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Though the new Colonial Quarter won't be open officially until March 16, the place is starting to take shape.
The St. Augustine Record got a sneak peek on Tuesday morning, tagging along with a group of fourth-graders from Pine Crest Elementary School in Sanford, who, among other things, got the chance to learn how to handle a musket.
Unlike the previous Spanish Quarter, which focused primarily on one time period, the Colonial Quarter will offer a glimpse across the centuries into the different eras of St. Augustine's colonial history.
"We're dividing it into four quadrants," said Colonial Quarter Executive Director Cindy Stavely. "There will be the 16th century First City, the 17th century Spanish Fortified Town, the 18th century British 14th Colony and the 18th century Spanish Garrison Town.
"Each sector will be creatively divided by fencing or landscaping, such that when you're in one period, you'll be totally immersed in that era of history, undistracted by the other areas."
The main St. George Street entry point to the property will lead visitors into the Town Plaza, part of the Spanish Garrison Town that features the expanded Taberna del Caballo (Tavern of the Horse), and a large open area with a wooden stage framed by a canopy of oak trees.
Directly south and a century back from that is the Spanish Fortified Town, offering a gunsmith, a working blacksmith and a 35-foot wooden watchtower overlooking St. Augustine's bayfront and the Castillo de San Marcos.
Continuing south, visitors will emerge further back in history to the First City, representing a 16th century military outpost from the city's earliest years.
This whole area will be brimming with militia men with muskets and merchants selling leather items, among other activity.
Ship being built
A focal point will be the construction of a replica of a late-1500s Spanish ship, called a caravel. Right now, it's no more than a wooden keel, but nearby signs show the plans for the 55-foot vessel, which will perpetually be under construction.
Gary Kennedy is a master carpenter who is in charge of the Caravel project.
"The idea is that if there was a shipwright in town, this is the kind of ship he would build," Kennedy said. "It's a shallow draft vessel that could clear the shoals of this harbor, and it's representative of the kind of ship that Pedro Menendez would have had."
Kennedy said this particular vessel, which will have a cutaway on one side so that visitors can get an idea of its construction and space limitations, would never see the water.
"It's always going to be a work in progress," he said. "That's the point of it."
A boardwalk will connect the First City with the British 14th Colony. It will feature "Flags Over St. Augustine," which will represent Spanish, British, Menorcan, African-American and Native American cultures who lived together for nearly 450 years.
Around the corner, in the British 14th Colony, there is a small office for the East Florida Gazette, a newspaper that was published here in the late 1700s. The small wooden building contains a full-sized reproduction of an 18th century printing press.
Menorcan Pavilion
There will also be a Menorcan Pavilion, honoring the people from the island of Menorca, Greece and Italy who came to Florida as indentured servants during the British period and later became entrenched in St. Augustine.
The 14th Colony will also offer the Bull & Crown Publick House, an interpretation of a British pub from the time period. Inside is a long wooden bar, where patrons, age permitting, will have access to various intoxicants such as beer, wine or rum.
Like the Taberna del Caballo, The Bull & Crown will also be accessible directly from St. George Street and will be open to patrons who have not paid admission to the Colonial Quarter, though tickets may be purchased there. Both the Bull & Crown and the Taberna will also offer food.
Adjacent to the Bull & Crown is the DeMesa-Sanchez House, which Cindy Stavely said is "the only authentic structure still standing on the property, dating to the 1740s."
Colonial Quarter LLC is owned by Pat Croce of the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum, and was chosen by the University of Florida to build a historically accurate attraction that could support itself after the city decided it could no longer effectively continue the old Spanish Quarter's operation.
Two new members of the Colonial Quarter team are Chad Light, who many in St. Augustine know well for his spirited portrayal of city father Don Pedro Menendez, and John Stavely, who previously managed Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. John Stavely, who will serve as director of historic programming, is also Cindy Stavely's husband.
"This is history you can step into," said Light, whose official title is manager of living history. "This project is of utmost importance, as it stands in the heart of town and will speak for the city's history and the people who lived here throughout the different colonial eras. I'm proud to be a part of it."
John Stavely said the Colonial Quarter has been working closely with University of Florida historians to maintain historical authenticity.
"This is going to be an exciting place, combining entertainment with real history," he said. "We're dedicated to preserving the true history of the city."
Students learn ways to fight pirates
Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 18 children from Pine Crest Elementary School in Sanford filed into the Town Plaza, where Spanish militia gunsmith "Jacobo" (portrayed by Jake Harper) was waiting for them.
Jacobo greeted the kids heartily from the stage, his musket at his side.
"My job is to maintain all of the muskets," he boomed at the curious kids, many of whom were holding iPhones.
"Why do you need muskets?" one child asked.
"Because there are a lot of bad people who come to attack San Augustin, like pirates," Jacobo said, getting wide-eyed nods from the children. "Now, you're all too young to join the militia, but you're not too young to learn how to handle a musket. Would you like to do that?"
The answer was a unanimous and enthusiastic yes.
The boys and girls stepped onto the stage, and, at Jacobo's instruction, formed two lines.
"All right, those of you in front are in the first rank," he said. "Those of you in the back are the second rank."
He then had each child, by rank, pick up a wooden dummy musket from the stack leaning against the stone wall, then put them through several musket handling maneuvers before sending them back to their seats to watch him fire a real musket.
After explaining step by step how to load and aim the weapon, he pulled back the hammer and pulled the trigger.
But it didn't go off.
Jacobo explained to the disappointed children - some of whom even offered suggestions as to what might have gone wrong - that it was not uncommon for muskets to fail, which illustrated the importance of teamwork.
"If your musket fails, one of your fellow militiamen must fill in for you," Jacobo explained.
Enter "Carlos," played by Chad Light.
Without skipping a beat, Carlos loaded his musket, held it up high and turned his head to face the children with a grimace as he pulled the trigger.
This time, there was a flash of light and a boom, followed by a cloud of smoke and the smell of black powder. The children hooted and squealed with satisfaction.
"When you turn 16, Jacobo and I will expect you to come back and join the militia," Carlos told the children as they departed.


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All About Eve (1950)
Bette Davis was Hollywood royalty, so respected that she was named the very first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was also so independent that she resigned when the Academy wouldn't let her open the 1942 Oscars to the public and donate the proceeds to British war relief. After her resignation, studio head Darryl F. Zanuck said she would never work in Hollywood again. But there he was, eight years later, signing her to play the lead role of Margo Channing in All About Eve. It was a risky project, untouched for years by studios who were uneasy about its unflattering presentation of showbiz as a world of lying, opportunistic, backstabbing scum. No business like it, indeed.
The film was fittingly released the same year as Sunset Blvd., where Billy Wilder cast just as cynical a lens on the film industry. Thus 1950 will forever stand as the year that show business was its most self-reflexive and its most self-critical. While Sunset Blvd. usually ranks slightly higher on best lists today, it was All About Eve that dominated in 1950, garnering a record 14 Academy Award nominations (tied with Titanic for the most in history) and winning six, including Best Picture (Zanuck), Best Director (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Best Screenplay (Mankiewicz) and Best Actor (George Sanders). Continue reading


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Bryant moves up the scoring list as Lakers down Kings
Sacramento, CA – Kobe Bryant's 19 points moved him into fourth all-time in scoring and his free throws down the stretch allowed the Lakers to pull out a 103-98 decision over the Sacramento Kings.
Bryant finished just short of a triple-double while fighting through a bone spur in his foot, with his 14 assists and nine boards helping Los Angeles stay tied for the eighth playoff spot with the Jazz, who also won on Saturday.
Bryant's jumper in the second quarter moved him past Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time scoring list. Dwight Howard tallied 24 points and 15 rebounds and Pau Gasol finished with 12 points and 10 assists in the victory.
"I have nothing but praise for him obviously," said Bryant on passing Chamberlain. "To pass him up is a huge honor to say the least."
Tyreke Evans finished with 21 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Kings, who had won four of their last six coming in. DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 11 boards in the setback.
The Lakers played from behind most of the first half, but a late run toward the end of the third put them in control for good.
Trailing by six, Steve Blake cut the Lakers' deficit in half with a 3-pointer, while simultaneously sparking a 14-1 quarter closing run. Bryant's free throws tied the contest and then found Howard for a dunk to put the Lakers on top and they held an 82-75 lead heading into the fourth.
Marcus Thornton scored the Kings' first 12 points of the final quarter before a pull up jumper from Evans had Sacramento within two, 91-89, however Blake answered with a triple to keep them from coming closer.
A driving score from Evans again had the Kings within two with just 1:18 to play, but after Bryant split a pair from the line, Sacramento couldn't capitalize.
Following a timeout, it was Cousins who attempted a game-tying 3-pointer, which fell short. Bryant then sank a pair of free throws with 12 seconds left to account for the final margin.
"I guess you can't really talk bad about the way these guys competed tonight," Kings coach Keith Smart said. "I thought that our guys did everything they could from a statistical standpoint, outside of winning the basketball game."
Sacramento jumped out to a 12-point first quarter lead, but Bryant rifled off six straight points in the second to pull the Lakers within one at 41-40.
A 3-pointer from Blake with 2:24 to go until halftime put Los Angeles ahead by one, but Chuck Hayes put the Kings back in front with a score at the other end and Sacramento took a 57-53 lead into the break.
Game Notes
The Lakers improved to 15-24 on the road ... Lakers guard Steve Nash tried to play through a hamstring injury, but left less than two minutes into the game ... Blake scored 15 points ... Thornton had 18 for the Kings.


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Diversity of Living Deer
The artiodactyl family Cervidae (deer) has a rich fossil record going back to the early Miocene, around 20 million years ago, and includes several species of very large deer that persisted through the Pleistocene. The cervids still with us today include a number of well known and widespread species, as well as some very poorly known and endangered species. Mattioli (2011) recognized 53 cervid living species placed in 18 genera. He noted, however, that cervid taxonomy is still evolving and that a list of living cervid species 30 years earlier would likely have included only around 34 species. This change is due to the availability of new taxonomic data (notably, DNA sequence data) and approaches, as well as the discovery of entirely new forms. Many taxonomic discoveries likely still lie ahead.
There are two distinct subfamilies within the Cervidae:
1) Subfamily Cervinae (8 genera with 30 species). This subfamily includes two tribes, Muntiacini and Cervini.
a) Tribe Muntiacini. This tribe includes two genera, Elaphodus (with just the single species E. cephalophus, the Tufted Deer) and Muntiacus (muntjacs, 11 spp.), both of which are composed of deer that are relatively small and stocky with males whose antlers are fairly short and simple. Muntiacini are well known for having karyotypes with very few chromosomes.
b) Tribe Cervini. This tribe includes six genera: Axis (4 spp.), Dama (2 spp.), Rusa (4 spp.), Cervus (5 spp.), Elaphurus (1 spp.) and Rucervus (2 spp.). Axis and Rusa deer have three-pointed antlers. Dama (fallow deer) have palmate antlers. Cervus have more complex, four-to-six-pointed antlers. Elaphurus has unusual antlers with a foreshaft and hindshaft. Rucervus is composed of graminivorous deer with specialized molars.
2) Subfamily Capreolinae (or Odocoileinae) (10 genera with 23 species). Nearly all deer in the Capreolinae exhibit a precocious development of the first set of antlers and their permanent dentition is in place by 18 months. This subfamily includes three tribes: Capreolini, Alceini, and Odocoileini.
a) Tribe Capreolini. This tribe includes the Chinese Water Deer (1 species, Hydropotes inermis), which are unusual antlerless deer in which males have long upper canines, and roe deer (Capreolus, 2 spp.).
b) Tribe Alceini. This tribe includes only the Moose (Alces alces).
c) Tribe Odocoileini. This tribe includes the Caribou or Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and all the New World deer (known as the neocervines). There are six genera of New World deer: Odocoileus (2 species), Blastocerus (only Marsh Deer, B. dichotomus), Ozotoceros (only Pampas Deer, O. bezoarticus), Hippocamelus (2 species), Pudu (2 species), Mazama (brocket deer, 10 species; some genetic evidence suggests that Mazama should be split into two genera). In many species in this tribe, there is a time lag of a month or two between the shedding of antlers and their regrowth. Some species are multiparous, i.e., females can give birth to more than one offspring per litter. In White-tailed Deer, first-time breeders, as well as does in the tropics, usually produce singletons, whereas adults in temperate regions typically have twins. With the exception of the Caribou, deer fawns are "hiders" rather than "followers", remaining concealed in vegetation for the first few days, or even weeks, of life (in contrast, newborn Caribou can stand an hour after birth and follow their mothers after 5 to 7 hours). Newborn deer of most species have a spotted coat, which may help them remain unnoticed in vegetation.
Some species formerly considered to belong in the Cervidae are now recognized not to fall within this group based on new genetic and other data, e.g., the musk-deer (now placed in their own family, Moschidae). Some deer once thought to have retained various traits from ancient lineages, such as the antlerless Chinese Water Deer, are now recognized as members of recent lineages in which these apparently "retained" traits, such as lack of antlers, were actually secondarily derived.
Ecology and Behavior
The extant cervids vary considerably in body size, ranging from the 5.5 kg Northern Pudu (Pudu mephistophiles) to the 770 kg Moose. In some species, males and females are the same size (e.g., Red Muntjac, Muntiacus muntjac), but most cervids show some degree of sexual size dimorphism. In Chinese Water Deer and Fea's Munjac (Muntiacus feae), females are slightly heavier than males, but in most cases males are larger. In some Caribou populations, the mean body weight of males can be twice that of females. In addition to size dimorphism, other sex-specific characteristics seen in some cervid species include differences in antlers, neck manes, dewlaps, and nuptial coats. Sexual dimorphism tends to be more pronounced in more strongly polygynous species, in which a male tends to monopolize a group of females. In Chital (Axis axis), Western Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), Common Fallow Deer (Dama dama), and Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), males are on average 70-90% heavier than females. In Wapiti (Cervus canadensis) of Siberia and North America, males weigh 30-40% more than females. Some cervid species exhibit a high degree of geographic variation in body size. In White-tailed Deer, for example, body size ranges from 100-130 kg in Canada to 30-35 kg on some islands in the Florida Keys (U.S.A.) and in South America. In Western Red Deer, there are ecotypes adapted to different regional habitats with adult stags ranging in size from 110 kg to 300 kg. Other types of geographic variation occur as well. For example, during the last glacial maximum, 18,000 years ago, Mule Deer populations in western North America were separated and diverged, with those now in the Pacific Northwest, known as "Black-tailed Deer", having a tail that is black above, whereas other Mule Deer have a conspicuous white rump patch and a white tail with a black tip. Mule Deer run with a four-footed bounding gait known as "stotting" and can briefly reach a speed of 40km/h. Their large ears are around two thirds the length of the face.
Among the most distinctive characteristics seen in cervids is the presence of antlers. These paired cranial appendages are outgrowths of the frontal bone that grow and are shed each year (these are quite distinct from the horns of Bovidae, which are permanent appendages consisting of a bony core covered by a hollow keratinized sheath). In most deer species, only males grow antlers and the annual antler cycle is closely tied to the testosterone cycle. The only known exception is the Caribou, in which a large fraction of females develop antlers each year (although males shed their antlers from November to January whereas female antlers are retained through the winter and shed from March to May, during the calving period). Chinese Water Deer never grow antlers, although phylogenetic evidence suggests that their ancestors did.
Deer occur in a wide range of habitats, including forests, woodlands, and wood edges. The broad habitat use of some species can result in very large geographic ranges. For example, White-tailed Deer are found from the tropical forests of South America to the boreal forests of Canada. Other deer species showing broad geographic and habitat ranges include Western Red Deer, Hog Deer (Axis porcinus), and Chital. Some species (muntjacs, brockets) spend most of their time in dense vegetation; a few species are found only in open habitats; Barasingha, Brow-antlered Deer (Rucervus eldii), Pere David's Deer (Elaphurus davidianus), and Chinese Water Deer live in the tall grassy vegetation around marshes. Caribou are found in circumpolar barren tundras and high Arctic deserts. Several high-elevation species (White-lipped Deer [Cervus albirostris]; huemuls [Hippocamelus]; Central Asian Red Deer [Cervus wallichii]; pudus [Pudu]; and the three South American dwarf deer, the Little Red Brocket [Mazama rufina], Common Dwarf Brocket [Mazama chuny], and Merida Brocket [Mazama bricenii) spend most of their time above the treeline on summit meadows and scrublands, sometimes up to 5100 m above sea level. Living at high elevations requires special adaptations to cope with limited oxygen availability, intense solar radiation, and low temperatures.
Deer first reached South America via the Panamanian Land Bridge around 2.5 million years ago. Some of the deer that evolved in South America are quite specialized. For example, Marsh Deer (the largest deer in South America) are found in swamps and other wetlands, usually with water around a half meter deep. Their legs are long for wading and, like most deer, they swim well. Pampas Deer are the only deer specialized to live in savannas and prairies. As is the case for most deer species living in open habitats, the size dimorphism between males and females is not very great.
Many cervids, especially medium- and large-sized species, have a well developed vocal repertoire. Olfactory communication is also very important. Every species has at least three different kinds of scent glands. Glands between the pads of Pampas Deer hooves produce a substance with an onion-like smell which can be detected over long distances.
Deer must fill their rumens every few hours, so feeding dominates their time budget. Many deer are browsers and some species (such as many brockets) are largely frugivorous (fruit-eating). Some deer are predominantly grazers (e.g., Pere David's Deer, Barasingha, and Brow-antlered Deer, all characteristic of wet grasslands). Wapiti of Siberia and North America and White-lipped Deer, which have colonized dry grasslands, are mainly grazers but include leaves and twigs in their diet. Common Fallow Deer and Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) have a relatively large rumen and are able to feed on coarse plants, but may switch to a browsing diet when necessary.
In all deer, parental care is provided exclusively by the female.
Deer and Humans
Humans have always hunted deer in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Subsistence hunting of deer is still still significant in Southeast Asia and South America. Deer are hunted for meat as well as for their skins (for clothing ) and antlers (for tools).
Around the globe, deer species have often been translocated by humans. For example, Persian Fallow Deer (Dama mesopotamica) were brought from Lebanon to Cyprus in the 9th millenium BC, the Portugese are believed to have introduced Hog Deer to Sri Lanka in the 16th century, and Dutch sailors and traders likely brought Javan Deer (Rusa timorensis) to Mauritius in the 17th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Caribou were released on the sub-Antarctic islands of South Georgia and Kerguelen to provide meat for the crews of whaling vessels. Australia now has six established species of non-native deer and New Zealand has nine. The Western Red Deer was transported to Sardinia around 8000 years ago, probably from the Italian Peninsula. Some species, such as Common Fallow Deer and Javan Deer, have been moved around so much by humans that it is now difficult to identify the native range. In addition to being moved to new regions to establish populations for hunting, live deer have been collected as novelties and these deer have sometimes escaped and established populations. Thus, for example, there are now feral populations in Great Britain of Sika Deer, Reeve's Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi), and Chinese Water Deer. Since the late 1970s, deer farming has become common in China, Korea, Taiwan, Europe (especially Great Britain), Australia, and New Zealand, with the meat going mainly to European markets and velvet to Asia.
The only deer species that has been successfully domesticated is the Reindeer (domesticated Caribou), with Reindeer husbandry dating back several thousand years. Attempts were made to tame Moose in the former Soviet Union during the 20th century.
Although some deer species have been very well studied (e.g., Western Red Deer, Wapiti, Western Roe Deer, Moose, Caribou, White-tailed Deer, Mule Deer), others are very poorly known (e.g., some Southeast Asian muntjacs, South American brockets, pudus, and Philippine Brown Deer [Rusa marianna]).
Conservation Status of Deer
Although populations of several deer species in some western countries are excessive given the available habitat, on a global scale many deer species are threatened by habitat loss and hunting (for food, traditional medicine, and other uses), conflicts with domestic livestock, and other causes. Only one deer species is known to have gone extinct since 1600, Schomburgk's Deer (Rucervus schomburgki), which was known only from seasonally flooded swampy plains in central Thailand. This species went extinct as a result of habitat destruction (following the extensive conversion to rice production in the late 19th century) and persecution in the early 20th century). A number of deer are listed as Endangered or Vulnerable by IUCN. The only species listed as Critically Endangered (as of 2011) is Bawean Deer (Axis kuhlii), found only on Bawean Island between Java and Borneo. However, two other island species are listed as Endangered: Calamian Deer (Axis calamienensis, found on three main islands of the Calamian Islands in the Philippines) and the Philippine Spotted Deer (Rusa alfredi, restricted to two islands of the Western Visayas). Persian Fallow Deer, Giant Muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis), Hog deer, Brow-antlered Deer, and South Andean Huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) are also Endangered. Another 16 species are listed as Vulnerable (many of these are island species or species with very fragmented distributions). Tufted Deer (from China) and Pampas Deer (from South America) are listed as Near Threatened. Even some species listed as Least Concern are rapidly decreasing due to overhunting and deforestation (e.g., Common Brown Brocket [Mazama gouazoubira] and Amazonian Brown Brocket [Mazama nemorivaga] in the tropics and Eastern Roe Deer [Capreolus pygargus] in temperate and boreal regions). Many large populations of Caribou may be exhibiting long-term declines (apparently as a consequence of ecological changes resulting from a warming climate). Recovery efforts for some species, such as Pere David's Deer and Persian Fallow Deer, have achieved significant success through captive breeding, although populations remain vulnerable and Persian Fallow Deer is still listed by IUCN as Endangered. Hybridization with introduced species poses a threat to some species (e.g., introduced Sika breeding with native Western Red Deer in the British Isles).
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The Hilton Head Prep girls tennis team defeated Bluffton, 5-1, Wednesday in a non-region match.
The unbeaten Dolphins won all five singles matches to improve to 9-0-1 on the season. Bluffton fell to 8-5.
Lauren Bierschenk and Anna Rathke posted the Bobcats' only victory, 6-1, 6-1 against Lizzie Rankin and Samantha Kriney at No. 2 doubles.
Hilton Head Prep's Kelly Mengel beat Catie Meighan 6-4, 6-4 at No. 1 singles in the tightest match of the afternoon. Shannon O'Brien beat Justine Wilson 6-3, 6-1 at No. 2; Ellie Czura beat Taylor Soop 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3; Taylor Childress beat Cooper Baxter 6-2, 6-0 at No. 4; and Katie Rankin beat Angie Castrillon 6-1, 6-0 at No. 5.
Check Sunday's Bluffton Today for more on the Bobcats, who visit Fort Dorchester at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in an SCHSL Region 8-AAAA match.


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You can access the Palisades Ranger District any way you want . . . any time you want. The access is in place, but so is the protection that keeps Palisades a place of use for people and for wildlife. "We believe in trying to get a lot of different things out of these 442,000 acres," says Bud Alford, Palisades Ranger District wildlife biologist. "You can't always do it on the same acre, but you do it across the landscape."
The tailwater coming out of Palisades Reservoir is the most famous feature in the district. People come from all over the world in the summer to fish the famed South Fork of the Snake River which hosts more than 5,000 wild trout per mile.
Soaring high above all the fish and the fisherman is the nation's symbol of freedom. Palisades is a stronghold for bald eagles. It's also the prime picking patch for huckleberries as the summer colors fade to fall.
Come winter, Palisades belongs to the wildlife when snow and ice crown the frozen country. See the season of white and every other time of year shimmer in Outdoor Idaho's new show: "Palisades by Season."


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When my twins, Drew and Claire, were 2, they got into the habit of ending their phone calls to me with loud kissing noises and the question "Did you get my kiss?"
"Yes," I'd say, making smacking sounds in return. "Did you get mine?"
At age 7 they're still telephoning kisses to me, and I'm starting to wonder: Do they actually think their kisses travel through the phone and plant themselves on my cheek? What do they truly believe? What do any kids think is real? And what should parents tell them?
One of the awesome things about being a parent is the constant mingling of real and pretend, the concrete and the imagined. It can be a blast to swoop a spoonful of mush through the air like an airplane or howl together at the moon like a wolf family. But when a child says she won't go downstairs because of the monster, does she really think there's a creature in the living room, and should we dismiss it as nonsense?
Figuring out the difference between real and pretend is one of the major tasks of childhood. While some understanding will evolve naturally as her brain grows, your child will need your help in four key areas:
Jackie Gundaker of Indianapolis, 3, was quick with a lie when she hit her friend: "It was an accident." When her 5-year-old sister, Carly, spilled her milk, she said, "I didn't do it." Mom Lisa wasn't fooled by either of them, of course, but in deciding how to respond to your child's lies, it's helpful to understand her relationship with the truth.
A lot of this depends on age. Because the frontal lobes of their brains are just developing, toddlers don't have the brain circuitry they need to delay gratification. Two- and 3-year-olds are focused on getting what they want, and don't think it's wrong to lie about having washed their hands as long as it gets them to the pretzels faster. "It's not a conscious effort on a three-year-old's part to mislead," says Stanford University developmental psychologist John Flavell, Ph.D.
Yet even though they lie a lot, toddlers are wildly unconvincing. This is because they haven't yet developed an understanding that people see the world from different perspectives. As far as your 2-year-old is concerned, if she says she didn't color the wall, it doesn't occur to her that you might look at the marker on the floor and the smudge of color on her hand and draw your own conclusion. And though she's trying to deceive, she doesn't really understand that it's wrong to do so.
By age 5, it's a different story. The child who says she didn't spill her milk is trying to deceive and knows it's wrong. Make it clear you expect her to tell the truth. (On the positive side, the ability to deceive improves the social graces of a 4- or 5-year-old. She's able to thank Grandma for a homemade sweater even if she thinks it looks weird -- this is called empathy.)
More deception busters:
Display the evidence. Hold up the broken toy or the muddy shoe and explain that you know what happened. But don't make too big a deal about lies told by a very young child. With older kids, it's safe to expect two or three denials before they finally admit to a lie.
Preempt the lie. Instead of giving your kids the temptation to lie by asking if they've brushed their teeth, say, "You didn't brush your teeth. Go brush." And "You drew on the wall" is less of a potential minefield for a 3-year-old than asking her about it.
Discourage exaggeration. A kindergartner in my son's class swore he'd cut off a boy's head in karate. My son told a friend he'd been playing wall ball since he was 3. Not true. Tell your child that her achievements don't need exaggeration and that friendships can't be based on lies -- friends are special people with whom we're extra honest.
Scary thoughts
Once I surprised 2-year-old Drew and Claire with a four-foot-high giraffe piñata. In what I thought was a clever move, I crept around the side of the house and held up the giraffe so it seemed to be walking by the window. The kids shrieked, but not with delight.
What seems blatantly unreal to us -- a four-foot-high giraffe piñata -- is often startling, confusing, and frightening to young children. Even if they don't think the giraffe is real, that fact offers no consolation. Knowledge is swamped by a flood of emotion and becomes irrelevant. After all, we've asked them to believe in Santa Claus (and they do, bless their little hearts), so how surprising is it that they could believe in ferocious herbivores?
Particularly in the dark of night, thinking about a monster can be just as unsettling as seeing something frightening. "Some children are straightforward and rational," says Paul Harris, Ph.D., author of The Work of the Imagination. "Others allow their fantasies to run away with them."
Harris remembers when his 7-year-old son had trouble going to sleep because he was conjuring up images of spiders. "I told him, 'I'm certain there are no tarantulas in this house,'" says Harris. His son wasn't reassured, so Harris tried another tack.
"I asked him, 'Is it because when you think about tarantulas they're scary?' and he said, 'Yes, that's it.'" Talking about the scary image may help it to dissipate. Similarly, it's often hard for young kids to believe that a friend in a costume is still a friend. Dressed in a skeleton outfit, with gloves and a head mask, 6-year-old Ethan Sieben of Chicago didn't look like Ethan anymore. Scared, his 2-year-old sister, Kyra, ran to mom Amy for comfort.
Kyra needs to grapple with separating what's real from what she sees, explains Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., coauthor of Einstein Never Used Flashcards. Is it the mask that defines this person, or is it the face and voice and personality that are underneath the mask?
This sophisticated line of thinking is usually out of the realm of toddlers, Hirsh-Pasek says. Once kids have the memory and experience to understand that things aren't always as they appear, usually by age 5, costume transformations aren't as frightening. In the meantime, keep the masks off as much as possible and let your child watch as big brother puts the mask on and takes it off.
Other ways to fight fright:
Problem-solve. Explaining that monsters don't exist probably won't make much of a difference. Instead, tell your child you get how he feels, and help him come up with ways to defeat the monster. Ask him what might work. A "No Monsters" sign? A nightlight?
Read something scary together. Encountering bad guys in a book can allow a child to explore his fear. Try Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. "Convey that you're not anxious, and that you're quite confident the book is not going to scare them," says Frances Stott, Ph.D., professor of child development at the Erikson Institute, a Chicago graduate school.
Make it go away. If your child begs to leave a scary movie, do. Staying longer won't help him "get over" his fear. "A child learns to be brave by feeling safe," says Stott. Same with a book that scares him -- hide it or give it away.
The realm of pretend
In his second year, your child develops the brain circuitry that allows him to hold a block and imagine it's a car. Drinking from an imaginary cup of tea, hammering pretend nails, and playing a tiger roaming the wilds of the living room are ways for him to learn about reality. He's figuring out the emotions and behaviors of tea-drinking mommies, nail-banging carpenters, and roaring tigers.
Absorption into these fascinating new worlds can be intense.
For babies and young toddlers, the ability to distinguish between what's real and what's pretend isn't reliable. "I've got a ten-month-old who loves to talk on the play phone," says Mary Manix, who works in the infant room of a childcare provider in Spokane, Washington. "I think he thinks he's doing the same thing we're doing." At that age, it's likely he doesn't know what a real phone is, so imitation is reality to him.
He won't stay confused for long. Older toddlers know what's real when they're playing but often ignore it. Fiction is simply more fun. "It's like they want to get out of their own reality," says Katie Koralia, a preschool teacher in Duluth, Minnesota, who has a 3-year-old student who often prefers to be addressed as Batboy. "I don't think he really thinks he's Batboy," she says.
"Two-and-a-half-year-olds understand the distinction between real and pretend," says Susan Engel, Ph.D., author of Real Kids. "But when they're in play mode, they can lose sight of that distinction, or it becomes unimportant."
With language improvement comes more sophisticated role-playing and more interest in crossing and recrossing the boundary of reality. In Charlottesville, Virginia, Cindy Cartwright's then 3-year-old daughter Meridith talked at length about her imaginary friend Mana. But Meridith was in charge of the fantasy. "After we moved, Meridith said that Mana had moved, too. But when I asked, 'Is Mana going to come over?' " says Cartwright, "Meridith said, 'Oh, she's just pretend.' "
To make peace with make-believe:
Respect their world. "He won't answer to Eric," says Koralia of her student. "So I say, 'Batboy, time to clean up.'"
Work with him. If it's pj's time but your child is lost in playland, make bedtime part of the game.
Don't worry. Pretend play lets kids figure out the real world of emotions, relationships, and ideas.
The reality of TV
As if life itself isn't confusing enough for kids, along comes television, with images of flying purple dragons and, occasionally, even pictures of themselves. Learning to decode how TV operates can be complicated.
Babies and toddlers don't suspect that wires and circuit boards lurk behind the screen. Show a 9-month-old a TV-screen image of a ball, and he'll try to reach and get it, says Daniel Anderson, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a consultant on the television show Blue's Clues.
Similarly, a lot of 3-year-olds will say that a bowl of popcorn on the television screen would spill if the TV tipped over.
But more so than with other challenges to reality, children should be educated about the fictional nature of much of what's on TV. Because they'll see so many ads and images, they need to figure out sooner rather than later how the whole thing works so they can view critically. "It's not until around age twelve that kids start forming an adult understanding of media," Anderson says.
For the littlest viewers:
Roll the camera. Let your child press the "record" button on the video camera and film family members. Have him watch it, and explain what he's seeing.
Introduce the idea of acting. Have the kids perform a play while you record it. When you all watch the videotape or DVD, explain that your child is an actor in the play, just the way Maria is played by an actor on Sesame Street.
Let them know when TV ads begin. Say, "Oh, it's a commercial," and explain that ads try to get you to buy certain things.
So I finally asked Drew and Claire what they think happens when they telephone a kiss to me. Does it really travel through the phone line and land on me? Drew, my rational guy, said, "No." But Claire, she looked away and declined to talk about it. I know that she knows kisses aren't magical little beings, and don't fly, but clearly she'd rather not concede as much just yet.
Contributing editor Jane Meredith Adams also writes for the Chicago Tribune.


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Melissa Draper is a manager, a web geek, an Ubuntu contributor and Pad Thai addict. She was our first guest poster, and is now a recidivist offender.
As a woman involved with several projects that aim to encourage women (and other marginalised groups) to get involved in Open Source, I often come across the concept that nothing needs to actually change within our projects to achieve better gender balance, we just bait and blackmail as many women and girls as is humanly possible to try something such as Ubuntu. The philosophy behind this is that some of these women and girls will stay and conquer the gender divide to much rejoicing.
Basically; If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.
To a tinkering community, this may sound logical; If you try enough at something, you'll get some successes eventually. In fact, the philosophy is thought to be based around the wattle and daub method of construction.
I have an issue with applying this to the Women-as-a-minority issue. My apprehension with applying this philosophy to potential contributors is that humans have remarkable abilities that wet dirt does not. Humans are able to remember things. No elephants or knots of string required. Humans are also able to make decisions about what they do and prioritise good experiences above bad ones.
If I take 50 women and successfully encourage them to join a project because everyone is nice and they will feel like they are frolicking with bunnies, but they actually have a contradictory experience — then this is bad.
I cannot magically take away the bad experience that they had. I cannot turn back time and make the sexist joke or come-on go away. I cannot turn back time and make the negative stereotyping alienation non-existent.
Basic sales and customer service training will tell you (right after "keeping customers is cheaper than getting them" (pdf)) that it only takes one bad experience to turn a customer in to an ex-customer. If it is the first experience, then it is more or less permanent. First impressions really do count.
As an example, it took until this millennium to convince my mother to use garlic in her cooking. She got turned off the taste from eating pizza totally smothered in it at an Italian restaurant in the mid 70s. That single bad experience took 25 years to overcome.
So, back to our 50 women. Lets say that after this bad experience, of these 50 women, 1 stayed. I have then achieved a 2% hitrate.
(A note about customer satisfaction statistics: the "customer to ex-customer" conversion is typically in the order of 80-90%. The worse the bad experience, the higher the conversion. For the purposes of this article, I am using a commonly accepted ballpark figure of women in open source.)
The other 98%? I would not hold my breath waiting for them to come back for a second helping. Once burned, twice shy, as they say. Actively try to lure them back, you say? Good luck. In the real world, you probably don't even know that (or why) they've gone.
Ironically, had I been honest with these women from the start, then it would likely have been different. Had I said that it can be a challenge; that bad things can happen, and why it is a challenge; but that there's a support base they can fall back on, then I'd not have been 'tricking' them. I would not be misrepresenting the project, and they'd not be buying in to it expecting a utopia. I'd not be breaching their trust.
If I can illustrate how the available social support bases and safe spaces such as (<project>_women, <industry>chix for example) have been used in situations in the past, then I'm giving them the power of knowledge to be prepared for reacting to a bad experience. It will ensure that they know what to do, who they can turn to and so forth. It will ensure that they are many times less likely to feel like they're the only person ever made to feel alien within the project community.
The bad experience would be put down to the challenge they were warned about. The warning made it expected enough that the response to the experience would be much less likely to be the reflexive fleeing. The overall level of hurt after support from the group they were told about would be many times less.
We don't want to only ever achieve a 2% hit rate. We cannot afford to. If we are to get half of the world's computer users to use a non-proprietary operating system as is the desire behind things such as Ubuntu's Bug #1 then we cannot afford to scare away 98% of the women and girls (you know, half of the world's human population) who are exposed to the alternative. Doing so means we need to achieve a conversion rate of 98% of the male half of the population.
To achieve a useful sticking rate, then we are going to need to do something other than throwing every woman and girl we come across in the general direction of the nearest project in the hope she does not get repelled for the next 25 years by the experience.
Looking for opportunities for change within your project is a pretty good start.


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By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 13 May 2011
Unfortunately, not all is going to plan on the refurbishment of the crocodile case this week.
Furniture conservator Ray Gurney faced two big problems this week with the process of stripping the longest side of the case.
The first problem is that he has to work vertically. Like any furniture conservator, Ray usually takes his commissions to his workshop, generally working on a flat plane whenever possible. But we can't move this very large and heavy case, or turn it over so that Ray can work on one horizontal section at a time. And using liquid stripper across large upright sections of the case is proving tricky.
Firstly, it is difficult to get the stripper to penetrate the wood evenly and sufficiently (though the glad wrap wrapping helps with this). And secondly, once Ray gets to the point of peeling the paint off that has been soaked in stripper for up to 24 hours he must often do this whilst lying on the floor next to the case! The peeling is at least easier than the subseqquent scraping and detailing.
Ray is also finding that the first layer of paint (japan black which may have been mixed with something bitumounous) is not penetrated by the stripper at all (it becomes a very sticky, black soup). The top two layers are peeling off easily but it looks like this last layer will have to be manually removed. The mouldings, which have been removed form the top of the case and taken back to the workshop, have had a poultice of fine sawdust and the stripping agent applied to them. This is proving quite effective, at least for the paint layers.
This week, Ray has also been removing the white laminex kickboard around the base of the case. It appears that this was added at the time the case was painted white, probably around the 1970s. Again, because of the public gallery space, Ray can't use the solvents he might generally use to loosen the glue that holds the laminex to the case so this has all had to be done with hammer, chisel and fine blades. Taking care that the soft pine is not marked in the process is that much more difficult whilst lying on the floor!
In short, this has been a slow and frustrating week with progress not nearly as fast as we would like.
Thanks, we are really enjoying all the angles this project is revealing, and the chance to work with staff across the Museum on something that requires so much specialist knowledge from such a variety of fields (and which also has a giant croc as the star!).
Thnx for the update vanessa. Seems these things are so much more complicated than we'd hoped! I'm working on getting the video ready to insert to this post. It may take a little time tho...


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REBlogWorld 2010 History
REBlogWorld is now "History", "In the Can", Over, but not done. The sessions provided access to all kinds of knowledge sources. I learned more about shooting video from an iPhone, which I'll never own, but I know how to shot and edit video on one 🙂
The Real Estate Blog isn't dead but it is being remade. The "experts" often prove they are only experts in their own minds. I'm not talking about the panelists, I'm talking about all the Real Estate Blog Experts that have never written a post on a real estate blog in their lives, yet persist in telling everyone else "How to Do it".
I gleaned some valuable information on WordPress Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in the WP 3 session. It was nice to see and be with bloggers and geeks in the same venue.
BlogWorld Expo
One of the things I really like about blogworld is the exposure to bloggers and media content people outside of Real Estate. The Travel blog track on Friday was really interesting. There was a Sport blog track on Saturday, which was my road trip home to Tucson day. But since I don't watch or follow any sports . . .
The BlogWorld Venue
The venue at the Mandalay Bay Conference center was better than the Convention Center of years past. The readily available Starbucks (even at $3.20 for a Vente) was nice. Food of many types in walking distance all inside. I didn't go outside for 3 days. I think they like it like that. I went from the Luxor to the Excalibur, and through the Mandalay Place shopping center to the Mandalay Bay Resort all inside.
First day Keynote
The conference session rooms were great. Many of them available with lots of track sessions going on all day every day. UnMarketing started off the first day keynote with some of the best and most unconventional advice I've ever heard at a conference on blogging.
A time to Connect and ReConnect
I saw a lot of friends from past Blogworld conferences and met some new ones. The first thing back the question is usually "Was it worth it?" Yes, it was worth it.
Social Media Clutter
You see that green button to the right with "TWEET" in it, and the one for f Share. Sure you see those, right there at the top of this post and every post.
I HATE THOSE THINGS! Why?
Because they get in the road of a well formatted blog post. Take for instance, the post I did yesterday on Updating your site. You can barely read the text on the image, But I can't make it bigger because of the Social Media buttons. If I do make it bigger it throws the whole post formatting out of whack. (Yes whack is a technical CSS3 term)
SM Buttons should never take a priority over your content.
What do I suggest? Glad you asked.
Right now my favorite colorful solution is Sexybookmarks.
They add color, and more than just a single SM way to share.
- It appears after the post content and doesn't interfere with the post formatting.
- And the thing I like best, when I setup the options for sexybookmarks I turn on the do-follow tag.
- So my links get followed from where ever anyone shares.
Try sexybookmarks, it is a win/win.
Does Your Site need "Updating"?
We all have had sellers that we had to kindly tell them to put away the clutter and tidy up the house so it doesn't look so . . .
The same is true for your Real Estate website. It doesn't matter if it is on a blog platform or static html. If the latest "stuff" you have showing on your site is a couple of years old on a page it is time to:
- Update the content on the page.
- Or take it down.
Nothing speaks louder to potential clients than coming to your site, clicking on the "Current Newletters" button and finding nothing new added since 2008.
Take a look at every page and report on your site. Is there out of date content clutter?
Exciting Things to Learn at REBlogWorld
You are going to learn how to put a new coat of paint on the outside of your site (Our Session on CSS and Tweaking your site)
You are going to learn even more on content, blogging, structure, trends, etc.
You are going to head home all fired up to get it all going. But wait!
You don't just paint a house inside or out without some prep work.
Now is the time to do some updating of your site content; then when you get home, or back to your room, you are ready to start applying the new paint inside and out.
Don't Wait! Update! (Yeah, I;ve always wanted to say that)
Dead Battery 4 Days to Go Yikes!
The counter on the home pages says there are just 4 days to go till REBlogWorld. I'm making final preparations for my part of the presentation Kelley (Housechick) Koehler and I are doing on the Geekier side of blogging.
This morning I open my Dell Laptop and it is dead. I plug it in and the battery indicator light is flashing orange and if I could hear it I think it is saying something like "Danger Will Robinson" or "Hehehe your scre. . .ed"
Oh yeah, no battery on a laptop. Plug gets pulled and instant shut-off.
For months now I've been watching the reviews come in on Amazon for the Acer Aspire TimelineX AS5820T-5951 15.6-Inch laptop.
Thin, light, up to 8 hrs. battery life. All the things I want in a laptop for REBlogWorld. But my steady trusty Latitude D620 has seen me through 2 previous REBlogWorld conferences so I figured it would see me through this one and I'd check my enthusiasm for this newer lighter longer lasting (did I mention bigger screen and full size keyboard with numberic keypad).
Why Don't you Get a Mac?
I know someone is thinking this. Two reasons,
- I don't have that kind of money
- I'm not smart enough to use one. (Where is the backspace key, What do you mean there isn't one?)
So the Mac issue is a non-starter.
So Im guessing it will be a quick order for a new battery and the Dell and I will once again make the trip to Vegas this year. Not a good idea to try and break in a new laptop, new operating system (Windows 7) and load all your software on a machine you get just 24 hrs. before an event.
Are You Ready For REBlogWorld
Don't forget to bring those things along (tech toys and tools) that you want to make this conference special. Pack those chargers, extra batteries, camera etc. so you have what you need to take those notes, make those memories, and if you must make those facebook postings.
Now I guess I better find that battery replacement and get it ordered.
(UPDATE: Monday morning my new battery arrived from Amazon via FedX) No holiday on Monday for "Business".
Backing Up Your Blog – An Essential Plugin
There are two kinds of people in the world – those who have had a hard drive failure, and those who will.
Let's face it, backing up is a boring task. Often ignored until too late, it's easy to delay figuring out a system to makes it happen simply and automatically. Naturally, this extends to all areas of computing including the blog. However, not backing up the content on your website is asking for trouble down the road. Backing up your stuff is a good habit to develop.
There are plugins for WordPress that can handle this task and make your life easier. Some plugins add value by aesthetically enhancing your site, others add functionality. But none are more important than the behind-the-scenes backup plugin.
We strongly recommend installing WordPress Database Backup on your blog. Thanks to WordPress's built-in cron, this popular plugin allows users to schedule automatic database backups. The plugin creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
Here's the really nice feature of this plugin. Once you install it you can set it up to send you an email daily or weekly with your WP database backup attached. In Gmail, I have a filter that dumps the backups into a folder. This keeps the emails out of my Inbox and makes them easy to find if and when I need them.
REBlogWorld 2010 has a session this year on plugins. Ricardo Bueno & Stacey Harmon are teaming up to show you the best-of-the-best; what the real innovators in Real Estate blogging are doing to show off their creative skills & style.
Do you have a cool plugin that you absolutely love? Leave a comment here or head over to the discussion taking place on our Facebook page.
REBlogWorld Can Save Your Blog & You
Why do I say this? Because in the last week I've been on the admin panel of half a dozen blogs. While in there fixing something or adding a plugin I've discovered a multitude of things that can literally kill an RE Blog.
Eye Candy vs Code
It seems that many of the RE Bloggers have an aversion to READING, especially if it is reading of instructions or HOW TO do something.
Many seem to prefer to start clicking, typing and previewing to see if it "Looks" right.Just because you can make something "Look" right doesn't mean it "Is Right".
Here are a few of the things I ran into this week. (There are a lot more)
These things have been around since the dark ages of the web. And I'm still finding them all over the RE Blogosphere. Especially when it comes to annoying things like Facebook widgets. But even worse when they appear in a post or page because it is the only way the blogger could figure out how to get the content on their page. Well it isn't really on your page if it is Iframed into the site. And they can really slow down the load time on your blog.
Just because you can upload a video to your media library and get it to play on your blog doesn't mean you should do it. And if you do and then have 3 blog posts in a row with self-hosted video you can watch you site load time come to a crawl that even a turtle could beat. Not to mention the load you are putting on your hosting bandwidth. Upload those videos to YouTube, Viddler, etc. and embed them on your blog.
Reverse SEO
It doesn't matter what SEO plugin in used. All-in-One-SEO, Headspace, Tags in the Head, etc. If you don't know what you are doing you can really screw up your site in the search engine organic searches. This past week I saw Headspace configured so it was writing the exact same title tag for every page and post on a blog. No wonder the search traffic dropped like a rock.
At the same time I saw All in One SEO used to over-write blog post title tags. The issue? The post title was great for SEO, the re-written title wasn't. The author tried to turn the title into a category tag with post title in the manual re-write and missed the Best SEO title tag for a mediocre title tag. If you don't know how to fix it, don't fix it. Especially if it isn't broken.
Using the Blockquote tag is for . . . Block quotes. Don't use it like some kind of magic way to indent text.
Post Tags
Using post tags can really help add "hooks in the water" for search engines. I recommend you put 4 keyword rich tags on each post. But putting 20 to 30 tags on a post is really spammy.
Most posts should be in ONE primary category. There are few posts that need to be in more than one category. Ex. You write a post about Water Harvesting. If you have a category for "Your City Water" and one on "Xeroscaping" You might want ot post it in both categories. But usually one is the best. No you won't get hit with a duplicate content penalty for having a post in Two categories.
This week I saw a post in 25 categories. TWENTY FIVE.
Typos in the Titles
I have occasionally used a typo in a permalink for SEO purposes. But not in the title tag. Things like:
- Blog writennt by
- What to do Durring Fall wather
- etc.
A few typos are normal, I'm sure there are several in this post. Do I proof read? Kinda, I look for the squiggly red lines under the words. Does that count? But really check those title tags and header tags. Yes, h3 tags are your friend, do you know how to use them?
NAR and MLS Violations
- Don't use MLS in your links or title in any way that is a rules violation for your local MLS. You don't want to draw attention to yourself in this way.
- Don't put the word REALTOR anywhere in a title tag or domain name other than after your name. Cincinnati Realtor is a huge violation and again attracting that kind of attention to your blog by NAR isn't what you want.
- Best Seattle Neighborhoods. Best, is best not used unless you want to be hit with a Fair Housing Violation for Steering. And attracting the Feds is even worse than NAR (though some might argue the point.)
- Not Clearly identifying your Brokerage (Above the Fold and Prominent) Don' t know what above the fold is?
(the violations mentioned are no longer so don't waste time looking for them unless on your own site. The cities mentioned random and coincidental if actual) (CYA)
That's enough. This post is almost a session in itself. There are more, many more things that can ruin or kill your site in search engines. THE ALL POWERFUL GOOGLE is one thing you don't want to screw with, at all.
When you come to REBlogWorld you get to ask question and learn from some of the best. Take advantage of all the knowledge available at the conference and ask questions. This will be my third REBlogWorld conference. I get to "shoot fish in a barrel" so to speak. A weath of knowledge in a single location.
Now go check your site. And it isn't too late to make your reservation. Remember the old Fram commercial? "You can pay me now or pay me later"
I'd rather pay to be in Las Vegas; than to have to hire someone to Fix what I screwed up because I didn't know what I was doing.
The Real Estate Blog is Dead
by Teresa Boardman
The real estate blog is dead and the real estate industry killed it. Some real estate blogs are advertisements for listings and others are the wacky blogs that have nothing to do with real estate written by agents who think that not writing about real estate is the ticket to winning business. The real estate blogs with the most readers are those that are written for real estate professionals.
The idea of the real estate blog was a simple one but very few people are able to execute it. There are a bevy of experts who create lists and proclaim that one blog or another is the best real estate blog ever. Sadly they have little in common with the target audience which should be people who are interested in buying or selling real estate.
Much of the blogging education in the industry misses the point of blogging. Blogging is more of an art than a science and it was never about technology. The technology makes to possible and is a valuable tool but nothing more. Once the art is taken away there isn't much there for humans to look at. Google enjoys a good keyword but will never become a paying client.
Blogs designed specifically for Realtors are often uninspired or they look like giant retro advertisements complete with pictures of sold signs and shiny keys or smiling couples and that one photo of the huge new generic house that maybe two percent of the population can afford and is not available in every part of the country. The 1980's and 1990's have both called and they want their marketing back and they want it where it belongs on that nice template web site.
The real estate blog deserves to die and it needed to die. It has no value and for most practitioners it just sucks time away that could be put to better use. There are maybe five or six successful real estate blogs that will probably live on but they are exceptions to the rule and most every rule has exceptions.
Blogging isn't dead and I never said that it was. It is alive and well. If not for blogs where would people get links to share on their Facebook wall or via twitter? Where would they write about the death of the real estate blog?
I am looking forward to the panel discussion about the Real Estate Blog at REBlogWorld. I have more to say on the topic of the death of the real estate blog but I am going to save it for October 14.
Teresa Boardman
Teresa Boardman Realtor/Broker with St. Paul Home Realty. Serial blogger, writer and photographer and founder of the award winning St. Paul Real Estate Blog in 2005. Her blog started as an experiment in online marketing and is used today as an example of the best practices in real estate blogging. Boardman also writes a weekly column for Inman News and is the author of the St. Paul Photo Blog.
When it Comes To Search Engine Placement
There really is only one page in search engine placement – PAGE 1
We talk about the SERPs and what page we are on for certain search terms. But we all know there is really only one page and that is PAGE 1.
To refine it even further, Page 1 top 5 listings. (Above the fold) That's where most people click to get their search results.
The Reality of Page One
It is very, very, hard to rank for main keyword searches in Real Estate. Therefore, what should we do?
- First, face the realty.
- Second, got over it.
- Third, move on.
Can you do this? Honestly, most don't. Most keep trying and trying and trying. Few ever succeed and if they do make it for a while the All Seeing Eye of Google will change the algo and you will disappear once again banished from Page 1. So you fight some more, build back-links. Write keyword rich posts going after than one search result.
Forget The Highlander
There can be only One. Well in a way that is true, but there is more than one, One.
Some call it the Long Tail Search. Meaning. Go after a bunch of vertical markets you work and not just the main search term itself.
It is much easier to get a top page 1 organic ranking for sub-divisions, surrounding communities and areas.
What demographic is key to your area? Seniors? Gated Communities? Golf? Target these searches.
Types of construction in your area are another way to rank high and increase traffic.
Find those strategic keywords and go after them. They will bring you traffic.
Broaden your thinking about your community and the area you serve. Think about the types of people who come to your area, the events that draw them, the reasons people want to move where you serve. Target these searches and garner high search engine placement.
Analytics: Only 1 in 5 Browsers Visiting REBlogWorld Use Internet Explorer
The simplest definition of analytics is "the science of analysis". Learning how to track the progress of your web marketing efforts will allow you to more effectively reach an audience.
What can you learn from reading your traffic metrics? On the left is an example. The pie-chart shows the browser statistics for the last 30 days on REBlogWorld. It's interesting to note that less than 1 in 5 of our visitors use Internet Explorer. While this is a basic metric, it does indicate our audience is comfortable with open-source browsers. That would support the notion that our audience is more technically inclined than the average real estate professional.
So analytics … Gahlord Dewald is a web analytics expert. Last year one of the only solo presentations we hosted at REBlogWorld was Gahlord Dewald's analytics session. He was so good, we asked him to come back this year. Out of all the REBlogWorld sessions in 2009, Gahlord's drew the most attention outside the REBW community. His sessions typically offer advice on basic usage for the beginner as well as advanced topics like tracking campaigns and A/B split testing for the experienced.
Here is a brief interview we did with Gahord last year. Catch his "Using Analytics to Listen to Your Customers" session on October 14th from 9:45am – 10:45am.
A New Home for REBlogWorld: Mandalay Bay
One of the most noticeable differences between the 2009 & 2010 BlogWorld Convention will be our location. The Las Vegas Convention Center was the home for BlogWorlds 2007-2009. However, BlogWorld wanted to elevate the attendee experience this year and moving the conference to the South end of Las Vegas Blvd. is a clear win for everyone.
BlogWorld has taken it's place amongst the top conferences for bloggers & social media stalwarts to hone their craft and step up their game. Each year the event grows and matures through the efforts of the many people vested in it's success. This year none of the changes will be more visible than the new home for the conference, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Mandalay Bay is one of the top destination hotels in Las Vegas. It's restaurants, bars & nightclubs, & the pool will make BlogWorld attendee time in Las Vegas more comfortable and fun. Mandalay Bay is also in a better location of the Strip with close proximity to many other hotels. Finding a reasonable rate for REBlogWorld on October 13th & 14th will be much easier than years past.
We look forward to the new location for REBlogWorld. We look forward to seeing you at Mandalay Bay on October 14th, 2010.


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I love seeing the progression of a talented cartoonists' style. When I was a kid, I bought all the Harvey Comics' Sad Sack books, just for George Baker's covers. Unfortunately the insides were mostly drawn by a very generic boring artist, but the covers were wildly stylish.
Watch how the dog evolves over time...
Great use of composition and hierarchy!
His late period was extremely harsh stylistically, but I love it. It's so uniquely his own style, and doesn't seem self-conscious at all to me.
His vehicles were fantastic!
Aren't these beautiful? - in a manly, chunky gritty way?
I've struggled in the animation business with all the controls and systems set in place to stop styles and regular characters from evolving naturally. Many producers think it's a sin for characters to ever change and they make huge model sheet binders filled with arbitrary constrictions to clamp down on any individuality or inspiration, or just plain stop the process of slow natural evolution. Studios beat this into their cartoonists, until they finally get to the point where they are afraid to let their natural feelings or personality guide their drawings.
The other extreme is when young cartoonists think they need to express their unique personality through an artificially created personal "style". This usually consists of skipping the steps of learning basic drawing skills in general and going right to copying someone else's already established style superficially or or doing a slight variation of a school of style. This also gets in the way of natural evolution and the ability to express one's self.


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At a quick glance, the JAM gives you a pocket-sized plug in and play interface bringing the legendary Apogee quality sound at an extremely attractive price. Designed for guitar and bass players who own an iPad, iPhone and Mac and works with GarageBand on iPad or with any core Audio compatible application on a mac. Its configuration is extremely easy and with features such as a control knob to allow easy input level adjustment, a multicolour LED for status indictation and level input monitoring, a preamp with up to 40dB of gain and high quality locking outputs which connects directly to iPad, iPhone or USB port on a mac. But what else does it do? What are JAMS key features?
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Alumni basketball tournament coming
The annual alumni basketball tournament at Hood River Valley High School is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Nov. 30. For $15, all former high-school students and interested community members can play in an all-day "pick-up" tournament. Format will be determined based on the number of participants. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and games will begin at 9:30 or 10 a.m. For more, call Phil Hukari at 386-4500.
Indian Creek awards dinner Thursday
The Indian Creek women's golf association will hold a season-ending awards dinner on Thursday at Divots Restaurant. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. (no host), with dinner at 7 p.m. and awards to follow. Call Darlene Roberts at 386-2750 to confirm.
Community Education youth b-ball
Hood River Community Education is now taking registrations for youth basketball. Boys and girls in grades 3-6 are eligible and games will begin the first Saturday in January. Cost is $35 per player. Registration deadline is Dec. 3. For more information, call Community Ed at 386-2055.
Youth wrestling is also underway for two age groups (K-2 and grades 3-6). Younger kids meet on Saturdays, while the older group meets on Mondays and Thursdays. Cost is $12.
Oregon Amateur Basketball tourneys
Oregon Amateur Basketball will be holding nine tournaments throughout the 2002-03 season in Portland, Salem, Bend, Eugene and Florence. Tournaments cost $185 and are open to boys and girls teams in grades 5-8. Each tournament also has a four-game guarantee. For more information or to receive a tournament packet, call Nick Larsen at 541-517-4160. You can also email email@example.com.
HR Billiards stirring up new activities
After a successful Autumn 9-ball tournament last weekend, Hood River Billiards is adding new activities to its fall and winter schedule. Owner Cristy Barsky has been holding weekly handicapped tournaments for both 8-ball and 9-ball, as well as a weekly Chess Club, which has been meeting every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Pool players are also reminded that they can play socially on HR Billiards' five top-quality tables. Barsky will also be involved with the Chamber of Commerce After Hours event on Thursday, Dec. 5. For more info, call 386-2978.
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Taking a toddler for a ride on an airplane is a lot like making her wait in a gray room for an hour before strapping her down with a belt to a fast moving object, that makes her ears feel funny, that's full of mad people who want complete silence for two hours. It's a whole lot like that. Throw in the fact that if the toddler moves around enough to jostle the seat in front of her, she will enrage the person sitting in that seat and it makes for a whole lot of good times.
On our way back from Salt Lake City, where we were visiting family for the holidays, Wanda was actually delightful. She was more patient than a lot of grownups I've flown with and on top of that, she was AMAZED and thrilled with everything the airplane had to offer. The biggest thrill as we taxied around the runways was seeing other airplanes up close.
We'd drive past another airplane and her little gray matter would detonate.
"MOM!" she'd yell, "I SEE IT AIRPLANE! I SEE IT AIRPLANE SO BIG!"
I'd respond that yes, it really was so big and she'd grow quiet for a moment before – BOOM – another cranial explosion.
And it was wheeeee-mazing to watch an airplane take off at such close proximity and she was so dang cute with her little pigtails bouncing and her face turning beet-red with excitement. I kept telling her to be a bit quieter and she would whisper, "Okay Mama," and then another plane would enter her field of view and all bets were off.
During takeoff I made myself believe that everyone else around me found her as adorable as I did because it made me feel better and because all she was doing was being delightful… very loudly. They only wished their traveling companions had that much zest for life, right?
As the flight continued, I struggled to keep her occupied, to keep her from kicking the seat in front of me, to get her to stop opening the window shades and them slamming them shut again. She wanted to drink SODEEEE and turn the overhead fan on and off and on again. She wanted me to read her a story out loud so everyone could hear their daily dose of Dr. Seuss and then she wanted me to read it again. She wanted choo-choo Thomas and she wanted to go home. PLEASE.
At least when she was begging for mercy, she said, "Please." That has to count for something.
As we got close to landing, I watched the posture of the woman in front of me gradually change. It's possible that it was just a coincidence that Wanda was growing more and more restless and loud and the woman was growing more rigid and angry-looking at the same time. She put her hands to her temples and covered her ears to block out the noise.
I whispered to Wanda that although the clouds and the snow were exciting, we could talk about them quietly. Then she saw the HOUSES and the WATER and I had to ask her to be quiet again. At this point, I felt bad. What if that woman had a headache or was scared of flying and Wanda was getting on her last nerve? Maybe she hated kids or Wanda's voice was just the right pitch to send little drills into her brains. Whatever the case, she did not seem pleased and I did feel bad about it.
I never want to be one of those parents who lets their kids drive everyone else crazy with their obnoxiousness and finds every little annoying habit cute. Neither do I want to repress my kids' delight and wonder about the world on the off-chance that it might bother someone. It's a tough balance and if you were the lady in row 17 on our flight this afternoon, I hope your head is feeling better.
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Kris Jenner hopes Kim, Kanye wed in 2014
Los Angeles, Nov 19 (IANS) Socialite Kris Jenner is hoping that her daughter Kim Kardashian will marry her fiance Kanye West next year.
Kim and Kanye, who have five-month-old daughter North together, got engaged last month after the rapper proposed her in San Francisco in front of her family.
Kim's mother Kris is very excited about the nuptials but has no idea when they will happen, although she is hoping for a 2014 ceremony, reports contactmusic.com.
In one of the interviews, Kris was asked if she knew when the wedding will take place, to which she replied: "As soon as I know, I'm going to let you know. Hopefully, probably, next year."


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Old school RPG for Wii U, Vita, PS4, and PC
Soul Saga: Episode 1 is one man's dream to bring back the same kind of anime-inspired, JRPG goodness that made the SNES and PlayStation 1 eras so memorable.
Touted as a "love letter to JRPG classics" like Final Fantasy; Breath of Fire; Suikoden; and Persona, the recently funded Kickstarter campaign -- currently targeted for a mid-2014 release -- might just scratch that nostalgic itch if everything comes to fruition for this quaint little indie title from Mike Gale.
With 14 days left, Soul Saga has already smashed its base goal of $60,000 and should easily reach its next stretch goal of $100,000 that will bring airship combat ala Dreamcast RPG Skies of Arcadia. Current completed stretch goals have already added full voice acting (check out the video for a taste, complete with kick ass J-Pop theme song) and support for Vita, PS4, and Wii U.
Will Soul Saga be everything it promises to be? Who really knows? What I do know though, is that it's caught my attention and seems to be fueled by the same love and passion that has me here writing this article so early in the morning. And that's gotta count for something.
Soul Saga! A J-RPG inspired by Playstation classics. [Kickstarter]
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lol I been missing out on all these great draws. So so busy these days as a ups driver and we celibrated my Mom's 80th birthday with a big family reunion party for her. These all look great :)
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Sponge Bob!!!
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Uh oh ... I think Spongebob is gonna get a snowball in his eye. That can't feel good. :P 5 ♥s
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Oh its easy pick and artist and find a draw of something in their gallery... and throw a snowball at it... example DSW is always drawing spongebob


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (October 17, 2011) – The ETSU volleyball team will close out non-conference play with a trip to Clinton, S.C. for a matchup with Presbyterian on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. inside Templeton Arena.
ETSU (10-12, 3-4 A-Sun) is coming off a 2-1 week. The Bucs earned a thrilling 3-2 victory over Wofford at home on Tuesday in non-conference action. Then, ETSU picked up a 3-1 win at Stetson in A-Sun play on Friday before falling to Florida Gulf Coast in a wild four-set match.
Senior Kiley Tamblyn (Torrance, Calif.) had a stellar week of play defensively for the Bucs. Tamblyn recorded a career-high 31 digs in the victory over Wofford on Tuesday – the most by an ETSU player since November 11, 2008 when Jen Niece had 35 digs. Tamblyn followed up that performance with a 15 dig effort in the win against Stetson on Friday and an incredible 29 dig performance in just four-sets against Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday.
Sophomore Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) continued her offensive dominance as she recorded a career-high of 26 kills in the match against Florida Gulf Coast – just three kills away from breaking the ETSU all-time record for kills in a match.
Devine continues to lead the Bucs in kills at 4.24 per set, which ranks her second in the Atlantic Sun. In addition, her 4.62 points per set also rank second in the league. Senior Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) remains the league leader in blocks at 1.15 per set. Stancliff needs just 42 more blocks to place 10th on the Atlantic Sun career blocks list. As a team, ETSU continues to lead the league in blocks at 2.18 per set.
ETSU defeated Presbyterian at home last season, 3-0, in the only other time the two teams have faced each other. Devine led the Bucs in that matchup with a team-high 11 kills, while also adding six digs and a service ace. ETSU was very efficient in the match by recording a .316 attack percentage.
Scouting the Opponent
Presbyterian enters Tuesday's match with a 7-14 overall record. The Blue Hose are led offensively by Presley Mabrey with 3.53 kills per set, while also leading the squad and the conference with 33 service aces. Meanwhile, Ashtin Frank leads the team and the Big South Conference in assists with 10.23 per set. Presbyterian leads the Big South in assists at 11.39 per set, while ranking second in kills at 12.19 per set.
Following Tuesday's match with Presbyterian, ETSU returns home for a pair of Atlantic Sun matches against Mercer and Kennesaw State over the weekend. The Bucs host Mercer on Friday at 7 p.m. before closing out the weekend against Kennesaw State on Saturday at 3 p.m.
For more information on ETSU volleyball please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the volleyball link.