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Have you been searching for your soul mate?
With so many people in this world, why is it so hard to meet an ideal mate?
I hear from many of my single friends statements like:
- All of the good ones are taken.
- It's so hard to meet someone of substance in this town.
- Men are just not men anymore.
- Woman are whores now.
- You can't trust men/women.
The list goes on and on.
What is the issue and why is it so damn hard to meet good people? If you think about it, we have more people accessible to us then ever before. There are WAY more options to meet people in today's day in age and yet so many people are so lonely.
Think about it, we have websites like: match.com, plenty of fish, ok cupid, tinder, eharmony, and many more. Have you every been on one of those sites? It can be like having a full time job. (Jay and I actually met on Match.com) There are so many options for people, it becomes difficult to make a decision. Plus, with the accessibility of so many women for men, there are some men who don't want to commit. Why would they when women make themselves so available to men?
Jay and I played an experiment a few years back to see how crazy those sites can be. We found that women can be more desperate then men. Many women will put themselves in compromising situations to be with a man even if they know he is in a relationship. As crazy as it sounds, some women make it a competition. "I can take him from her".
Turn the tables around and it can be challenging to find a "real" man. A man who is willing to treat a woman with respect, yet take her in the bedroom and dominate. Most men have become so passive they allow women to walk all over them. Over time, the woman grows tired of these type of men and moves on.
So, what is a person to do looking for their soul mate? We have some tips for you.
1. Be Comfortable With Being by Yourself.
This sounds crazy since this about finding your soul mate. In all honesty, if you do not know thyself then how the hell can someone know you? If you don't love you first then there is no possible way for you to truly love someone else or have someone else to love. As soon as you are comfortable with being on your own, then you will not compromise your values to be with someone because you don't want to be lonely.
2. Decide if You Truly Want to be in a Relationship or Simply Want to Play
Being single doesn't have to be about finding your soul mate at every given point in time. Perhaps, you want to explore and date. If this is the case, be honest with those you associate with. The last thing you want to do is lead someone on who truly wants to be in a relationship.
Don't lead people on because you feel bad or don't want to hurt their feelings. If you don't want to be in a serious relationship then communicate it with them. Women: if you want to get married, don't have marriage breath. For goodness sakes, show the man your worth. The last thing you want is a man to marry you because he feels obligated. Marriage is not the end all be all.
Create a relationship with a foundation built on honesty. If you don't turn out to be partners, you could turn out later to be friends or business associates. Life has a funny way of playing games on people.
3. Create Your Ideal Mate.
What does your ideal mate look like?
I actually did this when I decided I was ready to be in a relationship. I was in Hawaii with my friend. We were in paradise, relaxing with our kids. It was a great moment. I told her, let's write down what we want in our ideal mate. I wrote down 10 things of what I wanted in a man. After we finished, we folded up our lists and put them away. I said it is not our job to sit and focus on this list continually. Our intention was set and sent out to the universe. I then asked her an important question: Who do we need to be to attract our ideal mate? We flew home the next day.
I met Jay 2 days later and the rest is history. By the way, Jay has every quality on my list plus more! (even down to being fit and having blue eyes). I was clear on what I wanted and who I desired to be with. I knew if I was to attract a man who was fit, I would have to be a woman who is fit. If I wanted an intelligent man, I had to be a woman of power/intelligence.
I believe many people screw up in this area. Many of us have an idea of the mate we want. We want to be treated with respect and love. Yet, we don't turn the table around and look at ourselves. When you look at your list, ask yourself if you were this man/woman, how would he/she be attracted to you? In other words, who do you need to be to attract your ideal mate?
4. Trust Your Mate is Out There.
As stated, I did not continually think, "When will I meet him…where will I meet him". I simply trusted and knew I would meet him when the time was right. I enjoyed the process. I allowed myself to have fun with life and learn through the experiences.
5. Understand You May Kiss a Few Frogs Before You Get to Your Prince.
Don't beat yourself up over time wasted with other people. Everyone is in your path for a reason. No matter how miserable the experience was, it is part of your process. Allow yourself to date someone who is out of your norm to experience what that person may be like.
I dated men shorter than I wanted because I didn't want to be with someone only because they were tall. I wanted to truly get to know people. I was curious about who they were. I had not experienced the dating scene when I was younger so I embraced the experience. I dated men who used me, leaving me feeling like I was a piece of trash. Yet, if it weren't for some of the experiences I had, I would never had stopped drinking. I knew I would not attract the man I truly wanted to be with if I was drinking alcohol. (Jay and I both don't drink).
6. Respect Yourself and Others
Remember your own values. Don't allow yourself to change to have someone accept you. This won't last long term. You will only resent the person you are with because you felt you had to change to keep them.
Respect who you are with. Don't expect them to change. Acceptance is the highest form of love. You don't have to stay with the person if they don't meet your needs however you don't have to put them down because they aren't in sync with you. They simply are not a match for you. They could very well be a match for someone else.
Overall, dating in today's society can be challenging. Make it fun. Don't take it so seriously. Not everyone will find you attractive and that is OK. We all have different opinions.
A brief suggestion for men and women respectively.
Women: Many men believe women are crazy. Prove them wrong. Don't stalk the men you are interested in. If they aren't calling you back then they aren't interested. Don't talk bad about your past boyfriends to your suitors, it only makes you look bad. Don't be with a man only because he is financially well off. If a man chooses you because you are hot and he wants arm candy then he will dump you when the newest flavor comes along. Be a woman of substance. Provide value for yourself and add value to your mates life. Support your man and build him up. Men are essentially big babies and they want you to be their biggest cheerleader/supporter.
Men: Be a man with your woman. Don't let your woman walk all over you. Provide for your family. Don't let the woman be the sole provider. Women innately desire to have security. If you don't provide it then they will grow tired of you. Women are emotional and don't always make sense. Don't try and figure them out. Simply enjoy the moments. Give yourself space to be a man. Dominate them in the bedroom. Captivate and play with your woman.
And be cautious men when with a SUPER HOT/sexy woman. If you are going to choose a woman because she represents a fantasy for you then realize she may fall short in other areas. If you choose a woman only because of her looks, eventually you will grow tired of her. Every man can get tired of the same woman over time. After all, many women don't age as well as men do. Make sure if you truly desire to be in a relationship. you have similar interests to create a stronger bond between the two of you. If you decide to be with a much younger woman because she visually and sexually stimulates you, make sure she is mature enough to stick out any tough times with you. We are all tested in rough waters.
There are no mistakes in life. Every person came into your life for a purpose. There are no regrets, only life lessons. Don't beat yourself up for giving the best years of your life to someone. You can recreate who you are at any given point in time, if you decide to.
My favorite saying is, "Everyone needs a Jay Campbell in their life!". I found mine!
Are you ready to find your ideal mate? Have you created your online dating profile yet?
Be the BEST YOU EVER!


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Former heroin addict now leading worship at Roanoke church
Opioid Nation: The Road to Recovery
ROANOKE, Va. – A former heroin addict now leads worship at a church in the same neighborhood where she used to buy drugs.
Amanda Bocchi had a traumatic childhood and a boyfriend who introduced her to painkillers to help her cope with the trauma.
"I tried to fill that hole with everything," Bocchi said. "Once I discovered opiates, it immediately took all the anger away, all of the pain, all of the emotional trauma that I experienced on a daily basis."
Eventually, she started using street drugs.
"I was shooting up on a daily basis, multiple times a day," Bocchi admitted. "I had sold and pawned every instrument that I've owned. I've stolen from family members. I've lied and manipulated to serve my habit."
Bocchi said that drugs were the solution to her problems, not the problem themselves.
She started her recovery from addiction about 18 months ago with Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous. In the 12-step program, she came face to face with her demons and believes she was finally healed.
"I didn't have a higher power. I didn't have a relationship with anything greater than myself," Bocchi said. "My substance was the thing that was greater than me."
The road to recovery led her down an unexpected path to a long conversation with Huntington Court United Methodist Church pastor Jeff Wilson.
Bocchi's story of restoration is exactly why Wilson reached out to her for the worship leader position.
"She's living, breathing, and singing proof that they can step out of the darkness and into the light," Wilson said.
As part of the church's new effort to reach those struggling with issues like addiction, Bocchi leads worship on Thursday nights when she sings of finding the light.
"We just want to give a safe place for people to come and grow faith," Wilson shared.
Several of Huntington Court's services are meant to reach people with similar stories to Bocchi's.
"My hope is that people will be able to see what I'm doing and hear my story and testimony and find some hope for themselves," Bocchi said.
If you or someone you know is addicted to opioids, visit wsls.com/addiction for a number of resources.
Copyright 2017 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

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They were two small examples of man's humanity to man.
The first I came across in a magazine. The story involved a London restaurant which is training the homeless as chefs. The illustration beside it showed two happy men with bright futures opening unexpectedly before them. And alongside their phoenix-like rise we could read what had led them to sleeping in doorways.
One was an African war refugee whose home was destroyed and whose family was scattered. He arrived here penniless and traumatised. Now he has been reunited with his wife; he has a home and a job.
The second was a former professional fallen on hard times. They illustrate the fact that there is no such thing as "the homeless" or "the long-term unemployed". They are just individuals, each with their own history of decline and fall.
For these two that is now the past.
Then yesterday, on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, I listened to the story of hedge fund manager turned chutney and jam maker, Jenny Dawson. Her company, Rubies in the Rubble, is located "a plum stone's throw" from Spitalfield market. She uses its ripe fruit which otherwise would be destined for landfill. She employs vulnerable local women. Their product is good enough to sell in Fortnum & Mason and in Waitrose. It's win, win.
Jenny is 27. Her initiative is inspiring and life-enhancing. She exhibits the sort of imagination we look for in our leaders, the sort of thinking that would have us rushing to the polls. Instead we get hectored about hard-working people versus those who want something for nothing.
As if life were so black and white. Mostly it's about people doing the best they can in the circumstances they find themselves. Sometimes, for any number of reasons, those circumstances can be difficult to overcome. Yesterday George Osborne outlined his Help to Work scheme. It concerns the 200,000 of our 60m population who in April 2014 will have been out of work for at least two years. (Most will have been unemployed for three years.)
These unfortunates will have three choices. The illiterate and addicted will be put on to courses or into therapy. Of the rest some will be put to work clearing litter, removing graffiti or cooking for the elderly. The rest will be required to sign in at the JobCentre every day, where they will complete applications.
It is a popular move with taxpayers. They appear to have bought into the notion that welfare claimants are getting it too easy. Some think too many of them are foreign.
Hard times harden attitudes. Just look at Greece. Look at the swing to Ukip in England. It's tempting to think the Tories are looking over their shoulder and appeasing their right wing. I don't think so. I think David Cameron and George Osborne have always had this societal view.
And what is wrong with it?
After all, I am applauding back-to-work schemes instigated by individuals. Few can doubt the value of having paid work. It keeps us solvent and is integral to our self-esteem. We wake brighter and walk taller for knowing that we have a contribution to make. We are social beings, so we flourish in joint enterprises which have a shared product. What's more, it's good for the country. With more of us in work, tax receipts will be higher and the deficit lower.
I should be on side with this initiative of Mr Osborne's. So why do I chill at the mention of the policy?
In the words of Frank Carson, it's the way they tell it.
The Tories have dissected the population into two very unequal portions: hard-working people versus those who want something for nothing. It plays to the dark side of our natures. It brings out the bully. It gives people a sense of satisfaction to feel slightly superior, to have someone to kick at. As Eliza Doolittle's father said in Shaw's Pygmalion: "I'm one of the undeserving poor….up agen [sic] middle-class morality all the time… What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything."
How right Shaw was. We dislike those to whom we feel we ought to give. It soothes our meanness to think they are ill-deserving. It helps us shake them from our collective shoe.
Instead of dwelling on the lousy education system that allowed large sections of the workforce to leave school illiterate, we label the victim workshy. If we know people are addicts, why wait until they have been unemployed for two years to treat them?
Having to spend every day in a JobCentre writing applications will weed out those working in the black economy, as Mr Osborne hopes. Won't it also penalise those who live in rural communities - long distances from the centre? Will travel expenses be covered?
Remember, one infringement of the new rules and benefits are stopped for two weeks. Two infringements and they aren't paid for three months. We are then into the realms of food parcels and evictions. But this is a popular policy which is costing £300m to bring into effect.
Just think how many enterprises like Jenny Dawson's chutney and jam making might spring from such a sum.
Instead we prefer to think of the feckless, of the abusers of welfare.
They do exist and it's good that they will be rooted out. But they didn't land us in this financial mess and depriving them of their ill-gotten benefits won't get us out of it.
But maligning the unemployed will distract us. It will give us a common enemy, someone to hate while we adjust to our new stringencies.
I have just read Making It Happen, Iain Martin's excellent deconstruction of the fall of RBS and the "men who blew up the economy".
He notes that in 2012 our national debt had risen above £1trillion, heading for £1.5trillion.
It got me thinking about the undeserving rich. Fred Goodwin was made a pariah, also a scapegoat. Martin lists plenty of others who strolled unpunished from the wreckage to continuing careers in finance or to spend time with their multi-million bonuses.
Mr Osborne says that Labour left five million people on out-of-work benefits. It was, he says, "a waste of life and talent".
He's right. Idleness is a waste of both. And yet, with Jobseeker's Allowance accounting for around 3% of the welfare budget, is spending £300m on implementing this scheme the best use of scarce resources? And is demonisation the healthiest way to approach those hardest to re-employ?
On moral grounds I find it repugnant; on practical grounds too. It follows the seeming failure of the Government's own Work Programme. It can boast only 14.7% in work for six months and around 25% for three months.
Labour would replace the Coalition's policy with subsidies for employers who give the long-term unemployed part-time work for the minimum wage.
It might not be better but it would be kinder - and when we can't afford kindness we will be destitute indeed.


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 188.8.131.52
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Now, back on topic.
I've spent a fair amount of time reading previous posts here, and one thing that really struck me is the fact that about 99% of the assertions about Google's ranking mechanism(s) in this forum are nothing more than realistic hypotheses. After all, the only publicly-available official documentation of the PageRank algorithm appears to be the famous recursive formula from the early paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [www-db.stanford.edu]. Just about everything else I've been reading so far about PageRank seems to be mere inference based on personal (=limited) experience, if not plain speculation.
About PageRank, the best independent analysis that I've been able to find is PageRank Explained [goodlookingcooking.co.uk] by Chris Ridings, who --while illustrating some really interesting theories indeed-- clearly states that "There is, at this point in time, not enough information for us to be 100% certain about anything. I am merely presenting theories, based upon the best information available, which seem to largely hold true".
What's perhaps even more important, from what I've been able to observe from several web site rankings (including my own), PageRank is obviously a single part of a wider, more complicated and partly obscure mechanism. As Chris intelligently argues, "PageRank has its place in the ranking process. That place is not as big as many might imagine. Its significance in the ranking algorithm is less than many other factors [...]".
So, let's be honest: what do we know about what's really going on inside the Google black box? Very little, IMHO. I find it really funny to read about some SEO geek hacking, reverse-engineering, spoofing or otherwise exploiting the Googlebar just to see the actual PR values associated with each URL. Besides, I'm pretty sure the guys at the GooglePlex have lots of fun reading our posts, too. :)
Google's engineers have always been very careful about giving away potential hints (let alone detailed explanations) about the way the SE really works. And they have justified their reserve saying that such information may seriously harm Google's search quality (and thus its users' experience) if disclosed. I deeply respect and appreciate that position, which I think reveals a very mature and responsible corporate philosophy. One may argue that Google's secrets are mainly aimed at retaining their current leadership in the SE market, but then how many other SE's do you know of which are so constantly focused on providing oustanding quality search results, and so genuinely concerned about spamming, cloaking, and other unethical so-called "SEO" practices?
About self-appointed SEO professionals, I really wish those guys could learn something from the WebSeed incident [webmasterworld.com]. Let aside the questionable ethics of behaviours such as setting up a link farm in order to boost a single web site's ranking, and even looking at things from a strictly opportunistic point of view, following Google's tips on how to get a good ranking has proven to be the most effective web page optimization strategy by far. From a fresh interview with Google software engineer Matt Cutts [clickz.com]:
When asked how to gain high rankings, Cutts replied, "The guidelines are pretty simple: Stay away from hidden text, hidden links, cloaking, sneaky redirects, lots of duplicate content on different domains, and doorway pages. [...] The best use of a Webmaster's time is building good content."
One last thing: I'd like to be proven wrong about the lack of information regarding Google's actual ranking mechanisms, so if anyone knows of any official (or equally reliable) resource about obscure subjects such as theme assessment and the way Google extracts contextual information from web pages and hyperlink structures, please post it here. Although I have hardly any interest for SEO techniques, I am about to write my graduation thesis on Google, so any additional references would be welcome. Thanks.
ciml: I know Brin and Page's paper and its original definition of PR (I mentioned it in my first post). Of course, the vital importance of keywords in the <TITLE> tag is pretty self-evident each time you search with Google, and with other SE's as well. No one is going to have any doubts about that, and I guess the same could be said for the negative effect of widely-recognized "poison words". However, personally I would think twice before stripping relevant keywords off my web pages just because I found them on a blacklist somewhere. "PR0 paranoia" already seems to be a widespread disease in the webmaster community: let's just try not to make it epidemic. ;)
I can see your point when you say we have to make assumptions (which might as well prove themselves wrong in the long term) in order to test our hypoteses and eventually learn something. I totally agree. Besides, that's the way empiric research is done.
The problem is, most of the assumptions I've seen the SEO people make have more to do with superstition than science IMHO. :)
That said, I would like to thank the nice guys who run WebmasterWorld for the directions and pointers they gave me: digging deeper in the library, I found tons of interesting information about Google and related topics, as well as some really intriguing threads from the past. There's even a Google FAQ page! and a research summary! and a SE newsletter! and a SE glossary!... Awesome stuff that's going to be of great help for my thesis. Talk about content quality? This site deserves PR12. :)
SEO Methodologies : A brief history of our industry:
1995) The early days of Yahoo.
Optimization was born out of the roots of AAA, A#1, and Acme style yellow pages/white pages alphabetical optimizations.
1996) Blind luck and keyword seasoning to taste.
The early days were stabs in the dark using simple keyword seasoning. Poke it here, and look for a reaction there. The first concepts of density and location started to be used.
You could still get a site listed in Yahoo by merely submitting it. As long as it wasn't too gaudy, you were in within 72 hours.
Late 96) The first papers begin to appear on the web about text matching, data mining, and interviews with se programmers.
Light bulbs of understanding begin going off around the early seo community. People began to realize just how databases work to match text and how they would be applied to the greater database of the web.
1997) The first algo crackers appear.
If it's a machine, we don't need to test it by blind experimentation, we can decode the algo mechanically. The first algo crackers were quite rudimentary by simply studying the make up of pages in the results many of the major clues to the algo's could be understood.
More specifically, several seo's decoded all 35 parameters to Excite and were able to build pages precisely to the algo; thus, generating #1 pages at will.
The first major "page jacking" and "bait and switch" incidents begin to happen. SEO's get code stolen and copied.
Mid 97) Several se's begin using Yahoo as a QA check. Thus, getting into Yahoo became paramount. Yahoo is flooded with submissions. Best guess is they processed less than 5% of submissions in 97 and 98. Impromptu Yahoo flame clubs formed anywhere there was a discussion about promotion.
Se's begin waking up to the fact that their sites are "portals" (in one door and out the other). Se's begin their first attempts at keeping people on the site in various ways. Some were intentional algo manipulations designed to keep people around the se and searching longer than they should have. (There are some big time stories here if any se techs would like to talk)
Late 97) Along came Infoseek's daily refresh. Submit it by 8am and you were in the db and pulling referrals by late afternoon. It was the first time "joe optimizer" could play the game without being a programmer. SEO explodes as people began to see simple and easy results in 24hours on Infoseek.
Spam becomes a very serious problem for the SE's as unscrupulous spam sites began to understand algos and how to manipulate them. Hotbot and Altavista were next to useless in late 97 due to spam (last half of 97 and most of 98 were the dark ages for se's).
The first "clustering" of results appears and has a major affect on algo decoding.
More page jacking incidents happen regularly. Hardly any top SEO doesn't have top ranked pages stolen and copied. Often copied into foreign domains out of jurisdiction.
Algo crackers begin to talk about the first cloaked pages appearing in the insurance and auto sectors. I am captivated by it.
Referrals begin to skyrocket for SEO's. 1k, 2k, and even 5k per site per day is not uncommon.
98) Let's get serious.
After several papers were delivered at the WWW conferences, it became clear se's were going to move to Off-The-Page criteria. Prerequisites such as link pop, directory listings, and listings age were going to be main parts of the new algo's.
Decoding algo's became very sophisticated in mid 98 and 99. Several optimization firms hired programmers to write efficient algo crackers.
It is also the first time I know of where a search engine used multiple algos for different top ten positions. Just because you could figure out what make a page #2 doesn't mean you have a clue about #3 which was positioned using different criteria.
The big push of "shop the competition" is born as several se's use the old "tell on your neighbor" ploy to clean up their results because their algos couldn't.
Page jacking and site theft is rampant. You can't put a top page on Altavista without it being stolen. Entire sites are mirrored as a means of "bumping off" the competition due to alta's horrible dupe page detector. Much the same occurred with Inktomi.
The big rounds of submission spamming wars begin as people spam the submit urls with your pages. Some say it worked for several years to get competition banned in the se's. Finally in late 98 se's begin to understand what is happening and put a stop to it by limiting submissions.
Se's begin to modernize with multi-languages, word lists (term vectors), and other language expertise - the era of the word guru is born.
Google hits the scene [web.archive.org] in earnest. Their first build of 25million urls makes it clear they have a future. I review it and am the first (beep beep) to propose link programs. People begin thinking in earnest about link pop and how to effect it.
Spam page/doorway page auto generators show up on the web every where and some are very good.
Referrals hold steady for those that know the game and stay off the radar. Using quality seo - that doesn't look like seo - rules the day.
Hello ODP! The first independent, free, "open source" directory is born. They represent a huge threat to the traditional directories. Out of "no where" comes the first ODP flames at a time when everyone was in love with the ODP (was it an anti-odp plant by a competitor, or was it real? You make the call).
Late 98-early 99) Altavista fights back with "too many urls" and bans huge segments of sites and sites with auto doorway page generators. Other engines begin out-and-out wars against seo. If a site said "we optimize" or "we promote" anywhere on it, they were banned in massive quantities. Much of that same mentality still exists today in many search engine offices.
Many seo firms begin falling out of the search engines in record numbers. Hardly any seo firm isn't affected. Loss of rankings on entire client lists is common. This is why you find old pro's who never talk about clients or link their websites with clients and why those that now know algo's cold - rarely talk in those terms.
Although the algo crackers are at their peak of performance, their utility falls as off-the-page factors such as link popularity become main stream in the se's. Decoding what makes a page top ten has never been more difficult. Those that know, now spend 10 times (literally) as much time to acheive half the rankings they did in 98. Algo crackers are not much more than statistic generators now.
Google's PageRank begins to bear fruit while the other se's self destruct under management chaos and mountains of red ink.
The Hubs and Authorities model is clearly a winner at Google. It universally clears out junk from the bloated db's and identifies the core mega sites in each keyword sector.
Although there has never been more competition, referrals hold steady through 98 and into early 99 across most of the engines.
Cloaking becomes almost mandatory on many se's to protect rankings and code. It is unfortunately used by those not so interested in those factors and more interested in spamming for the sake of instant successes.
Late 99) The effects of the end of SEO begin to sink in.
Goto begins to make it's major push. SEO's begin ppc'izing their billing with store-front redirect sites showing up every where.
Link pop schemes explode.
Other se's cut huge swaths out of their db's for unknown reasons. Part of it was size, some of it was spam, and some what just because they could.
SEO and traditional algo decoding techniques as we knew it, are all but relegated to the ash heap of history.
Referrals begin to plummet as competition sky rockets and the web matures. I secretly think 99 was when people "settled in" to a daily routine and began using search engines less and less. It was no longer this huge mystery that needed to be explored - they now used it to do productive things. eg: sites such as news take off in record numbers.
2000) A fairly deep shudder goes through the remaining industry as the end of what was left of Infoseek is gone.
The paid for play schemes and ppc schemes crank up in rapid succession in 2000. From Ink, to Alta, to even buying banners based on keywords - ppc and pfp is every where.
Meanwhile back in the real search industry, surfers look for an engine that actually works at finding them info - Google solidifies its position as the new defacto se.
The link pop craze of 99 begins to fade as it becomes very clear they are risky items - too easily tracked.
The last gasp for link pop programs is the building of fake awords programs, fake guestbooks, fake directories, and fake forum systems just to build fake link pop.
2001-) Bought and Paid For listings are everywhere. Goto is on all the major hubs from Yahoo, AOL, to even MSN. People abandon other se's such as Hotbot, Altavista, and Excite in record numbers. It's an exodus.
SEO is we knew it, is all but over. We are down to talking about the few remaining free specific engines and their systems. There is now a major difference in how se's work and how to "work them".
Welcome to the era of "All Google All The Time".
Many seo's have sleepless nights as we realize it is "Google or Bust".
Through all those trials, tribulations, education, and experience, those that know how certain se's really work, are not eager to share those hard fought for lessons. Knowledge is power - knowledge is money - hang on to both.
It's been this way for years with every engine. Subjects talked about here are under a great deal of pressure from different angles and agendas. Yes you are correct, we are most often used as a sounding board for ideas and theories.
There are very definitely people reading this right now who know exactly what it takes to get a top ranking on Google. They may not be able to actually produce that ranking due to factors that are not easily controllable; such as directory listings or off the page context criteria.
A second part is continued in a stand alone post 26 steps to a successful site [webmasterworld.com] with Google alone).
I totally agree knowledge = power, especially in this field.
What you say about "secret" SEO strategies being copied as soon as they are deployed, and then rendered ineffective by subsequent algo adjustments on the SE part, is much interesting. I wonder if Chaos Theory [directory.google.com] might offer a good interpretative paradigm for SE's tendency to react to "perturbations" (e.g., algo crackers) by reorganizing themselves into something new and eventually returning to a stable state...
But I guess that would a bit off-topic here, so I'm off to read your fantastic Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com] tutorial. :)
Many thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, and keep up the good stuff!
I'm glad to read that you had already found "poison words" to be widely recognised; to be honest I only discovered Google's use of them since the January update. My point, though, was less about their presence than the way that small parts of DMoz.org seem to be affected. People deduced that Google has 'duck taped' "anti-penalties" to some high profile domains; I now disbelieve that but I wouldn't say that those people had 'assumed' that Google was letting some sites off the hook, deductions were made from some evidence that points in that direction.
I guess I'm just trying to say that even though all of us are wrong sometimes, it's still worth trying. If we just follow Paul Boutin's wise SEO guidelines then we'll miss some important factors. Not because Paul Boutin's advice is bad, just because there's no one source of SEO information. Your idea that maybe chaos theory can describe the SEO's affect on search engines is interesting; if I hadn't done so badly with nonlinear dynamics as a student I'd have something to say on the matter.
"PR0 paranoia" is well founded, IMO. It seems widespread amongst people who use artificial PageRank inflation, but it's also affecting people who just happen to run a number of related services. As Brett says above, 'Many seo's have sleepless nights as we realize it is "Google or Bust"'.
I agree with your other comments. Webmaster World (along with the early Brin/Page papers and information from Google itself) is probably the best place to find information about Google. The people who I know have spent a lot of time researching the subject tend to end up posting here eventually.
I've had StickyMail about my "poison words" comment. I should have linked to Brett's article on poison words [searchengineworld.com], anyone who wants to see it in action should check the Open Directory pages with 'guestbooks' in the TITLEs. (Those pages are OK, they just don't pass their PR on.)
Brett, nice history of SEO. I think that a large part of the reason for these forums' rise to popularity is your personal breadth of knowledge.
> 98) [...] "sites are mirrored as a means of "bumping off" the competition due to alta's horrible dupe page detector."
It seems funny that, for Google, this started to happen in earnest in late 2001.
1) You have to have something to beat out your competition.
2) Most SEO experts are not experts at Google.
3) 90% of everything you need to do well in Google has been posted in this forum. Unfortunately 80% of the stuff that doesn't work has also been posted in this forum.
4) People put way to much emphasis on the small stuff.
5) Google isn't that much different than it was when it started.
There are only a few "tricks" I use that haven't been mentioned directly on this forum - all of which can be figured out (and no I am not telling you my "tricks").
This is the best place for information - people just need to apply it in a logical manner.
I think the number 1 mistake people make is about PageRank - they think it changes each month. It doesn't. YOURS might - but overall PageRank is the same.
I just see some really nice people banging their head against the table for no reason.
Title, PR, Anchor Text, Big Text, URL, and according to some people theme. Once you have those and it isn't working THEN worry about your perpetual motion pagerank machine.
Everything you need to know to do well in Google is already on here.
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I think the number 1 mistake people make is about PageRank - they think it changes each month. It doesn't. YOURS might - but overall PageRank is the same.
I have to admit this confused me a bit. I mean, if we see PageRank as the probability that a "random surfer" may browse a given web page, then of course the sum of the PR values of all of the Web's pages must be 1 by definition. From The Anatomy of a S.E. [www-db.stanford.edu]: Note that the PageRanks form a probability distribution over web pages, so the sum of all web pages' PageRanks will be one.
So the PR values we see in the Googlebar are probably a nice-looking "translation" of the actual PR values (which are likely to be some very ugly decimal number, something like 0.00002342233...).
But then, is it not the relative PR that counts for a given page? If so, we should not care much about the "overall PageRank" remaining the same, as long as our own PR is higher than our competitors'. Right?
I mean, the total amount of energy in a closed system remains unchanged, but there can be warmer and colder spots here and there, now and then. Besides, PageRank is a representation of the Web which bears more than one similarity with the dynamics of chaotic systems IMHO.
If you read back through Chris_R's posts you'll find plenty of useful information that you will find direct from Google. That said, there's plenty of useful information at google.com/webmasters/ that people don't take enough notice of, and much of the truly interesting information was written more than three years ago by Brin/Page.
> I mean, the total amount of energy in a closed system remains unchanged, but there can be warmer and colder spots here and there, now and then.
A very good analogy. Google evenly removes a proportion of PageRank, and then evenly distributes it (though the redistribution need not be even); rather like a perfectly conductive (and therefore uniformly hot) heat sink, slightly insulated (85%-ish) from the main body but completely insulated from the outside world. This converges into a steady state. It might make more sense to replace the heat sink analogy with QED, but I don't understand that. Anyway, the 'rank source' is exactly the reason that 'perpetual motion PageRank' machines don't work (nice term, Chris_R), but it's also how you can 'create' PageRank without inbound links.
To get hot you can collect enough items together to share their "random surfer" heat. As the total number of items is now over two billion, you'd need a huge (awesome) number of pages. Depending on the base of the logarithms in the ToolBar, it might take 10,000 pages to generate just PR5; it's easier to get a link from someone with PR6. I've noticed that some significant adult-related terms have quite low PageRank; this may have much to do with the difficulty in finding good inbounds.
> 4) People put way to much emphasis on the small stuff.
> 5) Google isn't that much different than it was when it started.
> Everything you need to know to do well in Google is already on here.
I agree with everything else you wrote, but the differences between the early Google and the current Google can make a huge difference (eg. if you loose all your PageRank). It may well be the �small stuff� that helps us find the key to avoid being the next victim (of what most of us now believe to be) an aggressive anti-spam policy.
As with most aggressibe policing methods, a few innocents get rounded up and I'd rather not become one of them (assuming, of course, that I'm an innocent).
Still, I'd like to point out what seems to me a unique feature of PageRank: i.e., the fact that PR's accuracy or reliability appears to increase proportionally as the Web (the pool of available data for PR calculation) grows larger and larger. Or at least, that's what should be inferred from the original recursive formula. That's a really outstanding characteristic that is intrinsic to the PageRank algorithm, and probably one of the main reasons of Google's enormous success over its competitors, especially those not incorporating link structure analysis in their ranking mechanisms. It's not a coincidence, IMO, that Google's rise went hand in hand with an increase in the Web's growth rate: while the major SE's struggled to keep up with it, Google simply exploited it in a very smart way for its own success.
Therefore, I wasn't very surprised to read what Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said about growth being the biggest challenge for Google today. Personally I would add:
2) staying fresh and up-to-date;
3) discerning "real" content from spam.
Besides, that's just confirmed by what Google appears to be doing lately...
To get hot you can collect enough items together to share their "random surfer" heat. As the total number of items is now over two billion, you'd need a huge (awesome) number of pages. Depending on the base of the logarithms in the ToolBar, it might take 10,000 pages to generate just PR5;
You can easily reach that threshold (10,000 unique pages) with a database-driven, intensively-crosslinked dynamic web site (and good content) nowadays. However, I agree that quality inbound links and good directory listings are still essential (not only for PR, but also for your site's traffic in the first place). I mean, Google is currently the most important source of referred traffic, and will probably stay so for a long time, but (luckily enough) it's not the only one, especially for highly-specialized, "niche" web sites. So in the end I still agree with those (like Paul Boutin in his article [hotwired.lycos.com]) who have warned us from focusing exclusively on Google-specific SEO "tricks", often neglecting other factors which may reveal themselves even more important for a web site's success in the long term.
So I don't believe the "small stuff" is ever going to make a big difference after all.
This is the part I don't understand. Rank source, reaching a steady state (OK, "convergence", same thing), rank sinks ("PageRank perpetual motion"), normalisation and logarithmic graphs were all in the early Brin/Page papers.
I believe that an understanding of these things is of help. There's plenty of advice around about setting up umpteen domains to 'inflate' PageRank; how do we know that they are wrong and Paul Boutin is right?
Two quotes, one about creating fake domains:
The Google guys giggle at this obvious scam: If you understand how vectors work, spreading your pages across multiple domains, or building duplicate sites, does no better than if you'd simply added those pages to your original domain.
The other is about META keywords:
Repeating the most important keyword twice seems to work with some search engines, but repeating more than that will cause some of them to ignore the whole page.
You and I both know which of these makes sense, but they came from the same article. Also, some country-wide accommodation sites suffer from the 'grouping' (sorry, I forget the correct term) done by domain, while some of those using a different domain for each establishment are doing much better. Also it can be easier to get umpteen listings in Web directories for umpteen different domains (one for each establishment) than for one domain (with umpteen different establishment 'sites').
An important part of 'research' is finding which articles/people/viewpoints to believe, but also when to take a different approach.
> PR's accuracy or reliability appears to increase proportionally as the Web (the pool of available data for PR calculation) grows larger and larger
Indeed. "What can you do with a Web in your Pocket?" (by Brin, Page and others) tells us that "size does matter. The extraction experiment [Authors and Titles] would likely have failed if the WebBase had been one third of its current size".
Still, I'm not sure that Google's doubling in size from 1 billion to 2 billion documents will have made PageRank itself a proportionately better indicator of importance. The early PageRank (which wasn't only used as a Web search engine) used Stanford WebBase, which contained 'only' 25 million documents.
Method for node ranking in a linked database [patft.uspto.gov]
Some day I am going to learn how to do quotes on this system - until then.
Yes, I agree with you. You got the gist of what I was saying - it is a closed system. yes - there can be cold and warm spots as you put it, but what I am talking about is that I notice a lot of speculation about PR - when there is no evidence to come to that conclusion:
1) My site went from 2 to 10
2) I didn't chaneg anything
3) Therefore PageRank as a System has been devalued.
That is the type of conclusions I see alot.
You are of course correct - there are some other issues that keep me coming back and trying to learn more. I guess my point was - I don't have any secrets - and I do very well with google. Either I am incredibly lucky - or the basic stuff is enough for most people. I don't try for theme pyramids and all that other jazz. I know some that do and say they do well. I follow what is in the papaers - and that seems to work for me. When I have the opportunity - I try things like themes, but I don't worry if I can't.
I have had a few of my sites get zeroed out. I don't know why. I don't see a common factor among them. Hopefully google is backing off their anti spam campaign. I still say that spam is not the problem. Spam bothers the webmasters more than the users.
I have a friend of mine that sells - shall we say widgets on line. He get furious when his competiton advertises widgets - as he sells PURE widgets and they sell accessories for widgets - he writes goto to complain and get REALLY upset at something that seems like splitting hairs to me.
There's plenty of advice around about setting up umpteen domains to 'inflate' PageRank; how do we know that they are wrong and Paul Boutin is right? [...] Also, some country-wide accommodation sites suffer from the 'grouping' (sorry, I forget the correct term) done by domain, while some of those using a different domain for each establishment are doing much better. Also it can be easier to get umpteen listings in Web directories for umpteen different domains (one for each establishment) than for one domain (with umpteen different establishment 'sites').
Sorry Calum, but I have to disagree on that one.
A company may of course have, e.g., multiple web sites in different languages, each one on a separate domain, but that's far different from setting up a link farm or multiple domains with duplicate content IMO, and Google should be able to understand that difference pretty well. In case it doesn't and someone gets unjustly penalized, they should contact Google and explain the situation providing enough detail for them to improve their spam filters. It's that simple.
The 'theme pyramids' approach just describes a sensible architecture for a large collection of Web content, I don't see Brett's article as implying the creation of 'empty' pages to fit the pyramid; rather that the pyramid is an effective way to structure your pages to help a search engine understand the relationship. At present, I don't believe that Google does understand it well, but I expect that either it or the next generation engines will.
Giacomo, because of my geographical location I have been asked to put up six different Web sites for six different hotels in "mycountry" over the past four years. Each project is stand-alone and 'bespoke'. The owners tend to like to own their domains, and I certainly advise them to. Is it wrong to use a separate domain for each?
Another local "Web designer" (I hate that term) has tended to use his own domain for similar projects (stand-alone sites for individual establishments), presumably because he doesn't run his own servers and hosting was quite expensive when he started.
He can get two listings on Google for "hotel in myarea", I can get twelve (just counting those six sites). It's much easier for me to get directory listings than him. Is he deserving of two listings and am I deserving of 12 just because of our URL choices? He links back to his tourism 'portal page', I link back to my regional 'portal page'. Is he right to link and am I wrong just because of our URL choices? These choices were made in 1997 (mine) and 1996 (his), so Google spamming wasn't on our minds.
Also, take national directories of hotels. Some use a directory (as in 'folder') for each entry, some use a domain for each entry. These also were going before Google started so the way that Google deals with duplication and spam can unintentionally hurt them, too. Understanding these factors is an important aspect of Internet marketing in 2002.
I have recently had a decent amount of offers to do SEO. I have turned them down for the same reasons you mention. I just don't like dealing with having to worry about that stuff.
Having sites banned is of course the worst thing that can happen. Luckily, I have only had a very small percentage where this has occured (I still do not know why for sure). They all belonged to me - so no biggie - I am sure if they belonged to a customer - things would be much different.
I guess my point WAS NOT that theme pyramids and the like are bad. I too think a general open logical strategy is good for the long term.
Just that - as of right now - they are not needed. Everything you need to do well in Google is known. There may be some other things that could give you an edge, but by following what was written years ago - and REALLY reading it CAREFULLY - you can do VERY WELL.
The people that run Google - for the most part - are very logical - so when in doubt, I ask myself - what is the most logical thing for Google to do in this situation?
This PR0 thing is relatively new. At least google has been nice enough to let us know it IS A SPAM filter - they also were nice enough to let us know the backed off on one of their tests for spam.
I have lots of questions about this, but since we still don't know anything - the best course of action is to be careful. We must assume that google will do this in an intelligent and logical manner. If not, what is the point anyway? I just do what I know - what has been proven to work, try not to break any rules, and pray around the ~25th that everything will be ok.


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11 Sep2005
What the heck is plum powder? A year or two ago some friends suggested that I try some "plum powder" from DEC, this Chinese grocery in Virra Mall. Never a big fan of things that come unlabelled, I hesitated for the longest time until finally my curiosity was piqued. I brought home a little plastic container of the stuff with no ingredients listed (and cost a whopping P200 or so) and opened it up. It looked a bit like the salt/pepper mixture that is served with fried chicken in some Chinese restaurants, but its aroma is a little different. What is it? I don't really know for sure but it seems like all that great dried sweet/salty plum (champoy) powder that flakes off of the champoy. I was told to try it with some pomelo or green mango and while I found it rather interesting, I was not immediately hooked.
Growing up, I was a HUGE fan of champoy or dried plums with sugar and salt. I used to eat the bright red variety and they were best consumed with a regular coke as the salt/sweet extremes were really mouth puckering. Despite my parents attempts to convince me that champoy was made in some sweaty-worker's armpit (hence the saltiness), they were a personal favorite. Well, guess what the plum powder tastes like? A whole bunch of powdered champoy. It adds a nice salty counterpoint to whatever you dip into it and despite the price…a little goes a very long way. I only fret that it is likely laced with MSG and I am not thrilled by the thought. The other flavor components are probably star anise. At any rate, the stuff is available at chinese groceries and is worth a try…particularly if you like champoy. The little bottle here was PHP150 and it gave no clue to what ingredients went into the concoction.
The powder is just dried plums with sugar. Over in Malaysia we use to eat guava with this powder. It tastes great.
Sep 11, 2005 | 5:09 pm
i wonder what sour guava is. though there are some varieties, none is sour. the main difference is only seedless or with seeds. they are crunchy and are not usually eaten ripe, when they turn soft. i wish i have a photo of a fruit to show you.
but plum powder is very popular in malaysia. they are eaten with many types of fruits, including star fruit and pineapple.
plum powder is NOT the same as the salt/pepper mixture you mentioned. this mixture contains some ground spices and fine salt, which is popular as a taste enhancer for roast chicken in many chinese restaurants.
Sep 11, 2005 | 9:05 pm
If Im not mistaken, what youre referring to is not made of champoy, in Hokkien, that powder is called 'kiam-muy-hoon' or as the name implies, kiamuy (different from champoy). I havent figured out if theyre both made of plums…
And yes, its usually paired with guava.
Sep 11, 2005 | 9:10 pm
Marketman, I also used to interchange champoy and kiamuy. Champoy is the black, moist, sweetish one while kiamuy is the red, salty, wrinkled one. Lately, I have seen kiamuy encased in caramel, looks kinda like the yema in one of your earlier posts.
Sep 11, 2005 | 10:18 pm
Have tried one of those Kiamuy candies, imagine eating salty candy. Theyre not that bad but mu must have a high tolerance for saltiness to take it in. Im not sure about the therapeutic effects of it but I know some people who eat kiam muy to relieve headaches and nausea.
Sep 12, 2005 | 8:18 am
I have chinese friends who swear by kiamuy or champuy for carsickness, seasickness, or any travel sicky feelings. They say it kills the nausea. I'd rather have candied ginger.
I saw a recipe that uses the powder on shortbread cookies. Hmmmm…
Sep 12, 2005 | 2:12 pm
mmm… looks good to me. in bangkok they dip their pomelos in salt with red chillis, good too!
Sep 12, 2005 | 2:12 pm
Like what the ladies said, this is usually eaten with fruit. The Thais mix this plum powder together with finely ground chilies and sugar and use it as a dip for guavas (the big and crunchy variety), green mangoes, pineapples, pomelos, rose apples–any fruit that is a little tart. From groceries to the fresh fruit hawker, the plum powder mixture, placed in little plastic packets always come with these fruits. Thais pay painstaking attention to detail so the regular fruit hawker will cut-up whatever fruit you buy into bite-size pieces, place it in a plastic bag, throw in a packet of plum powder mixture, a packet of extra sugar and a wooden skewer–so you could spear the fruit pieces, dip it in the powder and pop into your mouth. No sticky fingers :) The same powder is also used for coating (with or without the chilies and sugar) Bangkok sampalok. Cheers
Oct 5, 2005 | 2:28 am
champoy and kiamoy are not only good for headaches and carsickness, it is also good if your are driving and falling asleep, it will keep you awake. It also keeps me awake when I'm at work.
Mar 30, 2006 | 5:36 am
can anyone tell me if this product (powdered champoy) is available in the U.S?
Mar 30, 2006 | 5:40 am
where can I buy this in Los angeles area?
May 5, 2006 | 5:37 am
yes i think what she means is the kiamoy powder…champoy is black sweet rumy or winey flavor juicy candied fruit which i am trying to research what kind when i found this site.
The orange salty dried plum is kiamoy, but it also comes in sweet and not so dried..colors ranges from orange to red to dark brown for sweet ones.
Jul 7, 2006 | 12:28 pm
This sounds a lot like li-hing powder I buy at cybersnacks online. They are in Hawaii and I live on the mainland. Love it!!! It's the same stuff.. probably with anise (licorice flavor in it) You can buy it from them in 1/2 lb or 1 lb bags for a reasonable cost. The 1/2 lb is 5.25 US dollars right now. a little goes a long way. They are even using it for ice pops, shaved ice, edge of margaritas and so much more. I'm hooked lol
Aug 5, 2007 | 4:02 am
dad bought a couple of packs when we went to Thailand ata last year. he uses it as a dip when eating guavas. i dunno how it tastes like though.
Aug 16, 2007 | 4:26 pm
I found this site because I was searching for information on plum powder. I was recently given a small bag of the stuff from a friend of mine. She and her husband recently had a house warming party and she served these wonderfully sweet bell peppers. She had dissolved some of this plum powder in boiling water (I couldn't get any measurements from her other than "to taste") and once the water cooled she soaked the bite sized chopped peppers in the water overnight. They were wonderful!
Sep 24, 2007 | 8:35 pm
good day! just wanna know the procedure and ingredients of making kiamoy. i wanna do homemade kiamoy. thanks!
Feb 29, 2008 | 2:54 pm
Where can I buy the red champoy? I live in Memphis, TN
Jun 18, 2008 | 3:23 am
where i can buy the champoy powder? I'm from laguna philippines
Sep 14, 2008 | 7:25 am
Where can I buy Champoy in Netherlands?
Thanks !!
((I am really craving for it, its been years since I last had it and for some reason I am just dying to find it ..))
Mar 2, 2009 | 10:22 pm
Where can I buy this? I live in California and tried it on pineapple today, very yummy.
May 14, 2009 | 7:22 am
the original plum powder that use to eat with guava is white in colour, the most popular. the brownish and the same colour like pepper is less popular. eventhough the colour is white,but the magic appears when u sprinkle onto guava and change colour to light brown. high quality and expensive than normal plum powder. we produced using high quality plum and the taste is extremely heaven. can contact me for bulk order at +60163461808 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Most of the default configurations in lams.properties can be left, but you will need to change some to suit the setup of your personal machine. The lams.properties file comes with directions on what you need to alter and what needs to be left unchanged. Pay particular attention to "Essential Settings" section because LAMS will not install or run properly if these are incorrect. Below is the skeleton for the lams.properties file.
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\# Copyright (C) 2005 LAMS Foundation (http://lamsfoundation.org) # License Information: http://lamsfoundation.org/licensing/lams/2.0/ # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0 # as published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 # USA # # http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt # ######################################################################################### # Installation Options # ######################################################################################### # The lamshome directory, will contain repository, temp and dump files # Make sure this location has suffiecient disk space as several files will be stored # here during run time LAMS_DIR=/var/opt/lams # Username and password for the system admin for LAMS LAMS_USER=sysadmin LAMS_PASS=sysadmin # Default language locale and text direction for LAMS, see section 3 of the readme LOCALE=en_AU LOCALE_DIRECTION=LTR # Database name, username and password for your LAMS database DB_NAME=lams DB_USER=lams DB_PASS=lamsdemo # Wildfire configuration, used for chat tools. see the documentation under # "Configuring the Chat Server" at: # http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Building+LAMS WILDFIRE_DOMAIN=localhost WILDFIRE_CONFERENCE=conference.localhost WILDFIRE_USER=admin WILDFIRE_PASS= ######################################################################################### ######################################################################################### # Essential Settings # # These setting must be correct in order for the install to complete successfully # ######################################################################################### # The port through which you want jboss to run LAMS_PORT=8080 # The url you intend to use to run LAMS # NOTE: Make sure the URL ends with a "/" or you will have problems running LAMS SERVER_URL=http://localhost:8080/lams/ # Where your home directory of JBoss is # This will contain your LAMS installation JBOSS_DIR=/usr/local/jboss-4.0.2 # The directory that contains your JDK. (Must be 1.5 or higher) JDK_DIR=/usr/bin/java/jdk1.6.0_01/ # The location of your mysql executable (Must be 5.0 or higher) # If you are running mysql on another server, this would be blank. SQL_DIR=/usr/bin/ # The URL that you jdbc driver will be running through SQL_URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/${DB_NAME}?characterEncoding=utf8 # The root password to access the database DB_ROOT_PASSWORD= ######################################################################################### ######################################################################################### # Installation Settings # # DO NOT CHANGE unless you require more disk space for repository, temp or dump dir # ######################################################################################### # Locations of the repository, temporary, and dump directories # Used as storage locations for LAMS files REPOSITORY_DIR=${LAMS_DIR}/repository TEMP_DIR=${LAMS_DIR}/temp DUMP_DIR=${LAMS_DIR}/dump # Execution directiories must be within the jboss-4.0.2 directory structure BINDIR=${JBOSS_DIR}/bin TOMCATDIR=${DEPLOY_DIR}/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar DEPLOY_DIR=${JBOSS_DIR}/server/default/deploy SERVER_DIR=${JBOSS_DIR}/server DEFAULT_DIR=${JBOSS_DIR}/server/default EAR_DIR=${DEPLOY_DIR}/lams.ear # Location of installation files within the package LAMS_BUILD=${basedir}/lams_build CONF_DIR=${basedir}/conf/unix JBOSS_CONF=${CONF_DIR}/jboss AUTH_CONF=${CONF_DIR}/authentication # Drivers for MySql during installation SQL_DRIVER=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver SQL_JAR=mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar ########################################################################################
Before you run the script, you need to ensure that your $JAVA_HOME is set to your java 1.5 or higher directory, also you will need to set the $PATH variable
to include the path to the java binaries. The steps to do this are listed below. >
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# JAVA_HOME="(path to java installation directory)"
# export JAVA_HOME
# PATH="(path to java bin directory):$PATH"
# export PATH
If you are running MySQL on a separate server, then you will need to set up the database before doing the installation. See "Setting up MySql on a Different Server" in the readme file for the details on creating the database and setting up the appropriate privileges.
Once you have finished editing lams.properties file you are ready to run the
install script. Go to the root directory of the package and type:
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The installer will ask you if you wish to set up lams as a service, this will make lams start automatically each time you boot your machine. The installer will attempt to detect the wrapper jar that is suitable for you, if it cannot you can choose the wrapper that is the closest to suiting your architecture
You can find out your architecture types by typing
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\-a to get all the information
> uname \-m to get the architecture type
wrapper-linux-ppc-64-3.2.3 Linux PPC
wrapper-linux-x86-32-3.2.3 Linux i386
wrapper-linux-x86-64-3.2.3 Linux IA64
Before you run the script, you need to ensure that your $JAVA_HOME is set to your java 1.5 or higher directory, also you will need to set the $PATH variable
to include the path to the java binaries. The steps to do this are listed below.
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> JAVA_HOME="(path to java installation directory)"
> export JAVA_HOME
> PATH="(path to java bin directory):$PATH"
> export PATH
Check that you still have your lams.properties file in \etc\lams2. If you do, you do not need to modify the lams.properties file in the installation directory. If the lams.properties file is not in \etc\lams2, then you will need to edit the lams.properties file that comes with the upgrader.
Go to the root directory of the package and type:
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> sudo ./update-lams.sh
The installer will ask you whether you want to stop LAMS before updating. Unless you have already done so yourself, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you let the updater run the shutdown script for LAMS, otherwise the update will not run correctly. Also it is recommended that you backup LAMS before the upgrade, the upgrade script gives you this option, or you are also free to do so yourself.
If you chose to installed LAMS 2.0 without the wrapper, you should be able to run LAMS 2.0.2 by simply going into the <jboss-4.0.2 dir>/bin and typing:
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>sudo ./run-lams.sh
This is a new script added by LAMS 2.0.2. It was not in LAMS 2.0.
To shutdown LAMS 2.0 go to (jboss directory)/bin and type:
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> sudo ./shutdown.sh \-S
LAMS 2.0 x will take a few moments to shut down. To check if LAMS 2.0 has shut down correctly, type the following on Linux:
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> ps \-ef \| grep java
Or type the following on Macintosh
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> ps \-A \| grep Java
Using the Java Wrapper
If you chose to install the Java Service Wrapper, LAMS will start automatically when you boot your machine and stop when you turn off your machine.
You can also start and stop LAMS manually by going to the jboss-4.0.2/bin directory and using these commands.
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> sudo ./lams2
start (starts LAMS)
> sudo ./lams2 console (start LAMS in current shell, to stop do ctrl+C)
> sudo ./lams2 stop (stops LAMS)
> sudo ./lams2 restart (restarts LAMS)
> sudo ./lams2 status (tells you if LAMS is currently running)
> sudo ./lams2 dump (send a kill \-3 signal to the wrapper causing the JVM to do a full thread dump)
For more information about using the Jave Service Wrapper with LAMS, go to the web tutorial
For further help on general installations and specifically for Solaris installations, visit Daniel Schneider's wiki on LAMS installations. It contains lots of helpful tips and ideas for installations for linux, Windows and Solaris. We thank Daniel Schneider for his help and tips on this subject.
Help with Ubuntu Installation
by Eric Evans Elek Tech Solutions:
- Installation instructions for Ubuntu 9.0.4 + LAMS v 2.3
- Installation instructions for Ubuntu + Moodle + LAMS v2.2
- Updating Java for LAMS 2.2
Help with CentOS 5.2
- Installation instructions for LAMS on CentOS 5.2. Many thanks to Clive Gould
All other Unix flavours
During the testing phase we installed LAMS in a large variety of scenarios. If you need help you might find a solution in there.


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As the cooler weather sets in, it signals a shift in operations for forestry and logging professionals—beginning with a shift in altitude.
"We actually can operate in the wintertime," explains Chris Chase, Timber Manager for Timber Products Company. In the fall, loggers with the Michigan-California Timber Company move operations from steeper ground to the flatter portions of the forest. In areas where drainage is good and a reliable freeze can be counted on to support machinery without soil compaction, business can continue unabated.
Back in those steeper areas, the focus is on hunkering down for spring. Road drainage structures are checked for blockages or other problems to ensure that when the fall rains come they do not erode the soil. "We make sure everything's buttoned up from the season's logging operations and any storm damage from the previous winter is completed before we get into the next wet season," Chase said.
The fall is also an active time for planting. In fact, foresters plant approximately 25 percent of their trees in the fall. Plantings are focused on the high elevation sites that will be buried by up to 10 feet of snowpack most of the long winter. The newly planted trees will have time to develop their roots while an insulating cover of snow protects the young plants from dry winter winds and provides necessary moisture. Once the snow melts, those well-established trees will be ready to take advantage of the ideal growing conditions of late spring.
With the possibility of inaccessibility due to snow, foresters are working diligently through the fall to complete their fieldwork. "If they're writing a harvest plan for a high elevation site, they're really scrambling to get all the fieldwork done," Chase said. "We do have snowmobiles and an ATV that allow us access to a lot of our ownership, even in the wintertime, but there are portions we really don't access once the snow lays in."
Logging operations might slow in the winter, so Timber Products ensures it has a big log inventory at its facility in Yreka, Calif. By October's end, inventory will include as much as a 5-month supply of logs.
"You never know how bad the winter is going to be," Chase explained. "It's better to plan for the worst and ensure we've got enough log volume on hand to meet customer demand all the way through the winter and spring, regardless of how rough a winter it is."
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In a few years from now, you may be able to book flats or bungalows at coveted locations like Portland Park near Alipore, Chetla, Remount Road near Kidderpore and even next to Howrah bridge. Kolkata Port Trust plans to lease out nearly 420 acres of prime property in the city for use as residential townships. The proposal is expected to be cleared by the Union Cabinet in the next 2-3 months, after which bids will be invited.
"We have identified the property that will be leased out for townships. The townships will come up on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. We will offer the properties on lease for up to 99 years to make the deal more attractive to developers. Through this we wish to strengthen our pension fund. KoPT needs to take care of nearly 22,500 pensioners," KoPT chairman M T Krishna Babu said.
For this, the cash-strapped KoPT is even ready to give up plots with residential quarters for its own officers and employees. This is because most employees no longer opt for quarters and some even rent them out to outsiders. The plots identified are the Portland Park Quarters Complex, Chetla Quarters including Boat Canal and Durgapur Siding, Remount Road Quarters Complex, Taratala Labour Colony, New Howrah Bridge Quarters Complex and Brooklyn Quarters Complex.
Apart from these, the KoPT plans to lease out huge plots in the Port area for commercial purposes. These leases will be for 30 years. The pension fund is a big liability for KoPT. In 2015-16, nearly Rs 363 crore of its operating surplus of Rs 603.65 crore was diverted to this fund. Even then, the pension fund corpus stands at about Rs 1,300 crore. This is also the reason why KoPT hasn't succeeded in handing over this liability to an insurance company like other organisations. If an insurance firm were to take charge, a corpus of nearly Rs 5,800 crore would be required. The management now wants to increase its pension fund from revenue earned through non-operational means.
"This will also help to release assets that were of no use financially. Rather, they were turning into liabilities, thanks to encroachments. There was a time when the Kolkata port required a lot of land in Kolkata. Later, as the volume of cargo came down, there was no need for so many go downs or warehouses. Different agencies that had taken the land on hire started leasing the property out to others without our consent. Finally, we ended up with several illegal occupants," a KoPT official said.
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