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Convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell was found guilty of 11 counts of aggravated murder from 2007 to 2009. STORY HIGHLIGHTSAnthony Sowell was declared not eligible for parole WednesdaySowell was convicted Friday on 84 counts, including murdering 11 women from 2007 to 2009His sentencing hearing begins August 1RELATED TOPICSAnthony SowellCleveland (Ohio)Serial Killers (CNN) -- Convicted Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell won't be eligible for parole after being classified as a "sexually violent predator," court officials in Cleveland said Wednesday.

Sowell was found guilty of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges Friday in a string of deaths of Cleveland-area women from 2007 to 2009. Officer Ryan Miday, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office, said Sowell's classification as a sexually violent predator guarantees that he can only receive life in prison without parole or the death penalty when the sentencing phase of his trial begins August 1.

The jury could have recommended parole if members believed Sowell could be rehabilitated, according to Greg Popovich, the Cuyahoga County court administrator.

During the sentencing phase, Sowell will be able to make a statement on his own behalf without being under oath or facing cross-examination, Miday said. The defense also can call expert witnesses to discuss Sowell's background, including his childhood and military service.

If jurors decide to recommend death, the judge can intervene and impose a life sentence -- but if the jury recommends life, the judge cannot impose a death sentence, according to Popovich.

Jurors found Sowell guilty on a total of 84 counts, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The sole not-guilty verdict came on an aggravated robbery charge.

The convictions ended a saga that began for investigators in October 2009 with the discovery of the first two sets of victims' remains inside Sowell's home. Eventually, they blamed him for the slayings of at least 11 women, ages 25 to 52.

Sowell had served 15 years in prison for attempted rape before being released in 2005. People who met him after his release described him as "a normal guy," known locally for selling scrap metal.

His inconspicuous two-story home sat in a dilapidated neighborhood known as Mount Pleasant, where one in five homes was in foreclosure and at least a third of residents got food stamps, according to a 2010 study by Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. Neighbors and even a city councilman had failed to realize that the stench wafting in the area around Sowell's residence was from human flesh and not a byproduct of a nearby sausage factory.

The disappearances of the women -- many of whom lived nearby -- went largely unnoticed for almost two years, with only four of them even being reported missing. Many of his alleged victims struggled with drug addiction at some point in their lives, with court records showing that many resorted to stealing and prostitution to support their habits.

In late 2008, Gladys Wade told police that a man in a gray hoodie offered her beer, and when she declined, he punched her in the face several times. Wade said that he then tried to rape her, dragging her toward his home, adding that she got out only after "gouging his face."

Police investigated Wade's complaint, with one police report noting blood droplets on Sowell's walls and steps. But officers told CNN affiliate WKYC that the case was dropped after Wade declined to press charges. Six more women disappeared after her complaint.

Authorities discovered the bodies after a 36-year-old Cleveland woman told police a story eerily similar to those of Wade and the woman whose 1989 account led to Sowell's first conviction for attempted rape. She said he'd invited her into his home for beer, punched her in the face, then began performing oral sex on her -- releasing her only after she promised to return the next day.

Most of the women whose remains were found in and around Sowell's home were strangled by ligature -- which can include a string, cord or wire -- and at least one was strangled by hand, officials said. Seven still had ligatures wrapped around their necks. A skull is all that remains of one victim. It was found wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed in a bucket in the home's basement.

Sowell's lawyers have declined previous requests by CNN to explain their case, and the suspect has not been interviewed.

CNN's Chris Perry contributed to this report.

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Catherine Becker (Photo: Garden Grove PD) New details have surfaced in court papers in the case of the woman who severed her husband's penis and mangled the hacked off unit in a garbage disposal after allegedly poisoning his tofu dinner and tying him to a bed earlier this month, says L.A. Now.

In a search warrant, Garden Grove police detail the incident. The victim, a 60-year-old man, was lying on the bed, his hands and feet tied to the bedpost with a white nylon rope. He had a towel covering his groin area and told police his wife, Kieu, cut him. According to the affidavit, the victim came home from work at 5:30 p.m on July 11. The two had a discussion about a "male friend staying with them, but Kieu did not want the friend to stay with them."

The victim also reportedly told authorities the tofu dinner his wife prepared tasted "metallic" and turned down seconds. Tired after the meal, Becker went to sleep around 9 p.m. and awoke to find his wife "tying his right wrist, and pulling off his clothes."

He alleges she grabbed his penis and "with one swift motion, she severed it."

48-year-old Catherine Kieu Becker, who is facing a felony count of torture, and a second for aggravated mayhem, has had her arraignment postponed until September 23.

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Toddler Rescued from Deadly Chinese Train WreckRescue of the four-year-old boy came about 21 hours after a collision that killed at least 35 peopleVOA Article2011/07/24http://media.voanews.com/images/reuters_train_china_24jul11_eng_230.jpgRescuers carry a body of a victim discovered among the wreckage after two carriages from a bullet train derailed and fell off a bridge in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, July 24, 2011 --

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Norway Buries Its Dead after Island Massacre - The Daily Beast The Daily Beast On: Facebook Twitter Tumblr Home Politics Entertainment Books Fashion Innovation Business U.S. News World Causes Art Education Newsweek.com Trending Topics Norway Amy Winehouse Bachmann Andrew Sullivan Women in the World Spin Cycle Food The Daily Beast Homepage World News Content Section Norway Buries Its Dead As Norwegians mourn the 93 people killed in Friday's attacks, a newspaper reports that the Christian gunman copied parts of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto. Jul 24, 2011 10:25 AM EDT Print Email

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Most of us are familiar with certain facts of the teetotal
controversy. We, who oppose wine, beer, and spirits as
drinks^ do not set ourselves against pleasure in drinking,
as such ; but we deprecate that form of pleasure which is
bought too dearly; which is liable to cause what is worse
than pain, namely, demoralisation. So too it is a suffi-
cient reason for dissuading the pleasure of flesh-meat, if
it deprive men of higher and nobler pleasures : for. in-
stance, if it deprive men of cultivation, leisure, and refine-
ment, by keeping them poor. Such an argument cannot
justly be set aside by appealing to the palate.

Yet, in a highly-respected London weekly paper of no
small literary pretensions, a leading article, some years
back, condemned Vegetarianism on grounds which con-
fess a mean sensuality. It vehemently declared that
flesh-meat is not necessary to strength or health, and
treated those as blameably ignorant who were surprized at the muscular strength and endurance of vegetarians.
But it went on to say that the main question is, whether,
in a world which has so few pleasures, it is worth while
to give up the pleasure which flesh-meat affords to the
palate. The reader's first thought might be, * Is the
editor sarcastic, and intending bitterly to show contempt
for flesh-eaters?' I fear that this interpretation is in-
admissible, and that we must take his utterance seriously.
It is a sad parallel to the wine-lover, with whom *I
like my wine ' is a sufficient reply to every possible ob-
jection.

However, we remind such a wine-drinker that tastes
change ; that wine is not the only nice drink ; that many
who once loved wine have now ceased to hanker for it ;
and that it is quite degrading to overrule moral argu-
ments by an appeal to the palate. All this applies to
Vegetarianism. First of all, we observe that no one re-
gards raiv flesh as nice ; it has to be cooked : and scarcely
any flesh, even after cookery, is nice, without vegetable
additions, as condiments or sauce. The number of
vegetable flavours is too many to count. The savoury
herbs used to dress flesh need no definite mention ; they
often impart to a dish its familiar flavour, which we are
apt to ascribe to the fibre of the animal. Even pork and
ham have their characteristic tastes from the sugar, the
sage and onion, the apple sauce, the mustard or vinegar.
I have known a person fancy he was eating roast veal,
when a compost similar to the usual stuffing of roast veal
was given him. Boiled mutton dressed like boiled pork
will puzzle many, and deceive some. Hare is a peculiarly
high-tasted flesh, yet the stuffing and the red-currant
jelly have much to do with its niceness. There is no end
of things delicious to the palate.

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Building Your Site

I regularly receive email from people asking how they can gel started in making money with AdSense. I'm always happy to help people make the most of Google, but many of these people didn't even have a website!
Here's the bad news: to make money with AdSense, you've got to have a website. There's no getting around that. The good news though is that it's never been easier to create a website from scratch and use it to generate real revenue.
I'm going to give a brief introduction here to creating a website from the ground up. You can find plenty more information online and I'll tell you where to look. A good place to start is my own book How To Build Profitable Websites Fast, available at www.BuitdAWebsireFast.com.
Profitable Websites Fast, available at www:BuiltlAWebsiteFast.com.
If you already have a site up and running, you can just skip this bit, head down to 1.10 and begin reading about how to improve your AdScnse revenues.

Naming Your Site
The first thing your site will need is a name. That's easier said than done these days. All (he best words in the dictionary have cither already been bought and built by developers or they've been bought and offered by speculators.But that doesn't mean you can't create a good name and buy it for a song. Putting two words together with a hyphen can work and there arc plenty of good names available if you're prepared to move outside the world of .corns into .net and .biz etc.
Your first stop should be www.NctworkSoluiions.com. This is a nuts and bolts service thai lets you hunt and buy names, order hosting plans and even submit your site to the search engines. When you're looking for a name, you can just toss in ten options and the site will tell you which (if any) arc available. Find a good one, and you can cither buy it there or pick it up at www.godaddy.com (they can be a bit cheaper). All in. buying a name from one of these services won't cost you more than about $5 a year.
If you can't find a name you like and that hasn't already been grabbed, you can take a look at sites like moderndomains.com and bestnames.net. These are companies that buy domain names and sell them for a profit. There's a good chance you'll some good names here but they can cost you anywhere from S50 to S50. Before you part with a penny, think about the advantage that a good name can bring and ask yourself if you can't get the extra traffic a cheaper way. Often, you can.

Choosing A Hosting Service
Your site is going to be stored on a hosting company's server. (You didn't want thousands of people dialing into your computer every hour. did you?) Again, there are lots of different options available depending on how much you want to pay and what you need.
In general, you'll want to make sure that you have about 50 megabytes of space (that's enough for 100 pages!), full statistics reporting and most importantly. 24 hour service. If your site goes down, you'll be losing money every hour it's offline. If there's a problem with the server, you want to make sure it's fixed right away.
You gel what you pay for with Web hosting from "free" services that will cost you more than you save to $2(X) a month for dedicated servers. Twenty bucks a month is a reasonable price to pay and GoDaddy.com and NctworkSolulions.com both offer good programs.

Designing The Site
It used to be said that absolutely anyone could create a website. That was true; absolutely anyone who knew HTML. Today, you don't even need to know that. Programs like Microsoft's FrontPage or NVU (which is free; you can download it at www.nvu.com) let you create sites without needing to know your tags from your tables. If you can use Word, you can create a website.
You can either have Fun playing with the programs and designing the site yourself or you can hire a professional designer to do it for you.
Freelance sites like www.elance.com and www.euru.com are good places to advertise. You can invite designers to give you quotes and pick the best based on price and talent. Be sure to check feedback and port¬folios though; a low bid is often low for a good reason.

Creating Content
In Chapter 9, I talk in detail about building content and optimizing what you write to attract traffic and maximize your AdSense revenues. There are all sorts of ways to do that but for the moment just bear in mind that the ads that appear on your site will depend on the content on your pages. That's how AdSense works: users click on the ads because they're relevant.
And that's why it's not worth putting up a site just to cash in on particular keywords. Google doesn't like it and neither do users. If your site doesn't genuinely interest your visitors, you'll find IL hard to get traffic, links and clicks on your ads.
But there are still a lot of different ways to create content very easily that improves your income. I'll tell you all about them .
It's also worth remembering that Google doesn't place ads on particular types sites, so if you're thinking of building a casino site stuffed with AdSense ads. you can forget about it; it's not going to happen.

Search Engine Optimization
Of course, once you're up, people have to know you're there. One of the most important ways to do that is get yourself a high-ranking in a search engine.
There are lots of different search engines, but only three are really important: Google, Yahoo! and MSN. I'll talk in more detail about improving your search engine rankings.
If you want to take a shortcut, there are plenty of companies which will make the submissions for you and they'll even optimize your site lo get you as high on the rankings as possible. will make the submissions for you and they’ll even optimize your site to get you as high on the rankings as possible.
Your search engine ranking will depend on a number factors. One those factors is the number of sites that link to yours. As far as Google is concerned if lots of sites about model railways link to your model railway site that must be a pretty good sign that people who like model railways think your site is good. So they’ll want to other it to people who search for model railways. bringing you lots of free traffic. Once you’ve got your site up and running you’ll want to persuade other sites to give you links. You could offer to exchange links and you an even set up a page that contains recommended links so that you`ll have somewhere to put them. There`s a range of other strategies and services that you can use.

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The objective is to make your blog successful as a source of advertising revenue, as a way to gain some exposure for yourself, as a way to state your case, or as a combination of all three.. So, fortune rather than fame is the primary focus of this book. You can employ these 10 steps to help make your blog a roaring success:

1.Code access. Ensure the platform allows access to the code so you can place items in the order you choose. Otherwise, you may not be able to rearrange the things on your Wog pages the way that you want them.

2.Keyword research. Do your keyword research to select the best keywords to use to integrate into your blog titles, your blog name, article titles, and so on.

3.Categories and keywords. Edit your categories to integrate keywords into URLs.

4.Linking to other Hogs. Add links to other blogs. A few related blogs is more than adequate, but make sure they are useful to your readers and that those links are trustworthy. Trust is a big issue for people using the Internet.

5.Importance of blog directory submissions. Get your blog into the top blog directories; you want the links from those directories back to your blog. This is very important because it will give your blog better visibility. People can find you more easily.

6.Regular directory submissions. Submit to the usual directories, including Google, Yahoo, and DMOZ.org. This is especially important if your blog is also your Web site.

7.Blog posting length. A blog is an entity into which you make entries (post your written articles). Each entry or article is called a post, a posting, or an article. Try for post lengths of at least 200 words, and integrate selected keywords near
the top of the post. The keyword should be related to the title and is used by search engines to help understand the focus
of the article.

8.Moderating your blog. Be alert for comment spam. Moderate all comments and delete those containing useless links, those that arc off topic, any adult-related items, or anything that might offend your readers.

9.Clean URLs. Use clean URLs if the option is given. A clean URL hides many of the operators and coding characters. Clean URLs are easier for a search engine spider to crawl and index into its related search engine automatically.

10.Frequency of new blog postings. Make frequent postings. Although it is not Search Engine Optimization (SEO) per se, frequent posts will keep the spiders coming back to see what's new. This will help to keep fresh content flowing into search engine indexes from your domain.

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