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High-quality optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with a virtual zero roll-off factor are obtained from the generation of a phase-locked, rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Tunability over more than 4 frequency decades is demonstrated with <1% power distortion.
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text: I got the autopsy results from H.'s death. They ruled it an accidental drowning in a pond no more than 10 ft deep. She has 2 contusions on her left arm, one on her wrist and one on her forearm, and a puncture wound on her left arm. Both of her right shirt sleeves had been cut. (She is left handed.) Her coat and wallet were found 50 ft away perfectly folded under a tree. PO say they have no clue. They are so indifferent. Have been since the start. My parents are indifferent. But I can't stand this. I am SO upset. I asked the cops repeatedly if there were any bruises, and they said no - and now I read the autopsy and find different facts? And why would she cut her shirt sleeves? Do you think the above information is enough to re-open the case? Or do I also become indifferent? Or do I fight my own fight with PIs and others to find out what really happened. God my head is spinning tonight. I am so upset. And I feel SO helpless. I just want to know what happened. It is hard enough that she is gone, not knowing how is doubly as hard. Thanks again for listening. You guys are my rock.


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Tesco has added two beers and a cider to its range, chosen from among the winners of the supermarket's beer and cider competitions.
Loddon Premier Gold, from Oxfordshire's family-run Loddon Brewery, will go into 200 stores, while Greene King's Ruddles Rhubarb and Somerset Cider Brandy Company's Burrow Hill Farm Pressed Cider will also be listed.
In an exclusive deal with Waitrose, Theakston has launched Paradise Ale in a bottle - its first seasonal beer to be bottled in more than 10 years. The beer will be listed in 150 stores for six months, at £1.75 for a 50cl bottle.
Waitrose beer buyer Steve Wallace said: "We have seen a rise in the sales of real ales and blond beers and felt Theakston's Paradise Ale fits perfectly, especially in the lead-up to summer."
Majestic has listed Thwaites' new Celebration Pack of 12 mixed ales, including Flying Shuttle, in 135 shops. Buying director Justin Apthorp said: "The mixed 12-pack is a big growth area for us with sales up 58 per cent by value over the last 12 months."
Sainsbury's and Waitrose have listed Innis & Gunn Cask Strength Beer, a 7.7 per cent abv brew that retails at £1.99 per 33cl bottle, and sits alongside Innis & Gun Oak Aged Beer.


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I don't understand what are these young men fighting for
in Iraq and Afganistan..(under obama)
They always told us it was for the terrorists al-Qaeda
(at least that was true under Bush)
But the same al-Qaeda were the rebels and freedom fighters in Egypt and Libya....
so bad in Iraq and ok in Libya...
so many wounded and killed since obama stole office
I think if I were fighting al-qaeda, I would have chosen to fight in Iraq, where the logistics and supply routes were available and the mobile guerrilla enemy would come to you, plus you take out saddam. Just read where Syria is moving chemical weapons and I think chemists will be able to provide information on their point of origin (at least they can on tv) and find that some are from Iraq.
AS for Afghanistan, we did go after ben laden, but who is more dangerous? al zawahiri who is still alive and in Pakistan (enemy of our ally India) and the brains behind ben laden, now number one of al qaeda. Just as Obama is not dangerous on his own as a community organizer, but those he organized as a group are termites with jaws the size of bucket loaders that are eating the foundation of liberty. I digress.
The hope for Afghanistan is the educated young. But the Taliban have closed many schools and we have to pull out...


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Are there certain businesses that shouldn't use social media to market? Now, you might think a business such as a funeral home, is a bad match for social media marketing. What are they going to do, tweet death notices? That would be a downer.
This was the question on my mind this week. I had received a call to talk to a funeral home about using social media to supplement their other forms of marketing. I had to ask myself the question, is this really a good idea for their line of business?
I drove to the funeral home not knowing what I would say. The first thing I learned was that these funeral directors did, indeed, love what they did, were passionate about their business and how they helped the families they served. One of their specialties was creating life stories for their recently deceased customers. They interview family members and create a story that is then told on a website for all friends and family to visit and leave comments, complete with photo images taken over the lifetime of their client.
I was floored. What a heart-warming thing to do for their clients! They tell me this is not a new idea, but something they truly enjoy doing for the families that come to them. It was all news to me, and I am sure will be news to other members of the community they serve. I could instantly see where they could ask permission from the families to tell parts of the fascinating stories they collect, highlighting some on Facebook and a blog. The community would enjoy the stories and would be impressed by the time taken by these business owners to document the lives of their clients.
During our chat, they mentioned something called a "green burial". Apparently there are ways of planning a burial that is much more eco-friendly than our current traditions. They showed me an urn made of salt, that would biodegrade, leaving less of a footprint behind and it was beautiful. This is something their audience would find interesting. I could see blog posts and newsletter articles informing of these new techniques and choices.
So can social media marketing help build any type of business? Yes. My biggest piece of advice to these directors was that social media would allow them to join the conversation already taking place on the internet. Even a funeral home can find interesting ways to engage people in the conversation.
What do you think? Is social media right for your business? Leave me your thoughts in the comments below.


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HI Ben Olding.
What I mean is that when I play Starfighter Quadrant Wars is it is like some kind of error that happened or it takes me offline to somewhere else because when I try refreshing it always doesn't show the players or the score or what the quadrant is.So know do you get it Ben Olding?
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During the 2012 NFL offseason, the Dallas Cowboys signed seven players to a combined $100.2 million. Of those seven players, four remain on the current roster.
There is really one player on that list that is expected to be a significant, difference-making contributor in 2013 – cornerback Brandon Carr.
Really, if you look at that crop of guys overall, it would be viewed as a major disappointment. Brodney Pool failed the training camp conditioning test and was cut before even playing a down with the team, and Lawrence Vickers and Dan Connor are now gone after underwhelming 2012 seasons. Mackenzy Bernadeau and Nate Livings underperformed, and Livings is now out with a knee injury. But if you look at it from a team perspective, I think it is too early to label that spree a disappointment. Overall yes, but looking at it realistically, the only guy that was/is expected to make a long term impact is Carr.
That is why I believe that it's too early to tell.
Carr had a pretty good first season in Dallas by most cornerback standards, but Cowboy observers would tell you that he failed to live up to the $50 million price tag. As far as that goes, I think you need to give a guy of his caliber another season before truly judging his impact. Monte Kiffin's defense relies on in your face, physical play at cornerback, a style that Carr should thrive in. He played last season in a new environment and in a scheme that really left a lot of players disorganized. Kiffin's system is simplified from what Rob Ryan ran and is more basic. With a full offseason in Dallas under his belt and one to get acclimated to a new system, Carr needs to be given one more full season before we judge if he was worth the money.
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Online retailers in the UK could face 10 per cent rental hikes and delivery problems owing to an expected shortage of warehousing supply.
Companies from Amazon to Asos use warehouses, but any firm wanting to expand should look early and property developers should look to build more, according to a report.
There is less than a 10-month supply currently available of sheds that total over 100,000 square feet, said the report by Colliers International, UMC Architects, Kam Project Consultants and Total Logistics.
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AIKEN -- An man whose decomposed body was found in deep in a wooded area of Aiken County was identified Wednesday as an Edgefield resident.
Willie Chinn, 72, of Edgefield, died sometime after walking out of the Aiken Regional Medical Centers on March 2. Mr. Chinn was recovering from hip surgery, which was needed after he fell from the back of a moving truck.
Once he was ready to be released, his family wouldn't take him and the Department of Social Services refused to get involved, Aiken County Coroner Sue Townsend said.
So instead of remaining a ward of the hospital, Mr. Chinn borrowed clothes and walked away from the hospital. His body was found Monday about 5 miles from there in a wooded area, two miles from the nearest road -- Mason Branch Road. The nearest town is Ridge Spring.
An autopsy performed Tuesday did not determine an exact cause of death, but forensic pathologists suggest he could have died from exposure to cold weather, a heart attack or even stroke. The condition of his body complicated the autopsy, Mrs. Townsend said.
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Jacob E | Making Six Figures From Buying and Selling Websites Interview Summary
Let's have a bit of background what you did at school, did you study marketing. What led you to doing the whole online thing?
I do have an associate's degree in computer networking and information technology from a now defunct college, the US government actually paid my college 20 million dollars to shut their doors.
Did they build something in that place?
It was just so crappy to be honest with you. College is great for some individuals for me it wasn't my cup of tea anyways. I can't really say I got anything out of the college I went to, besides the degree which then led me to get a job at compact which got bought out by HP as a computer assembler. Which I could've gotten anyways but at the same time it helped get my foot in the door and helped get me promotions and stuff throughout the company. So for that I'm thankful for, but digital marketing wasn't on my radar at all at that time.
So how did you find out about it, did you read it up online?
The short version of the story; I was living in Colorado, I just started up in a computer repair company and whenever you start up a company you don't really have a lot of money coming in the door so, I got a part-time job carpet cleaning. What I would do is I'd carpet clean a house or two and then I'd jump in my truck and change out of my scrubs and put on something nice; kinda like superman right?
Then I'd go do a computer repair job and then when that was done change back into my scrubs and go clean more carpet. But I got tired of carpet cleaning, I didn't like it so, literally I went to google and I typed in some stupid lag "How to make more money?" And that took me down to this rabbit hole of all these sites with pop-ups and ads and everything. And it just seemed like scam after scam and keep in my mind I knew nothing about affiliate marketing. I got really frustrated and I was like if I wanted a site with nothing but ads and I was like "you know what screw it! I'm just gonna build a website with nothing but ads on it." When you go to this website it's just gonna pop-up all over the place, there's gonna be flashing lights all over. I'm kind of in a grumpy mood and I was like I'm gonna do it.
So I went to godaddy and I bought a domain name I spelt it wrong "alotofads.com" I spelt " alot" wrong, I spelt "ads" wrong, which kinda tells you two things, one is I'm a bad speller and two it speaks to my mind set there, I was just really frustrated and then next thing I did is I went to google and like ok, "How to put ads on your website?" And all of a sudden I come across this website called commission junction. And so you know it's affiliate marketing and I looked at it I was like whoa! Wait a second you mean if somebody clicks on this banner and they buy stuff and that person makes money. I was like no wonder why these ads were out there.
This huge light bulb went off in my head, and I was like you can make money?! During this time I was like this is way better than carpet cleaning. So that was kind of my first introduction in to affiliate marketing.
So did you make a website with ads on it everywhere?
Yes I did. I still did it but I made it like a mall-type website. You know this was long ago that you could put up a really ugly website like that, 'coz you know I didn't really know how to code or anything like that and remarkably, I got some traffic and actually got some sales.
How do you get traffic?
Back then you just put up websites and that's all you had to do. And that's what got me started in the niche and from then I learned about back links and started reading up on SEO. It really took me probably six months to make my first $100 but once I did the next month it was 200, the month after that 400, 800 and it just kept snowballing on me to where I was able to build up quite a bit of money. It's a lot of work, I'm not gonna say oh I sat down there and did nothing.
If I wasn't doing a computer repair job, I was working on my website and trying to make money.
I remember when I first started affiliate marketing 1 or 2 weeks before I signed up to affplaybook. I remember counting down how many days would it take me to make my first sale, it took me 19 days. The amount of hours each day spending was easily 12 or 14 hours a day, the learning stuff, crying stuff, spending money here and there and 3 weeks of that just to make my first dollar, it wasn't even profit, just a sale, it takes time.
Yeah definitely, it's a big learning curve. When you first step into this industry, people like us can write our ticket often times now. We have the skills, but it takes a long time before you become an expert at something. And often times you don't love it, especially starting up, it's a big pain it's not something you necessarily enjoy because it's all frustration.
But once it starts clicking for you and you start understanding stuff and you begin to like it. I love digital marketing now, and I love it because I'm good at it.
But you never would've thought you would've liked digital marketing right?
I'd say no. I've always been kind of financially savvy and business minded so that aspect of it I like. But as far as being a marketer and a sales person no, I wouldn't have thought of myself as that at all.
Do you remember your first sale; was it like one of your best feelings?
I got really excited; somebody bought a dsl internet package from me and that was like a $30-40 commission.
Was that amazon ads or commission junction?
It was just commission junction. I remember that being exciting. I remember another time where I went hiking and one of my sisters was in town, and when I came back I logged into adsense and I made $20. So I brought her in to the room and I showed her and I was look I didn't do anything today, we were just hiking and I made $20 isn't that awesome? That got me really excited 'coz that was actually my first bigger day of earnings for adsense. I made $20 in one day man!
Just from adsense, that must've been a ton of traffic or was it just the ads you were displaying?
It was just a type of ad, so it's like 8-9 clicks something like that.
Even today, it can be highly profitable, I don't recommend building websites just for adsense but it can be a decent form of monetization on sites, and definitely part of your monetization strategy but I would never have it be my main focus.
I know you've done a lot of things but I'm gonna try and focus on the whole and buying and selling aspect, because I know you've bought a few sites and successfully sold some. How did you get into that? Was that before you've had marketing or after?
I already had experience in there and I was making some decent money a month and I had money in the bank. So, I'm looking for ways to invest it, ways to grow the money as fast as possible and sure there's real estate and other types of things you can do. But when you look at websites in general, especially then and there's still great deals we have today, but even then a lot of sites were selling for 12-18 months profit.
So if I was making a $100 it would sell for $1200-1800.
That's a lot less than the selling factories now isn't it?
The selling factories' been climbing so the market isn't quite as open but there's still a lot of room for profit in there, don't get me wrong. And still even then a lot of sites did sell for 36 months in income. But now you can buy a pretty established business for 36 months income and it's well worth it. Compare that to a stock in the stock market or a real estate property or any type of investment and so really I was just looking for an investment and I stumbled upon across a few web selling platforms and started purchasing some sites.
Where did you find the websites to buy from? Flippa I think is the biggest one.
Yeah flippa is the biggest one currently, and there's empire flippers, letonas that's a brokerage one.
They're more serious about the websites they sell, I think on flippa there's so much junk as well.
Quiet light brokerage and Letonas, they're both brokers. So, they themselves they do vetting on websites first. So, if you're looking at high ticket items, and you're looking to buy a website generally it's best to get hooked up with a broker. I'm a big fan of quiet light brokerage, they know what they're doing they're experts.
So they got no any association with the website you're buying from?
They are hired by the seller but they're extremely knowledgeable and they're going to look over all the factors in the website and something like only 1/10 is gonna qualify to be sold through them. Because they have to make sure that something reputable and something they could sell and the like. That's a great way of finding businesses, but still a lot of people list stuff on flippa all the time. I was there just 2 weeks ago looking at sites and like you said there's just so much junk that you gotta sift through but there's a lot of diamonds in there still.
Once your product stops converting, I think a lot people just check their website on to flippa and then get a quick sale from it, but the buyer doesn't know that in order to continue getting this kind of income; well first of all, the website's only 3-4 months old and I feel sorry for some buyers sometimes because they pay sometimes up to $5,000-10,000+ and they don't know they're buying into website where their products not converting anymore or they have to find another way to generate sales for it.
Yeah, that's part of the diligence process. Ensuring that it is a diversified traffic source and anything that has the majority of traffic coming in from social profiles, I'll never touch. I want to see 70-80% organic. Unless it's there, I want the website to be multiple years old so 3 years old, but the older the better. If it's 10 years old and it's been making let's say $1,000 a month for 10 years. You better believe that sites gonna being making a $1,000 a month for probably the next several. Those are the type of sites you want, you're not always gonna see them and sometimes you gotta pay up for them. But even those sites still only command like a 36 month income.
So let's start with your first website, did you make a profit of your first website or was it more like a test-type thing?
I did make a tremendous profit, I think I got partly lucky and partly not. I was selling a software already as an affiliate and I came across a site that was in the registry cleaning niche and they ranked really well. I started digging into the website and their back link profile, they had a really good back link profile and it turns out that the person who was selling the site was a fantastic lady who was starting her own SEO consulting company, she had a lot of SEO guides out there so she knew what she was doing. Great sales material, it was written by a woman who knew what she was writing. It was the best written registry cleaning website on the web.
I wanna say that I was making $1500 a month or something like that. I was able to buy the site for 10 months income. Originally she was asking double that, but I ended up striking a deal that worked for her and worked for me. I went on to get the site to work a lot better and I started generating $300-500 a day from the site. It made good money for a number of years before google finally said alright we don't like your website anymore. I made a lot of money I can't complain.
I still have the website.
How did you make money from it? Were you an affiliate?
I was just selling registry cleaning software as an affiliate, PC optimization software.
What would be a good starting point for someone who wants to buy a website, do you reckon they should start off with a small amount of money, maybe $5000 just to buy something and see how the monetization process works?
It really depends; it's not a case by case basis really. It depends upon your skill level, it depends upon what's in your will-house and what isn't.
If you were let's say, somebody who's very experienced in the student loan niche, and knew a whole about student loans because of your job or something like that and there's this website for sale all about student loans and refinancing and the adsense on that could be crazy. If set up properly already and it's generating money and you know what you're doing and have knowledge in the niche then I'd say yeah, there's nothing wrong clocking down a $100,000 on it. But you gotta be able to do your research and I'd probably reach out to somebody else who has sold websites and bought websites even hire a broker to consult with. And bring it up to your friends who are more experienced in the industry and have them look at the site for you and see what you can to pick apart.
It really depends upon what's in your warehouse. Let's say you're not an expert at anything; and you come across a website, I would then say don't pay a lot of money starting up the gate. There's nothing wrong with buying a niche type website that's very niche and that's making maybe $100 a month. I'll give you a good example; there was a body grooming website I bought, and body grooming is just a plight word of not saying 'pubic hair shaving'. So this was a website that was all about shaving down there, and the guy sold it to me for like $800 it was making $70-100 a month. I wouldn't have bought it but the site was making for 3+ years very consistently.
He was making money through selling a product as an affiliate, selling body grooming kits. The product was just there, and when people type in "how to shave your_____" and keywords related to that. It would show the top products you use to shave 'there'. So he had these waxes, numbers of products and some are being sold as an affiliate through one company and some of it was amazon. And the amazon was profitable too, 'coz you can put any number of products from amazon. For that I just pay like $800-1000 something like that for the website, I ran it for a year quadrupled the earnings and I just sold it 'coz it wasn't a niche for me, but that's a good example that's very product specific. Like people who are looking to shave need this.
So how did you increase income from it, was it an SEO strategy, did you split test other products?
All of the above, I wrote more content, I got more back links to the site and built it up, I reviewed a lot of products, I've rewrote the sales copy all of those types of things, tested out multiple different products. Ultimately at the end of the day I was just able to send more traffic to the website 'coz the products over there was already selling, people wanted those products.
I think those how-to-guides, top websites can sell product pretty well because pretty much after you read something like that you're looking for something to buy right?
Yeah, I love how-to-guides and I made a lot of money based upon that; how to remove xyz virus, how to transfer files from your old computer to your new computer, things like that. All you do is just tell them the solution, you help them out as much as you can and say oh but here's a really easy way; just purchase the software and it'll do it for you.
Let's talk about the whole process from start to finish. Say you wanna buy a website, flippa and all that is really good but you are competing with other people that obviously are watching the sale and will be bidding against you. Have you ever tried going around that and contacting websites directly?
I always just go through flippa and get their contact information and I've never buttoned a website where I haven't been able to get the person on the phone. And if you can't get them on the phone, don't buy the website.
If they're trying to scam you a lot of them won't want to get on the phone. They wouldn't want to be put on the spot.
The great thing is right then and there, I always go for a win-win scenario, it has to be a win for me and just as important it has to be a win for them. If they're not comfortable with it, then I don't want to buy it from them, I don't wanna box them into a corner. I want them to be happy with the sale, and if it is a win-win we strike a deal and they set the buy now bid, boom I buy it and done.
Is it just mostly buy now deal type thing or you just pay up $10000 for the website or do you workout some kind of other deal with a percentage; How do you make it kind of appealing , bargaining with their expectation?
A, I've never done seller financing, 'coz it's not worth it. And I've always had hundred percent ownership, so there's never been a profit back or anything like that. It's just purely monetary offer, so that's the only type of offers I do otherwise it just gets too entangled.
It'll be different if it's a multi-million dollar deal then you kind of have to or you might have to still offer 5% percent ownership just to keep the person involved just in case. It's beneficial for them, to as well 'coz it's their baby. Generally you just go through the financials and you go through the traffic sources and one of the biggest things that you see with all these websites out there is you have to look at it as a business and if I were to have to hire employees to run this website what do I gotta pay them and what's the free cash flow left over. That free cash flow is what you build your multiplier off of. And most sellers don't take their time into account or they say I only have to work 5 hours a week but it's an ecommerce website and they have to answer emails 8 times a day, and it might only be 5 minutes each time but that's every 2 or 3 hours ha ving to check up on it.
So you need to understand that and relate that to the individual. That's why you have to make sure that when you're purchasing website, if you already have something working for you and you go to acquire another website it has to fit into that will house, you have to be able to take your existing process and have this fit into it, that way it helps reduce the overall cost. And if it doesn't, it's a bad acquisition and you should run away.
Have you ever found a website that's been completely under monetized or not monetized at all and you've done a small addition flipped the website around?
I've seen under monetized websites, and I've purchased some myself but I can't say I did this one little change and boom I'm making $5000 from $500. I've never had that; it's always been a grind.
I don't get into arguments, I never put down any seller, 'coz this is their baby. You don't want to be derogatory; you might have to ask tough questions but that doesn't mean you don't do it in the friendliest manner possible.
You start to be respectful I guess. I know you mentioned the win-win scenario type thing and that's something not many people have in mind, and they don't think about it how both the seller and the back can walk away happy.
Yeah, I only do business that way; it's just how I am. I want them to be happy at the end of the day. There's been multiple times where sellers have come back to me and sold me their other assets.
I tell them right of the bat that I'm looking for a win-win, if you're uncomfortable with the deal, just tell me you need more time, there's no worry at all and I give them that space and I let them have the ability to back out and everything. And what you find is, they like you.
I've been outsourcing from the Philippines and I found that it's not just the money; you have to be nice as well. Little things like paying them on time pay them an extra hour for their work and give them a day off. And go that extra bit to make sure they're happy. Whether they're a partner, a seller or having a transaction deal with, it goes a long way and that's the only way I've been able to keep the people that work with me. If you do it the way other way they're just gonna treat it as like any other job, anything else that comes by that's better they're just gonna move on.
That's very true, if you find the right people absolutely do that. But still you can't be afraid to let them go if they don't perform.
Definitely, it goes both ways like if they don't show you that same respect and appreciation. If they don't show you that love back pretty much then we're done, I'll just go to the next person.
Let's say we found a website we're interested in, with the background check, you touched a point on the checking age of the website, the back link profile. Anything else that comes to mind that'll definitely make you go for this website?
Some of things that I look for, you touch up on the age of the website, I like it to be several years old, at least 2 and honestly even that's low. I want those older websites, they've been around for a while and established and have a nice history of running money. Because so many people will build something really quick and try to flip it. They flip it 'coz they know it's gonna crash and burn pretty soon. The older the better.
Also, if it has a good trust flow so you can plug it into majestic and look at the back links and the inker text profile and make sure they're not heavily spamming and that it's not over optimized for 1 or 2 keywords,it might be branded or naked links to the website.
So what's a bad back link profile?
Say I was selling red cars, and you see a lot of links for an inker text coming to the website, like 30-40% of the links coming to the website have the inker text of red cars. That's a big red flag, because they're way over optimized for that keyword. Google will pick that up, it's not a natural link profile. And that's what you're looking for; you're looking for natural link profiles. And a lot of them should just be the naked links, so just the link to the website going to the articles, things along those lines.
And of course where they're getting their links from. One site that I ended up purchasing had hundreds of wiki links, and it has that EDU links and government links and it's fantastic. You just can't buy these links anywhere and so it adds a lot of value to the website because this type of site you don't see often.
There are some instances where I might buy a website that it only peaks in November-December because of Christmas. But it's been doing so for 10 years, yeah I'll buy it. It's been doing it for 10 years and it ranks well for those keywords and come Christmas when somebody's looking for Cashmere socks, guess who's gonna make a lot of money?
Then one thing that I look at is diversified income. So where's that income coming from. Is it from just adsense, is it just from one affiliate product. If it's just one affiliate product what happens the guy goes away, can it be replaced.
Is the niche evergreen, is it gonna be here in 5 years. Is it gonna be here in 10 years. So the industry or niche that it's in, I don't want it to be a fly by night hype going on. A year or two ago we had a lot of Teespring hitting really hard, that was like the hot flavor of the year. And then you have content native ads, MFA sites made for adsense, coupon sites went through a huge thing, flash gaming sites. So if it's kind of like a really hot niche at that time, I wanna avoid it. Avoid it like the plague.
Coming back to the question you asked me, you brought up underutilized monetization methods. So if it's just adsense on the site, is there a product or service you could be selling and that right there could double the income, possibly.
I look at the traffic stats, is it diversified traffic. What percentage is coming from organic vs social vs direct vs email and what country is that coming from. I've seen some "oh it's 90% organic" and then you actually dive into analytics and it's all from India and you're like oh man this is a big red flag. So you gotta look at all that stuff, because obviously you want the traffic from Tier 1 countries.
Are there any industries or specific types of websites that you avoid?
I myself I don't do adult websites, and I don't like dating websites. If it's not evergreen, I'm not really interested because why are you buying this website in the first place, right? And you gotta think of it like that. If I buy the website, am I gonna enjoy what I have to do to it, can I put it on auto pilot, what's my exit strategy. Unless you can kind of answer those questions then one, you shouldn't be buying websites but unless it fits in well with me I don't buy it. I f you're used to running like adult offers, by all means if that's your forte. I can't say I necessarily have any set criteria.
Do you find that you gotta really like the topic of the website and not just the monetization aspect before you get into spotting opportunity and working on it?
No not necessarily, that body grooming one was a pretty good example. I knew I could take that site and I knew I could make money for it, I knew that if I stuck out for another year or two, even if the monetization didn't increase I'd be able to flip it. So I had my exit strategy already in mind, I knew I was going to sell the site, and I'd probably sell it within a year or two and that's exactly what I did. I can't say I loved to content or loved the topic at all but I saw a great opportunity at a great price. So I was there to take advantage of that.
For the back link profile is there a website or a tool that you use for it?
Majestic, 100%. And you can use ahref and other back link tools, and you can always request google web masters access. And if they say I don't have it, say go verify your website because google already has this information. It's not like past analytics data, which is also very great, you want analytics access and then you want google web masters access 'coz you will be able to see the exact search queries, you'll be able to see the exact pages, you'll be able to see the position. Like what do they rank for, and the average search position overall, and the back link profile it's in there. So you'd be able to see all the good stuff, and be able to make a decision based upon a lot on that data. So you should always look at google web masters and look at analytics data.
Can you give some tips for someone that wants to start in this whole thing that doesn't really have a big budget like $50000? What would be a good thing to do, let's say they want to get into buying and selling websites, would you advice them to start doing it straight away or would you advice them to play around a bit with traffic sources? Just to get an idea on what to do.
I don't want to tell anybody what to do, I'd say find something within your will house. I'd say that's probably the more important or something that you think you could easily learn. Something that you believe you're gonna be comfortable with. No matter what type, big or small website, a lot of the things, the same things apply. You'll have to be wearing multiple hats, you'll have to be the web developer for it, you'll have to get the theme, have to learn to monetize, set up everything. I wouldn't buy big if you don't know how to do any of that stuff. Buy smaller, learn, don't make major changes either. If you don't know what you're doing don't make major changes. Make small tweaks, keep records of what you're doing and just kind of learn the ropes.
What are your future plans? Do you want stay with website buying and selling thing, would you like to build your own website maybe, or stay in affiliate marketing?
All of the above. I'll continue to push out offers; I have some of my own offers now too. I have affiliate offers that I'll continue to build up. My biggest thing is, whenever I look at something now, this just where I'm at, and I look at something and say can it make me $10000 month net without me doing a lot of work. So once that's et up and what it's going and I pay whatever money I gotta pay to get it going, am I gonna make $10000 a month without having to do a lot of work and if the answer is no, then I don't do it, if yes then I'll do it. Not everybody is in that position; it's just where I'm personally at now. So if there's somebody out there who has something that's really working well for them. And they're at $1000 net or $3-5000 net and they're looking to scale it massively and they know it can be done but they don't know how to do it , feel free and reach out to me.
Biggest thing I'd say is do your do-dilligence and I hate to say this but if you're going to buy a website keep this in the back of your mind, the person is lying to you. I know that's negative and I'm not saying that the person really is lying to you but have that mentality, and that doesn't mean being mean or anything like that. But try to think how are they tricking me, how am I being conned. And if you have that at the back of your mind, you're gonna notice more stuff, you're gonna be like well these numbers don't really make sense or how are they taking advantage of me. I'm just saying that and using that as a protection mechanism for you and that's probably some of the best advice I can give you. Because there are a lot of scams out there, and it's not always easy, some of these guys are really good. Just keep that in mind.
Do you find you're still learning a lot with business in general?
I think that will always be the case, and if you're not learning then you're just not trying enough. You can always learn.


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Reel Paradise offer a large open format Keys retreat with vaulted ceilings, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, dining room, large family room, sitting area, large screen plasma TV in the family room & private TV in each bedroom, 200 channel cable TV, DVD player, Wi-Fi internet, central air, washer/dryer, Tiki Hut and outside dinning area, gas grill, fenced yard with plenty of room to store multiple vehicles and trailers, canal front with 120 feet of concrete seawall for dockage complete with turn around basin, fish cleaning table, public boat ramp block away for your convenience.
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Very nice, well maintained property, clean and convenient. Beds and furniture comfortable and looked newer. Wifi worked well. We cooked some and the kitchen was fine, gas grill in back yard very serviceable. Property is on a canal which looked plenty deep , but we didn't try to bring a boat in to the house. Key deer were frequently seen . Overall , excellent place in great condition, no hesitation recommending it and would stay there again. Jack Shumate
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This is my first time writing a review but the property was outstanding. It was like walking into a friend's home. Beautifully decorated. Clean, and welcoming. We wanted for nothing. Pure luxury. Sitting outside and enjoying the fishing. I hope when we go back to Big Pine Key the house will be available. Thank You Mr Leitz for sharing your property. We will return. Norma
We had a great week at Reel Paradise! The home is spacious and well stocked. We enjoyed most meals outside under the tiki hut. We launched our boat a few blocks away and kept it at the house. It's easy access to the paradise of the keys... lots of snorkeling and fishing!
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All that activity work up an appetite Numerous restaurants are within minutes away. No Name Bar featuring the 'World's Best Pizza', Big Pine Restaurant and Springer's Bar & Grill are all on Big Pine Key. There are dozens more restaurants from Marathon to Key West. You could eat out every night for a month and not eat at the same restaurant twice.
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Tuberculosis dude. This has been beaten to death elsewhere, and not that we would encourage Mr. Speaker to be beaten, btu he certainly needs to be spanked.
I note two ridiculous facts: the father in law works at the CDC on TUBERCULOSIS. And the cobag-in-question IS A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER. I cannot think of a combination of two professions that would normally most likely prohibit extensive travel with a communicable disease, from a health/liability standpoint. What the EFF is wrong with people?
Let's try this: father-in-law manufactures auto-crash dummies, son-in-law trauma surgeon for car crash victims:encouraging people that seat belts are overrated.
father-in-law works at a blood bank, son-in-law has hepatitis C:giving blood
I know there are more idiotic ones out there, but I am pressed for effort.
Dad had to have told him that he could travel. There is just no way that a CDC scientist WHO IS THE FATHER OF THE FRICKIN BRIDE would not say anything about his FUTURE SON-IN-LAW SQUIRTING TUBERCULOSIS ALL OVER GOD'S GREEN EARTH unless he thought it was no big woop. A-hole. Hey maybe junior can sue 3B bulls for libeling his daddio, maybe we can get a front row seat of idiocy, or more likely condescending honesty/arrogance of people that know better trying to break rules because of their own selfishness.
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[W]henever we establish our own pretensions upon the sacrificed rights of others, we do in fact impeach our own liberties, and lower ourselves in the scale of being.
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I am not going to question your opinions. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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#19 ::: Howard Peirce ::: ::: May 30, 2007, 12:10 PM:
Amber (#9), thanks for that link. I'd wager it is the same guy, as he makes it clear that Embryoyo is a Utah-based page. I retract comment 10.
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This post will make me seem older than I am but it is more a function of how old I am plus we never had the cable tv. There are random old movies that would show on the channel that was accessed by the lowed dial, and the stations were always double digit numbers between 15 and 50. Channel 20 was ours before it turned in VHF 13. I suspect a large number of you are now completely lost. It is the reverse of you tell your grandparents about MySpace. Oh well!
Anyhow, these movies might show once, or once a year or maybe more than that, but they certainly weren't on the cable TV constant repeat where you could really get to know them. Sometimes they were broadcast under a different title from the theatrical release so you'd be hard pressed to figure out what the movie was really called. On top of that there are some really hazy memories from maybe catching one of these old movies as a kid. Some movies were cult classics, so it was something that would come along againt later in life. I always thought it was hilarious that I caught The Warriors before anyone I knew had ever heard about it, and before Wu Tang even existed. Most of the films I am talking about are old westerns or old black and white movies (maybe they were in color, but the TV wasn't, at least not until later).
Last night I caught an old John Wayne/Kirk Douglas western The War Wagon. Kind of a western/heist mash-up, but all of a sudden I realized that I had seen the movie before when I was a wee little Pinko. I remember my dad explaining to me what a Gatling gun was, and what nitroglycerin was (two main plot points), and in my hazy memories, that those two things might relate to the same movie. It was kind of trippy in that as a kid I had no knowledge of Kirk Douglas or John Wayne, nor had I remembered retroactively that they were even in this movie. Fun fact for super nerds, the guy that played Charlie X in the Star Trek "I didn't like them so I made them go away" episode was in this movie too.
I know there are random bits of movies in my head that I will never know unless I happen to see them again randomly. Can anyone help me out with a western of a mountain man getting hunted by bad guys, and the big scene at the end of the movie involves the good guy starting an avalanche to get away from the bad guys? That movie is stuck in my head for some reason.
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Above: What Innocent III Never Smelled Like
The 1630s and 1640s in England, the years leading up to the Civil War and the eventual divestment from King Charles I of his head, were marked by anti-Catholic panics of a furor that likely make the paranoias of early 21st century America seem fairly tame.
Really the romance of alcoholism is underrated, I understand that nobody wants to hear my drug addled ramblings about bonsai manta rays but really what could be more interesting or entertaining than the ramblings of your neighborhood drunk especially if s/he has an interesting tale a tale of intrigue and perhaps woe, a tail of the dog or a tale of happiness but never a tale of shame because the universal implication is that alcohol is what unites sober with the drunk, this is why I've managed to fall off my bicycle twice this weekend and my hand is skinned to shreds and my elbows are not much better and as age increases so does the pain the pain of skinning and lack of skin, is it the realization that living for the moment is the most liberating concept ever the future be damned, except in the most collective of senses, that's what it has come to, looking over the sea and seeing the sea and seizing the sea of apologies to Patti Smith who rocks eternally and why is there lavender in my pocket picked from plants along the way home sweet sweet lavender sweet sweet home, where the heart is, looking over the sea and the boats and the ferries, smelling the smoke of premature fires (yet too warm), fires of comfort, fires of hypnosis, fires of nostalgia, fires of blood and fire, and reggae, blood from my hand, and I can't explain the hominess of it all from the terraces, the moon slung low and life going on and the pups and cats curled up zzzzing away and their consorts curled or up resting and enjoying, music dominates, art overwhelms, and the scene is seen, what does it all mean(?) incidental capital A bottle of cheap red wine has begat all of this and it is time to get you into my life I want to stay there ooooh and I suddenly see you, really what more is there but the stories that define and perhaps defame, the poetry of which leads to destinations unknown, Bennie with the quarter behind his ear and the Kennedy conspiracies, RIP, and stars which I have seen which I thought were concepts of injury and cartoons floating circular like about my head but there they were in glory.


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At the end of each month, I take stock of the previous month. What went well? What did I learn? What brought me a simple joy? These monthly reports are a way to encourage myself to take delight in the littlest of things. I find that Ten Things I Loved allows me to always see the silver lining, even when there are hard moments in a month. And taking joy in the simple things is paramount to how I want to live, making 10 things an invaluable tool for me. Here's this month's simple pleasures.
Things We/I Did
1. The Indigo Girls with the Charlotte Symphony For the love, this was such a great night– we took the Circle de Luz seniors out to dinner in uptown Charlotte (Charlotte is the kind of city that has an uptown and not a downtown. It's fancy like that.) and then to this concert, and it was just so exquisite- the food, the company, the music. I just sang and sang and sang and cheered and cheered and cheered and went to bed with a sore throat from singing and sore hands from clapping. Curious as to what the Charlotte audience sounded like singing Closer to Fine? Here you go.
2. Food truck breakfast. One of my birthday list items for this year was to eat from a food truck. I chased food trucks for lunch all over my neck of the woods without much luck (they never were where they said they were going to be) and so I figured this wouldn't happen, and then, lo and behold, Happy and I came across a food truck at the Farmer's Market one morning, and it had crepes. I LOVE crepes for breakfast. Best breakfast of the month by far.
3. Saturday morning soccer games. Happy had his first soccer season this fall, and it was just so much fun to watch him having a ball, making totally new friends, and growing in his confidence and skills each week. We also really loved hanging with the other parents, and, though I thought my whistle was rusted and hung up, I didn't even mind when I was periodically called out of retirement to coach practice or games. Also, I like when Hap and I just go outside and play one-on-one. It's fun to share a love of mine with him and to watch him enjoy it, too.
4. Inducting a new Circle de Luz class. Thanks to the generosity of 67 incredible women (from teenagers to septuagenarians), we raised enough money in scholarships (our commitment to every Circle de Luz member is that she will receive at least a $5,000 scholarship when she graduates from high school and pursues further education) to welcome six new seventh graders into our program. They are fabulous, and we are so excited to get to know them and their families over the next six years!
5. Presenting at the National Eating Disorders Association's Annual Conference in Washington DC. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to serve on a task force for NEDA that focused on diversity awareness among eating disorder patients. It was an honor to do that really important work with a diverse array of people– both in backgrounds and in how they did their work from those who were patient activists to treatment providers. Because I so believe in this work, I was really honored to be asked by NEDA to facilitate a workshop on eating disorders and body image among women of color at their annual conference. I was able to partner with Dr. Gayle Brooks of Renfrew Center for the presentation, and I think we did a nice job of providing some really good information in our session called Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate. In addition to being so honored to do that workshop, it was also just really powerful to be at the conference for a day and have the opportunity to attend panels, talks, and workshops. A lot of inspiration packed into 24 hours.
6. All things football. If you have read the blog for some time, you know that I am an obsessive NFL football fan- specifically a Carolina Panthers fan. I also love playing (well, playing is, you know, a generous word) fantasy football. So the amount of football fun crammed into this month has been awesome. Fantasy football is back in session, and it's one of my favorite little time wasters. It helps that both my fantasy teams are doing relatively well (they have each won more games at this point than my team did all of last year) and that my Panthers have rebounded (fingers crossed, knocking on wood, etc) from an inelegant start to the season. And it also helps that this month also included really incredible tickets (like 16th row, 50 yard line incredible) to a game that my boys won and a behind the scenes tour of the stadium. My football cup runneth over.
7. A great teacher's conference. Happy is at a new school this year so helping him have a really solid transition has been a priority. I am loving that he and I can walk to school and he's made some lovely little friends so those things felt like a darn good start. Then we had his teacher's conference and he's doing well and really loving it as much as we thought he was. Hooray!
8. All things Halloween. From gathering pumpkins for decorating to carving them, from Halloween Marching in town to going to parties, we've had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween already. I reckon tomorrow is absolutely going to blow the top of Happy's head (although, fortunately, for us, Happy is only interested in his candy the night of collection. So far, we've been able to disappear candy bags after actual events and he never asks for them again. I, however, totally remember that there is candy in our house. My plan is to take some to class to share with my students!).
9. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I will always have a soft spot for tales of high school (or folks that age) so I opened TFIOS prepared to love it, and I did. The book centers on two young people who meet in a cancer kids' support group and form a lovely relationship. It'll break your heart open (which is different from break your heart).
10. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. Another first love tale, this one with some 80s awesomeness. So, so tender and fresh. You'll love it.
What did you love in October? What fun did you have? What books did you love?


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text: Having just posted a representative of "beauty" with an image of the Rainbow Pitta it seemed only fair to give the "beast" category some exposure. The Bearded Pig (Sus barbatus) is native to mainland Malaysia and Borneo and some other South-East Asian Islands. This cheerful creature was happily pigging out on jungle fruit at Bako National Park, not far from Kuching in Sarawak. The IUCN Red List website warns us that the Bearded Pig is vulnerable (category Vulnerable A2cd ver3.1). The Red List commentary says the Bearded Pig was abundant and widespread in the Malaysian Peninsula until recently but has now probably been extirpated from northern Peninsular Malaysia and northern Sumatra. The species is most widespread in the island of Borneo which might now hold the bulk of the population. Its decline has been attributed to heavy hunting and habitat loss. Bearded Pigs consume roots, fungi, invertebrates in rotting wood, small vertebrates, turtle eggs, carrion, and items from at 50 genera and 29 families of plants. They are NOT fussy easters but fruit supply is the key factor in determining growth rate, fat deposition and reproduction.


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Friday, October 21st, 2016
100 Years Ago
October 1916
Mesdames Harriet Shaler, Jas. McColgan, P.S. Willis, A.W. Davis, M.G. Carlton, E.A. Croman, Minnie Clark, Delia Silkworth, W.W. Hobart, Germaine Foster, Lewis Watkins, W.A. Cutler, Sophia Askew, Miss Eleanor Clark, Mrs. W.B. Dibble of Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. J.F. Denslow of Muskegon, took a suburban car for Jackson last Friday afternoon and held a picnic at Loomis park.
NOTE: The entire front and back pages of the August 17, 1916 issue of the GRASS LAKE NEWS were devoted to political ads for governor, sheriff, and congressional representatives, as well as the usual business ads.
Mrs. Hall, mother of Mrs. Archie Davis, is suffering from a rather peculiar accident. Sometime while asleep at night she ran a threaded needle in her foot. The eye of the needle went in first so that it had to be cut out.
Last year ten hundred and eighty-six persons riding in automobiles lost their lives at grade crossings in the United States. To impress on all drivers the lesson on "Safety First," "Stop, Look and Listen," and "Take No Chances at All," the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad has posted warnings in public and private garages, repair shops and other places along its line, in the hope that they will be more effective than the signs at the railway crossings.
Eleven automobiles, carrying nearly sixty members and friends of the Farmers' Club, went to Lansing on Wednesday to attend the State Farmers' Club picnic.
Burglars entered the house of Albert Wolpert Thursday and stole about $30 in cash. The man has been seen lurking about in the locality since.
As in the previous two weeks, many political ads cover the front and back pages of the paper.
Domestic News: Public Heath Officials from 38 states, continuing their meeting with the federal public health service at Washington, drew up a code of regulations for combating further spread of infantile paralysis by interstate travel, and developing methods of co-operating in a study of causes and treatment of the disease.
Two guards at the German-American cement plant at LaSalle, Ill., were arrested as a result of the killing of a Polish worker, who was discovered prowling around the plant.
Two British submarines with a submarine depot slip and a British cruiser chased the submarine merchantman Deutschiand, after it passed out of the Virginia capes on its return to Germany, according to information received at New York from a source considered reliable.
Two attempts were made to blow up the wharf of the Pacific Coast Steamship company at Seattle, Wash.
100 Years Ago is gathered by Linda Lockwood Hutchinson.
GL School Board Appoints New Trustee
Grass Lake School Board Appoints New Trustee
The Grass Lake School Board has a full roster after new trustee Aaron Cole was appointed last Monday to fill a vacancy.
The board interviewed seven candidates at the beginning of its October 10th meeting. Two hours into the meeting Cole was chosen and sworn in that night. He took his seat on the board for the second half of the meeting.
"It was really cool to be sworn in," Cole said. "I'm happy to join their great team."
He continued, "Our school board has done an incredible job over the past few years advancing our systems with several new programs and facilities that offer students opportunities that have placed us way ahead of the curve and have set us up for a very successful future. I wanted to join the board to ensure we keep advancing in that direction."
Cole said he learned of the vacancy on the board after former trustee Kristi Shoemaker resigned after moving out of the district. Typically trustees are elected.
School Board Secretary Kimberly Seaburg said that she is " very excited" that Cole has joined the board. "We think he's going to bring new perspective, which is always good and we're looking forward to working with him."
Cole's position will end on December 31, 2018.
Age 32, Cole graduated from Grass Lake High School in 2003. He has deep roots in the community going back several generations, he said. His father, Randy Cole, is the varsity football coach at Grass Lake High. Cole's brother Anthony Cole is the varsity football team's offensive coordinator.
The new trustee said that he thinks it is important to advance and support initiatives currently in place and slowly contribute his vision for the district. "I eventually would like to see 100 percent of our students involved in an extracurricular activity and continue to focus on providing opportunities to all students, including challenges for our advanced students, support for our at-risk students, and something for everyone in between," he said.
Grass Lake's 1:1 Technology Initiative, which provides students from kindergarten through 12th grade with a computer device, is a program that Cole said he would like to see grow.
"I think the 1:1 initiative is brilliant and will greatly improve the ability of all students to do research, complete homework, and connect with their teachers," he said.
Cole, who earned a Master's degree in speech language pathology from Eastern Michigan University, works as a speech therapist at the Ingham County Medical Center where he serves as director of outpatient services. His wife Shelly works at Henry Ford Allegiance Health in Jackson in the mother-baby unit, a special care nursery. "Shelly and I have been looking for a way to get move involved with the community," he said.
The Coles have a two-year-old son, Easton, "and another future warrior on the way."
GL Fire Department Report
Fire Chief Greg Jones presented the Township Board with his monthly report for September 2016 at the Grass Lake Charter Township Meeting.
Medical Calls:
19 including 2 heroin overdoses
Structure Fires: 1
Vehicle Accidents: 0
Fire Alarms: 1
Vehicle Fires: 1
Open Burning: 1
Weather Alert: 1
Total of 24 calls within Grass Lake Charter Township
The average response time was 8:58 minutes and the average miles from the fire station was 2.8 miles.
No Mutual Aid was needed
Calls by Shift:
1st shift: 15
2nd shift: 0
3rd shift: 9
Sheriff's Department Report
Deputy DeLand reported patrolling 1,472 miles during the month of September. That brings the yearly total to 16,157 miles. These numbers only include miles and incidents by Deputy DeLand. The Village and the Township share a contract with the Sheriff's Department for a full-time deputy in Grass Lake.
Activity: This month/YTD
Complaints Dispatched: 23/178
Incident Reports: 10/74
Arrests: 1/6
Appearance Citations: 0/0
Ordinance Complaints: 1/5
Traffic Citations: 3/35
Verbal Warnings: 10/106
Liquor Inspections: 0/2
Motorist Assists: 0/8
Vehicles Inspected: 10/112
Persons Investigated: 33/342
Assists to Other Departments: 1/19
Property Inspections: 30/270
Process Service: 0/0
Deputy DeLand reported that a man approached a Grass Lake High School student in downtown Grass Lake with the intent to pick them up. The student did not get into the car. Citizens took pictures of the car and license plate, spread the word through social media and reported it to the police. With help from the public, Deputy DeLand was able to determine where the man was working. The plates on the car were stolen and the man had no identification. He was arrested and his car impounded. This would not have been possible without the help of the public.
Deputy DeLand previously indicated that anyone that he pulls over, talks with, or answers a complaint that he does not know is run through the system which accounts for the persons investigated numbers.
Meet the Candidates: Gina Lammers (challenger)
"You can't get far until you start doing something for somebody else."
That statement belongs to Melvin Jones, founder of Lions International commonly known as the Lion's Club. Grass Lake Village Board of Trustees challenger Gina Lammers is a member of the local Lion's Club with her husband Paul. The local chapter is on West Michigan Avenue in the Village of Grass Lake. The Lammers are active members in good standing and have a long history of community service. That means helping to give sight to the blind, the hearing impaired, and those with developmental disabled. In a word: humanism, caring for 'these least brethren of mine.'
The General Election for the Grass Lake Village Trustee Board is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 8, a few weeks of this writing. Three member terms expire this year: Esther Fearer, Carolyn Reese, and Cheryl Vicory. Fearer resigned her post earlier this year. Challengers Lammers and dark horse candidate Joel Grimm are running to unseat the incumbents. The four candidates are as different as they are alike. Community growth is the hot-button issue, as are the means of supporting antiquated municipal equipment of public services in the Village.
Gina Lammers embodies the American story.
Age 51, Lammers is a career educator. She works for the Jackson Intermediate School District, specializes as a teacher consultant with students with learning disabilities. Not an easy assignment but she carries it out with aplomb.
A talented educator, she serves at Grass Lake Schools to help students with disabilities excel at the pace of their classmates.
I interviewed her on a recent afternoon at Grass Lake High School. She led me through the cavernous halls where students slammed locker doors between periods. A student with a pack on his back listened to indecipherable music pumping into his ears with outsized headphones strapped to his ears. Lammers issued a directive but the student continued down the hall without a beat. The veteran teacher has learned to not sweat the small stuff. Boys will be boys.
Lammers is married to Paul Lammers, who is the director of the Grass Lake Department of Public works. They have been married for more than 30 years. They have two children, Paige, 23, and Gage, 20, a student at Western Michigan University.
While not technically lifelong Grass Lakers, Gina and Paul have lived in Grass Lake since the mid-to-late 60s. Paige and Gage, their children, went through Grass Lake Schools from kindergarten to high school. The Lammers have deep roots in the Grass Lake Community.
"I appreciate the community," Gina Lammers says. "I feel blessed to live here and now that my children are older I have more time to devote to community service."
Lammers confesses to be somewhat of a homebody. In her spare time she cooks, gardens, and refurbishes furniture. On pleasant days of the year Gina and Paul mount their 1970 Ford Torino and hit the road. Camping trips with the family are an integral part of the Lammers' story. Their adventures include Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and a family reunion in Washington State.
Lammers' love of the poor of spirit happened long ago, when she was in high school and college. She worked at the Saint Louis Center in Chelsea starting at age 16, focusing on special education from high school into college. Lammers saw the growth center of the juggernaut that is the Saint Louis Center, a paragon of mission to the poor of spirit mind, heart, and soul.
Lammers says that her priority as a candidate for the Grass lake Village Board of Trustees is to maintain safety in the village and the township, "to make Grass Lake feeling safe, smiles on people's faces."
Were Lammers to be elected, she would want to see smart growth for the community and ensure that Grass Lake Village would remain strong while allowing for the prudent growth necessary to sustain the tax base.
Warriors Lose First Game on Last Second Field Goal
The last game of conference play turned out to be a cliffhanger for the Warriors. Grass Lake (7-0) was on the road playing Michigan Center (4-3). The Cardinals were in a must win situation if they wanted to keep their playoff hopes alive. With a win the Warriors would claim the Cascade Conference title out right, with a loss the title would be shared with the Napoleon Pirates.
The Cardinals came out in the first quarter firing on all cylinders and held the Warrior offense down. The score was 7 -0 in favor of Michigan Center at the end of the first-quarter.
Grass Lake bounced back in the second quarter with back to back touchdowns. First a 2 yard run from Coppernoll and then a 25 yard pass play from Lutchka to Cochream. Sherwood with both of the PAT kicks, going into halftime the score was 14 -7 in favor of the Lakers.
Michigan Center scored first the second-half notching up the score to 14 apiece. Then with 5:43 left to play in the game Michigan Center took the lead on the longest play of the game with the 78 yard run. With their backs against the wall the Grass Lake offense took possession and drove the ball down the field using a trio of running backs and finally scoring a touchdown with just two minutes left in the game the Warriors decided to go for the two point when Luke Coppernoll surged into the end zone to take the lead 22-21.
With less than two minutes to go on the clock and down by only one point the Cardinals stormed down the field trying to get into field-goal range. With only 0:02 seconds left on the clock MC split the upright on a 27 yard kick and took the win away from the Warriors 22-24.
This week Grass Lake travels to Springport to do battle for the Big Eight vs. Cascade Conference Crossover Championship trophy.
As Always GO Warriors!!
Saint Louis Center Begins Expansion
The Saint Louis Center, a residential care facility for people with developmental disabilities, continues to grow.
What began in 1960 as a school for boys with low IQs has grown to house more than 70 people with developmental disabilities. Priests and nuns care for children and adults, ages five through 74, most from Michigan but many from other parts of the country and Canada.
The Center admits residents with borderline personality disorder, and those with mild and severe forms of developmental disability. Some are admitted to a day program while others live there full-time.
Members of the Servants of Charity, an international community of priests, and the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence sisters, based in Chicago, serve the Center. Over the years, the St. Louis Center has expanded in ways its founders couldn't imagine 56 years ago.
In September the live-in care facility held a groundbreaking ceremony for the next phase of its expansion, the Saint Louis Guanella Village, named after the Italian Aaint whose followers have carried on with Guanella's legacy of charity to the marginalized and the poor. More than 250 supporters and benefactors turned out for the event, which included a catered dinner and a jazz ensemble from the University of Michigan. Saint Louis staff members and guests turned spades of soil to initiate the beginning of the new project. Four children's homes are planned for construction next year as the first phase of the development.
The St. Louis Guanella Village will be a new residential community built on the grounds of the existing St. Louis Center. The Village will allow for a full continuum of care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages. It will also include housing opportunities for families caring for their loved ones with I/DD. The St. Louis Guanella Village will be built in phases.
In 2010, St. Louis Center made the decision to launch the Legacy Project in order to ensure that the Center will be here for many decades to come and to meet the changing 21st century needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In 1958, Detroit Cardinal John Dearden assigned the Servants of Charity to oversee a new school in Chelsea for 60 boys with various disabilities. St. Louis School was dedicated in 1961 and began its educational program with four priests, four Holy Family sisters, and five special education teachers. Today the Center employs 65 workers including two nurses.
Michigan's Mandatory Special Education Act of 1971 became law in 1973. Residents attended public schools in Chelsea and Ann Arbor. St. Louis School became the St. Louis Center and entered a new phase of providing residential care and life skill training for its residents. St. Joseph Hall was opened in 1984 to provide young men more opportunities to develop their independent living skills. Major renovations of the building took place in 1987 and the center continued to grow beyond the expectations of the staff and supporters.
The following year, the Center opened the Father Guanella Hall as a resident for adolescents. In 2002, the Servants of Charity converted it into a woman's residence named Our Lady of Providence.
"The St. Louis Center continues the legacy of what Fr. Guanella left the world, which is charity and love for the poor," said Fr. Enzo Addari, the facility's administrator.
St. Louis Guanella (1842-1915) founded the Servants of Charity, a religious congregation of priests and brothers, to carry out his mission of serving the needs of the poor throughout the world. On March 24, 1908, Guanella and other priests professed their vows before Pope Pius X who promised Guanella that he, too, would offer his prayers for the proliferation of the priest's ministry.
During most of Guanella's lifetime Italy was in a state of political and social unrest. The industrial revolution, the unification of Italy, and the onset of World War I, resulted in the abandonment of many — the elderly, the sick, and people with disabilities who were left to fend for themselves. Guanella took them in, established homes and founded the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence and the Servants of Charity.
Today the Servants of Charity serve in 25 countries on five continents. In keeping with the apostolate of Guanella, its members seek to care for those in need, offering hope, dignity and love.
Supporters of the St. Louis Center have been busy raising funds for the construction of the St. Louis Guanella Village. So far, the community has raised more than 60 percent of its goal of $10 million. The "Golf and Glory" outing held each year at the University of Michigan Golf Course draws 150 golfers with teams playing with members of the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Tigers. Three more golf outings and sundry fundraisers provide the center with the capital it needs for upgrades.
"The community wants to provide for the order's mission," said Joe Yekulis, public relations director at the St. Louis Center.
In June, members of the Divine Providence of the Servants of Charity gathered to bless the ground where the new village will be constructed. Seven priests, 12 residents, and several staffers witnessed the benediction delivered by Fr. Soosai Rathinam, provincial superior of the Servants of Charity. The village will allow some residents to live more independently.
"We are offering this ground as a citadel of charity," Rathinam said. Then he blessed the ground with holy water and the service concluded with the Our Father.
At the ground blessing, Addari quoted St. Paul who wrote: "Like a wise master builder I laid a foundation and another building on it. But none can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Christ Jesus."
The Saint Louis Center is located at 16195 Old U.S. 12 in Chelsea. Staff can be reached at 734-475-8430 and on the web at www.stlouiscenter.org