tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64608331684059186562024-03-05T10:36:12.238-08:00ginned interludevandergriffkatlyn84http://www.blogger.com/profile/00178857019635742304noreply@blogger.comBlogger777125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6460833168405918656.post-58493383258700527902013-08-01T13:21:00.001-07:002013-08-01T13:21:52.361-07:00Religious order files reveal decades of LA abuse<p class="first">LOS ANGELES (AP) ? In therapy sessions, the priest confessed the shocking details he'd kept hidden for years: He had molested more than 100 boys, including his 5-year-old brother. He had sex with male prostitutes, and frequented gay strip clubs.</p> <p>The admissions of the Rev. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_3">Ruben Martinez</span> are included among nearly 2,000 pages of secret files unsealed Wednesday that were kept on priests, brothers and nuns who belonged to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_6">religious orders</span> but were accused of child molestation while working within the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_2">Los Angeles archdiocese</span>.</p> <p>The papers, which were released under the terms of a $660 million settlement agreement reached in 2007, are the first glimpse at what religious orders knew about the men and women they posted in Roman Catholic schools and parishes in the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_1">Los Angeles</span> area. The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_9">archdiocese</span> itself released thousands of pages under court order this year for its own priests who were accused of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_4">sexual abuse</span>, but the full picture of the problem remained elusive without the orders' records. Several dozen more files are expected to be released by the fall.</p> <p>The documents cover five different religious orders that employed 10 priests or religious brothers and two nuns who were all accused in civil lawsuits of molesting children. Among them, the accused had 21 alleged victims between the 1950s and the 1980s.</p> <p>Some of the files released Wednesday, including those of the nuns, don't mention sexual abuse at all, and others appear to have large gaps in time and missing documents. The release included documents from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_7">Oblates</span>, the Marianists, the Benedictines and two orders for religious sisters.</p> <p>That the files don't reflect some of the alleged abuse doesn't mean it didn't happen, said Ray Boucher, lead attorney for some abuse victims. "Much of this went unreported. You're talking about kids that were terrorized and frightened in so many different ways, with no place and no one to turn to."</p> <p>At more than 500 pages, Martinez's file is among the most complete, and it paints a devastating picture of a troubled and repressed child who later joined the priesthood to satisfy a domineering and devout father.</p> <p>The Los Angeles archdiocese settled eight lawsuits over Martinez's actions in 2007, but had little documentation on him in its own files even though the priest worked in its parishes for years in the 1970s and 1980s.</p> <p>However, his order file includes graphic details described in therapy notes and psychiatric evaluations. It also reveals the years of effort ? and tens of thousands of dollars ? the Oblates spent trying to cure him of his self-admitted pedophilia as it shuttled him between programs, including inpatient treatment.</p> <p>In 1965, Martinez took his final vows for a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_8">religious order</span> called the U.S. Province of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375343120703_5">Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate</span>, a nearly 200-year-old Catholic organization with roots in France. In 1969, he was ordained as a priest and assigned by his order to a small parish in Brawley, Calif.</p> <p>In a 1993 psychiatric report ? one of several such evaluations done between 1991 and 2005 by various treatment programs ? the priest admitted to molesting children beginning in 1970, when he began playing "giddy up" games with young boys on his lap. In the documents, Martinez says he stopped "direct sexual contact" with boys after a mother complained to a pastor in 1982 and that he stopped touching boys altogether after another complaint in 1986.</p> <p>It's unclear whether his religious order or the archdiocese was aware of those complaints, but around the same time as the first complaint, Martinez began weekly therapy sessions. He entered a counseling program for people with sexual compulsions after the second complaint in 1986.</p> <p>In 1991, he received five months of inpatient psychological treatment from a center in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that specialized in treating troubled priests.</p> <p>Upon his release, Martinez was assigned to a tiny parish in the remote town of Westmorland, Calif., in the far southeastern corner of the state. While there, he would drive miles to San Diego to pick up male prostitutes, according to his file.</p> <p>He was removed from parish ministry in 1993, enrolled in a sex offender program and sent to live and work at the order's California headquarters in Oakland after another complaint surfaced from his past. For the rest of his career, he filled administrative roles.</p> <p>Calls to the U.S. Province of the Oblates and emails to two attorneys representing Martinez and the three other Oblate priests whose files were released were not returned. Attorneys for the Benedictines and Marianists and a representative from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus also did not return calls.</p> <p>Carolina Guevara, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles archdiocese, did not address the current file release specifically but said religious orders are expected to make sure the priests they present for ministry in the archdiocese don't have any history of sex abuse.</p> <p>One man who sued over Martinez's abuse told The Associated Press that the priest molested children after he was assigned to his hometown parish in Wilmington, a working-class city south of Los Angeles, in 1972. The man, now 50, requested anonymity because he is well-known in his professional life and has not spoken publicly about his case before. The AP does not publish the names of victims of sexual abuse without their consent.</p> <p>"He would have us wrestle each other and then wrestle with him, which means we'd get down into our skivvies and he'd take pictures of us. He was always taking pictures," the man said. "I just remember the smell of the old Polaroid flash cubes. He would go through them like crazy."</p> <p>The man received a settlement in 2007 from the archdiocese. Martinez was never charged criminally; most of his alleged abuses weren't reported until years later.</p> <p>The man said Martinez always had a group of young boys around him and would take them to see R-rated movies and on group trips. One summer day, he recalled, the priest took six boys to a local amusement park, but stopped on the way at an apartment where another man lived. Martinez and the man went inside with one of the boys and left the other five in the car for several hours. When the trio came back, the boy was sobbing and didn't stop for hours.</p> <p>Martinez, now 72, has a most recent address at the Oblate Mission House in Oakland, Calif. No one answered the door there and a call was not returned on Wednesday. A receptionist at a Missouri retreat home for troubled priests ? another possible place where Martinez could be living ? would not say if he was there.</p> <p>In 2003, after a decade in at the order's California headquarters, Martinez was moved to the Oblates' offices in Washington, D.C., where he worked answering phones and in the archives. There, his files show, he was reprimanded for making off-color, sexual jokes that offended several women and, later, for looking at sexually suggestive pictures of young boys on the Internet and downloading a floppy disk filled with "references to topics dealing with the gay lifestyle." He also marched in a gay pride parade.</p> <p>"I don't know who else has time to monitor him, or to what 'safe' place we could assign him," the Rev. Charles Banks, the vicar provincial and director of personnel for the Oblates wrote in an exasperated memo in 2003.</p> <p>The file shows that Martinez was sent to the Missouri retreat home for troubled priests in 2005. In a psychiatric assessment dated that same year, Martinez said he hadn't had sexual contact with a child in 23 years and had learned to control his impulses. The same report notes that at age 13, Martinez sexually molested his little brother and went on to molest "about 100 male minors" ? a detail also included in several others therapy evaluations in the file.</p> <p>"It has not been easy to face what I did, to admit it and to talk about it with others," Martinez wrote to the order's provincial in 2006. "I have had to deal with depression, self-hatred, the inability and unwillingness to forgive myself, and the desire and tendency to isolate."</p> <p>_____</p> <p>Associated Press Writers Sarah Parvini and Lisa Leff in Oakland contributed to this report.</p> <p>_____</p> <p>On the web:</p> <p>http://www.lorpb.com/Orders-Released-Files.aspx</p> <p>http://www.kbla.com/Religious_Orders_Released_Files.asp</p><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/religious-order-files-reveal-decades-la-abuse-193827319.html">http://news.yahoo.com/religious-order-files-reveal-decades-la-abuse-193827319.html</a></p><p><a href="http://beta.truck.net/blogs/461105/665352/tips-on-the-best-way-to-progress">Robert Blake</a> <a href="http://www.bounceconnect.com/blogs/167325/346365/just-how-you-should-transfer-you">BLK Water</a> <a href="http://yodaq.com/blogs/139954/209325/migrating-content-to-the-cloud-t">daniel tosh</a> <a href="http://napkin75canada.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/transferring-content-towards-the-cloud-the-right-way/">All Star Game 2012</a> <a href="http://www.jokemusic.jp/index.php?title=Content_Migration:_Preparing_For_Any_Smooth_Migration_Towards_The_Cloud">directv</a> <a href="http://kagirohi.net/trpg/index.php?title=Transporting_Your_Articles_To_The_Cloud">rashard lewis</a> <a href="http://info.action.or.kr/index.php?title=The_Way_To_Properly_Transfer_Towards_The_Cloud?">curacao</a> </p>vandergriffkatlyn84http://www.blogger.com/profile/00178857019635742304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6460833168405918656.post-32473949175298385902013-03-18T21:14:00.001-07:002013-03-18T21:14:57.189-07:00U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killings faces "sanity" review<p class="first">By Laura L. Myers</p> <p> SEATTLE (Reuters) - Doctors opened a medical review Sunday on a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_7">U.S.</span> soldier charged with killing 16 civilians, most of them women and children, near his <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_3">Army</span> post in Afghanistan in an effort to determine his state of mind at the time of the killings and ability to stand trial.</p> <p> The review, known in the military as a "sanity board," will be conducted by three doctors at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, and will be completed by May 1, according to a U.S. Army spokesman.</p> <p> The hearing started on Sunday morning and is expected to continue for several days, base spokesman <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_2">Lieutenant Colonel Gary Dangerfield</span> said.</p> <p> Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_1">Robert Bales</span>, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan accused of gunning down the villagers in cold blood during two rampages through their family compounds in Kandahar province last March.</p> <p> Army prosecutors say Bales, a 39-year old father of two, acted alone and with "chilling premeditation" when, armed with a pistol, a rifle and a grenade launcher, he left his base twice in the night, returning in the middle of his rampage to tell a fellow soldier: "I just shot up some people."</p> <p> The shootings marked the worst case of civilian slaughter blamed on a rogue U.S. soldier since the Vietnam War and further eroded strained U.S.-Afghan relations after more than a decade of conflict in that country.</p> <p> Defense lawyers have not set out an alternative theory of what happened on the night of the shootings, but have focused on Bales' fragile mental state.</p> <p> Bales' lead civilian attorney <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_6">John Henry Browne</span> said in January that government documents showed Bales had been diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a brain injury before his deployment in Afghanistan in 2011.</p> <p> After hearing preliminary evidence in November, military judge <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_4">Colonel Jeffery Nance</span> determined that Bales should face a court martial, which is due to begin in September.</p> <p> At Bales' arraignment in January, Browne's team entered no plea and told Nance they were preparing a possible "mental health defense." Nance said such a defense would require a formal psychiatric evaluation, and ordered a sanity board review.</p> <p> SANITY BOARDS COMMON</p> <p> Sanity boards are common in military justice, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363546864245_5">Dangerfield</span> said.</p> <p> They may be ordered when a commander, investigating officer, government trial counsel, defense counsel, or military judge believes there is reason to question the mental responsibility of the accused at the time of the offenses or that the person lacks the mental capacity to stand trial, Dangerfield said.</p> <p> The Army has not said which doctors were conducting the review, or what their specialties are, but such panels are usually made up of Army physicians and psychologists. There was no word on whether the judge had granted a defense request that Bales be examined by a neuropsychologist with expertise in traumatic brain injuries.</p> <p> At a November pre-trial hearing, prosecutors said Bales had been drinking earlier in the evening of the attacks, and had used steroids on the Special Forces outpost. Defense attorneys also quizzed Bales' colleagues closely about his sudden explosions of temper in the days before the attacks.</p> <p> Bales faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder, as well as charges of assault and wrongfully possessing and using steroids and alcohol while deployed.</p> <p> Military justice experts say a defense based on Bales' PTSD or deeper mental health problems may not be enough to avoid trial but could raise serious issues over premeditation, which would make a death sentence less likely.</p> <p> "Just because someone has a (mental) disease does not mean they're legally insane," said Victor Hansen, a professor at the New England Law Boston school with two decades of military law experience.</p> <p> "The board could uncover unknown components that could help the defendant claim diminished capacity," Hansen said. "To obtain death, you have to prove premeditation. 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Instead of just telling you status and arrival/departure times, the app lets you look up into the sky and see which planes are flying overhead and were they are heading.</p> <p>The app turns your Windows Phone into an air traffic radar and lets you see airplane traffic around the world in real-time. </p> <p>The app features:</p> <ul><li>Planes moving in real-time</li> <li>Comprehensive information for each individual plane, including route, speed, altitude and more</li> <li>Search for a specific flight</li> <li>Filter by airline, altitude, speed and more</li> <li>Cockpit View ? Jump on board</li> <li>Augmented Reality View ? identify the planes flying overhead by simply pointing your phone?s camera to the sky</li> </ul><p>The last two features are particularly interesting.? 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Anthony Hylton, in whose constituency the school is located, said the government is committed to investing in education.</p> <p> ?As adults, one of our main responsibilities is to give our children the right educational start in a safe and beautiful environment, which promotes learning,? he said.</p> <p> He argued that ?access to education for all children is vital, not only to their own growth and development, but also for the development of the country and the larger global society.</p> <p> General Manager, Infrastructure and Civil Works, at JSIF, Andrew Neita, said Waterhouse is one of the communities targeted by JSIF for improved infrastructural and social services.</p> <p> He informed that the new school building has solved the overcrowding and shared space issues that have plagued the school for many years.</p> <p> He? commended the Maranatha Christian Church for establishing the basic school and providing support for its development. 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Although she has been pressured on all sides to announce her candidacy for Chile's 2013 presidential election, Bachelet's silence on the issue has frustrated both opponents and sympathizers. Now, she says she's ready. In March 2013 she is expected to announce her decision on whether she will run. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2008 file photo, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet gestures during the announcement of a new cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although she has been pressured on all sides to announce her candidacy for Chile's 2013 presidential election, Bachelet's silence on the issue has frustrated both opponents and sympathizers. Now, she says she's ready. In March 2013 she is expected to announce her decision on whether she will run. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content"><span id="dateLine" class="dateline">SANTIAGO, Chile</span> (AP) ? Michelle Bachelet has a deep resume: daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing a coup, leftist exile during the ensuing bloody dictatorship, pediatrician, Cabinet member, mother, president, head of the U.N. women's agency.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Now she's coming back home after her stint at the United Nations, and if Chile's left has its way, she will add another item to that list: savior.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Bachelet, 62, who announced her return Friday night, is widely seen as the center-left opposition's only hope of winning the Nov. 17 presidential election and taking power back from the conservative establishment ushered in when Sebastian Pinera won the presidency ins 2010 after she left office.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The popularity of this Andean country's only woman president is high. A recent poll by CEP Estudios Publicos consultancy said 54 percent of voters favor her.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">In announcing the end of her work at the U.N., Bachelet said only that she was going back to Chile and gave no specifics on timing.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">She also did not mention the presidential race despite intense pressure in Chile for her to make her plans known ? although there is a widespread expectation that she will run.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Her silence has frustrated not only her opponents but especially her sympathizers.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"We don't have a plan B. I'm serious. In the opposition we're just not prepared for a negative response from Bachelet," said Jaime Quintana, president of the Liberal Party for Democracy, one of the parties in the center-left coalition.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Whoever runs will have to be ready to tackle mounting social demands and frequent protests that already troubled Bachelet during her presidency and have harried Pinera even more. Pinera is the most unpopular president since Chile returned to democracy in 1990 after the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Chile is respected for its fast-growing economy and transparent institutions. The country has continued to grow under Pinera and enjoys a record-low jobless rate, but it also has the worst inequality rate among the 34 countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Millions of Chileans have participated in protests demanding a wider distribution of Chile's copper riches, free education and the return of ancestral lands to Mapuche Indians in a southern region where members of Chile's largest indigenous group often clash with timber companies and landowners.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Most Chileans also oppose plans to tame two of the world's wildest rivers and build more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of power lines between them and the grid that powers the capital. Some mass marches against the $7 billion HydroAysen project have turned violent in energy-strapped Chile.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"During Bachelet's government and Pinera's administration there was a huge shift in Chile when it comes to development," said Marta Lagos, head of the Santiago-based polling firm Mori.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He noted per-capita income has surged since Bachelet was elected in 2006 and said Chileans widely feel the country has risen into the ranks of the developed world although many people are still poor.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"The protests partly come from people asking: 'If Chile is so rich, why am I not successful?' Whoever takes over will have to deal with more people saying: 'Give me a slice of that cake,*" Lagos said.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Bachelet's road to prominence has been a long one, and hard at the start.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Her father, air force Gen. Alberto Bachelet, died in 1974 following torture in prison after Pinochet's military convicted him of being a traitor for opposing the coup that ousted Marxist President Salvador Allende. Two Chilean military officers were charged last year with the death.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Bachelet herself was arrested along with her mother in 1975. It's an ordeal that she prefers not to talk about, saying only in her autobiography that she suffered "physical hardships." Using the family's political connections, she went into exile in Australia and the former East Germany.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">When she returned to Chile in 1979, she studied medicine, specializing in pediatrics. She began working at an organization that helped children with mental health problems whose parents had been victims of the dictatorship.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">At the same time, Bachelet rose through the ranks of the Socialist party and became a key player in the center-left coalition that dominated Chile's government for almost 20 years after Pinochet gave up power.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Her recent silence about her plans is in stark contrast with her normal manner. She easily breaks into casual chats and often improvises during speeches ? most often tossing in jokes or unplanned commentaries, said Francisco Javier Diaz, her former speech writer.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Her charisma and ability to evoke a close relationship with people has on occasion helped her overcome mistakes.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"When people feel so close, when they feel this is a caring person, they try to justify even the unjustifiable or forgive her faults," said Giorgo Agostini, a sociologist.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Those faults have not been few or small. In 2010, just 11 days before the end of her presidential term, the government's national emergency office failed to issue a tsunami warning to evacuate the coast after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake. More than 500 people were killed in the quake and the tsunami it set off.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Student protests that still bedevil Chile began during Bachelet's term and grew into strikes and school takeovers that forced her to shuffle her Cabinet. She sought unsuccessfully to calm the movement by naming a committee to discuss student demands.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Students are unhappy with Chile's poor quality public schools and unprepared teachers. The best college education requires going to expensive, private universities, and banks make education loans at high interest rates most Chileans can't afford.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Bachelet, who worked to bolster social programs while also encouraging business, won praise for shepherding Chile through the world economic crisis. Although growth stumbled and the jobless rate rose, she used government reserves to help the poorest Chileans during the hardest times.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Twice divorced, Bachelet is known as a caring mother and as an astute negotiator.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">She put behind her past and helped the discredited military regain its status after Pinochet's traumatic dictatorship. One of her most emblematic moments came when she was named Latin America*s first woman defense minister during the government of President Ricardo Lagos.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Now Chileans wait to see if she's ready to jump back on the political stage.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Associated Press writers Edith M. 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One participant died and more than 50 others were injured.</p><!-- end17325020 --><p>By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News</p><p>A man in his 30s died and four people were put in medically induced comas on Friday after suffering heat stroke and dehydration while running a half-marathon in Israel.</p><p>The race was run in temperatures that climbed from the 70s at the 5:45 a.m. (11:45 p.m. Thursday ET) start but approached 90 degrees in less than two hours.</p><p>City officials and organizers of the Tel Aviv Gillette Marathon last week decided to postpone the full race until March 22 because the forecast called for temperatures approaching 100 degrees. The starting time of Friday's half-marathon was moved 30 minutes earlier.</p><p>Medical personnel said 60 people were tended to by ambulances and 30 were taken to hospitals. Twelve people were listed in critical condition early Friday, with four in medically induced comas, but the number in critical condition had dropped to two by Friday afternoon.</p> <p>Paul Goldman, an NBC News producer and editor in Tel Aviv, ran the race and said he had no difficulties and was unaware of any problems until he had finished in 1 hour and 42 minutes. Many of those who collapsed were further back in the field, he said.</p><p>"After the race, when we finished and went to get water, the ambulances started arriving," Goldman said. "Then I started hearing more sirens. Here in Israel when you hear sirens, you can identify when it?s just one siren or whether it?s an incident. You could tell something was going on."</p><p>While Goldman said he was personally unaffected by the temperatures, he added that "everyone complained that it was very dry."</p><p>"I felt it was very dry from the start," he said. 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Last fall I traveled several hundred miles to the Boston area to see a few boats. I found all to be in very poor condition. I wasted time and money in looking. At that time I was considering some inexpensive ones and predictably they were all pretty poor quality. However I have since looked at some others and found that some are priced at $20K+ and that some of those are death traps and in terrible condition. So my dilemma is how to find a boat without wasting all my hard earned money on hotels and various other expenses.<p>I am retired, drawing SS and also working. One check pays my rent, food etc while the other is being saved toward my dream boat. Once I have what I expect will be enough, $25K or so, I hope to seriously look for the boat. Right now I'm just "window-shopping" to get an idea of what boats might work well for me. </p><p>My job is in a hotel so as long as I work there I can stay in hotels for a discount. Still this will be expensive and will eat my savings because the discounts are not that large.</p><p>How can I travel to see various boats without ending up spending what I've saved for the boat? Is it possible that brokers will put me up for a night or so while I look at the boat(s) they are offering? Would it be conceivable to stay on one of the boats I'm looking at for a day or so?</p><p>Do you have any other ideas I've missed?</p><p>Thanks </p> <!-- / message --> <span id="nointelliTXT"> <br /></span>' + '<span class="goog_desc">?' + google_ads[i].line2 + '?' + google_ads[i].line3 + '</span>?' + '' + google_ads[i].visible_url + '<p>'; } } '' } if (google_ads[0].bidtype == "CPC") { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); return; } google_ad_client = 'ca-pub-7757781251671730'; google_ad_channel = '1963435248'; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '6'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_feedback = 'on'; // --> <!-- sig --></p><p> __________________<br /></p> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="Usagi is offline" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185547 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185547 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185547 --><!-- post #1185557 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185557" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="32.2092819615"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Yesterday, 23:30 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>2</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="20.1908713693"><td class="userarea" width="175" readability="4.5"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: May 2012</p> <p>Location: live in Utah, Sail in sea of cortez</p> Boat: Balboa 27<p> Posts: 37 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185557" readability="46.4996827411"> <!-- icon and title --> <p> <strong>Re: Minimize Travel Expenses when Buying a Used Boat -</strong> </p> <hr size="1" /><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> I think it's highly unlikely that you're going to find the boat you're looking for through a yacht broker. They work on commission, and 10% of a 20K boat is a lot less than 10% on a 100K boat for about the same amount of work on their part. Your best bet is to search all the different for-sale-by-owner pages on the internet, and spend the weekends walking the docks at marinas and talking to the locals. There are probably tons of boats available that may not even be advertised for sale, but that an aging owner (or widow of an owner) would be thrilled to sell if an offer dropped in his lap.<p>Also, if you see a boat advertised that you like, don't be embarrassed to offer 50% of the asking price. You'll get a lot of "offended no's", but the truth is that most boats sit for months or years before getting sold and you'll eventually find an owner who's sick and tired of paying yard or slip fees and is willing to take any serious offer, </p> <!-- / message --> <span id="nointelliTXT"> <br /></span>' + '<span class="goog_desc">?' + google_ads[i].line2 + '?' + google_ads[i].line3 + '</span>?' + '' + google_ads[i].visible_url + '<p>'; } } '' } if (google_ads[0].bidtype == "CPC") { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); return; } google_ad_client = 'ca-pub-7757781251671730'; google_ad_channel = '4899262343'; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '6'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_feedback = 'on'; google_skip = google_adnum; /* to skip for multiple units, insert this snippet for each ad call */ // --> <!-- sig --></p><p> __________________<br /></p> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="susswein is offline" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185557 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185557 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185557 --><!-- post #1185558 --> <!-- / post #1185558 --><!-- post #1185560 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185560" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="29.9497487437"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Yesterday, 23:46 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>4</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="11"><td class="userarea" width="175" readability="4"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: Nov 2012</p> <p>Location: Kemah, TX</p> Boat: Self Design 32' Cat<p> Posts: 369 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185560" readability="34.5"> <!-- icon and title --> <p> <strong>Re: Minimize Travel Expenses when Buying a Used Boat -</strong> </p> <hr size="1" /><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> I'm not sure what you're looking for, and I know nothing about the Eastern seaboard market. But for $20k if you're looking at "death traps" you must be in the 50+ft range. At least around here.<p>$20 K here will get you a decent 30ish ft boat with a lot of potential and able to sail today.</p><p>Again, you don't say what you want...so I could be way off. +1 on leaving out the broker. </p> <!-- / message --> <!-- sig --> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_online.gif" alt="ElGatoGordo is online now" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185560 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185560 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185560 --><!-- post #1185561 --> <!-- / post #1185561 --><!-- post #1185582 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185582" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="29.2636176773"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Today, 01:31 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>6</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="12.2702702703"><td class="userarea" width="175"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: Apr 2012</p> <p>Location: Raleigh, NC</p> <p> Posts: 23 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185582" readability="43.3189422558"> <!-- icon and title --> <p> <strong>Re: Minimize Travel Expenses when Buying a Used Boat -</strong> </p> <hr size="1" /><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> Answering the questions: I lived aboard for quite a few years so I know quite a bit about boats. Originally I was fixated on Bristols but now I'm very open-minded. I'll take anything that seem to be a good boat. I require a quarterberth for secure sleeping when at sea. I plan on following the warm sun so bimini and dodger are important. A computer is part of my life so I'd like the boat to have decent power, solar panels, and/or wind generator. I like electronics but I could probably live with less. I have two rabbits so netting to keep them aboard is vital. A centerboard is preferable but not required.<p>I'm 66 and planning on living aboard and cruising until I die unless health forces me to swallow the anchor. I have been looking for something between 30 and 37 feet. I am really not sure what size to get. I fear that 37 would be a bit much for an old man to handle but 30 would be too tiny for me and my bunnies. I suspect that 33-35 would be best for me but I need to see a few to help me gauge that.</p><p>I've been looking since last year and I've noticed that many of the same boats are still for sale so I'd suspect that offering 50% of the asking price might get me a good boat from someone who wants to be rid of their boat.</p><p>I think you're right on brokers. I have talked with a few, expressed my desires and then heard nothing back from them. They probably don't want to be bothered with me. However I have been looking at the online places, yachtworld.com and others and it looks like almost all the boats there are for sale by brokers.</p><p>I don't have relatives that I can stay with so storage of what I have then travelling and sleeping in the car is probably the best idea. However I'm not sure how to do that without getting in trouble with the law. Thoughts on this? </p> <!-- / message --> <!-- sig --> <p> __________________<br /></p> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="Usagi is offline" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185582 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185582 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185582 --><!-- post #1185584 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185584" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="29.7239263804"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Today, 01:37 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>7</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="10.9126984127"><td class="userarea" width="175" readability="4"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: Nov 2012</p> <p>Location: Kemah, TX</p> Boat: Self Design 32' Cat<p> Posts: 369 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185584" readability="33.6816479401"> <!-- icon and title --> <p> <strong>Re: Minimize Travel Expenses when Buying a Used Boat -</strong> </p> <hr size="1" /><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> <p>Quote:</p> <table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" readability="1.5"><tr readability="4.5"><td class="alt2" readability="6"> <p> ... sleeping in the car is probably the best idea. However I'm not sure how to do that without getting in trouble with the law. Thoughts on this?</p> </td> </tr></table>Well I wasn't expecting that lol<p>I use truck stops, totally expected. Also most wal-marts. But seriously, you don't have anyone in FL? I thought every American had at least one cousin in...Florida.. 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You can pack your tent in the trunk of your car, or get yourself a small used tow-able camper. I camped for years, along the eastern seaboard. Today's tents are rugged, easy to put up and dismantle; your neighbors will even help you out in pitching your tent! Invest in sturdy camping equipment; it should last you for years. Camping fees are very reasonable in most places, and many campgrounds offer Senior Discounts; KOA is the largest campground chain. Enjoy nature, while shopping around for your dream boat! 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Sailboatlistings.com is one that I look at now and then, that has mostly FSBO boats. Also, craigslist is a good source, at least here in Florida.<p>Now, unless you're looking at multi-million dollar yachts, no broker is going to offer to put you up while you're in town for a look-see. So I think you can forget about that.</p><p>Best advice I can offer is what others have said. Try to go to an area where you can look at a lot of boats on one trip. From where you are, the Chesapeake and Florida seem like the likely candidates. There are hundreds of boats of the type that you're looking for, for sale right now, in the area between Tarpon Springs and Naples on the west coast of Florida. Probably at least as many more between Miami and Port St. Lucie on the east coast.</p><p>If you can look at 5-6 boats in one day (and you can do that around here) then you get a lot more bang for your buck when it comes to the travel expenses.</p><p>Good luck. </p> <!-- / message --> <!-- sig --> <p> __________________<br /></p> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="denverd0n is offline" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185684 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185684 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185684 --><!-- post #1185702 --> <!-- / post #1185702 --><!-- post #1185709 --> <!-- / post #1185709 --><!-- post #1185714 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185714" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="24.9690721649"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Today, 06:32 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>13</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="7.11111111111"><td class="userarea" width="175"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: Jul 2006</p> <p> Posts: 2,659 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185714" readability="26.8907563025"> <!-- icon and title --> <p> <strong>Re: Minimize Travel Expenses when Buying a Used Boat -</strong> </p> <hr size="1" /><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --><p> Great minds think alike... </p> <!-- / message --> <!-- sig --> <!-- / sig --> </td> </tr><tr><td class="userarea" width="175"> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="Kettlewell is offline" border="0" /> ? </td> <td class="alt1" align="right"> <!-- controls --> <img src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /> <!-- / controls --> </td> </tr></table><!-- post 1185714 popup menu --><!-- / post 1185714 popup menu --> <!-- / post #1185714 --><!-- post #1185720 --> <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --> <table id="post1185720" class="tborder" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" readability="29.4478527607"><tr><td class="thead"> <!-- status icon and date --> <img class="inlineimg" src="http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../forums/images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> Today, 06:43 <!-- / status icon and date --> </td> <td class="thead" align="right"> ? #<strong>14</strong> </td> </tr><tr valign="top" readability="9.84978540773"><td class="userarea" width="175"> <p>Registered User</p> <img src="http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/clear.gif" width="100" height="8" /><p>Join Date: Jul 2011</p> <p>Location: Richmond, VA</p> Boat: Morgan 452<p> Posts: 35 </p> </td> <td class="alt3" id="td_post_1185720" readability="32.3921052632"> <!-- message --> If you have not done so, I would recommend joining the SSCA. The advantage to you is that the SSCA maintains coordinators in many active boating areas. If you contact the coordinator in an area you are interested in investigating, he or she can often introduce you to other sailors in the area<br /> . 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My friend just bought a hunter 30 in good shape for like 6k! Owner wanted like 8k. I checked it out with him as he is a bit of anovice and wanted me to go. He got a great deal. I paid like 3.5k for my cal. Needed an entire refit, but that was what I was looking for. Bottom line is that there are a ton of boats for sale. Think about buying a boat much cheaper than your 25k dream with all that stuff on it and the money you save on the purchase can put that stuff that you really need on your boat. </p><p>a bruce roberts sold at my marina last summer. he was asking like 10k. not sure what he got. Deals are out there. Just have to look. I like the sailboat listings site. If you are looking at living aboard, check out the s2's. they have center cockpit and aft cabin. We have a few of em for sale up here on the bay. There is a lot to be had at great prices. You can fit bat and solar and fish finder (for depth and topography) garmin gps, ipad chartplotter and paper maps, get a good anchor and chain and a new set of sails. I know I could do it for 25k and I know you can too if you look at it a little different. It is hard to take 25k and get the boat you want, but to take less and get a boat and make it what you want seems to me to be much easier. 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Five al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network insurgents were killed in a resulting firefight.</p> <p> "This truck bomb could have destroyed an area around 1.5 km (in radius). Now can you imagine that what kind of catastrophe this would be?," <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_3">Shafiqullah Tahiri</span>, a spokesman for the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_8">National Directorate of Security</span>, told a news conference.</p> <p> It contained sodium chloride, ammonium nitrate, other chemicals and some diesel.</p> <p> After more than 11 years of war, insurgents are still able to strike strategic military targets and launch high-profile attacks in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_2">Kabul</span> and elsewhere.</p> <p> The truck bomb was discovered on Wednesday two days after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel left the capital. 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There are several foreign and Afghan military bases in Kabul, housing thousands of soldiers.</p> <p> The Haqqani network is widely regarded as the most dangerous U.S. foe in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_7">Afghanistan</span>.</p> <p> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_4">Afghanistan</span> is bracing for the start of the spring fighting season, and officials fear that militants will infiltrate the capital as the snow melts in the mountains to the east where they hide.</p> <p> A number of insurgent groups, including the Taliban, the Haqqani network and Hizb-i-Islami, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, are known to reside in restive Wardak province just 40 minutes drive from Kabul.</p> <p> Afghan officials told Reuters this week they were worried that the Afghan capital would be in danger after <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363337616560_1">President Hamid Karzai</span> ordered U.S. special forces tasked with fighting the Taliban to leave Wardak.</p> <p> U.S. special forces are expected to play a major role after most NATO combat troops withdraw by the end of 2014, and Karzai's decision could complicate negotiations between the United States and Afghanistan over the scope of U.S. operations after the pull-out.</p> <p> International forces in Afghanistan have also been warned the that recent inflammatory remarks by Karzai have put them at risk, NATO commander General Joseph Dunford said in an email obtained by the New York Times this week.</p> <p> Karzai accused the United States of colluding with the Taliban hours before the two met last Sunday. 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I am sure you already know this.</p> <p>Offline stores need to have their business online. This is not a debate, up for questioning, but it?s a must! I?ll explain more below.? A lot of businesses do not believe this, but it?s true! Now-a-days, everything is web based and internet driven. Even if you?re in business for yourself, by yourself (i.e. Realtor agent, Consultant, Yoga Constructor, or even hair stylist etc) <strong>you need to be branding you, your business, and self online</strong>.</p> <p>People feel like if you?re not ?online? then it?s like you?re not real or something and chances are, they will go next door to <span id="more-4265"/>do business all because of a simple website.? Having a website represents not only just the business, but the team in a whole. Like it represents the owner and their creations, vision, their brand, and it?s kind of like getting to know them behind the scenes. We are more visual with everything. We want to ?see? it, right? When we see it, then we kind of get a feel for the business and their brand. then we?ll decide if we want to do business or not.</p> <p>You will see big time fortune 500 companies doing business not just offline anymore but they are very much running those same operations online as well and making a killing off of it.</p> <p>If you?re considering having a website for your business, already have one, or in the process of building one please make sure you?re doing this correctly,using the correct platform that?s going to not only bring you great traffic to your front end business, but you will want to make sure you?re also generating a back-end or ?side? stream of income from off of your website too. It doesn?t make sense in my honest opinion to have a website just for your business alone. You will want to use that side to generate additional income on the back end. And there are several ways you can do this!</p> <h2>I receive this question in my inbox quite frequently on ? how do I get paid every month from off of my website ?</h2> <p>Let?s first start with what type of website you?re going to need in order to do just that! Get the back-end side stream of revenue flowing in. Building up for you monthly. See my video below where I share a few simple strategies, tips, tools, and advice on how this too can benefit you!<img class="alignleft" title="Press Play" alt="Press Play" src="http://janellemcleod.com/wp-content/themes/flexsqueeze150/images/arrows_four_down_press_play.png" width="486" height="137"/></p> <p>?</p> <h3/> <h3/> <p><object width="543" height="306" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iVSVYxqLOZQ?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><embed width="543" height="306" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iVSVYxqLOZQ?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"/></object></p> <h3>Here are my quick steps I use in order to get paid every month from off of my website. You can take these? same steps here into action mood immediately!!!</h3> <ol><li>WordPress</li> <li>Hosting</li> <li>Theme</li> </ol><p>Download your wordpress.org once you?ve downloaded that. Then you?re next step will be to select a theme for your wordpress.org blog / website. There are tons of FREE themes? made available, but in my honest opinion, going ?FREE? is not always the best route. Especially if you?re trying to make this done right like I?ve share above. Your goal is to get your site done and set up the right way.</p> <p>There are tons of paid themes and companies out there. Some are very expensive and others are dirt cheap. However based on my experience of being an online as a full time Social Media Manager / internet MOMpreneur and this also includes depending on the nature of your business, here are the best themes I recommend you should go with that will definitely keep traffic going, growing, and engaged on your site. Not to mention super affordable too.</p> <ol><li>Themeforest.net - Get access to over 3,107,399 themes prices ranging as low as $8.00 ? beyond.</li> <li>FlexSqueeze 1.5 - For internet markets MLM, Direct sales, Network Marketing industry unlimited tools and themes for 2 membership price. This would depend on the network marketers needs and wants.</li> <li>Elegant Themes ? Get 100% complete access to elegant themes entire collection of 81 themes for only $39! Good ideal for boutiques, e-commerce, magazines and much more.</li> </ol> <ul><li><strong>Hosting for your WordPress</strong></li> </ul><p>There are hundreds of thousands of web hosts out there, the vast majority of which meet the WordPress minimum requirements, and choosing one from the crowd can be a chore. Just like flowers need the right environment to grow, WordPress works best when it?s in a rich hosting environment. So here at the TOP 2 hosting providers that will definitely get your wordpress blog / website cracken on the web easily, affordable, and best effectively.</p> <ol><li>Hostgator - Designed for WordPress. Starting as low as $3.96/month. Just a ?1-click? easy set up. Unlimited Blogs to be hosted. Your best option here is definitely going with Hostgator.</li> <li>Godaddy ? Godaddy.com web hosting for as little as $7.64/month</li> </ol> <p><span>As I?ve mentioned above, there are several different ways I personally <i>get paid every month from off of my website</i> but I wanted to know what are some of your ways too? Or you?re thinking about starting? Want to start but lost and clueless? Either way, I?d love the hear from yah, please comment below. I?m listening.</span></p> <p><span>If you found this information helpful please like and share with anyone you feel can benefit from what you just discovered. Together we all can truly make a difference.</span></p> <p>To your success!</p> <p><img class="size-full wp-image-2674 alignleft" title="Janelle McLeod" alt="Janelle McLeod" src="http://janellemcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/signature.png" width="321" height="69"/></p> <p>?</p> <p>?</p> <p>?</p> <p>P.S. How I was able to really get paid from off of my website weekly / monthly I encourage you to click here and learn these 3 simple tricks that has taught me the power of leveraging the internet. Learn how to you can turn your passionate into profits by simply monetizing your site correctly to start generating a side revenue stream of income on the back-end and best, how I get this revenue 100% DAILY. http://www.SheRocksSocialMedia.com</p> <p>?</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://cdn1.simple2advertise.com/banners/quiz2/quiz2_728x90.jpg" width="616" height="76" border="0"/></p> <p><u>Get Paid Every Month from off of My Website</u></p> Janelle McLeod is a Social Media Manager and very passionate about sharing information and helping others to boost their business, brand, and online presence to the next level. She is a top producer and a documented super sponsoring machine in the internet marketing and network marketing industry. She is known for her high standards, morality and his down-to-earth yet "no-nonsense" approach to making money online. 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There are two terminals linked by a monorail that can only be used by passengers who have a ticket, boarding pass or eticket ref number. Others need to take a bus or taxi : it is too far to walk. There are special red buses that takes you from T1 to T2 for just 5 pesos (50 cents usd) each way</p> <p>The newer Terminal 2 is used by Aeromexico and (mostly) its partners in the SkyTeam alliance. Terminal 1 has sections for both international and domestic flights. </p> <p>International visitors will be given an arrivals card (FMT) and a customs form on board their flight. Once in the terminal, go to the correct immigration area. There are two separate areas: one for arrivals from North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia, and the other for arrivals from the Caribbean and Latin America. Present your FMT with your passport. Be sure to hang on to the portion of the FMT the officer returns to you as you will need to present this on departure and will be fined if you don't have it. Once you have collected your bags, hand over your customs form and then place your bags in the X-Ray machine and press the button indicated: a green light means you can go straight through to the arrivals hall, a red light will entail a visual inspection of your bags. In the arrivals hall, there are plenty of ATMs issuing pesos cash. In Terminal 1, baggage carts are free and cannot be taken past the Arrivals Hall, but there are plenty of porters available. In Terminal 2, there is a nominal fee for a baggage cart and it can be taken to the taxi rank or parking lot. If you are continuing on to another destination in Mexico on the same carrier you generally do not need to recheck your luggage as you would in the U.S. However, it would be well to double check with your airlineI</p> <p>The airport has all the usual facilities, including left luggage lockers. If you are heading in to Mexico City itself, the recommended, and safest, way is to prebook your taxi before arriving at the airport. Most prepaid taxis will cost the same online and once you be provided with arrival instructions once you have paid and received your booking confirmation. Do NOT accept a ride from any of the touts who might be hanging around the terminal, or attempt to take a non official taxi. As a more expensive alternative to a taxi, your hotel can generally send a car to the airport to collect you. </p> <p>As a general rule getting a taxi from Mexico Airport can be a harrowing experience. If you have the time before you leave it is worth searching online and prebooking your taxi prior to arriving, some companies, such as Mexico Airport Transfers, have an option to book and pay from the comfort of your armchair. Often the cost is not a lot more than getting a taxi once you're at the airport, and the safety and peace of mind makes it worthwhile. </p> <p>There is a subway/metro station at Terminal 1. Turn left outside the terminal building and walk to the end near the main road and then down the steps. This is only advised if you are confident in Spanish and have minimal baggage. The flat fare is 3 pesos. A more comfortable and still inexpensive route into the centro histrico is on the metrobus, line 4. This runs from both terminals. The fare is 30 pesos, but you have to pay an additional 10 pesos for the pre-paid smart card. This card can be used on all the metrobus lines and on some metro routes as well. The buses have luggage space and a cop on board and video surveillance.</p> <p>There are direct buses from the airport to Puebla, Quertaro, Toluca, Cuernavaca Tlaxcala, Pachuca and Cordoba. Go here for timetables and prices. They run every 30 to 40 minutes until mid/late evening. There is no need to pre-purchase tickets. Look for the signs saying Transporte Forano/Terrestre. In T1, turn left in the arrivals hall and then go up the ramp to the next level near Gate 6. Walk straight in front of you until you see a footbridge. The ticket desks are across this bridge. There is a nice waiting room and the departure bays are down the escalator. Be sure to be at your bus about 15 minutes before departure to check in your bags and for the <br/>security check. In T2, turn right once upstairs in the departures area and you'll see the bus departure bays at the far end of the terminal by Gate 4. All the buses leave from here initially and continue to T1 before heading to their final destination. 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Cryan and Company, monitors trading activity from her workstation at the New York Stock Exchange. The positive mood in financial markets showed few signs of abating Thursday March 7, 2013 ahead of policy statements from Europe's top two central banks. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2013, file photo, Maureen Smaldone, a trader for Brendan E. Cryan and Company, monitors trading activity from her workstation at the New York Stock Exchange. The positive mood in financial markets showed few signs of abating Thursday March 7, 2013 ahead of policy statements from Europe's top two central banks. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content"><span id="dateLine" class="dateline">NEW YORK</span> (AP) ? The Dow pushed further into record territory Thursday, having surpassed its previous all-time high two days ago. The catalyst was the latest evidence that hiring is picking up.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Stocks started higher after the Labor Department reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell by 7,000 last week, driving the four-week average to its lowest in five years. The drop is a positive sign ahead of Friday's employment report.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The Dow Jones industrial average rose 33.25 points, or 0.2 percent, to 14,329.49. The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 2.80 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,544.26. Both indexes rose for the fifth day straight.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The Dow barreled through a record high Tuesday and has added to its gains since then. The S&P 500 is also closing in on its own record high of 1,565, which was also reached on Oct. 9, 2007, the same day of the Dow's previous peak. The S&P would need to rise 21 points, or 1.3 percent, to set a record.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Investors have been buying stocks on optimism that employers are slowly starting to hire again and that the housing market is recovering. Growing company earnings are also encouraging investors to get into the market. The Dow is 9.4 percent higher this year and the broader S&P 500 is up 8.3 percent.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"If you have a multi-year time horizon, equities are an attractive asset, but don't be surprised to see some volatility, especially after the big run we've had," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial Group.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Boeing gained Thursday, advancing $1.97, or 2.5 percent, to $81.05 following reports that U.S. regulators were poised to approve a plan within days to allow the plane maker to begin test flights of its 787 Dreamliner. The 787 fleet has been grounded since Jan. 16 because of safety concerns about the plane's batteries. 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Zuckerberg on Thursday unveiled a new look for the social network's News Feed, the place where its 1 billion users congregate to see what's happening with their friends, family and favorite businesses.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p> <p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, March 7, 2013. Zuckerberg on Thursday unveiled a new look for the social network's News Feed, the place where its 1 billion users congregate to see what's happening with their friends, family and favorite businesses.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p> <p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, March 7, 2013. Zuckerberg on Thursday unveiled a new look for the social network's News Feed, the place where its 1 billion users congregate to see what's happening with their friends, family and favorite businesses. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p> <p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, March 7, 2013. Zuckerberg on Thursday unveiled a new look for the social network's News Feed, the place where its 1 billion users congregate to see what's happening with their friends, family and favorite businesses.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) ? Facebook doesn't want to be dismissed as an Internet has-been before its social network even enters its adolescence.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">In an effort to remain hip, it is infusing the focal point of its website with a more dynamic look and additional controls designed to empower its 1 billion users to sort streams of photos and other material into more organized sections that appeal to their personal interests.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The changes unveiled Thursday are an attempt to address complaints that Facebook's hub ? the News Feed ? is degenerating into a jumble of monotonous musings and disjointed pictures. This has come as users' social circles have widened from a few dozen people to an unwieldy assortment of friends, family, businesses, celebrities, co-workers and fleeting acquaintances.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">That evolution requires a more nuanced approach than the computer-generated algorithms that Facebook has been relying on to pick out the most relevant content to display in each user's News Feed. The growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers equipped with high-quality cameras also is turning the News Feed into a more visual gallery, another shift that Facebook is tackling by carving out more space to display photos and video.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Facebook Inc. 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Making that mistake is even more costly in an age of increasingly short attention spans and technological tools that make it easy to find some other diversion with a quick click of the computer mouse or the swipe of a finger on a smartphone.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"They needed to freshen things up," said Brian Blau, research director of consumer technologies for Gartner Inc. "This should bring a lot of cooler things" into the News Feed.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Although Zuckerberg didn't say it, the overhaul also appears to be aimed at carving out more space to show larger and more compelling ads within the News Feed as Facebook seeks to boost its revenue and stock price.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Previous tweaks to the News Feed have triggered howls of protest among Facebook's users. Hoping to minimize the grousing this time around, Facebook intends to roll out the changes in phases. It will probably be at least six months before everyone who accesses Facebook on a personal computer sees the revamped News Feed, the company said. New mobile applications featuring the changes should be released within that time frame too.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The transition is likely to be completed before Facebook celebrates its 10th birthday next February.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The facelift is likely to be more jarring for those who only visit Facebook on a PC because it incorporates some features already deployed in the social network's mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The new features will enable users to choose to see streams of content that may feature nothing but photos or posts from their closest friends, family members or favorite businesses. Or they can just peruse content about music, or sports, as if they were grabbing a section of a newspaper. Other newspaper-like changes will include lists of events that users' social circles have flagged for the upcoming weekend and other summaries meant to resemble a table of contents.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Facebook still intends to rely on algorithms to select some material to feature on the main part of the News Feed, much like newspaper editors determine what goes on the front page.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The additional space being devoted to photos and video is an acknowledgement how dramatically the composition of Facebook's content has changed during the past 16 months. About 50 percent of the posts on News Feed now include a photo or video now, up from 25 percent in November 2011, according to Facebook's data.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Bigger pictures also will give advertisers a larger canvass to make their marketing pitches. 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