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(SACRAMENTO) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today released three new publications designed to educate and increase the public's access to their government. The publications provide valuable information about state laws regarding conflicts of interest, public records and open meetings.
"A vigilant public is democracy's best defense against the misuse of power," said Lockyer. "These publications provide Californians with the information they need to enforce their right to participate in open government. As we elect new government leaders next week, I am certain that these updated publications will help ensure that our government remains accessible to the people it serves, the public."
These three publications provide a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of state laws and court decisions. Prior versions have been favorably cited by the courts and relied upon by the public, government officials and the media. They are cornerstone reference materials because they represent the starting point in resolving questions that arise in these specialized areas of the law.

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The Conflict of Interest pamphlet summarizes eight different conflict of interest laws in California and discusses the laws themselves and the ways in which they have been interpreted by the courts and by published opinions of the Attorney General. Conflict of interest laws are grounded on the notion that government officials owe paramount loyalty to the public, and that personal or private financial considerations on the part of government officials should not be allowed to enter the decision making process. The purpose of this pamphlet is to assist government officials in complying with California's conflict of interest laws and to assist the public and the news media in understanding these laws so that conflict of interest situations can be monitored and avoided.

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The fundamental precept of the California Public Records Act is that governmental records shall be disclosed to the public, upon request, unless the record is expressly exempt from disclosure. There also is a public interest balancing test that exempts records from disclosure when the government can demonstrate that the public interest in non-disclosure clearly outweighs the public interest in disclosure. Two recurring interests justify most of the exemptions from disclosure. Several exemptions are based on a recognition of the individual's right to privacy (e.g., privacy in certain personnel, medical or similar records). Other exemptions are based on the government's need to perform its assigned functions in a reasonably efficient manner (e.g., maintaining confidentiality of investigative records and records related to pending litigation.)
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The third publication summarizes the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act which covers all "state" boards and commissions. It generally requires these bodies to publicly notice their meetings, prepare agendas, accept public testimony and conduct their meetings in public unless specifically authorized to meet in closed session. This pamphlet was written with the individual board member in mind, and is intended to be an easy "how-to" guide to the law. This pamphlet augments the Attorney General's 2003 pamphlet entitled "The Brown Act, Open Meetings for Local Legislative Bodies" which summarizes the open meeting law for local boards and commissions.
All three publications are available at the Attorney General's website, www.ag.ca.gov/publications. A limited number of individual print copies may be obtained by sending a written request to the Attorney General's Office, Public Inquiry Unit, P.O. Box 944255, Sacramento, CA 94244-2550.
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Although the duo does not aim to create collections which are distinctly Scandinavian, they are undeniably part of the new wave of cool Nordic brands that have taken the fashion world by storm over the past few years. Swedish architecture and product design has long been world-renowned, and it's not difficult to see some of the qualities which have made it famous, from clean lines to unpretentious authenticity, mirrored in Our Legacy's clothes. "It's important to be spontaneous, and listen to yourself," Mr Nying concludes. "Don't think too much about what other people are doing and how it might affect you. We don't set out to do a certain style, it just happens."


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Hold soybeans well into late December or early January. Adjust when to sell based on how the South American crop is developing. Wheat 1234 5 678910 The wheat market should have some seasonal lift, but it will depend on the level of planted acres this fall and winter weather. I expect more of a choppy sideways to slight market firmness in old crop but a limited recovery in the July 2014 crop, unless some type of weather event occurs. Livestock 123456 7 8910 Historically low cattle numbers are keeping inventory down, but higher weights are keeping beef production in line with demand. But domestic and international demand is not growing as fast as supply. Until grazing conditions in the West improve, there will be little excitement about retaining heifers. The hog complex has the ability to increase production much faster than cattle—and the trade knows it. 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Shares in iron ore explorer Sundance Resources have plunged more than 14 per cent after another delay in its drawn-out takeover process.
China's Hanlong Group has proposed a $1.4 billion takeover of Sundance, but is awaiting approval for its bid by Chinese regulators.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China on Thursday extended its provisional approval for Hanlong's acquisition by six months to July 30.
Hanlong still needs to find a financial partner for its takeover to proceed, in order to fund the development of Sundance's Mbalam-Nabeba project in Cameroon.
Funding in the order of $5 billion is needed to develop the mine and associate port and rail infrastructure.
Sundance shares had been suspended from trade since January 30 as Hanlong sought the extension of its provisional approval from the NDRC.
After resuming trade on Friday, the shares fell heavily, and were down five cents, or 14.7 per cent, at 29 cents at 1026 AEDT.
Hanlong's offer is for 45 cents per Sundance share.
Sundance on Friday said the Hanlong offer remained its best option, despite further delays.
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The live ads, which will run on ITV, will show TA soldiers serving alongside their regular Army counterparts.
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The campaign, on behalf of the Army Recruiting Group and Capita, is designed to encourage more people to join the TA. It forms part of 'TA Live' – an initiative that also comprises experiential events encouraging people to sign up at cities across the UK, electronic direct mail and social media management.
The campaign was created in association with ITN Productions as part of Capita's contract with the Army to oversee army recruitment.
Major General Ranald Munro, deputy commander Land Forces (Reserves), said: "There has never been an advertising campaign like this. TA LIVE is an incredibly exciting opportunity to bring the TA to life and show just what a TA soldier does on the ground.
"We think this is a great way to demonstrate and educate the public about the role of the TA and the vital contribution they make to the UK Armed Forces.
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A quiet day at home
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Looking forward to Xmas and some days to spend at home with Johan. Home has been neglected for months now.
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Sending late birthday wishes! Partying all week - sounds like a good one!ReplyDelete
Your home looks beautiful, nice being able to retreat to home when life gets a bit hectic.
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a bit late, but still from the heart :D -> Zum Geburtstag viel Glück! :)ReplyDelete
love those amarylisis (hm..not sure whether plural works), but anyway...sometimes there is nothing better than staying at home, drinking tea and feeling cozy! Have a good day, Sandra!ReplyDelete
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ALSC @ ALA 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans
Five years after the last visit, ALA and ALSC head back to New Orleans for the 2011 Annual Conference.
ALA Annual Conference will take place June 24-28 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Registration Information
To register for ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, La., please visit the ALA Annual Conference page. Registration can be done online, over the phone 1-800-974-3084, or in-person on the day of the event.
Early registration ends March 5. Advance registration ends May 13. Different rates apply for different levels of membership and the dates of registration. For more information on rates, please see the ALA Annual Conference Registration Rate page
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Friday, June 24
If you're new to ALSC or if this is your first Annual Conference as a children's librarian, then this program is for you! We'll provide you with information about the perks of ALSC membership, tips on how to get involved, and tricks of the trade for navigating Annual Conference.
Saturday, June 25
Beyond Fiestas, Calaveras and Quinceañeras: Exploring relevant cultural issues and daily experiences of contemporary Latino youth via high-quality literature
By exploring the cultural and social themes present in recent Latino children's books, this interactive session strives to provide the tools and knowledge that will enable librarians and educators to integrate contemporary Latino themes in their programs and promote reading among multicultural societies. A portion of the program includes a guided discussion on the authentic Latino experience in youth literature with notable Latino children's author René Colato Laínez.
Criss Cross Applesauce: Making Multi-Age (newborn to five-year-old) Storytimes the Best They Can Be
Expand your understanding as you connect the dots between child development, early literacy skills, and your storytime. Demonstration storytimes will provide you with specific examples of best practices to criss cross through the three developmental levels--newborn, toddler, preschool. As you plan and present multiage programs you become an articulate advocate to benefit children, parents, families and your community.
Many Children, Many Cultures, Many Books: Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Día
Join us for the 15th anniversary celebration of Día! Hear from Día founder, Pat Mora about the history of Children's Day/Book Day and author Jeanette Larson about the initiative's future. Learn effective, multicultural programming techniques for year round Día celebrations and explore new Día resources.
Strange Bedfellows: Unusual Pairings of Artists and Writers
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Tim Thelan (Getty ImagesThe European Tour Seniors Open was won by Tim Thelan at the Bad Ragaz course in Switzerland on Sunday. The American had to resist the challenge of former Ryder Cup Captains in Ian Woosnam and Mark James to take home the €42,000 first prize. After also winning last week Tim said he could get used to the feeling, after he signed for a final round of -3 under par for a 67 that gave him a -12 under par total and secured a two-shot win over Mark James, with Ian Woosnam a further shot back in third. "I could get used to this feeling. This is pretty amazing to win a second event in seven days. I played great again this week and to come out on top against another two of the game's great players in Mark James and Ian Woosnam is very satisfying. I looked at the leaderboard on the 16th and saw I had a two shot lead, then Mark birdied the last to cut the lead to one. So that seven iron on seventeen really was a fabulous shot. Making that birdie putt was a big moment too because it gave me a cushion to play the last." Sir Bob Charles's first round of 66 in Bad Ragaz saw the Kiwi better his age by a European Senior Tour record of ten shots, while Gary Player's scores of 72-70-71 were a testament to the nine-time Major Champion's fitness and competitive drive. Sir Bob finished the week at one over par in a tie for 42nd place, just two shots ahead of Gary who was in a tie for 50th.


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Cotto owners bring Italian vibes to Stamford's Bank Street
In the thick of things: Cotto Wine Bar and Pizzeria brings wine, food to Stamford
Silvy Ridolfi has lined the walls of her new Stamford restaurant, Cotto Wine Bar and Pizzeria, with photographs from Italian films of the 1960s, most of which feature an elegant blonde woman with slightly familiar features.
"That's my mother," Ridolfi said, referring to Simonetta Simeoni, an actress who began her career in film at age 8, and appears in some photos with director Federico Fellini and actor Marcello Mastroianni.
For Ridolfi and her husband, Claudio, both from Rome, opening a restaurant has been a goal since they came to the U.S. four years ago, settling in Weston. With Cotto, which opened during the holidays, the couple mixes their Roman sensibilities -- the Ridolfis owned a restaurant in Italy before coming the U.S. -- with the warm, home-style cooking Italian restaurants are known for. Ridolfi invents some recipes for the restaurant from dishes she's made in her home kitchen, or tries to re-create traditional Roman fare, like amatriciana, a pasta sauce made with cured pork and carbonara.
"We do our own pasta, our own sauce," Ridolfi said. "We like things simple and fresh. We've had a great response so far, we're so happy about it."
The restaurant offers more than 400 wines, some displayed behind the bar or in the glass-fronted shelves set into a brick wall. Pairing the drinks with the food is a key element of Cotto's menu, Ridolfi said. Even desserts are paired with suggested liqueurs.
Since Cotto has opened, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has eaten there, as has Sandy Goldstein, president of the Downtown Special Services District, who thinks its location on Bank Street will bring in customers.
"We're very happy to have them downtown," she said. "That street is very well located, with the Innovation Center right across the street in the old Town Hall. They're right in the heart of all the action for Alive@Five in the summer."
Cotto employs about 20 people, with Greg Depelteau as chef. The restaurant offers a happy hour, a lunch express menu and catering for corporate lunches, and Ridolfi hopes to add a breakfast menu. In the summer, she plans to buy produce from local farms and farmer's markets.
"We'll give good quality food to our guests, and it helps the local economy," she said. "Everything is about the experience of having good and healthy food. We want it to feel like you're coming to your house."
As for her mother, Ridolfi said that Simeoni flew from Rome to visit a few weeks ago and was overwhelmed by her daughter's restaurant, adorned with souvenirs of Simeoni's film career.
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On this day in 1999, with Mike Piazza out with a thumb injury, the Mets got a home run from backup catcher Todd Pratt in the 10th inning for a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Pratt's line drive just eluded Arizona center fielder Steve Finley, at the time one the best defensive outfielders in the game.
The Mets went on to the NLCS against the Atlanta, where they fell behind 3-0 on the series but rallied to force a sixth game, which they lost on a bases-loaded walk from Kenny Rogers.
Burnett said he did not lobby manager Joe Girardi to make the switch.
Said Burnett: "It was the manager's decision, I had no part in it. I've thrown good to both. My good games, I'm right. My bad games, it's not the catcher, it's me … When I'm good, it doesn't matter which one is behind the plate."
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A thick-slice of Toasted Japanese Shokupan, pair of Dice, Old Macs and New iPods, a 99-Cent Store Voltmeter with spare 9-Volt Battery.. Square Watermelons. They all coincide here in the many radiused corners of my internet bento box.
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Updates And Another Japanese Breakfast @ Hinotez
Hinotez also starts to-go Bentos...
Get them while they're still warm in the morning, while supplies last. Or they can be ordered/reserved by phone from as early as 6:30AM (though I believe 7AM is actual opening time). Nice option to know since any of the Japanese Markets in the area don't operate from at least 10AM. I can grab a quick breakfast and my lunch for later at the same time.
The 'Healthy Bento' starts at 5-bucks (comes with a side salad), the slightly heartier 'Hinotez Bento' is 6 (with miso soup) but they were out the morning, and a (Pork) Katsu Sando for 5.
I thought the Healthy Bento was a nice fill for the money. This day a Tori and Tamago Soboro main (the combination often called nishoku-gohan (二色ごはん) for its two colors) with lighter Japanese potato salad, Chikuzenni, boiled spinach Ohitashi and Hijiki seaweed side.
Despite the refrigeration then reheating later in my microwave for lunch, the chicken and egg soboro was moist and flaky, a pleasant light flavor to boot. But the star was definitely the Chikuzenni below (also called Iridori). A type of braised dish of chicken and root vegetables.
Though the actual chicken pieces were sparse, the extra large chunky vegetables were great and everything seasoned perfectly with good dashi and light mirin sweetness. Renkon (lotus root), Gobo (burdock root), carrots, Konjac and Shiitake mushrooms. The side salad is not shown but basic leafy lettuce with a sweet/tart ginger ponzu style dressing.
Katsu Sandwich also came with a small salad. Wished I had it right then while it was still warm but ate most of it for dinner much later in the day. I can easily tell both the bento and sandwich were made with a lot of care.
The box quality was of one of those reusable GladWare containers. Score. But anyhow, I often buy the Katsu Sando sold at Nijiya Market which isn't bad but this one had much better balance of bread to katsu ratio. Also I liked that the cabbage was very finely shredded. Coarse chunky cabbage being one of my pet peeves, be it in a Sando or Fish Taco, at least when talking fresh.
The bread was lightly toasted and the hot mustard in the spread was a nice touch too. Personally I'm more of a Menchi Katsu Sando fan (another older from Sakura here), but I thought this was a nicely executed version with maybe a Panko upgrade on the cutlet and trimming the ears off the shokupan only improvements I can think of at the moment.
This was actually maybe my third or fourth visit for breakfast (first visit here). Despite the last couple times I was the only customer, they seem to be hanging in there. Really hope they continue with the concept. Yes most of the breakfast offering is nothing I can't make at home, but so are bacon and eggs. It's all about the convenience and having more options in town.
And now with free rice and miso soup refills, I'm guaranteed a good fill. This day was the Basic Set ($3), Japanese Curry ($2), Onsen Tamago ($1). Japanese breakfast or not, gotta have my egg fix! ;)
Hinotez Japanese Restaurant, 7947 Balboa Ave, San Diego, CA 92111
6 comments:
- caninecologne said...
Everything looks good, especially that pork katsu sandwich!
- February 4, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- K and S said...
everything does look good!
- February 4, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Dennis K. said...
Hi CC! I liked that I could tell everything was made with a lot of care..
Hi Kat, it was pretty good!
- February 5, 2012 at 11:54 AM
- KirkK said...
I must've just missed you Dennis! Love natto for break fast and it's pretty peaceful and quiet.
- February 5, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- CAB said...
It all looks so good, especially that katsu sandwich.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- Dennis K. said...
Hi Kirk! My visit for the post was actually last Thursday if I remember right. The miso soup has improved my last couple breakfast visits. It's nice to have options in town.
Hi Carol! The sandwich was good but I was really a fan of the Chikuzenni. Was done very well.
- February 6, 2012 at 8:08 PM


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- iAm Collection - This curated collection is full of resources for helping you and your students understand how to take control of their digital identities especially with social media.
- Controlling your digital identity is as easy as 1-2-3 - This post offers three easy steps to looking for how they are perceived online and start creating their digital footprint.
- 10 Things Your Students Should Know About Their Digital Footprints - 10 things that students should keep in mind as they engage in online communities and social media.
- Digital Citizenship Poster for Middle and High School Classrooms - A great infographic to help older students evaluate what photos to post online.
- Social Media: In and Out of the Classroom - This iBook is about using social media in the classroom with students and addresses topics like netiquette (Internet etiquette), setting boundaries, and privacy.


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You told yourself to get moving, and you've done it. Congrats.
You've even started liking the feeling of a good sweat. Congrats again.
But if you're like most novice exercisers, you're on your way to becoming a victim of your own success.
How so?
That first move from the couch to the gym offers an almost unmatchable level of positive results. Not only is your body quick to react to a more active lifestyle, you start feeling good about yourself and your new-found commitment to your health. You're stronger, fitter, you've got more energy and you're sleeping better. You may even be feeling a little breathing room between you and the waistband of your jeans.
So thrilled are you about all the positives, you're not prepared for the inevitable levelling off of results that occurs a few months into your new fitness regime.
Like the first 10 pounds of any diet, the first measures of success at the gym come relatively easy. The same can't be said for the next level of results, which require more than just reducing couch time in favour of gym time. With that in mind, it's time to shed your rookie status and move into the big leagues. But before you can do that, you need to get rid of some of those rookie habits that hold you back from realizing your fitness potential. Here are a few common newbie mistakes as well as suggestions on how you can get more from your workout.
Thinking more is better
Now that you're enjoying the results those first 150 minutes of exercise per week has garnered, you're probably thinking that doubling your workout minutes will mean double the results. But it doesn't work that way. Increasing exercise volume without a matching increase in exercise efficiency is not just a waste of time and energy, it can lead to injury.
Continuing success in the gym comes from spending your limited amount of training minutes effectively and efficiently. It also comes from keeping yourself motivated and injury free, both of which are compromised when the sole goal of adding minutes to your workout is to impress both yourself and anyone who will listen with how much time you spend working up a sweat.
Not having a plan
Chances are that you started with a plan without even knowing it. What else do you call your goal of getting off the couch? But now that you've accomplished that first step, you need to set a new bar.
Whatever that new lofty goal is, you need to follow it up with a plan of attack that includes not just how long and how often you're going to work out, but what you're going to do every time you pull on your workout clothes.
A plan as simple as hitting the treadmill for 30 minutes on Monday, doing a 20-minute interval workout followed by 15 minutes in the weight room on Wednesday and a yoga class on Friday is exactly the kind of preparation that pays off big.
Going it on your own
Here's where the majority of exercise sophomores go wrong — they try to do it on their own. By that I mean they try to realize their goals by copying what everyone else in the gym is doing instead of seeking expert advice.
Why do you need to invest in a trainer? Again, it comes down to the importance of a plan. But not just any old plan. To reap the results of all your hard work you need the right plan.
To be clear, that plan isn't the same as the one that fit guy or girl next to you is following. Nor is it one that you download off the Internet. The best plan is one you receive from a professional fitness trainer who looks at your goals, level of fitness and available time to exercise before putting together a six- to eight-week workout schedule designed exclusively for you.
Concentrating on your strengths, not weaknesses
When it comes to fitness, most of us naturally gravitate toward exercises and workouts that we're good at and avoid those that we aren't. The end result being, as the saying goes, you're only as strong as your weakest link.
For instance, if you're working hard to build upper body strength but still struggle doing more than a few pushups, it could be that you lack the endurance in the core to support your efforts. Or, if lunges are a struggle despite working on your lower body strength, it's possible that poor balance is the culprit.
The best way to force yourself to hit those weak spots is to work those body parts or perform those exercises early in the workout. Not only will you benefit from getting it done before fatigue hits, there's less of a chance of putting it off until the next time, something we're all prone to do when we're avoiding something we don't like.
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Grichuk Amongst MiLB Gold Glove Winners
By Arkansas Travelers | October 1, 2013 11:04 AM
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -Minor League Baseball™ and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., today announced that Arkansas Travelers outfielder Randal Grichuk was awarded a 2013 Minor League Baseball Gold Glove. The honorees were selected among qualifying players from the 10 domestic-based, full-season Minor Leagues. They will each receive their own Rawlings Gold Glove Award, modeled after the iconic award given to Major League Baseball's top defensive players, during the 2014 season.
Grichuk appeared in 118 games in the field with 95 played in right field and 23 games in centerfield. The 22-year old from Rosenberg, Texas, only committed two errors while throwing out 11 runners. Grichuk also tied for the Texas League lead amongst outfielders by participating in five double plays.
Grichuk joins Darwin Perez (2011, shortstop) as the second Traveler to win a Rawling Minor League Gold Glove since the award was reinstituted in 2011.
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"I know what an honor it is for a player to receive a Rawlings Gold Glove Award, having been involved in presenting them to the winners the last two years," said Pat O'Conner, President & CEO of Minor League Baseball. "The players really appreciate and understand how prestigious the accolade is and I want to thank Rawlings Sporting Goods for their continued support of Minor League Baseball."
The 2013 Minor League Baseball recipients of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award are as follows:
Position Name Club(s)/Major League Baseball Organization
P Taylor Hill Potomac, Harrisburg, Syracuse/Washington
C Blake Forsythe Binghamton/New York Mets
1B Jordan Lennerton Toledo/Detroit
2B Carlos Alonso Clearwater/Philadelphia
SS Nick Ahmed Mobile/Arizona
3B Wade Gaynor Erie/Detroit
LF Jason Krizan Lakeland/Detroit
CF Dalton Pompey Lansing/Toronto
RF Randal Grichuk Arkansas/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
The return of Rawlings recognizing Minor League Baseball players for their defensive prowess began again in 2011. The St. Louis-based company named a Minor League all-star fielding team for several years in the 1960s. The honor was known as the Rawlings Silver Glove Award during this time.
Five players who were honored last year, Adam Warren (Yankees), Josh Phegley (White Sox), Derrick Robinson (Reds), Engel Beltre (Rangers) and Marcell Ozuna (Marlins) are in the major leagues. Another quintet of major leaguers, Efren Navarro (Angels), Steve Lombardozzi (Nationals), Brandon Laird (Astros), Jordan Danks (White Sox) and Cole Gillespie (Cubs) were among those honored in 2011.
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With potentially historic blizzard looming, Governor Deval Patrick urges people to stay off roads
With a powerful blizzard expected to blanket Massachusetts with up to 3 feet of snow, Governor Deval Patrick ordered non-emergency state workers to stay home, urged people to get off the roads by noon Friday before the storm intensifies, called for all local school districts to cancel classes, and announced that the Boston area's public transit system would shut down.
The nor'easter arriving Friday morning could drop 2 to 3 feet of snow that would be lashed by winds gusting up to 65 miles per hour into drifts as deep as 5 feet, the National Weather Service said this afternoon.
Issuing blizzard warnings for all of Eastern and Southeastern Massachusetts, the service warned that the potentially historic storm would pose a threat to people's lives and property and that conditions would deteriorate quickly as the storm develops Friday.
"The sooner you can be off the roads the better,'' said weather service meteorologist William Babcock. "You want to give yourself some time to be at your safe spot before the storm hits its strongest.''
Forecasters said that heavy snow, blowing and drifting, could cut visibilities to a quarter-mile, causing white-out conditions. The winds, which could reach 65 miles per hour, could also damage trees and structures and bring down power wires, causing scattered power outages. Temperatures will be in the mid-20s and the forecasters cautioned people to stay indoors.
A National Weather Service snowfall total forecast map issued this afternoon shows a swath of the state north and south of Boston getting more than 2 feet of snow, with amounts tapering off somewhat to the west and south, where the island of Nantucket is expected to get only up to 6 inches and the outer Cape only as much as 8.
The forecasters are also warning that the storm will produce moderate coastal flooding Friday evening and moderate to major coastal flooding Saturday morning. Large waves, along with a 2-to-3-foot storm surge, are expected to devour beaches and flood shore roads. They also may put shoreside homes at risk during the Saturday morning high tide.
Flanked by a number of other top state officials at a late afternoon news conference today, Patrick urged people to stay off the roads after noon, saying the brunt of the blizzard would start to be felt between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday.
He said drivers in recent storms had been cooperative, but "if I have to order the roads be cleared, I will.''
In addition to letting state workers work from home, Patrick encouraged private employers to let their workers stay home.
The MBTA will shut down at 3:30 p.m., with the last trains and buses leaving from downtown at that time, said Transportation Secretary Richard A. Davey.
Davey said highway crews would be out in force tonight and into Friday morning, treating roads with rock salt and brine, then the crews would be briefly rested "because we're expecting our crews to be working pretty darn hard'' during the peak of the storm later Friday.
Patrick also said he had called up 500 National Guard members to help in storm recovery efforts, who would be able to join with 500 full-timers already working on Friday. Another 5,000 to 6,000 were slated for training over the weekend. That training has now been canceled so they will be available, he said.
Patrick outlined a number of safety measures that people should take, including obeying any evacuation orders, having plenty of food and water on hand, and getting a full tank of gas before the storm hits. The governor also suggested that people should check on elderly neighbors and shut-ins.
"Be a good neighbor, everybody,'' he said.
Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard Sullivan said that all four major utilities that supply the state with electricity have begun extensive preparations. He said the utilities are "at the highest level of bringing in outside resources'' to assist.
Sullivan added that while all providers have thorough plans in place, "the utilities will be measured by their response on the ground.''
Patrick reminded people that power restoration efforts would not begin until after the storm ends.
State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan urged people to make sure their flashlight batteries are fresh and that smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are working. He also said to make sure that all exterior vents are cleared to prevent carbon monoxide buildup.
And, Coan cautioned, in the event of a power outage, "battery-operated flashlights and candles are the safest way'' to provide light. He said generators should be kept outside, and gas and charcoal grills should not be run in enclosed spaces.
Patrick said officials will constantly monitor the storm's trajectory and respond accordingly.
"Mother Nature is so unpredictable,'' he said. But, at the same time, he said, "This team has had a lot of practice. We work very, very well together.''
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino urged people to stay off the roads Friday and canceled school, and he was far from alone as scores of other school systems around the state followed suit.


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The debate about whether or not evolution is 'real' or not is one with which atheists and theists alike will be familiar. I recently received a very well written and nicely produced pamphlet attacking 'scientific myths', including evolution: pointing out that there is no complete consensus on how evolution works, and that there are gaps in the evidence. Within discussions of the validity of religion, such debates are, however, something of a red herring – evolution has no relevance to considerations of the veracity of religion.
Yet by engaging atheists in debates about evolution, and evidence and arguments for and against, theists are distracting from this simple fact. More seriously, there is a danger that this debate sets up an implication of an 'either/or' situation, which is clearly not the case. Humans always want certainties – that is why they invent religions and argue strenuously about evolution – but the argument over the certainty of where life comes from should not distract from the certainty that really matters: there is no god.
I give credence to the theory of evolution, because it is afforded widespread scientific/academic credence, there appears to be plenty of evidence and it seems to me to make sense. However, that position could arguably also have applied to various ('scientific') beliefs in, say, early Christian times that are no longer taken seriously, therefore:
Can I personally say with absolute certainty (that certainty with which I can say that there is no god) that evolution, as we currently understand it, is a fact of nature? No. Does that have any bearing on the simple fact that there is no god (or does it indeed have any relevance to discussions of this matter)? No.
Perhaps we will eventually be able to produce an account of evolution in all its features and workings that is completely accurate and incontrovertible. Perhaps we will have to alter or expand our current understanding substantially to achieve this. Perhaps a more differentiated alternative will be developed. Perhaps we will never know entirely and exactly how we arrived at our present state as a species. Do these possibilities have any bearing on religion? No.
There will almost certainly always be things that we can't explain, and humans evidently feel the need to formulate answers to questions that preoccupy them, to the best of their (often feeble) abilities.
I'm not arguing against scientific endeavour (on the contrary - I'm an academic), just keep in mind that you don't have to 'prove' evolution to disprove god. Put simply: there is no need for a definite alternative to disprove god – it's not an either/or situation: however the universe began, and however life developed, god does not exist.
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Yeah, if you can catch them young, before they've completely invested their identity in the whole concept, they're much more open to an alternative to their brainwashing. Most teenagers believe because they're not aware that there's a viable alternative.
That's why it doesn't matter if we actually convert anyone with the billboard campaigns going on around the country. We're still at the public awareness stage of the campaign. Any deconverts we get are a bonus.
Ultimately, you should bring people over to atheism by reason and evidence (or lack thereof), but you have to crack their shell first. You need to start with emotional arguments to get them actually listening to you in the first place. You can't reason with people who have their fingers in their ears.
Case in point: the girl I'm working on, who presented Thomas Aquinas's Five Proofs as a solid proof of the existence of God.
The first three 'proofs' are the same damned thing. They're the exact same structure of the first cause argument with very slightly different wording. They have the same flaws in the exact same places. At that, it's a very primitive construction of the first cause argument. It's not even as advanced as the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
The first 'proof' ends with:
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
I've explained to her what a perfect demonstration of the Argument from Ignorance that statement is ... what a complete non sequitur it is. Until I can crack the shell and get her to the point that she's able to seriously consider the idea that her god is made-up, she won't be able to look at the arguments objectively. She'll fill in the freaking huge holes in the arguments with her a priori belief in her brainwashing.
It's the emotional arguments which may get her at least slightly free of the brainwashing to the point that she can start to reason.
I agree with your sentiment - although I'm not sure what you mean by emotional arguments as such. I think all my conversations are emotional - in that we can't separate emotions from logic or reason - it's all intertwined. Sam Harris mentions this in his book the moral landscape - because it's all dealt with in the same frontal cortex.
But that besides - I would say it's important to develop an emotional connection with the person - find common ground - show them compassion - and then bring up conflicts of belief - so that they can see that you are a loving and compassionate person who also has a logical way of seeing the world - which may well be surprising to them if they have been brainwashed into believing that we are all sinning heathens with evil intentions. This conflict will be quite obvious to them.
... although I'm not sure what you mean by emotional arguments as such.
Stuff like one of my favorite Matt Dillahunty rants:
Similarly, Dan Barker makes a lot of the immorality sort of arguments, in his latest book. You need to attack a theist emotionally, before they'll listen to reason and stop filling in the holes in the logical arguments that they cling to so tenaciously. You have to make them want to be objective.
If you start from the perspective of logic, explaining the null hypothesis, the burden of proof, shooting down all of their (il)logical arguments for God. You have to get past their emotional fallbacks, like faith, before you can reason with them.
Those aren't really logical arguments; they're emotional ones. He argues against the morality in the Bible. He's going for emotional impact, not speaking to their reason.
He doesn't really make an argument in the whole discussion about whether it's true or not, just about how horrifying it would be if it was true. That's an emotional argument.
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Office of the Provost
Executive Vice President and Provost
The Provost is the chief academic officer of the University and is designated as Executive Vice President. He is responsible for the administration of the Division of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs. As Executive Vice President and Provost he serves on the President's Council and chairs the Executive Council, the Senior Leadership Council for Academic and Student Affairs as well as the Deans Council. He serves as University liaison with the Board of Trustees Academic and Student Affairs Committee and serves with other public university academic affairs officers in regular meetings with the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.
Mission Statement
The Office of the Provost, through its faculty, staff, and academic units, is dedicated to ensuring that students receive a university education of the highest quality possible, to advancing significant research and creative activities, and to fostering university outreach and services. In support of the university's mission, philosophy and values, the Office provides leadership and service to achieve excellence in quality academic programs, in academic and student support areas, including extracurricular activities, in the teacher-scholar model, and in cooperative and collaborative academic ventures with other institutions and public agencies.
Promoting communication among academic units and other academic support areas of the university, the Office of the Provost serves as the primary voice on academic matters within the university. It is the central administrative office with responsibility for academic programming and policy implementation, support services for academic personnel and students, and academic fiscal management in keeping with the University's Strategic Plan. It monitors state, regional and national developments related to higher education academic issues and anticipates those issues requiring attention by the university community. It articulates university standards and promulgates academic policies to ensure equity and consistency. It works with the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council to promote shared governance and address faculty issues. It provides assistance and support to academic units, academic service areas, and student support service units in their growth and management.
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If Christianity were illegal, would there be evidence to convict you? I ask because Christianity is not a closet religion; what Christ conveys, we're obliged to champion. Evidence will be our words and actions, and we've been historically persecuted for this.
Christians defend children gestating in their mother's wombs. Society says, "Kill them, they aren't really human unless they're wanted." Jesus says "Don't murder," yet these human offspring are dissected and society applauds. Why? It's faithless, and Christian objection receives society's jackboot.
No homosexual ... will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9-10 NIV). Christians didn't think that up, Christ did. Patrick Caneday says he hasn't the right to oppose homosexual marriage, neither as an American nor Christian, yet Americans perennially debate laws ("Why I'm still a Christian," Aug. 7).
God too has laws — ultimate, non-debatable. People split when they collide, especially in our "one nation under God." If anyone has a right, nay, obligation to speak, it's Christians. Christ said we're "the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness ... It is no longer good" (Mat 5:13 NIV). So we're salty, and contentious, but that's because God wants us good for something.
Vampire book author Anne Rice wants Christ without Christianity. This prompted Caneday's article. Rice despises Christians she's encountered, so she disavows all relationship. Absurd! Does anyone like everyone? She complains about stereotypes yet forgets spiritual growth happens communally. Caneday gets this, sort of, but it's unclear if he embraces Christianity in theory, or if he actually associates Christianity on Sundays.
We grow by contact. I fear people who claim such Christianity aren't reading the manual. They make it up rather than live according to Christ's words. Rice needs to get some red blood back in her veins, and Caneday, now that you've "come out," pick up your spiritual armor and join us in the war, brother.
Rev. Bryan Griem
Editor's note: Griem is a regular contributor to the In Theory feature and pastor at Montrose Community Church.
Water rate hikes worthy of protest
The city of Glendale has stuck it to us again!
Last year, we all received letters from Glendale Water & Power telling us we had to limit watering our lawns to just three days per week because of the continuing drought here in Southern California. Now we all get letters from Glendale Water & Power telling us they want to increase our water rates because (surprise!) "the city incurred a revenue shortfall due to decreased sales."
They forgot to mention that they imposed the "decreased sales" through mandatory restrictions on outdoor irrigation!
They need more money, they say, because of their "expenses" and "debt obligations" without telling us what those are. Any chance their "debt obligations" include bloated pensions? Or has Glendale Water & Power loaned or given money to the city, like big brother Department of Water and Power bailed out the city of L.A.?
And how much do they want to stick to us on this proposed rate increase? Only 15%! How many readers of the Glendale News-Press got a 15% raise this year? I sure didn't.
Glendale Water & Power tells us the "average residential family" will only pay about $2.50 more per month for water. But this "average" family only uses 1,900 cubic feet of water in a month. I don't believe it! My "average" family includes four people, and we use a whole lot more than 1,900 cubic feet of water in a month, even with letting the lawns go brown.
I for one plan to file a written protest against this proposed rate increase. And I urge all of the News-Press' readers to do the same.
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Adam Herzog in flight
(photo: Trip Kinney)
Next time you drive between East Middlebury and Ripton, take a peek over the guardrail. Route 125 follows the rim of the Middlebury River, home of Addison County's deepest and steepest gorge. The South Branch of the Middlebury River gathers motivation in the flatlands around Breadloaf before dropping through a precipitous jumble of boulder and bedrock down to the Champlain Valley floor.
Over a three mile section the river drops nearly 1000 ft, creating one of Vermont's most committing whitewater runs. It's a local test-piece, and intermediate kayakers can often be heard discussing when they'll be ready. Though the majority of the river is only class IV, halfway down it enters a steeply overhung gorge with four difficult rapids. Kayakers – a visceral and obscene lot - call this pinch "The Birth Canal."
the author in the Birth Canal
(photo: Morgan Boyles)
Not only is the Birth Canal home to some of Vermont's harder whitewater, it is difficult to escape if anything goes wrong. A friend once dislocated his shoulder in the gorge, and we couldn't get him up to the road for four hours. An experienced kayaker died in the Birth Canal ten years ago, and there are countless stories of terrifying swims, injuries, and near drowning in its depths. Over the five years that I've been paddling the river, I've contributed a few of my own stories to the anthology.
A rare flat section in the gorge.
But, this afternoon, I had the Middlebury lined up for lunch break. With the last of the snow melting and half an inch of rain at Breadloaf overnight, the gorge was running at a perfect level. I met Adam Herzog at noon, who'd been there all morning and already taken two runs.
We bounced down the river, discussing our planned lines on the largest drop, called Fallopian. The rapid is the first in the Birth Canal, and the most difficult to run cleanly. It drops twelve feet through a bedrock notch into an undercut room, and has been the site of several dangerous swims.
I ran first, flubbing over the waterfall and resurfacing in the room. Adam was close behind, and also went deep, popping up next to me. After a flurry of paddle strokes we escaped the eddy and headed into the next set of rapids. We scrambled through the final rapid in the Birth Canal, dubbed Rebirth, and smiled as the tight walls receded and the gradient slackened.
Morgan staying warm before Rebirth
(Photo: Kinney)
In less than an hour, we were at the Rt. 125 bridge. I changed back into dry clothes, gave Adam a ride to his car, and headed back to work.
Living and working in Middlebury is a gift from God.
If this looks like fun, it is. But it's not fun unless you have experience and a guide to take you down. If you're interested in whitewater kayaking, let me know, and we can start out on some easier stuff. I'm christianw at Addison independent dot com.


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CLEARFIELD TWP — A Sunday night fire ravaged a one-story home on Old Route 422.
Chief Kevin Hesidenz of the East Butler Volunteer Fire Department said this morning the blaze appears to have started in the basement of the addition to the house at 3014 E. Old Route 422.
No one was injured. Hesidenz said the family of two adults and three children were not home when the fire ignited. The family's name was unavailable.
A passer-by who spotted the fire called 911 at 5:47 p.m.
Hesidenz said firefighters had no difficulties dousing the flames.
"They pretty much went through the front door," he said.
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Hesidenz did not know if the family was insured. They are staying with relatives.
Roughly 40 firefighters responded to the call. The Herman, Lick Hill, Chicora, Oneida Valley and Worthington volunteer fire departments assisted East Butler.
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Is Barack Obama an insensitive lout who serves $100 per pound steaks to his elite guests and turns up the heat in the White House high enough to grow orchids while a million of his countrymen are without power and dozens are freezing to death? If not, why not?
Solely because that is not the story the media want to tell. Many on the web–but no one in the mainstream media–have commented on the fact that Obama has not even pretended to do anything about the massive ice storm that has disabled much of Kentucky and neighboring states. It took days for FEMA to swing into action. Why is that not a scandal? Days went by before Kentucky's governor called out the National Guard. Why did no one blame Obama for failing to call out the Guard sooner? Probably because he lacks the constitutional power to do so; but the Constitution hasn't changed since 2005.
The Anchoress has an excellent roundup. Glenn Reynolds has been on the story too. One of Glenn's readers writes:
What Katrina taught the media was that they could hurt Bush by lying. What 2008 taught them was that they could help Obama by not reporting at all. What will 2009 teach them? I shudder to think.
A basic reality of our time is that our mass media are monolithic, and what they choose to report (or not report) depends on what fits the narrative they are pushing on the public. If our reporters and editors wanted to portray Obama as clueless and out of touch with ordinary Americans, he has given them ample opportunity to do so. But because they are Democrats and he is a Democrat, they have no desire to tell that story. So "let them eat steak" is not a theme you'll be seeing on the evening news.
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How many jobs are created from the construction of a new bridge or an increase in tourism?
The Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) new Web portal on the ocean and Great Lakes economy shows how the Bureau's Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II) can be used to provide answers to such questions. The new Web site stems from a joint project with the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
RIMS II, a regional economic model, is used by investors, planners, and elected officials to objectively assess the returns to projects ranging from a new sports stadium to a new bridge. The returns include the short- and long-term increases in jobs and spending associated with the projects.
The idea behind the results of RIMS II is that an initial change in economic activity leads to additional changes in economic activity in other parts of an economy—for example, building a new bridge leads to increased production of concrete and steel. The increased production of concrete and steel leads to more mining. Workers benefiting from these increases may also enjoy bigger paychecks, so they may then spend more by eating out at nicer restaurants or splurging more on entertainment.
Planners and policymakers use RIMS II to compare the regional impacts that are likely to occur from proposed projects. That helps them make decisions related to the allocation of resources. That's why RIMS II appears on the new Web site, which showcases BEA's regional information on the ocean and Great Lakes economy. Findings based on the model are typically reported in "economic impact studies," which are cited to support major spending decisions by both the public and private sectors.
The new Web portal highlights the wide range of questions that can be answered with the help of RIMS II. Here are a few of them:
- How many jobs are supported by the fish processing industry in Bellingham, WA?
- How much will workers' earnings increase if an additional 500,000 tourists visited Myrtle Beach, SC, because of a developmental project to beautify its beaches?
- How much will workers' earnings increase solely from the new spending of these tourists at local retail stores?
- How much will workers' earnings increase if a new $2.5 million bridge was built to improve access to a public beach in St. Augustine, FL?
The examples also provide tips on how RIMS II can most effectively be used. The bridge example shows how the model can account for the specific details related to a particular construction project. Because the proposed bridge will be built out of precast concrete parts, the labor costs are relatively low for the cost of the project. By using the "bill-of-goods" method, the resulting estimate reflects the smaller impact the project will have on workers' earnings across the region.
You can find the answers to the questions posed above by visiting the new portal for the ocean and Great Lakes economy. Additional information for RIMS II is also available on the BEA Web site.


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Monday, August 30, 2010
Chocolate Chip Cookie Plum Sundae
The soft serve machine at the Ratty has gotten an intense workout lately. While we're at it, why not make a fancier dessert? Plums are in season, and apparently so are giant chocolate chip cookies. I don't know why the cocoa puffs are there. You can leave them out if you prefer no crunchy interferences with your creamy cool soft serve.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Plum Sundae
1 giant chocolate chip cookie
1 plum
1 split-second dispense of Cocoa Puffs
1 not-so-split-second dispense of vanilla soft serve
1. Cut the cookie into eighths, like a sliced pizza.
2. Cut the plum into eighths, like a...sliced plum.
3. Add the cocoa puffs.
4. Add the soft serve, attempting to create a pretty swirl. Evidently, we were not so successful.
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Labels: Cafeteria Recipes, Cereal, Dessert, Fruit, Ratty, Soft Serve
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Search Console reports
Search Console data
Search Console data is joined with Analytics data via the Landing Page dimension. This integration lets you see how pre-click data like queries and impressions correlate with post-click data like bounce rate and transactions.The Search Console reports include one dimension that is specific to Google Web Search data:
- Queries: The Google Search queries that generated impressions of your website URLs in Google organic search results.
The Search Console reports in Analytics use four metrics specific to Google Web Search data:
- Impressions: The number of times any URL from your site appeared in search results viewed by a user, not including paid Google Ads search impressions.
- Clicks: The number of clicks on your website URLs from a Google Search results page, not including clicks on paid Google Ads search results.
- Average Position: The average ranking of your website URLs for the query or queries. For example, if your site's URL appeared at position 3 for one query and position 7 for another query, the average position would be 5 ((3+7)/2).
- CTR: Click-through rate, calculated as Clicks / Impressions * 100.
Landing Pages report
The Landing Pages report lists the URLs from your site that are displayed in search results. You can see how each URL performed in terms of search (Impressions, CTR, etc.), and also in terms of how users engaged with the content (Bounce Rate, Avg. Session Duration, Transactions).
If URLs are performing well in search, but not in engagement, then your content might not be fully relevant to what users had in mind, or your site design is making it difficult for them to accomplish their goals. In addition to site content and design, your users may also experience site-performance problems, which you can investigate in the Site Speed reports.
Keep in mind that a single URL is typically associated with many unique queries, and generic queries can have a beneficial effect on the Average Position value. For example, on a classic-car site, a generic query for classic cars might return only the URL for the home page, while a more specific query like classic cars Ford might return the URL for the home page along with other site pages devoted specifically to Fords.
Countries report
The Countries report lets you see which countries produce the best search performance and user engagement for your site URLs.
If you notice strong search performance but poor user engagement from a specific country, then that can be a good signal to develop a language-specific version of your site for those users.
Devices report
The Devices report lets you see which category of devices (desktop, tablet, or mobile) delivers the best search performance and user engagement.
If you notice strong search performance but poor user engagement from specific devices (for example, mobile or tablet), then that can be a good signal that you need to reevaluate the way you have developed content and/or designed your site for that device.
Queries report
The Queries report lists the Google Search queries that generated impressions of your website URLs in Google organic search results.
Understanding the correlation between how users search and the relevancy of your pages to those queries provides insight into how to optimize your content.
The number of impressions that each page generates and the average position of impressions let you understand how well the search engine correlates your content to user queries.
Clicks and click-through rate let you understand how well users correlate the search results with their intentions.
When a query returns only a single URL from your site, then Average Position value is based on the position of that URL in the search results. When a query returns more than one URL from your site, the Average Position value is based on the URL that appears highest in the search results.
To protect user privacy, queries that are made infrequently or that contain sensitive or personal information are grouped together as (other).
Differences between metrics and dimensions in Search Console and Analytics
The following table identifies terms that are used in both Search Console and Analytics reports.
|Search Console usage
|Analytics usage
|Used for both Google Ads impressions and Google Search impressions
|Used exclusively for Google Search impressions
|Used exclusively for Google Search clicks
|Used for both Google Ads clicks and Google Search clicks
|Average Position
|Average ranking in Google Search results
|Average ranking in Google Search results
|Click-through rate. Clicks/Impressions for Google Search clicks.
|Click-through rate. Clicks/Impressions for both Google Ads and Google Search clicks.
|Applies to the key terms used in the written content of the website pages. These terms are the most significant keywords and their variants that Google found when crawling your site. When reviewed along with the Search queries report and your site's listing in actual search results for your targeted keywords, it provides insight into how Google is interpreting the content of your site.
|In paid-search or Google Ads reports, describes a paid keyword from a search-engine-results page. In the organic-search reports, describes the actual query string a user entered in a web search.
|The actual query a user entered in Google search.
|Only used in the Search Console reports. Applies to the actual query a user entered in Google search.
Data discrepancies between Search Console and Analytics
|Search Console
|Landing-page URLs that redirect
|Search Console reports the original URL for a landing page, even when that URL redirects to another page, for example:
redirects to
Search Console reports the URL as
|Analytics reports the URL that results from the redirect, for example:
|Page has no Analytics tracking code
|Data for the page appears in Search Console.
|Data for the page does not appear in Analytics.
|Number of URLs recorded per site per day
|Search Console records up to 1000 URLs for landing pages.
|Analytics does not observe the 1000-URL limit, and can include more landing pages.
|Analytics property tracks multiple domains
|Search Console can link to a single domain.
|If an Analytics property tracks multiple domains, the Search Console reports have data for only the single linked domain.
|Time zones vary
|Search Console timestamps data according to Pacific Daylight Time.
|Analytics timestamps data in each view according to the time zone identified in the view settings.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Snickers Charged
Mars has messed around quite a bit with Snickers over the past few years with various limited editions. Snickers Almond (more nuts with added almond pieces), Snickers Xtreme (all caramel & nuts), Snickers Nut 'n Butter Crunch (all peanuts & nougat), Snickers Dark (dark chocolate) and Snickers Shrek (green nougat). What they haven't done yet is put something in Snickers that wasn't already there.
That comes to an end as Snickers thinks that we need to wake up.
They've introduced their new Limited Edition Snickers Charged which boasts 60 milligrams of caffeine, taurine and other B vitamins (about 10% of your RDA).
The bar is slightly smaller than their regular one, again this is the same with all the limited edition bars. It's 1.83 ounces instead of 2.06.
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Of course a slightly smaller bar means fewer calories. This one is 250 calories compared to the 280 in the regular bar.
It smells much like the regular Snickers, has the same texture ... same crunchy peanuts, chewy caramel and super-sweet nougat with a hit of salt. And then it comes along, the caffeine kick. And when I say kick, I mean in the mouth. It's a bitter aftertaste that sits high and in the back of the mouth. It just kind of lingers there, like maybe it's not something you ate but something you smelled (sometimes strong skunk will do that to me). And it stays with you, probably as long as the caffeine is in your system. I clocked my aftertaste for eating one half of a bar at 90 minutes.
If you're one of those people who doesn't notice the bitterness of coffee, it might not be such a big deal. The nice thing about a regular Snickers is that it's an anytime bar ... this one I wouldn't be able to eat late in the day or the evening because I simply can't sleep if I have caffeine that late. If they'd made this a coffee flavored bar like the Twix Java, well now then we'd have something!
That 60 milligrams is nothing to sneeze at:
1 - 8-ounce soft drink contains 20-40 milligrams (about 150-170 calories)
Honestly, it's a great value as an edible dose of caffeine goes. A candy bar is usually about 75 cents at a convenience store. A cup of coffee is usually $1.25 and a soda is $1.00 ... you might be able to get an energy drink for about $2.00. (Let's not even go into the caffeine, calories & price of those blended coffee drinks.)
I got four bars as samples from Mars and I'll probably eat them all, but unless I have a specific need for unhydrated caffeine, I don't see myself picking up one of these. (Add that to the fact that they're limited edition, which will likely make them harder to find.)
Some other early reviews: Crown Combo Blog & Digital Ronan.
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2010 Readers' Choice Awards: Suppliers That Hit the Trifecta
Good price, good quality, good service: Here are the suppliers you say deliver it in 38 categories of ingredients, equipment and services.
"It's very competitive out there, but the suppliers with the trifecta of good price, good quality and good service quickly sort themselves to the top of our list."
Who can argue with that comment from Lissa McBurney of Boston's Dancing Deer Baking Company? And although McBurney is a specifier of ingredients, the same holds true for the buyers (and suppliers) of equipment and services in the food and beverage industry.
"With the ever increasing consumer awareness around food safety, equipment suppliers must continually improve the processes for maintenance and sanitation of their equipment," adds a plant ops executive from a Canadian meat processor. That's a good point for all equipment fabricators to remember.
Those comments typify the responses to our eighth annual Readers' Choice Awards survey. As we have in the past, we sent e-mail surveys to a subset of our circulation list between Thanksgiving of 2009 and New Year's. We got 227 responses back. This year, for the first time, we also took votes on our web site. After culling ineligible ballots, that added a few dozen more votes.
No supplier names were suggested; the form is an unaided recall survey. Voters represent all categories of the food and beverage industry. There are two separate surveys: one for our subscribers primarily involved in specifying processing and packaging equipment and a separate one for those buying ingredients and flavors. Also as usual, we got more votes in the ingredient categories than in the equipment and services ones. The winners in 11 categories of nutraceutical ingredients will be unveiled in the April issue in our Wellness Foods section.
Interestingly, very few of the comments made any mention of the tough times of the past year. As usual, the positive comments far out numbered the negative ones.
"Great ingredients are the first step to a great product," said a guy at a Pennsylvania cheese maker. "All the companies we use make great products."
"Overall I would say customer service is excellent," wrote a man at an East Coast company. "The industry as a whole suffered a black eye with the recent peanut salmonella issue in Georgia. We need to be able to rely on our suppliers to be truthful when they provide their [certificate of analysis] and other test data."
"We are very satisfied with the ability of our suppliers to provide pilot equipment/services to support technology evaluations and development," wrote a man at a canning company, who asked not to be identified. But elaborating over the phone, he said his favorite suppliers are those who agree to set up pilot equipment at the supplier's facility or loan or rent his company equipment to run under its own roof, so he can test new models or find process or energy efficiencies. "If the equipment works and they make it easy for us to scale up, those are the suppliers we eventually buy from," he added.
"Ninety percent of the companies we do business with understand the value of customer service and personal relationships. Their responsiveness, willingness to start small and build and their technical support keep us going back to them project after project," said a Florida maker of consumer baked goods toppings.
"All of the companies that I wrote in are outstanding in product, price and overall excellent customer service. I cannot say enough good things about them," said another.
"Most companies are very helpful. Our flavor, gum and starch companies are very helpful and prompt. They are always willing to give the extra push to make your project go through," wrote yet another.
"Food safety is so big – it's important to have a good supplier who understands that," commented an anonymous respondent.
Despite all those great compliments, there were some suggestions for improvement:
- "Many suppliers are waiting for us (the customer) to call them, especially those on a preferred suppliers list," lamented one R&D guy.
- "Always work with R&D to narrow choices (more focus) rather than overloading the R&D contact with samples," said a product developer at General Mills.
- "We could always use more information on their products, especially on efficacy study/clinical study," said another R&D technician.
- "Having replacement parts on hand is very important" to a guy at a ConAgra plant.
- "[Service] is OK; I just wish the prices would come down a little," said a Colorado cheese cake maker.
- At least one respondent was downright critical: "Customer service is down overall. It has been declining over the past 15 years that I have been doing the purchasing at my company," said an ingredient buyer at a sauces and dressings company.
But the overwhelming majority paint an encouraging picture of suppliers that are key components of the success of food & beverage companies. So we congratulate the 87 suppliers that were selecte. And we thank all the food and beverage processors who took the time to fill out this survey.
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November/December 2011
Certain drug side effects or medical conditions found in people with HIV are continuously receiving a lot of attention, and bone problems are among them. In an analysis from the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA), researchers once again found evidence that HIV treatment may have a negative effect on bones. One thing was clear, however: the risk of HIV therapy causing bone problems was minimal compared to traditional risk factors such as older age, diabetes, smoking, Caucasian race, and hepatitis C infection.
The researchers were especially interested in the cumulative effect of therapy on fractures -- does the risk of fracture go up with a longer duration on HIV treatment? They were also particularly interested in the effect of Viread (tenofovir), which has been associated with loss of bone mineral density. Viread is also found in Truvada, Atripla, and Complera.
The VA looked at two time frames for this analysis -- 1988 to 1995 and 1996 to 2009, the era of HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). They looked at the medical records of 56,660 patients with HIV. Of these, 951 experienced a fracture of the wrist, hip, or first vertebra (in the spine) over the entire two time periods. Most of those fractures occurred in the HAART era, 572 cases in 32,439 patients.
Over the entire time frame, the risk of fracture with exposure to antiretrovirals was statistically significant for Viread and boosted protease inhibitors (PIs). However, when factoring in other risk factors (such as hepatitis C) or other antivirals, that association went away. In the HAART era alone, the association with Viread use continued when looking at the drug by itself or in multivariate analysis with either traditional risk factors or traditional risk factors plus the use of other antivirals. All in all, there was a cumulative 12% to 16% greater risk of OF per year of Viread use.
Presenter Dr. Roger Bedimo of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center said, "The significant increase seen in the HAART era is not necessarily cause and effect." The research team hypothesized that the cause of the increased risk of OF was aging made possible by longer survival with HAART.
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I tried something new this time: I watched sports on television while following the presidential debate on PL Live. It was fun, and much easier on my nerves. Plus, my wife watched the debate and kept me posted, and I caught a few minutes here and there.
So what's the bottom line? Our people were generally pleased; the ones who weren't wanted Romney to be more aggressive. That's a good sign. My impression, during the time I watched, was that Romney was thinking about America, and Obama was thinking about losing the election. Obama had obviously been coached to be "strong" and "tough," and he came off looking like Joe Biden on meds. I think pretty much everyone perceived Romney as the more presidential of the two candidates.
So: Obama needed something big to break Romney's momentum, and he clearly didn't get it. On the contrary, no matter what the instant spin might be tonight, over the coming days the overriding impression from tonight's debate will of a flailing, desperate Obama. A losing Obama.


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Jukebox Puzzle
by Oskar van Deventer
A red and a blue coin always appear at the top of
the Jukebox. Click one of them to insert it into the Jukebox. Your
goal is to make all the red coins dropped into the left red basket at
the bottom of the Jukebox, while all the blue coins - into the right
blue basket.
A coin can be inserted into the Jukebox either clicking on it directly,
of with the respective keys pressed (two options):
- 1 for a red coin, 2 for a blue coin or
- the left arrow for a red coin, the right arrow for a blue coin.
You score a point for every coin dropped correctly. You lose one point
for a wrong coin. You win if you score 40 or more points. You lose if
40 coins drop into the wrong basket.
You are welcome to try 89 challenges in this puzzle!
The Java version of Oskar's mechanical Jukebox Puzzle appeared for the
first time at