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EKOS shows sustained Ontario Liberal lead
The projection has swung back in favour of the Liberals, with 35.6% support (or between 34% and 39%) against 33.5% for the Tories (or between 32% and 37%). The New Democrats trail at length with 21.8% (or between 20% and 23%), while the Greens jumped to 8.1% (or between 6% and 10%).
In terms of the seats, the Liberals now lead with 48 (or between 41 and 58) and could potentially win a majority, though a minority remains more likely. The PCs sit at 39 (or between 31 and 47), and could still potentially pull off a win with what the polls are showing. The NDP sits at between 16 and 22 seats.
May 13-15, and since then has recorded no major change in support among the three main parties. The Liberals were down 1.3 points to 35.8%, the PCs were down 0.3 points to 30%, and the NDP was down 0.5 points to 20.4%.
The Greens made a jump of 4.6 points to 11.9%, which is almost certainly a sampling anomaly. EKOS will be releasing likely voter data in their next report, so we can expect the Greens to fall in that regard.
EKOS has been showing very steady numbers in their campaign polling. But the Liberals may not be losing the turnout war anymore. EKOS found that the party had 40% support among Ontarians 65 and older, just ahead of the PCs at 38% (the Tories were ahead by eight points among this group in EKOS's last poll). The Liberals also led among voters aged 45-64.
Regionally, the Liberals held leads in every region except eastern Ontario and the northeastern and central parts of the province (also note that the sample in the Northwest, just 28, has a margin of error of +/- 19 points). The Liberal lead in the southwest is somewhat unusual, but otherwise these numbers are generally what other polls have shown when the Liberals have been in front.
A few regional shifts appear outside the margin of error and are worth noting. But first let's just reiterate that the Green numbers are too high. The party gained 7.7 points in Toronto to hit 10.8%, and gained 12.1 points in eastern Ontario to hit 16.9% - putting them ahead of the NDP. That simply isn't plausible.
Elsewhere, there was a swing between the Liberals and NDP in Toronto. The Liberals dropped 12.7 points to 39.6%, while the NDP gained 9.4 points to reach 23.7%. This seems like more of a reset, as EKOS had abnormally low NDP numbers in the provincial capital last week.
And in the northeast and central part of Ontario, the PCs picked up 15.4 points to reach 34.9% and take the lead.
The polls are still far from clear, as even the polls that give the Liberals the lead hardly agree on the size of that lead. But let's, again, try to make some sense of it.
The chart below shows the polls released so far in the campaign by firms that have reported more than once (including Abacus Data, which has reported just once but will also have new numbers out tonight). Each vertical line represents a day in which a pollster was in the field. So this EKOS poll, for example, has eight lines as it was in the field over eight days. The last Forum poll has one, since it was in the field for a single day. The lines also roughly represent the margin of error for each party in each poll (assuming a probabilistic sample).
It is still rather muddled and not all of the polls overlap, even when taking into account the margin of error and when they were conducted on the same days. But some patterns do seem visible.
The PC results are the easiest to follow, as with the confidence intervals it is possible to run from one end of the chart to the other. The PCs started the campaign high, and have since mostly dropped. The Liberals started the campaign lower, and have since mostly increased. The NDP has been generally stable.
I think something clearer is starting to emerge from this campaign. The Liberals and PCs are in a very close race, but neither have momentum and certainly not the Tories. Nevertheless, if an election were held today - considering turnout implications - the result would still be a toss-up.
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Your polling trends and intervals graph is very nice. It does help to give a better sense of how things may be shaking out. Does it look much different if you include the one-off polls?ReplyDelete
With respect to Ekos, it'll be very interesting to see what happens when they start using a "likely voter" filter, since that seems to be the key question for the whole election. It'd be very helpful if they applied their filter to at least one prior set of data (e.g., this release) when they do start releasing it.
And, what were they thinking, separating out Northwestern from Northeastern and Central Ontario? Why bother? Separating Northern from Central Ontario could make sense (and still have minimally meaningful sample sizes), but this?? I just don't get it.
The heavy weight you accord the most recent poll must be at least partly responsible for the see-saw & confusing changes from poll to poll. (I see the weights from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yN3be1r-fCE/U4NBzSPl8rI/AAAAAAAAS-g/TCss9BbfvuE/s1600/Poll+Details.png)ReplyDelete
I'm not a scientist, so I may be clueless, but I don't understand why you don't use a rolling average of the last 3 - 6 polls, weighting them all equally. I believe a method similar to that is used by a similar American site with which you may be familiar: http://www.electoral-vote.com/
I'm certainly not aware of a scientific reason to weight the most recent poll so heavily, particularly in the face of your own observation of the uncertain validity of IVR polling. I feel a little sea-sick every time your results go topsy-turvy, and just don't see the need.Replies
It is because the data is more current. This may not mean much at this point in the campaign, but is vitally important in the last few days. Rather than switch the weighting modelling mid-way through the campaign, I keep it uniform throughout.Delete
A rolling average that incorporates polls that are too old will not be able to capture changes in voting intentions, as occurred in the 2011 federal election.
Ok that answers my comment below...Delete
Yes I'm with you there, as seen in my comment below. I come here to compare my projection (as I often do, logically) and I'm always surprised of the huge variations. It's especially the case after a Ipsos or Ekos poll. I think Eric's weighting should be adjusted during the campaign (when we don,t have that many polls). But I understand his logic and why he does it.Delete
12% for the Greens does indeed put a big question mark on this latest EKOS poll.ReplyDeleteReplies
That, or people are so truly disillusioned with what's going on that they are choosing the Green's as a form of 'None of the Above'Delete
EKOS themselves said that they don't have a likely voter model yet and they expect the Green number to go down.Delete
Though really, people should be voting for the Greens considering the other choices.
There is a reasonable possibility that left-NDP voters are considering voting Green because they are disatisfied with Howarth's shift to the right... whether they actually end up voting Green is another matter.Delete
Any word on polls from Angus Reid or Nanos? Would love to see them weigh in.ReplyDeleteReplies
Nanos better polls this election. If they want to then go on TV and lecture everybody else, the least they can do is actually pol! (see BC when Nik Nanos was explaining was everyone was wrong.. despite the fact he didn't poll lol)Delete
I can't stand Nik Nanos on a personal level (nor for that matter Bricker or Graves). It would, however, be nice to see other pollsters in this race, as we keep seeing the same companies releasing more or less the same numbers.Delete
12% for the Greens may or may not be a sampling anomaly in light of the recent adverse comments by well-known progressives about the NDP.ReplyDelete
It is an Ekos poll.ReplyDelete
Based on EKOS's recent track record this might be the is 1 time out of 20 that both the Liberals or the Cons will actually be within the 2.8% EKOS advertises as the MOE.
Mr. Graves has some nice verbiage around this poll seeming to hedge his bets:
" The angry, regime-fatigued voters are squarely in Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's camp, while the pro-activist camp sees Wynne as a more plausible champion."
If the angry regime change voter are motivated to come out and vote more than last election (say 55%) look for a huge CP majority.
In 2011 only 49% of Ontario voters were engaged enough to vote.
I think there would be extreme value in pollsters tracking what they think the turnout will be.
That would be hard to do as almost all people answering the survey would say they are going to vote, obviously 51% of the sample universe chose not to.Replies
" The angry, regime-fatigued voters are squarely in Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's camp, while the pro-activist camp sees Wynne as a more plausible champion."Delete
I disagree. I think there is a strong "fed-up with the Liberals, not willing to touch Hudak" issue that is going on, but Horvath is campaigning so badly it is quite possible the poll is not in error with respect to the Greens.
*PC majorityDelete
In Ontario we have the Progressive Conservative party.... not a "CP" as you said!
I say that fully knowing there is very little about the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario that is "progressive" this election haha
Though I tend to agree that the Greens will not perform to the level indicated, I'm wondering if the certainty which which you assert that their numbers are too high is based on stats or gut or a combination of the two? For example, would you have found the NDP spike (when it first showed up in the polls) in the last federal election equally unlikely to play out, or was there more data to back that up?ReplyDelete
Genuine and non-trolling remark Eric, but don't you think your weighting for the polls should be changed, at least during the campaign (you can still heavily weigh the last polls at the end). Because it's really weird how everytime I come to your site, you have a different party leading. I know polls have been volatile, but the average has been stable (unless, as you do, you base your estimates heavily on the last published poll).ReplyDelete
Using the poll results, I get:ReplyDelete
With the average, I get:
How likely is it that the PC's would be down 5 points from 2011? I can understand the NDP maybe being down from 2011 with all the controversy over left-wing NDP members being upset with her drift to the right, but wouldn't the PC vote be up in this election? The indications seem to be that Hudak is running a better campaign than in 2011 and that there is a desire for change in Ontario. Or maybe the pollsters have that wrong?ReplyDeleteReplies
It is possible that pollsters have it wrong, but it's also possible that saying you're going to fire 100 000 people starts to put those job losses in the realm of the personal for a lot of people that are otherwise open to general unspecified cuts and your other messages.Delete
- Anonymous26 May, 2014 16:33
And it's not just those 100,000 people. It's their wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, children, Grandparents, etc. etc...Delete
Hudak isn't just threatening those with the jobs, he's poking their loved ones with his trickle-down, corporate-tax cut stick, too.
My guess, all totalled, we're talking millions of Ontarians.
Hudak running a better campaign? Not if you or any of your friends/relatives has any kind of government job (doctor, nurse, teacher, ...).Delete
Not if you have kids .. increased class size. Huge increase in teacher:student ratio for kindergarten.
Not if you use transit. Lots of planned transit lines cancelled.
Not if you live in the north. Apparently being in Peterborough is more important than anywhere in Northern Ontario.
And today he said he'd privatize public transit!
It's like he's out to alienate every possible group in the province. He would only have had to tinkered his message slightly to avoid upsetting so many people!
It's a stunningly inept campaign. The only group he's going to win is his core. But they weren't going to vote for anything else anyways.
Hudak's running a better campaign, but I don't think the perception of him as incompetent really solidified until after the election in 2011. Now he has to fight that.Delete
Fingers crossed that the Greens are actually showing increased support. I think a Green MPP would definitely bring Ontario a lot of good.ReplyDelete
Is there any way we can find polling for Guelph?
This smells fishy to me. Left-leaning EKOS comes out with another poll with the Libs in the lead, right after right-leaning Ipsos put the Tories in the lead. Is it just me, or is something messed up here? I think a post that outlines the historical bias of these polling companies would be useful.ReplyDelete
As a Green running in the Northwest I'd love those figures for up here to be right. I'm in the Thunder Bay-Atikokan riding while the one next to mine is running a PC candidate from Cambridge (about 18 hour drive away) which is going over like a lead balloon. Mix in the former PC candidate coming out as quite anti-First Nations and Hudak not coming here for the debate and I'm sure a lot of PC voters are looking for someone to vote for. The Libs going left of the NDP makes it extra tough on them so I wouldn't be shocked if many come to the Green's for at least one election, especially with the PC's having no more shot that I do of winning here (it could happen, see NDP in Quebec last federal election, but we all know the odds).ReplyDelete
Liberals appear to be winning the 'sign war' but also have by far the most cash on hand. The PC I'm against has put up a lot of signs on public property but not many in yards.
June 12th will be interesting up here.
Interesting that at the moment the current projection shows almost no change from the legislature at the time of dissolutionReplyDelete
As I've been saying for days here it is all about jitter. This only supports that view.ReplyDelete
Hiwever I do predict and increase in Liberal and NDP support as Hudak fades. Skipping the Northern Debate has to be a big fubar !!Replies
Not sure how much it will hurt the PC's skipping the debate here. The biggest problem is Hudak didn't get practice for the debate people will pay attention to. As a northerner I hate to say it, but this debate was a 'so what' outside of this area and the PC's never had a shot up here anyways (running flown in candidates, high government employment thus the 100k job cut scares people here more, cancelling the LRT would hurt here too due to them being built here).Delete
I think it is already clear that PC support is slipping. All recent polls, including Ipsos and Abacus, indicate that.Delete
Are people actually surprised though? The PC platform is too extreme. The "Million Jobs" rhetoric is not gaining any traction.
Of course, the PC base consisting of roughly 1/3 of the province would go to the polls. Not because of Hudak and his platform, but because they want their local PC candidate to be re-elected or they want to see the Liberals gone.
There is the funny thing. Hudak didn't need his million jobs, 100k cuts thing to win. He just needed to campaign against the Libs and say 'we wont do that (gas plant, Ornge, etc.). Pound on corruption and rot that comes from being in power too long while being fuzzy on 'efficiency in govt' and 'reduce taxes on individuals once deficit is beaten' 'no new taxes' and he probably would've had it. Instead he made it about his plan which sounds silly on the surface (1 million jobs for 1/2 million jobless is just too easy an area to attack) or too mean spirited (100k job cuts, increasing class sizes which scares every parent as classes seem overcrowded as is).Delete
How the Tories have lost the last 2 elections and now are poised for the trifecta is beyond me. Those 3 all were perfect setups for a win for them.
How the Tories keep blowing it is beyond me. 3 elections in a row they had a perfect setup. All 3 times all they had to do was look reasonable - no major policies beyond 'more efficient, no lies, tax cuts once deficit paid' and they'd have it locked up. Instead 'fund church based schools' ::boom:: 'Harris lite' ::boom:: 'million jobs for 1/2 million jobless, 100k cuts increasing class size' and maybe a 3rd ::boom:: down the polls in very winnable elections.ReplyDelete
If I was a member of that party I'd be extremely mad right now. With the Liberals shooting left of the NDP all the PC's had to do to win was be in the centre and it would've been an easy cakewalk. Instead we'll probably see a Liberal/NDP govt like we've had for the last few years. It is an achievement to find defeat in the jaws of victory 3 times straight. Christine Elliot would've been a better choice - more centre, what most voters want. Instead Harris lite and no power.Replies
I agree John except that Hudak is going where Harris didn't. He's not a smart man.Delete
The Ontario PC party may be suffering from GOP disease -- anybody that the die-hard core will elect as leader does not suit the center of the general electorate well enough for them to get a bigger share of the swing voters. They will remain in the wilderness of opposition until the old Red Tory gang re-take the party.Delete
Yes eg I agree. No longer the party of Bill Davis. Harris saw to that !!Delete
Peter what do you mean by Jitter?ReplyDelete
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Canucks' John Tortorella apologizes for 'embarrassing' incident with Flames
Coach expresses concern his team has gone off the rails in many areas
John Tortorella was suspended for 15 days without pay after this incident in the bowels of Rogers Arena on Jan. 18 during a game against the Calgary Flames.
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DETROIT — John Tortorella had 15 days to reflect on his actions and the play of his Vancouver Canucks team. He didn't like either of them.
A contrite Tortorella apologized Monday for the incident that led to his suspension and also expressed real concern about the state of his team, which he said has joined him in going off the rails. In a different kind of way, of course. The Canucks have been doing a lot of losing. Tortorella just lost it.
Tortorella made the comments before returning behind the bench in Monday night's game against the Detroit Red Wings. He called the incident and subsequent suspension embarrassing and said he hopes it helps make him a better coach.
"I apologize first and foremost to the players (for) the situation I put them in, to the organization, with my stupidity, to the league," Tortorella said before his team's morning skate at Joe Louis Arena. "It's been embarrassing and not just for me, but for everybody around me in the situation that has occurred here."
Tortorella was slapped with a 15-day suspension for attempting to storm the Calgary Flames' dressing room during the first intermission of a Jan. 18 game at Rogers Arena.
"What's happened with it was deserved and I hope it makes me a better coach, but it certainly doesn't stop the situations I put a lot of people in, my other coaches," he said. "I want to move past it. . .We need to worry about our hockey club right now."
And Tortorella sounded like a coach who is very worried about his team.
Forced to watch from a distance the past two weeks, Tortorella saw his team go 2-4-0 in his absence. He did not like much of what he saw.
"Yeah, we have some things to work on," he said. "A lot of it is just not on the ice, a lot of it is mental. And it's not the famous word confidence. I look at it a little bit the other way. I think we need to develop more consistently a mental toughness about a lot of things we do. I watched us in December go through situations and we handled situations. I look at us in January and we are a different hockey club. Quite honestly, we need to start over in the mental part of the game and that was a big part of our meeting this morning. We've got good people here, and we need to try and get well pretty quickly and in a lot of different things we do as a hockey club."
Heading into Monday night's game, the Canucks had lost 12 of their previous 16 games.
"In the overall picture I just think we are off the rails in a lot of different aspects and we need to get on the rails," Tortorella said. "It's not just our power play, there are a number of things."
Tortorella insisted the suspension will not change him as a coach, suggesting that his passion is a big part of who he is as a coach.
""I am going to be who I am," he said. "I just can't go off the rails as I did. Off the rails? I was off the country. But I think our team needs to be pushed. I do. But pushing, everybody takes that sometimes the wrong way. We need a mental push, we need to develop some skin mentally and we have not done that consistently enough. We have done it during the year. But certainly not consistently enough through the first few months here."
Tortorella said he and his assistant coaches must take responsibility for the fact the team seems to have lost its way. He is particularly concerned about the team's defensive play.
"We have forgotten how to defend and no matter what is going wrong with your team offensively, to have any chance of competing you need to defend and we're not defending, and we have. I have seen this team defend and play the right way. I just don't think we have played the right way, I think we will and that's part of the coaches' responsibility."
He said injuries -- and the Canucks have had plenty of those -- can not be used as an excuse.
"Realistically, we are a beat-up club," he said. "But it's an unforgiving league. Teams smell the blood when you are in this type of situation. You have to figure out some way from the coaching staff right on down to steady it when we are going through this type of situation with the amount of injuries we do have. That is our responsibility."
After issuing his apology as an opening statement of sorts, Tortorella pleaded with reporters not to ask him questions about the incident. They tried anyway and he answered some of them. Others, he brushed off, like the one about whether his incident with the Flames will make it more difficult for him to preach discipline to his players.
"No," was his curt response.
The players seem happy to have him back.
"He has brought a lot of things to this team, the way he coaches and during games," said captain Henrik Sedin. "But I don't think it's up to him to turn this around. It's got to be the guys in here who are on the ice. We need to get five or 10 per cent better, each and every one, to get out of this."
"He is the face behind our bench," added centre Ryan Kesler. "He brings that accountability to our team. It's good for us, we need that right now."


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A recent article by HubSpot, 5 Essential Skills Marketers Need to Succeed This Year, included an infographic from TEKsystems listing the skills that are in demand by marketing leaders. Organizations investing in their marketing strategy are seeking knowledge and experience in key areas of digital marketing.
It was an eye-opening look at the vast array of skills needed to pull together a complete digital marketing strategy. The marketing subsets of digital advertising, social media, content development, web design and mobile marketing top the list of the most prized skills. Like many of the readers who commented on the article, I was left wondering, "so where do we go from here?" We now know what organizations want but where do we get those skills?
According to TEKsystems' research, here is a list of the skills that marketers need to succeed.
Digital Advertising:
- Digital business analytics
- Digital project management
- Graphic design
- Pay-per-click analytics
Social Marketing:
- Social media management
- Digital business analytics
- Content strategy
- Creative direction
Website Design/Development
- UX design
- Front-end development
- Web development
- Content creation and management
- Consumer/behavioral analytics
- Product management
Content Development
- Content management
- Digital project management
- Web/traffic analytics
- Content creation and management
Mobile Marketing
- Mobile design
- Mobile development
- Web/traffic analytics
- E-commerce analytics
Read more...
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How Benedictine Nuns Outsell '50 Shades' Soundtrack
Now at No. 1 on the classical music chart: a group of nuns whose monastic existence revolves around farming and singing in rural Missouri. John Jurgensen has details. Photo: The Benedictines of Mary.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — On the first day of classes at the United States Military Academy, he was clearly the big man on campus.
In much of the basketball world, he's Coach K.
Around here, he's Mike Krzyzewski, Army class of 1969.
Krzyzewski returned to his alma mater on Monday with the U.S. national team, which toured the campus, ate lunch with cadets in the mess hall and held an open practice for military personnel and families.
The basketball was limited on a day Krzyzewski spent more time addressing the crowd than his players during practice. But even with the Basketball World Cup opener just 12 days away, he thought the trip benefited his team no matter how much work the players did.
"To spend a day here is better than any offensive or defensive drill you could have," Krzyzewski said. "It bonds the team together and that's what today was about."
The team traveled about 90 minutes by bus Monday morning from New York to the upstate campus where Krzyzewski played under Bob Knight and later returned to coach the Black Knights. He gets back here at least once a year for a ceremony where an award named in his honor is given, but it's hard to imagine he's ever more popular on campus than he was Monday, when he received a loud ovation in the mess hall and was cheered louder than any of the 16 NBA players on the roster before practice.
"To come and see, one, how much people love him here — his picture on the wall, they have an award named after him — I don't know if this is the exact gym he played in, but just to kind of live his life for a day was pretty awesome," All-Star guard Stephen Curry said.
USA Basketball has prioritized its relationship with the military and the Hoops for Troops program under managing director Jerry Colangelo and Krzyzewski, visiting Arlington National Cemetery and hosting an open practice at a Washington armory with the 2012 Olympic team.
This time, players watched cadets perform an indoor obstacle test and train in the combat pool survival swim lab, then visited a wall honoring Krzyzewski and the award that's given for "teaching character through sport."
"Don't make jokes," he said as players pulled out their phones and snapped photos of the wall, which featured a nearly half-century old picture of Krzyzewski from his academy days.
The Americans also visited the West Point Cemetery and posed for a team picture on the steps of the mess hall, creating a bit of commotion as some cadets stopped to take pictures before being ordered to get back in formation.
Fans attending the practice didn't get to see Derrick Rose play, as the Chicago Bulls point guard was given a planned day off as he works his way back into shape after missing nearly two full seasons with knee injuries. But the biggest star probably would've been Krzyzewski anyway.
He spoke frequently to the crowd, introducing a couple of former teammates and one of his former players who were in the stands. At one point, he even led a "USA! USA!" chant.
It was clear how much Krzyzewski, who said he always wears his West Point ring, enjoyed being back at what he called the "best leadership school in the world."
"You walk around this place and you just feel, you feel good about being an American, and you feel a little bit more proud of being a USA basketball player or coach," he said, "and that's what we wanted our guys to get today."
It seems they did.
"For sure, it was a special, special day," Curry said. "I won't ever forget my first time to West Point. This was definitely worth the trip."
(© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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A crop of students are moving off to summer internships, paid and unpaid, and many have social media as a chunk of their work. It's a task that many organizations are happy to outsource or delegate, especially to the digital natives.
But, as you know, doing it right is different from just having a thousand friends on Facebook.
Add to that wave the number of rising seniors or recent graduates who want to leverage social media for their resumes and job searches. The work requires a shift in thinking from using Facebook for personal reasons. Most digital natives have certainly learned the power of Facebook for organizing and the pitfalls of TMI on social networks, but there's always more to learn.
The first step: Recognize that managing social media for an organization is different from using the tools for personal use.
Plenty of advice exists. Finding the good advice is hard.
Here are some pointers to sources, sprinkled with tips:
From Mandy Jenkins, DC social news editor for the Huffington Post: Social media guidelines to live by. Her full blog: Zombiejournalism.
From Sara Gregory, recently of The Daily Tar Heel: Visual fun slideshow of Twitter tips for journalists, good for anyone.
All posts by Sara Gregory tagged "Twitter."
Shortening websites addresses for Twitter: Use bit.ly on a separate tab, and sign up for a bit.ly account. You can add a plus sign to the end of any bit.ly shortened url to get specific data about the number of clicks on the link, and you can get other data with a bit.ly account.
From Noel Cody, recently of Reese News at UNC: Best practices for live tweeting.
How to spot spam followers on Twitter (and there will be spam followers on Twitter). This post is a bit outdated as bots and spam morph constantly, but it's a starting point.
Important Twitter spam tips: Don't click on links sent to you via @ or direct message from someone you don't know (just like Facebook). Look at the stream of their other tweets first to decide if they're real or if they're a bot or a spammer repeating the same message to many people. Beware photos of pretty women or even women who look like your mom. They're often disguises. Always judge Twitter people by taking a good look at their stream of recent tweets, not just one tweet.
Personal or pro? Draw a line between your personal use of social media and your professional use, but feel free to explore where that line should fall. Trust your gut. Make good choices. You get to decide when or whether to use your network of 1,000 friends for the benefit of your organization. Don't exploit your real friends, but evaluate when they want to know something that you've learned through your work. Consider separate accounts, for personal and work. You can inject personality into professional accounts, but be smart.
Listen and read: Use social media for listening, reading and smart searching, not just broadcasting. Use advanced search tools through Twitter search to look for keywords. Pay attention to what others are saying about your organization. Keep in mind that growing companies (and future jobs) are specializing in the analysis of content in social media, so learning how to search smartly will serve you well.
On Facebook, read up on the strategy, timing and best practices from people who know what they're doing and keep up with changes (which seem to happen all the time). Suggestions: Why Facebook users unliked you, by Scott Hepburn, Walk through Facebook privacy settings, from Jeff Elder and how to use Facebook for an organization from Facebook itself.
Good organizations will give you advice from those who have gone before, room to experiment and a list of their own rules. Read them. CEO John Paton of the Journal Register has a strong list of social media rules.
More broadly:
Making the most of your internship, from Steve Buttry:
Steve Buttry about journalism, Twitter and other social media. You can use the search button to just focus on social media.
UNC's Andy Bechtel about editing and headlines (a writing style quite similar to tweets), plus UNC student posts on his blog.
Twitter software clients:
Twitter for iPhone (simple, fast, mobile)
TweetDeck, as an app downloaded to your computer or your phone. More complicated than basic Twitter, but good for searching, categorizing and filtering when accounts get large
Cotweet Multiple accounts, multiple users.


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Tyne Rafaeli
The Fourth KindHD
IMDb: 5.9
1h 38min
In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. ...
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas, Eric Loren, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Raphaël Coleman, Daphne Alexander, Alisha Seaton, Tyne Rafaeli, Paul Stefanov, Kiera McMaster, Sara Houghton


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June 11, 1961 - December 5, 2012
Nanticoke, PA
Alan "Moon" Joseph Gorr, 51, was born June 11, 1961 in Liberty, NY, passed away peacefully on December 5, 2012, with his family by his side.
He is survived by his wife, Cindy Gorr; daughters: Haley and Leah, all residing in Nanticoke, PA; his mother, Vera Gorr; brothers: Randy and Ricky Gorr of Cochecton and sister, Wanda Gorr Leight of Neversink, NY. Alan is preceded by his father, Philip James Gorr and sister, Robin Lyn Gorr.
As well as being a loving father and husband, he was a graduate of Kansas State University and received his degree in Wildlife Conservation.
Alan worked as a Mason for 30 years. Besides being a loving father, Alan enjoyed the sports of hunting, fishing and trapping.
Viewing hours will be held at Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, 5068 Rt. 52, Jeffersonville, NY between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 9, 2012. A Memorial Service will follow at Jeffersonville Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, Alan's family is requesting donations for both his daughters' futures.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, NY. 845-482-4280.


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Happy Independence Day, Everbuddy!
by, 07-03-2009 at 10:39 AM (4263 Views)
I'll be leaving tomorrow for a few weeks on a trip to Massachusetts and Maine, partially work-related and partially as vacation. After getting lots of good recommendations for rpgs that might work well with newbies, I will be bringing some games with me to try out on some non-gamer family members. When I get back I will post a review of how the various games were received and whether or not people thought they were fun.
Happy Independence Day!


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25 headstones vandalized at 150-year-old Deering cemetery
DEERING, N.H. (AP) � Authorities are trying to figure out who toppled 25 cemetery headstones in the New Hampshire town of Deering.
A town worker reported the vandalism at Appleton Cemetery on Tuesday.
Some of the headstones were broken.
Officials said some of the stones were very large and heavy, and would have required more than one person to move them.
The police are seeking the public's help for any information on what happened.


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UCLA Health Playa Del Rey Tri
Sprint & Olympic Distance
October 23, 2016
Join us for the 9th annual UCLA Health Playa Del Rey Triathlon. Set along the beautiful bluffs of Dockweiler State Beach in Playa Del Rey, competitors can select between a sprint-distance (600 meter swim, 20K bike, and 5K run) or Olympic-distance (1500m swim, 40K bike, and 10K run) event. The PDR Tri is a fundraiser for collegiate triathlon and a portion of the proceeds are donated to the UCLA & USC Triathlon Teams. Over the last eight years the UCLA Health Playa Del Rey Triathlon has raised $37,000
for the UCLA and USC Triathlon Teams!
Latest News
Registration is closed for 2016.
We have about 10 spots left for purchase in person at Saturday packet pickup. First come, first serve.
Entry Fees
Clydesdale / Athena
*Collegiate Discount: Current
full-time students (not part of the WCCTC) receive a $10 discount on Age Group registration. You will be required
to show school ID during packet pickup.
** WCCTC: An intercollegiate division for offical members of the West Coast Collegiate Triathlon Conference.
Refund Policy: Sorry, but all registrations are non-refundable
and non-transferable. If you are injured and submit a primary
physician's letter at least 1 month before the event, a registration
refund will be considered on a case-by-case basis. No refunds
will be considered within one month of the event for any reason.
Non-USAT members: A $15 fee will be added to
the entry fee of competitors who are not members of USA Triathlon
(for insurance purposes).
The UCLA Health Playa Del Rey Triathlon is located
at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa Del Rey. A course map is
provided below or view an interactive
Google map by clicking here.
You can also view some photos of the course here.
600m / 1500m Ocean Swim. The swim is located adjacent
to the transition area at Dockweiler Beach. Water temperatures
are expected to be in the low to mid 60s. Wetsuits are recommended.
Competitors will be sent off in separate waves, spaced 7
minutes apart.
20K / 40K Bike. The bike course is a one-lap (sprint) or two-lap (Olympic) counter-clockwise
loop, involving portions of Vista Del Mar, Imperial Hwy, Pershing
Dr., and Westchester Parkway. The course has good pavement
and is mostly flat, aside from some gradual rollers
along Westchester Parkway. Roads are almost entirely closed
to vehicle traffic and times should be very fast save for
some strong headwinds that often blow through the area.
5K / 10K Run. The run course is an out and back
loop along the Dockweiler service road (sprint & Olympic) and Ballona Creek Bike Path (Olympic). Completely flat, competitors
can expect extremely fast run times. Aid stations will be
located at the 5K turn-around and 10K turn-around.
The UCLA Health Playa Del Rey Triathlon is located
at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa Del Rey. From the 405,
take the 105 West. The 105 will turn into Imperial Hwy, which
dead-ends at the Dockweiler State Beach entrance. Have $8
in cash ready to pay for parking in order to avoid traffic
delays in entering the park. Event staff will direct you to
a parking spot. Local athletes should note that Vista Del
Mar north of Imperial will be entirely closed to traffic.
here for directions from Google Maps.
Event Schedule
Triathlon Lab
1512 Aviation Blvd
Redondo Beach, CA
Note: The parking lot will be closed. Find street parking on Grant Ave.
Race Day Check-In
Setup your transition area.
Refund Policy
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| One or more of the authors of this entry was terribly bored.
They may be afflicted with Attention Deficit... hey, we should go fly kites. That'd be so awesome! We haven't flown kites, since, like, summer. Hey, summer is when birds come out! Birds are so cool.
Touching was invented by a "man", when he accidentally "fell" on a person. People around him saw this phenomenon, then went around touching people. The art of touching is commonly used in the act of "wuv"; not to be confused with "lurv" or "Lurvin". It has been passed down from generations that are, like, really old, and is still in full force in the today time.
When touching was first invented, the Baptist Church, Gandhi and perhaps a lot of other people were against it, they thought it was too sexy to be used in our (their) time.
The "man" in question that first used this method of touching was a great man, not unlike Jesus, but still was ridiculed my the Baptist Church and Ghandi. All further inventions by this many were varied and of little amount.
Touching is used for many purposes that are non-sexual, for example:
- holding
- grabbing
- painting
- Micheal Jacks.. no wait, that is sexual
- shopping
- opening windows
- feeeeling things
See? Lots of things.
There are also many ways of touching that are sexual. See Inappropriate Touching
"Man" is not alive at the present and his grave is located on the moon. The only good thing "Man" did was invent touching, furthermore after this invention appeared on many low-brow primetime TV shows and failed in his attempt to be awesome.
"Man" killed himself on the ?th of the ?th, ????. RIP.
Practicing in the art of Touching[edit]
There are many people that are masters in the art of touching. They practice for hours every day on touching things, and as a result, can now touch better than normal people.
Some of the finest touchers include Arthur J. Harnut, Jubious Leetgrower, Harnut J. Arthur, Micheal Jackson, Karnoob M. Stoopnuts, New Zealanders and, the master of touching, Kunhun. Kunhun holds the world record for touching at 87906.8 peanut butter jars per minute. Kunhun says "I practiced every day for thirteen hours, as a result I had thirty-one finger and palm reconstructions, and don't have an education."
See also, Kunhun, the master of touch.
The Church of Touching[edit]
The Church of Touching is a touchy church. Its priests are usually short tempered and very angry. This is because when they were very young they lost their foreskins, which was a painful operation performed by the local barber. I remember mine. I was six years old, a little old for foreskin removal but my father , being absent minded , forgot about it until one day, my uncle seeing me running naked with the other children of the small village of Amass, realised my parents oversight. He took me to the barber, who was busy shaving the head of my mother's favourite eunuch. Eunuchs' needed to be shaven constantly so their hair would not be found in the soup. And in the particular case of my mother's eunuch, on the cushions of my parents' bed. I sat on the floor, patiently waiting my turn. When Lagash- the name of this particular eunuch, as he came from the village of Lagash- had finished all his hair, it was my turn. I will not go through the gory details of what happened and the pain that I felt afterwards in my still tiny member, but I can say that now I was ready to be a priest of the Church of Touching To be continued --The Southpro 12:01, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
The Correct Touching Method[edit]
Many people misunderstand the method of correct touching, there are many misconceptions of the way touching is performed... Yes, I am aware that those two phrases meant the exaxt same thing, but that doesn't matter, the point is that people often mistake the correct way of the touch... Oh god I did it again!
Anyway, the undisputed correct way to perform touching is to use your finger or other part of body that has the sense of feeeeling, (Preferably not any of the the sexual organs) and place it on the object that you want to touch. If you cannot feel anything, you have either missed the object, chosen a part of the body that does not feeeel, eg. hair, or have tryed to touch the untouchable.
Why People Practice Touching[edit]
People practice touching because they are unbeleivably and utterly mental.
If you are one of the mad people (Mad as in crazy mad, not mad as in "Aw, fully sick I'm mad bro!") that do this piece of carp for a living, you can touch my ass... Hey, that actually feels pretty good... Do it again.
Hey, that went in!
The Midas Touch[edit]
The Midas Touch is a form of Free-Range Bee that has nothing to do with touching but got into the Touching page. I'm sure that somebody has touched one before... probably.
Kunhun, the master of touch[edit]
Kunhun is commonly referred to as "The Master of Touch". He is one of the greatest touchers of all time and is rumoured to have touched the untouchable. Not much is known about The Master of Touch except that he is better at touching things than you. Because you suck.
Here is a list of great achievements of Kunhun, The Master of Touch:
- Once touched 5000 empty oil drums with his toung on Guinness World Records
- Once touched himself everywhere possible before Elton John could say "Saturday" a million times.
- Is great.
- Touched where no man has touched before.
- Was called by WHO? Magazine "The Master of the Most Un-Good Thing Ever"
- Is Bat Fuck Insane.
- Fully touched your mother.
- Once touched the Un-huffable Kitten...
See Also[edit]
Touching isn't the only sense, you can smell, taste, and probably see also.
How You Can Become A Professional Toucher[edit]
There are many ways to become a professional toucher, just like Kunhun. That's right, you can be a fucking mental person too.
- Go to the Official Touching Website
- Ask your mother for advice
- Ask your father for advice
- Go to the nearest plastic surgeon to get your touching radius enlarged
- Go to your nearest YMCA
- Touch a moose
- Yust keep practicing kids, every day til' you die and nobody will remember you because you picked a stupid profession like touching.
And just remember, you're useless!
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|Sight | Smell | Touch | Taste | Nonsense | Sense | Sense of Proportion | Common sense


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Fogg Warning in Cincinnati
Today, the Reds signed Josh Fogg to a one year contract worth $1M and tossed him into the mix for a spot in the starting rotation. It's an odd move, as it doesn't improve the Reds in any way, shape, or form.
I'm a big believer in risk/reward acquisitions, but while Fogg at $1M certainly comes with low risk, he also has essentially zero upside. Fogg is as good as he going to get, which isn't good at all. All this move really accomplishes is to clog up the 25 man roster and delay the arrival of impact pitching prospects.
The acquisition of a veteran replacement level pitcher for the backend of the rotation only makes logical sense for three reasons:
1) The veteran lacks the upside of the prospect, but will provide better production in the short run.
2) The veteran will work more innings and deeper into games than the prospect.
3) The veteran serves as a stop gap to give the younger pitchers more time in the minors to develop.
To me, those seem like the only logical reasons to bring in a stop gap veteran pitcher like Fogg. However, in this case, none of those reasons seem to be applicable to the Reds.
1) Improved Production in 2008
Unfortunately, Fogg not only lacks the upside of the Reds pitching prospects (Bailey, Cueto, Volquez, Maloney, etc), but his current baseline production isn't any better than what those prospects would provide in 2008. So, not only does Fogg lack the upside of the prospects, but he doesn't even provide better short run production. So, where's the benefit of bringing him in?
In 2007, Fogg pitched 165.2 innings, posting a 4.94 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP. On his career, he hasn't been much better, posting a 4.90 ERA and a 1.46 WHIP. In addition, Fogg has a career strikeout rate of 4.83 K/9, which is too low for him to be successful. In the modern era, it's difficult to find many pitchers who have maintained consistent success with a strikeout rate below 5.0 K/9. Fogg's low strikeout rate means that he allows a tremendous amount of contact, leaving him at the mercy of the Reds defense, which is never a good thing.
Fogg's career performance isn't a result of Coors Field or bad luck, rather he's earned every last ounce of his career stats. He's not a good pitcher and he's not a good option for the Reds.
2) Logging More Innings than the Prospect
Given the way the modern game treats its young pitchers, it's sometimes advantageous to bring in a veteran pitcher who can handle a heavier workload. There is a school of thought that the risk of injury to young pitchers increases as they tire. As a pitcher tires, his mechanics can break down, which leads increases the susceptibility injury. Veteran pitchers can handle heavier workloads, which can take the strain off of a team's bullpen.
If you have a staff with a lot of young starting pitchers, then they likely won't work deep into the game very often, which leads to more appearances and innings pitched by the bullpen. So, there are times when it makes sense to add a stopgap veteran pitcher.
However, that really doesn't seem to be the case with Fogg. In 2007 for the Rockies, Fogg pitched 163.2 innings in 29 starts, which works out to only 5.2 innings per start. He went 7.0 or more innings only 7 times and his longest start of the year was 7.1 innings.
While a rookie pitcher will be limited by strict pitch counts, Josh Fogg rarely works any deeper in the game than they would, so the veteran benefit is negligible at best.
3) Allowing for Additional Development Time
It also doesn't make sense that Fogg is in the mix in order to give the prospects more development time. Bailey doesn't have anything left to prove in the minors. Cueto dominated three levels of the minors in 2007. Volquez is 24 years old and has pitched part of three seasons in the majors, so he his development time is in the past and he isn't going to benefit from going back down on the farm. In addition, Matt Maloney is essentially ready for the majors. In essence, our four best pitching prospects are already major league ready, so Fogg is an unnecessary acquisition.
2008 Implications
Overall, there is no logical reason for the Reds to have acquired Josh Fogg. He is a poor bet for the 2008 season and he would likely be outperformed by each of our top 4 pitching prospects. It has taken years for the Reds to develop homegrown pitching, but now is the time to embrace it. All offseason the Reds have been rumored to be acquiring a veteran starting pitcher, while seemingly having no confidence in their pitching prospects.
The future of the Reds will largely be determined by the young pitching prospects, but the Reds need to realize that the future starts now!
6 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Wow. Great blog. I can't wait to read through everything here. Nicely done.ReplyDelete
I don't think this acquisition is anywhere near as bad as you paint it to be. Leaving out the prospects, the Reds staff goes three deep before the Fogg signing. Expecting at least 2 of the four prospects you mentioned to be in the majors on opening day is more difficult than you make it out to be. Look at the way the red sox have tried to set up the back end of their rotation to allow for injuries and reduced innings for the young guys. Picking up Fogg helps implement that type of plan,while adding more stability to the rotation, for extremely cheap. His ERA+ of 97 last year, is nothing to scoff at either, and he's a groundball pitcher, which never hurts in GABP. I think Bailey starts the season in the rotation, but outstanding springs aside, I like the idea of Cueto, Volquez, and Maloney splitting time between AAA and the bullpen. Fogg was looking for a multi-year deal in the 5 mil/yr range. Clearly he didn't get this, but at 1 million, the depth and stability he adds to our rotation come at a great value. This deal was made to help the reds develop their young pitchers without having to rush them, and I think it'll go a long way to that end.ReplyDelete
Hey Doug,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment and the differing point of view.
Typically, I'm a big believer in the low risk/high reward type acquisition, but there's just no upside with Fogg.
We're talking about a pitcher with a career ERA of 4.90 and a Whip of 1.46. In addition, his groundball tendencies are slight, strikeout rate is poor, which means that he allows a LOT of contact. A high contact rate will hurt when he swaps the Rockie defense for the Reds. With those kind of numbers, Fogg's no better an option than Tom Shearn, Bobby Livingston, or any other back of the rotation filler.
I agree that development of our young pitching is key, but as it stands we've got Harang, Arroyo, and Belisle likely to lock down 3/5 of the rotation. So, we've got 2 slots open for some combination of Homer/Cueto/Edinson/Maloney. I don't think it's a stretch to say that we can effectively limit their innings without adding a veteran pitcher like Fogg to the mix.
In addition, Johnny Cueto pitched a combined ~200 innings last year, so he's ready to handle a substantial workload. We could easily get 400-500 innings out of our top four pitching prospects without causing any damage to any of them. Or, we could add in a Tom Shearn or Bobby Livingston type for spot starts.
Fogg is going to be a disaster and since Dusty is at the helm, it could get ugly, as he'll probably give him 100+ innings in the rotation. Unfortunately, Fogg will probably post a 5.00+ ERA in those 100+ innings, which will only hurt the Reds.
The Reds are at a point in the life cycle of the organization where they are better than this. They don't need Josh Fogg. In the past, this type of reclamation project has been necessary, because they couldn't develop their own pitching. However, now that they HAVE developed some pitching, it's time to embrace it, not block it with (at best) league average veteran pitchers.
Anyway, my $.02.
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Fogg's road numbers in 2007 and career numbers at gabp are respectable, especially at the price. I'm not expecting a lot and in general agree with your sentiments. It makes you wonder if these bargain acquisitions are more about gambling on catching fire in a bottle for midseason trade bait. In other words, the Reds could be middlin' by the trade deadline but someone amongst Fogg, Affeldt, or Patterson has overachieved and has become a useful trade chip for another Maloney-level prospect. I don't think Krivsky admit to this plan but it's not a bad gamble unless you think it hurts the morale of the prospects to delay them until '09.ReplyDelete
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As mentioned by TheRedTelephone, it's very likely that the Reds are adding depth. However, I'd say you're right when suggesting that they are trying to catch lightening in a bottle.
I actually like that strategy a great deal with Jeremy Affeldt, as I think he's got a live arm and good upside. Unfortunately, I just don't see the upside with Fogg. He allows a lot of contact, which will only hurt his chances in front of the Reds defense in Great American Ballpark.
In 2007, the Rockies had one of the top 2 defenses in the NL. They had a team DER of .702, while the Reds had a DER of .679. So, the Rockies turn balls in play into outs at a much high clip than the Reds. In addition, the Rockies team defense had a +/- rating of +58, while the Reds had a -32.
In short, Fogg relies on his defense a lot, but the Reds aren't going to be able to help him like the Rockies could. The Rockies were a top two defense, but the Reds are well below average.
It seems inevitable that a lot of the contact that Fogg allows will be finding holes for hits, which will be bad news for Fogg and the Reds.
In addition, I just don't think guys like Cueto or Bailey really need much more time in the minors. They are pretty much ready to roll. I just don't see what Fogg provides that Cueto, Bailey, Maloney, Volquez, Shearn, Livingston, Gardner, and everyone else doesn't already provide.
On the bright side, as you mention, if Fogg does pitch well, he, like Affeldt, could be in line to bring value back to the Reds on his departure. As it stands, his Elias ranking is 57.612, which means he just misses as a type B free agent. If he can have a solid year, then maybe he'll net a compensatory draft pick or bring talent back in trade.
Personally, I just think he's filler that we don't need. But, time will tell.


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Maine ranks seventh out of 11 states in the Northeast for number of plane crashes since the early 1960s, according to the NTSB database. Crashes listed in the database go back to 1962, 1963 or 1964, depending on the state.
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Head coach Linda Sagnelli has announced the 2013 schedule for the Central Connecticut volleyball program. The Blue Devils will play a 28 match regular season, which includes 14 Northeast Conference contests and 10 home matches at Detrick Gym. The first serve of the season will come on August 30, with day one of the Colgate Classic.
The Colgate Classic (Aug. 30-31) is the first of four tournaments that the Blue Devils will participate in to open the season. Following Colgate, Sagnelli will take her squad to California for the Sacramento State Tournament (Sept. 6-7) and then to New Hampshire for the Dartmouth Big Green Invite (Sept. 13-14).
On September 20 and 21, the Blue Devils will host Hartford, NJIT and Fordham for the CCSU Blue Devil Invitational. The two-day event will feature six matches with each participating team playing three times.
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33 Cool Wall Hooks and Creative Wall Hook Designs.
Tree Hooked Coat Hooks: Neat and simple coat hook that doesn't require much space, made out of special soft-coated steel.
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Arrow Coat Hook: A clear and simple design by Nick Leigh.
Cubby Coat Hook: The outer surface offers a wider, more collar-friendly support for coats. While the center space can be used for storing keys, wallets, gloves, sunglasses, or other small items.
TC Studio's Hook: Designed by TC Studio, its quite easy to install and looks interesting too.
Hangwall Hooks: A product that spells its name; the set includes four oversized stainless steel individual letters - H, A, N, and G.
Mushroom Wall Hook: Made from reclaimed rosewood, inspired by mushrooms growing from a forest floor.
Hook Anemone: Inspired by the underwater life, designer Anders Ljung created this organic shaped multi hanger for clothes and jewelry.
Easy Closet: An interesting concept, a closet door with hooks that fold out when open. There are enough hooks on the door to put everything from bags to coats.
Gear Stick Hooks: Made of steel, it measures 83cm x 20cm, features five different gear sticks that serve as hooks.
Flip Hook: Flip down as many hooks as you need, and the hooks fold flat against the rack when not in use.
Ninja Star Coat Hook: Each of these metal Ninja Coat Hooks has one corner cleverly engineered such a way that it allows you to fix it securely to your wall or door.
Wooden Clothes Hooks: This one comes from Twentytwentyone.
XOX Hooks: These are powder coated metal clothes hooks.
Orchid Hooks: In this set of clothes-hooks, the petals bent so that articles can be put on them.
IVY: It lets you design a sculptural shape that suits your needs. Every kit comes with 16 Y shapes, connectors and anchors.
Stuck On You Wall Hooks: Crafted from real kitchen equipment, the London-based design team, Thelermont Hupton, shows their sense of humor with these hooks.
Hand Hook: This wall hook is based on highly detailed casts of designer H Allen's hand. Hooks hold things, as do hands.
Coat Hook: This comes from BureaudeBank, is shaped like a Dutch bread clip.
Hook from Van Esch: This one comes from Netherlands.
Dart Coat Hooks: Looks cool on any wall!
Wall Hooks by Black+Blum: An interesting idea; can be used for jackets, robes, or coats.
Twig Hooks: Creation of Live Wire Farm, these are totally natural wall hooks. Species like maple, beech, and birch are available.
Stone Wall Hooks: These stones are functional as well as beautiful!
Iron Letter Hooks: Hooks that spelled out "LAUGH".
Bach Stainless Steel Coat Hooks: It looks simple and neat, perfect fit for anywhere.
Coat Hooks by Max Lipsey: "Coathooks" as it is called is a series of 10 aluminum multi-sized branches, which may be placed as per your requirement.
Flip Flop Wall Hooks: Each hook is shaped like a flip-flop, you can put your towels or even your jackets on them.
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Man Wall Hook: Made from high quality cast resin, the outstretched hands can coolly take coats, hats and towels.
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A homeless man who survived being trapped four days in a Utah drainage tunnel with a badly broken leg says he's relieved he made it out alive but regrets "a serious lack of judgment" that got him into his predicament.
"I'll never do that again," Daniel Samuelsen, 33, said Sunday from his hospital bed in Salt Lake City, where he was being treated for a compound fracture in his lower right leg and severe dehydration. Doctors at St. Mark's Hospital have told Samuelsen his fracture is so severe, he could lose his right leg.
Samuelsen told local media he fell into the tunnel, near the mouth of Parleys Canyon in the foothill east of Salt Lake City, after taking a detour on a hike on Wednesday. He and a friend hiked to a segment of pipe that slopes uphill from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
The pipe led into a series of underground drain tunnels that open out on the other side of the highway.
Samuelsen thought it would be a good idea to explore the "shortcut." His friend wasn't convinced and left.
Samuelsen says he'd crossed the drainage pipe before using a rope, but this time there was no rope.
"That was a serious lack of judgment," Samuelsen said of his decision to continue.
Samuelsen crawled inside the pipe and slipped. Suddenly he was on his back, sliding down, "faster, faster, faster, faster, then boom!" he told the Salt Lake Tribune.
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He wound up about 50 feet below the opening, his right leg smashed and a broken bone protruding from the skin.
Samuelsen, who lives in a homeless shelter and works as an independent taxi driver, said he screamed for help for hours. But though he could hear dozens of bicyclists and walkers coming and going just a few feet overhead on the trail, his pleas were drowned out by the nearby freeway traffic, he told the Tribune.
By Friday, as dehydration, hunger and injury further weakened him, "I was pretty convinced I was going to die," he said.
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The next day, with hope of rescue fading, Samuelsen found a piece of wood and made a split for his severely fractured leg. He eventually managed to slide down the lower tunnels.
""I was screaming in fear pretty much the whole way down," he said, according to the Tribune.
At the bottom, he scooted another 100 yards or so to the opening near Tanner Park. He said he spent several hours on the side of the road before finally being able to flag down a motorist for help.
"I was near tears when someone finally stopped. I clasped my hands together and was like 'thank you, thank you,'" Samuelsen said, according to Good Morning America. "I was so happy to see somebody who cared enough about me to stop and realize I needed help."
He says he regrets his bad judgment and urges other would-be explorers not to follow his tracks.
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Not sure where my error is (I did piece most of this together from snippets on different websites,) but when I test my theme, only "Left Menu" displays. There are definitely two menus, however where "Menu Right" should be is a duplicate of "Menu Left."
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I've been pugging a lot.
I mean everything.
- Sometimes I'm not even in LFG and someone plucks me out of nowhere to heal.
- Sometimes I start joining myself up to LFG and I am grabbed before I even complete my selection.
- Sometimes I join LFG and… Nothing. Hours can go by with no bites on my instance fishing line.
Lately I have found myself starting groups just because, well the reason I joined LFG was I want to run an instance, so spending even 10 minutes fishing in Dalaran is a waste of my limited time.
So here's some tips for getting a group together.
- Join LFG for the instance or instances you are interested in.
- If you are determined to get a group up, check the Leader checkbox… It will give you an air of authority and make it look like you have a group even if you don't.
- Click on the Looking For More tab and see what you find.The number of times I have gone here and found enough group members for two groups, yet no groups formed!
- Start whispering the people that are there asking if they want to join you.
- Follow up with a group invite. Immediately if you want, without waiting for a response. You have asked so the invite won't be so random as to scare them.
- Check out all the other instances.In LFM if you couldn't fill your group straight up.I don't know about you but I will often take the bird in the hand rather than waiting an hour for the bush to invite me. Seems to be the case for most folks, those under 80 at least, because XP is XP no matter where you earn it.Automatic Options finished, go fishing.Apart from late joiners to LFG, you will now need to go fishing in the chat channels (which is better than fishing in the Dalaran fountain… more interactive).
- LFG Channel: LFxM Instance gtg LFG Channel is probably a waste of your time, as it's connected to the LFG interface.But there are a couple of circumstances where it may pay off:
– Mains/Alts – a player may be in LFG on a toon in a different level bracket. They may not see you in the LFG interface, but they might see you in chat.
– One level up/down – it's possible that there is a character of an appropriate level you can't see because they are a level too low/high and don't get the option in the interface.
- Trade/General chat.One of the failings of the LFG channel is it only becomes active when you are actively LFG through the interface.It wasn't always this way but after the morons filled it with trade, Barrens and Anal chat it got changed.Anyway, same process as LFG channel. As for what you need, the more role specific the better, the less instance specific… Well that might be better.
- Mates & GuildiesOK, scraping the bottom of the barrel now. I'm sure they are nice, but without a vested interest they may be reluctant.The closer to a full group the better, the less you call upon tanks and healers the better (we get tired of being wanted too much).Make sure your party mates are asking their mates too!
Repeat steps 3-9 until your group is full.
Don't lose them now!
If the whole group is good, propose running another instance together.
Do it before the final boss to avoid unnecessary hearths.
If some of the group didn't cut it, whisper those that did and ask them if they want to hang around. Either kick the noobs or drop group and reform with those prepared to continue.
The most important aspect of all this is if you are Looking For Group, then actively look and form the group. You may start as leader but it doesn't have to stay that way!
It is changing in 3.3
It will change, and Spooner linked a great demonstration video the other day.
That doesn't mean you have to wait until 3.3 is released, get out there and form a group today!
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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I am writing these words on an extremely thin and stylish, but very light, laptop made of metal. Despite its slender body, it has a full-size screen and keyboard, good performance and claims strong battery life. Like a tablet, it uses solid-sate memory instead of a hard disk and wakes up almost instantly, ready to resume work when you open the lid, even if it has been idle for days.
You might assume I'm using one of Apple's alluring MacBook Air machines, introduced in 2008 and revamped last October. But you'd be wrong. Instead, I'm using the first real Windows-based competitor to the Air. It's the new Samsung Series 9, a gorgeous black machine with a super-bright, vivid 13-inch screen.
I've been testing the Series 9, and my verdict is that it is a solid, beautiful, speedy laptop that provides Windows users a good alternative to the MacBook Air. It bests the Air in some respects and trails it in others, but overall, I found the Series 9 satisfying to use.
Prospective buyers of the Series 9, however, should prepare to pay a lot—more than what even premium-priced Apple charges for the Air. And, based on my tests, I suspect they will see noticeably less battery life than Samsung claims, and significantly less than on the comparable MacBook Air.
Samsung officials consider the Series 9 a premium "halo product," the kind of item a company produces when it wants to make a statement about the work it can turn out. Though Samsung is a giant company, it hasn't been selling computers in the U.S. for long and it sees the Series 9 as a way of drawing attention to its brand in PCs.
In my experience with the Series 9, it did very well. I tested the consumer model, which runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It handled everything I threw at it with aplomb, and never crashed. I was able to simultaneously run Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Live Mail, Adobe Reader, the TweetDeck Twitter reader and Apple's iTunes with no problem. High-definition videos looked great.
The comparison with the MacBook Air, also a halo-type laptop, is inescapable. Unlike most Windows laptops, but like the Apple, the new Samsung has a large touch pad with no buttons—the entire pad is a button. Unlike most Windows laptops, but like Apple's machines, it uses a sealed battery that isn't designed to be replaced by the user. And, like the MacBook Air, it omits a built-in networking port, requiring you to plug in an adaptor to connect to a wired network. Neither machine includes a DVD drive.
The two laptops are about the same size and weight. The Samsung is a tad longer and narrower, and is two hundredths of a pound lighter. The Series 9 is a bit thinner by one measure. It's 0.64 inch at its thickest point, versus 0.68 inch thick for the 13-inch MacBook Air at its thickest point. The more-severely tapered Apple is thinner at its thinnest point.
The price difference is larger. The consumer model of the Series 9, with the same base 128 gigabytes of solid-state storage as the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Air, costs $1,649, which is $350 more than the base Air. An 11-inch model of the Series 9 is due soon at $1,199, or $200 more than Apple's base 11-inch Air.
One reason for the price gap is that the Series 9 has some newer or better components than the MacBook Air does. It is powered by Intel's latest processor, while the Air uses the prior Intel chip. One of its two USB ports is a new version capable of higher transfer speeds. Its keyboard is backlit, unlike the latest Air's. It has four gigabytes of memory versus two gigabytes on the Apple. It boasts a screen whose maximum brightness is a third higher than the Mac's. And the screen is matte, not glossy, so it reflects light less.
But better specs don't always translate into a better experience. For instance, in my tests, I found that the Mac was typically ready to work a couple of seconds faster than the Samsung and that, while the Samsung booted up and rebooted very quickly for a Windows PC, the Mac started and restarted in about half the time.
But the biggest difference, in my experience, was battery life. Both companies claim their competing laptops can get up to seven hours of use between charges. But my tests suggest that Samsung falls well short of that claim, while Apple meets or exceeds it.
In my longstanding battery test, I shut down all the power-saving features, turn up the screen all the way, leave on the Wi-Fi to collect email in the background and play an endlessly repeating loop of music until the computer runs out of juice. The Samsung Series 9 lasted just under four hours on that test, suggesting in normal use, with power-saving on, you'd likely get five hours or maybe 5.5 hours. By contrast, on the same test last fall, the 13-inch MacBook Air lasted over six hours—more than two hours longer. I estimated that, in normal use, you'd likely meet, or beat, Apple's seven-hour claim.
Samsung explains the difference by noting that its screen is brighter, and takes more power to run. In fact, when turned up all the way, the Series 9 screen is brighter than the Air's or any other laptop screen I can recall. But the Air's screen, though the same size, has a much higher resolution, so you can see a lot more material without scrolling.
There were a couple of other things about the Series 9 that I found lacking. Instead of a slot for a standard SD camera card, it only has a slot for a smaller micro-SD card. There is no outside light to tell you the status of the battery.
But, all in all, this is a beautiful, capable laptop, as long you can live with its high price and mediocre battery life.
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