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2018 Audi S7 Spy Photos
The S7 is one of the S-series models, manufactured by the renowned car factory in Germany, Audi. It is a four-door fastback, designed with four seats and it was introduced to the market only in 2012. The new 2018 Audi S7 is the improved version of the current model and it is expected to come with major changes in its engine section to offer even more performance. Latest spy shots from Nürburgring track shows that New S7 is the real beast.
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Read: 2017 Cadillac CT6
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How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church.
It's a question we almost never ask out loud. Yet, this is a question that is central to the lives of Christians who regularly gather together for worship.
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The Sing! National City Tour is a full one day summit event and concert with teaching and interaction featuring the Gettys and friends during the day and an evening concert with a city-wide choir bringing dozens of churches together in your city. In this way, we hope to see these city-wide events extend the vision of the Sing! conference and book to encourage and deepen personal and congregational worship.
SING! An Irish Christmas
Ireland's Keith and Kristyn Getty, writers of modern hymns and carols, will return to celebrate Christmas with their seventh annual tour of Sing! An Irish Christmas. Presented at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and many other of North America's finest concert halls, the Gettys are joined by their band of instrumentalists, fusing Celtic, bluegrass, Americana, and classical music as well as cultural dance and the choral sounds of the holiday. Keith and Kristyn and their special guest friends perform a program that unites tradition and innovation in celebration of the season.
The Getty Music Worship Conference – Sing! exists to help pastors, musicians and leaders build a Biblical understanding and creative vision for congregational singing in their churches. Bringing together speakers and artists from many traditions and walks of life, our desire is to encourage churches towards a deeper, more dynamic view of theology, artistry and mission in congregational singing.
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The next few months I've dedicated to finishing the book I've been working on for nearly two years. Inspired by Joe's latest post, I've made the commitment to revise the second draft of my book.
I believe, though, the second draft is the hardest. Actually, it's the worst. All the content of your book is sitting right in front of you like a huge slab of marble mined from your imagination, and you're expected to take the formless hunk and turn it into Michelangelo's David.
In finishing the second draft of three books and as I'm embarking on finishing this next one this fall, I've compiled these tips for the both of us. Here's all I know about book editing and surviving the second draft.How to Survive the Second Draft of Your Book »


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I Miss You Quotes For Loved Ones You Miss
Whenever your loved ones are not around you, you miss them, you miss their company. I miss you quotes are the way to tell your loved ones that how much you miss them. When the people you love are not around you everything seems dull, you wish if they would be with you your life would be colorful and lively. Sometimes a person comes in your life just for specific time period, when they leaves you, you miss them and sometimes the time you spend with them is enough for you to spend your life with. Every second spend with them makes you miss them more and more. The person you miss may be your friend, family member or relative. You dream and wish that one day you will meet them somewhere. But sometimes you miss someone who is not in this world any more. You are helpless and wish if they could come back. The most hurting feeling is when you know you can never meet them again. Value the persons around you before it's too late to appreciate their presence. So today I have brought a heart touching collection of I miss you quotes. I hope you will like it. Do share these quotes with your loved ones who are far away from you and tell them how much you miss them. Also give your feedback about my post, feel free to share your views. You can also see funny, informative and interesting stuff on my blog. Thanks for visiting CreativeMisHa.
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The Army major who ordered three soldiers in an abuse courts martial to "work them hard" has told judges that local Iraqis had wanted the detainees to be shot.
Maj Dan Taylor told the courts martial in Osnabruck, Germany, that the problem with looters was endemic.
He said theft of food at the base, known as the Bread Basket, west of Basra had become so bad that pilferers had been dubbed Ali Babas .
The major told his soldiers to "work (the detainees) hard" despite it being against the Geneva Conventions, the courts martial heard.
When asked by L/Col Nick Clapham, prosecuting, why he had made the order, Maj Taylor replied: "In an effort to stop looting that was rife within the Bread Basket camp and there did not appear to be any other way we could prevent that looting, short of doing what the locals wanted us to do, which was shoot people.
"I have to say what we did failed because, if anything, the looting got worse.''
The court heard that Maj Taylor had briefed his commanding officer L/Col David Paterson about his unlawful plan at a meeting the night before the operation.
He said: "I outlined to him what we were going to do - round up as many men as we could, work them for an hour or so and then release them.''
He admitted ordering his senior officers to "work them hard'' after the looters were captured.
Three squaddies are facing courts martial and possible prison over photographs they allegedly took depicting abuse of Iraq detainees.
Cpl Daniel Kenyon, 33, L/Cpl Mark Cooley, 25, both from Newcastle, and L/Cpl Darren Larkin, 30, from Oldham, Greater Manchester face a series of charges.
Larkin has admitted one charge of assault relating to an incident depicted in one of the photographs, in which he can be seen standing on an Iraqi who is lying on the ground.
He denies a separate charge of forcing two Iraqis to remove their clothing.
Cooley denies one charge of disgraceful behaviour of a cruel kind. He denies two other charges of conduct prejudicial to good military order and discipline.
Kenyon denies six separate charges of aiding and abetting abuse or failing to report it.
The three were from W Company of 1 Bn, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which was guarding one of the main targets of the looters, a large warehouse complex storing humanitarian aid.
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Le Sportif Epic Ride – The Cotswolds
Nick Livermore, battered silly by ex-hurricane Bertha, takes to the hills around the Cotswolds, aided by a support car in a wet weather mashup of race, led ride and sportive.
Where? The Cotswolds (near Bristol)
Climbing: 1,100m
Terrain: Hilly (3 main climbs)
Event Size: Small
Cost: £35
Website: www.lesportif.cc
New for 2014, Le Sportif's 'Epic Rides' are a cross between sportive, road race and led ride; a perfect blend for those of you who'd like to explore the open road unencumbered by food, saddle bags, rain jackets and all the other items necessary for an enjoyable ride. The aim? To deliver 'the best riding experience possible.'
Supported by a car, doctor – happily, not needed – and qualified mechanic, the ride certainly delivered on its promise of unencumbered riding. Simply register, pop your necessaries in your assigned basket and head out on the road. You needn't even bring water bottles, food, gels, energy drink or towels; all is provided – you even get to keep the bottles.
It was perhaps unfortunate that Le Sportif's final Epic Ride of 2014 – a tricky hill seeking route through the Cotswolds – coincided with the same day ex-Hurricane Bertha burst over the South West, making for a slower ride through wet and windy conditions.
However, once you got over the fact that even your rain jacket wouldn't protect you from the deluge, the ride became incredibly enjoyable; at times cathartic, at others exhilarating. In fact, the only real negative the weather pressed upon us was a route change, excluding the final climb and descent; a difficult, but ultimately sensible decision.
Come face to face with a mechanical, fall foul to a puncture and the mechanic was on hand to repair and advise. It being a biblically wet day, our group encountered three punctures in total, all of which were patched up quickly and without issue – tubes supplied, of course. So thorough was the mechanic that when the brake pads of one of our number became dangerously worn, they were replaced almost immediately.
Beginning in Thornbury and heading north east into the Cotswolds the route, though shortened, was hilly enough to be challenging, with climbs of between 10 and 12% out of Wotton-under-Edge, Uley and Nailsworth, with a few lesser ascents thrown in for good measure.
In the midst of all this climbing was a short roadside coffee, cake and sandwich stop – all homemade and delicious, of course – under a pop-up gazebo. A chance to refill, natter and reflect on our sodden feet and soggy bottoms. Back on the road, though there was still one main climb to tackle and 20 miles of wet to negotiate our minds became focused on the coffee shop awaiting our arrival; the fruits of a 10-mile rolling descent into Tetbury.
Having taken our orders earlier in the day, hot drinks – mine a delicious flat white – were ready for us upon arrival at the coffee stop, Veloton. Included in the price, the coffee and cake – rocky road, lemon drizzle or flapjack – were a welcome distraction, fortifying us against the rain that was still to come. A quick glance around the adjacent bike shop and a largely pointless dry with the towel later and we were back on the road.
You can find my review of Veloton here…
Part steady climb, part descent and part flat "race" to the finish line, the remaining 20 miles of the Epic made for enjoyable cycling, through picturesque countryside and along quiet back lanes. Le Sportif's Epic Rides are nothing if not well planned and a lot of attention is given to getting off the beaten track and exploring the more rural roads and paths.
Ultimately, Le Sportif's third and final Epic of 2014 was a well organised, well considered and well executed amalgamation of race, led ride and sportive. And it speaks volumes that despite the atrocious weather brought upon us by an ex-Hurricane, our spirits remained undampened throughout.
Dates haven't yet been set for Le Sportif's 2015 events, but you can expect more Epic Rides – with plans for something a bit further afield – in the near future and if you're in the area I urge you to consider undertaking their challenge.
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Great review Nick. I must bring my tired body and bike over that way for a spin at some stage.


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What I tend to do is steam clean carpets which might be in this spot. You wish to eliminate the stains once you can, or they'll worsen. This is not like a headache that is going to go away. It is going to worsen, and you'll hate the look of the rug.
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Look into what's ailing the carpet and what you can do in this regard. You will need to show a bit of confidence with what you can do because it is that important.


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Published Document
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
Notice of a public informational meeting.
Trans-Boundary Resource Assessment Committee (TRAC) Industry/Science Data Exchange Meeting.
The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 7, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The meeting will be held at the New Bedford Free Public Library, 613 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740; telephone: (508) 991-6279.
Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.Start Further Info
Paul J. Howard, Exec utive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
Amendment 13 to the Northeast Start Printed Page 52087Multispecies Fishery Management Plan adopted a system to coordinate the management of trans-boundary stocks of cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder with Canada. As part of that system, each year, the Trans-Boundary Resource Assessment Committee (TRAC) conducts assessments of Eastern Georges Bank cod and haddock, and Georges Bank yellowtail flounder. These assessments provide the scientific advice used to determine management measures (including Total Allowable Catches, or TACs) for the U.S./Canada fishing area (see 50 CFR 648.85(a)). The TRAC is scheduled for June 12-15, 2007 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
Items for discussion at this meeting:
1. Northeast Fisheries Science Center assessment biologists will brief the public on the catches (landings and discards) and survey data that will be used in the 2007 assessments of Eastern Georges Bank cod and haddock, and Georges Bank yellowtail flounder.
2. Fishermen are encouraged to attend and provide their observations on fishing for cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder on Georges Bank in calendar year 2006.
Assessment results will not be presented because the assessment will not be completed until the following week.
Discussion will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in this notice.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in this notice and any issues arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been notified of the Council's intent to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul J. Howard (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.Start Signature
Dated: May 18, 2007.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Reduced prices!
Gen 4 Glock 17, 3 magazines, 2 back straps, Glockmeister grip plug. SOLD!
HK VP9SK, 3 magazines, all grip inserts, factory night sights. $550 shipped from FFL.
PM for more information. Both are extremely low milage.
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Reduced prices!
G17 is gone!
HK is still available.
I would consider (local) Walther related trades.
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Probably all set with the Walther trades.


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Glow Golfing in Berlin
Underground mini-golf is the latest covert craze to hit the German capitalFeatured December 10
From out-of-the-way bars that look like empty basements to hush-hush restaurants with top-secret menus, Berlin is a city that likes to keep things out of sight. So it's no surprise that the latest attraction to hit town - glow-in- the-dark mini golf - has been an underground hit. Literally.
Located underneath Café Isa Mitz in Kreuzberg's Görlitzer Park, this mini-golf course is on the former site of Görlitzer Station, which connected East and West when the Berlin Wall was still intact. Launching with little publicity and almost no signposting or advertising, Schwarzlicht Minigolf Berlin has quickly become one of the city's favourite word-of-mouth successes, a glow-in-the-dark world of UV lights and surreal designs where even the balls shine out of the blackness.
The course is divided into five different rooms, each with its own fantastical feel. The first room has an outdoor countryside theme (complete with giant toadstools, luminous bears and multicoloured snails) and the player progresses towards the final room - an underwater fairyland populated by glowing manatees and fluorescent dolphins. indoor-minigolf-berlin.de


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Is a vineyard a monoculture?
I have vivid mental images of vineyard scenes of the past: row after row in expansive fields of grapevines on top of bare dirt. I don't know if I actually visited such a vineyard or if I am remembering scenes from movies or photos in wine magazines. Our vineyard does not look like that, nor do any others with which I am currently familiar.
I just finished reading a book by Joel Salatin, one of my favorite sustainable agriculture authors. Joel is witty, knowledgeable, and unconventional. He has a beautiful farm in Virginia that he calls Polyface. I have read 5 or 6 of his books, some more than once, in my thirst for understanding how to be a good farmer. In a chapter on biodiversity, Joel writes about the common agricultural practice of planting huge acreages of one crop and the problems that can result because of the loss of symbiotic relationships that plants, animals, and insects have with each other. Monocultures are more susceptible to disease and pest pressures because the natural defense mechanisms are limited.
Debbie and I got out pen and paper one night after dinner and a glass or two of wine and brainstormed. Our vineyard is small enough that we don't meet the "expansive" size parameter typically assigned to a monoculture. But by planting a single crop of grapes in straight rows did we create a mini-monoculture that lacks natural diversity? From memory, we listed all the plants and animals that we have seen inside our 6 acre vineyard fence since we planted 3 years ago. Debbie added to the list several days later as more came to mind. I am pleased that we have a very diverse population of animals, flowers, grasses, weeds, insects, pollinators, and worms to help keep our vineyard healthy.
2016 view of healthy alleyway between rows
If you are interested in the list, I have tabulated it below. There are probably more that we can add to in the future.
|Bumble bees
|Crimson clover
|Purple dead nettle
|White clover
|Common teasel
|Broadleaf plantain
|Red clover
|Bunch grass
|Doves foot geranium
|Yellow star thistle
|Ground squirrels
|Spotted spurge
|Curly dock
|Common mallow
|Rye grass
|Prickly leaf lettuce
|Corn speedwell
|Queen Anne's lace
|Burr chervil
|Praying mantis
|Moth mullein
|Squash bugs
|Common mullein
|Turkey mullein
|Tomato horn worms
|False dandelion
|Bull thistle
|Common groundsel
|Canada thistle
|Honey bees
|Oak treelings
Elsewhere on the farm and in the vineyard...
We started pruning our 3rd-leaf Malbec on February 27th beginning with row 68 and working backwards toward the tasting room. It takes us 4 man-hours per row to prune and tape. We love doing it and it's great exercise. Just for fun we prune one 4th leaf Tempranillo vine on our way back to the garage. These vines are really starting to take on the mature shape of an older vine with 1-2 cordons and 10-12 two-bud spurs.
Raymond West from Mountain Creek Excavation helped us repair the driveway that blew out following 13 inches of snow and 12 inches of rain a week later. It's nice to have our driveway back.
Raymond West working on culvert
With the longer days, our 8 hens have stepped up egg production. Our best day so far has been 7 eggs. They are beautiful and taste great. Fiercely protected by Rudy the rooster, our small flock is doing great work on vineyard weeds and bugs, and are a hoot (or crow!) to watch.
One dozen fresh vineyard eggs ready for market
All of our 2015 and 2016 wines that are still in barrel are progressing nicely. For our February wine club release we pulled a barrel sample of our 2016 Rosé of Tempranillo and offered tastes to anyone interested.
Rosé barrel sample
It was delicious and we are...
...one day closer to our first estate wine!
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Dear Lindbergh School Community,
I am excited to be joining the Lindbergh Elementary School community this year as interim principal. I look forward to getting to know the students and families of Lindbergh. In the coming months I aim to learn as much as I can about the good work going on in the Lindbergh community. I hope to meet and get to know every family and partner in order to build strong, trusting relationships that keep the school community thriving.
As a proud Madisonian, I am thrilled to be back in the place I call home. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin I moved to Chicago, where I taught first and second grades. I then became an Assistant Principal of a K-8 school on the west side of Chicago. After two successful years at that school, I moved to Boston. I earned my School Leadership Degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Education while I was a Principal Intern at a high performing school. I spent the last year as a substitute teacher in the Madison Metropolitan School District, observing different schools and structures within the district. I have a large, close family that all live in Madison and spend time together regularly. I love to read, run, practice yoga and spend time with my nephew and friends.
I am deeply committed to working toward both equity and excellence in schools and I cannot wait to get started at Lindbergh. I look forward to meeting you in the coming weeks and cannot wait to get this school year off to a wonderful start.
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Today brings another find from an article in a magazine that was kindly given to me. It was in the October 2010 issue of Your Home, which had a section about Halloween crafts. None of them are on the website, so I thought I'd make them and share the guides here.
First up - Pumpkin Parcels! I used orange tissue paper instead of crepe paper and green tissue paper & cellotape instead of green florists tape, but they are essentially the same.
They're really easy to do and, depending on how many you make, only take between 5 minutes and half an hour to produce. You could put little presents or sweets or anything else you want inside and draw jack o' lantern faces on them to make them more individual, so they're also pretty versatile.
You will need:
- Cellotape / double-sided tape
- Scissors
- Green tissue paper (or green florists tape)
- Orange tissue or crepe paper
- A pen
- Something to fill the parcel with
- A dinner plate (to draw around, not pictured)
More pictures and a step by step how-to guide after the cut below↓
Spread out two sheets of the orange tissue/crepe paper on a flat surface and draw around a dinner plate with a marker pen to give you a circle. If you want a smaller/bigger parcel, then change the size of the circle accordingly.
Cut out the circle. Put your presents in the centre of it, making sure you add enough to fill it, but leave a gap around the edge. I used brain, bone & skull candies, and monster finger puppets to fill mine.
If you are not using green florists tape, gather the edges of the circle up and twist them in the middle, creating a pumpkin shape. fasten it with double-sided tape, or cellotape that has been folded over itself to create two sticky sides. Cut the green tissue/crepe paper into strips.
If you are using green florists tape, do the same, but fasten your parcel with the florists tape instead. Tadaaa~! Your basic parcel is done!
If you didn't use florist tape, then wind the green tissue/crepe paper strips around the top of your parcel.
You can then decorate the pumpkin with a face, or leave it blank.


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When President Jagdeo accuses the US and other Developed societies of lecturing Guyana and other Caribbean Countries on issues such as Drugs, he claims that the reports are wrong. What the President does not say or perhaps does not know is that some of the investigations of crimes overseas reveal a lot more information of Guyanese crime rings than the Guyanese authorities would want revealed.
In a case that has been ongoing in the United States for nearly four years now, not only has the prosecution revealed material but the defense has also been having its say. The case in point is the Sharwin Lilly case. In a letter objecting to a Pre-sentence Report an attorney for one of the defendants claimed that there are a number of small errors in the report.
In the Guyanese context, some of the so called small errors are really condemnations. Specifically the Defense document speaks to the participation of his client with Lilly and another individual known as Buckman and yet another person known as Moses. Information was also provided on David Sals and Tall Man. The fact that the defense and prosecution lawyers in the United States can mention individuals by both real names and aliases and time and places of conspiracies and drug transactions is significant.
In addition to all of that the defense document which is a response to the prosecution and the Court's report states very clearly that it is dangerous to cooperate with the Feds for Guyanese on both sides of the Atlantic. The court document refers to the fact that when those who conspired to import Drugs into the US from Guyana learnt of the particular individual's cooperation they threatened the cooperating client. And things got uglier than a simple threat.
In November of 2006, following additional threats from unknown people that the cooperating individual and his family would be slain the man's twenty year old stepson a guy by the name of Earle was kidnapped in Brooklyn. The charred corpse of the twenty year old was subsequently found. He was apparently tortured and then immolated with gasoline. According to the Defense document, this form of death is used with some frequency by Guyanese drug traffickers and an assassination of this sort is meant to send a message.
Guyana has from time to time objected to the characterization that the drugs dealers have given it. The real problem is that the information from these investigations is out there for all who wants to see or study it.


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Just me, myself, and I for this entire adventure! And all the wonderful people I meet along the way.
This year I will be participating in the Language, Culture, and Adventure program at Elverum folkehøgskole. Where I will be learning more Norwegian and exploring this beautiful country.
Starting August 17th I'll be a Norskie! Packed all my bags and moving for the first time in my life. #brazy
Elverum Norway will be my home for the rest0f 2017 and at least a part of 2018. Elverum is set in lush green timberlands of the southern part of Hedmark county. Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country
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What the F**K makes you tick? With Matt Diggity
The last interview in our series comes from the ultra-versatile Matt Diggity of Diggitymarketing.com and Diggity Links. Unlike the other interviews in this series, my interview with Matt comes in the form of a written correspondence. Our schedules didn't coincide, but I still really wanted to include his insights in our series. So, instead of writing him off, I was able to get in his input via a written interview. I am thrilled that he was able to discuss so many important things for this series, most notably his take on living the marketers dream. Extremely concise and enlightening, this interview will surely captivate all of you!
Matt is not only a incredible researcher in the Marketing / SEO niche, that shares all his findings with no holds barred on his blog, he also owns one of the most successful link rental businesses I have come across and all of this in addition to running his Chiang Mai based office that manages his vast portfolio of Affiliate Money Sites.
John: Matt, please tell me a little bit about what motivated you to go into online marketing, and then to go from a, sole marketing provider, to end clients, all the way to becoming a services provider with your link rental service.
Matt Diggity: My SEO career started around 2009. I used to be an engineer (Master of Science, Electrical Engineering) and I worked for a Silicon Valley startup. The lifestyle was brutal. I was making six-figures, but it simply wasn't worth it. I knew that I needed an exit plan because that life simply wasn't sustainable with any measure of freedom or happiness. At nights I would study online marketing and run various affiliate projects powered by SEO.
Eventually I started making good money online, but I didn't leave my day job quite yet. I was heavily vested in the company's virtual stocks and stayed around waiting for an acquisition or IPO.
In 2011 my company was acquired, my stock options became real, and I received a quarter million-dollar paycheck. I quit shortly after. It was time to live life the way I wanted. I moved to Chiang Mai, a hotspot for SEOs, and started working in SEO full time.
Looking back, I enslaved myself nearly 4 years for that buyout paycheck. Ironically, I found out later that SEO can create that cash flow in months. Hindsight is always 20/20. Isn't that what they say?
John: I couldn't agree more with you Matt, I think that most successful Seo's have at least a few moments of "regret" thinking, I wish I had taken the plunge earlier. Working with clients from all over the world, while being based in Asia, how do you manage the time zones and what does a typical day look like for you.
Matt Diggity: Clients require time and personal attention. I found that I wasn't able to scale as fast as I wanted to with a client model, so one day I decided to fire all my clients except one.
This free'd up a lot of time. Lately, my days revolve around management and testing. I have a team that helps to take care of the actual implementation of my projects: PBN setup, creating money sites, back linking, etc. They rank the sites and I oversee the work. This allows me to focus on testing and thus staying ahead of the SEO knowledge curve. The engineering nerd in me still loves to geek out in the lab. Besides, everything becomes easier when you can rank at will. Other than that, I allocate a few hours per week to SEO consultations. Helping people get to page 1 is definitely the most rewarding part of my work.
John: A lot of people would say that you are "living the marketers dream. What has it meant for you to get to where you are now?
Matt Diggity: To sum it up in one word: efficiency. There's no way I could be at the level I'm at now if I weren't constantly optimizing my productivity.
Here's my recipe for success:
- For two weeks every three months, track every minute of your working day and note down how much time you spend doing each task. Then figure out how much money each of those tasks makes for you. Divide earnings by time spent to figure out how much money your time is worth. Finally, outsource all tasks that you can get done for less than your worth per hour.
- Test. Most of the SEO advice you read about on the internet is going to be pure speculation or marketing hype. When you take testing into your own hands, you avoid the B.S. and instead become the cutting-edge yourself.
- Periodically, sell off your bottom 20% money-generating websites. If you're in client SEO, fire the bottom 20% of your clients. I don't care if they're making you thousands per month. Simply clearing out the bottom 20% makes room for more headspace to be applied to bigger projects with bigger returns. (Study Pareto's Law. Learn it. Live it.)
- Give a high priority to building an incredible team of all-stars.
- This one is the key: Forge partnerships with top performers that excel in the skills that you lack.
- Lastly, gamify your success: Set goals and reward yourself for getting to those milestones. For example, as soon as you hit your first 6-figure year, book yourself a first class ticket to wherever you want.
John: That's some pretty inspiring words right there Matt, I think a lot of people will benefit from adapting this kind of methodology.
For someone that would like to enter the online marketing industry on a shoestring budget, what would you suggest they do at the beginning of 2016 to make their dream come true?
Matt Diggity: This is a very interesting question. In general, sticking to a shoestring budget during the beginning phase is simply going to lengthen the time to success. You're going to have less resources to work with and all your time is going to be spent in the nitty-gritty; doing work that virtual assistants could do. If you really want to make 2016 your dream year but don't have the funds, this is my suggestion; intern/partner with someone with money and experience. Position yourself as an apprentice. Someone that they can train to do high-level tasks. You'll take over what they're doing now, so they can move on to the next thing. Do all the work for free. Don't accept a penny. Work in exchange for knowledge and resources (in SEO this would likely be in the form of backlinks). Use the resources for your own projects. With solid mentorship, you'll be able to learn faster, avoid newbie pitfalls, and avoid an upfront investment. Lastly, believe in yourself. Take action. And, most importantly, be kind to others. You can't go wrong with this paradigm.
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Paul Coughlin
Crikey – I think you should call that zen seo 🙂
As always – thanks Jonathan – and a special thanks to Matt..
Now.. off to Google maps to find Chiang Mai..
Lester Garden
Great interview . Highly motivating words from you Matt . I expected few more questions being answered by Matt .
PBN Butler – One suggestions Please : Increase font size a little bit .
Matt Diggity
Ask away, my friend.
Fantastic read, both two inspiring guys.
This SEO stuff is very very real. I love it. #knowyourworth 20/80 rule baby!
Great read very inspiring !! I have just started down this road of learning rank and rent . And want to learn some affiliate marketing. I'm hoping to have half the success as Matt and some of the others in local client takeover . Thank you
Thank you
billy C.
great interview, I discovered Matt recently and he's a solid source of SEO knowledge!
Mary Enstad
Great motivation for me. Thanks Matt for sharing your experience.


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The African Tech News Tidbits Week of June 7th
How are we all doing? Here are your ATN Tidbits for this week. By the way, I hope to count you as one of our listeners in my new weekly radio show at Coders4Africa Radio starting June 24th 2012. We will be discussing of course your weekly ATN Tidbits, discoveringCoders4Africa and getting to know more of the African Developer and Geek community. It a serious but irreverent affair and audience participation is key. You can link us up on Skype at "Coders4AfricaRadio" to participate live. My prayers and thoughts are also with all the victims and their families of the plane crash in Nigeria. Now without further "Abou" here we go:
- In the potentially revolutionary section: Polyvalent Wireless Communication System, a new wireless communication systempatented by a Beninese researcher, Dr Victor Agbegnenou, a Togolese inventor living in France, that allows, from a satellite broadband connection, the simultaneous provisioning of telephony, internet and video (image) services without using any landline cable such as fiber optics. This invention has come through thanks to theKa-Technologies laboratory based in Paris and headed by the inventor himself who spent ten years of research to conceive this cutting edge technology. Dr. Victor Kossikouma Agbegnenou is a veterinarian by training and graduated from the Moscow Academy and the Ecole Supérieure de Maisons-Alfort in France. He already holds four patents in the medical field, in addition to his latest patent in the telecoms field. The inventor is looking for about 10 million dollars to spread the benefits of his invention to the African continent. A Cameroonian company IdreamGroup is in charge of the commercialization of the technology and estimates that PWCS would allow African consumers to be able to afford Triple Play (High Speed Internet, Phone and Cable Television) services for about $30 US per month. Even cheaper than my own bill I would say so sign me up.Watch a report here:
- Another worth invention, a piezo-electric sole to allow people to produce enough electricity while walking to be able to charge their cell phones or other electronics:
- Have you ever wondered what Africans are busy inventing,like what you just read above? They stay busy, trust! This wonderful website compiles and updates a list of African Inventors. Give thanks and we need more! I'll keep an eye on this.
- Rwanda wants to get into the cloud.
- Mobile operator Orange and Ivorian media group Frat-Mat have signed a 3 year partnership agreementtargeting the completion of fourteen projects aiming to make Frat-Mat the biggest media conglomerate in the West African region by improving their use of ICTs.
- Forbes profiles Ory Okolloh, one of Africa's most successful women in an informative interview. While you are at it, you can also check out this article about 5 outstanding female Kenyan entrepreneurs.
- Senegal: Budding entrepreneurs should attend the GIST Startup Bootcamp, a two affair held on July 10th and 11th 2012 in the capital Dakar. The event is put together by CTIC Dakar(Senegalese incubator),Lions@frica, and the African Development Bank. The GIST Startup Boot Camp is an intense two day interactive training and mentoring event designed to spark innovative thinking and trigger the creation of new startup ideas among promising entrepreneurs in the ICT, energy, healthcare and agriculture sectors.
- Check out DEMO Africa initiave in relation with the GIST Startup Bootcamp:Real startups are being created in Africa, developing real-world solutions, worthy of investment and global attention. In recognition of Africa's economic emergence, the U.S. Department of State, in collaboration with Microsoft, DEMO, USAID, and Startup Weekend, is launching the Liberalizing Innovation Opportunity Nations (LIONS@FRICA) Partnership, a new public-private alliance to enhance and deepen the startup and innovation ecosystems of targeted fast- growing African economies.DEMO Africa is one of the flagship initiatives of LIONS@frica and aims to connect African startups to the global ecosystem. DEMO Africa will be the place where the most innovative companies from African countries come to launch their products and announce to Africa and the world what they have developed. The GIST Startup Boot Camp – Senegal (and potentially other African nations) will serve as an initial capacity-building effort to identify, vet, and train promising technology-based startups.
- There is almost no online payment option in Senegal, little ATM card use so developing an online e-commerce platform like Ebay in Senegal (or most West African countries for that matter) is not for now.Enter Waxale, which comes from the Wolof term for "negotiate". This startup aims to give customers the ability to set a maximum price to pay for an item they want, which will be relayed to a network of sellers by SMS and those willing to sell at that price will have the opportunity to contact the buyer to arrange for payment and delivery of the item. Ingenious and totally adapted to the Senegalese realities. Sellers will be screened by the company and rated on each transaction performed to ensure the integrity of the market place. The app is currently in private beta but I can't wait for it to go live and see how the market reacts to it.
- Another Senegalese startup, Africourant, aims to cut consumer's power will by 80% by following three simple steps. They've participated in Startup Weekend Dakar and are currently looking for investors. If you lived in Senegal over the past few years where rolling blackouts are more of a frequent occurence than steady power supply, yet where power bills are high, this is a smart idea that has traction.
- It's Startup Weekend time in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire my people. It's scheduled for July 20th – July 22nd 2012 and will feature the brightest in Ivorian entrepreneurial spirit I expect. Speakers will include Chams Diagne ofViadeo, Zohoré Lassina of Gbich, of my favorites satirical publications. I wish I was there to attend though. Maybe the 2013 edition.
- Akendewa has released CIVBlogs, a directory of Ivorian related blogs, websites and web apps.
- Silicon Valley Veterans Launch $10 Million Seed Fund: Savannah Fund, an East African-focused accelerator fund, aims to find and invest in early stage, high growth web and mobile startups addressing the Sub-Saharan Africa market. The new fund will typically make investments in the region of $25,000 to $500,000. Kenyan-raised American technologist and Ushahidi and iHub co-founder, Erik Hersman has joined as a VC. This news is getting a lot of people interested.
- The African Diaspora sends US $40bn back home every year. Some want a piece of that money. I would too. Kenyan bank Kenya Commercial Bank (operating in Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda) has now launched a $475000 project called Diaspora Banking aiming to offer e-banking services to Africans in the Diaspora and East Africa.
- Tanzania should be the first African country to offer 4G LTE services in the 800 Mhz frequencies thanks to a Smile Telecom/Alcatel-Lucent partnership.
- Virgin Group and FRiENDi GROUP today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement for the Middle East and Africa.Subject to local authority clearances, the two groups will merge their regional telecom operations to create a combined entity to be called "Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa" (VMMEA), which will develop and operate mobile telecommunications businesses across the region.
- An interesting perspective on the necessity for using Swahili to achieve commercial success in East Africa:Swahili is spoken by more than 60 million people across the entire eastern section of the African continent. It has official status in Kenya and Tanzania."It is a very significant language for us in terms of the volumes of translation required by clients," says Philip Zietsman, MD of the Folio Group translation consultancy. "Quite simply, if you want to tap into the thriving market of east Africa, your marketing material and packaging has to be translated into Swahili."
- On June 13, Secretary Hilary Clinton will welcome more than 60 young African leaders to the Innovation Summit and Mentoring Partnership with Young African Leaders, a three-week professional development program sponsored by the U.S. Government in collaboration with implementing partner, Meridian International Center.
- The GSMA's latest study looks at Ghana, Morocco, Uganda and India, identifying young people's aspirations and priorities, exploring the education and employment challenges they face, and scrutinizing their mobile phone use and concludes that the time is right for the mobile industry, the international development community, and governments to collaborate and create services that will have a profound impact on the lives of young people.
- An interesting question here in relation to the Nigerian's Federal Government decision to make mandatory for public sector ministries, departments and agencies to procure Nigerian-made IT equipment or risks fines or imprisonment. What do you think? Read more on the background here.
- Last for this week Google honoured the Nigerian Airplane crash victims.
Hope to count you as a reader again for next week's edition and as a listener on my upcoming show at Coders4Africa Radio.


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On 8 Feb 2003 at 12:33, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:53:31PM +0100, Ed Steenhoek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get into the habits of Forrest as an "end-user". Just > > a > > > > few days back I started using the 0.3 release that now has site.xml > > for managing the sitemap. > > > > What I haven't been able to find is some words about the way > > tabs.xml > > > > and site.xml interact. > > My first efforts lead to a navigation tree on the HOME tab that > > contains the full sitemap. I would like to get to a solution where > > the other tabs are not shown on the home tab. Is this something that > > should be possible already in 0.3? > > No, that's never a use-case we've encountered. Why wouldn't you want > some tabs? Tabs are meant to be like tabs in a book: little > indentations or sticking-out bits that allow you to quickly jump to a > page. > Seems like I didn't express myself well enough here. The point is that I don't mind the tabs. I do want them but don't want the menu items for all the tabs to appear on the home tab. In this case all tabs (including home) show only the menu items that are in their book. The current home tab is more like a complete sitemap which is very useful but not as primary navigation. The way I look at it that the collection of tabs is your catalog with books each tab being an independent book and like within any catalog there is an index: the sitemap. I would like to have such a sitemap as content and not as left-hand navigation. Does this make clear what I'm looking for? > > How does the engine knows which tab to link to which element in > > site.xml? By element name? > > All the tabs are always present. The only thing to decide is which > tab is 'selected'. > > Determining which is selected is done by examining the path of the > current page, and selecting the "most specific" tab. For example, if > the current page is 'community/index.html', and our tabs.xml contains: > > <tab label="Home" dir=""/> > <tab label="Community" dir="community"/> > <tab label="How-Tos" dir="community/howto"/> > > Then "Home" and "Community" will match (their prefixes match that of > the path), and "Community" will be the selected tab, as "community" is > more specific than "". > > Usually, tabs are made to subdirectories, but it's also possible to > tab a single page, eg: > > <tab label="Community FAQ" path="community/faq.html"/> > Ok. Will play around with it. > > I saw an example on the Forrest site where a tab showed only that > > part of the sitemap relevant to that tab. Is this a goal ore already > > reality for the current release? > > It's a reality in CVS, and looks like it will be in Forrest 0.3.1. > For example, see the truncated menu at: > > http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/sites/xml-forrest/community/ > Ok. Have to wait because that's what I need. > > --Jeff > > > > I hope some of you can shine a sparkle of light on this by some > > explanation or some words on the Forrest site that I apparently > > overlook. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Ed Steenhoek > > > > Thanks already. Ed
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I just love the simplicity and "duhhh"ness of this quote. This whole book is kind of full of her saying "YOU ARE ALREADY A QUEEN/KING, YOU JUST DONT REALIZE IT" and it's allllll true!
There are a bajillion people on this earth. There have been a bajillion more before us. Whenever I go to Disneyland or somewhere with a lot of people, my mind is just blown that there are that many people and every single person is different. Sure, there's that doppelganger theory, but you are LITERALLY the only you there is. I am the only me there is. There is no other Holly Robinson just like me. I have my own unique set of gifts and talents that I am here on this earth to share. Here's a little bit surrounding the quote....
"You are perfect. To think anything less would be as pointless as a river thinking it's got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that it's rapids are too rapid. Says who? You're on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twist and turns. There is just being. And your job is to be as you can be. This is why you're here. To shy away from who you truly are would leave the world you-less. You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance." -Jen Sincero, You are a Badass
CAN YOU EVEN HANDLE THAT? I love it so much. Your journey is your own, it is no one else's, and more importantly, it is no one else's business. Another gem.. "Do not waste your precious time giving one single crap about what others think of you." Honestly. This. I'm not going to blabber on, I'm just going to tell you to pick up this book and learn to love yourself and embrace yourself.
*gives self a hug*
Download this here, hang it on your wall, somewhere where you can see it and read it and believe it every day.


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- Got myself an Fiio X3 Gen2 for travelling. This has been pretty good, but I have not been very happy with its pairing with my Earsonics. I am still awaiting my LH Geek Wave...
- Received the LH Geek Out SFi. I think I got it correct. It has been pretty good overall.
- Purchased and built the Elekit TU-8300R. Been fantastic Running them in with JJ 300B, Siemens ECC801s and James output transformers. Enjoying it and dreaming of upgrading it Elrog 300B and Noguchi Finemet output transformers.
- Built (finally) an OB with my Lowther DX3. Really enjoying them, but lacking bass. Which leads into the main contents of this post.
So, it took me all of 2 hours to build the OB for the Lowther, it was made using 16mm MDF, and tilted back 10 degrees with the baffle 450mm wide and 900mm high. It is nothing special. But the music that it makes is great, and really focused me on finishing these OB. I was reminded that I got the Lowther and Alpha 15a in 2011... Anyway, I started doing some simulations in Basta and got three working concepts. The three concepts are:
- Passive first order crossover.
- Passive second order crossover.
- Active second order crossover.
Overall, I got the three options to look relatively similar in simulation. Note that all T/S data is by the manufacturer's supplied data and not through any measurement. I have also provided a fourth option using a higher crossover point using 1st order - this was done to keep values low and to use the crossover point to tame the baffle step, and obviate the need for a BSC. See the last option below.
Passive 1st order crossover
The parameters for this design are:
Lowther DX3
Crossover 68 uF
BSC 4R, 68 uF and 1.2 mH
L-pad of 8R
Eminence Alpha 15A
Crossover at 8 mH
'Room Gain' turned on with default settings.
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Passive 2nd order crossover
The parameters for this design are:
Lowther DX3
Crossover 68 uF and 12 mH
BSC 3R, 68 uF and 1.2 mH
L-pad of 2R
Eminence Alpha 15A
Crossover at 10 mH and 200 uF
'Room Gain' turned on with default settings.
Reversed polarity.
|Frequency response for passive 2nd order crossover.
Active 2nd order crossover
The parameters for this design are: The source voltage has been modified to allow for a 'flat' frequency response.
Lowther DX3
Voltage set at 2.83 V
2nd order at 250 Hz Q=0.707
BSC 4R, 68 uF and 1.2 mH
Eminence Alpha 15A
2nd order at 150 Hz Q=0.707
Voltage set at 5 V
'Room Gain' turned on with default settings.
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Passive 1st order crossover (high crossover point)


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Below is the text of Prime Minister's Question Time from 4th March 1993.
Q1. Mrs. Helen Jackson : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major) : This morning, I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.
Mrs. Jackson : Does the Prime Minister recall telling Parliament in 1989 :
"I take my own share of responsibility It is not something I seek to heap upon my predecessor"?
Is he today going to blame Baroness Thatcher for the disastrous damage done to manufacturing industry while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer?
The Prime Minister : As it happens, my right hon. and noble Friend did more to help British industry than the Labour party has ever done. If the hon. Lady would like an illustration of that, in the 1980s the number of manufacturing companies rose from 144,000 to 165, 000. I will provide the hon. Lady with a long list of other improvements, should she wish to have it.
Q2. Mr. Rowe : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister : I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Rowe : In every year of this Conservative Government the Home Office has paid for and researched very carefully experiments using voluntary organisations and others to rehabilitate young offenders. That research has consistently demonstrated a very much better rate of recovery than any other method used. [Interruption.] Every time these experiments have shown-
Madam Speaker : Order. I have not yet heard a question from the hon. Gentleman. I have heard statements, but no question. I now need a question.
Mr. Rowe : Is my right hon. Friend aware that every time these experiments are shown to be a success the Home Office funding is withdrawn? Will he make certain that, when such experiments are shown to be successful, Government expenditure is maintained to enable them to continue?
The Prime Minister : The Home Office always monitors the performance of the projects that it funds to ensure the value for money and efficiency of those projects. Where the projects are efficient, there is a possibility of extending funding for longer than the three-
Mr. John Smith : Will the Prime Minister explain what he meant when he said that he was a minority in his predecessor's Administration? Is it not deeply revealing about the Prime Minister that, having run out of excuses for the abject failure of his Government's economic policies, he is now trying to pin the blame on his predecessor, in whose Government he was responsible for economic policy both as Chief Secretary and as Chancellor of the Exchequer?
The Prime Minister : The right hon. and learned Gentleman is very predictable. He is also misled yet again by newspaper reports, having not read the transcript of the interview. He really should give up reading newspapers ; I recommend it to him. If he had read the source material, he would have read that the question put to me was that the idea got about in the 1980s that making things was not so important. It was not my view, not my right hon. and noble Friend's view, and not the view of the then Government.
Mr. John Smith : The Prime Minister surely cannot complain about being misrepresented in interviews that he himself gives. Is he aware that in that interview he complained about what he called an inheritance of 15 per cent. interest rates and 11 per cent. inflation? Who does he think was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the preceding years? If we are to make sense of the Prime Minister, does he not understand that he means that he inherited them from himself?
The Prime Minister : The right hon. and learned Gentleman is being very slow. I shall explain the whole matter to him again. I suggest that he reads the transcript of the interview. As I explained to him a moment ago, I disagreed with the view put to me by the interviewer, as would my right hon. and noble Friend have disagreed with it. So far as interest rates are concerned, I was referring to the legacy of the recession that we are curing and which has now hit every other nation in Europe.
Mr. John Smith : Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why a Chancellor of the Exchequer has nothing to do with a recession that occurs in his period of office? Since he has been Prime Minister for more than two years, and since the right hon. and noble Lady is no longer here, why are we still losing 25,000 jobs every month in manufacturing industry and £136 billion in investment under his Administration? It has nothing to do with anyone else.
The Prime Minister : What the right hon. and learned Gentleman utterly fails to realise-
If the right hon. and learned Gentleman were more aware of the position of manufacturing, he would know that exports are up on manufacturing. Capital spending on manufacturing is up. Compared with 10 years ago, there is exceptional growth in engineering, chemicals and other manufacturing. When will the right hon. and learned Gentleman stop talking this country down and start talking it up?
Sir Dudley Smith : Is my right hon. Friend aware that his sensible policies on the Bosnia-
The Prime Minister : I believe that my hon. Friend is entirely right about that. The important matter in the Bosnian war is to give every support one can to the peace talks in New York. They are crucial. They are the only realistic way of achieving real peace, and I very much welcome the Muslim agreement to a document on the cessation of hostilities. There still remains great difficulty in getting agreement on the map, but it is essential that all parties remain at those negotiations and negotiate seriously until we have a satisfactory agreement and the end of this bitter and nasty conflict.
Q3. Mr. Leighton : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Leighton : No one has spoken more graphically and poignantly about the evils of unemployment than the Prime Minister. Does he recall talking about what he called his "dole hell", searching for work every day when he was unemployed for 12 months as a 19-
The Prime Minister : The first essentials for making sure that we have a society that has full employment are low inflation, low interest rates and the right supply side policy for growth. The right way to make sure that we have skills is to put in place the training programmes that we have put in place, each one of which has been opposed by the hon. Gentleman.
Mr. Heald : Does my right hon. Friend agree with Lord Prior's comments yesterday that the conditions are now in place for British manufacturing exporters to perform better? Will he join me in congratulating the firms in north Hertfordshire that are doing just that, in particular Lucas CEL of Hitchin which is launching its new export product today?
The Prime Minister : Yes, I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I am certainly happy to give my support to those particular projects. We have remarkable opportunities in front of us at the present time, as we find that we are hugely competitive in terms of the cuts in costs that we have seen in the past few years. We need to ensure that on this occasion, even though we have captured export markets, we do not surrender those for the returning home market. We need to keep the domestic market and continue to press ahead with further export markets.
Q4. Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Matthew Taylor : Does the Prime Minister agree that the people and businesses of the south-
The Prime Minister : I think that if the hon. Gentleman looks he will find that the water prices to which he refers are similar in other counties to those in the west country. There is a substantial need to improve the water quality and supply in the west country and also, not least because of the importance of the tourist industry, to improve the bathing waters and other tourist facilities. That is a significant reason for the present level of water charges.
Mrs. Ann Winterton : Is my right hon. Friend aware that more than 300 Members of this House and of the other place recently attended an exhibition of obscene material that had been seized under the Obscene Publications Act 1959? Is he aware that Members were deeply shocked by what they saw and believe that the Obscene Publications Act needs urgent review? Will he accept the invitation that I have written to him to view the material privately so that he may reach his own informed conclusion about what action needs to be taken to clean up this free market in filth?
The Prime Minister : I have had a report of the particular material to which my hon. Friend refers. I am aware of the nature of it and how offensive it will be to most Members of this House and most people in this country. I have asked my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for National Heritage to consider what options exist for taking action against it.
Q5. Mr. Purchase : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Purchase : Does the Prime Minister realise that the people of the west midlands, once the workshop of the world but where now more than a quarter of a million people have been made unemployed in the past 13 years, will take no comfort from the fact that he appears to have gone along with the loss of their jobs? Does he think that they will understand him a little less and condemn him a little more?
The Prime Minister : The hon. Gentleman will be aware of the historic importance of the west midlands to manufacturing. He has neglected to mention the assistance in the autumn statement on capital allowances, car tax-
Sir Fergus Montgomery : Has my right hon. Friend noticed that new car registrations are up 16 per cent. compared with a year ago? Is that not good news? Does he not think it strange that every time the economic news is good, the faces opposite get longer? Is it not time the Opposition stopped talking this country down?
The Prime Minister : I entirely agree with my hon. Friend about that, and it is a point which I have made in recent days. The increase in car registration is welcome news. It is a continuing trend over recent months. The only people who benefit from talking Britain down are our competitors. I hope that that is understood by every right hon. and hon. Member.
Q6. Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 March.
The Prime Minister : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Kirkwood : The Prime Minister is right to give priority to the manufacturing sector of business in Britain, particularly small businesses, but what does he have in mind? Is he prepared to reduce the burden of rates which apply particularly to small businesses? Is he prepared, for instance, to allow small businesses to add statutory interest to bills that are overdue for undue periods of time? There is a long list of tangible things that the Prime Minister could do to give real physical expression to the words that he uttered recently in his interview in the national press. What tangible, concrete things has he in mind?
The Prime Minister : If the hon. Gentleman had been listening a few moments ago, I listed a number of them to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-