (p. 7).In terms of the community, proper growth and maintenance of the asylums would offer "an assurance to each one of high or low degree" that his family would be cared (p. 7). Proper asylums also offer "freedom from a troublesome or dangerous element in the community," "a grateful reduction of expenses by the utilization of the labor of the better class of insane," as well as "a sense of duty properly done and a knowledge that the demands of humanity are fully met" (p. 8). Taylor ends his piece with a sentiment that can be seen in each of the documents found here: "State care is the only solution of the problem which meets every objection— it is benevolent, it is humane, it is economical" (p. 9).
Works Consulted: North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, "Reforming Mental Health Reform: The History of Mental Health Reform in North Carolina"; North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, "Biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix," accessed 25 April 2010.
Meredith Malburne-Wade
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An Unofficial Guide to how to win the Scenarios of Wild
I have been a fan of this series of computer games since early in its release of the very first game. That game was done by one programmer, Chris Sawyer, and it was the first I recall of an internet hit. Websites were put up in dedication to this game where people showed off their creations, based on real amusement parks. These sites were funded by individuals, an expense that was not necessarily as cheap then as it is now. Nor as easy to program then as it might be to build a web page now.
Prima Books released game guides for each iteration of the game, Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (RCT3) but not for the expansion sets. And unlike the first two works, the third guide was riddle with incorrect solutions. As I played the game that frustrated me. And I took to the forums that Atari, the game publisher hosted to see if I could find a way to solve those scenarios that the Prima Guide had written up in error. Not finding any good advice, I created my own for the scenarios that the "Official" Guide had gotten wrong.
Solutions that if you followed my advice you would win the scenario and move on. But if you followed the "Official" version you would fail and not be able to complete the game. My style and format being different than the folks at Prima, I continued for all the Scenarios that they had gotten right as well, though my solutions cut to the chase and got you to the winner's circle more quickly, more directly.
My contributions to the "Official" Forum, got me a place as a playtester for both expansions to the game, Soaked and Wild. And for each of these games, I wrote the guides during the play testing phase so all the play testers could solve the scenarios, and then once again after the official release to make changes in the formula in case our aiding to perfect the game had changed matters. For this, Atari and Frontier (the actual programmers of the game) placed me within the game itself.
And for the longest time, these have been free at the "Official" Forums, as well as my own website dedicated to the game. But a short time ago, I noticed that Atari, after one of its bankruptcies had deleted their forums. So now I am releasing the Guide for one and all. I have added new material and it is near 100 pages, just for the first of the three games. It is available for the Kindle at present for $2.99.
(Click on the picture to purchase)
Not only are all 12 Scenarios covered, but there are sections covering every Cheat Code, Custom Scenery, the famous Small Park Competition, the Advanced Fireworks Editor, the Flying Camera Route Editor which are all the techniques every amusement park designer needs to make a fantastic park in Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.
Scenarios for WILD!
1) Scrub Gardens
2) Ostrich Farms Plains
3) Egyptian Sand Dance
4) A Rollercoaster Odyssey
5) Zoo Rescue
6) Mine Mountain
7) Insect World
8) Rocky Coasters
9) Lost Land of the Dinosaurs
10) Tiger Forest
11) Raiders of the Lost Coaster
12) Saxon Farms


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Hales Corners fourth-graders take measures to raise awareness of bullying
Is your kid a victim, bully or witness? They are likely one of them, according to an in-school study from students at a Hales Corners elementary school.
The kids that attend that school are taking measures into their own hands.
Fourth-graders at Edgerton Elementary School created and are taking part in the "No Bully Zone" musical as part of Edgerton's year of bully awareness.
Principal Chris D'Acquisto said they are trying to get out in front before bullying becomes an issue.
D'Acquisto has been working in education for 18 years and said bullying is being talked about now more than in the past.
In the school's own study, they found 11 to 22 percent of kids stand up for kids being bullied, while a large number, 85 percent, have witnessed bullying.
D'Acquisto believes the students are part of the solution.
"It is a buzz word, but at the same time, students' behaviors I don't believe have changed all that much, but I believe we're teaching tolerance, respect for others," D'Acquisto said.
Music specialist Barb McDonald said the kids wrote skits about bullying scenarios.
"One class did a skit about being bullied on a bus. One class did a skit about being bullied on the playground and then another class did a skit about being bullied in the lunchroom," McDonald said.
Students Emma Estacio and Sarah Mallmann are in one of the skits. After two and a half months of rehearsal, they are ready to put the group's slogan into practice: Be a buddy, not a bully.
The students said they have learned to stand up for others, tell an adult what they see and not to suffer in silence, which is something they hope others learn, too.
McDonald told WISN 12 News what she heard from the students when talking about putting together the musical was they all just wanted to be accepted.
She said the kids are now more aware of the signs of bullying and more comfortable telling an adult what's happening.


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The White Sox placed right-hander Jesse Crain on the disabled list Friday, retroactive to April 21, with a strained left oblique. Righty Dylan Axelrod was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte to take his place in the bullpen.
Crain, who hasn't pitched since April 20, said he was going to refrain from activity until Tuesday, when the White Sox begin a three-game series with the Indians. He said he injured his oblique doing twists in the weight room.
The 30-year-old right-hander said he was hopeful he'd be able to return from the DL on May 5, the first day he's eligible. …
Axelrod will be Sox' long reliever:
White Sox manager Robin Ventura said Axelrod will serve as the team's long reliever. Right-handers Nate Jones and Zach Stewart will move up in the bullpen to fill Crane's late-inning role.
This is Axelord's second stint with the White Sox, after appearing in four games for Chicago last September. The 26-year-old went 1-0 with a 2.89 ERA in those outings (three starts) and Ventura said he's comfortable handing the ball to Axelrod.
"He's been up here, so it's not like we're bringing somebody up that can't pitch here," Ventura said. "We have confidence in Axe and we'll make due until Jesse's ready."
Axelrod was impressive in four Triple-A starts, going 2-1 with a 1.08 ERA in 25 innings. He said a big part of his success has come from incorporating his changeup more often.
"It's been really effective for me. It's added another dimension, makes my fastball a little bit better," Axelrod said. "My first start, I threw about four changeups and they got a call that said work on it, so I've been trying to throw about 15 a game after that and it's been paying off."
As J.J. says, the player with the most to gain here is Nate Jones.