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Steve Green, posting at Instapundit, sniffs,
SIGN 'O' THE TIMES: Garbage trucks to be a fortress of security in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
In the article, you'll find the following (emphasis added):
Massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, will surround the iconic New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, officials said Thursday, describing a security measure meant to stop deadly truck-driving attacks into crowds like those in Germany and France.
The placement of the 65 trucks, along with 100 patrol cars, at intersections surrounding Times Square is a new element to an already heavily policed event that will include 7,000 officers, specially armed counter-terrorism units and bomb-sniffing dogs
Steve in Colorado of course gets paid to snark, but NYC authorities have not forgotten the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt:
On May 1, 2010, an attempted terrorist attack occurred in Times Square in Manhattan, New York. Two street vendors alerted New York City security personnel after they spotted smoke coming from a vehicle, and a car bomb was discovered.[1][2] The bomb had been ignited, but failed to explode, and was disarmed before it caused any casualties.[1][3][4] Two days later, federal agents arrested Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistan-born resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who had become a U.S. citizen in April 2009.[5] He was arrested after he had boarded Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai at John F. Kennedy International Airport.[5][6][7][8][9] He admitted attempting the car bombing and said that he had trained at a Pakistani terrorist training camp, according to U.S. officials.[10]
Add to that the terrorists who plowed trucks through crowds in Nice and Berlin, and you have cause for concern when your city is hosting an event that normally brings in a crowd of one million people.
Sure, the lowly garbage truck is not glamorous, but what alternatives are there when you need something portable, easily loaded and unloaded, that can stop any vehicle of similar weight and size? A Bradley Fighting Vehicle weighs 40 tons or so, making a 35-ton humble garbage truck a practical alternative.
Of course all of this is a distraction from the real issue: A death cult which the Left refuses to identify by name.
Happy New Year.
Fausta Rodríguez Wertz writes on U.S. and Latin America at Fausta's blog.


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A bit numb I sit to pen this summary for those who follow
of how a mother grieves and bears the sorrow
A union others scorn
resulted in a child born
His path it seemed with darkness entwined
with prayer and ritual visions divined
Darkness and evil enslave
Perhaps virtue and light shall save
We gathered in the chapel at Empath Abbey, a drow,a librarian, a knight, a witch and a demon we spoke briefly of what was going on and the intent of what was to be done.
I asked the Gods and Goddess to bless and protect all who were there, to allow us to walk in the light as we sought our answer, called upon the elements to aid us in our search.
Setatabon placed his hands on my chest and offered his own blessing and energy to aid as and went back to the crypt.
An incantation offered:
"With earth and water, air and fire
By blade and bowl and circle round
We come to you with our desire
Let all that is hidden now be found"
Within a few moments the Goddess revealed a clue
"Where great malevolence is learned
In Lands of Danger and Despair
His soul and body, broken, burned
the one you seek is buried there.
Beneath the place where knowledge sleeps
Dark twins of golden beauty bright
Death forgets, but pain it keeps
What was in you, now gone from sight."
After much discussion the riddle it was decided spoke of Terort Skitas near the Valor gate in Ilsh. The four of us ventured into the land and wandered while I waited for the vision in my minds eye to confirm we were on the right track.
When the first paragon spawned we had our next clue, this was our golden beauty bright but not the correct dark twin, in the end after many battles we found ourselves face to face with a paragon balrons, the riddle's prophetic line fulfilled the answer we sought was revealed, a body.
The spirit spoke, an inner voice a mother would know the body was that of my son Tannibus. We returned with the body to Empath Abbey and then took him to the crypt to his father Setatabon his examination revealed a dark magical energy related to Drow.
Let all that is hidden now be found
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This morning I was running very late for work. We had VIP visitors, so it was not a good day to be late. As I pulled out of the driveway and drove up the street, I saw something that delighted me!!! Not a deer (that always delights me!), but something totally unexpected.
A gaggle, a flock - let's just call it a big mess of of wild turkey!!! I didn't realize we had wild turkey here, and seeing them was quite a thrill.
I can get used to this country living!!!
On the crochet front, I'm working on a blanket for co-worker who is expecting her baby girl very soon. She has two older boys and is just thrilled to be having a girl. Like it or not, this child will be dressed in pink ruffles and bows for as long as she needs her mom's help getting dressed.
The jury is still out on this blanket. I'm using Bernat Lulu. It's amazingly soft and cuddly, but almost impossible to work with (which is probably why they discontinued it). I'm mixing it with a baby weight yarn to make finding the stitches more easy - I need to get some more done before I'll be able to decide if I like it or not.


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(Son of Cuban Parents, Grandson of Cuban grandparents. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Raised in Miami, Florida. Lives in New York City.)
Danny Arenas received his B.A in Psychology from Florida International University and a Master in Social Work at Silbermans School of Social Work Hunter in New York City. He finds photography to be similar to Psychology/Social Work. You are working with people in environments inside systems in a micro and macro level. To be able to hold a moment and reveal emotion in a photo is one aspect of photography that interests him.
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A LISTENING AND INSIGHTFUL FUTURE: CHANGING PR PRACTICE TO DELIVER AUDIENCE LED COMMUNICATIONS Sarah Clark and Professor Jim Macnamara
The world of design is leading the way in putting audiences at the centre of interactions and experiences. From 3D visual experiences of product environments to designing buildings around user need, the focus has been on designing services tailored to a 360 degree customer journey and the needs, interests and preferences of audiences, both emotional and physical.
You'll learn:
• About the necessity for and benefits of audience insight
• The six areas critical to building audience led communications
• Insights from the Organisational Listening Project
Just as the design world has used an audience led approach to develop more effective products, services and environments, so to must the PR industry think about how it adopts a culture of listening and audience immersion to develop the most impactful communications.
If the PR world is to become more audience centric, listening and responding to how audiences see themselves and their desires and concerns, will be absolutely crucial.
This is about us as communicators. Knowing our audience makes us unique when we sit at the Board table. This means that improving how we listen and applying audience understanding sits at the very heart of everything we are and do.
But the challenges are substantial and require change in practices and thinking.
We need to move beyond projecting onto audiences our pre-conceived views of how we feel they should be and the life roles they should play. Instead we need to be more effective in designing communications around the way audiences see themselves and the issues that matter to them. Herein lies the holy grail of true audience led communications.
Mutual understanding is critical
We also need to challenge modern day PR when it relies solely upon the rhetorical 'logos, pathos, ethos' origins of PR, driven by message resonation with audience.
Instead we need to make a greater case for Grunig's two way symmetrical communication model and dialogic models of communication. These both facilitate mutual understanding and 360 degree feedback allowing us to truly understand our audiences. Upon this deep understanding ('insight') fruitful communication ideas can be grown.
However, research shows that most organisations today adopt a primarily one-way approach to communication, focussed on information dissemination and persuasion of audiences to their way of thinking and their objectives.
A recent two year, three country study of how well corporate, government and non-government organisations listen found that on average, 80 per cent of organisational resources, time and activity ostensibly focussed on communication is actually dissemination of information and messages – and in fact, speaking.
In some cases, up to 95 per cent of organisational activities related to communication are speaking.
The Organisational Listening Project found that: "most organisations listen sporadically at best, often poorly, and sometimes not at all".
We need to ask different questions and listen harder
The study also found that when organisations do listen, it is often selective, limited, and instrumental. For example, research is mainly conducted to gain answers to the questions that organisations want to ask; public consultation is also often narrowly focussed on options determined by government or corporations and dominated by 'loud voices' of major lobby groups; and social media is extensively used by organisations as another channel for distributing their messages rather than listening to conversations and public comment and views.
The study called for true two-way communication including listening by organisations through open-ended qualitative research (not just narrowly constructed polls), open public consultation including outreach to marginalised and silenced voices, and taking a dialogic approach in social media. A fundamental of being audience focussed is listening.
So when you are listening, how can you best consider and develop the deep understanding you receive from audiences to shape your communications?
At the Department of Health Communications we are learning everyday as we foster our insight culture, and we have plenty more learning to do. But we have found these six areas to be absolutely critical in building audience led communications:
1. Start with the audience view on the problem you are trying to solve
A good place to start your insight work is by looking at the audiences' view on the issue or problem you are trying to solve – does this issue actually register with the audience or are there other problems they care more about on which effort should be focused? What opportunity does this present for innovative ideas and being responsive to audiences?
2. Consider perceived benefits and pitfalls
It is essential to explore with audiences their perceived benefits and/or pitfalls of tackling the problem you are concerned about as well as issues of concern for them. This will inform your communications direction and ensure any solutions directly address audience need.
3. Segmentation
Understanding how our audiences perceive and identify themselves will enable us to improve segmentation and to develop ideas which more effectively tap into their realities. This is particularly important with current debates about identity at many different levels.
4. Action
The act of listening is defunct if we don't take action on the insight it gives. This means ensuring that clear tangible actions are escalated upwards and discussed by the Board. Actions should be fed back to audiences so trust and mutual understanding can grow.
5. Closeness
Closeness is about being able to walk in the shoes of another person – this means being able to be close enough to your audience to spot and understand what they have not said as well as what they have. This helps you build a fuller and more accurate picture of your audience and more honed ideas.
Innovation in technology is providing many new opportunities to listen and establish closeness in an easy and instant manner. This has led to the inspiring development of digital insight, garnering knowledge of how audiences are thinking and feeling through understanding online debates and conversations.
6. Integration
Integrating the insight from all your data sources provides the richest evidence base upon which to develop impactful communications. Whilst you will need to be mindful of the benefits and limitations of each source, marrying up the themes that come from all sources will provide a compelling piece to guide strategy.
So what are the practical killer questions to consider within each of these areas?
Killer questions
The problem:
How does your target audience view the problem you are trying to solve?
Does your listening show you they care about this issue? Or is there another problem or opportunity?
What possibilities, solutions, concepts are your audiences excited about? Why?
What will this mean for your strategy?
The benefits and pitfalls:
What benefits and/or pitfalls does your audience perceive in tackling this problem?
How does that compare with other issues they have raised?
How does this feedback drive your communications?
The segmentation:
How do your audiences identify themselves?
How are your segmented audiences unique from each other?
What are the values, lifestyles, attitudes or behaviours that each segment shares?
Can you do bespoke audience profiles for your issue/area?
The action:
What is the integrated story all sources of insight are telling about this audience?
What is critical to be spoken of and acted upon? Why? What are the risks of inaction?
Who needs to act upon it? How will you ensure they understand the insight and the gravity of it?
The closeness:
How can you get close to your segmented audience to understand them better? Listening to online
conversations? Consultation? Gaming technology? Web streamed focus groups? In depth interviews?
Polling? Ethnography? Video diaries? Online panels? Stakeholder intelligence? Correspondence analysis?
Media evaluation? Analysis of behaviour and action?
How might you overcome barriers to closeness?
The integration:
Based on your research question, what are the themes that stem from all your data sources?
What are the benefits and limitations of each of the sources within your integrated pack?
Are the main compelling points of insight informed by the majority of your sources?
What are the research gaps?
The PR industry clearly has a long way to go in embracing listening, but this is an exciting moment for building an audience led approach.
The Organisational Listening Project provides the insight on how the industry needs to improve; the six areas give us the insight foundation upon which to develop and innovation in technology is enhancing our chances for closeness.
This is a challenge which sits at the heart of everything we are and do; if we are to be effective at the Board table, we must get insight - our unique offering - absolutely right.
[1] Macnamara, J. (2016). Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential of Public Communication. New York, NY: Peter Lang, p. 236.
Sarah Clark is Head of Insight at the Department of Health. She has 17 years of PR experience across the private and public sector, working on high profile issues such as the housing market, MRSA, Europe, crime and NHS delivery. For the last 10 years she has specialised in strategic communications, creative problem solving and insight development and application.
Twitter: @SarahCl12929666
Online: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarah-clark-dip-cipr-a231b359
Professor Jim Macnamara PhD, FAMI, CPM, FAMEC, FPRIA is Professor of Public Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, Media & Communications Department.
Twitter: @jimmacnamara
Online: http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/jim.macnamara


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yes? you did? Well you know what that means..... It means you can have a clear conscience to enjoy and celebrate on TOOOOONA TUESDAY.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Tuna Tuesday with Bugsy
yes? you did? Well you know what that means..... It means you can have a clear conscience to enjoy and celebrate on TOOOOONA TUESDAY.
22 comments:
- Finn said...
Yes, my chores included being security on the house during the day, walking nicely and cleaning myself, playing with my toys, etc, etc. YAY for tuna as a treat for getting those chores done!!
- August 21, 2012 at 6:37 AM
- CATachresis said...
I prefer salmon saturday, but hey! Diversity is good, Yes? lol
- August 21, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- Molly The Wally said...
Have a terrific toooona Tuesday too.
Best wishes Molly.
- August 21, 2012 at 7:13 AM
- Remington said...
Have a FUN day, my friend!
- August 21, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Cat said...
YAY for tuna!!!!
- August 21, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Repositório said...
- August 21, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- Madi and Mom said...
YES I did...the first five on my list....sleep, eat, stretch, turn,
sleep. thanks for the tuna I was starving.
Hugs Madi
- August 21, 2012 at 9:55 AM
- Angel and Kirby said...
We did ours, too! TUNA
- August 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Kjelle Bus said...
Ehhhh , To Do List ??
I totally missed that :(
Have a happy Tuna tuesday :)
- August 21, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- Marg said...
Oh goody, Tooona. We can't wait. Thanks for that suggestion. We will get Mom right on it. Have a terrific day.
- August 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Cat Chat With Caren And Cody said...
Oh goody!!!! I can have lots and lots of tuna!!!!!!!!
- August 21, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Mariodacat said...
Chores are all done so now we can enjoy a tuna feast too. That is a very precious photo of you pal.
- August 21, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- Cheysuli and gemini said...
Oh excellent! I could use some tuna right about now.
- August 21, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Brian said...
Hooray Bugsy, let's eat!
- August 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- Sparkle said...
I want a day for chicken!
Oh wait, that is every day!
- August 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM
- The Island Cats said...
Yep, we did everything we were supposed to do today...eat, sleep and play. It's Tuna Time!
- August 21, 2012 at 9:14 PM
- Texas, a Cat in New York said...
Mmmmmh tuna! Miam !
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Good Worx Inc. is committed to raising awareness and engaging others in issues impacting us all - both locally and globally!
We want to showcase our work over the past decade in our community - much that we accomplished with our after school youth service club - Kids4Good
Click on any image in our Worx Folio(above) to learn more about our projects -
May of 2016, families turned out for our first Community Plant at Indian Prairie Public Library and our Prairie Patch installation.
We're excited to be able to offer our community garden growing model to the library for their summer Garden Buddies programming!


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I have been a hardcore CentOS user for many years now. I enjoyed its minimal install to create a light environment, intuitive installation process, and it's package manager. Docker is the most popular container format today and provides developers and enthusiasts with an easy way to run workloads in containerized environments. I started using Docker in production at home for about a year now for services such as Plex Media Server, Web Server for this blog, ZNC, MineCraft, and MySQL to name a few. A Dockerfile is a set of instructions used to create a Docker image. I invested many hours creating perfect Dockerfiles using CentOS and Fedora to make deployments simple on any operating system. However, a personal revolution was brewing.
Tag Archives: CentOS
Using LVM cache on Linux with a RAM disk
The Challenge
This is a follow up article from using a USB drive for a LVM cache. I decided to test things further by using a RAM disk instead of a USB drive.
The Journey
1. Create a RAM disk:
modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=4585760 max_part=0
2. Create the cache
pvcreate /dev/ram0
vgextend vg /dev/ram0
lvcreate -L 300M -n cache_meta vg /dev/ram0
lvcreate -L 4G -n cache_vol vg /dev/ram0
lvconvert –type cache-pool –poolmetadata vg/cache_meta –cachemode=writeback vg/cache_vol -y
lvconvert –type cache –cachepool vg/cache_vol vg/docker-pool
3. Run the DD test again
[root@tokyo /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1G bs=1M count=1000
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.89586 s, 553 MB/s
[root@tokyo /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1G bs=1M count=1000
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.79864 s, 583 MB/s
[root@tokyo /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1G bs=1M count=1000
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.922467 s, 1.1 GB/s
[root@tokyo /]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1G bs=1M count=1000
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.33757 s, 784 MB/s
Average Speed: 736 MB/s
In Conclusion, my average write speed is 736 MB/s using LVM caching with a RAM disk. With a USB thumb drive, my average speed is 411.25 MB/s. With no cache, my average speed is 256 MB/s.
Basic Linux email server with SSL
This tutorial will show you how to configure an email server with SSL on EC2. Once setup, you can use your EC2 server as a Email relay.
Installing OpenStack on CentOS
I finally got OpenStack installed correctly after struggling with their documentation and the guides online. I wanted to share these steps with the everyone to ease the pain.
1. Install Epel Repo
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
Improving IO performance on Linux
I purchased a new server and have been struggling with IO performance on a RAID 1 setup. I first tried RAID 5 but it was horrible. Through all my struggles, I found a few kernel and filesystem tunables that helped me out.
The virtual machines improved also. They were barely usable.
Filesystem Tweaks: /etc/fstab
Change your mount options to:
NIS server and client tutorial with AutoFS (CentOS / Arch Linux)
I use both Arch and CentOS in my environment so I made this easy tutorial that will show you how to setup a NIS client/server on Arch Linux and CentOS.
*NIS Clients will not need ypserv*
Dovecot/Postfix Email Server setup with Gmail Relay
I have been struggling to get an email server setup and working by following many guides online. Here is how I got it working. I had to use Gmail as an relayhost to actually send the email from the server because my ISP blocks me from sending mail on port 25 and doesn't allow me to relay mail through their servers because I'm using email@example.com instead of email@example.com)
Software: postfix and dovecot
Operating System: CentOS and Archlinux
(CentOS users need to install cyrus-sasl-plain also )
SASL Configuration
Modify or create: /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a pam"
mech_list: plain login
log_level: 7
Dovecot Configuration
Copy the dovecot configuration files :
# cp /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/* /etc/dovecot/
Modify /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
protocols = imap
Modify: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf :
disable_plaintext_auth = no
Modify: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf :
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
Create or Modify: /etc/pam.d/dovecot
auth required pam_unix.so nullok
account required pam_unix.so
Postfix Configuration
Modify /etc/postfix/main.cf:
myhostname = rusher81572.com
mydomain = rusher81572.com
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
home_mailbox = Maildir/
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/password
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
smtp_sasl_security_options =
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,check_relay_domains
Create /etc/postfix/password:
[smtp.gmail.com]:587 username:password
#postmap /etc/postfix/password
#systemctl start postfix
Create a DHCP and DNS server with RedHat/ CentOS Linux
#yum -y install bind bind-utils dhcp
Tell what interface to use with dhcpd: /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
In /etc/named.conf add: (Modify to suit the following)
allow-query { any; };
allow-recursion {any; };
listen-on port 53 { 10.10.10.2; };
Add this zone near the bottom:
zone "dhcpserver" IN {
type master;
file "dhcpserver";
allow-update { any; };
notify no;
Create /var/named/dhcpserver:
@ IN SOA dhcpserver. hostmaster.dhcpserver. (
2012080701 ; Serial
43200 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
2592000 ) ; Minimum
; Define the nameservers and the mail servers
IN NS dhcpserver.
ns IN A 10.10.10.2
www IN A 10.10.10.2
client IN A 10.10.10.3
gateway IN A 10.10.10.2
Only have this in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf:
subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.10.10.2;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "dhcpserver";
option domain-name-servers 10.10.10.2;
option time-offset -18000; # Eastern Standard Time
range 10.10.10.20 10.10.10.30;
#chkconfig named on
#chkconfig dhcpd on
#service named start
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It's early Monday morning and you're trudging into your office. But, little do you know, you've just collected thousands of bacteria on your hands – simply by touching your workplace door handle.
According to research from the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), the British economy could save £13.7 billion if office hygiene standards are improved. But with some staff members willing to sit happily in their own germs and body odour, it could prove to be a tricky task.
Trying to convert staff in your business to effective hygiene practice can be tricky, and sometimes it'll feel like trying to kick water uphill – especially for the less, shall we say, naturally clean of your employees.
But without effective hygiene, that dent in your wallet will only grow deeper. So how can you persuade employees to clean up their act?
Get in the game
Gamification is the process of turning day-to-day chores into interesting or compelling "games", generally by implementing a reward system. Like a loyalty card in a supermarket, getting even a small tinge of achievement can add a sense of pizzazz to an employee's day.
By adding a game element to effective hygiene – possibly via some device that tracks hand-washing – your employees will be increasingly motivated to keep themselves clean.
Make a memo
While you don't want to be overly blunt in an office memo concerning hygiene, sending out a mass email containing a few cleanliness facts, hand-washing tips and ways to keep desks tidy can prove invaluable to those not quite in the know.
Just make sure you don't sound overly accusatory – the last thing a member of staff wants is their boss singling them out for body odour.
Hire a cleaner who's cleaner
Certain cleaners skimp on their duties so effectively that it's a wonder your workplace isn't drowning in dust. Like a well-trained cipher, the worst cleaners are pros at holding a cloth and milling about the office, but never actually do any cleaning.
However, this shirking of responsibility is potentially costing your company thousands of pounds, so make sure your cleaner shapes up or ships out.
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"I honestly believe that if you have an entrepreneurial spirit, that you are worthy of pursuing your creative passion! And I am making it my personal mission to assist & support you in this process and EXCITING journey ahead." - Candi Jerkins
How it All Began
Even as a little girl, I had a strong will to work and this unwavering idea of owning my very own business. My weekends were spent running an endless-summer lemonade stand with a dear friend, cleaning my parents house or baby-sitting for the neighborhood kids. Let's face it, I enjoyed working and having my own money. When I wasn't trying to make a buck, I was usually hanging in my room (til the wee-hours of the morning) with a paint brush, creating collages or rearranging my furniture! And now that I own a design business, I can see how those very things that I enjoyed doing as a child, now translate into my everyday job! I have found my passion and I want to help you find yours.
You see, I didn't really know that I was worthy of pursuing my creative passion until after college. I had no idea what to do with my life. I had fallen in love, but wasn't ready to get married or start a family. I was stuck in a state of mind, wondering if I would ever figure out what I "want to be when I grow up". But I took a risk and relocated to a tiny beach town in Alabama to live closer to my sweetheart, whom I had dreamed of ALL my life. I decided to apply for an executive assistant position at a real estate company and start my career in hopes to receive my real estate license in the years to come. I loved my job and my work environment. I had the freedom to create my own systems and the flexibility to enjoy my work. And I had THE most terrific boss.
One day I woke up sick and tired of putting on the same job title and my creative energy was literally bursting out of my soul. I suppose that's what led me to make another bold decision and relocate with my better half to Destin, FL. I was on an adventure, called life, where I was available to jump at any opportunity that was offered to me. I was hired on at another real estate firm, but this time as a Marketing Director. It was during those years I learned I was a creative entrepreneur -- and that I had a lot to learn about business + how to run a successful one of my own. And where I also learned that the dream I once had to own a small business, doing what I loved, could actually become a reality.
After several attempts at starting my own business, all of which never made any money, I started to get frustrated. I often questioned myself and my decision to be self-employed. Why do some businesses never thrive while others become super successful? And what about those business owners with concepts that never go out of style!? That kept me up at night (and the fact that I was teaching myself how to build websites). My burning question was to figure out how to create a sustainable business that makes money, while being authentic, and creative.
Perhaps my story is similar to yours. If so, there is hope!


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October 20
Hint Boutique Trunk Show
Saturday, October 20, 2012
3:00pm - 7:00pm
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The Showroom of F1 Cabinets
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We may think we know Patrick J. Adams from his work in front of the camera, in his role as the sharp-witted and sharply dressed Mike Ross on the hit series Suits, but as was recently revealed at the Toronto opening of Berlin-based gallery Lumas, he also plays another, lesser-known role: one behind the camera, as a fine art photographer.
Adams, who, in person, is just as winning a character as the one he plays on television, supported himself early on as a photographer after his graduation from the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts. His work veers toward stylized documentation of "real-life fragments of the ordinary."
Inspired perhaps to document his reality by his journalist father, Adams describes his dual creative expressions as "the yin and yang of (my) personality."
"Acting and being in front of the camera is the thing that draws me out of myself and doesn't allow me to live in my head. It makes me more social, part of a community, whereas being behind the camera appeals to the side of me that's a little bit more controlling and quiet and internal."
An admirer of photojournalists such as Robert Capa, as well as visionaries like Stephen Shore, Andreas Gursky and fellow Canadian Edward Burtynsky, Adams's work hangs alongside the likes of Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, at Lumas's Yorkville storefront gallery. His early passion for his sideline has also inspired him to become a collector.
"I probably have 25 to 30 cameras now in my collection," says Adams, who counts a vintage Telephoto Rolleiflex and a Leica among his treasures. "The ones I most prize are the ones that have a story behind them."
"I lost a Hasselblad in a taxicab in Paris once, which broke my heart but taught me a lesson to value all the things around me," says Adams, who doesn't take his good fortune for granted.
"It's no secret to me, even though these photos aren't at all related to Suits, that opportunities like this would not be afforded to me if I was still shooting people's head shots out of my garage for money to pay my rent," says Adams, adding that his success on Suits means that "I have a lot more money — and I have a lot more opportunities to do things like show my work in this gallery."
A fan of the work of Jeff Bridges, another leading man who likes to get behind the lens, Adams added the same Widelux with which Bridges prefers to shoot to his growing camera collection.
"It was a great find," says Adams, who hasn't yet had the pleasure of meeting his idol, "but it would be a dream to meet and work with him."
Meanwhile we can look forward to seeing more of Patrick J. Adams behind the camera — as both a photographer and a director.
"Suits is still a big part of my life right now on the acting side, so in terms of scheduling, the thing I can do is direct more (episodes of) Suits," he says. "As long as people let me get behind the camera, I think you can definitely expect to see more of that side of me."
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As a recent anti-electric car opinion piece on the Detroit News begins, "It's nearly time to put up or shut up." After reading the piece through several times I now agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly, but in the complete opposite of the way the author, Neil Winton, meant it to be interpreted: He really should think about doing the latter a bit more often himself.
I've taken some of the overarching points of his article and dissected them for your reading pleasure.
"The first evidence of battery-power reality will be an enormous increase in call outs for road side assistance as electric motors expire miles from home."
Essentially what Winton is saying here is that you, the electric car purchaser, are too stupid to even be able to communicate in grunts and gestures. He's also showing an intriguing lack of understanding of how plug-ins work; I think he meant "as the batteries expire miles from home."
Unless the driver of a plug-in car is completely unaware of the limitations of his or her vehicle and doesn't ever look at the dashboard, this just won't happen. It's like saying that you'd willingly take your 300 mile range combustion-engined SUV on a 400 mile trip into the tundras of Siberia knowing that you would have no access to fuel. Who would do that? Nobody. It'd be stupid. Luckily most people in Europe and the U.S. drive less than 40 miles a day, so the EV can handle 90% of your daily needs, and when it doesn't you use your second car.
"The second will be a scary rise in accidents, as frustrated truckers overtake electric cars crawling home on highways, like the tired old milk floats of yesteryear."
I don't even understand this one. These are highway capable EVs we're talking about, meaning they can travel at highway speeds—they also have all the accouterments that any other modern day vehicle comes with. Why would there be anymore "crawling home" than you see with combustion cars? The segment of society that crawls along at speeds much slower than the posted speed limit will drive slowly regardless of what vehicle they have.
All I can think is that the image Mr. Winton has of an EV is based on the strange depths of his own mind that has conjured up a used Yugo with 10 inch wheels that has a lead acid battery strapped to the hood and a jacuzzi motor bolted to the transmission.
"The silence of battery cars will lead to more pedestrian deaths and squashed pets."
Apparently, all you people who think EVs are great are simply homicidal lunatics who detest baby seals. I'm starting to think the group of EV advocates who hate this argument because it fuels the fire of those who are trying to find every reason to say EVs are bad is completely correct.
We've dealt with this topic in the past, so suffice it to say that firstly there are no good studies that link quiet cars with an increase in pedestrian (or pet) deaths. Secondly, all cars these days are extremely quiet, so if this is an issue with silence being deadly, it's an issue with all new cars across the board. Thirdly, every first generation EV that is coming to market in the next two years is equipped with some kind of pedestrian warning system—for better or worse—and the current trend in global politics is to make this required at some point in the near future.
"Recently, Britain's state-controlled BBC, quoting electric car maker Mitsubishi, said the cost of ownership of battery cars is actually more than regular cars when you figure in depreciation, so the argument about running costs is lost."
We dealt with this issue in another post. In that post it was discovered that the BBC's claims were based on having no knowledge of what the depreciation rate of these cars would be. Having no real experience with EVs on the mass marketplace, it is just as likely that they will increase in value as they will decrease.
When you look at it that way, the BBC could have easily written a piece that praised EVs as having a cost of ownership twice as low. In fact, much of the discussion in our previous post took into consideration that EVs will have very little service requirements and will have added value in other ways. And imagine when fuel prices start to rise again, as they inevitably will (nobody is denying that). All those intangibles make predicting their depreciation in 5 or 10 years almost impossible and, therefore, completely debunk anything the BBC (and Mitsubishi) had to say on this topic.
"The transmission of electric power from generation to use is enormously inefficient, with some experts saying only just over 30 percent of the original power is actually available for use, the rest draining away during transportation; so much for increased efficiency."
I'd like to see his references on this one. In 2007 in the U.S. the average transmission and distribution loss through power lines was about 6.5% and getting better. Compare this to the the loss of roughly 65% of the energy in gas when combusted in an internal combustion engine—and that doesn't account for the losses that occur prior to combustion.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, would, in their right mind, claim that mining fossil fuels out of the ground, transporting them to a processing plant, processing them in the processing plant, shipping/piping them to a fuel station, storing them at the fuel station, pumping them into a car and then burning them in the engine is even slightly more efficient than electrical power generation and transmission.
"The power generated mainly comes from coal fired power stations so the zero emissions claim goes out the window, although in France, where upwards of 80 percent of electricity is generated by nuclear power, this claim does resonate."
There are plenty of studies that show, even when fueled by coal-fired power plants, electric cars are cleaner than your average gas car. But in the U.S. coal makes up about 50% of our electricity so you'll never have a completely coal-fired power grid and as your grid gets cleaner, so does your electric car. With a plug-in car, you never have to get an upgraded car to get continually improving emissions. It's another added benefit of plug-in cars. There are also lots of other reasons to like a centralized energy distribution network like the electricity grid.
"The price of battery cars puts them out of the reach of all but a few rich, early adopters. Visitors to showrooms will find themselves asked to buy a car with a sticker price more than twice what you would expect to pay for a small family car, but which also has limited and unpredictable range."
Any new technology will initially be more expensive. When the PC first came out it was derided as being a toy for the rich as well, and many people thought it would never catch on. But that's the beauty of the market; if there's enough demand, prices will come down quickly. The concept Winton is espousing as a negative is actually part and parcel of how capitalism has worked, well, since forever.
"So why are some manufacturers betting the ranch on a product that will look incompetent compared with green competitors like hybrids? They are being pushed down this route by governments armed with massive subsidies, and which maybe haven't looked much past the hype."
On the contrary, Mr. Winton, the reason plug-in cars have obtained such a huge amount of political support from across the spectrum is that the hype is actually correct. They address environmental, economic, regulatory and energy security issues in one fell swoop. And, before you start complaining about massive government subsidies, that gas car you're driving would never have been possible had the governments of the world not dumped untold billions of tax payer dollars into the development of a gas powered infrastructure.
The rest of Winton's critique relies on 'expert' testimony, but really, after sifting through this first part, who wants to read the rest of the drivel? Yet, I did, and I can tell you that what he ends up highlighting in his post essentially leads to the conclusion that there will be 2.5 million EVs on the roads by 2015, after 2020 EVs will really take off, and the future is electric, but it's just going to take a while to get there. Well, duh. His clear and absolute hatred of plug-in vehicles is not congruous with his article's final message.
Mr. Winton, what is it about EVs that really gets your goat when you can't even find 'experts' to truly support your viewpoints? All you've ended up telling us is, essentially, that we're all stupid for even liking the idea of EVs.
So there you go EV owners, present, past and future, you're stupid, your car is a withering piece of junk built out of mud and rat droppings, you have a pathological hatred of puppies, and you don't care about money!
Altogether now: "Thanks Mr. Winton!"


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APD returning to tougher hiring standards
From KRQE
Mayor Richard J. Berry on Thursday announced big changes at the Albuquerque Police Department academy including a return to tougher standards for would-be officers. Cadets coming in with the 108th class will have need to have at least 60 hours of college credit or three years of military service.
The education and military service requirements were instituted in 1994 but dropped five years later in an effort to fill the ranks of the police force.
Joey Sigala, president of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association , the union representing APD officers, said the move makes a strong statement that officers now on the job are not qualified. Berry disagreed.
See the Mayor's press release announcing the new policies.


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My New Favorite Traditional Challah/
When packing for a business trip I love to start a large bread for my husband to eat while I'm away. Challah is one of his favorites and since it's one of mine as well, I usually manage to eat a few slices myself before slicing, wrapping and freezing the rest. This is the one I made before leaving for Barcelona in February. It's similar to the one in "The Bread Bible" with one wonderful difference: I've discovered that adding some old stiff starter instead of the vinegar does wonders for elasticity making it much easier to braid. It also increases the moistness and shelf life and adds depth of flavor. And because it so exceptionally moist for a challah, the ends of the braids hold together well.
If you want to make this recipe and don't have any starter, add 1/2 tablespoon cider vinegar when adding the oil and use the lower amount of salt.
Oven Temperature: 325°F. (tent with foil after 30 minutes)
Baking Time: 35 to 40 minutes
Makes: A 16 inch by 6 inch by 4 inch high, 4 braid loaf
1 pound 14.4ounces / 861 grams
Special Equipment: An insulated baking sheet or two baking sheets, one on-top of the other, lined with parchment. A baking stone or baking sheet
1) Mix the dough In the mixer bowl, place the water and tear in the starter. Allow it to sit for at least 30 minutes
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and yeast; then the salt.
Add the eggs and honey to the liquid in the mixer bowl and the corn oil or butter. Add the flour and with the dough hook, mix on low until moistened. On medium (#4 Kitchen Aid) beat for about 5 minutes or until the dough is smooth and shiny. Add flour if necessary until it almost clears the bowl The dough should be just barely tacky. (The dough should weigh about 30.2 ounces / 856 grams.) Form the dough into a ball.
2) Let the dough rise Place the dough into a 2 quart dough rising container or bowl, greased lightly with cooking spray or oil. Push down the dough and lightly spray or oil the top of the dough. Cover the container with a lid, plastic wrap or a damp towel. With a piece of tape mark on the side of the container approximately where double the height would be. Allow the dough to rise, ideally at 75˚ to 80 °F., until it has doubled, 1 1/2 to 2 hours (to 2 quarts). Gently deflate the dough by pushing it down, give it 2 business letter turns and allow to rise a second time. (The second rising takes about 45 minutes to an hour.
Flatten the dough gently by pressing down on it, so as not to activate the gluten, making it stretchy. If desired, for best flavor development, the dough now can be placed in a larger container or wrapped loosely with plastic wrap, placed in a 1 gallon plastic bag, and refrigerated overnight -- in which case give it a turn or two first. Allow it to sit a room temperature for 20 minutes after dividing in 4 pieces and preshaping into logs.
3) Shape the dough, glaze it, and let it rise Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces (214 to 217 grams each). Shape them into little logs, cover them with proofer or greased plastic wrap—no need to rest unless refrigerated overnight as they get more gluten development. Start by rolling one piece of dough on the counter into as long rope, 13 inches. (Keep the rest covered while working with one-at-a-time.) Taper both ends of each dough rope to about 4 inches down so that they are narrower than the rest of the dough rope. (Allow the ropes to rest covered if stretchy.)
Starting from one tapered end, (middle, if doing a 3 strand braid) braid the strands. Pull the dough more as you come to the ends of the braid so that it comes to more of a point. Pinch the strands together at the end of the braid.
Don't allow too much bulge in the middle, i.e. braid tightly so that it doesn't spread when rising and baking. Push the ends together a little so that the loaf is about 14 inches long by 4 inches wide by 2 1/2 inches high. Place the loaf on the prepared baking sheet. Brush with glaze and cover. Let rise to 15 x 5 x 3 1/4 inches high—about 1 hour.
4) Preheat the oven: 45 minutes before baking preheat the oven to 325°F. Have the oven shelf at the lowest level and place a baking stone or baking sheet on it before preheating.
5) Glaze and bake the challah. Remove the plastic wrap and brush the challah all over with the egg glaze, going well into the crevices of the braid. Sprinkle the top with poppy seeds if desired, tilting the pan slightly to have access to the sides.
Quickly but gently set the bread onto the hot baking stone or hot baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Turn it around and continue baking for 10 to 15 minutes (tent loosely with a large sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil after 30 minutes of baking time or if the top is getting too brown). Leave on parchment as very tender. The bread should be deep-golden brown and a skewer inserted in the middle should come out clean. (An instant read thermometer inserted into the center will read about 180°F.)
6) Cool the challah on a rack.


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- To develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the national has invested or is in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital (E-2).
The U.S. Embassy in London has seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications for E-2 visas in the last decade. One cause of this increase has been the strength of the pound against the dollar and another has been the growth in value of U.K. real estate.
The Treaty
The United States and the United Kingdom have maintained a treaty of commerce and navigation since 1815. In order to be covered by it, citizens of the U.K. must own at least 50% of the business and must actively develop and direct that business. In addition, in order to be eligible for the E visas, U.K. applicants must reside in the British Isles.
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Both owners and employees of treaty trader and treaty investor businesses receive the same kind of visa (E-1 or E-2); the law makes no distinction between them. Investors and employees, however, go through different processes to get their visas.
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The maximum length for which an E-1 or E-2 visa can be issued to a citizen of the United Kingdom is 5 years. In London, trends show that the first E-1 or E-2 is usually issued for two years, but is renewable provided the investment or trade continues to meet all applicable requirements of U.S. immigration laws and regulations.
Proper Use of B1/B2 Visas and Visa-Waiver (ESTA) Travel for Investors:
Potential investors may seek out investment opportunities, sign contracts, and take other steps to purchase or establish a business while traveling on B1/B2 status or on the Visa Waiver Program. However, applicants may not develop and direct a business while in such status.
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on qualifying for an E-2 treaty investor visa and other visa options.


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Things are gearing up for a busy May in the Native Flute world. The Musical Echoes festival and Zion flute festivals are coming up as is the Zion flute school.
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I will also be performing at both festivals and teaching the Anasazi style flute workshop at the Zion flute school. Here are the dates for these events:
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May 8 - 12, 2011
PO Box 362, Springdale, UT 84767
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Investing Your Surplus Money To Make It Work For Your Millions
"The first servant reported, 'Master, I invested your money and made ten times the original amount.' 'Well done, my good servant!" his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'" – Luke 19:16-17
There's an old saying that "it's not how much money you earn that counts, it's how much money from your income you saved. The better it would be if you can make that saved money to work for you." So we should put the money we save to an investment fund to make that money work for us.
For the investments, I earmarked this for our retirement fund in addition to what I will receive from my retirement plan and benefits.
The investment instruments that I am considering Unit Investment Trust Fund, Mutual Fund and Stocks. Although bonds and money market are less volatile, they can only earn a very low return that is almost the same as a bank savings account.
Unit Investment Trust Funds are open-ended pooled trust fund from different investors with similar investment objectives. These funds are operated and administered by professional fund managers and are invested in various financial instruments such as money market securities, bonds and equities.
Each UITF is established, administered and maintained in accordance with a written trust agreement or "plan" drawn by the trust entity, approved by its Board of Directors. It is thus apparent that UITFs are highly regulated and trust entities offering these are closely supervised to ensure investor protection.
Open-ended funds don't have a limit as to how many shares they can issue. When an investor purchases shares, more shares are created. When an investor sells his shares, the shares are taken out of circulation. If a large amount of shares are sold (called a redemption), the fund may have to sell some of its investments in order to pay the investor. The price of the fund is based on the amount of shares bought and sold; and is based on the total value of the fund or the net asset value (NAV).
Mutual funds are almost the same as Unit Investment Trust Funds. The only difference is, if you participate with Mutual Funds, you are buying shares of the fund. With UITFs, you are buying a unit of participation. That means, if you have shares with a mutual fund, you have the rights to vote during the annual meeting of the fund.
A mutual fund can be an open-ended or a closed ended-fund. A closed-ended fund has fixed number of shares and is traded like common stocks. The board of directors (if organized as a corporation) or board of trustees (if organized as a trust) ensures that the fund is managed in the best interests of the fund's investors and with hiring the fund manager and other service providers to the fund. The fund manager trades (buys and sells) the fund's investments in accordance with the fund's investment objective.
Both UITFs and Mutual Funds are good investment vehicles for people who have very limited time and funds to invest on securities. They are already a diversified portfolio of stocks and other investment vehicles like bonds and money market. Before investing, you have to consider the objective of the fund if it suits you. Take note that there are annual fees for the management of the funds. Early redemption fees may occur as well if you redeem your shares or participation after the minimum holding time of the fund.
Stocks are traded openly in the stock market. Stocks are equity investment that represents part of ownership in a corporation, meaning, you are entitled to a part of the company's earnings and assets. You have the rights to vote during the annual shareholders meeting. To be able to buy your shares of stocks, you must open an account with an online stock broker, then you can place your orders to the traded company of your choice.
Stock investments are for long term investments given that they are very volatile. To offset the volatility, you have to make time to be your ally. Also, you can diversify your investments to a handful of stocks rather than buying shares to a lot of companies, thus spreading your funds too thin. Looking after lots of stocks will also require time to read news, annual reports and other things.
If you have a very little time to spare and too little to invest, stocks may not be the best investment for you.
In the book One Up on Wall Street", Peter Lynch suggests that you buy your own house first before you invest your money in the stock market. This is because in most cases, a house (or an apartment if you are living inside a city) will be a sure money-maker. This was one of the biggest mistakes I made; I did not buy an apartment when I was able to make that investment.
For 23 years, I pay the rent. The money was gone to the drain! If I bought an apartment by the time I first rented, I should have paid out an apartment for me.
You can acquire a house or an apartment for a down payment of less than 20% of its total value. The interest on the loan and the amount you spend for repairing it are tax deductible. If you are renting a house or apartment, the money you paid for is totally gone. If you are paying to own the house or apartment, you are actually investing your money. Over time, the value of the property will increase. If you are lucky enough, the price will double even before you paid out the total cost of the house or apartment.
So while you are still young just starting out to work, look into owning your own house or apartment.
What am I doing now?
I decided last June 2015 to start my investment fund with the PSE Index Fund. See in this section my on-going project for my investment fund.
Last year, I decided to make a study about buying our own apartment. Right now, I am on the final process of my bank loan to pay for the apartment we decided to buy.
Here's to your success!
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An easy game with minimum prep and supplies.
- a penny or any small object
How to Play:
Have the team get in a circle, facing inwards. Choose one person to stand in the middle. Have them close their eyes while you give someone in the circle a penny (or other small object). The object of the game is to pass the penny around the circle.
Pro Tips:
- Play some music
- Tell students they can't use their pockets..
- Put a leader in the middle first so she/he can show the students how it's done.
- Play until the game peaks... don't play until students are tired of it.
The person in the middle must identify who has the penny (while it's being passed around). The trick is - other members of the team can pretend to be passing something around as well in order to distract or "fake out" the person in the middle.
If the group passes the penny all the way around the circle without getting caught - they win and someone new is chosen to be in the center. If someone gets caught, the circle loses and the person in the middle wins. The person caught with the penny then goes into the center.
To keep the person in the center from just naming every name of every person in the circle, you might want to give them a limited number of guesses based on how many people are playing.


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This episode shares excerpts from Parabola's current issue, "Mercy and Forgiveness."
Parabola Podcast Episode 26: "Wealth"
This episode of Parabola's free monthly podcast includes an excerpt from David Ulrich's Zen Camera on the joys of mindful photography and drawing, as well as Alexandra Haven's essay on the wonders of ancient Egypt […]
Parabola Podcast, Episode 11: "The Value of Education"
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell reflects on the spiritual value of education in this new episode of Parabola's free monthly podcast.
Parabola Podcast, Episode 10: "Generosity and Service"
Story editor Betsy Cornwell explores our current issue, Generosity and Service, in Parabola's monthly twenty-minute podcast.
Parabola Podcast, Episode 9: "Spiritual Practice"
"Often I have come across stern pronouncements directed at people like me: One cannot dabble, say the priests and scholars. Spirituality is not a tasting menu. "New Agers" who borrow a bit of this religion […]
Parabola Podcast, Episode 7: "Ways of Healing"
Story editor Betsy Cornwell explores our current issue, "Ways of Healing," in PARABOLA Magazine's podcast. Learn more about this issue or become a subscriber at parabola.org. This episode also includes Kenneth Lawrence's retelling of the Japanese […]
Parabola Podcast, Episode 5: "Embodiment"
Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our Summer 2014 Issue, EMBODIMENT, in Parabola Magazine's monthly podcast.


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Simple SEO for Photography Websites - 5 Steps to Better Search Optimization
What is SEO?
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is your photography website's ranking within Google, Bing, and other search engines. This is a complicated system that is basically a grade of how relevant your website is to different search keywords. There are many factors that go into determining your Google rank, but the two most important factors to determining SEO is content, and backlinks. This post will focus on content, and we'll talk about building backlinks in the next post.
Why does SEO matter?
When potential clients search for photographers in your area, Google will list the sites in order of their ranking, meaning the better your SEO, the more clients will find your site when they're looking to hire a photographer. If you're a wedding photographer in Miami, you would want to rank higher for search terms like, "Miami wedding photographer". In short, better SEO means more clients. Here are 5 steps to improving your SEO for your photography website or blog.
1 - Keyword Targeting
Keywords are the search terms that you want to rank well in, and the most important thing to consider when working on your site and blogging. Targeting means choosing specific keywords to your business, such as wedding, portrait, boudoir photography, etc, plus your geographic location. The more specific you get, the better. It's very hard to compete in big picture search terms, such as "Florida wedding photographer", but much easier to rank high in local, relevant searches like "Lake County farm wedding photographer". These are called long-tail search keywords. Targeting longer, more specific keywords means more qualified leads that are more likely to hire you. Thousands of people might search "Florida photographer" every day, but of those maybe on a few would be interested in wedding photography in Lake County, but it's very difficult to find them amongst all the other sites related to "Florida photographer" on Google. A targeted keyword ranking will lead those clients right to your site and make it much easier to book them.
Researching long-tail keywords
So how do you know what keywords to target? Luckily, Google provides a fantastic free tool just for that. Google Keyword Planner is your new best friend. Create your free account and select "Find new keywords and get search volume data". In the first search box, type the type of photography your business offers, such as "wedding photography". Next, select "Targeting" and change "U.S." to your local town/targeted market. Then select "Keyword Filters" and select "Competition: Low" and "Keyword Options" and check "Only show closely related ideas" and hit get ideas. Under the graph, switch to "keyword ideas." Here's what this all looks like:
These are my search parameters. Notice I'm targeting my genre of photography, my location, and low competition, relevant searches. This will give me the following results:
2 - Interpreting the results
As you can see, the search returned a lot of similar keywords, ranked by "relevance". The column we care the most about here is the "Avg. monthly searches," as a higher number means more potential clients if we target and rank well with that keyword. You can see I highlighted the best result here, which is "Fine art wedding photography". This would be a fantastic keyword to target with a score of 260 and low competition in my area. Using this data, my Targeted Keyword would be "Fine Art Wedding Photography - Clermont, FL". We know a lot of people in the area are searching for this each month, but the competition is low, meaning it will be easy to rank high with.
3 - Repeat
Now we have 1 great keyword search, but we need more. Using the above process, try to come up with 10 keywords to use for your marketing. Try combining different locations, any other types of photography you offer, and look for other adjectives that fit your work, like "vintage" or "modern". Why do we need multiple keywords? Because Google will notice if you are spamming specific keyword phrases across your website and overusing them for SEO benefit and will actively punish your rankings for doing so. You have to use them in a natural manner, and you also want to compete in any available keyword phrases to maximize your SEO and the number of clients you attract.
4 - Implementing your keywords
Now that you've got our keyword, it's time to start using and ranking higher in them. There are a number of ways to utilize targeted keywords, and it's best to use them all to increase your rankings as a whole with Google. Here's a list of ways to implement your keywords:
Site Title
Your website title is the best place to use your main keyword, with your business name on the end. So using the search results above, a great site title would be "Fine Art Wedding Photography - Clermont FL - David Childers". Since the site title is one of the most visible and important aspects of your website in Google's eyes, this is a great place to put your main targeted keyword. Every page published on your site will show this in the headline for the search indexing, meaning it will get reinforced every time you post a new blog post, etc. Note that site title is different from your URL, if you aren't sure how to change your site title, here are guides for Squarespace and Wordpress.
Blog titles
The next great way to use keywords is in your blog post titles. I like to combine keyword results with specific venue names. "Sansuci Farms Vintage Wedding Photography - Couple Name - Clermont FL" is a great blog title because it targets the venue, the adjective based style (which always ranks well in Google), and your location.
Image alt tags are not fun to type, but they are a powerful way to embed keywords into your blog posts. Don't just copy and paste the same phrase for every image though, but name them descriptive names with elements of keywords you want to target in them. For a wedding blog, images might be named things like "Sansuci Farms Vintage Wedding Shoes", "Sansuci Wedding Photography First Dance," etc.
Image file names
I resize and rename my blog images during export using Adobe Lightroom. I set them to a broad keyword search like "clermont_wedding_june_1.jpg" since I get more specific with the alt-tags. This creates synergy without looking like keyword spam to Google.
5 - Blog Regularly
Your blog is your most powerful tool for connecting with clients and ranking well with Google. As mentioned above, every blog post is a potential to target specific audiences nearby that are looking for your services, so keep a regular schedule for blogging and make the most out of it. Here are a few things to keep in mind when publishing new blog posts for your photography business:
Write more
Most photographers don't include enough text with their blog posts. I see far too many blog posts that are just 50-100 images with a simple one or two sentence description at the top of the page. This is BAD. Google values relevant text higher than a bunch of images. I recommend at least 500 words for each post to make the most out of keywords and to look better for Google's rankings. It may be hard, but it's worth it. If you're struggling to write enough, talk about the planning of the shoot, other vendors that helped, your subjects, or technical things that may be of interest to other photographers that are visiting your site. The more you type, the more expertise you exhibit and the better you can connect with your ideal clients.
Be selective
A blog post with 10-15 great images, the appropriate amount of text, and smart keyword usage is going to be a lot better for your audience and your Google rankings than a post with 75+ images. Being able to cull down to your best work is important for every aspect of running a photography business, and that's no different with blogging. Similarly, put the time in to make each blog post great instead of trying to put out a lot of posts. 1 great post will benefit you more than 10 mediocre ones.
Have a schedule
Even if it's only one post a week, try to make a habit of blogging and doing all of the boring technical stuff until it becomes a habit. Google doesn't give much weight to frequency of posting, but regular posting will create great habits for your business such as staying in touch with local search trends and client desires, as well as showing your clients that you are active. Regular posting will also keep your site rising in search rankings if you follow everything you've learned here.
Did these tips help?
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Isn't it such a pleasure, to find out what you're capable of?
One of the most useful things I've learned in my time in the Radio program at BCIT is finding out all the things I used to second guess in myself are just learning points for what I am able to do. Radio has been a perfect outlet for my voice and my style.
I look forward to my future on the air.


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MINDsight Mastermind
Hello Wise One.
I see you...
Your passion for what you do. The impact you want to make on other people through the work you are uniquely qualified to do.
You wear your passion on your sleeve.
Me too.
Unfortunately, passion, and even skill and expertise, aren't enough to fill your practice with ideal, high-paying clients.
You must know how to authentically connect and sell to your tribe, master your own mindset to play a bigger game, and offer value that has your clients searching you over and over again.
How would your life be different if you had a regular wait list of ideal clients and have the CONFIDENCE to stand out as a leader in your niche?
What if you had mastery level coaching skills and could create break through transformations with every client?
What if you could master your own mindset so you never go down the rabbit hole of self sabotage and you finally TRUST your ability to fill you practice with clients you love?
You are all about empowering CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION in the online space
You want a ready to use MASTERY system to create LONG TERM behavioral change with clients.
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AND…you want SUPPORT doing it
If You're…
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Tired of feeling "less than" when you look around at other women in business and are ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen THIS YEAR!
Confused about how to share what you offer and lack the confidence to really shine with your unique message and online positioning
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Pretty sure that having a proven system that works would be a HUGE relief…not to mention a fabulous marketing tool.
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I had no idea, however, that having: skills, wisdom and even passion to do whatever it takes to succeed didn't mean that star clients would come knocking at my door.
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I had spent many months watching other women make their transformational businesses a success, so why not me? I was smart. So why couldn't I figure this business deal out on my own? Well here's what I finally got after way too much struggle…
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So at that moment I closed the backdoor on my old life for good and started playing full out…with these new game-changing rules!
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MINDsight is a proven, transformative client attraction and sales program that serves women who work in transformation around the world. These coaches, therapists, healers, teachers and guides are all about working with the deeper layers of the mind to break habit patterns that are keeping their clients stuck- and are all about long term, consistent RESULTS!
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Understanding that I had the power and tools to change my thinking was a magical experience.
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With this solid foundation I was able to master the steps to client attraction and authentic sales and I'm thrilled to teach YOU this unique system as well!
With a deep sense of purpose comes attraction. Harnessing that attraction can transform your life.
WHAT is MINDsight ONLINE INTENSIVE?
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So Wise Woman, Here is what I KNOW...
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Mass is celebrated by the student body weekly and on special occasions. The entire school celebrates Mass at these times as we strive to stress that St. Augustine is a community of believers.
Mass is celebrated everyday at 7:00 a.m. in the school chapel, as well as 7:45 a.m. each Wednesday, unless a special mass is being celebrated that week. Special Masses include St. Augustine's Feast Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Grandparent's Day, Holy Thursday, Junior Mass and the Senior Baccalaureate Mass.
Weekly masses are celebrated by Augustinians from the St. Augustine community, local parish priests, as well as priests visiting the area. Music is provided by the Saints Mass Band, St. Augustine High School faculty and staff, and other local musicians.
The sacrament of reconciliation is available each Tuesday during lunchtime on campus for those wishing to receive it. The chapel is open all school days from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. From time to time, an individual class instructor may celebrate a liturgical function such as a Penance Rite or Mass. The campus ministry team, school chaplain, and all faculty members, lay and religious, are always available for spiritual guidance.


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A very big warm hug to John Davey and family, Dot Lung, and everyone else who made Reasons to be Creative possible again this year. And most of all thank you to everyone who generously gave me an hour of their attention, you rock.
This was my second year at Reasons and I really love the family vibe it has tucked away in Brighton. Pals From Form did an incredible job on the titles this year—everyone needs to pay attention to these guys. They add the most charming handmade quality and care to everything they do ... Not to mention they are just delightful humans.
I really slacked on taking pictures on this trip, but here's my lone snap of the pebble beach where I spent many an hour taking calm walks. Brighton, you're ok.