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Australian Jesse Williams drafted in fifth round by the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Sunday, the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks drafted Brisbane, Australia native nose tackle Jesse Williams in the fifth round of the NFL Draft. Going into the draft, there were some expectations by the Brisbane Times and other media outlets that Williams might be selected in the first round. Injuries, which resulted in Williams being unable to participate fully in the NFL Combine, likely were reasons why he was not selected higher.

Gridiron football is not the most popular football code in Australia, with rugby league, rugby union, soccer, and Australian rules football all being more popular participation sports. Williams’ youth sporting career reflected this, with Williams playing rugby union until he was 15 years old at which time he switched codes and joined the local gridiron team, the Bayside Ravens. A year later, his playing ability earned him a scholarship offer from the University of Hawaii. He could not meet the university’s academic standards so eventually he attended Western Arizona Community College instead. In 2011, he transferred to the University of Alabama and played for the Alabama Crimson Tide for two seasons. Both seasons, his Crimson Tide team won the national championship.

Williams’ selection is unique amongst Australians as most Australians who have played in the NFL have been kickers. He is also only the second Australian ever to be drafted in the NFL Draft.

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18

Personal Injury Lawyer Get The Support You Need Right Away

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If you can no longer work because of an accident, you must contact a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. If you wait because you do not want to think of the trauma of the accident, it may wind up being too late to make any claims. In order for a personal injury lawyer to help you, you must get your case filed before the statute of limitations. This could be different from state to state and also could depend on the type of injury involved. Your best bet is to get in touch with a competent attorney as soon as possible. You need an aggressive and professional lawyer who can handle the complexity of the claim and get you what you deserve for compensation. A personal injury lawyer can also help you to see if you are entitled to social security benefits if you now have a permanent condition that does not allow for you to continue working. They have the skills to help you in getting the disability benefits that can provide for you and your family in your time of need. The attorney works diligently to help you because he will only be paid if you win your case. These layers live on the referral of word of mouth from previous successful clients. The personal injury lawyer you hire will first ask many questions as a way to discover all of the facts of your case. All of this information must me complete before they can go to the next step and talk about solutions and settlements. Eventually you will be put into a situation that will require answering questions that a lawyer from the other side will be asking. The lawyer that you choose should have the skills to know ahead of time what they may ask and the best way to answer the questions while remaining within the law. You personal injury lawyer should remain loyal and dedicated to your case. They will have the knowledge to represent you with skill and dignity. You will not feel hopeless with one on your side. They are trained to argue the case for you and know the laws to support your particular case. The more current your lawyer is with the new laws, the easier it will be for him to stay on top of things. This is why a dedicated lawyer is always attending conferences and seminars as well as continuing his education.The personal injury lawyer is prepared to defend you if you have been the victim of someone’s negligence. This could be something physical or psychological such as libel or slander. You should not have to suffer alone as a result of someone bad intentions. A lawyer will work diligently to protect your interests and find the assistance financially for you. Get your protection with an experienced professional to argue your interests as soon as possible.

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August

17

Australian government hopes to establish triage by phone

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Sunday, January 29, 2006

The Australian federal government hopes to slash hospital emergency department waiting queues by setting up a 24-hour national medical hotline.

A government source said that the National Health Call Centre Network would be manned by registered triage nurses 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. Triage nurses would perform a diagnosis over the phone based upon the description given by the patient. The patient would then be referred to the nearest emergency department, their local GP or pharmacy – as determined by the nurse.

The issue is expected to be discussed at next month’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra. It is believed that the states and territories are supportive of the system.

If agreed upon by COAG, the service will be jointly funded by state/territory and the commonwealth governments at a cost of $40 million a year. The service would take 18 months to set up.

The service will be ran from a centralised call centre and be managed by a private contractor.

Julia Gillard, the opposition’s spokeswoman for health said any national call service needed to be linked with local GPs and medical services.

Gillard claims that under a Labor government, an after-hours “Pizza Hut” style service would be implemented, with a single national number connecting to a local call centre.

“You would be talking to people in the locality you are in and who know the local services,” she said

The Australian Medical Association, an organisation representing more than 27,000 doctors in Australia has slammed the proposal saying it will only deter people from seeking appropriate medical treatment.

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17

Category:May 26, 2010

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17

Headline Writing Write Headlines That Get Your Article Read Part 2

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Headline Writing – Write headlines that get your article read – part 2

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Brian Cotsen

In part 1 we covered the importance of writing a great headline to grab your readers attention & get them to read your article in full.

Now we take a look at other ways of developing your headline style.

You need to think about your audience. Who is it that you are writing for?

For gossip and entertainment?

For those looking for financial advice – facts and figures?

For someone looking for exercise or health information – reliable and assuring?

For those browsing for ideas and pastimes?

Who are they and what are they looking for? Answering these two questions will set you on the right route to plan and write an article that will capture their attention… and from this you can then style the headline.

For example say that you’re writing an article aimed at someone who is searching for the right mortgage. That person will look for ‘facts’, ‘figures’, ‘surveys’ and even maybe a case study that they can identify with. The language will be business like & authoritative. Anyone reading would not expect lots of jokey thoughts and gossip in the article. On the other hand if you are writing your article aimed at someone searching for news on their favourite pop star, gossip, jokes and light frothy sentences will hit the mark.

You’ve got 5 seconds!

When writing your headlines remember that you only have about 5 seconds to grab your potential readers attention.

If they scan the list of headlines and yours doesn’t ‘pop out’ you’ve lost them forever.

Here are a few more styles that can help you to write a great headline.

The ‘Testimonial’ Headline

“I used ‘XY’s’ formula B … now I earn $ssss and have financial freedom”

Testimonials are very powerful, when they sound believable. Use them to help you sell a new product or idea.

The ‘News’ Headline – Make an announcement

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“It’s here at last! The breakthrough in internet marketing has arrived”

A great way for announcing new products and services, making the reader feel that they’re in at the beginning.

Also you may have noticed that I didn’t say ‘what’ it was… so you add an element of curiosity in the headline too.

The ‘Formula’ headline – tell them ‘how to’

“Follow these 3 simple steps to increase your writing speed”

How often are you looking for the solution to the problem? Well if the headline tells you that you can find the solution in just 3 simple steps… aren’t you going to want to read ‘what’ those simple steps are?

Often these headline begin with words like “How to” … “how to loose 5lb’s in 1 week… with just 5 minutes a day”. The secret is that the headline suggest that the solution will be revealed in the article.

The ‘Question’ Headline

“Do you hate the Gym? – How to have a gym workout without ever stepping inside one again”

The secret to this type of headline is to pose the question that you know most people will answer in a certain way… then you suggest that the answer will be given in the article. When writing this sort of headline… you need to be sure that the majority of your readers are going to agree with you … or they may just say “No… I love the gym” and never read on.

The ‘Order’ Headline… Do it now!

“Act now and save 1000 on your insurance this year!”

Giving a command focuses attention on a desired action that you want the reader to take on reading the article.

What ever style of headline you choose… make sure that you ‘Deliver’

What I mean is, if you suggest that you are going to tell them the solution to the problem, in the headline, you must give that solution in the article or at least tell them where the reader must go to find the solution.

Don’t refer to something in your headline and then not mention it in the article. This leaves the reader confused and cross… they’ll feel cheated and won’t trust you or read your articles again!

Add Value to your headline

Turn an ‘ok’ headline like “How to write a good headline” into a great one “Get your articles read – Writing headlines that GRAB!”

Short and sweet.

7 words is a good guide. If you’ve got more to say then put it in a sub-headline.

Need some more ideas… here are some words and run-ins that’ll help to attract readers attention:

– Activate, Achieve, Affordable, Amaze, Amazing, Avoid,

– Best, Breakthrough, Banish, Bounce back from …, Beginners guide to…, (the) Best & Worst ways to …., Budget,

– Captivate, Create, Cash in on…, Complete guide to …, ….. on the Cheap

– Discover, Discovery, Deliver, ….. Dreams come true,

– Eliminate, Essential, Energise, Essential elements, Exciting,

– Formula, Fantastic,

– Great, Gigantic, Guaranteed, Gain the…, Get the edge…, Good news when….,

– How to …, Hidden secret …, Hot tips on…,

– Incredible, Ingenious, Impossible (to miss),

– Just out…, Judge for yourself…,

– Kill, Killing,

– Love, Loveliest, Looking for…, Longing for…, (the) Last word on…,

– Master, Mastering, Must have, Must-know,

– No more, New, Newest, Never …. again, No-fail guide to….,

– Outrageous, Outrage, One time offer…,

– Powerful, Profit from, Perfect (solution, birthday gift, holiday,etc)

– Quick guide to, Questions & Answers to…, Questions that you must ask about….,

– Results, Revealed, Revelation, (the) Real…., Read this before….,

– Simple, Simplest, Secrets, Scientific, Shocking, Special report…., Strategies for…, Straight answers about…, (the) Solution to…,

– Ten Quick Tips, Tips, Tricks, Time-tested, Tactics, Top, Techniques, Thrifty

– Unbelievable, User-friendly ways to…, Unleash, Unlimited, Unique,

– Value added, Valuable,

– (7) Ways to…, What’s HOT and What’s NOT in…, When to … and when not, (the) Worst thing you….,

– You must try this…., You need to know how….,

I’m sure you’ll begin to think of hundreds of variations and improvements…. start writing them down now… and when you see a good headline… adapt it for your use.

Enjoy your writing

Regards

Brian

Brian Cotsen writes articles & reviews tools to help you succeed with your website or online internet affiliate marketing. For more great free articles visit http://www.simplewebsitemarketing.com

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17

Judge orders Paris Hilton to return to jail

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Friday, June 8, 2007

A day after being released to house arrest, Paris Hilton was brought back into court today in handcuffs, and ordered to serve out her sentence in jail.

Upon the judge ordering her to serve out the remainder of her full 45-day sentence in jail, Hilton was escorted from the courtroom screaming and crying. “It’s not right!” she shouted. “Mom!” she called out to her mother in the gallery.

Hilton was ordered to reappear in court as prosecutors and the judge who sentenced her expressed outrage that Sheriff Lee Baca released her from jail. A Los Angeles County spokesman said Hilton was released “due to a medical condition.” She was to be allowed to serve out her sentence at her home on King’s Road, fitted with an ankle bracelet, under house arrest.

But Judge Michael T. Sauer specifically said that Hilton was not to be placed under house arrest, and prosecutors are considering holding Baca in contempt of court.

“The decision whether or not Ms. Hilton should be released early and placed on electronic monitoring should be made by Judge Sauer, and not the Sheriff’s Department,” said Chief of the City Attorney’s Criminal Branch in Los Angeles, California, Jeffrey Isaacs.

A motion to have Hilton return to jail was filed by prosecutors just hours after her release yesterday. The hearing was scheduled to take place at 9:00 a.m. PT.

Sheriff’s deputies brought Hilton to the courtroom in handcuffs. She wore no make up, her hair was unkempt and she wore a gray sweatshirt over slacks. She cried all during the proceedings, her body shaking, and she would turn around to face her parents in the gallery and mouth the words “I love you.”

Reports first indicated Hilton would attend the hearing, but then was reported that she would be there by telephone. In the end, a court spokesperson clarified, saying that Hilton had been ordered to appear.

Hilton’s attorney, Richard Hutton, asked for a hearing in the judge’s chambers, in which testimony would be offered about Hilton’s medical condition. Sauer did not respond to that suggestion. Her attorneys also argued that it was up to the sheriff’s department to run the jail and decide how prisoners were to be housed.

Papers documenting Hilton’s medical condition were scheduled to be delivered to the court, but never appeared, with Judge Sauer noting the time during the proceedings and saying the papers still hadn’t arrived.

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17

Wikinews holds Reform Party USA presidential candidates forum

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Three men are currently seeking the presidential nomination of the Reform Party of the United States of America: small business owner Andre Barnett, Earth Intelligence Network CEO Robert Steele, and former college football coach Robby Wells. Wikinews reached out to these candidates and asked each of them five questions about their campaigns. There were no space limits placed on the responses, and no candidate was exposed to another’s responses before making their own. The answers are posted below in unedited form for comparison of the candidates.

The Reform Party is a United States third party that was founded in 1995 by industrialist Ross Perot. Perot ran as the party’s first presidential nominee in 1996, and won over eight percent of the popular vote, the highest percentage for a third party candidate since. In 1998, professional wrestler Jesse Ventura ran on the Reform Party ticket and was elected Governor of Minnesota. The party fell in prominence during the lead-up to the 2000 presidential election when it was plagued by infighting between ideological factions. In 2000, paleoconservative Pat Buchanan won the presidential nomination, and went on to receive only 0.4 percent of the popular vote in the general election. In 2004, the party opted to endorse consumer advocate Ralph Nader, but ended the year nearly bankrupt. In 2008, Ted Weill won the party’s presidential nomination, but appeared on the ballot in only one state and won a total of 481 votes.

The party is currently trying to rebuild and has opened several new state chapters. They will attempt to appear on the ballot in more states for the 2012 presidential election. The party is expected to nominate its presidential ticket during the National Convention this summer.

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Unions battle in Ohio over hospital workers

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The Service Employees International Union, a trade union in the United States and Canada, was trying to unionize 8,300 workers in nine different Ohio hospitals through elections that were scheduled for this Wednesday and Friday. But then organizers from a second union, the California Nurses Association, visited the hospitals to encourage the workers to vote not to join the S.E.I.U. These actions led to the service employees union on Tuesday asking to postpone the vote by workers at the nine hospitals, all which are a part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners system.

Andy Stern, the service president is quoted as saying, “nothing more than a flimsy cover for out-and-out union busting that we normally see from employers, not organizations that claim to care about workers.”

The California Nurses Association, said it dispatched organizers to Ohio because in its view the unionization efforts were part of a “sweetheart deal”.

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses association, condemned this agreement. She called it “a rigged scam” in which the service union would bargain without care if they won the vote.

“This was a top-down deal between an employer and a hand-picked union,” Ms. DeMoro said. “There was a gag order on everyone, and as a result this was a banana republic election.”

“As for the future,” DeMoro said, “no election is planned.” She said that delaying the election was “a significant victory for employee rights.”

Dave Regan, president of a service employees’ local representing 35,000 health care workers in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, called the nurses union’s conduct as, “Their conduct is indistinguishable from that of the most vicious anti-union employers,” Mr. Regan said. “It violates every principle of unionism. Real people are worse off today as a result of their behavior.”

Orest Holubec, spokesman for Catholic Healthcare, said the system’s hospital in Lima had obtained a restraining order to bar the California nurses from entering restricted patient-care areas and aggressive leafletting outside hospitals. “They were doing exactly the kind of things we were trying to avoid,” Mr. Holubec said. “They poisoned the well to the degree that we didn’t have the conditions that we tried to establish for a pressure-free environment.”

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14

Home Health Care: The Finest Package To Stay Healthy}

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Submitted by: Amanda Berry

A home health care is the answer to your long-time agony of restoring your most treasured health without living in a hospital. During this age and time, the number of people with chronic diseases, mentally challenged and physically incapacitated is growing. Thats why health care services that are delivered at home are of great significance to their lives. It includes the finest package to restore your health and eventually be in good physical shape.

The idea of living in the hospital to meet your medical challenges is really dreadful. Aside from the costly medical procedures in a health care institution, you also find it uncomfortable to live each day of your life in the hospital. The development of health home care deletes this inconvenience. These services help you regain your optimal health. But this doesnt sacrifice the idea of quality services when you are in an excellent medical institution undergoing sophisticated treatments. These home care services use state of the art facilities and are delivered by experienced and competent medical staff. Through that you will never have to put your own health at stake.

But, what are really the services offered by this health home care providers? First, we have the language and speech therapy. Victims of a physically debilitating stroke can still recover their communication skills with the help of a competent speech therapist. Yes, it is a long process. But at the end, youll surely reap the fruits of your sacrifices. These services can also focus on educating the family. As we all know, prevention is always the best cure. These services also teach the significant knowledge needed by these individuals as they struggle in maintaining good health. They can also educate the family members of individuals who have chronic diseases of thing they should and shouldnt do if emergency occurs. They can further educate the youth against the evil and danger brought about by sexually-transmitted diseases. With this, you just cant provide worthwhile knowledge but can straighten their paths as well. Lastly, these services also concentrate in feeding the emotional and spiritual well-being of dying patients or those who have chronic diseases. They could still assist these individuals to attain a dignified death when their time comes or could still let hope shine despite the overshadowing of darkness, as in the case of chronically-ill patients. Whatever the purpose of health home care may be, its ultimate goal is to be a part of a patients life. Truly, these medical staff members want nothing but the best and quality life for their patients.

Being a part of a health home care staff is really mentally-taxing and physically-demanding. But, do you know what makes this career path worth the sacrifices? It is the smile of the patients whenever you touch them with care and their satisfied hearts whenever you smile back at them. At the end of the day, you can truly say that these services dont only provide purely medical treatment and health knowledge, but this career also touch lives as they become part of a patients heart.

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Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, London and Paris, befriending artistic luminaries such as Salman Rushdie and Sir Ian McKellen while writing about a family where he was jealous his sister was having sex with his father as he fought off his mother’s amorous pursuit.

The fact is, Edmund White exists. His life exists. To the casual reader, they may find it disquieting that someone like his father existed in 1950’s America and that White’s work is the progeny of his intimate effort to understand his own experience.

Wikinews reporter David Shankbone understood that an interview with Edmund White, who is professor of creative writing at Princeton University, who wrote the seminal biography of Jean Genet, and who no longer can keep track of how many sex partners he has encountered, meant nothing would be off limits. Nothing was. Late in the interview they were joined by his partner Michael Caroll, who discussed White’s enduring feud with influential writer and activist Larry Kramer.

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