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(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- October 2009 Penthouse Pet Ryan Keely presents the first ever Porn Star Sex Life (www.pornstarsexlife.com) seminar taking place on Saturday, July 10th 2010 at Velour Lounge in New York City.
Porn star sex life is an educational and inspirational seminar for people who want to connect with their inner porn star and develop the confidence and skills they need to satisfy their sexual partners and the confidence to seek new partners and explore new behaviors like multiple partners, group sex and fantasy play.
An idea turned into reality stemming from Keelys association with pick-up artist community UpYourAttraction.com, Porn Star Sex Life was created to help empower people to take control of their sex lives.
The all-day workshop, which Keely has enlisted the help of fellow Penthouse Pets Justine Joli and Jade Vixen, covers everything from pick-up tips, dating, sexual techniques and positions, how to pick up strippers and threesome etiquette.
''Ive always loved to talk to people about sex. My greatest gift is to talk about sexuality and my goal with Porn Star Sex Life is to be educational and inspirational,'' says Ryan.
Porn Star Sex Life is geared toward males, but Ryan encourages females and couples to attend as well stating, ''Everyone wants to know how men think.'' Thanks in part to sex author Dan Savage, his philosophy of the ''GGGgood, giving and game'' made Keely comfortable enough to explore her own sexuality and wants to turn male encounters into more than just a one night stand. Keely cites Savages Savage Lovecolumn and writer/director Tristan Taormino as big influences in her own sexual journey, a journey that includes working in the Hustler Hollywood San Diego store as a buyer and hosting radio programs for KSEXRadio.com as well as for Playboy Radio.
For more information about Porn Star Sex Life, please visit: www.pornstarsexlife.com. The seminar/workshop series kicks off in July and has two price points: $195 and $279. The deluxe package includes a one-hour, one- on-one personal coaching session with Keely and Porn Star Sex Life co-founder and pick-up artist Josh Rosenberg.
For more information on Ryan Keely, please visit: http://www.pornstarsexlife.com or www.ryankeely.com.
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About Ryan Keely:
October 2009 Penthouse Pet Ryan Keely has covered the gamut of what comes to life when brains and beauty cohabitate in the body of 5 foot 10 inch tall goddess. Her works are undeniable: Keely has hosted programs on both Playboy TV and Playboy Radio, and is one of the most in-demand and popular girl/girl adult performers in the world of feature and fetish films. As one of the creators of Porn Star Sex Life, Keely has created a workshop empowering people to take control of their sex lives, an idea that came out of her association with UpYourAttraction.com, a pick-up artist community. Keely was beautifully featured in Stagg Street, the Erotica Photography of Ellen Stagg, and is the cover girl for the Big Book of Legs (Taschen). Keely was photographed by Dennis McGrath for Huf Skateboards, and chosen as one of the 12 girls for the 2010 Mishka calendar. Howard Stern fell madly in love with her during her appearance on the Howard Stern Radio Show (she shares a familiar body type to that of Sterns wife, Beth Ostrosky-Stern). As the legendary website site Popporn has exclaimed, ''Shes a renaissance woman for God's sake!''
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Work For Hire v. Assignment
by Kamal Moo, Esq.
Imagine you own a company and you want to create an app to better market and sell your products. Most likely, none of your employees will know how to make apps so you'll need to hire an independent software engineer to create one for you. However, whenever a copyrightable work is created, it's always important to determine who will actually own the finished work. At first glance, it seems like a simple "work for hire" agreement will be enough, but that may not be the case.
Under U.S. copyright law, a "work for hire" is defined as (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as an answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
In our scenario, the software engineer probably wouldn't qualify as an "employee" of your company since you don't regularly employ or supervise him, so the other option would be to try and argue that the app is a "work specifically ordered or commissioned..." But, notice that the law lists a specific set of works that can qualify as "works for hire" and there is no category for software. So, in our case, if you use a simple work for hire agreement, it may not be sufficient to grant full ownership to your company.
What should you do in this situation? Fortunately, the law allows copyright owners to transfer a copyright through an "assignment." To be valid, a copyright assignment must be in writing and signed by the owner making the transfer. In our scenario, it would be smart to include an "assignment clause" in the software engineer's work for hire agreement. This clause would say that if the app doesn't qualify as a "work for hire" then the engineer assigns all rights to your company. Including this language will provide an added layer of protection if there's an ownership dispute later.
What happens if there isn't assignment language in your contract and the app doesn't qualify as a "work for hire"? Well, then your company and the software engineer will most likely be considered 50/50 owners. If that happens, you may be on the hook to pay him for continued use of the app and that can get pricey.
Bottom line: when hiring people outside your company to create copyrightable material, be sure your agreements contain the necessary language. Taking precautions in the beginning could save you big bucks in the long run.
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One of the top defensive backs in NFL history is putting pressure on the Augusta Futurity's winningest rider.
Phil Rapp, the winner of a record five Augusta titles, is in his customary top spot in the Futurity Non-Pro class, which he has won twice.
The Weatherford, Texas, cutter had a 219 Tuesday, as did Bill Burns of Sweetwater, Texas, in the first go-round of the class for 4-year-old horses. Rapp is riding Cats Full Measure, while Burns is aboard Doctor Dirt.
The NFL Hall-of-Famer in question is 51-year-old Mel Blount, a native of Vidalia, Ga., and a member of the NFL's 50-player All-Century team. Blount, who won four Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was an eight-time All-Pro in 14 seasons, is in 11th place after a 215. The top 52 riders in this 94-rider class advanced to Thursday's second go-round. It took a 206 to move forward.
Blount hasn't ridden in this show since 1997 because of a conflict with the Super Bowl. A member of the NFL Players Association Advisory board, Blount attends meetings during Super Bowl week. With the Super Bowl being played in Atlanta on Sunday, Blount can ride in the Augusta Futurity and still make his meetings. In addition to the meetings, Blount will be honored as the NFL Alumni Man of the Year on Friday in Atlanta for his work with youngsters.
With the way he easily advanced to Thursday's second go-round of this class, Blount may be in Augusta on Super Bowl eve for the finals of this class.
"I don't know how much better of a rider I am since I was here last time, but I know I have a much better horse," Blount said of Doc Pers Dodger.
The stallion, trained by Tracy Barton of Rocky Mountain, Va., carried Blount to a fourth place finish in the sport's top event, the National Cutting Horse Association World Championship last month in Fort Worth, Texas. Rapp won the event on Cats Full Measure.
"He's as good as the cow in front of him," Blount said of Doc Pers Dodger. "He's a real pleasure to ride. I'm tickled to death."
Blount, who lives in Claysville, Pa., drove a motorhome to Augusta, arriving Tuesday with little time to practice.
"He cut one cow in practice for about 30 seconds and that was the first cow he cut since the Futurity in Fort Worth (which ended Dec. 12)," said Barton. "He just goes in there and shows."
The 30-year-old Rapp, who won his record fifth Augusta title last year in the Classic Non-Pro division, is riding a horse with a long list of health problems.
"It's been one thing right after another," said Rapp, who has had Cats Full Measure for 11 months.
First, the horse was diagnosed as being asthmatic. Rapp knew something was wrong because Cats Full Measure had a chronic cough that would usually kick in near the end of a ride. That was controlled by a bronchodilater, a mask that goes over the mouth and nose and works like a medi-haler.
Then, about three months ago, Cats Full Measure came down with Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis. EPM happens when a bacteria gets in the spinal cord and eats away at the membrane between the nerve endings. The result is that messages won't go from one spinal nerve to another. Medication has helped keep this problem in check.
After Rapp and Cats Full Measure won the Non-Pro title in the National Cutting Horse Association World Championship in Fort Worth, the horse came down with a stifle (knee joint) problem.
"If she didn't have a breathing problem, EPM and stifle, there's no telling how good she could be," Rapp said.
Through all the health problems, Cats Full Measure has shown "she wants to be a good horse," Rapp said. "She wants to overcome this stuff. She's a nice horse to be around. She puts up with it and takes it in stride.
"We have never put this much effort into keeping a horse sound," Rapp added. "But the mare showed us she had a lot of talent. We were not going to give up on her, but it's been a lot of work."
The recent stifle problem kept Cats Full Measure out of the Ailbene Spectacular cutting horse show earlier this month.
"Everytime you think you're doing something with her, she comes down with another problem," Rapp said.
Rapp normally rides horses that have been bred on his ranch, but Cats Full Measure is the exception. When Smart Little Fred, one of Rapp's 2000 Futurity horses, came down with a hock problem, Rapp had to look elsewhere.
Owner/rider Jack Waggoner of Bridgeport, Texas, suggested Cats Full Measure. After keeping Cats Full Measure on his ranch for a spell, Rapp bought the mare.
"I liked her and wanted to keep her, but I knew Phil would do well on her," said Waggoner, a non-pro. "I knew he'd do a lot better with her than I would. That mare will go gather up a cow, and Phil never gets her in the wrong places."
Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center
(All events start at 8 a.m.)
Second go-round of Futurity Open, followed by second go-round of Classic Non-Pro; finals of $50,000 Amateur 4-year-old; finals of $50,000 Amateur 5-6 year-old.
Thursday, Jan. 27:
Second go-round of Futurity Non-Pro, followed by second go-round of Classic Open, followed by semifinals of Futurity Open.
Friday, Jan. 28:
First go-round of $50,000 Amateur Any Age, followed by finals of $50,000 Amateur Any Age, followed by finals of Classic Non-Pro, followed by finals of Classic Open.
Saturday, Jan. 29:
Futurity horse sale at 9 a.m. Finals of Futurity Non-Pro start at 6:30, followed by finals of Futurity Open.
General admission daytime pass: $6 for adults, $2 for children under 13. Reserved seating through Jan. 28: $13.50 for adults, $5 for children. Reserved seating for Jan. 29: $15.50 for adults, $5 for children. Gold ticket: $40 for admission to all events, except nights of Jan. 28 and 29
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OLYMPIA – The Association of Washington Cities (AWC) announced that Seattle Councilmember Sally Bagshaw was recently elected large city representative of the Board of Directors. The large city representative serves on the board's executive committee.
"I am pleased to serve on the AWC Board as the Large City Representative," Councilmember Bagshaw said. "AWC offers elected officials across our state the opportunity to get to know each other and share solutions to problems we are collectively facing. I was interested to learn this past year that every large city's first priorities are to decrease homelessness, increase affordable housing and direct funds for more mental health services. With a united front we can approach the legislature and federal government, urging their buy-in to make all of our cities stronger. "
Bagshaw has served on the AWC Board of Directors since 2016. The city of Seattle, as Washington's largest city, holds two positions, as a single-city district position on the AWC board.
The AWC Board of Directors is the association's governing body. The board is comprised of 25 directors, 23 of whom are mayors or city councilmembers from Washington cities or towns, and two non-elected city officials who also serve as the president and past president of the Washington City/County Management Association.
AWC serves its members through advocacy, education and services. Founded in 1933, AWC is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation that represents Washington's cities and towns before the state legislature, the state executive branch, and with regulatory agencies. Membership is voluntary. However, AWC consistently maintains 100 percent participation from Washington's 281 cities and towns. AWC also provides training, data and publications, and programs such as the AWC Employee Benefit Trust, AWC Risk Management Service Agency, AWC Workers' Comp Retro, AWC Drug and Alcohol Consortium, and AWC GIS Consortium.
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Madison, WI (PRWEB) June 13, 2014
Quincy Bioscience, manufacturer of Prevagen®, is pleased to announce the launch of Prevagen Chewables in Walgreens' locations nationwide.
Prevagen Chewables contains 10 mg of the mind-enhancing ingredient apoaequorin per dose, and is designed to support healthy brain function and improve mild memory issues associated with aging. Prevagen Chewables are available in a mixed berry flavor, and can be purchased online at the Prevagen website or over-the-counter at Walgreens chain drug stores.
The body's ability to produce essential calcium-binding proteins slows down during the natural process of aging, and may affect memory, focus and concentration. The main ingredient in Prevagen, apoaequorin, has been clinically tested to supplement these proteins, and improve brain health and overall memory. Daily use for 30-90 days is the recommended length of time to experience results. Prevagen Chewables are safe and effective, and manufactured at a NSF registered facility.
"Our chewable formulation provides for convenience and ease-of-use for people that are not fans of swallowing pills," said Mark Underwood, president and co-founder of Quincy Bioscience. "We want to remove every barrier that stands in the path of better brain health."
Prevagen recently won its third Vity Award for the best brain support formula from Vitamin Retailer magazine, and is the leading branded brain health supplement in health food stores, pharmacies, and physician offices since the product was launched in 2007.
To obtain more information about Prevagen Chewables, please call (888) 814-0814 or visit the Prevagen website.
About Quincy Bioscience:
Quincy Bioscience is a biotechnology company based in Madison, Wis. that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel technologies to support good health in aging. The company's products focus on supporting memory and cognitive health. Quincy Bioscience is set apart by its cutting-edge applications of the protein apoaequorin, which is breaking new ground in the area of brain health.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.


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How Can You Challenge the Status Quo?
To challenge the status quo means understanding everything involved with the word "challenge." In this context, the word challenge means to dare or better yet to defy something and in this case that something is the status quo.
Then of course your status quo must be also defined because each of us have a different status quo.
Sometimes it helps to answer this simple and not easy question:
Are you where you want to be?
If you are not where you want to be, then where are you?
Looking are the different aspects of your personal life, where are you right now respective to the 8 areas of life balance:
- Purpose and Ethics & Beliefs (Spirituality)
- Mental and Physical
- Family and Social
- Career and Financial
Through a self assessment of the 8 areas of life balance you begin to define your own status quo through your own emotional happiness and satisfaction. This process brings greater clarity to how you challenge the status quo. Sales Training Coaching Tip: These Personal-Sales-Wheels may help you.
Having a written action plan supported by SMART goals also supports your defiance of the status quo. Through this process you will be applying critical thinking skills that your brain may internally fight because the brain wants conditioned behavior. Thinking requires energy and our brains want to conserve all energy for those flight or fight moments.
Then again another behavior change or personal growth strategy is to think about what you do well and then apply what you do well to defying the status quo. Unfortunately most people from my experience do not know what they do well and waste precious resources of time, energy, money and emotions by focusing on weaknesses or turning non-talents into weaknesses. Sales Training Coaching Tip: This talent assessment may also be of some assistance to you in your efforts to challenge the status quo.
Challenging the status quo can be achieved provided you have the correct mindset reinforced by proven tools. In the words of Henry Ford:
If you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you are right.


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Wawrinka becomes unlikely champion
Updated 10:08 pm, Sunday, January 26, 2014
Melbourne, Australia --
Stanislas Wawrinka added a win over Rafael Nadal to his list of firsts in a stunning run to his maiden Grand Slam title, extending his rival's injury-filled run at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 upset in Sunday's final.
Wawrinka, 28, had not taken a set off Nadal in 12 previous meetings, but attacked from the start against the 13-time major winner and regained his nerve after dropping the third set against the injured Spaniard.
Nadal appeared to be on the verge of retiring in the second set, when he hurt his back and needed a medical timeout, but he refused to quit.
"It's really not the way you want to win a tennis match, but in a Grand Slam final, I'll take it," said Wawrinka, the first man in 21 years to beat the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked players en route to a Grand Slam title.
Nadal was a hot favorite to win at Melbourne Park and become the first man to win each of the four Grand Slam tournaments twice in the Open era - instead, his injury history struck again. It remains the only major he hasn't won at least two times.
"Rafa, I'm really sorry for you. I hope your back is going to be fine. You're a really great guy, good friend and really amazing champion," Wawrinka said as he accepted his first major trophy. "Last year, I had a crazy match, I lost it. I was crying a lot after the match. But in one year a lot happened; I still don't know if I'm dreaming or not but we'll see tomorrow morning."
Wawrinka lost in five sets to Novak Djokovic in the fourth round of the 2013 Australian Open, in the longest Grand Slam match of the season. Djokovic would win his third consecutive title at Melbourne Park, and then beat Wawrinka again in five sets in the U.S. Open semifinals.
This time, Wawrinka beat Djokovic in five sets in the quarterfinals - ending a run of 14 losses to the Serbian.
"Stan, you really deserve it," Nadal said. "Luck was against me today, but you really deserve it.
"Last thing that I wanted to do was retire. I hate to do that, especially in a final."
Nadal has had a terrible stretch with injuries at the Australian Open, and has described it as his unluckiest Grand Slam. He won the title in 2009, and lost an epic five-set final to Djokovic in 2012. Nadal missed the 2013 edition during a seven-month layoff with knee injuries and illness, and his quarterfinal losses in 2010 and 2011 were affected by injuries.
"It has been a very emotional two weeks; I'm sorry to finish this way," he told the Rod Laver Arena crowd. "I tried very, very hard. This year was one of the more emotional tournaments in my career."
After a muted celebration, Wawrinka consoled Nadal in the courtside chairs before getting a chance to hold up and kiss his first big trophy.


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Shop worker 'absolutely terrified' during raid
A detective told a recent court sitting, "I don't believe anybody in my experience was so afraid" as a young female employee who was caught up in a robbery at a local bookmaker's office.
Detective Garda James Kilgannon described that the 22 year-old was "absolutely terrified" when confronted by two raiders wearing balaclavas, one armed with a sledge hammer and the other with a gun at the Blue Diamond office at Barrack Street. He said that she was afraid to return to work on the public counter and worked in a back office.
Dundalk Circuit Court heard that Gardai cordoned off a house in the nearby Mountainview Crescent Estate to where the pair fled and entered without permission and tried to burn clothing.
The Gardai spotted them sitting at a table which they seemed to get up from in a panic, while there was a thick smell of smoke from the chimney. The Gardai forced in a door and found runners and gloves in an open fire. There was a sledge hammer on the kitchen table and the two suspects were upstairs trying to hide in the bathroom.
Gardai also recovered a black plastic drawer with a couple of euro which was taken in the robbery. They recovered €1,960 of the €2,500 taken in the raid, Detective Kilgannon said.
Jason Kearney a 41 year-old father of three with an address at Ashling Park and also at Cedarwood Park, both Dundalk, pleaded guilty to the robbery on March 30th last year.
He was sentenced on Friday to three years jail, with the final 18 months suspended. The sentence was back dated to October last year when the accused went into custody. A co-accused previously received a four year sentence.
Detective Kilgannon told the court that at approximately 5.20pm on the date the then 22 year-old woman was taking bets when two masked men stood in front of her and demanded money. She pressed the panic button.
The raider with the sledge hammer came in behind the counter and lifted two bundles of cash amounting to €1,300 and took €1,200 from the cash register. The accused while this was taking place stood at the door to the side of the counter. He had a gun which he put on the counter when he entered the office.Mr Giolliaosa O'Leide SC pleaded that there was a major difference in convictions recorded against the accused and his co-accused who had over 100. His client had three, one for burglary and the other two for public order offences. He had a drink and drug problem but seemed to have made a substantial transformation over the last year and a half and was a model prisoner.


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Graphing Complex and Real Numbers
Date: 02/26/2003 at 20:32:45 From: Paul Lehmbeck Subject: Graphing Complex and Real Numbers I have been finding the zeros for polynomial functions in class and I have found real, imaginary, and complex numbers as the zeros. But when I graph the zeros I run into a problem. Since on the Cartesian plane you can only graph real zeros and real solutions, I wonder if you are truly graphing the function when you omit the complex and imaginary zeros and solutions. For example, for f(x) = x^2+1 there are no real zeros, but the imaginary zeros are -i and i. MAIN QUESTION - Since you can't graph the imaginary zeros, is the function truly being represented by the graph? This has led me to wonder if it is at all possible to graph the real, imaginary, and complex input and output solutions on the same graph and still remain in the 2nd or 3rd dimension without hypothesizing about a fourth dimension? If it is possible to represent all solutions to a function, including real, complex, and imaginary numbers, on a single graph, what would that graph be if it is not a Cartesian plane or Complex plane? If it is not possible, would you then need two graphs for the same function - one for the real inputs and outputs, and another for the imaginary and complex inputs and outputs (if it is possible) to show all solutions? Thank you for your time and explanation.
Date: 02/27/2003 at 15:49:41 From: Doctor Tom Subject: Re: Graphing Complex and Real Numbers Hi Paul, Great question! At this stage, almost every function you've seen takes real values as inputs and gives real values as outputs, so when you plot such a function on the standard x-y plane, you are showing all the values of the function with real-valued inputs. For a function like y = x^2 + 1 that has no real roots, you are still plotting all the information for real inputs. The curve never passes through y = 0, so there simply are no real roots. You can't plot the output for an input value of i, since i is imaginary and not found on the real line. In our standard three-dimensional space it is impossible to plot functions, like polynomials, that have complex inputs and complex outputs. You can imagine the real-imaginary complex plane, and plot outputs above it, but to display all the information, you would need to display two output values - the real and the imaginary components. Given this restriction, here are a few things that are normally done: It is possible to have one 3-D plot that shows the real part of the function and another 3-D plot that shows the imaginary component. Both would appear to be surfaces over the complex plane whose heights above that plane correspond to the real and imaginary components of the function's values. It's a bit tricky from a pair of plots like this to find roots, however. The reason is that to find a zero, the function has to be zero both in its real AND imaginary components. In general, functions will have lines or curves on the complex plane above which the real part is zero or above which the imaginary part is zero. Only where those curves cross (and where both components are zero) is where the function has a root. The other method commonly uses plots in the third dimension the absolute value of the complex output. If z = a+bi, the absolute value of z is the square root of (a^2 + b^2), and this can be zero only if both a and b are zero. Any place this surface touches the complex plane is a root, but the plot throws away the individual real and imaginary components of the function's output. Plotting all three will give you a lot of information to help visualize what's going on. Unfortunately, you need a computer to do this quickly enough and accurately enough that you can get useful images. Remember that you are usually looking at a tiny fraction of the available polynomials. For example, could you find the roots of: (3-2i)x^2 + (7+3i)x - (15 + 43i) = 0? It is just a quadratic equation, and the only thing that makes it different from the ones you've looked at is that it has complex coefficients. There is a reasonable way to extend almost all of your favorite functions to the complex domain, although some strange things do happen. For example, it makes sense to talk about sine(3-2i) or log(-4+3i). You may have seen this: e^(it) = cos(t) + i sin(t) You have probably only used it for real values of t, but it is true for complex values as well, and by messing around with those, you could learn a lot! I hope this helps. - Doctor Tom, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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You use the
updateItem() method of the
atg.repository.xml.UpdateService class to modify a repository item. For example, the following instance document updates a user's email address:
<user:user xmlns:user="http://www.atg.com/ns/UserProfiles/user"
UserProfiles+user.xsd " ID="user747">
updateItem() method can optionally validate the instance document against the specified Schema. The logic for this is similar to the
AddService.addItem() method: the
UpdateService component has a
validate property whose default value is
false, and the
updateItem() method can take a Boolean argument that overrides the value of the
validate property.
Selecting the Item to Update
There are two ways to select the item to update:
You can specify the item explicitly when you call
You can specify a set of match properties, and
updateItem()selects the item whose values match the corresponding values in the instance document.
For example, the
login property is often used for matching, because it is unique to a specific user item and its value does not change. The following XML instance document could be used to select the item and then update its
emailAddress property:
<user:user xmlns:user="http://www.atg.com/ns/UserProfiles/user"
UserProfiles+user.xsd " ID="user747">
The application would then use the following code to update the user repository item whose
login value is sandy (assuming the
inputXML String contains the instance document shown above):
String[] matchProperties = {"login"};
RepositoryItem updatedItem = UpdateService.updateItem(inputXML,
Note that UpdateService determines the repository and item type from the namespace of the instance document. For more information, see Namespaces in the Getting Repository Items section.
matchProperties array can contain any number of property names. If the value of each repository item property named in
matchProperties matches its corresponding attribute in the XML instance document, the item is selected for update. All of the specified properties must match for the item to be selected; for example, if
matchProperties lists
login and
lastName properties, the values of both properties must match. If multiple items are selected, an exception is thrown and no update occurs.
Matching is limited to top-level properties of the repository item. Subproperties (such as properties of other repository items) cannot be matched. So, for example, if a
user item has a
lastName property that is a
String, you can include
lastName in
matchProperties; but if
user item has a
shippingAddress property that is another repository item, you cannot include, say,
shippingAddress.city in
If a property has been mapped to a different name in the instance document, the name to match on is the property name used in the repository, not the instance document. For example, suppose you use a mapping file to map a user item's
dateOfBirth property to the name
birthday, like this:
name="user" default-include="true">
<property name="dateOfBirth" targetName="birthday"/>
The corresponding instance document might look like this:
<user:user xmlns:user="http://www.atg.com/ns/UserProfiles/user"
UserProfiles+user.xsd " ID="user747">
To specify this property in
matchProperties, you use the name of the property as it is defined in the repository (
dateOfBirth), not the target name (
birthday). For example:
String[] matchProperties = {"dateOfBirth"};
You can configure the
UpdateService to add a repository item if an attempt to update does not find a match. If you want the
UpdateService to add items when no items are matched, set the
addWhenNoMatchedItems property of the
UpdateService to
If the property being updated is a simple type (such as a String), then its value is updated by the
UpdateService. When the property being updated is a list, map or array, then the old value is replaced by the new value. The new value is not appended to the old value. If the property being updated is an item descriptor, then the appropriate fields of the existing item descriptors are updated.
repositoryId attribute of an item can be used as a special match property. If the
String is passed to
UpdateService as a match property, the service will determine the value of this attribute from the top-level XML element in the instance document, and then find a repository item with a matching repository ID. The following XML example uses the
repositoryId attribute as a match property:
<user:user xmlns:user="http://www.atg.com/ns/UserProfiles/user"
UserProfiles+user.xsd " ID="user747" repositoryId="user707">
String[] matchProperties = {"repositoryId"};
RepositoryItem updatedItem = UpdateService.updateItem(inputXML,
In this case, the
UpdateService selects the user item whose
repositoryId is
"user707" from
Note: Do not confuse with the
repositoryId attribute, which identifies a repository item, with the
ID attribute used in the XML schema to identify an XML element. The
repositoryId attribute and not the
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Emphasis was placed firmly on the shoulders for the Todd Lynn Fall 2010-11 show. Oversized, leather cage-like structural pieces dominated slim-line jackets for both men and women, which also featured sleek leather inserts.
Paired with shiny, form-fitting trousers, the shoulder-oriented pieces at the Todd Lynn Fall 2010 show also included an underlying sports aesthetic, as the dominating shoulder shapes hinted at an American Football-inspired silhouette. Lynn's hunter is ready for action, in a collection reminiscent of the fight or flight confrontational mentality which dominated much of Mens Fashion Week earlier in the year.
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Stocks Finish Mixed
Stocks finished mixed Monday, as a morning rally on bustling deal news fizzled amid disappointing vehicle sales reports. Fresh fund inflows at the start of the second quarter likely provided a boost says Standard & Poor's MarketScope.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35.62 points, or 0.32%, to 11,144.94, paced by Caterpillar (CAT) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index added 2.99 points, or 0.23%, to 1,297.81. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite slipped 3.05 points, or 0.13%, to 2,336.74.
A clutch of M&A activity kicked off the second quarter Monday. French broadband equipment maker Alcatel (ALA) agreed to acquire U.S. telecommunications equipment maker Lucent (LU) for $13.4 billion. Shares in both companies were higher in midsession trading.
Also in telecom, Verizon (VZ) agreed to sell its operations in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela for $3.7 billion to America Movil and Telefonos de Mexico. Verizon shares were higher.
Automaker General Motors (GM) was lower after agreeing to sell control of its financing unit, General Motors Acceptance Corp., to a group led by Cerberus Capital Management for about $14 billion.
Meanwhile, Ameristar Casinos (ASCA) was lower after making a $2.3 billion bid for casino operator Aztar (AZR), which was trading higher on the news.
Outside of deal news, March vehicle sales fell below expectations. Ford (F) reported an expected 4.4% decline in sales from last March, and shares declined. General Motors (GM) posted a much weaker-than-expected drop of 14.4%. Meanwhile, Daimler-Chrysler (DCX) gained on an unexpected 2.9% sales increase, and Toyota (TM) advanced on a 7% sales increase.
Elsewhere, Microsoft (MSFT) rose on a positive report about the software giant's delayed Windows Vista operating system.
On the downside, Wal-Mart (WMT) was lower after the retail giant said it expects its March same-store sales to increase 1.3%, at the low end of previous guidance. Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) was lower despite reports the satellite radio provider will have positive cash flow when it reaches $1 billion in revenue in 2007.
In economic data, the Institute of Supply Management's index for March fell unexpectedly to 55.2, after February's reading of 56.7, says Action Economics. Separately, February construction spending rose 0.8%, better than projected.
Also on the economic front, pending home sales fell 0.8% in February to a 117.7 index reading. The numbers point to additional slowing in the housing market, though an upward revision of January's increase to 0.9% lessens the decline, says Action Economics.
The economic calendar is light Tuesday, followed on Wednesday by the ISM report on the services industry for March. Thursday brings the weekly jobless claims report.
In the energy markets Monday, May West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures closed up 11 cents at $66.74 a barrel amid geopolitical concerns. Energy companies like Exxon Mobil (XOM) were modestly higher.
European markets finished higher. In London, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 index rose 59.7 points, or 1%, to 6,024.3. Germany's DAX index added 53.97 points, or 0.9%, to 6,024.05. In Paris, the CAC 40 index was up 34.41 points, or 0.66%, to 5,255.26.
Asian markets finished higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 273.65 points, or 1.6%, to 17,333.31. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index climbed 258.71 points, or 1.64%, to 16,063.75. Korea's Kospi index gained 20.15 points, or 1.48%, to 1,379.75.
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Although Microsoft has publicly stated that it has no plans to alter the monolithic structure of the massive Office 97 suite, the Redmond company is quietly developing an all-Java version of Office. According to TechWeb, "Microsoft is working on a 'light' version of Office for Java," said a source familiar with the development effort. "They don't want to be two years behind, so they've started developing it now."
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I have mentioned on more than one occasion how picky my Lil One is with food. She does have a few key items that I know without question she will eat—chicken nuggets are one of those items. There is no way that I am buying anything from the golden M for her, and not even from the frozen food section of the grocery store—even with an organic label slapped on them! In the end they are processed to an extent and contain sugars that are unnecessary as well as additional sodium and a few other preservatives.
Lil One goes to a pre-school that is an entirely nut-free school—no questions asked due to the high number of Littles with nut allergies. Let's face it, kids share food without even the slightest thought that what they sharing with their friend could cause them harm. While I do not have a child with a life-threatening food allergy, I have two dear friends who do—one with an egg allergy and one with a peanut and tree nut allergy. While it isn't an inconvenience for me to adapt to that rule at school it did quickly leave out the homemade chicken nuggets that Pam makes for her kids because of the almond flour used. What is a Fit Mom to do? Improvise of course! Enter—coconut flour.
Why is coconut allowed in a nut-free school you may ask? Coconut is not a nut as its name would lead you to believe, but rather it is in palm botanical family. And the actual brown, shelled item we consider to be the coconut is in actuality a seed of the drupe. A drupe, sometimes also called a stone fruit, refers a fruit that is soft and fleshy and encases a hard shelled inner seed. Peaches and nectarines fall into this category too—the pit inside those fruits? Those are the equivalent of the coconut. With this in mind I set out to make my own, nut-free version of chicken nuggets for Lil One—and as you can see from this picture of her sneaking a taste test (her third taste test mind you) they were an overwhelming success! The one thing missing from my inital recipe was the texture that the almond flour provides–my solution was to add toasted shredded coconut to the mixture to provide the missing textural element to the crust. I have found that 4-split chicken breasts will yield me about 2-3 weeks worth of nuggets for her lunches (she only goes to pre-school for 3 days a week). These are easily frozen in batches once they have cooled. Quick and easy, these coconut-crusted chicken nuggets are a great alternative to store-bought and to those of you who are looking for homemade without the allergenic worry of nut flour. Want to get the kids involved? Instead of a bowl, put the flour mix in a giant zip lock bag and let them shake the bag (leaving you to handle the yucky, raw chicken of course).
- 4-boneless, skinless split chicken breasts cut into strips
- ½-c coconut flour
- ¼-c shredded coconut, toasted
- 1T Hungarian paprika
- 1T granulated garlic
- 1T onion powder
- 1/2T ground cumin
- 1/2T ground coriander
- 1/2t salt
- 1/4c coconut milk - for dredging the chicken
- Coconut oil for frying
- In a bowl mix together coconut flour, toasted coconut (you can toast your own shredded coconut by placing it in a fry pan over low heat and constantly monitor the color as once it begins to turn brown it will continue to cook quickly), and spices and mix together.
- In a shallow dish begin to dredge the chicken strips a handful at a time, shaking the excess coconut milk off and dropping into the flour mixture. Using a fork, toss the chicken in the flour mix to coat the entire strip. Shake off excess flour mixture and place chicken strips on a lined cookie sheet.
- When all chicken strips have been coated, heat a fry pan with coconut oil and pan fry the chicken strips for about 1-minute, turning over as the chicken browns. You are looking to brown the coating, not cook throughout as I choose to finish baking them in the oven on 325* for 5-minutes. You can certainly choose to pan-fry until cooked, I have personally found that the coconut begins to burn if I pan-fry for the entire time as opposed to giving the chicken a nice crispy crust and then finishing off in the oven.
- The size that I cut my chicken pieces typically yields me enough for 2-3 weeks. However, this serving size will obviously change with the size of your cuts, and also the size of your breasts.


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2014 Puget Sound Open Details Available
The contest details and rules for the 2014 Puget Sound Open are now available. You can see the full rules, including some new contests and bird details for the individual contests like the Washington State DU and Muskrat division here: 2014 Puget Sound Open details
As a quick reminder for everyone, this year's event will take place on May 10th at the same venue as last year, Holiday Sports in Burlington, WA.
Check out the details for this years show, plan on joining us for the day, if you haven't already done so, start carving.


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Create Loyal Community
1. Write in your blog regularly. It's best to have a blog right on your website. That way you own your content. If you have a blog on blogger.com which is owned by Google, it can be difficult to transfer all your blog posts to your own blog on your website. This requires custom programming. Also it is possible to lose your blog content. A colleague had been blogging for some time on wordpress.com and his account was shut down for no reason and he lost all of his content.
2. Email newsletters are a great way to educate your prospects with important tips and facts about your industry. They are much more than the latest news or photos of your kids. Use email newsletters to communicate your message and announce specials and promotions. Find out how to make sure your email newsletter is being read properly by your recipients.
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Ask Jessa Hinton where she sees herself in five years and this sexy cannonball of all-American entrepreneurial energy nearly explodes. "I will own my own clothing line, host a major television program and publish my autobiography," she vows. Some empirical evidence that our 27-year-old Miss July will deliver on those promises: By the age of 14 she was juggling acting and modeling assignments while simultaneously earning a high school diploma and helping raise her six younger siblings. "I lived on ramen noodles, did my homework on the way to auditions and put my sisters and brothers to bed every night. It was hard, but it taught me to believe that anything is possible." Already Jessa has taken over her adopted hometown of Las Vegas. "Holly Madison just tweeted me, saying that she saw three billboards of me up in Vegas as the face of one of the hottest lounges in town," she says proudly. Jessa, a former Bunny at the Palms Playboy Club, also doubles as a hostess for Victory Poker and Top Rank, a boxing promotions company run by pugilism impresario Bob Arum. "Gigs have been blowing up like fireworks throughout the past year. And now, to top it off, I'm Miss July! I want to use this opportunity to do it all. See that beautiful yacht I'm posing with in my pictorial? It will be mine someday."


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There is always one thing that happens right about Thanksgiving that never fails, I am repeatedly asked about my address. Whether it is by phone call, text message, email or social media – someone is always asking for my address for their Holiday cards. I'm sure you have seen at least one person update their Facebook Status with, "If you want a Holiday Card this year, send me your address!" I now have the perfect solution to the mailing address dilemma! White Pages Mailer.
This is one of the most useful tools to create a master list of addresses that has some pretty cool features. First of all, it imports from Facebook! That's where everyone happens to be, friends, family, neighbors, people you haven't seen since second grade… they're all there! All you have to do is approve the WhitePages Mailer app and it will do the rest of the work for you.
Once it imports everyone in your known universe, you can send requests for verification to everyone you are unsure about. It allows you to do this for up to 50 friends at a time.
Alan Smithee is not my friend, but we're going to use him for an example. First of all, after it imports it gives you the list of everyone that is your friend. If you click their name it will bring up their profile with their address and options to change that friends group, view their info on WhitePages, remove them or the address as a wrong address. It will also show you a map of where they are!
Note: The Friends Groups they are assigned to are for your exported list. This way you can make sure to send only to the people that you want and not have a list of everyone you happened to friend that day.
Once you have verified the addresses of the people you want to mail Holiday Cards to, all you have to do is choose which way you are going to Export your list. This depends on whether or not you are going to write the addresses out long hand or just use address labels. WhitePages Mailer actually exports to Avery Mailing Labels! So you can pick some up on your way out for wrapping paper and already be set to print!
If you aren't going to use Avery Labels, then you can just export to a regular spreadsheet. It comes up on my computer as Excel and is very neatly done.
You can also add directly from WhitePages, just in case someone hasn't figured out Facebook yet (like Gramma).
The benefits are obvious. First of all, you can stop bugging people every time there is a holiday, birthday or event; you can verify their address once and you have it stored for everything. You don't have to worry about putting out status messages for weeks up until the big day or having to call people you don't really want to talk to, but are required by etiquette law to send a holiday card.
So whether you are that person sending out messages for addresses or are the victim of random address update attacks, this is a time savor. The next time you see that message, just send them this post on how to set up their own WhitePages Mailer!
You're welcome. 🙂
Connect: See what else is new with WhitePages by visiting their Facebook Page and/or @WhitePages on Twitter.
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The man who died on the A27 at Falmer on Saturday (July 5) has been named as Adam Zachary Rice.
He was a 21-year-old student with the International Summer School of Sussex University from California in America.
Emergency services were called at around 1.15am on Saturday to a collision on the eastbound A27 at Falmer between a car and a pedestrian.
Adam, who was the pedestrian, sadly died at hospital on Sunday (July 6).
Police are appealing to anyone who witnessed the collision or saw the pedestrian leading up to it to contact Sussex Police on 101 or email email@example.com quoting Operation Telemark.


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[ Q2 00 - Q2 01 Archive ] [ Current Message Board ] [ Archives ] [ Search ]Posted by Mark on April 21, 2000 at 22:24:47:
In Reply to: Re: Wish list posted by Ian on April 21, 2000 at 11:30:25:
: : : : : I have a need to retrieve my quotes from multiple servers. it would be convienient to be able to retrieve from multiple servers in one transaction.
: : : : Hi Alfred,
: : : : Thanks,
: : : Mark... This was a previous request of mine as well, (radio buttons)...remember? Now there are at least two of us
: : : Also the password function 'again'? If someone continuously enters the wrong password (usually a case error) it keeps droping investments from the stack.
: : : Cheers,
: : Hi Ian,
: : Thanks,
: Mark... yes this works, however I'm still wishing for the simple 'Quicken like' PW function. There is no way to mess up your data with a improperly typed PW, no matter how you have the program configured.
: My problem here is that I'm away for a couple of weeks at a time... I leave with everything all set for auto-updating etc. (one server now thanx to Canada Stockwatch).... then I come home to a 'less than favourable' MESS! Kids, computers, and the FM PW function = 1 frustrated user (occasionally)!
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The Post's prickly, Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative columnist George F. Will is one-half of a Washington political power couple. His wife, Mari Maseng Will, is a longtime Republican operative who was President Reagan's final communications director and performed the same role for Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign.
The couple, over the years, has been splashed by the sometimes stinging but purifying hot waters of transparency and disclosure, especially as those waters flow by their two careers and their closeness to senior Republicans.
Hence, Will, a longtime friend of Nancy Reagan, got flak in 1980 for not disclosing until later that he helped Ronald Reagan with debate preparation. And although a consistent free-trader, Will was zinged in 1995 for his defense of free trade in automobiles without disclosing at the time that Maseng Will's company was lobbying for Japanese car manufacturers.
So it was not surprising that Politico revealed in three stories Nov. 11 that Maseng Will worked for Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) early this year, flirted with Mitt Romney's campaign in June and was hired full time by Texas Gov. Rick Perryearly this month.
Should Will have disclosed it, and did he give favorable treatment to these GOP candidates?
First, let's look at Maseng Will's time with Bachmann, which ran from February through much of May. The congresswoman formally declared for the presidency on June 27. Will told me Thursday, "Bachmann asked my wife late last winter to set up a speech-writing operation in Bachmann's shop. When it became clear that Bachmann was going to announce for the presidency, Mari gave them two weeks' notice. She has since had no connection with Bachmann's presidential campaign."
According to my check of Post and Nexis archives, Will didn't mention Bachmann once in his column during that time. He did mention Bachmann, however, on March 11 in his regular Sunday appearance on ABC's "This Week," saying, "Now, full disclosure, my wife, Mari, occasionally advises Michele Bachmann."
Now to Romney. Maseng Will went to the candidate's Boston headquarters on June 28. According to Will, it was to help the Romney team strategize on its approach to the Tea Party movement, and it was at the invitation of Romney aides. "Mari did not ask them for a job," Will said, and no job was offered.
Did Will go easy on Romney, before, during, or after that time?
All of Will's columns in the past year and all the "This Week" transcripts reveal that Will has been complimentary about almost all of the GOP candidates in the race, and about those who were considering entering, including Bachmann and Perry. In his TV comments, he criticized only three: He savaged Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin repeatedly and with glee, and he delivered glancing blows to Romney all year.
Will's substantive critique of Romney was consistent, too: He said on television that the former Massachusetts governor lacks a core ideological compass, and because of that, GOP voters have no passion for him. That's why, Will said on "This Week," Romney has never been able to get above 25 percent in any poll.
Will got more caustic in a widely cited October column when he took Romney to task for being all over the map on ethanol subsidies. "Who expects difficult reforms from Romney, whose twists on ethanol make a policy pretzel?" Will wrote. "A straddle is not a political philosophy; it is what you do when you do not have one."
But was Will suddenly nastier to Romney because his wife went to work for Rick Perry? The timeline doesn't match. The pretzel column ran online on Oct. 28 and in print on Oct. 30. Furthermore, Will generally writes his columns days in advance. According to Will and Alan Shearer, editorial director of The Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicates Will's columns, the first contact Maseng Will had with the Perry camp was Nov. 3, and she was hired Nov. 7.
Will told Shearer and Fred Hiatt, The Post's editorial page editor, the next morning, Nov. 8, and he disclosed his wife's employment at his next "This Week" appearance, on Nov. 13. Will will also disclose the fact of his wife's employment in his columns, Hiatt said, just as he did in 1996 when he wrote about Dole.
I think disclosure is always the better part of valor. It should be prompt and complete, especially for someone so in the public eye as Will. Readers need to be able to judge for themselves if any conflict of interest could bias a journalist, even an opinion columnist.
Will should have mentioned his wife's work with Bachmann a bit earlier than he did, even if he wasn't writing about her, and when Maseng Will was hired by Perry, it would have been very easy to put out a statement to that effect almost immediately. But I don't see that he changed his tune, in his columns or TV commentary, because of his wife's work.
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Final Fantasy IX made its Steam debut this week. The classic RPG is listed for $21, but now through April 20 there's a 20 percent off publisher discount to $16.79. The same deal is even better at GMG with a stacking coupon, knocking the price further down to only $13.44 -- a full 36 percent off the list price. Now we're in reasonable territory for a port of a 15-year-old game.
The same retailer is also pulling out a big discount card on Dragon's Dogma. After releasing on the PC earlier this year, this is the first time the title has been available for less than $20. Now at $18, it's a good price point to pick up if you've been on the fence since launch.
Finally, those looking to get an Xbox One are in luck because there's a dirt cheap Xbox One Quantum Break bundle for just $279 on eBay from authorized Microsoft seller Antonline. This price is a historic low we've seen for this specific bundle, and is one of the cheapest we've seen yet for a 500GB model.
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City Government
The City of Lewisburg, chartered in 1782, uses a Mayor/Council form of government. City Council has five members. The Mayor presides over the meetings and the Recorder takes the official minutes.
Municipal Elections are held on the second Tuesday in June in odd-numbered years. The Mayor, Recorder and Council members run for four-year terms.
In addition to the City Council meetings, members are appointed to committee(s): Public Works, Finance, Public Safety or Green Space.
Council meetings are held regularly on the third Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call City Recorder, Shannon Beatty, CMC, at (304) 645-2080. City Hall is open from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
John Manchester, Mayor
Shannon Beatty, CMC, City Recorder
Josh Baldwin, Councilmember
Heather Blake, Councilmember
Mark Etten, Councilmember
Joseph Lutz, Councilmember
Beverly White, Councilmember
Email City Goverment at email@example.com
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5 Ways Mommy Bloggers Can Boost Their Website Income
People who start their own online blog can have many different reasons for giving up. Perhaps they don't have enough time in the day to work on it, or that they just aren't seeing the results that they hoped for.
The most common reason though is that they simply aren't earning enough website income from it to justify the running of it. This is a shame because there are lots of successful mommy bloggers out there that are making money with their own sites.
You only have to look at bloggers like Becky Mansfield and Paula Rollo at Blogging On The Side to know that it is possible.
So what are these "successful" bloggers doing that maybe you aren't?
Well, simply put, they are not relying on just one method to earn money, but they implement several different methods to diversify their income streams.
Yes, it can and will take time to set these up, but essentially the more methods you have (and you can have as many as you want), the more money you can potentially earn from your website.
In this post we take a look at some different ways in which you can boost your online income.
OK, let's start with an easy one – advertising.
This is by far the easiest and most effective way to earn money from your blog. Many websites do this, as it's a good way to monetize the unused space around their blog content.
There are a couple of different ad types that you can use on your site;
- Google AdSense
- Selling your own ad space
Google AdSense (and other PPC 'Pay Per Click' providers) is a great way to quickly ad revenue to an existing site.
You simply register with Google AdSense, who then provides you with code to place on your site where you want the ads to appear.
This code will display contextual adverts, which are adverts related to your content, on your site.
For example, a cooking blog will likely display ads for kitchen utensils, cooking books, cookery courses, etc. instead of random kids toys, car insurance or bingo site.
For every click you get on these PPC ads, you get paid a small amount. The only real down side is that you really need to be getting large amounts of traffic for this method to be truly profitable.
A single click may only net you a couple of cents, which is why you need lots of traffic to make it work. That said, it is an easy and effective way to earn a bit of money from your site.
You can also offer to sell space on your blog to advertisers that want to promote their own product or service. The good thing about this is that you can set your own rates of what to charge.
You can charge on a monthly/quarterly/ yearly basis, where you are guaranteed to be paid as long as you display the agreed adverts for the fixed amount of time.
Many high profile websites use this method to earn vast amounts of money! Again, the more traffic you get, the more you can charge.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn money from your blog. You sign up to an individual affiliate program that you are interested in and promote that product/service on your site. For every sale that is made via a referral from your site, you earn a commission.
Let's use a cookery blog again as an example.
You could find affiliate products that relate to your niche, such as products like; recipe books/eBooks, cookery courses, kitchen ware, etc. to promote on your site. As all these products relate to your website, more of your visitors will be interested in purchasing them, which will result in you earning more commission.
The good thing about affiliate marketing is the ease in which you can promote these products.
When you sign up to an affiliate product, you get a URL link that is specifically unique to you. This means that you receive commission for every sale that is referred via your unique link.
Now, with this link you can promote products in a number of different ways;
- Display traditional adverts for these products next to your content,
- Include text link ads within your blog posts to relevant products,
- Write dedicated review posts for the products you are promoting,
- Promote them via your social media networks,
Affiliate marketing is probably my favourite method of monetizing a site.
Yes, there is a little more work involved in setting things up (though not that much more work), but you can potentially earn a LOT more than you can with PPC ads.
Create & Sell Your Own Product
Instead of only promoting other people's products on your blog, why not create your own and sell it via your website!
The great thing about this is that, compared to selling your products in a small local shop where you have limited customer base, you can promote your product online where you can sell worldwide!
You may be an artist, why not sell your paintings and prints on your site. Perhaps you are a musician, you could promote and sell your own music on your blog. Maybe you have developed your own 'App' for a mobile device, sell it online via your website.
Whatever your product is, you can promote and sell it online. Not only that, but why not sign up to an affiliate marketplace and sell your product. That way, other people can be promoting your product on their site for a commission, which helps to get your product seen by more people!
Write An eBook
If you can't think of a product to create, why not write your own eBook and sell it. It doesn't have to be a fictional story book (though it can if you are into that), it can be information based.
The good thing about eBooks is that they can be about anything. People read eBooks for information, so if you have some knowledge about a certain subject, then you could write your own eBook about it.
Maybe you are a gardener, why not write an eBook about growing your own food in your back garden. You may be a personal trainer, why not write an eBook about exercise regimes or diet plans.
You could even write an eBook about writing an eBook! The possibilities are endless.
With the popularity of eReaders, Kindle's, iPad's and Smart phones, more and more people are reading eBooks every day. Why not write your own and sell it via your blog. You could even upload it to sites like Amazon, Etsy or the Apple iStore and sell it there as well!
The ebook I wrote for my site over at Smart Party Planning is sold over at Etsy and Amazon. You don't have to restrict yourself with choices, but go with what is appropriate for you.
Create A "Hire Me" Page
Another good way to monetize your site is to have your own 'Hire Me' page.
That way, you can hire out your services to help other people. Many freelance writers/designers do this as it's a good way to find clients.
Think about it, people are already on your website, so they can see that you are (hopefully) good at what you do, therefore they are more likely to hire you.
This doesn't only apply to freelance workers though. It doesn't matter what you do, if you have a skill, you can have your own Hire Me' page.
You may be a programmer, people could hire you to develop custom made software for their business. You may run your own language website, you could hire yourself out to people who want to learn English/Spanish/Japanese, etc. and teach them over Skype on a one-to-one basis. Maybe you are a dietician, people could hire you to produce a custom diet plan for them to follow.
Whatever your skill, having your own 'Hire Me' page can be a great way to make money online!
There are many ways that you can monetize your blog, you don't have to rely on just one.
Like the saying goes, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!" Why not try one of the methods listed above and see if you can make that work on your own site.
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What ways are currently working for you to make money on your site?
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38 Responses to "5 Ways Mommy Bloggers Can Boost Their Website Income"
Hi Catherine,
I appreciate how you explained well your ideas about this matter. But I guess, not only mommy bloggers can make use of this but other people as well. I agree, you can earn a lot more from affiliate marketing as compared to PPC and the like of monetizing your blog. I actually started my online career with affiliate marketing. And from there I am able to get where I am now.
Absolutely Dennis, this is not just for mommy bloggers at all.
There are lots of different ways to monetize and the trick is finding something that you feel comfortable with, resonates with you and also is suitable to the time in your blogging career. It sounds like you have worked through this process well
Thanks for this information. I am new to blogging and trying to soak up as much information as I can. I have Google Adsense and was so excited when it was added to my blog. I went to blog to see the ads and was shocked. There was a horrible ad; I quickly got on and blocked sensitive ads and have been happy with what I now see. Within a week or so of starting my husband helped me sign up for affiliates. Amazon approved but others are still pending for increased traffic…guess I got into too much of a hurry. I am stopping by from This is How We Roll link party.
Glad it could help Kim.
There is a lot to learn when starting to blog, so take each day as it comes.
You definitely want to make sure the ads on your site are appropriate so it's great that you checked this and made the changes. Start off on the right foot!
Affiliate marketing is definitely a great way to bring in an income. Some affiliate sites will require larger traffic than others, but it's just really a process of going through them and finding what is the right fit for you.
It sounds like you have some good goals and actively working on improving your site
Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences here
What great tips!! It's such a blessing when you can be your own boss!
Oh absolutely Jamie. There is nothing like being in control of your own business. It takes time to get there, but the hard work is definitely worth it
These are great tips. Remember not to give up, most blogs and businesses take up to two years before they become profitable. I remember when I started blogging I wasn't the greatest writer. The only way to get better is to continually write on a daily basis, it will improve I promise. Don't give up and keep pursing your dream, you can do it.
Well said! I seriously cringe when I look back at my early posts on my first blog. I am actually going through and updating them as I think there is some great content, but it is not presented well…at all!
It definitely does take a couple of years to find your feet, but once the momentum starts, there is no looking back. The early days can be hard, but staying focused and remembering your reasons why you are blogging will help.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and share your thoughts here
Thanks for posting. I am just starting out so I haven't seen much for results yet but it is good to know i am doing the right things! #thisishowweroll
It can take time to get going Crystal, so don't be too hard on yourself. Having goals is a great idea so you have something to work towards and then evaluate.
Keep at it, would love to hear your progress
Some great tips here – Thanks for linking up to Pin Worthy Wednesday, I have pinned your post to the Pin Worthy Wednesday Pinterest Board.
Thanks Amberjane. Glad that you found them useful
Thanks for the info, I'm going to try my hand at writing an ebook when I get time.
Writing an ebook can be a lot of fun Hollie. What would your topic be?
Good tips. I am trying to write a ebook.
Oh great stuff Gail. What is the ebook going to be about?
Thanks for the great tips!
Your welcome Nicole. Thanks for stopping by
Thanks for the ideas! Everything is so mysterious when getting started. I need to get the guts to create a "Hire Me" page, but in the meantime…Where do you go to sign up for using affiliates?
It can be a bit of a whirlwind can't it Brittany.
If you have services to offer you should definitely set up a "Hire Me" page. There is no time like the present to get started!
In terms of affiliates it really depends on what is suitable for your site and for your readers. You can start off with Amazon affiliates, or there are plenty of sites like Shareasale, Clickbank etc that you can browse affiliate products that would be suitable to promote. Alternatively lots of bloggers that sell ebooks have affiliate opportunities for those too. First work out what it is your readers want and the find a suitable product to give them. Hope that helps
Thanks so much for the awesome tips! I'm definitely looking into a couple of these….
Fantastic Christine, really pleased that you found them helpful. Would love how you get on with implementing them
Such great tips. I have been blogging for three years and just learned a thing or two from reading this! Thanks for sharing this great post at the This Is How We Roll Link Party. I can't wait to see what you bring next week! I am sharing this on a social media outlet
Thanks Cynthia, that's lovely to hear. It just goes to show that no matter how long you have been blogging there is always something to learn. That's one of the beauties of it!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing
These are great ideas! I can't wait to be able to quit my full time job and become a SAHM and blog full time! Thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
It sounds like you have an awesome goal to work towards Stephanie. Keep that goal in the forefront of your mind when you are working on your blog and that will help you through the ups and downs. That day when you quit your job will be an amazing one
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I love these ideas. I'm starting to think about adding Google Ads to my blog, but this gave a whole list of other things to think about. #Thisishowweroll
Sounds wonderful Mariet. There is no time like the present to start monetizing your website. You might as well start earning a bit of cash and learn how everything works in the process.
Good luck with your monetizing
These tips are great!! They really got me thinking about my own site!! It would be wonderful if you would share your favorite posts at my Friday Favorites Link Party. It goes live at 7 PM every Thursday at Mustlovehome.com. I hope to see you there…Hugs – Christine
Thanks Christine. It's always a good idea to take a step back every now and then and look at new ways of improvement. Plus, if you can make more money with your site, that's even better
Will be checking your party out now…thanks for the invite
Hi Catherine,
You have crafted this post with lots of valued content. Not only mommy bloggers but also another bloggers can make passive income with all above methods. Advertising and providing services work for me best.
Providing services is definitely a great way to earn an online income so if you have a service defined it's defitely worth pursuing that area. Glad you found this post helpful, thanks for sharing with us
Well I just came here from your interview at yeahblogging and I guess the tips you've shared or the methods are very wonderful to earn money online but need some hard work and dedication.
Welcome Arpan, great to see you here Whilst blogging is certainly fun and a way of making money, it does require a lot of hard work and dedication. If your not prepared to put that in, then the results will reflect it. But with persistence, dedication and continued learning website income can certainly increase over time
Blogging perfect for mom's and I think most of the mom should start their website and earn some money. Basically not for money but to learn and apply something new.
Whilst blogging is a way to earn an additional income, it is also a great way for moms to have an outlet and do something new. This is part of the fun of blogging. It can take you somewhere different to the normal "mommy duties". I love reading mommy blogs too


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LOS ANGELES — The Pac-12 Tournament's moving to Las Vegas? You bet!
News of that likely development for 2013 has been received with a resounding cheer. And all those empty seats at the Staples Center for Wednesday's opening-round games only reinforced the notion that it's time to, well, roll the dice and try something else.
"Las Vegas is a big draw," UCLA coach Ben Howland told the Los Angeles Times. "There are a lot of things to do there other than basketball. If that's where the Pac-12 (Tournament) ends up going, it will definitely make sense."
Howland cited the relatively cheap airfares to Las Vegas and its affordable hotel rooms. Las Vegas, coaches say, would become an annual trip for Pac-12 fans. It's a destination city with no traffic jams to get in the way of fun.
Las Vegas already hosts conference tournaments for the Mountain West (UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center), Western Athletic (Orleans Arena) and West Coast (Orleans Arena a week earlier) conferences, but the Pac-12 believes there's room for another.
"If you go to a place like Las Vegas," California coach Mike Montgomery said, "you're going to have people from all over the conference saying: 'You know what? Let's go down there. Let's (also) get show tickets. We'll maybe play golf, do some other things, and enjoy basketball.' "
Speaking to the media Wednesday between sessions, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott would only confirm that Las Vegas has submitted a bid to host the league tournament. But multiple media outlets reported that an announcement of the move is expected by next week — after being rubber-stamped by the league's school presidents.
Tournament games would be played at the MGM Grand's Garden Arena, which opened in 1993. Seating capacity would number in the 13,000 to 14,000 range for basketball. According to reports, the Pac-12 would sign an initial two-year agreement with the casino, with an option for a third year (2015).
It wouldn't take much to surpass the league's usual attendance tally at the Staples Center. Last year's tournament attracted 56,051 fans. That's an average of 8,007 for seven sessions. A crowd of 12,074 watched Washington defeat Arizona in overtime in the 2011 championship game, so the first six sessions averaged just 7,330 fans.
Judging from the sea of vacant seats for early games Wednesday, this year's Pac-12 Tournament may struggle to match its 2011 attendance figures. That makes the conference's showcase hoops event look and sound pitiful on television.
And if ever there were a conference commissioner sensitive to perception and projection on TV, it's the Pac-12's Scott.
Viva Las Vegas! It's a no-brainer.
Motivationally speaking. During pregame and halftime speeches, countless numbers of basketball coaches have referred to the scene in the 1986 movie "Hoosiers." That's where coach Norman Dale (played by actor Gene Hackman) shows his high school squad that the basket rim at the tournament arena measures 10 feet from the floor, just as it does back home.
Now there may be a new favorite among inspiration stories used for coaches' pep talks. Last year at this time, Connecticut won five games in five days to win the Big East Tournament. The Huskies, of course, went on to claim the national championship.
"Coach (Tad Boyle) talked to us about UConn," Colorado senior Carlon Brown said before the team's final practice in Boulder before flying to Los Angeles. "They won five games in their tournament. It shows us that winning four games at the Pac-12 can be done."
Sign of the times. Fox Sports announced it has hired a dedicated "social media reporter" for the Pac-12 men's basketball tournament.
Presumably, Laura McKeeman, the 2011 Miss St. Petersburg, will relay to viewers interesting tweets, Facebook messages and other postings regarding the hoops event.
Hope she is prepared to do some heavy editing. Or at least be able to translate some of the lingo.
Tom Kensler: 303-954-1280r or tkensler @denverpost.com


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When you've been doing SEO for as long as you remember, it's easy to forget that at some point it was a conscious decision. As with any job, getting into SEO means that at some point you need to sit down and ask yourself whether it's an appropriate job for you and whether you have the skills and temperament to survive the lifestyle. If you're in that position right now, then of course I can't tell you whether or not you're right for a life in SEO – that depends on who you are as a person and on how you work best… and sadly I don't know you all that well. What I can do though, is to show you which kinds of people work well in the world of SEO, and then allow you to make up your own mind as to whether that description is close enough to describing you. To succeed in SEO you should be…
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For most people, SEO is a freelance and solitary pursuit. You'll set your own hours, and there is no-one to tell you how much work you need to complete on a daily basis. This means then that you need to be able to set yourself useful targets and then work towards them without being told. Sometimes you won't feel much like work, so you need to be able to dig deep and find that drive to do it anyway. Oh and you need to be willing to do a lot of work before seeing much reward…
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A big part of SEO involves writing blog posts and articles that you can then publish on the site you are trying to promote or exchange with other bloggers. This means you should be able to write compelling articles that sound professional and engaging. Even if you outsource this part of the job though, you will still need to correspond with clients and bloggers and this will involve writing e-mails that make you sound professional and good value for money.
Tech Savvy:
While you don't need to be an electronic engineer or a coder to succeed in SEO, you nevertheless should be able to find your way around a computer and probably a page of HTML. SEO is essentially a job that involves working on a computer and designing for the internet, so you won't be able to do it if you don't know your mouse from your modem.
If you are 'system-minded', then you are the sort of person who likes looking at problems and finding logical solutions within an existing infrastructure. This is precisely what SEO boils down to – it's a software engineer's approach to internet marketing. If you like work that is logical, then you will be well suited to this job which is all about using algorithms to achieve a measurable result. This of course is only a small selection of the traits you'll need as a graphic designer. At the same time you should be smart, you should be creative, you should be patient and you should be business savvy. If you have this rare mixture of traits, then the crazy world of SEO might just be a good fit for you…
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Cleveland Man Indicted for Robbing Four Banks in Northeast Ohio
|U.S. Attorney's Office December 21, 2010
Marty E. Taylor, age 34, of Cleveland, Ohio, was indicted on four counts of bank robbery, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today.
The indictment charges that between October 4, 2010 and November 17, 2010, Taylor robbed four banks in northeast Ohio, one in each of the following communities: North Randall, Warrensville Heights, Maple Heights and Cleveland Heights.
If convicted, the defendant's sentence will be determined by the court after a review of factors unique to this case, including the defendant's prior criminal record.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Dean M. Valore. The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
An indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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FBI offers $25,000 reward for fugitive information
CHARLOTTE — FBI Charlotte and FBI Atlanta are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest of two men wanted in connection with a kidnapping in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Frank Janssen was taken from his home April 5. The ongoing investigation into this elaborate kidnapping plot has identified two additional suspects, Jakym Camel Tibbs and Quantavious Thompson. They should be considered armed and dangerous.
Wanted posters of both fugitives will be featured on www.fbi.gov in the "Most Wanted/Additional Violent Crimes" section.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Jakym Camel Tibbs and Quantavious Thompson should call 1-800-CALL-FBI, or 1-800-225-5324.
According to public federal documentation, Janssen was targeted by a group operating for the benefit of Kelvin Melton, an inmate at the Polk Correctional Institution in Butner. Melton was previously prosecuted by Frank Janssen's daughter who is an assistant district attorney in Wake County. Melton was convicted and is currently serving a state sentence of life without parole.
Melton is now facing additional federal charges for his role in Janssen's kidnapping.
Additionally, the following five people were arrested April 10:
•Jenna Paulin Martin, 21
•Tiana Maynard - AKA "Tiana Brooks", 30
•Jevante Price - AKA "Flame", 20
•Michael Montreal Gooden - AKA "Hot", 21
•Clifton James Roberts, 29
The case is being investigated by FBI Charlotte, FBI Atlanta, the Wake Forest Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation with assistance by the Durham County Sheriff's Office, Raleigh Police Department, Durham Police Department, North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement, Garner Police Department, North Carolina Highway Patrol, RDU Police, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Probation and Parole, Wake County Sheriff's Office, City/County Bureau of Identification, Cobb County Police Department, Alpharetta Police Department, Atlanta Police Department, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, United States Attorney's Office Eastern District of North Carolina, Wake County District Attorney's Office and the Cobb County District Attorney's Office.