Friday, August 31, 2012

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Web marketing or online marketing is the primary promotion of merchandise and assistance over the web, which commonly involve advertising and marketing done through electronic mails or social networking, similar to Twitter and Facebook. Most internet marketing firms are applied by small enterprises, such as neighborhood dental care centers. Such procedures typically make use of web marketing firms to enhance their establishments basically inside their town. By way of internet dental practice marketing, local dental clinics may have an advantage.

Website marketing establishments may offer you dental care practice assistance like search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), website banner ads, email marketing, and mobile and social media advertisements. A large number of IT organizations might also offer up dental web design and improvement for your new website or simply an updated look for your existing one.

Web Marketing for Dental practitioners

Search engine optimization is among the most popular instrument in internet marketing. It is the procedure of making your dental internet site more visible to users, when they make use of search engines, like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, to seek out dental practices inside their locations. This is less complicated than looking through directories of neighborhood dental consultants within the Yellow Pages.

IT corporations can also make your internet site show on top of every online search result lists, to enhance your websites? presence. This is done through research examination, and on-site and off-site optimizations.

Research evaluation include finding out how search engines function; what individuals search for, specifically the text they typically use; how many times people use the help of search engines; and which search engines are preferred by your target audience. This particular service may also involve an study of your current website and the internet sites of your rivals, and each of you are ranking in the search engine listings. Through this kind of analysis, IT companies can advise you the amount of work, through their support, you should accomplish to advertise your dental exercise further.

On-site optimization is required in developing you a solid SEO foundation, and can include online dental practice marketing tactics, similar to keyword and key phrase URL mapping, target URLs, website key phrase density optimization, new page creations, content creation, and anchor text optimization.

Off-site optimization, in comparison, is a technique used when a powerful SEO framework is developed. IT corporations may start you with a link building system that can boost your web site activity, to be read by search engines. They may assess your internet site to determine the amount of information it?ll need and how identified keywords and phrases could be designed from it. They could post articles or blog posts linked to your website, which are concentrated on the chosen search phrases. The major search engines will likely then browse through these postings, setting up a link between the selected keywords and phrases and your internet site.

Online marketing businesses may supply you with custom-made web design and advancement. Your website generally sets your potential clients? initial impression and customizing your internet site may help influence these individuals to acquire certain if not all of your products. To further advertise your business, IT establishments may help you include your contact details along with clinic address remarkably highlighted and easier to look for in your website.

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Rihanna: Texting, Comforting Robert Pattinson?!?


Rihanna has atrocious taste in men.

But perhaps the singer is starting to see the error in her past ways, as sources tell OK! Weekly she's actually been making contact with Robert Pattinson ever since his ugly split with Kristen Stewart.

"They've met several times at award bashes over the years," an insider tells the tabloid. "RiRi thinks he's very cute, but nothing ever came of it because he was attached to Kristen - and it's not her style to steal someone else's man." 

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Should we prepare ourselves for Rattinson?

Now Pattinson is single, of course. Does that mean Rihanna will make a move?

"She got Rob's phone number from a mutual friend and has been sending him sexy, funny texts to cheer him up," claims this mole. "At first, Rob thought someone Punk'd him. Eventually Rihanna convinced him she was for real, but Rob has been resisting her."

But should he continue to do so? Do you wanna see Rihanna date Robert Pattinson?

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/08/rihanna-texting-comforting-robert-pattinson/

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

From darkness to gold: Blinded Navy swimmer ready to race

Lt. Brad Snyder lost his sight in an IED explosion in Afghanistan last year. The Navy officer will once again represent the U.S., this time at the London 2012 Paralympics.

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

The man who views only black today is visualizing all the colors of his London swims. In his mind, he sees the aqua-blue pool frothy with wakes, the home stretch of the lane lines painted red, and the dark, wide mouths of roaring fans.

Behind prosthetic blue eyes ? replacements for the natural pair he lost after an explosion in Afghanistan nearly a year ago???Navy Lt. Brad Snyder soaks in the scenery of a dream realized. The 2012 Paralympics open today in Britain. Snyder races for gold Friday.

Already, though, he can glimpse a distinct, happy glow.

Related: 'Meet the Superhumans': Paralympians burst onto world stage?

?During the Olympics, I read about the races, about (Michael) Phelps and (Ryan) Lochte and Missy Franklin. I heard the commentary and used that to pull out the details to produce this image,? Snyder said. ?But instead of reading about Lochte, I just implanted myself in there.


?I imagine stepping onto the block, hearing ?take your mark,? the sound of the start, hopping in the pool then just being smooth and strong down the middle of the lane, executing some good turns, and hitting the pad at the end. I?m imagining success. I?m imagining the good feeling that comes with competing well.?

As an elite athlete???among blind swimmers he is No. 1 in the world at three freestyle distances (50-, 100- and 400-meters)???Snyder draws such mental pictures as a preparation tool. As a result, nothing in or around the London pool, he said, should feel unfamiliar.

Lt. Brad Snyder, blinded by an IED explosion in Afghanistan, is now training for the London 2012 Paralympics.

But in a life being rebuilt after severe injury, this ironic tactic is simply how the man endures.

?I?ll tell you a little story,? said his mother, Valarie Snyder. ?He was describing his apartment to me: ?It has the most beautiful rooftop view.? That?s how our conversations go all the time. It?s been rare that he gets down, and even then he apologizes for it: ?Sorry I was in a bad mood.? ?

Related: Veterans push Paralympics back to battlefield roots
Related:?Wounded warrior seeks glory representing America in London

The bright side is never far off. But total darkness came in a single stride. On Sept. 7, 2011, the former Navy bomb defuser was rushing forward to help two Afghan soldiers wounded in an initial IED blast. In his dash, Snyder stepped on a second hidden bomb in an irrigation ditch spanning a farm field. His eyes were irreparably damaged by the detonation and later were removed by a surgeon.

Once a member of the Naval Academy swim team, Snyder returned to the water about a month later???this time, seeking a familiar, soft place in a world suddenly filled with surprise, hard edges.

?I was there the first day he got back in the pool,? his mother recalls. ?Just to see the sheer joy on his face. On the ride home afterward he told me: ?I can do this, mom. I can swim competitively. Everything new that I can do just makes me realize: this isn?t such a bad thing.? ?

The warm water also rekindled an ultra-competitive, inner furnace, driving Snyder to begin training in Baltimore with Brian Loeffler, head swimming coach at Loyola University. His new goal: earn a spot on the U.S. Paralympic swim team and compete at the world?s second-largest sporting event, the Paralympics. He punched his London ticket in June after a series of spectacular sprints at the time trials in Bismarck, N.D.

He strolls into London?s Olympic Stadium today with 226 other disabled American athletes???one of 20 active or former service members on the U.S. team, and one of six wounded during combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.

?There?s a girl who was in a coma for four years. There are people dealing with moderate cerebral palsy,? Snyder said. ?It puts everything in perspective when I?m contending with my own little issue to see what everybody on the team puts up with. It humbles you. Every person on the roster is one of the most amazing people I?ve met.?

Yet each teammate also is an accomplished athlete who outperformed hundreds of Paralympic hopefuls to make the cut. For context, simply peruse two of Snyder?s post-injury times. In the 50-meter freestyle: 26.54 seconds ? better than 10 Olympians who swam in London; and in the 100-meter freestyle: 57.75???quicker than three 2012 Olympians.

The 100-meter free on Friday offers Snyder his first crack at a medal, and it unleashes an aggressive schedule of seven events over nine days. In addition to his three world-best times, he?s currently ranked No. 2 among blind swimmers in the 100-meter butterfly and No. 4 in the 200-meter individual medley. For each event, Loeffler works as Snyder?s ?tapper,? using a walking cane to touch Snyder?s shoulders to alert him that the wall is near and that a flip turn or final push is required.

?His order of events sets up well since the sprints are early in the week (and) I do expect he will do well in his early events,? said Loeffler, who also serves as the co-head coach of the American Paralympic swim team. ?(But) we have focused his training toward the 400 free.?

For Snyder, his coach and his family, that is the race of races, scheduled for Sept. 7???exactly one year to the day he stepped on the bomb.

?It?s difficult to imagine and quantify the emotions I?ll be running through that day. But it?s going to be a moment that I?m going to enjoy. Because to me, competing on that day means that I was presented a challenge and I experienced some success in my transition to blindness. I conquered my adversity to some extent. Obviously, the adversity is not conquered. I?m still blind at the end of the day,? Snyder said. ?But it means I?ve walked the path from being chained to the bed at exactly a year ago to competing on an international level at event like the Paralympics. It means I won a little bit.?

All of the people who huddled near that bed last September at Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C. will be in the crowd in London???his two brothers, his sister, an aunt and his mother???who calls herself ?a weeper? and who fully expects a gush of tears, win or lose.

?From getting the phone call that morning from his commanding officer to not knowing what we were about to go through to what we went through the past year and then to see all that he has accomplished, well, it?s going to be amazing,? Valarie Snyder said.

?He shared something with me not long ago. He said that every little boy dreams of doing something great in their life in sports. If you?re a runner or a swimmer, you dream of one day going to the Olympics. But when you grow up," she added, "you realize that was just a dream."

?He believes has been given the opportunity to actually fulfill his dream.?

Bill Briggs is a frequent contributor to msnbc.com and author of ?The Third Miracle.??

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All I Ever Wanted

All I Ever Wanted

For these four couples it will be anything but easy. It will be a living hell, will they be able to prove that love is all you need?

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"And I'm alone now,
Me and all I stood for.
We're wandering now.
All in parts and pieces, swim lonely, find your own way out."

(props if you know the lyrics without Google and if your as obsessed as me we just became best friends :D)

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May I reserve the pregnant girl from couple number 1. Girl 1?

An artist is a neurotic who cures herself with art.


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Cani reserve girl 4

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this seems really interesting. just need to figure out which guy to be...

Edit: At any rate I looks forward to potentially working with everyone here

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@Thundera Yes!
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Nielsen: Native Travel Apps Trump Mobile Web 95% Of The Time, Google Maps Is The Top Mobile Travel Service

google maps iphoneNative app usage has been edging just ahead of mobile web usage among U.S. smartphone owners?in the last few months, but when it comes to the category of travel, mobile web use all but disappears off the map. According to figures out today from Nielsen, 95% of all mobile traffic for travel-related content comes from native mobile apps -- specifically on iOS and Android platforms. Mobile web -- and traffic on operating systems that are not Android and iOS, for that matter -- accounts for only 5% of visits. And just as Google has come to dominate search, it looks to be carving out a similar position in travel, a mobile-friendly category by its nature: Google Maps -- in its combined native app and mobile web forms -- accounted for 78% of all time spent in the travel category in June 2012, with a total of 78 million app users, and another 17 million on mobile web. It will be interesting to see how that transforms as Apple drops Google Maps in favor of its own mapping service in iOS 6.

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Will.i.am song blasts to Mars and back, via Curiosity

LOS ANGELES | Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:43pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Curiosity rover is making global headlines as it travels uncharted territory on Mars, and it will venture into new realms back on Earth this week when it premieres a new will.i.am song.

The Black Eyed Peas rapper's tune "Reach For The Stars" will be broadcast live from the surface of Mars, via Curiosity, at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EDT/2000 GMT) on Tuesday to a news conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the organization said in a statement on Monday.

The debut of the song, described as an ode to the singer's "passion for science, technology and space exploration," will be linked to an educational event in which members of the Curiosity team will explain the song's transmission across space to students, as well as the rover's overall mission.

The project is a collaboration between NASA and the rapper's i.am.angel Foundation, which aims to provide digital resources in classrooms from kindergarten to grade 12.

The foundation will announce a new science, technology, arts, engineering and mathematics initiative featuring the Mars Curiosity Rover and other NASA assets.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Todd Eastham)

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Nick Morgan, Public Words: Leadership and Effective Communications

There's a new blogger on the scene, and he was kind enough to blog about my book Trust Me.? Vince Molinaro is rocking the leadership world with some very provocative ideas about how leadership involves both a community and a contract and how leaders need to join up and sign up before they are ready to lead.? Here's the link to the blog about my 4 steps to effective leadership communications, but don't stop there:? http://bit.ly/U616X5

Vince's blog will make any leader stop and think about the predominant model of leadership that still exists today:? the Marlboro Man, the hero leader.? For example, here's a posting on whether or not you need to be a jerk to succeed as a leader that gets right to the heart of the issue: http://bit.ly/PMb4tN.

Vince's blog posts are for grownup leaders only.? This isn't the usual success-oriented, positive- thinking-will-solve-all-your-problems pablum.? Vince confronts the hard stuff honestly and directly and shows us all how to be better leaders as a result.? Check it out, sign up for Vince's RSS feed, and start getting grownup advice from a true leader!

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Blind Chinese activist says likely to visit China rival Taiwan

BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington, said on Tuesday he will "most likely" accept an invitation to visit Taiwan, a move likely to infuriate China.

China considers Taiwan a breakaway province to be unified with the mainland eventually, and by force if necessary. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told Reuters that relations are at their most stable in 60 years.

Taiwan opposition party legislator Lin Chia-lung will visit Chen in New York, where Chen is studying, on Friday to invited Chen to address Taiwan's parliament on behalf of the party's parliamentary bloc, an official in Lin's office said. The official declined to be named.

"I think I will," said Chen, when asked whether he would accept the invitation. "Whoever invites me, I will accept.

"This is not the most important thing," Chen told Reuters by telephone. "The most important thing is I should have the freedom and the right to go anywhere in the world."

The invitation was a goodwill gesture from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, the official in Lin's office said. Any visit would need Taiwan government approval, since Chen is a mainland citizen, the official added.

Any visit will also present a dilemma for Ma who has pushed close economic engagement with China, but has also come under fire for perceived weakness in speaking out on human rights abuses.

Asked whether he thought a visit to Taiwan would anger China, Chen said: "Governments have no right to get angry with their citizens."

After breaking free from 19 months of house arrest in late April, Chen sought refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, embarrassing the Chinese authorities and sparking a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington.

Taiwan regularly plays host to people China despises, including exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama whom Beijing brands a dangerous separatist.

(Additional reporting by Jonathan Standing in Taipei; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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Monday, August 27, 2012

A Young Man Sentenced to three Months for ... - Morocco World News

By Jamal Saidi

Morocco World News

Casablanca, August 27, 2012

Last Friday, A court in Rabat sentenced a young man to three months in prison and fined him 250 Dirhams after being caught red-handed, eating in a public place during the day of Ramadan.

According to Al Massae, the young man admitted throughout the phases of interrogation by the police and during the trial that he ate openly as a result of personal conviction. He stressed that eating in the fasting month of Ramadan is part of his individual freedom.

The public prosecutor, however, rejected his claim and emphasized that eating publically in the holy month is a ?crime? which is punishable by law.

The Moroccan penal code states in its article 222 that a Muslim who breaks the fast during Ramadan publically and without religiously accepted reason can be imprisoned for up to six months and fined.

Morocco has recently witnessed heated debate over individual freedom such as sexual freedom and the right to eat and drink during the day in Ramadan.

Last month, a movement was founded by some young Moroccans named Massayminch or ?we are not fasting?, demanding the abolition of the aforementioned article of the penal code.

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Information Technology & Electronic Commerce: A Trinidad & Tobago Prospective

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Information Technology & Electronic Commerce: A Trinidad & Tobago Prospective ? Business ? ECommerce

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Summary:Information technology and e-commerce are needed for sustained development and growth in countries worldwide. Trinidad and Tobago is no exception to this rule and must develop information technology and e-commerce to its fullest potential using enhanced public education programmes, infrastructure development and appropriate allocation of resources in order to compete globally. The present state of information technology as it relates to e-commerce is discussed in the present paper, in order to know what exist and what needs to be done in order to be more uniquely competitive, globally. Key words: information technology, e-commerce, Trinidad and Tobago.

Introduction:Information technology refers to use of modern technologies such as computers, internet, telephone, fax, copiers, computers including computer software and hardware, CD-ROM, calculators, video recorders etc for creation, management storage, retrieval of information and for conducting business online. In other words, information technology makes available technologies that can be used to increase business opportunities. Electronic commerce or e-commerce refers to activities that are business-to-business, business-to-consumer, extended enterprise computing, d-commerce and m-commerce. E-commerce means doing business over interconnected computer networks that are global in nature.

E-commerce involves but is not limited to the following:? The use of credit cards for commercial online sales.? Generation of online advertising revenue.? Selling to consumers through a pay-per-download

Trinidad & Tobago Response to Information Technology & E-commerceTrinidad and Tobago have embraced information technology through the use of effective communication to develop policies, advisory and monitoring agencies, allocation of resources, and development of new institutions in keeping with the rapid pace of globalization, sustained development and the ongoing human and intellectual capital. Several agencies have been developed by the government as a result of information technology and e-commerce:

? E-government unit.? Freedom of information unit.? E-commerce secretariat.? Distance learning Secretariat.? National Library & Information Systems Authority (NALIS).? TT Post.

The government of Trinidad and Tobago has embarked on programmes towards developing electronic commerce as a possible mechanism of business initiation, development and expansion; improving information services and communication between governments and the public sector and telecommunications reform.

A draft policy paper for the use of information technology in the public service has been drafted since 1998 with the following objectives:? To build a technology enabled public service in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the formulation, execution of policies, plans and programmes of the Government.? To facilitate a ?total quality- customer satisfaction? culture in the Public Service.? To enhance the appropriate and valued knowledge and skills in the public servants.? To facilitate the effectiveness of information technology in the community via liberalizating the telecommunications market, supporting standards and promoting open systems concepts.? To develop and implement an electronic information infrastructure to make it possible to share information and computer resources.? To become a model in the efficient and effective use of information technology.

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has set up an Electronic Committee in January 2000 with the mandate to:? Examine Trinidad and Tobago?s current environment and formulate policy recommendations which would allow the country to derive benefits from the new digital economy.

In May 2001, the Secretariat established a national e-commerce action plan with five main thrusts:

? Strengthening the e-commerce infrastructure by encouraging more telecommunications service providers to enter the market; increasing bandwidth to speed up access, facilitating the use of more value added services and establishing a domain name registry.? Increase participation in e-commerce by providing an information technology support unit, web site for micro, small and medium e-business in Trinidad and Tobago. ? Providing assistance and clarification of rules relating to intellectual property e-commerce labor laws, online content laws, internet taxation, conflict resolution mechanisms and self-regulatory business initiatives.? Building confidence in e-commerce through privacy protection education; consumer protection mechanisms; consumer education, and the creation of Cyber-Crime Unit within the police service.? Facilitating e-economy by developing a strategy to encouraging the use of e-cash and to identify e-commerce opportunities.

Conclusion:Information technology and e-commerce are interrelated, but quite different entities. The use of information technology and e-commerce has developed considerably in Trinidad and Tobago, but there are still many agencies, government departments and non-governmental organizations that need to be brought more in tune with this development. Transformation of the telecommunication industry needs be urgently upgraded and made more user friendly to the general public. But, the exact economic benefits of information technology and e-commerce in particular are still promising and are yet to be fully materialized in Trinidad and Tobago.

References:Trinidad and Tobago National E-commerce Secretariat: National e-commerce action plan. May 1, 2001.Trinidad and Tobago National Electronic Commerce Policy Committee. Report: preparing Trinidad and Tobago for doing business in the inter-networked global digital economy. June 2000.Trinidad and Tobago Telecommunications Act, 2001. Act 4 of 2001.http://www.tstt.co.tt. Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago.http://www.ttgov.gov.tt. Trinidad and Tobago Government.http://www.tidico.co.tt. Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago.http://www.ipo.gov.tt. Intellectual Property Office.http://opm.gov.tt. Office of the Prime Minister.

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Togo women push sex strike to unseat president

In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.(AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan)

In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.(AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan)

In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, an opposition protestor holds a sign reading 'Faure, Resign,' referring to Togo's president, Faure Gnassingbe, and citing an article of the constitution that protesters say gives them the right to engage in civil disobedience, during an opposition sit-in in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president. Earlier this month, two anti-Gnassingbe protests were dispersed by police using tear gas and more than 100 people were arrested.(AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan)

In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president. (AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan)

(AP) ? The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.

Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as of Monday, said Isabelle Ameganvi, leader of the women's wing of the group Let's Save Togo. She said the strike will put pressure on Togo's men to take action against President Faure Gnassingbe.

Ameganvi, a lawyer, told The Associated Press that her group is following the example of Liberia's women, who used a sex strike in 2003 to campaign for peace.

"We have many means to oblige men to understand what women want in Togo," Ameganvi said.

The sex strike was announced at a rally Saturday of several thousand in the capital city, Lome. The demonstration was organized by a coalition that is protesting recent electoral reforms, which they say will make it easier for Gnassingbe's party to win re-election in the parliamentary polls set for October.

Gnassingbe came to power in 2005, following the death of his father, Eyadema Gnassingbe, who ruled the West African country for 38 years. Gnassingbe has not commented on the sex strike, nor has his wife. Earlier this month, two anti-Gnassingbe protests were dispersed by police using tear gas and more than 100 people were arrested.

At Saturday's rally, which ended peacefully, Jean-Pierre Fabre, leader of the National Alliance for Change opposition party, called for Gnassingbe's resignation. Other opposition leaders called for civil disobedience.

But it is the sex strike that has people talking in this small country of more than 6 million people.

"It's a good thing for us women to observe this sex strike as long as our children are in jail now. I believe that by observing this, we will get them released," Abla Tamekloe said. "For me, it's like fasting, and unless you fast, you will not get what you want from God."

When asked if her husband would agree, Tamekloe said: "It is easy for me to observe it. I am used to it, but I am not sure my husband will accept, but I have to explain to him."

Another Togolese woman said she supports the sex strike, but she does not know if she can carry it out for a full week.

"I do agree that we women have to observe this sex strike but I know my husband will not let me complete it. He may agree at first, but as far as I know him, he will change overnight," Judith Agbetoglo said. "So I don't believe I can do the one-week sex strike. Otherwise, I will have serious issues with him. He likes that too much."

Though the call for a sex strike seemed to please many women, some men, including heads of opposition parties and human rights groups in the anti-Gnassingbe coalition, did not believe it would be a success.

"One week sex strike is too much," said Fabre of the National Alliance for Change, who suggested a shorter period, amid laughter from the crowd at the demonstration. "Let's go for only two days".

Others were skeptical of Isabelle Ameganvi's call.

"It is easy for her to say because she is not married herself. She does not live with a man at home," said Ekoue Blame, a Togolese journalist. "Does she think women who live with their husband will be able to observe that? By the way, who controls what couples do behind closed doors?"

Associated Press

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Tropical Storm Isaac lashes Cuba, with Florida Keys in sights

HAVANA (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac, back over warm ocean waters, lashed Cuba with winds and rain as it swept toward the Florida Keys, where it was expected to strike at or near hurricane strength on Sunday.

The storm left six dead in Haiti, still recovering from a 2010 earthquake, and at least three missing in the Dominican Republic after battering their shared island of Hispaniola on Saturday.

No deaths or injuries had been reported in Cuba, which got off lightly when the storm crossed its eastern flank instead of raking up the length of the island as originally predicted, but it still sustained damage.

Isaac was expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall at midweek on the U.S. Gulf Coast, somewhere between Florida and Louisiana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

At 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) Sunday, Isaac was about 135 miles east-southeast of Key West and packing top sustained winds of 65 miles an hour, according to the Miami-based NHC.

The storm's driving winds and heavy rains were already being felt intermittently across south Florida and it was expected to be at or near hurricane force when it swept across the Florida Keys by Sunday evening, the NHC said in an advisory.

A storm becomes a hurricane when sustained winds reach a minimum of 74 miles per hour.

Energy producers in the Gulf of Mexico were shutting down production and the U.S. Republican Party said it would recess its national convention in Tampa, Florida for a day out of safety concerns as the storm bore down on the state.

The storm could force a short-term shut-down of 43 percent of U.S. offshore oil capacity and 38 percent of its natural gas output, according to forecasters at Weather Insight, an arm of Thomson Reuters.

Republicans, who will formally nominate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate for the November election, will convene their four-day meeting on Monday as scheduled, then recess until Tuesday.

Tampa, located on Florida's west coast, faces a threat of from both winds and heavy rains from Isaac, according to NHC meteorologist David Zelinsky.

"For the Tampa area, storm surge values could be three to five feet above ground," Zelinsky said, referring to the threat of storm-driven inundations of the city from Tampa Bay.

In its latest advisory, the NHC said Isaac was churning west-northwest at 20 miles per hour. The storm was officially expected to make landfall anywhere between the Florida Panhandle and eastern Louisiana early on Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane.

CRASHING WAVES, FLOODING

In Cuba, Baracoa, the island's easternmost city, appeared to get the worst of the storm, which sent 13-foot (4-metre) waves crashing over the seawall and into the streets. Cuban TV reports said more than a thousand people had to be evacuated and 50 buildings were damaged.

"The force of the waves has destroyed the farmer's market for small businesses, also the children's area of a park and various homes," said Baracoa resident Olider Aguilera by telephone. "But I can tell you that the people are not afraid. They're accustomed to meteorological phenomena stronger than this," he told Reuters.

In Haiti, Isaac added to the misery of more than 350,000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake still living in flimsy resettlement camps as water gushed into tents and corrugated plastic shacks ripped apart by the wind.

Authorities said six people were known dead, including a 10-year-old girl killed when a wall fell on her and a woman crushed to death by a falling tree.

Many main roads were blocked or impassable and 14,000 people had been evacuated to shelters, authorities said.

In the Dominican Republic, officials said three people were missing, including the mayor of a town near Santo Domingo swept away as he tried to save another person from a flooded river.

Officials said 764 homes had been damaged by the storm and more than 9,600 people evacuated from storm-struck areas.

(Additional reporting by Tom Brown, David Adams, Jane Sutton and Kevin Gray in Miami; Nelson Acosta in Havana, Susana Ferreira in Port-au-Prince and Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo; Editing by Tom Brown, Patrick Graham and Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tropical-storm-isaac-hits-cuba-drenching-haiti-022351417.html

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

This Israeli Chocolate Ad Shows John Cleese ... - Business Insider

A new Israeli ad (above) portrays "Monty Python" alum John Cleese as a Western General who gives the IDF the go ahead to perform an air strike against an anonymous Middle Eastern enemy, presumably, Iran. Not quite what you'd expect from a commercial for a Nutella-esque chocolate-hazelnut spread.

"We need your approval of the attack," an Israeli in the war room says. "I promise you, we will be in and out in 33 minutes...we have the right to defend ourselves!"

A distracted Cleese then grabs a jar of HaSachar Haole's Sababa Egozim spread, messily licks the wrapper, and then announces a Hebrew phrase that the Jerusalem Post translates as "Great stuff" but what appears to be the company's official YouTube account translates as "Let's get nuts!" Generals high five; Cleese doesn't notice the residual chocolate smudge on his nose.

The Algemeiner reported that Cleese received $50,000 for the spot. Shot at Cleese's home in Monaco by Inbar, Merhav, Shaked Advertising agency, the ad apparently aimed "to convince Israeli parents that Hashahar Ha-oleh chocolate spread is really the most filling option for their growing children."

A separate Israeli ad for HOT, an Israeli cable company, created a stir in Iran last February. The spot showed four stars from a HOT series entering Iran, "near the nuclear reactor." ("Where will we find a Kosher kitchen here?" one asks). The men, dressed as Iranian women to fit in, meet up with a Mossad agent and admire his Samsung Galaxy tablet before accidentally pressing a button that sets off an explosion.

The explosion, which the New York Times characterized as "a clear reference to a string of deadly attacks on Iranian scientists and installations that have been attributed to Israel," is shrugged off.

"What? Another mysterious explosion in Iran."

An Iranian official suggested a country-wide ban on Samsung products, although the tech company told All Things D, "This advertisement was produced by HOT cable network without Samsung?s knowledge or participation.?

Watch the spot below:

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-israeli-chocolate-ad-shows-john-cleese-ordering-an-air-strike-on-iran-2012-8

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H.S. Football: Week 2 scoreboard

by NewsChannel 36 Staff

WCNC.com

Posted on August 24, 2012 at 6:31 PM

Updated today at 10:55 PM

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Below is a list of games scheduled for Friday, August 17, the opening week of high school football accross the area.

See an error or want to submit a score on Friday night? Email us by clicking here.

Also, follow 'Friday Night Frenzy" on Twitter via @wcnchs and on Facebook here for more scores and insight in real time.

Download the 'Carolina Sports' app to receive notifications on scores straight to your smartphone.

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Albemarle at West Stanly -- 70-0

Ardrey Kell at Marvin Ridge -- 31-21

Ashe County at Watauga

Bandys at Fred T. Foard

Berry at East Meck -- 16-0

Carolina Pride at Char.Country Day

Charlotte Catholic at Providence -- 41-7

Charlotte Christian at Hammond -- 17-21

Clover at Forestview -- 16-38

Cuthbertson at Hickory Ridge

East Gaston at North Gaston -- 6-35

East Rowan at Concord -- 20-42

East Rutherford at McDowell

First Assembly at Cannon

Franklin at Chase

Harding at Rocky River, 7

Hibriten at Tuscola -- 28-14

Hickory at Newton-Conover

Hopewell at East Lincoln -- 59-61

Kings Mountain at Burns

Lincolnton at South Point -- 8-49

Monroe at Robinson -- 54-14

Mooresville at South Meck -- 35-14

Mt. Pleasant at South Stanly

Myers Park at Hough -- 11-35

North Iredell at Lake Norman

North Lincoln at Maiden

North Meck at Independence -- 13-41

North Rowan at Salisbury

North Stanly at Lexington

Olympic at Butler -- 7-69

Parkwood at Central Cabarrus

Piedmont at Porter Ridge -- 58-7

Providence Day at Victory Christian -- 42-22

Rocky River at Harding -- 62-0

Shelby at Ashbrook -- 10-24

South Caldwell at West Caldwell -- 42-0

South Rowan at Kannapolis -- 6-62

Statesville at South Iredell -- 30-20

Sun Valley at Mallard Creek -- 10-62

Vance at W-S Parkland

Weddington at Forest Hills -- 47-19

West Iredell at Wilkes Central -- 20-19

West Meck vs. West Charlotte at Waddell, 7

West Rowan at Davie County -- 14-7

South Carolina

Clover at Forestview

Lugoff-Elgin at Fort Mill -- 21-39

Boiling Springs at Nation Ford

Dorman at Rock Hill

South Pointe at Blythewood

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Source: http://www.wcnc.com/home/HS-football-Week-1-scoreboard-166118396.html

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Sony VAIO Z13 (SVZ13114GXX)


The Sony VAIO Z13 (SVZ13114GXX) is Sony's premium ultaportable laptop, bringing all of the thinness and performance you'd expect from an ultrabook, but also offering top-of-the-line construction and several extras for a premium price. In direct contrast to $600 ultrabooks, most ultraportables tend to cost a lot more , and the Sony VAIO Z13 is an extreme example of that, selling for $1,949.99 (direct). And while it has the slim dimensions of an ultrabook, the Sony VAIO Z13 comes with a standard-voltage processor?a subtle, but important distinction. The VAIO Z13 certainly delivers a premium experience, but a few elements fall short of what we expect, given its price.

Design
The VAIO Z13 features premium carbon fiber construction for a chassis that is exceptionally lightweight yet strong. Measuring 0.66 by 13.0 by 8.27 inches (HWD), the ultraportable weighs only 2.58 pounds, closer in design to the slim Acer Aspire S5-391-9880 ultrabook than the thicker, heavier Toshiba Portege R835-P88 , our Editors' Choice among ultraportables. The thinness doesn't stem entirely from the materials, however, as Sony uses a special drop-hinge design which actually places the rear feet of the laptop on the hinge-edge of the lid, so the open laptop is propped up slightly. This makes for a more comfortable typing experience while also keeping everything extremely compact when the system is closed. On the downside, however, this makes for a slightly less comfortable experience when you're actually using the laptop on your lap?the hinge and feet aren't very comfortable on the thighs.

The VAIO Z13 features a 13.1-inch backlit display panel with 1,920-by-1,080 resolution. This resolution is well higher than those of the displays seen on most ultraportables and ultrabooks, including the 1,600-by-900 display on the Samsung Series 9 15-inch (NP900X4C-A02US) , but it's matched by the 1080p displays seen on the Editors' Choice Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 and its Zenbook Prime siblings, some of which can be bought for under $1,000. Sony pairs the VAIO Z13's display with built-in stereo speakers and Dolby Home Theater v4 software, which offers clear sound at most volumes. The audio provides enough sound for one or two people to listen to and understand dialogue in a Netflix or Hulu video, but not enough to share music with a room.

The VAIO Z13 is equipped with a full-size chiclet keyboard, and the keys have a slight sheen to them despite their matte appearance. Though the keyboard isn't as comfortable to type on as the one on the Lenovo ThinkPad X230 , it's more than passable. The accompanying touchpad is accurate and responsive, but it has a strange glossy, fingerprint-collecting surface on the buttons and a textured hexagonal snakeskin pattern. I didn't particularly care for either. Between the two mouse buttons is a fingerprint reader for easy secure logins.

Features
The VAIO Z13 fits two USB 3.0 ports (one with power for charging devices while the system is asleep), an HDMI-output, and a compact Ethernet port that opens to full-size when needed, but closes up when not in use to maintain the laptop's slim lines. On the right is a full-size VGA port, and on the front edge of the palm rest are two card reader slots?one for Sony's proprietary memory formats (MagicGate/HG Duo) and another for the more common SD formats. Between the right and left mouse buttons is the aforementioned fingerprint reader, with a TPM chip inside for further security. Above the display is a 1.3-megapixel webcam, equipped with an Exmor sensor from Sony's camera and imaging department. Wireless connectivity comes by way of 802.11n Wi-Fi, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 and Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, which lets you wirelessly stream HD content to TVs through an Netgear Push2TV adapter.

As is often the case with ultrabooks, there is no optical drive, but the 256GB solid-state-drive (SSD) should provide a workable amount of storage space while also helping the VAIO Z13 to zip right along. Installed on the drive are the usual bits of trialware and bloatware, like a 30-day trial of Kaspersky Internet Security, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft PowerPoint Reader, and a few free programs like Evernote and Skype. Sony piles on with proprietary utilities, like VAIO Media Gallery, VAIO Care, VAIO Messenger, VAIO Gate, Sony PlayMemories, and Sony Music Unlimited. But Sony also includes a few extra premium offerings as well, namely full versions of Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum, ACID Music Studio, and Sound Forge Audio Studio. These premium multimedia tools are bundled with the laptop, along with Sony's one-year warranty.

Performance
Sony VAIO Z13 (SVZ13114GXX) While the VAIO 13 may be slim, there was no skimping on the processor; it's equipped with the same 2.1GHz Intel i7-3612QM quad-core processor seen in the Dell XPS 15 (Summer 2012) ?a full-size laptop. This almost-ultrabook packs a processor more commonly seen in larger laptops, offering a step up in processing power from the low-voltage CPUs used in ultrabooks.

Sony VAIO Z13 (SVZ13114GXX)

Paired with 8GB of RAM and given a healthy speed boost from the aforementioned SSD, the VAIO Z13 scored an impressive 7,096 points in PCMark 7, well ahead of the Acer Aspire S5-391-9880 (5,053 points) and Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 (2,523 points), both of which have a low-voltage quad-core processor, and ahead of the Toshiba Portege R835-P88 (2,313 points) which used an older second-gen Core i5. With four cores running a total of eight logic threads, the VAIO Z13 also rocketed ahead of competitors in Cinebech R11.5, scoring 5.64 points. The nearest competitor, the Asus UX32VD-DB71, scored 3.58 points. With that sort of processing power, it's no surprise that the VAIO Z13 also led the category in our multimedia tests as well, zipping through Handbrake in 1 minute 22 seconds and Photoshop CS5 in 3:31.

Unlike premium ultrabooks, however, the VAIO Z13 doesn't have a discrete graphics processor, relying instead on Intel's integrated graphics processing. In 3DMark 06, therefore, the VAIO Z13 scored a respectable 7,462 points at medium detail and 1,366-by-768 resolution, but was challenged by the Nvidia-equipped Dell XPS 14 (Summer 2012) and the Asus UX32VD-DB71, which scored 7,047 points and 8,627 points, respectively. Even with its healthy graphics capability, the VAIO Z13 wasn't able to produce playable results in either of our gaming tests.

While the full-voltage processor made for some impressive results in our performance tests, it chewed through battery-life pretty quickly, as the VAIO Z13's battery lasted only 4 hours 51 minutes when tested it in MobileMark. In a category defined by convenience and portability, the failure to hit the five-hour mark is a pretty big disappointment, especially considering that the Toshiba Portege R835-P88 stretches well past it (8:40) and the Dell XPS 14 (Summer 2012) nearly doubles it (9:37).

The Sony VAIO Z13 (SVZ13114GXX) sets out to dominate the pricier end of the ultraportable category, and in some respects it does, with unbeaten processing power, featherweight carbon fiber construction, and great multimedia performance, along with the software tools to take advantage of it. If you want the best ultraportable available, this may well be it, but with the highest price in the category, you'd expect a discrete graphics processor and the long battery life seen in other ultraportables and ultrabooks. It can't match the value-per-dollar offered by the ultraportable Editors' Choice Toshiba Portege R835-P88, and the leading ultrabook Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 offers an equally gorgeous display, crisp audio, and strong multimedia performance, and for considerably less. Nevertheless, if money is no object, the Sony VAIO Z13 is a top-tier ultraportable, if not the best value for the price.

BENCHMARK TEST RESULTS:

COMPARISON TABLE
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