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The Fredericksburg Area Soccer Association and Chesterfield United Soccer Club will host the Washington Invitational youth tournament beginning next August at FASA?s new fields complex in Spotsylvania.
Organizers hope the event, which replaces FASA?s Fredericksburg Cup tournament, will draw hundreds of teams from across the East Coast.
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Yemen: thousands demand retrieval of stolen assets

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? Thousands have taken to the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, demanding the recovery of assets they say were stolen under the country's former authoritarian ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The protesters marched to demand return of millions of dollars they allege Saleh and his family stole during his years in power. Saleh, known as a wealthy ruler who led one of the Arab world's poorest countries, stepped down after a yearlong popular uprising which forced him to relinquish power in return for immunity from prosecution.

The Friday protests come a week after several nations backing Yemen's political transition pushed for sanctions against Saleh loyalists and other groups for undermining the country's shift to democracy. The non-military sanctions include freezing financial assets or travel ban.

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Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale

LONDON (AP) ? British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."

The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m.

Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2/1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.

Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.

"I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store.

"I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."

A story of ambition and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body.

Rowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.

Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart, while The Guardian newspaper said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." Several reviewers felt the lack of easily likable characters might be off-putting to readers.

It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.

But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.

"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," said Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain.

"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."

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Jet City Stream CEO Michael Raley outside the studio.

In June 2011, Edmonds resident Michael Raley walked away from a successful career in radio advertising, with one mission in mind: to build a radio station of his own.

But Raley wasn?t looking to start just any station. He was tired of commercial radio?s lack of creativity ? both in terms of the music it played and the advertising it ran. He wanted a station that supported and celebrated local music, musicians and businesses. And he wanted to make the broadcasts available on a digital platform.

This week, Raley?s vision become a reality with the official launch of Jet City Stream. The station?s focus is on local music, which includes finding and featuring local bands.? Since April, when the station first went ?on the air? from its headquarters in Seattle?s Georgetown neighborhood, Jet City staff have been working to build their brand at various community music events, participating in the Capitol Hill Block Party, Bumbershoot and the Crooked Chinook Music Festival, among others. Jet City has also hosted several smaller events at its studio location inside the former Rainier Brewery-turned-Tully?s-Coffee headquarters on Airport Way South.

The most important room in the Jet City studio suite is probably the server room, complete with a 10.5 mm fiber optic cable ? ?the biggest you can get,? Raley said. ?We wanted to push the audio because EQ (equalization) on the Internet is average at best. So what we did was we created two streams for one fully-equalized path. When you listen to it online, it balances out highs and lows. You can hear total separation in what we do. ?

In addition, the station has a functional air studio where they have held Jet City Stream Sessions with local bands including Reignwolf, Walking Papers, Father John Misty and Fly Moon Royalty.

The station also plans to feature famous names as they come through the Puget Sound region for a concert. ?Our goal is to get those bands to come down to the station, do an acoustic or electric set with us and leave us with those gems ? and then we can play those songs for eternity because they were recorded with us,? Raley said.

He envisions eventually expanding the concept to 25 cities nationwide, creating an online network of Internet stations, each with the same focus on local music and community events.

Part of what drives the 50-year-old Raley is his memories of just how good radio used to be during his childhood and teen years, when a station would play a diverse mix? of music ? everything from Glen Campbell and Elvis Presley to Roberta Flack and Queen.? Today, Raley noted, ?there are five major (music) labels and they control 50 major bands, so they fund those bands and that?s it.? As a result, many great bands and their music are left in the collective dust.

Raley with his content director, Shawn Stewart, formerly of The Mountain.

?We just wanted to take the great things radio did and combine it with today?s technology of music discovery,? he said.

Most people in the Internet radio business are ?either doing it in their basement in some bad audio way or they are doing Pandora style, which is not radio ? it?s just an iPod online where you can click a song,? Raley said. ?It?s not radio DJs. It doesn?t have localism.?

Raley himself is a former Edmonds restaurant manager ? he worked at Anthony?s Home Port from 1985-1995? who has been in love with music since he started playing guitar in a rock band at age 16.

After encouragement from an acquaintance, he moved into radio sales at age 37, starting with KISS-FM and eventually ending up in Los Angeles before moving back to Edmonds and a sales job with Seattle-based Clear Channel.

However, he grew tired of the type of advertising that was being aired and added that he ?felt that the best music in the world wasn?t getting played on the radio,? due to what he called ?the corporate rule of record labels.?

As he began building his new station, Raley?s top two priorities were his staff? ? ?finding the best people in Seattle? ?? and also securing what he described as ?an iconic location: a place where a band could bring their record down and see the DJs and meet them.?

DJ Marco Collins, formerly of 107.7 ?The End,? and Stewart in the studio.

His success so far is reflected in both the choice of the station?s home ? the hip yet comfortable former Rainier Brewery office suite? ? and his equally impressive hires: Shawn Stewart of 103.7 The Mountain fame is Jet City Stream?s content director and is on the air fron 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Marco Collins, who broadcasts from 3-7 p.m., is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and best known as the DJ and Music Director at Seattle?s 107.7? ?The End? during the 1990?s grunge era. Running the station?s marketing is Joe Hammill, former ?The End? promotions director.? And Jet City?s vice president of programming is Becky Brenner, who was program director at KMPS for 16 years.

Pat O?Day shown with Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s.

The well-known names continue as part of this week?s official Jet City Stream launch. On Friday, Collins will be joined by Seattle radio legend Pat O?Day, who will co-host the Top 20 Seattle Songs, starting at 3 p.m. According to Raley, the combination was a natural fit: The two personalities have made a name for themselves by discovering the best sounds from Seattle from the ?60s (O?Day, at KJR 950) and the ?90s (Collins at 107.7).?and both men are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Seattle Top 20 Countdown is a weekly feature hosted by Collins that covers the best-selling albums from Seattle artists, based on local record store sales.

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D-Day for al-Qaida in Somalia? - World News - MSNBC

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MOGADISHU, Somalia --?Troops launched an amphibious assault before dawn Friday on the al-Qaida militant group al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia.

Other African Union forces were traveling overland to link up with the joint Kenyan-Somali force in the port city of Kismayo.

The commander of the U.N-backed African Union troops, Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti, said the aim was to "liberate the people of Kismayo to enable them to lead their lives in peace, stability and security."

Col. Cyrus Oguna, the Kenyan military's top spokesman, said the attack met minimal resistance, but al-Shabab denied that the city had fallen and said fighting was taking place.

Oguna told The Associated Press that al-Shabab, which formally merged with al-Qaida in February, had incurred "heavy losses" but that Kenyan forces have not yet had any injuries or deaths.

"We came from the beach side and we're moving towards the main city. Our surveillance aircraft are monitoring every event taking place on the ground," he told Reuters.

"For now, we're not everywhere. We've taken a large part of it without resistance, I don't see anything major happening," he said.

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Residents in Kismayo, a city of about 193,000 people, contacted by The Associated Press said that Kenyan troops had taken control of the port, but not the whole city.

"Al-Shabab fighters are on the streets and heading toward the front line in speeding cars. Their radio is still on the air and reporting the war," resident Mohamed Haji told The Associated Press. Haji said that helicopters were hitting targets in the town in southeastern Somalia.

At an international one-day summit Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said the world would "pay a price" if it fails to help Somalia overcome terrorism, piracy and starvation. ITV's Lee Comley reports.?

Another resident, Ismail Suglow, told Reuters that he could hear shelling from the ships and that the rebels were responding with anti-aircraft guns.

"We saw seven ships early in the morning and now their firing looks like lightning and thunder. Al-Shabab have gone towards the beach. The ships poured many AU troops on the beach," he added.

Expert: War on terror at 'critical' point as al-Qaida looks to regroup in Africa

On Thursday, residents said planes had dropped leaflets on Kismayo warning civilians to evacuate within 24 hours, Reuters reported.?More than 10,000 residents fled Kismayo in the last several weeks.

Resident Faduma Abdulle said Friday that she is now leaving too.

She said al-Shabab made an announcement on its radio station Friday to trick residents into moving toward the invading troops.

"They told residents through their radio to loot a Kenyan ship that washed up on the coast, but instead the residents who rushed there were attacked by helicopters," she said. "Some of them have died but I don't know how many. The situation is tense and many are fleeing. It's a dangerous situation."

A U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Cdr. Dave Hecht, said the U.S. Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, is closely monitoring the situation but that "we are not participating in Kenya's military activities in the region."

Militants: Taking city not 'a piece of cake'
Al-Shabab said it would not give up Kismayu easily.

"Going into Kismayo is not a piece of cake. We are still fighting them on the beach where they landed," Sheik Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab's spokesman for military operations, told Reuters on Friday. "For us, this is just the beginning, our troops are spread everywhere."

Oguna said the assault is part of a four-prong attack involving Kenyan forces currently in villages outside Kismayo.

The amphibious assault landed between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday local time (3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday ET)?, he said. Some of the troops had night-vision goggles, he said.

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African Union troops pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in August 2011, ending four years of control of the capital by the fighters.

The Ugandan and Burundian troops that make up the bulk of the African Union force in Mogadishu have slowly been taking control of towns outside of Mogadishu.

The expanding control by AU troops sent al-Shabab fighters fleeing south toward Kismayo, north to other regions of Somalia and across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, according to American and African Union officials.

Kenya police: Imminent attack by suicide bombers thwarted

Al-Shabab still holds sway across many small, poor villages of southern Somalia. The loss of Kismayo would be significant.

The militants taxed goods coming into its port. Al-Shabab lost its major source of financing last year when it was pushed out of Bakara market in Mogadishu, where it also charged taxes.

The march toward Kismayo by the Kenyan forces has been nearly a year in the making.

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Kenyan troops entered Somalia last October after a string of kidnappings inside neighboring Kenya, including of Westerners in and around the beach resort town of Lamu, which is also seeing the construction of a new port and could one day be final point of a new oil pipeline from South Sudan.

Kenyan forces were bogged down by rain and poor roads for months but have making slow and steady progress toward Kismayo in recent weeks.

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Slave rebellion is widespread in ants

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? Enslaved worker ants kill the offspring of their parasites and thereby improve the chances of survival for their neighboring relatives.

Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage. Ant researcher Professor Dr. Susanne Foitzik of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany first observed this "slave rebellion" phenomenon in 2009. According to the latest findings, however, this behavior now appears to be a widespread characteristic that is not limited to isolated occurrences. In fact, in three different populations in the U.S. states of West Virginia, New York, and Ohio, enslaved Temnothorax longispinosus workers have been observed to neglect and kill the offspring of their Protomognathus americanus slavemakers rather than care for them. As a result, an average of only 45 percent of the parasite's offspring survived. This presumably reduces the strength of the parasites in the area and thereby increases the chances of survival for the neighboring colonies populated by the slave ants' relatives.

More than half of all animal species live in parasitic relationships, i.e. they exploit their so-called hosts. From the perspective of evolutionary history, the American slave-making ant Protomognathus americanus is an old social parasite that is entirely dependent on other ant species for its survival. Slave workers have to care for the brood in parasite nests, bring food to their masters and feed them, and even defend the nest.

These ants become slaves when workers from the slave-making ant colony attack the nests of the host species Temnothorax longispinosus, kill the adult ants, and steal the brood. Back in the masters' nest, which can be located in hollow acorns, nutshells, or twigs, the brood care behavior of the emerging slave workers is exploited to the advantage of the slavemaker species. As Susanne Foitzik and her work group have shown, the enslaved worker ants feed and clean the larvae, thereby raising the offspring of their social parasite -- but only up to a certain point.

"Probably at first the slaves cannot tell that the larvae belong to another species," explains Foitzik. As a result, 95 percent of the brood survives the larval stage. But the situation changes as soon as the larvae pupate. "The pupae, which already look like ants, bear chemical cues on their cuticles that can apparently be detected. We have been able to show that a high fraction of the slavemaker pupae are killed by slave workers." The pupae are either neglected or actively killed by being attacked and torn apart. Several slaves at once may assault a pupa, which is unable to move or defend itself during the pupal stage and is also not protected by a cocoon.

In parasite nests in West Virginia, only 27 percent of the pupae survived, and in the New York colonies, only 49 percent. In Ohio, the survival chances of the American slave-making ant was a bit higher at 58 percent, but this figure is still well below the survival rate of 85 percent for host pupae in their own free-living nests. "The enslaved workers do not directly benefit from the killings because they do not reproduce," explains Susanne Foitzik. But, through the killing of slavemaker offspring, their neighboring relatives -- which might very well be the sisters of the worker slaves -- indirectly benefit as their chances of survival are increased. Slavemaker colonies damaged by slave rebellions grow slower and smaller slave-making colonies conduct fewer and less destructive slave raids.

The large differences in the death rates in colonies from different regions fits to predictions derived from the geographic mosaic theory of co-evolution. This theory claims that populations differ because they are subjected to different local selection pressures and because they possess different attack or defense traits originated through mutations, which in turn means that evolution can go in different directions in different geographic areas. While the host ants in New York are very aggressive and often successfully thwart slave raid attempts, the hosts in West Virginia profit more from the slave rebellion behavior because, as genetic analyses have shown, the neighboring colonies are more often close relatives to the rebelling slaves.

This study on the evolution of slave rebellion has been financed since October 2011 by the project "The evolution of resistance and virulence in structured populations" funded by the German Research Foundation.

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Steam for Linux entering private beta in October for just 1,000 users

Next month, Valve is inviting 1,000 fortunate gamers to take part in the first external beta test of Steam for Linux. The trial includes the service itself and one game (which we're taking to be Left 4 Dead 2) that'll run on systems running Ubuntu 12.04 and above. Users won't get their hands on any other Valve titles, or Big Picture Mode, and the company is asking that only experienced Linux users get in touch -- novices are politely asked to wait for a subsequent release. It'll offer up details of how to sign up shortly, and given the love for the Valve's other products, we suspect it'll be a little oversubscribed.

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Making it easier to make stem cells: Kinase inhibitors lower barrier to producing stem cells in lab

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? The process researchers use to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) -- a special type of stem cell that can be made in the lab from any type of adult cell -- is time consuming and inefficient. To speed things up, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) turned to kinase inhibitors. These chemical compounds block the activity of kinases, enzymes responsible for many aspects of cellular communication, survival, and growth.

As they outline in a paper published September 25 in Nature Communications, the team found several kinase inhibitors that, when added to starter cells, help generate many more iPSCs than the standard method. This new capability will likely speed up research in many fields, better enabling scientists around the world to study human disease and develop new treatments.

"Generating iPSCs depends on the regulation of communication networks within cells," explained Tariq Rana, Ph.D., program director in Sanford-Burnham's Sanford Children's Health Research Center and senior author of the study. "So, when you start manipulating which genes are turned on or off in cells to create pluripotent stem cells, you are probably activating a large number of kinases. Since many of these active kinases are likely inhibiting the conversion to iPSCs, it made sense to us that adding inhibitors might lower the barrier."

According to Tony Hunter, Ph.D., professor in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and director of the Salk Institute Cancer Center, "The identification of small molecules that improve the efficiency of generating iPSCs is an important step forward in being able to use these cells therapeutically. Tariq Rana's exciting new work has uncovered a class of protein kinase inhibitors that override the normal barriers to efficient iPSC formation, and these inhibitors should prove useful in generating iPSCs from new sources for experimental and ultimately therapeutic purposes." Hunter, a kinase expert, was not involved in this study.

The promise of iPSCs

At the moment, the only treatment option available to many heart failure patients is a heart transplant. Looking for a better alternative, many researchers are coaxing stem cells into new heart muscle. In Alzheimer's disease, researchers are also interested in stem cells, using them to reproduce a person's own malfunctioning brain cells in a dish, where they can be used to test therapeutic drugs. But where do these stem cells come from? Since the advent of iPSC technology, the answer in many cases is the lab. Like their embryonic cousins, iPSCs can be used to generate just about any cell type -- heart, brain, or muscle, to name a few -- that can be used to test new therapies or potentially to replace diseased or damaged tissue.

It sounds simple enough: you start with any type of differentiated cell, such as skin cells, add four molecules that reprogram the cells' genomes, and then try to catch those that successfully revert to unspecialized iPSCs. But the process takes a long time and isn't very efficient -- you can start with thousands of skin cells and end up with just a few iPSCs.

Inhibiting kinases to make more iPSCs

Zhonghan Li, a graduate student in Rana's laboratory, took on the task of finding kinase inhibitors that might speed up the iPSC-generating process. Scientists in the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, Sanford-Burnham's drug discovery facility, provided Li with a collection of more than 240 chemical compounds that inhibit kinases. Li painstakingly added them one-by-one to his cells and waited to see what happened. Several kinase inhibitors produced many more iPSCs than the untreated cells -- in some cases too many iPSCs for the tiny dish housing them. The most potent inhibitors targeted three kinases in particular: AurkA, P38, and IP3K.

Working with the staff in Sanford-Burnham's genomics, bioinformatics, animal modeling, and histology core facilities -- valuable resources and expertise available to all Sanford-Burnham scientists and the scientific community at large -- Rana and Li further confirmed the specificity of their findings and even nailed down the mechanism behind one inhibitor's beneficial actions.

"We found that manipulating the activity of these kinases can substantially increase cellular reprogramming efficiency," Rana said. "But what's more, we've also provided new insights into the molecular mechanism of reprogramming and revealed new functions for these kinases. We hope these findings will encourage further efforts to screen for small molecules that might prove useful in iPSC-based therapies."

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Crock Pot Pumpkin Pie Steel Cut Oats | SugarFreeMom.com

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There?s nothing like waking up to a delicious aroma from your crock pot cooking you breakfast overnight while you were sleeping! How about the fantastic smell of pumpkin pie for breakfast?!!! Yes, you can eat these breakfast without any guilt!

Super healthy steel cut oats combined with pumpkin puree make this a winning breakfast for any household!

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It doesn?t look like much here but wait till you stir it up!!!

This recipe has been on my mind for weeks, as soon as the fall cooler weather started here in RI I knew I wanted to adapt my Overnight Banana Steel Cut Oats to make this with pumpkin.

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Stir up up upon waking and behold the pumpkin and oats of your dreams!! You can add your sweetener during the cooking time or leave it without added sugar and everyone can add their own sweetener of choice on top. Perfect either way.

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I topped mine with a little honey and a sprinkle of nutmeg!!

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* This recipe is also being shared as a guest post on? Skinny Ms.

Crock Pot Pumpkin Pie Steel Cut Oats

Ingredients

• 1 cup steel cut oats
• 3 cups water
• 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• optional: 1/2 cup honey or 2 teaspoons vanilla liquid stevia*

* Sweetener can be added during cooking or cook it without and each person can add their own sweetener of choice on top after cooking.

Directions

Combine all ingredients in your slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours. Enjoy!

Nutrition Info:

Servings: 4* Calories per serving: 171* Fat: 3g* Cholesterol: 0g* Sodium: 3g* Carbs: 32g* Fiber: 6g* Sugars: 3g* Protein: 6g* Points+: 4*

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Quick Rumba likely to be quick in William Hill Hotbox Bet - Bettor.com

Quick Rumba likely to be quick in William Hill Hotbox Bet Stakes

Since June 2012, Quick Rumba has been at the top of his game. During this period, he has registered a number of podium finishes including five classic victories. Moreover, he took intense training during the last five days.

Keeping in view all these factors, we can hope that the G. Gibbinson trained blue dog will make a big impact in the high-voltage race of William Hill Hotbox Bet Stakes that is set to be held at Newcastle on Tuesday night, September 25.

The grade A3 race will be run over 480 meters. Quick Rumba will break from the orange box to fight against five worthy rivals for the sake of the prize money worth ?123.

The four-year-old veteran hound possesses an impressive track record. After winning a T2 race on June 20, he nicely bagged a couple of consecutive conquests in July.

In the month of August, the talented son of Hondo Black out of Digestivebiscuit achieved a couple of thirds and a tremendous triumph that was the William Hill Hotbox Bet Stakes.

The brilliant sprinter went ahead to finish first in the very next race entitled as A3 480m Flat. He fought well but finished third in the William Hill - The Home Of Betting.

These stats show that Quick Rumba is awash with form at the moment. He will surely apply this form tonight with a view to outpace his competitors.

Among the other hounds, Run For Glory is likely to perform well in the race. The J. Walton trained white and fawn bitch impressed all by winning the William Hill Hotbox Bet Stakes of August 11. She competed exceptionally good to beat the hot favourite candidate, Stay On Lass, by the big margin of 3? lengths.

The brilliant bitch moved on to seal top spot in the William Hill Hotbox Bet Stakes that occurred on September 13. She stood third in her last start.

Thus, the daughter of Crash out of Cillbeara Blu will fight head-to-head against Quick Rumba. The fiery spar between the two will give the spectators an exciting event to enjoy. Good luck to all the six contestants.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and do not reflect Bettor.Com?s editorial policy.

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Quick-Rumba-likely-to-be-quick-in-William-Hill-Hotbox-Bet-Stakes-a190097

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What's In A Word? | RI Small Business Journal

Are the words you use to market your business attracting the right buyers?

Being discovered online is getting increasingly complex.? The days of set-it-and-forget-it websites doing the heavy lifting of online marketing are long gone.? Today?s businesses need quantifiable results for their hard-earned marketing spend.? With respect to internet marketing ? this means selecting the right words that will enable your business to both rank well on search engines, and be discovered by more buying-prospects searching for what you have to sell.

Regardless of what the name is on the sign outside your?building or on your business card ? the wording you use for internet marketing plays a significant part of your overall online visibility.? Your businesses listing on Google Search for example, is often the first impression a new customer has of your company ? so it should accurately convey your business and be crafted in a way to attract the right searchers.? Conversely, a low ranking on search might cause your existing clients to be lured away from your business by competitors who appear more prominently ??judging solely by their higher ranking and increased visibility.

Think of the words you use for online marketing as magnets ??use the right ones, and you?ll attract in the right buyers.

?I recently received a call from a business-consultant whose client was setting up shop in North Carolina.? I was included in the early stages of their marketing strategy for my input on what to name this new business ? from both an offline and online perspective.? A local marketing firm had already made their pitch for a name, but the consultant had suggested his client get a second opinion.

In this case the business was an auto body shop, and the name proposed (both online and offline) for this new company was ?Town Collision Center? (For this article ?Town? = the actual?town?the business is in).

My viewpoint was quite different.? Knowing this business markets hyper-locally (about 10 mile radius), I suggested they incorporate their dominate local identifier (their actual town name in this case) along with the phrase ?auto body? (not Collision Center) in the name of the business as seen from the street, as well as within their online presence.

?Auto Body? ?Body Shop? ?Auto Body Shop? ?Collision Center?? all the same right?? Po-tay-toe or po-tah-toe, it?s still just a?potato. ?Isn?t it?

Having had several auto body repair clients over the years I have done some name-game studies before, and with 823,000 searches in the US every month, ?Auto Body? has proven to be the phrase that pays.? The remainder receiving 550,000 ? 90,500 and 110,000 monthly US searches respectively.

Think for a moment how you search for something online.? If you were looking for great pizza in New Haven CT for instance, this might be how your search query could play out:

>Pizza<?(whoa ? way too many results)

>Pizza restaurants in CT<?(more refined, but not specific enough yet)

>Pizza restaurants in New Haven CT>?(fantastico ? che ?!)

Doing this search Giulios Pizza and Restaurant pulls top rank for a regular non-paid listing (called an organic search result). ?Having lived in New Haven half my life however, I can tell you that Modern Apizza is the local?favorite.? So why aren?t they ranking #1 in the search?

Apizza is a thin-crust pizza unique to New Haven CT; it even has its own Wikipedia page.? If you want good pizza in CT, Apizza is what you are looking for.? Rolling back on that search query ? this time replacing Pizza with ?Apizza? you?ll find the beloved Modern Apizza?owns the search engine results page (aka: SERP) with four-listings on the first page ? a whopping 40% market share!

Pizza or Apizza ??Auto Insurance or Car Insurance.??What?s In A Word?

With the right research, strategy, and execution ? businesses using optimized & targeted keywords within their digital assets and in their online marketing wordtrack will rank higher in search.? A website, blog, social media channels, images, and video are common examples of a business?s digital assets.

Why is ranking on search engines so important anyway?

• 93% of all internet traffic is derived from search engines
• 60% of search clicks go to the top three listings
• 70% of the links people click on are for organic results (i.e. ? not the paid ones)
• 75% of users?never scroll past the first page?of search results
• 80% of unsuccessful searches are followed by a revised search
• 91% of email users have unsubscribed from a company email they had previously opted-in
• 40% of SEO marketing campaigns achieve a ROI (return on investment) of 500%
• 22% of PPC (pay-per-click / paid advertising) campaigns are able to reach a 500% ROI
• Search is?the #1 driver of traffic to content sites beating social media by more than 300%
• 62% of American households are connected to the internet

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Don?t think this is just an automotive thing; I could have easily singled out Insurance Agents, Boutique Retail Stores, Attorneys, Restaurants, or Home Improvement companies ? each having unique strengths for specific keyword usage that largely goes un-tapped.

I often hear how business owners had assumed the person building their website would have done this keyword and website optimization to make their website discoverable on search.? While that was common just a few years ago, the complexity of search engine optimization [SEO] & search engine marketing [SEM] and of website design has divided them into separate disciplines over the years.? Just as it is unlikely that the person digging the foundation for a house will be the same person nailing the shingles on the roof ? so too is it unlikely that the same person designing your website has the same skills to successfully get it discovered by search engines and (most importantly) marketed to the right buyers.

SEO is the technical element that gets website pages discovered by search engines

SEM are marketing actions that get websites discovered by people

?Two of the most common pitfalls I see in keyword targeting are when businesses use industry-specific terms in their phraseology (unless of course they are targeting B2B), and focus on the words they want to be discovered by.?? Naturally, this only applies to businesses that have at least made a connection between their wordsmithing and their actual business.? It?s an easy mistake to make.

Instead of focusing on jargon and their own intentions ? businesses should concentrate on identifying the words people use to find them ? and weave these into their strategy. Research and ongoing analysis will spot these words and help single out trends and spikes.? I also advise businesses to consider what keywords/phrases will attract:

1. Their top-5 fastest selling items (services/products)
2. Their top-5 highest $ grossing items

For the second part of this name-game, businesses need to add their location reference within their digital assets to market their company locally?? so local buyers can discover them.? For existing businesses ? some careful word constructing will assure this does not detract from your existing brand identity.

The focus here is to do some local keyword research to see if your local identifier (i.e. town name)?should be added to the front or back of your principle keyphrase ? Rhode Island local marketing companies vs. Local marketing companies in Rhode Island for example.

Looking back at the original discussion over the naming of ?Town Collision Center?, I was thrilled to hear this business went with our advice by selecting ?Auto Body of Town? as their namesake.? When optimizing the business-side of websites, the in-between words of a page title such as?the, and, in, and in this case of,?are referred to as stop words ? and search engines will largely ignore these.? In this case, search engines will see this new business as?Auto Body Town?? and that?s about as tight as you can get with optimizing a local business.

TIP: You could alternate between a town name and/or a zip code for certain website elements.

Common areas to implement this new keyword strategy include:

• Website title
• Website anchor text (the blue-color text that has a website page linked to it)
• Social Media profiles & posts
• Blogs
• Business Profiles ? like LinkedIn, Yelp, and Google Places (being phased out by Google+)
• Website Image & Video
• Photo sharing sites (like Picasa & Pinterest)
• Maps and GPS software
• Hashtags #
• Print media & email marketing

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Local Inbound Marketing & SEO Specialist Named a Top Startup Business in New England; Rhode Island's award-winning and internationally published Sidewalk Branding Company has been getting business of all sizes discovered online since 1997 via the connectivity and optimization of digital assets such as website, local search, and social media.

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