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St. Vincent DePaul, Salvation Army deal with trash dumping

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Two agencies in Ogdensburg whose mission it is to help the needy are grappling with a problem that they don’t need: trash dropped outside their doors.

Officials at St. Vincent de Paul, 1115 Ford St., and the Salvation Army Seek-N-Find store, 727 State St., say the dropping off of garbage, used furniture and old appliances isn’t as blatant as it has been in the recent past. Still, they would prefer that people stick to donating used clothing and food and do it during business hours.

“We don’t have a problem anymore,” Frank F. Bateman, St. Vincent de Paul’s treasurer, said Friday. “Here and there we get a bag.”

Salvation Army Capt. Angela S. Shaffer said that the illicit trash deposits both in and out of the Seek-N-Find store’s parking lot dumpster have decreased.

“It’s not really that bad,” she said, adding that the only significant accumulation occurs in the aftermath of seasonal yard sales in the city.

All those smelly $5 easy chairs and dead 75-cent television sets and radios end up in and surrounding the dumpster.

“They don’t want to have to pay to haul it away,” Mrs. Shaffer said.

So it falls to the Salvation Army to pay up. Mrs. Shaffer said the total monthly bill, including solid waste transfer station tipping fees and the cost of gasoline, comes to between $20 and $30 a month. That’s hardly a budget buster, she said, but it does siphon money from needs closer to the charity’s mission.

“That’s $20 to $30 we could use toward buying food,” Mrs. Shaffer said.

Mr. Bateman said St. Vincent de Paul stopped accepting used furniture a decade ago when the bulk of accumulation became too much. The drop-off point has usually been a narrow space between the building’s west side and a lane. He said the agency has probably spent in recent years “a few hundred dollars” to have the unwanted trash hauled away.

Mr. Bateman said the installation last summer of an outdoor surveillance camera has been successful in cutting down on the illicit dumping. People know they are being watched and move on.

“That camera is doing its job,” he said.

The St. Vincent de Paul store, Mr. Bateman said, “is a an asset to this community. We don’t want people being afraid to go there.”

The Seek-N-Find store’s hours of business are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The telephone number is 393-4919.

The St. Vincent de Paul store’s hours are Monday through Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 3 p.m. The telephone number is 393-6579.

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The Syracuse University and Maryland football teams have both been plagued by inconsistency this season.

And while the Terrapins’ problems can be explained by their plethora of midseason injuries — quarterback, running back, both starting wide receivers, and a few veteran defensive backs – SU’s troubles have been more difficult to pinpoint.

So there’s no telling what to expect when the two middling Atlantic Coast Conference foes square off at 3:30 today at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md. The game will be broadcast by the ACC Regional Sports Network and be aired locally on MSG.

“Every week we want to go and we want to be respected and the only way you get respect is to earn it,” said first-year SU coach Scott Shafer, whose team is 4-4 overall, 2-2 ACC.

“You’re in a new conference playing new folks that don’t know that much about you. So you always want to go on the road and get respect and some weeks we’ve done a good job and other weeks we haven’t.”

The Orange is coming off a 13-0 victory over Wake Forest. But that was after a 56-0 dud at Georgia Tech two weeks prior with a bye week in between.

Before that, SU captured a solid road win at North Carolina State before getting blown out at home by No. 9 Clemson.

“We came out of that victory last week against Wake Forest extremely excited and I can’t tell you how proud I was of the way the kids played and I was proud of the way we coached too,” Shafer said. “But it only counts as one victory. Just like two weeks prior to that we had what counts as one ugly loss. So you have to say one at a time, move forward, and see if we can’t go down there and earn some respect in Maryland.”

Maryland has lost two straight games and three of its last four to drop to 5-3 — after starting the year 4-0.

But the Terrapins are expecting reinforcements today.

Starting quarterback C.J. Brown will return from a concussion and get the start. Brown left the game early in Maryland’s Oct. 19 loss to Wake Forest and didn’t suit up for its loss to Clemson the following week.

In his six games this year, Brown is averaging 210 yards passing and has completed 63 percent of his throws. He is also third on the team rushing, at an average of 42 yards per game. He has 13 total touchdowns, seven passing and six rushing, to just three interceptions.

“We’re down a few guys that (Brown) doesn’t have in there with him that we had earlier in the season,” said Maryland coach Randy Edsall, an SU alum. “But he’s a really good leader and he’s a guy that knows the offense, understands it and has experience. So that means a lot to us and hopefully we can continue to, he can continue to, stay healthy.”

Brandon Ross, Maryland’s leading rusher, will also return today after missing the Clemson game with a shoulder injury. He is averaging five yards per carry.

But Maryland will be without linebacker and leading tackler Cole Farrand due to a head injury. Farrand recorded 23 tackles against Clemson and is a big loss for Maryland’s rush defense, which ranks fourth in the conference.

Maryland would clinch bowl eligibility with a victory while SU would put itself one win away with three games to play.

SU’s next game is at No. 3 Florida State then it closes the season with home games against Pittsburgh and Boston College.

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Academic Advising is available Monday through Friday at all our Phoenix campus and Monday through Thursday at the Luke AFB site. Call to set up an appointment to visit with one of our advisors.

Evening, weekend, late afternoon and Internet classes make it very convenient for military personnel, working adults, and others to fulfill requirements for their degrees.

Your professional and technical training can often be accepted as hours toward the BSOE degree. See us about personalizing a degree for you.

DANTES and CLEP testing can be utilized.

Four eleven-week semesters each year make it possible to accelerate degree completion.

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We offer education with a personal touch, where faculty and staff care about student success and work to make a degree possible for working adults.

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1.Margaret Fay Latham (John Henry Latham3, Henry Isaac Latham2, James Lewis LATHAM1) was born 12 SEP 1885 in Dublin, Erath County, Texas, and died 24 MAR 1964 in McLennan County, Texas. She married Banton Moore BET 1908 AND 1909. He was born 07 OCT 1877 in Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA, and died 03 JAN 1954 in Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, New York.

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Western volleyball moves to 5-5 on the season with 3-0 win over Lasell

DANBURY, CT (Sept. 15) —  The Western Connecticut State University volleyball won its second match of the day and raised its record to 5-5 on the season with a 3-0 win over the visitors from Lasell College Saturday afternoon at Feldman Arena.

Western stormed out to an early game-one lead behind the serving of junior Rachel Volpe (Southington, CT), and held an 11-0 lead before the first Lasell College side-out.  The Colonials used a balanced attack and a deep bench to maintain their lead and closed out game one by the score of 25-10.

In game two, Lasell made some adjustments receiving Western’s serves and stayed within striking for the majority of the game.  The Colonials scored the game’s final four points to claim a 25-19 victory and take a 2-0 lead in the match.

In the third game of the match, Lasell again challenged the Colonials and trailed by only two points late in the game at 19-17.  The Colonials then went on a 6-0 run to close out the game and the match.

For the match, senior Paxton Thornton (Sharon, CT) led Western with 10 kills and nine digs, sophomore Jennifer Hogan (Franklin Square, NY) handed out 26 assists, and Volpe finished with five services aces and 10 digs.

Statistical leaders for Lasell were freshman Alyssa Nahigian (Coventry, RI) with 24 assists, sophomore Alexis Chappell (Springfield, MA) with five kills, and junior Sara Biondo (Coventry, RI) with 11 digs.

With the win, Western evens its record at 5-5 on the season, while Lasell College falls to 0-10.  The Colonials return to action on Thursday, September 20th, when they host Emmanuel College at Feldman Arena.  Game time is slated for 7:00pm.

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Storm brings down trees, power across Dayton

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – It did not take long for neighbors to come help Ron Brewer get this tree off his home.

A quick storm packed quite a punch for Dayton Monday night.

“All of a sudden, it started raining and the wind was blowing the hardest I have ever seen it blow,” said Brewer. “You could not see the street, the wind was blowing so hard.”

Brewer says he did not hear the tree hit his roof.

Once the storm passed, he along with many others on the eastern part of Dayton saw the damage that was done.

“It’s unbelievable,” said Brewer. “Absolutely unbelievable. I see it on all these other people who have these big, gigantic storms come through. Nothing like this for us though.”

Sean Brothers was looking out his front window watching the storm.

Suddenly, his tree came crashing down in front of him.

“My car was in the driveway there,”said Sean Brothers. “It was about four inches away from the car. Five or six feet away from the house. It was close. It was real close.”

Clean up is already beginning for many people in the area.

Some of them are just thankful the damage was not worse. Others are happy to get a helping hand from those who weathered the storm.

“On both sides, everybody was out,” said Brewer. “The people across the street, they was all out. It’s a great neighborhood. Everybody watches out for everybody and takes care of everybody.” provides commenting to allow for constructive discussion on the stories we cover. In order to comment here, you acknowledge you have read and agreed to our Terms of Service. Commenters who violate these terms, including use of vulgar language or racial slurs, will be banned. Please be respectful of the opinions of others and keep the conversation on topic and civil. If you see an inappropriate comment, please flag it for our moderators to review.

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WFMW: Organized Fall Mornings

{Hard time coming up with tips? Try today’s suggested theme: share a fall tip}

Two-thirds of my children have a hard time picking out the clothes every morning. The other third picks out my clothes. Because she thinks I need help and she’s pretty good at it.

I was at my friend Amy’s house (who happens to live across the street [fun!], and she clued me on her morning salvation:

Beautiful, isn’t it? Okay, not really. But work with me here. I bought two off Amazon (one in pink with a different princess of the day since my 4 year old is still not reading big words yet).

During the weekend, when my kids do their laundry, (Yes, when you turn 8 in THAT family, you get your very own laundry basket! Lucky! and some lessons in the laundry room) I or more honestly, my oldest child who likes people in our family to actually match their clothes, fills up the organizer with outfits.

Y’all. I could cry. Because it works!! It has saved me so much time in the morning and my kids are happy since they helped pick out their clothes on the weekend.

Get your own for less than $10. Or better yet, use what you have and create something that works just as well!

Organized mornings work for me!

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    We’ve done the same thing for several years. We even have the shoe sized ones to hold up their snacks and papers for each day. It hangs right beside the clothes. My teens are able to fill the shelves themselves, and then if anyone wants clothes that are in the laundry they can do it on the weekend.

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    Lynn says

    I love this idea. My kids wear uniforms to school, so while I have the calamity of clothing selection to contend with in the morning, I really LOVE this, and will keep it filed in my head for our big move back to the US!

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    Oh yes – I now have 2/3rds of my kids who like “input” into my wardrobe choices! They have very differing styles but both agree on one thing – they disapprove of mum wearing “vegetation”!

    Love this idea for the school vacation, but during school all 3 of my kids wear school uniforms so that saves on a lot of drama each morning.

    I haven’t joined in here in AGES but I am back :)

    Hi from Ireland.

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    I tried this once when the kids were babes, but ti didn’t work for me so I gave a friend our organizer and she loves it. I may try it again now that they are older.

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    Thank you for hosting! This week I have shared the following seasonal farm-to-table recipes that promote the benefits of good health through nutrition from eating fresh unprocessed seasonal produce:

    mizuna-n-sorrel chimichurri on zucchini pasta

    corn relish salad

    arugula salad with brazil nut pesto cream dressing

    Happy cooking!
    The Intentional Minimalist

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    girl…if they had one with Chuck Norris on it, I would get one for my 18 year old son! And if they had one with a volleyball on it, I would get one for my 21 year old college student daughter who is on the volleyball team! These are very cool. What a great idea! What a good mom you are!!!

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    AmberK says

    Now. If you could just teach me how to SHOP for clothes for myself, I’d be your very bestest frieeeeeend! ;0) Great idea, I’ve seen these before! I just have boys who could care less right now, so I just lay their clothes out the night before. ha ha

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    janis says

    I tried that but my 4 year old couldn’t reach the top ones so what I do is on her low hanging rack I hang up 7 complete outfits (or more) and then she just goes up and grabs a hangar and she’s set to go. That way she gets to choose but I know they match! :)

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My spring ritual includes walking about my garden to search for emerging plant heads. I get an idea of which plants have expanded well beyond their borders. April is the time for the great perennial divide. We divide perennials because: plants have outgrown their space; plants aren't doing well in that site because of sun, shade or moisture requirements; plant got way too big; flowers were not the color you anticipated; or maybe you have decided it would look so much better in another spot.

Dividing can be an invigorating process for plants in which the center tends to die out. Some such as yarrow, boltonia, aster, perennial sunflower, obedient plant and black-eyed Susan perform better if they are divided every few years to keep them in bounds. Or maybe it's spring and you just feel like digging. Remember the adage: "Every good garden has been in a wheelbarrow at least three times."

April is an ideal time to move/divide most perennials. However, peonies should be divided only in September. Bearded iris are divided in July and August. Plants that form underground rhizomes or multiple crowns are easy to divide.

Everyone has their favorite method of dividing perennials and their favorite implement of destruction. I prefer a small sharp spade and the highly technical method of "jump and wiggle". Shove the spade into the soil on the outside of the planting and continue around in the size of sections you want. I often have to jump on the spade to get through thick stems. Now wiggle the spade in the cut areas until the sections pop out.

Some people prefer digging around the clump and using two garden forks to pull the clump apart. Divisions can be as large as you want, but four inch diameter sections work well for most plants. Smaller divisions may not bloom as well for a couple of years.

The whole clump does not have to be lifted. Sections from the outside of the planting can be removed to reduce the size of the planting or to leave the mother plant intact. For many perennials the most vigorous shoots are on the outside of the clump. This method works well for beebalm, mint and anything that spreads by runners to form a colony (or in the case of mint, its own country).

Some plants such as daylilies, catmint, and astilbe have more of a central crown. Dig out the whole plant and make divisions using a spade or garden knife or in the case of ornamental grasses an axe works well.

Replant divisions immediately, plant into pots, heel into a pile of moist mulch for planting later or put on your neighbor's doorstep. Be sure to water plants thoroughly after replanting. Before replanting, amend soil with compost if needed. Most perennials do not flower as well the year they are divided, so don't be discouraged.

Some plants do not like to be moved or divided. These include baby's breath, old fashioned bleeding heart, balloon flower, monkshood, blue indigo, gas plant, sea holly, lupine and butterfly weed.

Other activities in the flower garden include remove last year's stems, trim butterfly bush, caryopteris and Russian sage back to 6-8 inches and remove any winter mulch from perennials and roses. Ornamental grasses should be cut down before new growth emerges.

A couple of great books on perennial maintenance: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabasto-Aust and Maintaining your Perennial Garden by Janet Macunovich.

Mark your calendar:

U of I Hort Club Flower Show, April 16 and 17, Stock Pavilion, 1402 West Pennsylvania in Urbana

Allerton Plant Sale, Saturday, April 30, from 10-4 at Allerton Park Visitors Center in Monticello. Perennials, orchids, and unusual container plants will be available for purchase.

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Roundtable on Islamic Art

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February 7, 2013, 5:30 PM, Cantor Arts Center (328 Lomita Drive)

Roundtable on Islamic Art

Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University)
Nada Shabout (University of North Texas)
Taraneh Hemami (Curator & Artist)

Although very widely used, the phrase “Islamic art” has been the subject of considerable discussion and negotiation in recent years. In this roundtable, panelists will engage questions that relate the use of the phrase Islamic art to artistic practice on a worldwide scale. We wish to take seriously both the materiality of objects and installations that constitute art, and intellectual patterns and sociopolitical relations that lead to art’s production. Moving beyond any kind of sterile concern with definitions, we will explore how producers, evaluators, buyers, and viewers of art today are likely to interpret the term Islamic art, and illustrate a diverse set of perspectives that, in turn, will reflect on aesthetics, the relationship between the present and the past, and personal and collective identities in the world today.

Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) is Associate Professor of History of Art, and is chair of the Department of Art. He received his Ph.D. in History of Art from Cornell. As an artist and art historian, Dadi is broadly interested in the relation between art practice in the contexts of modernity, globalization, urbanization, mediatization, and postcolonialism. He has authored numerous scholarly works, including the recent book Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Curatorial activities include Unpacking Europe at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Tarjama/Translation at Queens Museum of Art and Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. As an artist, Dadi works collaboratively with Elizabeth Dadi. Their work investigates the salience of popular urban and media cultures in the construction of memory, borders, and identity in contemporary globalization. Their work is frequently realized in large-scale installations and has been exhibited and published internationally.

Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) is Associate Professor of Art Education and Art History at University of North Texas. She received her Ph.D. in the Humanities from University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include cultural destruction and preservation, historiography of Arab art, identity politics and art, and post-colonial and feminist theory. She is the author of New Vision:  Arab Art in the Twenty-First Century (2009), and Modern Arab Art: Formation of an Arab Aesthetic (2007).

Taraneh Hemami  is a San Francisco-based artist and curator, whose work engages in diverse strategies including installation, object and media productions, collective and participatory projects to explore themes of displacement, preservation, and representation. Her collective and curatorial projects create connections through experimental projects between artists, writers and scholars, while promoting and provoking dialog as part of their process and presentation, to explore various topics from martyrdom to the reflections of the everyday. Her recent handcrafted replications of historical archives serve as commemoratives to events, places and people, while commenting on tools of manipulation and persuasion used across nations and histories. Her sources have varied from an image downloaded from a US governmental site for examination of perception and stereotyping in the Most Wanted series to a collection of banned books and propaganda of the Iranian underground movement that narrate the Iranian revolution in the Theory of Survival project. Taraneh’s conceptually driven works shift in material and presentation: shimmering shattered glass prayer rugs, laser cut wool carpet map of the city of Tehran, beaded curtains replicating governmental posters and postage stamps, a library of banned books.

Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University) is Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies, and Director of the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. His research is concerned with the intellectual and social history of Persianate societies of Iran and Central and South Asia circa fourteenth century CE to the present. His publications focus on  the study of Sufism and Shi’ism, messianic movements originating in Islamic contexts, representation of corporeality in hagiographic texts and Persian miniature paintings, religious developments during the Timurid and Safavid periods, and modern transformations of Islamic societies. He is the author of numerous articles and four books, Under the Drones: Modern Lives in Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (2012), Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam (2011), Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis (2005), and Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam (2003). He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Building the Past: Memory, Metaphor, and Reality in Islamic Narratives.

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Weisman's Scale of Minnesota Muggy

Based on 19 Years of Watching Minnesotans Sweat!

Why do meteorologists use dew point rather than relative humidity to measure moisture? Because the dew point is directly linked to the amount of moisture in the air, while today's relative humidity will go down during the day as the temperature rises, even though there will be the same amount of moisture in the air. So, how would I translate dew point temperatures into a comfort scale? Like this:

Dew Point (°F) Range Comfort of Minnesotans Comfort of Floridians
Below 55 Comfortable No problem
55-59 Noticeable "I can feel the humidity." "What humidity? It's a wonderfully dry day!"

"Uff-da! It's muggy!" "Are you nuts?! It's beautiful."

Very Uncomfortable

"Turn on the fan; turn on the A/C! I can't go on any longer." "At least we're getting a break from the humidity today."

70-74 Oppressive

"My perspiration has created the 10,001st lake! Is that black hat in my sweat puddle from the Wicked Witch of the West?!" "Yeah, it's a normal day. What else is new?"

Life Threatening (not an exaggeration)

Danger for heat and humidity exposure (similar to the conditions that killed Cory Stringer and other Minnesotans) "I hope the sea breeze comes in and cools us off for a while." (but it won't make it to Orlando, Disney World, or Cyprus Gardens!)

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HIST 364(F) (formerly 311) History of the Old South*

During the course of the semester, we shall investigate two broad, interrelated topics: slavery in the antebellum South, and the impact of slavery on Southern civilization. Our approach will be primarily topical. In the first half of the course, we shall look at subjects like the foreign and domestic slave trade, patterns of work and treatment, the nature of the master-slave relationship, resistance and rebellion, and slave cultural, social, and family life. The second half of the course will concentrate on the influence of the institution of slavery on the mind, social structure, and economy of the Old South, and slavery's impact on Southern politics and the decision for secession in 1860-61.

Format: discussion. Requirements: a midterm, a final exam, and a paper of moderate length. Groups A and D

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Ask any growth-minded entrepreneur, and he will tell you that people are the lifeblood of his business. Dig a little deeper, and that same entrepreneur will tell you that hiring, retaining, and motivating great people is one of the most difficult — and at the same time, most rewarding — facets of growing a business.

So why is it, then, that all the buzz surrounding content marketing seems to focus on business-to-business lead generation and customer acquisition programs but doesn’t ever seem to extend to using that same content marketing know-how to recruit the best candidates?

In marketing, we talk a lot about the B2B buying funnel and stages like awareness and interest, consideration and intent, and evaluation and purchase. If done correctly, a smart marketer will match the appropriate content with the right stage of the buying cycle and the right target.

How about the recruiting funnel? You rarely hear about that, but it really doesn’t work all that differently. Here are a few tips for using some of the business-to-business content marketing practices you already have in place to make a significant impact on your recruiting efforts.

Make your content remarkable or don’t bother

LinkedIn currently shows 193,813 job listings. Indeed claims it has listed 536,955 new jobs in the last seven days. Facebook has 346 open positions … in its Menlo Park headquarters alone.

It’s a crowded and confusing world for the average job seeker, but also one filled with plenty of opportunity for those with lots of talent or who are 99th percentile types. Think anyone is going to pay attention to your generic, copycat job description in a market like this?

All of your careers-related content — not just your job descriptions — needs to be remarkable. In this case, sometimes remarkable means choosing show over tell. Don’t just tell your candidates that your position comes with tremendous growth potential, show them what they could become in three or four years. Don’t just tell someone that they will be working with top talent, show them the talent.

Example: Check out what Tableau software does with its careers section. Yes, the pure user experience is a bit “heavy,” but Tableau surrounds the candidate with information – company story, photos, employee profiles, and culture-oriented videos.

Distribution is a critical piece of the puzzle

Here’s what the average company does with a job opening: Post on the corporate website. List on LinkedIn or Monster. Publish a generic “we’re hiring” message on its social media properties. And … that’s pretty much it.

And yet, a 2014 Jobvite survey tells us that more than half of currently employed U.S. workers are actively seeking or are open to a new job. If that doesn’t encourage you to get creative about your distribution, I’m not sure if anything will.

Get your employees involved. Assuming you’ve created an environment where people like to work, they are your most effective recruiters. Give them one-click options for sharing, though. Keep it simple, stupid.

Example: When Right Source Marketing has open positions (that’s right – we’re hiring!), we send a distribution email to all employees asking for help, and we keep it super simple. After all, employee referrals are typically the best referrals. See below for a sample.

RSM Job Opening Distro Email

Tell (and sell) your story

Have you ever been in an interview where the interviewer nails the whole, “Here’s who we are, where we came from, and where we’re headed,” speech? It’s that moment when, as a candidate, you get so fired up about helping this company achieve its mission that you start to compromise on logic, negotiating position, and even location.

As the company doing the recruiting, you have to capture that spirit and find a way to do it via digital content. Use video. Use written testimonials. Use employee bios. But just keep telling the same story, with the same passion.

Example: Phunware, one of the fastest growing software companies in the U.S., uses a corporate video to showcase the company’s people and long-term vision.

Help your candidates build their own story

Most companies do a mediocre job of explaining the types of career paths available to prospective employees, both inside and outside the company. Today’s job seekers, especially millenials, are desperately seeking a clear path to their next big thing — so help them out. Tell them where they can go inside the company. Tell them what they can achieve outside the company. But if you choose to tell them nothing, chances are you’ll be dealing with the candidates who offer no help in moving your business forward.

Example: memoryBlue, a Right Source client, uses its Alumni Directory and Alumni Profiles to showcase what its best people do after they leave the company. As a training ground for some of the best of the best in high-tech sales, the company is proud to see some of its top people move on to more prominent sales careers.

Use your existing marketing assets and tactics

If hiring the best people is critical to your company’s success, then you’d stop at nothing to reach, engage with, and bring on those people, right?

Then don’t forget to bring out the big guns, and throw all of your existing marketing assets at these candidates. Chances are you already have some stellar blog posts that display your thought leadership, some media coverage that shows your company is a cool place to work, or maybe some awards that acknowledge your company’s industry leadership.

Use it all. Don’t hold back.

Example: CustomInk doesn’t hide from the idea that its employees absolutely love the company, and it does a phenomenal job at promoting its workplace benefits.

CustomInk Workplace Benefits 2

Make an investment in content marketing for recruitment

Not unlike your business-to-business content marketing efforts, your business-to-candidate content marketing efforts require a budget, a plan, and the right people running the show.

If your organization is one of many putting together a recruitment content marketing plan, and you’re feeling a little bit lost, please track us down. Right Source can help. Or if you’d like some more tips to guide your plan, download our eBook, “How to Grow Your Business with Content Marketing.

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Tax on buying property

If you buy a property in the UK over a certain purchase price you have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT). This is charged on all purchases of houses, flats and other land and buildings.

What is Stamp Duty Land Tax?

SDLT replaced Stamp Duty in December 2003 and is a tax on the purchase price of land and buildings. When you buy a property or take on a lease you may have to pay SDLT.

Paying SDLT

If you buy either a freehold or a leasehold property and the purchase price is more than £125,000, you pay SDLT of between one and four per cent of the whole purchase price. See the table below for more detail.

If the purchase price is £125,000 or less you don't pay any SDLT.

The £125,000 threshold for when you start to pay SDLT was introduced again on 1 January 2010. The previous starting rate was £175,000 - for purchases made between 3 September 2008 and 31 December 2009.

First-time buyers

If you are a first-time buyer the threshold for when you start to pay SDLT is £250,000. This is only if you have never owned a house or flat in the UK or anywhere else in the world. If you are buying with someone else they must never have owned property before either. This higher threshold applies to purchases made on or after 25 March 2010 and before 25 March 2012.

Purchase price of residential property Rate of SDLT (percentage of the total purchase price)  Rate of SDLT - first-time buyers (percentage of the total purchase price)
£0 - £125,000  0% 0%
£125,001 - £250,000  1% 0%
£250,001 - £500,000  3% 3%
£500,001 or more  4% 4%

You can check current rates of SDLT on the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) website.

SDLT Disadvantaged Areas Relief

If you buy property in an area designated by the government as 'disadvantaged' you may qualify for Disadvantaged Areas Relief. In this case the threshold for SDLT is £150,000. If you are a first-time buyer you don't need to apply as the threshold for first-time buyers is higher.

Disadvantaged Areas Relief did not apply for residential property purchases between 3 September 2008 and 31 December 2009 inclusive. The threshold during that period was £175,000 which is higher than the previous Disadvantaged Areas Relief threshold.

You can check the HMRC website to see if the property you are buying is in an area designated as disadvantaged. (You'll need to scroll down to use the postcode search tool.)

Zero-carbon homes

In October 2007 a relief from SDLT was introduced for zero-carbon homes. All qualifying houses under £500,000 are exempt and houses bought for £500,000 or above will have their SDLT bill reduced by £15,000.

What counts as zero-carbon?

A zero-carbon home can be connected to mains electricity and gas but needs to have sufficient additional renewable power to cover the average consumption of a house over a year.

In order to achieve this, the fabric of the building has to be insulated and built to very high standards and the house needs to incorporate renewable energy technologies.

The house must be 'zero-carbon' over the course of the year.

As the buyer of the property, you are responsible for completing the land transaction return and paying the SDLT.

However, in practice, your solicitor or licensed conveyancer will usually handle this for you and send it to HMRC on your behalf.

You should check that all the information on the form is correct and complete before signing the declaration.

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How to secure my web site

Securing your website is something that you definitely don't want to leave to chance.  Your website is constantly bombarded by hackers, all of whom are looking for the tiniest weakness that they can exploit.  Once a loophole is found, it can be used to steal not only your personal and private data, but your customers' personal and private data too.  So if peace of mind and online business credibility are important to you, you'll need to keep reading.

Secure your websites

First of all, you need to know your enemy.  Who are these hackers, and how do they work?  The main thing you need to recognize is that hackers have all the time in the world.  They can afford to spend days, weeks and even months, patiently working away at your website to find weaknesses.  They can do this because the processes they use are automatic, and you simply don't notice they're happening.  A lot of it is guesswork.  For example, they can take the cookies that your site produces and run through an infinite number of variations to see what effect that has.  They can work away at the source code of your site's pages, and set programs running to try and crack the authorization process.

Install CMS updates to secure your web site

The first thing you can do to defeat these attacks is to ensure that your content management system (CMS) is up to date.  Out of date software is software that hackers have already managed to breach, so you don't want it running on your system.  Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and other major CMS providers continually test their systems for weaknesses, and update accordingly, so you should install these updates as soon as they appear.  This can usually be done automatically.

Be sure to change the default administrator user name and passwords on your CMS once it's installed.  Hackers know what these defaults are too!  It's an obvious thing to try if you're trying to break into someone's site, because it's amazing how many people overlook this simple security measure.  It's a bit like leaving your front door wide open  for burglars.

Another devious hacker trick is to use PHP error reporting to get information about your site.  If your error reporting level is set too high, a hacker can find out a lot about your site simply by studying the error reports.  If you turn off the error messages entirely, and set your PHP configuration so that it doesn't display errors even if one occurs, you will plug a major security leak.  If you feel unsure or nervous about doing this, ask your system administrator to do it for you.

You can also keep hackers out of your secure files by correctly setting the htaccess file.  A simple bit of code will secure the htaccess file itself, as follows -

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Use the same coding to secure any other files you don't want people to look at.  To do so, just replace .htaccess with the name of the file you're securing.

Finally, don't neglect the issue of passwords.  If you can guess it, a hacker will be able to guess it too, and they're running programs that can go through millions of combinations until they find the right one.  Use an online generator to help you create an uncrackable password.

Always remember that hackers, like burglars, are opportunists.  If you take the basic security measures to keep your website safe, a hacker will swiftly move on to a site that is less well protected.  Securing your website takes minutes, but gives you a lifetime of peace of mind.

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Welcome to Doubletake, your daily morning mash-up from Tribune correspondents Jim Oliphant and Jim Tankersley. Part of a balanced breakfast.

Jim Oliphant: So this morning let's talk about the coming letdown

Jim Tankersley: I'm too tired to make a joke here. So please tell me, oh law-degreed one, what that means.
Oliphant: Basic concept. Nothing complicated about it. You don't need a law degree to understand. . . Bigfoot, do you?

Tankersley: I'm sure a psychology degree helps. What is it about his relationship with his mother that makes him not actually exist?

So what's this basic letdown concept?

Oliphant: Turns out, that Bigfoot they caught in Georgia. Not real. Not the real Bigfoot. The hunters that found "him" and stuffed him in the freezer, they even had the conjones (Spanish accent here) to hold a press if, you know, forensic science never existed.

Here's the story.

Tankersley: Well, they got paid didn't they. Presumably more than the cost of the gorilla suit. And they ended up live on CNN.

Oliphant: Bigfoot suit, technically, is the term

Tankersley: My mistake.

Oliphant: But you see where I'm going. I'm done waiting for Obama to make his veep choice. I'm sitting around, time on my hands, not sure what to do with myself. Last night, I cleaned my place! Cleaned it. At night! I even cleaned out my refrigerator. You know what my refrigerator has become? Gitmo for vegetables. It's where awful things happen to vegetables in small chambers.

Tankersley: So ... you see yourself in your waterboarded broccoli?
I'm not a psychologist, but I play one on TV.

Oliphant: The cucumber eventually gave up some strategic information about the onions. We'll see if it's reliable, but I think they are definitely planning something down there in the crisper. By the way, did you know garlic could grow mold? Did NOT know that.

It doesn't have to go down this way.

Tankersley: I see where you're going with this, and oddly enough, I agree. Jack Shafer at Slate has a good piece this week on the ridiculuos spectacle that is media speculation on vice presidential picks. His point: Reporters who write and write and write about the pick just play into the candidates' hands -- all they really want is attention and anticipation before the pick. Of course, you and I are horribly guilty of this. I blame the dog days of the August news cycle.

Shafer's piece is here:

Oliphant: Story on CNN right now: Your drinking water could cause diabetes. Really? I see what you mean about the dog days. Here is an alarming quote from the Washington Post's Dan Balz:

An announcement late in the week suggests that the Obama campaign believes that, in an era of 24/7 coverage and increasingly shortened news cycles, sustaining interest in a vice presidential rollout has become increasingly difficult. Four years ago, the Democratic nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry, choreographed a five-day rollout of his choice of then-Sen. John Edwards. Media attention spans today are considerably shorter.

Considerably shorter than four years ago! Not 1976.

Tankersley: You know the worst thing about it? It's all downhill from here for us, vice presidentially. In nearly every case, picking a running mate is horribly anticlimactic -- and largely irrelevent to the final results. It's like one particular Christmas from my childhood, when my grandparents brought matching square boxes for my brother and me. They were perfectly LEGO or Transformer-sized. We waited through clothes and action figures and all the other gifts. Finally, together, we opened the square boxes. You know what was inside? Chia pets. I'm not calling Evan Bayh and Tim Pawlenty Chia Pets. I'm just sayin'.chiabush.jpg

Oliphant: Your parents got you Chia pets?

Tankersley: Grandparents. Who were, on nearly every other occasion, the primo gift-givers.

Oliphant: Come on, rocks that grow hair. Who DOESNT love that?

Tankersley: When you're hoping for Optimus Prime, it's a letdown.

Oliphant: Optimus Prime, absolutely my favorite Roman emperor, after Joaquin Phoenix, of course. Tell me, Stanford grad, when has a veep pick actually boosted a candidate?

Tankersley: Cut to vice-presidential debate: "Governor, I knew Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime was a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Optimus Prime."

Oliphant: That could be a stunning, out-of-left field choice by Obama.

Tankersley: Out of Cybertron, you mean.

Oliphant: You are scaring me.

Tankersley: I googled it.

Oliphant: Sure you did.

Optimus Prime makes his first public appearance as the v.p. nominee. Dozens are accidently trampled, resulting in a three-percent drop in the polls. Obama campaign responds by pointing to John McCain's ties to foreign oil.

Tankersley: "Boost" is hard to define, exactly. Lyndon Johnson is generally regarded as the last veep to deliver a state. More recent picks have arguably delivered on lesser challenges. Gore reinforced Clinton's change message. Cheney gave Bush some heft. Lloyd Bentsen scathed Dan Quayle on national television.
As you can see, the modern running mate is rarely a game-changer.saddamchia.jpg

Oliphant: Jack Kemp had terrific hair.

Tankersley: I was going to reference your Lieberman-Blockbuster comment from yesterday, but frankly, I'm still puzzled by it.

Oliphant: Come on, you can't see Lieberman faithfully rewinding his videotapes to avoid the extra charge? No DVDs for him.

Everyone is talking about a "boost" going into the convention, which produces yet another "boost" after nomination night. But what do we know about those boosts? They are illusory. They fade away. So all this effort to get a bang for your buck that won't even be any good come September.

Tankersley: I'll say this: There certainly seems to be a heightened sense of anticipation this year, particularly for Obama's pick, from voters I talk to on the trail. Essentially, they're looking at the pick as a way for Obama to tell them something important about himself.

Oliphant: I dont disagree. But that's a hell of a lot of pressure to put on the pick. It makes it more of a personal decision when it really is simply a political one. Shoudn't Obama be free to make a purely political choice or does he not have that luxury?

Tankersley: Every personal choice is political at this point, and vice versa.

Oliphant: You think? But choosing, say, Tim Kaine or Kathleen Sebelius (another favorite emperor) does seem to say more about Obama's personal message of change than a Joe Biden would. But does that make it the better play?

Gotcha! We don't know either. All we can do is wait for the SMS. But we are already prepared to disapprove of the nominee, whoever he or she may be.

Tankersley: We're doing it again. We're playing right into their hands.
Tomorrow, we have to talk about something else. Olympics, conventions, national infrastructure policy, even Chia Pets.

Unless, of course, Obama actually makes his pick.

Oliphant: Speaking of which, have you signed up for the text message?

Tankersley: Yes. And for John McCain's veep announcement via Bat Signal.

Oliphant: I think McCain may be using the telegraph.

You like the text idea? Some people think it diminishes the importance of the announcement.

Tankersley: Hey, you're talking about the guy who pioneered presidential online fundraising. His campaign is definitely 21st Century.

Oliphant: OMG! I totally didnt think it was gona be Evan!!! :p

Tankersley: LOL.

Oliphant That's so four years ago, dude.

E-mail Doubletake at Friday, we will publish your emails, assuming, of course, there are any.

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When big foot makes the Swamp, you knnow we have been waiting too long for the VP choices. And why can't McCain and Obama announce on the same day? Get it over with already! But if you guys are really bored, you can go relieve some stress at the real-time on-line poll at http://www, The poll where the numbers just keep going up!

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The SeaMonkey project is proud to present SeaMonkey 2.4.1: The new major release of the all-in-one Internet suite is available for download now! Building on the same Mozilla platform as Firefox 7.0.1, it delivers the latest developments in web technologies such as HTML5, hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript speed.

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Cops says Chantel Marissa Johnson, 21, of Stuart didn't heed that sage advice, reports tcpalm.com. in Stuart

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Your a security officer NOT a police officer you could of taken all the sharp objects and minded your own business about the small bag of leafy green material.

And to the Chic~ Hello...your going to the courthouse does it occur to you to leave your purse in the trunk or not bring it in at all...Your lacking commen sence.

Hey-Rent A Cop did that just make your month or what you got to arrest a chic for having a small amount of a leafy green material.

I'm not sure where to start answering that comment, so I'll just jump right in. First: it's could HAVE taken... not could OF taken..

Second, she broke the law, he works at the Courthouse... also known as a Justice Center... put two and two together.

Third, Chick is a slang term for a woman or girl, chic is french for fashionable.

Fourth, common sense.... she may be lacking it, but you're lacking education as well as any realistic sense at all.

Please give her three years in the joint for being terminally stupid.

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The Friday Prediction Post, in all its glory, will be posted later today.

It’s travel day, with a fairly long, two-flight plane ride then drive to Monroe – West Palm to Atlanta, Atlanta to Jackson, Miss, then drive west on I-20 to Monroe.

Here’s senior DT Jervonte Jackson talking about the Warblers, who he will be seeing for the last time.

He is right about ULM QB Kinsmon Lancaster, who can wiggle out of tight spaces and buy enough time to find a gap in the defense to run to or a receiver open to throw to. FAU will have to contain him, something they have had a bit trouble doing against mobile QBs this season.

I guess I took for granted just how run-averse Rusty is, or was. He had 10 yards rushing against WKU, and guess what, that was a CAREER HIGH!

In fact, it was only the second time he has had positive yardage in the 32 games he has appeared in. His 18-yard scamper tripled his previous longest run, which was 6 yards.

In the first six games of this season, Rusty was minus-65 yards rushing, so his plus-10 against WKU marked a huge turnaround.

It wasn’t that Rusty didn’t want to run, he was just following orders. The Voice has an aversion to letting his QBs run because he doesn’t want them to get injured. But I think it had gotten to the point where defenses never had to factor in a run by Rusty, since they knew from all the previous games that if they got pressure on him he would either throw it away or get sacked.

The Voice has gotten over his aversion and is urging Rusty to scramble more.

Just a couple runs a game by Rusty will help keep the defense a bit more honest. And Rusty seems to have that NFL-style QB slide down, which is the way to do it. Either get to the sidelines or slide, and he should be OK, and add a new dimension to the offense.

Coming in the early afternoon, the Friday Prediction Post.

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I like the dancer! what's her name?

I don't know why they took so long to ask Rusty to move more and gain some yardage. I think a mobile QB is better because the defense has to deal with one more problem. That's why I think Grothe is a better QB than Rusty. In addition, I hope Rusty does not get injured because he is going to be tackled a lot.

GO OWLS ! bring a W home!!

Smitty there's a pic of a dance team member and a hot one at that lol, and you're talking about the guy in the red shirt? What's wrong with this statement? LOL

Any word on who that gentleman is on the righthand side of the photo with the red shirt? Am I incorrect, or is that an NCAA Final Four shirt? If so..he looks like someone I use to work for at UTSA, who is modeilng their football program after FAUs

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Sedgwick and Brooksville selectmen had hoped to amend an existing contract with M.E. Astbury and complete the work on the Walker Pond access road this fall after being notified in early August of a $250,000 project grant from the Maine Department of Conservation. (See August 11 issue.)

However, in a letter dated August 18, George Powell, director of the Boating Facilities Division of the Department of Conservation said the state would not allow the contract to be amended as requested.

Powell listed several conditions lacking in the original bidding process that were either recommended or would be necessary for the towns to receive the state grant money. He wrote, “…it would be unfair to the other bidders to grant such a significant change order to M.E. Astbury” because the other bidders might have been more competitive if they’d had a chance to bid on the full project.

M.E. Astbury currently has contracts worth $146,500 for sediment and erosion controls, road construction and site work. The road to be built under this contract would only be 10-feet wide. The $250,000 grant would widen the road to its fully permitted width of 20 feet-plus-shoulders and pay for the construction of a parking lot and boat ramp.

Powell also had several questions about the boat ramp construction plans the towns’ engineer, Andrew McCullough, had sent him.

Sedgwick selectmen acknowledged at their meeting on August 25 that work on the boat ramp would not be done until spring. (See September 1 issue.)

On August 9, writing on behalf of the selectmen, McCullough had asked if they could amend the existing contract with M.E. Astbury to allow the additional work to be done at the same unit prices.

The two towns, working in partnership, had received state permits earlier this year for the 22-foot wide access road, boat landing, and swimming area below Route 15 on Caterpillar Hill in Sedgwick.

However, because of limited funds, the towns were only able to put out to bid the first phase of the project, with a ten-foot wide road, and no shore improvements.

The Sedgwick and Brooklin boards of selectmen are scheduled to meet jointly at

9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 12, in the Brooksville Town House. At that time they are expected to review the Powell letter and hear a report on the progress to date on the work currently being done.


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