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While Saskatchewan and Winnipeg made it rain for two days, Edmonton Eskimos general manager Ed Hervey kept his powder mostly dry.
It's almost standard operating procedure for a defending champ.
It was certainly Hervey's stated plan going into Canadian Football League free agency, and it didn't change a whit even as Regina solidified its new designation as Edmonton East, and Winnipeg raided several rosters.
And Hervey said he isn't angry that Saskatchewan Roughriders GM/head coach Chris Jones poached four Edmonton free agents, to add to the eight assistant coaches he lured one province over.
"I would have done the same thing, I'm sure," Hervey said Wednesday. "I would have probably went to a team, gutted the roster and created a war chest for free agency as well. That's what you do to turn your team around. Did you expect him to play with that same roster?"
The one that went 3-15? Dead last in sacks and interceptions? Most points surrendered? Most rushing and passing yards yielded? That roster? Seems unlikely.
Fact is, Hervey and the rest of the CFL saw this airlift coming, probably even before Jones jettisoned Weston Dressler and John Chick — go-to-guys, but not his guys — to free up salary cap room. Players talk to players and their agents, who talk to general managers, and the off-season game of musical chairs is largely decided before it starts. Sure, there are exceptions, as Hamilton proved with much-coveted defensive lineman Ted Laurent, but it cost them big coin to hang onto him.
At the same time, Winnipeg GM Kyle Walters had made it well-known that he was operating with a fat wallet. He went shopping all over the league, sampling from the rosters of Toronto, Ottawa, B.C., Hamilton and even Saskatchewan.
It was pretty natural that Jones would largely target free agents who helped him win a 2015 Grey Cup with Edmonton, though he, too, grabbed from Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton and even Winnipeg.
And it was even more natural that those Eskimos free agents would be looking for a payday. They are newly minted champs, after all, and feel they deserve some consideration.
Some got their due from Edmonton. A source said defensive lineman Almondo Sewell got $178,000 to stay. That's not Laurent money — rumour has it the Ticat's new deal averages $250,000 — but it's the kind of coin that sits atop Hervey's defensive depth chart and forces every one of his free agents to fall in line or look elsewhere.
"As far as losing guys, everyone is going to go cash in," said Hervey. "We would not be able to meet those demands of every player that left. There was a lot of money being spent out there."
Hervey set his priorities, let his players know what was what, and had a firm grip on who he could reasonably afford, and who was headed out the door. He even knew for sure that some of Otha Foster, Shamawd Chambers, Andrew Jones and Kendial Lawrence were heading to Regina. Kenny Stafford's signing with Montreal might have been a small surprise, given that he had expressed some NFL aspirations, but he's a former Alouette and that, too, plays a part.
Hervey said he didn't even bother to make contract offers to the majority of those players because he didn't see the point.
"Why get in the process of a bidding war when you don't need to?" he said.
"I don't feel like we lost anyone that we didn't expect to go. My objective wasn't to go out there and spend the most money and make that kind of news. It was to redefine our core players, go after those guys. We've got a lot of guys on our team making minimum salaries. We can't make everyone the highest paid at their position.
"I'm confident about what we do here and excited about moving forward with the players we have, the players that will have the opportunity to step into the positions that were vacated."
He wasn't completely shut out, as he re-signed running back John White on Tuesday, added linebacker J. C. Sherritt on Wednesday and will wait on defensive back Aaron Grymes, who has worked out for a couple of NFL teams and is hoping for an offer. It's one of the reasons Hervey isn't shelling out money today.
Grymes' agent Cameron Foster said Wednesday that his client will wait until "early May" to make a decision. If the NFL doesn't come calling, Foster said "there is a good chance" Grymes would return to Edmonton, and Hervey sounded confident it will happen.
Are the Eskimos a better team today for all the comings and goings? Certainly not. But it's February, the draft awaits, and Hervey might yet sign a free agent.
"Time will tell on that. We're in conversations, but the days go by and the demands go down. … There are some very good players out there. If there is some value for our ball club, we will definitely look into it."
(Edmonton Journal)

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Blogging is almost like a game on the internet called "Break the Internet." Instead of building buildings in Minecraft with bricks, you are creating worlds with words. And you win when you go viral. In theory.
And because of that, it's really easy to get sucked in. Just like everywhere else on the internet, a little fun can kind of turn into an addiction and depression because all the validation is based on superficial things like popularity.
You start off with noble and humble intentions: I'm going to start a blog to have fun. But in time, the internet takes over your mind, and the next thing you know, you bought 25 things to make your blog prettier than that one girl's blog, you are worried about your numbers not being high enough (they will NEVER be high enough), you have taken 17 courses and watched 52 free webinars on blogging, and you have no idea when it happened, but you stopped having fun.
It's never too late to have fun.
But it is important to realize that blogging isn't just a revolution, it's an evolution. Every reason you have to start a blog may change in the course of blogging, and you want to base some decisions now on that probability.
So let's first...
Establish Some Goals
I think the most important question at this point in the game is to ask yourself why you want to blog? And why do you REALLY want to blog?
Because the possibilities in answering that question means a very different strategy between them.
Some other questions to ask...
- Do you want to make money from a blog?
- If so, how much? Passive Income or Career Income?
- Do you want to blog to position yourself as an expert in a field?
- Do you want to be a professional writer?
- Do you just want to vent therapeutically and connect with people facing the same struggles?
- Or maybe have fun doing the thing you love and connect with people who share the same interest?
Then from there you probably need to ask yourself these questions:
- How much do I want to invest in this?
- How much money am I willing to pay monthly for this?
- How much time do I want to spend weekly on this?
For the record, there seems to be some kind of correlation with time and money because the bulk of the products for bloggers on the internet is based on "saving you time," so you can get a lot done faster if you pay more money, or you can save money by investing some good old-fashioned time and hard work.
The other part you probably need to visit is if you are starting or running a business, you have more goals to consider.
- What exactly are you trying to sell? Products? Services? Get more people to your store offline?
- Where do you plan to sell products? Directly on your blog? Or through another online store?
- Where do you think your potential customers are online? Facebook? Instagram? Pinterest? Forums?
- Are your potential customers already searching for you or your industry?
With these thoughts in mind, let's move on to step 2:
What Should I Blog About?
Choosing a good blog topic is kind of crucial because the internet really likes niche. You don't have to go niche, but you still want to have a clear "What you're about" to be quickly obvious when people hit your site.
Think about that for a second. When you're surfing the internets, if you run across a food blog about recipes and find a bunch of posts about blogging or creating a food blog, you start to kind of want to leave and find a blog that has recipes. If it's too confusing, it kind of feels like you have to work to go through that site. You don't want to make your readers work to figure out what the hell you're about.
So choosing a good blog topic(s) helps you establish that connection at first sight / site.
You can mix and match topics, but you should be able to state it clearly and concisely like
- Recipes and DIY Crafts
- Parenting and Wine
- Witchcraft and Weight Loss
- Planes Trains and Automobiles
If you don't already have a clear idea of what you should blog about, you can consider attempting the following ideas:
- Write a list of things you know a lot about
- Add to that list the things you are Qualified to talk about and can verify it on the site (degree, certifications)
- Consider how you plan to drive traffic to your site and what's trending, popular, and evergreen with that. For instance, if you plan on using Pinterest, check out their popular categories.
- Now try to find the Venns (like a Venn Diagram, find which ones fall under all 3 categories, and which ones fall under 2 categories, etc.)
- Most importantly, which topic is something you would love to write about, you want to write about it, and you can stomach having to write about it even when you don't want to write about it?
If you are trying to sell things, whether you sell something you make, or decide to do affiliate sales, you also want to go with a topic that your customers are searching for, wanting to read, and gets them excited to have your thing...
You can also flip that, like if you want to sell something but have no idea what you want to sell, pick a topic you love, and then find things to sell in that niche.
I have oodles of options listed on my Direct Sales and Affiliate Directory.
Then you probably want to create what Rachel Miller calls a Bumper Sticker. Word your topic in a way people want to proudly put it on their car.
The reason I say this is because the bulk of your traffic will come from people sharing your posts. You don't want to write about things people are too embarrassed, ashamed, or just trying to pretend to be the opposite to share it. You want to write about their flag. The thing they wave proudly in front of other people. The thing that they want people to think they are like... I call these Identities.
- The intellectual
- The beauty queen
- The Liberal / Conservative
- The rebel
- The athlete who will run that extra mile push yourself harder!
- The Type A Personality I can do it better and faster
- The Creative
- The Religious Person / AntiReligion Person / Spiritual Person
- The wealthy guy who can't eat dinner at a place who uses paper napkins
So whatever your topic is, you want to feed that Identity and make it a cause that people would proudly endorse to make themselves more popular in their minds.
And some topics are difficult topics, especially on Facebook, like religion and diagnoses. You want to word things in a way that appeals to people's privacy and puts a positive spin on things. When it comes to Facebook (i.e. the Facebook page that's a blogger's must-have), they actually want you to avoid using words like Christian or Islam or Cancer or PTSD. Instead of "Living with Cancer," you might want to go more "Surviving and Thriving" and in the subtopics somewhere Overcoming Cancer. So it's like you have to portray what it's about without using the words.
How to Come Up with a Blog Name
You want to do this before getting a website because you will most likely want your blog's name in your domain address.
It's almost impossible to have a simple name anymore, like Blog.com because all those domains are taken. So as you compile a list of ideas, you want to...
- Go into Google and search the names and see what pops up. If there's high competition or another company with that name, you might want to avoid it to avoid confusion. Plus you don't want to compete with other people for Google rankings. If you find a name that isn't being used much yet, it's pretty easy to rank number 1 when people search your exact name.
- You also want to find any site that sells domains, and do a domain search if you plan on buying YOURNAME.com and see if that's available. I recommend Lyrical Host because they are my hosting provider for my non-Google blogs.
Options to Consider...
Do You Want to Blog As Your Real Name?
If you plan to write or position yourself as an expert, you probably want to really think about branding yourself as your birth name or a nickname. Other people who should probably consider this are creatives, artists, photographers, even cake decorators...
I mean like name your blog after yourself.
I read somewhere that the best fiction author name is Two Syllable First Name and One Syllable Last Name like Stephen King, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. It does rather seem easy to remember when it's like that. Like if your name is Elizabeth Porter, you might discover Lizzie P. is easier to remember.
Which then makes you consider writing under a pen name, and I don't recommend it unless there's a good reason to stay anonymous like writing about your own mental illness. I used to think if I could get a boy's name, or gender neutral name, people would be more apt to take me seriously, but I've discovered nobody really cares or pays attention. Offline, they notice that stuff. Online, you are lucky to get them to read your article beyond the headline let alone the author name and bio. For real, a good 55% to 95% of the people who share your post will probably never read it. And about 10% of the comments seem to come from people who didn't read it. It's kind of disturbing at times, but you get over it.
Name Your Blog The Identity People Want to Be
But if you decide to name your blog something other than your name, and there are many good reasons to do that, you probably want to aim for words that accurately describe what your blog is about and the Identity people want to be.
My favorite blog name for this reason, a name that tells you exactly what you're about to read and an identity many women enjoyed boasting being a part of is Moms Who Drink and Swear. It's the perfect name. People who didn't even read her blog liked her Facebook page just because the name was something that resonated deep within their soul they wanted to be part of that and then tell everyone about it. They wanted the t-shirt.
Insane in the Mom-Brain is another great and, as she would say, "fantastical" name.
A blog on your own poetry might be Wine and Rhyme, Cuddling with Books, Poetic Ramblings of a Broken Heart (that's more Adele)....
Naming your blog a name that people would want the bumper sticker on their car with just your blog's name makes the "get more traffic" and "grow my social media" part so much easier. Remember, they put things out there that they want people to identify them as, not things that they think they truly are.
Pick a Topic Relateable Noun
If you were writing about Britain, you might name your blog The Red Telephone Booth.
If Harry Potter were writing about his adventures, he might name his blog Platform 9 3/4.
Robert Frost might name his blog featuring his poems something like Two Roads, Yellow Wood, Divergence, The Road Less Traveled, Underneath the Undergrowth.
Pick a Topic Relateable Verb that your readers are trying to do
A great example of this, excuse the language, is Unfuck Your Habitat: a blog and book on cleaning your house. Clean Your House must have already been taken.
A recipe blog on eating healthier might go with Heal your Diet.
It really kind of helps to use a thesaurus or come up with your own list of creative synonyms and metaphors.
Once you've come up with a name, then it's onto WHERE?
Where to Start a Blog?
Now this is where life gets a little complicated.
Some things to keep in mind here...
Your investment you are willing to make.
Do you plan to blog and sell things on your site?
What functions beyond blogging would you like?
and also...
While it's possible to move an entire blog from one platform and one hosting to another, you are way better off if you can pick a place that you plan on living for a long time.
With that said, there's 3 things to consider for WHERE to blog.
- The Blog Platform
- The Hosting
- The Domain
The platform is the place that makes your blog posts. It's where you type the words, and it automatically takes those words and puts it into a blog post and usually creates a thumbnail of that post on your home page. A better buzz word for it might be CMS (Content Management System) but I like Platform.
The Hosting is the actual computer hardware, the servers, who is going to store your files (your posts, your photos, etc.) and share it with the world on the internet. Popular hosting providers include Bluehost, Go Daddy, Host Gator, SiteGround --> none of who I recommend, but they are popular enough to help you categorize this concept as that thing. My favorite hosting is Lyrical Host for reasons I mention later.
The Domain is your address such as www.myhouse.com VS www.mybluehouse.com
In some cases, the platform and hosting are the same place. In other places, it's not. Anywhere that offers hosting usually offers domain registration (that's where you claim your domain so you can have permission to use the address, and so nobody else takes it).
Some options to consider that I recommend... Let's first get through the ones that are easy to explain.
Blogger: Free
Blogger / Blogspot is completely free to use. They provide the platform (blogger) and the hosting (google). Your domain will be something like yourname.blogspot.com but then you can purchase a domain like yourname.com and attach it to your blog for free.
The upside is because it's totally free, even if you stop blogging, you still have your stuff.
The downside is that, I can't say they are limited in design because they really offer the most flexibility if you can code your own site, but if you don't know how to code, there's a lot of limitations to design. They have some free templates. One of them I would actually use. And then there are 3rd party templates for free and some for sale. Most of the 3rd party templates do require some coding, but there are many tutorials to help walk you through the basic things, and enough tutorials for you to learn even more.
The other downside is that you don't actually own your site. Google can shut you down at any given time. I've not known them to do that with Blogger blogs, but some of their features have been known to disappear / change.
This blog is powered by Google's Blogger.
Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace
All 3 of these places offer a very easy, drag and click, web design. They have various monthly plans. But they are often very limited in things like with Wix, once you choose your template, you can't change it. Weebly is difficult to export or integrate with 3rd party apps.
Now things get complicated when I talk about ...
There are 2 versions of wordpress. They are totally different things. It's so confusing.
Free Wordpress
The free wordpress is on wordpress.com. It's hosted by Automattic. They have a free option that gives you the domain yoursite.wordpress.com and then you can pay for extra things. I recommend this route if you plan on blogging just to write. If you want control over the design, sell things, or have additional function (i.e. plugins), or even your own domain, then you are better off going with a different option.
Self-Hosted Wordpress
This is the popular one among bloggers. Basically you go to any wordpress hosting provider and sign up for one of their wordpress plans. You end up paying less a month going this route than paying for the paid features in the free wordpress.
The upside is when you pay for your own hosting, you own your site. Not Wordpress.
The other upside is you have a lot more control in the design and function.
The upside and downside is that while it's more user friendly than trying to code a blog from scratch, it is still complicated enough that it takes time to learn it. It can be pretty frustrating at times trying to get your site to do the thing you want it to do.
The other downside is it can get pretty expensive because while there are free themes and free plugins, the paid ones actually do the thing you think the free ones are going to do, so it's really easy to find yourself buying things for your wordpress site. It's almost like a hidden fee, but it's not a hidden fee. It's a hidden shopping.
I still recommend this if ever you plan on doing any of the following:
- Sell physical or digital products
- Want a newspaper or magazine style home page
- Create a collaborative site with multiple writers
- Provide recipes that you want an easy to print recipe card
- Want to enable rich pins
- Provide downloads like PDF's, fonts, zip files...
- To sign up for ads and control where the ads are going
Now quick thing, and I hope it doesn't add to the confusion, but if you start looking at hosting companies to compare for Wordpress, you'll find some of them have Regular Websites where you can install wordpress on it for free, and Wordpress websites at like $2 more a month. They look the same, but they aren't the same thing, not just by price, but also by performance which then gets you wondering, is the cheaper version enough to get by? And I am here to tell you I tried that, and no it's not enough to get by. The cheaper product where you pay for a regular cloud based website and then install wordpress has a lot of limitations as to how many people can visit your website, your memory, and then a bunch of tech stuff that even the best geek would struggle to troubleshoot, like you have too much javascript running at once. It's not worth the headache. Trust me, with a blog, there are a billion other headaches you need to tend to you don't need to volunteer extra headaches. Which is why I recommend the transparency in a company like...
Lyrical Host
If you opt self-hosted wordpress, I recommend going through Lyrical Host. I am an affiliate, and if you use my coupon code, I make a little money and save you a little, BUT I chose this out of all the affiliate options. I'm not recommending them because I'm an affiliate. I'm an affiliate because I recommend them. I do use them for all of my self-hosted websites.
Quick run down as to why I recommend them over the other options:
- Transparent Pricing
- Actual Free Tech Support
- Free goodies
- Customer Oriented
- Great Facebook Group
- They plant trees
- You don't need an FTP thingy like Filezilla to access your files
But the main one is the actual free tech support.
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With Lyrical Host, you can put in a ticket for any tech related issues like if you can't get your fonts to load properly. If you don't know how to code a wordpress site to sell your own themes, you almost need a place that is willing to help you resolve wordpress tech issues beyond wordpress's forum.
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Setting Up Your Blog
So you got the name, the domain, and you decided your platform, the next thing is to CREATE!
You have 3 main areas of emphasis at this point in the game:
- Function
- Content
- Visual Design
If you're using Wix, you probably need to do this backwards because you can't change your template. But if you are with something where you can change your template / theme, just pick one for now and let's get this other stuff out of the way...
I personally find it easiest to get some content up there before messing too much with design so I can see how the design is going to look with content. These themes, especially in Wordpress and Blogger, look very different when there's no content than when you get content, especially since you have to customize the look before you have any idea if it's going to give you the look you want.
You want to kind of map out how your website is going to work. I usually think about all the ways people find my site, and then envision a tour guide deciding where they should go next. You guide them like a tour guide based on the Call to Action(s), like in some places, you might do a "Go Here or Go There" and in other places, you might do a "Get a free thing" and then to a page for "Subscribe"
Most people will probably find your blog via each individual post. For instance, you write a post, you post the post, and then you share it on Facebook and pin it to Pinterest, people will find you on Facebook and Pinterest, and their first sight of your site is that blog post, not your home page.
Some people will manually type your home page to find you, but most people will click on your home page to learn more about you.
So while the home page is often what most people think is the first impression, it usually is a second or third impression.
From your blog post, you have 3 primary places to try to get that second click to manage the flow of your traffic...
- The Top Navigation / Menu Bar
- The Side Bar (if you opt to have one or two of those)
- Within the post
Secondary places include:
- Bottom of the blog post (like related posts)
- The Footer
So you kind of want to decide where these people are going to go. What do you want them to do?
- Buy products
- Subscribe to your email
- Read more posts
- Follow you on Social Media
- Join your Group
- Comment
- Donate
And each CTA (Call to Action), thing you want them to do, has its own hacks and finesse about them in the nature of the flow and strategy of that flow.
For instance, if you want people to buy products or shop, you want more than just an ad in your sidebar. You want to write about the things that get people who would want to buy your product reading and then write in a way that invokes the emotion that gets them excited to have your product. And then you want to embed links within your post (as well as your side bar). Also, Pinterest is a great place to pin a rich pin to your product pages, and the more successful approaches to that set up the product pages with Pinterest in mind.
Email Subscriptions usually sucker people in with what the internet calls a free optin, so that would entail coming up with a free download people are dying to have they can't resist, making a landing page for that download that shows pictures of it, content about it, and has the sign up form, and then linking in posts/sidebar/menu via a graphic, button, or text trying to sell the free thing. This approach also seems to have a lot of success with paid / boosted Facebook Page Posts.
Read more posts... Wordpress has various plugins to get a Related Post feature at the bottom of posts. Blogger has some options too like that. You gotta be careful they aren't putting spam posts in there. They both offer widgets / gadgets to feature popular posts... But the best thing to do is to write about something, and then put your own related post (picture and link or text and link) handpicked that you think would go well. Like if the person is reading this article, then they would love to read these other ones I wrote. You can decide those things better than an automated plugin, and you have more control in how it looks.
In addition, you want link to your own posts within posts as relevant. One great way to do that is to create a topic cluster where you have a super long pillar page (like this one here), and then you write 10 - 30 blog posts about the same topic and link them within the pillar page and link to the pillar page within them.
You definitely want social media follow buttons somewhere on your blog (usually the sidebar, but sometimes the footer), and the most common place to ask for social media follows is to highlight one or two social media places and have that as a call to action on your Thank You for Signing Up page to your email subscription.
People whose Facebook group is thriving and almost a pillar to their business tend to advertise that as a content block on their home page. I've seen many blogs ask people to join their group via a hero image in their footer or a good graphic (like join my group with a square around it) in the sidebar in addition to it being a call to action in free courses they offer and somewhere in the series of pages you see as you sign up for their email.
Most people just ask a question people can answer in the comments, but in my experience, the best way to get comments is to join a blog hop and ask a question people would want to answer at the end of a post just to make their commenting obligation easier on them.
Donate... I've not seen any blog attempt this beyond setting up a Zazzle store and donating the money they earn in sales. I've also seen some do that FB donations button that Facebook is doing. Now the petition sites and politician sites do have a donate process, and the best thing for that is to look at their function with their donate requests and try to mimic that on your blog. Most of the time, they sell their cause, the fight, as opposed to themselves or the nonprofit. There's usually a "Sign up to help" and then a popup or page in the sequence requesting a donation to be made.
But you can kind of see how the web function flows in all these scenarios. You kind of want to at least envision a map of this in your brain. You can also consider writing it out somewhere like Flowmap (which is free for one active project).
With this also, you want to plan your pages. What pages do you want to have? Which ones will be in your menu? This includes
- Landing Pages
- About Me
- Contact Me
- Services
- Blog (if you have a static home page)
- Shop
- Resources
- Portfolio
- Reviews
- Start Here Page
- Product Pages (some plugins like Woo Commerce will create these for you)
- Privacy Policy
- Affiliate Disclosure
Then you also want to think about what links you want
- In your sidebar
- Highlighted on your Home Page
- In your footer
- Things you'd like to place within posts
A lot of it is about timing and placement. You want to be INTUITIVE about where you put this stuff.
It's about placing the right link at the right time in the right place.
Jane clicks on your blog post from Pinterest because she wants the bookshelf you have in your picture on how to decorate your living room, and she reads about where you found that bookshelf or how you made it, and at that moment she wants to.... buy the things to make her own bookshelf from Amazon? Make the DIY Flower vase that's on the bookshelf? Buy the perfect books that are must-reads and pretty enough for the book shelf? She might not see those things in the sidebar if you put it at the top of the sidebar because she doesn't want those things until she's read about the bookshelf halfway down the post. If Jane gets bored of the bookshelf and decides she likes your talk about the living room at the beginning of the post, that's when Jane is ready to read more about living rooms or shop for her living room or maybe sign up somewhere or follow so she can read it later.
The magic of the internet is that it's intuitive.
Most of the popular sites are popular because they made the function intuitive to its users. FB people can figure out how to use FB's features because they put the button in the first place most people are going to look for that button.
Wordpress users may also want to decide what plugins they want to use. Generally, you have plugins for things like...
- Graphics for Social Media (open graph)
- Sharing Posts
- Related Posts
- Image Optimization
- Comments
- Page Builders
- Cookie Consent
After you got a mindmap of how the users will flow through your website and a sitemap of the pages and where they will be...
For many blogs, you can kind of wing it and write about whatever you want to write about, but if you want to optimize yourself for growth, traffic, and longer times on your site, you probably want to create an overall content plan.
SEO is a buzzword for basically making your site visible to the robots so they can match you in search results to people who are looking for you. If you blog about automotive, readers searching automotive words may not find your site in Google if Google's robots can't figure out that your site is actually about automotive. So SEO is the art of making sure Google knows you are there and what you are about.
With that said, SEO robots don't have eyes like you and I. They figure out what you're about based on many things like the
- words you use, everywhere, not just the blog post but the menu, the sidebar, and they have to be words where you can highlight the text (not words in pictures, though Pinterest can read words in pictures), and they kind of label the words as important to less important based on heading tags, size of font, bold, etc.
- pictures' file names, the descriptions, the alt text, etc.
- sites you link to
- the people who visit your site
- places that link to you
You want a content strategy that enhances what you are about.
So the first step is to pick ONE keyword for your blog. Like this blog is Blog/blogging.
That's your primary keyword, and to start, you probably want to center content around that. In time, you can venture into other keywords like for this blog, I might do Pinterest, Facebook, Writing and Writers, Indie Book Publishing...
So you want
- one page of content to include that word in your menu
- that word in the text somewhere in your sidebar
- blog posts centered around that word
Then you should create 3 blog posts that center around that keyword. Blog posts are doing best at this point that answer a question. Swing on down to Quora and find 3 questions about your keyword, and just simply answer them in 3 blog posts. Grab some photo that kind of envisions the look you want from Pixabay or Unsplash and make those your featured image. It doesn't matter too much what you go with you can change them later. Publish those blog posts.
You also want to go ahead and create your pages. You don't have to tweak them to perfection just yet, but get a rough draft of what you want your pages to be. But publish them so your pages are visible options to link to.
You can also kind of create a content plan and/or schedule, or you can wait until you tweak your blog to do that. But at some point, you'll want a list of blog post ideas to write, with headlines that are click-worthy, that support your keyword, and choose how often you plan to publish posts (once a day? once a week? once a month?). But you might go ahead and start writing a list here and come back to it as you go.
Remember, people say "Content is King," and by that, they mean that what people want is your words and ideas. This is probably the most important part of a blog.
Visual Design
So now that you got some posts and pages, you can get a better idea of what design to go with. When messing with Blogger and Wordpress especially, it's difficult to see how a theme is going to look until you use it like you plan on committing to it.
Now for me, I like to choose my brand stuff now. This is when I choose
- a color scheme
- a logo
- a visual vibe (cartoons or photos? Soft or Edgy? Feminine or Neutral?)
- fonts
- mood board...
But if you are trying to make a free theme or template work without having to do much code, you might want to play with that first and let that choose your colors and look.
So you kind of flip flop between trying out themes and getting an idea of visual branding options.
Most free themes don't let you change the color to any old color, like when it says you can change the colors and it's free, MOST OF THE TIME it means it gives you 3 or 4 color schemes to choose from. They wouldn't make money if they didn't offer the full spectrum in ONLY their "premium" version of that theme.
A couple Theme Ideas...
Now in Wordpress, you can also look into Page-Builder plugins and then find a free theme that works well with it. For my one wordpress site, I use Roseta theme with Beaver Builder (they offer the most with their free version), but I'm thinking of going Elementor because it seems more user friendly. Some people are in love with Divi ($89 a year or $250 one-time) and Elementor ($40 a year for one site, but many get by with their free version). But the page builder plugins usually gives you more freedom with a home page design than a theme by itself.
I am falling in love with the Astra Theme. I'm using the free theme with paid Elementor, and it's coming along swimmingly. I've never had this much ease of use and control at the same time before ever on the internet. The Astra theme is simple, light weight, loads quickly, and has a lot of options in design.
Bluchic Themes + Elementor... Bluchic's themes are generally designed to work well with the free Elementor helping you create a really beautiful website without having to know much about code.
The other option in Wordpress, and it's really an easy button for a beautifully designed site, is to consider getting the Genesis framework and getting a theme for that. I'm an affiliate because I feel like the Genesis Framework is a rock solid way of getting a beautiful website without having to pay thousands for a graphic designer and without having to invest a lot of time learning how to code or use Wordpress.
The way they work is you buy the framework for $59.95, and then you buy a theme (usually about $60).
Hello You Designs will put hearts in your eyes. I'm not an affiliate with them, but I have a non-lesbian crush on their designer(s). I believe all their themes require the Genesis Framework.
Restored 316: $$$ Wordpress Themes; requires you to already have Genesis Framework
Some places to find themes / templates:
Bluchic Themes: $$ Wordpress themes; affiliate link.
Georgia Lou Studios: $$ Wordpress and Blogger Themes and one free blogger template plus many free awesome worksheets.
Her Park Studio: $$ Wordpress and Blogger Themes
Bass: $$ Wordpress and Blogger
Envye: $$ Wordpress and Blogger
EmPress: $$ Wordpress Themes "for a home on the web that's as beautiful as the content you create." I'm in love with their own site's design, it's what inspired me to use Abril Fatface Font on another site.
17th Avenue: $$ Wordpress Themes.
Eclair Designs: $$ Wordpress Themes
Pretty Darn Cute Design: $$ Wordpress Themes, Requires Genesis Framework
Gooyaabitemplates: Free Blogger Templates
For free wordpress themes, your best bet is to Google, "Free Wordpress Themes," and look through all the posts of Top X Free Wordpress Themes but fair warning, many show free and paid themes in their posts.
This blog is on a template I can't find again to recommend it, but I've tweaked the code so much it's not really that template anymore at all anyway. So this blog in particular pretty much is coded by me.
Because I'm an affiliate with Bluchic, I'm just going to throw in some eye candy... It was time for a picture anyway...
But after a somewhat painstaking process of trying out themes, customizing them, finding out they don't do what they were supposed to, and trying the next one, possibly caving and buying one because those usually DO do what they are supposed to do, and finding your color scheme and fonts and branded look that matches the personality of the content, you are ready to tweak...
So you want MATCHING
- logo/header
- Call to Action Buttons
- social media icons
- and anywhere else you can match things.
You also want to decide a visual strategy for pictures.
Do you want photographs? Illustrations? Dark colors? White colors? Bright Colors? Do you want glam looking quotes (signature font and a sans serif)? Or maybe book nerd looking quotes (typewriter font)? Fantasy? Artsy watercolor look? Do you want people? Faces? Faceless people like just the hands with half the head cut off? Objects? Nature? Travel shots? What kind of filter do you want on most of them?
You can also decide your visual strategy for social media. You almost want to create a template (by the time it's all said and done) for the types of pictures you'll be using like:
- Your featured image (it will be a thumbnail on the home page)
- Your horizontal images (for Facebook and Linked In)
- Your vertical images (Pinterest, Insta-stories)
- Your square images (Instagram, twitter, FB, thumbnails, even Pinterest, it's really the most versatile size)
You also want to decide where you'll be making these images. I use Photoshop, but if you don't want to pay monthly, Canva is really the best free option. PicMonkey is a great in-between because it does way more things than Canva, like Photoshop quality design options, but it's more user friendly.
Remember, the simplest designs anymore do so well because minimalism is in. Just make it appealing and emotionally in tune with the content.
Once you have a good theme and visual design happening, it's time to go back into your content and tweak them with better photos and some calls to actions. Update.
Now you're ready to commence your regularly scheduled programming.
Now that you got your Blog as a Noun, it's time to Blog as a VerbAt first, it may feel like you are talking into a void with a new blog. It will feel that way too with a new social media. But keep talking so that the content is there.
Decide how often you're going to post.
Try to stick to that schedule because everyone loves consistency. In fact, consistency is more important than volume / quantity. So the timing is really up to you on your schedule and comfort zone.
Decide a post marketing plan.
After every post, what do you do with it? Kind of decide where you want to post your post like Facebook profile, page, group? Pinterest? Linked In?
The important thing is to share what is popular and working on each social media platform. Like instagram isn't really the best place to share a link to a specific post unless you are gramming as a business. But Insta-users love a photograph of the work in progress with a link to your home page in your bio.
You might find yourself repurposing content which is another way of saying making new content from old content specifically for certain social media. For instance, video does well on Facebook and is vital for YouTube, so you may want to make videos to promote blog posts. You might want to take your own photos related to the story in the blog post for Instagram. You might want to make quote graphics for that post. You definitely want to create a Pinterest Graphic with the title overlay on the graphic.
Create an Email List
You want to find a company to handle bulk emails and collect email addresses. Most people use Mailer Lite. I like AWeber and ConvertKit.
Most bloggers provide a free optin in exchange for an email address.
Then you have to create content for your emails, and design the email look. Many "experts" say the best emails are like you are emailing a friend. Just a note. No need to get heavily infatuated with design and photographs as those easily get marked as spam.
But you want to decide a consistent schedule to send emails out highlighting blog posts, things you're selling, things you're doing, or just simply to say hi I'm still here how are you?
You might also consider learning about drip emails and automated systems.
Verify Your Site with Pinterest
If you plan on linking your blog to your pinterest account, you probably should go and verify your site so you can easily track your pins from your site. The best tutorial on Verifying Your Site with Pinterest is on Tailwind. PS. There's a plugin for Wordpress.
I have to take a minute to tell you that Tailwind is awesome. I am an affiliate there too because I personally use them and like them. Signing up with them is a great step toward increasing your traffic via Pinterest, and they have a great free plan.
Get Your Sitemap going with Google and Bing
The process is a little drawn out, and I explain it in this blog post: The Bare Necessities to a KickAss Blog.
But the main thing is to familiarize yourself with these two places and make sure they have your sitemap. It's important to really maximize on people searching for you in Google and Bing. But if you don't do this step, they can still find you. It's not creepy at all.
Affiliate Stuff
If you were planning to do affiliate marketing (where you make a little commission from sales your blog brings people), now is a good time to decide what you want to promote, and apply to be an affiliate. Many places will take you on blind, but many places also like to know where you are blogging. So now that you have a beginnings of a blog, you may want to go ahead and apply. You can also wait until you have more regular posts and traffic. It's up to you.
But you do eventually, if you go this route, want to create a list of affiliate places, and keep it handy as to where you can find codes.
You also want to plan some content for this.
Blog As You Learn
Take some classes and read up on things like
- Increasing Traffic
- Affiliate Marketing
- Graphic Design
- Writing Sales Copy
- Writing good headlines
- Writing better
- Guest Writing
- Getting Published in Other Places
- Content Calendars and Scheduling
Find some good blogs to follow (like this one and the ones on this list). Find them on the internet and sign up for the emails, but most of us don't email every blog post, so you want to also find us on Pinterest and other social media.
You might also keep a scrapbook when you see ideas because the best way to learn isn't from what people tell you to do, but by watching what they are doing. It's really easy to see a writing style you want to try your own way, or a design concept you may attempt with your colors...
Also I recommend two amazing blogging courses that are Free!
So after reading all this, what is your next step?
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Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall 2009 Tour Schedule Released
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Free and open to the public 24 hours a day during the exhibit dates, the replica stands eight feet high and 240 feet long. Its black, reflective surface is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died or are missing in Vietnam.
"The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall is dedicated to all Americans who served in Vietnam and honors all veterans of the U.S. military," said Chris Sasso, a director with the Dignity Memorial network. "The replica offers visitors a chance for healing and reflections, and we are very pleased to be able to share it with the citizens of these communities," he said.
The Dignity Memorial network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers created the replica in 1990 as a service to those who might never travel to the nation's capital to experience the original Vietnam Veterans Memorial firsthand. To date, the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall has traveled to more than 200 cities across the country and has been visited by millions of Americans.
The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall will travel to the following 10 U.S. cities on its 2009 tour:
Orlando, Fla. June 25 - 28 Caribe Royale Hotel, 8101 World Center Dr. Piedmont, Okla. July 3 - 5 Piedmont High School, OK Hwy. 4 and Edmond Rd. Seattle, Wash. August 14 - 16 Acacia Memorial Park, 14951 Bothell Way NE Westlake Village, Calif. September 4 - 7 Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park, 5600 Lindero Canyon Rd. Phoenix, Ariz. September 18 - 20 Phoenix Memorial Park, 200 W. Beardsley Rd. Pasadena, Texas September 25 - 27 Grand View Memorial Park, 8501 Spencer Hwy. Brandon, Fla. October 30 - November 1 Hillsboro Memorial Gardens, 2323 W. Brandon Blvd. N. Lauderdale, Fla. November 6 - 8 Bailey Memorial Gardens, 7801 Bailey Rd. Yonkers, N.Y. November 13 - 15 Fleming Field, Prescott Street Paoli, Pa. November 20 - 22 Alleva Funeral Home, 1724 E. Lancaster Ave.
Activities and ceremonies planned in conjunction with each exhibition include a motorcade of Vietnam veterans and other riders to escort the replica to its exhibit location, opening and closing ceremonies, and programmatic elements throughout each weekend designed to commemorate and honor the sacrifices of the U.S. servicemen and women who served in the Vietnam War.
"Dignity Memorial providers consider it an honor to serve those who served our country," Sasso said. "The Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall is just one of many efforts of the Dignity Memorial network to honor and support our nation's veterans and active military personnel," he said. Other initiatives and programs include the Veterans Planning Guide, the Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program, the Dignity Memorial Military Family Careline, educational veterans' seminars and special pricing and benefits for members of three veterans' service organizations.
The Dignity Memorial network of more than 1,600 funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers is North America's most trusted resource for funeral and memorialization services. Dignity Memorial providers offer an unmatched combination of products and locations serving families with care, integrity, respect and service excellence. For more information, visit www.DignityMemorial.com.
SOURCE Service Corporation International; The Dignity Memorial Network, Inc.


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Ancient China Simplified
by Edward Harper Parker
Public Domain Books
Chapter XXXVIII - Women and Morals
So far as it is possible to judge from the concrete instances in which women are mentioned, it appears that in ancient Chinese times their confinement and seclusion was neither nominally nor actively so strict as it has been in later days, and they seem to have been much more companionable to men than they have been ever since the ridiculous foot-squeezing fashion came into vogue over a thousand years ago. When the Martial King addressed his semi- barbarous western allies, as he prepared his march upon the last Shang Emperor in 1122 B.C., he observed: "The ancient proverb says the hen crows not in the morn; when she does, the house will fall"–in allusion to the interference of the debauched Emperor's favourite concubine in public affairs; and we have seen, under the heading of Law in Chapter XX., how one of the imperial statutes, proclaimed or read regularly in the vassal kingdoms, prohibited the meddling of women in public business. But, in spite of this, so far as promoting the succession rights and political interests of their own children goes, wives and concubines certainly exerted considerable influence, whether legitimate or not, in all the states. The murder of an Emperor and flight of his successor in 771 B.C. was in its inception owing to the intrigues of women about Court. A few years only after that event, we find the orthodox ruler of Wei marrying a beautiful Ts'i princess (her beauty is a matter of history, and is celebrated in the Odes, which are themselves a popular form of history); and then, because she had no children, further marrying a princess of Ch'en. This princess unfortunately lost her offspring; but her sister also enjoyed the prince's favour, and her son was, after her death, given in adoption to the first childless Ts'i wife. This son succeeded to the Wei throne, but was ultimately murdered by a younger brother born of a concubine, who was next succeeded by still another younger brother, whose queen had also been one of his father's concubines. Thus in the most orthodox states (Wei was of the imperial clan), the rites often seem not to have counted for much in practice.–This book, it must here be repeated, deals with specific recorded facts, and not with civilization as it ought to have been under the Rites of Chou.–So, even in comparatively modern China, 1500 years later, the third emperor of the T'ang dynasty married his father's concubine, and she ultimately reigned as empress in her own right, which is in itself an outrage upon the "rites."
In 694 B.C. the ruler of Lu (also of the imperial clan) married a Ts'i princess, who, as has been stated in Chapter XXXIV., not only had incestuous relations with her brother of Ts'i, but led that brother to procure the murder of her husband. In connection with this woman's further visit to Ts'i two years later, the rule is cited: "Women, when once married, should not recross the frontier." The same rule is quoted in 655 when a Lu princess, who had married a petty mesne-vassal of Lu in 670, recrossed the Lu frontier in order to visit her son in Lu.
The Second Protector, during his wanderings, we know, married first a Tartar wife and then a Ts'i wife, both of whom showed disinterested affection for him, and genuine regard for his rights to the Tsin succession, Yet the ruler of Ts'in supplied him with five more royal girls, of whom one had already been married to the Second Protector's predecessor and nephew, the Marquess of Tsin. It is but fair to the memory of this uxorious Tsin ruler to say that he only took her over under protest, and under the immediate stress of political urgencies; he ultimately made her his principal spouse at the expressed desire of his ally the Ts'in ruler. He must have later married a daughter of the Emperor too, for, after the succession of a son and grandson, another of his sons named "Black Buttocks," being the youngest, and also "son of a Chou mother," came to the throne. Thus in those troublous times the honour of imperial princesses evidently did not count for very much at the great vassal courts. The readiness of Ts'in to induce the Tsin ruler to take over his nephew's wife (being a Ts'in princess) accentuates the semi-Tartar civilization of Ts'in at least, if not of Tsin too; for both Hiung-nu (200 B.C.) and Turks (A.D. 500) had a fixed rule that a Khan successor should take over all his predecessor's women, with the single exception of his own natural mother. In the year 630 the King of Ts'u married or carried off two CHENG sisters (of the imperial clan). The ruler of CHENG had been insolent to the future Second Protector during his wanderings in the year 637, and, in order to avoid that Protector's vengeance, had been subsequently obliged to throw himself under Ts'u protection. "This ignoring of the rites by the King of Ts'u will result in his failing to secure the Protectorship," it was said. However, these princesses, though of the imperial Ki clan by marriage into it, were really daughters of a CHENG ruler by two separate Ts'i and Ts'u wives: moreover, previous to the accession of the Hia dynasty (in 2205 B.C.), a Chinese elective Emperor had married the two daughters of his predecessor, whose own son was unworthy to succeed: and, generally, apart from this precedent, the rule against marrying two sisters, even if it existed, seems to have been loosely applied (cf. Chapter XXXIII.).
In connection with the Cheng succession in 629, it is mentioned that "the wife's sons being all dead, X, being wisest of the secondary wives' or concubines' sons, is most eligible" (cf. Chapter XXXVII.).
Great political complications arose in connection with a clever and beautiful princess of Cheng who had had various liaisons with high personages in the state of Ch'en and elsewhere; in the end she was carried off in 589 by a treacherous Ts'u statesman to Tsin; and indirectly this adventure led to his being charged by Tsin with a mission to Wu; to the subsequent entry of Wu into the conclave of federal princes; and to the ultimate sacking of the Ts'u capital by the King of Wu in 506: it is easy to read between the lines that the Kings of Ts'u were considered unusually arbitrary and tyrannical rulers; over and over again we find that their most capable statesmen took service with powers inimical to Ts'u. In 581 the ruler of Cheng, being forcibly detained in Tsin whilst on a political visit there, was temporarily replaced in Cheng by his elder brother, born of an inferior wife.
A marriage between the two states of Sung and Lu having been arranged, the imperial clan states of Lu and Wei had certain duties to perform at the wedding, which took place in 583; and it is recorded that the latter sent "handmaids" The explanation given is a little involved, but it seems to throw some light on the marriage of sisters question. It seems that the legitimate spouse and her "left and right handmaids" were each entitled to three "cousins or younger sisters" of the same clan-name as themselves, "thus making a total of nine girls, the idea being to broaden the base of succession." Not content with this, Lu sent a special envoy to Sung the next year to "lecture" the princess. It is explained that "women at home are under the power of their father; married, under that of their husbands." Tsin also sent handmaids this year. It is further explained that "handmaids are a trifling matter, and they are only mentioned in this Lu princess case because her marriage turned out so badly." The following year Ts'i despatched handmaids, but, "being of a different clan-name, Ts'i was not ritual in doing so."
The precise functions of these paranymphs, or under-studies of wives, together with the rules governing their selection, are doubtless clearly enough described in the Rites of Chou; but we are only dealing here with concrete facts as recorded.
In 526 B.C., when Ts'in gave a princess in marriage to the Ts'u heir, the Ts'u king decided to keep her for himself (see p. 234). Only a few years before that, Ts'u had given a princess of her own in marriage to the heir-apparent of one of the petty orthodox states (imperial clan), and the reigning father had had improper relations with her, which in the end led to his murder by his son; thus Ts'u, however delinquent, had already been given a bad example by the imperial clan.
After his humiliating defeat by the King of Wu in 494 B.C., the King of Yiieh introduced a veritable Lex Julia into his dominions, in order to increase the population more quickly, and to prepare for his great revenge. Robust men were forbidden to marry old women, and old men to marry robust women. Parents were punished if girls were not married by the time they were seventeen, and if boys were not married by twenty. Enceinte women had to be placed under the care of public midwives. For every boy born, a royal bounty of two pots of wine and a dog were given: for every girl born, two pots of wine and a sucking-pig;– the dog, it is explained, being figurative of outdoor, the pig of internal economy. Triplets were to be suckled at the public expense; twins to be fed, when big enough, at the public expense. The chief wife's son must be mourned, with absence from official duty, for three years; other sons for two; and both kinds of son were to be equally buried with weeping and wailing. Orphans, and the sons of sick or poor widows, were to receive official employment. Distinguished sons were to have their apartments cleansed for them, and had to be well fed and handsomely clothed. Learned men from other states were to be officially welcomed in the ancestral temple. With reference to this curious law, which is totally un-Chinese in its startling originality, it may be mentioned that it seems to have gradually led to that laxity of morals in ancient Yiieh which is still proverbial in those parts; for, when the First August Emperor was touring over his new empire in 212 B.C., he left an inscription (still on record) at the old Yiieh capital, denouncing the "pig-like adultery" of the region, and, more especially, the remarrying of widows already in possession of children. Only a few years ago, proclamations appeared in this region denouncing the pernicious custom of forcing widows to remarry. Although Kwan-tsz is supposed to have "invented" the Babylonian woman for Ts'i, nothing is said in any ancient Chinese history about common prostitution; nor is female infanticide ever mentioned. In 502 B.C. the Lu revolutionary, already mentioned in Chapter XXXVII., who was driven to Tsin by Confucius' astute measures, had, before leaving Lu, formed a plot to murder all the sons, by wives, of the three "powerful families" who were intriguing against the ducal rights, and to put concubine sons-being creatures of his own-in their place; thus the succession principles applied not only to ruling families, but also to private houses; though, as a matter of fact, these three were all, in their origin, descended from previous ruling dukes. As explained in Chapters XII. and XXXIII., after five generations a fresh "family" is supposed to spring out of the common clan.
In spite of Wu's barbarism, the fact of its belonging, by remote origin, to the imperial clan (through its first: ruler having magnanimously migrated from Chou before Chou conquered China in 1122), made it technically incest for Lu to intermarry with Wu; thus, when in 482 B.C., a Wu princess (evidently forced for political purposes upon Lu) died, her husband, the ruler of Lu, was obliged to refrain from a public burial, as has been explained in Chapter XXXIII. on Names.


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How Political is Food? [Essay]
Thoughts on Alice Waters and Political Dissent
From it's inception, Thanksgiving has been a marriage of food and politics. In 1863, with the country in the midst of civil war, President Abraham Lincoln established the national holiday in order "to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it… to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union." But the idea wasn't his. Lincoln's action was largely a response to the tireless efforts of magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied to establish a holiday that would serve as a peaceful, domestic counterpart to the military celebrations of the Fourth of July. For Hale, violence was just one means of political change; food was another.
Since then, food itself has become even more politicized. Terms like "local," "organic," and "seasonal" now seem commonplace, but in fact they are the result of a specific kind of food activism that emerged in the 1970s. One of the leading proponents of that movement was Alice Waters, who was on the show last month talking with author Michelle Wildgen. In that interview, Waters says that her cooking was meant to change the way people live, not just the way people eat. "It was so positive," she says. "It wasn't against something, it was trying to win people over, by feeding them something delicious and waking up their senses and then they'd change the way they wanted to live their lives."
When I first heard that clip, as well as the rest of the interview, I'll admit to being moved. Which is why I was surprised to find, a few weeks later, Waters's words being cited as an embodiment of everything wrong with contemporary "foodie" culture. In a New Yorker essay, John Lancaster wrote that where food once represented truly local and utilitarian customs, it was now "an expression of an identity that's defined, in some crucial sense, by conscious choice." As someone who likes food and has spent some time rolling his eyes in trendy restaurants, this criticism is easy to get on board on with. I, too, tire of artisanal pickling, the fetishization of ice, and so on.
But for Lancaster, this focus on the local politics and microtrends of food culture misses the larger socioeconomic realities of the world we occupy. Interestingly, he quotes Waters at length:
Eating is a political act, but in the way the ancient Greeks used the word 'political'— not just to mean having to do with voting in an election, but to mean 'of, or pertaining to, all our interactions with other people' — from the family to the school, to the neighborhood, the nation, and the world. Every single choice we make about food matters, at every level. The right choice saves the world.
Lancaster finds this notion both insufficiently political and naïve, and he sets it up as a kind of straw man for his big take-down: "Imagine that you die and go to Heaven and stand in front of a jury made up of Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.. Your task would be to compose yourself, look them in the eye, and say, 'I was all about fresh, local, and seasonal.'"
It's a great zinger, but I think it fails as a critique on two levels. First, it almost willfully misrepresents Waters' actual ideas about the politics of cooking. As she states in our interview, and elsewhere, it's not the food that is inherently political; food choices can affect economic and environmental change, and can inspire people to other forms of political action. Here's another clip from the interview:
We have been deeply indoctrinated by a fast food culture. It's not just the food. It's the whole culture that's grown up around the values We want our whole world to be fast cheap and easy… We are being manipulated in a way that has made us sick and addicted. I think the only way out of that is with a delicious revolution.
Secondly, Lancaster misses the fact that Waters and Dr. King both actively draw from a tradition of political dissent that has its roots in the work of the American Transcendentalists. King's citations of Emerson are well-documented, and Waters' has frequently cited the work of Mario Savio, the Berkeley free speech activist who drew on the work of Thoreau.
So when Alice Waters gets to heaven and meets Dr. King, I'm betting they'll sit down together to talk politics over a very nice meal.


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Firefighters in southern New Hampshire battled brush fires in Wells and Saco that burned through woods and delayed Amtrak Downeaster trains.
Fire crews from Ogunquit and York were called in by the town of Wells around 8 p.m. Thursday to help stamp out a fire that broke out near railroad tracks on Bragdon Road.
Officials say crews fought three separate fires in Wells, which scorched approximately 4 acres alongside the tracks.
The latest news from around the state
Capt. Vincent Pelletier says the Saco Fire Department was called to a brush fire on Bayview Terrace around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The fire burned about a half-acre of woods and was so intense that it melted the vinyl siding of a nearby home.
Maine Forest Service officials say the entire state is at high risk for wildfires.


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Last week we talked about the new book I'm reading, The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston.
It's...going slowly. I mean, it's over 350 pages and also it's about a lion shifter. So I've been a little lost, but giving it a serious try! My initial impression was that I would be reading a Southern book about a werewolf lion. Four chapters in, here's what I've got.
1. He's not the only pretend werewolf. It would seem that pretty much all the characters, except a sassy cop, are shifters. There are wolves and lions and dingoes and wild dogs and WHAT IS HAPPENING. And they keep talking about using their claws and shit and I can't figure out if they look like humans but with sort of canine/feline features? I mean, the cover of the book suggests that they're people, but it's just...weird, guys.
2. The back of the book says they wake up in bed together. SPOILER ALERT: it's not because of sex. Twin works at a library, and her boss says that when you're dealing with this type of novel, it's a good book if there is sex by page 68. GUESS THIS ISN'T A GOOD BOOK.
3. If you're going to tackle this book, try to stick out chapter one. I spent the first dozen or so pages wondering if I missed something. It felt like walking into five conversations at once--that feeling will pass! Push past it!
4. Book starts off on Long Island, making you question why they all have these stereotypical Southern names and drop the g at the end of words and say "y'all" and call each other "darlin'". That will clear itself up soon. Promise.
Moral so far? I'm sticking with it, for now.


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By its own lofty standards, the University of Alabama softball team has had a down year.
At the conclusion of the Southeastern Conference tournament this weekend, the Crimson Tide's record stood at 33-18, and for the first time in the 22-year history of the softball program, the team did not post a winning record in SEC regular season play, finishing 12-12. In one 12-game stretch in the latter part of the season, Alabama stumbled to a 4-8 record, going 1-2 in four consecutive three-game series against conference opponents.
Before this season, the Crimson Tide had won at least 45 games in all but two campaigns – the program's first year in 1997, when it finished 29-29, and in 1999, when it went 39-26.
Now for the good news. The season isn't over.
Alabama learned Sunday night that it would host an NCAA Tournament regional for the 14th year in a row.
This is also the 20th straight year the Crimson Tide has earned an NCAA tourney bid. But making the 64-team tournament field was a foregone conclusion, despite the subpar regular season. Alabama played a schedule that was rated the fourth-toughest in the nation and was No. 15 in the final RPI rankings for 2018.
Certainly that schedule was a factor in the NCAA Division I Softball Committee's decision to make the Crimson Tide the No. 12 overall seed and name the team a regional host. It didn't hurt that Alabama seems to have righted the ship. After that lackluster stretch in conference play, the Tide won five games in a row over ranked teams before being ousted by No. 4 Florida in the SEC Tournament in Columbia, Missouri. After a win over then-No. 5 Georgia, Alabama swept three games from then-No. 9 Texas A&M and in the conference tourney opener beat No. 15 Auburn.
"It never gets old," Alabama coach Patrick Murphy said upon learning that his team would host yet another regional. "I'm really, really glad that the seniors got to play at home at least one more weekend. I think we earned that down the stretch."
Murphy took over as head coach of the Tide in 1999, when the NCAA tournament streak began, and has been at the helm ever since. You could count on one hand the college softball programs that have had a run of success that would match Alabama's during his tenure.
Alabama has won the regional in its previous 13 years as host and has won 34 straight games in regional play. If the Crimson Tide wins this weekend's Tuscaloosa Regional, it will advance to the super regional round and would be the only team to make it to the super regional every year since 2005, when the format was introduced.
The Crimson Tide has also made it to the Women's College World Series 11 times, including nine trips to Oklahoma City in the last 13 years, and won it all in 2012. Even though this hasn't been their best season, perhaps they'll do it again this year.


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I hate cheating men, but wives who stand by them are WORSE
Standing by her man: Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin is supporting her husband in his political ambitions although after he was accused of sending sexually explicit texts to another woman
Hooray! I get to write a polidickal column! And my topic today is like the plot for a Tom Wolfe novel.
Perpetually horny, middle-aged man with pubes on his head called Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of one of the most important cities on the planet.
He likes to send unsolicited pictures of his penis (the most attractive part of his whole body . . . have you seen that nose?) to women – although he promised to stop after he was caught the last time, and resigned from Congress.
One woman he texted is aged just 23 and named Sydney Leathers – improbable though that sounds. 'I felt manipulated. Because obviously I felt like he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign,' she said.
I imagine she's the easily confused type. He blames the penis pictures on problems in his marriage. By which we can take it as read his bottom lip jutted out when his wife told him she couldn't have sex because: a) She had just given birth or b) An unseen episode of The Good Wife was about to air.
On Tuesday, Weiner gave a press conference, stating he would not be withdrawing from the mayoral race. He was joined by his 'very private' (her words) wife, Huma Abedin, who has still managed to write a piece for Harper's Bazaar's September issue. She is much more attractive than him, even beautiful in her bitchy resting face, which makes you wonder why they got together in the first place.
The answer can't purely be for power and money as those looks would have got her a man far higher up the political ladder.
She decided to stay with her husband 'for the sake of our young son'. Is she from the Clinton school of forgiveness – as mooted by a political strategist – or an ambitious enabler?
She wears red lipstick, to show she will not buckle or cry – a mistake as most female commentators seem to warm more to her when she has a snail trail from nostril to handbag. She is an 'exotic beauty', according to a male American writer, which means the reason Clinton got off – namely that Hillary was so supposedly unattractive, for which read much cleverer than him, he had to look elsewhere – does not apply here.
So, we are all up to speed. I have an ice-cream headache. These people are just ghastly. Of course, it's no surprise a man would do this, even with a child, a beautiful wife and a career at stake – and his vote share has drooped alarmingly, in the manner of his famous appendage when his beautiful wife asks him to stop watching porn, and please brush his tongue.
Julie Burchill once wrote a piece stating that homosexual men are not more highly sexed than straight men; but have more sex with different partners simply because they don't have the restraining influence of a woman.
Which basically means that if you want to marry a man – and, dear God, why would you want to, other than to have someone to pay for stuff and mend things – you have to become a policeman, which is exhausting. Either that or you turn a blind eye, and ignore what is going on.
Sent messages: Sydney Leathers, 23, told viewers of US television show "Inside Edition" she received a series of sexually explicit messages and images from New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner
American feminist Gloria Steinem rather sensibly weighed into the middle of all this commentary (you wonder any modern marriage flounders these days, given the amount of online advice): 'I have no way of knowing whether Huma, for whom I have great respect, is responding out of new motherhood, the Stockholm syndrome or a mystery . . . I strongly object to holding one spouse responsible for the other's acts . . . He's the one who should get out of the race.'
But I find the stoic wife infinitely more reprehensible and unforgivable than the sexually incontinent man – JFK would, I'm sure, have cheated with even greater numbers of women were he alive today, with pliant partners a mere click away.
If Huma doesn't care what her husband has been up to, does romantic love really exist these days? Even the laziest of men stray – and she is staying with him because it is easier, cheaper and more politically expedient.
I hate women who do that. I only stayed with my cheating husband because he made good copy. I never stood by his side, saying I would forgive him, wearing lipstick. He was the one who suggested therapy – I knew that once a cheater, always a cheater.
If I were Huma, with a new son, I would be very annoyed my husband had so much time on his hands, and was able to send so many texts. I'd make him wear rubber gloves: preventative and useful.


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BATON ROUGE, La. — Police are investigating allegations that LSU
quarterback Jordan Jefferson and
unidentified teammates were involved in a fight outside a Baton Rouge bar early
Friday morning.
Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Donald Stone said witnesses claimed Jefferson and other players were involved in a fight in the
parking lot outside Shady's bar around 2 a.m., but investigators hadn't substantiated that allegation or spoken to Jefferson.
"We are not naming (Jefferson) as a
suspect at this time," Stone said. "We're in the early stages of our investigation."
LSU coach Les Miles said some players were present during the incident, but he didn't identify them.
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Stone said four people suffered minor injuries in the fight and took themselves to local hospitals, but Jefferson wasn't one of them.
Nobody was immediately arrested or charged in the case.
Jefferson is the projected starting
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Jefferson, a senior, guided LSU to an 11-2 record last season. He is 20-7 as a starter, but the team ranked last in passing in the Southeastern Conference last
season, with 155.6 yards per game.
The team wasn't scheduled to practice on Friday. LSU's season-opening game against Oregon will be played Sept. 3 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — South
Carolina quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus has paid a $470 fine to settle a public
nuisance charge that got him suspended from the team for a week and cost him more than $14,000 in salary.
Court records show Mangus paid the fine last week, just 13 days after Greenville police arrested him after an officer caught him urinating on the street outside a bar.
Mangus was suspended after his arrest July 26, but coach Steve Spurrier let him return to the team when practice started Aug. 3. Mangus did lose a month's pay and will be on probation the rest of his career with the Gamecocks.
Mangus has not spoken to reporters since his arrest.
EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas says he was asleep in the car when a teammate was pulled over for driving 118 mph earlier this summer.
Thomas also denies he was smoking marijuana. A police dashboard camera video revealed that the officer who pulled over cornerback Cliff Harris thought he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car.
Harris was cited for speeding and
driving on a suspended license following the traffic stop on June 12 on Interstate 5 near Albany, Ore. No other citations were issued.
Harris, who was driving a rented car he says was lent to him by a university employee, was suspended indefinitely after the incident by Oregon coach Chip Kelly. He will not play in Oregon's opener against LSU on Sept. 3 at Cowboys Stadium.
Harris has been allowed to practice with the team and his family paid the $1,620 in fines for the citation. The university
compliance office was looking into
whether NCAA rules were broken when the school employee allowed Harris to use the rental car.
It was not revealed until this week — when the dashboard camera video was released — that Thomas was in the car.
"I woke up, the police (officer) was right at the window talking about it. That's all the facts I know," Thomas told reporters Thursday after practice.
Last summer, Thomas was a passenger when then-quarterback Jeremiah Masoli was stopped for a traffic infraction and
marijuana was found in the car. Masoli, who had earlier pleaded guilty in connection to an unrelated burglary incident, was later
dismissed from the team by Kelly.
Thomas was also a passenger in 2008 when linebacker Eddie Pleasant crashed while street racing in Springfield.
He was not cited in either of those incidents.
After the police video was released, Kelly defended his quarterback, saying: "I'm not punishing someone for being a passenger."
As a first-year starter last season, Thomas threw for 2,881 yards and 30 touchdowns and ran for five more scores. He directed the speedy spread-option that helped Oregon reach the BCS championship game and finish 12-1.
Thomas' lone loss as a starter came in the title game against Auburn.


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