Cancer survivor, 5, gets the surprise of a lifetime | Fox 59 News ...

A Noblesville family that has gone through peaks and valleys over the past couple of years is now on a mountain top. There have been some pretty big scares during their little girl?s battle with cancer. The most recent shock for the family was the surprise of a lifetime: a trip to Disney World.

The third time was the charm.

?Mom!? screamed Izzy Mattocks.

?We are going to get on a plane right now,? said Molly Mattocks, Izzy?s mother.

?Mom, you never told me,? said Izzy.

Izzy Mattocks set off for Disney World Thursday.

?Thank you,? said Izzy. ?Let?s go, let?s go!?

The family is celebrating the 5-year-old?s fight against cancer. They tried to make the trip two other times, but each time Izzy?s health took a turn for the worse and she had to be rushed to the hospital.

?It did not happen because I got a fever and stuff,? said Izzy.

That was why this time, the trip was a secret.

?I am going to tell you this is a really awesome present and you do not want to lose it,? said Molly before the surprise was unveiled.

In 2011, Izzy started having sharp, severe pain in her stomach. At first, no one could figure out what was wrong with her. Then the discovery.

?Neuroblastoma is one of the most difficult pediatric cancers to cure,? said Molly. ?It is vicious.?

Neuroblastoma, like other forms of cancer, is a cold-blooded killer. Izzy was diagnosed with Stage 4. It had spread to her bones. The little girl?s fight for life began right away. She was put through intense rounds of chemotherapy and radiation.

?It is medicine that made my cancer go away,? said Izzy.

And that was not all.

?And I had surgeries,? she said.
Reporter: ?How many?? What did they do??
Izzy: ?I don?t know.?
Molly: ?Did they take the rock out?
Izzy: ?They took the rock out.?

The ?rock? was the cancer. The neuroblastoma battle rocked the family.

?It was just a nightmare,? said Molly. ?Some days you would feel joy and you would feel peace and know that you conquered something. Then, at any moment, something would go wrong.?

It tested their faith.

?Some days I would say, ?Really God?? Are you kidding me??? But at the end of the day, just to fall back on seeing how far He has gotten us through this journey,? said Molly.

Then, after all that worry, all of those sleepless nights, and all of that pain- a reason to smile, a clear scan. No evidence of disease. Izzy, ?Warrior Princess? was allowed to leave the hospital.

Izzy is far from being 100 percent healthy, though. She is still on an IV, and she wears a breathing mask when she is in public. None of that mattered as the family boarded their plane, the family was focused on their next journey, to ?The Happiest Place on Earth.?

Sadly, Izzy?s battle is not over. She still must to go through six more months of treatment, and there is still a chance the disease could come back. If that happens the family said they are ready to answer that challenge.

Source: http://fox59.com/2013/04/25/cancer-survivor-5-gets-the-surprise-of-a-lifetime/

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Big List of Link Building No-Nos - 'Net Features - Website Magazine

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Link building is one of the most basic methods that Web professionals use to grow their businesses online. It?s a pretty great system because there are so many different ways to build links on the Internet, but it?s also really difficult because there are so many ways to build links, meaning there are a lot of ways to screw it up.

So, while getting links is an essential task for website owners, they should also make sure that they?re doing it the right way. Otherwise, their brand can be seriously (and in drastic cases, even irreparably) damaged. But with so many options for link building, how do you know what to do and what not to do? That?s easy! Just check out this Website Magazine guide to link building no-nos.

Irrelevant or Duplicate Content
If you?re trying to garner links from websites, the first thing you should do is make sure you?re worth linking to! That means producing original and valuable content that is going to have some relevance to the people visiting the pages you want links from. Also, avoid running duplicate content (either content previously published on your site, or that you?ve written and published elsewhere) and writing guest blog posts for irrelevant sites. This will make your site feel authoritative and be more attractive to high-quality links.

Don?t Spam or Leave Irrelevant Comments
Look, nobody on the Web likes a spammer, so don?t be that guy (or gal). It?s fair game for you to want to visit websites or forums that are relevant to your audience or niche and spread the word about your great site in hopes of building a few links, but that doesn?t mean you should just drop in context-less comments or replies that don?t really help progress any discussions or provide value to other readers, all in hopes that they?ll pay attention to you. Instead, take part in ongoing discussions to build your presence as an authority, and only add references or links to your site when it will add value to other visitors. And if you?re on a forum, you can even include a link to your site in your signature.

Be Social ? Not Pushy
Social media marketing is basically a necessity on the Web these days; you?re just not going to get anywhere without it. However, just having a profile on Facebook, Twitter, etc. is not enough ? you also have to be social and engage with your fans/followers and other big names in your niche. Be friendly and open, and under no circumstances should you simply and blatantly engage in self-promotion, or spam the walls (and news feeds) of your fans with promotional links.

Don?t Buy Crappy Links
The ultimate goal for people looking to build links is to find those that are high-quality and relevant to your site, so not only is it a waste for you to try to buy links from low-quality sources, it?ll also get you in trouble with Google, which keeps a cautious eye on low quality link sites that engage in a nefarious practice called ?link farming.? When it comes to getting quality links, your site and content should be all you need. And while you?re at it, don?t bother with ?trading? links with low quality sites just to have them. You?re better than that?

Slow Down on Submitting to Directories
Directories, either paid or free, are great because they can seem like they're these big fields where links grow just for you, but don?t be tempted to just submit your site to a bunch of directories the week it goes live. Remember, good links come naturally and are built up over time. Plus, search engines can totally tell when you?ve just acquired a lot of links by going directory crazy, and that?s going to do more harm than good for your site in the immediate future.

Don?t Over-Link to Your Own Site
If you?re a hard-working content marketer, chances are you?re producing articles and blog posts pretty regularly, including for other websites or blogs that you don?t run. Naturally, you may want to drop a link to your site once, maybe twice, in said article, if there?s a natural and not-totally-obvious way to do it (most authors save this for their bio section attached to the article). Be careful not to ?over-link? to your site in these articles, though. Remember, you?re supposed to be offering relevant and valuable information to your readers, not promoting your website, so never drop in more than one link to your site. Besides, Google is open about the fact that it only reads the first link anyway, so more than one link is not only annoying, but also useless.

Link to Various Pages on Your Site
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when linking to their websites is to link only to their home pages. This is a bad idea, because (A) it makes users have to dig to find certain information, so just link to the pages you want them to see, and (B) it gives your site a bad deep link ratio and negatively affects how well your deeper ?child? pages will rank on the search engines. But also, if your site has a canonical issue that gives you a ?/index.html? URL in addition to your domain URL, make sure that when you DO link to your home page, it doesn?t send users to this index page (or any other home page extensions).

Change Up the Anchor Text
When you?re targeting a specific term that you want associated with your website, you may think it?s a good idea to use the same anchor text in your links over and over again. It?s not. In fact, this kind of narrow targeting will actually hurt you on the search engines. Instead, try to vary the anchor text you use to include OTHER relevant or related terms, or terms specific to the page you?re linking to. This will help your site rank for more terms, obviously. Plus, it would be helpful to include your company or website name in a percentage of your links, as well.

Source: http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2013/04/26/big-list-of-link-building-no-nos.aspx

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US military blocking Southern Baptist web site? : News Headlines ...

CWN - April 25, 2013

Access to the web site of the Southern Baptist Convention has been blocked on US military bases, because of an official judgment that the site carries "hostile content," Fox News has reported.

It was not clear how many military bases had blocked the Southern Baptist site. A member of the military reported that he had been unable to reach the site, and had been warned that his attempt to access material from the Southern Baptist Convention had been recorded.

The Southern Baptist Convention represents the largest single Protestant group in the US, and generally takes conservative positions on issues such as homosexuality and abortion.

The report of blocking of the Southern Baptist site comes shortly after a report that a Pentagon official had classified Catholicism as a form of extremism.

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Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Honors Crime Victims

The Wabash valley correctional facility showed it's support to victims' rights.
A Bradford Pear Tree was planted near the visitors entrance at the facility in observance of National Crime Victims' Rights Awareness Week.
The goal is to raise awareness and help protect victims' rights and offer the proper services to those in need.
Wabash Valley says it is happy to do what they can to honor crime victims.

Kevin Gilmore- WVCF
"We all need to work together because there is a huge impact on victims physically...emotionally...financially. We all need to work together and partner. This is our opportunity to raise awareness for victims rights week."

To help raise awareness about the importance of victims rights a tree will be planted each year near the visitors entrance of the facility.

Source: http://mywabashvalley.com/fulltext?nxd_id=306382

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Twitter?s Vine video sharing app coming soon to Android

MADRID, April 25 (Reuters) - Playmaker Andres Iniesta has dismissed the idea Barcelona are at the end of an era following their 4-0 Champions League mauling by Bayern Munich. Barca, who lifted the trophy in 2009 and 2011, were the favourites to win the competition ahead of Tuesday's semi-final first leg but they were so outclassed by the Germans that many pundits believe their recent spell of dominance is over. "I think it is unfair to talk of a cyclical change," the Spanish World Cup winner told a news conference on Thursday. ...

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Museum find proves exotic ?big cat? prowled British countryside a century ago

Apr. 25, 2013 ? The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum's underground storeroom proves that a non-native 'big cat' prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.

The animal's skeleton and mounted skin was analysed by a multi-disciplinary team of Durham University scientists and fellow researchers at Bristol, Southampton and Aberystwyth universities and found to be a Canadian lynx -- a carnivorous predator more than twice the size of a domestic cat.

The research, published today in the academic journal Historical Biology, establishes the animal as the earliest example of an "alien big cat" at large in the British countryside.

The research team say this provides further evidence for debunking a popular hypothesis that wild cats entered the British countryside following the introduction of the 1976 Wild Animals Act. The Act was introduced to deal with an increasing fashion for exotic -- and potentially dangerous -- pets.

The academics believe such feral "British big cats" as they are known, may have lived in the wild much earlier, through escapes and even deliberate release. There is no evidence that such animals have been able to breed in the wild.

The study of the Canadian lynx, rediscovered by research team member Max Blake among hundreds of thousands of specimens at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, details records unearthed at the museum which showed the animal had originally been mislabelled by Edwardian curators in 1903 as a Eurasian lynx -- a close relative of the Canadian lynx.

The records also showed that the lynx was shot by a landowner in the Devon countryside in the early 1900s, after it killed two dogs.

"This Edwardian feral lynx provides concrete evidence that although rare, exotic felids have occasionally been part of British fauna for more than a century," said lead researcher, Dr Ross Barnett of Durham University's Department of Archaeology.

"The animal remains are significant in representing the first historic big cat from Britain."

Co-author Dr Darren Naish, from the University of Southampton, added: "There have been enough sightings of exotic big cats which substantially pre-date 1976 to cast doubt on the idea that one piece of legislation made in 1976 explains all releases of these animals in the UK.

"It seems more likely that escapes and releases have occurred throughout history, and that this continual presence of aliens explains the 'British big cat' phenomenon."

The researchers point out in their paper that Eurasian lynxes existed in the wild in Britain many hundreds of years ago, but had almost certainly become extinct by the 7th century. Laboratory analysis of the Bristol specimen's bones and teeth established it had been kept in captivity long enough to develop severe tooth loss and plaque before it either escaped or was deliberately released into the wild. Ancient DNA analysis of hair from the lynx proved inconclusive, possibly due to chemicals applied to the pelt during taxidermy.

Julie Finch, head of Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives, said: "Bristol Museum, Galleries and Archives were pleased to be a part of this ground-breaking research, which not only highlights the importance of our science collections, it establishes the pedigree of our 100-year old Lynx and adds to our knowledge and understanding of 'big cats' in the UK.

"Our museum collections are extensive and caring for them requires the considerable skills of our collections officers. We have an amazing collection of taxidermy animals on display and we welcome museum visitors to come along, to take a closer look and discover more about the natural world."

Dr Greger Larson, a member of the research team from Durham University and an expert in the migration of animals, said: "Every few years there is another claim that big cats are living wild in Britain, but none of these claims have been substantiated. It seems that big cats are to England what the Loch Ness Monster is to Scotland.

"By applying a robust scientific methodology, this study conclusively demonstrates that at least one big cat did roam Britain as early as the Edwardian era, and suggests that additional claims need to be subjected to this level of scrutiny."

The lynx is now on public display at Bristol museum.

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1. Max Blake, Darren Naish, Greger Larson, Charlotte L. King, Geoff Nowell, Manabu Sakamoto, Ross Barnett. Multidisciplinary investigation of a ?British big cat?: a lynx killed in southern England c. 1903. Historical Biology, 2013; : 1 DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2013.785541

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Desiree Hartsock as The Bachelorette: First Photos!

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