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"As a lifelong Shelby Mustang fan, it was especially exciting to be the winning bidder of the 2020 Shelby GT500 VIN 001, the auction’s CEO and winner of the GT500, Craig Jackson, said in a statement. |
Ford revealed the GT500 along with the Explorer ST and Hybrid options back on Jan. 14 at the North American International Auto Show. |
The Shelby Mustang GT500 is highlighted by its expected 700-plus horsepower, and as being capable of a “mid-three-second” 0 to 60 mph time and scoring a time less than 11 second on its quarter-mile. |
The most powerful street-legal Ford of all time comes equipped with a 5.2-liter supercharged V8. |
West Virginia's Senate has rejected a motion that would have dismissed articles of impeachment against a retired state Supreme Court justice. |
In a 19-15 vote Tuesday, the Senate rejected the motion involving former justice Robin Davis. The chamber is serving as a jury in the proceedings. |
After the vote, Davis' trial was set for Oct. 29. |
Davis had retired hours afterward her impeachment last month. A conviction in upcoming Senate trials could mean a justice would be disqualified from holding public office. |
The impeachments stemmed from questions involving renovations to the justices' offices. Those questions evolved into accusations of corruption, incompetence and neglect of duty. Democratic lawmakers, who hold minorities in the House and Senate, have characterized the impeachments as an unprecedented power grab by the G... |
Renovations to Davis' office totaled $503,000. |
West Virginia's Senate president has rejected a proposed agreement that would have allowed two impeached Supreme Court justices to keep their seats. |
Senate President Mitch Carmichael said a resolution that would have censured justices Beth Walker and Margaret Workman was out of order. |
Ohio County Republican Sen. Ryan Ferns had objected to the resolution to approve the agreement, saying it was premature to make a decision without hearing any evidence. After a brief conference, Carmichael agreed. |
The deal had been reached between attorneys for the two justices and House of Delegates managers serving as prosecutors in upcoming impeachment trials. Under the agreement, Walker and Workman would have taken responsibility for the cost of renovating their offices and continued to implement reforms to improve the court... |
Instead, impeachment trial dates were set for Oct. 1 for Walker and Oct. 15 for Workman. |
In addition, a Nov. 12 trial date was set for suspended Justice Allen Loughry. |
A proposed agreement has been reached with two of four impeached West Virginia Supreme Court justices that would publicly censure the pair and dismiss impeachment articles. |
The agreement announced at the start of a pre-trial process Tuesday involves justices Beth Walker and Margaret Workman. It was reached with House of Delegates managers serving as prosecutors in the impeachment trial. |
The state Senate agreed to recess after the agreement was announced. The Senate is serving as a jury in the proceedings. |
Under the agreement, Walker and Workman would take responsibility for the cost of renovating their offices and continue to implement reforms to improve the court's administration. |
Workman's attorney, Ben Bailey, told the Senate the agreement is in the best interests of all parties. |
Four impeached Supreme Court justices in West Virginia are set for initial appearances before the state Senate. |
The Senate plans to meet Tuesday. The justices or their lawyers are to appear and a pre-trial conference phase is expected to begin. Trial dates have not been set. |
The House voted last month to impeach four justices. Justice Robin Davis resigned afterward. The other impeached justices are Allen Loughry, Beth Walker and Margaret Workman. |
A fifth justice, Menis Ketchum, resigned before the impeachment proceedings began. |
The impeachments stemmed from questions involving renovations to the justices' offices. Those questions evolved into accusations of corruption, incompetence and neglect of duty. |
Anxiety disorders are a set of related mental conditions that include: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social phobia, and simple phobias. Anxiety disorders are treated by a combination of psychiatric medications and psychotherapy. |
Anxiety, worry, and stress are all a part of most people’s everyday lives. But simply experiencing anxiety or stress in and of itself does not mean you need to get professional help or that you have an anxiety disorder. In fact, anxiety is an important and sometimes necessary warning signal of a dangerous or difficult ... |
When these symptoms are severe and upsetting enough to make individuals feel extremely uncomfortable, out of control, or helpless, it’s usually a sign of an anxiety disorder. |
Anxiety disorders fall into a set of distinct diagnoses, depending upon the symptoms and severity of the anxiety the person experiences. Anxiety disorders share the anticipation of a future threat, but differ in the types of situations or objects that induce fear or avoidance behavior. Different types of anxiety disord... |
Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in the United States. The most common type of anxiety disorder are called “simple phobias,” which includes phobias of things like snakes or being in a high place. Up to 9 percent of the population could be diagnosed with this disorder in any given year.... |
Anxiety disorders are readily treated through a combination of psychotherapy and anti-anxiety medications. Many people who take medications for anxiety disorders can take them on an as-needed basis, for the specific situation causing the anxiety reaction. |
Most people have experienced fleeting symptoms associated with anxiety disorders at some point in their life. Such feelings — such as having a shortness of breath, feeling your heart pounding for no apparent reason, experiencing dizziness or tunnel vision — usually pass as quickly as they come and don’t readily return.... |
Panic Disorder Symptoms – What is a Panic Attack? |
Anxiety can be caused by numerous factors, ranging from external stimuli, emotional abandonment, shame, to experiencing an extreme reaction when first exposed to something potentially anxiety-provoking. Research has not yet explained why some people will experience a panic attack or develop a phobia, while others growi... |
Like most mental disorders, anxiety disorders are best diagnosed by a mental health professional — a specialist who is trained on the nuances of mental disorder diagnoses (such as a psychologist or psychiatrist). |
Treatment of anxiety focuses on a two-pronged approach for most people, that focuses on using psychotherapy combined with occasional use of anti-anxiety medications on an as-needed basis. Most types of anxiety can be successfully treated with psychotherapy alone — cognitive-behavioral and behavioral techniques have bee... |
What’s it like to live with an anxiety disorder on a daily basis? Is it always overwhelming, or are there specific strategies that can be used to make it easier to get through the day and manage anxiety successfully? Anxiety disorders are so common that we might take for granted that a person can live their lives and s... |
Peer support for anxiety disorders is often a useful and helpful component of treatment. We offer a number of resources that can help you feel that you’re not alone in battling this condition. |
Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are sometimes considered anxiety disorders, they are covered elsewhere independently on Psych Central. |
National Institute of Mental Health. (2019). Anxiety. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/anxiety/index.shtml on March 9, 2019. |
STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman says she received more than 13,000 text messages and 600 calls after C-SPAN accidentally plastered her number on TV during the presidential debate. |
Media outlets report that 26-year-old Tripp Diaz of Stafford began receiving a barrage of texts Monday evening because C-SPAN had just put her number on TV, asking viewers to call and text to comment on the candidates' debate performances. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman says they got it wrong and they've apologized to... |
The presidential debate was the most watched in history, with more than 84 million viewers. |
Diaz says she's already made up her mind about who she's voting for, so the comments she got aren't influencing her decision — they're just driving her crazy. |
Luckily, Diaz says, she has unlimited text messaging. |
Provocative French-Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) might be the first to admit that his new horror-dance movie Climax isn’t necessarily something audiences haven’t seen before, but you might beg to differ. |
In Climax, Noé introduces moviegoers to a large group of dancers who are celebrating a successful day of rehearsals with an after-party at their studio. The evening begins with the dancers enjoying each other’s company – gossiping, drinking, and dancing – but spirals out of control when they realize the sangria they’ve... |
From there, Noé’s scriptless dance party transforms into a nightmarish scenario where the dancers slowly lose their minds and find themselves participating in some of the most deviant behavior imaginable, including extreme violence, self-mutilation, and sexual perversions. |
During an interview with the Current last week, Noé discussed where the idea for Climax originated, how shooting without a script was a liberating experience and why he decided to flip the camera upside down for long stretches of the film. |
Climax is currently playing at the Santikos Bijou Theater and the Alamo Drafthouse Park North. |
Where did the idea for Climax come from? |
I was thinking of a disaster movie or a zombie movie. Some of those movies look so realistic when they’re shot in documentary style. I was thinking about a community that builds up something and then everything goes wrong. It could be a cult movie or a disaster movie or a horror-zombie movie. I started watching videos ... |
I really like the idea of creating something beautiful and then destroying it in a horror film. |
Yeah, if you’ve seen the movie Shivers by David Cronenberg, it’s about a perfect building that has been constructed for all the richest people in town and then something goes wrong. It’s like The Towering Inferno where the fire starts in the middle of the building. Human creations take a long time to build up and then ... |
How difficult is it as a director to make a film as demanding as this without a script? |
I’m lucky because [Climax] is produced by the best producers in France. They like cinema and they wanted the movie to exist, so they invested their own money. Without them, this movie would never have happened. I heard that [legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc] Godard could get financing for his movies with just two pa... |
As a filmmaker, is it important to you to make audiences feel like they’re watching something on screen that they’ve never seen before? |
Yeah, but there’s nothing new in this movie. You’ve seen many movies with crane [camera shots] over dancers. You could look at movies like La La Land or Fame. There are movies about dancers in a school where things go wrong. There’s been disasters movies where rich people are dying. There’s nothing new in this movie. I... |
Well, you also turned the camera upside down for long stretches of the film, too, which I don’t think I’ve seen before. |
For a long time, I wanted to see a movie with the camera upside down. There are some painters who exhibit their painting and portraits upside down, but I had never seen that in a movie. I always wanted to see a whole scene in a movie upside down, so in this movie I finally did it. As a director, you get bored, so if yo... |
I have to admit, during the long upside down scene, I cheated and turned my head upside down to watch for a while until I realized it was going to go on for a while. |
(Laughs) Did it look better? If you put it in the right sense, there is less going on than if you put it upside down. Upside down seems scarier because you can’t really read the images. |
How else did you keep yourself from getting bored making Climax? |
For the first time I used a drone! We improvised the opening scene. Probably now I’ll be addicted to drones. |
Was it ever an idea to allow your cast to become method actors and actually drop acid to shoot this film? |
Nah, because we had such a short time to shoot it – 15 days. I didn’t want anyone to be drunk or wasted in front or behind the camera. We were all being very professional. We couldn’t fail. And to tell you the truth, most of these dancers are between the ages of 18-23 and when I asked them about drugs, none of them rea... |
Wouldn’t be nice to sit under the stars on hot summer nights and watch a movie? While projectors can do the trick, that usually means setting up a screen and speakers. But with a flat-panel TV, you just need to move it outdoors. Perfect solution… until a sudden thunderstorm ruins the TV and possibly electrocutes you as... |
These include a 32-inch model, the PAN320 ($3,950 list) and the 42-inch PAN420 ($4,450). Both use an RF wireless package that lets you broadcast HD audio and video from up to 150 feet. For times when it isn’t raining, the sets feature anti-reflective glass–so you can even watch TV outside during the day. |
Dual-flow ventilation keeps the TVs cool when the weather is hot, and a built-in heating system can create additional warmth for those times when the weather outside is frightful. And though these sets are pricey, especially considering the native 720p 1,336×768 native resolution, they’re woth the price if you just hav... |
Capture subscribers’ interest with relevant subject lines that tease the benefits. |
Deliver valuable content so subscribers feel eager to take action; utilize multiple CTAs in each email. |
Convert more real estate leads, earn more commissions and grow your business with a few simple adjustments to your email marketing practices. |
Steve Jolly, an agent who has perfected the art of email marketing, can explain how. In this post, we’ll explore a few of the ways Jolly writes engaging emails with high conversion rates. |
For additional information on Jolly’s email strategies or for tips on generating leads with other marketing techniques, listen to the podcast below. |
If your open rates are abysmal, it doesn’t matter how great your email content is; no one will ever read it. To ensure your subscribers actually take the time to open your emails, you need to write subject lines that capture their attention. |
To do this, think about what they want, and try to craft a subject line relevant to their interests. |
If you market to both buyers and sellers, segmenting your email subscribers is one of the top email marketing tips that will help ensure your subject lines are relevant. |
To capture readers’ interest, tease them with a benefit they’ll gain by opening your email. Your buyer audience, for instance, could be enticed with a subject line that promises information on new listings in their area. |
Above, we mentioned the importance of offering something subscribers want in subject lines. Now, as you might expect, you’re going to have to deliver. |
If you don’t deliver what subscribers want and expect, they’re going to feel frustrated, which is the opposite of what you want as their hopeful agent. |
When someone reads one of your emails, you want them to feel stimulated and inspired to take action. You make them feel this way with valuable content. |
To deliver valuable content, focus on things that your audience will truly appreciate. |
When marketing to sellers, for instance, a brief guide on the home improvements most likely to increase sale price is one example of valuable content. |
Without a clear call to action (CTA), conversion chances plummet. After all, the CTA is what prompts potential clients to take action and is one of the keys to converting real estate leads. |
With real estate email marketing, CTAs typically encourage readers to learn more about the content in question by either calling or emailing an agent. In most cases, there is a single CTA inserted near the end of the message. |
To improve your conversion chances, consider including multiple CTAs in your marketing emails. Not only will this give you multiple chances to inspire action from readers, but this will also give you a chance to target multiple types of potential clients within a single subscriber segment. |
In an email targeting potential homebuyers, for instance, utilizing multiple CTAs will allow you to reach people in various stages of the buying process. One CTA could inspire those who are ready to buy to give you a call. |
Another CTA in the same message could encourage those earlier in the buying process to have a look at the new listings located on your website. |
If you want additional information about the ways to convert more real estate leads with effective email marketing, be sure to listen to the complete podcast interview with Steve Jolly. |
LA CRESCENTA — While the two schools are no longer in the same division, nor in the same league or even city, the Crescenta Valley High boys' swimming team has maintained a healthy rivalry with Hart over the years. |
The Falcons welcomed the CIF Southern Section Division I stalwart Indians onto their pool deck Thursday afternoon for the latest installment of their nonleague saga and Crescenta Valley showed that despite its residence in Division II, it is more than up to competing with Hart, pulling out a 99-71 victory. |
"The athletes definitely bring their best efforts and they focus on this meet, both Hart and Crescenta Valley," said Falcons Coach Jan Sakonju, whose team improved to 5-0 in dual meets. "We have this great rivalry where it's just fun competing and both teams step up and push each other to become better. Even though we'... |
Led by double wins from Young Tae Seo and Josh Chi, the Falcons won nine of 11 events for a comfortable win, highlighted by a school record-breaking performance by Seo, which Seo effectively called, according to Sakonju. |
The sophomore and reigning All-Area Boys' Swimmer of the Year won the 500-yard freestyle in 4 minutes 36.26 seconds before winning the 100 breaststroke in 57.59 to eclipse teammate Harrison Thai's 2010 mark. |
"Young Tae's just been swimming phenomenally this year," said Sakonju, whose team is looking to contend for the Division II title after placing runner-up last year. "He said he was going to break [the record] today, he said he was going to hit 57. That was fun and to have one of the leaders of the team say, not only am... |
Chi won the 50 freestyle in 22.42 and the 100 freestyle in 49.26, while the Falcons also got wins from Thai in the 200 freestyle (1:46.85) and Louis Wojciechowski in the 200-individual medley (1:58.31). |
Crescenta Valley won all three relay events, as Thai, Andrew De Jong, Seo and Jake Ksendov took the 200-medley relay in 1:40.37 and Chi, Jason Suh, Ksendov and Wojciechowski won the 200-freestyle relay in 1:31.09 before Seo, Chi, Wojciechowski and De Jong closed the show with a win in the 400-freestyle relay in 3:17.04... |
"Hart's in DI and that's a huge deal because we're a DII team," Chi said. "Coach [Sakonju] told us previously they were our big DII rivals, so I feel like we're still trying to continue this rivalry. |
"It's really good competition, especially because these are the type of swimmers we're probably going to be seeing at [the CIF Southern Section] DII [finals]." |
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