Why would you pay to list your book?
The world today has changed. According to the Bowker Report of 7 September 2016, over 725,000 books were self-published in 2015 in the US alone. Combine this with the fact that we live today in a world that becomes more time-poor each day. Being a self-published debut author and expecting readers to pick up your book is like expecting to be selected for a highly sought-after job with no experience and no references.
When you list your book, it automatically appears on the front page of NetGalley as 'Recently Added'. You can also list your book under two genres. Each genre page will have five books which are on the front page as 'Recently Listed'. Your book is hence most visible when you first list it. It is on the front page of NetGalley and on the front page of the two genres that you list it on. As new books get listed, your book gets relegated further and further into the back shelves. In the first week and probably more precisely in the first two or three days, the book is most likely to be requested.
By the end of the first week of listing, 68 reviewers had downloaded my book. In the second week, it was down to nine downloads and by the third week it was down further to six requests. Hence, it is best to try and attract the most requests for reviews when you list your book as this is when your book has pole position.
Results: From the total of 83 downloads in the first three weeks, I received a total of 18 reviews.
How can I attract more reviewers when I list?
NetGalley functions like any other online bookshop. The only difference is that the publisher pays to list the book and reviewers get access to books for free.
In any online bookshop, the first thing that attracts a potential reader to a new writer is the genre. Once inside this section of the online bookshop, the reader browses the book cover and the title. If this attracts the reader to the book, the back cover blurb needs to seal the deal. NetGalley recognises just how important this book cover is and allows reviewers to vote on liking or disliking the book cover.
I keep hearing about this book!
As can be expected, as a new kid on the block, not backed by a publisher, I got about 6% who said it was because of the author and about 7% who said they had heard about the book. The rest came down to the book cover and the back blurb.
When is the best time to list your book as a first time self-published author?
Just paying to list your book does not mean it will get picked for review. At the time I listed my book some 7,000 books were also available for review on NetGalley from various publishing houses, both blue chip and bespoke. This means that even if you list your book, it is competing with books from established authors and publishing houses.
Reviews attract readers and NetGalley is no different. I would suggest that the best time for a debut author/publisher to list a book on NetGalley is after it has been listed on a consumer website like Amazon or Goodreads and has received a few good reviews.
I soon learnt that unless your book generates interest on some of the consumer forums like NetGalley Readers or NetGalley Addicts on Goodreads, after the first three weeks, you will need to invest in some marketing package to get your book noticed. After the first three weeks, the downloads on the book had almost stopped.
In an attempt to revive interest in my book, I paid $75 to get my book listed as the Category Spotlight book on the popular Mystery and Thrillers page for one week. The book was placed for a week on the front page of the Genre with a small promotional text box.
Results: The book got 22 requests for reviews during that week which generated 12 reviews.
The package I had paid for when I joined included not just the listing, but also for inclusion of the book in one NetGalley Newsletter of my choice. It should be noted that if you book the Newsletter at the time of listing, it is an additional $200 to the listing price, but if you book it separately it costs $550. I selected the Debut Author's Newsletter at the end of August 2016.
During that same week, I also listed the book as a Featured Title on the front page of NetGalley for an additional $65.
Results: The Newsletter and the Featured Title promotion together raked in 105 requests for reviews which generated 25 reviews.
I ran no promotions for seven weeks from 7 September to 29 October. This gave me an idea of how the book would perform in the absence of marketing programs.
Results: The book attracted another 19 requests for reviews over this seven week period and yielded five more reviews.
Results: By the end of the fourth month, I had received and granted requests from 284 people to review the book. Not every reviewer who requests your book will write a review. I had received 81 completed reviews. So for every 7 requests, I received 2 reviews.
Can you approach reviewers to download your book through NetGalley?
No. There is no database of NetGalley reviewers you can write to via NetGalley. There are eBlasts which you can pay for, where NetGalley sends an email to targeted reviewers to consider reviewing your book.
In early November, on the advice of Australian eBook Publisher who managed the editing and publishing of my book, I decided to try out NetGalley's eBlast program. Here for a princely sum starting from $600, NetGalley sends out an email to targeted users. I chose the $700 eBlast to horror, thriller and historical fiction fans in the United States. As the buyer, you get to draft the dedicated eBlast, or Netgalley offers to design one for you at no additional cost.
The eBlast attached below was sent to more than 19,300 US members and approximately 6,480 opened the emails, of which approximately 470 reviewers downloaded the book. The key advantages I saw from this was that the book was being put in front of a lot of people and hopefully would generate a lot of reviews.
I decided to follow it up with a similar eBlast to all UK and Australian readers which cost me a similar amount, namely £500 (UK Pounds). This eBlast was sent to 31,000 reviewers and approximately 326 reviewers downloaded the book.
Results: The two eBlasts run in the month of November cost approximately $1,400 and a total of 796 reviewers downloaded the book. To date 121 reviews have been received and reviews from these eBlasts are still coming in.
The first thing you will notice is the quality of most NetGalley reviews. These are detailed reviews which highlight what the reviewer liked and did not like about your book. Most NetGalley reviewers take a lot of pride in their reviews and hence these reviews are extremely well written. I was fortunate to attract a lot of positive reviews earlier on and this probably encouraged a lot of other reviewers to pick up my book.
I have provided a positive Amazon review and a Goodreads review to give you a flavour of the quality of the reviews.
Some NetGalley reviewers have a large following and if you are lucky to attract one of these members, you will see discussions on their posts leading people to your book. Here is one such NetGalley review which appeared on Goodreads.
Reading reviews on your book is a bit like watching your child perform on the big stage. Reading good reviews is easy, yet you must know there will be some who just don't like the play or the sets or the director or your child's performance. It's the balance of life; you cannot have people loving your book without others hating it.
NetGalley is considered a benchmark for getting honest reviews and that means good and bad reviews. Just as the positive reviews from NetGalley are amazing and detailed, the critical reviews can be scathing. I got a few NetGalley critical reviews, which had gems of constructive criticism balanced with positive feedback on what worked in the book. If there was one criticism I had, it is that whilst reviewers were very careful not to have spoilers in positive reviews, the one and two star reviews often ignored this etiquette.
People today are time-poor. We read to be entertained, educated and empowered. I would prefer it if someone steered clear of my book because it dealt with subject matter they would not enjoy and that's what negative reviews can do very well. In some strange way, well-written negative reviews validate the positive reviews a book has received and make them credible. The best outcome a negative review can have is to spark a debate between reviewers. I was not so lucky.
At the time of writing, I had received feedback on NetGalley from 272 members, of which 236 submitted reviews, of which 214 rated the book.
From my NetGalley listing, I have received more than 50 blog reviews to date. Not all blog reviews are positive but NetGalley is all about honest reviews.
At the end of their submitted reviews, reviewers are surveyed on whether they are interested in connecting with the publisher or author for events such as author interviews or giveaways. Approximately 30% of reviewers indicated an interest in connecting with the author. To date, I have had Giveaways run by three NetGalley members.
The Geeky Bibliophile (US), Abby's Shelves (India) and Tome Tender (US).
I had two author interviews run by Foxy Reads (US) and Life Has a Funny Way (UK).
One NetGalley reviewer ran a Christmas story on her popular blog—The Gal in the Blue Mask.
The Feedback Page also logs Social Shares which indicates the number of times a NetGalley member shares their review via social media, and how many of their followers clicked to read the review. That link directs their followers to a special landing page with the book cover, description, the text of the NetGalley member's review, and links to purchase or pre-order the title. The Devil's Prayer had received a total of 888 social shares to date. Attached is an example of a NetGalley review page.
To date my horror-thriller/historical fiction book The Devil's Prayer has been downloaded by approximately 1,300 NetGalley members. It has received feedback from 272 members including 237 reviews.
More than 90% of the 200 plus text reviews on Goodreads, 150 plus reviews on Amazon.com (USA) and 50 plus reviews on other Amazon marketplaces have all come from NetGalley. Over 50 blog posts have been written on the book by NetGalley readers and I have collaborated with six NetGalley members to date, to run promotions of the book on their websites. The book is currently in the top 25 Most Requested books on NetGalley and the Most Requested book in the two genres Horror and Historical Fiction under which it is listed.
A NetGalley listing lasts for six months. I decided in December to extend my listing for another six months for three reasons.
This was the only place I felt my book was actually getting some attention.
I was still receiving reviews and believed that having a listed book would encourage more reviews.
Not all the reviews I had received had been re-posted on commercial sites and I did not wish to see these reviews archived as yet.
I opted for another $599 package which I negotiated with NetGalley staff to get another eBlast to all members in India, Canada, Spain, Germany and Italy. This went out to 18,700 members and another 100 potential reviewers downloaded the book.
I will update this post with the results from this extension as The Devil's Prayer will be listed on NetGalley until June 2017.
Thanks for this very detailed account. I am an author and also a Netgalley reader. It surprises me that you did not receive a higher percentage of reviews from your downloads. I feel totally obligated to review when I receive a free book from this service.
Do you have an option to ask when you would like your review to be posted on blogs and social media?
Thanks Wendy. To the best of my knowledge, the only way you can ask a reviewer/ blogger to post on social media is to write to them.
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Great article and a brand new perspective on the topic. Good luck with your ventures and will look out for you in future.
I also came across this on Quora.
Lovely overview! Very detailed. I'm with a hybrid publisher, and this provided lots of useful information towards leaning me further to set my book(S) up in Netgalley. The stats info I found quite useful!
To prospectives, Netgalley makes sure reviewers seriously want to be there. You need to be in some sort of bookish industry (blogger, librarian, bookseller, professional reviewer, etc) to be allowed to join. Since that is the case, you get better quality reviews. I review through them, as well as professionally with San Francisco, Seattle, and Manhattan Book Reviews, and via independent request.
*hangs head* I am one of those who doesn't fill out the quicky survey, so I found this feedback useful too. I'll do better in the future.
Have you ever wondered about the Netgalley experience from the author's point of view? Luke Gracias gives an in-depth look at how authors benefit from a Netgalley listing, breaks down the numbers on his novel's request-to-review ratio, and much more.
Great post – thank you for sharing your experience. I'm considering listing one of my titles with NetGalley and have been looking for information about whether it's worth it and what to expect. This fit the bill perfectly. Congratulations on getting so many reviews and having an overall positive experience.
This was exactly what I needed to know right now. Thanks for sharing. My pub date is June 15, 2017. I already have a few book blog reviewers lined up, so it makes sense to wait to post on NetGalley until after I have gathered a few positive reviews. Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing. I can calculate how many reviews you received per dollar you spent, but I have a follow-up question for you: did the reviews have a direct impact on your sales?
In other words, did you make back what you invested in NetGalley in book sales?
Hi David, in my case it has not returned the money I invested to date. There have been some positive such as the paperback being distributed by Crossword, the largest bookstore chain in India since early September 2017 and the book being picked up for conversion to film but the sales have not been great.
1) It's all about getting eyes on your product, but neither paid promotions nor reviews guarantee quantity or quality of said eyes.
2) It's very easy to spend a lot of money and not get much/anything out of it.
3) The same tactics that worked for one person won't necessarily work for the next.
All of which leaves me in a just-try-something-and-see-what-happens situation, which is far from appealing!
The best advice I got was from a 23 year old who made it on Instagram. You keep posting and then one day you wake up and a post has gone viral and you have some 25k new followers overnight". You just have to keep pitching in the right spots… if you have a good product eventually it will get in front of the right people.
Yes, thanks for sharing these details, very informative and much appreciated. My question/comment is similar to David's above. In your mind, would you say that this exercise was worth the expense? And, if you did it over, would you cut back on certain of the value options, and expand more on others that NetGalley offers? Do you think you could have done without several of the options you selected and used? And have you done a cost analysis (and a thumbsuck) to determine if you had not used NetGalley at all, and did other forms of marketing, would your cost/revenue ratio be better, worse, or similar?
Really tough to say Chris. I think the correlation between reviews and sales is a hard nut to crack. The best results I have had are with the book being distributed on book shelves in India and this would not have happened without the reviews. Namely, a large book company would not agree to place it on their shelves without it. I agree I tried everything wiht NetGalley but most publishers and established authors do not need to do that. From the 1,000 odd people who downloaded it from NetGalley, I have got about 200 reviewers who would pick up a sequel or another book i wrote and review it, if i placed it again on NetGalley. I doubt i would need to spend the same amount as many reviewers would automatically get an invite to review my book. Was it worth the expense? As a writer, the amount of effort put into writing a book is ridiculous. You have to throw everything to get readers to pick your book up. I have found instagram a good medium and nothing beats the old fashioned book shelf.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and this valuable information! Have you been able to make a correlation between the NetGalley promotion and an increase in sales? As in, do you think these promotions increased actual sales of the book?
Hi Adrienne, To date, the investment in NetGalley has not paid back in sales. The book got exposure which has helped with getting it into a prestigious book chain in India.
I am philosophical that you just have to keep getting reviews and hopefully one day one will get noticed.
I really appreciate all the data.
This is the best article about NetGalley, especially for authors.
I've reviewed 60+ books on NetGalley.
I'm shocked that only about 20-30% review the books they check out.
You admit that the Netgalley investment didn't pay for itself.
And yet you double-downed on your bet by extending your stay for another 6 months.
If you got a negative ROI, why did you throw more money at it?
Was it simply your quixotic hope that "this time it will be different"?
While I love being a NetGalley Reviewer, I'm unconvinced that it's worth being a NetGalley Author.
It seems that spending your marketing dollars elsewhere would be wiser.
In terms of doubling down, I did not spend much in the second six months other than the listing fee, and the book got another 600 downloads and 100 plus reviews from it. The reason I spent more was in hope that the book would eventually get in the hands of a popular reviewer with a big following or gain further momentum. It was not that I expected it to be different but that it was gaining momentum which i did not wish to lose.
In terms of doing it again, it is a hard question to answer. As a first time author, it is all about getting reviews and you hope this will draw people to your book. The reviews have been good, the book has around 350 text reviews but only 450 ratings at an overall score of 4.0 out of 5, which means a lot of people have reviewed the book, liked the book but it has not lead to many people picking it up. (Generally most books with 350 text reviews have thousands of ratings). NetGalley promises you reviews and on that it delivered. I do not know if there is a direct correlation between reviews and sales.
I have no idea how I could spend marketing dollars better.
People are time poor and I think it is hard for any new author to get noticed. I have tried Goodreads Giveaways, amazon giveaways, Facebook marketing, twitter, plus promotional blog sites in India where the book has been available as a paperback and none have really worked either. I have a vimeo video which was promoted on Facebook which you can see which has 80k likes and 2 comments https://vimeo.com/156061258 and I am inclined to think that something does not add up at all. I have had some success with Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_devills_prayer/ which I started in December 2017 and now have about 2.5k followers but it is probably because my book has amazing and interesting locations. I have tried Insta giveaways and have to say this was probably the best bang for buck so far.
If I had to do it again which I may have to when i finish the sequel… I would give NetGalley another go. Reviews good and bad are forever and accumulate. I have over 100 reviewers who are auto approved on request and will definitely pick up the book. I would also spend more on Instagram. I am in the process of getting my book into a film as it was originally a film script and I guess if it takes off the book will sell. If you have any ideas on marketing I am all ears.
I have realised that a lot of effort goes into writing a book and marketing it. From the feedback thus far, my book has been rated highly but in terms of getting it noticed thus far it has been hard yakka.
Luke, thanks for the reply.
I figured out why you're not getting more sales.
Your Vimeo video has a link to Amazon's India page.
There the price is 236.
Someone who's not paying attention may think that's $236 (not 236 rupees).
And there are only 38 reviews there vs. 207 on Amazon.com.
Also, you said that your Vimeo video has 80k "likes." It has 80k VIEWS and 9 likes.
Regardless, all this are impressive numbers.
Most indies would be happy with hundreds of reviews and a video with 80k views! Amazing!
The one thing you haven't mentioned is your # of sales.
You keep suggesting that your sales are disappointing.
Maybe what you think are bad sales are relatively good.
Have you sold 10,000 ebooks? Or made $30,000 in a year?
Also, given your beautiful cover, it's unclear why you didn't make it also available as a paperback/hardcover. POD makes it easy.
I have always thought that reviews on Amazon were pretty much the second most important thing after my sales numbers and that when it came to people deciding whether to buy my book Amazon reviews were second only to word of mouth recommendations. That all said I have remained dubious about paid review services – do they really provide bang for your buck?
Having read this review it sounds like a clear, no they do not. It also seems that having Amazon reviews by the bucketload is not a magic bullet to high sales figures. Based on what I have read in this review of NetGalley I would conclude that this money can be much better spent by new / Indie authors.
I write in non-fiction categories so it may be my situation is very different and perhaps lower numbers of reviews are less frowned on for me as I do note that decent novels seem to accrue more reviews far more rapidly than indie non-fiction works. We are typically covering smaller niche areas anyway.
My book from April 2017 had just 39 reviews on Amazon.com and 11 on Amazon.co.uk (both at 4.5 avg) as well as 62 ratings and 9 reviews on Goodreads (4.2 avg). That is probably not a great result if contrasted against fiction novels I guess, but for my situation, I think it is pretty awesome. I am writing in human origins with no relevant academic qualification and almost no pre-existing fan base in that niche. I did manage to get a foreword from a bestselling non-fiction author and he promoted my work on his social media a few times.
I generated about $1000 in sales revenue for last 90 days and my book is $9 / $4 to purchase. That is not going to go down as a historic success by any stretch, but with many odds stacked against me it is probably not too awful (grim though it feels sometimes). There was some better months in the previous period but never anything astonishing.
The biggest success I have had outside of doing radio shows, writing guest articles, blogging and having the support of the said bestselling author – has been paid Amazon marketing. Typically it works out for me that I pay between 30 – 40% of my cover price per sale, meaning that I make about a dollar from each book sold after that and any print or delivery costs for Amazon (as I am a KDP author).
I have not found paid marketing at Facebook, Goodreads or Bookbub did much for me – though I did not spend huge amounts and maybe my ads were not good enough. So far beyond the things, you can do for yourself I have only found Amazon's in-house ads work out. My budget has always been small and this means there are probably better, more expensive, services for authors that might work much better but that I have not been able to explore and test.
Well, I hope this all helps somebody!
Thanks Bruce, I really dont know what the answer is. My book was recently re- released last week in print format in India only and it is doing Ok but ebook sales worldwide have never really picked up. I always thought that if you have a good book, then you just have to get about 200 or 300 people to read it and then hopefully word of mouth will get it out to the market. There are tons of blog reviews done, about 8 – 10 author interviews plus many reviews but its been slow.
Based on what you have said I now think reviews are not as important or helpful for generating sales as I believed. Well, I still think it is very important to have at least 10+ good reviews, but I think that after a certain number it is no longer making much difference for generating sales.
1. Paid marketing a mix of such channels, test your options until you find the right mix for your book. It is easy to spend as much as you make, or more, if not careful. Run A/B tests and compare different services.
2. Mainstream media is essential unless your book gets in a large distribution newspaper, magazine, radio show, TV program or other mainstream channels it will almost certainly never have general recognition and strong sales. Any good PR agent will help you achieve this for a fee.
3. Get a social media influencer or celebrity to recommend your book. 100 5 star reviews by unknown readers are not worth even one tweet from a single celebrity or brief mention on a video by a well-known Youtube celebrity. Humans are sheep and follow the herd, if they are told to buy your book by the person they follow, they almost certainly will buy it, even if they never bother reading it.
4. Lots of good luck or maybe paying a powerful wizard to bless your manuscript!
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Just wanted to give kudos for this well-written and informative post. I'm just now getting my "NetGalley feet" wet.
I read this post just as I was signing up for NetGalley. I got about 70 people who downloaded book, of which about 10 or 11 have posted a review as of this date. From the school of "watch out what you ask for", NetGalley "netted" my book its first 2 negative reviews.One was a personal attack and the other was disappointed in the ending(it's a memoir).
I'm wondering if it's better to solicit reviews from readers who have already made positive comments about the book, though that might indeed severely limit the amount of reviews I'd garner.
I also got a few negative reviews of which some were great as these contained constructive criticism. Unfortunately, if your book is liked by some, it will be hated for the same reasons by others – that's just par for the course.
I would ask them and also make sure you write to the netgalley people who submit a review to Netgalley to repost it on Goodreads and Amazon or wherever your book is being sold.


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Jessica Cabrera is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and a graduate of the UC Irvine Law, Society, and Culture Emphasis. Her work explains how feminist Title IX anti-harassment laws in the U.S. came to be influenced by men's rights groups, and offers strategies for how feminists and progressives can prevent civil rights laws from becoming co-opted by right wing groups. Jessica's dissertation research is supported by the UC Irvine Center for Organizational Research, the UC Irvine Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and the UC Irvine Initiative to End Family Violence. She is a Fellow with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, and earned a Visiting Student Researcher position at the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society starting in August 2021. This year, she was accepted to speak on her work at the United Nations Commission for the Status of Women with Sociologists for Women in Society. Some of her work has been published in The Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality, and the Law, as well as The Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Follow her on twitter @winbackTitleIX
Alexis de Coning is a South African immigrant to the United States, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation considers the history and development of the men's rights movement, and focuses on the movement's transition from print to digital media from 1990 – 2010. She uses print and digital archives, interviews, and ethnography to explore the ways in which earlier manifestations of the movement impact its use of networked technologies today. Her broader research interests include public sphere and democratic theory, online communities, and food politics.
Ryan Coulling (he/him) is a recent PhD graduate from Carleton University. Broadly, his research is grounded in aspects of social justice. He is especially interested in the violence and harassment by people of privilege directed towards marginalized people. This research interest culminates in the investigation of white, heterosexual, male, right-wing extremists, their emotional and affective reactions, the hate and fear they circulate, and the violent crimes they commit. His doctoral research examined antifeminist masculinities on the manosphere.
Ryan is mentoring Luc Cousineau, a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo.
Alex DiBranco is executive director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Her writings on male supremacism and incel terrorism have appeared in the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism Journal and The Public Eye quarterly, a publication of the think tank Political Research Associates. She has provided trainings and advice on male supremacist ideology for social justice organizations such as Western States Center, National Domestic Workers Alliance, and SURJ. DiBranco has been interviewed about her work by outlets including NPR, The New Republic, the Chicago Tribune, Think Progress, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. She has a chapter in the book News of the Right published by Oxford University Press, drawn from her in-progress dissertation analyzing how the U.S. Right built sustainable infrastructure and political power from the 1970s through 1990s. DiBranco is a Sociology Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, affiliated with the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, and a 2019-2020 Dangerous Speech Project Global Research Initiative Fellow. Follow her on twitter @alexdibranco.
Pierce Dignam is a fifth-year PhD candidate at Florida State University's Department of Sociology. He studies the intersection of social movements, gender, collective identity, and politics in the digital age. His recent work focuses on the social movement dynamics of semi-anonymous Alt-Right spaces on Reddit, an analysis of the working-class appeals made by Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign, and an investigation into Trump's supporters political allegiance based on cultural understandings of masculinity and anti-establishment politics. His work has appeared in publications such as Race, Gender and Class, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Men and Masculinities.
Molly Dragiewicz is Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Australia. Dragiewicz is an internationally award-winning criminologist who studies violence and gender. Her book Equality with a vengeance: Men's rights groups, battered women, and antifeminist backlash (2011) examined antifeminists' failed effort to use an equal protection lawsuit to de-fund domestic violence shelters in Minnesota. She is currently working on research about technology-facilitated coercive control, domestic violence, and antifeminism. Dragiewicz is highly involved in interdisciplinary, collaborative research with community organisations working to end violence against women. She is a frequently invited speaker and trainer for judicial officers, lawyers, first-responders, domestic violence advocates, and universities. She serves on the Board of Queensland's Domestic and Family Violence Death Review. Dragiewicz won the 2019 Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime; 2018 Domestic Violence Prevention Leadership Award from the Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast.
Chelsea Ebin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. Her dissertation examined how conservative Catholics and Protestants formed an enduring coalition and mobilized throughout the latter half of the twenty-first century. She is now working to expand this work to incorporate a fuller analysis of how race and gender played into the construction of a conservative Christian identity that was premised on victimhood and to look more closely at how the Religious Right utilized prefigurative politics. Ebin has also written about religious freedom and competing rights claims, and the danger these claims pose to the rights of historically marginalized groups. Most recently, she has begun investigating how conservative white women's political ideologies are informed by discourses of white and male supremacy. Ebin received her Ph.D. in Politics from the New School for Social Research in 2018. Recent publications by Chelsea include "The Great American Rights Bake Off: Freedom of Religion v. Freedom from Discrimination," co-authored with J. Ricky Price and "Paul Weyrich: 1968 and the Roots of a (Catholic) Radical" (forthcoming).
Greta Jasser is a PhD student at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her thesis analyses US far-right online networks across webpages, social media and alt-tech platforms. She is particularly interested in far-right and misogynist ideologies, networks and movement innovations. Her work has been featured in Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right: CARR Yearbook (2019/2020) and Okulare Demokratie.
Annie Kelly is a Ph.D. student researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far right. Her work examines digital influence and gendered performance as political processes in new media. Her writing has appeared in Soundings journal and The New York Times.
Megan Kelly (she/her/hers) is a PhD student at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel. Her dissertation analyzes 'red pill' and 'black pill' narratives as radicalization narratives into male supremacism. She is particularly interested in identity formation, misogynist ideologies, and relations between different male supremacist identities.
Robert Lawson is an Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at Birmingham City University. He has held posts at the University of Pittsburgh (Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar, 2012-13) and the University of Jyväskylä (Junior Visiting Professor, 2019-2020). He has publications in several major international journals, including Discourse, Context and Media, English World-Wide, Gender and Language, Social Media + Society, and Journal of Sociolinguistics. He is the editor of Sociolinguistics in Scotland (Palgrave, 2014), the co-editor of Sociolinguistics: Application and Impact (Routledge, 2016), and is working on a research monograph about the intersection of language and masculinities across different contemporary contexts (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His current research interests include language and masculinities in online spaces, language in the public eye, and developing public engagement with sociolinguistic research.
Matthew N. Lyons analyzes male supremacism as a major thread connecting different branches of the right, while exploring diverse right-wing male supremacist responses to issues such as family, sexuality, reproduction, women's political participation, and the role of the state. He writes regularly for Three Way Fight, a radical antifascist blog, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, New Politics, Socialism and Democracy, and other publications. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and contributed the title essay to the book Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right. He is co-author with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America. Lyons is co-trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust.
Ashley A. Mattheis is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Communication and a Doctoral Fellow with the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right. Mattheis' work explores the use of online platforms to promote and mainstream extremist ideologies and divisive practices. Her research includes the use of anti-feminism as a tool for radicalization, linkages between what has been termed the "Manosphere" and the Far/Alt-Right, and analyses of the visual rhetoric of meme series connecting Incel imagery to racialized radical right violence. Mattheis' dissertation explores the ways that women use motherhood as a mechanism of recruiting other women into extremist ideologies. Her publications include "Gendered Hate Online," in the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. Follow her on Twitter at @aamattheis
Ashley is mentoring Pratiksha Menon, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.
Shannan Palma (she/ her/ hers) is the Founding Faculty Director of the graduate program in Writing and Digital Communication and an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Agnes Scott College. Her research focuses on how and why people get invested in stories, symbols, and ideas that are not in their own best interests. She is currently midway through a trilogy of articles tracing the social construction of incel identity back through "Beauty and the Beast" tales and contemporary media portrayals of nerd and geek masculinities. Fairy-Tale Logic applies insights from folklore and myth scholarship and participatory culture to expose how the logics of misogyny and white supremacy are replicated across generations. An alum of The OpEd Project, Palma also cohosts Once Upon a Patriarchy, an anti-oppression podcast exploring the long-term impact of Disney's animated films on adults' conceptions of gender, race, sexuality, and belonging. She earned her PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a PhD Certificate in Film and Media Studies from Emory University. Follow her on Twitter at @shannanpalma.
Meredith L. Pruden is a Presidential Fellow with the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative (TCV) at Georgia State University and a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication. Her focus lies in critical feminist media studies with specific attention to digital and visual cultures. Much of Meredith's recent work uses mixed methods (qualitative and computational) and focuses on extremist masculinist groups and their entanglement with other far-right ideologies. Her dissertation, titled "Maintaining Frame" in the Incelosphere: Mapping the Discourses, Representations and Geographies of Incels Online, explores involuntary celibate spaces across the web. She also serves as a doctoral research assistant on a Facebook grant exploring the internationalization of far-right publics. With a professional background as a journalist, Meredith's long-term goal is to be a public intellectual working at the intersection of academia and the popular press. To date, she has had academic research published in Communication, Culture and Critique on conservative populism and journalistic practice, in VISTA: Visual Culture Journal on memes as decolonial political struggle, and in the edited volume Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump on mediated misogyny and conservative populism. Meredith currently has work under review at Feminist Media Studies, Journalism Practice and two edited volumes and has presented her research at numerous conferences.
Simon Purdue is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate at Northeastern University in Boston, where he is doing research on gender, racism, and violence. His dissertation, entitled 'Intersectional Hate: The Politics of Race and Gender on the Global Extreme-Right, 1969-2009', explores the ways in which gender was constructed and weaponized within violent extreme-right organizations in the UK, USA, and South Africa. Simon's broader research interests include radical social movements, paramilitary violence, gender, and the radicalization process, and policing and police violence. Simon has developed and taught his own undergraduate course entitled 'The Global Far Right Since 1945: Politics, Culture and Violence', and has been invited to lecture on a broad range of topics related to his research. In 2020 Simon won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere and has also received funding from the Brudnick Center for Research on Conflict and Violence. He has written for Open Democracy, Fair Observer, and the Radical History Review, and has been interviewed for articles and podcasts including Jacobin's 'A People's History'. Simon is a doctoral fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right. He is also a network editor at H-Nationalism, and in 2017-18 served as an editorial assistant at Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Follow him on Twitter at @simon_p92.
Josh Roose is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne. Josh is particularly interested in the intersection of masculinity and violent extremism. He is currently working on two funded projects, the first (Victorian State Government 2019-2020) on the use of masculinity in recruitment narratives by extremist groups in Australia and the second (Australian Research Council 2020-2022), on the far-right, intellectuals, masculinity and citizenship. He is currently developing the concept of ideological masculinity as a framework for bringing male supremacism into the spectrum of activities considered as violent extremism. Josh has held visiting positions at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, New York University, Harvard Law School and most recently, the ICLRS at BYU. His new book is titled The New Demagogues: Religion, Masculinity and the New Populism (Routledge forthcoming 2020).
Josh is mentoring Mary-Meadhbh Park, a graduate student at University College Dublin.
Ann-Kathrin Rothermel is a research associate and PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam in Germany. She is also a research affiliate at the Berlin School of Transnational and Regional Studies. Her research investigates gendered processes of radicalization and de-radicalization. She has researched antifeminism and male supremacism online since 2014 when she wrote her Master's thesis on the global and local dimensions of antifeminist communities online. Her work on antifeminist movement dynamics, radicalization trajectories, and narratives of the manosphere from a transnational and critical feminist perspective have been published in International Affairs Journal, Social Politics Journal, and the German Research Journal for Social Movement Studies. In her PhD project, she combines her work on male supremacism and antifeminism with work in her core discipline of International Relations, where she focuses on how the United Nations' efforts to counter terrorism are inherently gendered.
Anna Schwenck is a cultural sociologist who works on the intertwining of authoritarianism, neoliberal capitalism, and supremacist masculinity in and beyond the Euro-American world. She completed her PhD at Humboldt University Berlin on the questions of how young people loyal to the government in today's Russia relate to the regime's 'flexible authoritarianism' and why they ground their quests for change in neoliberal solutions to social problems. At the time, she got intrigued by the role of popular culture in enabling and restraining the normalization of authoritarian beliefs, neotraditional worldviews, and neoliberal ideology.
In her current role as scientific coordinator of the trans-European and interdisciplinary project Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe, situated at Oldenburg University, Germany, Ms. Schwenck currently investigates popular music culture's capacity to diffuse masculinist, neoliberal and authoritarian worldviews and endue such abstract concepts with emotional meaningfullness. She is especially interested in the ways in which so-called ordinary citizens become susceptible to anti-democratic sentiment through forming convictions based on their emotions – which often anchor in widely accepted societal stereotypes about the alleged boundaries of moral behavior. Such boundaries are often perceived to be especially violated by certain "outgroups", an assumption which is mostly less absed on critical and systematic observation than on trust in the dominant convictions within an "ingroup".
Especially with regard to her research project on the ongoing protests of so-called Corona (or Pandemic) skeptics in German-speaking countries, Ms. Schwenck examines how positive experiences of commonality – through popular music, dancing, but also the collective, peaceful fight against a common enemy – may form new coalitions between diverse actors, possibly enhancing the normalization of neo-authoritarian beliefs among mainstream publics in liberal democracies. The primary focus on negative emotions such as anger or resentment in research on the normalization of authoritarian populism and conservative traditionalism risks to neglect the importance of those encounters and events which leave impressions of solace, hope, togetherness, and the possibility of a brighter future. Her research fruitfully combines empirical research methods traditionally applied in political and cultural sociology with questions posed by cultural studies and critical theory.
Erin A. Spampinato holds a PhD in English literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and specializes in the aesthetic and cultural history of gender and sexual violence. Her publications on the topic include "A Brief History of the Literary Incel," forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture and "Rereading Rape in the Critical Canon: Adjudicative Criticism and the Capacious Conception," forthcoming for differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. She also has an article on the culture of argument on Twitter forthcoming in the October 2020 issue of PMLA. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Prize for an outstanding feminist dissertation in the humanities and the Annette Kolody Award for best graduate student paper on a feminist topic at MLA 2019. Her current book project tracks the deployment of rape plots through the history of the novel. Other research explores the culture of sexual negotiation, projection, and violence in encounters between British and American travelers and residents of Oceania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Spampinato's non-academic writing has appeared in The Guardian and Electric Literature, among other venues. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Follow her on twitter at @spampinato_erin.
Hanah Stiverson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, titled, Radicalizing the Mainstream: The Icons and Ideologies of Cryptomasculinism and the Far Right, focuses on the networks and socio-political linkages between the far right and what is considered the mainstream. She is also interested in the relationship between social media platforms and the growth and spread of particular male supremacist ideologies. Hanah is a co-author of an upcoming book under contract with Routledge that looks at the spread of zoombombing and the racism and misogyny that informs virtual attacks.
Matthew Valasik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University. He earned his PhD in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine. Broadly, his research focuses on examining the socio-spatial dynamics of gang behavior (i.e., territoriality, group cohesion, and violence) building on the observation that street gangs are a localized phenomenon emerging, adapting, and socially interacting in a particular geography. This also includes comparing and contrasting the attributes of street gangs with other deviant groups (i.e., ISIS, racist skinheads, alt-right, white power groups). He is the co-author of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White, recently published by University of California Press, examining the rise of Alt-Right groups through the lens of street gang research. This book will be one of the first to conceptualize Alt-Right gangs and situate their existence across a broad range of academic literatures and current events. Additionally, other research of Matthew's on alt-right gangs has been published in the Journal of Youth Studies, Deviant Behavior, Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology, and Understanding Gangs in the Era of Internet and Social Media an edited volume by Springer. In addition to scholarly publications, his research has received coverage in mainstream media outlets such as The Conversation, The Washington Post's The Monkey Cage, The Guardian, and The Crime Report. Follow him on Twitter @MattValasik.

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Q: How to change the value of an array so that it can be output again Other codes have been completed,
but I don't know how to make a code to change the id and re-print it at the end.
I think it change getId() to id2.
So I tried, but the result I wanted didn't come out.
How to change this Id? Or is there a problem other codes?
plz help

A: Just to answer this question:
Change this code:
System.out.println("Enter id before change : ");
String id = in.next();
for (Member m : member) {
    if (id.equals(m.getId())) {
        System.out.println(m.toString());
    }
}
System.out.println("Enter id after change : ");
String id2 = in.next();
System.out.println("program exit");

to:
System.out.println("Enter id before change : ");
String id = in.next();
for (Member m : member) {
    if (id.equals(m.getId())) {
        System.out.println(m.toString());
        System.out.println("Enter id after change : ");
        String id2 = in.next();
        m.setId(id2);
    }
}
System.out.println("program exit");

But I would suggest you to use HashMap instead of Array for Members in main() method, to avoid iterating multiple times. I don't know what this code is meant to do to suggest further optimizations.


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Sydney born footballer spotted for the Australian National Youth team at the age of 10. Came to England at the age of 16 to pursue his footballing career and his scholarship allowed him to train and play for Leeds United FC. HIs successful 1997-8 season helped Leeds reach fourth place in the Premiership and a place in the UEFA cup. Voted Young Footballer of the Year in 1999/2000. By the start of the 2002/03 season, Kewell had scored 47 goals in 201 games for Leeds. Transferred to Liverpool in July 2003.
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HBA-ALS H.B. 3110 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS
Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3110
By: Longoria
State Affairs
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, councils of government provide a forum for regional planning, in
addition to functioning as pass-through agencies that facilitate the
implementation of state and federally funded programs. However, state law
limits the application for oversight and operation of regional planning
commissions and councils of governments. The purpose of this bill is to
provide provisions to strengthen the oversight and operations of such
commissions and councils of government.
H.B. 3110 authorizes the governor to issue rules for commission and
governmental units, which include regional planning commissions and
councils of government.  This bill sets forth reporting requirements of a
commission's governing body and prohibitions relating to the expenditure of
public funds.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking
authority is expressly delegated to the governor of the State of Texas in
SECTION 4 (Section 391.009, Local Government Code) of this bill.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 391.002(1), Local Government Code, to redefine
"governmental unit" to include a regional planning commission or council of
government.
SECTION 2.  Amends Sections 391.005(a) and (b), Local Government Code, as
(a)  Authorizes a regional planning commission (commission) to contract
with a participating governmental unit to perform a service if  the
participating governmental unit could contract with the state, another
governmental unit, or a private organization without governmental powers,
and the contract to perform the service does not impose a cost or
obligation on a participating governmental unit not a party to the
contract.
(b)  Deletes language authorizing the commission to participate in the
Employees Retirements System of Texas  when permitted by legislation or
administrative arrangement.
SECTION 3. Amends  Section 391.006, Local Government Code, by adding
Subsections (c), (d), and (e), as follows:
(c)  Requires the  governing body of a commission to establish salary
schedules for all employees, benefits available to employees, travel
approval and reimbursement policies, and procurement policies and
procedures.  Prohibits a commission salary schedule from being changed
unless the commission conducts a compensation study of market salaries and
benefits and  any changes to the salary schedule are consistent with the
study's findings.
(d) Requires the governing body of a commission to annually arrange for at
least eight hours of training for its members. Authorizes the training to
be provided as a part of other required training for governmental
officials. Requires the training topics to include  the personnel,
procurement, and travel policies of the commission; the duties of governing
body members;  compliance with open meetings, open records,
conflict-of-interest, and nepotism laws applying to the commission; and the
finances and work program of the commission, including audits and
contractual responsibilities to state and federal agencies.
(e) Provides that the nepotism provisions of Chapter 573, Government Code
(Degrees of Relationship; Nepotism Prohibitions), apply to a commission.
SECTION 4.  Amends Section 391.009, Local Government Code, by amending
Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (c)-(g), as follows:
(a) Authorizes, rather than requires, the governor to issue rules, rather
than guidelines, for commissions and governmental units to carry out the
provisions of this chapter including rules relating to review and comment
(c) Specifies a commission's annual reporting requirements to the governor
relating to operations, funds, expenses, assest, compensation policies, and
reports and audits.
(d)  Requires a commission to annually provide to the governor a copy of an
audit of the commission's accounts and other reports required to assure
compliance with this chapter. Requires the governor, upon determination
that there is a question about the appropriateness of an expenditure or
other action of a commission, to report the expenditure to the state
auditor for review.
(e)  Requires a commission, not later than the 30th day before the date of
the commencement its annual independent audit, to provide each state agency
that provides funds to the commission a written notice of its planned audit
and provide the state agency with an opportunity to specify audit
objectives of the agency to be addressed in the independent audit.
(f)  Requires a state agency to review a commission's most recent
independent audit before initiating a field audit of the commission and to
coordinate the conduct of the audits, including coordinating the requests
for information, the timing of audits, and the number of auditors on site
at any given time.
(g) Requires a commission to send to the state auditor, the comptroller,
and the Legislative Budget Board a copy of a report or audit required under
Subsections (e) and (f), as follows:
(e)  Prohibits a commission from using public funds, including funds
appropriated by the state, for specified purposes.
(f)  Requires a commission to comply with any provision of state and
federal law regarding the use of state or federal funds for lobbying or
advocacy.
SECTION 6.Effective date: September 1, 1999.
SECTION 7.Emergency clause.


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The Dodge County News
Wednesday, January 16. 2019
Happy birthday Robert E. Lee.
During a tour through the South in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt told the aged Confederate veterans in Richmond, Virginia, "Here I greet you in the shadow of the statue of your commander, General Robert E. Lee. You and he left us memories which are part of the memories bequeathed to the entire nation by all the Americans who fought in the War Between the States."
Saturday January 19, 2019, is the 212th birthday of Robert E. Lee.
Robert E. Lee, a man whose military tactics have been studied worldwide, was an American soldier, educator, christian gentlemen, husband and father.
Robert E. Lee was born at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia, on January 19, 1807. The winter was cold and fireplaces were little help. Robert's mother, Ann Hill (Carter) Lee, was also suffering from a severe cold.
Robert E. Lee undoubtedly acquired his love of country from those who had lived during the American Revolution. His father, "Light Horse" Harry, was a hero of the revolution and served as governor of Virginia and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of his family also signed the Declaration of Independence.
Lee was educated in the schools of Alexandria, Virginia. In 1825, he received an appointment to United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1829, second in his class and without a single demerit.
Robert E. Lee wed Mary Anna Randolph Custis in June 1831, two years after his graduation from West Point. Robert and Mary had grown up together. Mary was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Washington and the adopted son of George Washington.
Mary was an only child; therefore, she inherited Arlington House, across the Potomac from Washington, where she and Robert raised seven children.
Army promotions were slow. In 1836, Lee was appointed to first lieutenant. In 1838, with the rank of captain, Lee fought valiantly in the War with Mexico and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec.
Lee was appointed superintendent of The United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852 and is considered one of the best superintendents in that institution's history.
General Winfield Scott offered Robert E. Lee command of the Union Army in 1861, but he refused. He said, "I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children."
Lee served as adviser to President Jefferson Davis, and then on June 1, 1862, commanded the legendary Army of Northern Virginia.
In 1865 General Robert E. Lee met General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, and ended their battles.
Lee was called Marse Robert, Uncle Robert and Marble Man. He was loved by the people of the South, and adopted by the folks from up North.
Robert E. Lee was a man of honor, proud of his name and heritage. After the War Between the States, he was offered $50,000 for the use of his name. His reply was: "Sirs, my name is the heritage of my parents. It is all I have and it is not for sale."
In the autumn of 1865, Lee was offered and accepted the presidency of troubled Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. The school was renamed Washington and Lee in his honor.
Robert E. Lee died of a heart attack at 9:30 on the morning of October 12, 1870, at Washington-Lee College.
Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, "Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war."
Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., chairman of the
Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans
Confederate History and Heritage Month committee
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Q: How do I specify different getter and setter accessors for a Description in Magritte? By convention you specify only the accessor: and Magritte uses the same name for both. Some comments in the code and in the http://book.seaside.st say that it supports having getters and setters with different names. How?

A: You can use a MAPluggableAccessor, something like this:
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        priority: 30;
        label: 'Months';
        accessor: (MAPluggableAccessor
            read: [ :this | this periodMonths ]
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Shaniya Davis: It's Official; The Cops are Looking For a Body
Scores of volunteers are combing the area with police. Poor baby:
The Endangered/Missing poster for Shaniya Davis, put out by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (Courtesy: Examiner.com)
Police searching for 5-year-old Shaniya Davis in a wooded area off N.C. 87 near Sanford say they are looking for a body.
Based on "reliable information," they believe her body may have been dumped off Walker Road near its intersection with the highway, said police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.
About 250 people and two helicopters are searching both sides of Walker Road near where it intersects with N.C. 87. They include police and sheriff's deputies from Fayetteville, Sanford and Lee County, fire department personnel and civilians who live in the area and who know the woods.
At a press briefing at 10:30 a.m., Chance said people have been turning out in droves to offer help but no more volunteer searchers are currently needed. She said civilians who want to help can call the police at 433-1820 to volunteer.
Meantime, the State Highway Patrol issued a 'be on the lookout for' advisory this morning, saying that they're looking for a man who had been spotted with Davis. The man is believed to be about 60 years old and driving a blue Toyota, according to an official with the Highway Patrol. He may be in the vicinity of Raeford Road or Cliffdale Road.
Chance said police are following up any and all tips but are still concentrating their search for Shaniya on Walker Road.
At a press conference at the search site at 9 a.m. today, Chance said police had received some tips.
She said Mario Andrette McNeill, who has admitted to kidnapping Shaniya and is in custody, has been "extremely uncooperative" but has given some information to police.
Chance said McNeill is known to frequent Sanford. He was arrested Thursday after being identified as being with Shaniya Tuesday morning at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford. The two were seen on a surveillance tape at 6:11 a.m. Chance said police know McNeill left the motel with Shaniya at about 7:30 a.m. but they don't know what condition Shaniya was in at that point.
Events like this makes one want lose all hope in people.
~ by blksista on November 16, 2009.
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Home Blog Shipping Containers versus Storage Containers: Is there a difference?
For many, the definition of shipping containers and storage containers may be exclusive and while there are very few differences between the two, the container that's best suited to your needs will depend on a few things. In simplistic terms, a shipping container can be a shipping container or a storage container; but a storage container is never a shipping container. It's not surprising to see how those not clued up in the industry can struggle to know exactly what it is that they need.
These are transportable steel boxes, often available in standard sizes, that have the capability to ship a huge amount of goods across the world easily and at a cost-effective price. Shipping containers are made from CORTEN steel, making them robust and resistant to corrosion and rust. A great deal of shipping containers will be used at sea, and therefore have a lifespan of somewhere in the region of 15-18 years. After that, they can be used for the purpose of storage and have a secondary life of 10-20 years, depending on the environment they are placed in and how much care is given to them. Most shipping containers will come with a 12-month TxDMV license, allowing them to be legally transported at sea.
Available in a wide range of sizes, storage containers can be useful for any number of items. They can easily be transported from one location to another and used for the storage of residential items or commercial goods. In terms of Mobile Mini storage container units, the only real difference is that they are not shipped and no longer travel on sea.
They may be internationally recognised as the same thing but, to add to the confusion, the two can often be referred to by different names. Sea cans, sea containers, container vans, ISO containers, intermodal containers, cargo containers, and freight containers are some of the most common. Additionally, those who are seeking site storage for construction sites often refer to containers (specifically site accommodation) as cabins.
Mobile Mini is one of the leading providers of storage containers and site accommodation. Our storage containers are ideal for storage and our site accommodation can allow for offices, canteens, drying rooms, toilets, showers, and welfare units on any outdoor site.


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Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex with 3 students
CANTON (AP) — A former Ohio physical education teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with three students.
Former Canton City Schools teacher Tiffany Eichler entered the plea Wednesday to three counts of sexual battery.
The 36-year-old former McKinley High School teacher was accused of having sexual encounters with three male students, ages 17 and 18. Investigators say the encounters happened in February. Eichler was placed on unpaid leave in March and later resigned.
Sentencing is set for June 12.


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